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Registres de recensement
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Foyers
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Années de recensement
- Personnes
- 47
- Foyers
- 6
- Personnes
- 55 +17%
- Foyers
- 7 +16.7%
À propos
Srahrevagh is a small townland located in County Mayo in the west of Ireland, situated within the broader landscape of Connacht. Like many townlands in rural Mayo, it is characterized by the rolling countryside and agricultural land typical of the region. The area is part of the wider Mayo landscape that features drumlin formations, stone walls dividing fields, and scattered farmsteads connected by narrow country roads. The townland, as with others in the county, represents the traditional division of Irish rural land into small administrative and geographical units that have their origins in both medieval and early modern Irish settlement patterns.
The history of Srahrevagh, like most Mayo townlands, is bound up with the broader historical trajectories of rural Ireland, including patterns of land tenure, agricultural practice, and social change over centuries. As a townland in Mayo, it would have been shaped by events including the Norman invasion, the Elizabethan and Jacobean plantations, the Cromwellian period, and the subsequent land settlement schemes that reorganized Irish rural society. The name itself, beginning with "Srah," derives from Irish "sráth," meaning a low-lying meadow or riverside land, suggesting the physical character of the locality and its importance for pastoral farming in earlier periods.
Today, Srahrevagh remains part of the fabric of rural Mayo life, inhabited as a residential townland where farming and rural livelihoods continue to form part of the local economy and way of life. Like many such small townlands, it is likely home to a small number of families and properties rather than constituting a village or settlement center. The townland is part of the cultural and geographical heritage of Mayo, reflecting the long continuity of Irish rural settlement patterns and the enduring significance of these small administrative divisions in Irish geography and local identity.
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- Paroisse
- Comté
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Nom irlandais
An Srath Riabhach
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Baronnie
Burrishoole
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- Anglais
- Srahrevagh
- Irlandais
- An Srath Riabhach
- Paroisse
- Burrishoole
- Baronnie
- Burrishoole
- Comté
- Mayo