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It requires no prophet's eye to discern that the instant the tenant's son got married he would bring his wife home to his father's roof, and that if the energies of the united family did not suffice to cultivate the whole of the forty acres, part would be let at "conacre," that is, for the period of one harvest, to a man with or without a holding of his own.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

A thousand excuses will be made for taking partners, for subletting on the "conacre" and other systems.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

They had been let out under the conacre system, at so much a rood, for the potato season, at rents amounting sometimes to ten or twelve pounds the acre; but nobody would take them now.

Castle Richmond 2004

Committee: "In many instances the conacre tenants have refused to dig the crops, and are already suffering from want of food."

The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke

And is it intended that when Mike, and Thady, and Tim are settled on their new clearings they are to do as they like on them, to subdivide, to sublet, to conacre, to settle their numerous children and their children's children on the original forty-acre farm?

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

This bit of arable land is let to the surrounding tenants on the conacre principle -- that is, the holders are not even yearly tenants, but have the land let to them for the crop, the season while their potatoes or oats are on the ground.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

I have seen men and women actually fencing with questions put to them by the excellent priest who dwells at Letterfrack, Father McAndrew, who was obliged to exercise all his authority to obtain a straight answer concerning the potato crop grown on a patch of conacre land.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

The rest of their living was made either out of a conacre potato patch, for which they were charged a tremendous rent, or eked out by the excursion of one member of the family to England for the reaping season.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

By letting this conacre land in little patches, a high rent is secured, which the tenants have no option but to promise to pay.

Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker

The mezzeria system of agriculture, which, if not absolutely the same, is extremely similar to that which is known as “conacre,” rendered the lot of the peasant population very far better and more prosperous than that of the tillers of the earth in any of the other provinces.

What I Remember Trollope, Thomas A 1887