Excerpt from The Chronicles of Castle Cloyne, Vol. 3 of 3: Or Pictures of the Munster People<br><br>But to get another place was a thing much easier said than done. By this time the farmers Of the country were all ruined and broken down; some so completely that they were swept Off the face of the earth as if they had never existed at all, and those who were able to struggle on, were obliged for the most part to dispense with hired labour, and do their own work. The gentry were just as badly Off as the class below them, for their rents were unpaid, and as they had no money, and could not do manual labour like the farmers, their lands soon became desolate wastes. There was therefore little or no employment for the labouring poor. Such of them as could manage it fled from the land Of their birth as if it was. Infected by a pestilence, and those who could not fly were plunged in a sea of poverty and misery, of which no man could see the end.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.