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.