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Harristown (civil Parish)
Harristown ( ga, Baile Hanraí) is a civil parish and electoral division (ED) in County Kildare in Ireland, about southwest of Kildare town. Until 1842 the parish was part of an exclave of the barony of Upper Philipstown in King's County (now County Offaly). In the Church of Ireland until the Irish Church Act 1869 the parish benefice was a rectory and vicarage in the diocese of Kildare, forming the corps of the prebend of Harristown in Kildare Cathedral, in the patronage of the bishop. The civil parish of Harristown contains the following 16 townlands: Bawn, Boghall, Boherbaun Lower, Boherbaun Upper or Monapheeby, Cherrymills, Clarey, Cloneybeg, Coolagh, Eskerhill, Harristown (Lower and Upper), Lenagorra, Mylerstown, Pullagh, and Rickardstown (Lower and Upper). In 1841 Harristown civil parish was added to the existing Ballybrackan ED of the poor law union of Athy. By 1851 a separate Harristown ED had been created, with an area of , comprising 18 townlands: all 16 in Harri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harristown, Naas South
Harristown ( ga, Baile Anraí) is a townland in County Kildare on the River Liffey downstream from Kilcullen, just north of Brannockstown in the Civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish of Carnalway in the barony (Ireland), barony of Naas South. It is the site of a ancient borough, former borough and Manorialism, manor, and Harristown (Parliament of Ireland constituency), Harristown Borough was a borough constituency sending two MPs to the Irish House of Commons before the Acts of Union 1800. Harristown Common is a townland and former commonage north of Harristown proper and separated from it by the townlands of Dunnstown and Johnstown or Dunshane. Harristown was a part of the demesne of Castlemartin House and Estate owned by the (Fitz)Eustace family, namesakes of nearby Ballymore Eustace. Harristown Castle on the border of the Pale was fortified in the 15th century by Rowland FitzEustace, 1st Baron Portlester. In the 17th century Harristown House was built near the castle by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kildare Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of St. Brigid, Kildare, in Kildare, County Kildare, is one of two cathedrals in the United Dioceses of Meath and Kildare of the Church of Ireland in Ireland. It is in the ecclesiastical province of Dublin. History Early history It is said that in the year 480 (35 years after Saint Patrick settled in Armagh) Saint Brigid arrived in Kildare with her nuns. Her original abbey church may have been a simple wooden building. Soon after her death in 523 A.D., a costly shrine was erected in her honour in a new and larger building. For many centuries Kildare maintained a unique Irish experiment; the Abbess ruled over a double community of women and men, and the Bishop was subordinate in jurisdiction to the abbess. Between the years 835 and 998 the cathedral was devastated approximately 16 times, so that when the Norman, Ralph of Bristol, became bishop in 1223 it was virtually in ruins. Between then and 1230 it was largely rebuilt, likely in the years following 1223, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 Kildare County Council Election
An election to Kildare County Council took place on 10 June 1999 as part of 1999 Irish local elections, that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from six local electoral areas on the system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV) for a five-year term of office. Results by party Results by local electoral area Athy Celbridge Clane Kildare Leixlip Naas External links Official website {{1999 Irish local elections 1999 Irish local elections Kildare County Council elections, 1999 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2009 Kildare County Council Election
An election to Kildare County Council took place on 5 June 2009 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from six local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). Results by party Results by local electoral area Athy Celbridge Clane Kildare Naas External links Official website {{2009 Irish local elections Kildare Kildare County Council elections ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1991 Kildare County Council Election
An election to Kildare County Council took place on 27 June 1991 as part of that year's Irish local elections. 25 councillors were elected from six local electoral areas (LEAs) for a five-year term of office on the electoral system An electoral system or voting system is a set of rules that determine how elections and Referendum, referendums are conducted and how their results are determined. Electoral systems are used in politics to elect governments, while non-political ... of proportional representation by means of the single transferable vote (PR-STV). This term was extended twice, first to 1998, then to 1999. Results by party Results by local electoral area Athy Celbridge Clane Kildare Naas References External links Official websiteirishelectionliterature {{1991 Irish local elections 1991 Irish local elections Kildare County Council elections, 1991 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Electoral Area
