11
Registros censales
2
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 4
- Hogares
- 1
- Personas
- 7 +75%
- Hogares
- 1 0%
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Cloonshease is a small townland located in County Galway in the west of Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of rural Connacht. The townland lies in a region characterized by typical Irish countryside featuring rolling terrain, fields divided by stone walls and hedgerows, and scattered farmsteads. Like much of County Galway, the area experiences the Atlantic climate common to Ireland's western seaboard, with moderate rainfall and relatively mild temperatures. The landscape reflects centuries of agricultural use, with pasture and grassland dominating the land use patterns typical of small-scale Irish farming communities.
The history of Cloonshease, as with most Irish townlands, is deeply rooted in the patterns of settlement and land division that developed over centuries. Townlands in Ireland represent one of the oldest surviving territorial divisions, and their names often reflect Irish linguistic heritage or historical figures associated with the area. The prefix "Cloon" derives from the Irish word "cluain," meaning meadow or pasture, suggesting the agricultural character that has long defined such settlements. The townland system itself became formally documented through various surveys and land records, particularly during the period of English administrative expansion in Ireland.
Like many rural townlands in Galway, Cloonshease would have been shaped by major historical events affecting rural Irish communities, including the landlord system, agricultural changes, and emigration patterns that characterized the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Such townlands formed the basic units of rural life, with families maintaining farms, local social networks, and connections to nearby villages and market towns. Today, Cloonshease remains part of the dispersed settlement pattern characteristic of rural County Galway, where the townland continues to serve as a geographic and administrative reference point despite modern changes to rural life and community structures.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
Cluain na Séasa (Daly)
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Baronía
Longford
- 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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