290
Registros censales
55
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 150
- Hogares
- 29
- Personas
- 140 -6.7%
- Hogares
- 26 -10.3%
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Cloonnafinneela is a small townland located in County Kerry in the southwest of Ireland, situated within the wider landscape of the Dingle Peninsula region. Like many Irish townlands, it represents a traditional unit of land division with roots extending back centuries. The area is characterized by the typical rolling terrain and green pastoral landscape common to this part of Kerry, with the Atlantic climate creating lush vegetation and frequent rainfall. The Kerry landscape in this region features a mix of farmland, hedgerows, and stone walls that divide properties, set against the backdrop of distant hills and coastal influences.
The townland system itself, of which Cloonnafinneela is part, originated in medieval times and was formalized during the Tudor period and subsequent English surveys of Ireland. These small territorial divisions became the basic units of land organization and continue to serve administrative and geographic purposes today. Like many rural Kerry townlands, Cloonnafinneela would have been shaped by centuries of agricultural use, with families establishing farms and maintaining connections to the land through generations. The name itself, like most Irish townland names, derives from the Irish language and reflects the linguistic and cultural heritage of the region.
As a contemporary townland, Cloonnafinneela remains part of the living landscape of Kerry, though like many rural Irish areas it has experienced population changes over the past century and a half. The townland continues to function as a geographic identifier used by locals, in postal services, and for administrative purposes. Today it represents the quiet continuity of rural Irish life, maintaining the traditional pattern of small family farms and close-knit community connections that characterize much of the Dingle Peninsula hinterland. For residents and those with family roots in the area, Cloonnafinneela carries the significance of local identity and heritage that such places hold in Irish rural communities.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
Cluain na Fionaíle
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Baronía
Clanmaurice
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
44 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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