A local electoral area (LEA; ga, Toghlimistéir Áitiúil) is an electoral area for elections to local authorities in Ireland. All elections use the single transferable vote. The Republic of Ireland is divided into 166 LEAs, with an average population of 28,700 and average area of . The boundaries of LEAs are defined by statutory instrument, usually based lower-level units called electoral divisions (EDs), with a total of 3,440 EDs in the state. As well as their use for electoral purposes, LEAs are local administrative units in Eurostat NUTS classification. They are used in local numbers of cases of COVID-19. Municipal districts A municipal district () is a division of a local authority which can exercise certain powers of the local authority. They came into being on 1 June 2014, ten days after the local elections, under the provisions of the Local Government Reform Act 2014. Of the 31 local authorities, 25 are subdivided into municipal districts, which comprise one or more L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kildare County Council
Kildare County Council ( ga, Comhairle Contae Chill Dara) is the authority responsible for local government in County Kildare, Ireland. As a county council, it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001. The council is responsible for housing and community, roads and transportation, urban planning and development, amenity and culture, and environment. The council has 40 elected members. Elections are held every five years and are by single transferable vote. The head of the council has the title of Cathaoirleach (Chairperson). The county administration is headed by a Chief Executive, Sonya Kavanagh. The county town is Naas. History The county Council were originally based at Naas Courthouse but, after a major fire in the courthouse, moved to the former St Mary's Fever Hospital in the late 1950s. By late 1990s, the old hospital buildings were in poor condition, and the county council identified the former Devoy Barracks site as its preferred location for new facilities. It mov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Irish Local Government Areas 1898–1921
The system of local government Ireland, then wholly within the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, was reformed by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, which came into force in 1899. The new system divided Ireland into the following entities: At the county level: *Administrative counties; and *County boroughs Within the administrative counties: *Municipal boroughs, governed by the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840; *Urban districts; and *Rural districts 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. County boroughs County Antrim County Armagh County Carlow County Cavan County Clare County Cork County Donegal County Down County Dublin County Fermanagh County Galway County Kerry County Kildare County Kilkenny King's County County Leitr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898
The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 (61 & 62 Vict. c. 37) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that established a system of local government in Ireland similar to that already created for England, Wales and Scotland by legislation in 1888 and 1889. The Act effectively ended landlord control of local government in Ireland.Gailey 1984 Background From the 1880s the issue of local government reform in Ireland was a major political issue, involving both Irish politicians and the major British political parties. Questions of constitutional reform, land ownership and nationalism all combined to complicate matters, as did splits in both the Liberal Party in 1886 and the Irish Parliamentary Party in 1891. Eventually, the Conservative government of Lord Salisbury found it politically expedient to introduce the measures in 1898. The legislation was seen by the government as solving a number of problems: it softened demands for Home Rule f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Athy
Athy ( ; ) is a market town at the meeting of the River Barrow and the Grand Canal in south-west County Kildare, Ireland, 72 kilometres southwest of Dublin. A population of 9,677 (as of the 2016 census) makes it the sixth largest town in Kildare and the 50th largest in the Republic of Ireland, with a growth rate of approximately 60 per cent since the 2002 census. Name Athy or ''Baile Átha Í'' is named after a 2nd-century Celtic chieftain, Ae, who is said to have been killed on the river crossing, thus giving the town its name "the town of Ae's ford". The ''Letters of the Ordnance Survey'' (1837) note that "The town is now called by the few old people who speak Irish there and in the Queen's County Laois">/nowiki>Laois.html" ;"title="Laois.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Laois">/nowiki>Laois">Laois.html" ;"title="/nowiki>Laois">/nowiki>Laois/nowiki>, ''"baile átha Aoi"'', pronounced Blahéé", where ''éé'' stands for English 'ee' [i:] as clarified by a note written in pencil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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