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Localidades
338
Registros censales
73
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 186
- Hogares
- 39
- Personas
- 152 -18.3%
- Hogares
- 34 -12.8%
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Ardcolm is a small parish located in County Wexford in the southeastern province of Leinster, Ireland. The parish sits within the broader landscape of the Wexford countryside, characterized by fertile agricultural land and gently rolling terrain typical of this region. Like much of County Wexford, Ardcolm's landscape reflects the county's history of farming and rural settlement, with a pattern of fields, hedgerows, and scattered homesteads that have shaped the area for centuries. The parish is part of the ecclesiastical and civil structures that have long organized communities in this part of Ireland.
The parish has its roots in Ireland's early Christian period, when the landscape was organized into parishes centered around local churches and religious communities. As with many Irish parishes, Ardcolm's development was intertwined with the establishment of the Catholic Church as a central institution in rural Irish life, particularly following the Penal Laws and the subsequent revival of Catholic practice in the 18th and 19th centuries. The parish system became a fundamental unit of both religious and social organization in Irish rural communities, and Ardcolm would have followed this pattern of development common to County Wexford parishes.
The significance of Ardcolm to its local community lies primarily in its role as a parish unit serving the spiritual and social needs of its residents. In traditional Irish parish life, the parish church and clergy have served as focal points for community gatherings, religious observance, and social connection. Like other small rural parishes in Wexford, Ardcolm would have maintained this function as a gathering place and organizational center for the local population, contributing to the fabric of community life in the county.
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- Condado
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Baronía
Shelmaliere East
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Nombre en irlandés
Ard Cholaim
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Localidades
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Griffith's Valuation
National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s-1850s)
251 occupiers recorded in Griffith's Valuation across 14 townlands (1830s-1850s).
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Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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- Inglés
- Ardcolm
- Irlandés
- Ard Cholaim
- Baronía
- Shelmaliere East
- Condado
- Wexford