158
Registros censales
40
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 76
- Hogares
- 19
- Personas
- 82 +7.9%
- Hogares
- 21 +10.5%
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Kearney is a small townland located in County Down, in the northeastern part of the island of Ireland. The townland sits within the broader landscape of County Down, which is characterized by rolling hills, agricultural land, and proximity to both inland waterways and coastal regions. Like many townlands in this area, Kearney reflects the typical rural geography of the province of Ulster, with a mixture of farmland and scattered residential properties. The landscape in this part of County Down is generally undulating terrain interspersed with hedgerows, stone walls, and small wooded areas that are typical of the Irish countryside.
County Down has a rich historical background extending back centuries, with evidence of human settlement from prehistoric times through to the medieval period and beyond. The townland system itself, of which Kearney is a part, represents an important administrative and social structure that developed in Ireland, particularly during the medieval and early modern periods. Like other townlands in County Down, Kearney would have been shaped by patterns of land ownership, settlement, and agricultural practice that evolved over generations. The region has been influenced by various historical movements, including the plantation period and subsequent changes in land tenure and community composition.
Kearney, as a townland, serves as part of the local administrative and social fabric of County Down. Townlands like Kearney function as important markers of local identity and geographic reference for residents of the area. They continue to be recognized in official records, postal systems, and local knowledge, maintaining their significance to the community even as broader patterns of rural life have changed over time. The townland represents the persistence of traditional geographic divisions that have long helped structure rural Irish communities and their sense of place.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Baronía
Ards Upper
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
1 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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