| Castlemartyr | |
|---|---|
| Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
| County | County Cork |
| Borough | Castlemartyr |
| 1676–1801 | |
| Seats | 2 |
| Replaced by | Disfranchised |
Castlemartyr was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1676 to 1800.
This constituency was the borough of Castlemartyr in County Cork. After its establishment in 1676 it had a sovereign, 12 burgesses and freemen. It was the base of Henry Boyle, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons from 1733 to 1756.
In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Castlemartyr was not represented. [1] Under the terms of the Act of Union 1800, the constituency was disenfranchised and abolished in 1801. The 2nd Earl of Shannon received £15,000 compensation for its disenfranchisement.
| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1689 | Castlemartyr was not represented in the Patriot Parliament | |||||
| 1692 | Sir Richard Hull | Robert Pooley | ||||
| 1695 | Samuel Morris | |||||
| September 1703 | Thomas Keightley [note 1] | Joseph Deane [note 2] | ||||
| 1703 | Robert FitzGerald | Sir Thomas Dilkes | ||||
| 1709 | St John Brodrick | |||||
| 1713 | William Southwell | Robert Oliver | ||||
| 1715 | Bartholomew Purdon | Charles Coote | ||||
| 1727 | John FitzGerald | |||||
| 1728 | Michael O'Brien Dilkes | |||||
| 1737 | Thomas Evans | |||||
| 1753 | John Lysaght [note 3] | |||||
| 1761 | Anthony Malone | John Magill | ||||
| 1768 | Sir John Colthurst, 1st Bt | Attiwell Wood | ||||
| 1775 | John Bennett | |||||
| 1776 | James Lysaght | Sir Riggs Falkiner, 1st Bt | ||||
| 1783 | John Bennett | Broderick Chinnery | ||||
| 1787 | Henry Cox | |||||
| 1790 | Sir James Cotter, 2nd Bt | Charles O'Neill [note 4] | ||||
| 1792 | John Hobson | |||||
| 1798 | John Townsend | |||||
| 1801 | Disenfranchised | |||||
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