Galey

Land use and estate improvements

Samuel Lewis’s 1837 description of Galey contrasts the good agricultural land along the river Gale with extensive bog elsewhere in the parish. He estimated that bog covered nearly two-fifths of its surface, while only about one-fifth was under tillage. Drainage was then under way, alongside other improvements by P. Mahony, a recent purchaser of the Gunsborough estate. Lewis gives neither the extent eventually drained nor a completion date; his account records work in progress rather than its final result. ^[2]