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Comté de Galway

Localité

Fiddaun

An Feadán

267

Registres de recensement

56

Foyers

2

Années de recensement

1901 Recensement
Personnes
136
Foyers
26
1911 Recensement
Personnes
131 -3.7%
Foyers
30 +15.4%

À propos

Fiddaun is a small townland located in County Galway in the west of Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of the Irish midlands. The area is characterized by the typical rolling countryside of the region, with pastoral fields, stone walls, and scattered farmsteads that define much of rural Galway. The townland lies in a region with significant historical importance to Irish cultural and linguistic heritage, being situated in an area with strong connections to the Irish language and traditional ways of life that have persisted in the west.

The history of Fiddaun is intertwined with the broader patterns of Irish settlement and land use that developed over centuries. Like many Irish townlands, Fiddaun represents a fundamental unit of territorial organization that dates back to medieval times and was formalized during the various phases of English administration in Ireland. The townland system itself was a crucial part of how land was divided, surveyed, and recorded, particularly during the Ordnance Survey work of the nineteenth century that mapped Ireland in detail.

Fiddaun, like numerous rural townlands across Galway, would have supported agricultural communities engaged in farming, pastoral activities, and the traditional rural pursuits that sustained Irish countryside settlements. The area reflects the enduring pattern of small-scale farming and rural living that has characterized the west of Ireland for generations. For the local community, such townlands represent not merely administrative divisions but places of family history, land tenure, and cultural continuity that connect residents to their heritage and the broader story of rural Irish life.

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Paroisse

Ardrahan

Comté

Galway

Nom irlandais

An Feadán

Baronnie

Kiltartan

Valuation Office Records

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

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2 occupiers recorded in the Valuation Office Books for this townland.

Source: Valuation Office Books, National Archives of Ireland. Public records.

Emplacement de la localité

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Détails

Anglais
Fiddaun
Irlandais
An Feadán
Paroisse
Ardrahan
Baronnie
Kiltartan
Comté
Galway