Fethard (County Wexford) (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Not to be confused with Fethard (County Tipperary) (Parliament of Ireland constituency).

Fethard
Former constituency for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created	1613 (1613)
Abolished	1800
Replaced by	Disenfranchised

Fethard was a constituency in County Wexford represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1800.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Fethard was represented with two members.^[1]

Members of Parliament, 1613–1801

1689–1801

Election	First member	Second member
1689 Patriot Parliament	James Porter	Nicholas Stafford
1692	Sir Richard Bulkeley, 2nd Bt	Dudley Loftus
1695		Sir Nicholas Loftus
1703		Thomas Palliser
1710	Nicholas Loftus
1713	Hugh Morgan
1715	Henry Ponsonby
1727	James Stopford	George Houghton
1733		Philip Doyne
1755		Charles Tottenham
1759	Nicholas Hume-Loftus ^{[note 1]}	Charles Tottenham
1761		Hon. Nicholas Hume-Loftus
1764		William Alcock
1767	John Tottenham	William Alcock
1768	John Tottenham	Arthur Loftus
1776	Charles Tottenham ^{[note 2]}	Robert Hellen
1779	Charles Tottenham ^{[note 2]}	Ponsonby Tottenham
1783	Ephraim Carroll	Ponsonby Tottenham
1790	Charles Tottenham	Thomas Loftus
January 1793		Henry Hatton
1793		Luke Fox
1796	William Loftus	Luke Fox
1798	Henry Alcock	Charles Eustace
1799	George Harrison Reade	Charles Eustace
1801	Disenfranchised

Notes

↑ Styled as The Honourable from 1763 and as Viscount Loftus from 1766
↑ Also elected for Wexford Borough in 1783, for which he chose to sit

References

↑ O'Hart (2007), p. 504

Bibliography

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

Parliamentary constituencies in County Wexford

Parliament of Ireland to 1800	Bannow (????–1800) Clonmines (????–1800) Enniscorthy (1613–1800) Fethard (1613–1800) Gorey (????–1800) New Ross (????–1800) Taghmon (????–1800) Wexford Borough (????–1800) Wexford County (????–1800)

Westminster 1801–1922 and First Dáil 1918	New Ross (1801–85) Wexford County (1801–85) Wexford Borough (1801–85) North Wexford (1885–1922) South Wexford (1885–1922)

Dáil Éireann 1918–present	Wexford (1921–)

European Parliament 1979–present	Leinster (1979–2004) East (2004–14) South (2014–)

Irish counties: Carlow Cavan Clare Cork Donegal Dublin Galway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Laois Leitrim Limerick Longford Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan Offaly Roscommon Sligo Tipperary Waterford Westmeath Wexford Wicklow

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