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Condado de Cork

Localidad

Ballinaltig

Baile an Fháltaigh

82

Registros censales

15

Hogares

2

Años del censo

1901 Censo
Personas
46
Hogares
8
1911 Censo
Personas
36 -21.7%
Hogares
7 -12.5%

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Ballinaltig is a small townland located in County Cork in the southwestern region of Ireland. The townland is situated in the fertile landscape characteristic of the Cork countryside, which features rolling hills, agricultural land, and the typical patchwork of fields divided by stone walls and hedgerows common to rural Munster. Like many Irish townlands, Ballinaltig represents a small geographical and administrative division with its own distinct identity within the broader landscape, though it remains a quiet rural area without significant urban development.

The history of Ballinaltig, like that of many Irish townlands, is deeply rooted in the Gaelic past and the subsequent patterns of settlement and land division that characterized rural Ireland. The townland system itself, which divides the Irish countryside into thousands of named parcels, developed over centuries and reflects layers of historical occupation and land management. Ballinaltig would have been part of the broader social and economic structures of Cork's hinterland, shaped by patterns of agriculture, local kinship networks, and later the processes of English administration and estate management that transformed the Irish landscape.

The townland remains primarily agricultural in character, reflecting the traditional economy that has long sustained rural Cork. As with many small townlands in Ireland, Ballinaltig's significance lies more in its role as part of the interconnected fabric of rural community life than in any single dramatic historical event or major landmark. The local community's relationship with the land and with neighboring townlands continues to define its character, maintaining connections to traditional patterns of rural Irish life even as broader social and economic changes have transformed the wider region.

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Parroquia

Kilshanahan

Condado

Cork

Nombre en irlandés

Baile an Fháltaigh

Baronía

Barrymore

Valuation Office Records

From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)

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74 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.

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

Ubicación de la localidad

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Detalles

Inglés
Ballinaltig
Irlandés
Baile an Fháltaigh
Parroquia
Kilshanahan
Baronía
Barrymore
Condado
Cork