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‘close’ and ‘open’ boroughs

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | 361 words | Copyright

‘close’ and ‘open’ boroughs, contemporary terms distinguishing between those parliamentary boroughs that were under the control of a single patron and those—the eight county boroughs along with Derry and Swords, Co. Dublin—in which large electorates ensured that a genuine contest was at least possible. See franchise.

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