Mr.Crawford's opinion, founded upon a thorough personal knowledge of the region, is that there is no exceptional distress in this part of Ireland, and that over-renting has nothing to do with such distress as does exist here.

The case of a man named Egan, one of the "victims" of the Woodford evictions of 1886, certainly bears out this view of the matter.

Egan, who was a tenant, not at all of Lord Clanricarde, but of a certain Mrs.Lewis, had occupied for twenty years a holding of about sixteen Irish acres, or more than twenty English acres.

This he held at a yearly rental of L8, 15s., being 9d.

over the valuation.
In August 1886 he was evicted for refusing to pay one year's rent then due.