This database is based on the parliamentary paper, A return of the names of those towns in Ireland in which the act of 9 Geo. 4, c.82 has been brought into operation (H.C. 1843, vol. 50), which lists the names of town commissioners from 42 towns in Ireland.
There are 909 entries in all and the information provided includes, in addition to the name of the town commissioner, his occupation and occasionally the date he was elected. For Portadown there are five sets of names, each set covering a three year period between 1828 and 1843, though many of the names appear more than once.
The towns covered are as follows:
| Armagh, County Armagh Athlone, County Longford Athy, County Kildare Ballinasloe, County Galway Ballymena, County Antrim Ballyshannon, County Donegal Banbridge, County Down Bandon, County Cork Belturbet, County Cavan Callan, County Kilkenny Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary Cashel, County Tipperary Cavan, County Cavan Charleville, County Cork Clonakilty, County Cork Clonmel, County Tipperary Coleraine, County Londonderry Downpatrick, County Down Dromore, County Down Dundalk, County Louth Dungannon, County Tyrone |
Ennis, County Clare Fethard, County Tipperary Kinsale, County Cork Lisburn, County Antrim Longford, County Longford Loughrea, County Galway Lurgan, County Armagh Mallow, County Cork Maryborough, County Cork Mitchelstown, County Cork Monaghan, County Monaghan Nenagh, County Tipperary Newry, County Down Newtownards, County Down Portadown, County Armagh Roscommon, County Roscommon Strabane, County Tyrone Tipperary, County Tipperary Tralee, County Kerry Wicklow, County Wicklow Youghal, County Cork |
