The Reverend James Doran had scarcely completed Pat Conyers' last rites on Boot Hill in the township of Petrie, when shots were heard in the distance.

This fort, situated on a steep hill, towers more than 800 ft ( 244 m ) above the eponymous township, and contains the ruins of several temples adorned with elaborately carved sculptures.

Glasnevin became a township in 1878 and became part of the City of Dublin in 1900 under the Dublin Boundaries Act when it received the Royal Assent on August 6 1900.

* MacCready Reserve: a fairly large nature preserve on the west side of the township.

Records from the 9th century show that there was a settlement named " Ulidi " on the site, although Oelde only received township in the year 1800.

The nearest permanently inhabited settlement is 366. 8 km, or 198. 1 nmi, west of the headland of Aird an Runair, near the crofting township of Hogha Gearraidh on the island of North Uist at.

Many of the families are now squatting on Symphony Way, a main road in the township of Delft.

* February 17 – Miami University ( Ohio ) is established on the township of land required to be set aside for it under the conditions of the Miami Purchase in 1794.

The medieval township on Veøya, an island outside present day Molde, was first mentioned by the historian Snorri Sturluson as the location of the Battle of Sekken in 1162, where king Håkon the Broad-shouldered was killed fighting the aristocrat Erling Skakke, during the Norwegian civil wars.

The township of Trento is geographically very large and encompasses the town centre as well as many suburbs of extremely varied geographical and population conditions ( from the industrial suburb of Gardolo, just north of the city, to tiny mountain hamlets on the Monte Bondone ).

Soweto Pride takes place in Meadowlands, Soweto every year one week before Joburg Pride, and East Rand Pride a week before that in KwaThema, Gauteng, a township on Johannesburg's East Rand.

The township was established in the early 1860s, the first Post Office opening on 1 January 1861.

Plainfield was originally formed as a township on April 5, 1847, from portions of Westfield Township, while the area was still part of Essex County.

Sylt-Ost ( East Sylt ) is a township, consisting of several small villages on the Nössehalbinsel on Sylt.

However, the term township also has a precise legal meaning, and is used on land titles ( in all areas, not only traditionally non-white areas ).

Lancaster also has two outlet shopping centers, both of which are located in East Lampeter township on U. S. Route 30.

Cranford was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 14, 1871, from portions of the Townships of Clark, Linden, Springfield, Union and Westfield.

Township officials had fought, off and on, for the change since 1969, when then-U. S. Rep. Frank Thompson tried unsuccessfully to convince U. S. Postal Service authorities to grant a Lawrence name tag for the entire township, according to a letter on file at the Municipal Clerk ’ s Office.

The organization of Bath Township predates that of Allen County itself, with its first township meeting held on March 2, 1829.

At the County Commission session on June 6, 1831, the formation of a second township, Jackson, was approved.

The organization of Bath Township predates that of Allen County itself, with its first township meeting held on March 2, 1829.

At the County Commission session on June 6, 1831, the formation of a second township, Jackson, was approved.

Brainerd township was founded in 1870 when the Northern Pacific survey determined that the crossing of the Mississippi should be there.

Litchfield National Park, covering approximately 1500 km < sup > 2 </ sup >, is near the township of Batchelor, 100 km south-west of Darwin, in the Northern Territory of Australia.

According to the United States Census Bureau, this Northern Michigan township has a total area of, of which, of it is land and of it ( 40. 82 %) is water.

Northern Township is a township in Beltrami County, Minnesota, United States.

The township contains Northern Cemetery.

In 1871 the township was settled and named after Vice-Admiral Peter Tordenskjold, a Danish-Norwegian naval hero during the Great Northern War, by two Danish brothers.

A branch line of the Great Northern Railway was built through the township in 1898 ; the railroad was abandoned in 1972 and converted to the Heartland State Trail.

In the 1880s John Rogers sold an acre of his land ( then part of Hassan township ) to Great Northern Railroad for a dollar.

The township is named after Hamiltonsbawn in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.

The Northern Trail, an established Indian trail, crossed the territory from east to west, intersecting Quemahoning Creek at Kickenapaulin's Town, a rather substantial Indian settlement, the site of which now lies under the waters of the Quemahoning Reservoir, just outside the township.

The township is named after the town of Strabane in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

The township is named after the town of Strabane in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland.

Just three years after the fire, in 1892, James J. Hill's Great Northern Railway had arrived in the newly created township of Hillyard ( annexed by Spokane in 1924 )— the chosen site for Hill's rail yards.

The difficulty of quelling the riots and other crime led to the Pennsylvania General Assembly to pass an 1845 act that required Philadelphia, the township of Moyamensing and the unincorporated districts of Spring Garden, Northern Liberties, and Penn to maintain a police force of one man per 150 taxable inhabitants.

The township became a separate county in the 12th century ( Northern Song Dynasty ).

* 1929: Disastrous floods, mainly in Northern Tasmania, take 22 lives ; dam burst damages Derby township and tin mines

Laird is a township and village in the Algoma District in Northern Ontario, Canada.

Originally a portion of the Northern Liberties Township, the district first gained limited autonomy from the township by an Act of Assembly on March 9, 1771.

On March 28, 1803, the Legislature passed an act to incorporate that part of the township of the Northern Liberties lying between the west side of Sixth Street and the Delaware River and between Vine Street and Cohocksink Creek, thus creating the District of Northern Liberties.

* Kalkaringi, Northern Territory, formerly known as Wave Hill, a township in the Northern Territory of Australia

Nhulunbuy is the name of the township created on the Gove Peninsula in the Northern Territory of Australia when a bauxite mine and deep water port were established nearby in the late 1960s.

Agriculture led to the early development of Adaminaby as a township and the Kiandra goldrush and subsequent history of skiing in the Northern Snowy Mountains opened up new opportunities for economic development.