Old Leighlin (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Old Leighlin Former constituency
Created	()
Post-Union	Disenfranchised.
Type	Irish House of Commons

Old Leighlin was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1800.

Following the Act of Union 1800 the borough was disfranchised.

Boundaries and Boundary Changes

This constituency was based in Old Leighlin, near the town of Leighlinbridge in County Carlow.

Members of Parliament

1692–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1692		John Dunbar			Edward Jones
1695		Richard Boyle			John Beauchamp
1703		James Agar			John Tench
1713		John Beauchamp			St Leger Gilbert
1727					Thomas Trotter
1745		Hon. Robert Jocelyn			Thomas Carter
1757		Richard Rigby
May 1761		John Bourke			Francis Andrews
1761					Edward Nicholson
1768		Sir FitzGerald Aylmer, 6th Bt			Thomas Monck
1773					John Blaquiere [1]
1776		Hugh Massy
1777		Robert Jephson
1783		Hon. Henry Luttrell [2]			Hon. Arthur Acheson
1787		Sir Edward Leslie, 1st Bt
1790		Edward Cooke
1791					Patrick Duigenan
1798					Sir Boyle Roche, 1st Bt

Notes

1. ^ from 1774 Sir John Blaquiere
2. ^ from 1785 Henry Luttrell, Viscount Luttrell

Elections

• 1695
• 1703
• 1713
• 1715
• 1727
• 1761
• 1768
• 1776
• 1783
• 1790
• 1796 (by-election)
• 1797

References

• Johnston-Liik, E. M. (2002). History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800, Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation (28 Feb 2002), ISBN 1-903688-09-4
• T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne, A New History of Ireland 1534-1691, Oxford University Press, 1978
• Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons