85
Registros censales
17
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 36
- Hogares
- 7
- Personas
- 49 +36.1%
- Hogares
- 10 +42.9%
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Gortgare is a small townland located in County Londonderry (Derry) in Northern Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of the county's rural hinterland. The townland lies in a region characterized by gently rolling terrain typical of much of inland County Derry, with its landscape shaped by agricultural use and natural drainage patterns common to the area. Like many townlands in Ulster, Gortgare represents one of the thousands of small territorial divisions that historically organized the Irish countryside and continue to define local geographic and administrative boundaries. The immediate surroundings would typically feature a mix of pastureland, hedgerows, and scattered rural dwellings that characterize the modern Irish rural settlement pattern.
The history of Gortgare, as with most Irish townlands, extends back centuries through patterns of settlement, land division, and ownership that evolved through the medieval period and particularly through the Plantation era and subsequent colonial history of Ireland. The townland system itself, with divisions like Gortgare, became formalized during the English administrative surveys and land reorganizations of the 16th and 17th centuries. County Derry's particular history as part of the Ulster Plantation and later as part of the Londonderry estate created specific patterns of land tenure and settlement that would have shaped Gortgare's development and that of its neighboring townlands.
As a rural townland in County Derry, Gortgare would have supported agricultural communities and maintained local significance within the parish and baronial structures that organized rural Irish life. Like many such small divisions, it likely served as a unit of land measurement and ownership, connecting individual families and farms to the broader landscape. Today, Gortgare remains part of the intricate patchwork of named places that gives the Irish countryside its distinctive character, serving as a reference point for local residents and maintaining its role within the administrative and cultural geography of County Derry.
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Baronía
Tirkeeran
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Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
3 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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