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The term Ulster has no official function for local government purposes in either state. However, for the purposes of ISO 3166-2:IE, Ulster is used to refer to the three counties of Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan only, which are given country sub-division code "IE-U". [14] The name is also used by various organisations such as cultural and sporting ...
The county was subdivided into five baronies: Farney, Cremorne, Dartrey, and Monaghan controlled by MacMahon and Truagh by McKenna. After the defeat of the rebellion of The Earl of Tyrone and the Ulster chieftains in 1603, the county was not planted like the other counties of Ulster. The lands were instead left in the hands of the native ...
County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim, from Irish Aontroim, meaning 'lone ridge') [6] is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, located within the historic province of Ulster. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh , the county covers an area of 3,086 square kilometres (1,192 sq mi) and has a population of 651,321, [ 7 ...
County Cavan (/ ˈ k æ v ən / KAV-ən; Irish: Contae an Chabháin) is a county in Ireland.It is in the province of Ulster and is part of the Northern and Western Region.It is named after the town of Cavan and is based on the historic Gaelic territory of East Breffny (Bréifne).
The modern County Arms of County Donegal (dating from the early 1970s) was influenced by the design of the old O'Donnell royal arms. The County Arms is the official coat of arms of both County Donegal and Donegal County Council. The modern County Donegal was made a shire [10] by order of the English Crown in 1585.
Its county town is Omagh. Adjoined to the south-west shore of Lough Neagh , the county covers an area of 1,261 square miles (3,266 km 2 ), [ 1 ] making it the largest of Northern Ireland's six counties by size, and the second largest county in Ulster after Donegal .
As of Sunday morning, the estimated 422-acre fire in the Town of Denning in Ulster County, dubbed the "Whitehouse Fire," according to the Ulster County Executive Jen Metzger, was on the way toward ...
Cavan (/ ˈ k æ v ən / KAV-ən; Irish: An Cabhán, meaning 'the hollow' [2]) is the county town of County Cavan in Ireland. The town lies in Ulster, near the border with County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland. The town is bypassed by the main N3 road that links Dublin (to the south) with Enniskillen, Ballyshannon and Donegal Town (to the north).