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From: "Don Johnston" <>
Subject: [GSV] Irish 1849 Archival Information
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 06:47:43 +1000


I found interesting archival information such as: Emigration." 1849. -
IRELAND. Copied from the "Illustrated London News". At
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~eas5e/Irish/Emigration.htm

Emigration." 1849.
IRELAND.
EMIGRATION. The horros of a winter voyage do not deter the multitude, who
have the means, from emigrating. In some instances, boards of guardians are
availing themselves of the emigration clauses of the last Poor Relief
Amendment Act, to send off able-bodied paupers. A committee of the Limerick
board have recommended the expediency of equipping and sending off to
Canada three hundred able-bodied paupers from the workhouse of that union.
However, the great bulk of the emigration from Ireland is still directed to
the United States. A little colony of female pauper emigrants, from the
workhouses of Listowel, Ennis, Dingle, and Ennistymon unions, left the
North Wall, Dublin, on Sunday, for Plymouth, where they are to embark for
Australia, in a Government transport. All these poor girls, upwards of one
hundred, were comfortably attired and well-equipped for the voyage.
THE CLEARANCE SYSTEM.
In the county of Clare the clearance system is stillin vigorous operation,
notwithstanding the vast numbers evicted during the last three years. The
Limerick and Clare Examiner of Saturday states that "seventy families,
amounting to probably three hundred and seventy souls, have been evicted
from the property of Colonel Wyndham, in the parish of Clondegad." That
journal adds -- "Their dwellings have been left, with few exceptions -- in
the words of our correspondent -- hideous heaps of ruins. There were no
notices of eviction received in due time by the relieving officer. There is
no room for the crowd at the Ennis union workhouse. They are denied outdoor
relief, on some pretext or other. Women, with infants in their arms, slept
out under the freezing cold of the past week; and the floor of the chapel
is now the only home of the exterminated people. Their last sanctuary on
earth is the house of God."
and, EVICTIONS. 1850.
The Limerick Reporter states that nineteen houses were levelled and 148
persons turned out roofless, last week, ina village called Ballagh, near
Clonoulty, not far from Thurles.

PROGRESS OF EMIGRATION. 1850.
The extent to which emigration still continues is really amazing, after the
drain of the rural population since the commencement of the famine. From
Cork, Waterford, Limerick, New Ross, and other ports in the south, sailing
vessels are proceeding direct to America; but the far greater number of the
emigrants take their passages in steamers for Liverpool, as the most
desirable port for departure across the Atlantic. There is nothing like
accurate data as to the total number of emigrants; but persons who have
bestowed much attention on the subject calculate that not less than a
million of the population have left this country since the general and
disastrous failure of the potato in 1846.
and, Emigration." 1849.
IRELAND.
EMIGRATION. The horros of a winter voyage do not deter the multitude, who
have the means, from emigrating. In some instances, boards of guardians are
availing themselves of the emigration clauses of the last Poor Relief
Amendment Act, to send off able-bodied paupers. A committee of the Limerick
board have recommended the expediency of equipping and sending off to
Canada three hundred able-bodied paupers from the workhouse of that union.
However, the great bulk of the emigration from Ireland is still directed to
the United States. A little colony of female pauper emigrants, from the
workhouses of Listowel, Ennis, Dingle, and Ennistymon unions, left the
North Wall, Dublin, on Sunday, for Plymouth, where they are to embark for
Australia, in a Government transport. All these poor girls, upwards of one
hundred, were comfortably attired and well-equipped for the voyage.

THE CLEARANCE SYSTEM.
In the county of Clare the clearance system is stillin vigorous operation,
notwithstanding the vast numbers evicted during the last three years. The
Limerick and Clare Examiner of Saturday states that "seventy families,
amounting to probably three hundred and seventy souls, have been evicted
from the property of Colonel Wyndham, in the parish of Clondegad." That
journal adds -- "Their dwellings have been left, with few exceptions -- in
the words of our correspondent -- hideous heaps of ruins. There were no
notices of eviction received in due time by the relieving officer. There is
no room for the crowd at the Ennis union workhouse. They are denied outdoor
relief, on some pretext or other. Women, with infants in their arms, slept
out under the freezing cold of the past week; and the floor of the chapel
is now the only home of the exterminated people. Their last sanctuary on
earth is the house of God."

There is further research archival available at, it is a searchable
database and you can find all sorts of gems like : English Views of the
Famine, at
http://www.people.virginia.edu/~eas5e/Irish/english.html

Links from the National Archives of Ireland are at (Click on "Ireland" Link
http://www.nationalarchives.ie/othersitesarchint.html

Best Wishes
Don
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The information contained herein was obtained from sources which I believe
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