Kejla
A small land surface measure, represented here as one sixtieth of a tomna. Do not confuse it with the grain or oil measure.
Convert with this measure ↗Historical use
A small land surface measure, represented here as one sixtieth of a tomna. Do not confuse it with the grain or oil measure.
Measures for fields and land. A land tomna measures a surface, not seed volume. Modern agricultural usage often gives it as 1,124 m².
Alternative names
kejlietmisura
Relationships between measures
10 land kejla = 1 land siegħ.
Variations & cautions
Land; derived from the rounded tomna
When reading a deed or plan, check its date and definition. A modern rounded value alone cannot determine the boundaries of historical land.
A calculation can be mathematically precise while its historical equivalence remains approximate. Each variant here carries its context and sources. Displaying more decimal places does not make a rounded value more certain.
Worked conversions
- 1 × Kejla≈ 18.733333 m²
- 2 × Kejla≈ 37.466667 m²
- 10 × Kejla≈ 187.333333 m²
Example: amount × factor = metric equivalent. Calculations use the full stored factor and round only for display.
How much land is a tomna?
When reading a deed or plan, check its date and definition. A modern rounded value alone cannot determine the boundaries of historical land.
- Tomna
- ≈ 1,124 m²
Sources & method
- Malta Blue Book 1935 — Weights and Measures, section 19 ↗
Historical tables in the NSO archive. Digitised text contains errors; values here are qualified approximations.
- Unitajiet ta’ kejl Maltin — Wikipedija ↗
Starting point for names and meanings; not a sole authority.
- ARPA — ANC Guidelines 2023–2027 ↗
The eligibility section uses a tumolo of 1,124 m².
- The Gozo Observer 36 (2017) — A Description of Gozo at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century ↗
Grain and provision trading; footnote 10 gives a tumolo as 1,124 m².
- Lino Bianco — Cartographic representations in early eighteenth century Baroque Malta ↗
Study of a 1737 plan; discusses a 2.088 m cane and relationships between land units.