Ploughing Match, Strabane Branch of the North-West Agricultural Society, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland 1831
Extracted from the Strabane Morning Post, February 22 1831
Transcribed, Compiled and Submitted by
Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
len_swindley[at]hotmail.com
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PLOUGHING MATCH
On Thursday last, the Annual Ploughing Match of the Strabane Branch of the North-West Society was held in the Demesne of the Marquis of Abercorn, at Baronscourt. At half-past eleven o’clock TWENTY-SIX ploughs started, the superior appointment and efficacy of which fully maintained the character of the farmers in the district as spirited and improving agriculturalists. The judges were Mr. Robert McCrea, Mr. Thomas Lowther and Mr. Nathaniel Patton, who after a careful inspection of the several lots came to the following decision on the merits of the different competitors:
GENTLEMENS’ CLASS
1st Place to Bernard Cane, Ploughman to the Marquis of Abercorn
2nd Place to John Houston, Ploughman to Sir J. J. Burgoyne
3rd Place to William McLaughlin, Ploughman to the Marquis of Abercorn
4th Place to Christopher Doolan, Ploughman to James Auchinleck, Esq.
FARMERS’ CLASS
1st Premium £2.0.0 to Edward Stevenson, Letterbin [Ardstraw parish]
2nd Premium £1.5.0 to John Rodgers, Cottage
3rd Premium £1.0.0 to Mr. R. McCrea, Farmhill [Leckpatrick parish]
4th Premium £0.15.0 to Mr. J. Woods, Glentimon [Urney parish]
5th Premium £0.12.6 to Mr. E. Divin, Tullyaird [Tullyard, Leckpatrick parish]
6th Premium £0.10.0 to Mr. D. Woods, Peacockbank [Urney parish]
7th Premium a volume of Hints to Small Farmers to Mr. John McCreery, Ballyrenan [Ardstraw parish]
PLOUGHMEN
1st Premium £0.17.6 to John Tolan, Ploughman to Mr. John Rodgers
2nd Premium £0.13.6 to Hugh Logue, Ploughman to Mr. Robert McCrea
3rd Premium £0.10.6 to James Connor, Ploughman to Mr. James Woods
4th Premium £0.9.0 to James McCulloch, ploughman to Mrs Robert Thompson
5th Premium £0.7.6 to Henry McLaughlin, ploughman to Mr. William Kane
Further records for COUNTY TYRONE AGRICULTORAL SOCIETIES, ASSOCIATIONS, GROUPS and POLITICAL MOVEMENTS can be found at:
Societies & Groups, Masonic, Orange, Political, County Tyrone
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