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A Tour in Ireland, with general observations on the present state of that kingdom in 1776–78

Author: Arthur Young

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2. Second draft, revised and corrected.

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Sources

    Writings by Arthur Young
  1. Arthur Young, A Six Weeks' Tour through the Southern Counties of England and Wales, 1768. (Second edition, with enlargements, 1769.)
  2. Arthur Young, The Farmer's Letters to the People of England, containing the Sentiments of a Practical Husbandman on the present State of Husbandry (1768–1771).
  3. Arthur Young, A Course of Experimental Agriculture, containing an exact Register of the Business transacted during Five Years on near 300 Acres of various Soils 1770.
  4. Arthur Young, Rural Economy; or, Essays on the Practical Part of Husbandry 1770.
  5. Arthur Young, The Farmer's Guide in Hiring and Stocking Farms, 2 vols. 1770.
  6. Arthur Young, Farmer's Kalendar, 1770.
  7. Arthur Young, The Farmer's Tour through the East of England: being a Register of a Journey through various Counties, to inquire into the State of Agriculture, Manufactures, and Population,1770–1771.
  8. Arthur Young, A Six Months' Tour through the North of England, containing an Account of the Present State of Agriculture, Manufactures, and Population in several Counties of this Kingdom, 4 vols, 1771.
  9. A Tour in Ireland, with general observations on the present state of that kingdom: made in the years 1776, 1777, and 1778. And brought down to the end of 1779. London, printed by H. Goldney, for T. Cadell and J. Dodsley, 1780; Dublin, printed by George Bonham, for Messrs. Whitestone, Sleater, Sheppard, Williams, Burnet, Wilson Jenkin, Wogan, Vallance, White, Beatty, Byrn, and Burton, 1780.
  10. A Tour in Ireland with general observations on the present state of that kingdom made in the years 1776, 1777 and 1778; selected and edited by Constantia Maxwell. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1925.
  11. Travels during the years 1787-8-9 and 1790, undertaken more particularly with a view of ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources and National Prosperity of the Kingdom of France, 1792–1794. 3 vols. French translation, 'Le Cultivateur Anglais', published in 1801.
    Further reading: a selection
  1. Thomas Dinely, Observations on a Tour through the Kingdom of Ireland in 1681 (Dublin 1858, reprinted in Kilkenny Archaeological Society's Journal, Second Series, 4 (1856–57) 143–46, 170–88; 5 (1858–59) 22–32, 55–56; 7 (1862–63) 38–52, 103–109, 320–38; 8 (1864–66) 40–48, 268–90; 425–46; 9 (1867) 73–91, 176–204).
  2. Richard Pococke. A Tour in Ireland in 1752; ed. by George T. Stokes, as 'Bishop Pococke's tour in Ireland in 1752'; Dublin and London 1891.
  3. [Thomas Campbell,] A Philosophical Survey of the South of Ireland, in a series of letters to John Watkinson (Dublin 1778).
  4. Pádraig Ó Maidín, Pococke's tour of south and south-west Ireland in 1758. Journal of the Cork Historical & Archaeological Society, 2nd ser., 63 (1958) 73–94; 64 (1959) 35–56; 65 (1960) 130–141.
  5. Richard Pococke, Richard Pococke's Irish tours; ed. John McVeigh [=McVeagh]. Dublin: Irish Academic Press 1995.
  6. Maureen Hegarty, Dr Richard Pococke's travels in Ireland, England and Wales. Old Kilkenny Review: Journal of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society 3 (1987) 388–398.
  7. John McVeagh, "Romantick" Ireland: Pococke's tour of Cork and Kerry, 1758. Éire-Ireland, 25:2 (1990) 69–95.
  8. Roderic O'Flaherty, A chorographical description of West or h-Iar Connaught, written A.D. 1684; ed. J. Hardiman. Dublin 1846.
  9. Charles Smith, The antient and present state of the county and city of Cork: in four books. I. Containing, the antient names of the territories and inhabitants, with the civil and ecclesiastiscal division therof. II. The topography of the county and city of Cork. III. The civil history of the county. IV. The natural history of the same ... Published with the approbation of the Physico-historical society. Dublin: Printed by A. Reilly for the author, 1750. Reprinted Dublin 1774. Reprinted by the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, with the addition of numerous original notes, etc., from the mss. of the late Thomas Crofton Croker, F.S.A., and Richard Caulfield, LL.D. Edited by Robert Day and W.A. Copinger. Cork 1893–1894.
