Queen's County Courthouse, site of the inaugural meeting of the county council[1]

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.[2] The first Queen's County Council comprised 32 councillors serving a three-year term:

Councillors

Queen's County Council election 1899[4][5]
County districtCouncillorNotes
AbbeyleixWilliam Phelan
ArlessJohn Byrne
BallinakillPatrick BrennanNot the Newtown district representative
BallybrittasDenis Boland
Borris-in-OssoryLaurence Thomas KellyVice chairman
CastletownArthur McMahonNot the Abbeyleix RDC chairman
ClonasleeJohn Treacy
CoolrainMichael Fitzpatrick
CullenaghJames McMahon
DonaghmoreBernard FitzPatrick, 2nd Baron Castletown
DurrowPatrick O'Flanagan
EmoJohn Williams
LuggacurrenThomas Breen
MaryboroughPatrick A. MeehanChairman. Maryborough is now Portlaoise
MountmellickWilliam McEvoy
MountrathJohn Dowling
NewtownPatrick BrennanNot the Ballinakill district representative
O'MoresforestPatrick Doran
Portarlington SouthCharles Bannon
RathdowneyDaniel Quigley
StradballyDenis Shaughnessy
TinnahinchWilliam Dunne
Additional Queen's County councillors 1899[5]
TypeRural districtNameNotes
RDC chairmanAbbeyleixArthur McMahonNot the Castletown district representative
Athy No. 2Thomas Timmins
Carlow No. 2Matthias McWey
MountmellickJames Dunne
Roscrea No. 3Thomas Lowry
Grand jury Robert CosbyOf Stradbally Hall
Henry Charles WhiteOf "Charleville", Roscrea
Edmund Dease
Co-opted James Joseph AirdAuctioneer and merchant in Maryborough; father of William Aird.[6]
James Conroy

Results by district

Coolrain[7]
NameVotesNotes
Michael Fitzpatrick186Labourers' support
E. Conroy184Catholic clergy support
C. P. Hamilton24


References

  • Local Government Board for Ireland (1900). Twenty-seventh report. Command papers. Vol. C.9480. Dublin: Alex. Thom for HMSO. §§1–7 and Appendices A. Retrieved 9 March 2017.
  1. Laois Heritage Society. "Towns and Villages of Laois: Portlaoise: Courthouse". Ask About Ireland. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  2. C.9480 p.12
  3. C.9480 pp.303–305
  4. 1 2 "First Council Meeting". Laois County Council. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  5. 1 2 O'Hanlon, John; O'Leary, Edward; Lalor, Matthew (1914). History of the Queen's County. Vol. II: 1556–1900. Dublin: Sealy, Bryers & Walker. pp. 744–745. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  6. Dunne, John. "22 Main Street". Pictures of Portlaoise. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  7. Leinster Express, 15 April 1899; cited in Dooley, Ger. "History of Camross, County Laois; 1641–1955: Democracy Grows". 131 Weeks. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
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