Castlebar (Parliament of Ireland constituency) explained

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 who were married to Catholics could not vote.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by James II, Castlebar was represented with two members.

Members of Parliament, 1613–1801

• 1613–1615 Sir John Bingham and Thomas Peyton^[1]
• 1634–1635 Sir Henry Bingham, 1st Bt^[1]
• 1639–1648 Sir Henry Bingham, 1st Bt and Sir George Carr^[1]
• 1661–1666 Sir George Bingham, 2nd Bt and William Rowse (AWOL and replaced 1665 by Sir Hugh Middleton, 3rd Baronet)^[1]

1689–1801

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

Notes

Bibliography

• Book: O'Hart, John . The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland . Heritage Books . II . 0-7884-1927-7 . 2007 .

Notes and References

1. Book: Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. 627.
2. Also elected for Galway Borough in 1695, for which he chose to sit
3. Also elected for County Mayo in 1761, for which he chose to sit.
4. Also elected for County Mayo in 1798, for which he chose to sit.