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cartron, which was estimated at from 60 to 160 acres. Four of these 
madea quarter or ploughland. The cartron is represented by the modern 
townland. 
In Louth we find the carucate, or carew, of which 120, sometimes 60, 
acres were the prevailing contents. 
Meath had the plowland, and under it the carucate and townland. 
In the direction of Cavan we find the poll. 
Westmeath had the cartron and carucate. An inquisition of 1621 
finds 3 carucates to consist of 360 acres, or 120 acres each. We also meet 
‘a half-carucate, otherwise half-plowland.”’ 
The county of Dublin, influenced by the neighbourhood of the me- 
tropolis, was considerably subdivided. Thus, the parish of Lusk contains 
on the Ordnance Survey 81 townlands ; an inquisition sped in 1546 finds 
but 59.* The prevailing denomination was the plowland or townland. 
Kildare was similarly distributed. 
Wicklow had ville, villate, hamlets, lands, and cowlands, or bally- 
boes. 
The divisions of Carlow were mart-lands or beef-lands, and frac- 
tional parts; also penny-lands.| The half and quarter martlands are 
now represented by the townlands. 
Thus, too, in Wexford, besides quarters, carucates, and plowlands, 
we find an inquisition which sets out the barony of Ballaghkene as con- 
taining 13 marte-lands; Goorey, 20; M‘Vadock’s Country, 7; Skara- 
walsh, 31.{ 
In Kilkenny, also, we meet with the carucate and martland. Ithad, 
besides, a denomination called capell-lands, three of which made a plow- 
land ; and a subdivision called a horse’s-bed or horseman’s-bed, con- 
taining 20 or 30 acres.§ 
King’s County had the carucate and cartron. An inquisition of 1667 
finds 1 plowland 80 acres, and two plowlands 8 score acres of arable 
land. 
The English of Waterford reckoned by plowlands; the native Irish 
by mart-lands, and the sub-denomination horsemen’s-beds.|| 
* An early transcript is preserved among records of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. See 
Mason’s History of St. Patrick’s, p. 35. One of the denominations, now swallowed up 
in the adjuncts of Kenure Park was Ballybetaughe. ! 
+ In Scotland we meet with the denomination of halfpenyland in some ancient char- 
ters. The mercata, solidata, denariata, or “ markland,” ‘‘shilling-land,” and ‘* penny- 
land” were common terms of estimation. 
£ Leinster Inquis. Wexford, No 3, Jac. 1. oh 
§ In the Kilkenny Inquisitions we find “4 caples terra (No. 9, Ji ac.I.) 5 “7 capal 
terre” (No. 31, Jac. I.); ‘5 caball terre” (No. 40, Jac. Lie BUSSE s-bed” (Nos. 33, 
89, 91, 93, 96, Car. I.) ‘3 mart. terre” (Nos, 25, 77, Car. I); ““} mart. terrae” (No. 80, 
ar. I.). , 
: pasts of the particulars regarding this and other counties of Munster are borrowed 
from an interesting MS. in the Lambeth Library on ‘‘ The Sundry Denominations of the 
Measuringe of Land in Ireland.” Carew Collection, No. 614, p. 197. It was copied in 
1846 by Dr. O’ Donovan, and was printed by Captain Larcom as an appendix to his va- 
Iuable “ Memorandum” on the Territorial Divisions of Ireland. 
