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Parish Etymology or likely etymology Townlands Sources Armagh: Irish: Ard Mhacha, meaning 'Macha's height' 24 [2] Ballymore: Irish: an Baile Mór, meaning 'the large settlement' 47 [3] Ballymyre: Irish: Baile an Mhaoir, meaning 'Myre's settlement' 8 [4] Clonfeacle: 18 [5] Creggan: Irish: an Creagán, meaning 'the rocky place' 58 [6] Derrynoose ...
There currently appear to be 113 civil parishes in County Kildare. [14] This includes two civil parishes named Cloncurry, two named Nurney, and two named Tully. Before 1881, there were also civil parishes of Ballybought, Coughlanstown and Jago. [15] Other sources treat Cloncurry, Nurney and Tully all as one civil parish each. [15]
Republic of Ireland: Carlow; Cavan; Clare; Cork; ... Civil parish of Shankill, County Armagh ... Pages in category "Civil parishes of County Armagh"
Armagh (/ ɑːr ˈ m ɑː / ar-MAH; Irish: Ard Mhacha, IPA: [ˌaːɾˠd̪ˠ ˈwaxə], "Macha's height" [3]) is a city and the county town of County Armagh, in Northern Ireland, as well as a civil parish.
In Ireland Counties are divided into Civil Parishes and Parishes are further divided into townlands. The following is a list of townlands in County Armagh , Northern Ireland : [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Contents:
The county covers an area of 1,327 km 2 (512 sq mi), making it the smallest of Northern Ireland's six counties by size and the sixth-smallest county on the island of Ireland. With a population of 194,394 as of the 2021 census , [ 7 ] it is the fourth-most populous county in both Northern Ireland and Ulster.
Shankill is a civil parish and townland (of 173 acres) in County Armagh, Northern Ireland. It is situated in the historic barony of Oneilland East, with one townland in the barony of Iveagh Lower, Upper Half in County Down. [1]
The civil parish was used for census and taxation purposes. [12] The civil parishes were included on the nineteenth-century maps of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland. [13] At the time of the 1861 census there were 2,428 civil parishes in Ireland (average area 34.8 square kilometres (13.4 sq mi; 8,600 acres)). [9]