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  2. Counties of Ireland - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Etymological list of counties of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Etymological list of counties of Ireland is a list of the origins of the names of the traditional counties of Ireland, both north and south, including counties that are no longer used. Unless otherwise state, the origin of a name is from Irish.

  4. Provinces of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Éire Nua envisaged a united Ireland that would be created when the British withdrew from Northern Ireland, and the creation of a federal state with assemblies for each of its four historic provinces. The song Ireland's Call is used as a national anthem for sports teams representing the entire island (e.g. Ireland national rugby union team and ...

  5. List of baronies of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The Counties and Boroughs (Ireland) Act 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c.109) provided that the rural area would form a new barony of the adjacent county until the county Grand Jury should decide to allocate it to an existing barony.

  6. Barony (Ireland) - Wikipedia

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    In Ireland, a barony (Irish: barúntacht, plural barúntachtaí [1]) is a historical subdivision of a county, analogous to the hundreds into which the counties of England were divided. Baronies were created during the Tudor reconquest of Ireland , replacing the earlier cantreds formed after the original Norman invasion . [ 2 ]

  7. Plantations of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The traditional counties of Ireland subjected to plantations (from 1556 to 1620). This map is a simplified one, as in the case of some counties the area of land colonised did not cover the whole of the area coloured. A more detailed map of the areas subjected to plantations

  8. Category:Former counties of Ireland - Wikipedia

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  9. Administrative counties of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Administrative counties were a unit of local government created by an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for use in Ireland in 1899. Following the separation of the Irish Free State from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, administrative counties continued in use in the two parts of the island of Ireland under their respective sovereign jurisdictions.