When acres and land sales were counted in thousands
Men like Sir Henry Wrixon Becher of Ballygiblin, whose holdings amounted to 18,933 acres in Co Cork and 358 acres in Co Tipperary in the 1870s — according to the new www.landedestates.ie website.
Recently launched by former Fianna Fáil politician Martin Mansergh, the website catalogues the landed estates of Munster from the 18th to 20th centuries, and is being hailed as an invaluable tool for historical researchers, academics and the general public.
