placenamesMilltown
Baile an Mhuilinn
The 1901 census distinguishes a rural district from the much smaller town of Money, then called Milltown.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Baile an Mhuilinn · Irish · main form
- Milltown · English · main form
Place & story
A declining rural population
Milltown district electoral division had 949 inhabitants in 1881, 859 in 1891 and 783 in 1901. Over the same period its total number of houses fell from 211 to 183. In 1901, 171 houses were inhabited and twelve stood empty. These figures describe the surrounding electoral district, rather than the village alone. [2]
Money or Milltown town
The census separately identified the town as Money, now called Milltown, extending across the townlands of Milltown and Money. It estimated the town’s area at twenty-five acres. Its population fell from ninety-four in 1891 to seventy-seven in 1901, when seventeen of its twenty-one houses were occupied. The district’s agricultural setting appears in the separate total of 800 outbuildings and farm structures recorded in 1901. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Milltown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1901, County Cavan, area houses and population table, Milltown DED · Census Commissioners for Ireland; original report hosted by Central Statistics Office
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2017-12-01. How this page was prepared.