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Currin

This Fermanagh townland was counted in Newporton electoral division, separately from Currin in Aghavea.

Watercolour and fine ink view of a patchwork of rolling green fields and bare hedgerow trees at Currin in Magheracross, County Fermanagh.
Illustration, winter fields in Currin, Magheracross, County Fermanagh
Recorded locationCurrin54.40329° N · 7.58794° 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

The Newporton return

Currin had forty-nine inhabitants in 1926, twenty-one male and twenty-eight female. Eleven of its fourteen houses were occupied and three were empty. Its eleven private families occupied forty-seven rooms. The comparison column records sixty inhabitants in 1911. The townland appears within Newporton electoral division, Enniskillen Rural District and the Tempo dispensary district. Its area was recorded as 329 acres and seven perches. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Fermanagh
Civil parish
Magheracross
Coordinates
54.40329, -7.58794
Mapped area
1.35 km²
Logainm ID
61192 ↗

People & family history

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

1901 census

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

1911 census

60People recorded
15Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Beatty 13
  • Abraham 9
  • Neely 5
  • Amos 4
  • Armstrong 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 p14 · 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. Winter fields in Currin, Magheracross, 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.