Kinsale (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Kinsale
Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Cork
Borough	Kinsale
1334 (1334)–1801 (1801)
Seats	2
Replaced by	Kinsale (UKHC)

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

Members of Parliament, 1559–1801

• 1559, Jan.
  • Sir John Alan, knight, former Lord Chancellor of Ireland, of Alencourt and St.Wolstan's, Kildare.
  • Francis Agar or Agard, Esq., of Grangegorman, Dublin, and of Fawston, Staffordshire.
• 1585, April.
  • James Galwey, Esq., of Kinsale.
  • Philip Roche, Esq., of Kinsale.
• 1613-1615
  • James Roche Fitz-Philip
  • Dominick Roche Fitz-Richard
• 1634-1635
  • William Gallwey
  • James Roche
• 1639-1641
  • Patrick Roche Fitz-Richard
  • Philip Roche Fitz-Richard
• 1661-1666
  • St. John Broderick
  • Randolph Clayton

1689–1801

Election	First MP			Second MP
1689 [1]		Andrew Murrogh			Miles de Courcy
1692		Edward Southwell			Jonas Stawell
1695					James Weller
1703		Henry Hawley			William Southwell
1713					Edward Southwell
September 1725		Anthony Stawell [note 1]
1725		Sir Richard Meade, 3rd Bt
October 1731					Gervais Parker [note 2]
November 1731					Richard Ponsonby
1745		Jonas Stawell
1761		John Folliott			Edward Southwell
1765		Agmondisham Vesey
1768					James Kearney
1783		Cromwell Price
1790		William Rowley
1798					Samuel Campbell Rowley
1801		Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Kinsale

Notes

1. Declared not duly elected in 1725
2. Declared not duly elected in 1731

References

1. O'Hart 2007, p. 501.

Bibliography

• O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN   0-7884-1927-7.
• Johnston-Liik, E. M. (2002). History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800., Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation (28 Feb 2002), ISBN   1-903688-09-4
• Tim Cadogan and Jeremiah Falvey, A Biographical Dictionary of Cork, 2006, Four Courts Press ISBN   1-84682-030-8
• 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.