143
Registres de recensement
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Années de recensement
- Personnes
- 79
- Foyers
- 13
- Personnes
- 64 -19%
- Foyers
- 12 -7.7%
À propos
Dromatoor is a small townland located in County Kerry in the southwest of Ireland, situated in the Dingle Peninsula region. The area is characterized by the rugged, rolling landscape typical of Kerry's interior, with moorland, bogland, and pastoral fields that reflect the region's Atlantic climate and terrain. The townland is part of a broader network of rural settlements that dot the Dingle Peninsula, an area known for its dramatic coastal cliffs, mountains, and traditional Irish-speaking communities. The landscape around Dromatoor exemplifies the kind of upland terrain that has shaped settlement patterns and agricultural practices in this part of Kerry for centuries.
The history of Dromatoor, like many Irish townlands, is deeply connected to the Gaelic heritage of the region and the patterns of land division that developed over centuries. The townland system itself became formalized during the medieval period and was refined further during English administrative reorganization of Ireland. County Kerry has long been an area of significant Irish cultural and linguistic retention, and Dromatoor sits within a landscape layered with historical settlement, from prehistoric habitation through medieval to early modern periods. The area would have been shaped by the major historical events that affected Kerry, including the Norman invasion, the dissolution of monasteries, and the various land reorganizations that followed English conquest and colonization.
As a rural townland in contemporary Kerry, Dromatoor remains primarily agricultural in character, part of the dispersed settlement pattern that continues to define much of Ireland's interior landscape. The local community would be linked to broader parish and county structures, with residents connected to nearby market towns and villages for services and social activity. Like many such townlands, it represents the continuity of Irish rural life and the persistence of traditional place names and settlement patterns, even as modernization has transformed many aspects of Irish society. The significance of Dromatoor to the local community lies in its role as a home place, a unit of land tenure and identity, and part of the cultural and geographical fabric of the Dingle Peninsula region.
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- Comté
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Drom an Tuair
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Baronnie
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- Anglais
- Dromatoor
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- Drom an Tuair
- Paroisse
- Ballyheige
- Baronnie
- Clanmaurice
- Comté
- Kerry