title: Swords (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
text: # Swords (Parliament of Ireland constituency)
  
  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
  
  | Election | First member | First party | | Second member | Second party |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | 1689 Patriot Parliament | Francis Barnwall | | | Robert Russell | |
  | 1692 | Richard Forster | | | John Reading | |
  | 1695 | Thomas Ashe | | | John Reading | |
  | 1703 | Robert Molesworth | Whig | | James Peppard | |
  | 1713 | Robert Molesworth | Whig | | Plunket Plunket | |
  | 1715 | Richard Molesworth | | | Plunket Plunket | |
  | 1727 | Hon. Bysse Molesworth | | | Edward Bolton | |
  | 1759 | Hon. Bysse Molesworth | | | Thomas Cobbe | |
  | 1761 | Hamilton Gorges | | | Thomas Cobbe | |
  | 1768 | John Hatch | | | John Damer | |
  | 1776 | Thomas Cobbe | | | Charles King | |
  | 1783 | Charles Cobbe | | | John Hatch | |
  | 1790 | John Claudius Beresford | | | Eyre Massey | |
  | January 1798 | Francis Synge | | | Charles Cobbe | |
  | 1798 | Francis Synge | | | Marcus Beresford | |
  | 1801 | Constituency disenfranchised | Constituency disenfranchised | Constituency disenfranchised | Constituency disenfranchised | Constituency disenfranchised |
  