The Aoghairean of the
Hebrides
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,
Scotland
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, according to
Thomas Pennant
Thomas Pennant (16 December 1798) was a Welsh natural history, naturalist, traveller, writer and antiquarian. He was born and lived his whole life at his family estate, Downing Hall, near Whitford, Flintshire, in Wales.
As a naturalist he had ...
, were
farm servants
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who had the charge of cultivating a certain portion of land, and of overseeing the cattle it supported. They had grass for two milch
cow
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s and six
sheep
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, and also had one tenth sheaf of the produce of the said ground, and as many
potato
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es as they chose to plant.
The term is plural; its singular form would be ''aoghair''.
References
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See also
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Half-foot
Half-foot (, ) was a kind of land tenure peculiar to northern and western Scotland.
The possessor, generally impoverished, or without facilities for working the land, often furnished the land and seed corn, and the tenant cultivated it, the produ ...
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Crofting
Crofting (Scottish Gaelic: ') is a form of land tenure and small-scale food production peculiar to the Scottish Highlands, the islands of Scotland, and formerly on the Isle of Man. Within the 19th-century townships, individual crofts were est ...
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Davoch
The davoch, davach or daugh is an ancient Scottish land measurement. All of these terms are cognate with modern Scottish Gaelic '' dabhach''. The word ''dabh'' or '' damh'' means an " ox" (cf. oxgang, ''damh-imir''), but ''dabhach'' can also refer ...
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Quarterland
A Quarterland or Ceathramh (Scottish Gaelic) was a Scotland, Scottish land measurement. It was used mainly in the west and north.
It was supposed to be equivalent to eight Groatland, fourpennylands, roughly equivalent to a quarter of a Markland (S ...
Agriculture in Scotland
Land tenure
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