112
Registros censales
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Hogares
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Ballykeeran is a small townland located in County Donegal in the northwest of Ireland. The townland sits within the broader landscape of Donegal, a county known for its rugged Atlantic coastline, inland mountains, and rural character. The area is typical of many Donegal townlands, characterized by rolling countryside, scattered farmsteads, and stone walls that mark field boundaries. Like much of the county, Ballykeeran experiences the maritime climate of northwest Ireland, with moderate temperatures and significant rainfall throughout the year, which sustains the green pastoral landscape for which the region is renowned.
The history of Ballykeeran, as with many Irish townlands, is deeply connected to the broader historical trajectory of rural Donegal and Ireland more generally. The name itself, like other Donegal townland names, likely derives from Irish language origins, reflecting the area's Gaelic heritage. The townland would have been shaped by centuries of agricultural settlement, and like much of Donegal, it experienced the significant social and economic changes wrought by the Great Famine of the 1840s and subsequent emigration patterns that characterized rural Ireland during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Today, Ballykeeran remains a quiet rural townland, representative of the dispersed settlement pattern common throughout County Donegal. Its significance lies primarily in its role as part of the fabric of local community life, where farming traditions continue and where residents maintain connections to the land and to one another through long-established social and familial networks. The townland, like others in the area, contributes to the cultural and geographic identity of its wider parish and county, embodying the enduring character of rural Donegal life.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
Baile Uí Chiaráin
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Baronía
Kilmacrenan
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
6 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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