33
Registros censales
6
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 17
- Hogares
- 3
- Personas
- 16 -5.9%
- Hogares
- 3 0%
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Silverhill is a small townland located in County Galway in the west of Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of the county's rural interior. Like many Irish townlands, it represents a traditional administrative division of land that reflects centuries of Irish settlement patterns. The area is characterized by the undulating terrain typical of County Galway, with a mix of agricultural land, stone walls, and scattered farmsteads. The landscape reflects the region's history of pastoral farming, with fields divided by traditional dry stone walls and hedgerows that are common throughout the Irish countryside.
The townland, like much of rural Galway, has a history rooted in agricultural settlement and land tenure systems that evolved over centuries. The names and boundaries of Irish townlands often reflect Gaelic origins, though many were formally recorded and systematized during the 19th-century Ordnance Survey mapping projects. Silverhill would have been shaped by the same historical processes that affected the wider region, including the impact of the Famine period and subsequent emigration that characterized much of rural Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries.
As a rural townland in modern County Galway, Silverhill remains part of the agricultural and community fabric of its local area. Like many small Irish townlands, it may not have prominent tourist attractions or major historical monuments, but it represents the ordinary landscape and living spaces that form the backbone of rural Irish life. The townland would be home to farming families and contribute to the pastoral character that defines much of Galway's countryside, with residents maintaining connections to both local heritage and contemporary rural communities.
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Nombre en irlandés
Cnocán an Airgid
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Baronía
Ballynahinch
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