Note 71 — Front matter (continued 2)
Reading edition
The following is the proportion of agrarian crimes in each quarter from January 1845, to November 1847:
In the Quarter ending
Jan. 31, 1845, the proportion is one in 4¼
April 30, 1845, ” ” 3-1/12
July 31, 1845, ” ” 4⅖
Oct. 31, 1845, ” ” 5⅓
Jan. 31, 1846, ” ” 4
April 30, 1846, ” ” 3⅓
July 31, 1846, ” ” 8
Oct. 31, 1846, ” ” 19
Jan. 31, 1847, ” ” 54
April 30, 1847, ” ” 64
July 31, 1847, ” ” 42
Oct. 31, 1847, ” ” 12
The increase of agrarian crimes which has lately taken place, is more connected with resistance to the payment of rents, than with opposition to ejectments from the possession of land; and it has been almost entirely confined to the counties of Tipperary, Clare, Limerick, and Roscommon. Out of 195 crimes committed in the whole of Ireland in October 1847, 139 were committed in Clare, Limerick, and Tipperary; being 71 per cent. of the whole number, although the population of these three counties is only 13 per cent. of the population of Ireland. The districts in the north-west and south-west of Ireland, which suffered most from the failure of the potato crop in 1845-6, were at the same time remarkable for the absence of atrocious crimes.