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Dring

Droing

The census places this small Cavan townland in Bilberry electoral division and Tullyhunco barony.

Watercolour and fine ink view over a bramble hedge and wire fence into a green field framed by bare and ivy-covered trees at Dring in County Cavan.
Illustration, spring pasture in Dring townland, County Cavan
Recorded locationDring54.05705° N · 7.57503° 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

  • Droing · Irish · main form · non-validated name
  • Dring · English · main form

Place & story

Forty-two inhabitants

Dring had forty-two inhabitants in 1901, twenty male and twenty-two female. All eight recorded houses were occupied. Its population had been thirty-five in 1881 and thirty-seven in 1891, with nine and eight houses respectively. The table lists Dring in Kildallan parish, Bilberry electoral division and Ballyconnell dispensary district, within the Cavan part of Bawnboy Poor Law Union. Its recorded area was 180 acres, three roods and nineteen perches. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Cavan
Civil parish
Kildallan
Coordinates
54.05705, -7.57503
Mapped area
0.73 km²
Logainm ID
3973 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

1926 census

28People recorded
5Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Johnston 11
  • Livingstone 6
  • Crossan 5
  • Dolan 2
  • McMichael 2
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Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Dring. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1901: County Cavan, Table VII, printed page 13 · 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.
  4. Spring pasture in Dring townland, County Cavan illustration: based on a Dring Townland by Kenneth Allen. 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 2026-07-16. How this page was prepared.