placenames1901 census
46People recorded
10Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Barrett 9
- Rowan 7
- McLoughlin 6
- Price 5
- Gibbons 4
Castlehill
Caorthannán
An estate record connects the Castlehill residence with holdings extending into Erris.
Recorded locationCastlehill54.04969° N · 9.31716° 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
- Caorthannán · Irish · main form · non-validated name
- Castlehill · English · main form
Place & story
Land beyond the home townland
The University of Galway’s Landed Estates record identifies Castlehill as a residence of the Walsh family. It records that the family inherited part of the Cormack estate in the late 1830s, including land in Crossmolina parish and in the Erris parishes of Kilcommon and Kilmore. In 1876 John Cormack Walsh owned 6,472 acres in County Mayo. That figure describes his countywide property, rather than the area of Castlehill townland. [2]
Congested Districts’ Board purchases
The same record states that the Congested Districts’ Board purchased more than one thousand acres of Walsh property in November 1906, followed by part of the Iniskea Islands in 1907. These transactions concern the wider estate associated with Castlehill; they do not establish that all the home townland was sold. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Mayo
- Barony
- Tirawley
- Civil parish
- Addergoole
- Civil parish
- Crossmolina
- Within
- Crossmolina South
- Coordinates
- 54.04969, -9.31716
- Mapped area
- 3.03 km²
- Logainm ID
- 34341 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
32People recorded
10Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Barrett 5
- Kinsella 5
- Rowan 5
- Cormac-Walshe 3
- McLoughlin 3
1926 census
50People recorded
11Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
Explore the 1926 records ↗Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castlehill. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Walsh (Castlehill), estate337 · University of Galway, Landed Estates Database
- 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.