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Cooldorragha is a small townland located in County Galway in the west of Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of rural Galway. Like many Irish townlands, it represents a traditional unit of land division that has persisted through centuries of Irish history. The area is characterized by the rolling terrain typical of Galway's countryside, with a mix of fields, stone walls, and natural vegetation consistent with the Atlantic climate zone of western Ireland. The townland's name, like many in the region, derives from Irish language origins, reflecting the Gaelic heritage deeply embedded in the local landscape and culture.
The history of Cooldorragha, as with much of rural Galway, is intertwined with broader patterns of Irish settlement, land use, and social change. The townland system itself dates back centuries and reflects patterns of land ownership and agricultural organization that evolved through medieval times and into the modern era. The area would have been shaped by historical events affecting Galway more broadly, including the impact of the Penal Laws, the Great Famine, and subsequent patterns of emigration and land reform that reshaped Irish rural society in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Today, Cooldorragha remains part of the living landscape of rural Galway, where agricultural practices, local heritage, and community ties continue to define life in small townlands. These small rural communities maintain cultural and social significance even as modernization and demographic shifts have transformed many aspects of Irish rural life. The townland continues to represent an important unit of local identity and territorial organization within the broader administrative and cultural framework of County Galway.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
An Chúil Dorcha
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Baronía
Longford
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
12 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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