He agreed that the practice goes on upon a much more extensive scale in the County Mayo, where more than thirteen per cent, of all the adult male population are said to belong to the category of migratory labourers.

The Irish population of England seems to be recruited at regular seasons in this way, very much as is the Albanian population of Constantinople.
Father Walker was full of information about the granite quarries, and much interested in the prospect of their development.

He told us that a practical engineer from Liverpool had, not long ago, been here seeking a lease of the quarries--or, in other words, of the quarrying rights over sixty or seventy miles of Donegal--from the agent of Lord Conyngham.
This engineer had come to Donegal on a sporting expedition last year, and gone back full of the capabilities of the granite region.

Father Walker had been told by him that similar quarries also exist in the County Mayo at Belmullet, where preparations are now making, he thinks, to develop them, though on a smaller scale than would be both practicable and desirable here.
In Mayo, as in Donegal, labour must be plentiful enough, and the comparatively unskilled labour required in such quarries would be particularly abundant here.

It would be a great thing, Father Walker thought, to introduce here the custom of a regular pay-day, and with it gradually habits of exactness and economy, not easily developed without it.
He gave me also, at my request, some valuable information as to the stipends of the Catholic clergy, and the sources from which they are derived.