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Derrymore

The Antrim townland’s census record sits alongside the sporting history of the wider Derrymore community.

Watercolour and fine ink view across rough grass, a wire fence and farm gate towards the blue waters of Lough Neagh from Derrymore, County Antrim.
Illustration, Lough Neagh seen from Derrymore, County Antrim
Recorded locationDerrymore54.53283° N · 6.32861° 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

  • Derrymore · English · main form

Place & story

Fifty-two occupied houses in 1901

Derrymore had 228 inhabitants in 1901, 111 male and 117 female. Fifty-two of its fifty-three houses were occupied and one was empty. The population had been 271 in 1881 and 226 in 1891. Listed in Aghagallon parish and electoral division, within Upper Massereene barony, the townland belonged to Aghalee dispensary district and Lurgan Poor Law Union. [2]

John Mitchel’s and St Mary’s

St Mary’s GAC Aghagallon’s 2023–2025 development plan dates the establishment of John Mitchel’s club in the Derrymore area to the 1920s. It describes several parish clubs competing before St Mary’s was established in 1982 to unite local players. John Mitchel Park at Derrymore was gifted to St Mary’s and vested in the GAA in 2015. The plan records that the former clubrooms had also served a céilí club. [3]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Antrim
Civil parish
Aghagallon
Coordinates
54.53283, -6.32861
Mapped area
2.32 km²
Logainm ID
62790 ↗

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

228People recorded
54Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • McConaghy 26
  • Lavery 17
  • McAlinden 16
  • McCrory 15
  • McStravick 12
Explore the 1911 records ↗

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 — Derrymore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1901: County Antrim, Table VII, printed page 57; published 1902 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Cahill & Company, Dublin, 1902
  3. Club Development Plan 2023–2025: Our Parish and Our Facilities, PDF pages 5 and 7 · St Mary’s GAC Aghagallon / Naomh Mhuire Achadh Galláin
  4. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  5. Lough Neagh seen from Derrymore, County Antrim illustration: based on a Lough Neagh 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.