Pembroke is a former local government area within County Dublin that was adjoining the city of Dublin, Ireland. It was formed as a township for local government purposes by a local act of Parliament, the Pembroke Township Act 1863 (26 & 27 Vict. c. lxxii). The township took its name from the fact that most of the area was part of the estate of the Earl of Pembroke. It was governed by town commissioners until 1899 when it became an urban district. In 1930 Pembroke was absorbed by the City and County Borough of Dublin.
Composition
The township consisted of a number of distinct areas: Ballsbridge, Donnybrook, Sandymount, Irishtown and Ringsend. The areas varied in nature, with Ringsend being an old fishing village, Irishtown a working-class residential and industrial district, while the remainder of the township contained affluent residential areas. Seven-ninths of the township was part of the Pembroke Estate, and the agent of the estate was an ex officio commissioner, the remaining 14 being elected by property owners. The estate had a great deal of influence on the activities of the commissioners, and also made donations of land for the use of the township. This influence largely ended when a more democratically elected urban district council replaced the commissioners. In 1899, it became an urban district under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.[1][2]
Electoral history
| Election | Control | Administration | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1899 | Unionist | Unionist | |
| 1902 | Unionist | Unionist | |
| 1905 | Unionist | Unionist | |
| 1908 | Unionist | Unionist | |
| 1911 | Nationalist | Nationalist | |
| 1914 | Nationalist | Nationalist | |
| 1920 | NOC | Unionist-Ratepayer | |
| 1925 | |||
| 1928 | |||
Town Hall
Pembroke Town Hall was built on Merrion Road, Ballsbridge, and opened in 1880. Previously the township offices had been in nearby Ballsbridge Terrace. The town hall later formed the administrative headquarters of the City of Dublin Vocational Education Committee.[3]
Dissolution
Under the Local Government (Dublin) Act 1930, Pembroke Urban District was dissolved and its area was added to the functional area of the city of Dublin.[4]
Continued use of name
The library run by Dublin City Council in Ballsbridge is called Pembroke Library.[5] It is also the name of a local electoral area for elections to Dublin City Council.[6]
Sources
- ^ Clancy, John Joseph (1899). 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. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers and Walker. p. 427.
- ^ "Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898". 2nd revised edition of the statutes. 1909.
- ^ "Pemroke Town Hall and Library". Patrick Comerford. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
- ^ Local Government (Dublin) Act 1930 (No. 27 of 1930). Act of the Oireachtas. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book.
- ^ "Pembroke Library". Dublin City Council.
- ^ "Your Councillors". Dublin City Council.
Further reading
- Ó Maitiú, Séamas (2003). Dublin's Suburban Towns. Dublin.
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External links
- History of Pembroke Township[usurped]
- Pembroke Urban District 1880–1930 layer on OpenStreetMap
- Dublin Historic Maps: Dublin Townships and Urban Districts, between 1847 and 1930
