Dungarvan (UK Parliament constituency)

Dungarvan
Former Borough constituency for the House of Commons
1801–1885
Number of members	One
Replaced by	West Waterford

Dungarvan was a parliamentary constituency in Ireland, which from 1801 to 1885 returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

The constituency was created when the Union of Great Britain and Ireland took effect on 1 January 1801, replacing the earlier Dungarvan constituency in the Parliament of Ireland.

Boundaries

This constituency was the Parliamentary borough of Dungarvan in County Waterford. Until the Parliamentary Boundaries (Ireland) Act, 1832 (passed alongside the Irish Reform Act 1832) it was coterminous with the manor of Dungarvan, and the franchise was exercised by potwallopers of the town and forty shilling freeholders of the manor. Commissioners appointed in 1832 and 1836 to revise Irish parliamentary borough boundaries described the old border as "supposed to contain about 10,000 Statute Acres" and with an "ill defined" boundary; their accompanying map shows several detached parts and enclaves. Although the 1832 commissioners suggested radical simplification in the boundary, the only change in 1832 was to exclude the detached parts and include the enclosed enclaves to create a single area. This boundary is marked in violet on the Ordnance Survey of Ireland's six-inch map, published a few years later. The 1836 commissioners recommended a much smaller boundary, including the urban area and suburbs while excluding the large rural hinterland.

Members of Parliament

Election	Member	Party
1801	Edward Lee	Whig
1802	William Greene	Whig
1806	Hon. George Walpole	Whig
1820	Augustus William James Clifford	Whig
1822	Hon. George Lamb	Whig
1834	Ebenezer Jacob
1835	Michael O'Loghlen
1837	John Power
1837	Cornelius O'Callaghan
1841	Richard Lalor Sheil
1851	Charles Ponsonby, later Baron de Mauley
1852	John Francis Maguire
1865	Charles Robert Barry
1868	Henry Matthews
1874	John O'Keeffe
1877	Frank Hugh O'Cahan O'Donnell

Elections

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Sources

• The Parliaments of England by Henry Stooks Smith (1st edition published in three volumes 1844-50), 2nd edition edited (in one volume) by F.W.S. Craig (Political Reference Publications 1973)
• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801-1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "D" (part 4)