Til LAND OF TO-D 4$ 



consequently almost 50,000 farmers have double 

 hoh! 



A certain number of the holdings under one 

 c are potato plots held by town labo 

 be a number of thes- 

 among th ns. From 5 to 30 ar 



r 258,105 proprietors, who constitute 47-5 

 per cent, of all tin- \ ; from i to 30 aci 



>,ooo farrm ,7-8 per cent. The total area 



^1 by these 47*5 per cent, is 22*4 per cent, of 

 land of In 57-8 per cent, hold only 23*3 



ipcrficial area of Ireland ; that 

 is to say inon- than 75 per cent, of the suj 

 ficial area of Ireland is in the hands of the larger 

 mers, men working over 30 acres. If we con- 

 hat the small farms are to a great extent 

 on bad soil, we shall easily perceive that the 

 ill farmer in Ireland does not lie upon a bed 

 of roses. Matters are comparatively prosperous 

 in tlu North. There the holdi certainly 



small. In Armagh almost 70 per cent, of them 

 on five and ten acres; but the more 

 advanced technical methods and the industr 

 cha of the country render this smallness 



con vely harmless. 1 The number and size 



of the holdings have altered very much since the 



1 Ibid., p. 26, note. If we find among the larger holdings 

 more owners than holdings, this is owing to certain statistical 

 double counts. (The figures for 1904 show 591,224 holdings 

 1,202 occupiers. Trans/.] 

 sties, 190 



