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The civil parish was used for census and taxation purposes. [12] The civil parishes were included on the nineteenth-century maps of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. [13] At the time of the 1861 census there were 2,428 civil parishes in Ireland (average area 34.8 square kilometres (13.4 sq mi; 8,600 acres)). [9]
Civil parishes in Ireland are based on the medieval Christian parishes, adapted by the English administration and by the Church of Ireland. [1] The parishes, their division into townlands and their grouping into baronies, were recorded in the Down Survey undertaken in 1656–58 by surveyors under William Petty.
In Ireland Counties are divided into civil parishes and parishes are further divided into townlands. The following is a list of civil parishes in County Antrim , Northern Ireland : [ 1 ] Contents:
Lurgan is a civil parish and electoral division in County Cavan, Ireland. Lurgan is also part of the historical barony of Castlerahan . [ 1 ] The Catholic parish of Lurgan is also sometimes called Virginia , after the largest town in the parish and surrounding area.
Ballingarry (Irish: Baile an Gharraí, meaning 'town of the garden') [2] is a village and civil parish in County Tipperary, Ireland.Ballingarry is one of 19 civil parishes in the barony of Slievardagh, and also an ecclesiastical parish in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly.
In Ireland, the counties are divided into civil parishes and parishes are further divided into townlands. The following is a list of parishes in County Armagh . [ 1 ]
Templemichael (Irish: Teampall Mhichíl) [1] is a civil parish in County Cork, Ireland. [2] [3] Listed in some records as "Templemichael De Duagh" or "St. Michael de Dowagh", [1] it is located within the historical barony of Kinalea, near Innishannon. [4]
Ireland portal; This category is for civil or geographic parishes. For ecclesiastical parishes see Category:Church parishes in Ireland. For church buildings or congregations see Category:Churches in Ireland.