placenames1901 census
23People recorded
8Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Cochrane 11
- McClury 4
- Woodburn 3
- Leay 2
- Graham 1
Inch
Inis
The townland contains Inch Abbey on the north bank of the Quoile, near Downpatrick.
Recorded locationInch54.33325° N · 5.74046° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
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
- Inis · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Inch · English · main form
Place & story
The surviving abbey
The Department for Communities attributes Inch Abbey’s foundation to John de Courcy, as atonement for destroying Erenagh Abbey to the south. It dates the surviving buildings mainly to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries and considers the church likely to predate Grey Abbey’s church, built around 1193. [2]
Excavating the precinct
Declan P. Hurl’s 1993 excavation report describes medieval structures and industrial activity north of the abbey precinct, dated by pottery and a coin. Earlier ditches and a large pit lay beneath them. Trenches at the west range found considerable later disturbance and an older ditch passing beneath the cloister walk’s west wall. These excavated features show successive uses of the site beyond the standing ruins. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Lecale Lower
- Civil parish
- Inch
- Coordinates
- 54.33325, -5.74046
- Mapped area
- 2.26 km²
- Logainm ID
- 66862 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
29People recorded
6Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Cargo 8
- Cochrane 7
- Cocharane 4
- Ferguson 4
- McClurg 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 — Inch. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Inch Abbey: official heritage-site record · Department for Communities
- 1993:041 — Inch, County Down · Declan P. Hurl, Historic Monuments, Department of the Environment (Northern Ireland); published by Wordwell
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Surviving east window wall inside Inch Abbey, County Down illustration: based on a Inch Abbey by N Chadwick. 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.