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Castletown

Baile an tSeanchaisleáin

The 1901 census places this Imokilly townland in Dangan electoral division.

Recorded locationCastletown51.96982° N · 8.02872° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

bailetownland, town, homesteadseanold

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

  • Baile an tSeanchaisleáin · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Castletown · English · main form

Place & story

Thirty-four inhabitants

Castletown’s 1901 census entry records thirty-four residents, nineteen male and fifteen female, in seven inhabited houses. The townland had contained fifty-one people in 1881 and thirty-seven in 1891, when ten and eight houses were recorded respectively. The table places Castletown within Mogeely parish and Dangan electoral division, in Midleton Union. Its recorded area was 394 acres and nine perches. These figures describe the townland, separately from the nearby town of Castlemartyr. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Cork
Barony
Imokilly
Civil parish
Mogeely
Within
Dangan
Coordinates
51.96982, -8.02872
Mapped area
1.59 km²
Logainm ID
12321 ↗

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 — Castletown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland1901: County and City of Cork, printed p125 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Cahill & Company
  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.