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unusual facts about townland



Annagh

It is bounded on the north by the international border with Fermanagh and Northern Ireland, on the east by Cuillaghan, Killywilly, Corranierna and Mullaghduff townlands, on the south by Cullyleenan townland and on the west by Doon, Rakeelan and Gortawee townlands.

Ballingarry

Ballingarry, North Tipperary, a townland and civil parish in the county of North Tipperary, Ireland.

Ballyea

Ballyea South, a townland in the county of North Tipperary, Ireland

Ballyea North, a townland in the county of North Tipperary, Ireland

Ballyea, South Tipperary, a townland in the county of South Tipperary, Ireland

Ballyea, North Tipperary, a townland in the county of North Tipperary, Ireland

Ballylifford

Seán Larkin was a member of the Irish Volunteers and hunger striker from Bellagherty, a townland of Ballinderry less than 1 km from Ballylifford.

Ballytarsna

Ballytarsna is the name of townlands in several counties in Ireland.

Brickeens

Brickens, officially Brickeens, a village and townland in County Mayo in Ireland.

Caledon, County Tyrone

The townland contains one Scheduled Historic Monument: a Beam engine (grid ref: H7581 4521).

Carrickmore

The townland of Carrickmore is situated in the historic barony of Omagh East and the civil parish of Termonmaguirk and covers an area of 915 acres.

Clogherbog

Clogherbog is a townland situated on the south west side of Boho in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

Clooney

Clooney, Kilcronaghan civil parish, a townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland

Corranierna

On the 1609 Ulster Plantation map it is named ‘Claghan’ (Gaelic ‘Clochán’ meaning a small beehive-shaped stone house), but by the Down Survey of 1655 it was merged into Mullaghduff townland where the combined townland was called ‘Mullaghduffe alias Cloghane alias Cornerin’.

Curraheen

Curraheen is the name of townlands in several counties in Ireland.

Derry City

Derry City (townland), a townland in County Londonderry, Northern Ireland; see List of archaeological sites in County Londonderry

Faddan More Psalter

The Faddan More Psalter (also Irish Bog Psalter or "Faddan Mor Psalter") is an early medieval Christian psalter or text of the book of Psalms, discovered in a peat bog in July 2006, in the townland of Faddan More in north County Tipperary, Ireland.

Galbertstown

Galbertstown Lower, a townland in Fertiana civil parish in County Tipperary

Galbertstown Upper, a townland in Fertiana civil parish in County Tipperary

Gubbarudda

Gubbarudda is a townland in Ireland three miles north-west from Arigna village (known nationally for its once active coal mines.) Gubbarudda is a very rural area also.

Leitrim, County Antrim

There is another townland of the same name in the civil parish of Drummaul in the historic barony of Toome Upper.

Lios

Lios an Gharráin, or anglicised Lissagurraun, townland of Moycullen near Barna in County Galway, Ireland

Loughlynch

Loughlynch or Lough Lynch is a townland in the parish of Billy, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Margaret Maher

Margaret was born on 25 February 1841 in Killusty, a townland in a region of South Tipperary, Ireland, known as the Golden Vale of the River Suir.

Musgrave Park, Belfast

Situated in the south west of the city, in Ballygammon townland off Stockman's Lane, the surrounding area is a mix of trading estates and residential housing, with the M1 motorway passing close to one end.

Nephin

One of their kings, Ailill Finn, is stated to have held residence at Dun Atha Fene, now Caorthannan/Castlehill townland, in the parish of Addergoole and Crossmolina.

Oliver Goldsmith

He was born either in the townland of Pallas, near Ballymahon, County Longford, Ireland, where his father was the Anglican curate of the parish of Forgney, or at the residence of his maternal grandparents, at the Smith Hill House in the diocese of Elphin, County Roscommon where his grandfather Oliver Jones was a clergyman and master of the Elphin diocesan school, and where Oliver studied.

Olrig

Boundaries were mostly disregarded and lost during the 19th century but many townland names remain identifiable in farmstead names ending with Mains.

Puckane

The songwriter Shane MacGowan spent much of his childhood in the neighbouring townland of Carney and has immortalised a number of local places in his songs such as "The Broad Majestic Shannon".

Skea

Skea, County Fermanagh, a small village and townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland

Stonetown, County Louth

St.Ultan's Well: Located in the townland of Muff, the stone with Ultans knee marks etched still remains

Tarlach Rua Mac Dónaill

Tarlach Rua Mac Dónaill was from the townland of Derrylasky in the parish of Donaghmore, County Tyrone, and lived in the first half of the 18th century.

Tattykeeran

Tattykeeran, County Fermanagh, a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland

Temple House Manor and Castle

Temple House Castle (Irish: Caisleán) was a rectangular keepless castle, built in 1181 located near the townland of Ballinacarrow on the outskirts of Ballymote in south County Sligo, Ireland.

Turtulla

Turtulla, Fertiana, County Tipperary, a townland in Fertiana civil parish in North Tipperary

Turtulla, Thurles, County Tipperary, a townland in Thurles civil parish in North Tipperary

Willsborough

Willsborough is a townland in the Barony of Ormond Lower, North Tipperary, Ireland.


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