In some cases, tenants were persuaded to take a tiny sum of funds to leave their houses, "cheated into believing the workhouse would choose them in". Many began clearing the inadequate tenants from their tiny plots and letting the land in much larger plots for over £4 which then lessened their money owed. Having turned out in the parish of Ballinrobe in excess of 2,000 tenants on your own, he then applied the cleared land as grazing farms.