258
Registros censales
52
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 133
- Hogares
- 25
- Personas
- 125 -6%
- Hogares
- 27 +8%
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Springvale is a small townland located in County Down, in the eastern part of Northern Ireland. The townland forms part of the broader landscape of County Down, which is characterized by rolling hills, agricultural land, and proximity to both the Mourne Mountains and the Irish Sea. Like many townlands in this region, Springvale reflects the typical rural geography of County Down, with its patchwork of fields, hedgerows, and scattered rural settlements. The townland system itself is a distinctive feature of Irish land organization, with Springvale representing one of thousands of these small administrative and territorial divisions that have shaped Irish geography and community identity for centuries.
The history of Springvale, as with most rural townlands in County Down, is bound up with the broader history of Ulster and Ireland. The area would have been subject to the various historical movements and upheavals that affected the region, including the plantations of the early modern period and the evolution of rural settlement patterns. County Down itself has a rich historical narrative encompassing pre-Christian and early Christian Ireland, medieval developments, and the transformations of the early modern and modern periods. Townlands like Springvale often preserve place-name elements that reflect this layered history, though detailed local histories of individual townlands are not always extensively documented in readily accessible sources.
The significance of Springvale to its local community would have been rooted in the practical realities of rural life—as a recognized territorial division, it would have had relevance to land ownership, agricultural organization, and community identity. The townland system provided a framework for understanding locality and belonging in rural Ireland, and Springvale would have functioned as such a unit within the broader parish and baronial structures of County Down. Today, like many small rural townlands, it may be known primarily to those with local connections or genealogical interest in the area, representing the enduring importance of these small administrative divisions in Irish geographical and cultural organization.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Baronía
Ards Upper
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Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
2 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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