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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
• 1559 Nicholas White and Walter Gall
• 1585 Gerard Blancheville and Robert Rothe
• 1613–1615 Lucas Shee and Robert Grace, Baron of Courtown
• 1634–1635 Robert Grace, Baron of Courtown and Edmund Butler of Polestown
• 1639–1649 Pierce Butler (expelled) and Walter Walsh
• 1661–1666 Sir John Ponsonby and Colonel Daniel Redman

1689–1801

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.
3. ^ McGrath, Brid (24 October 1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641 (thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206 – via www.tara.tcd.ie.
4. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 620.
5. "AGAR, Henry Welbore, 2nd Visct. Clifden [I] (1761–1836). | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org.

Bibliography

• O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 978-0-7884-1927-0.
• Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons. Cites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.

• Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801)
• Historic constituencies in County Kilkenny
• 1800 disestablishments in Ireland
• Constituencies disestablished in 1800