This page lists current or former settlements in Ireland which have or had any of the following characteristics:
- royal charter
- municipal government:
- county corporate
- by charter or prescription[1]
- town commissioners under the Lighting of Towns Act 1828
- borough council retained by the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840 (only 10)
- council under the Town Improvement Act 1854
- urban sanitary authority under the Public Health (Ireland) Act 1874 and urban district under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898
- under the Local Government Act 2001
- cathedral church
- parliamentary borough
- listed in census reports as an urban area
- listed in Samuel Lewis' Topographical Dictionary or Parliamentary Gazetteer as
- post town
- market town
- county town
- listed in logainm.ie as
- town
- village
Prior to 2001 there were 26 1828 towns: 18 pre-1922, 4 demoted from UD, 4 promoted from CC. There were 49 other "municipal towns", excluding CBs and boroughs. Changes:
- 30 Corps [parl boroughs?] dissolved Act of Union 1800 [20 of them Stuart creations]
- Corps dissolved 1840 Act
- 58 [10 kept: Belfast Cork Dublin Limerick Londonderry Waterford; Clonmel Drogheda Kilkenny Sligo all called borough or city.
- Demotion from urban district to commissioners
- Belturbet 1950; Cootehill 1950; Granard 1944; Passage West 1942
- Promotion to commissioners
- Shannon 1980; Tramore 1948; Leixlip 1988; Greystones 1984.
- Dissolve commissioners
- Callan 1940; Fethard 1936; Newcastlewest 1941; Rathkeale 1926; Roscommon 1927; Tullow 1902
- Wexford
- 1846 charter
- Dún Laoghaire
- [4 existing boroughs] -> borough 1930 Act --> [into DLR CC] 1993 act
- Bray
- 1866 Act.
- Howth
- 1940 Act: UD -> Dublin CB
- Galway
- nothing 1840 Act -> commissioners 1853 Act -> UD 1898 -> borough 1937 Act -> CB 1985 Act
| Name | County | Charter | Municipal | Parliament | Cathedral | Census | Lewis | Parl Gaz | logainm |
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Antrim Borough Ardee Ardfert Armagh Borough Askeaton Athboy Athenry Athlone Athy Augher Ballynakill Ballyshannon Baltimore Baltinglass Banagher Bandonbridge Bangor Bannow Belfast Belturbet Blessington Boyle Callan Carlingford Carlow Borough Carrick Carrickfergus Carysfort Cashel Castlebar Castlemartyr Cavan Borough Charlemont Charleville Clogher Clonakilty Clonmel Clonmines Coleraine Cork City Dingle Donegal Borough Doneraile Downpatrick Drogheda Dublin City Duleek Dundalk Dungannon Dungarvan Dunleer Ennis Enniscorthy Enniskillen Fethard (County Tipperary) Fethard (County Wexford) Fore Galway Borough Gorey Gowran Granard Harristown Hillsborough Inistioge Jamestown Kells Kilbeggan Kildare Borough Kilkenny City Killybegs Killyleagh Kilmallock Kinsale Knocktopher Lanesborough Lifford Limerick City Lisburn Lismore Londonderry City Longford Borough Mallow Maryborough Midleton Monaghan Borough Mullingar Naas Navan New Ross Newcastle Newry Newtown Limavady Newtownards Old Leighlin Philipstown Portarlington Randalstown Rathcormack Ratoath Roscommon Borough Sligo Borough St Canice St Johnstown (County Donegal) St Johnstown (County Longford) Strabane Swords Taghmon Tallow Thomastown Tralee Trim Tuam Tulsk Waterford City Wexford Borough Wicklow Borough Youghal
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References
edit- ^ British Borough Charters 1307-1660. CUP Archive. pp. 193–. (and pp.lxii-
- Map
Freeman, Thomas Walter (1972). Ireland: A General and Regional Geography. Taylor & Francis. p. 93. Retrieved 18 April 2012.