placenamesDingle
Daingean Uí Chúis
The original 1911 return distinguishes the small namesake townland from a town spread across six townlands.
The name
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Recorded forms
- Daingean Uí Chúis · Irish · main form · validated name
- An Daingean · Irish · main form · local name
- Dingle · English · main form
Place & story
Six townlands in one settlement
A census footnote states that Dingle town stood on Dingle, Farran, Farrannakilla, Gortonora, Grove and The Wood. The town’s estimated eighty-five acres and its valuation were included in those townlands. Dingle townland itself was listed with an area of sixteen acres, one rood and thirty-one perches. Its inhabitants were not returned as a separate rural population. [2]
The town’s separate total
The town return counted 1,884 inhabitants in 1911, 917 male and 967 female, with 334 occupied houses and eighteen empty houses. The comparison columns give 1,764 inhabitants in 1891 and 1,786 in 1901. These are figures for the wider census town, spanning all six townlands, rather than a population total for Dingle townland alone. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Kerry
- Barony
- Corkaguiny
- Civil parish
- Dingle
- Coordinates
- 52.13931, -10.27088
- Mapped area
- 0.07 km²
- Logainm ID
- 22553 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dingle. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1911: County Kerry, Table VII, printed page 19 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Alexander Thom & Co., Limited, Dublin, 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.