placenamesCarn
The original census records a modest increase in people and occupied houses between 1841 and 1851.
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
- Carn · English · main form
Place & story
Sixteen people and a house being built
The 1851 census lists Carn under Boho parish in Clanawley barony. Its sixteen inhabitants comprised ten males and six females, compared with six males and four females in 1841. Three houses were occupied in 1851 and another was being built; a decade earlier there had been two inhabited houses. The return offers a precise early snapshot of this small townland. It records the increase without explaining the movement of families or identifying the unfinished house. [2]
Geographic information
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Carn. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland1851: County Fermanagh, opening townland table, Boho parish · Her Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Alexander Thom, Dublin, 1852
- 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 2019-06-27. How this page was prepared.