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Cappagh

An Cheapóg

The townland’s printed return records seventy-three residents in 1911.

Watercolour and fine ink view of a narrow rural lane, wire fence and gently rolling green fields near Cappagh Mountain in County Tyrone.
Illustration, countryside near Cappagh Mountain, County Tyrone
Recorded locationCappagh54.54234° N · 6.93848° 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

  • An Cheapóg · Irish · main form
  • Cappagh · English · main form

Place & story

The townland beyond the hamlet

The original 1911 census lists Cappagh in Pomeroy parish, Dungannon Middle barony and Altmore electoral division. Its population was seventy-three, comprising thirty-six male and thirty-seven female residents. Twenty-three houses were inhabited and five were empty. The same table gives 141 people in 1891 and 104 in 1901, showing a substantial reduction over twenty years. This is the townland return, rather than a separate count confined to the trading hamlet. The figures do not establish the reasons for the change. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tyrone
Civil parish
Pomeroy
Coordinates
54.54234, -6.93848
Mapped area
1.72 km²
Logainm ID
64022 ↗

People & family history

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

1901 census

68People recorded
20Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Boyle 12
  • Hamill 9
  • Kerr 8
  • Mc Elhatton 8
  • Devlin 5
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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 — Cappagh. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Tyrone, printed p29 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by A. Thom & Co., 1912
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. Road and fields near Cappagh Mountain, County Tyrone illustration: based on a Cappagh Mountain 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.