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Comté de Cavan

Localité

Turin

An Tuairín

125

Registres de recensement

22

Foyers

3

Années de recensement

1821 Recensement
Personnes
75
Foyers
12
1901 Recensement
Personnes
32 -57.3%
Foyers
6 -50%
1911 Recensement
Personnes
18 -43.8%
Foyers
4 -33.3%

À propos

Turin is a small townland located in County Cavan in the northwest of the Republic of Ireland. Like many townlands in this region, it forms part of the broader landscape of the Ulster area, characterized by rolling hills, bogland, and agricultural terrain typical of northern Ireland. The townland sits within the drumlin belt, a distinctive geographical feature of the region marked by numerous small, rounded hills formed during the last ice age. The landscape around Turin reflects the natural beauty and challenging topography that defines much of County Cavan, with its mixture of farmland, water features, and moorland.

County Cavan has a rich historical heritage stretching back centuries, with evidence of human settlement and activity throughout the medieval and early modern periods. The region was historically part of the territories of various Gaelic Irish families and later came under English administrative control. Like other townlands in Cavan, Turin's own history is intertwined with the broader patterns of Irish rural settlement, land use, and community organization that developed over generations. The townland system itself, which divides the Irish landscape into small administrative and social units, has been a fundamental feature of Irish rural life since medieval times.

Turin, as a townland, would have served as an important local unit of community identity and land organization for the people who lived and worked there. Townlands in County Cavan typically encompassed farms, homes, and associated lands that formed the basis of rural life and livelihood. The local community would have been connected through shared land, social ties, and participation in parish and townland activities. Today, while many such townlands are less prominent in everyday discourse than they once were, they remain part of Ireland's administrative and cultural geography and continue to hold significance for those with family or historical connections to the area.

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Paroisse

Ballymachugh

Comté

Cavan

Nom irlandais

An Tuairín

Baronnie

Clanmahon

Valuation Office Records

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

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9 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
Turin
Irlandais
An Tuairín
Paroisse
Ballymachugh
Baronnie
Clanmahon
Comté
Cavan