Kilkenny City (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Kilkenny City
Kilkenny City
Former borough constituency; for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Kilkenny
Borough	Kilkenny
–1801
Seats	2
Replaced by	Kilkenny City

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

History

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

1374 William de Karlell
1374 John de Karlell
1450 John Chevir
1560 Robert Shee and Walter Archer^[2]
1585 John Rothe of Rothe House and Ellice Shee^[2]
1613–1615 Patrick Archer and Nicholas Langton^[2]
1634–1635 Robert Shee and David Rothe^[2]
1639–1649 Peter Rothe and Henry Archer^[2]
1661–1666 Abel Warren (expelled and replaced 1665 by Sir Thomas Longville) and Thomas Evans^[3]

Election	First member	Second member
1689 Patriot Parliament	John Rooth	James Bryan
1692	Josiah Haydock	Robert Smith
1695	Ebenezer Warren	Standish Hartstonge (died 1704)
1703	Sir Thomas Smyth, 2nd Bt	Standish Hartstonge (died 1704)
1705		Viscount Tunbridge
1711		Sir Redmond Everard, 4th Bt
1713	Sir Richard Levinge, 1st Bt	Darby Egan^{[note 1]}
November 1715	Ebenezer Warren	Darby Egan^{[note 1]}
1715	Ebenezer Warren	Maurice Cuffe
1721	Edward Warren	Maurice Cuffe
1727	William Gore	John Blunden
1748	Ralph Gore	John Blunden
1752	Ralph Gore	William Evans Morres^{[note 2]}
1761	John Blunden^{[note 3]}	William Evans Morres^{[note 2]}
1768	John Blunden^{[note 3]}	Haydocke Evans Morres^{[note 4]}
1776	Ralph Gore	Haydocke Evans Morres^{[note 4]}
1777	Ralph Gore	Eland Mossom
May 1778	Charles Agar^{[note 5]}
July 1778	Gervase Parker Bushe
1783	William Cuffe	John Butler
1792	William Cuffe	Hon. John Wandesford Butler
1793	James Wemys	Hon. John Wandesford Butler
March 1796		Hon. James Wandesford Butler
1796		Bryan Kavanagh
1798		Thomas Kavanagh
1799		William Talbot
1801	Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Kilkenny City

^ O'Hart 2007, p. 502.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e 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.
^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 620.

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.