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Catholic owned land (4)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

chad

'land' is the definition.
(Chad is an example)

'catholic owned' is the wordplay.
'catholic' becomes 'c' (abbreviation as in RC for Roman Catholic).
'owned' becomes 'had' ('have' can be a synonym of 'own').
'c'+'had'='CHAD'

(Other definitions for chad that I've seen before include "Feature of controversial election once" , "Bit of paper" , "West African country" , "Paper punch waste; African country" , "Piece of (almost?) punched-out paper" .)

I've seen this clue in The Mirror.
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