Townland (fermland)

The townland or fermland is a subdivision of the parish in Scotland. Boundaries were mostly disregarded and lost during 19th century agricultural improvements but many townland names remain identifiable in farmstead names ending with Mains. A similar system of land division is more intact in Ireland. Please see Townland.

Townland may be read as meaning tongue of land, with tongue (tun/ton/town) meaning an old Anglo-Saxon measure of land.