1899 Queen's County Council election

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:

22 elected, one from each of the 22 county districts^[3]
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^[4]

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

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	â	Robert Cosby	Of Stradbally Hall
		Henry Charles White	Of "Charleville", Roscrea
		Edmund Dease
Co-opted	â	James Joseph Aird	Auctioneer and merchant in Maryborough; father of William Aird.^[6]
Co-opted	â	James Conroy

Councillors