Monaghan (UK Parliament constituency)

Monaghan
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1801 (1801)–1885 (1885)
Number of members	Two
Replaced by	North Monaghan and South Monaghan

Monaghan is a former parliamentary constituency in Ireland, returning two Members of Parliament (MPs) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the whole of County Monaghan.

Members of Parliament

Year	1st Member		1st Party	2nd Member		2nd Party
1801		Richard Dawson			Warner Westenra
1801					Charles Powell Leslie
1807		Thomas Charles Stewart Corry
1812		Richard Dawson
1813		Thomas Charles Stewart Corry
1818		Henry Westenra
1826					Evelyn Shirley
1830		Cadwallader Blayney	Conservative
1831					Henry Westenra	Whig
1832					Louis Perrin
1834		Henry Westenra	Whig
1834		Edward Lucas
1835					Henry Westenra	Whig
1841		Evelyn Shirley
1843					Charles Powell Leslie
1847		Thomas Vesey Dawson
1852		Sir George Forster, Bt
1865		Vesey Dawson
1868		Sewallis Shirley
1871					John Leslie	Conservative
1880		John Givan			William Findlater
1883		Timothy Michael Healy	Irish Parliamentary Party
1885	constituency abolished: see North Monaghan and South Monaghan

Election results

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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 "M" (part 3)