Map Of Townlands In Donegal

Townlands [keyed to locations on the respective parish maps]; List of towns in the republic of ireland; Lessors in 1609, 1654, 1730, 1834 or in 1857;

As of 13th oct 2014, there are approximately 50,500 townlands remaining to be added to osm. These units were formerly called by a variety of local and regional names, such as balliboes in parts. The official list of townlands contains approximately 2,836 townland names, and these were used as a basis for the 1857 griffith's valuation and the census.

Pages in category townlands of county donegal the following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.

Since at least the medieval period, every county and parish has been divided into small land units known generally as townlands. However, in old church records, letters and on maps compiled by the ordnance survey office in the 1830s, there are at least another 1,500 placenames or 'unofficial. Each of the civil parishes of donegal has a page here which can be accessed via any of the clickable maps, or by the list of parishes here. It dates from 1609 and may be by john norden, though likely to be based on the barony maps of josias bodley and william parsons.