placenamesEdenderry
Éadan Doire
The original return separates the town’s inhabitants from a rural total that includes the Union Workhouse.
The name
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
- Éadan Doire · Irish · main form · validated name
- Edenderry · English · main form
Place & story
The rural return
The rural part of Edenderry townland had 413 inhabitants in 1901, 199 male and 214 female. A footnote explicitly includes the inmates of Edenderry Union Workhouse in this figure. Fifty-seven houses were occupied and four were empty. The table places the townland in Monasteroris parish and Edenderry electoral division, within Edenderry dispensary district and Poor Law Union. Its recorded area was 2,033 acres. [2]
The town counted separately
Edenderry town had a separate return of 1,611 inhabitants, 825 male and 786 female, in 272 occupied houses and seven empty houses. The census states that the town stood entirely on Edenderry townland. Its estimated seventy-five acres were included in the townland’s area and valuation. The town and rural figures therefore describe separate populations within the same named townland. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Offaly
- Barony
- Coolestown
- Civil parish
- Monasteroris
- Coordinates
- 53.34117, -7.04995
- Mapped area
- 8.22 km²
- Logainm ID
- 41694 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Edenderry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1901: King’s County, Table VII, printed page 19 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Cahill & Company, Dublin, 1901
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Downshire Bridge on the Edenderry branch of the Grand Canal, County Offaly illustration: based on a Downshire Bridge on the Grand Canal near Edenderry, Co. Offaly by JP. 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 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.