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Townland

Derry

Doire

The original Cork report places this Duhallow townland in Banteer electoral division.

Recorded locationDerry52.11061° N · 8.91224° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

doire(oak-)wood, grove, thicket

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.

Recorded forms

  • Doire · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Derry · English · main form

Place & story

The Banteer division return

Derry had eighty-eight inhabitants in 1901, thirty-six male and fifty-two female. Twenty of its twenty-one houses were occupied and one was empty. The population had been 113 in 1881 and ninety-three in 1891, with twenty-four and twenty-one houses respectively. Listed in Clonmeen parish and Duhallow barony, the townland belonged to the Kanturk dispensary district and Poor Law Union. Its recorded area was 776 acres, one rood and six perches. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Cork
Barony
Duhallow
Civil parish
Clonmeen
Within
Banteer
Coordinates
52.11061, -8.91224
Mapped area
2.9 km²
Logainm ID
10443 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Derry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1901: County and City of Cork, Table VII, printed page 78; published 1902 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Cahill and Company, Dublin
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.