Cavan Borough (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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Cavan Borough Borough constituency
Created:	1611
Post-Union:	Abolished
Type:	Irish House of Commons

Cavan Borough was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800.

Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote.

Contents 1 Boundaries and Boundary Changes 2 Members of Parliament 3 Elections 4 References 5 See also

[edit] Boundaries and Boundary Changes

This constituency was the borough of Cavan in County Cavan.

The borough was disenfranchised under the terms of the Act of Union 1800.

[edit] Members of Parliament

It returned two members to the Parliament of Ireland from 1611 to 1800.

• 1613–1615
  • Oliver Lambart, 1st Baron Lambart (died 1618)
• 1634–1635
  • Brockhill Taylor (died 1636)
• 1639–1649

Irish MPs sat in the Parliament of the Protectorate

• 1661–1666
• 1689–1689 Patriot Parliament
  • Philip Oge O'Reyly
  • Hugh Reyley, Lara
• 1692–1693
• 1695–1699
• 1703–1713
  • Joseph Addison (from 1709)
• 1713–1714
  • Theophilus Clements
  • Lambart
• 1715–1727
  • Theophilus Clements
• 1727–1760
  • John Maxwell, 1st Baron Farnham (1727-1756)
  • Barry Maxwell (elected at by-election in spring 1756)
• 1761–1768
  • Nathaniel Clements
  • George Montgomery (after petition)
• 1769–1776 ?
• 1776–1783
  • Nathaniel Clements (died 1777)
• 1783–1790 ?
• 1790–1797
• 1798–1800

[edit] Elections

[edit] References

[edit] See also

• List of Irish constituencies