Ennis-- "It seems to be so." --Minutes of Evidence, 175-6.
[13] The Derry Journal.
[14] Report of Inspectors of Irish Fisheries for 1882.
[15] The Report of the Inspectors of Irish Fisheries on the Sea
and Inland Fisheries of Ireland for 1882, gives a large amount of
information as to the fish which swarm round the Irish coast.
Mr. Brady reports on the abundance of herring and other fish all
round the coast. Shoals of herrings "remained off nearly the
entire coast of Ireland from August till December." "Large
shoals of pilchards" were observed on the south and south-west
coasts. Off Dingle, it is remarked, "the supply of all kinds of
fish is practically inexhaustible."
"Immense shoals of herrings off Liscannor and Loop Head;" "the
mackerel is always on this coast, and can be captured at any time
of the year, weather permitting." At Belmullet, "the shoals of
fish off the coast, particularly herring and mackerel, are
sometimes enormous." The fishermen, though poor, are all very
orderly and well conducted. They only want energy and industry.
[16] The Harleian Miscellany, iii. 378-91.
[17] The Harleian Miscellany, iii. 392.
[18] See The Huguenots in England and Ireland. A Board of
Traders, for the encouragement and promotion of the hemp and flax
manufacture in Ireland, was appointed by an Act of Parliament at
the beginning of last century (6th October, 1711), and the year
after the appointment of the Board the following notice was
placed on the records of the institution: --"Louis Crommelin and
the Huguenot colony have been greatly instrumental in improving
and propagating the flaxen manufacture in the north of this
Kingdom, and the perfection to which the same is brought in that
part of the country has been greatly owing to the skill and
industry of the said Crommelin.
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