placenamesGurteen
An Goirtín
The original return divides this Lower Ormond townland between Ballingarry and Loughkeen.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
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Recorded forms
- An Goirtín · Irish · main form · validated name
- Gurteen · English · main form
Place & story
Two parish portions in 1911
The 1911 census recorded five inhabitants in Gurteen’s Ballingarry parish portion, three male and two female, in one occupied house. Its Loughkeen portion had twenty inhabitants, eleven male and nine female, in three occupied houses, with a fourth house uninhabited. The area of 728 acres, two roods and thirty-five perches appeared against the Ballingarry entry; an asterisk and footnote included the adjoining parish portion within that area. Both entries belonged to Ballingarry electoral division, Cloghjordan dispensary district and Borrisokane Poor Law Union. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Ormond Lower
- Civil parish
- Ballingarry
- Civil parish
- Loughkeen
- Coordinates
- 53.04084, -8.01722
- Mapped area
- 2.95 km²
- Logainm ID
- 45800 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Gurteen. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland 1911: County Tipperary, Table VII, printed pages 11–12 and area footnote · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by A. Thom & Company, Dublin, 1912
- 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.