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Irish House of Commons

For the current house of representatives in Ireland, see Dáil Éireann. For the body which existed between 1921 and 1922, see House of Commons of Southern Ireland.

The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until the end of 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, but on a highly restrictive franchise, similar to the unreformed House of Commons in contemporary Great Britain. Catholics were disqualified from sitting in the Irish parliament from 1691, even though they comprised the vast majority of the Irish population.

Irish House of Commons
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Type
Type
History
Established1297
Disbanded1 January 1801
Succeeded byHouse of Commons of the United Kingdom
Leadership
John Foster (1785–1800)
Seats300[a]
Elections
First past the post with limited suffrage
Meeting place
The House of Commons in session (by Francis Wheatley, 1780)
Footnotes
  1. ^ In 1800.

The Irish executive, known as the Dublin Castle administration, under the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, was not answerable to the House of Commons but to the British government. However, the Chief Secretary for Ireland was usually a member of the Irish parliament. In the Commons, business was presided over by the Speaker.

From 1 January 1801, it ceased to exist and was succeeded by the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.

Franchise

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The limited franchise was exclusively male. From 1728 until 1793, Catholics were disfranchised, as well as being ineligible to sit in the Commons. Most of the population of all religions had no vote. In counties, forty-shilling freeholders were enfranchised while in most boroughs it was either only the members of self-electing corporations or a highly restricted body of freemen that were eligible to vote for the borough's representatives. The vast majority of parliamentary boroughs were pocket boroughs, the private property of an aristocratic patron.

Abolition

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The House of Commons was abolished under the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the Kingdom of Ireland into the Kingdom of Great Britain to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland with effect from 1 January 1801. The Irish House of Commons sat for the last time in Parliament House, Dublin on 2 August 1800. One hundred of its members were designated or co-opted to sit with the House of Commons of Great Britain, forming the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The patron of pocket boroughs that were disfranchised under the Act of Union was awarded £15,000 compensation for each.[1]

Speaker of the Commons

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Drawing of the front of the Irish Parliament House with the dome, seen from the street-level, in the 18th century
Main article: Speaker of the Irish House of Commons

The Speaker of the Irish House of Commons was the presiding officer of the House and its most senior official. The position was one of considerable power and prestige, and in the absence of a government chosen from and answerable to the Commons, he was the dominant political figure in the Parliament. The last Speaker was John Foster.

Constituencies

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Engraving of section of the Irish House of Commons chamber by Peter Mazell based on the drawing by Rowland Omer 1767

The number of boroughs invited to return members had originally been small (only 55 Boroughs existed in 1603) but was doubled by the Stuart monarchs. By the time of the Union, there were 150 constituencies, each electing two members:[2]

Following the Act of Union, from 1801, there were 100 MPs from Ireland in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. The constituencies were adapted from those in the Irish House of Commons as follows:

