bocklesly

Updated: May 25, 2025

Reprinted in Cork with the author's name, Richard Bocklesly, Esq., M.D. It is hardly necessary to say that the "people" referred to in the above extract mean merely the English colony in Ireland. Ibid., pp. 5 & 6 He seems to use the word "dairy" here in a sense somewhat different from its present application. The Bristol barrel contained 22 stones one stone more than the Irish barrel.

John O'Rourke - The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) : With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines