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The following table and map show the areas in Ireland, previously designated as Cities, Boroughs, or Towns in the Local Government Act 2001. Under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, Ireland had a two-tier system of local authorities. The first tier consisted of administrative counties and county boroughs.
In Irish, the counties are known as contaetha, the singular of which is contae. Irish versions of county names only have official status in the Republic of Ireland. Most of the counties were named after a town in that county (commonly referred to as a county town); usually an administrative centre.
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.
The earliest record of geographical names in Ireland is found in the Geography composed by Claudius Ptolemaeus of Alexandria in about the year 150 AD. Ptolemy mentions 47 names in the country, including toponyms and ethnonyms, but the corrupt nature of the manuscript forms makes identification problem-atic.
31 Αυγ 2022 · IN ENGLISH, the names of Irish counties may seem like they have no meaning- this is not the case. All of the counties on the island of Ireland are derived from Irish phrases or words which give the background to each area, from describing the geographical location or referencing its founder, to naming its rivers or trees or describing its ...
The 26 counties that made up the Irish Free State became the Republic of Ireland in 1949. List of Irish Counties. Here is a complete list of the counties in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. We’ll include each county’s native Irish name and the province and region where it is located.
This historical maps viewer can be used to search and browse seven historical OSNI maps and four modern basemaps, including aerial imagery. Maps available cover the six counties of present-day Northern Ireland: counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone.
