Definition of "townland" [townland]

• An Irish geographical unit of land, smaller than a parish (noun)

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• "I googled “townlands” and found the following wiki: Townland Wiki and read there that “a townland is the smallest officially-defined geographical unit of land”."
• "The townland is often the key to finding where ancestors lived."
• "[16] This "townland" is a curious use of a Saxon term to describe a Celtic fact."