 | 1834 - 508 pages
...according to Ferrar's History of Limerick (17^7), "preserve their language, but it is declining ; they sleep between two beds ; they appoint a burgomaster, to whom they appeal iu all disputes. They are industrious men, and have leases from the proprietors of the land at a reasonable... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - Killarney, Lakes of (Ireland) - 1843 - 266 pages
...Limerick, thus wrote of the Palatines: — " They preserve their language, but it is declining ; they sleep between two beds ; they appoint a burgomaster, to whom they appeal in all disputes. They are industrious men, and have leases from the proprietors of the land at reasonable... | |
 | Ireland - 1846 - 744 pages
...by Ferrar, the historian of Limerick : — " They preserve their language, but it is declining; they sleep between two beds ; they appoint a burgomaster to whom they appeal in all disputes. They are industrious men, and have leases from the proprietors of the land at reasonable... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Ireland - 1848 - 482 pages
...Limerick, thus wrote of the Palatines : — ' They preserve their language, but it is declining ; they sleep between two beds ; they appoint a burgomaster, to whom they appeal in all disputes. They are industrious men, and have leases from the proprietors of the land at reasonable... | |
 | Robert Montgomery Martin - Ireland - 1848 - 488 pages
...Limerick, thus wrote of the Palatines : — ' They preserve their language, but it is declining ; they sleep between two beds ; they appoint a burgomaster, to whom they appeal in all disputes. They are industrious men, and have leases from the proprietors of the land at reasonable... | |
 | William Crook - Irish - 1866 - 294 pages
...2, barley; 3, wheat; 4, oats."* " The Palatines preserve their language, but it is declining ; they sleep between two beds ; they appoint a Burgomaster, to whom they appeal in all disputes. They are industrious men, and have leases from the proprietor of the land at a reasonable... | |
 | Arthur Young - Agriculture - 1887 - 206 pages
...intelligence I wished for. Palatines were settled here by the late Lord Southwell about seventy years ago. They preserve some of their German customs: sleep...and in consequence are much happier and better fed, clothed, and lodged than the Irish peasants. ,We must not, however, conclude from hence that all is... | |
 | Arthur Young - Ireland - 1887 - 212 pages
...years ago. Jhey preserve some of their German customs : ;p between two beds. They appoint a burgo»ter, to whom they appeal in case of all disputes > and...preserve their language, but that is declining. They are vory industrious, and in consequence are much happier and better fed, clothed, and lodged thau the... | |
 | Sir Robert Edwin Matheson - Ethnology - 1909 - 94 pages
...Colony as it existed in 1780: — "The Palatines preserve their 'language, but it is declining; they sleep between two beds; ' they appoint a burgomaster to whom they appeal in all dis' putes. They are industrious men, and have leases from the 'proprietor of the land at reasonable... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall, Mrs. S. C. Hall - Ireland - 1911 - 498 pages
...Limerick, thus wrote of the Palatines: — "They preserve their language, but it is declining; they sleep between two beds; they appoint a burgomaster, to whom they appeal in all disputes. They are industrious men, and have leases from the proprietors of the land at reasonable... | |
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They preserve some of their German customs: sleep between two beds. They appoint a burgomaster, to whom they appeal in case of all disputes > and they yet preserve their language, but that is declining. They are very industrious, and in consequence are... 
