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Galbally

This small Tyrone townland lies in the census district of Camowen near Omagh.

Recorded locationGalbally54.58606° N · 7.26840° 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

  • Galbally · English · main form

Place & story

Eleven inhabitants in 1911

Galbally’s 1911 return records eleven inhabitants, six male and five female, in three occupied houses. Its population had been sixteen in 1891 and eleven in 1901, with five and four houses respectively. The townland was listed in Cappagh parish, Omagh East barony and Camowen electoral division, within Six Mile Cross dispensary district and Omagh Poor Law Union. Its area was 140 acres, two roods and one perch. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tyrone
Civil parish
Cappagh
Coordinates
54.58606, -7.26840
Mapped area
0.55 km²
Logainm ID
64399 ↗

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 — Galbally. 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.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.