24
Registres de recensement
4
Foyers
2
Années de recensement
- Personnes
- 13
- Foyers
- 2
- Personnes
- 11 -15.4%
- Foyers
- 2 0%
À propos
Dromickbane is a small townland located in County Kerry in the southwest of Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of the Dingle Peninsula region. The townland forms part of the rural geography characteristic of Kerry's interior, an area defined by rolling hills, coastal proximity, and the distinctive terrain shaped by glacial activity during previous ice ages. Like many Irish townlands, Dromickbane represents a traditional territorial division of land that dates back centuries, though it remains primarily agricultural and residential in character. The landscape typical of this part of Kerry includes patchwork fields bounded by stone walls and hedgerows, scattered farmsteads, and the ever-present influence of the Atlantic maritime climate that shapes vegetation and weather patterns throughout the peninsula.
The history of Dromickbane, as with many Kerry townlands, is bound up with the broader historical trajectory of Ireland, including periods of Norman settlement, Irish clan territories, plantation policies, and eventually the consolidation of the modern Irish state. The townland system itself emerged from medieval and early modern organizational practices, and these divisions became formalized in the context of land surveys and estate management. Dromickbane would have experienced the various social and economic transformations that affected rural Kerry over the centuries, including agricultural changes, emigration patterns, and the shifts in land ownership and tenancy that characterized Irish rural society.
Today, Dromickbane remains part of the living rural fabric of Kerry, home to farming families and contributing to the agricultural economy of the region. Like many small Irish townlands, it represents the continuity of settled rural life and the preservation of place-names and territorial identities that have endured for generations. The townland, though modest in population and profile, forms part of the cultural and geographic identity of the Dingle Peninsula and reflects the dispersed settlement pattern typical of rural Ireland, where communities are organized around extended families, local parishes, and shared land use rather than concentrated urban centers.
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- Paroisse
- Comté
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Nom irlandais
Drom Mhic Bháin
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Baronnie
Magunihy
- Logainm
Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
25 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.
Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.
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