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Cooleen is a small townland situated in County Tipperary in the province of Munster in southern Ireland. The townland is located in the southwestern portion of the county, within the broader landscape of the Tipperary lowlands and uplands that characterize this region of Ireland. Like many Irish townlands, Cooleen represents a traditional unit of land division that dates back centuries, with these divisions serving as fundamental geographic and administrative markers in the Irish countryside. The area is characterized by typical Irish pastoral landscape, with agricultural land, scattered farmsteads, and rural settlement patterns that reflect the predominantly farming-based economy of the region.
The history of Cooleen, as with most Irish townlands, is intertwined with the broader historical narrative of County Tipperary and Ireland more generally. Tipperary has a rich and complex history spanning from pre-Christian times through the medieval period and into the modern era. The townland would have been subject to the various land divisions, clan systems, and later English administrative frameworks that shaped Irish rural settlement. The landscape itself bears the marks of centuries of agricultural use and habitation, with field boundaries, local place names, and settlement patterns reflecting this long history of occupation and land management.
Cooleen, like many rural Irish townlands, serves as part of the living heritage of County Tipperary's agricultural and rural communities. These small geographic units remain significant in local identity and land management, even as rural Ireland has undergone substantial changes in recent decades. The townland contributes to the broader cultural and geographic fabric of the county, maintaining connections to traditional Irish place names and local community structures that have persisted for generations. For residents and those with family connections to the area, such townlands represent tangible links to their heritage and local roots in the Irish countryside.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
An Cúilín
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Baronía
Owney and Arra
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
112 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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