placenames1901 census
98People recorded
23Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Kelly 15
- Ferguson 11
- McReynolds 11
- Taggart 9
- Maneely 8
Dromore
This Tyrone townland appears under Killycolpy electoral division, separate from the western county town.
Recorded locationDromore54.59898° N · 6.59904° 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
Eighty-one inhabitants
Dromore had eighty-one inhabitants in 1911, forty-six male and thirty-five female. Twenty of its twenty-four houses were occupied and four were empty. Its population had been ninety-nine in 1891 and ninety-eight in 1901, with twenty-four houses recorded at both earlier censuses. The census places it in Arboe parish and Dungannon Upper barony, within Killycolpy electoral division, Stewartstown dispensary district and Cookstown Poor Law Union. Its recorded area was 354 acres and twenty perches. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Tyrone
- Barony
- Dungannon Upper
- Civil parish
- Arboe
- Coordinates
- 54.59898, -6.59904
- Mapped area
- 1.44 km²
- Logainm ID
- 64108 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
81People recorded
20Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- McReynolds 9
- Doey 8
- Glackin 8
- Kelly 8
- Purvis 6
1926 census
This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dromore. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1911: County Tyrone, Table VII, printed page 24 · 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.