Dunlop Parish (Yanda County)

Dunlop Parish is a civil parish,[1] of Yanda County, a cadasteral division of New South Wales;[2] a Cadastral division of New South Wales.

The topography is flat with a Köppen climate classification of BsK (Hot semi arid).

[9] The economy in the parish is based on broad acre agriculture, mainly Wheat, and sheep.

In 1859 when Thomas Andrew Mathews, an Irish immigrant from County Louth, built a pub to serve the passing trade along the Darling River.

In 1888 the first mechanised shearing of sheep, in the world, took place at Sir Samuel McCaughey's Dunlop Station.