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IX. Land Owned By Catholics in Ireland in 1688

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

J G. Simms
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The restoration settlement has long been the subject of controversy Petty in his Political anatomy calculated that by 1672 catholics had recovered a little less than a third of the ‘good land‘ of Ireland. Several alternative estimates were made at the time, such as that of Richard Lawrence, whose Interest of Ireland, published in 1682, put the catholic share at a little more than a fifth of the whole. But Petty remained the generally accepted authority until he was challenged by Butler, who estimated that ‘ at the accession of James II only at the outside one-seventh or one-eighth of the total area of the island remained in the possession of catholics ’

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Historical Revision
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Irish Historical Studies , Volume 7 , Issue 27 , March 1951 , pp. 180 - 190
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Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 1951

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