Number 12/1923: EIGHTH SCHEDULE. Constituencies.

12 1923

ELECTORAL ACT, 1923

EIGHTH SCHEDULE.

Constituencies.

1. The names, contents, and boundaries of each borough constituency and of each county constituency, and the names and contents of each University constituency shall be as specified in this Schedule.

2. The areas mentioned in the second column in Parts I. and II. of this Schedule shall be taken to be those areas as constituted on the First day of January, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, provided that any misnomer or inaccurate description of any of those areas shall not in any way prevent or abridge the operation of this Act with respect to the subject of the description, if it is so designated as to be commonly understood.

3. If any doubt arises as to the constituency in which any townland, district electoral division, or other place whether larger or smaller than a townland, or district electoral division, is intended by this schedule to be included, that doubt shall be determined by the Minister for Local Government

Part I

BOROUGH CONSTITUENCIES.

Name of Constituency.	Contents or boundaries of Constituency.	Total number of members for Constituency.
Cork Borough	The County Borough of Cork and the county Electoral area of Ballincollig	Five.
Dublin North	The borough electoral areas of Dublin No, 1, Dublin No. 2, Dublin No. 4, Dublin No. 6 and Dublin No. 8 in the County Borough of Dublin.	Eight.
Dublin South	The borough electoral areas of Dublin No. 3, Dublin No. 5, Dublin No. 7, Dublin No. 9, and Dublin No. 10 in the County Borough of Dublin.	Seven.

Part II.

COUNTY CONSTITUENCIES.

Name of Constituency.	Contents or boundaries of Constituency.	Total number of members for Constituency.
Carlow-Kilkenny	The administrative counties of Carlow and Kilkenny.	Five.
Cavan	The administrative county of Cavan.	Four.
Clare	The administrative county of Clare.	Five.
North Cork	The county electoral areas of Kanturk and Macroom in the administrative county of Cork.	Three.
West Cork	The county electoral areas of Bandon, Bantry and Dunmanway in the administrative county of Cork.	Five.
East Cork	The county electoral areas of Mallow and Cóbh in the administrative county of Cork.	Five.
Donegal	The administrative county of Donegal	Eight.
Dublin	The administrative county of Dublin	Eight.
Galway	The administrative county of Galway.	Nine.
Kerry	The administrative county of Kerry.	Seven.
Kildare	The administrative county of Kildare	Three.
Leitrim-Sligo	The administrative counties of Leitrim and Sligo.	Seven
Leix-Offaly	The administrative counties of Leix and Offaly.	Five.
Limerick	The administrative county of Limerick and the county borough of Limerick.	Seven.
Longford–Westmeath.	The administrative counties of Longford and Westmeath.	Five.
Louth	The administrative county of Louth.	Three.
North Mayo	The county electoral areas of Ballina, Killala and Swineford, in the administrative county of Mayo.	Four.
South Mayo	The county electoral areas of Castlebar, Claremorris and Westport, in the administrative county of Mayo.	Five.
Meath	The administrative county of Meath.	Three.
Monaghan	The administrative county of Monaghan.	Three.
Roscommon	The administrative county of Roscommon.	Four.
Tipperary	The administrative counties of Tipperary North Riding and Tipperary South Riding.	Seven.
Waterford	The administrative county of Waterford and the county borough of Waterford.	Four.
Wexford	The administrative county of Wexford	Five.
Wicklow	The administrative county of Wicklow	Three.

Part III.

UNIVERSITIES

Name of University Constituency.	Number of Members.
Dublin University	Three.
The National University of Ireland	Three.