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Registres de recensement
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Années de recensement
- Personnes
- 27
- Foyers
- 6
- Personnes
- 16 -40.7%
- Foyers
- 3 -50%
À propos
Portlough is a small townland situated in County Donegal in the northwest of Ireland. The townland is located in a rural area characterized by the rolling hills, boglands, and coastal features typical of the Donegal landscape. Like many townlands in the region, Portlough is part of the wider network of small settlements that dot the countryside, positioned within the broader geographical and administrative context of County Donegal's diverse terrain. The area is representative of the upland and transitional zones between the more mountainous interior and the coastal regions of the county.
The history of Portlough, as with many Irish townlands, reflects the broader patterns of settlement, land use, and cultural development that have shaped County Donegal over centuries. Townlands in this region have their origins in medieval and earlier administrative divisions, with their names often deriving from Irish language roots that describe landscape features or historical settlements. The name itself, like many in the area, carries linguistic traces of the Irish heritage of the region. The townland system remains a distinctive feature of Irish geography and cadastral administration, with Portlough representing one of thousands of such named divisions across the island.
Portlough, being a rural townland in Donegal, is part of a landscape that has long been shaped by agricultural practices, traditional settlement patterns, and the region's distinctive natural environment. The community would have historical connections to farming, pastoral activities, and the subsistence patterns typical of rural Donegal. Today, the townland remains primarily rural in character, as is the case with many such small divisions in the county. The significance of Portlough to the local community lies in its role as part of the lived geography of the region, forming part of the townland-based system through which local people have historically organized and understood their relationship to the land and to one another.
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Valuation Office Records
From the National Archives of Ireland (c. 1830s–1850s)
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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