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	The Townland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The townland is a unique feature of the Irish landscape and is one of the most ancient divisions in the country.
		Townlands orginally consisted of a number of sub-divisions such as gneeves and ploughlands but they are now recognised as the smallest administrative division in the country.
		There are approximately 62,000 townlands in Ireland and great variations are evident in townland sizes due to the fact that their shapes and sizes are related to local topography and farming practices.
	www.proni.gov.uk /research/local/townland.htm (527 words)

	Kinlough Townlands, Co. Leitrim
		Population of the townland (excluding the village) 38 (1841); 47 (1851); 29 (1861); 27 (1891); 22 (1911).
		The population of this townland dropped from 8 to 2 in the period 1891 to 1901, and by the census of 1911 the townland was uninhabited.
		Population of the townland 43 (1841); 40 (1851); 34 (1861); 20 (1891); 14 (1911).
	homepage.eircom.net /~fmasters/townlands.html (5195 words)

	Townland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In Ireland, a townland is the lowest-level officially-defined geographical unit of land, smaller than a parish, barony or county.
		10 acres - 1 Gneeve; 2 Gneeves - 1 Sessiagh; 3 Sessiaghs - 1 Tate or Ballyboe; 2 Ballyboes - 1 Ploughland, Seisreagh or Carrow; 4 Ploughlands - 1 Ballybetagh, or Townland; 30 Ballybetaghs - Triocha Céad or Barony.
		Searchable database of townlands in Ireland derived from the Index to the 1851 Census of Ireland
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Townland (1067 words)

	Places
		Townlands orginally consisted of a number of sub-divisions such as gneeves and ploughlands but they are now recognised as the smallest administrative division in the country.
		There are approximately 62,000 townlands in Ireland and great variations are evident in townland sizes due to the fact that their shapes and sizes are related to local topography and farming practices.
		It was this official mapping that made permanent the townland names found in the various indexes, in particular the widely available General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland Based on the Census of Ireland for the Year 1851 (originally published in 1861; reprinted, GPC, 1984).
	www.irishgenealogy.com /ireland/Ireland-Places.htm (3284 words)

	Ancestry.co.uk - Irish Townlands: Beyond the Definition
		Townlands seemed to derive from what defined a family holding, and in some rural areas until recent times, the townland name was the postal address.
		Boundaries of townlands were expressed in terms of notable natural or man-made features of the landscape, such as hilltops, rivers and streams, walls, or roads, and very often it was these features that became the names of townlands.
		In their leases, the proprietors described land according to townlands for the simple reason that there was in 1608 no proper survey of the confiscated areas.
	www.ancestry.co.uk /learn/library/article.aspx?article=2292 (1312 words)

	Illustrations of Townlands in Maps
		On this the townland names are in lower case, and the boundaries are shown by fine fl lines superimposed on the 1-inch map (in grey).
		“yellow townland, fort of the ?”, ridge of the oak tree, fort of the plain, fort of the fairy mound, borderland, St Brigid’s church, sandhills.” To the north of these are the Scots townland names of Clatteryknowes and Whappstown.
		Staffordstown is a townland named from the family of Francis Stafford, Governor of Ulster at the beginning of the Plantation.
	www.ulsterplacenames.org /illustrations_of_townlands_in_maps.htm (706 words)

	The History of 8 Families
		Mary McTernan, nee Carney, 1845--1916, the fifth child of Michael Carney and Mary McTernan, born in the townland of Carrigeencor, parish of Drumlease, Barony of Drumahaire, Co Leitrim, Ireland.
		Anne was from the townland of Lisfuiltaghan, Inishmagrath parish, Barony of Drumahaire, Co Leitrim.
		The population of the townland of Killargue in 1837 was given as 110, the total population of the parish of Killargue being 4,409.
	mctiernan.com /carhis.htm (2261 words)

	Understand Irish land divisions, townland, parish, barony in Ireland.. county, province, townland, administrative region
		A townland is one of the smallest land divisions in Ireland.
		It was common to allocate the land between streams as townlands, but where streams were not suitably available, the townlands were delineated with clay and stone banks which we in Ireland like to call 'ditches'.
		They were composed of a larger number of townlands than a parish and are said to be an ancient form of administrative unit used for the collection of taxes etc. Even though the 1901 census was conducted on a 'barony' system, the term has little relevance today.
	www.ballybegvillage.com /land_division.html (1112 words)

	magoo.com: McGoughs, McGeoughs, and McGeoghs in the Civil Parish of Aghnamullen by Hugh McGough
		The townland of Carrickaldragh adjoins the townland of Cortaghart to the west in the civil parish of Aghnamullen, which is immediately south of the civil parish of Ballybay.
		Peter McGeough and Brigid Lennon of the adjoining townland of Tamlat are shown to be the parents of Thomas McGeough, baptized September 13, 1872, by the records of the Catholic parish of Aughnamullen West.
		Tattybrack is a townland to the northeast of Moylemuck.
	www.magoo.com /hugh/aghnamullen.html (10590 words)

