Townland

Small land division in Ireland and Outer Hebrides

Map of Rathlin Island with townlands

A townland (Irish: baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: toonlann[1]) is a traditional small land division used in Ireland and in the Western Isles of Scotland, typically covering 100–500 acres (40–202 ha).[2] The townland system is of medieval Gaelic origin, predating the Norman invasion,[3][4][5][6] and most have Irish-derived names.[4] However, some townland names and boundaries come from Norman manors, plantation divisions, or later creations of the Ordnance Survey.[7][8] Townlands cover the whole island of Ireland, and the total number of inhabited townlands in Ireland was 60,679 in 1911.[9] The total number recognised by the Placenames Database of Ireland as of 2014 was 61,098, including uninhabited townlands.[10]

## Etymology

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The term "townland" in English is derived from the Old English word tūn, denoting an enclosure.[11] The term describes the smallest unit of land division in Ireland, based on various forms of Gaelic land division, many of which had their own names.

The term baile, anglicised as "bally", is the most dominant element used in Irish townland names.[12] Today, the term "bally" denotes an urban settlement, but its precise meaning in ancient Ireland is unclear, as towns had no place in Gaelic social organisation.[12] The modern Irish term for a townland is baile fearainn (plural: bailte fearainn). The term fearann means "land, territory, quarter".

The Normans left no major traces in townland names, but they adapted some of them for their own use, possibly seeing a similarity between the Gaelic baile and the Norman bailey, both of which meant a settlement.[13]

## Regional variation

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Map showing the townlands of the Thurles civil parish, Barony of Eliogarty, County Tipperary: The townlands of Thurles are typical, being of widely varying shapes and sizes with irregular borders, and forming a patchwork over the countryside. The townlands have a mean area of 64 hectares (160 acres).

Throughout most of Ulster, townlands were known as "ballyboes" (Irish: baile bó, meaning "cow land"),[14][15] and represented an area of pastoral economic value.[14] In County Cavan similar units were called "polls", and in Counties Fermanagh and Monaghan, they were known as tates or taths.[12][14][15] These names appear to be of English origin, but had become naturalised long before 1600.[14] Modern townlands with the prefix tat- are confined almost exclusively to the diocese of Clogher, which covers Counties Fermanagh and Monaghan, and the barony of Clogher in County Tyrone),[14] and cannot be confused with any other Irish word.[14] The use of the term can also be seen in the diocese of Clogher parish of Inniskeen area within Louth where the townlands of Edenagrena, Drumsinnot, Killaconner and Torpass were referred to collectively as "the four tates of Ballyfoylan."[citation needed] In modern townland names the prefix pol- is widely found throughout western Ireland, its accepted meaning being "hole" or "hollow".[14] In County Cavan, which contains over half of all townlands in Ulster with the prefix pol-, some should probably be better translated as "the poll of ...".[14]

In County Tyrone, the following hierarchy of land divisions was used: "ballybetagh" (Irish: baile beithigh, meaning "cattle place"), "ballyboe", "sessiagh" (Irish: séú cuid, meaning sixth part of a quarter), "gort" and "quarter" (Irish: ceathrú).[12] In County Fermanagh the divisions were "ballybetagh", "quarter" and "tate".[12] Further subdivisions in Fermanagh appear to be related to liquid or grain measures such as "gallons", "pottles" and "pints".[16]

In Ulster, the ballybetagh was the territorial unit controlled by an Irish sept, typically containing around 16 townlands. Fragmentation of ballybetaghs resulted in units consisting of four, eight, and twelve townlands. One of these fragmented units, the "quarter", representing a quarter of a ballybetagh, was the universal land denomination recorded in the survey of County Donegal conducted in 1608.[17] In the early 17th century 20 per cent of the total area of western Ulster was under the control of the church. These "termonn" lands consisted likewise of ballybetaghs and ballyboes, but were held by erenaghs instead of sept leaders.[17]

Other units of land division used throughout Ireland include:

* In County Tipperary, "capell lands" and "quatermeers". A "capell land" consisted of around 20 great acres (one great acre equalled 20 English acres).[12]
* In the province of Connacht, "quarters" and "cartrons" (Irish: ceathrú mír, also anglicised as "carrowmeer"), a quarter being reckoned as four cartrons, and each cartron being 30 acres.[12] The quarter has also been anglicised as "carrow", "carhoo" or "caracute" (Irish: ceathrú cuid).[12]
* In County Clare, as in Connacht, "quarters", "half-quarters" (Irish: leath-ceathrú), "cartrons" and "sessiagh". Here a "half-quarter" equated to around 60 acres, a "cartron" equated to around 30 acres and a "sessiagh" was around 20 acres.[12]

