Ballyshannon (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Ballyshannon
Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Donegal
Borough	Ballyshannon
1613 (1613)–1801 (1801)
Seats	2
Replaced by	Disfranchised

Ballyshannon was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1613 to 1800.

Borough

This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Ballyshannon in County Donegal. It returned two members to the Parliament of Ireland from 1613 to 1800.

Members of Parliament, 1613–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
April 1613		Paul Gore			Edward Cherry
1613					Sir Arthur Savage
June 1634		Thomas Leake			Michael Stanhope
December 1634		James Dillon
1639		Sir Robert Meredith			James Cusack
April 1661		John Bridges [note 1]			Sir Anthony Morgan [note 2]
May 1661		Robert King			William Hill
1689		Ballyshannon was not represented in the Patriot Parliament . [1]
1692		Francis Folliott			John Folliott
1695					Hon. Henry Folliott
1697					Richard Warburton
1703		Richard Geering
1713		Owen Wynne			John Rochfort
November 1727		William Conolly [note 3]	Whig		Thomas Pearson
1727		William James Conolly
1737					Edward Walpole [note 4]
1754		Michael Clarke
May 1761					Thomas Conolly [note 5]
1761					John Gustavus Handcock
1766					Hugh Henry Mitchell
1768					Francis Andrews [note 6]
1769					William Gamble
1776		John Staples			Sir Michael Cromie
1783		William Ogilvie
1790		Thomas Dickson
January 1798		Viscount Corry			David Babington
1798		Sir William Richardson
1801		Disenfranchised

Notes

1. Also elected for Kilmallock, for which he chose to sit
2. Also elected for Taghmon, for which he chose to sit
3. Also elected for County Londonderry in 1727, for which he chose to sit
4. Knighted in 1753
5. Also elected for County Londonderry in 1761, for which he chose to sit
6. Also elected for Londonderry City in 1768, for which he chose to sit

References

1. O'Hart 2007, p. 501.

Bibliography

• Return of Members of Parliament (1878), vol. ii, p. 611–612.
• O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN   0-7884-1927-7.
• 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.