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for Newtown Limavady and

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, representing the latter constituency in the Irish House of Commons until his death in 1707. Cairnes died without children and was buried at

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on 9 August 1707.Cokayne, George Edward (1906)
Complete Baronetage
'. Volume V. Exeter: W. Pollard & Co. . p. 7

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1670s births 1707 deaths Irish MPs 1703–1713 Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for County Londonderry constituencies Members of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801) for Belfast Burials at St Michan's Church, Dublin {{Ireland-pre1801-MP-stub