41
Registros censales
8
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 17
- Hogares
- 4
- Personas
- 24 +41.2%
- Hogares
- 4 0%
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Gortnacooheen is a small townland located in County Galway in the west of Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of Connacht. Like many Irish townlands, it represents one of thousands of small administrative divisions that characterize the Irish countryside, each with its own distinct identity and local significance. The area is characterized by typical western Irish terrain, with rolling hills, fields divided by stone walls and hedgerows, and the kind of pastoral landscape that dominates much of rural Galway. The townland's name, like many in Ireland, derives from the Irish language, reflecting the area's deep cultural and linguistic heritage.
The history of Gortnacooheen, as with most rural Irish townlands, is intertwined with the broader patterns of settlement, land use, and social change that have shaped the Irish countryside over centuries. The area would have been part of the traditional Irish land system before the Norman invasion and subsequent English colonization, and later experienced the divisions and reallocations of land that occurred during the plantation periods and land reforms of the 18th and 19th centuries. Like much of Galway, the region's development was significantly influenced by agricultural practices, with farming remaining the primary economic activity for generations of local families.
Today, Gortnacooheen remains a quiet rural townland, part of the dispersed settlement pattern characteristic of western Ireland. For those with family connections to the area, the townland often holds genealogical and ancestral significance, particularly given the patterns of emigration from rural Ireland during the 19th and 20th centuries. The townland contributes to the cultural and geographic fabric of its local community, representing the kind of small-scale place-name that appears in historical records, genealogical research, and the lived experience of rural Irish families. Like many such locations, it serves as a connection point between Ireland's past and present, grounding local and family histories in a specific place.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
Gort na Cuaichín
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Baronía
Longford
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Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
5 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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