Clonmines was a
constituency represented in the
Irish House of Commons
The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords. The membership of the House of Commons was directly elected, but on a highly restrictive fran ...
until its abolition on 1 January 1801. It was a
rotten borough
A rotten or pocket borough, also known as a nomination borough or proprietorial borough, was a parliamentary borough or constituency in England, Great Britain, or the United Kingdom before the Reform Act 1832, which had a very small electorate ...
associated with the deserted Norman borough of
Clonmines
Clonmines is a civil parish and townland in the Bannow Bay area of County Wexford, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, the site of "the finest example in Ireland of a deserted village, deserted ancient borough, medieval borough".Colfer 2004, p.77 It i ...
, in southwest
County Wexford.
History
In the
Patriot Parliament
Patriot Parliament is the name commonly used for the Irish Parliament session called by King James II during the Williamite War in Ireland which lasted from 1688 to 1691. The first since 1666, it held only one session, which lasted from 7 May ...
of 1689 summoned by
James II, Clonmines was represented with two members.
Members of Parliament
* 1634–1635: James Brien and John Cullen
* 1639–1649: ''disenfranchised - no record''
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* 1661–1666: Francis Harvey and John Edgeworth][
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801)
Historic constituencies in County Wexford
1800 disestablishments in Ireland
Constituencies disestablished in 1800