Charleville (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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Charleville
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created1673 (1673)
Abolished1800
Seats2
Replaced byDisenfranchised

Charleville was a constituency in County Cork represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1800.

History[]

The town it represented was named after Charles II. It was enfranchised in 1673, with a sovereign, 12 burgesses and freemen. It belonged to the Earl of Orrery, a branch of the Boyle family. In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Charleville was represented with two members.[1] At the end of the 18th Century the constituency was controlled by the Earl of Shannon and the Earl of Cork who each nominated one member. The compensation of £15,000 for the loss of the seats in the Act of Union 1800 was divided equally between them.

Members of Parliament, 1673–1801[]

1689–1801[]

Election First member First party Second member Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament
1692 [note 1]
1695 Hon. Charles Boyle
1703
1713 Sir Matthew Deane, 3rd Bt
1715 William Boyle
1721 Henry Purdon
1725 James O'Brien
1727 John Lysaght Price Hartstonge
1744 Edward Barry
1759 Viscount Dungarvon
1761 Robert Barry Richard Longfield
1768
1776
October 1783 John Bennett[note 2]
1783
1790 Sir John Blaquiere, 1st Bt
1798
1800 George Nugent
1801 Disenfranchised

Notes[]

  1. ^ Expelled in October 1692
  2. ^ Also elected for Castlemartyr in 1783, for which he chose to sit

References[]

  1. ^ O'Hart 2007, p. 501.

Bibliography[]

  • O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 0-7884-1927-7. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  • Johnston-Liik, E. M. (2002). History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800., Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation (28 Feb 2002), ISBN 1-903688-09-4,[1]
  • Tim Cadogan and Jeremiah Falvey, A Biographical Dictionary of Cork, 2006, Four Courts Press ISBN 1-84682-030-8,
  • T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne, A New History of Ireland 1534–1691, Oxford University Press, 1978
  • Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons. Cites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.

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