Created 1614 (1614) Replaced by Disenfranchised | Abolished 1801 Founded 1614 | |
Baltimore (also known as Baltimore Borough) was a potwalloper constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons from 1614 to 1801.
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Boundaries and Boundary Changes
This constituency was based in the town of Baltimore in County Cork.
Potwalloper
A potwalloper (sometimes potwalloner or potwaller) is an archaic term referring to a borough constituency returning members to the British House of Commons before 1832 and the Reform Act created a uniform suffrage. (Several potwalloper constituencies were also represented in the Irish House of Commons, prior to its abolition in 1801). A potwalloper borough was one in which a householder had the right to vote if he had, in his house, a hearth large enough to boil, or wallop, a cauldron, or pot.
History
In the Patriot Parliament of 1689 summoned by King James II, Baltimore was represented with two members.
Members of Parliament, 1613–1801
Baltimore, Incorporated 25 March 1613.