Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898
The Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 a piece of legislation passed as an Act of Parliament by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1898, to establish a system of local government in Ireland on lines similar that had been recently created in Great Britain.
This Act brought in a mixed system of government, with county boroughs independent of county administratation, and elsewhere a two tier system with county councils, along with borough, urban district and rural district councils.
Urban districts were created from the larger of the town commissioners towns, while the smaller towns retained their town commissioners, but remained in a rural district for sanitary purposes.
In Northern Ireland, the provisions of the Act were replaced in the 1970s with a pattern of unitary authorities. The Act remains in force, amended by Acts of the Oireachtas, in the Republic of Ireland.
