This list includes places which have a legally-recognised claim to the title "city" in the Ireland.
Name | Gained status |
Method of granting | Jurisdiction granting | Present jurisdiction |
---|---|---|---|---|
Dublin | 1172 | royal charter | Lordship of Ireland | Republic of Ireland |
Cork | 1185 Cork City Council | royal charter | Lordship of Ireland | Republic of Ireland |
Limerick | 1199 | royal charter | Lordship of Ireland | Republic of Ireland |
Waterford | 1206 | royal charter | Lordship of Ireland | Republic of Ireland |
Kilkenny | 1383 | royal charter | Lordship of Ireland | Republic of Ireland |
Derry (Officially Londonderry) | 1604 | royal charter | Kingdom of Ireland | Northern Ireland |
Belfast | 1888 | letters patent | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland | Northern Ireland |
Galway | 1985 | Act of the Oireachtas | Republic of Ireland | Republic of Ireland |
Armagh | 1994 | letters patent | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland |
Newry | 2002 | letters patent | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland |
Lisburn | 2002 | letters patent | United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland |