placenamesDunmurry
Dún Muirígh
The parish boundary divided Dunmurry’s census record.
Recorded locationDunmurry54.54407° N · 6.02186° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Approximate recorded 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
- Dún Muirígh · Irish · main form · validated name
- Dunmurry · English · main form
Place & story
Population
Robert Common records 187 residents in 44 houses in Dunmurry’s Shankill parish section in 1901. Census identification of village residents here began in 1881. [2]
Textile work
Textile workers belonged to 65 per cent of village households in this section, compared with 46 per cent in rural Dunmurry within Shankill parish. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Antrim
- Barony
- Belfast Upper
- Civil parish
- Shankill
- Coordinates
- 54.54407, -6.02186 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 61709 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dunmurry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Some Observations on Dunmurry’s Past: The Nineteenth-Century Growth of a Linen Village (1999) · Robert Common
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2021-05-26. How this page was prepared.