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Coolock (Irish: An Chúlóg)^{[4 1]} is one of the baronies of Ireland. It was constituted as part of the old county of Dublin. Today, it covers much of the northern parts of the city of Dublin and the south-eastern part of the modern county of Fingal. At the heart of the barony is the civil parish of the same name - Coolock - which is one of twenty civil parishes in the barony.

Legal context and history

Baronies were created after the Norman invasion of Ireland as subdivisions of counties and were used for administration. While baronies continue to be officially defined units, they are no longer used for many administrative purposes. They have been administratively obsolete since 1898. Nevertheless, they continue to be used in land registration and specification such as in planning permissions. In many cases, a barony corresponds to an earlier Gaelic túath which had submitted to the Crown. However, the status of barony is still used in modern times^[1]^[2]^[3]

Location

It is one of seven and a half baronies that used to comprise the old county of Dublin.^[4] It stretches from Dublin Airport and the Malahide estuary to the Royal Canal and River Tolka estuary (from north to south) and from the Phoenix Park to Dublin Bay (from west to east). It is located between the baronies of Nethercross (to the north), Castleknock (to the west) and Dublin City (to the south). The northern two-thirds of the barony is now administered by Fingal County Council while the southern third is subject to Dublin City Council.

Civil parishes

For convenience, the table below groups the barony's twenty civil parishes by their location in one of the modern local authority areas. Some parishes, however, straddle both areas.

Name in Irish	Name in English	Area in Acres 1	Modern Local Authority Area
Ard Aidhin	Artaine.^{[4 2]}	557	Dublin City
Cill Bharróg	Kilbarrack.^{[4 3]}	Note 1
Cill Easra	Killester.^{[4 4]}	150
Cluain Tarbh	Clontarf.^{[4 5]}	535
Cluain Torc	Clonturk.^{[4 6]}	800 Note 2
Gráinseach Ghormáin	Grangegorman.^{[4 7]}	450
Paróiste San Seoirse	St George's.^{[4 8]}	Note 3
Glas Naíon	Glasnevin.^{[4 9]}	600
An Chúlóg	Coolock.^{[4 10]}	1199
Ráth Eanaigh	Raheny.^{[4 11]}	440
Seantrabh	Santry.^{[4 12]}	2350
Baile Dúill	Baldoyle.^{[4 13]}	450	Fingal
Baile Ghrífín	Balgriffin.^{[4 14]}	540
Binn Éadair	Howth.^{[4 15]}	1772
Cionn Sáile	Kinsaley.^{[4 16]}	1339
Clochrán	Cloghran.^{[4 17]}	994
Mullach Íde	Malahide.^{[4 18]}	606
Port Mearnóg	Portmarnock.^{[4 19]}	1020
Sord	Swords.^{[4 20]}	5 Note 4
Teampall Mhaighréide	St. Margaret's^{[4 21]}	1140

Note 1 In 1773, during the reign of King George III of Great Britain, the parishes were assessed as having the acreage as set out in the above table.^[5] In addition, the parishes of Kilossory and Kilbegh are mentioned as being in the barony with 900 and 500 acres respectively. Today, Killossory is in the barony of Nethercross but the date of its presumed transfer from this barony is unknown. The identity of Kilbegh is unclear although Kilbarrack may be a candidate. The source makes no mention of St George's parish.

Note 2 The parish of Clonturk is now mainly identified with the district of Drumcondra.

Note 3 The parish is St George is split between this barony and the barony of the City of Dublin. That part of the parish which lies in Coolock is bounded by the River Tolka to the north, Dublin Bay to the east and the Royal Canal to the south.

Note 4 An exclave of the parish of Swords lies in the barony. It is a single parcel of land, just over 5 acres in area - the townland of Glebe.^{[4 22]} Today, it is the site of the Metropoint Business Park.^{[citation needed]}

The table below lists the population and the number of houses in the various civil parishes according to the 1851 census of Ireland.^[6]

Civil Parish.	Population in 1851.	Number of Houses in 1851.
Artaine	345	77
Baldoyle	1131	231
Balgriffin	523	97
Cloghran	462	89
Clontarf	2682	449
Clonturk	2630	459
Coolock	943	161
Glasnevin	1340	178
Grange Gorman (part of)	971	178
Howth	1715	328
Kilbarrack	242	42
Killester (incl. Artaine town)	400	71
Kinsaley	648	119
Malahide	1341	271
Portmarnock	602	101
Raheny	548	117
St Georges (part of)	1297	198
St Margarets	412	78
Santry	1140	194
Swords (part of)	3	1

External links

Enhanced British Parliamentary Papers on Ireland - Census of Ireland 1851: part I
Walsh, Dennis (2003). "Barony Map of Ireland". Retrieved 13 February 2007. Source given is "Ordnance survey".

References

From "Irish placenames database". logainm.ie (in English and Irish). Department of Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs. Retrieved 8 December 2016.

From other sources:

^ Air Navigation and Transport Act, 1950 - Barony of Coolock
^ State Property Act, 1954 - Barony of Coolock
^ University Education (Agriculture and Dairy Science) Act, 1926 - Barony of Coolock
^ According to the "Local Government Act, 2001", section 10(2): "The State continues to stand divided into local government areas to be known as counties and cities which are the areas set out in Parts 1 and 2, respectively, of Schedule 5." It is clear from SCHEDULE 5, Local Government Areas (Counties and Cities, PART 1, that "Dublin" is defined only as a city (as distinct from a county).
^ The Statutes at Large, Passed in the Parliaments Held in Ireland: Volume 10; Published by James Goddard Butler, William Ball
^ Census of Ireland 1851: part I, area, population, and number of houses, by townlands and electoral divisions: County and City of Dublin; HMSO, Paper No. 1553