Kilkenny County (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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Kilkenny County
Former County constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created ()
Abolished1800
Replaced byKilkenny County

Kilkenny County was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

History[]

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Kilkenny County was represented with two members.[1]

Members of Parliament[]

  • 1531 Rowland Fitzgerald, 2nd Baron of Burnchurch[2]
  • 1559 Nicholas White and Walter Gall [3]
  • 1585 Gerard Blancheville and Robert Rothe [3]
  • 1613–1615 Lucas Shee and Robert Grace, Baron of Courtown [3]
  • 1634–1635 Robert Grace, Baron of Courtown and Edmund Butler of Polestown [3]
  • 1639–1649 Pierce Butler (expelled) and Walter Walsh [3]
  • 1661–1666 Sir John Ponsonby and Colonel Daniel Redman [4]

1689–1801[]

Election First member First party Second member Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament
William Ponsonby
Agmondisham Cuffe
William Flower
Hon. William Ponsonby[note 1]
Henry Flood Patriot
1761 Hon. John Ponsonby Patriot James Agar
Hon. Edmund Butler
1783 William Brabazon Ponsonby Patriot (to 1789)

Irish Whig (from 1789) 		Hon. Henry Welbore Agar Patriot/Irish Whig[5]
Walter Butler[note 2]
1797 Hon. James Wandesford Butler Irish Whig
1801 Succeeded by the Westminster constituency County Kilkenny

Notes[]

  1. ^ Styled as Viscount Duncannon from 1739
  2. ^ Styled as Viscount Thurles from 1792

References[]

  1. ^ O'Hart (2007), p. 502
  2. ^ Barron, Stephen (April–June 1914). "Distinguished Waterford Families: II -- Barron" (PDF). Journal of the Waterford and South-East Ireland Archaeological Society. 17 (2): 56.
  3. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/77206
  4. ^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 620.
  5. ^ The History of Parliament; AGAR, Henry Welbore, 2nd Visct. Clifden (1761-1836); Published in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, ed. R. Thorne, 1986.

Bibliography[]

  • O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 978-0-7884-1927-0. |volume= has extra text (help)
  • Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commonscites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.

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