While on the whole the Vice-counties boundaries do follow the current counties, there are many exceptions.
In the Botanic Gardens website there is an excellent
online reference
of how the vice-county system was formulated and detailing these exceptions and
how the counties of Kerry, Cork, Tipperary, Galway, Mayo and Donegal are
divided.
H1 South Kerry H2 North Kerry H3 West Cork H4 Mid-Cork H5 East Cork H6 Waterford H7 South Tipperary H8 Limerick H9 Clare H10 North Tipperary H11 Kilkenny H12 Wexford H13 Carlow H14 Laois (Queen's County) H15 South-east Galway H16 West Galway H17 North-east Galway H18 Offaly (King's County) H19 Kildare H20 Wicklow |
H21 Dublin H22 Meath H23 Westmeath H24 Longford H25 Roscommon H26 East Mayo H27 West Mayo H28 Sligo H29 Leitrim H30 Cavan H31 Louth H32 Monaghan H33 Fermanagh H34 East Donegal H35 West Donegal H36 Tyrone H37 Armagh H38 Down H39 Antrim H40 Londonderry |