221
Registros censales
45
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 123
- Hogares
- 23
- Personas
- 98 -20.3%
- Hogares
- 22 -4.3%
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Liscolman is a small townland located in County Antrim in Northern Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of the Antrim plateau region. The townland, like many in the area, reflects the distinctive geography of east County Antrim, characterized by rolling terrain, agricultural land, and proximity to the Irish Sea. The name itself, derived from Irish "Lios Colmáin," suggests an ancient settlement associated with a ringfort or fortified enclosure. The landscape around Liscolman is typical of rural County Antrim, with a patchwork of fields, hedgerows, and scattered farmsteads that have shaped human settlement and land use for centuries.
The area has deep historical roots extending back through medieval and early modern periods. Like much of County Antrim, Liscolman would have been part of the broader territorial divisions and clan structures of Ulster before the plantation period and subsequent English and Scottish settlement. The townland system itself, which divides the Irish countryside into these small administrative units, became standardized during the surveys and mapping projects of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, though communities in the area would have existed long before this formal categorization.
As a rural townland, Liscolman would have functioned primarily as an agricultural community, with farming and pastoral activities forming the backbone of local economic life through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The townland represents the kind of small-scale settlement that characterizes rural County Antrim, where families worked the land and maintained close-knit community ties. Today, Liscolman remains a quiet rural area, part of the agricultural and residential fabric of County Antrim, contributing to the broader heritage and character of the region.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
Lios Cholmáin
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Baronía
Cary
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