  • 32 county constituencies, with two MPs each;
  • 2 county borough constituencies, Cork City and Dublin City, both with two MPs;
  • 31 county borough and borough constituencies, with one MP each;
  • 1 university constituency, with one MP.
Constituency Type County Creation[a] Franchise Fate after the union
County Antrim County Antrim 1570[3] Freeholders Two seats
Antrim Borough Antrim 1666 Potwalloper Disfranchised
Ardee Borough Louth 1378 Corporation Disfranchised
Ardfert Borough Kerry 1639? Corporation Disfranchised
Ards County Down By 1560[4] Previously disfranchised[b]
County Armagh County Armagh 1585 (September)[5] Freeholders Two seats
Armagh Borough Armagh 1613 (26 March) [6] Ecclesiastical corporation - Bishop's borough One seat
Askeaton Borough Limerick 1613 (30 March)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Athboy Borough Meath By 1560[4][c] Manor Disfranchised
Athenry Borough Galway 1310?[d] Corporation Disfranchised
Athlone Borough Westmeath 1606 (10 December)[6] Corporation One seat
Athy Borough Kildare By 1560[4] Corporation Disfranchised
Augher Borough Tyrone 1613 (15 April)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Ballynakill Borough Queen's County 1612 (10 December)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Ballyshannon Borough Donegal 1613 (23 March)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Baltimore Borough Cork 1613 (25 March)[6] Potwalloper Disfranchised
Baltinglass Borough Wicklow 1664 Corporation Disfranchised
Banagher Borough King's County 1629 Corporation Disfranchised
Bandonbridge Borough Cork 1613 (30 March)[6] Corporation One seat
Bangor Borough Down 1613 (18 March)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Bannow Borough Wexford Between 1614 and 1634[e] Corporation Disfranchised
Belfast Borough Antrim 1613 (27 April)[6] Corporation One seat
Belturbet Borough Cavan 1613 (30 March)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Blessington Borough Wicklow 1670 Corporation Disfranchised
Boyle Borough Roscommon 1613 (25 March)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Callan Borough Kilkenny By 1585[f] Corporation Disfranchised
Carlingford Borough Louth 13?[g] Corporation Disfranchised
County Carlow County Carlow 1297[12][h] Freeholders Two seats
Carlow Borough Carlow 1613 (19 April)[6] Corporation One seat
Carrick Borough Leitrim 1613 (30 March)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Carrickfergus County borough Antrim[i] 1326 Freeholder and householder One seat
Carysfort Borough Wicklow 1629 Corporation Disfranchised
Cashel Borough Tipperary By 1585[4][j] Corporation One seat
Castlebar Borough Mayo 1613 (26 March)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Castlemartyr Borough Cork 1676 Corporation Disfranchised
County Cavan County Cavan 1579[14] or 1584[15] Freeholders Two seats
Cavan Borough Cavan 1610 (15 November)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Charlemont Borough Armagh 1613 (29 April)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Charleville Borough Cork 1673 Corporation Disfranchised
County Clare County Clare By 1560[k][16] Freeholders Two seats
Clogher Borough Tyrone By 1613[l] Ecclesiastical corporation - Bishop's borough Disfranchised
Clonakilty Borough Cork 1613 (5 March)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Clonmel Borough Tipperary By 1560[4] Corporation One seat
Clonmines Borough Wexford Between 1614 and 1634[m] Corporation Disfranchised
County Coleraine County Londonderry 1585 (September)[5] Freeholders Previously disfranchised
Coleraine Borough Londonderry 1613 (25 March)[6] Corporation One seat
Connacht County Multiple[n] 1297[12] Previously disfranchised[n]
County Cork County Cork 1297[12] Freeholders Two seats
Cork City County borough Cork[i] 1299 Freeholder and Freemen Two seats
Dingle Borough Kerry By 1585[4][o] Corporation Disfranchised
County Donegal County Donegal 1585 (September)[5] Freeholders Two seats
Donegal Borough Borough Donegal 1613 (27 February)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Doneraile Borough Cork 1640 Manor Disfranchised
