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Camas

The census locates this Camus in east Galway, separate from the Connemara district of the same name.

Recorded locationCamus53.17605° N · 8.10996° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

A reliable full-name meaning has not been established here. The recorded Irish and English forms are given without an unsupported translation.

Recorded forms

  • Camas · Irish · main form · non-validated name
  • Camus · English · main form

Place & story

A small community in 1911

The original 1911 census places Camus in Meelick parish and electoral division, in Longford barony and Portumna poor-law union. Its return records forty-two people, twenty-six male and sixteen female, in seven inhabited houses. The earlier population columns give forty-two in 1891 and forty in 1901, with eight and nine houses respectively. The figures describe this east Galway townland near Meelick. They should be kept separate from the Camus district in Connemara. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Galway
Barony
Longford
Civil parish
Meelick
Coordinates
53.17605, -8.10996
Mapped area
1.03 km²
Logainm ID
21146 ↗

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 — Camus. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Galway, printed p93 · 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.