Carlingford was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.
History In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Carlingford was represented with two members.
Members of Parliament 1559: John Neill and Sir Henry Radclyffe 1585: Robert Neill and Rice ap Hugh 1613–1615: Marmaduke Whitechurch and Sir Roger Hope 1634–1635: John Travers and Joshua Carpenter 1639–1643: Joshua Carpenter (died and replaced 1642 by Chichester Fortescue) and Bernard Saunders (Fortescue and Saunders both died in office 1642) 1643–1649 Edward Trevor and Edmund Keating 1661–1666: Sir George Rawdon, 1st Baronet and Edward Vernon
1689–1801 ElectionFirst MPSecond MP 1689 Christopher Peppard FitzIgnatius Bryan Dermod 1692 Elnathan Lum Zaccheus Sedgwick August 1695 Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Bt 1695 Elnathan Lum 1703 Charles Dering Arthur Hill 1705 William Balfour 1713 Sir Hans Hamilton, 2nd Bt James Stannus 1715 Blayney Townley 1721 William Stannus 1723 Robert Ross 1727 Harry Townley 1741 John Macarell 1757 William Townley-Balfour 1760 Blayney Townley-Balfour 1768 Robert Ross 1776 Thomas KnoxStyled as The Honourable from 1781 Theophilus Blakeney 1783 Sir John Blaquiere Created a baronet in 1784 Thomas Coghlan 1790 Sir Charles des Voeux, 1st Bt James Blaquiere January 1798 Robert RossAlso elected for Newry in 1798, for which he chose to sit Robert JohnsonAlso elected for Hillsborough in 1798, for which he chose to sit 1798 Richard Magenis Sir Thomas Lighton, 1st Bt 1801 Constituency disenfranchised
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