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Occupation of Land in Ireland – Digest of Evidence taken before Her Majesty’s Commissioners of Inquiry (The Devon Inquiry) into the state of the Law and Practice in respect to the Occupation of Land in Ireland. 2 Vols – 1847. This was arguably the most important inquiry carried out in nineteenth-century Ireland, coming, as it did, on the eve of the Great Famine. It provides us with the most revealing insight into the socio-economic situation throughout rural Ireland. Loss to backstrip Vol I – very good internally. Vol I - Plans of Farm Buildings and Houses pp 135, 140, 141, 142; Vol II – Map of Constabulary Stations, Co. Donegal & Map to illustrate Dispensary Districts, County Donegal. A number of statistical tables. Vol I lacks ‘Plans of Farm Buildings; and ‘Map to illustrate the Sub-division of Farms’, both of which are called for
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