There are, however, not a few large farms.
_Q_.

Canon Keller says that "in the memory of living witnesses, and far beyond it, the Ponsonby tenants have been notoriously rack-rented and oppressed"; and that they have been committed to the "tender mercies of agents, seeing little or nothing of their landlord, and experiencing no practical sympathy from that quarter." How is this?
_A_.

I wish to believe Canon Keller truthful when he knows the truth.

He certainly does not know the truth here.

He is a newcomer at Youghal, having come there in November 1885, and hardly so much of an authority about "the memory of living witnesses and far beyond it" as the tenants on the estate, who, when I went there first with my wife, presented to me, May 25, 1868, an address of welcome, referring in very different terms to the history of the estate and of my family connection with it.
Here is the original address, and a copy of it--the latter being quite at your service.
This original address is very handsomely engrossed, and is signed by fifty tenants.