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Localidades
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Registros censales
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Hogares
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Años del censo
- Personas
- 143
- Hogares
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- Personas
- 148 +3.5%
- Hogares
- 38 +15.2%
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Kilrainy is a small parish located in County Kildare in the province of Leinster in the east of Ireland. The parish sits within the broader landscape of the Midlands region, characterized by gently rolling agricultural land and countryside typical of central Ireland. The area is part of the wider terrain that includes farms, fields, and scattered rural settlements that have defined the character of County Kildare for centuries. Like much of the county, Kilrainy's landscape reflects a mix of pastoral farming traditions and the natural features common to the Irish Midlands.
The parish has its roots in Ireland's medieval ecclesiastical history, as many Irish parishes were originally established around early Christian monastic sites and churches. Kilrainy, like numerous other small parishes throughout Ireland, developed around a local church and served as an important spiritual and administrative center for the surrounding farming communities. The parish structure itself remains a legacy of both Catholic and Anglo-Irish institutional organization dating back several centuries, reflecting Ireland's complex religious and administrative history.
As a rural Irish parish, Kilrainy has maintained its role as a focal point for the local community, with the parish church serving as a center for religious worship and social gathering. Small rural parishes like Kilrainy are important to maintaining community identity and continuity in the Irish countryside, even as demographic and economic changes have transformed rural life in Ireland over recent decades. The parish represents the kind of local institutional structure that has long been central to Irish community life and cultural heritage.
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Baronía
Carbury
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Nombre en irlandés
Cill Ríonaí
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Localidades
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Griffith's Valuation
National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s-1850s)
11 occupiers recorded in Griffith's Valuation across 5 townlands (1830s-1850s).
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Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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- Carbury
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- Kildare