30
Registros censales
6
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 9
- Hogares
- 2
- Personas
- 21 +133.3%
- Hogares
- 4 +100%
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Knockasturkeen is a small townland located in County Cork, situated in the southwestern region of Ireland. The townland is positioned within the broader landscape of the Cork countryside, characterized by the rolling hills and rural agricultural terrain typical of Munster. Like many Irish townlands, Knockasturkeen represents a traditional administrative division of land that has historical roots stretching back centuries. The landscape in this part of Cork features a mix of pastoral farmland, hedgerows, and scattered rural settlement patterns that reflect the region's longstanding agricultural heritage.
As with many Irish townlands, Knockasturkeen's history is intertwined with the broader patterns of Irish rural settlement and land use. The townland system itself emerged from medieval and early modern administrative organization, and names like Knockasturkeen, which appears to derive from Irish linguistic origins, reflect the Gaelic heritage of the region. The area would have experienced the various historical transitions that shaped rural Cork, including land reorganization during the Tudor and Stuart periods, the impact of the Penal Laws, and subsequent agrarian changes through the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Today, Knockasturkeen remains a quiet rural townland typical of many in County Cork, reflecting the dispersed settlement pattern characteristic of the Irish countryside. The townland continues to serve as a geographic and social reference point for the local community, maintaining the traditional townland divisions that organize rural Irish space. Like many such localities, it represents the continuity of Irish rural life while adapting to contemporary changes in agricultural practice and demographic patterns affecting the countryside.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
Cnoc an Storraicín
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Baronía
Imokilly
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
111 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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