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Comté de Cork

Localité

Ballybrowney Upper

Baile an Bhrúnaigh Uachtarach

15

Registres de recensement

4

Foyers

2

Années de recensement

1901 Recensement
Personnes
9
Foyers
2
1911 Recensement
Personnes
6 -33.3%
Foyers
2 0%

À propos

Ballybrowney Upper is a townland located in County Cork in the province of Munster in southern Ireland. The townland is situated in the barony of Duhallow, in the northern part of County Cork, within the broader Blackwater River valley region. This area is characterized by rural, agricultural landscapes typical of inland Cork, with rolling terrain, pastoral fields, and scattered farmsteads. The landscape reflects the dairy farming and mixed agricultural traditions that have long defined this part of Munster, with hedgerows and woodland interspersed among the fields.

As with many Irish townlands, Ballybrowney Upper has roots extending back through centuries of Irish settlement and land organization. The townland system itself is a legacy of Norman and English administrative practices layered over Gaelic Irish territorial divisions, with most townlands in their present form dating from the 17th and 18th centuries. The area around Duhallow has a rich history connected to both Gaelic Irish clans and later Anglo-Norman families, and the landscape itself contains archaeological features and place names reflecting this layered heritage.

Ballybrowney Upper, like other townlands in rural Cork, serves primarily as a geographic and administrative subdivision rather than as a settlement with a distinct center. The townland is home to several farms and residences dispersed across the countryside, typical of the dispersed settlement pattern found throughout rural Ireland. The area remains largely agricultural, with farming families maintaining traditions of cattle rearing and crop cultivation that have sustained rural Cork communities for generations.

Today, Ballybrowney Upper represents the quiet, everyday landscape of rural Munster, contributing to the broader agricultural and cultural fabric of County Cork. For residents and those with family connections to the area, the townland holds local significance as a place of heritage and livelihood, connected to the wider Duhallow community and the traditions of Irish rural life.

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Paroisse

Rathcormack

Comté

Cork

Nom irlandais

Baile an Bhrúnaigh Uachtarach

Baronnie

Barrymore

Valuation Office Records

From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)

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16 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.

Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.

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Détails

Anglais
Ballybrowney Upper
Irlandais
Baile an Bhrúnaigh Uachtarach
Paroisse
Rathcormack
Baronnie
Barrymore
Comté
Cork