Carrickfergus Borough Council

Carrickfergus Borough Council was a district council in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. It merged with Ballymena Borough Council and Larne Borough Council in May 2015 under local government reorganisation in Northern Ireland to become Mid and East Antrim Borough Council.

The council was based at Carrickfergus Town Hall and the council administered the town, on the north shore of Belfast Lough, and surrounding area, which extended from Greenisland in the south-west to Whitehead in the east. The borough was , with a population of just over 39,000.

Together with the neighbouring district of Larne and small parts of Newtownabbey and Moyle, it formed the East Antrim constituency for elections to the Westminster Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly.

Mayors of Carrickfergus

Mayors 1523-1842

This is a list of mayors and sheriffs of Carrickfergus Corporation from 1523 to the passing of The Municipal Corporations (Ireland) Act 1840

Henry VIII

1523 William Fythe Thomas Unchile, Henry Fythe} These are called Bayliffs

Elizabeth I

1568–1569 Thomas Stephenson John Teade, Nicholas Wilis

1569–1570 John Teade Nicholas Rogers, John Flude

1570–1571 Rychard Sendall Wolston Elderton, Cornell O'Kane

1571–1572 Edward Brown William Dobbin, Patrick Savadge, Junior

1572–1573 Captain William Piers Wolston Elderton, John Dyer

1573–1574 Thomas Stephenson Gregory Grafton, William Field, Senior

1574–1575 William Piers, Junior Humphrey Potts, John Cockrill

1575–1576 William Piers, Junior John Cockrill, John Dishford

1576–1577 William Dobbin John Dyer, John Dishford

1577–1578 William Piers, Junior Robert Magye, Robert Warcope

1578–1579 Nicholas Wills Humphrey Johnston, Mychaell Savadge

1579–1580 Captain Thomas Sackforde Barnabic Ward, Thomas Stephenson

1580–1581 William Dobbin Humphrey Johnston, John Dyer