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Hunterstown

The small Tyrone townland lies in Urney parish and the barony of Strabane Lower.

Recorded locationHunterstown54.78805° N · 7.54104° 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

  • Hunterstown · English · main form

Place & story

Five inhabitants in the census

Hunterstown had five inhabitants in 1911, three male and two female, in one occupied house. The census recorded three houses in both 1891 and 1901, with eleven inhabitants in each year. It gave the townland’s area as thirty-eight acres and twenty-six perches. Hunterstown belonged to Urney East electoral division, within Strabane dispensary district and the Tyrone portion of Strabane Poor Law Union. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tyrone
Civil parish
Urney
Coordinates
54.78805, -7.54104
Mapped area
0.14 km²
Logainm ID
65222 ↗

People & family history

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

1901 census

11People recorded
3Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • Mc Maglen 8
  • Hunter 2
  • Bogan 1
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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 — Hunterstown. 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.

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