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The name is derived from Dún ná Lethglas, the capital of the Dál Fiatach, now modern day Downpatrick. [3] Dublin. 1185. Leinster. Áth Cliath/Duibhlinn. Named after the city of Dublin, which comes from Duibhlinn, meaning "black pool". Áth Cliath means "hurdled ford" and is the main Irish name for Dublin. Fermanagh.
The counties of Ireland (Irish: Contaetha na hÉireann) are historic administrative divisions of the island. They began as Norman structures, and as the powers exercised by the Cambro-Norman barons and the Old English nobility waned over time, new offices of political control came to be established at a county level.
Retrieved 28 October 2023. Area (Cork County: 7,467.91 km2 / Cork City: 39.61 km2. ^ "County Profiles – Galway". Western Development Commission. Archived from the original on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 2 June 2021. ^ "County Profiles – Mayo".
This is a list of nicknames for the traditional counties of Ireland and their inhabitants. The nicknames are mainly used with reference to the county's representative team in gaelic games organised by the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA). A few of the names are quite old and well-known; most are recent coinages mainly used by journalists.
Counties of Ireland. There are 32 "traditional" counties in Ireland: 26 in the Republic of Ireland and 6 in Northern Ireland. There are 29 counties that demarcate areas of local government in the Republic of Ireland. Counties are no longer used to demarcate areas of local government in Northern Ireland. Wikimedia Commons has media related to ...
v. t. e. The early medieval history of Ireland, often referred to as Early Christian Ireland, spans the 5th to 8th centuries, from the gradual emergence out of the protohistoric period (Ogham inscriptions in Primitive Irish, mentions in Greco-Roman ethnography) to the beginning of the Viking Age. The period includes the Hiberno-Scottish mission ...
The English administration in Ireland in the years following the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland created counties as the major subdivisions of an Irish province. [6] This process lasted a period from the 13th to 17th centuries; however, the number and shape of the counties that would form the future Northern Ireland would not be defined until the Flight of the Earls allowed the shiring of ...
The 32 traditional counties of Ireland. This is a list of counties of Ireland ordered by population. Counties in the Republic of Ireland are shown in normal type, while those in Northern Ireland are listed in italic type. Non-traditional administrative counties are indicated by a cream-coloured background.