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Comté de Cavan

Localité

Cornaveagh

Corr na bhFiach

221

Registres de recensement

48

Foyers

3

Années de recensement

1821 Recensement
Personnes
158
Foyers
32
1901 Recensement
Personnes
30 -81%
Foyers
8 -75%
1911 Recensement
Personnes
33 +10%
Foyers
8 0%

À propos

Cornaveagh is a small townland located in County Cavan in the northwest of the Republic of Ireland, situated within the historic province of Ulster. The area is characterized by the rolling pastoral landscape typical of this region, with farmland, hedgerows, and scattered rural settlements defining its physical geography. Like much of County Cavan, Cornaveagh lies within the limestone plateau that extends across the north-central Irish countryside, with the landscape shaped by glacial activity during the ice ages. The townland's position in this rural hinterland reflects the broader settlement patterns of northwest Ireland, where population has historically been dispersed across small villages and individual homesteads rather than concentrated in large urban centers.

The history of Cornaveagh, like that of County Cavan more broadly, is rooted in the Anglo-Norman settlement of Ireland and the subsequent development of agrarian communities through the medieval and early modern periods. The townland system itself, of which Cornaveagh is one example, represents a distinctive feature of Irish land organization that emerged over centuries of settlement and land tenure practices. The area would have been part of the broader social and economic transformations that affected rural Ireland, including the impact of the Great Famine in the mid-19th century and the subsequent patterns of emigration and land reform that reshaped Irish rural society.

Cornaveagh remains today a quiet rural townland, its character defined by agricultural activity and small-scale farming, as is common throughout much of County Cavan. For the local community, such townlands serve as important markers of identity and connection to place, even as rural depopulation and economic changes have affected many such areas across Ireland. The townland continues to represent part of the fabric of County Cavan's countryside, contributing to the distinctive landscape and heritage that characterizes the region.

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Paroisse

Knockbride

Comté

Cavan

Nom irlandais

Corr na bhFiach

Baronnie

Clankee

Valuation Office Records

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

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5 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
Cornaveagh
Irlandais
Corr na bhFiach
Paroisse
Knockbride
Baronnie
Clankee
Comté
Cavan