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Townland

Clady

Clóidigh

The 1911 census distinguishes the rural return from the settlement beside the River Finn.

Watercolour and fine ink view along Clady Bridge towards the village, with low dark stone parapets and their projecting refuges beside the River Finn.
Illustration, Clady Bridge over the River Finn, County Tyrone
Recorded locationClady54.79106° N · 7.53834° 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

  • Clóidigh · Irish · main form · non-validated name
  • Clady · English · main form

Place & story

The townland’s rural residents

The 1911 census recorded forty-four people in Clady’s rural townland return, twenty-four male and twenty female, with nine occupied houses. The comparative figures were sixty-two people in thirteen houses in 1891 and nine people in four houses in 1901. The table places Clady in Urney parish and Strabane Lower barony, within Urney East electoral division. [2]

Clady town’s separate count

Clady town had 171 inhabitants in 1911, with thirty-four houses, all occupied. A footnote states that it stood on the townlands of Clady and Donnygowen, whose area and valuation included the settlement. The town’s population therefore cannot be assigned wholly to Clady townland. The earlier town populations were 109 in 1891 and 174 in 1901. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tyrone
Civil parish
Urney
Coordinates
54.79106, -7.53834
Mapped area
0.71 km²
Logainm ID
65210 ↗

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 — Clady. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland1911: County Tyrone, printed p57 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by A. Thom & Company, Limited, Dublin, 1912
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. Clady Bridge over the River Finn, looking towards Clady, County Tyrone illustration: based on a Bridge over the Finn River 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.