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  2. Cotter (farmer) - Wikipedia

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    Cotter, cottier, cottar, Kosatter or Kötter is the German or Scots term for a peasant farmer (formerly in the Scottish Highlands for example). Cotters occupied cottages and cultivated small land lots. The word cotter is often employed to translate the cotarius recorded in the Domesday Book, a social class whose exact status has been the ...

  3. Land Acts (Ireland) - Wikipedia

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    The Land Acts (officially Land Law (Ireland) Acts) [1] were a series of measures to deal with the question of tenancy contracts and peasant proprietorship of land in Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Five such acts were introduced by the government of the United Kingdom between 1870 and 1909.

  4. Cotter family - Wikipedia

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    Inismore. Anngrove (historical) Rockforest. The Cotter family (Irish Mac Coitir or Mac Oitir) of Ireland was a Norse-Gaelic family associated with County Cork and ancient Cork city. The family was also associated with the Isle of Man and the Hebrides. Evidence suggests an ultimately Norwegian origin of the name.

  5. Conacre - Wikipedia

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    During the 19th century, there were many cases of middlemen renting the land and then sub-letting on conacre to desperate landless labourers or cottiers at a high profit. [ 2 ] In March 2009, a ruling by the Court of Appeal of Northern Ireland removed tax relief on land with development potential which has been let under conacre.

  6. History of Durrus and District - Wikipedia

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    National Library, Dublin has the 19th Century list (on microfilm) of Births Marriages and a list of the priests who served in the Carholic Parish, box. 4799. Office of Public Works Archaeological Inventory of Co. Cork; Penelope Durrell, Dursey; West Cork Railway inc. Colm Creedon's Works, Privately published Magazine Road, Cork

  7. Irish farm subdivision - Wikipedia

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    Known as sub-division, this inheritance practice continued by tradition until the middle of the 19th century. The growth of population inevitably caused subdivision. Population grew from a level of about 500,000 in 1000 AD to about 2 million by 1700, and 5 million by 1800. On the eve of the Great Famine the population of Ireland had risen to 8 ...

  8. Irish Land Commission - Wikipedia

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    Irish Land Commission. The Irish Land Commission was created by the British crown in 1843 to "inquire into the occupation of the land in Ireland. The office of the commission was in Dublin Castle, and the records were, on its conclusion, deposited in the records tower there, from whence they were transferred in 1898 to the Public Record Office ...

  9. Griffith's Valuation - Wikipedia

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    Griffith's background. Richard John Griffith started to value land in Scotland, where he spent two years in 1806-1807 valuing terrain through the examination of its soils. He used 'the Scotch system of valuation' and it was a modified version of this that he introduced into Ireland when he assumed the position of Commissioner of Valuation.