"Cartrons" were also sometimes called "ploughlands" or "seisreagh" (Irish: seisreach, meaning a team of horses yoked to a plough).[12]

Thomas Larcom, the first Director of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland, made a study of the ancient land divisions of Ireland and summarised the traditional hierarchy of land divisions thus:[18][12]

> 10 acres – 1 Gneeve; 2 Gneeves – 1 Sessiagh; 3 Sessiaghs – 1 Tate or Ballyboe; 2 Ballyboes – 1 Ploughland, Seisreagh or Carrow; 4 Ploughlands – 1 Ballybetagh, or Townland; 30 Ballybetaghs – Triocha Céad or Barony.

This hierarchy was not applied uniformly across Ireland. For example, a ballybetagh or townland could contain more or less than four ploughlands.[18] Further confusion arises when it is taken into account that, while Larcom used the general term "acres" in his summary, terms such as "great acres", "large acres" and "small acres" were also used in records.[18] Writing in 1846, Larcom remarked that the "large" and "small" acres had no fixed ratio between them, and that there were various other kinds of acre in use in Ireland, including the Irish acre, the English acre, the Cunningham acre, the plantation acre and the statute acre.[18][12] The Ordnance Survey maps used the statute acre measurement.[18] The quality and situation of the land affected the size of these acres.[12] The Cunningham acre is given as intermediate between the Irish and English acres.[12]

Many of these land division terms have been preserved in the names of modern townlands. For example, the term "cartron" in both its English and Irish forms has been preserved in the townland names of Carrowmeer, Cartron and Carrowvere, while the term "sessiagh" survives in the names Shesia, Sheshodonell, Sheshymore and Shessiv.[12] The terms "ballyboe" and "ballybetagh" tend to be preserved in the truncated form of "bally" as a prefix for some townland names, such as Ballymacarattybeg near Poyntzpass, County Down. Less well-known land division terms may be found in other townland names such as Coogulla (Irish: Cuige Uladh, "the Ulster fifth"), Treanmanagh (Irish: an train meánach, "the third middle") and Dehomade (Irish: an deichiú méid, "the tenth part").[12]

A problem with the term "bally" in some townland names is that it can be difficult to distinguish between the Irish terms baile meaning "townland" and béal átha meaning "approach to a ford". An example of the latter is Ballyshannon, County Donegal, which is derived from Béal Átha Seanaidh.[19]

"Sub-townlands" (Irish: fo-bhaile) are also recorded in some areas, smaller divisions of a townland with their own traditional names.[20][21][22]

## Size and value

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In Ireland, a townland is generally the smallest or lowest-level unit of land, though a few large townlands are further divided into hundreds.[18] The average area of a townland is about 325 acres (1.32 km2; 132 ha),[23] but they vary widely in size. William Reeves's 1861 survey states that the smallest was Old Church Yard, near Carrickmore, in the parish of Termonmagurk, County Tyrone, at 0.625 acres (0.253 ha)[nb 1][24] and the largest, at 7,555 acres (30.57 km2; 11.805 sq mi), was and is Fionnán (also called Finnaun) in the parish of Killanin, County Galway.[25][26][27] In fact, the townland of Clonskeagh in the barony of Uppercross (abutting the main Clonskeagh townland in the barony of Dublin) was only 0.3 acres (1,200 m2)[nb 2][28] although the area is now urbanised, so that the townlands are unused and their boundaries are uncertain.[29]

The ballyboe, a townland unit used in Ulster, was described in 1608 as containing 60 acres of arable land, meadow, and pasture. However, this was misleading, as the size of townlands under the Gaelic system varied depending upon their quality, situation and economic potential.[12][15] This economic potential varied from the extent of land required to graze cattle to the land required to support several families.[15] The highest density of townland units recorded in Ulster in 1609 corresponds to the areas with the highest land valuations in the 1860s.[15]

It seems that many moorland areas were not divided into townlands until fairly recently. These areas were "formerly shared as a common summer pasturage by the people of a whole parish or barony".[30]

## Historical use

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Until the 19th century most townlands were owned by single landlords and occupied by multiple tenants. The cess, used to fund roadworks and other local expenses, was charged at the same rate on each townland in a barony, regardless of its size and productive capacity. Thus, occupiers in a small or poor townland suffered in comparison to those of larger or more fertile townlands. This was reformed by Griffith's Valuation.[31]

