Dublin ( ga, Barúntacht Bhaile Átha Cliath
Placenames Database of Ireland.) is one of the Barony (Ireland), baronies of

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, an historical geographical unit of land. Its chief town is

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. It was created by the 1840 Acts from lands that were previously liberties in the county of the

City of Dublin Dublin (; , or ) is the capital and largest city of Ireland. On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range. At the 2016 cen ...

. Its name and area were confirmed by the Dublin Baronies Act 1842.

Location

It is separated from the city proper by the line of the Grand canal with the Grand Canal Dock forming the northern land boundary along with the Great South Wall.

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at Irishtown forms the eastern boundary in a narrow strip of land extending as far as Blackrock. The Barony of Rathdown, whose chief town is Dún Laoghaire, forms the bulk of its southern border. To the west lies the barony of Uppercross, whose chief town is

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Legal context

Baronies were created after the

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as subdivisions of counties and were used for administration. Baronies continue to be regarded as officially defined units, but they are no longer used for many administrative purposes. While they have been administratively obsolete since 1898, they continue to be used in land registration and specification such as in planning permissions. In many cases, a barony corresponds to an earlier

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túath which had submitted to the Crown. However, this barony was only created in 1840 out of parts of the Liberties of the City of Dublin. Previously, many of these townlands were part of the Barony of Dublin City. The distinction between the Barony of Dublin and the Barony of Dublin City is shown by a 1985 order adjusting their boundaries, and the inclusion of the 1842 Act in a 2007 list of unrepealed legislation. Both baronies lie within the former county borough of Dublin, since 2001 redesignated the City of Dublin.

Civil parishes

There are six civil parishes either wholly or partly in the barony. The core of the barony is the

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. With the exception of St Bartholemew's, each of the remaining parishes only contributes a single

townland A townland ( ga, baile fearainn; Ulster-Scots: ''toonlann'') is a small geographical division of land, historically and currently used in Ireland and in the Western Isles in Scotland, typically covering . The townland system is of Gaelic origi ...

to the barony.Placenames Database of Ireland: Barony of Dublin.
/ref> Note: the area of Newtown Blackrock in the barony at the Main Street is an exclave of the townland proper which lies in the adjacent Barony of Rathdown.

References

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Location

Legal context

Civil parishes

See also

References