Big Landlords of Ireland.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXI, Issue 27, 2 July 1903, Page 20

Big Landlords of Ireland.

To jndsre from the prominence given to Lord Barrymore and to Colonel Sanndenon in the question of the landlord-tenant conference (save the London ' Daily Chronicle '), it might be imagined that they were almost the largest landowners in Ireland, whereas neither the one nor the other would in point of acreage oome among the first 300 of the 4000 owners of over 500 aores who have joit been polled. Lord Barry more owns 21,000 aores and Colonel Ba*n> derton 12,362. There are 22 Irish landlords owning more than 50.000 acre*, two of them — the Duke of Devonshire and the Mar« qnis of Lansdowne— being members of the present Ministry, and the Marquis, with his 121,349 acres, wonld seem to be in point of acreage possessed the largest Irish landlord. The other Cabinet Minister whom most of us take to be the typical Irish landlord— the Marquis of Londonderry— shows quite small by the side of his brother Marqnis, for he owns 27,416 aores only, bat, as they are in Ul»twr— or, rather, in East Ulster — they prodnoe orer £30,000* year.