Furlong the fundamental unit of land measurement. A furlong was forty rods, an acre four by 40 rods, or four rods by one furlong, and thus 160 square rods. At the time, the Saxons used the North German foot, which was 10 percent longer than the foot of today. When England changed to the shorter foot in the late 13th century, rods and furlongs remained unchanged, since property boundaries were already defined in rods and furlongs. The only thing that changed was the number of feet and yards in a rod or a furlong, and the number of square feet and
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