176
Registros censales
35
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 92
- Hogares
- 18
- Personas
- 84 -8.7%
- Hogares
- 17 -5.6%
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Cloonshinnagh 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, though today such divisions are primarily of historical and genealogical significance. The townland lies in an area characterized by the rolling terrain typical of County Mayo, with the region's natural features including bog, grassland, and the undulating topography shaped by glacial activity during the last ice age. The landscape reflects the wider geography of western Ireland, where elevation and rainfall patterns have traditionally influenced settlement patterns and agricultural practices.
County Mayo itself has a rich history extending back to medieval times, and its various townlands carry the accumulated heritage of centuries of Irish life. The townlands of Mayo were formally recorded and mapped during the nineteenth-century Ordnance Survey, which created the detailed maps that preserved the names and boundaries of these administrative units. Cloonshinnagh, like other townlands in the region, would have been shaped by the patterns of settlement, land ownership, and social structures that evolved through the medieval and early modern periods, and particularly by the transformations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The significance of Cloonshinnagh to local heritage lies primarily in its role as part of the documented landscape of County Mayo. For people researching Irish genealogy and family history, townland names and records are invaluable tools, and Cloonshinnagh represents one of many such places where families lived, farmed, and maintained their communities. The townland system remains important for historians and genealogists tracing Irish ancestry, as records of land ownership, taxation, and population were historically organized according to these divisions. Today, while Cloonshinnagh may be quiet and rural, it continues to represent a tangible connection to Ireland's past and the enduring settlement patterns of the Irish countryside.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
Cluain Sionnach
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Baronía
Tirawley
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
3 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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