Definition of Conacre. Meaning of Conacre. Synonyms of Conacre

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Definition of Conacre

Conacre
Conacre Con*a"cre, v. t. To underlet a portion of, for a single crop; -- said of a farm. [Ireland]
Conacre
Conacre Con*a"cre, n. A system of letting a portion of a farm for a single crop. [Ireland] Also used adjectively; as, the conacre system or principle. --Mozley & W.

Meaning of Conacre from wikipedia

- Conacre (a corruption of corn-acre, or derived from Irish word conartha meaning agreement or contract), in Ireland, is a system of letting land, formerly...
- Westpreußen. 1st vol., Königsberg, 1839, pp. 337 ff. (online). "Cottiers and Conacre in pre‐famine Ireland", Journal of Peasant Studies, Michael Beames, pp...
- from his father Peter in 1888; however, the family were forced to farm conacre land and work on the roads to make ends meet. O'Duffy attended Laggan national...
- than paying for rent with money.: 10  Much of the land was rented as a conacre, an arrangement in which farmers were granted the right to farm a plot...
- local farmers paying for them by labour service by a system, known as conacre, most without any lease or land rights. Irish smallholders were indistinguishable...
- Act, busier farmers had to rent extra land under an 11-month or seasonal conacre system, as longer arrangements could cause an owner to lose his farm by...
- from Crossmolina who were sued for non payment of Conacre rents by their landlord. Although a conacre rent was essentially a short-term lease on a piece...
- been dedicated to small-scale, growing-season leases of farmland, called conacre, opposition was conceived as "retributive justice" that was intended "to...
- these dead" were read out from the site of the blast. Other poems include: Conacre (privately printed, 1943) No Rebel Word (Frederick Muller, 1948) The Lint...
- 1906 Family Failing, 1912 Nic, 1916. Lane, Pádraig G. (2009). "'Crazy for Conacre': William Boyle's Image of Louth's Rural Past". Journal of the County Louth...