237
Registros censales
45
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 118
- Hogares
- 24
- Personas
- 119 +0.8%
- Hogares
- 21 -12.5%
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Roo is a small townland located in County Galway in the western part of the Republic of Ireland. It sits within the broader landscape of Galway's countryside, characterized by the rolling terrain typical of the midlands of the county. The townland is situated in a region known for its agricultural heritage, with pastureland and fields comprising much of the immediate landscape. Like many Irish townlands, Roo represents one of the thousands of small geographic divisions that have structured rural Irish settlement patterns for centuries, though its exact administrative position within the county's baronies and civil parishes reflects the complex historical organization of Irish land.
The history of Roo, as with most Irish townlands, is deeply connected to the broader patterns of settlement, land division, and social organization that evolved over medieval and early modern periods. The townland system itself, which divides the Irish countryside into these small administrative units, was systematized during the Tudor and Stuart periods, though settlement in such areas often predates these formal divisions by centuries. Roo would have been shaped by the various waves of Irish history, including the influences of Irish Gaelic society, Anglo-Norman settlement patterns, and later English administrative systems that reorganized Irish land ownership and management.
Today, Roo remains part of the rural fabric of County Galway, contributing to the character of the local landscape and community life. Like many rural Irish townlands, it serves as a reference point for local identity and geographic orientation, even as the broader patterns of Irish rural life have shifted with modernization, agricultural change, and migration. The townland preserves a connection to historical patterns of land use and settlement that continue to shape how rural Galway communities understand their place and heritage.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
An Rú
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Baronía
Kiltartan
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
29 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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