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- noun Plural form of
townland .
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Examples
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Some villages and smaller rural entities called "townlands" have had rival spellings and even totally competing names.
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And in 1881 the late Mr. J.H. Tuke discovered by an analysis of the census returns that the only "townlands" in which the rural population was actually increasing were those scattered along the western seaboard of Ireland, where the tenure and the conditions of existence seemed most hopeless.
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The territory of an Irish sept seems to have been divided up into "townlands," each townland consisting of four, or in some cases six, groups of holdings, occupied by as many families of the "sept."
Ireland Under Coercion (2nd ed.) (1 of 2) (1888) William Henry Hurlbert 1861
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I googled “townlands” and found the following wiki: Townland Wiki and read there that “a townland is the smallest officially-defined geographical unit of land”.
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A number of townlands, varying between 5 and 30, make up a civil parish.
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There are over 64,000 townlands in Ireland and this unit is still in administrative use today.
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Many townlands from different areas share the same name.
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Here is a list of townlands of Ulster: Ulster Townlands
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But understanding townlands is incredibly difficult.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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But understanding townlands is incredibly difficult.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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