User:Jnestorius/List of Irish towns

This page lists current or former settlements in Ireland which have or had any of the following characteristics:

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

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

References

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  1. ^ 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.