Introduction, p. 1

Cork Examiner  Account of the 1849 meeting at Ballydehob, p. 2

Some of those attending Meeting, p. 8

Pre Famine Population Density 1841, p. 22

Local Reproduction Loan Records for Durrus  and Schull

Effect of the Famine Locally, p. 22

Timothy O’Donovan,  Durrus Landlord and Magistrate, p. 25

Introduction

Many of the Landlords attending were improving notably Lord Bandon, Beecher and Newman.  However these efforts were in a sense pointless and the nature of the Landlord system operating was that in the extremity of West Cork there were very few tenants with leases.  Until legal changes came into effect in the 1880s a tenant could be evicted at the whim of the landlord or agent.  It was not until about 1920 that the efforts of the Irish Land Commission resulted in the transfer of 70% of the land area of the island of Ireland from the Landlord to the tenants.  Since Irish Independence in 1922 there had been a massive increase in farm productivity, farm education commensurate swt a huge reduction in the number of commercial operating farms.

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