placenames1901 census
265People recorded
71Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
Explore the 1901 records ↗Garristown
Baile Gháire
The Dublin townland’s 1911 return records a larger area within the parish of the same name.
Recorded locationGarristown53.56390° N · 6.37703° 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
- Baile Gháire · Irish · main form · validated name
- Garristown · English · main form
Place & story
The townland’s census return
Garristown had 245 inhabitants in 1911, 132 male and 113 female. Its seventy-five houses comprised sixty-five occupied and ten empty buildings. The population had been 294 in 1891 and 264 in 1901, with seventy-five houses at both earlier censuses. The recorded area was 1,268 acres, two roods and nineteen perches. [2]
Parish and district
The table places Garristown in its namesake parish and electoral division, Balrothery West barony and Kilsallaghan dispensary district, within Balrothery Poor Law Union. It lists neighbouring Commons Lower, Commons Upper, Baldwinstown and Adamstown separately, distinguishing the townland’s figures from the electoral division’s wider population. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Dublin
- Barony
- Balrothery West
- Civil parish
- Garristown
- Coordinates
- 53.56390, -6.37703
- Mapped area
- 5.14 km²
- Logainm ID
- 1411862 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
245People recorded
65Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Murray 16
- Scully 12
- Andrews 11
- Mooney 11
- Rogers 10
1926 census
233People recorded
64Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Bissett 13
- Hollywood 13
- Andrews 10
- Mooney 9
- Scully 9
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Garristown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1911: County Dublin, Table VII, printed page 10 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by the Athlone Printing Works Company, 1912
- 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 2024-06-28. How this page was prepared.