Kinsale (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
Constituency of the Irish House of Commons
Kinsale was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.
Members of Parliament, 1559–1801
1559, Jan.
Sir John Alan, knight, former Lord Chancellor of Ireland, of Alencourt and St.Wolstan's, Kildare.
Francis Agar or Agard, Esq., of Grangegorman, Dublin, and of Fawston, Staffordshire.
1585, April.
James Galwey, Esq., of Kinsale.
Philip Roche, Esq., of Kinsale.
1613-1615
James Roche Fitz-Philip
Dominick Roche Fitz-Richard
1634-1635
William Gallwey
James Roche
1639-1641
Patrick Roche Fitz-Richard
Philip Roche Fitz-Richard
1661-1666
St. John Broderick
Randolph Clayton
1689–1801
Notes
References
Bibliography
O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland.
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