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{{short description|Pre-1801 Irish constituency}}
{{for|the county constituency|County Roscommon (Parliament of Ireland constituency)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2020}}
{{Use Hiberno-English|date=January 2020}}
{{Infobox UK constituency
| name = Roscommon
| type = borough
| borough = [[Roscommon]]
| county = [[County Roscommon]]
| region = Ireland
| parliament = ihc
| year = {{Start date|?}}
| abolished = 1801
| seats = 2
| next = Disfranchised
}}

'''Roscommon''' was a constituency representing the [[parliamentary borough]] of [[Roscommon]] in the [[Irish House of Commons]] from 1611 to 1800. Between 1725 and 1793 Catholics and those married to Catholics could not vote.

==Members of Parliament==
*1613–1615 Maurice Smith and William Marwood<ref name=MP/>
*1634–1635 George Carr and Edward Deane<ref name=MP>{{Cite thesis|url=http://www.tara.tcd.ie/handle/2262/77206|hdl = 2262/77206|title = A biographical dictionary of the membership of the Irish House of Commons 1640–1641|year = 1998|publisher = Department of History, [[Trinity College Dublin]]|type = thesis|last1 = McGrath|first1 = Bríd}}</ref>
*1639–1649 Robert Bysse<ref name=MP/> and Walter Loftus (died 1641)<ref name=PP>{{cite book|title=Parliamentary Papers, Volume 62, Part 2|page=631}}</ref>
*1661–1666 Oliver Jones and William Somers<ref name=PP/>

===1689–1801===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!Election!!!!First member!!First party!!!!Second member!!Second party
|-
| 1689 ''[[Patriot Parliament]]''
| style="background-color: white" |
| John Dillon
| <!-- party -->
|style="background-color: white" |
| John Kelly
|  <!-- party -->
|-
| 1692
| style="background-color: white" |
| [[Hercules Davys]]
| <!-- party -->
| rowspan="6" style="background-color: white" |
| rowspan="6" | [[Henry Sandford (1671–1733)|Henry Sandford]]
| rowspan="6" | <!-- party -->
|-
| 1695
| style="background-color: white" |
| [[Arthur Cole, 1st Baron Ranelagh|Sir Arthur Cole, 2nd Bt]]
| <!-- party -->
|-
| September 1703
| style="background-color: white" |
| [[Robert Sandys]]
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1703
| style="background-color: white" |
| [[William Westgarth (politician)|William Westgarth]]
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1711
| style="background-color: white" |
| [[David Kennedy (Irish politician)|David Kennedy]]
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1713
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: white" |
| rowspan="2" | [[Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd Baronet (1687–1739)|Edward Crofton]]<ref>from 1729 Sir Edward Crofton, 3rd Bt</ref>
| rowspan="2" | <!-- party -->
|-
| 1733
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: white" |
| rowspan="2" | [[William Sandford]] 
| rowspan="2" | <!-- party -->
|-
| 1740
| rowspan="2" style="background-color: white" |
| rowspan="2" | [[Thomas Mahon (Irish MP)|Thomas Mahon]] 
| rowspan="2" | <!-- party -->
|-
| 1759
| style="background-color: white" |
| [[Edward Sandford (politician)|Edward Sandford]]
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1761
| style="background-color: white" |
| [[Sir Marcus Lowther-Crofton, 1st Baronet|Sir Marcus Lowther-Crofton, 1st Bt]]
| <!-- party -->
| style="background-color: white" |
| [[Sir FitzGerald Aylmer, 6th Baronet|Sir FitzGerald Aylmer, 6th Bt]]
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1768
| style="background-color: white" |
| [[Nathaniel Clements]]
| <!-- party -->
| rowspan="3" style="background-color: white" |
| rowspan="3" | [[Robert Sandford (1722–1793)|Robert Sandford]] 
| rowspan="3" | <!-- party -->
|-
| 1769
| style="background-color: white" |
| [[Robert Tighe (politician)|Robert Tighe]]
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1776
| style="background-color: white" |
| [[Henry Sandford, 1st Baron Mount Sandford|Henry Sandford]]
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1783
| style="background-color: white" |
| [[Cornwallis Maude, 1st Viscount Hawarden|Sir Cornwallis Maude, 3rd Bt]]
| <!-- party -->
| rowspan="4" style="background-color: white" |
| rowspan="4" | [[George Sandford, 3rd Baron Mount Sandford|George Sandford]] 
| rowspan="4" | <!-- party -->
|-
| 1785
| style="background-color: white" |
| [[Maurice Coppinger]]
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1790
| style="background-color: white" |
| [[Nathaniel Clements, 2nd Earl of Leitrim|Hon. Nathaniel Clements]] 
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1791
| rowspan="4" style="background-color: white" |
| rowspan="4" | [[Henry Sandford, 1st Baron Mount Sandford|Henry Sandford]]
| rowspan="4" | <!-- party -->
|-
| January 1798
| style="background-color: white" |
| [[Silver Oliver (1736–1798)|Silver Oliver]]
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1798
| style="background-color: white" |
| [[George Sandford, 3rd Baron Mount Sandford|George Sandford]] 
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1799
| style="background-color: white" |
| [[William Johnson (Irish politician)|William Johnson]] 
| <!-- party -->
|-
| 1801
|
| colspan ="5"| ''Constituency disenfranchised''
|}

===Notes===
{{reflist}}

==References==
*{{Rayment-hc-ie|date=March 2012}}

{{Roscommon constituencies}}

[[Category:Historic constituencies in County Roscommon]]
[[Category:Constituencies of the Parliament of Ireland (pre-1801)]]
[[Category:1611 establishments in Ireland]]
[[Category:1800 disestablishments in Ireland]]
[[Category:Constituencies established in 1611]]
[[Category:Constituencies disestablished in 1800]]