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Comté de Cork

Localité

Preghane

An Fraochán

151

Registres de recensement

39

Foyers

2

Années de recensement

1901 Recensement
Personnes
84
Foyers
22
1911 Recensement
Personnes
67 -20.2%
Foyers
17 -22.7%

À propos

Preghane is a small townland situated in County Cork in the Munster region of southern Ireland. The area lies within the broader landscape of Cork, characterized by rolling hills, pastoral farmland, and the typical verdant countryside of the southwestern Irish peninsula. Like many townlands in Cork, Preghane forms part of the patchwork of rural settlements that have historically shaped the region's settlement patterns. The townland system, which divides rural Ireland into small administrative and geographic units, has long been fundamental to how Irish land and communities are organized, and Preghane represents one of thousands of such divisions across the island.

The history of Preghane, like that of many Irish townlands, is deeply intertwined with the broader historical patterns of County Cork and Ireland generally. The townland naming conventions and land divisions often reflect both pre-Norman Irish settlement patterns and subsequent Anglo-Norman administrative reorganization. As with many rural Cork townlands, the area would have been shaped by centuries of agricultural use, family settlement, and the various social and economic transformations that affected rural Ireland, from medieval times through the colonial period and into the modern era.

Today, Preghane remains a rural townland within Cork's agricultural landscape. Like many small Irish townlands, it likely serves primarily as a residential and farming area, contributing to the local agricultural economy and maintaining the rural character that defines much of Cork's interior. The townland continues to form part of the local community's geographic and cultural identity, even as rural Ireland has undergone significant changes in recent generations, with migration, mechanization, and economic shifts reshaping traditional patterns of life in the countryside.

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Paroisse

Ringcurran

Comté

Cork

Nom irlandais

An Fraochán

Baronnie

Kinalea

Valuation Office Records

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

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40 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
Preghane
Irlandais
An Fraochán
Paroisse
Ringcurran
Baronnie
Kinalea
Comté
Cork