placenames1901 census
No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Dysert
An Díseart
This townland near Kilrush belongs to Clonderalaw barony, separate from Dysert O’Dea in Inchiquin.
Recorded locationDysert52.63002° N · 9.44799° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
The name
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Recorded forms
- An Díseart · Irish · main form
- Dysert · English · main form
Place & story
A Kilrush Rural return
Dysert had fifty inhabitants in 1901, thirty male and twenty female, in ten houses, all occupied. Its population had been fifty-eight in 1881 and fifty-nine in 1891, with eleven houses at each earlier census. The return places it in Killimer parish and Clonderalaw barony, within Kilrush Rural electoral division, Kilrush dispensary district and Kilrush Poor Law Union. Its recorded area was 269 acres, one rood and twenty-four perches. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Clare
- Barony
- Clonderalaw
- Civil parish
- Killimer
- Coordinates
- 52.63002, -9.44799
- Mapped area
- 1.1 km²
- Logainm ID
- 7196 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
47People recorded
9Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
Explore the 1911 records ↗1926 census
No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Dysert. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1901: County Clare, Table VII, printed page 50 · Census Commissioners, Ireland, 1902
- 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 2011-05-05. How this page was prepared.