Kildare County (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Kildare County
Former County constituency for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created	()
Abolished	1801
Replaced by	Kildare

Kildare County was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Kildare County was represented with two members.^[1]

Election	First member	Second member
1689 Patriot Parliament	John Wogan	George Aylmer
1692	George FitzGerald	Robert FitzGerald
1698	George FitzGerald	Henry Colley
1703	Sir Kildare Borrowes, 3rd Bt	Thomas Keightley
1709	Joshua Allen ^{[note 1]}	Thomas Keightley
1715		Brabazon Ponsonby ^{[note 2]}
1725		Francis Allen
1727	Richard Allen	Maurice Keating
1745	Sir Kildare Borrowes, 5th Bt	Maurice Keating
1761	Sir Kildare Borrowes, 5th Bt	Arthur Pomeroy
1776	Lord Charles FitzGerald	Arthur Pomeroy
1783	Lord Charles FitzGerald	John Wolfe
1790	Lord Edward FitzGerald	Maurice Bagenal St Leger Keating
1798	John La Touche	Maurice Bagenal St Leger Keating
1801	Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Kildare

O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 0-7884-1927-7.
Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commonscites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.

Parliamentary constituencies in County Kildare

Dáil Éireann
1921–present

Historic	Kildare–Wicklow (1921–23) Kildare (1923–37, 1948–2002) Carlow–Kildare (1937–48)

Current	Kildare North (2002–) Kildare South (2002–)

Constituencies in Ireland by county

Republic of Ireland	Carlow Cavan Clare Cork Donegal Dublin Galway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Laois Leitrim Limerick Longford Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan Offaly Roscommon Sligo Tipperary Waterford Westmeath Wexford Wicklow

Northern Ireland	Antrim Armagh Down Fermanagh Londonderry Tyrone

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