Irukan, Santa Teresita, Batangas: Historical Data

Full transcription of the so-called “Historical Data” for the barrio of Irukan in the Municipality of Santa Teresita, Batangas, the original scanned documents at the National Library of the Philippines Digital Collections not having OCR or optical character recognition properties. This transcription has been edited for grammar, spelling and punctuation where possible. The original pagination is provided for citation purposes.

[Note to the reader.]

At the time when this document was created, the barrio of Irukan was still a part of Taal rather than Santa Teresita. The barrio would become part of the latter municipality in 1961, after the passage of Executive Order No. 454.

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HISTORY OF THE BARRIO OF IRUKAN

Formerly, long before the Spanish occupation of the Philippines, Irukan and Kalayaan were together as one barrio named Irukan. But later on, Kalayaan formed its own barrio separately from Irukan. This barrio, Irukan, got its name from its abundant product of iruk palms. Majority of the people of this place support themselves from these palms. Venigan, brooms, and iruk sweets come from this product.

The succeeding barrio lieutenants in Irukan were:

The succeeding barrio lieutenants for Kalayaan were:

Transcribed from “History of the Barrio of Irukan,” 1953, online at the National Library of the Philippines Digital Collections.