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Condado de Galway

Localidad

Pollacullaire

Poll an Choiléir

20

Registros censales

5

Hogares

2

Años del censo

1901 Censo
Personas
15
Hogares
3
1911 Censo
Personas
5 -66.7%
Hogares
2 -33.3%

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Pollacullaire is a small townland located in County Galway in the west of Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of Connacht. Like many Irish townlands, it represents a unit of land division with roots extending back centuries into Irish administrative and social organization. The area is characterized by the typical terrain of County Galway, which features a mix of bogland, pastoral fields, and stone walls that define the rural countryside. The townland sits within a region known for its challenging but distinctive landscape, where granite bedrock lies close to the surface and peat bog has historically dominated much of the environment.

The history of Pollacullaire, as with many Irish townlands, is deeply connected to patterns of settlement, land tenure, and the social structures that developed across rural Ireland. The townland system itself became formalized during the medieval period and was further systematized during English colonial administration, particularly in surveys like the Down Survey and later the Ordnance Survey. Like other townlands in Galway, Pollacullaire would have been shaped by the broader historical forces affecting the region, including the Anglo-Norman invasion, plantation policies, and the complex relationship between landlord and tenant farming communities that characterized Irish rural society for centuries.

The local community significance of Pollacullaire reflects the importance of townlands as meaningful geographic and social units in Irish rural life. Townlands often corresponded to family territories, pastoral boundaries, and centers of community identity, even as their economic and administrative significance evolved. Today, Pollacullaire exists as part of the living landscape of County Galway, where such townland names persist in local usage, mapping, and community memory, serving as markers of place and heritage in the Irish countryside.

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Parroquia

Kilkilvery

Condado

Galway

Nombre en irlandés

Poll an Choiléir

Baronía

Clare

Valuation Office Records

From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)

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10 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.

Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.

Ubicación de la localidad

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Detalles

Inglés
Pollacullaire
Irlandés
Poll an Choiléir
Parroquia
Kilkilvery
Baronía
Clare
Condado
Galway