County Down County Down 1570[3] Freeholders Two seats
Downpatrick Borough Down By 1585[4][p] Potwalloper One seat
Drogheda County borough Louth[i] 1299 Freeholders and freemen One seat
County Dublin County Dublin 1297[12] Freeholders Two seats
Dublin City County borough Dublin[i] 1299 Freeholders and freemen Two seats
Dublin University University Dublin[q] 1613[r] Graduates One seat
Duleek Borough Meath Between 1614 and 1661[s] Corporation Disfranchised
Dundalk Borough Louth By 1560[4] Corporation One seat
Dungannon Borough Tyrone 1612 (27 November)[6] Corporation One seat
Dungarvan Borough Waterford By 1560[4] Potwalloper One seat
Dunleer Borough Louth 1679 Corporation Disfranchised
Ennis Borough Clare 1613 (27 February)[6] Corporation One seat
Enniscorthy Borough Wexford 1613 (25 May)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Enniskillen Borough Fermanagh 1613 (27 February)[6] Corporation One seat
County Fermanagh County Fermanagh 1585 (September)[5] Freeholders Two seats
Ferns County Wexford By 1579[20] Freeholders Previously disfranchised[t]
Fethard Borough Tipperary 1613 (15 April)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Fethard Borough Wexford 1613 (15 April)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Fore Borough Westmeath Between 1614 and 1634[u] Corporation Disfranchised
County Galway County Galway By 1579 [22] Freeholders Two seats
Galway Borough County borough Galway[i] By 1560[4][v][23] Freemen One seat
Gorey (also Newburgh) Borough Wexford 1620 Corporation Disfranchised
Gowran Borough Kilkenny 1608 (15 September)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Granard Borough Longford 1679 Manor Disfranchised
Harristown Borough Kildare 1684 Corporation Disfranchised
Hillsborough Borough Down 1662 Corporation Disfranchised
Inistioge Borough Kilkenny By 1585[4] Corporation Disfranchised
Jamestown Borough Leitrim 1622 Corporation Disfranchised
Kells Borough Meath By 1560[4] Corporation Disfranchised
Kerry County Kerry 1297[12] Freeholders Two seats
Kilbeggan Borough Westmeath 1613 (27 February)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
County Kildare County Kildare 1297[12] Freeholders Two seats
Kildare Borough Kildare By 1560[4] Corporation Disfranchised
Kilkenny City County borough Kilkenny[i] 1299? Freeholders and Freemen One seat
County Kilkenny County Kilkenny 1297[12][h] Freeholders Two seats
Killybegs Borough Donegal 1616 Corporation Disfranchised
Killyleagh Borough Down 1613 (10 March)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Kilmallock Borough Limerick By 1560[4] Corporation Disfranchised
King's County County King's County 1556[24][25] Freeholders Two seats
Kinsale Borough Cork 1334?[w] Corporation and Freemen One seat
Knocktopher Borough Kilkenny 1665 Potwalloper Disfranchised
Lanesborough Borough Longford 1642 Corporation Disfranchised
County Leitrim County Leitrim 1583 Freeholders Two seats
Lifford Borough Donegal 1613 (27 February)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
County Limerick County Limerick 1297[12] Freeholders Two seats
Limerick City County borough Limerick[i] 1299 Freeholders and Freemen One seat
Lisburn Borough Antrim 1661 Potwalloper One seat
Lismore Borough Waterford 1613 (6 May)[6] Manor Disfranchised
County Londonderry County Londonderry 1613 Freeholders Two seats
Londonderry City Borough Londonderry 1613 (29 March)[6][x] Corporation One seat
County Longford County Longford 1571[27][28][29] Freeholders Two seats
Longford Borough Longford 1669 Corporation Disfranchised
Louth County Louth 1297[12] Freeholders Two seats
Mallow Borough Cork 1613 (27 February)[6] Manor One seat
Maryborough Borough Queen's County 1571 Corporation Disfranchised
County Mayo County Mayo By 1579[22] Freeholders Two seats
County Meath County Meath 1297[12][h] Freeholders Two seats
Midleton Borough Cork 1671 Corporation Disfranchised
County Monaghan County Monaghan 1585 (September)[5] Freeholders Two seats
Monaghan Borough Monaghan 1613 (26 March)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Mullingar Borough Westmeath By 1560[4] Manor Disfranchised