  10. John Mitchell, The present state of Great Britain and North America, with regard to agriculture, population, trade, and manufactures, impartially considered (...). London: printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, 1767.
  11. Thomas Crofton Croker (ed.), The tour of the French traveller M. de La Boullaye Le Gouz in Ireland, A.D. 1644, ed. by T. Crofton Croker, with notes, and illustrative extracts, contributed by James Roche, Francis Mahony, Thomas Wright, and the editor. (London 1837). Available at CELT. [=A translation of portions of "Les voyages et observations du sieur de la Boullaye Le Gouz ..." Paris, 1653.]
  12. Charles Smith, The ancient and present state of the county and city of Waterford: containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical and topographical description thereof. (Dublin 1773; 1774).
  13. Jacques Louis de Bougrenet Chevalier de La Tocnaye, A Frenchman's Walk through Ireland 1796–7 (Promenade d'un François dans l'Irlande), translated by John Stevenson (first published Cork 1798; repr. Belfast 1917; Dublin 1984).
  14. Thomas Carte, The life of James, Duke of Ormond: containing an account of the most remarkable affairs of his time, and particularly of Ireland under his government [...] 6 volumes (Oxford 1851).
  15. Sir William Brereton, 'Carrickfergus visited in 1635'; edited by E. Hawkins. Carrickfergus & District Historical Journal, 4 (1988–89) 11–16.
  16. Richard Gough (ed.), Description des royaumes d'Angleterre et d'Escosse. Composé par Estienne Perlin. Paris 1558. Histoire de l'entree de la reine mere dans la Grande Bretagne. Par P. de la Serre. Paris 1639. Illustrated with cuts and English notes. London: re-printed by W. Bowyer and J. Nichols; for T. Payne and W. Browne, 1775.
  17. Sir W. R. Wilde (ed.), Memoir of Gabriel Beranger and his labours in the cause of Irish art, literature, and antiquities, from 1760 to 1780, with illustrations, in: RSAI Journal 9 (1870–71) 33–64 (editor's Introduction); 121–52; 236–60.
  18. Johan Meerman, Eenige Berichten omtrent Groot-Britannien en Ierland ('s Graavenhaage 1778). [Translated into German as Johann Meermann, Nachrichten von Großbritannien und Irland, Nürnberg and Altdorf 1789].
  19. Samuel McSkimin, The history and antiquities of the County of the town of Carrigfergus: from the earliest records till 1839. (Belfast 1909).
  20. George Hill (ed.), The Montgomery manuscripts (1603–1706), compiled from family papers by William Montgomery, of Rosemount, Esquire. (Belfast 1869).
  21. Charles Smith, The ancient and present state of the county of Kerry. Containing a natural, civil, ecclesiastical, historical and topographical description thereof. (Dublin 1774. Reprinted Dublin/Cork: Mercier Press 1979).
  22. John Pentland Mahaffy, An Epoch in Irish History: Trinity College, Dublin; its Foundation and Early Fortunes, 1591–1660. (London 1903).
  23. P. W. Joyce, A Social History of Ancient Ireland. 2 volumes. (New York, London, and Bombay 1903).
  24. Constantia Maxwell, The stranger in Ireland: from the reign of Elizabeth to the Great Famine (London 1954).
  25. P. W. Joyce, The origin and history of Irish names of places. [Facs. of the original edition in 3 volumes published 1869-1913.] With a new introductory essay on P.W. Joyce by Mainchín Seoighe. Dublin: Éamonn de Búrca for Edmund Burke 1995.
  26. John McVeagh (ed.), Irish Travel Writing. A Bibliography. (Dublin 1996).
  27. C. J. Woods, Travellers' accounts as source material for Irish historians (Dublin 2009).
  28. M. A. Busteed, Castle Caldwell, County Fermanagh: life on a west Ulster estate, 1750–1800 (Dublin 2006).
  29. Thomas Prior, A List of the Absentees of Ireland, and the Yearly Value of their Estates and Incomes spent Abroad. With Observations on the present State and Condition of that Kingdom (London 1729).
    The edition used in the digital edition
  1. A Tour in Ireland. 1776–1779. Arthur YoungHenry Morley (ed), First edition [192 pages] Cassell & Co. Ltd.London, Paris, New York, Melbourne (1887)

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Created: By Arthur Young Date range: 1776–1779.

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Language: [EN] The text is in English.
Language: [FR] A few words are in French.
Language: [LA] A few words are in Latin.

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