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The South-West is a strategic planning area within the Southern Region in Ireland. It is a NUTS Level III statistical region of Ireland (coded IE053). [ 1][ 2] It includes the city of Cork and the counties of Cork and Kerry. The South-West region spans 12,120 km 2 (4,680 sq mi), roughly 16% of the total area of the state and according to the ...
This image is a derivative work of the following images: File:Ireland_location_map.svg licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0, GFDL . 2009-09-01T18:04:48Z NordNordWest 1450x1807 (612809 Bytes)
County Cork. County Cork (Irish: Contae Chorcaí) is the largest and the southernmost county of Ireland, named after the city of Cork, the state's second-largest city. It is in the province of Munster and the Southern Region. Its largest market towns are Mallow, Macroom, Midleton, and Skibbereen. As of 2022, the county had a population of ...
Geography of Ireland. 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. Its main geographical features include low central plains surrounded by ...
www.donegal.ie. Coontie Dunnygal[4][5] is an Ulster Scots spelling. County Donegal (/ ˌdʌniˈɡɔːl, ˌdɒn -/ DUN-ee-GAWL, DON-; Irish: Contae Dhún na nGall) [6] is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster and in the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the town of Donegal in the south of the county.
Counties. There are four provinces of Ireland: Connacht, Leinster, Munster and Ulster. The Irish word for this territorial division, cúige, meaning "fifth part", suggests that there were once five, and at times Meath has been considered to be the fifth province. In the medieval period, however, there were often more than five.
Republic of Ireland. The Irish Free State (6 December 1922 – 29 December 1937), also known by its Irish name Saorstát Éireann (English: / ˌsɛərstɑːt ˈɛərən / SAIR-staht AIR-ən, [4] Irish: [ˈsˠiːɾˠsˠt̪ˠaːt̪ˠ ˈeːɾʲən̪ˠ]), was a state established in December 1922 under the Anglo-Irish Treaty of December 1921. The ...
The boundaries of the traditional counties changed on a number of occasions. The 1898 Act changed the boundaries of Counties Galway, Clare, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo, Waterford, Kilkenny, Meath and Louth, and others. County Tipperary was divided into two regions: North Riding and South Riding.