placenames1901 census
43People recorded
10Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Lang 10
- Farmer 7
- Brady 5
- Gilleece 5
- Armstrong 4
Doon
An Dún
The census separates rural Doon from a town spread across four townlands.
Recorded locationDoon54.12036° N · 7.57938° 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
Forty-three rural inhabitants
The rural portion of Doon had forty-three inhabitants in 1901, twenty-two male and twenty-one female. Ten of its eighteen houses were occupied and eight were empty. The table places it in Tomregan parish and Tullyhaw barony, within Ballyconnell electoral and dispensary districts and the Cavan part of Bawnboy Union. [2]
A boundary in the counting
Ballyconnell town had 326 inhabitants in 1901 across Annagh, Cullyleenan, Derryginny and Doon. The report cautions that some houses properly belonging to rural Doon had been counted within Ballyconnell town in 1881. Its earlier rural and town totals therefore need that qualification: a shift between the columns does not necessarily mean that residents moved. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Cavan
- Barony
- Tullyhaw
- Civil parish
- Tomregan
- Within
- Ballyconnell
- Coordinates
- 54.12036, -7.57938
- Mapped area
- 0.51 km²
- Logainm ID
- 3884 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
48People recorded
11Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Farmer 11
- Baxter 8
- Laing 7
- Gormely 5
- Reilly 4
1926 census
68People recorded
12Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- O'Brine 10
- Dolohan 9
- Carberry 8
- Farmer 8
- McGovern 8
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 pages 11–12 and note (f) · 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 2026-08-27. How this page was prepared.