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Doon

This large Tullyhaw townland appears in the census under Benbrack electoral division.

Recorded locationDoon54.13032° N · 7.86514° 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

  • Doon · English · main form

Place & story

Four inhabitants

The 1901 census recorded four inhabitants in Doon, three male and one female, in a single occupied house. Its comparison columns show fourteen inhabitants and two houses in 1881, and eleven inhabitants and two houses in 1891. The townland lay in Drumreilly parish, Tullyhaw barony and Benbrack electoral division, within Swanlinbar dispensary district and the Cavan part of Bawnboy Union. Its recorded area was 1,189 acres, one rood and thirty-six perches. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Cavan
Barony
Tullyhaw
Civil parish
Drumreilly
Within
Benbrack
Coordinates
54.13032, -7.86514
Mapped area
4.82 km²
Logainm ID
3954 ↗

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 — Doon. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1901: County Cavan, Table VII, printed page 15 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Cahill & Company, Dublin, 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 2021-10-06. How this page was prepared.