rundale

"rundale," -- each son as he grew up taking off a slice of the paternal holding, putting up a hut with mud, and scratching the soil after his own rude fashion.

Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) William Henry Hurlbert 1861

Note 56: Campbell discusses the family-centered nature of eighteenth - and nineteenth-century rural Irish society — both the conjugal unit and the extended kinship network with its physical manifestation, the clachan (the traditional clustering of families in which kinship ties defined community boundaries and property was communally owned and rotated in a system known as rundale).

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Mr. Crosbie was not deterred by the difficulty of the task before him, and undertook the redistribution of his tenantry, on the anti-rundale system, and by degrees succeeded in planting the surplus population of the lowlands upon the higher ground.

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

The old rundale plan of dividing up the land among the children was put a stop to, and every tenant was encouraged not to make his holding smaller, but to add to and enlarge it.

Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) William Henry Hurlbert 1861

For a long time they wouldn't believe him to be a lord at all, "because he spoke Irish"; and the breaking up of the rundale system, under which they had lived in higgledy-piggledy laziness, exasperated them greatly.

Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) William Henry Hurlbert 1861

There is no rundale in Norway; and when the cadets see that there is no room for them they quietly "pull up stakes," and go forth to seek a new home, no matter where.

Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) William Henry Hurlbert 1861

For a detailed description of rundale, see Robert James Scally, The End of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine, and Emigration (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995). back

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'Roothythanthrum') being the property of one landlord and the residence of four tenants at the same time makes us in a sense participators in the old system of rundale tenure, long since abolished.

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889