It was in the 1800s that they were mapped and defined by the English administration for the purpose of confiscating land and apportioning it to investors or planters from Britain.[32][18]

## Irish Ordnance Survey and standardisation

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During the 19th century an extensive series of maps of Ireland was created by the Irish division of the Ordnance Survey for taxation purposes. These maps both documented and standardised the boundaries of the more than 60,000 townlands in Ireland. The process often involved dividing or amalgamating existing townlands, and defining townland boundaries in areas such as mountain or bog that had previously been outside the townland system.[33] Slight adjustments are still made. There were 60,679 in 1911, compared to 60,462 townlands in 1901.[9]

## Current use

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A road sign in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, notes that this part of the road lies within Teeshan townland. A (rare) townland boundary marker in Inishowen, County Donegal

Townlands form the building blocks for higher-level administrative units such as parishes and district electoral divisions (in the Republic of Ireland) or wards (in Northern Ireland).[citation needed]

Before 1972 townlands were included on all rural postal addresses throughout the island, but in that year the Royal Mail decided that the townland element of the address was obsolete in Northern Ireland.[33] Townland names were not banned, but they were deemed "superfluous information" and people were asked not to include them on addresses.[33] They were to be replaced by house numbers, road names and postcodes.[33] In response the Townlands Campaign emerged to protest against the changes. It was described as a "ground-level community effort". Taking place in the midst of The Troubles, the campaign was a rare example of unity between Catholics and Protestants, nationalists and unionists.[33] Townlands and their names "seem to have been considered as a shared resource and heritage".[33] Those involved in the campaign argued that, in many areas, people still strongly identified with their townlands and that this gave them a sense of belonging. The Royal Mail's changes were seen as a severing of this link.[33]

At the time the county councils were the government bodies responsible for validating the change. However, as local government itself was undergoing changes, the Royal Mail's decision was "allowed ... to become law almost by default".[33] County Fermanagh is the only county in Northern Ireland that managed to resist the change completely.[33] Nevertheless, many newer road signs in parts of Northern Ireland now show townland names (see picture). In 2001 the Northern Ireland Assembly passed a motion requesting government departments to make use of townland addresses in correspondence and publications.

In the Republic of Ireland townlands continue to be used on addresses. In 2005 the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources announced that a postcode system was to be introduced (see Republic of Ireland postal addresses). The system, known as Eircode, was introduced in 2014, but although more widely used by 2021, townlands remain predominant address identifiers in rural areas.[citation needed]

## See also

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* Lists of townlands in Ireland by county

## Explanatory footnotes

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1. ^ 2 roods, 10 perches
2. ^ 1 rood, 8 perches

## References

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### General and cited references

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* Barry, Terry, ed. (12 November 2012). A History of Settlement in Ireland. Routledge. ISBN 9781134674633.
* Muhr, Kay (1999–2001). "Celebrating Ulster's Townlands". Ulster Placename Society. Archived from the original on 19 October 2006.
* Reeves, W. (22 April 1861). "On the Townland Distribution of Ireland". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 7: 473–490\. JSTOR 20489906.
* Robinson, Philip (2000). The Plantation of Ulster. Ulster Historical Foundation. ISBN 978-1-903688-00-7.
* "General alphabetical index to the townlands and towns, parishes and baronies of Ireland, 1861". Census > 1861 > Ireland. HISTPOP.ORG. p. 258. Retrieved 20 May 2014.

### Citations

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1. ^ "Rules o Richt Hannlin fur Uisin Ulstèr-Scotch as Pairt o Wark" (PDF). Norlin Airlann Coort Sarvice. Retrieved 4 May 2017.[permanent dead link]
2. ^ Carmichael, Alexander (1884). Grazing and agrestic customs of the Outer Hebrides. Edinburgh: Neill and Company. OL 22881363M. Retrieved 23 July 2019. Reprinted from the Report of the Crofter Royal Commission.

