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Dungarvan (UK Parliament constituency)

UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland, 1801–1885

Summary

UK parliamentary constituency in Ireland, 1801–1885

Field	Value
name	Dungarvan
type	borough
borough	Dungarvan
region	Ireland
county	County Waterford
parliament	uk
year	1801
abolished	1885
seats	1
previous	Dungarvan
next	West Waterford

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Dungarvan was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which from 1801 to 1885 returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801, replacing the earlier Dungarvan constituency in the Parliament of Ireland.

Boundaries

This constituency was the parliamentary borough of Dungarvan in County Waterford. Until the Parliamentary Boundaries (Ireland) Act 1832 (passed alongside the Representation of the People (Ireland) Act 1832) it was coterminous with the manor of Dungarvan, and the franchise was exercised by potwallopers of the town and forty shilling freeholders of the manor. The manor extended far beyond the urban area, including Abbeyside on the east bank of the Colligan River. Commissioners appointed in 1831 and 1836, to revise Irish parliamentary and municipal borough boundaries respectively, described the old border as "supposed to contain about 10,000 Statute Acres" and with an "ill defined" boundary. Besides the main portion around the town, the borough included three detached townlands further west (Knockampoor, Canty, and Ballymullala) and excluded 15 small enclaves (one within Dungarvan town, one to the west, and thirteen on the east bank of the Colligan, of which nine belonged to the manor of Dromana, including the townlands of Tournore, Clonanagh and Croughtanaul). Although the 1832 commissioners suggested radical simplification in the boundary, the only change in 1832 was to exclude the detached parts and include the enclosed enclaves to create a single area. This boundary is marked on the Ordnance Survey of Ireland's six-inch map, published a few years later.

Members of Parliament

Election	Party
Whigs (British political party)}}"	1801	Edward Lee
Whigs (British political party)}}"	1802	William Greene
Whigs (British political party)}}"	1806	Hon. George Walpole
Whigs (British political party)}}"	1820	Augustus Clifford
Whigs (British political party)}}"	1822	Hon. George Lamb
Radicals (UK)}}"	1834	Ebenezer Jacob
Whigs (British political party)}}"	1835	Michael O'Loghlen
Whigs (British political party)}}"	Feb. 1837	John Power
Whigs (British political party)}}"	Aug. 1837	Cornelius O'Callaghan
Radicals (UK)}}"	1841	Richard Lalor Sheil
Whigs (British political party)}}"	1851	Charles Ponsonby, later Baron de Mauley
Independent Irish Party}}"	1852	John Maguire
Liberal Party (UK)}}"	1859	Liberal
Liberal Party (UK)}}"	1865	Charles Robert Barry
Liberal Party (UK)}}"	1868	Henry Matthews
Home Rule League}}"	1874	John O'Keeffe
Home Rule League}}"	1877	Frank Hugh O'Donnell

Elections

Elections in the 1830s

|reg. electors =

|reg. electors = 677

Lamb's death caused a by-election.

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Jacob was unseated on petition, causing a further by-election.

|reg. electors = 677

|reg. electors = 707

O'Loghlen was appointed as Solicitor-General for Ireland, causing a by-election.

|reg. electors = 708

O'Loghlen was appointed as Attorney-General for Ireland, causing a by-election.

|reg. electors = 713

O'Loghlen was appointed Baron of the Irish Court of Exchequer and resigned, causing a by-election.

|reg. electors = 741

|reg. electors = 747

Elections in the 1840s

|reg. electors = 434

Sheil was appointed as Master of the Mint, requiring a by-election.

|reg. electors = 565

Elections in the 1850s

Due to both ill health and to become a diplomat in Tuscany, Sheil resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.

|reg. electors = 314

In order to enable the withdrawal of an election petition filed by O'Flaherty, Maguire resigned by accepting the office of Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, causing a by-election.

|reg. electors = 303

|reg. electors = 266

|reg. electors = 280

Elections in the 1860s

|reg. electors = 257

|reg. electors = 311

Elections in the 1870s

|reg. electors = 288

O'Keefe's death caused a by-election.

|reg. electors = 318

Elections in the 1880s

|reg. electors = 235

Sources

The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844–50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)

References

(8 June 1832). "Instructions by Secretary for Ireland, respecting Cities and Boroughs in Ireland sending Representatives to Parliament; Reports of Commissioners". Sessional papers.
(10 May 1837). "Reports and instructions by Lord Lieutenant, with reference to boundaries and divisions of cities, boroughs and towns corporate in Ireland".
(24 March 2015). "The Dromana estate in 1640".
Lewis, Samuel. (1837). "A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland".
Ordnance Survey Ireland. (1839–41). "Six-inch map centred on Dungarvan".
(1842). "The Register of Parliamentary Contested Elections". Simpkin, Marshall & Company.
(1838). "The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer".
(1838). "The Assembled Commons or Parliamentary Biographer: 1838".
(6 July 1841). "General Election". Morning Post.
(22 March 1851). "Ireland". John Bull.
(20 March 1851). "Ireland". London Daily News.
(11 April 1857). "Dublin Weekly Nation".
"Dungarvan".
Jenkins, Brian. (3 January 2008). "Sheil, Richard Lalor (1791–1851)".
(22 March 1851). "Ireland". Reading Mercury.
(26 March 1856). "London Nonconformist".
(26 August 1853). "Belfast Mercury".
(1978). "Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922". Royal Irish Academy.

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