Tralee (also known as Tralee Borough) was a constituency represented in the

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Boundaries and Boundary Changes

This constituency was the

borough A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries. In principle, the term ''borough'' designates a self-governing walled town, although in practice, official use of the term varies widely. History In the Middle A ...

Tralee Tralee ( ; ga, Trá Lí, ; formerly , meaning 'strand of the Lee River') is the county town of County Kerry in the south-west of Ireland. The town is on the northern side of the neck of the Dingle Peninsula, and is the largest town in Count ...

in County Kerry. Following the Act of Union 1800 the borough retained one parliamentary seat in the

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Members of Parliament

It returned two members to the

Parliament of Ireland The Parliament of Ireland ( ga, Parlaimint na hÉireann) was the legislature of the Lordship of Ireland, and later the Kingdom of Ireland, from 1297 until 1800. It was modelled on the Parliament of England and from 1537 comprised two cham ...

from 1613 to 1800. *1613–1615: Robert Blennerhassett and Humphrey Dethicke *1634–1635: Sir Beverley Newcomen and Sir George Radcliffe (sat for Armagh – replaced by Robert Blennerhassett) *1639–1649: Thomas Maul and Henry Osbourne (Osbourne resigned 1641) *1661–1666: John Blennerhassett and Francis Lynn *1674: Cpt Robert Blennerhassett

1689–1801

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