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The Commi>M"ii 

 ) large estates on which the buildings 



ipment of 



:i provided h\ . Properties which 



nipped imed " English managed 





Where the whole c of the farm 



J by the tenant, the termination of t 

 t the confiscation by t 

 ;e capital invested by the tenant. 

 of a tenancy often took in 

 1 the form of an eviction. During the 

 849-80,90,107 families received eviction 

 ; of these, ho -11,340 were allov 



r homes as caretakers, so that 

 number actually evicted was 68,967.' In 

 1849-56 alone over 50,000 famil 

 d. s This \ ue to the 



which led the landlords to consolidate 

 iost of the later evictions took 

 e in consequence of non-payment of rent 

 ^ overdue ; yet even in this period pur 



her on personal grounds 

 tor the sake of consolidation of holding 

 not very uncommon. 4 



Even without any eviction it was possible 

 landlord, if not to confiscate, at least 



1 Lord Duffcrin's "Irish Emigration and the Tenure of Land 

 J 74. >eq. 