Further reprinted in Carmicheal, Alexander (December 1914). "Grazing and Agrestic Customs of the Outer Hebrides". The Celtic Review. 10 (37): 40–54\. doi:10.2307/30070316. JSTOR 30070316.
3. ^ Barry, Terry (2000). "Rural Settlement in Medieval Ireland". A History of Settlement in Ireland. Routledge. p. 114\. "She argued that Ireland's townland system, which pre-dated the Anglo-Norman conquest, worked against the creation of sizeable nucleated settlements."
4. ^ a b Colfer, Billy (2004). "Prehistoric and Early Christian Landscapes". The Hook Peninsula. Cork University Press. p. 29\. "The townland network provides the most pervasive landscape survival from the Gaelic era. Most townlands, many retaining their Gaelic names, are believed to pre-date the arrival of the Anglo-Normans."
5. ^ Graham, Brian (2003). "Ireland: Economy and Society". A companion to Britain in the later Middle Ages. Wiley-Blackwell. p. 149\. "The manor was the basic unit of settlement throughout the Anglo-Norman colony. Anngret Simms and others have argued that the constraint of the pre-existing Gaelic-Irish network of townlands (the basic subdivision of land in Ireland, a townland was originally the holding of an extended family) pre-empted the formation of large villages on the Anglo-Norman manors of Ireland."
6. ^ Clarke, Howard; Prunty, Jacinta; Hennessy, Mark (2004). Surveying Ireland's Past. Geography Publications. p. 113\. "It is clear that the Gaelic townland system of territorial organisation exerted a powerful centripetal force on the evolving settlement pattern."
7. ^ Connolly, S. J., The Oxford Companion to Irish History, page 577. Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-19-923483-7
8. ^ Maxwell, Ian, How to Trace Your Irish Ancestors, page 16. howtobooks, 2009. ISBN 978-1-84528-375-9
9. ^ a b "Digitization of Irish 1901 and 1911 Census Records". Census of Ireland 1901/1911 and Census Fragments and Substitutes, 1821-51. National Archives of Ireland. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
10. ^ "Logainm.ie The Irish Placenames Database". The Irish Placenames Committee/Fiontar. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
11. ^ Ballymun, A History: Volumes 1 & 2, c. 1600–1997 Archived 19 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine by Dr. Robert Somerville-Woodward, BRL 2002.
12. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Mac Mahon, Michael. "Townlands". Old Territorial Divisions and Land Measures. Clare County Library.
13. ^ Canavan, Tony (1991). Every Stoney Acre Has a Name: A Celebration of the Townland in Ulster. Federation for Ulster Local Studies. ISBN 9780951827901.
14. ^ a b c d e f g h Robinson 2000, p.25
15. ^ a b c d e Robinson 2000, pp. 13–14
16. ^ Robinson 2000, p.26
17. ^ a b Robinson 2000, pp.22-23
18. ^ a b c d e f g Fossa Historical Society. "Chapter 23 – Of Gneeves" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
19. ^ Toner, Gregory: Place-Names of Northern Ireland, page 120. Queen's University of Belfast, 1996, ISBN 0-85389-613-5
20. ^ "Irish Place names". johngrenham.com.
21. ^ "Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla (Ó Dónaill): sub-townland". teanglann.ie.
22. ^ "Townlands and Sub-Townlands". dúchas.ie.
23. ^ Adams, G. Brendan (1978). "Prolegomena to the Study of Irish Place-Names". Nomina. 2: 49–50.; cited in Dolan, Terence Patrick (2006). "townland". A Dictionary of Hiberno-English: The Irish Use of English (2nd ed.). Dublin: Gill & Macmillan.
24. ^ Reeves 1861, p.476
25. ^ "Fionnán Townland, Co. Galway". townlands.ie.
26. ^ 1861 townland index, p.462
27. ^ "Galway" (XLS). Categories of Disadvantaged Areas. Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
28. ^ 1861 townland index, p.258
29. ^ "Written Answers, Q.424: County Dublin Townland Populations". Dáil Éireann debates. Oireachtas. 20 February 1980. pp. Vol. 318 No.1 p.41. Retrieved 21 May 2014.
30. ^ Evans, E Estyn (2000). "Bally and Booley". Irish Folk Ways. Courier Dover Publications. pp. 28–29\. "Their size varies considerably, since they were based on the fertility of the land rather than its acreage, and it seems that many moorland tracts were not divided until fairly recent times, for they were formerly shared as a common summer pasturage by the people of a whole parish or barony."
31. ^ Meghen, P. J. (Autumn 1958). "The Administrative Work of the Grand Jury" (PDF). Institute of Public Administration (FTP).[dead ftp link] (To view documents see Help:FTP)
32. ^ Brainstorming (21 March 2025). "The story of the first all-Ireland mapping survey 200 years ago". RTE.
33. ^ a b c d e f g h i Reid, Bryonie (2005). "Identity, Locality and the Townland in Northern Ireland". Senses of Place: Senses of Time. Ashgate Publishing. pp. 47–60\. "The first official evidence of their existence occurs in church records from before the twelfth century."

