Lexicographical Neighbors of Conacres
Literary usage of Conacres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Present Poverty of Ireland Convertible Into the Means of Her Improvement by Robert Bermingham Clements Clements (1838)
"It is obvious that a diminution in the rent of conacres (or an increase in their
... When the market-price of conacres is reduced, the farmers will be less ..."
2. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1836)
"In the country, near Kells, some persons had taken conacres from a marked
proprietor, they were immediately visited by a party of men, i who told them if ..."
3. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, John Elihu Hall (1824)
"This was accompanied by a satirical smile, and was answered by an Irish oath,
consigning conacres, and their proprietors, to that place which, ..."
4. A Tour in Ireland;: With Meditations and Reflections. by James Johnson (1844)
"... six, or more of these miserable cottiers or pig-stye holders, all and each of
whom are bound for the rent of each and all of the cotenants or conacres! ..."
5. The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1891)
"Sometimes the patches are so for asunder, it is no easy matter for a tenant to
know what is his and what is another's. This is because he ' conacres ' (qv) ..."
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