33
Registros censales
8
Hogares
1
Año del censo
- Personas
- 33
- Hogares
- 8
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Gortcormacan is a small townland situated in County Donegal in the northwest of Ireland. The townland lies within the broader landscape of Donegal, a county characterized by rugged terrain, coastal features, and rural settlements. Like many townlands in this region, Gortcormacan reflects the typical Irish pattern of land division into small administrative units, each with its own distinctive name. The area is part of the wider Donegal landscape, which includes moorland, bogland, and scattered agricultural holdings that have shaped settlement patterns for centuries.
The townland's name, like many in Ireland, derives from Irish language roots and reflects the area's historical Gaelic heritage. Gortcormacan would have been part of the broader parish and baronial divisions that organized Donegal during medieval and early modern periods. As with much of rural Donegal, the area experienced the significant social and economic changes associated with Irish history, including land tenure changes, emigration patterns, and shifts in agricultural practice that characterized the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
The landscape around Gortcormacan, typical of County Donegal, would feature the agricultural and natural characteristics common to the region: fields used for farming and pastoral activities, natural vegetation suited to the Irish climate, and the scattered homesteads and field boundaries that define rural Donegal. The townland exists within a network of similar small settlements and communities that together form the fabric of the county's rural character.
Today, Gortcormacan represents one of hundreds of named townlands that preserve Ireland's cultural and linguistic heritage through their Irish-language place names. These small administrative divisions remain significant to local identity and genealogical research, allowing people to trace family histories and understand the precise geographic locations where their ancestors lived. As part of County Donegal's rural community, Gortcormacan contributes to the distinctive character of this northwestern region.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Baronía
Inishowen West
- 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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