64 Facts About County Dublin

County Dublin is one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland, located on the island's east coast, within the province of Leinster.

County Dublin city is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Ireland, as well as the largest city on the island of Ireland.

Swords, while separated from the city by a green belt around County Dublin Airport, is considered a suburban commuter town and an emerging small city.

Third smallest county by land area, Dublin is bordered by Meath to the west and north, Kildare to the west, Wicklow to the south and the Irish Sea to the east.

County Dublin is named after the city of Dublin, which is an anglicisation of its Old Norse name Dyflin.

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The Vikings raided across Ireland, Britain, France and Spain during this period and under their rule County Dublin developed into the largest slave market in Western Europe.

County Dublin was captured by the High King of Ireland, Mael Sechnaill II, in 980, who freed the kingdom's Gaelic slaves.

County Dublin was again defeated by Mael Sechnaill in 988 and forced to accept Brehon law and pay taxes to the High King.

Separate attempts to retake County Dublin were launched by both Ua Conchobair and mac Ragnaill in 1171, both of which were unsuccessful.

County Dublin lost its political status as a capital and went into a marked decline throughout the 19th century, leading to widespread demands to repeal the union.

The IPP were wiped out by Sinn Fein in the 1918 general election and, following a brief war of independence, 26 of Ireland's 32 counties seceded from the United Kingdom in December 1922, with County Dublin becoming the capital of the Irish Free State, and later the Republic of Ireland.

County Dublin was the driving force behind Ireland's Celtic Tiger period, an era of rapid economic growth that started in the early 1990s.

In stark contrast to the turn of the 20th century, County Dublin entered the 21st century as one of Europe's richest cities, attracting immigrants and investment from all over the world.

County Dublin is the third smallest of Ireland's 32 counties by area, and the largest in terms of population.

The Liffey, at 132 kilometres in length, is the 8th longest river in Ireland, and rises near Tonduff in County Wicklow, reaching the Irish Sea at the Dublin Docklands.

The Liffey cuts through the centre of County Dublin city, and the resultant Northside-Southside divide is an often used social, economic and linguistic distinction.

County Dublin contains 11 EU-designated Special Areas of Conservation and 11 Special Protection Areas .

The oldest rocks in County Dublin are the Cambrian shales located on Howth Head, which were laid down ca.

County Dublin is in a maritime temperate oceanic region according to Koppen climate classification.

County Dublin's sheltered location makes it the driest place in Ireland, receiving only about half the rainfall of the west coast.

County Dublin has one of the highest concentrations of islands on the Irish east coast.

The last boundary change of a barony in County Dublin was in 1842, when the barony of Balrothery was divided into Balrothery East and Balrothery West.

The smallest rural townlands in County Dublin are just 1 acre in size, most of which are offshore islands .

Under the Local Government Act 1898, County Dublin was divided into urban districts of Blackrock, Clontarf, Dalkey, Drumcondra, Clonliffe and Glasnevin, Killiney and Ballybrack, Kingstown, New Kilmainham, Pembroke, and Rathmines and Rathgar, and the rural districts of Balrothery, Celbridge No 2, North Dublin, Rathdown, and South Dublin.

City of County Dublin had been administered separately since the 13th century.

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In 1985, County Dublin was divided into three electoral counties: Dublin–Belgard to the southwest, Dublin–Fingal to the north, and Dun Laoghaire–Rathdown to the southeast.

On 1 January 1994, under the Local Government Act 1993, the County Dublin ceased to exist as a local government area, and was succeeded by the counties of Dun Laoghaire–Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin, each coterminous with the area of the corresponding electoral county.

The former county of Dublin is listed in the database along with the subdivisions of that county.

Under the Local Government Act 2001, the country was divided into local government areas of cities and counties, with the county borough of Dublin being designated a city for all purposes, now administered by Dublin City Council.

Additionally, County Dublin has more people than the combined populations of Ireland's 16 smallest counties.

Largest sources of foreign-born residents in County Dublin are the United Kingdom and Poland, although the growth of these two groups has slowed in recent years.

County Dublin is home to around 58 percent of Ireland's Romanian community.