	Valuation Tribunal - rates valuation appeals nationwide
		Killen gave the view, in his evidence, that the Commissioner of Valuation at revision stage, changed the townland description from Collinstown to Dublin Airport not by reason of any casual inattention or error, but advisedly, in connection with an overall revaluation of what may generally be described as the Dublin Airport complex.
		The Tribunal is of the view that the jurisdiction of the county council in listing the cases for revision was properly invoked in this case, and constituted an initiation of a process which proceeded, albeit with a major error at revision stage ultimately to appropriate correction at first appeal stage.
		It is difficult to see how the omission of one or more of these townlands could leave the case doomed from the start in an unappealable state and incapable of allowing for the scope to amend so freely given by the Chief Barron at the conclusion of the Switzer case.
	www.valuation-trib.ie /categories/shop/VA92_4_029.htm (2166 words)

	The Irish at Home and Abroad: Irish Place Names and the Immigrant: Sources / Magazine / Irish Ancestors / ireland.com
		The Townland Index is on microfilm at the FHL: #1565423 (A-D) and #1565424 (E-W).
		These name books were compiled in the 1830s at which time survey teams went to each townland, interviewed local people, noted variations in what names people called a townland and in the spelling of townland names, as well as consulting historical works and maps of the time period.
		Once the townland names were standardized, the standard names from the maps appeared in the subsequent 1851, 1871, and 1901 townland indexes.
	www.ireland.com /ancestor/magazine/articles/iha_placenames3.htm (1350 words)

	GENUKI: County ClareTowns and Parishes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Townlands are the smallest administrative division and on average covers about 350 acres.
		The townland was named at an early period and often the name was derived from some local physical feature or landmark such as a mountain, bog, forest, a village, or a church.
		The townland names were originally in Irish Gaelic, but they became modified as a result of English speaking clerks writing the names as they heard them, using the Latin alphabet to approximate Gaelic word sounds.
	home.pacbell.net /nymets11/genuki/CLA/townlands.html (142 words)

	Irish Genealogy: A Guide to Irish Politicial and Religious Administrative Divisions
		If you have a name of a place and do not know whether it is a parish or a townland, or want to know what district a townland is in, try the searchable database of townlands.
		Townland -- This is the smallest unit of land area.
		If you have the name of a townland, and want to know what parish it is in, then use the searchable data base at the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) site.
	www.cassidyclan.org /roots2.htm (761 words)

	Celebrating Ulster's Townlands
		There is a special emphasis on the names of townlands, a land division which exists all over Ireland, but nowhere else.
		In Northern Ireland, as in the rest of the island, the townland was for centuries the building block of local society.
		However, when Donaghanie Road begins at the West Tyrone Hospital in Omagh, goes through the townlands of Cranny, Garvaghy, Edenberry, Donaghanie, Eskermore and Clogherny Glebe Lower and ends up at Beragh, it is clear that many of these townland names are under threat.
	www.ulsterplacenames.org /celebrating_ulster's_townlands.htm (414 words)

	cloonagh
		Townlands The townland is the smallest administrative unit in Ireland.
		Townlands have specific boundaries which were officially surveyed in the 1830s by the Ordnance Survey.
		Although the concept of the townland is based in antiquity, the actual mapping and defining of them goes back to the 1600s when the English Government was mapping Ireland to portion it out to conquering soldiers and others who were investing in Irish land.
	www.henneberry.org /dunn/cloonagh.htm (2061 words)

	Welcome to Carrigallen Online
		On the northern boundary of the townland of Derryniggin.
		On the eastern boundary of the townland of Cloonbuher.
		In the townland of Aughaleague-formerly a deer-park belonging to the Gore family.
	homepage.eircom.net /~carrigallen/townlands.html (1004 words)

	Poyntzpass and District Local History Society Web Site
		The parish was formed with four townlands from Mullaghbrack, five from Loughgilly and twelve from Ballymore on March, 6th 1840.
		In the early years of the last century a 'hedge school' is mentioned in the townland in a Government Inquiry into education in the country.
		On the 1602 map it is shown as "Locully." The parish was formerly known as "Castrum O'Hanlon," as much of the Cusher Valley belonged to the O'Hanlon's until their estates were confiscated for taking part in the Earl of Tyrone's rebellion in Queen Elizabeth's reign.
	www.poyntzpass.co.uk /history_Mavemacullen_Townland.htm (1423 words)

	Notes on the Townlands information sources
		The informnation is arranged by townland with the exception of those in County Louth which are grouped under the designation of "The five towns".
		The valuation of the townlands of Creggan was completed between January and May 1837 and mainly limits house valuations to those worth £5 a year or more.
		Unfortunately for this study of townland populations, 1957 was the last time that townlands were used for this purpose.
	www.btinternet.com /~pdevlinz/timelinetownlandsnotes.htm (1128 words)

