Hundred of Dublin
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Dublin | |||||||||||||
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  Dublin | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates: 34°27′0″S 138°21′0″E / 34.45000°S 138.35000°E | |||||||||||||
| Country | Australia | ||||||||||||
| State | South Australia | ||||||||||||
| Region | Northern Adelaide Plains | ||||||||||||
| Established | 22 May 1856 | ||||||||||||
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• Total | 310 km2 (119.5 sq mi) | ||||||||||||
| County | Gawler | ||||||||||||
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The Hundred of Dublin is a cadastral unit of hundred located on the northern Adelaide Plains of South Australia spanning the township of Dublin and surrounds.[1] It is one of the eight hundreds of the County of Gawler.[2] It was proclaimed in 1856 by Governor Anthony Musgrave[1] and named by Governor Richard Graves MacDonnell after Dublin, Ireland, where he was born.[3]
The following localities and towns of the Adelaide Plains Council area are situated inside (or largely inside) the bounds of the Hundred of Dublin:
- Dublin
- Thompson Beach
- Webb Beach
- Parham
- Windsor
- Calomba
- Wild Horse Plains (southern half)
- Long Plains (southern half)