ABSTRACT
Some of our readers may recollect to have seen, in the middle of October last year, files of smart and cleanly – dressed young women, under the care of matrons, passing along the quays to embark on board Irish steamers for Plymouth. Similar files had been seen the preceding year; and all who had seen them agreed that a more comely race, and better adopted for the new life on which they were about to enter, it would be impossible to discover. Last year’s supply was chiefly drawn from the unions of Galway, Loughrea, Gort, Scariff, Ennis, Enistymon, Listowel, Dingle, Dublin, and some over districts.
