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Crusheen

Croisín

The 1901 report separates Crusheen’s small rural return from a town extending over three townlands.

Watercolour and fine ink view of a single railway track curving away beside gravel and winter trees at the closed Crusheen station site.
Illustration, the former Crusheen railway station site, County Clare, as photographed in December 2019
Recorded locationCrusheen52.93799° N · 8.89818° 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

  • Croisín · Irish · main form
  • Crusheen · English · main form

Place & story

Two houses outside the town return

The original 1901 census recorded ten people in Crusheen’s rural townland return, five male and five female, in two occupied houses. The table places it in Inchicronan parish, Bunratty Upper barony and Crusheen electoral division, within Ennis Union. Its area was eighty-six acres, three roods and twenty-nine perches. [2]

How the town was counted

Crusheen town had a separate population of seventy-eight in 1901. A footnote states that it stood on Cloonmoney, Crusheen and Drummanneen townlands, which included its area and valuation; the town itself occupied an estimated nineteen acres. Another note cautions that some houses belonging to Crusheen townland had been counted in the town in 1881. These distinctions matter when comparing successive returns or assigning the town’s population to a single townland. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Clare
Civil parish
Inchicronan
Coordinates
52.93799, -8.89818
Mapped area
0.35 km²
Logainm ID
6169 ↗

People & family history

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

1901 census

10People recorded
2Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Molloy 5
  • Tierney 4
  • Hynes 1
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Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Crusheen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland1901: County Clare, printed pp16–17 · Census Commissioners for Ireland, 1902
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. The former Crusheen railway station site, County Clare illustration: based on a Crusheen railway station (site), County Clare by Nigel Thompson. 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 2021-11-01. How this page was prepared.