Granard (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Granard
Former constituency for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created	1679 (1679)
Abolished	1800
Replaced by	Disenfranchised

Granard was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until 1800.

History

In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Granard was not represented.^[1]

Election	First member	Second member
1689	Granard was not represented in the Patriot Parliament
1692	John Perceval	Sir Walter Plunket
September 1703		Stephen Ludlow ^{[note 1]}
1703		Wentworth Harman
1713	John Parnell	John Rogerson
1715	John Parnell	James Peppard
1723	Charles Coote	James Peppard
1725	Charles Coote	Robert Jocelyn
1727	James Macartney	John Folliott
1761	Edmond Malone	Robert Sibthorpe
1767	Gervase Parker Bushe	Robert Sibthorpe
1768		Anthony Malone ^{[note 2]}
1769		Richard Malone
1776	Thomas Maunsell	John Kilpatrick
1780	Thomas Maunsell	William Long Kingsman
1783	Robert Jephson	George William Molyneux
1790	John Ormsby Vandeleur	Thomas Pakenham Vandeleur
January 1798	Hon. George Fulke Lyttelton	William Fulk Greville
1798	Hon. George Fulke Lyttelton	Ross Mahon
1800	Richard Townsend Herbert	Ross Mahon
1801	Constituency disenfranchised

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 Longford

Granard (1679–1800)
Lanesborough (1642–1800)
Longford Borough (1669–1800)
Longford County (????–1800)
St Johnstown (1628–1800)

Dáil Éireann
1918–present

Historic	Athlone–Longford (1937–48) Longford–Roscommon (1992–2007)

Current	Longford–Westmeath (1921–37, 1948–92, 2007–)

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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