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Dungarvan

Dún Garbháin

The rural townland appears separately from neighbouring Dungarvan Glebe in the census.

Recorded locationDungarvan52.59188° N · 7.09224° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

dúnfort

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 Garbháin · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Dungarvan · English · main form

Place & story

Ninety-four inhabitants in 1911

Dungarvan had ninety-four inhabitants in 1911, fifty-four male and forty female. Twenty-five of its twenty-seven houses were occupied and two were empty. Its population had been 104 in 1891 and 106 in 1901. The table places the townland in Dungarvan parish and Gowran barony, under Bennettsbridge electoral division and Thomastown dispensary district and Poor Law Union. Its recorded area was 487 acres and thirty-five perches. [2]

Joining the Gowran school

Gowran National School’s own history records an amalgamation with Dungarvan in 1967. The receiving school’s building dated from 1958 and gained an extension in 1979. This later connection links Dungarvan’s educational history with neighbouring Gowran; it does not place the Gowran school building within Dungarvan townland. [3]

Geographic information

Place type
Townland
County
Kilkenny
Barony
Gowran
Civil parish
Dungarvan
Coordinates
52.59188, -7.09224
Mapped area
1.97 km²
Logainm ID
27136 ↗

People & family history

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

1911 census

No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Dungarvan. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Census of Ireland 1911: County Kilkenny, Table VII, printed page 40 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by the Athlone Printing Works Company, 1912
  3. Scoil Mhuire National School, Gowran: school history · Scoil Mhuire National School, Gowran
  4. 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.