placenames1901 census
No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Greencastle
Caisleán na hOireanaí
The 1926 census records the Down townland separately from the wider Greencastle electoral division.
Recorded locationGreencastle54.04242° N · 6.09388° 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.
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Recorded forms
- Caisleán na hOireanaí · Irish · main form
- Greencastle · English · main form
Place & story
Forty-six occupied houses in 1926
Greencastle had 185 inhabitants in 1926, ninety-seven male and eighty-eight female. Of its fifty houses, forty-six were inhabited and four uninhabited. The return recorded forty-six private families occupying 219 rooms. It also gave the townland’s 1911 population as 251 and its house count that year as sixty-three. Its area was 633 acres and thirty-six perches. Greencastle belonged to Greencastle electoral division in Kilkeel Rural District, within Kilkeel No. 2 dispensary district. [2]
Geographic information
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
251People recorded
51Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- McGivern 30
- Cunningham 28
- Sloan 26
- Clarke 17
- Harper 13
1926 census
This year is outside the available dataset’s coverage. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Greencastle. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Northern Ireland 1926: County Down, Table 3, printed page 24 · 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.
- Greencastle Royal Castle, County Down illustration: based on a Greencastle Royal Castle from the Greencastle Pier Road by Eric Jones. 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.