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Ardfert was a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of Ireland until the Acts of Union 1800.

Area

This constituency was based in the town of Ardfert in County Kerry.

History

Ardfert in County Kerry was enfranchised as a borough constituency, by a charter in 1639 with a Provost, 12 Burgesses and freemen. It had a Corporation, and the electorate consisted of 13 burgesses and 50 freemen. The parliamentary representatives of the borough were elected using the bloc vote for two-member elections and first past the post for single-member by-elections. In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Ardfert was not represented.

It continued to be entitled to send two Members of Parliament to the Irish House of Commons until the Acts of Union merged Parliament of Ireland into the Parliament of the United Kingdom on 1 January 1801. The constituency was disenfranchised on 31 December 1800.

Thereafter the borough was represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom as part of the county constituency of Kerry.

Members of Parliament, 1634–1801

Notes

1. Styled as The Honourable from 1758
2. Also elected for Portarlington in 1783, for which he chose to sit
3. Also elected for Dublin City in 1798, for which he chose to sit
4. Elected, but never took his seat

References

1. O'Hart 2007, p. 502.
2. The Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland; Or, The Ancient and ..., Volume 3. p. 154.
3. McGrath, Brid (1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640-1641 (thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206. Archived from the original on 9 March 2021. Retrieved 9 June 2019.
4. "Smith's Kerry History Excerpts". Archived from the original on 5 June 2019. Retrieved 5 June 2019.
5. Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 618.

Bibliography

• O'Hart, John (2007). The Irish and Anglo-Irish Landed Gentry: When Cromwell came to Ireland. Vol. II. Heritage Books. ISBN 978-0-7884-1927-0.
• Johnston-Liik, E. M. (2002). History of the Irish Parliament, 1692–1800, Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation (28 February 2002), ISBN 1-903688-09-4,
• T. W. Moody, F. X. Martin, F. J. Byrne, A New History of Ireland 1534-1691, Oxford University Press, 1978
• 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.

• Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801)
• Historic constituencies in County Kerry
• 1639 establishments in Ireland
• Constituencies established in 1639
• 1800 disestablishments in Ireland
• Constituencies disestablished in 1800