unshired

Adjective

unshired (not comparable)

1. (Ireland, UK) Not shired, not constituted into counties; (by extension) ungoverned.
   • The young giant, Hugh Maguire, may have been to the Castle to complain of Miler’s hounds, for he had already written a complaint of such doings on the part of that mighty southern pluralist, who went about in armour like a man of war, and had his life-guard like the chief of an unshired country.1897, Standish O’Grady, The Flight of the Eagle, pages 82–3
   • Connacht, and Ulster apart from the two ancient counties, were still unshired, still outside the normal action of the Dublin administration.1940, T. W. Moody, “The Irish Parliament under Elizabeth and James I: A General Survey”, in Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, volume 45, →JSTOR, page 44