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
Dún Eadradh· Irish · main form · validated name
Dunadry· English · main form
Place & story
From paper and linen to an inn
The Ulster Architectural Heritage Society’s 1970 survey records a paper mill established by Daniel Blow in the early eighteenth century, later converted to linen manufacture. The mill closed in the 1920s. When the site became an inn, parts of its industrial fabric were retained: the survey describes an old mill block and the former manager’s house, as well as beams from the beetling machinery reused as supports for a gallery. Those details connect the later hospitality business with the processes once carried out beside the river.[2]
The bridge over the Six Mile Water
Dunadry Bridge dates from 1832. The architectural survey describes three cut-stone arches supported on projecting, angled piers. The bridge belongs to the same riverside landscape as the former mill, giving the village a surviving nineteenth-century crossing alongside the buildings associated with water-powered industry.[2]
Two trees joined together
The garden’s Reconciliation Tree is actually a pair of lime trees joined together. Northern Ireland’s Remarkable Trees dates their planting to about 1830–40, when Dunadry was a mill village with small houses and gardens running towards the river and mill race. The trees survived the conversion of the derelict industrial site to a hotel. Their linked growth and surrounding circular seat make them a distinctive living remnant of that earlier village landscape.[3]
Both censuses use the same 2015 settlement boundary. These exact counts cover usual residents in the settlement, rather than local government districts or historic counties. Other NISRA tables may use approximate counts.
View population figures
DUNADRY — Settlement 2015 (N11000004) — census population
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