Editing County Dublin (section)

====Urban and rural districts====
Under the [[Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898]], County Dublin was divided into [[urban and rural districts (Ireland)|urban districts]] of [[Blackrock, Dublin|Blackrock]], [[Clontarf, Dublin|Clontarf]], [[Dalkey]], [[Drumcondra, Clonliffe and Glasnevin]], [[Killiney and Ballybrack]], [[Dún Laoghaire|Kingstown]], [[New Kilmainham]], [[Pembroke, Dublin|Pembroke]], and [[Rathmines and Rathgar]], and the [[rural district (Ireland)|rural districts]] of [[Balrothery]], Celbridge No. 2, North Dublin, [[Rathdown (County Dublin barony)|Rathdown]], and South Dublin.<ref>{{cite book |last=Clancy |first=John Joseph|author-link=J. J. Clancy (North Dublin MP)|title=A handbook of local government in Ireland: containing an explanatory introduction to the Local Government (Ireland) Act, 1898: together with the text of the act, the orders in Council, and the rules made thereunder relating to county council, rural district council, and guardian's elections: with an index|url=https://archive.org/details/handbookoflocalg00clan/page/427/mode/2up |page=427 |year=1899|publisher=Sealy, Bryers and Walker|location=Dublin }}</ref>

Howth, formerly within the rural district of Dublin North, became an urban district in 1919.<ref>{{cite web |title=1926 Census: Table 9: Population, Area and Valuation of urban and rural districts and of all towns with a population of 1,500 inhabitants or over, showing particulars of town and village population and of the number of persons per 100 acres |url=https://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/census/census1926results/volume1/C_1926_V1_T9.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160427074421/http://www.cso.ie/en/media/csoie/census/census1926results/volume1/C_1926_V1_T9.pdf |archive-date=2016-04-27 |url-status=live |publisher=Central Statistics Office |pages=20–21 |access-date=28 September 2022}}</ref> Kingstown was renamed Dún Laoghaire in 1920.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-07-07|title=What's in a name? Dun Leary – Kingstown – Dún Laoghaire|url=https://www.dlrcoco.ie/en/news/general-news/what%E2%80%99s-name-dun-leary-%E2%80%93-kingstown-%E2%80%93-d%C3%BAn-laoghaire|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210127034536/https://www.dlrcoco.ie/en/news/general-news/what%E2%80%99s-name-dun-leary-%E2%80%93-kingstown-%E2%80%93-d%C3%BAn-laoghaire|archive-date=2021-01-27|access-date=2021-05-29|website=Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown County Council|language=en}}</ref> The rural districts were abolished in 1930.<ref>{{cite ISB|title=[[Local Government (Dublin) Act 1930]]|section=82|stitle=Abolition of rural district councils in the County|year=1930|num=27|parl=ifs|date=17 July 1930}}</ref>

[[Balbriggan]], in the rural district of Balrothery, had [[town commissioners]] under the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act 1854. This became a town council in 2002.<ref>{{cite ISB|year=2001|num=37|title=[[Local Government Act 2001]]|schedno=6|stitle=Local Government Areas (Towns)|date=21 July 2001|access-date=3 August 2022}}</ref> In common with all town councils, it was abolished in 2014.

The urban districts were gradually absorbed by the city of Dublin, except for four coastal districts of Blackrock, Dalkey, Dún Laoghaire, and Killiney and Ballybrack, which formed the [[borough of Dún Laoghaire]] in 1930.<ref>{{cite ISB|title=Local Government (Dublin) Act 1930|section=3|stitle= Formation of the Borough of Dun Laoghaire|year=1930|num=27|parl=ifs|date=17 July 1930}}</ref>