Furlong in most applications. Five furlongs are about 1.0 kilometre ( is the exact value, according to the international conversion). The name "furlong" derives from the Old English words ' (furrow) and ' (long). Dating back at least to early Anglo-Saxon times, it originally referred to the length of the furrow in one acre of a ploughed open field (a medieval communal field which was divided into strips). The furlong (meaning furrow length) was the distance a team of oxen could plough without resting. This was standardised to be exactly 40 rods or 10 chains. The system of long furrows arose
Nicholas Furlong the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. He attended St Peter's College, Wexford, the Salesian Agricultural College, Warrenstown, County Meath, and University College Dublin (UCD). He was written such books as: Nicholas Furlong has also written for the stage, his plays including: "Insurrection '98", "The Lunatic Fringe", "Purple and Gold", and "Storm the Bastille" which was produced by Harry Ringwood and first performed in Abbey Square, Enniscorthy, in July 1989. Nicholas Furlong Nicholas Furlong (born 1929) is an Irish farmer, journalist, author and historian from County Wexford. Nicholas Furlong was born in Wexford in 1929. He became a dairy farmer