ABSTRACT
Mid-eighteenth-century Dublin was a city growing in population, extent, and confidence. The chapter describes how the number of authorities with responsibility for administering the city also grew as parliament established new agencies, each with some element of regulative function. Between them, they exercised a wide range of control, though this was fragmented, whereas a great deal was left to private landowners, who ensured that development was orderly, at least in the more opulent areas of the city. This state of affairs was brought to an end in the 1840s when new administrative structures for Dublin were implemented.
