Information about Kade

Kead or Ked; a measure of land; literally a "Hundred " (cead). See Tricha-ced, vol. i. p. 241 [reproduced below].

Subdivisions and measures of land. Among a people who followed the double occupation of tillage and pasturage, according as the country became populated, it would be divided and subdivided, and parcelled out among the people; boundaries would be determined, and standards of measurement adopted. The following was the old partition of the country, according to Irish authorities: - There were five provinces: Leinster, Ulster, Connaught, Munster, and Meath, each of which was divided into trich-céds (thirty hundreds or trichas, Meath conaining 18, Connaught 30, Ulster 36, Leinster 31, and Munster 70; each tricha contained 30 Baile-bia-tach, 12 seisreachs. The division into provinces is still retained with some modification, but the rest of the old distibution is obsolete. The present subdivision is into provinces, counties, baronies, parishes, and townlands; in all Ireland there are 325 baronies, 2,447 parishes, and about 64,000 townlands. Various minor subdivisions and standards of measurement were adopted in different parts of the country; and so far as these are represented in our present nomenclature, I will notice them here.

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

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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Kade

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

This is a list of townlands that share a border with this townland.

• Ballinfull
• Ballyedmond
• Cloonagh
• Cloonkeeneighter
• Fort Brown
• Laughil

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.)

Kade is in the civil parish of Clonbern.

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

• Clonbern & Kilkerrin

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

• Clonbern

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