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Gallany

The townland near Strabane has a distinct return in Urney East electoral division.

Watercolour and fine ink view over a winter bramble hedge into Gallany's green field, with two bare trees on the low horizon.
Illustration, Gallany townland seen west-northwest from Orchard Road, County Tyrone, as photographed in February 2015
Recorded locationGallany54.79804° N · 7.49122° 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

  • Gallany · English · main form

Place & story

Forty-five inhabitants in 1911

Gallany had forty-five inhabitants in 1911, twenty-three male and twenty-two female, in ten occupied houses. The comparative figures were sixty-three inhabitants in fourteen houses in 1891 and fifty-one in ten houses in 1901. The census places the townland in Urney parish, Strabane Lower barony and Urney East electoral division, within Strabane dispensary district and the Tyrone portion of Strabane Poor Law Union. Its recorded area was 284 acres, two roods and thirty-four perches. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tyrone
Civil parish
Urney
Coordinates
54.79804, -7.49122
Mapped area
1.15 km²
Logainm ID
65216 ↗

People & family history

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

1901 census

52People recorded
10Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Mc Golerick 10
  • McElwee 10
  • Foley 7
  • Devine 4
  • ONeill 4
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1911 census

45People recorded
10Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Mc Garrigle 6
  • Mc Goldrick 6
  • Murray 6
  • Mc Ilwee 5
  • Oneill 4
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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 — Gallany. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Tyrone, Table VII, printed page 57 · 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. Fields at Gallany, County Tyrone illustration: based on a Gallany Townland 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.