Charleville (Parliament of Ireland constituency) explained

Charleville
Type:	borough
Borough:	Charleville
County:	County Cork
Region:	Ireland
Parliament:	ihc
Abolished:	1801
Next:	Disfranchised
Seats:	2

Charleville was a constituency in County Cork represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition on 1 January 1801.

History

The town of Charleville was named after Charles II. It was enfranchised in 1673, with a sovereign, 12 burgesses and freemen. It belonged to the Earl of Orrery, a branch of the Boyle family. In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Charleville was represented with two members. At the end of the 18th Century the constituency was controlled by the Earl of Shannon and the Earl of Cork who each nominated one member. The compensation of £15,000 for the loss of the seats in the Act of Union 1800 was divided equally between them.

Members of Parliament, 1673–1801

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		John Baggot			John Power
1692					George Crofts^[1]
1695
1703
1713
1715					William Boyle	<	-- party -->
1721		Henry Purdon	<				-- party -->
1725
1727		John Lysaght	<	-- party -->
1744						<	-- party -->
1759
1761			<	-- party -->
1768
1776
October 1783			<	-- party -->		John Bennett^[2]
1783
1790
1798
1800
1801		Disenfranchised

Notes

Bibliography

• Book: O'Hart, John . The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland . Heritage Books . II . 0-7884-1927-7 . 2007 .
• Johnston-Liik, E. M. (2002). History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800., Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation (28 Feb 2002),,https://web.archive.org/web/20070517213525/http://www.ancestryireland.com/hip_constituencies.php?filename=constituencies
• Tim Cadogan and Jeremiah Falvey, A Biographical Dictionary of Cork, 2006, Four Courts Press,
• T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne, A New History of Ireland 1534–1691, Oxford University Press, 1978

Notes and References

1. Expelled in October 1692
2. Also elected for Castlemartyr in 1783, for which he chose to sit