Herefordshire probably originated as a shirein the time of Aethelstan, and is mentioned in the Saxon Chronicle in 1051.
Tralee, a decayed village on the route to Killarney, though anciently the shire town.
Dublin, is the largest and shire town of the county.
Dublin, took its name from Philip of Spain, being in a new shire incorporated by Queen Mary.
The County or Shire Court was the great resort for justice (for the four great courts of record did not then exist).
Concerning the right of appointing the Alderman of the Shire there is some uncertainty.
As the Saxon laws did not suffer any transaction, whether of the sale of land or goods, to pass but in the shire and before witnesses, so all controversies of them were concluded by what they called the scyre witness.
That he was anciently elected by his county is indisputable; that an alderman of the shire was appointed by the crown seems equally clear from the writings of King Alfred.
He was an officer in the 90th Regiment and subsequently Colonel-Commandant of the Ross-shire Highland Rifle Volunteers.
John, who raised a company, almost wholly in Gairloch, for the 78th Regiment of Ross-shire Highlanders when first embodied, of which he himself obtained the Captaincy.
Each shire of England in its own speech bore witness to its past.
He was an Inverness-shire ploughman before he enlisted, and rose from the ranks to command the regiment, and died a major-general.
On the first of September, 1773, four hundred and twenty-five men, women and children from Inverness-shire sailed for America.
In August, 1773, three gentlemen of the name of Macdonell, with their families and four hundred Highlanders from Inverness-shire sailed for America to take possession of a grant of land "in Albany.
The returns to a writ issued by the king to the local authorities of each shire to certify the number of parishes in it, showed that there were only 8669.
In Glydepath Road, near the Shire Hall, may be seen the "leering mask" that formed the keystone of the doorway arch of Lucetta's house.
Proceeding down High West Street, the western counterpart of the thoroughfare we joined at the Corn Exchange and left at the White Hart, we pass on our left the Shire Hall, a reminder, if such were needed, that we are in the county town.
Although the knights of the shire were of much the same class as the barons, the latter received personal summons to attend, and the knights joined with the representatives of the cities and boroughs.
In fact, the lady of the manor had the same rights as the lord of the manor, and joined with men who were freeholders in electing knights of the shire without question of sex disability.
Heruppon the people peacyd, and stilled unto the tyme the shire was doone, and after that doone, the people called uppon hym, 'Kylle hym!
If the dignity of Knight of the Shire is to be conferred, he cannot be pronounced a fit person to receive it.
In my own fancy, I have fixed its rise near the noted Shire Stones placed at the meeting point of the counties Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire.
In the reign of Queen Anne it was enacted, that every Knight of the Shire (the eldest sons of Peers and a few others excepted) shall have a clear estate of Freehold or Copyhold to the value of £600 per annum.
A Knight of the Shiremust have double the Estate required from a Representative of a Borough.
Before the advent of railways the shire contained many famous coaching routes, but now coaches only run during the tourist season, either in connexion with train and steamer, or in districts still not served by either.
Owing partly to the paucity of trading industries and partly to the fact that, owing to its greatly indented coast-line, no place in the shire is more than 12 m.
The county was made shire ground in 1586, and called Armagh after the city by Sir John Perrott.
The shire is one of those where the crofting system exists, but it is by no means universal.
The mountains are so many as to give the shire a markedly rugged character.
Pre-eminently Argyll is the shire of the sportsman.
Probably leper hospitals were in the main only nominally such, as a testator hints in 1519, bequeathing a legacy “to every Alms House called Lepars in the Shire of Kent.
In April, 1824, Hook at last took his leave ofShire Lane.
I hope your plans in favour of the ----shire will not be affected by his being in the neighbourhood.
The other chief buildings of the town are the shire hall built in 1842 in the Doric style from designs by T.
He wrote Shire Tif'eret, "Songs of Glory," an epic in five parts dealing with the Exodus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shire" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
