County Kilkenny (UK Parliament constituency)

Kilkenny County
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1801 (1801)–1885 (1885)
Number of members	two
Replaced by	North Kilkenny South Kilkenny

County Kilkenny parliamentary constituency was former UK Parliament County constituency in County Kilkenny in Ireland. The County constituency returned two Members of Parliament (MP) in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, from 1801 until 1885.

County Kilkenny constituency was an original constituency represented in Parliament when the Acts of Union 1800 by Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801, and remained in existence until its abolition in 1885 when it was replaced by North Kilkenny and South Kilkenny.

County Kilkenny constituency was made up of the traditional county except for the borough constituency of Kilkenny City for Kilkenny.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Kilkenny, except for the Parliamentary borough of Kilkenny City.

Members of Parliament

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1801, 1 January		William Ponsonby, later Baron Ponsonby	Whig		James Butler, later Marquess of Ormonde
1806, 12 April		George Ponsonby
1806, 21 November		Frederick Cavendish Ponsonby
1820, 11 September					Charles Harwood Butler Clarke
1826, 22 June		John Ponsonby, Viscount Duncannon, later Earl of Bessborough
1830, 12 August					John Butler, Earl of Ossory, later Marquess of Ormonde
1832, 20 December		Pierce Butler			William Francis Finn
1837, 12 August					George Bryan
1843, 1 December					Pierce Somerset Butler
1846, 29 July		Richard Smithwicke
1847, 18 August		John Green
1852, 26 July					William Shee
1857, 13 April					Leopold Agar-Ellis, later Viscount Clifden
1865, 24 July		George Leopold Bryan
1874, 10 February					Patrick Martin
1880, 15 April		Edward Purcell Mulhallen Marum
1885	Constituency abolished: see North Kilkenny and South Kilkenny

Elections

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References

• The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "K" (part 2 )