Rathmines and Rathgar
{{short description|Former local government area in County Dublin}}
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Rathmines and Rathgar is a former second-tier local government area within County Dublin. It was created as the Township of Rathmines in 1847. In 1862, its area was expanded and it became the Township of Rathmines and Rathgar. In 1899, it became an urban district. It was abolished in 1930, and its area absorbed into the city of Dublin.
Area
The Township of Rathmines was created in 1847, including the districts of Rathmines, Mount Pleasant, Ranelagh, Cullenswood, Rathgar, and Harold's Cross.{{cite web |title=Rathmines Improvement Act 1847 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Vict/10-11/253/contents/enacted |website=legislation.gov.uk |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=28 September 2022}} In 1862, it was extended further into Rathgar and took in the townland of Sallymount, and in 1880 took in the townland of Milltown.{{cite web |title=Rathmines and Rathgar (Milltown Extension) Act 1880 |url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukla/Vict/43-44/108/contents/enacted |website=legislation.gov.uk |publisher=The National Archives |access-date=28 September 2022}} In 1899, it became an urban district under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.{{cite book |last=Clancy |first=John Joseph|author-link=J. J. Clancy (North Dublin MP)|title=A handbook of local government in Ireland: containing an explanatory introduction to the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898: together with the text of the act, the orders in Council, and the rules made thereunder relating to county council, rural district council, and guardian's elections: with an index|url=https://archive.org/details/handbookoflocalg00clan/page/427/mode/2up |page=427 |year=1899|publisher=Sealy, Bryers and Walker|location=Dublin }}
In 1930, the urban district of Rathmines and Rathgar and the urban district of Pembroke were abolished and the area added to the city of Dublin.{{Cite Irish legislation|name=Local Government (Dublin) Act 1930|section=2|stitle=Inclusion of certain urban districts in the city|year=1930|number=27|parl=ifs|date=17 July 1930}}
Politics
At the 1920 Rathmines and Rathgar Urban District Council election, the Irish Unionist Alliance retained a majority on the council.
The urban district was at the core of the Dublin Rathmines constituency, created by the Redistribution of Seats (Ireland) Act 1918. It was in use only once, at the 1918 general election, at which Maurice Dockrell was elected on a majority. Dockrell was the only Unionist elected in a geographical constituency outside Ulster.
The area was part of the Dáil constituency of Dublin County from 1921 to 1937. After the abolition of the district, it was used with Pembroke as the basis of the Dublin Townships constituency, defined as "The area referred to in the Local Government (Dublin) Act 1930, as the added urban districts and also so much of the land described in Part III of the First Schedule to the said Act as is contiguous to the said area and also the townland of Clonskeagh."{{cite Irish legislation|year=1935|parl=ifs|type=act|number=5|name=Electoral (Revision of Constituencies) Act 1935|date=27 February 1935|schedno=1|stitle=Revised Constituencies|access-date=12 May 2022}} From 1948, that area was part of Dublin South-East.{{cite Irish legislation|year=1947|number=31|schedno=1|stitle=Constituencies|name=Electoral (Amendment) Act 1947|date=27 November 1947|access-date=19 November 2021}}
Town Hall
The township was based at 71 Rathmines Road; that building was demolished to make way for Rathmines Town Hall which was completed 1896.{{cite web|url=https://www.excellentstreetimages.com/dublin-street-photography/dublin-towns-and-villages/rathmines-area/rathmines-four-faced-liar/ |title=Rathmines Four Faced Liar|publisher=Excellent Street Images| access-date=22 December 2023}}
References
=Further reading=
- {{cite book|last=Maitiú|first=Séamas Ó|title=Dublin's Suburban Towns 1834–1930 |year=2003|publisher=Four Courts Press|isbn=9781851827237}}
=Notes=
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=External links=
- [https://www.dublinhistoricmaps.ie/boundaries/dublin-townships/index.html Dublin Historic Maps: Dublin Townships and Urban Districts, between 1847 and 1930]
- [https://www.dublinhistoricmaps.ie/boundaries/dublin-city-limits/index.html Dublin Historic Maps: Dublin City historical limits, Between 1840 and 1953.]
- [https://www.townlands.ie/dublin/ Townlands in Co. Dublin]
Category:History of County Dublin
Category:Local government in County Dublin
Category:Former local authorities in the Republic of Ireland