Old Leighlin (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Old Leighlin | |
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Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
County | County Carlow |
Province | Leinster |
Former constituency | |
Created | |
Abolished | 1800 |
Seats | 2 |
Replaced by | Disenfranchised |
Old Leighlin was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons, the lower house in the Irish Parliament of the Kingdom of Ireland. It based in Old Leighlin, near the town of Leighlinbridge in County Carlow.[citation needed] It was a bishop's borough, controlled by the Church of Ireland Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin.
The borough was disenfranchised by the Acts of Union 1800, with effect from 1 January 1801.
Members of Parliament[]
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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1634 | James Cusack | Richard FitzGerald | Fitzgerald sat for Strabane. Replaced by | |||
1639 | James Cusack | Roger Brereton | Cusack sat for Ballyshannon. Replaced by Thomas Davills (expelled for rebellion) | |||
1642 | Walter Chambré (died) | |||||
1646 | Peter Wybrants | |||||
1661 | Sir Francis Butler | |||||
1689 Patriot Parliament | ||||||
1692 | ||||||
1695 | Richard Boyle | |||||
1703 | James Agar | |||||
1713 | ||||||
1727 | ||||||
1745 | Hon. Robert Jocelyn | Thomas Carter | ||||
1757 | Richard Rigby | |||||
May 1761 | John Bourke | Francis Andrews[a] | ||||
1761 | ||||||
1768 | Sir FitzGerald Aylmer, 6th Bt | |||||
1773 | John Blaquiere[b] | |||||
1776 | Hugh Massy | |||||
1777 | Robert Jephson | |||||
1783 | Hon. Henry Luttrell[c] | Hon. Arthur Acheson | ||||
1787 | ||||||
1790 | Edward Cooke | |||||
1791 | Patrick Duigenan | |||||
1798 | Sir Boyle Roche, 1st Bt | |||||
1801 | Constituency disenfranchised |
- Notes
References[]
- Johnston-Liik, E. M. (2002). History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800, Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation (28 Feb 2002), ISBN 1-903688-09-4
- Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J. (1978). A New History of Ireland 1534-1691. Oxford University Press.
- 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.
- Return of Members of Parliament (1878) vol. ii, p. 607.
Categories:
- Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801)
- Historic constituencies in County Carlow
- 1800 disestablishments in Ireland
- Constituencies disestablished in 1800