16 Drams (drs)..... make.... One ounce.... 16 Ounces. 28 Pounds. 4 Quarters or 112 tbs. 20 Cwt.... 14 Pounds.. 16 Pounds.. .0%. Óne pound ...........lb. One stone, generally. Ton. One stone of Wool, Feathers, rough Tallow, and in some places of Potatoes. The Avoirdupoise pound is greater than the Troy pound in the proportion of 175 to 144, i.e. 144 Avoirdupoise pounds, are equal to 175 Troy pounds; but the Avoirdupoise ounce is less than the Troy ounce, in the proportion of 175 to 192, for 192 Avoirdupoise ounces are equal to 175 Troy ounces. A pound Avoirdupoise contains 7000 grains, Troy Wt. F In Ireland, Corn, Grain, Potatoes, &c. are sold by Avoirdupoise weight, (though in England it is common to vend them by measure) and great irregularity prevails in the manner in which the different quantities of these articles are denominated; so much so, that a person fully conversant with the divisions adopted in one town or county, would, on a removal, perhaps to the adjoining, have to practice a different mode, with which he might be before wholly unacquainted,' it would be therefore impossible, in a work of this kind, to enumerate the entire of the different modes in use throughout Ireland; but the following table exhibits the division most general; it is that by which the returns are made up in the different maritime ports, for the regulation of the corn laws, and it would be a matter of benefit if the same was generally adoptede In some parts of Leinster, potatoes are sold by a barrel of this weight, but almost every town or county has some peculiar custom with res pect to the sale of this article. In many places corn is sold by the stone and weighed by stones and pounds, and in some places by the cwt. In Cork, they weigh in cwts. qrs. and lbs. and buy by the barrel, 20 stone being their barrel of wheat, 36 their barrel of barley, and 33 their barrel of oats; the barrel of barley and oats being each divided into 3 kilderkins, that of the former being 12, and of the latter 11 stone. In the County of Clare, 40 stone is a barrel of wheat, 32 a barrel of barley, and 28 a barrel of oats. |