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Condado de Cork

Localidad

Killanamaul

Cill na mBall

26

Registros censales

3

Hogares

1

Año del censo

1911 Censo
Personas
26
Hogares
3

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Killanamaul is a small townland located in County Cork in the southern part of Ireland. Like many Irish townlands, it represents a traditional administrative division of the landscape that reflects centuries of settlement patterns and land organization. The townland lies within the broader geography of Cork, an area characterized by rolling countryside, river valleys, and the varied terrain typical of Munster. The immediate landscape around Killanamaul would feature the pastoral fields, hedgerows, and stone walls common to rural Cork, with the area's drainage and topography shaped by the river systems that flow through the region.

The history of Killanamaul, as with most Irish townlands, is deeply rooted in the medieval and early modern periods when such divisions were formally established and recorded. The prefix "Kil" in its name likely derives from the Irish "Cill," meaning church or cell, suggesting that an early Christian settlement or ecclesiastical site may have existed in the area. Like much of Cork, Killanamaul would have experienced the major historical transitions that shaped Ireland, including the Norman invasion, the plantation period, and the various religious and political upheavals that marked Irish history.

As a rural townland in Cork, Killanamaul would have historically been primarily agricultural in character, with its community engaged in farming and animal husbandry. The townland represents the kind of small-scale settlement unit that formed the basic fabric of rural Irish society and economy for centuries. Today, like many such townlands, it remains primarily rural and agricultural, though it may have experienced the demographic changes common to rural Ireland, including emigration and shifting patterns of land use and settlement.

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Parroquia

Kilbrittain

Condado

Cork

Nombre en irlandés

Cill na mBall

Baronía

Carbery East (E.D.)

Valuation Office Records

From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)

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13 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.

Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.

Ubicación de la localidad

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Detalles

Inglés
Killanamaul
Irlandés
Cill na mBall
Parroquia
Kilbrittain
Baronía
Carbery East (E.D.)
Condado
Cork