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by Seebohm, \nllata and tate corresponded in extent; ' elsewhere 

 they did not, more than one villata being sometimes included in a 

 tate.- Again, in county Tyrone, where the townland was equiva- 

 lent to the " balliboe " and contained about sixty acres, it was 

 itself a unit of rating.' In county Fermanagh, however, it once 

 more differed from the artificial units. Usually each of the seven 

 baronies into which this county had been artificially divided con- 

 tained seven and one-half ballybetages. Each ballybetage in turn 

 contained four quarters, each quarter four tates, each tate 30 

 acres, " contrey measure." In consequence the barony com- 

 prised 30 artificial quarters, or 120 tates. '' Elsewhere we learn 

 that the first of the baronies, Knockenyng, was six miles in length 

 by three in breadth, " wherein are 24 townes." ^ The townlands 

 in county Fermanagh therefore corresponded with none of the 

 artificial units, although they were not far removed in size from 

 the quarters. In this barony of Knockenyng their average area 

 was 150 acres. In Donegal the villata was equivalent to the 

 quarter, and, since 7! quarters are said to have contained about 

 1000 acres,^ the townland here too comprised on the average 

 about 125 acres. 



' Inquisitionum in Officio Rolulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae Reperlorium (Rec. 

 Com., 2 vols., 1826-29), ii, co. Monaghan, no. 2 (1609): " Tres vil' sive precincte 

 terre vocate ballibetaghes . . . que . . . continent quasdam minores parcellas, 

 villatas sive particulas terre vocate tates, viz. Ballileggichory continet i tate 

 vocatam Ballileggichory, i tate vocatam MuUaghbracke " [etc.; sixteen tates are 

 named]. 



^ Ibid., no. 4 (1619): " Jacobus O'Donelly nuper abbas nuper monasteri sanc- 

 torum Petri et Pauli de Ardmagh ac conventus . . . seisati fuerunt . . . de 

 separalibus villis, villatis sive hamlettis et terris vocatis Mullaghegny, Reagh, 

 Aghnelyny, Edenaguin et Broaghduff, cum suis pertinentibus continentibus i 

 tate . . . ac de villis, villatis sive hamlettis ac terris vocatis Knocknecarny et Umy, 

 cum suis pertinentibus continentibus i tate." 



' Ibid., Tyrone, no. 5 (1628): "King James did grant unto James Claphame 

 ... all the lands in the severall townes, etc. following, i. e., Cloghogall being i 

 towne or balliboe of land, Creighduffe being i towne-land," etc. These townlands 

 consisted of three sessiaghs each. The uniformity of the subdivision and of the 

 sixty-acre area (ibid., 1661, no. 19) are what suggest that the towne is here a unit 

 of rating rather than one of settlement. 



* Ibid., pp. xxxiii-xl. 



* Ibid., p. xviii. 



* Ibid., Donegal, no. 9 (1620). 



