kelp-burners

Updated: July 25, 2025

While some proprietors were wiping off the map great villages, containing hundreds of families, like that of Aughadrinagh, near Castlebar, the holders of the sea-coast encouraged people to settle on their estates. No reasonable person can blame them for doing so. The proprietor was poor, and saw that a large accession to his means might be secured by attracting kelp-burners.

Bernard Henry Becker - Disturbed Ireland: Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.