208
Registres de recensement
54
Foyers
2
Années de recensement
- Personnes
- 126
- Foyers
- 29
- Personnes
- 82 -34.9%
- Foyers
- 25 -13.8%
À propos
Britfieldstown is a small townland located in County Cork in the Munster province of southern Ireland. The townland forms part of the broader landscape of Cork's interior, a region characterized by rolling hills, agricultural land, and scattered rural settlements typical of Ireland's countryside. Like many Irish townlands, Britfieldstown occupies a modest geographic footprint, serving as a local designation for a specific cluster of properties and surrounding fields rather than a formally incorporated town. The area's natural setting is shaped by Cork's temperate maritime climate and geology, with terrain suited to pastoral farming and forestry that have long formed the economic backbone of rural Cork communities.
The history of Britfieldstown, like that of many Irish townlands, is rooted in centuries of settlement patterns and land use that evolved through medieval and early modern periods. The townland system itself originated from Anglo-Norman and Gaelic Irish territorial divisions, and names like Britfieldstown often reflect the layering of Irish and English influences on the landscape. While detailed local records specific to Britfieldstown may be limited, the townland exists within Cork's broader historical context of agricultural development, estate management, and the significant social changes brought by the Great Famine and subsequent Irish emigration in the nineteenth century.
As a rural townland, Britfieldstown's significance lies primarily in its role as part of Cork's farming and community networks rather than as a location of major historical events or monuments. Like many comparable townlands, it would have supported family farms and small-scale agriculture, contributing to local food production and sustaining rural livelihoods across generations. The townland represents the granular local geography through which generations of Cork families have organized their lives, conducted business, and maintained social connections with neighboring communities.
Today, Britfieldstown remains part of Cork's rural fabric, reflecting both the continuities and changes of modern Irish countryside life. While depopulation and economic shifts have transformed many such townlands since the mid-twentieth century, they retain their formal designation and their place in local identity and administrative systems. For residents and those with family connections to the area, Britfieldstown anchors memories and heritage within Cork's distinctive local landscape.
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- Paroisse
- Comté
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Nom irlandais
Baile an Bhritbhíligh
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Baronnie
Kinalea
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
34 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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- Irlandais
- Baile an Bhritbhíligh
- Paroisse
- Ballyfoyle
- Baronnie
- Kinalea
- Comté
- Cork