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From:"Henry McFadden"

Subject:Irish Land Measurements

Date:Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:27:13 -0000

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Right! This is what I've gleaned from various places.

Anyone haveany additions, correction etc?

Measurements of land in Ireland were generally quantified by theirproduction capacity rather than their physical size, so a townland up

a mountain needed to be much bigger than one situated in a fertile

lowland area.

Some land units and measurements you may come across . . .

tuath a petty kingdom, an area under a chieftain, 97 in all of

Ireland

tricha-ct an area supporting 3,000 fighting men, pre-Norman

territories occupied by thenative Irish

barony / cantred civil areas divided within county boundaries, 273 inall of Ireland

ballybetagh - a measure of land, one thirtieth of a barony

carrow / quarter / quarterland four to a ballybetagh (abt. 240

acres)

ballboe / cowland three to a quarterland (about 80 acres)

tate / tathe about three or four to a quarter (about 60-80 acres)
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sessiagh an Irish unit of spatial measurement, varying 8-20 acres

gnieve an Irish unit of spatial measurement, two to a sessiagh

capell land in Kilkenny equal to a ploughland

in Tipperary about 400 statute acres

ploughland / carucate / villate the amount of land worked by one

plough in a year, abt. 120 acres

cartron in Connacht 30 acres

in Longford 60 acres

collop / colpach the amount of grazing land that would support a

horse, two cows or equivalent.

stint not actually a land measurement but an allowance of grazing

rights on commonage.

For instance one tenant may have a stint of two soum and

another maybe four soum.

soum unit of grazing of mountain commonage equal to a collop

horseman bed in Kilkenny and Waterford equivalent to a cowland

elsewhere equivalent to a capell

townland the smallest civil division of land, over 60,000 in all of

Ireland

great acre 20 statute acres

English / Statute acre amount of land ploughed in a day by a yoke of

oxen

4,840 square yards (0.404 hectares)

Irish acre 7,840 square yards

Scottish / Cunningham acre 6,250 square yards

Cunningham perch six and a quarter yards

Statute perch / square perch 160 to a statute acre, 30"square yards

Rood quarter of a statute acre, 40 square perches

Chain 22 yards

Irish perch seven yards

perch a quarter of a chain, five and a half yards

Slan

Henry

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