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Definition of Townland
1. land forming a manor [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Townland
Literary usage of Townland
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ireland Under Coercion: The Diary of an American by William Henry Hurlbert (1888)
"The people also, he thinks, spend a great deal on what they regard as luxuries,
1 This "townland" is a curious use of a Saxon term to describe a Celtic fact ..."
2. Ireland Under Coercion: The Diary of an American by William Henry Hurlbert (1888)
"He owns a "townland"1 there, on which he has thirty-five tenants, none of them
on a holding at more than £4 a year. Father M'Fadden of Gweedore, he said, ..."
3. The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland [1807-1868/69] by Great Britain, George Kettilby Rickards (1852)
"... have been missioners may made, containing or including Provision for Payment
of the came Adjust- Annuity charged upon any Electoral Division, townland, ..."
4. Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland by Society of Antiquaries of Scotland (1882)
"... townland of the Vicar ; or Baile Beara = townland of tho Judge. ... for Baile
an A bba = townland or Farm of the Abbot. ..."
5. The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland by Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland (1907)
"ON AN TIEN CEMETERY IN THE townland OF ... "We started by an early train for
Lisburn, and drove some four and a half miles to the townland of ..."
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