School: Willistown, Dunleer (roll number 7597)
- Location:
- Willistown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ó Liatháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0671, Page 168
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - The Drumcar, Dillonstown, Willistown, Adamstown, Finvoy and Mount Doyle, the land is heavy, wet and for the most part difficult to till. A good part of it is, however, tilled and when the seeds are got in a good condition it produces good crops especially of wheat and oats. It is highly valued generally 25/ to 30/ per Irish acre.In Salterstown the land is good: a heavy deep soil with a porous sub-soil: it is very good land for wheat, barley and oats. I am informed that one field in Salterstown is value as highly as £2-5 per Irish acre. Cortown is rather marshy and unsuitable for tillage.Drumcar is well wooded. Forty or fifty acres are under timber. About half of this area was planted by Lord Rathdonnell about fifty years ago.Dillonstown has three shelter belts(??) about three acres in extent.
