placenames1901 census
539People recorded
121Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
Explore the 1901 records ↗Dundrum
Dún Droma
The Down townland contains the settlement counted separately within its 1926 totals.
Recorded locationDundrum54.25720° N · 5.84676° 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
- Dún Droma · Irish · main form
- Dundrum · English · main form
Place & story
The castle’s strategic hill
Dundrum Castle stands on a wooded hill northwest of the village, overlooking Dundrum Bay. The Department for Communities attributes its foundation to John de Courcy around 1177, retaining uncertainty about the precise date. Its position controlled access to Lecale and the land route between Drogheda and Downpatrick. [2]
Town and townland in 1926
The census recorded 597 inhabitants in Dundrum townland in 1926, 298 male and 299 female. Of its 143 houses, 136 were occupied and seven were empty. The separately listed town had 554 inhabitants, included within those totals. A footnote confirms that it stood on Dundrum townland. The table gives the townland’s area as 298 acres, two roods and ten perches and places it within Dundrum electoral division and Downpatrick Rural District. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Lecale Upper
- Civil parish
- Kilmegan
- Coordinates
- 54.25720, -5.84676
- Mapped area
- 1.23 km²
- Logainm ID
- 66966 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
43People recorded
10Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Curlett 8
- Cardwell 6
- Hassard 5
- Little 5
- Johnston 4
1926 census
This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dundrum. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Dundrum Castle: official monument account, DOW044:006 · Department for Communities
- Census of Northern Ireland 1926: County Down, Table 3, printed page 13 and note (a) · 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.