+-----------------+-----------------+---------------+
|    OFFICE.      |      1880.      |     1887.     |
+-----------------+-----------------+---------------+
|                 |      L   s. d.  |    L   s. d.  |
|  Bunbeg,        |    1,270  6  7  |  1,206 18  2  |
|  Falcarragh,    |       62 15 10  |    494 10  8  |
|  Gorey,         |    3,690 14  4  |  5,099  5  7  |
|  Inch,          |[A]     8 11  0  |    209  7  5  |
|  Killorglin,    |      282 15  9  |  1,299  2  6  |
|  Loughrea,      |    5,500 19  9  |  6,311  4 11  |
|  Mitchelstown,  |    1,387 13  2  |  2,846  9  3  |
|  Portumna,      |    2,539 10 11  |  3,376  5  4  |
|  Sixmilebridge, |      382 17 10  |    934 13  4  |
|  Stradbally,    |    1,812 14  8  |  2,178 18  2  |
|  Woodford,      |      259 14  6  |  1,350 17 11  |
|  Youghal,       |    3,031  0  7  |  7,038  7  2  |
+-----------------+-----------------+---------------+
[A] This Office was not opened for Savings Bank
business until the year 1881, the amount shown
being balance due on the 31st December 1882.

It appears from this table that the deposits in these Savings Banks increased in the aggregate from L20,329, 15s. 11d. in 1880 to L32,347, 9s. 7d. in 1887, or almost 60 per cent, in seven years.  They fell off in only one case, at Bunbeg, and there only to a nominal amount.  At Youghal they much more than doubled, increasing about 133 per cent.  Yet in all these places the Plan of Campaign has been invoked “because the people were penniless and could not pay their debts!”

NOTE K.

THE COOLGREANY EVICTIONS.

(Vol. ii. p. 216.)

Captain Hamilton sends me the following graphic account of this affair at Coolgreany:—­

In the Freeman’s Journal of the 16th December 1886, it is reported that a meeting of the Brooke tenantry, the Rev. P. O’Neill in the chair, was held at Coolgreany on the Sunday previous to the 15th December 1886, the date on which the “Plan of Campaign” was adopted on the estate, at which it was resolved that if I refused the terms offered they would join the “Plan.”

I had no conference at Freeman’s house or anywhere else at any time with two parish priests.  On the 15th December 1886, when seated in Freeman’s house waiting to receive the rents, four priests, a reporter of the Freeman’s Journal, some local reporters, and four of the tenants rushed into the room; and the priests in the rudest possible manner (the Rev. P. Farrelly, one of them, calling me “Francy Hyne’s hangman,” and other terms of abuse) informed me that unless I re-instated a former Roman Catholic tenant in a farm which he had previously held, and which was then let to a Protestant, and gave an abatement of 30 per cent., no rent would be paid me that day.  Dr. Dillon, C.C., was not present on this occasion, or, if so, I do not remember seeing him.

On my asking if I had no alternative but to concede to their demand, the Rev. Mr. Dunphy, parish priest, replied, “None other; do not think, sir, we have come here to-day to do honour to you.”