> Does anyone know why the Irish Acre was different than the English acre? > Wasn't the Irish gallon also larger than the imperial gallon? One story I heard years ago was that the English judged the taxes and tithes based on the total acreage one owned, and so the Irish acre was larger. They jokingly say the English rulers didn't wise for years. Never examined the truth of it. And don't know about the gallon Gus