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Comté de Limerick

Localité

Tooraleagan

Tuar an Liagáin

45

Registres de recensement

7

Foyers

2

Années de recensement

1901 Recensement
Personnes
22
Foyers
3
1911 Recensement
Personnes
23 +4.5%
Foyers
4 +33.3%

À propos

Tooraleagan is a townland located in County Limerick in the province of Munster in southwest Ireland. The townland forms part of the broader landscape of mid-Limerick, an area characterized by rolling countryside, agricultural land, and scattered rural settlements typical of the Irish midlands. Like many townlands in this region, Tooraleagan reflects the patchwork of small land divisions that have shaped the Irish rural landscape for centuries. The surrounding terrain consists of pastoral fields used primarily for farming and livestock grazing, with the typical stone walls and hedgerows that define field boundaries across rural Limerick.

The townland system itself, to which Tooraleagan belongs, originated in medieval times and was further systematized during the period of English administrative reorganization in Ireland. Townlands served as the smallest official unit of land division and remain important to Irish geographical and genealogical records. Tooraleagan, like many Irish townlands, would have witnessed the various historical transitions of the region, including changes in land ownership, agricultural practices, and settlement patterns across several centuries. The name itself, derived from Irish, reflects the Gaelic heritage of the locality, though the specific historical events or figures associated with Tooraleagan are not widely documented in readily available sources.

For the local community, Tooraleagan represents part of the connected network of rural townlands that together form the social and geographical fabric of County Limerick. These small rural areas have traditionally been important to farming families and agricultural heritage. Today, like many rural Irish townlands, Tooraleagan contributes to the preservation of the countryside character and pastoral identity of the region, even as rural Ireland continues to adapt to modern economic and social changes. The townland remains part of the administrative and cultural geography that defines this part of Limerick.

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Paroisse

Ballylanders

Comté

Limerick

Nom irlandais

Tuar an Liagáin

Baronnie

Coshlea

Valuation Office Records

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

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12 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
Tooraleagan
Irlandais
Tuar an Liagáin
Paroisse
Ballylanders
Baronnie
Coshlea
Comté
Limerick