Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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:
The destruction of the Public Records Office in the Four Courts in 1922 destroyed all surviving Irish census records from before the 1901 census, and most Church of Ireland records, with rare exceptions. Munterconnaught's census records from 1821 survived the inferno significantly intact along with some other parishes in Cavan. [3] [4]
The civil parishes had some use in local taxation and were included on the nineteenth century maps of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. [6] For poor law purposes, district electoral divisions replaced the civil parishes in the mid-nineteenth century. There are 199 civil parishes in the county. [7]
Lambeg (historically Lanbeg, from Irish Lann Bheag 'little church') [1] is a small village and civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Located between Belfast and Lisburn, it was once a small rural village, but is now within the Greater Belfast conurbation. Lambeg is also an electoral ward of Lisburn Council.
This category is for civil or geographic parishes. For church buildings or congregations see Category:Churches in the Republic of Ireland. Subcategories.
List of civil parishes of Ireland; F. List of civil parishes in Fingal This page was last edited on 7 April 2023, at 11:42 (UTC). Text ...