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This is a link page for cities, towns and villages in the Republic of Ireland, including townships or urban centres in Dublin, Cork, Limerick, Galway, Waterford and other major urban areas. Cities are shown in bold ; see City status in Ireland for an independent list.
Massive emigration, often called the Irish diaspora, from Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries resulted in many towns and regions being named or renamed after places in Ireland. The following place names sometimes share strong ties with the original place name.
For towns whose suburbs/environs span a county boundary, any county other than the core county. [6] [7] 2011 Tot Total population in 2011. Sum of the municipal population and the suburban population. [6] Tot area Total area of the town: 2011 area in square kilometres (km 2). Only for towns with a total population of at least 1,500. [8] Tot dens
Map of the United States with Florida highlighted Map of Florida's municipalities. Florida is a state located in the Southern United States. There are 267 cities, 123 towns, and 21 villages in the U.S. state of Florida, a total of 411 municipalities. [1] They are distributed across 67 counties, in addition to 66 county governments. [2]
1 Large cities with the highest percentage of Irish ancestry. 2 Medium-size cities. 3 Small cities, towns, and villages. 4 See also. 5 ... Download as PDF; Printable ...
The term baile, anglicised as "bally", is the most dominant element used in Irish townland names. [14] Today, the term "bally" denotes an urban settlement, but its precise meaning in ancient Ireland is unclear, as towns had no place in Gaelic social organisation. [14] The modern Irish term for a townland is baile fearainn (plural: bailte fearainn).
The Irish words then had the same meaning and same force and effect as the place-name. [clarification needed] This order lists a little fewer than 2,000 place-names, many of which were changed from the Irish form used since independence, e.g. Bray went from Brí Chualann to Bré and Naas changed from Nás na Rí to An Nás.
This is a list of places in Republic of Ireland which have standing links to local communities in other countries known as "town twinning" (usually in Europe) or "sister cities" (usually in the rest of the world).