IRISH MIGRATORY AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS,
1891.
TO HIS EXCELLENCY LAWRENCE, EARL OF ZETLAND,
&c, &c, &c, Lord Lieutenant General and General Governor of Ireland.
May it please your Excellency, I have the honour to submit the following Report and Tables concerning Irish Agricultural Labourers who habitually seek employment at a distance from their own homes, especially in England and Scotland.
These Tables which set forth the information on the subject, obtained at the homes of the migratory labourers by the enumerators of agricultural statistics, are in continuation of those presented annually since the year 1880, and are comparable with the statistics of Aiigratory Labourers published in the Report on the Census of Ireland for 1841.
It appears from the Tables that there were in June of this year 13,129 persons or 2*8 per 1,000 of the population according to the Census of 1891, who had either left or intended to leave their homes to seek employment as agricultural labourers else¬ where : of these, 3,129 had not left their homes at the time of the enumeration.
The corresponding number for 1890 was 14,081, showing a decrease of 952, or 6*8 per cent.
in the present year.
As in previous Reports, the chief points of interest with regard to migratory Agricultural labourers may be dealt with under the following heads :—
I.
Their distribution in Ireland when at home.
II.
Their relative proportion to the population :—
(a.)
To the total population ; (b.)
To the adult male population.
III.
Their social position when at home as measured by the extent of their holding's
if any.
IV.
Their destination.
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