CONNAUGHT. MUNSTER. ULSTER. LEINSTER. Provinces. Dublin Wicklow Wexford 345 Carlow. Kildare Kilkenny Longford Louth 125,546 King's County 307 335,891 379,739 170,930 201,843 372,121 781 439 110,767 122,301 63,489 897 798 170,806 182,991 345 288 78,952 81,649 654 558 99,065 111,141 795 735 181,946 193,432 421 300 107,570 112,391 314 280 101,011 771 527 131,088 148,984 Total of the Province 7,599 6,194 1,739,373 1,961,109 963,647 1,009,984 1,973,7 21 787 262,860 372,938 172,391 188,484 360,846 512 415 197,427 220,653 113,892 118,501 232,3560 746 587 195,076 228,040 120,814 122,344 954 804 325,410 360,853 173,538 187,908 1,865 615 248,270 300,694 145,821 808 498 193,869 222,416 106,825 1,260 704 261,865 304,247 153,463 500 447 174,697 195,532 98,071 102,371 200 448 714 452 130,997 147,555 76,982 79,499 156 346 Total of the Province 8,520 5,309 1,990,471 2,353,928 1,161,797 1,224,576 2,386 431 Cork Clare Limerick 2,875 2,045 730,444 857,576 420,551 433,567 854 408 Total of the Province 9,456 6,055 1,935,752 2,163,694 1,186,190 1,209,971 2,39 391 2,445 1,161 165,679 429,211 219,564 220,584 44(379 194,198 194,689 3850C 127,016 126,575 25: 366 89,563 91,323 180398 Total of the Province 6,858 3,473 938,534 1,360,738 707,852 711,017 1,418411 Grand Total. 32,433 21,031 6,604,130 7,839,469 4,019,486 4,155,548 8,17:388 In 1841. Inhabitants per Square! Mila of Arable Land, IRELAND BEFORE AND AFTER THE UNION WITH GREAT BRITAIN. BY R. M. MARTIN, ESQ. AUTHOR OF THE HISTORY OF THE BRITISH COLONIES," ETC. THIRD EDITION-WITH ADDITIONS. "Is it not the true interest of both nations to become one people? LONDON: J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, 25, PARLIAMENT-STREET. DUBLIN: JAMES MCGLASHEN. MDCCCXLVIII. PREFACE TO THE SECOND AND THIRD EDITIONS. The plan for the reclamation of boglands, the issue of Exchequer bills, emigration, and other remedial measures, are given only in this Edition, in Chap. III. THIS work was originally published in 1832,* when the agitation for the Repeal of the Union was becoming popular in Ireland. Its publication was found useful, and it was issued in a more extended form in 1843 in consequence of the mis-statements promulgated at one of the "monster meetings" at which I was accidentally present in that year. In both instances the work was undertaken and completed without solicitation or support from Government, and the statistical data which it contained were derived from the various returns laid before Parliament, -therefore, accessible to every inquirer after truth. The revived agitation of this momentous subject, the views now openly expressed for an entire severance of interest between the two countries, and an extending desire for the formation of an Irish republic, have induced me to re-examine the data on which my convictions were originally founded,-to ascertain whether recent statistics would shew former conclusions to be at variance with the best interests of Ireland, or whether the late disastrous calamity had so materially altered existing relations as to render the Union no longer desirable for either country,-and to propose for consideration such measures as appear advisable for the amelioration of the condition of the labouring poor, and for the permanent improvement of Ireland. [See Ch. III. pp. 83 to 100, on the reclamation of waste lands, emigration, &c.] Earnestly seeking truth, and disposed by feelings of nationality to espouse what is termed the popular cause in Ireland, I can conscientiously say that a continued and unbiased examination of the proposition for repealing the Union has not only strengthened "Ireland as it Was, Is, and Ought to be," and "Poor Laws for Ireland, a Measure of Justice and Humanity." Published by Allen and Co. London, 1832-3, |