51
Registros censales
10
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 22
- Hogares
- 5
- Personas
- 29 +31.8%
- Hogares
- 5 0%
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Cloghduff is a small townland located in County Cork, situated in the southern province of Munster in the Republic of Ireland. The townland forms part of the broader rural landscape characteristic of central Cork, an area marked by rolling hills, agricultural land, and scattered settlements. The region's topography is typical of Ireland's interior, with a mixture of improved pasture, hedgerows, and patches of woodland interspersed throughout the countryside. Like many Irish townlands, Cloghduff represents a geographic and administrative division of the landscape that dates back centuries, though today it functions primarily as a designation for a rural locality rather than a nucleated settlement with defined boundaries.
The history of Cloghduff, as with most Irish townlands, is deeply rooted in the processes of Anglo-Norman settlement, land division, and agricultural development that shaped the Irish countryside from medieval times onward. Townlands in Cork were systematized and recorded in various land surveys, most notably during the 17th and 18th centuries as part of broader efforts to document Irish territories. The area would have been incorporated into the pastoral and farming economy that sustained rural Cork communities, with families working the land for generations and developing the local networks and knowledge systems that sustained townland life.
Today, Cloghduff remains part of the quiet rural fabric of Cork, with the townland serving primarily as a geographic reference point for the scattered houses and farms that occupy it. Like many rural Irish townlands, it does not function as a center of commerce or administration in any formal sense, but rather represents the dispersed settlement pattern that characterizes the Irish countryside. The local community, though small, participates in the broader life of the parish and wider county, connecting to larger towns and services in the surrounding region for employment, education, and social activities.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
An Chloch Dhubh
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Baronía
Muskerry East
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
41 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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