placenames1901 census
No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Acton
An Chora Uachtarach
Local recollections and nineteenth-century records preserve different accounts of Acton’s changing trading role.
Recorded locationActon54.30966° N · 6.37647° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
The name
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 Chora Uachtarach · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Acton · English · main form
Place & story
The story attached to Kill Brae
Frank Watters records an Acton tradition that the name Kill Brae recalls a man killed during a fair-day fight near the bridge over the Connawarry River. He connects it with John Quin’s early-nineteenth-century manuscript, which describes conflict between villagers and country people. Neither the victim nor an exact year is identified. The explanation survives as local tradition, without establishing the name’s origin conclusively. [2]
Traffic takes another route
Watters reproduces a valuation entry dated 8 July 1836 complaining that a new Tandragee–Newry road left Acton remote and diminished its value. The entry states that neither fair nor market was held there. It provides a contemporary description of the settlement’s position as traffic shifted towards the lower road. [2]
Fair dates in a later return
A commissioners’ report of 1853 nevertheless listed Acton fairs on 4 May and 11 December. Watters notes the difficulty of reconciling this with other evidence. A listing of authorised or reported dates does not by itself demonstrate a thriving fair in that year. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Armagh
- Barony
- Orior Lower
- Civil parish
- Ballymore
- Coordinates
- 54.30966, -6.37647
- Mapped area
- 0.11 km²
- Logainm ID
- 56777 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
78People recorded
22Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
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This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Acton. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Acton and Poyntzpass Fairs, pp. 75–77 · Frank Watters, Poyntzpass and District Local History Society
- 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 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.