He has three more holdings from Captain Hill, at 15s., 6s.8d., and 11s.2d., for which he was in arrears for two years in April 1887, when ejectment decrees were obtained against him.

For his house holding he pays 2s.

a year! So he was really fighting his own battle as a tenant in the Plan of Campaign.
[14] Yet of Connemara, Cardinal Manning, in his letter to the Archbishop of Armagh, August 31, 1873, cites the "trust-worthy" evidence of "an Englishman who had raised himself from the plough's tail," and who had gone "to see with his own eyes the material condition of the peasantry in Ireland." It was to the effect that in abundance and quality of food, in rate of wages, and even if the comfort of their dwellings, the working men of Connemara were better off than the agricultural labourers of certain English counties.
[15] For this holding, of 10 Irish acres, I have since learned the widow O'Donnell pays 10s.

a year.

She is in the receipt of outdoor relief, there being fever in the house (May 1888).
[16] This "townland" is a curious use of a Saxon term to describe a Celtic fact.