Rathdown ( ga, Ráth an Dúin) is the south-easternmost
barony Barony may refer to:
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in
County Dublin,
Ireland.
It gives its name to the county of
Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown
Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown ( ga, Dún Laoghaire–Ráth an Dúin) is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is part of the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster and the Eastern and Midland Region. It is one of three s ...
. Before
County Wicklow
County Wicklow ( ; ga, Contae Chill Mhantáin ) is a county in Ireland. The last of the traditional 32 counties, having been formed as late as 1606, it is part of the Eastern and Midland Region and the province of Leinster. It is bordered by t ...
was shired in 1606, Rathdown extended further south: it was named after a medieval settlement which grew up around
Rathdown Castle, at a site subsequently deserted and now in County Wicklow in the
townland of Rathdown Upper, north of
Greystones. The
Wicklow barony of Rathdown corresponds to the portion transferred to the new county; although both divisions were originally classed as "half baronies", in the nineteenth century the distinction between a barony and a half barony was obsolete.
Subdivisions
After the
Poor Relief (Ireland) Act 1838
The Poor Relief (Ireland) Act 1838 (1 & 2 Vict, c. 56) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which created the system of poor relief in Ireland. The legislation was largely influenced by the English Poor Law Act 1834.
Following i ...
, the
poor law union of Rathdown covered a similar area to the Dublin and Wicklow baronies combined; after the
Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898, the Dublin portion of the poor law union comprised the
rural district
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of Rathdown No. 1 and the
urban district
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* Urban area
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s of
Blackrock, Dalkey,
Killiney and Ballybrack, and Kingstown (later renamed
Dún Laoghaire).
The barony of Rathdown also included part of the poor law union of Dublin South, comprising after 1898 parts of the rural district of Dublin South and the urban district of
Rathmines and Rathgar
Rathmines and Rathgar is a former second-tier local government area within County Dublin. It was created as the Township of Rathmines in 1847. In 1862, its area was expanded and it became the Township of Rathmines and Rathgar. In 1899, it became ...
.
Between 1836 and 1842, the boundaries of the County Dublin baronies were regularised, by which detached portions of baronies were transferred to the surrounding barony.
Civil parishes wholly or partly within the barony are:
Booterstown
Booterstown () is a coastal suburb of the city of Dublin in Ireland. It is also a townland and civil parish in the modern county of Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown. It is situated about south of Dublin city centre.
History
There is some debate on ...
,
Dalkey (transferred from
Uppercross in 1842
),
Donnybrook
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,
Kilgobbin,
Kill,
Killiney,
Kilmacud,
Kiltiernan,
Monkstown,
Oldconnaught,
Rathfarnham (mostly transferred from
Newcastle in 1842
),
Rathmichael (two
townlands transferred from Newcastle in 1842
),
Stillorgan
Stillorgan (, also ''Stigh Lorcáin'' and previously ''Tigh Lorcáin'' or ''Teach Lorcáin''), formerly a village in its own right, is now a suburban area of Dublin in Ireland. Stillorgan is located in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, and contains ma ...
,
Taney,
Tully,
Whitechurch.
Other settlements in the barony include
Dundrum.
"Little Bray", the part of the
township of
Bray north of the River Bray, was transferred from Rathdown, County Dublin to Rathdown, County Wicklow after the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.
References
Further reading
*
External links
1830s six-inch map centred on Rathdownzoomable first-edition map from
Ordnance Survey Ireland
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; barony borders are in yellow
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