Excerpt from The Elements of Land Valuation: With Copious Instructions as to the Qualifications and Duties of Valuations
It would be difficult to overrate the importance to Ireland of having its land valuations properly executed. The island contains in all 20,808,271 statute acres, and the whole of this, with the exception of 650,000 acres, now covered with water, or occupied as towns, is in the hand of the farming population - subjected to the operations of tillage, or occupied as pasture.
The population directly employed in agriculture was, by the Census of 1841, 5,406,743: add to this, the landed proprietors, and their staff of dependents; the merchants trading in agricultural produce; the tradesmen employed throughout the country as smiths, carpenters, &c.; and the total number of individuals then actually dependent on land for their support, was not less than six millions. If the Census of 1851 reduce this number by nearly two millions, still the land remains; and the population yet lingering upon it is very large, any individual of which may be said to be personally interested in the work of land valuation.
That no treatise on Land Valuation in Ireland should have ever been published for general circulation, seems strange, considering the great importance of the subject; but the want of one was formerly less felt than at present, because excessive competition for land generally secured to landlords the full value of the soil.
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