48
Registros censales
10
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 7
- Hogares
- 2
- Personas
- 41 +485.7%
- Hogares
- 8 +300%
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Gortarica is a small townland located in County Galway in the west of Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of Connemara and the surrounding regions of County Galway. Like many Irish townlands, it represents a modest geographical unit of the Irish administrative system, reflecting the intricate patchwork of named settlements and rural areas that characterize the Irish countryside. The area is characterized by the typical terrain of western Galway, which includes a combination of bogland, rocky outcrops, and pastoral fields interspersed with stone walls and scattered farmsteads.
The history of Gortarica, as with most Irish townlands, is deeply rooted in the broader patterns of settlement, land use, and social organization that have shaped rural Ireland over centuries. Townlands like Gortarica emerged from ancient Gaelic systems of land division and were further defined and recorded during the English administrative surveys of Ireland, particularly through the Ordnance Survey mapping of the nineteenth century. The name itself, like many Irish place names, likely derives from Irish language elements that described features of the landscape or the nature of settlement.
As a rural townland in County Galway, Gortarica is part of a community rooted in agricultural traditions and the distinctive cultural character of the west of Ireland. The area reflects the broader significance of Galway's role in Irish heritage, language, and culture. While townlands of this nature may not be widely known beyond their immediate localities, they form the essential fabric of rural Irish communities and represent the detailed geography through which Irish people have organized their lives and livelihoods for generations.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
Gort an Reidhce
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Baronía
Clare
- 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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