Harristown ( ga, Baile Hanraí) is a

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and

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(ED) in

County Kildare County Kildare ( ga, Contae Chill Dara) is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster and is part of the Eastern and Midland Region. It is named after the town of Kildare. Kildare County Council is the local authority for the county, ...

in Ireland, about southwest of

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town. Until 1842 the parish was part of an

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of the barony of

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in King's County (now

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). In the

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until the

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the parish

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was a

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and

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in the diocese of Kildare, forming the corps of the

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of Harristown in

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, in the patronage of the bishop. The civil parish of Harristown contains the following 16

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s: 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 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 Kild ...

. By 1851 a separate Harristown ED had been created, with an area of , comprising 18 townlands: all 16 in Harristown civil parish plus Gorteen Upper and Lower from the civil parish of Fontstown. From 1899 the ED was in Athy No.1 rural district. In elections to

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, Harristown ED has been in

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s centred on either Athy (

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and since

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) or

(1955–1985,

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References

{{reflist Civil parishes of County Kildare Civil parishes of County Offaly