Editing Borough (section)

===Ireland===
{{anchor|Republic of Ireland}}
There are four borough districts designated by the [[Local Government Reform Act 2014]]: [[Clonmel]], [[Drogheda]], [[Sligo]], and [[Wexford]]. A [[Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee|local boundary review]] reporting in 2018 proposed granting borough status to any district containing a [[built up area (Ireland)|census town]] with a population over 30,000; this would have included the towns of [[Dundalk]], [[Bray, County Wicklow|Bray]], and [[Navan]].<ref>{{cite book |author1=Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee No. 1 |chapter=4. Application of the Terms of Reference; Term of Reference 7 |isbn= 978-1-4064-2990-9 |title=Report |publisher=Government Publications Office |location=Ireland |url=https://www.housing.gov.ie/sites/default/files/publications/files/local_electoral_area_boundary_committee_no.1_report_2018.pdf#page=22 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.housing.gov.ie/sites/default/files/publications/files/local_electoral_area_boundary_committee_no.1_report_2018.pdf#page=22 |archive-date=2022-10-09 |url-status=live |page=18 |access-date=29 January 2019 |date=13 June 2018 |format=PDF }}</ref> This would have required an amendment to the 2014 Act, promised for 2019 by minister [[John Paul Phelan]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Other Questions: Local Electoral Area Boundary Committee Report |url=https://www.kildarestreet.com/debates/?id=2019-01-15a.381 |date=15 January 2019  |website=Dáil debates |publisher=KildareStreet.com}}</ref>

Historically, there were 117 parliamentary boroughs in the [[Irish House of Commons]], of which 80 were disfranchised by the [[Acts of Union 1800]]. All but 11 municipal boroughs were abolished under the [[Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840]]. Under the [[Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898]], six of these became [[county borough]]s: [[Dublin]], [[Belfast]], [[Cork (city)|Cork]], [[Derry]], [[Limerick]] and [[Waterford]]. From 1921, Belfast and Derry were part of [[Northern Ireland]] and stayed within the [[United Kingdom]] on the establishment of the [[Irish Free State]] in 1922.

[[Galway]] was a borough from 1937 until upgraded to a county borough in 1985.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1937/en/act/prv/0003|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140811192019/http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1937/en/act/prv/0003|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 August 2014|title=Local Government (Galway) Act 1937|work=[[Irish Statute Book]]|access-date=5 August 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1985/en/act/pub/0007/index.html|title=Local Government (Reorganisation) Act 1985|work=[[Irish Statute Book]]|access-date=5 August 2014}}</ref> The county boroughs in the Republic of Ireland were redesignated as "cities" under the [[Local Government Act 2001]].

[[Borough of Dún Laoghaire|Dún Laoghaire]] was a borough from 1930 until merged into [[Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown]] county in 1994.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1930/en/act/pub/0027|title=Local Government (Dublin) Act 1930|work=[[Irish Statute Book]]|access-date=5 August 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723000338/http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1930/en/act/pub/0027/|archive-date=23 July 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1993/en/act/pub/0031/|title=Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1993|work=[[Irish Statute Book]]|access-date=5 August 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811065338/http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/1993/en/act/pub/0031/|archive-date=11 August 2014}}</ref>

There were five borough councils in place at the time of the Local Government Reform Act 2014 which abolished all second-tier local government units of borough and town councils. Each local government authority outside of Dublin, Cork City and Galway City was divided into areas termed [[municipal district (Ireland)|municipal districts]]. In four of the areas which had previously been contained borough councils, as listed above, these were instead termed Borough Districts. Kilkenny had previously had a borough council, but its district was to be called the Municipal District of Kilkenny City, in recognition of its historic [[city status in Ireland|city status]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2014/en/act/pub/0001/sec0019.html|title=Local Government Reform Act 2014, Section 19 (insertion of section 22A into the Local Government Act 2001)|work=[[Irish Statute Book]]|access-date=2 August 2014}}</ref>