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Dromore sprang up within the townland of the same name. The following is a list of townlands that are now within the town's urban area, alongside their likely etymologies: [23] Balleny, historically Ballyeany (from Irish Baile Uí Éinigh, meaning 'O'Heaney's townland') Ballymacormick (from Irish Baile Mhic Cormaic, meaning 'MacCormick's townland')
Derryloughan is a townland in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland. It lies on the southwest corner of Lough Neagh, 4 miles from Coalisland. It is situated in the historic barony of Dungannon Middle and the civil parish of Clonoe and covers an area of 1751 acres. [1] The name derives from the Irish: Doire Lochain (Oak wood of the little lough). [2]
Poleglass (from Irish Poll Glas, meaning 'green hollow') [6] is an area of west Belfast in Northern Ireland. It is the name of a townland, a modern electoral ward, [7] and a working class suburb. The townland is situated in the civil parish of Derriaghy and the historic Barony of Belfast Upper. [8] It is mainly an Irish nationalist area.
Tallow (/ ˈ t æ l. oʊ /; Irish: Tulach an Iarainn, meaning 'hillock of the iron' [3]) is a town, civil parish and townland in County Waterford, Ireland.Tallow is in the province of Munster near the border between County Cork and County Waterford and situated on a small hill just south of the River Bride.
However, some townland names and boundaries come from Norman manors, plantation divisions, or later creations of the Ordnance Survey. [7] [8] The total number of inhabited townlands in Ireland was 60,679 in 1911. [9] The total number recognised by the Irish Place Names database as of 2014 was 61,098, including uninhabited townlands, mainly ...
In Ireland, a town council was the second (or lower) tier of local government from 2002 to 2014. Operating in smaller towns and cities, they exercised limited functions which were subsidiary to those of their relevant county council .
Claregalway Parish is one of the largest in the county and includes a number of townlands (small clusters of houses) some of the bigger being Carnmore, Lydican, Loughgeorge and Cregboy. Lydican is notable as the origin of the Irish ancestors (Patrick Lynch) of Che Guevara. Lydican was actually an O'Heyne Castle and the last of the chieftains ...
Newtownstewart is a village and townland of 540 acres (219 ha) in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.It is overlooked by hills called Bessy Bell and Mary Gray and lies on the River Strule below the confluence with its tributary the Owenkillew.