1899 Queen's County Council election

December 2020 December 2020 thumb|Queen's County Courthouse, site of the inaugural meeting of the county councilLaois Heritage Society Towns and Villages of Laois: Portlaoise: Courthouse http://www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/history-heritage/heritage-towns/towns-and-villages-of-lao/portlaoise/courthouse/ Ask About Ireland 23 December 2019 Queen's County Council (now Laois County Council) was created in 1899 under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 and the first local elections for the county council, and the councils of the five rural districts within Queen's County, were held on 6 April 1899, simultaneous with elections in the other administrative counties.C.9480 p.12 The first Queen's County Council comprised 32 councillors serving a three-year term: 22 elected, one from each of the 22 county districtsC.9480 pp.303–305 five rural district council chairmen, ex officio three nominees of the outgoing county grand jury, the unelected county government prior to the 1898 act two members co-opted by the other members at the council's first meeting on 22 April 1899 Councillors + Queen's County Council election 1899First Council Meeting https://laois.ie/about-the-council/history-of-the-council/first-council-meeting/ Laois County Council 23 December 2019https://archive.org/details/historyofqueensc02ohan/page/675 744–745 History of the Queen's County O'Hanlon John O'Leary Edward Lalor Matthew II: 1556–1900 Dublin Sealy, Bryers & Walker 1914 23 December 2019 County district Councillor Notes Abbeyleix William Phelan Arless John Byrne Ballinakill Patrick Brennan Not the Newtown district representative Ballybrittas Denis Boland Borris-in-Ossory Laurence Thomas Kelly Vice chairman Castletown Arthur McMahon Not the Abbeyleix RDC chairman Clonaslee John Treacy Coolrain Michael Fitzpatrick Cullenagh James McMahon Donaghmore Bernard FitzPatrick, 2nd Baron Castletown Durrow Patrick O'Flanagan Emo John Williams Luggacurren Thomas Breen Maryborough Patrick A. Meehan Chairman. Maryborough is now Portlaoise Mountmellick William McEvoy Mountrath John Dowling Newtown Patrick Brennan Not the Ballinakill district representative O'Moresforest Patrick Doran Portarlington South Charles Bannon Rathdowney Daniel Quigley Stradbally Denis Shaughnessy Tinnahinch William Dunne +Additional Queen's County councillors 1899 Type Rural district Name Notes RDC chairman Abbeyleix Arthur McMahon Not the Castletown district representative Athy No. 2 Thomas Timmins Carlow No. 2 Matthias McWey Mountmellick James Dunne Roscrea No. 3 Thomas Lowry Grand jury — Robert Cosby Of Stradbally Hall Henry Charles White Of "Charleville", Roscrea Edmund Dease Co-opted — James Joseph Aird Auctioneer and merchant in Maryborough; father of William Aird.Dunne John 22 Main Street http://www.portlaoisepictures.com/030airdshardware.htm Pictures of Portlaoise 23 December 2019 James Conroy Results by district +CoolrainLeinster Express, 15 April 1899; cited in Dooley Ger History of Camross, County Laois; 1641–1955: Democracy Grows http://www.gerdooley.com/history-of-camross-county-laois-1641-1955/democracy-grows https://web.archive.org/web/20190405144503/http://www.gerdooley.com/history-of-camross-county-laois-1641-1955/democracy-grows usurped 5 April 2019 131 Weeks 23 December 2019 en Name Votes Notes Michael Fitzpatrick 186 Labourers' support E. Conroy 184 Catholic clergy support C. P. Hamilton 24 References https://archive.org/details/op1253906-1001 Local Government Board for Ireland Twenty-seventh report Command papers C.9480 1900 §§1–7 and Appendices A Dublin Alex. Thom for HMSO y 9 March 2017 County Queens 1899