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Ireland portal; This is a sortable table of the approximately 1,090 townlands in County Dublin, Ireland. [1] [2]Duplicate names or entries can occur where there is more than one townland with the same name in the county, where a townland crosses a Barony boundary e.g. Roebuck, or sometimes when a townland has an alternate name e.g. Trimleston / Owenstown.
Uppercross (Irish: An Chrois Uachtarach) is a historical barony in southern County Dublin, Ireland. [1]Baronies were mainly cadastral rather than administrative units. They acquired modest local taxation and spending functions in the 19th century before being superseded by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.
Rathmines is an Anglicisation of the Irish Ráth Maonais, meaning "ringfort of Maonas"/"fort of Maonas".The name Maonas is perhaps derived from Maoghnes or the Norman name de Meones, after the de Meones family who settled in Dublin about 1280; Elrington Ball states that the earlier version of the name was Meonesrath, which supports the theory that it was named after the family. [5]
Civil parishes of Uppercross (6 C, 6 P) ... Rathmines; T. Templeogue This page was last edited on 23 October 2018, at 19:20 (UTC). Text is available under ...
The Township of Rathmines was created in 1847, including the districts of Rathmines, Mount Pleasant, Ranelagh, Cullenswood, Rathgar, and Harold's Cross. [1] In 1862, it was extended further into Rathgar and took in the townland of Sallymount, and in 1880 took in the townland of Milltown. [2]
The last boundary change of a barony in Dublin was in 1842, when the barony of Balrothery was divided into Balrothery East and Balrothery West. The largest recorded barony in Dublin in 1872 was Uppercross, at 39,032 acres (157.96 km 2), and the smallest barony was Dublin, at 1,693 acres (6.85 km 2).