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A townland (Irish: baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: toonlann [1]) is a small geographical division of land, historically and currently used in Ireland and in the Western Isles in Scotland, typically covering 100–500 acres (40–202 ha). [2]
Historic Maps Collection. 18th and 19th-century historic maps of Ireland. A UCD Digital Library Collection. Maps of Dublin accompanying Thom's Official Directory, printed by the Ordnance Survey for the Dublin publisher Alexander Thom from the six-inch map sheets 18 and 22, and dating from the late 19th century.
A historian is helping to preserve ancient Irish place names in Ulster with a new townland "atlas".
"Historic 6-inch map". Mapviewer. Ordnance Survey of Ireland. 1833–1846. Archived from the original on 29 August 2012 (Zoom in to scale of 10,000:1 or less, to show 6-inch maps from 1833–46 with parish boundaries in blue.) "Memorial Atlas of Ireland (L.J. Richards & Company, Philadelphia)". NUI Galway. 2014 [1901].
The maps themselves include townland boundaries, and sometimes houses/castles, roads and fields. It listed the owners of land in 1640, and the new owners. Considering the time and circumstances in which these maps were executed, their accuracy is surprising, and they continue to be referred to as trustworthy evidence in courts of law even at ...
The townland originally formed two divisions, the older Irish names of which were Kealloge and Knockan. Kealloge was an Anglicisation of the Gaelic placename 'Coill Óg', which means The New or Little Wood and it is depicted with this name on the 1609 Ulster Plantation Baronial map.
Castletown-Kilpatrick, also known as Castletown KP [1] or Castletown (Irish: Baile an Chaisleáin), [2] is a townland and village in County Meath in Ireland. [3] It falls in the Meath East constituency. The Boyne Valley to Lakelands greenway passes through on the disused Navan and Kingscourt Railway line. [4] [5]
The townlands of Belfast are the oldest surviving land divisions in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The city is split between two traditional Counties by the River Lagan , with those townlands north of the river generally in County Antrim , while those on the southern bank are generally part of County Down .