[Loch-Ruadh] Speaking Forsoothly - Daily Lesson 23

[Pádraig Ruad Ó Maolagáin]

Yet another installment in the highly intermittent series.

Daily Lesson 23

Number and Measures – 3

Area

* Perch - one rod, when referring to length; one square rod when referring
to area; one rod by one foot by a foot and a half when referring to volume
(usually for masonry stonework)
* Acre - area of land one chain (four rods) in width by one furlong in
length. The furlong could vary in length from country to country, and so
did the acre. In England an acre was 4,840 square yards, in Scotland 6,150
square yards and in Ireland 7,840 square yards. It is a Saxon unit,
meaning field. Probably meant to be "as much area as could be plowed in
one day".
* Rood - one quarter of an acre, confusingly sometimes called an acre
itself. One furlong in length by one rod in width, or 40 square rods.
* Carucate  - an area equal to that which can be ploughed by one
eight-oxen team in a single year (sometimes called a plough or carve).
Approximately 120 roods.
* Bovate - the amount of land one ox can plough in a single year
(sometimes called an oxgate). Approximately 15 roods or one eighth of a
carucate.
* Virgate - the amount of land a pair of oxen can plough in a single year.
Approximately 30 roods (sometimes called yard land).

Shakespearian Word/Phrase of the Day:
	Catch – a song
	“The minstrel doth decry his catch, and many are enthralled.”

Padraig
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