In a message dated 24/01/2007 02:05:47 GMT Standard Time, dawnwebb@optusnet.com.au writes: Could this mean however it was more like 8 or 9 acres as I think? ___________________________________________________________ Hi Dawn, The Irish acre was a traditional unit of land area in Ireland, equal to 160 square Irish perches This is equivalent in English units to 7840 square yards, 70 560 square feet, or about 1.6198 English acre (0.6555 hectare). The discrepancy arose because the Irish perch, or rod, was standardised at 21 feet instead of the English figure of 16.5 feet. The same happened elsewhere because the historic perch could vary from 15½ feet to 30 feet. Local historic acres could therefore vary from 0.88 to 3.30 modern acres. Regards Stan Mapstone