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Bullaun

An Ballán

The census distinguishes this Clare barony locality from Bullaun near Loughrea.

Recorded locationBullaun53.40999° N · 8.84939° 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

  • An Ballán · Irish · main form · non-validated name
  • Bullaun · English · main form

Place & story

Twenty-one houses in 1911

The original 1911 census records Bullaun in Kilmoylan parish and electoral division, in Galway’s barony of Clare. It lists eighty-one residents, forty-three male and thirty-eight female, across eighteen inhabited houses. Three further houses were uninhabited. Its area was recorded as 753 acres and six perches. [2]

Changing numbers of houses and residents

The same table gives fifty-nine people and ten houses in 1891, followed by sixty-three people and ten houses in 1901. By 1911 both the population and the number of houses had increased. The figures apply to this Kilmoylan townland, rather than the Bullaun parish and village associated with Loughrea. They establish the scale of the change without explaining its cause. [2]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Galway
Barony
Clare
Civil parish
Kilmoylan
Within
Kilmoylan
Coordinates
53.40999, -8.84939
Mapped area
3.1 km²
Logainm ID
21850 ↗

People & family history

Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Bullaun. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Galway, printed p100 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by the Athlone Printing Works Company, 1912
  3. 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 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.