Inistioge (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Inistioge
Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Kilkenny
Borough	Inistioge
–1801 (1801)
Replaced by	Disfranchised

Inistioge or Innistiogue was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Inistioge was represented with two members. ^[1]

Members of Parliament

• 1585 David Power and Robert Archdeacon ^[2]
• 1613–1615 William Murphy and Crihen Murphy ^[2]
• 1634–1635 Griffen Murphy and James Dulan (or Neilan) ^[2]
• 1639–1649 John Wandesford ^[3] and Robert Loftus (Loftus died and replaced 1640 by John Fitzgerald) ^[2]
• 1661–1666 Sir William Petty ^[4] and Joseph Deane ^[5]

1689–1801

Election	First MP			Second MP
1689		Edward FitzGerald			James Bolger
1692		Edward Deane			Robert Stopford
1695		Thomas Keightley
1703		Edward Deane			Benjamin Portlock
1713					Charles Monck
1715					Edward Deane
1717		Stephen Deane [note 1]
1727		Folliot Ponsonby [note 1]
November 1727		Henry Ponsonby
1745		Edward Deane
1749					Edward Herbert
1751		Joseph Deane
1761		Joseph Deane			John Hobson
1768		Joseph Matthews			Lodge Evans Morres
1776		Edward Tighe [note 2]			John Lloyd [note 3]
1777		John Flood			John Parnell [note 4]
1783		George Ponsonby			John Ussher
1790					John Lloyd
1797		Henry Tighe
1798					William Tighe
1801		Disenfranchised

Notes

1. Declared not duly elected in 1727
2. Also elected for Athboy in 1776, for which he chose to sit
3. Also elected for King's County in 1776, for which he chose to sit
4. Succeeded as 2nd Baronet in 1782

References

1. O'Hart 2007, p. 502.
2. McGrath, Brid (24 October 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641. Department of History (PhD thesis). Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206.
3. "Parliamentary Memoirs of Fermanagh and Tyrone, from 1613 to 1885". Alex. Thom & Co. 1887. Retrieved 17 October 2020.
4. McCormick, Ted. William Petty: And the Ambitions of Political Arithmetic. p. 123.
5. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 620.

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.