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County Cavan (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

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County Cavan
Former county constituency for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Cavan
() ( ())–1801 (1801)
Seats	2
Replaced by	Cavan (UKHC)

County Cavan was a constituency representing County Cavan in the Irish House of Commons, the lower house in the Irish Parliament of the Kingdom of Ireland from 1611 to 1800.

Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote.

History

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In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, County Cavan was represented with two members.^[1]

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Election	First member	Second member	Second party
1585	Philip Reilly	Edmund Reilly^[2]
1613	Sir Oliver Lambart	Sir John Fishe^[2]
1634	Sir Stephen Butler	Lucas Dillon^[2]
1639	Colonel Philip O'Reilly (expelled 1642)	Robert Bailey^[2]
1661	Sir Francis Hamilton, 3rd Baronet	Thomas Coote^[3]
1689 Patriot Parliament	Philip Reyley	John Reyly
1692	Sir Francis Hamilton, 3rd Bt	Robert Saunderson^[a]
1697		Francis White
1703		Theophilus Butler
1713		Robert Saunderson
1715	Mervyn Pratt	Brockhill Newburgh
1727	Charles Coote I	John Maxwell
1751	Hon. Brinsley Butler^[b]	John Maxwell
1756		Hon. Barry Maxwell
1761		Charles Coote II
1766		William Stewart
1768	Hon. Barry Maxwell	George Montgomery	Patriot
1780	Hon. John James Maxwell
1783	Charles Stewart
1788		John Maxwell^[c]
1788		Francis Saunderson
1793	Viscount Maxwell
1800	Nathaniel Sneyd
1801	Succeeded by the Westminster constituency Cavan

^ Styled as Lord Newtown-Butler from 1756.

^ Declared not duly elected in 1788.

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^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 607.

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O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 0-7884-1927-7.
Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commons. Cites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.