Limerick and Galway all had a high level of dependency on external relief
agencies,....disbandment of public works in Limerick... general state of lawlessness existed in Limerick....The Limerick Reporter described emigration as ‘an evil without parallel, except that presented by the wild excesses of those exterminating tyrants who glory in eliminating the people from the soil."....the Select Committee on Colonisation from Ireland in 1847, which resulted in Limerick, along with Dublin, becoming one of the chief
ports for landlord-assisted emigration in Ireland...the authorities should promote emigration to the colonies...Most economists agreed that Ireland suffered from chronic ‘overpopulation’,
but they disagreed on the practicability of addressing the problem through emigration....state assistance for emigration during the Irish Famine....assisted hundreds of people to emigrate from west Limerick between 1838 and 1858....the amount of surplus labour was enormous, and inordinary times labourers were only employed for approximately 140 days of the year. He stated that he believed that an official scheme of emigration was the only possible solution to the distress.
So that is when my ancestors left Limerick!!
So my ancestors were encouraged to leave Limerick with elite funding! Wow....

