Subject: Re: [BoundaryPoint] Re: Status on IEUK?<br/>
Date: May 14, 2002 @ 20:07<br/>
Author: Gerard J Keating (&quot;Gerard J Keating&quot; &lt;gerard@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-849002195"><blockquote><span title="ireply">&gt; my impression is that the original 1921 eigb partition was made simply &<br/>
 </span></blockquote>cleanly along preexisting county lines<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; in other words there may well be an ongoing difference of opinion about<br/>
 </span></blockquote>what changes might or should be made but i think perhaps no dispute at all<br/>
about the boundary as it is presently recognized<br/>
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You are correct in this. The original treaty between the United Kingdom and<br/>
the then newly form Irish Free State used the existing county boundaries,<br/>
which give some odd things like a 1km section of the Clones to Cavan road<br/>
crossing the border six times, and some houses straddling the border.<br/>
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The Treaty did provide for a Boundary Commission, but the civil war in the<br/>
Irish Free State which followed independence stopped that, also the<br/>
realization that it was two way (i.e. the Free State would actually give up<br/>
land)...</div>