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Condado de Fermanagh

Localidad

Drumlish

82

Registros censales

17

Hogares

2

Años del censo

1901 Censo
Personas
43
Hogares
8
1911 Censo
Personas
39 -9.3%
Hogares
9 +12.5%

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Drumlish is a small townland located in County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of the Lake District area of Ulster. The townland is characteristic of the drumlin belt that defines much of the Irish midlands and parts of Ulster, with its undulating terrain of small rounded hills separated by marshy valleys. This glacially-formed landscape creates a distinctive patchwork of fields, small woodlands, and water bodies that gives the region its particular character. The area is typical of rural Fermanagh, where agriculture and small-scale farming have historically been the primary economic activities, and where the natural environment remains largely rural and sparsely populated.

Like many townlands in County Fermanagh, Drumlish has deep historical roots extending back through centuries of Irish settlement and land use. The townland system itself, which divides the Irish landscape into these discrete territorial units, reflects patterns of medieval and early modern land division. The area would have been shaped by the various populations and powers that controlled Fermanagh over time, from Gaelic Irish lordships to English plantation policies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Fermanagh as a county bears the marks of this complex history, with a landscape and society that reflects these successive layers of influence.

Drumlish, like many rural townlands in Fermanagh, remains primarily significant as a place of residence and agricultural work for its local inhabitants and as part of the broader cultural and geographic identity of the county. The townland represents the continuing importance of these small territorial divisions in Irish rural life, where they continue to serve as meaningful units of local identity and administration. The natural environment of drumlin landscape provides both the character and the livelihood basis for the area, with its fields supporting pastoral farming and its waterways remaining part of the local ecology and heritage.

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Parroquia

Devenish

Condado

Fermanagh

Baronía

Magheraboy

Ubicación de la localidad

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Detalles

Inglés
Drumlish
Parroquia
Devenish
Baronía
Magheraboy
Condado
Fermanagh