Cork City (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Cork City
Former Borough constituency for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created	1264 (1264)
Abolished	1800
Replaced by	Cork City

Cork City (also known as Cork Borough) was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1800.

Boundaries and boundary changes

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Cork in County Cork. It comprised the whole of the County of the City of Cork. Cork had the status of a county of itself, although it remained connected with County Cork for certain purposes.

A Topographical Directory of Ireland, published in 1837, describes the area covered. This seems to be the same area used, for the Parliament of Ireland constituency, in previous centuries.

The county of the city comprises a populous rural district of great beauty and fertility, watered by several small rivulets and intersected by the river Lee and its noble estuary: it is bounded on the north by the barony of Fermoy, on the east by that of Barrymore, on the south by Kerricurrihy, and on the west by Muskerry: it comprehends the parishes of St. Finbarr, Christ-Church or the Holy Trinity, St. Peter, St. Mary Shandon, St. Anne Shandon, St. Paul and St. Nicholas, all, except part of St. Finbarr's, within the city and suburbs, and those of Curricuppane, Carrigrohanemore, Kilcully, and Rathcoony, together with parts of the parishes of Killanully or Killingly, Carrigaline, Dunbullogue or Carrignavar, Ballinaboy, Inniskenny, Kilnaglory, White-church, and Templemichael, without those limits; and contains, according to the Ordnance survey, an area of 44,463 statute acres, of which, 2396 are occupied by the city and suburbs.

The Directory also has a passage on the representative history, which includes some information that applies to the pre-1801 constituency.

The right of election was vested in the freemen of the city, and in the 40s. freeholders and £50 leaseholders of the county of the city, of whom the freemen, in 1831, amounted in number to 2331, and the freeholders to 1545, making a total of 3876; but by the act of the 2nd of Wm. IV., cap. 88 (under which the city, from its distinguished importance, retains its privilege of returning two representatives to the Imperial parliament, and the limits of the franchise, comprising the entire county of the city, remain unaltered), the non-resident freemen, except within seven miles, have been disfranchised, and the privilege of voting at elections has been extended to the £10 householders, and the £20 and £10 leaseholders for the respective terms of 14 and 20 years. The number of voters registered up to Jan. 2nd, 1836, amounted to 4791, of whom 1065 were freemen; 2727 £10 householders; 105 £50, 152 £20, and 608 forty-shilling freeholders; 3 £50, 7 £20, and 2 £10 rent-chargers; and 1 £50, 26 £20, and 95 £10 leaseholders: the sheriffs are the returning officers.

Thus, before the Union, the electorate comprised the freemen of the city (including non-residents), and the Forty Shilling Freeholders of the county of the city. It returned two members to the Parliament of Ireland to 1800. It is actually very close to the Irish Sea, which separates Ireland from the U.K.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Cork City was represented with two members.^[1] Following the Act of Union 1800 the borough retained two parliamentary seats in the United Kingdom House of Commons.

Members of Parliament, 1264–1801

1559 John Meade
1585 John Meade
1613 Edmund Tyrry

1689–1801

Election	First member	First party	Second member
1689 Patriot Parliament	Sir James Fitz Edmond Cotter		John Galway
1692	Alan Brodrick	Whig	Robert Rogers
1703	Alan Brodrick	Whig	Thomas Erle
1710	Edward Hoare		Thomas Erle
1713			St John Brodrick
1715			Edmond Knapp
1727	Hugh Dixon		Edward Webber
1731			Jonas Morris
1735			Emanuel Pigott
1739	Matthew Deane ^{[note 1]}
1751	Thomas Newenham
1761	John Hely-Hutchinson		Sir John Freke, 3rd Bt
1764			William Brabazon Ponsonby
1776			Richard Longfield ^{[note 2]}
1783			Augustus Louis Carre Warren
1790	Hon. John Hely-Hutchinson		Richard Longfield
1796			William Hare
1797			Mountifort Longfield
1801	Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Cork City

Notes

↑ Succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1747
↑ Declared not duly elected in 1783

References

↑ O'Hart (2007), p. 501

Bibliography

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.
Johnston-Liik, E. M. (2002). History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800., Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation (28 February 2002), ISBN 1-903688-09-4
Tim Cadogan and Jeremiah Falvey, A Biographical Dictionary of Cork, 2006, Four Courts Press ISBN 1-84682-030-8
T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne, A New History of Ireland 1534–1691, Oxford University Press, 1978
Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons( ) cites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.

Parliamentary constituencies in County Cork and Borough/City

Parliament of Ireland to 1800	Baltimore (1614–1800) Bandonbridge (1614–1800) Castlemartyr (1676–1800) Charleville (1673–1800) Clonakilty (1613–1800) Cork City (1264–1800) Cork County (????–1800) Doneraile (1640–1800) Kinsale (1334?–1800) Mallow (1613–1800) Midleton (1671–1800) Rathcormack (c.1611–1800) Youghal (1374–1800)

Westminster 1801–1922 and First Dáil 1918	Bandon (1801–85) Cork County (1801–85) Cork City (1801–1922) East Cork (1885–1922) Mid Cork (1885–1922) North Cork (1885–1922) North East Cork (1885–1922) South Cork (1885–1922) South East Cork (1885–1922) West Cork (1885–1922) Kinsale (1801–85) Mallow (1801–85) Youghal (1801–85)

Dáil Éireann 1918–present	Cork Borough (1921–69) Cork City (1977–81) Cork City North–West (1969–77) Cork City South–East (1969–77) Cork East (1923–37, 1948–61, 1981–) Cork East and North East (1921–23) Cork Mid (1961–81) Cork Mid, North, South, South East and West (1921–23) Cork North (1923–61) Cork North–Central (1981–) Cork North–East (1961–81) Cork North–West (1981–) Cork South (1948–61) Cork South–Central (1981–) Cork South–East (1937–48) Cork South–West (1961–) Cork West (1923–61)

European Parliament 1979–present	Munster (1979–2004) South (2004–)

Irish counties: 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

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