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

Members of Parliament

• 1585 Walter Fitzsimons and Thomas Taylor
• 1613–1615 William Blakeney and John Fitzsimons (died and replaced by Richard Carwell)
• 1634–1635 Richard Barnewell and Lucas Netterville (expelled 1634 and replaced by Sir William Anderson )
• 1639–1642 John Taylor and George Blakeney (both expelled 1642)
• 1642 Charles Forster and Christopher Huetson
• 1661–1666 John Povey and Sir William Tichborne

1689–1801

Notes

1. ^ McGrath, Bríd (1998). A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641 (thesis). Department of History, Trinity College Dublin. hdl:2262/77206.
2. "Chronicles of the County Wexford, being a record of memorable incidents, disasters, social occurrences, and crimes, also, biographies of eminent persons, &c., &c., brought down to the year 1877". Enniscorthy, printed at the "Watchman" office. 1890.
3. ^ Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2. p. 614.
4. from 1716 Hon. Richard Molesworth

References

• 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.

• Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801)
• Historic constituencies in County Dublin
• Swords, Dublin
• 1800 disestablishments in Ireland
• Constituencies disestablished in 1800