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Butler's Bridge

Droichead an Bhuitléaraigh

Butler's Bridge is a town in Cavan. Explore its recorded names and geographic context.

Recorded locationButler's Bridge54.04703° N · 7.37961° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ieOpen in OpenStreetMap ↗

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

  • Droichead an Bhuitléaraigh · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Butler's Bridge · English · main form

Geographic information

Place type
Town
County
Cavan
Civil parish
Castleterra
Coordinates
54.04703, -7.37961
Logainm ID
4507 ↗

Population over time

Butlersbridge — Census 2016 settlement footprint

Population within 2016 settlement boundaries

293people · 2022

075150225300 2016: 276 people20162022: 293 people2022

Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.

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Butlersbridge — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
Census yearPopulation
2016276
2022293

Source: CSO Census 2022 Profile 1 — Appendix Table 1: Census 2022 De Facto Population for the 2016 Towns · Supporting source 1. CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-10-25.

Other census areas and years

These figures use different area definitions. Read the boundary note before comparing them.

Butlersbridge, Cavan

Published census settlement populations

276people · 2016

Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.

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Butlersbridge, Cavan — census population
Census yearPopulation
2011282
2016276

Source: CSO E2016 — Population and Actual and Percentage Change 2011 to 2016. CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-10-25.

Butlersbridge, Co Cavan — Census 2022 Built Up Area

Built Up Area population, 2022

271people · 2022

Built Up Areas use a new land-use definition. Their population figures cannot be compared directly with Census 2016 settlement counts.

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Butlersbridge, Co Cavan — Census 2022 Built Up Area — census population
Census yearPopulation
2022271

Source: CSO F1015 — Population, Census 2022 Built Up Areas. CC BY 4.0. Retrieved 2026-10-25.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Butler's Bridge. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.