Roscommon County (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Roscommon County was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800.

Roscommon County
Former County constituency for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created
Abolished	1800
Replaced by	Roscommon

Members of Parliament

• 1585 Sir Richard Bingham and Thomas Dillon [1]
• 1613–1615 Sir John King [2] and Sir Oliver St John [1]
• 1634–1635 Sir Lucas Dillon [3]
• 1639–1649 Sir Lucas Dillon and Henry (or Geoffrey) Dillon and Robert King[1]
• 1654 (Protectorate Parliament) Robert King
• 1657 (Protectorate Parliament) James King
• 1661 April-December Charles Coote, 2nd Earl of Mountrath. (Replaced 1662 by George Lane, 1st Viscount Lanesborough) and Richard Jones.

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament		Charles Kelly			John Bourke
1692		Sir Robert King, 1st Bt			George St George [4]
1703		Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Bt
November 1713					James Donnellan
1713					Sir George St George, 2nd Bt
1715					Sir John King, 2nd Bt
1721					Arthur French
1727					Sir Henry King, 3rd Bt
1730		Nicholas Mahon
1735		Edward Crofton [5]
1741					Henry Sandford
1745		John French
1761					Thomas Mahon
1775		Edward Crofton [6]
1782					Maurice Mahon
1783					Arthur French
1798		George King, Viscount Kingsborough
1799		Thomas Mahon
1801	Constituency replaced by Westminster constituency Roscommon

Notes

1. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 632.
2. Gordon Goodwin, ‘King, Sir John (d. 1637)’, rev. Terry Clavin, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008
3. http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/77206
4. from 1695 Sir George St George, 2nd Bt
5. from 1739 Sir Edward Crofton, 4th Bt
6. from 1784 Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Bt

References

• 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.