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Belville

The original Westmeath census identifies this townland in Ballyloughloe parish and Carn electoral division.

Recorded locationBelville53.43980° N · 7.81821° 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

  • Belville · English · main form

Place & story

Four inhabited houses

The 1911 census records Belville under the spelling Bellville, with fourteen residents: nine males and five females. Five houses were listed, with four inhabited and one empty. The comparative columns give twenty-five residents in five houses in 1891 and seventeen residents in five houses in 1901. This is the Belville beside Twyford and Carnpark in Clonlonan barony, within Athlone Union. The table does not explain the changing population. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Westmeath
Barony
Clonlonan
Civil parish
Ballyloughloe
Coordinates
53.43980, -7.81821
Mapped area
0.98 km²
Logainm ID
50818 ↗

People & family history

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

1911 census

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

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Belville. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Westmeath, Table VII, page 9 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by the Athlone Printing Works Company, Limited, 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 2007-11-29. How this page was prepared.