placenamesDardistown
Baile an Dairdisigh
The original Dublin report records this small townland in Santry parish, within Coolock barony.
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 an Dairdisigh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Dardistown · English · main form
Place & story
A rural census entry
Dardistown had twenty-one inhabitants in 1911, eleven male and ten female. All four recorded houses were occupied. The comparison columns give nineteen inhabitants in 1891 and seventeen in 1901, with five and four houses respectively. Its area was recorded as sixty-nine acres, one rood and thirty perches. The townland appears under Santry parish in the Drumcondra Rural electoral division, within the Finglas and Glasnevin dispensary district and Dublin North Poor Law Union. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dardistown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1911: County Dublin, Table VII, printed page 22 · 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 2024-08-19. How this page was prepared.