conacre

In my constituency of Northern Ireland, we have had a particular problem with duplicate fields, arising from our conacre system.

Holding the land under conacre granted no legal rights to the land with rent being paid in cash, labour or a combination of both.

In former times one third of agricultural land in Northern Ireland was let as Conacre.

He was arrested in February 1918 for unlawful assembly relating to commandeering of land for "conacre".

In March 2009, a ruling by the Court of Appeal removed tax relief on land with development potential which has been let under Conacre.

They split the holding into smaller and smaller parcels to increase the amounts of rents they could then obtain, a system called conacre.

Conacre (privately printed, 1943)

Mr Cowe Conacre (Multifarnham.

Mr McGrady said: 'It is important that farmers receive this premium as it is the time of the year that they take land in conacre.'

Tenants often sub-rented small plots on a yearly basis from local farmers paying for them by labour service in a system known as conacre most without any lease or land rights.

During the 19th century, there were many cases of middlemen renting the land and then sub-letting on conacre to desperate landless labourers or cottiers at a high profit.

Conacre (a corruption of corn-acre), in Ireland, is a system of letting land, formerly in small patches or strips, and usually for tillage (growth of corn or potatoes).

Mr Cowe Conacre: Has the right honourable gentleman's famous Mitchelstown telegram inspired the policy of gentlemen on the Treasury bench?

In the agricultural sector in Northern Ireland there is a high preponderance of conacre lettings, whereby an active farmer rents land for ten months each year from an inactive landowner.

Most common in Munster and Connaught for a variety of crops while in Leinster and Ulster, conacre was used almost exclusively for a potato crop alone.

Commenting on the ruling, the Ulster Farmers' Union president said "With one third of the land in Northern Ireland let as conacre, the ruling needs to be carefully considered by many local families.

In areas where the land had long been dedicated to small-scale, growing-season leases of farmland, called conacre, opposition was conceived as "retributive justice" that was intended "to correct transgressions against traditional moral and social codes."

Under the 1923 Act busier farmers had to rent extra land under an 11-month or seasonal "conacre" system, as longer arrangements could cause an owner to lose his farm by compulsory purchase by the Land Commission.

The Mollies' reaction to "land-grabbers" of the 1840s - surreptitiously digging up the land to render it useful only for conacre - followed similar practices by Whiteboys in the 1760s, and by another group called the Terry Alts in the 1820s and early 1830s.

If farmers have to farm 100% of the area they farmed during the reference years 2000 to 2002 in order to draw down the decoupled or area-based payment, it will put huge pressure on the price of rented land or Conacre as we say in Ireland both in Ireland and in other countries.