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Derry

Doire

The original census places this Ormond Lower townland in Rathcabban electoral division.

Recorded locationDerry53.12216° N · 8.04632° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

doire(oak-)wood, grove, thicket

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

  • Doire · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Derry · English · main form

Place & story

Twenty-four occupied houses

Derry had 119 inhabitants in 1911, sixty-four male and fifty-five female. Of its twenty-six houses, twenty-four were occupied, one was empty and one was being built. The comparison columns record 143 inhabitants in 1891 and 127 in 1901. The townland was listed in Dorrha parish and Ormond Lower barony, within Riverstown dispensary district and Birr Poor Law Union. Its recorded area was 905 acres, three roods and eighteen perches. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tipperary
Civil parish
Dorrha
Coordinates
53.12216, -8.04632
Mapped area
3.67 km²
Logainm ID
46054 ↗

People & family history

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

1901 census

No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Derry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Tipperary, Table VII, printed page 8 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Alexander Thom & Co., Limited, Dublin, 1912
  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 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.