placenames1901 census
16People recorded
4Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Emery 6
- Knox 4
- Davies 2
- Mc Sorley 2
- Johnson 1
Lack
An Leac
The original returns distinguish the built-up settlement from its surrounding townland before combining their figures in 1851.
Recorded locationLack54.54900° N · 7.57903° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
The name
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
- An Leac · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Lack · English · main form
Place & story
Two entries for 1841
The 1851 census volume gives retrospective figures for two parts of Lack in 1841. The rural townland had forty-one people in six houses. A separate entry for Lack town records ninety-nine people and twenty-four houses, including four uninhabited. Comparing only the rural entry with a later combined total exaggerates the apparent growth. [2]
Why the town entry disappears
A footnote explains that by 1851 Lack town contained fewer than twenty houses and its population was included in the townland return. The resulting entry records 153 people and twenty-eight houses, of which twenty-five were inhabited. The change is partly one of census presentation: it cannot demonstrate that the village grew from six houses to twenty-eight. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Fermanagh
- Barony
- Lurg
- Civil parish
- Magheraculmoney
- Coordinates
- 54.54900, -7.57903
- Mapped area
- 0.91 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1166292 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
14People recorded
4Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Emery 5
- McMulkin 4
- Beacom 3
- Anderson 1
- Hunter 1
1926 census
This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Lack. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1851, County Fermanagh, printed pages 208–209, published 1852 · Census Commissioners; Her Majesty’s Stationery Office, 1852
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Main Street in Lack, County Fermanagh, as photographed in September 2007 illustration: based on a Main Street, Lack, Co. Fermanagh by Jonathan Billinger. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.