The subject of this paper is a folwark which operated in XVII and XIX century in a village of Mętów near Lublin. Its owners have been Dominican friars from Lublin since the twenties of XVIII century. A detailed description of XIX-century folwark buildings and goods as well as income which the order derived from these grounds was based mainly on source material accessible in form of inventories written down in 1864 after dismantlement of Dominican Friars’ Lublin convent. We also have detailed descriptions of the folwark which date back to the first half of XIX century. Buildings and the territory of folwark, the value of its living, mobile and immobile property as well as a list of duties to be performed by the subjects residing within its scope make us perceive the goods in Mętów as crucial to the order’s life and simultaneously as comparable to other folwarks of this time in the Republic. To expose the role of the folwark in Mętów with special attention paid to economy, the paper sought to juxtapose it with other estates belonging to the Dominican Friars’ Lublin convent (with the folwark in Trześnów near Lublin and court’s goods in Hajdów). The size and value of the cloister’s estates in Mętów makes us see the need to launch comparative research into properties of other orders (in Lublin and beyond) which were dismantled in XIX century by tsarist authorities.