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Comté de Down

Localité

Craigarusky

108

Registres de recensement

19

Foyers

1

Année du recensement

1901 Recensement
Personnes
108
Foyers
19

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Craigarusky is a small townland located in County Down in Northern Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of the Mourne region. The area is characterized by rolling countryside typical of south County Down, with proximity to both agricultural land and the more dramatic terrain of the Mourne Mountains to the south. The townland's name, like many in the region, derives from Irish and reflects the long history of settlement in this part of Ulster. The landscape around Craigarusky is predominantly rural, consisting of fields, hedgerows, and scattered farmsteads that have shaped the character of the locality for generations.

The history of Craigarusky, as with many Irish townlands, is deeply rooted in patterns of settlement that predate modern administrative boundaries. County Down has been continuously inhabited since prehistoric times, and the townland system itself was formalized during the medieval period and English plantation era. The area would have been part of the broader patterns of land use and settlement that characterized south Ulster, with both Gaelic Irish and later English and Scottish settler influences shaping the community over centuries.

Today, Craigarusky remains a quiet rural townland that is part of the living fabric of County Down's countryside. Like many small townlands in the region, it serves as a reference point for local identity and community connection, even as patterns of rural life have evolved significantly over recent decades. The townland continues to be home to farming families and represents the ongoing importance of agricultural heritage to the area.

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Comté

Down

Baronnie

Castlereagh Lower

Valuation Office Records

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

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3 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
Craigarusky
Baronnie
Castlereagh Lower
Comté
Down