20
Registros censales
4
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 10
- Hogares
- 2
- Personas
- 10 0%
- Hogares
- 2 0%
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Rathkenty is a small townland located in County Tipperary in the province of Munster in southern Ireland. The townland sits within the broader landscape of the Tipperary plains, an area characterized by fertile agricultural land interspersed with small settlements, traditional stone walls, and rural roads. Like many Irish townlands, Rathkenty represents one of the smallest administrative divisions in the Irish cadastral system, a legacy of historical land organization. The surrounding terrain is typical of inland Tipperary, with gently rolling hills and pastureland that has long supported farming communities throughout the region.
The history of Rathkenty, like that of most Irish townlands, is intertwined with the broader patterns of settlement, land ownership, and agricultural development that shaped rural Ireland over centuries. The townland system itself has medieval and Norman origins, though many such divisions were formalized during the plantation period and subsequent land surveys. Rathkenty would have been organized as part of the complex pattern of local parishes, baronies, and estates that characterized Tipperary's administrative structure, reflecting both Gaelic Irish and Anglo-Norman influences on the landscape.
As a rural townland in a predominantly agricultural area, Rathkenty's significance lies primarily in its role as part of the farming community of County Tipperary. The locality would have been home to farming families whose livelihoods depended on the land, contributing to the pastoral and dairy farming traditions for which Tipperary has long been known. Like many Irish townlands, it represents the everyday geography of rural Irish life, where small settlements and family farms formed the backbone of local society and economy.
Today, Rathkenty remains a quiet rural townland, reflective of the broader character of inland Tipperary. Its significance to the local community is primarily historical and familial, serving as a place name associated with local heritage and genealogy. For those with ancestral connections to the area, such townlands hold particular importance as markers of family history and local identity within the Irish countryside.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
Ráth an Cheantaigh
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Baronía
Middlethird
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
30 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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