Old Leighlin was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons, the lower house in the Irish Parliament of the Kingdom of Ireland. It based in Old Leighlin, near the town of Leighlinbridge in County Carlow. It was a bishop's borough, controlled by the Church of Ireland Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin.[1]
| Old Leighlin | |
|---|---|
| Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons | |
| County | County Carlow |
| Borough | Old Leighlin |
| –1801 | |
| Seats | 2 |
| Replaced by | Disfranchised |
The borough was disenfranchised by the Acts of Union 1800, with effect from 1 January 1801. £15,000 was paid to the Commissioners of First Fruits to be used at their discretion.
Members of Parliament
edit| Election | First member | First party | Second member | Second party | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1634 | James Cusack | Richard FitzGerald[a] | ||||
| Sir Thomas Meredyth | ||||||
| 1639 | James Cusack[b] | Roger Brereton | ||||
| Thomas Davills[c] | ||||||
| 1642 | Walter Chambré (died) | |||||
| 1646 | Peter Wybrants | |||||
| 1661 | Sir Francis Butler | Charles Meredyth | ||||
| 1689 Patriot Parliament | Darby Long | Daniel Doran | ||||
| 1692 | John Dunbar | Edward Jones | ||||
| 1695 | Richard Boyle | John Beauchamp | ||||
| 1703 | James Agar | John Tench | ||||
| 1713 | John Beauchamp | St Leger Gilbert | ||||
| 1727 | Thomas Trotter | |||||
| 1745 | Hon. Robert Jocelyn | Thomas Carter | ||||
| 1757 | Richard Rigby | |||||
| May 1761 | John Bourke | Francis Andrews[d] | ||||
| 1761 | Edward Nicholson | |||||
| 1768 | Sir FitzGerald Aylmer, 6th Bt | Thomas Monck | ||||
| 1773 | John Blaquiere[e] | |||||
| 1776 | Hugh Massy | |||||
| 1777 | Robert Jephson | |||||
| 1783 | Hon. Henry Luttrell[f] | Hon. Arthur Acheson | ||||
| 1787 | Sir Edward Leslie, 1st Bt | |||||
| 1790 | Edward Cooke | |||||
| 1791 | Patrick Duigenan | |||||
| 1798 | Sir Boyle Roche, 1st Bt | |||||
| 1801 | Constituency disenfranchised | |||||
- Notes
References
edit- ^ "Old Leighlin". Ulster Historical Foundation. Retrieved 26 December 2022.
- Johnston-Liik, E. M. (2002). History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800, Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation (28 Feb 2002), ISBN 1-903688-09-4
- Moody, T. W.; Martin, F. X.; Byrne, F. J. (1978). A New History of Ireland 1534-1691. Oxford University Press.
- 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.
- Return of Members of Parliament (1878) vol. ii, p. 607.