Scots coonties

Scotland wis laid oot as 34 coonties ower the coorse o the 18t, 19t an 20t centuries. They wis duin awa wi as offeecial bodies in 1975 bi the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, that replaced them wi airts o Scotland, island council airts an the lieutenancy airts o Scotland.

Though the coonties theirsels dinna hae offeecial status ony mair, some o thair names is aye in uiss. The Scots Laund Register uises the same boonds as the umwhile coonties, but keeps Glesca apairt an pits Orkney an Shetland thegither. The boonds stayed in uiss, forby, in a chynged form as postal coonties o the Unitit Kinrick till 1996.

List

32 coonties (2 no shawn)

1. Caithness
2. Sutherland
3. Ross-shire
4. Cromartyshire
5. Inverness-shire
6. Nairnshire
7. Morayshire
8. Banffshire
9. Aberdeenshire
10. Kincardineshire
11. Angus
12. Perthshire
13. Argyll
14. Bute
15. Ayrshire
16. Renfrewshire
17. Dunbartonshire
18. Stirlingshire
19. Clackmannanshire
20. Kinross-shire
21. Fife
22. West Lothian
23. Mid Lothian
24. East Lothian
25. Berwickshire
26. Roxburghshire
27. Dumfriesshire
28. Kirkcudbrightshire
29. Wigtownshire
30. Lanrickshire
31. Selkirkshire
32. Peeblesshire

No shawn:

Zetland (Shetland)

Orkney