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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.
This is a list of the counties of Ireland ordered by area. Counties in the Republic of Ireland are shown in normal type, while those in Northern Ireland are listed in italic type. The 32 traditional counties of Ireland
The population of the six counties of Northern Ireland as of 2021 is 1,903,100 [1] which would mean a total population on the island of Ireland as of 2022 of approximately 7,052,314. Data source (as of June 2023): Taken from latest census data for the Republic of Ireland [2] and Northern Ireland. [3] Population data for counties in the Republic ...
Core county for town: County is that in which the municipal area is entirely located. In the case of cities, the namesake county is considered the core county even though the city is administratively separate from it. [6] Other Counties Other counties: For towns whose suburbs/environs span a county boundary, any county other than the core ...
This category relates to counties located in Ireland which are either part of the current local government administration (per the Local Government Act 2001) or were counties as late as the 19th century before their abolition by various acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom
It is Ireland's largest inland county and shares a border with eight counties, more than any other. The population of the county was 167,895 at the 2022 census. [3] The largest towns are Clonmel, Nenagh and Thurles. Tipperary County Council is the local authority for the county. In 1838, County Tipperary was divided into two ridings, North and ...
Ireland is an island in the north Atlantic Ocean, and is surrounded on all sides by the Atlantic and two of its local seas, the Celtic Sea off the island's south coast and the Irish Sea off its east coast. Seventeen counties have an ocean/sea coastline: nine with a coastline on the Atlantic Ocean, seven with an Irish sea coastline and three ...
County Galway (/ ˈ ɡ ɔː l w eɪ / GAWL-way; Irish: Contae na Gaillimhe) is a county in Ireland. It is in the Northern and Western Region, taking up the south of the province of Connacht. The county population was 276,451 at the 2022 census. [5] There are several Irish-speaking areas in the west of the county.