125
Registres de recensement
17
Foyers
2
Années de recensement
- Personnes
- 68
- Foyers
- 9
- Personnes
- 57 -16.2%
- Foyers
- 8 -11.1%
À propos
Cappamore is a small townland situated in County Kerry, in the southwest of Ireland. Like many Irish townlands, it forms part of the rural landscape that characterizes much of Kerry's interior, with a setting typical of the county's varied terrain. The area is characterized by the rolling hills and pastoral countryside that define this region, with fields used primarily for agriculture and livestock farming. The townland exists within the broader geographic context of Kerry, a county known for its mountainous areas, river valleys, and coastal regions, though Cappamore itself represents the quieter, more modest inland landscape that comprises much of the county's rural fabric.
The history of Cappamore, like that of many Irish townlands, is deeply connected to the agricultural and social patterns that have shaped rural Ireland over centuries. Townlands in Kerry have their origins in medieval and pre-medieval land divisions, reflecting patterns of settlement and land ownership that evolved through various periods of Irish history. Cappamore would have been subject to the same historical forces that affected the broader region, including the Norman invasion, English colonization, the plantation period, and the subsequent social and economic changes that followed. The townland system itself, of which Cappamore is a part, represents one of the most distinctive features of Irish geography and has remained largely unchanged in its basic structure since medieval times.
As a rural townland in modern Kerry, Cappamore maintains the character typical of such places in Ireland today. The community would be relatively small, with a scattered population living in houses and farms spread across the townland rather than concentrated in a village center. The significance of Cappamore to local people lies in its role as part of the broader fabric of rural Kerry life, representing the kind of small-scale agricultural and residential areas that form the backbone of Ireland's countryside. While individual townlands like Cappamore may not feature prominently in historical records or tourist guides, they are essential to understanding how Irish people have organized and inhabited their landscape, and they remain important identifiers of place and community for those who live there and have family connections to the area.
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Nom irlandais
An Cheapaigh Mhór
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Baronnie
Iveragh
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
42 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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