Collop (unit)
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Collop (unit)
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A collop is a measure of land sufficient to graze one cow. In Irish tradition, a collop is defined as the amount of land deemed capable of producing enough to support one family, or the number of cattle that the family could rear by pasture on it. It was the basis for the division of common land in the western parts of Ireland in the 18th and early 19th centuries. As in the Rundale system, the collop was scattered over several different fields, so that good and bad land was equally divided. In E
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Measure of land sufficient to graze one cow
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collop_(unit)
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2023-03-25T22:32:52Z
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