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Comté de Derry

Localité

Killynumber

44

Registres de recensement

10

Foyers

1

Année du recensement

1911 Recensement
Personnes
44
Foyers
10

À propos

Killynumber is a small townland located in County Derry in Northern Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of the county's rolling countryside. The townland lies in an area characterized by typical northeastern Irish rural terrain, with pastoral fields, hedgerows, and scattered farmsteads that form the backbone of the agricultural landscape. Like many townlands in Derry, Killynumber represents one of the thousands of small geographical divisions that subdivide the Irish countryside, each with its own distinct identity within the parish and baronial structures that have long organized settlement patterns in the region.

The history of Killynumber, like much of County Derry, is deeply connected to the plantation period and subsequent patterns of settlement and land ownership that shaped the region from the seventeenth century onward. The townland system itself, which divides the county into these small units, reflects both pre-plantation Irish territorial divisions and the administrative reorganization that followed English and Scottish settlement. Killynumber's name, like many Irish townland names, likely derives from Irish language roots, though the precise historical details of individual townland etymology can often be difficult to trace with certainty.

As a rural townland, Killynumber would have served primarily as an agricultural settlement, with its significance lying in its role within the local farming community and parish structure. Townlands of this type formed the basic unit of rural social and economic organization, where families worked their holdings and participated in the broader life of their communities. Today, Killynumber remains a quiet corner of County Derry's countryside, representative of the many small rural places that continue to form the fabric of the region, even as rural life has transformed considerably over recent generations.

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Paroisse

Kilcronaghan

Comté

Derry

Baronnie

Loughinsholin

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.

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Détails

Anglais
Killynumber
Paroisse
Kilcronaghan
Baronnie
Loughinsholin
Comté
Derry