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Nior thaitin an c6ras tithfochta seo le Hill: 1 Their houses too were in clusters, another great evil: particularly as it is much tended to the spread of fever and other infectious diseases: in addition to which, the women's time was taken up in wrangling and scolding, the packed state of the little community affording copious sources of civil war: and, worse than all, the men were generally far away from their farms". 8 Gabhaltais Scaipthe Is d6cha gur an gne is tabhachtai agus is suntasaf den ch6ras n6 go mbiodh talamh teaghlaigh scaipthe ar fud na par6iste. Bhi buntaisti ag baint le seo - ba ar an phrionsabal seo a bhi an c6ras bunaithe - sa mheid agus go mbiodh pfosai talaimh de chinealacha eagsula ag gach teaghlach - paiste maith curafochta in aice na farraige de ghnath; piosa innilte a bhi ag an phobal i gcoitinne ag bun na gcnoc; piosa portaigh n6 caorain agus go minic piosa dumhaigh a d'usaidti fa choinne muirini a sholathair do dhionta a gcuid tithe. Bhi an prionsabal seo cothrom ach ni raibh se i gc6nai praiticiuil. Bhitf de shior ag foroinnt na ngabhaltas scaipthe seo de reir mar a bhi mic ag p6sadh go dti sa deireadh go raibh cuid acu chomh beag sin is nach bhfeadfaf n6 nach bhfiU iad a oibriu. De reir tuairisc Choimisiun-Devon (1844), instear duinn go raibh feirm -amhain 205 acra i nGaoth Dobhair agus taobh istigh de dha ghlun go raibh 29 gabhaltas ann in 422 ait faoi leith. Bhi an c6ras seo mi-eifeachtach agus de reir is mar a bhf an daonra ag ardu sa 19u cead, bhi se do-oibrithe. Deir George Hill go raibh pairc leathacra ag 26 duine. Mar a scriobh file de chuid na linne: .l.IYou landlords all, I pray draw near, A comical story you soon shall hear, Of a property situated in Donegal, Held by a hundred tenants in all; And each having seven young brats to squall. Although each farm was in Rundale, To divide each plot, they could not fail, With son or daughter, aye, or mother; With either uncle, aunt or brother; And thus they divided with one another. Although each holding wouldn't feed an ass, It went by the name of the Cow's grass; For Shane had two, Teague two and a half, Manus five eights and Margery a calf; Each portion was only the breadth of a staff. " 9 Mar a duirt State of the Nation, 1822: 6 .l.IEvery patch produces a new family, every member of a family a new patch. Hence a country covered with beggars - a complete warren."