261
Registros censales
61
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 123
- Hogares
- 31
- Personas
- 138 +12.2%
- Hogares
- 30 -3.2%
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Mullaghinch is a small townland located in County Derry in Northern Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of the North West region. Like many townlands in County Derry, it is part of a rural agricultural area characterized by rolling countryside, pastoral fields, and traditional Irish settlement patterns. The townland sits within the network of small villages and dispersed rural communities that define much of County Derry's hinterland. The landscape reflects the region's geology and climate, with typical features of northern Irish countryside including hedgerows, stone walls, and mixed farming terrain.
The history of Mullaghinch, as with much of County Derry, is intertwined with the broader narrative of Ulster and Irish history. The region experienced significant changes during the plantation period and subsequent centuries of Irish and British history. Townlands such as Mullaghinch represent centuries of settlement, land use, and community development, with their names often derived from Irish language origins reflecting earlier Gaelic place names and cultural heritage. Like other rural townlands in the county, Mullaghinch would have been shaped by agricultural practices, local governance structures, and the historical transitions that affected the wider region.
Mullaghinch, as a townland, represents the kind of small-scale settlement unit that forms the foundation of rural Irish geography and community identity. Townlands are among the smallest administrative divisions in Ireland and carry significant cultural and historical importance to local inhabitants, even when they remain relatively unknown outside their immediate region. For residents and those with family connections to the area, such townlands hold particular meaning as places of ancestral connection and local heritage. The preservation of townland names and identities remains important to Irish cultural memory and genealogical research.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Baronía
Coleraine
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
12 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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