placenames1901 census
84People recorded
18Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
Explore the 1901 records ↗Carrowkeel
An Cheathrú Chaol
The townland appears within Carrownagur electoral division in the original 1911 tables.
Recorded locationCarrowkeel53.58232° N · 8.70981° 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
- An Cheathrú Chaol · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Carrowkeel · English · main form
Place & story
Population and housing
The 1911 census records sixty-eight inhabitants in Carrowkeel, thirty-seven male and thirty-one female. Seventeen of its eighteen houses were occupied; one was uninhabited. The townland’s population had fallen from 115 in 1891 to eighty-four in 1901, while total house numbers declined from twenty-three to nineteen and then eighteen. The entry identifies Carrowkeel within Dunmore parish, Ballymoe barony and Carrownagur electoral division, under Glennamaddy Union. Its area was 525 acres, two roods and twenty-nine perches. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Galway
- Barony
- Ballymoe
- Civil parish
- Dunmore
- Within
- Carrownagur
- Coordinates
- 53.58232, -8.70981
- Mapped area
- 2.13 km²
- Logainm ID
- 21417 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
68People recorded
17Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Burke 8
- Concannon 8
- Flannery 7
- Donelon 5
- Gleeson 5
1926 census
47People recorded
13Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Donelon 10
- Burke 9
- Concannon 7
- McHugh 4
- Flannery 3
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Carrowkeel. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland1911: County Galway, printed p41 · 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 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.