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Magheraboy is a small townland located in County Mayo in the west of Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of Connacht. Like many Irish townlands, it represents a traditional administrative division of land with origins extending back centuries. The townland lies in an area characterized by the rolling terrain typical of County Mayo, where rural farmland, bogland, and scattered settlements form the distinctive pattern of the Irish countryside. The landscape reflects the region's Atlantic climate and geology, with the surrounding terrain shaped by glaciation and characterized by a mixture of improved pastureland and more marginal ground.
The history of Magheraboy, as with much of rural County Mayo, is connected to the broader patterns of Irish settlement, agriculture, and social change. The townland system itself, which divides Irish land into these small named units, has deep roots in Irish administrative tradition. Like many Mayo townlands, Magheraboy would have experienced the major historical transformations that affected rural Ireland, including the impacts of land tenure systems, the Great Famine of the 1840s, and subsequent emigration patterns that significantly reduced rural populations in the west of Ireland.
Magheraboy, like the wider Mayo countryside, remains primarily agricultural in character. The townland would typically consist of family farms engaged in pastoral farming, reflecting the predominance of livestock rearing in this region. As a small rural townland, it lacks significant urban infrastructure or notable industrial features, but it forms part of the intricate social and economic fabric of rural Mayo communities. For residents and farming families in the area, such townlands represent important markers of identity and place within the Irish landscape.
Today, Magheraboy exists as part of modern County Mayo, an area that continues to be shaped by agricultural traditions while also adapting to contemporary challenges facing rural Ireland. The townland remains a recognized geographic and administrative unit, even as rural communities navigate questions of sustainability, demographic change, and economic development. For those with family connections to the area or with interest in Irish geography and heritage, Magheraboy represents one of thousands of small townlands that together compose the detailed human and natural geography of the Irish countryside.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
An Machaire Buí
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Baronía
Clanmorris
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
6 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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