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Condado de Mayo

Parroquia

Tagheen

Teach Chaoin

46

Localidades

1,885

Registros censales

386

Hogares

2

Años del censo

1901 Censo
Personas
1,089
Hogares
217
1911 Censo
Personas
796 -26.9%
Hogares
169 -22.1%

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Tagheen is a small parish located in County Mayo in the west of Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of Connacht. The parish encompasses rural townlands characteristic of this region, with the typical Irish countryside of rolling fields, stone walls, and scattered homesteads. Like much of Mayo, the area is defined by its connection to agricultural life and the natural features of the western Irish landscape. The parish forms part of the diocese and local administrative structures that have historically organized settlement and community life in this part of the county.

The history of Tagheen reflects the broader historical patterns of County Mayo and the west of Ireland. As with many Irish parishes, its development is intertwined with the establishment of the Catholic Church's territorial organization, particularly following the Reformation and the subsequent reorganization of Irish ecclesiastical structures. The townlands within the parish carry place names that reflect Irish linguistic heritage, and the area would have experienced the various upheavals that affected rural Ireland, including land tenure changes, emigration, and agricultural transformation across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The parish, like many rural Irish communities, maintains significance as a focal point for local identity and social organization. The parish church would serve as a central institution around which community life traditionally revolved, particularly in pre-modern and earlier modern periods. While rural parishes throughout Ireland have experienced depopulation and demographic change, they continue to represent important units of local heritage and community connection for residents and those with ancestral ties to the area.

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Condado

Mayo

Baronía

Clanmorris

Nombre en irlandés

Teach Chaoin

Localidades

46 localidades

Griffith's Valuation

National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s-1850s)

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9 occupiers recorded in Griffith's Valuation across 5 townlands (1830s-1850s).

Top Surnames

Lynch 2 Richards 2 Crean 1 Donnelly 1 Flanigan 1 Flannagan 1 Hughes 1

Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.

Ubicación de la parroquia

Tagheen OpenStreetMap

Detalles

Inglés
Tagheen
Irlandés
Teach Chaoin
Baronía
Clanmorris
Condado
Mayo

Registros censales

Localidades 46