sentences:  A considerable amount of the trade would have been sea-borne, in small wooden vessels, to Cork.He was sent to Ireland to assist in a military survey, remained and became an authority on Irish antiquities.He wrote a report on the West Cork area which should also hold true for Durrus at the period, ‘there was only one road between Cork and Bantry; you may now proceed by eight carriage roads beside several horse tracks branching off from these great roads, from Bantry the country is mountainous and from the high road has the appearance of being barren and very thinly populated; yet the valleys abound with, corn and potatoes and the mountains are covered with black cattle in 1760, twenty years ago it was so thinly inhabited an army of 10,000 men could not possible have found subsistence between Bantry and Bandon.