Ulster townlands in the seventeenth-century sources, with Andrew Kane

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What is a townland? What was their purpose? Why do theymatter? Find out as our Research Officer, Dr James Frazer, talks to Andrew Kane. A research consultant for the Ulster Historical Foundation, Andrew is an expert on Ulster’s townlands, having mapped all 16,000 in his book, ‘Thetownland atlas of Ulster’.

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