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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 4, 24 January 1901, Page 15

The Irish Department of Agriculture has ieeueda report on migratory agricultural laborers, who seek employment at a distance from their own homes, principally in England and Scotland. More than four-fifths of the entire number for 1900, namely 15,878. are natives of the province of Connaught. Of these 10,331 come from the County of Mayo alone, which county furnishes over one-half of all the Irish migratory laborers. In 1841 also Mayo was the principal source of these migratory laborers. When one considers the proportion of migratory laborers to the adult male population, Mayo appears in a still morp remarkable light, for it is found that no fewer than 19S\"j per 1000 of the adult male population usually seek employment at a distance from their homes. In no other county in Ireland doeß the proportion reach 69 per 1000.