towns with commissioners formed under such legislation: Blackrock, County Dublin Bray, County Wicklow Clontarf, County Dublin Dalkey, County Dublin Drumcondra, Clonliffe and Glasnevin, County Dublin Enniskillen, County Fermanagh Galway, County Galway Kingstown, County Dublin New Kilmainham, County Dublin Newry, County Armagh and County Down Pembroke, County Dublin Queenstown, County Cork Rathmines and Rathgar, County Dublin Towns governed under the Municipal Corporations Act Only one town had established Municipal Commissioners following the 1840 Act: Carrickfergus, County Antrim In addition to these 102 towns there were 11 boroughs, making 113 towns and cities with some form of local government on Ireland. For completeness, the boroughs were Belfast Clonmel Cork Drogheda Dublin Kilkenny Limerick Derry Sligo Waterford Wexford (restored 1846) Changes in 1899–1901 The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 created a new type of local council, the urban district governed by an urban district council. All town commissioners that were sanitary authorities became urban district councils. In addition, the Local Government Board was given the power to constitute any other local government town with a population of more than 1500 as an urban district, although the ratepayers could petition to prevent the application of this section of the act. The effect of this was that the number of towns with commissioners was greatly reduced. Two towns still operating under the 1828 Act, Monaghan and Wicklow, were promoted to the 1854 Act by section 41 of the 1898 Act. By 1902, 74 urban districts had been formed, leaving only 30 towns still governed under the 1854 Act. These towns formed part of the surrounding rural district also created by the Local Government Act for nearly all local government purposes, compared with the urban district councils, who enjoyed considerable powers. Over the next few years the number varied as some towns became urban districts and other communities adopted the act of 1854. Town Commissioners in Northern Ireland Following partition in 1922, four towns with commissioners situated in the six counties of Northern Ireland. The number was reduced to three in 1925 when Downpatrick became an urban district. The remaining town commissioners were dissolved in 1959 and 1962, their functions being transferred to the rural district council: Antrim, County Antrim, dissolved 1962 Aughnacloy, County Tyrone, dissolved 1959 Gilford, County Down, dissolved 1959 Town Commissioners in independent Ireland In the Irish Free State (Ireland from 1937), town commissioners continued to exist until 2002. The 1854 Act was