sentences:  The rate levied on arable land was 7¾%, and 2½% on bog and mountain.It was advised by Fr.Kelleher, Curate of Durrus, that ‘the lands are let to the highest bidder; the competition is very great, the tenant holds no tenure in almost every case, but his landlord’s will or caprice and that neither landlord or tenant look beyond the gain of the hour the face of the country testifies’
  
  The percentage of males who could read and write in the 1841 Census for Durrus was between 15 and 19%.