placenames1901 census
53People recorded
14Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Cuddy 15
- Burrows 7
- Armstrong 5
- Tener 4
- Beatty 3
Gorey
This Gorey belongs to Donaghmore parish, distinct from the Wexford town and barony.
Recorded locationGorey54.49394° N · 6.89897° 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
- Gorey · English · main form
Place & story
Twelve occupied houses in 1911
Gorey had forty-three inhabitants in 1911, twenty-four male and nineteen female. Twelve of its fourteen houses were occupied and two empty. The census gives seventy inhabitants in 1891 and fifty-two in 1901, with sixteen and fourteen houses respectively. Its recorded area was 280 acres and six perches. The townland appears in Donaghmore parish, Dungannon Middle barony and Clonavaddy electoral division and dispensary district, within Dungannon Poor Law Union. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Dungannon Middle
- Civil parish
- Donaghmore
- Coordinates
- 54.49394, -6.89897
- Mapped area
- 1.11 km²
- Logainm ID
- 63912 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
43People recorded
12Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Cuddy 10
- Burrows 8
- Tener 6
- Armstrong 5
- Beatty 5
1926 census
This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Gorey. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1911: County Tyrone, Table VII, printed page 30 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by A. Thom & Company, Dublin, 1912
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.