There are in Ireland about two hundred conventual establishments.

Nearly all of these convents have poor schools, where the poor are taught, either at a most trifling expense, or altogether without charge.

The majority of these convents feed and clothe a considerable number of poor children, and many of them have established industrial schools, where a few girls at least can earn what will almost support a whole family in comfort.

I give the statistics of one convent as a sample of others.

I believe there are a few, but perhaps only a very few other places, where the statistics would rise higher; but there are many convents where the children are fed and clothed, and where work is done on a smaller scale.