Cavan Borough (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Cavan
Former Borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created	1611
Abolished	1800
Replaced by	Disenfranchised

Cavan Borough was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800.

Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote.

Boundaries and Boundary Changes

This constituency was the borough of Cavan in County Cavan.

History

It returned two members to the Parliament of Ireland from 1611 to 1800. In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Cavan Borough was represented with two members.^[1] The borough was disenfranchised under the terms of the Act of Union 1800.

Members of Parliament, 1611–1801

• 1613–1615
  • Oliver Lambart, 1st Baron Lambart (died 1618)
• 1634–1635
  • Brockhill Taylor (died 1636)
• 1639–1649

Irish MPs sat in the Parliament of the Protectorate

• 1661–1666

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		Philip Og O'Reilly			Hugh Reily
1692		Thomas Ashe			Robert Saunders
1709					Joseph Addison
1713		Charles Lambart			Theophilus Clements
1715		Thomas Nesbitt
1729					Henry Clements
1745					Robert Clements
1747					Edward Weston
1750		Cosby Nesbitt
1761					Nathaniel Clements [note 1]
1768					Thomas Nesbitt
1769		Henry Theophilus Clements
1776		Nathaniel Clements [note 2]
1777		John Clements
1783		Henry Theophilus Clements
1790		Lord Charles James FitzGerald
1798		Viscount Clements [note 3]
1798		George Cavendish
1801		Disenfranchised

Notes

1. Also elected for Leitrim in 1768, for which he chose to sit
2. Also elected for Carrick in 1776, for which he chose to sit
3. Also elected for Leitrim in 1798, for which he chose to sit

References

1. O'Hart (2007), p. 501

Bibliography

• O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 0-7884-1927-7.
• Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commonscites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.