Charleville was a constituency in County Cork

County Cork

County Cork is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and is also part of the province of Munster. It is named after the city of Cork . Cork County Council is the local authority for the county...

 represented in the Irish House of Commons

Irish House of Commons

The Irish House of Commons was the lower house of the Parliament of Ireland, that existed from 1297 until 1800. The upper house was the House of Lords...

 to 1800.

History

The town it represented

Charleville, County Cork

Charleville or Ráth Luirc is a town in north County Cork, Ireland, situated in Ireland's Golden Vale, near the border with County Limerick. It is located on the "Glen" tributary river, which flows into the Maigue River in Co. Limerick...

 was named after Charles II

Charles II of England

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. It was enfranchised in 1673, a sovereign, 12 burgesses and freemen. It belonged to the Earl of Orrery

Earl of Orrery

Earl of Orrery is a title in the Peerage of Ireland that has been united with the earldom of Cork since 1753 . It was created in 1660 for the soldier, statesman and dramatist Roger Boyle, 1st Baron Boyle, third but eldest surviving son of Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Cork...

, a branch of the Boyle family. In the Patriot Parliament

Patriot Parliament

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 of 1689 summoned by King James II

James II of England

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, Charleville was represented with two members. At the end of the 18th Century the constituency was controlled by Lord Shannon and Lord Cork who each nominated one member. The compensation of £15,000 for the loss of the seats in the Act of Union 1800

Act of Union 1800

The Acts of Union 1800 describe two complementary Acts, namely:* the Union with Ireland Act 1800 , an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, and...

 was divided equally between them.

1689–1801

Election		First member	First party		Second member	Second party
1689 Patriot Parliament Patriot Parliament The Patriot Parliament is the name given to the session of the Irish Parliament called by King James II of Ireland during the War of the Two Kings in 1689. The parliament met in one session, from 7 May 1689 to 20 July 1689, and was the only session of the Irish Parliament under King James II.The...		John Baggot			John Power
1692		Henry Boreman			George Crofts  Expelled in October 1692
1695		Hon. Charles Boyle Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery Charles Boyle, 4th Earl of Orrery KT PC FRS was an English nobleman, statesman and patron of the sciences....			John Ormsby
1703		George Evans			Robert FitzGerald
1713		Sir Matthew Deane, 3rd Bt Sir Matthew Deane, 3rd Baronet Sir Matthew Deane, 3rd Baronet was an Irish baronet and politician.He was the son of Sir Robert Deane, 2nd Baronet and his wife Anne Bettridge, daughter of Colonel William Bettridge./Anne Brettridge, one of the three daughters and co-heiresses of Captain Roger Brettridge of Castles Brettridge,...			Brettridge Badham
1715		George Evans			William Boyle
1721		Henry Purdon
1725					James O'Brien James O'Brien (1695–1771) Hon. James O'Brien was an Irish nobleman and politician.-Life:James O'Brien was the son of William O'Brien, 3rd Earl of Inchiquin, and his wife, Mary Villiers. He was born in 1695 at Inchiquin, County Clare. Not long after his birth, his family relocated to Charleville, County Cork...
1727		John Lysaght John Lysaght, 1st Baron Lisle John Lysaght, 1st Baron Lisle was an Irish peer and politician.Lysaght sat as a Member of the Irish House of Commons for Charleville from 1727 until 1758, when he was raised to the Peerage of Ireland as Baron Lisle, of Mountnorth in the County of Cork...			Price Hartstonge Price Hartstonge Price Hartstonge was an Anglo-Irish politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons as member for Charleville 1727-1743.He was born at Presteigne in Radnorshire, second and eldest surviving son of Sir Standish Hartstonge, 2nd Baronet and Anne Price. The Hartstonges , originally from Norfolk, had...
1744					Edward Barry Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet FRS was an Irish physician and politician.-Background and education:He was the son of Edward Barry and his wife Jane, and was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. In 1717, Barry graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. Subsequently he studied at the University of Leyden in...
1759		Viscount Dungarvon
1761		Robert Barry Robert Barry (politician) Robert Barry was an Irish politician and barrister.He was the third son of Sir Edward Barry, 1st Baronet. In 1750, he was admitted to Lincoln's Inn and in 1753, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts. He was appointed a King's Counsel in 1768...			Richard Longfield
1768					James Lysaght
1776		Richard Cox			Thomas Warren
October 1783		Rogerson Cotter			John Bennett  Also elected for Castlemartyr Castlemartyr (Parliament of Ireland constituency) Castlemartyr was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1676 to 1800.- Boundaries and boundary changes :...  in 1783, for which he chose to sit
1783					Richard St George
1790					Sir John Blaquiere, 1st Bt
1798					Charles Boyle
1800					George Nugent
1801 United Kingdom general election, 1801 The United Kingdom general election, 1801 was not an election as such, but the co-option of members to serve in the first Parliament to be held after the formation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on 1 January 1801...		Disenfranchised