cottiers

In equally poor case with the cottiers is the woman who keeps the village shop at Derryinver.

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

The poem of The Deserted Village took its origin from the circumstance of General Robert Napper (the grandfather of the gentleman who now lives in the house within half a mile of Lissoy, and built by the General), having purchased an extensive tract of the country surrounding Lissoy, or Auburn; in consequence of which, many families, here called cottiers, were removed to make room for the intended improvements of what was now to become the wide domain of a rich man, warm with the idea of changing the face of his new acquisition; and were forced “with fainting steps,” to go in search of “torrid tracts” and “distant climes.”

Lives of the English Poets Cary, Henry F 1846

By 1841, there were over half a million cottiers, with one and three-quarter of a million dependents.

Low-carb battles in your brain | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2009

Before mid-century, the overwhelming majority of the population was made up of laborers, cottiers, and smallholders — groups that clung tenaciously to the older belief system.

Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

L.M. Cullen states, however, that Drake and Connell have been misled by the evidence of contemporary observer Arthur Young, whose remarks about the dependence on a potato diet applied only to cottiers and laborers.

Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

Granted, the diet of cottiers and landless laborers was rather monotonous, although still nutritious, with staples of potatoes, milk, eggs, and fish until dependence on the potato increased in the decades before the famine.

Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

Up to this time such was not the habit of Irish cottiers.

Castle Richmond 2004

It was one of those tracts of land which had been divided and subdivided among the cottiers till the fields had dwindled down to parts of acres, each surrounded by rude low banks, which of themselves seemed to occupy a quarter of the surface of the land.

Castle Richmond 2004

PROTOINDUSTRIALIZATION: Partially in an effort to bypass the regulations of guilds, merchants extending the putting-out system, in which they supplied cottiers and other poor families in the countryside with the necessary tools and supplies, such as a loom and thread, to complete a given step in a production process.

3. Europe, 1648-1814 2001

Our initial excavations have focused on the homesite of a head tenant, who rented land from Mahon, lived on a small parcel of it, and sublet the rest to the cottiers.

Probing County Roscommon 1997