Note 280 — Chapter LV · SOCIAL IRELAND FROM RESTORATION TO REVOLUTION

Petty’s Political Anatomy of Ireland, published in 1691 after his death, but written much earlier; his Political Arithmetic, and his Treatise of Ireland, written for James II. in 1687. Clarendon’s letters of May 4 and September 28, 1686. Stevens’s Journal in 1689, p. 49. Dineley’s Tour in 1681, pp. 18, 21. Sir W. Temple’s observations on the United Provinces in his Works, ed. 1814, i. 165, and his Advancement of Trade in Ireland, ib. iii. 3. In the quarto edition of Arthur Young’s Tour, 1780, there is a good picture of an Irish cabin without chimney or window and with smoke rolling out of the doorway. There were many such cabins a generation ago, and there may still be a few in out-of-the-way places. The mode of constructing them and the state of their inhabitants are described by John Dunton, who saw many in 1699, Life and Errors, ed. 1818, ii. 605.