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Townland

Cashel

An Caiseal

The original census places this townland within Newbrook electoral division.

Recorded locationCashel53.68567° N · 9.13778° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

caisealstone ring-fort

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 Caiseal · Irish · main form · non-validated name
  • Cashel · English · main form

Place & story

Population and occupied houses

Cashel had eighty-six inhabitants in 1901, forty-one male and forty-five female. Nineteen of its twenty houses were inhabited and one was empty. Earlier columns record 142 people in 1881 and 116 in 1891, alongside twenty-one and twenty houses respectively. The census entry identifies the townland within Robeen parish and Newbrook electoral division, in Ballinrobe Union. Its area was 416 acres, two roods and twenty perches. The figures show a substantial population change without supplying an explanation for it. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Mayo
Barony
Kilmaine
Civil parish
Robeen
Within
Newbrook
Coordinates
53.68567, -9.13778
Mapped area
1.69 km²
Logainm ID
35148 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1926 census

No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Cashel. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland1901: County Mayo, printed p30 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Alexander Thom & Company, 1902
  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 2026-04-13. How this page was prepared.