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ON THE STATE OF IRELAND. [BOOK I. 



CHAPTER II. 



OF THE SIZE OF FARMS. 



THE Commissioners have in all the baronies inquired 

 into the number of farms under the size of one acre ; of 

 those consisting of from one to five acres ; from five to 

 ten ; from ten to twenty ; from twenty to fifty ; from fifty 

 to eighty ; from eighty to one hundred ; and, lastly, the 

 number of farms of one hundred acres and above. The 

 following Table shows the results of the only information 

 which they could obtain : 



The tenancy of very small allotments of land for a single 

 year is not included in the above table. 



