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Dromore

The original census locates this Tyrone townland in Caledon electoral division.

Watercolour and fine ink view across a green pasture with near bramble stems and a low winter hedgerow in Dromore townland in Aghaloo.
Illustration, pasture in Dromore townland, Aghaloo, County Tyrone
Recorded locationDromore54.37471° N · 6.88250° 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

  • Dromore · English · main form

Place & story

Fifty-one inhabitants

Dromore had fifty-one inhabitants in 1911, twenty-two male and twenty-nine female. Eleven of its twelve houses were occupied and one was empty. Its population had been sixty-seven in 1891 and sixty-one in 1901, with thirteen houses recorded at both earlier censuses. The table places this Dromore in Aghaloo parish and Dungannon Lower barony, within Caledon electoral division, Caledon and Ballymagran dispensary district, and Dungannon Poor Law Union. Its recorded area was 355 acres, one rood and thirty perches. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tyrone
Civil parish
Aghaloo
Coordinates
54.37471, -6.88250
Mapped area
1.42 km²
Logainm ID
63559 ↗

People & family history

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

1901 census

61People recorded
12Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Mercer 21
  • Morrow 10
  • Crawford 7
  • Haddin 6
  • Hadden 4
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1911 census

51People recorded
11Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Mercer 21
  • Morrow 10
  • Crawford 8
  • Hadden 7
  • Halligan 1
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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 — Dromore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Tyrone, Table VII, printed page 28 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by A. Thom & Company, Dublin, 1912
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. Pasture in Dromore townland, Aghaloo, County Tyrone illustration: based on a Dromore 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.