Estate ownership and management in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Ireland
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Throughout the nineteenth century in Ireland, landownership was the preserve of a privileged minority. In 1804, there were an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 landed proprietors in a population of around 5.4 million people. This minority was almost exclusively protestant with only about 5 per cent of land in catholic hands. This was as a direct result of the confiscations of catholic owned property which had taken place under Cromwell, Charles II and William III in the second half of the seventeenth century and the periodic enforcement of the penal laws during the eighteenth century. However, not all estates were owned by individuals: Trinity College, Dublin, for example, was one of the largest landowners in Ireland, while twelve London companies had been granted lands in Co Londonderry in the1early seventeenth century in return for a financial contribution to the crown's scheme for the plantation of Ulster.[1]
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