egun, although preparations
were being made for them; so that those recorded in the pamphlet were
carried out under no special pressure of circumstances whatever. The
writer premises that he regards his list as far from complete, inasmuch
as it was compiled chiefly from the public journals, and every evicting
landlord uses all his power and precaution to keep his evictions as
secret as possible; still, it was found on record, that there were over
8,000 individuals evicted in Ireland during those five years, many of
the evictions being attended with much hardship and suffering, such as
the removal of sick and dying persons in order to take possession. In
one case a dead body was actually carried out. In two instances,
comprising the dispossession of 385 individuals, the evictions took
place avowedly for the purpose of bringing in Protestant tenants; in a
third, 1175 persons were evicted by a noble lord, and although he did
not give his reason, his name and his whole career abundantly justify
the conclusion that this vast clearance was effected to make way for a
Protestant colony.

[227] Letter of Mr. Joseph M. M'Kenna to Lord John Russell. Mr. M'Kenna
gives the names of all the parties. Yet still more dreadful is the case
we read of as having occurred in Galway. A man having been sentenced for
sheep-stealing in that city, it was stated to the bench by the resident
magistrate "that the prisoner and his family were starving; one of his
children died, and he was, he said, credibly informed that the mother
ate part of its legs and feet. After its death he had the body exhumed,
and found that nothing but the bones remained of the legs and
feet."--_Freeman's Journal, April, 1848._

[228] Letter dated from Killybegs, 18th of 12th month, 1846. Report, p.
151.

[229] Count Strezelecki's Report to the British Association, p. 97. "In
addition to the Government aid, large sums were distributed by the
British Association, through the agency of the generous and
never-to-be-forgotten Count Strezelecki."--_MS. letter from a Mayo
gentleman, in author's possession_.

[230] Report, p. 97.

[231] MS. notes taken down from Mr. Egan.

[232] Joseph Crosfield's Report to the Society of Friends, p. 145.

[233] James H. Tuke's report to the same Committee, p. 147.

[234] In Irish _corrac_, pr. _corrach_ or _currach_. This primitive boat
was made of a slight frame work of timber and covered with skins, whence
its name. In early times _co