townlandn.

OE Bounds (Sawyer 786) in D. Hooke Worcs. Anglo-Saxon Charter-bounds (1990) 182 Ðis sindon þa londgemæra þæra tunlonda þe into Perscoran belimpað.

a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 125 (MED) A Candrede is as myche to Say as an hundrid tounlonde.

1658 Petty in Cal. State Papers Ireland (Advent.) 362 The survey of every particular townland.

1662 Irish Act 14 & 15 Chas. II c. 2 (iii). §3 The..number of acres..in each town-land, village, balybo or quarter of land.

1714 F. Nevill in Philos. Trans. 1713 (Royal Soc.) 28 254 Near to the same Town..in a Town-land called Killimeille..there are on the top of the Hill two Circles of dry Stone.

1752 R. Gibson Treat. Pract. Surv. iii. 143 In a Survey of a Town-Land, or Estate, it is sufficient to mention only the circumjacent Town-Lands, without the Occupiers Names.

1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire I. i. iii. 379 Townlands are sometimes attached to one parish for the assessment of the county taxes, while, with respect to tithes and other ecclesiastical contributions, they are considered as forming part of another.

1892 E. Lawless Grania iv. i. 166 Inishmaan possesses but two townlands, containing six quarters each, with sixteen croggeries to every quarter, and sixteen acres to every croggery.

1903 Times 17 Jan. 8/1 Ballycotsey is a townland in the county Tipperary.

1964 F. O'Connor in E. Cross Tailor & Ansty Introd. 7 The Tailor and Ansty lived in a mountain townland where people still believed in the fairies.

2005 J. Martyn Ringfort to Runway ii. iii. 119 Matt Scully from Clougher, an isolated townland on the side of Slieve Garbh, made his own of an end corner in Hogan's bar.

1509 in J. S. Clouston Rec. Earldom of Orkney (1914) 84 At the decerning and devyding of inskyftis, touneland, and owtchistis pertening to the fyff d. land.

1606 in C. S. Romanes Sel. Rec. Regality of Melrose (1914) I. 7 The lands of Newsteid..conteinand sax acres toun land and sax acres of coit yard land.

1685 in J. G. Dunlop Dunlop Papers (1953) III. 11 Everie toun lot hath a ga[rden] adjasent to it and two ackers of toun land lying near the toun.

1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VI. xxxi. 268 Oats succeed the bear, upon a third division of the in-field or winter town land.

1801 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 420 The infield, or town-land..looked to be good.

1822 J. Galt Provost iv. 24 The Dean of Guild..had the upper hand in the setting and granting of tacks of the town lands.

1965 T. E. Niven East Kilbride xxv. 220 Carrying the clash of a' the countraside from tounland to cot.

2010 R. A. Dodgshon in E. Foyster & C. A. Whatley Hist. Everyday Life Scotl., 1600–1800 i. 42 Distinctions like infield, outfield, common pasture and shielings were widespread across the mainland. Only in the Hebrides and northern isles was it simplified into townland arable, common pasture and shieling.

1582 in M. B. Johnston & C. M. Armet Minute Bks. Burgh Kirkcudbright (1939) I. 165 The skair pertening to Symone McClellane and his complices on the eist the tonland and Mers of the vattersyde on the vest partis..the saids lands..ar haldin of the prowest and balȝeis of the said burgh as superiors.

1611 in J. D. Marwick Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scotl. (1870) II. 313 Ilk burgh sall be frie and queyte ane with ane other, fra payment of..pittie customs..of thair..wearis at the tounland portis.

1668 in J. S. Dobie Munim. Irvine (1891) II. 228 Ane list of the toune landis as the samen wes given out to the inhabitants be lott..ther being tuentie sex lotts in all.

1689 Cramond Kirk Session III. 8 Sept. in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue (2001) at Tounland The minister proposed that..two toun lands, or one town land (where there are moe tennents or inhabitants) should meet..in a house most convenient to that quarter of the parische where they dwell.

1696 in J. D. Marwick Rec. Convent. Royal Burghs Scotl. (1880) IV. 215 The..magistrats and councill..doe ordain..the said toun land in use to be lotted to be given..to the persons..above named.