Talk:Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown

message: What is Rathdown anyway?  Morwen - Talk 16:07, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I understand Rathdown is the west side of the county, historically I can find some references to a poor law union and barony. Two of the best maps of Dublin I have at present this one (c. 800KB) and the Discovery Series Sheet 50 (1:50,000 scale) do not mark it; or at least significantly. The naming of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown will remain one of the greatest mysteries in modern Ireland, not least for being the longest county name of Ireland. Djegan 19:21, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: List of Irish Local Government Areas 1900 - 1921 has Rathdown No. 1 and No 2. rural districts (in Dublin and some other county), which would have been the former PLU/sanitary district.  Strange.  Morwen - Talk 22:34, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Rathdown was an old land division, a Barony in the southern part of the original County Dublin (in the period when Dublin went from beyond Balbriggan to near Arklow (which was in Carlow then). It was split into two Half-Baronies when County Wicklow was eventually formed (last of the 32) in the early 1600's, and continued in various roles, as noted above. As to why it was used in the naming of the new county, hard to say, but I did hear it mentioned in those years that it was to avoid giving just the name of one constituent town to the whole area, which included quite a bit of the rural then, and at the same time, there was no way Dun L. Borough was going into the new county without its name being retained. 83.250.96.225 (talk) 12:54, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you look here , find the county name of Wicklow, follow north through "Newcastle" on the coast, you will see the two occurences of "Half-Rathdown" - one in Dublin, one in Wicklow. All this came from the same period which left Ballymore Eustace, for example, in an island of Dublin far south of the main county, until the 1830's, a chunk of Kerry inside Cork, part of Offaly in Kildare, etc. 83.250.96.225 (talk) 12:58, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The whole "Rathdown" thing is bizarre; nobody uses the term and nobody knows where "Rathdown" is. I thought Wiki was supposed to reflect common usage? When people are moving Gaeltacht villages to their English (unofficial but common) names that is the reason cited. Why is this place named for it's totally unused "official" title? Sarah777 (talk) 21:52, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Rathdown

message: Is it common usage or just OR to state "In Ireland, the usage of the word county nearly always comes before rather than after the county name; thus "County Clare" in Ireland as opposed to "Clare County" in Michigan, US. The exception to this norm occurs in the case of those counties created after 1994 which drop the word county entirely; thus "Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown" as opposed to "County Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown"."? Laurel Lodged (talk) 15:06, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: See discussion at Talk:Counties_of_Ireland#Style_for_counties_created_after_1997 Snappy (talk) 15:34, 24 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  County DLR or just DLR? 

message: The population is given according to the 2016 census, but the source given is that of the 2011 census. --Wanfried-Dublin (talk) 10:18, 13 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population and source 2016 or 2011? 

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