Swords (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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

Swords was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.

Members of Parliament

• 1585 Walter Fitzsimons and Thomas Taylor ^[1]
• 1613–1615 William Blakeney and John Fitzsimons (died and replaced by Richard Carwell) ^[1]
• 1634–1635 Richard Barnewell and Lucas Netterville (expelled 1634 and replaced by Sir William Anderson ) ^[1]
• 1639–1642 John Taylor ^[2] and George Blakeney (both expelled 1642)
• 1642 Charles Forster and Christopher Huetson ^[3]
• 1661–1666 John Povey and Sir William Tichborne ^[3]

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		Francis Barnwall			Robert Russell
1692		Richard Forster			John Reading
1695		Thomas Ashe
1703		Robert Molesworth	Whig		James Peppard
1713					Plunket Plunket
1715		Richard Molesworth [4]
1727		Hon. Bysse Molesworth			Edward Bolton
1759					Thomas Cobbe
1761		Hamilton Gorges
1768		John Hatch			John Damer
1776		Thomas Cobbe			Charles King
1783		Charles Cobbe			John Hatch
1790		John Claudius Beresford			Eyre Massey
January 1798		Francis Synge			Charles Cobbe
1798					Marcus Beresford
1801		Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

1. McGrath, Bríd (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.
2. "Chronicles of the County Wexford, being a record of memorable incidents, disasters, social occurrences, and crimes, also, biographies of eminent persons, &c., &c., brought down to the year 1877". Enniscorthy, printed at the "Watchman" office. 1890.
3. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 614.
4. from 1716 Hon. Richard Molesworth

References

• 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.