56
Registros censales
10
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 29
- Hogares
- 5
- Personas
- 27 -6.9%
- Hogares
- 5 0%
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Rafline is a small townland situated in County Clare, in the west of Ireland. Like many townlands in this region, it forms part of the broader landscape characterized by the limestone plateaus and rolling hills typical of the Irish midlands and western coast. The townland lies within an area of mixed agricultural land, where pastoral farming has traditionally been the primary economic activity. The landscape around Rafline reflects centuries of rural settlement patterns, with scattered houses, stone walls, and field divisions that speak to generations of land management and community organization.
The history of Rafline, like that of many Irish townlands, is deeply rooted in the medieval and early modern administrative structures that the English established across Ireland. Townlands served as the fundamental units of land division and taxation, and Rafline would have been defined as such during the Tudor and Stuart periods. The townland system has persisted into modern times, making places like Rafline important markers of Irish cultural and administrative heritage, even as the populations and economic functions of such rural areas have evolved considerably.
Today, Rafline remains a quiet rural townland, representative of the many small communities that form the fabric of County Clare's countryside. As with many such places in contemporary Ireland, the townland itself does not function as a nucleated settlement with commercial or civic institutions, but rather as a geographic and administrative designation for a dispersed rural population. The significance of Rafline to the local community lies in this continuation of townland identity and in the agricultural heritage that remains central to the region's character and economy.
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