County Kilkenny (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

County Kilkenny
Former county constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Kilkenny
()–1801 (1801)
Seats	2
Replaced by	County Kilkenny (UKHC)

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

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

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		John Grace			Robert Walsh
1692		Richard Coote			William Ponsonby
1695		Agmondisham Cuffe
1703		Sir Henry Wemys
1715		William Flower
1721					Patrick Wemyss
1727		Hon. William Ponsonby [note 1]
1747					Patrick Wemys
1759		Henry Flood	Patriot
1761		Hon. John Ponsonby	Patriot		James Agar
1776					Hon. Edmund Butler
1779					Joseph Deane
1783		William Brabazon Ponsonby	Patriot (to 1789) Irish Whig (from 1789)		Hon. Henry Welbore Agar	Patriot/Irish Whig [5]
1790					Walter Butler [note 2]
February 1796					Hon. John Wandesford Butler
1797					Hon. James Wandesford Butler	Irish Whig
1801		Succeeded by the Westminster constituency County Kilkenny

Notes

1. Styled as Viscount Duncannon from 1739
2. Styled as Viscount Thurles from 1792

References

1. O'Hart 2007, p. 502.
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. 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. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 620.
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.