Queen's County Ossory (UK Parliament constituency)

Queen's County Ossory
Former County constituency
for the House of Commons
1885 (1885)–1918 (1918)
Number of members	One
Replaced by	Queen's County
Created from	Queen's County

Ossory, a division of Queen's County, was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament 1885–1918.

Prior to the 1885 general election and after the dissolution of Parliament in 1918 the area was part of the Queen's County constituency. (From the time of Irish independence, it was not represented in the UK Parliament, as Laois was no longer part of the United Kingdom).

Boundaries

This constituency comprised the western part of Queen's County now known as County Laois.

The Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 defined the division as including the Baronies of Clandonagh, Charmallagh, Maryborough West, Tinnahinch, and Upperwoods, and part of the Barony of Portnahinch.

Members of Parliament

Election		Member	Party
	1885	Arthur O'Connor a	Irish Parliamentary Party
	1886	Stephen O'Mara	Irish Parliamentary Party
	1886	William Archibald Macdonald	Irish Parliamentary Party
	1892	Eugene Crean	Anti-Parnellite Nationalist
	1900	William P. Delany	Irish Parliamentary Party
	1916	John Lalor Fitzpatrick	Irish Parliamentary Party
1918		Constituency merged into Queen's County

Note:-

• ^a O'Connor was returned by more than one seat and elected to sit for East Donegal.

Elections

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References

• Parliamentary Election Results in Ireland, 1801–1922, edited by B.M. Walker (Royal Irish Academy 1978)
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "O"