His family, presumably of Dutch origin, has been established here since Charles II.

He himself holds 18,133 acres here, valued at L1802 a year; and he is a resident landlord in the fullest sense of the term.

For fifty years he has lived here, during all which time, as he told us to-day, he has "never slept for a week out of the country." His furthest excursions of late years have been to Raphoe, where he has a married daughter.

"Absenteeism" clearly has nothing to do with the quarrel between Mr.Olphert and his tenants, or with the "boycotting" of Ballyconnell.
The dragoons from Dunfanaghy had just ridden away as we came up.

They had come over in full fig to show themselves, and to encourage the respectable Catholics of Falcarragh, who side with their parish priest, Father M'Fadden of Glena, and object to the vehement measures, promoted by his young curate, Father Stephens, recently of Liverpool.