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When did Kings County become County Offaly? (EIRE)?

I am trying to date a map of Ireland, it shows Kings County, which is now County Offaly. When did the change take place? If I can find out when the name change occurred it will help me date the map.

    



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submissivmsle36
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hi you
i am not to sure but this mite help you along the way of finding out when the Irish republic was formed in 1922 there was a lot of name changes like cove under the english became queenstown and it then became cobh i know there was a Kingstown which is now something else this name change happen all over the republic so it is poss able that it happen in 1922 but i am not 100% sure i hope this is of some help


pimlicoboi
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The other answerers are correct, It beacame Offaly in 1922 when 26 counties of Ireland became independant (the reamining six counties are Northern Ireland)

County Laois (the county under Offaly) was called Queenstown also.

Check out below website for more history/info:

http://www.ireland.com/ancestor/browse/counties/leinster/index_of.htm

Hope this helps


greenorlagh
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the answers above are correct BUT to add to the questions - was it not Co Offaly before the English renamed it? And weren't the other anglo names named in Irish before the country was invaded?


younosygit
Round about 1922, though not all these renamings happened immediately after independence - Kingstown reverted to its old name of Dun Laoghaire in 1921, a year before independence.

The name comes from the kingdom of UĂ­ Failghe, but when the county was created in 1556 by Queen Mary she named it after her husband, king Phillip II of Spain. The county town was Phillipstown, now called Daingean, but since the 19th century the county town has been Tullamore.


Pyro
I think around the 1922 mark and submissivemale36 Kingstown is now Dun Laoghaire if you're interested.


Orla C
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Probably in 1921 or 1922, when the island was partitioned.


MeatloafNo.1Fan !!
between 1912-1922





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