An administrative county was an administrative division in England and Wales and Ireland used for the purposes of local government. They are now abolished, although in Northern Ireland their former areas are used as the basis for lieutenancy.
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“In the county there are thirty-seven churches
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—Maxine Kumin (b. 1925)