325
Registros censales
58
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 161
- Hogares
- 29
- Personas
- 164 +1.9%
- Hogares
- 29 0%
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Derrynea is a small townland located in County Galway in the western province of Connacht, Ireland. The townland sits within the broader landscape of central Galway, an area characterized by the rolling terrain typical of Ireland's interior regions. Like much of County Galway, Derrynea's geography is shaped by glacial activity that left behind a landscape of fields, stone walls, and scattered farmsteads. The region falls within the wider agricultural belt of the county, where small-scale farming and pastoral land use have traditionally dominated the local economy.
The history of Derrynea, as with many Irish townlands, is intertwined with the broader patterns of settlement, land tenure, and social change that have marked rural Ireland for centuries. Townlands themselves are a distinctive feature of Irish geography, representing ancient divisions of land that have persisted through various historical periods including the Norman invasion, plantation policies, and the establishment of the modern Irish state. Derrynea's name, like other Irish place names, likely derives from Irish language origins, with "Derry" commonly referring to oak trees or oak groves in Irish topography.
Derrynea remains primarily a rural agricultural townland, home to a small population engaged in farming and related activities. The community, like many rural Irish townlands, is part of the broader social fabric of the surrounding parish and district. Local heritage and connection to the land continue to be important to those with family ties to the area, and the townland represents the kind of small-scale settlement pattern that characterizes much of rural Galway's landscape.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
Doire an Fhéich
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Baronía
Moycullen
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
10 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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