Hundred of Dublin

Dublin
South Australia
Dublin is located in South Australia
Dublin
Dublin
Coordinates34°27′0″S 138°21′0″E / 34.45000°S 138.35000°E / -34.45000; 138.35000
Established22 May 1856
Area310 km2 (119.5 sq mi)
RegionNorthern Adelaide Plains
CountyGawler
Lands administrative divisions around Dublin:
Inkerman Balaklava Dalkey
Gulf St Vincent Dublin Grace
Gulf St Vincent Port Gawler Port Gawler

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:

  1. ^ a b "Placename Details: Hundred of Dublin". Property Location Browser. Government of South Australia. 29 January 2009. SA0020882. Archived from the original on 7 December 2015. Retrieved 6 November 2017. Derivation of Name: A city in Ireland; Other Details: Area 119 1/2 square miles.
  2. ^ South Australia hundred maps 1:63 360. Surveyor General's Office. 1867.
  3. ^ Manning, Geoffrey. "Dublin" (PDF). Manning Index of South Austrlalian History - Place Names of South Australia – via State Library of South Australia. The Hundred of Dublin, County of Gawler, was proclaimed on 22 May 1856 and named by Governor MacDonnell after his birthplace in Ireland