OF THE

COUNTY OF ARMAGH,

WITH

OBSERVATIONS

ON

THE MEANS OF IMPROVEMENT;

DRAWN UP IN THE YEARS 1802, AND 1803,

FOR THE CONSIDERATION, AND UNDER THE DIRECTION

OF

The Dublin Society.

BY

SIR CHARLES COOTE; BART.

Terra suis contenta bonis, non indiga mercis.

LUCAN,

Dublin.

PRINTED BY CRAISBERRY AND CAMPBELL,

JO, BACK-LANE,

1804.

TIONS

TO THE READER.

This REPORT is at present printed and circulated for the purpose merely of procuring further information, respecting the state and husbandry of this district, and of enabling every one interested in the welfare of this country, to examine it fully, and contribute his mite to its improvement.

The Society do not deem themselves pledged to any opinion given by the Author of this Survey; and they desire, that nothing contained in it be considered as their sentiments; they have only published it, as the report of the gentleman, whose name is affixed, and they publish it for the comments and observations of all persons, which they entreat to be given freely, and without reserve.

It is therefore requested, that the observations on reading this work may be returned to the Dublin Society, as soon as may be convenient, and which will meet with the fullest attention in a future edition.

DEDICATION.

ΤΟ

THE RIGHT HON. JOHN FOSTER,

LATE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS OF IRELAND,

AND

PRESIDENT OF THE FARMING SOCIETY OF IRELAND,

Fc. Sc. Sc.

SIR,

I HAD already been honored with your permission to commit to the public, under the sanction of your patronage, my observations on the agriculture and commerce of another county; so am I again solicitous of the like favour and countenance, in preparing this volume for press.

I feel it, at all times, an additional value to my statistical enquiries, to be honored with your protection; but to whom else, Sir, could I so properly offer my labours in this fine county, so superior to all others in the great staple of the nation, as to the friend of the