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 headquarters were in Carrickfergus 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
Henry VIII
- 1523 William Fythe Thomas Unchile, Henry Fythe
List of Mayors of Carrickfergus Borough Council since 1949
George VI
Elizabeth II
- 1952–1973 Thomas John Patterson
- 1973–1978 Hugh McLean
- 1978–1979 Samuel Murphy
- 1979–1981 Samuel Simms
- 1981–1983 Ken McFaul
- 1983–1984 Samuel Murphy
- 1984–1986 Charles Johnston
- 1986–1990 Jim Brown
- 1990–1991 Charles Johnston
- 1991–1992 W. A. Haggan
- 1992–1993 Stewart Dickson
- 1993–1994 Sean Neeson
- 1994–1995 J. Crowe
- 1995–1996 W. S. Hamilton
- 1996–1997 S. Y. McCamley
- 1997–1998 David Hilditch
- 1998–1999 B. J. Crampsey
- 1999–2000 T. Creighton
- 2000–2001 Jim Brown
- 2001–2002 Billy Ashe
- 2002–2003 Eric Ferguson
- 2003–2004 May Beattie
- 2004–2008 David Hilditch
- 2008–2010 Patricia McKinney
- 2010–2012 Jim McClurg
- 2012–2014 Billy Ashe
- 2014–2015 Charles Johnston
- Source: Carrickfergus Borough Council
List of Honorary Freemen of Carrickfergus Borough Council since 1949
The area covered by Carrickfergus Borough Council had a population of 39,114 residents according to the 2011 Northern Ireland census.
