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Dunhill

Dún Aill

The Waterford census places this townland within Annestown electoral division.

Watercolour and fine ink view of ivy-clad surviving Dunhill Castle walls above a rocky green river-valley slope.
Illustration, Dunhill Castle ruins, County Waterford, as photographed in September 2019
Recorded locationDunhill52.16323° N · 7.26952° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

aillcliffdúnfort

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

  • Dún Aill · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Dunhill · English · main form

Place & story

Sixty-eight inhabitants

Dunhill had sixty-eight inhabitants in 1911, thirty-three male and thirty-five female. Fifteen houses were occupied, two were empty and one was being built. The comparison columns give eighty-five inhabitants in 1891 and seventy-six in 1901, with nineteen houses at both earlier censuses. The table lists Dunhill in Dunhill parish and Middlethird barony, under Annestown electoral division and Bunmahon dispensary district, within Kilmacthomas Poor Law Union. Its recorded area was 466 acres, two roods and fourteen perches. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Waterford
Civil parish
Dunhill
Coordinates
52.16323, -7.26952
Mapped area
1.88 km²
Logainm ID
49681 ↗

People & family history

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

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Dunhill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County and City of Waterford, Table VII, printed page 21 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by A. Thom & Company, Dublin, 1912
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. Dunhill Castle ruins, County Waterford illustration: based on a Castles of Munster: Dunhill, Waterford (1) by Mike Searle. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Additional reference: Dunhill Castle by John M, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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