Groatland

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A groatland, also known as a fourpenceland, fourpennyland or “Còta bàn” was a Scottish land measurement. It was so called, because the annual rent paid on it was a Scottish “groat” (coin).

There were some regional variation in the equivalencies, but in Islay and many other places, they were as follows:

½ groatland – Dà sgillinn (twoshillingland)

2 groatlands = 1 “leothras”/“lèirtheas”.

4 groatlands = 1 ochdamh

8 groatlands = 1 quarterland

16 groatlands = 1 halfpennyland/leth-pheighinn

32 groatlands = 1 ounceland/pennyland

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