59
Registros censales
13
Hogares
2
Años del censo
- Personas
- 34
- Hogares
- 7
- Personas
- 25 -26.5%
- Hogares
- 6 -14.3%
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Straid and Glebe are small townlands situated in County Donegal in the northwest of Ireland, an area characterized by rugged Atlantic coastlines, bogland, and rolling hills. The landscape of this region is typical of the wider Donegal terrain, with moorland, rough grassland, and patches of bog interspersed with farmland. The townlands form part of the broader fabric of rural Donegal, where settlements are often scattered and dispersed rather than concentrated in villages. The proximity to larger towns and the road networks connecting them have historically determined the accessibility and economic viability of such settlements.
County Donegal has a rich and complex history spanning prehistoric times through to the modern era. The wider region was historically part of the territory of the O'Donnell clan, one of the most powerful Gaelic families of Ulster. Like many townlands in Donegal, Straid and Glebe would have been shaped by the patterns of settlement, land division, and ownership that characterized Irish rural life, particularly following the Plantation period and subsequent land reforms. The townland system itself, which divides the Irish landscape into small administrative units, reflects centuries of evolving patterns of habitation and land use.
Such townlands as Straid and Glebe remain significant to the local community as markers of identity and heritage, even as rural population patterns have shifted over recent decades. Townland names often carry historical weight, preserving linguistic and cultural memory within Irish place nomenclature. For residents and descendants of the area, these names anchor connections to family history and local belonging. The preservation of townland designations on maps and in official records ensures that the geographic and social structure of rural Donegal remains documented and accessible to those researching local and family history.
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- Parroquia
- Condado
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Nombre en irlandés
An tSráid
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Baronía
Banagh
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
1 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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