TOPOGRAPHICAL DIVISION OF IRELAND,

With the Baronies, Parishes, and Contents in Irish Acres.

Baron.Parish.Acres.
⎧ *Armagh contains520181,450
⎪ Down860348,550
ULSTER.⎪ Antrim877387,200
9 Counties.⎪ Londonderry431318,500
8928⎨ Donnegal542679,550
square miles.⎪ *Tyrone435463,700
⎪ Fermanagh818283,450
⎪ *Cavan730301,000
⎩ *Monaghan519179,600
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543323,143,000
Lough Neagh covers58,200
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3,201,200
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⎧ Louth461110,750
⎪ Meath12147327,900
⎪ Dublin6107142,050
⎪ Wicklow658311,600
LEINSTER.⎪ Wexford8142342,900
12 Counties.⎪ *Kilkenny9127300,350
6936⎨ *Carlow550137,050
square miles.⎪ *Kildare10113236,750
⎪ *Queen's County850235,300
⎪ *King's County1152282,200
⎪ *Westmeath1262231,550
⎩ *Longford623134,150
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979922,792,550
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CONNAUGHT.⎧ Galway16116989,950
5 Counties.⎪ Mayo968790,600
7125⎨ Sligo639247,150
square miles.⎪ Leitrim517255,950
⎩ *Roscommon656346,650
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422962,630,300
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⎧ Cork162691,048,800
MUNSTER.⎪ Kerry883647,650
6 Counties.⎪ Clare979476,200
9000⎨ Limerick9125386,750
square miles.⎪ *Tipperary10186554,950
⎩ Waterford774262,800
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698163,377,150
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2522,436 12,001,200†
* The thirteen inland counties are distinguished by an asterisk.
† All fractions having been excluded from this calculation, it is very
much under the full number of acres in Ireland.
An Irish Acre contains 7840 square yards.
Scotch 6130 ditto.
English 4840 ditto.
From Port Patrick to Donaghadee 25 English miles.
Holyhead to Dublin 63 ditto.
Milford Haven to Waterford 85 ditto.
No part of Ireland is more than fifty miles from the sea.