What is a townland? A guide to the Irish land divisions used in genealogy records

Where were your Irish ancestors from? What county did they live in? What barony? Which civil parish, which Poor Law Union? And, most importantly, what townland? For a small country, we have found a bewildering variety of ways to carve up the land for administrative purposes. Some, like baronies and Poor Law Unions, are obsolete … Read more "What is a townland? A guide to the Irish land divisions…