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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.
Ireland's four professional rugby teams in the United Rugby Championship play under the names of the provinces. The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) has separate provincial councils and its county teams contest provincial championships. [27] Six of the nine Ulster counties form modern-day Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom.
In Ireland Counties are divided into civil parishes and parishes are further divided into townlands. The following is a list of parishes in County Tyrone , Northern Ireland : [ 1 ] Contents:
Ireland is an island in Northern Europe in the north Atlantic Ocean.The island, of up to around 480 km (300 mi) north-south, and 275 km (171 mi) east-west, lies near the western edge of the European continental shelf, part of the Eurasian Plate.
A map showing the current Irish border. The repartition of Ireland has been suggested as a possible solution to the conflict in Northern Ireland.In 1922 Ireland was partitioned on county lines, and left Northern Ireland with a mixture of both unionists, who wish to remain in the United Kingdom, and nationalists, who wish to join a United Ireland.
Ordnance Survey of Ireland. 1833–1846. Archived from the original on 29 August 2012 (Zoom in to scale of 10,000:1 or less, to show 6-inch maps from 1833–46 with parish boundaries in blue.) "Memorial Atlas of Ireland (L.J. Richards & Company, Philadelphia)". NUI Galway. 2014 [1901].
County Galway (/ ˈ ɡ ɔː l w eɪ / GAWL-way; Irish: Contae na Gaillimhe) is a county in Ireland. It is in the Northern and Western Region, taking up the south of the province of Connacht. The county population was 276,451 at the 2022 census. [5] There are several Irish-speaking areas in the west of the county.
This template consists of a labeled map of the Counties of Ireland combined with a 37 Kilobyte imagemap to be used for navigation. The size of the imagemap polygon coding is very large and may present editing problems for users not familiar with this method of providing navigation; for general ease of article editing it is transcluded via this template rather than placed directly in articles.