To the supplementary Return of the Landholders of Ireland, obtained on the motion of Mr. Butt, in 1877, and arranging them in twelve classes, from possessors of "under 25 acres" to those of "20,000 acres and upwards "—there was appended an account of the number of resident, partially resident, and absentee proprietors, with the extent and valuation of their Holdings, first in counties and next in provinces. The following was the summary for Ireland:—

	No. of Proprietors.	Area in Statute Acres.	Valuation. £
Resident on or near the property	5,589	8,880,549	4,718,497
Resident usually elsewhere in Ireland	377	852,818	371,123
Resident elsewhere in Ireland	4,465	4,362,146	2,128,220
Resident usually out of Ire-land, but occasionally on the property	180	1,368,347	601,072
Rarely, or never, resident in Ireland	1,443	3,145,514	1,538,071
Public or Charitable Institutions, or Public Companies	161	584,327	234,678
Not ascertained	1,350	615,308	331,673
Proprietors of under 100 acres unclassed	5,982	236,873	257,100
	19,547	20,046,182	10,180,434