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St Canice
St Canice
Former borough constituency; for the Irish House of Commons
County	County Kilkenny
Borough	St Canice
?–1801
Seats	2
Replaced by	Disfranchised

St Canice, also called Irishtown, was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1661 until 1800.^[1] Irishtown was a borough within the parish of St Canice in the county of the city of Kilkenny.^[1] The borough was separate from the city itself, which was represented by Kilkenny City constituency.

The borough was disfranchised by the Acts of Union 1800.^[2] Compensation for the loss of the patronage was awarded in the standard amount of £15,000.^[2] The claim of Hugh Hamilton, Bishop of Ossory to this compensation was disallowed; instead it went to the Commissioners of First Fruits.^[1]^[2]

Members of Parliament

1661–1801

Election	First member	Second member
1661	Sir William Flower	Oliver Wheeler
1692	Richard Connell	Sir Christopher Wandesford, 2nd Bt
July 1707		Hon. Christopher Wandesford
September 1707		Richard Cole
1713	Sir Standish Hartstonge, 2nd Bt	Sir Robert Maude, 1st Bt
1727	James Agar	Richard Dawson
January 1734	Richard Reade
1734	Hervey Morres
1757	Viscount Moore
1759	Eland Mossom
1761		Thomas Waite
1768		Lord Frederick Campbell
1774	Thomas Radcliffe	Lord Frederick Campbell
1776	John Monck Mason	John William Hamilton
1781		Dominick Trant
1783		Hon. Richard Annesley
1790		Marcus Beresford
1794		Sylvester Douglas
1796		William Elliot
1801	Disenfranchised

References

Return of Names of the Members of the Lower House of Parliament of England, Scotland and Ireland, with Name of Constituency and Date of Return, 1213-1874; Part II. Command papers. Vol. C.69-I. March 1878. pp. 621, 642, 648, 650, 653, 659, 665, 670, 675, 679, 684, 688.
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.

^ ^a ^b ^c Hanna, William; King, Maurice (1835). "Irishtown". Appendix to the First Report of the Commissioners on Municipal Corporations in Ireland: Southern, midland, western and south-eastern circuits, and part of the north-eastern circuit. Command papers. pp. 525–530. Retrieved 14 April 2012.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Return of claims for compensation on account of elective franchises admitted by Union of Ireland with Great Britain". HC Papers (53) vii, 529. EPPI. 18 March 1805. p. 20. Retrieved 14 April 2012.