	The incidence and distribution of family names in the parish at diffeent periods.
		Townlands originally consisted of a number of sub-divisions such as gneeves and ploughlands but they are now recognised as the smallest administrative division in the country.
		For instance, the rentals of estates were organised according to townlands, the Tithe Applotment Books used the townland as its smallest division, and, until 1973 when the Post Office introduced its road naming convention, the townland was also used as a distinct unit in the Census and Valuation Books.
		Townlands have a special place in the minds of most country people born before, and fortunately many after, the Post Office unfeelingly vandalised an ancient native locus of identity.
	www.btinternet.com /~pdevlinz/townlands.htm (754 words)

	LR Townland Search Form
		The Townland database was completed on May 28, 1999
		This search engine will perform a search of the Leitrim-Roscommon Townland data base, and return all lines that meet the search requirements.
		By entering a Townland and a County, it will return all lines that contain the requested Townland and the requested County.
	www.leitrim-roscommon.com /TOWNLAND/town.html (127 words)

	The History of 8 Families
		The townland of Drumrewy borders the town of Drumkeeran and is located at Longitude W 8.07.30 and Latitude N 54.10.30, NE of Lough Allen.
		Lisfuiltaghan or from the bordering townland of Tullycorka and the Byrne's came from the townland of Drumrewy.
		All three townlands are in the parish of Inishmagrath, Barony of Drumahaire in Co. Leitrim.
	mctiernan.com /beihis.htm (2166 words)

	magoo.com: Hearth Money Rolls for County Monaghan: McGeogh, McGeough, and McGogh by Hugh McGough
		These townlands are about 4 kilometers west and 5 1/2 kilometers south of the town of Ballybay, and roughly halfway between the towns of Moyle and Latton.
		Tulleinane is not on the modern townland map of Muckno, but in examining the "walk" on which these taxes were collected, a logical spot for this hearth would be between the present townlands of Annyart and and Lurganmore, in the present townland of Tullyharnet, just north of the northernmost point of Muckno Lake.
		Other possible locations of Tulleinane are the modern townlands of Tullyrahan, about 3 kilometers or two miles to the west of Tullyharnet on the eastern boundary of the civil parish of Muckno, or Tulyhattina, also on the eastern boundary, about a kilometer north of Tullyrahan.
	www.magoo.com /hugh/hearthmoney.html (1323 words)

	Civil Parishes and Townlands of County Donegal
		Townland boundaries are often marked by streams or deep ditches, banks and old hedges.
		Townlands are characteristically larger and elongated in elevated areas but dense on the lowlands, and their orientation tends to reflect the local variations in land contour.
		The townland was and is the smallest officially recognised geographical unit in rural Ireland.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~bhilchey/DonegalMain.html (893 words)

	Shantallow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Shantallow is a townland - the smallest division of land in Ireland.
		A townland is approximately the amount of land required to keep one family or raise the rent of one cow.
		The townland should not be confused with the Shantallow housing estate, affectionately known as 'Shanty', which was the first major housing estate built in the townland in the mid-1960s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shantallow (143 words)

	PLACE NAMES IN COUNTY LOUTH - Townlands and non municipal towns
		The names of townlands have various origins but by the early nineteenth century had, in general, been fixed by the Grand Juries.
		When the Ordnance Survey began in the 1820s the names of townlands were to be supplied by Richard Griffith of the boundary department (set up in 1824-5 to determine the boundaries of parishes and townlands and where necessary to mark out these boundaries on the ground).
		The names of these townlands as finally settled by the Ordnance Survey officers were included on ordnance survey maps and became together with the townland index of the 1851 census the legal version of the names of these places.
	mc-research.com /County_Louth/Place_Names/Change_of_Name/townland.htm (509 words)

	Cork and Kerry Place Names, Meanings
		This is the name both of a townland and of a field within it.
		The south-west townland and the north-west townland or habitation.
		This townland name would seem to have derived from a field within it which still bears the same name.
	www.placenames.ie /meaning.html (160 words)

	THE TOWNLAND OF DERRYCUGHAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The townland of Derrycughan is in the parish of Kilclooney in Armagh County.
		...Derry (Doire) is one of the most prolific roots in Irish place-names giving name to about 60 townlands and entering as a prefix into the names of over 500 others, an indication of the former abundance of such trees.
		The situation of the townland on the breast (uchta) of rising ground is indicative of the origin of the termination.
	www.bygonesandbyways.com /folders/townlands/derrycughan.htm (194 words)

	Townland Map C/A
		Townlands of Cloyne & Aghada This is map of the Church Parishes of Cloyne & Aghada.
		The townlands are grouped up by Civil Parish.
		Castlemary is in the Civil Parish of Inch and Ardnahinch is in the Civil Parish of Kilmahon.
	members.tripod.com /~brensisk/Townlands.html (56 words)

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