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Galbally

This Tyrone Galbally appears in a separate census district from the namesakes near Pomeroy and Omagh.

Watercolour and fine ink view down the quiet unmarked Crossan Road between spring grass banks and bare hedges at Galbally.
Illustration, Crossan Road at Galbally in Dromore, County Tyrone, as photographed in April 2015
Recorded locationGalbally54.48707° N · 7.47266° 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 occupied houses

The 1911 census counted fifty-six inhabitants in Galbally, thirty-two male and twenty-four female. Eleven of its fourteen houses were occupied and three empty. The population had been eighty-nine in 1891 and sixty-two in 1901, with eighteen and fifteen houses respectively. The townland belonged to Dromore parish, Omagh East barony and Trillick electoral division and dispensary district, within the Tyrone portion of Irvinestown Poor Law Union. Its area was 391 acres, one rood and nineteen perches. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tyrone
Civil parish
Dromore
Coordinates
54.48707, -7.47266
Mapped area
1.59 km²
Logainm ID
64489 ↗

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 36 · 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. Crossan Road at Galbally in Dromore, County Tyrone illustration: based on a Crossan Road, Galbally 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.