placenamesEdenderry
The original 1926 return distinguishes this rural Edenderry from the namesakes at Banbridge and beside the Lagan.
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
- Edenderry · English · main form
Place & story
Fifty-three inhabitants in 1926
Edenderry had fifty-three inhabitants in 1926, twenty-five male and twenty-eight female. Fifteen houses were occupied and one was empty; the census counted fifteen private families. The comparative 1911 column gives forty-nine inhabitants and seventeen houses. Listed within Scarva electoral division, Loughbrickland dispensary district and Banbridge Rural District, the townland had a recorded area of 263 acres, one rood and nine perches. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Down
- Barony
- Iveagh Upper, Upper Half
- Civil parish
- Aghaderg
- Coordinates
- 54.32211, -6.33668
- Mapped area
- 1.05 km²
- Logainm ID
- 66605 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Edenderry. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Northern Ireland 1926: County Down, Table 3, printed page 8 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office, Belfast, 1928
- 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.