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Bangor

Baingear

The original Mayo report records Bangor within Kilcommon parish and Belmullet Union.

Watercolour and fine ink view of the curving Owenmore riverside walkway near Bangor Erris, with lamps, a post fence and low village buildings in the distance.
Illustration, Owenmore riverside walkway near Bangor Erris, County Mayo
Recorded locationBangor54.15442° N · 9.73152° 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

  • Baingear · Irish · main form · non-validated name
  • Bangor · English · main form
  • Bangor Erris · English · main form · local name

Place & story

Population rose as house numbers fell

Bangor townland had 103 residents in 1901: fifty-three males and fifty females. Its sixteen recorded houses were all inhabited. The original Mayo census lists it under Bangor electoral division in Kilcommon parish and Erris barony. Its comparative columns give eighty-eight residents in eighteen houses in 1881 and ninety-three residents in seventeen houses in 1891. These figures describe the historical townland and should not be treated as totals for the much larger Bangor electoral division. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Mayo
Barony
Erris
Civil parish
Kilcommon
Coordinates
54.15442, -9.73152
Mapped area
3.09 km²
Logainm ID
35328 ↗

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 — Bangor. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1901: County Mayo, Table VII, page 32 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Alexander Thom & Co., Limited, 1902
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. Owenmore riverside walkway near Bangor Erris, County Mayo illustration: based on a Walkway along the Owenmore River by Oliver Dixon. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.