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County Kilkenny (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

County Kilkenny (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Pre-1801 Irish constituency

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

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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

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Notes

  1. [N 1]
    Styled as Viscount Duncannon from 1739
  2. [N 2]
    Styled as Viscount Thurles from 1792

References

  1. [1]
    O'Hart 2007, p. 502.
  2. [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. [3]
    McGrath, Brid (24 October 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641 (thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206 – via www.tara.tcd.ie.
  4. [4]
    Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 620.
  5. [5]
    "AGAR, Henry Welbore, 2nd Visct. Clifden [I] (1761–1836). | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.

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.
  • 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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