County and County Borough Boundaries
The Act caused a number of county boundaries to be modified. This was for four reasons. Firstly, urban sanitary districts (USDs) that lay in more than one county were to be placed entirely within that in which the majority of the population lay. Secondly, wherever possible poor law unions (PLUs) were to be in a single county. This would sometimes involve the exchange of electoral divisions (EDs) between counties. Thirdly, the cities of Belfast and Londonderry were separated from the counties in which they lay and constituted as separate county boroughs. Finally, those counties corporate that did not become county boroughs were merged into their parent counties.
The boundaries of the counties and county boroughs, which came into effect on 18 April 1899, were defined by orders of the Local Government Board for Ireland as follows:
Read more about this topic: Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898
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