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The entire system of local government in Northern Ireland was overhauled by the Local Government Act (Northern Ireland) 1972, which replaced the county boroughs, administrative counties, urban districts, and rural districts with 26 local government districts. The new system came into effect on 1 October 1973.
The system was based on the recommendations of the Macrory Report, of June 1970, which presupposed the continued existence of the Government of Northern Ireland to act as a regional-level authority. [13] From 1921 to 1973, Northern Ireland was divided into six administrative counties (subdivided into urban and rural districts) and two county ...
In Northern Ireland, both urban and rural districts were abolished in 1973. In the Republic of Ireland , which had left the United Kingdom in 1922 as the Irish Free State , rural districts were abolished in the Irish Free State in 1925, except in County Dublin, where they were abolished in 1930.
Some counties contained rural districts only, with no municipal boroughs or urban districts. A number of small towns located in rural districts also had town commissioners with limited powers under the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act 1854. Map of Local Government Areas in 1898
Settlement District County Population Households Land area (km 2) [4] Density (/km 2) Classification [2]; Belfast Metropolitan Urban Area [a]: Antrim and Newtownabbey
In Northern Ireland respondents were given a list of options (including British, Irish, and Northern Irish) from which they could choose as many as they wanted. Irish national identity was numerically in a majority in two districts, Derry and Newry, where 55.03% and 52.09% respectively consider themselves as having an Irish national identity. [1]
The English administration in Ireland in the years following the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland created counties as the major subdivisions of an Irish province. [6] This process lasted from the 13th to 17th centuries; however, the number and shape of the counties that would form the future Northern Ireland would not be defined until the Flight of the Earls allowed the shiring of Ulster from ...
List of rural and urban districts in Northern Ireland; R. List of rural districts formed in England and Wales 1894–1974 This page was last ...