placenames1901 census
87People recorded
20Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Gillick 16
- Allen 15
- Sheridan 10
- Smith 8
- Keating 6
Doon
An Dún
The original census places this Cavan townland in Crossbane electoral division and Castlerahan barony.
Recorded locationDoon53.86743° N · 7.06576° 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
- An Dún · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Doon · English · main form
Place & story
Eighty-seven inhabitants
Doon had eighty-seven inhabitants in 1901, fifty-two male and thirty-five female. Twenty of its twenty-one houses were inhabited and one was empty. The comparison columns record 135 inhabitants in 1881 and eighty-eight in 1891, with twenty-five and twenty-three houses respectively. The census lists the townland in Mullagh parish, Crossbane electoral division and Termon dispensary district, within Bailieborough Poor Law Union. Its recorded area was 339 acres and thirty-seven perches. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Cavan
- Barony
- Castlerahan
- Civil parish
- Mullagh
- Within
- Crossbane
- Coordinates
- 53.86743, -7.06576
- Mapped area
- 1.37 km²
- Logainm ID
- 3693 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
81People recorded
20Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Allen 21
- Gillick 13
- Keating 8
- McGovern 6
- Hopkins 5
1926 census
56People recorded
15Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Allen 12
- Gillick 12
- Keating 6
- McGovern 6
- Lynch 5
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Doon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1901: County Cavan, Table VII, printed page 9 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Cahill & Company, Dublin, 1902
- 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 2026-04-28. How this page was prepared.