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County Hall (Irish: Halla an Chontae, Tamhlacht) is a municipal building in Tallaght in the county of South Dublin, Ireland. History [ edit ] Following the implementation of the Local Government (Dublin) Act 1993 , which created South Dublin County Council , the county council initially met in the Regional Technical College, Tallaght . [1]
Location of South Dublin in Ireland. South Dublin County Council (Irish: Comhairle Contae Átha Cliath Theas) is the local authority of the county of South Dublin, Ireland.It is one of three local authorities created by the Local Government (Dublin) Act 1993 to succeed the former Dublin County Council before its abolition on 1 January 1994 and one of four councils in County Dublin.
Tallaght ( / ˈtælə / TAL-ə; Irish: Tamhlacht, IPA: [ˈt̪ˠəul̪ˠəxt̪ˠ]) is the largest settlement, and county town, of South Dublin, Ireland, and the largest satellite town of Dublin. The central village area was the site of a monastic settlement from at least the 8th century, which became one of medieval Ireland's more important ...
Dublin is the third smallest of Ireland's 32 counties by area, and the largest in terms of population. It is the third-smallest of Leinster's 12 counties in size and the largest by population. Dublin shares a border with three counties – Meath to the north and west, Kildare to the west and Wicklow to the south.
The county council was established on 1 April 1899 under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 for the administrative county of County Dublin. [1] [2] [3] Its headquarters were established at 10–11 Parnell Square in 1900 [4] but, due to the cramped conditions, it transferred to 46–49 O'Connell Street, Dublin City in 1975. [5] [6] In 1985 ...
It was renamed a county borough under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. In 1994, County Dublin was abolished as a local government area, to be replaced by Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin. In 2001, the county borough of Dublin was renamed Dublin City, with the Dublin Corporation replaced by Dublin City Council.
A local electoral area ( LEA; Irish: toghlimistéar áitiúil) [ 1] is an electoral area for elections to local authorities in Ireland. All elections use the single transferable vote. The Republic of Ireland is divided into 166 LEAs, with an average population of 28,700 and average area of 423.3 square kilometres (163.4 sq mi).
The list of Eircode routing key areas in Ireland is a tabulation of the routing key areas used by An Post and other mail delivery services for the purposes of directing mail within Ireland. A routing key area "defines a principal post town" [ 1] according to An Post. There are currently 139 routing key areas in the country.