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Whitechurch is usually considered to lie within the greater Rathfarnham area. Whitechurch is in a townland and civil parish of the same name. [1] The name of the area is derived its name from a small white church in Kilmashogue, built near an ancient cairn (which is a protected monument). Little remains of the church.
The map was completed by Charles Brooking (1677–1738), an engraver, illustrator and map maker of English origin, and printed in London by John Bowles at The Mercer's Hall in 1728. [1] Brooking is recorded as working at Greenwich Hospital (London) between 1729 and 1736 as a painter and decorator.
Thomas Colby, the long-serving Director-General of the Ordnance Survey in Great Britain, was the first to suggest that the Ordnance Survey be used to map Ireland. A highly detailed survey of the whole of Ireland would be extremely useful for the British government, both as a key element in the process of levying local taxes based on land ...
Google Map interface – North county Dublin; Google Map interface – South county Dublin; 1885 Plan of Dublin Google Map interface; 1885 Environs of Dublin By Edward Weller F.R.G.S. Google Map interface; 1888 German map of Dublin: 1893 Insurance Plan of the City of Dublin Charles E. Goad: 1895 Bacon's Large Scale Plan of Dublin for Cyclists ...
County Dublin had a population of 1,458,154, [167] and the population of the Greater Dublin Area was 2,082,605. [ 168 ] [ 169 ] Of the population of Dublin city and its suburbs, 62.9% (794,925) were born in Dublin, 26.6% (336,021) were born outside of Ireland, while the remaining 10.5% (132,273) were born in a county other than Dublin.
The 2003 Regional Planning Guidelines referred to the Greater Dublin Area as a planning district separated into a "metropolitan area" and a "hinterland area". [ 2 ] The "metropolitan area" included both suburbs and commuter towns , covering the area from Swords and Malahide in Fingal , to Greystones in County Wicklow in the south, and as far ...
Dublin is a strategic planning area within the Eastern and Midland Region. [ 5 ] Although the Electoral Commission should, as far as practicable, avoid breaching county boundaries when recommending Dáil constituencies , this does not include the boundaries of a city or the boundary between the three counties in Dublin.
As early as 1326, St Kevin's Gate is recorded as being one of the gates into the city of Dublin. [5]Later the street was known as "Kevin's Port" (also spelled "Kevan’s") a reference to nearby St. Kevin's Church [6] and is detailed as such on the Down Survey map of 1655.