Charleville | |
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Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
County | County Cork |
Borough | Charleville |
1673 | –1801|
Seats | 2 |
Replaced by | Disfranchised |
Charleville was a constituency in County Cork represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition on 1 January 1801.
The town of Charleville was named after Charles II. It was enfranchised in 1673, with a sovereign, 12 burgesses and freemen. It belonged to the Earl of Orrery, a branch of the Boyle family. In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Charleville was represented with two members. [1] At the end of the 18th Century the constituency was controlled by the Earl of Shannon and the Earl of Cork who each nominated one member. The compensation of £15,000 for the loss of the seats in the Acts of Union 1800 was divided equally between them.
Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
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1689 Patriot Parliament | John Baggot | John Power | ||||
1692 | Henry Boreman | George Crofts [note 1] | ||||
1695 | Hon. Charles Boyle | John Ormsby | ||||
1703 | George Evans | Robert FitzGerald | ||||
1713 | Sir Matthew Deane, 3rd Bt | Brettridge Badham | ||||
1715 | George Evans | William Boyle | ||||
1721 | Henry Purdon | |||||
1725 | James O'Brien | |||||
1727 | John Lysaght | Price Hartstonge | ||||
1744 | Edward Barry | |||||
1759 | Viscount Dungarvon | |||||
1761 | Robert Barry | Richard Longfield | ||||
1768 | James Lysaght | |||||
1776 | Richard Cox | Thomas Warren | ||||
October 1783 | Rogerson Cotter | John Bennett [note 2] | ||||
1783 | Richard St George | |||||
1790 | Sir John Blaquiere, 1st Bt | |||||
1798 | Charles Boyle | |||||
1800 | George Nugent | |||||
1801 | Disenfranchised |