• Skip to content
  • Privacy
  • Accessibility
  • Terms of use
  • Contact us
 
  • Log in
Galway County Heritage Office
Awareness, Management, Protection
*galway-heritage-badge-alt
*galway-heritage-badge-alt
  • Home
  • About
  • People
  • Places
  • Topics
  • Films
  • Publications
  • Contribute
  • Group Members
You are here: Home>Places>Clarinbridge Heritage>Places>Townlands of Civil Parish of Stradbally, Co.Galway

Townlands of Civil Parish of Stradbally, Co.Galway

The word townland itself, is derived from the Old English word ‘tun’ meaning enclosure, and is the common term for a variety of small local land units that varied in name throughout the island of Ireland but were most commonly called baile bó or cow lands.

There are approximately 62,000 townlands in Ireland which vary in size greatly with the smallest less than an acre and the largest measuring some 2,830 hectares. These variations are due to the fact that their shapes and sizes are related to the local topography of the area and the practices associated with them.

Although research into townlands could be said to have started thousands of years ago when people first started recounting tales of great heroes carving out valleys and goddesses drowning in rivers which then come to bear their names; it wasn’t until the early 19 th century that any high-quality academic research into placenames commenced. It was then that the British government set up the Ordnance Survey of Ireland.

  • Ballynamanagh East

    Ballynamanagh East

  • Hillpark- known later as Clarinbridge/Clarenbridge.

    Hillpark- known later as Clarinbridge/Clarenbridge.

  • Interactive Townland map

    Interactive Townland map

  • Kilcornan

    Kilcornan

  • Slievaun / Slieveaun

    Slievaun / Slieveaun

  • The Lost village of Gortard

    The Lost village of Gortard

    200 years of decline and reinvention in a south Galway townland
Places
  • Kilcornan Church
  • Killeely Church
  • Púirins and Lachtáins
  • Roevehagh Church
  • Townlands of Civil Parish of Stradbally, Co.Galway
Keywords

These are the most-used keywords on the site.

  • town (1)
  • Aughrim (5)
  • Ahascragh (4)
  • Annaghdown (6)
  • Athenry (37)
  • Abbeyknockmoy (5)
  • Ballinasloe (13)
  • Clontuskert (5)
  • GORT (3)
  • INNISBOFFIN (1)

View all keywords

This website is a member of the Irish Community Archive Network and is a joint initiative of Galway County Council Heritage Office and the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life
Website by CommunitySites
Galway County Council (opens in new window) Irish Community Archive Network (opens in new window) National Museum of Ireland - Country Life (opens in new window) Galway County Heritage Forum (opens in new window) The Heritage Council (opens in new window)
Manage Cookie Consent
We use cookies to optimize our website and our service.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
Preferences
{title} {title} {title}