Roscommon County (Parliament of Ireland constituency)

Roscommon County
Former County constituency for the Irish House of Commons
Former constituency
Created	()
Abolished	1800
Replaced by	Roscommon

Roscommon County was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1611 to 1800.

Members of Parliament

Election		First member	Second member
1692		Sir Robert King, 1st Bt	George St George ^[2]
1703		Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Bt	George St George ^[2]
November 1713			James Donnellan
1713			Sir George St George, 2nd Bt
1715			Sir John King, 2nd Bt
1721			Arthur French
1727			Sir Henry King, 3rd Bt
1730		Nicholas Mahon
1735		Edward Crofton ^[3]
1741		Edward Crofton ^[3]	Henry Sandford
1745		John French	Henry Sandford
1761		John French	Thomas Mahon
1775		Edward Crofton ^[4]	Thomas Mahon
1782			Maurice Mahon
1783			Arthur French
1798		George King, Viscount Kingsborough
1799		Thomas Mahon
1801	Constituency replaced by Westminster constituency Roscommon

↑ Gordon Goodwin, ‘King, Sir John (d. 1637)’, rev. Terry Clavin, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008
↑ from 1695 Sir George St George, 2nd Bt
↑ from 1739 Sir Edward Crofton, 4th Bt
↑ from 1784 Sir Edward Crofton, 2nd Bt

Leigh Rayment's historical List of Members of the Irish House of Commonscites: Johnston-Liik, Edith Mary (2002). The History of the Irish Parliament 1692-1800 (6 volumes). Ulster Historical Foundation.

Parliamentary constituencies in County Roscommon

Athlone (1607–1800)
Boyle (1614–1800)
Tulsk (1643–1800)
Roscommon Borough (1611–1800)
Roscommon County (????–1800)

Dáil Éireann
1918–present

Historic	Leitrim–Roscommon North (1921–23) Mayo South–Roscommon South (1921–23) Roscommon (1923–69, 1981–92) Roscommon–Leitrim (1969–81) Longford–Roscommon (1992–2007) Roscommon–South Leitrim (2007–16)

Current	Roscommon–Galway (2016–)

Constituencies in Ireland by county

Republic of Ireland	Carlow Cavan Clare Cork Donegal Dublin Galway Kerry Kildare Kilkenny Laois Leitrim Limerick Longford Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan Offaly Roscommon Sligo Tipperary Waterford Westmeath Wexford Wicklow

Northern Ireland	Antrim Armagh Down Fermanagh Londonderry Tyrone

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