Kilkenny County (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Kilkenny County
Former County constituency for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created
Abolished	1800
Replaced by	Kilkenny County

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

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Kilkenny County was represented with two members.^[1]

Members of Parliament

• 1531 Rowland Fitzgerald, 2nd Baron of Burnchurch^[2]
• 1559 Nicholas White
• 1585 Gerard Blancheville, Robert Rothe

1660–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1661-1666		John Ponsonby
1689 Patriot Parliament		John Grace			Robert Walsh
1692		Richard Coote			William Ponsonby
1695		Agmondisham Cuffe
1703		Sir Henry Wemys
1715		William Flower
1721					Patrick Wemyss
1727		Hon. William Ponsonby [note 1]
1747					Patrick Wemys
1759		Henry Flood	Patriot
1761		Hon. John Ponsonby	Patriot		James Agar
1776					Hon. Edmund Butler
1779					Joseph Deane
1783		William Brabazon Ponsonby			Hon. Henry Welbore Agar
1789					Walter Butler [note 2]
February 1796					Hon. John Wandesford Butler
1796					Hon. James Wandesford Butler
1801		Succeeded by the Westminster constituency County Kilkenny

Notes

1. Styled as Viscount Duncannon from 1739
2. Styled as Viscount Thurles from 1792

References

1. O'Hart (2007), p. 502
2. Barron, Stephen (April–June 1914). "Distinguished Waterford Families: II -- Barron" (PDF). Journal of the Waterford and South-East Ireland Archaeological Society. 17 (2): 56.

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.