rted in yarn, and only
one-fourth worth worked up. Half the wool of Ireland is combed in the
county of Cork.

A very great manufacture of ratteens at Carrick-on-Suir; the bay worsted
is for serges, shalloons, etc. Woollen yarn for coarse cloths, which
latter have been lost for some years, owing to the high price of wool.
The bay export has declined since 1770, which declension is owing to the
high price of wool.

No wool smuggled, not even from Kerry; not a sloop's cargo in twenty
years, the price too high; the declension has been considerable. For
every eighty-six packs that are exported, a licence from the Lord
Lieutenant, for which 20 pounds is paid.

From the Act of the last sessions of Great Britain for exporting woollen
goods for the troops in the pay of Ireland, Mr. Abraham Lane, of Cork,
established a new manufacture of army clothing for that purpose, which is
the first at Cork, and pays 40 pounds a week in labour only. Upon the
whole there has been no increase of woollen manufacture within twenty
years. Is clearly of opinion that many fabrics might be worked up here
much cheaper than in France, of cloths that the French have beat the
English out of; these are, particularly, broadcloths of one yard and half
yard wide, from 3s. to 6s. 6d. a yard for the Levant trade. Friezes
which are now supplied from Carcassone in Languedoc. Friezes, of
twenty-four to twenty-seven inches, at 10d. to 13d. a yard. Flannels,
twenty-seven to thirty-six, from 7d. to 14d. Serges of twenty-seven to
thirty-six inches, at 7d. to 12d. a yard; these would work up the coarse
wool. At Ballynasloe Fair, in July, 200,000 pounds a year bought in
wool. There is a manufactory of knit-stocking by the common women about
Cork, for eight or ten miles around; the yarn from 12d. to 18d. a pair,
and the worsted from 16d. to 20d., and earn from 12d. to 18d. a week.
Besides their own consumption, great quantities are sent to the north of
Ireland.

All the weavers in the country are confined to towns, have no land, but
small gardens. Bandle, or narrow linen, for home consumption, is made in
the western part of the county. Generally speaking, the circumstances of
all the manufacturing poor are better than they were twenty years ago.
The manufactures have not declined, though the exportation has, owing to
the increased home consumptions. Bandon was once the seat of the stuff,
camlet, and shag manufacture, but has in seven years declined ab