Galway (barony)
[4] About 1770 the county bounds were further extended,[2][4] and in 1871 the census gave its area as 22,483 acres (9,099 ha).[3] The 1846 Parliamentary Gazetteer describes its bounds as roughly a semicircle with a radius of 4 miles (6.4 km) centred on Galway town, with Galway Bay to the south, from Forramoyle in the west, through Lough Inch to the southern shore of Lough Corrib in the north, then southeast to the north of Killeen, and down to the bay 11⁄2 miles east of Merlin Park.[1][6] Whereas Galway Corporation governed the borough, a separate grand jury had a parallel authority over the whole county of the town.[9][n 1] Less powerful town commissioners took over the property of the abolished corporation and had jurisdiction within one mile of St. Nicholas' Church.Boundary extensions since before and after 1985 have given it an area of 5,000 hectares (12,360 acres), less than that of the disused barony of Galway.