Statistical Survey of the County of Sligo (1802)
Book ID: 69229
Price: €850.00
Statistical Survey of the County of Sligo. With Observations on the Means of Improvement, Drawn Up in the Year 1801, for the Consideration, and Under of the Dublin Society. Dublin: Grainsberry & Campbell, 1802. First Edition. Pp xix, 122. Contemporary half leather, marble boards, raised bands, gilt lettering to spine. Neat ink stamps to endpapers, otherwise a fine bright copy.
Illustrated with a folded map of Co Sligo. McParlan’s survey covers all aspects of the Sligo economy and society and is a snap shot of the region at the turn of the 19th century.
The Irish Statistical Survey was carried out under the direction of the Royal Dublin Society. Each county was surveyed with the aim of determining the ‘actual state, capabilities and defects of agriculture, manufactures and rural economy’. In practice the surveys contained a vast quantity of local information on almost every aspect of the county surveyed.
Because these studies were carried out under central direction the quality of the information provided is good, and given their early date, they remain an invaluable source for the study of each county. They record many details about conditions in pre-Famine Ireland, including social and economic conditions, the growth of population and poverty, education, religion, history, the Irish language and local customs.
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