186
Registros censales
37
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 101
- Hogares
- 19
- Personas
- 85 -15.8%
- Hogares
- 18 -5.3%
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Kilmoon is a small townland located in County Cork in the province of Munster in the south of Ireland. Like many Irish townlands, it is a modest rural area characterized by the rolling landscape typical of Cork's countryside. The region is dotted with traditional stone walls, fields used primarily for pastoral farming, and scattered farmhouses. The townland's name, like much of Ireland's toponymy, derives from Irish language roots, with "Kil" commonly referring to a church or cell, suggesting early Christian settlement in the area. The broader Cork landscape in which Kilmoon sits is known for its agricultural character and its proximity to various rivers and coastal features that have shaped settlement patterns for centuries.
The history of Kilmoon, as with many Irish townlands, is intertwined with the broader history of Cork and Ireland more generally. Townlands themselves are an enduring administrative unit with roots stretching back through Irish and Anglo-Norman history, and they often preserve evidence of medieval land divisions and settlement patterns. The area would have been shaped by the various periods of Irish history, from early Christian monastic settlements through the medieval period, the Plantation era, and into the modern period. Like many rural Cork townlands, Kilmoon's character reflects the agricultural economy that has dominated the region and the small-scale farming communities that have inhabited it.
Today, Kilmoon remains a quiet rural townland that forms part of the fabric of Cork's countryside. It represents the kind of small-scale settlement that characterizes much of rural Ireland, where traditional land use and community connections continue despite the broader social changes affecting Irish rural areas. For those with family connections to the area or researchers interested in Irish townland history and geography, Kilmoon serves as a concrete example of how Ireland's landscape is organized and how rural communities maintain their local identities through these traditional administrative divisions.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
Cill Mhúna
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Baronía
Carbery West (E.D.)
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
95 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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