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Baronies were used for administrative purposes within counties from medieval times until the establishment of the County Council s under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 , when they were replaced by Urban and Rural District Councils . While baronies continue to be officially defined units, they are no longer used for any administrative purpose. The Local Government (Ireland) Act also caused a number of county boundaries to be modified, with the result that a number of baronies now cross county boundaries. This can cause confusion to Genealogy researchers, who may be unable to find an area referred to as being in a particular county in 19th century sources in the modern county. (See The Article On The Act for further details.) In two cases, ''Rathdown'' and ''Fore'', there are adjacent baronies in neighbouring counties ( Dublin / Wicklow and Meath / Westmeath respectively) with the same name. These are not the result of the 1898 Act, but instead represent ''half-baronies'', subdivisions of older baronies, which found themselves in different counties when Westmeath and Wicklow were established as separate counties in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Note that ''baron'' was also a title in the Peerage Of Ireland . Such barons had no connection to any geographic barony. External links |
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