County Kilkenny (Parliament of Ireland constituency) explained

County Kilkenny
Type:	county
County:	County Kilkenny
Region:	Ireland
Parliament:	ihc
Abolished:	1801
Seats:	2
Next:	County Kilkenny (UKHC)

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

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, County Kilkenny was represented with two members.

Members of Parliament

• 1531 Rowland Fitzgerald, 2nd Baron of Burnchurch^[1]
• 1559 Nicholas White and Walter Gall
• 1585 Gerard Blancheville and Robert Rothe
• 1613–1615 Lucas Shee and Robert Grace, Baron of Courtown^[2]
• 1634–1635 Robert Grace, Baron of Courtown and Edmund Butler of Polestown^[2]
• 1639–1649 Pierce Butler (expelled) and Walter Walsh^[2]
• 1661–1666 Sir John Ponsonby and Colonel Daniel Redman^[3]

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament					Robert Walsh
1692						<	-- party -->
1695
1703
1715			<				-- party -->
1721						<	-- party -->
1727		Hon. William Ponsonby^[4]	<				-- party -->
1747						<	-- party -->
1759			Patriot
1761			Patriot
1776
1779
1783			Patriot (to 1789) Irish Whig (from 1789)			Patriot/Irish Whig^[5]
1790					Walter Butler^[6]
February 1796
1797						Irish Whig
1801		Succeeded by the Westminster constituency County Kilkenny

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 .

Notes and References

1. Barron. Stephen. April–June 1914. Distinguished Waterford Families: II – Barron. Journal of the Waterford and South-East Ireland Archaeological Society. 17. 2. 56.
2. A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641. Brid. McGrath. 24 October 1998. Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. 2262/77206. thesis. www.tara.tcd.ie.
3. Book: Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. 620.
4. Styled as Viscount Duncannon from 1739
5. Web site: AGAR, Henry Welbore, 2nd Visct. Clifden [I] (1761–1836). | History of Parliament Online]. www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
6. Styled as Viscount Thurles from 1792