Naas Borough Kildare By 1560[4] Corporation Disfranchised
Navan Borough Meath 1469 Corporation Disfranchised
New Ross Borough Wexford By 1560[4][v][23] Corporation One seat
Newcastle Borough Dublin 1613 (30 March)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Newry Borough Down 1613 (27 February)[6] Potwalloper One seat
Newtown Limavady Borough Londonderry 1613 (30 March)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Newtownards Borough Down 1613 (25 March)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Old Leighlin Borough Carlow Between 1614 and 1634 Ecclesiastical corporation - Bishop's borough Disfranchised
Philipstown Borough King's County 1571 Corporation Disfranchised
Portarlington Borough Queen's County 1668 Corporation One seat
Queen's County County Queen's County 1556 [24][25] Freeholders Two seats
Randalstown Borough Antrim 1683 Freeman / Potwalloper Disfranchised
Rathcormack Borough Cork Between 1614 and 1692[y] Potwalloper / Manor Disfranchised
Ratoath Borough Meath Between 1614 and 1661[z] Manor Disfranchised
County Roscommon County Roscommon 1297[12] Freeholders Two seats
Roscommon Borough Roscommon 1613 (27 February)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
St Canice Borough Kilkenny[aa] Between 1614 and 1661[ab] Ecclesiastical corporation - Bishop's borough Disfranchised
St Johnstown Borough Donegal 1618 Corporation Disfranchised
St Johnstown Borough Longford 1628 Corporation Disfranchised
County Sligo County Sligo By 1579[22] Freeholders Two seats
Sligo Borough Sligo 1613 (30 March)[6] Corporation One seat
Strabane Borough Tyrone 1613 (18 March)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Swords Borough Dublin By 1585[4][ac] Potwalloper Disfranchised
Taghmon Borough Wexford Between 1614 and 1634[ad][ae] Corporation Disfranchised
Tallow Borough Waterford 1613 (1 May)[6] Manor / Potwalloper Disfranchised
Thomastown Borough Kilkenny 1541 Corporation Disfranchised
County Tipperary County Tipperary 1297[12] Freeholders Two seats
Cross Tipperary County Tipperary By 1585 Freeholders Previously disfranchised[af]
Tralee Borough Kerry 1613 (31 March)[6] Corporation One seat
Trim Borough Meath By 1560[4] Corporation Disfranchised
Tuam Borough Galway 1613 (30 March)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Tulsk Borough Roscommon 1663 Corporation Disfranchised
Tyrone County Tyrone 1585 (September)[5] Freeholders Two seats
Liberty of Ulster County Multiple[ag] 1297[12][h] Previously disfranchised[ag]
County Waterford County Waterford 1297[12] Freeholders Two seats
Waterford City County borough Waterford[i] 1299 Freemen and freeholders One seat
County Westmeath County Westmeath 1543[36][37] Freeholders Two seats
County Wexford County Wexford 1297[12][h] Freeholders Two seats
Wexford Borough Wexford By 1560[4] Freemen One seat
County Wicklow County Wicklow 1577;[38][ah] 1606[40] Freeholders Two seats
Wicklow Borough Wicklow 1613 (30 March)[6] Corporation Disfranchised
Youghal Borough Cork 1374 Corporation and Freemen One seat
Notes
  1. ^ The date of either: the earliest Parliament at which it is known to have received a writ of election or sent representatives; or else: the earliest charter or statute granting representation. Outside the Pale, places enfranchised after the Norman conquest often had long periods unrepresented prior to the Tudor reconquest.
  2. ^ The territory of Ards, one of the medieval sheriffdoms of the Earldom of Ulster, was included in the reconstituted County Down in 1570.
  3. ^ "Athboy was an ancient borough by prescription with a charter dated 1410, 9 Henry IV. There were further charters of 9 Henry VII and 8 James I all confirming the liberties and privileges of the corporate or free borough."[7]
  4. ^ "Athenry was a very old town with writs with grants and charters going back to at least the reign of Edward II. There is one for 14 October 1310 and there are a number for the reign of Richard II in the 1390s."[8]
  5. ^ "Bannow was a borough by prescription, and no charter could be found for it in 1800"[9]
