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The shiring was often done by Act of Parliament, so if you can find the Act you can find out the boundaries and maybe why they came about that way.

This greatly depends on the county, it was up to the government of the day to create a shire/county and the boundaries are just as they wanted them to be then, there is no rule to it. That said Irish counties usually encompass the area of a Gaelic tribe. So the lordship of Meath would track...

When reading recently Steven Ellis’ valuable account of Meath in the Middle Ages, “Defending English Ground”, he refers to the “sheriff of the geographically tiny county of the cross of Meath”. What is the county called the ‘Cross of Meath’, are there many references to it in medieval times, I...