placenamesHolywood
Ard Mhic Nasca
The 1926 return divides the townland between Holywood’s urban and rural electoral divisions.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Ard Mhic Nasca · Irish · main form · validated name
- Holywood · English · main form
Place & story
The rural portion
Holywood’s rural townland portion had 163 inhabitants in 1926, eighty male and eighty-three female. Its thirty-five houses comprised thirty-three inhabited, one uninhabited and one under construction. The return gave this portion an area of 591 acres, three roods and thirty-two perches and a 1911 population of 148. It belonged to Holywood Rural electoral division in Castlereagh Rural District. [2]
The urban boundary
A footnote identifies the remainder of Holywood townland within Holywood Urban electoral division. The urban district’s population of 4,823 covered portions of both Holywood and Ballykeel townlands; the table does not give a separate population for Holywood’s urban townland portion. That district total therefore describes a wider area than this townland. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Castlereagh Lower
- Civil parish
- Holywood
- Coordinates
- 54.63545, -5.83742
- Mapped area
- 3.58 km²
- Logainm ID
- 66065 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Holywood. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Northern Ireland 1926: County Down, Table 3, printed pages 3 and 10, townland division footnotes · Government of Northern Ireland; His Majesty’s Stationery Office, Belfast, 1928
- 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 2019-10-15. How this page was prepared.