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Youghal
Former Borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created1374 (1374)
Abolished1800
Replaced byYoughal - one seat only.

Youghal was a parliamentary borough represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1800. It was a corporation with burgesses and freemen.

History

In 1700 the borough was under the patronage of Charles Boyle, 2nd Earl of Burlington. It passed through his granddaughter Charlotte Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington to her husband William Cavendish, later Duke of Devonshire, who by 1758 had entrusted it to Henry Boyle, 1st Earl of Shannon. Following the Act of Union 1800 the borough sent one MP to Westminster, still under the patronage of the Earls of Shannon.

A Topographical Directory of Ireland, published in 1837, describes the Parliamentary history of the borough of Youghal in County Cork.

The borough appears to have exercised the elective franchise by prescription, as, though no notice of that privilege appears in any of its charters, it continued to send two members to the Irish parliament from the year 1374 till the Union, since which period it has returned one member to the imperial parliament; the right of election was vested solely in the members of the corporation and the freemen, whether resident or not; but by the act of the 2nd of Wm. IV., cap. 88, it has been granted to the £10 householders, and the non-resident freemen have been disfranchised. A new boundary has been drawn round the town, including an area of 212 statute acres.

Members of Parliament 1559–1801

Election First member First party Second member Second party
1559 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Walch style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Portyngall
1585 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Coppinger style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | James Collen
1613 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Edmund Coppinger style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Forrest
1634 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Edward Gough style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Theobald Ronayne
1661 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir Boyle Maynard style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Owen Silver
1689 Patriot Parliament style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Thomas Uniack style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Edward Gough
1692 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Henry Boyle rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Robert FitzGerald
1695 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Henry Boyle
1703 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Henry Luther style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Hayman
1713 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Boyle Smyth
1715 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Francis Palmes rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Arthur Hyde
1719 rowspan="3" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Henry Rugge
October 1721 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Richard FitzPatrick
1721 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Arthur Hyde
1727 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | James Tynte rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | James O'Brien
1758 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Arthur Hyde
1761 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Sir John Colthurst, 1st Bt style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Bellingham Boyle
1768 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | James Dennis style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Joseph Lysaght
1776 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | James Uniacke
1777 rowspan="2" style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | Robert Uniacke
1798 style="background-color: Template:/meta/color" | John Keane
1801 Succeeded by Westminster constituency of Youghal

Elections

1613 June 7
Edmund Coppinger 62 votes; John Forrest 53; Thomas Ronayne 12; Henry Gosnold 6.[1]
1628 October 9
William Bluet and Edward Gough returned.[2]
1634 June/July
Edward Gough 59; Theobald Ronane 41; Edward Stoute 21; Christmas Harford 5.[3]
1639 February 25
Edward Gough 51; Theobald Ronaine 44; William Gough (son of Richard) 21; Nicholas Forest 10.[4]
1695
1703
1713
1715
1719 July 20
(by-election on the death of Francis Palmes) Henry Rugge 88 votes; Sir John Osberne, baronet, 60.[5]
1727
1761
1768
1776
1783
1790
1797
1800 January
Robert Uniacke re-elected after appointment as Master General of the Ordnance of Ireland.[6]

References

Sources

  • Johnston-Liik, E.M., ed. (28 February 2002). "Youghal". History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800. Ulster Historical Foundation. ISBN 978-1-903688-09-0. Retrieved 24 July 2014.
  • T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne, A New History of Ireland 1534-1691, Oxford University Press, 1978
  • Tim Cadogan and Jeremiah Falvey, A Biographical Dictionary of Cork, 2006, Four Courts Press ISBN 978-1-84682-030-4
  • Caulfield, Richard (1878). The Council Book of the Corporation of Youghal: From 1610 to 1659, from 1666 to 1687, and from 1690 to 1800. J. Billings and Sons. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  • Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons. Cites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.

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