Harristown (civil parish)
Civil parish in County Kildare, formerly of King's County
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Harristown (Irish: Baile Hanraí[3]) is a civil parish and electoral division (ED) in County Kildare in Ireland,[3] about 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Kildare town.[4]
Until 1842 the parish was part of an exclave of the barony of Upper Philipstown in King's County (now County Offaly).[4][5][6]
In the Church of Ireland until the Irish Church Act 1869 the parish benefice was a rectory and vicarage in the diocese of Kildare, forming the corps of the prebend of Harristown in Kildare Cathedral, in the patronage of the bishop.[4][7] The civil parish of Harristown contains the following 16 townlands:[3] Bawn, Boghall, Boherbaun Lower, Boherbaun Upper or Monapheeby, Cherrymills, Clarey, Cloneybeg, Coolagh, Eskerhill, Harristown (Lower and Upper), Lenagorra, Mylerstown, Pullagh, and Rickardstown (Lower and Upper).[3]
In 1841 Harristown civil parish was added to the existing Ballybrackan ED of the poor law union of Athy.[8] By 1851 a separate Harristown ED had been created, with an area of 5,142.5 acres (2,081.1 ha),[9] comprising 18 townlands: all 16 in Harristown civil parish plus Gorteen Upper and Lower from the civil parish of Fontstown.[10] From 1899 the ED was in Athy No.1 rural district.[9] In elections to Kildare County Council, Harristown ED has been in local electoral areas centred on either Athy (1991 and since 2009) or Kildare (1955–1985, 1999–2004).[11]
Year→ ↓Area |
1821 | 1831 | 1841 | 1851 | 1861 | 1871 | 1881 | 1891 | 1901 | 1911 | 1926 | 1936 | 1946 | 1956 | 1966 | 1979 | 1991 | 2002 | 2011 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parish | 1,037 | 1,020 | 920 | 662 | 591 | 535 | 502 | 427 | 368 | 325 | 418 | 440 | ||||||||
| ED | — | — | 1,010 | 720 | 628 | 565 | 536 | 459 | 397 | 341 | 320 | 332 | 347 | 352 | 300 | 253 | 302 | 343 | 452 | 477 |
See also
- Harristown House, a stately home within the civil parish