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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 parishes in County Londonderry , Northern Ireland : [ 1 ] Contents:
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]
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.
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