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Localidades
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Registros censales
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Hogares
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Años del censo
- Personas
- 228
- Hogares
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- Personas
- 335 +46.9%
- Hogares
- 77 +51%
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Charlestown is a small parish located in County Louth in the province of Ulster, situated in the northeastern corner of the island of Ireland. The parish lies within the broader landscape of County Louth, an area characterized by gently rolling countryside interspersed with farmland and small settlements. The parish's geographic position places it in a region that transitions between coastal plains and inland agricultural areas, typical of much of County Louth's terrain. The landscape reflects centuries of rural Irish settlement and land use patterns, with small fields, local roads, and scattered houses comprising the visible settlement pattern.
The parish has roots extending back through several centuries of Irish history, though detailed historical records specific to Charlestown parish are limited in readily available sources. Like much of County Louth, the area would have been shaped by the broader historical developments of Ulster and Ireland more generally, including periods of Anglo-Norman influence, plantation-era changes, and the various religious and political transformations that characterized Irish history from medieval times onward. The parish, as a Catholic ecclesiastical division, reflects the organizational structure of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, which became formalized in its modern form during the nineteenth century.
Today, Charlestown functions as a Catholic parish serving its local community, with the parish church serving as a focal point for religious and social life. Like many rural Irish parishes, Charlestown remains significant as an administrative unit for the Catholic Church and as a center of community identity and gathering. The parish represents the continuation of local traditions and community structures that have maintained social cohesion in rural Ireland, even as broader demographic and economic changes have affected small communities throughout the country in recent decades.
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Griffith's Valuation
National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s-1850s)
71 occupiers recorded in Griffith's Valuation across 10 townlands (1830s-1850s).
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Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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