Harristown (civil parish)

Not to be confused with Harristown, Naas South, a former parliamentary borough elsewhere in County Kildare.

53°05′35″N 6°57′43″W / 53.0930°N 6.9619°W / 53.0930; -6.9619[1]

Detail from Daniel Augustus Beaufort's 1797 map of Ireland, showing the area of Harristown as an exclave of King's County, between Queen's County and Kildare.

Harristown (Irish: Baile Hanraí[2]) is a civil parish and electoral division (ED) in County Kildare in Ireland,[2] about 4 miles (6.4 km) southwest of Kildare town.[3]

Until 1842 the parish was part of an exclave of the barony of Upper Philipstown in King's County (now County Offaly).[3][4][5]

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.[3][6] The civil parish of Harristown contains the following 16 townlands:[2] 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).[2]

In 1841 Harristown civil parish was added to the existing Ballybrackan ED of the poor law union of Athy.[7] By 1851 a separate Harristown ED had been created, with an area of 5,142.5 acres (2,081.1 ha),[8] comprising 18 townlands: all 16 in Harristown civil parish plus Gorteen Upper and Lower from the civil parish of Fontstown.[9] From 1899 the ED was in Athy No.1 rural district.[8] 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).[10]

Census population of Harristown civil parish and/or ED[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
  1. ^ Irish grid reference N 69591 05188 for townland of Harristown Lower from: "Baile Hanraí Íochtarach/Harristown Lower". Logainm.ie. Retrieved 2 July 2019.
  2. ^ a b c d "Baile Hanraí/Harristown". Logainm.ie. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  3. ^ a b c "Harristown (King's)". A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland (1837). Sauel Lewis. 1837. Retrieved 1 July 2019 – via Library Ireland.
  4. ^ "III. County tables; Leinster; Kildare; I. General table". Census of Ireland 1841. p. 42, fn. Retrieved 1 July 2019. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  5. ^ "County (Ireland); (i) Dublin; Proclamation in Council, dated February 9, 1842, as to Boundaries of Counties of Dublin, Kildare, and King's County". The Statutory Rules and Orders Revised, being the Statutory Rules and Orders (Other Than Those of a Local, Personal Or Temporary Character) in force on December 31, 1903. Vol. 2 (2nd ed.). H.M. Stationery Office. 1904. pp. 40–41. Retrieved 11 July 2016. We further order and direct that the detached portion of the King's County, which is included between the county of Kildare and the Queen's County, the greater portion being bounded by the county of Kildare, comprising the townlands of Ashgrove, Cush, Derryoughter East, Derryoughter West, Feamore, Gurteen, Killeen East, Killeen West, Kilbeg, Kilpatrick, Loughhill, Larchill, Riverstown, Big Pullagh, Boarbawn Upper, Boarbawn Lower, Boghall, Bawn, Coolagh, Clary, Cloneybeg, Cherrymills, Harristown Upper, Harristown Lower, Iscarhill, Lennagarragh, Mylerstown, Ardillis Lower, Ardillis Upper, Boleybeg, Derrynine, Gurteen Upper, Gurteen Lower, Lochabor, Rathconnell, Rathconnell Wood, Rickardstown Lower, and part of Rickardstown Upper, be annexed to and incorporated with the barony of West Ophaly and said county of Kildare
  6. ^ Her Majesty's Commissioners on the Revenues and Condition of the Established Church in Ireland (1868). Report. Command papers. Vol. C. 4082. Alexander Thom. p. 88. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  7. ^ Poor Law Commissioners of England and Wales (1842). "Appendix (C) No.11: Statement showing the Alterations which have been made, since the 1st May, 1841, in Unions in Ireland, previously declared and included in former Reports". 8th Annual Report. London: Clowes for HMSO. p. 672. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  8. ^ a b "Vol. I: Area, houses, and population; Part 1: Leinster; No.3: County of Kildare; Table VII; Union of Athy; No.23 Harristown D.E.D.". Census of Ireland, 1901. Command papers. Vol. Cd.847–II. pp. 14–15. Retrieved 1 July 2019 – via histpop.org.uk.
  9. ^ "Poor Law Unions and Electoral Divisions; Union of Athy, Part of". Census of Ireland 1851; part I; : County of Kildare. HMSO. 1852. p. 79. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  10. ^ "S.I. No. 29/1954 - Kildare County Council (Amendment) Order, 1954". electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB). Retrieved 2 July 2019.; "S.I. No. 49/1974 - Kildare County Council (Amendment) Order, 1974". electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB). Retrieved 2 July 2019.; "S.I. No. 20/1987 - Kildare County Council Order, 1987". electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB). Retrieved 2 July 2019.; "S.I. No. 336/1998 - County of Kildare Local Electoral Areas Order, 1998". electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB). Retrieved 2 July 2019.; "S.I. No. 442/2008 - County of Kildare Local Electoral Areas Order 2008". electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB). Retrieved 2 July 2019.; "S.I. No. 52/2014 - County of Kildare Local Electoral Areas and Municipal Districts Order 2014". electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB). Retrieved 1 July 2019.; "S.I. No. 620/2018 - County of Kildare Local Electoral Areas and Municipal Districts Order 2018". electronic Irish Statute Book (eISB). Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  11. ^ "Census Reports 1821-2006". CSO.; "E2013: Population Density and Area Size 2011 to 2016 by Electoral Division, CensusYear and Statistic". StatBank.; "Census 2016 population for 50,117 Townlands" (CSV). Census 2016 Small Area Population Statistics. CSO.