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Manx Genealogy Archive 2

Re: place names
In Response To: Re: place names ()

The Manx National Heritage Library (Manx Museum) says:
Land Divisions
Manorial Rolls follow a pattern which is based on the ancient divisions of land in the Isle of Man. The largest division of land is the ‘Sheading’ which consists of several parishes; and each parish consists of so many ‘Treens ‘ which consist of so many ‘quarterlands’. Then there is land which is called ‘Intack’ which is the poorer sort of land. Land, specified in accordance with those divisions, and also cottages and mills, are all entered in the Manorial Rolls. The fullest series of records are those of lands leased directly by the Lord of Mann, namely Libri Assedationis or Libri Vastarum. (etc.)

http://www.gov.im/mnh/heritage/library/publicinfo/manorial.xml

Also the "Particles" which were portions of land originally assigned for the use of poor scholars.

For more detail see also http://www.generation13.net/Manxfolio/pages/listofparishes.html

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