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.; for the map see the scan at Alamy; for the map see also a better scan at Limerick City and County Council 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. The parliamentary boundary is in violet, except that the boundary is correctly named along the west and north edges of the townlands of Windgap, Barranalira, and Killongford, whereas the purple line runs south of these.
Members of Parliament Election Member Party 1801 Edward Lee Whig 1802 William Greene Whig 1806 Hon. George Walpole Whig 1820 Augustus Clifford Whig 1822 Hon. George Lamb Whig 1834 Ebenezer Jacob Radical 1835 Michael O'Loghlen Whig Feb. 1837 John Power Whig Aug. 1837 Cornelius O'Callaghan Whig 1841 Richard Lalor Sheil Radical 1851 Charles Ponsonby, later Baron de Mauley Whig 1852 John Maguire Ind. Irish 1859 Liberal 1865 Charles Robert Barry Liberal 1868 Henry Matthews Liberal 1874 John O'Keeffe Home Rule 1877 Frank Hugh O'Donnell Home Rule
Elections Elections in the 1830s
Lamb's death caused a by-election.
Jacob was unseated on petition, causing a further by-election.
O'Loghlen was appointed as Solicitor-General for Ireland, causing a by-election.
O'Loghlen was appointed as Attorney-General for Ireland, causing a by-election.
O'Loghlen was appointed Baron of the Irish Court of Exchequer and resigned, causing a by-election.
Elections in the 1840s
Sheil was appointed as Master of the Mint, requiring a by-election.
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.
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.
Elections in the 1860s
Elections in the 1870s
O'Keefe's death caused a by-election.
Elections in the 1880s
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)
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