Figure 2: The c.60,000 townlands of Ireland visualised in number by map sheet. This process was not without its challenges, local populations playing havoc with the boundary markers, as is ...

Why are townlands important in Ireland? For anyone doing family research ... "Ballywilly was called Ballywooley on old maps - from the Irish Baile an Mhullaigh - townland of the summit," she ...

Townlands are small areas based on old Irish land divisions ... English language in Ireland. The My Townland and Me project has seen young people create podcasts and maps about their local ...

The Iron Age sculpture is one of only a dozen of its kind found in Ireland to date ... 1,600-year-old wooden sculpture from a bog in the Irish townland of Gortnacrannagh. As Pat Flynn reports ...

A 300-year-old map detailing the gradual transfer of landownership from Catholics to Protestants went online today. The Down Survey of Ireland ... The details mark townland boundaries, churches ...

A stunning 15-foot map ... the townland of the Cavan carver Adrian Smith’s Grandfather, every county carries its own story. “Monaghan is made out of a flagstone from the floor of an old ...

Nearly 40 years after townlands were phased out in favour of postcodes, the traditional names are making a comeback in some parts of Northern Ireland. Derry City Council is to erect 900 new road signs ...

Balruddery Woods in Balrothery comes from an old version of the townland, spelt Balruddery which is the way Balrothery is still pronounced by natives to the area. Bohemians president Matt Devaney ...

Historian Eamon Phoenix says the townland system is unique to Ireland but its fame has spread ... Shankill means ‘old church’ and Falls is ‘hedges’, as in the region of the hedges on ...

"Ballywilly was called Ballywooley on old maps - from the Irish Baile ... which is "a great way to preserve them". "Townlands are unique to Ireland so it's nice for us to celebrate them." ...