Clonmines (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Clonmines was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1800. It was a rotten borough associated with the deserted Norman borough of Clonmines, in south-west County Wexford.

Clonmines
Former constituency for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created
Abolished	1800
Replaced by	Disenfranchised

History

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

Members of Parliament

• 1634–1635: James Brien and John Cullen [2]
• 1639–1649: disenfranchised - no record[2]
• 1661–1666: Francis Harvey and John Edgeworth[2]

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		Edward Sherlock			Nicholas White
1692		Henry Loftus			Thomas Philips
1695					Maurice Annesley
1703		James Butler			Walter Bunbury
1713		Nicholas Loftus			George Houghton
1715		Philip Doyne
November 1727		Thomas Loftus			Henry Ponsonby [note 1]
1727					Edward Corker
1734					William Tighe
1761		Henry Alcock			Charles Tottenham
1768		Henry Loftus
1776		Arthur Loftus			Charles Tottenham
1781		Thomas Loftus [note 2]
1790		Nicholas Loftus Tottenham
1791					William Tankerville Chamberlain
1794					Charles Eustace
1798		Ponsonby Tottenham			Luke Fox
1799					Henry Luttrell
1800					Henry Eustace
1801		Disenfranchised

Notes

1. Also elected for Inistioge in 1727, for which he chose to sit
2. Also elected for Fethard (County Wexford) in 1790, for which he chose to sit

References

1. O'Hart (2007), p. 504
2. http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/77206

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.