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The urban and rural districts of Northern Ireland were created in 1899 when the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 came into effect. They were based on the system of district councils introduced in England and Wales four years earlier.
District County Population Households Land area (km 2) [4] Density (/km 2) Classification [2] Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area [a] Antrim and Newtownabbey Belfast Lisburn and Castlereagh Mid and East Antrim Ards and North Down: County Antrim County Down: 704,406: Belfast Urban Area [b] Antrim and Newtownabbey Belfast Lisburn and Castlereagh ...
Local government districts of Northern Ireland. Each district in this image is numbered, with the numbers corresponding to those in the table below. The 11 districts first had their boundaries determined in 2012. Elections were held to the new councils in 2014, and they assumed the powers of the previous councils in 2015. [1]
In Northern Ireland respondents were given a list of options (including British, Irish, and Northern Irish) from which they could choose as many as they wanted. Irish national identity was numerically in a majority in two districts, Derry and Newry, where 55.03% and 52.09% respectively consider themselves as having an Irish national identity. [1]
Many others in Northern Ireland view people from the Republic of Ireland as being members of their common nation encompassing the island of Ireland and regard the English, Scots and Welsh as foreigners. Co-existing with this dichotomy is a Northern Irish identity, which can be held alone or, as is also the case with Englishness, Scottishness ...
In Northern Ireland, both urban and rural districts were abolished in 1973. In the Republic of Ireland , which had left the United Kingdom in 1922 as the Irish Free State , rural districts were abolished in the Irish Free State in 1925, except in County Dublin, where they were abolished in 1930.
The English administration in Ireland in the years following the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland created counties as the major subdivisions of an Irish province. [6] This process lasted from the 13th to 17th centuries; however, the number and shape of the counties that would form the future Northern Ireland would not be defined until the Flight of the Earls allowed the shiring of Ulster from ...
The system was based on the recommendations of the Macrory Report, of June 1970, which presupposed the continued existence of the Government of Northern Ireland to act as a regional-level authority. Northern Ireland was to be divided into twenty-six local government districts, each consisting of a number of wards. The Act did not define the ...