  6. ^ "Callan was a medieval borough by prescription, with charters and grants from the reigns of Edward III, Richard II and Henry IV."[10]
  7. ^ "Carlingford was another ancient borough, with charters going back to the reign of Edward II."[11]
  8. ^ a b c d e created as a Liberty
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h A separate county corporate.
  10. ^ "Cashel was a medieval foundation said to have been established in the year 1216 by Donat, Archbishop of Cashel, and incorporated under his successor, Marianus O'Brien, in 1233. It had various subsequent charters before it emerged in its modern form by a 1585 charter of 26 Eliz. I and a 1638 charter of Charles I."[13]
  11. ^ It was represented in the Parliament of 1376
  12. ^ "It was probably a borough by prescription confirmed by a 1630 charter, 5 Chas. I ..."[9]
  13. ^ "Clonmines, like Bannow, was a borough by prescription, and no charter was available"[9]
  14. ^ a b The medieval county of Connacht was subdivided in 1570 into the modern counties of Galway and Mayo.
  15. ^ Then called Dengenechoyshe.
  16. ^ "Downpatrick was recognised as early as the reign of Henry IV, when letters of protection were granted to the inhabitants. No charter of incorporation is extant, but it returned two MPs to the 1586-7 parliament of Elizabeth I"[17]
  17. ^ The University was in the county of the city of Dublin. The electorate was its provost, fellows and scholars.
  18. ^ "[I]n 1613 [James I] granted the University a further charter enabling it to return two members of parliament."[18]
  19. ^ "Duleek was [an] ancient borough with a charter of Edward IV."[19]
  20. ^ The area of Ferns, corresponding to the northern part of County Wexford, was briefly made a separate shire between the 1570s before merging back into Wexford in the 1600s.
  21. ^ "Fore appears to have been a borough by prescription: the Rolls Office issued a negative certificate to the Commissioners for Union Compensation."[21]
  22. ^ a b It was represented in the parliaments in the late 14th century
  23. ^ "Kinsale was a medieval borough. The earliest charter extant is that of 1589, 31 Eliz. I, which refers to a 1334 charter of 7 Edw. III"[26]
  24. ^ Previously incorporated as Derry, 11 July 1604.
  25. ^ "Rathcormack was ... incorporated by charter, which was produced at the Union. Some boroughs, particularly those incorporated before or during the early years of the seventeenth century ... "[30]
  26. ^ "No charter is extant for this borough"[31]
  27. ^ In the county of the city of Kilkenny rather than county Kilkenny.
  28. ^ "St Canice was a very ancient borough and thought to have been from remote antiquity part of the See of Ossory. In 1606 a patent appears to have been granted by James I, whereby Irishtown was to be a corporation ..., but, the muniments of the temporalities of the Bishops of Ossory having been lost during the troubles, in 1678 Charles II made a new grant of a corporation" "[32]
  29. ^ "Swords had the distinction of being the most notorious borough in the Irish Parliament. Its charter was lost. The memorial presented by John Beresford and Francis Synge declared that it was 'an ancient borough by prescription'; another memorial declared that it had been enfranchised from 'time immemorial'. The portreeve, James Stewart, said 'that the said corporation is an open borough by Charter' dated 11 April, 5 James II - i.e. 1690! Most memorialists simply stressed that it was of great antiquity."[33]
  30. ^ "Taghmon was a borough by prescription; no charter could be found for it in 1800. It is mentioned in 1642, so it must have existed before then."[34]
  31. ^ It did not return members in 1613 and returned two members in 1634.[35]
  32. ^ Cross Tipperary last returned MPs in 1634, and was definitively merged with Tipperary in 1716.
  33. ^ a b The medieval liberty of Ulster was subdivided in 1570 into the modern counties of Antrim and Down.
  34. ^ The county of Wicklow created in 1577 seems not to have functioned and ceased to exist some time after 1586[39]
 
