| LC control no. | n 83053204 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Geographic heading | Offaly (Ireland) |
| Geographic subdivision usage | Ireland--Offaly |
| Variant(s) | Offaly, Ire. (County) Offaly Uíbh Fhailí (Ireland) County Offaly (Ireland) Contae Uíbh Fhailí (Ireland) Offally (Ireland) |
| See also | King's County (Ireland) |
| Other standard no. | 7003492 100031 |
| Biography/History note | Offaly is a county in Ireland, in Leinster province, Ireland. During the reign of Mary I of England, in 1556, it was established as a county with the name King's County. Upon Irish independence in 1922, it was renamed County Offaly (Irish name Contae Uíbh Fhailí), based on the (larger) Irish Kingdom of Uí Failghe. The name King's County, however, is still used in legal land documents. |
| Beginning date | 1922 |
| Associated country | Ireland |
| Associated place | Leinster (Ireland) |
| Located | Tullamore (Ireland) |
| Found in | Stateman's yrbk world gaz., 1975 (Offaly, Leinster, Irish Republic; county) O'Brien, C. Archaeological inventory of County Offaly, c1997: added t.p. (Chontae Uíbh Fhailí) Yahoo Geocities Offaly, Ireland www homepage, July 8, 2003 (Offaly in ancient Ireland, was known as King's County from 1556 until the Irish Free State was established in 1922) GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (adm1; 53°15ʹ00ʺN 007°30ʹ00ʺW) Offaly County Council website, 31 August 2022: main page (Comhairle Chontae Uíbh Fhailí, Offaly County Council; Offaly; Co. Offaly) <https://www.offaly.ie/eng/> GNS, 6 September 2022 (Offaly (Approved); other names: County Offaly (Approved), Uíbh Fhailí (Approved), Contae Uíbh Fhailí (Approved), King's County (Variant), Offally (Variant); country: Ireland; first-order administrative subdivision: Offaly (ADM1 code: IE-OY); latitude, longitude: DMS: 53:15:00 [53° 15ʹ 00ʺ N], -7:30:00 [007° 30ʹ 00ʺ W]; DD: 53.25 [N], -7.5 [W]; feature designation: first-order administrative division; Unique Feature Identifier: -1504948; Unique Name Identifier: -6135012) Wikipedia, 7 September 2022: County Offaly (County Offaly; Irish: Contae Uíbh Fhailí; county in Ireland; part of Eastern and Midland Region [statistical region] and province of Leinster; named after ancient Kingdom of Uí Failghe; formerly known as King's County, in honour of Philip II of Spain; in 1556, an Act of the Parliament of Ireland created King's County, named after Philip, the then king of Ireland, which replaced the old kingdoms with baronies and the present day county system; despite the county's name being upheld as Offaly through the 2001 Local Government Act, no legislation was ever enacted after independence explicitly changing the name from King's County, the name formally established under the 1898 Local Government Act, which continued to have legal effect; legal transfers and assignments of land in the county still refer to it as "King's County"; Offaly County Council is the local authority for county; Tullamore is county town and largest town; coordinates: DMS: 53° 15ʹ 0ʺ N, 7° 30ʹ 0ʺ W; decimal: 53.25, -7.5) <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=County_Offaly&oldid=1107524301> Wikipedia, 7 September 2022: Kingdom of Uí Failghe (Kingdom of Uí Failghe; Uí Failge (early spelling) or Uíbh Fhailí (modern spelling); was a Gaelic-Irish kingdom which existed to 1550; name preserved in name of County Offaly; in modern territorial boundaries the kingdom today would correspond with County Offaly east of Tullamore, western parts of Kildare, and parts of north east Laois; about 1556, Ui Failghe was divided between Queen's County, King's County, and County Kildare when it was shired by Mary I of England during one of the Plantations of Ireland; upon Irish independence, King's County was renamed County Offaly) <https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kingdom_of_U%C3%AD_Failghe&oldid=1085172538> |
| Geographic area code | e-ie--- |
| Associated language | eng gle |
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