Dunlop Parish is a

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, of

Yanda County Yanda County is one of the 141 cadastral divisions of New South Wales. The Darling River is the north-western boundary. The name Yanda is believed to be derived from a local Indigenous Australians, Aboriginal word. Parishes within this count ...

, a

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al division of

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; a

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division of

Location

The Parish is on the

Darling River The Darling River (or River Darling; Paakantyi: ''Baaka'' or ''Barka''), is the third-longest river in Australia, measuring from its source in northern New South Wales to its confluence with the Murray River at Wentworth. Including its long ...

upstream of

Wilcannia, New South Wales Wilcannia is a small town located within the Central Darling Shire in north western New South Wales, Australia. Located on the Darling River, the town was the third largest river port, inland port in the country during the river boat era of the ...

and down stream of

Bourke, New South Wales Bourke is a town in the north-west of New South Wales, Australia. The administrative centre and largest town in Bourke Shire, Bourke is approximately north-west of the state capital, Sydney, on the south bank of the Darling River. It is also si ...

. The only town of the parish is

Louth, New South Wales Louth is a village on the eastern side of the Darling River in New South Wales, Australia. The village is in Bourke Shire, south west of Bourke and north west of Cobar. The town is made famous by the Louth Races which are held in August each ...

Geography

The topography is flat with a

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of BsK (Hot semi arid). ''(direct
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'' The economy in the parish is based on broad acre

agriculture Agriculture encompasses crop and livestock production, aquaculture, and forestry for food and non-food products. Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created ...

, mainly

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, and

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. File:Darling River Louth.JPG, Darling River Dunlop Parish file:Louth bridge 1.JPG , Louth bridge 1.JPG Dunlop Parish File:Map of Yanda County (NSW) Australia.png The Dunlop Ranges are in the parish.

History

The

traditional owners Native title is the set of rights, recognised by Australian law, held by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander groups or individuals to land that derive from their maintenance of their traditional laws and customs. These Aboriginal title rig ...

of the area are the

Barkindji people The Paakantyi, or Barkindji or Barkandji, are an Australian Aboriginal tribal group of the Darling River (known to them as the Baaka) basin in Far West New South Wales, Australia. Name The ethnonym Paakantyi means "River people", formed from ...

, The first

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an to the area was

Thomas Mitchell (explorer) Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell (15 June 1792 – 5 October 1855), often called Major Mitchell, was a Scottish Surveyor (surveying), surveyor and European land exploration of Australia, explorer of Southeastern Australia. He was born in Scotla ...

. In 1859 when Thomas Andrew Mathews, an Irish immigrant from County Louth, built a pub to serve the passing trade along the Darling River. In 1888 the first mechanised shearing of sheep, in the world, took place at Sir

Samuel McCaughey Sir Samuel McCaughey (1 July 1835 – 25 July 1919) was an Irish-born pastoralist, politician and philanthropist in Australia. Early life McCaughey was born on 1 July 1835 at Tullynewey, near Ballymena, Ireland, the son of Francis McCaughey, ...

's ''Dunlop''

Station Station may refer to: Agriculture * Station (Australian agriculture), a large Australian landholding used for livestock production * Station (New Zealand agriculture), a large New Zealand farm used for grazing by sheep and cattle ** Cattle statio ...

.Trilby Station
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External links

*Charles Bayliss
View from Dunlop Range, near Louth, Darling River looking south (1886)
*Charles. Bayliss
Homestead, Dunlop Station, Darling River (1886)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne.

References

{{reflist Central West (New South Wales) Localities in New South Wales Geography of New South Wales