471
Registros censales
76
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 230
- Hogares
- 39
- Personas
- 241 +4.8%
- Hogares
- 37 -5.1%
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Bealadangan is a small townland situated in County Galway in the west of Ireland, part of the wider landscape of Connemara or East Galway depending on its precise location within the county. Like many Irish townlands, it represents a historic division of land that often reflects patterns of settlement and land use extending back centuries. The townland system itself, inherited from the Plantation period and earlier Gaelic divisions, remains a fundamental unit of geographic and administrative reference in Ireland, even though most townlands are now sparsely populated or agricultural in character.
The area surrounding Bealadangan reflects the typical terrain of County Galway, which can include bogland, rough pasture, scattered farmsteads, and stone walls that divide fields in the distinctive patterns characteristic of the region. The landscape is often dramatic, with views toward distant mountains or moorland depending on the specific location within the county. Like much of western Ireland, the weather is maritime and changeable, and the land historically supported small-scale farming, sheep grazing, and subsistence agriculture adapted to the challenging soil and climate conditions.
As with many Irish townlands, Bealadangan's history is bound up with the broader patterns of Irish rural settlement, land tenure, and community life. The townland names themselves often derive from Irish language origins, reflecting the region's Gaelic heritage, though specific documented historical events associated with individual townlands are frequently sparse in the historical record. The community would have been shaped by the significant events affecting rural Ireland generally, including the Great Famine, land reform movements, and the gradual economic and social changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Today, Bealadangan remains part of the living rural landscape of County Galway, representing the continuity of Irish townland divisions and the dispersed settlement patterns that characterize much of the Irish countryside. For local residents and families with historical connections to the area, the townland name carries meaning as part of personal and community identity, linking individuals to specific places within the broader geography of Galway and Ireland.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
Béal an Daingin
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Baronía
Moycullen
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
21 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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