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Comté de Donegal

Localité

Gortflugh

57

Registres de recensement

8

Foyers

2

Années de recensement

1901 Recensement
Personnes
30
Foyers
4
1911 Recensement
Personnes
27 -10%
Foyers
4 0%

À propos

Gortflugh is a small townland located in County Donegal in the northwest of Ireland, situated in the northern part of the county. Like many Irish townlands, it is a rural settlement characterized by dispersed housing and agricultural land typical of the Donegal landscape. The area forms part of the broader topography of north Donegal, which is marked by rolling hills, moorland, and areas of bog that are common throughout this region. The townland would have historically served primarily as a farming community, with residents engaged in subsistence and small-scale commercial agriculture suited to the local climate and soil conditions.

The name Gortflugh, like many Irish place names, has linguistic roots in the Irish language, though specific historical records about the townland's earliest settlement and development are limited, as is common for smaller rural townlands in Ireland. The area would have experienced the same broad patterns of Irish rural history as surrounding communities, including the impacts of landlordism, land reform movements, and economic changes across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As with much of Donegal, the region experienced significant emigration, particularly during the nineteenth century, which shaped the demographic character of the townland over time.

Today, Gortflugh remains a rural townland characterized by its quiet, agricultural character and connection to the wider Donegal community. Like many small Irish townlands, it represents the dispersed settlement pattern that continues to define rural Ireland. The townland serves primarily as a residential and farming area for families with deep local roots, and it contributes to the cultural and social fabric of the broader Donegal region, though it would be considered one of many quiet rural communities rather than a place of major historical distinction or tourism significance.

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Paroisse

Killygarvan

Comté

Donegal

Baronnie

Kilmacrenan

Valuation Office Records

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

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12 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
Gortflugh
Paroisse
Killygarvan
Baronnie
Kilmacrenan
Comté
Donegal