Information about Back

Back, which appears in a few names, often represents the Irish Bate [back], a bend or crook. There is a townland called Back in Galway, another in Derry, and a double townland same name in Tyrone. Backaderry, near Drumgooland in Down, the bend of the derry or oakwood. There was an ancient territory in Tirawley in Mayo called An-da-Bac, "The Two Bacs," which anglicised name is now applied to a district between the river Moy and Lough Conn. But observe that in many or most cases " Back," when it occurs in local names is merely the English word "back," as in "Back of the hill," near Ardagh in Longford.

Ireland was first mapped in the 1840s. These original maps are available online.
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Back

This link is not a link to the townland that you are currently researching; however, if you follow this link, you will see a search box near the top of the page which you can use to search for your townland.

Having followed this link, you will see several expandable links - each link has a plus sign on its left - on the top left of the page. Expand 'Base Information and Mapping'. Now it is possible to select the maps that you wish to view by clicking on the checkbox that is on the left of each map; this list includes the original Ordnance Survey maps.

You can select more than one map and you can use a slider to make one map more transparent than another. This allows you to view what features were present or absent at different points in time.
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Back

The Down Survey website will tell you who owned this townland in 1641 (pre Cromwell) and in 1671 (post Cromwell).

Down Survey Website
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You can use this link to find this townland on Google Maps.

Google Maps
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You can use this link to view a map of archaelogical features.
This link brings you to a website wherein you will have to search for your townland.

Archaeological map from the National Monuments Service

You can retrieve a list of people who lived in this townland from 1827 to 1911. This list is compiled from the following resources.

• The Tithe Applotment Books
• Griffith's Valuation
• 1901 Census
• 1911 Census

List of nineteenth century and early twentieth century inhabitants of this townland.

Church records of births, deaths and marriages are available online at http://www.rootsireland.ie. To search these records you will need to know the 'church parish' rather than the 'civil parish'. (The civil parish is the pre-reformation parish and was frequently used as a unit of administration in the past.)

Back is in the civil parish of Kilcloony.

This civil parish corresponds with the following Roman Catholic parish or parishes.

• Ballinasloe (Creagh & Kilclooney)

This civil parish corresponds with the following Church of Ireland parish.

• Kilcloony

In general, the civil parish and the Church of Ireland parish are the same, but, this is not always the case.