Ireland — Inhabitants to Acres

Ireland.– The number of inhabitants in Ireland is estimated at 6,846,949, and the number of Irish acres at 6,809,709; so that there is more than one individual to an acre. In England, the number of English acres is 32,342,400, and the inhabitants 11,486,700, or nearly three English acres (about two and a quarter Irish) to an individual. But the difference between the relative size of the tenancies is far greater. In a barony of about thirty square miles in Ireland, nearly one half of the farms are less than five acres, and only one in thirty is above fifty acres.– In the United States we have about seven hundred acres to each individual. [Phil. Aurora.