Acre (Irish)
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An Irish acre is a unit
of area
historically used in Ireland
, Yorkshire
, and regions bordering the Solway Firth
.
One Irish acre is equal to about 1.62 acre
, 7,840 square yard
s, or 70,560 square feet.
The difference between the Irish acre and the statute acre arises from the fact that the Irish mile is mile
s (1.273 mi or ~ 2km).
Whereas a one-acre area ten times as long as wide would have dimensions of 66 feet × 660 feet, the Irish acre of that shape would have dimensions of 84 feet × 840 feet.
Units of measurement
A unit of measurement is a definite magnitude of a physical quantity, defined and adopted by convention and/or by law, that is used as a standard for measurement of the same physical quantity. Any other value of the physical quantity can be expressed as a simple multiple of the unit of...
of area
Area
Area is a quantity that expresses the extent of a two-dimensional surface or shape in the plane. Area can be understood as the amount of material with a given thickness that would be necessary to fashion a model of the shape, or the amount of paint necessary to cover the surface with a single coat...
historically used in Ireland
Ireland
Ireland is an island to the northwest of continental Europe. It is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island on Earth...
, Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
, and regions bordering the Solway Firth
Solway Firth
The Solway Firth is a firth that forms part of the border between England and Scotland, between Cumbria and Dumfries and Galloway. It stretches from St Bees Head, just south of Whitehaven in Cumbria, to the Mull of Galloway, on the western end of Dumfries and Galloway. The Isle of Man is also very...
.
One Irish acre is equal to about 1.62 acre
Acre
The acre is a unit of area in a number of different systems, including the imperial and U.S. customary systems. The most commonly used acres today are the international acre and, in the United States, the survey acre. The most common use of the acre is to measure tracts of land.The acre is related...
, 7,840 square yard
Square yard
The square yard is an imperial/US customary unit of area, formerly used in most of the English-speaking world but now generally replaced by the square metre outside of the U.S., Canada and the U.K. It is defined as the area of a square with sides of one yard in length...
s, or 70,560 square feet.
The difference between the Irish acre and the statute acre arises from the fact that the Irish mile is mile
Mile
A mile is a unit of length, most commonly 5,280 feet . The mile of 5,280 feet is sometimes called the statute mile or land mile to distinguish it from the nautical mile...
s (1.273 mi or ~ 2km).
Whereas a one-acre area ten times as long as wide would have dimensions of 66 feet × 660 feet, the Irish acre of that shape would have dimensions of 84 feet × 840 feet.