Newcastle (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Newcastle
Former borough constituency
for the Irish House of Commons
CountyCounty Dublin
BoroughNewcastle
 () ( ())–1801 (1801)
Replaced byDisfranchised

Newcastle was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons to 1801.

Newcastle, County Dublin was enfranchised by James I. By the late eighteenth century it had 13 electors, all non-resident. The patronage of the borough was sold by Lord Lanesborough to David La Touche in the 1770s.[1]

  1. ^ E. M. Johnston-Liik, History of the Irish Parliament 1692–1800, vol. II, p. 235.

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