placenamesTulnacross
Tulach na Croise
Tulnacross appears in nineteenth-century population returns and in Kildress’s earliest recorded Gaelic football match.
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
- Tulach na Croise · Irish · main form · validated name
- Tulnacross · English · main form
Place & story
The nineteenth-century townland
The official 1851 census lists Tulnacross within Kildress parish, covering just over 543 acres. Its comparative figures give 325 inhabitants in 1841 and 254 in 1851, a fall of seventy-one people. Inhabited houses declined from fifty-six to forty-five. These are figures for the whole townland; the table does not explain the departure or death of individual residents. [2]
Tulnacross Shamrocks
Kildress Wolfe Tones’ club history identifies a March 1891 game between Tulnacross Shamrocks and Dunamore Shamrocks as the parish’s first recorded GAA activity. Players from Kileenan and Killucan also took part. This was an earlier townland-based football culture: the single parish club, Kildress Wolfe Tones, was established in 1952. The modern club’s account preserves Tulnacross’s place in that longer history. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Dungannon Upper
- Civil parish
- Kildress
- Coordinates
- 54.66277, -6.86860 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1414285 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Tulnacross. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland1851:County Tyrone,printedpage309 · Census Commissioners,1852; Central Statistics Office digitisation
- History:Gaelic Games in Kildress · Kildress Wolfe Tones GAA
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2012-01-24. How this page was prepared.