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Edenderry

The Tyrone townland is listed in Camowen electoral division, within Omagh East barony.

Watercolour and fine ink view of the former roughcast school with three tall side windows and a broad gable window at Edenderry in Tyrone.
Illustration, the former primary school at Edenderry, County Tyrone, as photographed in October 2005
Recorded locationEdenderry54.57360° N · 7.24592° 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

  • Edenderry · English · main form

Place & story

Thirty-five inhabitants

Edenderry had thirty-five inhabitants in 1911, twenty male and fifteen female. Eight houses were occupied and two were empty. Its population had been fifty-seven in 1891 and forty-four in 1901, with thirteen and ten houses respectively. The census places it in Cappagh parish, Omagh East barony and Camowen electoral division, within Six Mile Cross dispensary district and Omagh Poor Law Union. The townland’s recorded area was 322 acres and three perches. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tyrone
Civil parish
Cappagh
Coordinates
54.57360, -7.24592
Mapped area
1.29 km²
Logainm ID
64398 ↗

People & family history

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

1911 census

35People recorded
8Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Brannigan 15
  • McFarland 4
  • Kerr 3
  • Kyle 3
  • McCutcheon 2
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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 — Edenderry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Tyrone, Table VII, printed page 48 · 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. Former Edenderry primary school, County Tyrone illustration: based on a Edenderry old primary school 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.