placenames1901 census
120People recorded
24Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Murphy 12
- Crowley 10
- Hickey 9
- O Callaghan 8
- Chinnery 7
Castletown
Baile an Chaisleáin
The original census describes the townland separately from its wider electoral division.
Recorded locationCastletown51.76549° N · 8.94796° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie
The name
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
- Baile an Chaisleáin · Irish · main form · validated name
- Castletown · English · main form
- Castletown Kinneigh · English · main form · local name
Place & story
Twenty-four inhabited houses
Castletown’s 1901 census entry records 120 inhabitants, sixty-three male and fifty-seven female. Twenty-four of its twenty-five houses were inhabited and one was empty. The table lists 157 residents in 1881 and 141 in 1891, when thirty and twenty-seven houses were recorded respectively. The townland appears in Kinneigh parish and Castletown electoral division, within Dunmanway Union. The electoral division contained 645 people; that larger total should not be taken as the population of Castletown townland. [2]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Townland
- County
- Cork
- Barony
- Carbery East (W.D.)
- Civil parish
- Kinneigh
- Within
- Castletown
- Coordinates
- 51.76549, -8.94796
- Mapped area
- 1.87 km²
- Logainm ID
- 9802 ↗
People & family history
Census figures refer to the matched historical census area for each year. Boundaries and spellings can change over time.
1911 census
No verified place match is available for this year. This does not indicate a population of zero.
1926 census
87People recorded
21Households recorded
Most frequent surnames in this year’s matched records
- Fehily 9
- O'Callaghan 9
- Crowley 8
- Dwyer 6
- Warren 6
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Castletown. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Census of Ireland1901: County and City of Cork, printed p57 · His Majesty’s Stationery Office; printed by Cahill & Company
- Boundary geometry retains its source attribution and licence in the downloadable geographic record. Map tiles © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Wet country lane near Castletown Kinneigh, County Cork illustration: based on a Minor road near Castletown by Steven Brown. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.