Castlebar (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Castlebar
Former constituency for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created	1614
Abolished	1800
Replaced by	Disenfranchised

Castlebar was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1614 to 1800. The area is in County Mayo. Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote.

History

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

Members of Parliament, 1614–1801

• 1634–1635 Sir Henry Bingham, 1st Bt
• 1639–1648 Sir Henry Bingham, 1st Bt
• 1661–1666 Sir George Bingham, 2nd Bt

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		John Bermingham			Thomas Bourke
1692		John Bingham			Robert Ormsby [note 1]
August 1695		William Palmer
1695					Edward Eyre
1703					Gerald Cuffe
1713		Sir George Browne, 4th Bt
1715		John Bingham			Henry Bingham
1727		John Wynne
1744					John Browne
1747		Henry Mitchell
May 1761		Joshua Cooper			Sir Charles Bingham, 7th Bt [note 2]
1761					Richard Gore
1768		John Knox			Edward Kirwan
1775		John William Hamilton
1776		Stephen Popham			Thomas Coghlan
1783		James Browne			Thomas Warren
1790		Edward FitzGerald			John Francis Cradock
January 1798		Thomas Lindsay			Denis Browne [note 3]
1798					Thomas Lindsay
1800		George Miller
1801		Disenfranchised

Notes

1. Also elected for Galway Borough in 1695, for which he chose to sit
2. Also elected for Mayo in 1761, for which he chose to sit
3. Also elected for Mayo in 1798, for which he chose to sit

References

1. O'Hart (2007), p. 503

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.