Title: Connemara after the famine
First published: 1995
Description: Connemara (Cunnemara is a variant spelling) is the most western district of County Galway. The vast estate (196,540 acres) of Thomas Barnewell Martin was the largest in the district. After the famine it was bankrupt and put up for sale by mortagagees, the London Law Life Insurance Society. Thomas Colville Scott was sent to survey the property in 1853. This is his journal.
Subjects: History, Famines, Administration of estates, Description and travel, Biography: general, British & Irish history, Famine, Local history, Social history, c 1800 to c 1900, History - General History, Short Story, Ireland, Europe - Ireland, 19th century, Connemara, Connemara (Ireland), Social conditions
Places: Ireland, Connemara (Ireland), Connemara
Time periods: 19th century, 1837-1901
LC classification: DA990.C7 S36 1995