placenames1901 census
21People recorded
4Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Crothers 8
- McCaw 4
- Ashwood 2
- Fryar 2
- McDowell 2
Derrylough
The County Down report places this Annaclone townland within Banbridge Rural District.
Recorded locationDerrylough54.32702° N · 6.23170° 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
- Derrylough · English · main form
Place & story
Twenty inhabitants
Derrylough had twenty inhabitants in 1926, nine male and eleven female. All four houses were occupied, and its four private families occupied twenty-six rooms. The comparison column records fourteen inhabitants in 1911, also with four houses. The townland appears in Annaclone electoral division, within the Loughbrickland dispensary district and Banbridge Rural District. Its recorded area was 222 acres, two roods and five perches. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Iveagh Upper, Upper Half
- Civil parish
- Annaclone
- Coordinates
- 54.32702, -6.23170
- Mapped area
- 0.9 km²
- Logainm ID
- 66629 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
14People recorded
4Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Crothers 4
- Ashwood 2
- Friar 2
- McCaw 2
- McDowell 2
1926 census
This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Derrylough. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Northern Ireland 1926: County Down, Table 3, printed page 5 · 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 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.