Ratoath (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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

Ratoath was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons.

Boundaries and boundary changes

This constituency was the manor of Ratoath in County Meath.

Following the Act of Union 1800 the constituency was disenfranchised.

Members of Parliament

It returned two members to the Parliament of Ireland to 1800.

• 1662-1666 Sir Robert Reading
• 1689: John Hussey and James FitzGerald (members of the Patriot Parliament)

1692–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1692		Edward Corker			Robert Gorges
1695					Thomas Molyneux
September 1703		Edward Forde			Richard Gorges
1703					Sir Standish Hartstonge, 2nd Bt
1705		George Lowther
1713					Richard Gorges
1716		Hon. William St Lawrence
1727		Charles Hamilton			Edward Lovett Pearce [1]
1734					Rowley Hill
1737					Gorges Lowther
1753		Marcus Lowther-Crofton [2]
1761		George Lowther			John Curtis
1768					John Cramer
1769		William Irvine			Sir Marcus Lowther-Crofton, 1st Bt
1776		John Forbes			George Putland
1783		Peter Metge			Arthur Forbes
1784		John Metge
1789					Alexander Hamilton
1790		William Irvine			Gorges Lowther
January 1798		James Moore O'Donnell
1798					James Cane
1801		Constituency disenfranchised

Notes

1. from 1732 Sir Edward Pearce
2. from 1758 Sir Marcus Lowther-Crofton, 1st Bt

Elections

References

• 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.

See also

• List of Irish constituencies