Henry Boyle, speaker between 1733 and 1756
 
John Ponsonby, speaker between 1756 and 1771
 
Edmund Perry, speaker between 1771 and 1785
 
John Foster, last speaker of the Irish House of Commons (1785–1800)

Means of resignation

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Until 1793 members could not resign their seats. They could cease to be a member of the House in one of four ways:

In 1793 a means for resignation was created, equivalent to the Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds or the Manor of Northstead as a means of resignation from the British House of Commons. From that date, Irish members could be appointed to the Escheatorship of Munster, the Escheatorship of Leinster, the Escheatorship of Connaught or the Escheatorship of Ulster. Possession of one of these Crown offices, "office of profit under the Crown" with a 30-shilling salary, terminated one's membership of the House of Commons.

Notable members

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Porritt, Edward (1963). The Unreformed House of Commons. Parliamentary Representation Before 1832. CUP Archive. pp. 185–187. Retrieved 23 July 2013.
  2. ^ Johnston-Liik 2006, p. 222.
  3. ^ a b Fiants Ire. Eliz. No 1530
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Hardiman, James (1842). "Appendix III: The lordes spirituall and temporall, counties, cytties, and borough-townes, as are answerable to the Parlyament in this realme of Ireland ; and souche as weare sommoned unto the Parlyament holden before the right honorable Sir John Perrot, knyght, Lord Deputie Generall of the realme of Ireland, xxvi. die Aprilis, anno regni Regine nostre Elizabeth, vicesimo septimo. A. D. 1585.". A Statute of the fortieth Year of Edward III., enacted in a Parliament held in Kilkenny, A. D. 1367, before Lionel Duke of Clarence, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Now first printed from a MS.in the Library of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, Lambeth. With a Translation and Notes. Tracts relating to Ireland. Vol. II. Dublin: Irish Archaeological Society.
  5. ^ a b c d e f Moody, T.W.; Martin, F.X.; Byrne, F.J. (1991). Early Modern Ireland, 1534-1691. Oxford University Press. p. 166. ISBN 9780198202424.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)Inquisitionum in Officio Rotulorum Cancellariae Hiberniae Asservatarum Repertorium (Repertory of the Inquisitions of the Chancery of Ireland) Volume II, page xix 'An Order for the division, setting out and appoyntinge of the boundes, lymytts and circuits of sixe severall sheires or countyes within the pvince of Ulster within this realme of Ireland, viz. the countye of Tyron, the countye of Donnyngall, the countye of Fermanaghe, the countye of Colrane, the countye of Armaghe and the countye of Monohon ... the firste of September anno dei 1585, annoque d[omi]n[a]e Regin[a]e Elizabeth', 27mo'
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as Moody, T.W. (1939). "The Irish Parliament under Elizabeth and James I". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 45 (6): 72–76.
  7. ^ (Johnston-Liik 2002, p. 301)
  8. ^ (Johnston-Liik 2002, p. 240)
  9. ^ a b c (Johnston-Liik 2002, p. 356)
  10. ^ (Johnston-Liik 2002, p. 253)
  11. ^ (Johnston-Liik 2002, p. 289)
  12. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Betham, William (1830). Dignities, Feudal and Parliamentary. London: Thomas and William Boone. p. 262.
  13. ^ (Johnston-Liik 2002, p. 327)
  14. ^ "Turlough Lynagh (O'Neill)'s pretence to harm ... the new made county of Cavan" Proceedings and orders of the Chancellor, Council and Gentlemen of Meath and Dublin, August 21 1579, Calendar of the State Papers relating to Ireland, of the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth, Volume 2, 1574-1585 page 184
  15. ^ "O'Reilly's country erected into the County of Cavan" Lord Deputy Perrot to Walsyngham, 16 November 1584, Calendar of the State Papers relating to Ireland, of the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth, Volume 2, 1574-1585 page 537
  16. ^ Richardson, Henry Gerald; Sayles, George Osborne (1952). The Irish Parliament in the Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 78, note 29.
  17. ^ (Johnston-Liik 2002, p. 221)
  18. ^ (Johnston-Liik 2002, p. 231)
  19. ^ (Johnston-Liik 2002, p. 303)
  20. ^ Moody, T.W.; Martin, F.X.; Byrne, F.J. (1984). A New History of Ireland, Vol IX, Maps, Genealogies, Lists. Oxford University Press. p. 108.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  21. ^ (Johnston-Liik 2002, p. 352), citing Report of the Commissioners of Union Compensation - Cities, Towns and Boroughs, p. 47
  22. ^ a b c "Orders to be observed by Sir Nicholas Malby, Knight, for the better government of the Province of Connaght" Printed in O'Flaherty's Chorographical Description of West Or H-Iar Connaught: Written A.D. 1684 ed. Hardiman, P. 304
  23. ^ a b Richardson, Henry Gerald; Sayles, George Osborne (1952). The Irish Parliament in the Middle Ages. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 78, note 31.
  24. ^ a b An Act "whereby the King and Queen's Majesties, and the Heires and Successors of the Queen, be entituled to the Counties of Leix, Slewmarge, Irry, Glinmaliry, and Offaily, and for making the same Countries Shire Grounds." 303/554 - 3 & 4 Phil & Mar, c.2 (1556). The Act was repealed in 1962.
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  26. ^ (Johnston-Liik 2002, p. 209)
  27. ^ Fiants Ire. Eliz. No 1486
  28. ^ Maginn, Christopher (2012). William Cecil, Ireland, and the Tudor State. Oxford. p. 194. ISBN 978-0-19-969715-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  29. ^ "The Annaley, formerly governed by O’Farrale Bane and O’Farrale Boy, is erected into a shire called Longford." Lord Chancellor and Council to the Queen, March 23, 1571,Calendar of the State Papers relating to Ireland, of the reigns of Henry VIII, Edward VI., Mary, and Elizabeth, Volume 1, 1509-1573, page 440
  30. ^ (Johnston-Liik 2002, p. 305)
  31. ^ (Johnston-Liik 2002, p. 211)
  32. ^ (Johnston-Liik 2002, p. 259)
  33. ^ (Johnston-Liik 2002, p. 235)
  34. ^ (Johnston-Liik 2002, p. 360)
  35. ^ Members of Parliament - Return (in part) to an Order of the House of Lords, dated 13th July 1877
  36. ^ Counties of Meath and Westmeath Act 1543 (294/554) 34 Hen. 8. c. 1 (I) An Act for the division of Methe into two shires.
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  38. ^ Fiants Ire. Eliz. No 3003, 22 March 1577
  39. ^ Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J. (1984). A New History of Ireland, Vol IX, Maps, Genealogies, Lists. Oxford University Press. p. 108.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
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Sources

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  • Mary Frances Cusack, Illustrated History of Ireland, Project Gutenberg
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  • Return of the name of every member of the lower house of parliament of England, Scotland, and Ireland, with name of constituency represented, and date of return, from 1213 to 1874. C. Vol. 69-I. HMSO. 1878.
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