Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840
Number Borough County
1 Ardee Louth
2 Armagh ( City ) Armagh
3 Athlone Roscommon and Westmeath
4 Athy Kildare
5 Bandon or Bandon Bridge Cork
6 Boyle Roscommon
7 Callan Kilkenny
8 Carlow Carlow
9 Carrickfergus ( County of the Town retained ) Antrim
10 Cashel ( City ) Tipperary
11 Charleville Cork
12 Cloghnakilty Cork
13 Coleraine Londonderry
14 Dingle Kerry
15 Dundalk Louth
16 Dungannon Tyrone
17 Ennis Clare
18 Enniscorthy Wexford
19 Enniskillen Fermanagh
20 Fethard Wexford
Dissolved boroughs
Under section 13 of the Act , the remaining 58 borough corporations were dissolved on 25 October 1840 . The extinguished boroughs were listed in schedules B and I of the Act . Boroughs in schedule B could petition for a grant of a charter restoring borough status , as could any town with a population of more than 3,000 . Boroughs in Schedule I were already effectively extinct at the time of the passing of the Act , and so were not permitted to apply for such a charter . Wexford 's application for restoration of its charter was granted in 1846 . Cashel also applied , [ 2 ] but without success . Boroughs in Schedule B
The Municipal Corporations Act (Ireland) 1840 (3 & 4 Vict. c. 108), An Act for the Regulation of Municipal Corporations in Ireland, was passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 10 August 1840. It was one of the Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Acts 1840 to 1888. The Act followed similar lines to the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 which reformed municipal boroughs in England and Wales. Prior to the passing of the Act, there were 68 borough corporations in Ireland Many of them were ineffective, some virtually defunct and none of them in any way representative of their populations. The Act dissolved all but 10 of the corporations.