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Although Ireland's routing key areas take a similar format to postcode areas in the United Kingdom (including Northern Ireland), they are not intended as a mnemonic for a county or city name, except for those used in the historic Dublin postal districts. Several towns and townlands can share the same routing key. [3]
This followed the example of other cities, including London, first subdivided into ten districts in 1857, [5] and Liverpool, the first city in Britain or Ireland to have postcodes, from 1864. The letter "D" was assigned to designate Dublin [ 6 ] and was retained by the new Irish government.
The two-volume Return of Owners of Land, 1873 is a survey of land ownership in the United Kingdom. It was the first complete picture of the distribution of land ownership in Great Britain [ 1 ] since the Domesday Book of 1086, thus the 1873 Return is sometimes called the "Modern Domesday", [ 2 ] and in Ireland since the Down Survey of 1655-1656.
In Ireland, 35% of premises (over 600,000) have non-unique addresses due to an absence of house numbers or names. [2] Before the introduction of a national postcode system (Eircode) in 2015, this required postal workers to remember which family names corresponded to which house in smaller towns, and many townlands.
The residential property tax was introduced in the Finance Act 1983 [8] and was abolished on 5 April 1997. It was an annual tax, charged at the rate of 1.5% per annum on the portion of the market value of an owner-occupied house which was greater than (in 1996) £101,000, as long as the household income exceeded £30,100.
An Act to amend the Law relating to the occupation and ownership of Land in Ireland and for other purposes relating thereto, and to amend the Labourers (Ireland) Acts. Citation: 3 Edw. 7. c. 37: Dates; Royal assent: 14 August 1903: Text of statute as originally enacted
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.
Illuminated address to see better at night. An address is a collection of information, presented in a mostly fixed format, used to give the location of a building, apartment, or other structure or a plot of land, generally using political boundaries and street names as references, along with other identifiers such as house or apartment numbers and organization name.