An example of a modern townland is annexed, which will illustrate these interesting points.
The baile or townland is thus described:-- 'A baile sustains 300 cows, Four full herds therein may roam.
The acreage of each townland is given on the map in English measures.
It may be interesting to add that in 1859 a wooden machine, which evidently comes under the same category as the above, was found in a bog in the townland of Coolnaman, parish of Aghadowey, county Derry, Ireland.
These objects were found in a bog in the townlandof Cromaghs, parish of Armoy, Co.
A find of late Bronze-Age objects discovered in a bog in the townland of Lahardoun, Tulla, Co.
O Death’s old bony finger Will never find us there In the high hollow townland Where love’s to give and to spare; Where boughs have fruit and blossom at all times of the year; Where rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.
All they could say had no effect: he started off for the Townland of Mischance, and in a twelvemonth he was back just as miserable and helpless as his brother.
As Ahadarra lay in the mountain district, it necessarily covered a large space; in fact it constituted a townland in itself.
You remember the seizure you made some time ago in the townland of Ahadarra?
And hae ye said that there's not a sixpence to be had out of the whole townland of Kiltimmon?
But this plan did not win the Irish landowners, and they began a new agitation for townland divisions.
Two gasairs of Oiney Dinchy’s, one of Cormac of the Hill’s ones, seven or more from the townland of Dooran, and more besides.
There are only ten creels of potatoes in ourtownland and these have to be used for seed.
Every sowl in the townland of Ballymackt 'ud; and there's the upshot.
There is a very bitter and knowing family living on the townlandof Beleeven, named M'Loughlin, who contrive to spread dangerous and destructive principles among the tenantry.
When the sun rose on the morning of the morrow Winny of the Cross Roads rose up from where she was sitting beside the body, and began her begging from townland to townland, singing the same song as she walked, ‘I am beautiful, I am beautiful.
Moville, or Movilla, is at present the name of a townland less than a mile to the north-east of Newtownards, at the head of Strangford Lough, in the county Down.
Dubh Cathair, the Black Fort, is in the townland of Killeany, on Aran Mor.
The ruins of his ancient church are yet to be seen in the townland of Knock.
The townland of Cooladrummon is situated on the very crest of the hill, in a line with the nose of Benbulben mountain, about six miles north of Sligo.
It was between Oranmore and Kilcornan, and close to the townlandof Moyvaela.
Thus we have in the single townland of Killeany no less than seven or eight churches and oratories, grouped together around the oratories of St. Enda and of St. Benignus.
A considerable portion of the townland of Kilnamaddo (the wood of the dog) had apparently, in olden times, formed the basin of a sheet of water, and upon one of its shoals some primitive tribe had erected a habitation.
Sketch of Ancient Floor in the townland of Cargaghoge, barony of Farney.
The townland of this name is in the parish of Craigs, barony of Toome lower; it contains within it a low-lying piece of land, the former bed of a lake that was drained towards the close of the last century.
Kinahan, who searched for but could find no trace of this crannog, imagined its site must have been somewhere in the large alluvial flat and bog that extends south of the townland of Crannagh, in the parish of Tynagh, county Galway.
The discoverer states the site of this crannog to be in the county Down; but the only townland in Ireland named Ballywoolen, is set down in the Ordnance Survey as situated in the parish of Dunboe, barony of Coleraine, county Derry.
In Leinster there is a townlandin county Kilkenny called Cronoge.
The townland of Cargin is situated in the parish of Ogulla.
In Ulster there is a townland in county Tyrone called Crannog.
It is a small island in the middle of a marshy basin called Green Lough, in the townland of Inishrush, barony of Loughinsholin, county Derry.
Reeves; the large townland which adjoins it on the west, and of which it appears to have been formerly a sub-denomination, is called Feenagh.
Cranny townlandin this county possibly derives its name from having been the former site of a lake dwelling.
Lochanacrannog is the name of a small townland in the barony of Tireragh, near the residence of Sir Malby Crofton, Bart.
Lough Naneevin is situated in the townland of Gortacarnam, barony of Moycullen.
When the sun rose on the morning of the morrow Winny of the Cross Roads rose up from where she was sitting beside the body, and began her begging from townland to townland, singing the same song as she walked, 'I am beautiful, I am beautiful.
He lived his boyhood in the townlandof Roostoonstown, both in the parish of Tacumshin, Barony of Forth, Province of Leinster in Ireland.
In the townlandof Deer Park, near the town, there is still a colony of pure Huguenot descent.
Leaving the village of Kilbehiny we cross to Skereenarinka, "the height for dancing," and follow a narrow hilly road on the Galtee side which leads to the caves, in the townland of Coolagarranroe.
There's many a strong farmer Whose heart would break in two If he could see the townland That we are riding to; Boughs have their fruit and blossom, At all times of the year, Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.
She cried over him, not believing that he had come safe from the Townland of Mischance.
And what sort of a man is your gossip, the Churl of the Townland of Mischance?
After that the Churl of the Townland of Mischance began to be afraid that Gilly of the Goatskin would be too wise for him, and would get away at the end of the three months with his wages, a guinea, a groat and a tester, in his fist.
Gilly took the money and left the house of the Churl of the Townland of Mischance, and the people and the mummers went to the road with him, and cheered him as he went on his way.
XII What did Gilly of the Goatskin do in the Townland of Mischance?
The Spae-Woman wiped the tears from her face with her apron, gave Gilly a cake with her blessing, and he started off with the Churl for the Townland of Mischance.
Then walk beside my horse and we'll get back to the Townland of Mischance to-night," said the Churl.
The first wet day that came brought the Churl of the Townland of Mischance.
Now I'll tell you what my gossip the Churl of the Townland of Mischance does: he makes a bargain with the youth that goes into his service, telling him he will give him a guinea, a groat and a tester for his three months' service.
Oh, he is an unkind man, my gossip, the Churl of the Townland of Mischance.
The ordinary valuator was to have two copies of the Townland (or 6-inch) Survey.
Short was it for thee to overleap every hedge till thou camest to thetownland in which Berachan was.
I never left thistownland since I was born," said the Buideach, "and I would not like to desert my mother.
The place is four or five miles from the town of Kilkelly, and Tavran or Towrann, where the piper came from, is a townland between Ballaghaderreen and Lough Errit, not very far from Urlaur.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "townland" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
