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
Inis Córthaidh· Irish · main form · validated name
Enniscorthy· English · main form
Place & story
A divided river town
Enniscorthy spreads across the Slaney. Lewis’s 1837 entry places St Mary’s parish on one side and Templeshannon on the other, describing a town whose streets and institutions developed on both banks.[2]
Castle and property histories
The directory follows claims involving the Prendergasts, the bishop of Ferns, the Kavanaghs and later grantees. The castle’s history is consequently also a history of property rights and jurisdiction. Lewis repeats competing attributions about its origin, which require independent architectural evidence before one builder is named confidently. A succession of owners does not prove that every household in the town belonged to those families or had a direct connection to the castle.[2]
People & connections
Eileen Gray at Brownswood
The designer and architect Eileen Gray was born at Brownswood near Enniscorthy in 1878. The castle museum’s exhibition connects that local birthplace with her later work in London and France. Her childhood surname was Smith; her family’s later adoption of Gray followed her mother’s inheritance of a Scottish title. The Dictionary of Irish Architects distinguishes this family history from her subsequent professional identity.[3][4]
Gray settled in Paris in 1902 and became known for furniture, interiors and modernist architecture. The Enniscorthy exhibition includes her lacquer work and carpets alongside the better-known steel-and-glass table and Bibendum chair.[3][4]
Both counts use the 2016 settlement boundary, allowing like-for-like comparison. CSO supplies the 2022 count on this older boundary for comparison only. The official 2022 Built Up Area has different boundaries.
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Enniscorthy — Census 2016 settlement footprint — census population
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Enniscorthy Legal Town, Wexford — Legal town, CSO 2006 report — census population
Enniscorthy Environs, Wexford — Town environs only, CSO 2006 report
2002–2006: town environs only
6,297people · 2006
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Enniscorthy Environs, Wexford — Town environs only, CSO 2006 report — census population
Enniscorthy Legal Town and Environs, Wexford — Legal town and environs, CSO 2006 report
2002–2006: legal town and environs
9,538people · 2006
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Enniscorthy Legal Town and Environs, Wexford — Legal town and environs, CSO 2006 report — census population
Enniscorthy, Wexford — Census town, CSO 2006 report
2002–2006: census town
9,538people · 2006
These are the historical areas published in the 2006 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Enniscorthy, Wexford — Census town, CSO 2006 report — census population
These are the historical areas published in the 1996 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Enniscorthy Legal Town, Wexford — Legal town, CSO 1996 report — census population
Enniscorthy Environs, Wexford — Town environs only, CSO 1996 report
1991–1996: town environs only
3,852people · 1996
These are the historical areas published in the 1996 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Enniscorthy Environs, Wexford — Town environs only, CSO 1996 report — census population
Enniscorthy Legal Town and Environs, Wexford — Legal town and environs, CSO 1996 report
1991–1996: legal town and environs
7,640people · 1996
These are the historical areas published in the 1996 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Enniscorthy Legal Town and Environs, Wexford — Legal town and environs, CSO 1996 report — census population
Enniscorthy, Wexford — Census town, CSO 1996 report
1991–1996: census town
7,640people · 1996
These are the historical areas published in the 1996 census report. Boundaries may differ between censuses and from modern settlements. Legal towns, environs and suburbs are shown separately; none has been combined into a modern settlement total.
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Enniscorthy, Wexford — Census town, CSO 1996 report — census population
Figures cover the historical town area printed in the 1986 report. Boundaries may have changed between censuses. Legal town, environs and suburb totals remain separate and differ from modern settlement boundaries.
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Enniscorthy, Wexford — Legal town, CSO 1986 report — census population
Enniscorthy, Wexford — Town environs only, CSO 1986 report
1981–1986: town environs only
3,270people · 1986
Figures cover the historical town area printed in the 1986 report. Boundaries may have changed between censuses. Legal town, environs and suburb totals remain separate and differ from modern settlement boundaries.
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Enniscorthy, Wexford — Town environs only, CSO 1986 report — census population
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Enniscorthy, Wexford — 2011 legal town and environs; 2016 census settlement
Published census settlement populations
11,381people · 2016
Settlement boundaries changed during this period. Differences may reflect boundary changes as well as population change. Where a 2011 legal-town-and-environs count is shown, it has not been recalculated onto the 2016 settlement boundary.
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Enniscorthy, Wexford — 2011 legal town and environs; 2016 census settlement — census population
Enniscorthy Castle, County Wexford illustration: based on a Enniscorthy Castle by Colin Park. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
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