placenames1901 census
No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Dromore
Drom Mór
The Clare townland gives its name to a wider landscape of woodland, limestone and water.
Recorded locationDromore52.92973° N · 8.96848° 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
- Drom Mór · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Dromore · English · main form
Place & story
Six occupied houses in 1901
Dromore had thirty-five inhabitants in 1901, fifteen male and twenty female, in six occupied houses. Its population had been thirty-one in 1881 and thirty-seven in 1891. The census places it in Ruan parish and electoral division, within Corrofin dispensary district and Poor Law Union, and records an area of 1,033 acres and fifteen perches. [2]
The wider reserve landscape
The National Parks and Wildlife Service lists Dromore Nature Reserve as state-owned, established in 1985 and covering 370 hectares. Its 2013 account of the wider Dromore Woods and Loughs protected site describes lakes largely linked by the River Fergus, with woodland, limestone pavement and wetland habitats. It records a lesser horseshoe bat nursery colony exceeding four hundred individuals. Those observations concern the wider surveyed site, rather than every part of Dromore townland. [3] [4]
Geographic information
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
28People recorded
7Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Callinan 7
- Morton 3
- Murray 3
- Slattery 3
- Coughlin 2
1926 census
No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dromore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1901: County Clare, Table VII, printed page 16 · Census Commissioners for Ireland, 1902
- Dromore Nature Reserve: official site details · National Parks and Wildlife Service
- Dromore Woods and Loughs SAC 000032: site synopsis, 8 July 2013 · National Parks and Wildlife Service
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Dromore Lough seen through Dromore Woods, County Clare illustration: based on a Dromore Lough, Co Clare by C O'Flanagan. 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 2021-02-08. How this page was prepared.