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Comté de Donegal

Localité

Ballymagahy North

77

Registres de recensement

11

Foyers

2

Années de recensement

1901 Recensement
Personnes
40
Foyers
6
1911 Recensement
Personnes
37 -7.5%
Foyers
5 -16.7%

À propos

Ballymagahy North is a townland located in County Donegal in the northwestern part of Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of the county's characteristic terrain. Like much of Donegal, the area is defined by rolling hills, moorland, and the type of rugged topography typical of the northwest Irish coast. The townland forms part of the local administrative and geographical divisions that characterize rural Donegal, with its landscape shaped by both natural geological features and centuries of human settlement and land use.

The history of Ballymagahy North, like many Irish townlands, is rooted in the Gaelic and Anglo-Norman patterns of settlement that developed across Ireland. The townland system itself represents one of Ireland's most distinctive geographical divisions, with each townland having evolved from ancient territorial divisions. Ballymagahy North would have been part of the broader historical trajectory of County Donegal, an area with deep connections to Ulster's Gaelic heritage and later subject to English administrative organization, including the system of townlands that persists today.

As with many rural townlands in Donegal, Ballymagahy North represents the dispersed settlement pattern characteristic of the Irish countryside, where individual farms and houses are distributed across the landscape rather than concentrated in villages. The community significance of such townlands lies in their role as units of local identity and land organization, serving historical and contemporary functions in land records, local knowledge, and cultural geography. These small territorial units continue to matter to residents and local communities as markers of place and heritage, even as rural populations have changed over time.

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Paroisse

Clondavaddog

Comté

Donegal

Baronnie

Kilmacrenan

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Détails

Anglais
Ballymagahy North
Paroisse
Clondavaddog
Baronnie
Kilmacrenan
Comté
Donegal