191
Registros censales
31
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 100
- Hogares
- 16
- Personas
- 91 -9%
- Hogares
- 15 -6.3%
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Slaght is a small townland located in County Kerry in the southwest of Ireland, situated within the wider landscape of the Dingle Peninsula region. The area is characterized by typical Kerry terrain, with rolling hills, moorland, and pastoral fields that form part of the distinctive geography of this part of Munster. Like many townlands in rural Kerry, Slaght reflects the fragmented land divisions that have shaped Irish countryside settlement patterns for centuries, with scattered houses and farms distributed across the landscape rather than concentrated in a village center.
The townland, like much of County Kerry, has its roots in the complex historical development of Irish rural communities. The name and boundaries of Slaght reflect the Anglo-Norman and later English administrative divisions imposed on the Irish landscape, though the area itself has been inhabited and worked by Irish people for many centuries. The region's history is intertwined with the broader story of Kerry's agricultural economy, with farming and pastoral activities forming the backbone of local life for generations.
Slaght remains primarily a rural agricultural area with strong connections to traditional Irish farming practices and community life. The townland is representative of the many small settlements that comprise the fabric of rural Kerry, where local identity is often closely tied to the land itself and to extended family networks. While not widely known outside the region, Slaght represents the type of intimate local geography that is significant to those who live there and whose ancestors have worked the land for generations.
The significance of Slaght to the broader community is that of a contributing part of Kerry's rural heritage and contemporary agricultural landscape. Like many Irish townlands, it serves as a geographical and social unit that structures local identity and land ownership, even as rural depopulation and economic change have transformed many such areas over recent decades. Slaght embodies the enduring importance of townland divisions in Irish life and the continuity of rural settlement patterns that have deep historical roots.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
Sleacht
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Baronía
Glanarought
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
42 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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