31
Registros censales
6
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 12
- Hogares
- 3
- Personas
- 19 +58.3%
- Hogares
- 3 0%
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Kilmachugh is a small townland located in County Galway in the west of Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of the Irish midlands and western region. Like many townlands in Ireland, it represents a traditional unit of land division that has been important to Irish geography and administration for centuries. The area is characterized by the rolling terrain typical of County Galway, with pastoral landscapes, stone walls, and scattered farmsteads that reflect the region's agricultural heritage. The townland's name, like many Irish place names, derives from Irish language roots and reflects the area's Gaelic heritage and long settlement history.
The history of Kilmachugh, as with most Irish townlands, is closely tied to the broader history of County Galway and the wider patterns of Irish land use and settlement. The region experienced the typical transitions of Irish history, including the medieval period, the Tudor and Stuart plantations, and the subsequent changes in land ownership and rural society. Townlands such as Kilmachugh served as fundamental divisions of the landscape for local communities, organizing land for farming, grazing, and administration under both Gaelic and later Anglo-Norman systems of land organization.
Today, Kilmachugh remains part of the living landscape of County Galway, contributing to the patchwork of small rural communities and agricultural areas that characterize the Irish countryside. The townland continues to be home to farming families and represents the kind of small-scale rural settlement that has formed the backbone of Irish rural life for generations. Like many townlands in the region, it is part of a broader network of local places and communities that maintain the cultural and agricultural traditions of County Galway, even as rural Ireland continues to evolve and adapt to modern economic and social changes.
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Nombre en irlandés
Coill Mhic Aodha
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Baronía
Longford
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