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From: "Cathy Joynt Labath" <>
Subject: !! Connaught Journal; Nov 27, 1823; Peasantry of Roscommon
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 17:37:47 -0500


The Connaught Journal
Galway, Thursday, November 27, 1823

PEASANTRY OF IRELAND
The First Report of the British and Irish Ladies' Society, for improving the
Condition and promoting the Industry and Welfare of the Female Peasantry of
Ireland.


ROSCOMMON
In Roscommon, a County Association has been formed, with the Baronial
and District Associations in the Baronies of Boyle and Roscommon. The
exertions of an able and intelligent Correspondent have put into activity
nine parishes, out of thirteen which the barony of Boyle contains; many of
them are very extensive, and without much assistance from the resident
gentry. The population is also very great, and the women anxious to assist
themselves by honest industry. It is the opinion of those on the spot, that
promoting their temporary comforts, will greatly tend to improve the state
of their minds, and to foster morality, and submissions to the laws of their
country.
An inquiry was set on foot at Killuken, relative to the spinning of
cotton, in consequence of a present of 2006lb. weight of the raw material,
having been made to the Committee by Messrs. James Cropper and Sons, of
Liverpool, and 300lb. being sent there to be spun by the women, the
Committee had the satisfaction of learning tht this grant gave great
pleasure, for that many of the women had been in the habit of purchasing a
pound of machinery cotton, and having it wafted on the end of a linen web,
to make a gown, then colouring it with heath, and making in this way a
strong and comfortable garment.


Cathy Joynt Labath
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