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Townland

Grange

An Ghráinsigh

The townland belonged to Lisgenan or Grange parish, within Decies-within-Drum.

Watercolour and fine ink view of a small dairy herd crossing a rural road beside farm sheds near Grange in Waterford.
Illustration, dairy cattle on the Ardmore Road near Grange, County Waterford, as photographed in July 2009
Recorded locationGrange51.96960° N · 7.77710° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

gráinseachgrange, monastic farm

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 Ghráinsigh · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Grange · English · main form

Place & story

Sixteen inhabitants in 1911

Grange had sixteen inhabitants in 1911, seven male and nine female, in three occupied houses; a fourth house stood uninhabited. Its population had also been sixteen in 1901, when four houses were recorded, compared with fifteen people and five houses in 1891. The census gave its area as 185 acres, one rood and twelve perches. It placed the townland in Grange electoral division, within Ardmore dispensary district and the Waterford portion of Youghal Poor Law Union. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Waterford
Civil parish
Lisgenan or Grange
Coordinates
51.96960, -7.77710
Mapped area
0.75 km²
Logainm ID
50631 ↗

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 — Grange. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Waterford, Table VII, printed page 45 · 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. Dairy cattle on the Ardmore Road near Grange, County Waterford illustration: based on a Milking time by Paul Leonard. 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.