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Plan of Dublin Google Map interface; 1821 Maps of the county of Dublin William Duncan 8 sheets. Duncan was commissioned by the Dublin Grand Jury to produce a set of maps of Dublin for administrative and planning uses. Southern 4 sheets [layer "Duncan (1821)"] 1835 Leigh's new pocket road-book of Ireland: Published by Leigh & Son 1836
Map of Local Government Areas in 1898. County boroughs ... Absorbed by Dublin county borough 1900 Howth Urban District Howth East Urban, and Howth West Urban [12]
An independent position of Cook County recorder of deeds was re-created in December 1872. [2] On November 8, 2016, Cook County voters approved a binding referendum to eliminate the office, merging its functions into the purview of the Cook County Clerk. [3] The office formally ceased to exist on December 7, 2020. [4]
Georgian-era buildings in The Monto. Monto was the nickname for the one-time red light district in the northeast of Dublin, Ireland.The Monto was roughly the area bounded by Talbot Street, Amiens Street, Gardiner Street and Seán McDermott Street (formerly Gloucester Street) in what would now be called Summerhill.
The Public Records Office of Ireland c. 1900. In 1867, under the reign of Queen Victoria, the British Parliament passed the Public Records (Ireland) Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 70) to establish the Public Record Office of Ireland which was tasked with collecting administrative, court and probate records over twenty years old. [5]
The Dublin Historical Record is a history journal established in 1938 and published biannually by the Old Dublin Society. [1] Its focus is on the History of Dublin and it is considered to be a "learned journal".
Churchtown has a number of shops and pubs, including a mid-size supermarket, [6] which has one of Dublin's few kosher sales facilities. [citation needed] It is also one of Dublin's centres for the driving test with the highest pass rate in the county, the ninth highest in Ireland, at 48.31%. [7]
Christ Church Cathedral (exterior) Siege of Dublin, 1535. The Earl of Kildare's attempt to seize control of Ireland reignited English interest in the island. After the Anglo-Normans taking of Dublin in 1171, many of the city's Norse inhabitants left the old city, which was on the south side of the river Liffey and built their own settlement on the north side, known as Ostmantown or "Oxmantown".