In 1353 the dispute was settled by Pope Innocent VI, who proclaimed that the Archbishop of County Dublin was Primate of Ireland, while the Archbishop of Armagh was titled Primate of All Ireland.

County Dublin city and suburbs is a CSO-designated urban area which includes the densely populated contiguous built-up area which surrounds County Dublin city centre.

Greater County Dublin Area is a commonly used planning jurisdiction which extends to the wider network of commuter towns that are economically connected to County Dublin city.

County Dublin has the oldest and most extensive transportation infrastructure in Ireland.

Public transport in County Dublin was managed by the County Dublin Transportation Office until 2009, when it was replaced by the National Transport Authority .

The newest addition to County Dublin's public transport network is a tram system called the Luas.

Dublin Region, which is conterminous with County Dublin, has the largest and most highly developed economy in Ireland, accounting for over two-fifths of national Gross Domestic Product .

In nominal terms, County Dublin's economy is larger than roughly 140 sovereign states.

County Dublin residents were the highest per capita tax contributors in the State, returning a total of €15.

In 2012, Irish Times Columnist Fintan O'Toole posited that the real economic divide in Dublin was not north–south, but east–west - between the older coastal areas of eastern Dublin and the newer sprawling suburbs of western Dublin - and that the perpetuation of the northside-southside "myth" was a convenient way to gloss over class division within the county.

In 2017 and 2018 respectively, County Dublin was ranked 5th in Europe and 31st globally in the Global Financial Centres Index .

County Dublin has four power plants, all of which are concentrated in the docklands area of County Dublin city.

County Dublin Port was originally located along the Liffey, but gradually moved towards the coast over the centuries as vessel size increased.

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County Dublin Port occupies an area of 259 ha in one of the most expensive places in the country, with an estimated price per acre of around €10 million.

County Dublin receives by far the most overseas tourists of any county in Ireland.

Additionally, County Dublin contains Ireland's 3rd, 4th and 6th most visited fee-paying attractions.

The top free attractions in County Dublin are the National Gallery of Ireland, the National Botanic Gardens, the National Museum of Ireland and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, all of which receive over half a million visitors per year.

Rural County Dublin is considered a peri-urban region, where an urban environment transitions into a rural one.

The majority of County Dublin's forests are owned by the national forestry company, Coillte.

County Dublin has 810 individual farms with an average size of 47.

In 2018, Nord Anglia International School County Dublin opened in Leopardstown, becoming the most expensive private school in Ireland.

County Dublin has four public universities, as well as numerous other colleges, institutes of technology and institutes of further education.

Three smaller constituencies had been created by the 17th century: Swords, was created sometime between 1560 and 1585, with Walter Fitzsimons and Thomas Taylor being its first recorded MPs, and Newcastle, in the west of the county, and Dublin University, which was a university constituency covering Trinity College, were created in 1613.

Fifteen people to have held the office of Taoiseach since 1922, more than half were either born or raised within County Dublin: W T Cosgrave, John A Costello, Sean Lemass, Liam Cosgrave, Charles Haughey was born on in County Mayo but raised in Dublin, and Garret FitzGerald, Bertie Ahern and Leo Varadkar .

Many other prominent judicial and political organs are located within County Dublin, including the Four Courts, which is the principal seat of the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeal, the High Court and the County Dublin Circuit Court; and the Custom House, which houses the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

Once the centuries-long seat of the British government's administration in Ireland, County Dublin Castle is only used for ceremonial purposes, such as policy launches, hosting of State visits, and the inauguration of the president.

County Dublin is among the most socially liberal places in Ireland, and popular sentiment on issues such as LGBT rights, abortion and divorce has often foreran the rest of the island.

County Dublin is the dominant force of Leinster football, with 61 Leinster Senior Championship wins.

County Dublin has won the All-Ireland on 30 occasions, including a record 6 in a row from 2015 to 2020.

County Dublin has been in 21 All-Ireland hurling finals, winning just 6, the most recent of which was in 1938.

County Dublin is home to 13 of the senior rugby union clubs in Ireland, including 5 of the 10 sides in the top division 1A.

County Dublin has two ODI cricket grounds in Castle Avenue and Malahide Cricket Club Ground, and the Phoenix Cricket Club, founded in 1830, is the oldest in Ireland.