 Welsh unitary authorities granted a charter in 1996 bestowing county borough status
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.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