placenames1901 census
34People recorded
6Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Quirk 10
- Moylan 8
- OBrien 5
- Guilfoyle 2
- Hanny 2
Gurteen
An Goirtín
The townland appears in Graigue electoral division, in Lower Ormond.
Recorded locationGurteen53.11856° N · 8.01010° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
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
- An Goirtín · Irish · main form · validated name
- Gurteen · English · main form
Place & story
Thirty-six inhabitants in 1911
Gurteen had thirty-six inhabitants in 1911, eighteen male and eighteen female, in seven occupied houses. Two further houses were uninhabited. The census recorded eight houses and twenty-eight people in 1891, followed by seven houses and thirty-four people in 1901. It gave the townland’s area as 549 acres and placed it in Dorrha parish and Graigue electoral division, within Riverstown dispensary district and the Tipperary portion of Birr Poor Law Union. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Civil parish
- Dorrha
- Coordinates
- 53.11856, -8.01010
- Mapped area
- 2.22 km²
- Logainm ID
- 45956 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
36People recorded
7Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Moylan 9
- Quirke 7
- Slemon 7
- OBrien 6
- Brophy 1
1926 census
No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Gurteen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1911: County Tipperary, Table VII, printed page 7 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by A. Thom & Company, Dublin, 1912
- 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 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.