These are again weighed, and the knitters receive their pay according to the weight, quality, and size of the goods.

In some families there are four, five, or six knitters.

All these people, with four or five exceptions, are small cottars living on wretched little mountain farms, not on the Duke of Abercorn's property; and but for this industry they would be absolutely without employment all the winter through.
Some of them come from a distance of twelve or fourteen miles, and but for this resource would literally starve.

They are nearly all of them Catholics, and the Protestants here being Unionists, they are probably Nationalists.

About three hundred knitters in all are employed.