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Carrowkeel

An Cheathrú Chaol

The 1911 census identifies a small townland in Cooloo electoral division.

Recorded locationCarrowkeel53.48342° N · 8.58746° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

caolnarrow; a narrow; marshy streamceathrúquarterland

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

  • An Cheathrú Chaol · Irish · main form · non-validated name
  • Carrowkeel · English · main form

Place & story

Nine residents in the original return

Carrowkeel’s 1911 census entry records nine inhabitants, four male and five female, in three occupied houses. The townland had contained seventeen people in 1891 and fifteen in 1901. Its three houses were already recorded in 1901, while the earlier return listed two. The table places Carrowkeel in Moylough parish and Tiaquin barony, within Cooloo electoral division. It records changes in population and housing without identifying their causes. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Galway
Barony
Tiaquin
Civil parish
Moylough
Within
Cooloo
Coordinates
53.48342, -8.58746
Mapped area
0.36 km²
Logainm ID
20421 ↗

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 — Carrowkeel. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland1911: County Galway, printed p80 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by the Athlone Printing Works Company, 1912
  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.