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and one at Blackball Head, close to the entrance of Youghal harbour. A light at Ballina-
courty Point, near Dungarvan, would be exceedingly useful. These three lights I con¬
sider indispensable for the use of fishing craft, and most useful for vessels also trading to
those ports.
There was no query relative to the effect of bounties put, but I will take the liberty to Bounties,
remark that, judiciously bestowed, such would have the effect of encouraging the fishery
very much. The system of giving bounties to fish curers was defective, because the fisher¬
man, who should be encouraged and assisted by every means possible, reaped little or no
benefit from them. The price of fresh fish was very little more than when no bounty
existed, and the benefit lay with the fish curer.
I should think a bounty on fresh fish of a certain description would have the effect of
increasing the fishermen's exertions to procure it, and extending the fishery—(iWr. H. E,
Itoderich.)
BOATS AND MEN ENGAGED IN THE FISHERIES—COUNTY CORK.
Decked Vessels.
Half-decked Vessels.
Open Sail-boats.
Row-boats.
No. of
Coast Guard Station.
Coast Guard Officer.
Fisher¬
No.
Tonnage
Men.
No.
Tonnage
Men.
No.
Men.
No.
Men.
men.
Garnish
Mr. Wm. Wade ..
• • •
■. •
...
2
23
9
»..
70
420
429
Castletown
Mr. B. Skinner ...
5
120
30
...
...
...
16
100
160
800
930
Whitehorse
Lt. J. Senior
• • •
• . .
• « .
8
60
40
...
...
218
1075
1115
Dunmanus
Mr. W. R. Harvey
1
30
5
1
10
6
9
45
219
1095
1151
Crookhaven
Mr. John Cooper
• «.
• . .
.. .
11
141
...
13
• . .
84
• • •
198
Long Island
Mr. H. Baldwin ...
• ••
• . .
, .
8
96
48
194
970
11
55
1073
Baltimore
Mr. J. Coghlan ...
2
45
14
20
200
120
20
104
70
350
588
Barlogue
Mr. C. French
• • â–
. « •
. . .
...
...
...
...
50
200
200
Castletownsend
Lt. J. Taylor
2
50
12
4
68
24
10
52
66
379
467
Glandore
Mr. R. Edwards ...
«• 4
• . •
16
265
144
• • •
• .*
196
1176
1320
Mill Cove
Lt. Kempthorne ...
• ••
.. .
4
60
16
..
86
430
446
Dunny Cove
Barry's Cove
Lt. Wm. Speek ...
• ••
• . .
...
3
24
27
...
100
600
627
Lt. B. W. Tracey
...
...
...
...
• •.
• ••
...
47
293
293
Courtmacsherry
Lt. B. E. Quadling
• ••
11
198
74
8
56
115
750
880
Howstrand
Mr. R. C. O'Brien
• • •
♦ . .
...
...
• * .
1
6
40
280
286
Old Head
Mr. H. Tiltman ...
• • •
• . •
...
...
...
...
3
18
56
394
412
Oysterhaven
Lt. J. Kempe
• ••
...
• . .
...
...
.«.
16
162
8
96
258
Upper Cove
Mr. Wm, Daish ...
3
57
21
70
1117
424
...
...
120
600
1045
Robert's Cove
Lt. W. D. Masters
• ••
...
...
11
148
66
6
42
28
196
304
Crosshaven
Mr. John Hall ...
• • •
...
. . «
...
...
2
10
24
96
106
Cork
Lt.R.W. Charlesson
• ••
• • •
• . •
...
...
...
...
• . .
30
150
150
Cove
Lt. S. Colston
• • •
• . •
. . *
2
27
...
5
44
91
East Ferry
Mr. R. Lawton
•..
• . •
36
503
176
39
117
29
• ••
293
Lighthouse ..
Mr. R. Roberts ...
• ••
.. •
• ••
...
...
...
...
16
128
128
Poorhead
Mr. J. Mullins
• • •
• . •
...
• •«
» « •
.»«
30
120
120
Ballycroneen
Mr. P. Jenkins ...
«.»
...
...
...
4
16
2
8
24
Ballycotton
Lt. L. Dennehy ...
...
...
10
115
60
...
...
67
335
395
Youghal
Mr. D. O'Connell
...
••
...
16
260
...
...
53
327
409
13
302
82
233
3,315
1316
346
1,698
2039
10,353
13,738
COUNTY WATERFORD.
Dungarvan, March 12, 1836.
Examining Commissioners—Messrs. Townsend and Pajiry.
Witnesses—The Rev. Mr. Fogabty, Roman Catholic Curate, of Dungarvan, Andrew Carbeky,
Esq., Merchant; Mr. Waters, Merchant and Boat Owner; John Crotty, a Boat Owner and
Land holder; John Cdrbeen, a Boat Owner; Nicholas Whelan, a Fisherman.
Andrew Carbery, Esq., a merchant residing in the town of Dungarvan, has had for White Fishery,
many years extensive dealings with the boat owners and fish curers of the town, as a salt
manufacturer, and dealer in the requisites for the out-fit of vessels. The white fishery of
Dungarvan was during the continuance of the bounties prosperous and productive. It
brought great wealth into the town, which, although it did not rest with the fishermen ge¬
nerally, owing to their improvident habits, very much increased the buildings and other im¬
provements of the town. There are also some instances of working fishermen having accu¬
mulated capital during that period, and being at present prosperous and comfortable mem¬
bers of society. Some fishermen have become boat owners, and some boat owners masters
of trading vessels, particularly at Abbeyside.
The production bounty was particularly useful, inasmuch as it furnished an inducement Bounties,
to the establishment of a class of small curers who afforded a constant and immediate de¬
mand for any siu'plus not required for the supply of the fresh market. It therefore effected
the important object of separating the almost incompatible occupations of catching and curing.
It afforded extensive means of livelihood to a numerous class of the poorest persons,
principally females. Mr. Carbery was himself mainly instrumental in aiding these poor per¬
sons by small advances, getting a lien on the production bounty to be received, which con
