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rundale|ˈrʌndeɪl|
Also 6 ryndale, rindaill, 8 rendal, rennal, -el.
[f. run v. + dale2 1.]
1. A form of joint occupation of land, characterized by dividing it into small strips or patches, a number of which, not contiguous to each other, are occupied and cultivated by each of the joint holders. Freq. in phrase in rundale.
Used esp. to designate this mode of occupation as practised in Ireland; in Scotland, to which the earliest quots. refer (with the word used adverbially), the current term is runrig.
α1545Reg. Mag. Sig. II. 747 Et lie Fieldland jacentem ryndale in territorio de Cottis. 1593Burgh Rec. Lanark (1893) 110 The balleis and cunsall hes vottet that the toun muir be delt amang the..induelleris in this brught..rindaill amang thaim. 1793Stat. Acc. Scotl. VII. 398 (Shetland), The small farms..are parcelled out in discontiguous plots and run-rigg, termed here rigg and rendal. 1794Ibid. X. 26 (Caithness), Possessing land in what is called rig and rennal, or run-rig.
β1780Young Tour Irel. I. 213 There is a custom here called rundale, which is a division of their farms into spaces by balks, without fences, which they take here and there exactly like the common fields of England. 1816Mason Survey Ireland II. 163 The custom of holding farms in rundale, is alone sufficient to impede agricultural improvement. 1848Edin. Rev. LXXXVII. 240 In Mayo and other western counties the old barbarous Irish tenure called Rundale (Scotch runrigg) still prevails. 1888Pall Mall G. 29 Nov. 3/1 The third improvement was the squaring of the holdings; they had formerly been held in rundale.
b. attrib., as rundale holdings, rundale lands, etc.
1780Young Tour Irel. I. *215 There is some land yet in the rundale way. 1846McCulloch Acc. Brit. Empire (1854) I. 525 A large extent of land is leased to several persons jointly, according to the village or run-dale system. 1875Maine Hist. Inst. iv. 101 The extensive prevalence of rundale holdings in parts of the country. 1884Times (weekly ed.) 19 Sept. 5/2 When he sub-divided the rundale lands in lots distributed round the dwellings.
2. Land occupied in this manner, or a share in such land.
1819Mason Survey Ireland III. 17 Each tenant takes a share of those divisions, commonly called a rundale. 1843S. C. Hall Ireland III. 261 The tenants had divided and subdivided the small portions of arable land into Rundale. 1895Times 21 Sept. 8/4 Scattered scraps of rundale ranged over by the cattle and sheep.
Hence ˈrundaled ppl. a., divided out on the rundale system.
1884M. Hickson Irel. in 17th C. I. 32 Owners of rundaled scraps of pasturage. Ibid. 34 Mere shreds, or scraps of land, rundaled through different farms. |