## Further reading

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* Crawford, W. H.; Foy, R. H. (1 January 1998). Townlands in Ulster: Local History Studies. Ulster Historical Foundation. ISBN 9780901905840.
* McErlean, Tom (October 1983). "The Irish townland system of landscape organisation". In Reeves-Smyth, Terence; Hamond, Fred (eds.). Landscape Archaeology in Ireland. British Archaeological Reports British Series. Vol. 116\. pp. 315–39\. doi:10.30861/9780860542162. ISBN 0860542165.

## External links

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Look up townland in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

All island

* GeoHive Mapviewer Archived 6 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine: select Data Catalogue>Base Information and Mapping>Historic Map [25 inch (1888–1913) / 6 inch (1837–1842)] for old Ordnance Survey of Ireland maps
* Logainm.ie (Placenames Database of Ireland) search/browse by parish/barony/county, English and Irish names
* Goblet, Yann M., ed. (1932). Topographical index of the parishes and townlands of Ireland in Sir William Petty's MSS barony maps (c. 1655-9) and Hiberniae Delineatio (c. 1672). Irish Manuscripts Commission. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
* IreAtlas townland database (John Broderick) searchable database derived from the Index to the 1851 Census
* Townland indexes to pre-1921 censuses, digitised from command papers: 1861 index (to 1841/1851 censuses); 1871 index, 1881 supplement, 1891 supplement 1901 index, 1911 supplement
* 1911 Census details (National Archives of Ireland) Arranged by County>DED>Townland>Household
* Townland data from OpenStreetMap Townlands, Baronies and Civil Parishes are being added to OpenStreetMap, making them available as a modern geo format. This is a list of the townlands mapped in OpenStreetMap

Republic

* GeoHive Mapviewer Archived 6 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine: select Data Catalogue>Population and Economy>Townlands
* Categories of Disadvantaged Areas Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Excel spreadsheet (per county) giving area in hectares, electoral division, and agricultural category of each townland

Northern Ireland

* Northern Ireland Place-Name Project Searchable using both maps and lists, with information about placename origins
* Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland:
* Mapviewer (includes layers with current and historical townland borders and names)
* Townland indexes to censuses: 1926 index; 1937 supplement

By county

* Parishes of County Mayo (Mayo County Library) list of townlands by parish, with maps and other data
* Index of Townlands of County Kildare (Kildare Council Library's local studies department) IreAtlas data updated to 1911

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* Kilbrittain
* Kilmichael
* Kilnamartyra
* Killumney
* Kilworth
* Kiskeam
* Knockavilla
* Knocknagree
* Knockraha
* Ladysbridge
* Leap
* Liscarroll
* Lisgoold
* Lismire
* Lombardstown
* Lyre
* Mayfield
* Meelin
* Milford
* Minane Bridge
* Mitchelstown
* Monard
* Monkstown
* Montenotte
* Mourneabbey
* Nad
* Newcestown
* Newmarket
* Newtwopothouse
* Nohoval
* Ovens
* Rathbarry
* Rathcormac
* Riverstick
* Roberts Cove
* Rockchapel
* Rosscarbery
* Rylane
* Sallybrook
* Schull
* Shanagarry
* Shanbally
* Shanballymore
* Timoleague
* Togher
* Tower
* Union Hall
* Upton
* Waterfall
* Watergrasshill
* Whitegate

Landforms|

| Mountains|

* Ballyhoura Mountains
* Boggeragh Mountains
* Caha Mountains
* Derrynasaggart Mountains
* Galtee Mountains
* Mullaghareirk Mountains
* Shehy Mountains
* Slieve Miskish Mountains

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Rivers|

* River Bandon
* River Blackwater
* River Lee

Heads|

* Brow Head
* Mizen Head
* Sheep's Head

Islands|

* Ballycotton Island
* Bere Island
* Cape Clear Island
* Capel Island
* Carbery's Hundred Isles
* Fastnet Rock
* Dursey Island
* Garinish
* Great Island
* Heir Island
* Haulbowline Island
* Inishfarnard
* Long Island
* Sherkin Island
* Spike Island
* Whiddy Island

* Lists of townlands of County Cork
* Mountains and hills of County Cork
* Rivers of County Cork
* Geography of County Cork

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