Members of Parliament
- 1560: William Hore of Harperstown and Richard Synnott of Ballybrennane [1]
- 1613–1615: James Furlonge (died and replaced by Walter Synnott) and Thomas Wadding [2]
- 1634–1645: William Esmond of Johnstown [3] and Marcus Cheevers [1]
- 1639–1649: Sir Arthur Loftus and Nicholas Loftus [1]
- 1661–1666: Thomas Scott (expelled and replaced 1665 by Richard Kenney of Edermys) and John Warren [1]
1689–1801
| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1689 Patriot Parliament | Walter Butler | Patrick Colclough | ||||
| 1692 | Sir John Ivory | Philip Savage | ||||
| 1695 | Mathew Forde | |||||
| 1709 | William Hore | |||||
| 1713 | James Stopford | |||||
| 1715 | Nicholas Loftus | |||||
| 1721 | James Stopford | |||||
| 1727 | Caesar Colclough | |||||
| 1751 | Arthur Jones-Nevill | |||||
| 1755 | Robert Leigh | |||||
| 1755 | Andrew Ram | |||||
| 1761 | Hon. Arthur Saunders Gore [4] | |||||
| 1766 | Vesey Colclough | |||||
| 1768 | Hon. Henry Loftus | |||||
| 1769 | George Ogle | |||||
| 1790 | Hon. John Loftus [5] | |||||
| 1798 | Abel Ram | |||||
| 1801 | Replaced by Westminster constituency Wexford County | |||||
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- ↑ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 637.
- ↑ A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct and Dormant Baronetcies. p. 603.
- ↑ from 1762 Arthur Gore, Viscount Sudley
- ↑ from 1794 John Loftus, Viscount Loftus