Coolock (barony)

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.

It is located between the baronies of Nethercross (to the north), Castleknock (to the west) and Dublin City (to the south).

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

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