St Canice, also called Irishtown, was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1661 until 1800. Irishtown was a bishop's borough within the parish of St Canice in the county of the city of Kilkenny. The borough was separate from the city itself, which was represented by Kilkenny City constituency.
The borough was disfranchised by the Acts of Union 1800. Compensation for the loss of the patronage was awarded in the standard amount of £15,000. The claim of Hugh Hamilton, Bishop of Ossory to this compensation was disallowed; instead it went to the Commissioners of First Fruits.
Members of Parliament
1661–1801 ElectionFirst MPSecond MP 1661 Sir William Flower Oliver Wheeler 1692 Richard Connell Sir Christopher Wandesford, 2nd Bt July 1707 Hon. Christopher Wandesford September 1707 Richard Cole 1713 Sir Standish Hartstonge, 2nd Bt Sir Robert Maude, 1st Bt 1727 James Agar Richard Dawson January 1734 Richard Reade 1734 Hervey Morres 1757 Viscount Moore 1759 Eland Mossom 1761 Thomas Waite 1768 Lord Frederick Campbell 1774 Thomas Radcliffe 1776 John Monck Mason John William Hamilton 1781 Dominick Trant 1783 Hon. Richard Annesley 1790 Marcus Beresford 1794 Sylvester Douglas 1796 William Elliot 1801 Disenfranchised
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