placenames1901 census
No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Belleek
Béal Leice
Original accounts identify the Armagh Belleek, also locally called Belleeks, and explain a change in its census presentation.
Recorded locationBelleek54.17853° N · 6.48423° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
The name
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Recorded forms
- Béal Leice · Irish · main form
- Belleek · English · main form
- Belleeks · English · main form · local name
Place & story
On the Newry road in 1837
Samuel Lewis described Belleek village on the road from Newry to Newtown-Hamilton in 1837. It contained about twenty houses and 129 inhabitants. His account also describes a wider ecclesiastical parish created in 1826 from twelve Loughgilly townlands; its 3,396 residents were a parish total, rather than the population of the village. [2]
A town included in the townland
The original 1911 Armagh census records 187 people in Belleek townland, comprising one hundred males and eighty-seven females. Fifty-four houses were listed, with fifty inhabited and four empty. A footnote explains that Belleek town, then containing fewer than twenty inhabited houses, was included in the townland on which it stood. This administrative treatment explains why the report no longer gives it a separate town population. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Armagh
- Barony
- Orior Upper
- Civil parish
- Loughgilly
- Coordinates
- 54.17853, -6.48423
- Mapped area
- 3.94 km²
- Logainm ID
- 56820 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
188People recorded
51Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
Explore the 1911 records ↗1926 census
This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Belleek. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Baleek or Belleek: A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland, 1837 · Samuel Lewis
- Census of Ireland 1911: County Armagh, Table VII, pages 28–29 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Alexander Thom & Co., Limited, 1912
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Saint Laurence O’Toole Church, Belleek, County Armagh illustration: based on a St Laurence O'Toole Church, Belleek by Eric Jones. 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: St. Laurence O'Toole's Church, Belleek by Dean Molyneaux, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.