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Roscommon (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Roscommon (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Pre-1801 Irish constituency

For the county constituency, see County Roscommon (Parliament of Ireland constituency).

Roscommon was a constituency representing the parliamentary borough of Roscommon in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800. Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote.

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Members of Parliament

  • 1613–1615 Maurice Smith and William Marwood[1]
  • 1634–1635 George Carr and Edward Deane[1]
  • 1639–1649 Robert Bysse[1] and Walter Loftus (died 1641)[2]
  • 1661–1666 Oliver Jones and William Somers[2]

1689–1801

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Notes

  1. [1]
    McGrath, Bríd (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.
  2. [2]
    Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 631.
  3. [3]
    from 1729 Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd Bt

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