66
Registros censales
19
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 29
- Hogares
- 9
- Personas
- 37 +27.6%
- Hogares
- 10 +11.1%
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Macmeenstown is a small townland located in County Donegal in the northwestern part of the Republic of Ireland. The area is situated within the broader landscape of Donegal, a county known for its dramatic coastal scenery, mountains, and rural character. Like many townlands in this region, Macmeenstown represents the traditional subdivision of Irish land that dates back centuries, with townlands serving as the smallest administrative and geographic units in the Irish landscape. The Donegal countryside in which it sits is characterized by moorland, scattered settlements, and the distinctive topography of Ulster.
The history of Macmeenstown, like much of rural Donegal, is bound up with the broader patterns of Irish settlement, land ownership, and social development. The townland system itself reflects medieval and early modern patterns of land division that have persisted in Ireland's landscape for generations. The area would have been shaped by the various historical periods that affected Donegal, including periods of Gaelic Irish control, plantation-era changes, and subsequent landlord-tenant relationships that characterized rural Ireland through the 19th and 20th centuries.
As a rural townland in Donegal, Macmeenstown represents the kind of small, dispersed settlement pattern typical of much of northwestern Ireland. The community would be connected to nearby larger villages and towns for services and commerce, and like many such areas, it reflects the agricultural and pastoral traditions that have long sustained rural Donegal. The townland remains part of the fabric of local identity and geographic reference for residents of the region, preserving a connection to Ireland's distinctive system of land classification and community organization.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Baronía
Raphoe South
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Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
1 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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