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[[Image:Teeshanrd.jpg|thumb|250px|A road-sign in [[County Antrim]], noting that this part of the road lies within Teeshan townland]]
[[File:Townland boundary marker - geograph.org.uk - 108106.jpg|thumb|A (rare) townland boundary marker]]
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==Townlands in Ireland==
===Size===
In Ireland, a townland is the smallest officially-defined geographical division of land, smaller than a [[parish]], [[barony (Ireland)|barony]] and [[county]]. Townlands vary in size from the smallest, of less than an acre (Old Church Yard, parish of Termonmaguirk, [[County Tyrone]]), up to 
{{convert|7,012  |acres|km2}} or 28.3&nbsp;km² (Sheskin, parish of Kilcommon, [[County Mayo]]).<ref name="Connolly2002p577"/> Typically 200 to {{convert|400  |acres|km2}} is a reasonable average.<ref>[http://www.bob-sinton.com/townlands.php List of Ulster townlands, and note on size]</ref>

The reason for this great variation in size is because townlands were based on the fertility of the land; hence an area of very fertile land will have smaller townlands than an area with little fertile land.<ref name="Evans">{{cite book |title=Irish Folk Ways |last=Evans |first=E Estyn |year=2000 |publisher=Courier Dover Publications |pages=28–29 |chapter=Ball(contracted; show full)[[Category:Country subdivisions]]
[[Category:Geography of Scotland]]
[[Category:Townlands of Ireland| ]]
[[Category:Townlands of the Republic of Ireland| ]]
[[Category:Geography of the Isle of Man]]
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