52
Registros censales
10
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 33
- Hogares
- 6
- Personas
- 19 -42.4%
- Hogares
- 4 -33.3%
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Fountainhill is a small townland located in County Mayo in the west of Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of Connacht. The townland forms part of the rural fabric of County Mayo, an area characterized by rolling hills, bogland, and pastoral farming country. Like many Irish townlands, Fountainhill represents a unit of land division with historical roots in the Irish land system, encompassing a modest geographic area typical of the western Irish countryside. The surrounding landscape reflects the natural topography and climate of County Mayo, with its mix of agricultural land, moorland, and the dramatic terrain that characterizes much of the western seaboard region.
The history of Fountainhill, as with many Mayo townlands, is intertwined with the broader patterns of Irish settlement, land tenure, and community development. The townland system itself dates back centuries and reflects layers of Irish, Norman, and English administrative influence. Like other rural settlements in Mayo, Fountainhill would have experienced the significant social and economic transformations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including the effects of the Great Famine, land reform movements, and the subsequent patterns of emigration and demographic change that reshaped rural Ireland.
Fountainhill, though small and rural, forms part of the distinctive cultural and geographic heritage of County Mayo. The townland contributes to the local sense of place and community identity within its electoral division and civil parish. Such townlands serve important functions in Irish land records, genealogical research, and the preservation of local history. For residents and those with ancestral connections to the area, Fountainhill represents part of the lived landscape and family heritage of the region, maintaining links to Ireland's rural past and ongoing agricultural traditions.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
Cnoc an Tobair
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Baronía
Kilmaine
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
2 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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