72
Registros censales
12
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 38
- Hogares
- 6
- Personas
- 34 -10.5%
- Hogares
- 6 0%
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Cloonacurry is a small townland located in County Mayo in the west of Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of Connacht. Like many Irish townlands, it represents a traditional administrative division of the Irish countryside, typically encompassing a few hundred acres. The area is characterized by the rolling terrain and bog-dotted landscape typical of County Mayo, with the surrounding region featuring a mix of agricultural land, rough pasture, and moorland. The townland's name derives from Irish, as is common throughout Ireland, reflecting the Gaelic heritage of the region.
The history of Cloonacurry, as with most Mayo townlands, is intertwined with the broader history of rural Ireland, including patterns of settlement, land tenure under the old Irish landlord system, and the significant social and economic changes that followed Irish independence. The region would have been shaped by the major historical events affecting Mayo, including the Great Famine of the 1840s, which had devastating impacts on rural communities throughout the west of Ireland. The townland's development would have been influenced by the transition from traditional agricultural practices and the social structures that characterized rural Irish life.
Today, Cloonacurry remains a rural townland with limited commercial development, as is typical for small administrative divisions in County Mayo. The area continues to be primarily agricultural in character, with farming and small-scale rural enterprises forming the basis of local economic activity. For the people who live there and in the surrounding communities, townlands like Cloonacurry serve as important markers of local identity and belonging, connecting residents to a specific place within the broader Mayo landscape and maintaining the traditional geographic nomenclature that has structured Irish rural life for centuries.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
Cluain an Churraigh
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Baronía
Costello
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
1 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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