When county councils were first created in 1889, it was decided that to let them have authority over large towns or cities would be impractical, and so any large incorporated place would have the right to be a count… See more

The county boroughs of Belfast and Derry were created by the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898.
In Northern Ireland, local government has not used county boroughs since 1973, but they remai… See more

The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 created county boroughs in Ireland. Under the Act, four former counties corporate (Cork, Dublin, Limerick and Waterford) became county boroughs.
Galway became … See more

• County corporate
• List of administrative counties and county boroughs of England by population in 1971
• London boroughs
• Metropolitan borough… See more