Question: When did the councils of the Northern Ireland boroughs chartered in 1947 merge ?

text: Borough status in the United Kingdom
Modern borough status -- Northern Ireland
The privileges of borough status are that the council chairperson is called `` mayor '' and up to one quarter of councillors can be called `` alderman '' , and the council can award freedom of the borough . [ 36 ] [ 37 ] The Municipal Corporations ( Ireland ) Act 1840 extinguished all the boroughs in Ireland except for ten . In what would in 1921 become Northern Ireland , there were two remaining municipal boroughs in 1840 : Belfast ( made a city in 1888 ) and Derry ( officially Londonderry , and a city since 1604 ) . Five towns with abolished corporations remained parliamentary boroughs until 1885 ( Armagh , Carrickfergus , Coleraine , Dungannon , and Enniskillen ) as did three ( Downpatrick , Lisburn , and Newry ) [ 38 ] where any corporation was defunct by 1801 . Several of the urban districts in Northern Ireland created under the Local Government ( Ireland ) Act 1898 later received charters granting borough status . The Local Government Act ( Northern Ireland ) 1972 replaced the multi-tier local government system with 26 unitary districts whose councils could retain the charter of a borough within the district ; other districts later received borough charters in their own right . The 2015 local government reforms replaced the 26 districts with 11 larger districts . The `` statutory transition committee '' handling each council merger had the right to request transfer of borough status as in 1972 , [ 39 ] [ 40 ] [ 41 ] and unionist-majority councils did so , while nationalist-majority councils chose not to apply . [ 42 ] There were complications where places had city status ; [ 43 ] [ 44 ] therefore Belfast , Derry and Lisburn 's borough charters carried over automatically , without the need for the council to pass a resolution . [ 45 ] Although Newry received city status in 2002 , Newry and Mourne District Council did not receive borough status . In 2015 its successor Newry , Mourne and Down District Council voted not to request borough status , the required two-thirds majority failing after opposition from Sinn Féin . [ 46 ]
Borough status in the United Kingdom is granted by royal charter to local government districts in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The status is purely honorary, and does not give any additional powers to the council or inhabitants of the district. In Scotland, similarly chartered communities were known as royal burghs, although the status is no longer granted.
2015 borough 1972-2015 borough pre-1972 borough Year of charter Notes
Antrim and Newtownabbey Antrim  1977 Antrim town 's borough status was extinguished in 1840 . It was Antrim 's borough charter which the merged council opted to preserve in 2015
Antrim and Newtownabbey Newtownabbey  1977
Armagh , Banbridge and Craigavon Armagh  1997 Armagh town already had city status granted by letters patent in 1994 . Its previous borough status was extinguished in 1840 . It was Armagh 's borough charter which the merged council opted to preserve in 2015
Armagh , Banbridge and Craigavon Craigavon Portadown , Lurgan 1947 , 1949
Belfast Belfast Belfast 1613 Charter reformed 1840 . City status by letters patent of 1888
Causeway Coast and Glens Ballymoney  1977
Causeway Coast and Glens Coleraine Coleraine 1928 Coleraine 's previous borough status was extinguished in 1840 . It was Coleraine 's borough charter which the merged council opted to preserve in 2015
Causeway Coast and Glens Limavady  1989
Derry and Strabane Derry Londonderry 1604 Charter reformed 1840 . District and borough renamed Derry 1984 ; name of city remains Londonderry ( see Derry/Londonderry name dispute )
Lisburn and Castlereagh Castlereagh  1977 The new district council is called Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council
Lisburn and Castlereagh Lisburn Lisburn 1964 Lisburn was granted city status by letters patent in 2002
Mid and East Antrim Ballymena Ballymena 1937
Mid and East Antrim Carrickfergus Carrickfergus 1939 Carrickfergus 's previous borough status was extinguished in 1840 . It was Carrickfergus 's borough charter which the merged council opted to preserve in 2015
Mid and East Antrim Larne Larne 1938
Ards and North Down Ards Newtownards 1927 Newtownards ' previous borough status was extinguished in 1840 . The North Down and Ards statutory transition committee voted in 2014 to apply for borough status for the merged district council under the name East Coast Borough Council , but negative public reaction prompted a rethink , and the name Ards and North Down was not finalised until 2016 . The charter transfer was delayed until after this
Ards and North Down North Down Bangor 1927 Bangor 's previous borough status was extinguished in 1840 . It was North Down 's borough charter which the merged council opted to preserve in 2016
Dungannon and South Tyrone  1999 Borough status was simultaneous with 1999 renaming the district from Dungannon . Dungannon town 's borough status was extinguished in 1840 . Now in Mid-Ulster District
Enniskillen 1949 Previous borough status was extinguished in 1840 . In 1967 , Enniskillen Borough Council lost its administrative functions to Fermanagh County Council , but retained its ceremonial role . The post-1972 Fermanagh District Council did not inherit Enniskillen 's borough status . Since 2015 in Fermanagh and Omagh District