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The Irish grid reference system is a system of geographic grid references used for paper mapping in Ireland (both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland). [1] Any location in Ireland can be described in terms of its distance from the origin (0, 0), which lies off the southwest coast. [ 2 ]
The tax is based upon the assessed market value of the property in May 2013. This valuation is to be used as the basis for a half-year payment in 2013, as well as 3 further full year payments in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
The Irish mile (míle or míle Gaelach) as latterly defined measured exactly 8 Irish furlongs, 320 Irish perches, or 2240 yards: approximately 1.27 statute miles or 2.048 kilometres. [ 29 ] [ 30 ] During the Elizabethan era , 4 Irish miles were generally equated to 5 English ones although whether this meant the old English mile or the shorter ...
Irish Transverse Mercator (ITM) is the geographic coordinate system for Ireland. It was implemented jointly by the Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) and the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI) in 2001. The name is derived from the Transverse Mercator projection it uses and the fact that it is optimised for the island of Ireland.
In most US cities, a city block is between 1 ⁄ 16 and 1 ⁄ 8 mi (100 and 200 m). In Manhattan, the measurement "block" usually refers to a north–south block, which is 1 ⁄ 20 mi (80 m). Sometimes people living in places (like Manhattan) with a regularly spaced street grid will speak of long blocks and short blocks.
A census tract, census area, census district or meshblock [1] is a geographic region defined for the purpose of taking a census. [2] Sometimes these coincide with the limits of cities, towns or other administrative areas [2] and several tracts commonly exist within a county.
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A pallet of "8-inch" concrete blocks An interior wall of painted concrete blocks Concrete masonry blocks A building constructed with concrete masonry blocks. A concrete block, also known as a cinder block in North American English, breeze block in British English, concrete masonry unit (CMU), or by various other terms, is a standard-size rectangular block used in building construction.