September Trevelyan orders grants to distressed Irish unions to cease. No clothing will be sent to the workhouses this year. He wishes to reduce 'dependence on Government aid'. Large areas of the south and west are now totally deserted. Large towns are dwinding.
Trade is almost at a standstill.
Markets are glutted with cheap provisions but the people have no money to buy them. Rich areas of land are deserted by their owners because they are encumbered by debt, poor-rates are unpayable because rents are uncollectable. Anyone who can go is making plans to do so. The paupers are the mass of those remaining. The cholera pandemic sweeping Europe arrives in Ireland and carries away the most vulnerable.