County Cavan was a county constituency representing County Cavan in the Irish House of Commons, the lower house in the Parliament of Ireland of the Kingdom of Ireland. The parliamentary boroughs of Belturbet and Cavan were separately represented.
Under the Acts of Union 1800, the county was represented from 1 January 1801 by the Westminster constituency of County Cavan with two MPs in the United Kingdom House of Commons. The boroughs of Belturbet and Cavan lost their separate representation.
Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote.
Members of Parliament ElectionFirst MPSecond MP1585 Philip Reilly Edmund Reilly1613 Sir Oliver Lambart Sir John Fishe1634 Sir Stephen Butler Lucas Dillon1639 Colonel Philip O'Reilly (expelled 1642) Robert Bailey1661 Sir Francis Hamilton, 3rd Baronet Thomas Coote 1689 Philip Reyley John Reyly 1692 Sir Francis Hamilton, 3rd Bt Robert Saunderson 1697 Francis White 1703 Theophilus Butler 1713 Robert Saunderson 1715 Mervyn Pratt Brockhill Newburgh 1727 Charles Coote (I) John Maxwell 1751 Hon. Brinsley Butler 1756 Hon. Barry Maxwell 1761 Charles Coote (II) 1766 William Stewart 1768 Hon. Barry Maxwell George Montgomery Patriot 1780 Hon. John James Maxwell 1783 Charles Stewart 1788 John Maxwell 1788 Francis Saunderson 1793 Viscount Maxwell 1800 Nathaniel Sneyd 1801 Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Cavan
Notes
Elections
References
Bibliography