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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2418, 5 January 1882, Page 4

The Poobbbt Place in the Wobld.—ln the opinion of Captain Bpaight, one of the Government inspectors, the Union of Swineford, County Mayo, is without an equal in any part of the world for poverty Bind ■wretchedness. A succession of bad seasons has loft the people without clothing, bedding, or anything in the world but the miserable huts in which they live, and which generally consist of one room only, with very low walls, and very imperfectly thatched. The only covering of the family at night is, in nine cuss out of ten an old quilt too bad to be pawned, or a few bags. "I have found,” Captain Spaight adds, “ the mother and children sitting on the mud floor eating the email, woi, ill-grown potatoes off the floor, with a little salt and nothing else, not a stool or a plate being in the house. The male portion of the population are away all the summer, and this year their earnings have not been os good as usual. A large portion of the district is in the bands of middlemen, there being no resident landlords or gentlemen, with one or two exceptions.”