St Canice (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

St Canice, also called Irishtown, was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1661 until 1800.^[1] Irishtown was a bishop's borough within the parish of St Canice in the county of the city of Kilkenny.^[1] The borough was separate from the city itself, which was represented by Kilkenny City constituency.

St Canice
Former borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Kilkenny
Borough	St Canice
()–1801 (1801)
Seats	2
Replaced by	Disfranchised

The borough was disfranchised by the Acts of Union 1800.^[2] Compensation for the loss of the patronage was awarded in the standard amount of £15,000.^[2] The claim of Hugh Hamilton, Bishop of Ossory to this compensation was disallowed; instead it went to the Commissioners of First Fruits.^[1][2]

Members of Parliament

1661–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1661		Sir William Flower			Oliver Wheeler
1692		Richard Connell			Sir Christopher Wandesford, 2nd Bt
July 1707					Hon. Christopher Wandesford
September 1707					Richard Cole
1713		Sir Standish Hartstonge, 2nd Bt			Sir Robert Maude, 1st Bt
1727		James Agar			Richard Dawson
January 1734		Richard Reade
1734		Hervey Morres
1757		Viscount Moore
1759		Eland Mossom
1761					Thomas Waite
1768					Lord Frederick Campbell
1774		Thomas Radcliffe
1776		John Monck Mason			John William Hamilton
1781					Dominick Trant
1783					Hon. Richard Annesley
1790					Marcus Beresford
1794					Sylvester Douglas
1796					William Elliot
1801		Disenfranchised

References

• Return of Names of the Members of the Lower House of Parliament of England, Scotland and Ireland, with Name of Constituency and Date of Return, 1213-1874; Part II. Command papers. Vol. C.69-I. March 1878. pp. 621, 642, 648, 650, 653, 659, 665, 670, 675, 679, 684, 688.
• 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.

1. Hanna, William; King, Maurice (1835). "Irishtown". Appendix to the First Report of the Commissioners on Municipal Corporations in Ireland: Southern, midland, western and south-eastern circuits, and part of the north-eastern circuit. Command papers. pp. 525–530. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
2. "Return of claims for compensation on account of elective franchises admitted by Union of Ireland with Great Britain". HC Papers (53) vii, 529. EPPI. 18 March 1805. p. 20. Retrieved 14 April 2012.