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Currin

The original Northern Ireland census records this Fermanagh townland within Greenhill electoral division.

Watercolour and fine ink view of a small group of black-and-white cattle in rolling green pasture at Currin in Aghavea, County Fermanagh.
Illustration, cattle pasture in Currin, Aghavea, County Fermanagh
Recorded locationCurrin54.33379° N · 7.46179° 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

  • Currin · English · main form

Place & story

People, houses and rooms

Currin had twenty-three inhabitants in 1926, fifteen male and eight female. Seven of its eight houses were occupied and one was empty. The table recorded seven private families, together occupying twenty-four rooms. Its comparison column gives a population of thirty-four in 1911. Currin was listed in Greenhill electoral division, within Lisnaskea Rural District and the Maguiresbridge dispensary district. Its area was 244 acres and thirty-five perches. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Fermanagh
Civil parish
Aghavea
Coordinates
54.33379, -7.46179
Mapped area
0.99 km²
Logainm ID
60908 ↗

People & family history

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

1901 census

39People recorded
9Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Murphy 9
  • Armstrong 8
  • Birney 8
  • Chapman 5
  • Creighton 4
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1926 census

This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Currin. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Northern Ireland1926: County Fermanagh, Table3, printed p38 · Government of Northern Ireland; H.M. Stationery Office, Belfast, 1928
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. Cattle pasture in Currin, Aghavea, County Fermanagh illustration: based on a Currin Townland by Kenneth Allen. 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 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.