Ardfert (Parliament of Ireland constituency) explained

Ardfert
Type:	borough
Borough:	Ardfert
County:	County Kerry
Region:	Ireland
Parliament:	ihc
Abolished:	1801
Seats:	2
Next:	Disfranchised

Ardfert was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of Ireland until the Act of Union 1800.

Area

This constituency was based in the town of Ardfert in County Kerry.

History

Ardfert in County Kerry was enfranchised as a borough constituency, by a charter in 1639 with a Provost, 12 Burgesses and freemen. It had a Corporation, and the electorate consisted of 13 burgesses and 50 freemen. The parliamentary representatives of the borough were elected using the bloc vote for two-member elections and first past the post for single-member by-elections. In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Ardfert was not represented.

It continued to be entitled to send two Members of Parliament to the Irish House of Commons until the Act of Union merged Parliament of Ireland into the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 1 January 1801. The constituency was disenfranchised on 31 December 1800.

Thereafter borough was represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as part of the county constituency of Kerry.

Members of Parliament, 1634–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1634		David Crosbie^[1]			James FitzJames Pierce^[2]
1639					Anthony Stoughton^[3]
1661		Thomas Amory			John Carricke^[4]
1689 Patriot Parliament		Roger McElligott			Cornelius MacGillicuddy
1692						<	-- party -->
1699
1703			<				-- party -->
1713						<	-- party -->
1735		William Crosbie^[5]	<				-- party -->
1743
1758						<	-- party -->
1762
1776
1781
October 1783		John Scott^[6]				<	-- party -->
1783
1790			<	-- party -->
January 1798					Arthur Wolfe^[7]
1798						<	-- party -->
1798
February 1800
September 1800		Matthew Franks^[8]
1801		Disenfranchised

Notes

Bibliography

• Book: O'Hart, John . The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland . Heritage Books . II . 978-0-7884-1927-0 . 2007 .
• Johnston-Liik, E. M. (2002). History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800, Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation (28 February 2002),,https://web.archive.org/web/20070517213525/http://www.ancestryireland.com/hip_constituencies.php?filename=constituencies
• T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne, A New History of Ireland 1534-1691, Oxford University Press, 1978

Notes and References

1. Book: The Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland; Or, The Ancient and ..., Volume 3. 154.
2. A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641. 1998. Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. thesis. McGrath. Brid. 2262/77206. 9 June 2019. 9 March 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210309155453/http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/77206. live.
3. Web site: Smith's Kerry History Excerpts. 5 June 2019. 5 June 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190605142412/http://www.igp-web.com/Kerry/maggie2.html. live.
4. Book: Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. 618.
5. Styled as The Honourable from 1758
6. Also elected for Portarlington in 1783, for which he chose to sit
7. Also elected for Dublin City in 1798, for which he chose to sit
8. Elected, but never took his seat