Ireby
Over Hall
Ireby Location in the City of Lancaster district Show map of the City of Lancaster district Ireby Location within Lancashire Show map of Lancashire
Population	78 (2001)
OS grid reference	SD654754
Civil parish	Ireby
District	Lancaster
Shire county	Lancashire
Region	North West
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	CARNFORTH
Postcode district	LA6
Dialling code	015242
Police	Lancashire
Fire	Lancashire
Ambulance	North West
UK Parliament	Morecambe and Lunesdale
List of places UK England Lancashire 54°10′23″N 2°31′44″W / 54.173°N 2.529°W / 54.173; -2.529

Ireby is a small hamlet and civil parish on the edge of Lancashire, England, bordering North Yorkshire. It lies in the City of Lancaster, just inside the recently extended boundaries of the Yorkshire Dales, near the community of Masongill. The parish had a population of 78 according to the 2001 Census.^[1] In the 2011 census the parish was grouped with Leck. The name means "Town of the Irish Vikings".^[2]

Parish and county

Ireby, Lancashire, was formerly included in the parish of Thornton in Lonsdale despite Thornton being in Yorkshire. It was because this area was in the Lonsdale Hundred that the founders of the county of Lancashire claimed the left side of that parish including Ireby. This piece of Lancashire is c6km long and in width tapers from c2km to only about 100m.^[3]