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The Supreme Court of Judicature Act (Ireland) 1877 (40 & 41 Vict. c. 57) abolished this court and made its judges Land Judges of the Chancery Division of the Supreme Court of Judicature. [3] Responsibility for administration and initial proceedings was then transferred from the courts to the Land Commission , set up under the Land Law (Ireland ...
A county registrar (Irish: Cláraitheoir an Chontae) is an official attached to the Irish Circuit Court [1] [2] who carries out a number of quasi-judicial and administrative functions regarding the functioning of the court [3] within their assigned county or counties. [4]
In other cases, the English name was changed for another (for example King's County became County Offaly, which comes from the Irish Uíbh Fhailí). Although most of the changes were accepted by the wider public, some did not catch on and were eventually undone. The Local Government Act 1946 allowed locals to petition for a name change.
Massive emigration, often called the Irish diaspora, from Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries resulted in many towns and regions being named or renamed after places in Ireland. The following place names sometimes share strong ties with the original place name.
The area had formerly been occupied by the Turf Lodge Farm and so the name was retained for the new estate. [21] Much of the housing was of a low standard, consisting of blocks of flats and maisonettes, although following a campaign by local women in the 1970s some of the lowest quality housing stock was demolished and redeveloped. [ 22 ]
The use of peat as a fuel source during World War II reinforced the government's commitment to develop Ireland's bogs as an indigenous source of energy. [7] After the war, the Irish government had a renewed focus on "the production of turf by mechanical processes and its sale at prices that cause it to compete effectively with other fuels". [2]
It was renamed a county borough under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. In 1994, County Dublin was abolished as a local government area, to be replaced by Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin. In 2001, the county borough of Dublin was renamed Dublin City, with the Dublin Corporation replaced by Dublin City Council.
Ireland portal; This is a sortable table of the approximately 1,090 townlands in County Dublin, Ireland. [1] [2]Duplicate names or entries can occur where there is more than one townland with the same name in the county, where a townland crosses a Barony boundary e.g. Roebuck, or sometimes when a townland has an alternate name e.g. Trimleston / Owenstown.