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An 1871 report to parliament noted that there were three classes of parish in
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The 1871 report noted that ecclesiastical parish boundaries must be flexible to meet the requirements of the cure of souls, but that for statistical and possibly administrative purposes the boundaries of civil parishes should be fixed, or at least should rarely change.
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At the time of the 1861 census there were 2,428 civil parishes in
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legislation. Accounts were kept of income and expenditures for each parish including pensions and poor relief. Statutes were based on ecclesiastical parishes, although it is not known how well-defined such parishes were.
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There were 130 poor law unions with 829 registration districts and 3,751 district electoral divisions for census purposes. In 1898 poor law unions replaced civil parishes as the basic local government unit.
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replaced the civil parishes in the mid-nineteenth century. Townlands are the smallest land unit in
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