County Kilkenny (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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County Kilkenny
Former
county constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
CountyCounty Kilkenny
 () ( ())–1801 (1801)
Seats2
Replaced byCounty Kilkenny (UKHC)

County Kilkenny was a

constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons
until 1800.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, County Kilkenny 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 John Grace Robert Walsh
1692 Richard Coote William Ponsonby
1695 Agmondisham Cuffe
1703 Sir Henry Wemys
1715 William Flower
1721 Patrick Wemyss
1727 Hon. William Ponsonby[note 1]
1747 Patrick Wemys
1759 Henry Flood Patriot
1761 Hon. John Ponsonby Patriot James Agar
1776 Hon. Edmund Butler
1779 Joseph Deane
1783 William Brabazon Ponsonby Patriot (to 1789)

Irish Whig (from 1789)
Hon. Henry Welbore Agar
 Patriot/Irish Whig[5]
1790 Walter Butler[note 2]
February 1796 Hon. John Wandesford Butler
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. ^
    hdl:2262/77206
    – via www.tara.tcd.ie.
  4. ^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 620.
  5. ^ "AGAR, Henry Welbore, 2nd Visct. Clifden [I] (1761–1836). | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.

Bibliography

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