Galway (barony)
53°16′N 9°3′W / 53.267°N 9.050°W Galway (Irish: Gaillimh[1]) is a barony in Ireland, comprising Galway city and surrounding parts of County Galway.[1][2] The barony is coterminous with the former County of the Town of Galway,[3] a county corporate created by the town's 1610 charter and abolished by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.[2]
Boundary
The town's 1610 charter erected the town into a corporate county separate from Galway county-at-large, and defined the extent of the county of the town as encompassing the
Divisions
The barony contains 111 townlands.[1] These are in three civil parishes: all of the parish of St Nicholas, covering the centre city; most of Rahoon, to the west; and about half of Oranmore, to the east.[1][6]
Government
Whereas
The
The town of Galway was separated from the administrative county in 1985 as a county borough,[14] a designation renamed city by the Local Government Act 2001. Boundary extensions since before and after 1985 have given it an area of 5,000 hectares (12,360 acres), less than that of the disused barony of Galway.[15]
Footnotes
- ^ The Parliamentary Gazetteer of 1846 erroneously claimed that the county of the town had been abolished under the 1840 act and divided into the "borough of Galway" and the "barony of Galway".[6] While such a division happened in six other corporate counties in 1840,[10] in Galway it was the borough which was abolished rather than the county.[11]
Sources
- "Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840". The Statutes of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. XV Part II. Her Majesty's Printer's. 1840. pp. 599–669. ISBN 9780331531558. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
- Prunty, Jacinta; Walsh, Paul (2016). Galway/Gaillimh (PDF). Irish Historic Towns Atlas. Vol. 28. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. ISBN 9781908996916. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
References
- ^ a b c d "Gaillimh/Galway". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
- ^ JSTOR 25535406.
- ^ a b "Area, houses, and population in 1841, 1851, 1861, and 1871, of each barony, also the general valuation in 1871". Census of Ireland 1871: Vol IV, No. 1: County of Galway. Command papers. Vol. Cd.6052. HMSO. p. 9, Table III, footnote (b).
The county of the town of Galway is co-extensive with the barony of Galway
- ^ a b c d e f Prunty and Walsh 2016, p.10 §5
- ^ "Renmore Barracks, a brief history". Galway Advertiser. 13 February 2014. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ^ a b c "Galway". The Parliamentary Gazetteer of Ireland adapted to the new Poor-Law, Franchise, Municipal and Ecclesiastical arrangements ... as existing in 1844–45. Vol. II: D–M. Dublin: A. Fullarton & Co. 1846. pp. 237–8.
- ^ Prunty and Walsh 2016, p.10 §2
- ^ Prunty and Walsh 2016, p.6
- ^ Prunty and Walsh 2016, pp. 6, 8
- ^ Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840; §21 and Schedule A
- ^ Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840; §13 and Schedule B
- ^ Local Government Board for Ireland (1878). Sixth report with appendices. Command papers. Vol. C.2116. Dublin: Alexander Thom for HMSO. pp. 30–31.
- JSTOR 27725679. Retrieved 25 February 2021.; "Alphabetical index to the baronies of Ireland". General topographical index, Ireland, 1901. Command papers. Vol. Cd. 2071. Dublin: HMSO. 1904. p. 971. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ^ "Local Government (Reorganisation) Act, 1985, Section 5". Irish Statute Book. Retrieved 26 September 2014.; "S.I. No. 98/1985 - Local Government (Reorganisation) Act, 1985 (Commencement) Order, 1985". Irish Statute Book. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ^ "Table 6 Population of each province, county, city, urban area, rural area and electoral division, 2006 and 2011" (PDF). Census of Ireland 2011, Vol. 1. CSO. 2012. p. 100. Retrieved 26 September 2014.
External links
- 1830s Ordnance Survey map centred on Galway, with barony boundaries in yellow.