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Derries

This Saint Mary’s parish townland was recorded in Athlone East Rural electoral division.

Recorded locationDerries53.40895° N · 7.91388° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

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

  • Derries · English · main form

Place & story

Six occupied houses

Derries had twenty-seven inhabitants in 1911, fourteen male and thirteen female. Six of its seven houses were occupied and one was empty. The population had been thirty-two in 1891 and twenty-five in 1901, with nine and seven houses respectively. The townland was listed in Brawny barony and Saint Mary’s parish, within the Athlone No. 1 dispensary district and Athlone Poor Law Union. Its recorded area was 220 acres and twenty-nine perches. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Westmeath
Barony
Brawny
Civil parish
Saint Mary's
Coordinates
53.40895, -7.91388
Mapped area
0.89 km²
Logainm ID
50745 ↗

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 — Derries. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Westmeath, Table VII, printed page 6 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Athlone Printing Works, 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 2008-04-21. How this page was prepared.