56
Registros censales
12
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 26
- Hogares
- 6
- Personas
- 30 +15.4%
- Hogares
- 6 0%
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Laheen is a small townland located in County Donegal in the northwestern part of the Republic of Ireland. The townland sits within the broader landscape of Donegal, a county known for its rugged Atlantic coastline, mountain ranges, and rural character. The area is situated in a region characterized by typical Irish upland and bogland terrain, with the landscape shaped by glacial activity and weathering over millennia. Like many townlands in this part of Donegal, Laheen reflects the natural topography of rolling hills, peat bog, and scattered agricultural land that defines much of the northwestern Irish countryside.
The history of Laheen, like many rural Irish townlands, is intertwined with the broader patterns of settlement, land use, and social change that have marked County Donegal over centuries. Townlands in this region developed through a combination of medieval lordship divisions and later plantation-era administrative arrangements, though specific detailed historical records for Laheen itself may be limited. The area would have been subject to the various historical shifts affecting Donegal, from Gaelic lordships through English plantation policies to modern Irish independence, with the landscape and settlement patterns reflecting these long-term changes.
The townland today represents the type of rural community settlement found throughout Donegal, with scattered houses, farmland, and connections to neighboring townlands and larger settlements. As with many Irish townlands, Laheen serves as a geographic and social unit that remains meaningful to local residents and in historical and genealogical research, despite the small scale of the settlement. The townland system itself remains a distinctive feature of the Irish landscape, preserving historical territorial divisions even as modern life and economic patterns have transformed rural areas significantly.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Baronía
Tirhugh
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
1 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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