Tuam was a borough constituency which elected two MPs representing Tuam, County Galway, to the Irish House of Commons, the house of representatives of the Kingdom of Ireland. It was incorporated by a 1614 charter of James I. It originally belonged to the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Tuam, before later passing into the control of the Clanmorris branch of the Bingham family. It was disenfranchised by the Acts of Union 1800.
Members of Parliament ElectionFirst MPSecond MP1613 Sir Thomas Rotherham Damien Pecke1634 1639 Henry Bringhurst1661 Sir Thomas Bramhall, BtSat for Dungannon Geffrey Browne(mis-elected)1661 Robert Ormesby - died Humphrey Abdy1665 Sir Richard Lane, Bt 1689 James Lally William Bourk 1692 Sir Francis Brewster Gilbert Ormsby 1703 Agmondisham Vesey 1713 Charles Stuart 1715 William Vesey 1739 John Bingham 1750 Henry Bingham 1761 Henry Bingham 1768 William Hullfrom 1773 William Tonson Richard Power 1772 Hugh Carleton 1776 James Browne Sir Henry Lynch-Blosse, 7th Bt October 1783 James Cuffe David La Touche 1783 Robert Day Sir Lucius O'Brien, 3rd Bt 1790 Thomas Lightonfrom 1791 Sir Thomas Lighton, 1st Bt Jonah Barrington Irish Patriot 1798 John Bingham Walter Aglionby Yelverton 1800 George Vesey 1801 Constituency disenfranchised
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