Statistical Survey of the County of Mayo (1801)

Author: James M’Parlan

Book ID: 69226

Price: 750.00

Statistical Survey of the County of Mayo. With Observations on the Means of Improvement: Drawn Up in the Year 1801, for the Consideration, and Under the Direction of the Dublin Society. Dublin: Graisberry & Campbell, 1801. First Edition. Pp xvi, 168. Publisher’s original paper boards, recent cloth spine with printed title label. Wear to boards, contents pages in fine bright condition.

Illustrated with a folded map of Co. Mayo.

First published in 1802 for the Dublin Society (later the Royal Dublin Society) it includes a dedication to the 1st Marquess of Sligo, John Browne, 3rd Earl of Altamont, a major landlord in Connaught at the turn of the nineteenth century.

The survey is a snapshot of all aspects of County Mayo , including its topography, geography, farming conditions and practices, livestock, crops, living conditions, wages, religious practices and much more.

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