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Condado de Cavan

Localidad

Pollakeel

Poll an Chaoil

439

Registros censales

72

Hogares

3

Años del censo

1821 Censo
Personas
195
Hogares
26
1901 Censo
Personas
99 -49.2%
Hogares
19 -26.9%
1911 Censo
Personas
145 +46.5%
Hogares
27 +42.1%

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Pollakeel is a small townland situated in County Cavan in the province of Ulster in northern Ireland. Like many Irish townlands, it is a rural settlement characterized by dispersed farmsteads and open countryside typical of the region. County Cavan itself is known for its drumlin landscape—a distinctive terrain of small rounded hills and valleys formed during the last ice age—and Pollakeel shares in this undulating geography. The area is part of the broader landscape of the Irish midlands, where agricultural land, small forests, and waterways define the character of the terrain.

The townland, like others across County Cavan, has its roots in the Irish land system that developed over centuries. Townlands represent one of the most fundamental divisions of land in Ireland, a system that predates modern administrative boundaries and reflects patterns of settlement that go back centuries. Pollakeel would have been shaped by the major historical events affecting the region, including the various plantations and land redistributions of the early modern period, as well as the agricultural economy that has long sustained rural Cavan communities.

As a rural townland in contemporary County Cavan, Pollakeel remains primarily agricultural in character. The local community would be connected to the broader networks of rural Irish life, including participation in farming activities, local religious institutions, and community gatherings that form the backbone of small townland societies. Like many similar areas, it reflects both the continuity of traditional rural settlement patterns and the challenges facing remote agricultural communities in modern Ireland.

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Parroquia

Denn

Condado

Cavan

Nombre en irlandés

Poll an Chaoil

Baronía

Clanmahon

Valuation Office Records

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

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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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Detalles

Inglés
Pollakeel
Irlandés
Poll an Chaoil
Parroquia
Denn
Baronía
Clanmahon
Condado
Cavan