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Comté de Leitrim

Localité

Cannaboe

Ceann na Bó

11

Registres de recensement

2

Foyers

1

Année du recensement

1911 Recensement
Personnes
11
Foyers
2

À propos

Cannaboe is a small townland situated in County Leitrim in the northwest of Ireland, part of the province of Connacht. The landscape of this region is characterized by the rolling hills and boglands typical of Leitrim, with its proximity to various river systems and lakes that define much of the local geography. Like many townlands in this part of Ireland, Cannaboe would have historically been defined by a mix of agricultural land, bog, and rough pasture, with the terrain shaped by glaciation and the underlying limestone geology of the broader region.

The townland system itself, to which Cannaboe belongs, represents a fundamental unit of Irish land organization with roots extending back centuries. Townlands were important administrative and social divisions in rural Ireland, often corresponding to earlier Gaelic territorial divisions. Cannaboe, like other Leitrim townlands, reflects this historical layer of organization, though specific documented records of the townland's particular history may be limited, as is often the case with smaller rural communities in Ireland.

County Leitrim as a whole has a rich but often understated historical significance, with the landscape bearing evidence of various periods of settlement and land use. The county has connections to important Irish historical figures and events, though Cannaboe itself, as a smaller constituent townland, may not feature prominently in major historical records. The broader patterns of rural life, emigration, land tenure changes, and agricultural practices that shaped Ireland from the 18th century onward would have affected communities like Cannaboe as they did throughout the region.

Today, Cannaboe remains part of the fabric of rural Leitrim, representative of the many small townlands that continue to define the Irish countryside. These communities retain cultural and social significance for local families with roots in the area, and they form an important part of Ireland's geographical and administrative heritage, even where they are small and relatively quiet in terms of major events or developments.

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Paroisse

Oughteragh

Comté

Leitrim

Nom irlandais

Ceann na Bó

Baronnie

Carrigallen

Valuation Office Records

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

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11 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
Cannaboe
Irlandais
Ceann na Bó
Paroisse
Oughteragh
Baronnie
Carrigallen
Comté
Leitrim