mean that some baronies now straddle two counties.

The final catalogue of baronies numbered 331, with an average area of ; each county was divided, on average, into 10 or 11 baronies.

Creation

The island of Ireland was "shired" into counties in two distinct periods: the east and south during the Anglo-Norman period (from the 1169 invasion to the early fourteenth century) and the rest in the Tudor conquest

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