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Townland

Gormanston

Baile Mhic Gormáin

The original census records Gormanstown within the Meath portion of Drogheda Union.

Monochrome watercolour and fine ink reconstruction of Gormanston's timber signal cabin above a brick base, with steps and railway tracks beside it.
Historical reconstruction, Gormanston signal cabin in County Meath in July 1982, based on Albert Bridge's dated photograph
Recorded locationGormanston53.63509° N · 6.23823° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

bailetownland, town, homestead

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

  • Baile Mhic Gormáin · Irish · main form
  • Gormanston · English · main form
  • Gormanstown · English · main form

Place & story

Fifty-one occupied houses

The 1911 census recorded 227 inhabitants in Gormanstown, 111 male and 116 female. Fifty-one of its fifty-seven houses were occupied and six empty. The return gives 224 inhabitants in 1891 and 231 in 1901, with fifty-one and forty-eight houses respectively. Its area was 916 acres, one rood and thirty-eight perches. It appears in Stamullin parish and electoral division, Duleek Upper barony and Stamullin dispensary district, within the Meath part of Drogheda Poor Law Union. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Meath
Civil parish
Stamullin
Coordinates
53.63509, -6.23823
Mapped area
3.74 km²
Logainm ID
38450 ↗

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 — Gormanston. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Meath, Table VII, printed page 10 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by the Athlone Printing Works Company, 1912
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. Gormanston signal cabin in July 1982, County Meath illustration: based on a Gormanston signal cabin by Albert Bridge. 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 2026-06-12. How this page was prepared.