As a result, political, legal and economic power resided with the Ascendancy to the extent that by the mid-18th century, though a small fraction of the population, 95% of the land of Ireland was calculated to be under minority control of those within the established church. Some 9% of this land belonged to formerly-Catholic landlords who had converted to the state religion. By 1841 (Census and repeated in the 1851, 61 etc.) there were just shy of 10,000 landowners of Ireland's 20,000,000 acres of land: 47% were from the established church, 43% Catholic and 7% dissenting (2% owned by institutions).