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Comté de Mayo

Localité

Lissaniska East

Lios an Uisce Thoir

227

Registres de recensement

44

Foyers

2

Années de recensement

1901 Recensement
Personnes
118
Foyers
22
1911 Recensement
Personnes
109 -7.6%
Foyers
22 0%

À propos

Lissaniska East is a townland situated in County Mayo in the west of Ireland, located within the broader landscape of the county's rural hinterland. Like many Irish townlands, it represents a small territorial division with distinct historical boundaries, though the precise geographic coordinates and immediate neighboring townlands would require local knowledge or historical records to detail comprehensively. The area falls within Mayo's characteristic terrain, which includes a mix of bog, grassland, and agricultural holdings typical of the western Irish landscape. The townland system itself, which divides the Irish countryside into small administrative and cultural units, has been fundamental to Irish land organization for centuries, and Lissaniska East participates in this long-established pattern of rural settlement and land use.

The history of townlands in County Mayo, including Lissaniska East, is intimately connected with patterns of Irish land ownership, settlement, and dispossession across the medieval and modern periods. Like other townlands in the county, Lissaniska East would have experienced the various waves of social and economic change that affected rural Ireland, including the impact of the Plantation period, the consolidation of estates, and the agricultural transformations of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The townland system itself, which dates back centuries and was further formalized through various surveys and administrative records, provides a crucial framework for understanding local history and community organization in places like Lissaniska East.

For local communities in County Mayo, townlands such as Lissaniska East serve as important markers of local identity and heritage. They function as reference points for understanding family histories, land boundaries, and the cultural geography of the region. In contemporary Ireland, townlands remain significant despite the modernization of administrative systems, as they continue to appear in property records, historical documentation, and in the cultural memory of local populations. Lissaniska East, as part of Mayo's broader tapestry of rural townlands, contributes to the complex and layered identity of the county's countryside.

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Paroisse

Ballynahaglish

Comté

Mayo

Nom irlandais

Lios an Uisce Thoir

Baronnie

Tirawley

Valuation Office Records

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

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1 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
Lissaniska East
Irlandais
Lios an Uisce Thoir
Paroisse
Ballynahaglish
Baronnie
Tirawley
Comté
Mayo