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Townland

Carrigans

The Tyrone townland has a separate history from Carrigans beside the Foyle in Donegal.

Watercolour and fine ink view of black-and-white cattle behind a wire fence in green pasture at Carrigans beside Tattynure Road.
Illustration, cattle pasture at Carrigans, County Tyrone
Recorded locationCarrigans54.68104° N · 7.33938° 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

  • Carrigans · English · main form

Place & story

The Dunbreen division return

The 1911 census places Carrigans in Cappagh parish, Strabane Upper barony and Dunbreen electoral division. It records seventy-one inhabitants, thirty-three male and thirty-eight female, in twenty occupied houses. Five other houses were empty. The population had been 125 in 1891 and 105 in 1901. This return belongs to the Tyrone townland near Omagh, rather than Carrigans in Donegal. Its figures document the reduction in residents without identifying the reasons for it. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Tyrone
Civil parish
Cappagh
Coordinates
54.68104, -7.33938
Mapped area
3.53 km²
Logainm ID
65366 ↗

People & family history

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

1911 census

71People recorded
20Households recorded

Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records

  • McFarland 11
  • Lynch 7
  • McCollum 7
  • O'Lone 6
  • Barber 5
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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 — Carrigans. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland1911: County Tyrone, printed p44 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by A. Thom & Co., 1912
  3. Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
  4. Cattle pasture beside Tattynure Road at Carrigans, County Tyrone illustration: based on a Cattle, Carrigans 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.