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Derryloughan

The rural townland and the wider Derrylaughan sporting community have distinct documentary records.

Watercolour and fine ink view across a green field and bare shoreline trees towards the flat waters of Lough Neagh at Derryloughan.
Illustration, Lough Neagh seen across the fields at Derryloughan, County Tyrone
Recorded locationDerryloughan54.51961° N · 6.59746° 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

  • Derryloughan · English · main form

Place & story

Ninety-two occupied houses in 1911

Derryloughan had 397 inhabitants in 1911, 221 male and 176 female. Ninety-two of its 105 houses were occupied and thirteen were empty. The comparison columns record 489 inhabitants in 1891 and 478 in 1901. The townland was listed in Clonoe parish, Dungannon Middle barony and Mountjoy electoral division, within the Coalisland dispensary district and Dungannon Poor Law Union. [2]

People & connections

Brian McLernon and the club’s history

The wider Derrylaughan sporting community included Brian McLernon, a lifelong member of Kevin Barry’s GAC. Tyrone GAA’s 2017 report records that he played in the club’s 1967 county championship victory, served as its secretary from 1964 to 1975 and later led the Ulster Council from 1992 to 1994. His history of the club, A Kick On The Shore, was launched at its diamond jubilee in 2005. [3]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tyrone
Civil parish
Clonoe
Coordinates
54.51961, -6.59746
Mapped area
7.37 km²
Logainm ID
63802 ↗

People & family history

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

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 — Derryloughan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Tyrone, Table VII, printed page 31 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Alexander Thom & Co., Limited, Dublin, 1912
  3. Tyrone GAA Annual Convention 2017, Part 1: Brian McLernon tribute, printed page 39 · Coiste Thír Eoghain, Gaelic Athletic Association
  4. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  5. Lough Neagh seen across the fields at Derryloughan, County Tyrone illustration: based on a Lough Neagh at Derryloughan 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.