-_-WICKLOW UNION.
COPY of the Report made in 1830, by the Archbishop of JDwM'w, to the Duke of iV&>r^zzmZ>er/«;2d and Privy Council in Jre/awd, respecting the Union of the Parish of /Fi'cWow.
TO HIS GRACE HUGH DUKE OF NORTHUMBERLAND, LORD LIEUTENANT GENERAL AND GENERAL GOVERNOR OF IRELAND,
IN COUNCIL.
WE, William by Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of DmMm, Primate
and Metropolitan of Ireland, and Bishop of (J/awt/e/flg-A, beg leave, in pursuance of the Act of the seventh and eighth years of His present Majesty's reign, chapter forty-three and twenty-one, to report to your Grace in Council, That we have made an Order for uniting episcopally the Vicarage of WcA/ojw and the Rectory and Vicarage of -DrwmAm and the Vicarage of i£z/po/e, with their appur-tenances, in our Dioceses of 2)«Z)/»2 and Gto?_fe/«g7i,
or one of them, for the reasons following:—That the said parishes are contiguous, and have been episcopally united for the last two hundred years and upwards.
That the yearly income to the in-cumbent from the same will be as follows :—from the said parish of Wicklow, seven hundred and eighty-seven pounds or thereabouts; from the said parish of Drumkea, sixty-three pounds or thereabouts ; and from the said parish of Kilpole, fifty-nine pounds or thereabouts; making together nine hundred and nine pounds, which we consider not an unreasonable provision for the incumbent who should reside and provide for the cures of two chapels of ease within the said parish of Wicklow already built, besides the parish church of Wicklow.
That the parish of Wicklow contains about fourteen thousand nine hundred acres or thereabouts; the parish of Kilpole, about one thousand five hundred acres; the parish of Drumkea, about seven hundred and eighty acres; and the whole union is reputed to be about seventeen thousand two hundred acres; but that a very great proportion of the said parish of Wicklow consists of mountains, and marsh and woodlands, and barren heath of very considerable extent and little population.
That there is a church in the said parish of Wicklow, which with its chapels of ease are sufficiently com-modious and conveniently situated for the parishioners of the whole of the said union to resort to for Divine Service ; and that the most remote part of the said parishes of Drumkea and Kilpole respectively is not more than about a mile from the said church of Wicklow but there is no church or chapel of ease in either of the said parishes of Drumkea or Kilpole.
That there are three small houses now inhabited by tenants in the parish of Wicklow, belonging to the vicar of Wicklow, and four acres, three roods and three perches of glebe land, in the parish of Drumkea, belonging to the incumbent of Drumkea, and a glebe of three and a half acres belonging to the curate or chaplain of Glanely, one of the said chapels of ease in the said parish of Wicklow, on which a glebe-house has been erected, and now inhabited by the chaplain or curate of Glanely, but no glebe-house in the parish of Wicklow, unless one of the small tenements above mentioned can be con-sidered as such, or in the said parish of Drumkea or Kilpole.
That neither the said rectory and vicarage of Drumkea, which contains but about seven hundred and eighty-seven acres, or the said vicarage of Kilpole, two thirds of the great tithes whereof are impropriate, are, taken singly, of sufficient yearly value to maintain a resident incumbent; and that they could hardly be of sufficient yearly value, if united to each other, to support a resident incumbent.
But it appears to us, that there is a legal obstacle to such last-mentioned union of the said benefices of Drumkea and Kilpole only, without Wicklow, inasmuch as the said parishes of Drumkea and Kilpole are not contiguous to each other, though they are so to the said parish of Wicklow, a part whereof lies between the said parishes of Drumkea and Kilpole, and separates them from each other, at the same time that it connects each of them with the said parish of Wicklow.
That, on the whole, we consider an episcopal union of the said parishes of Drumkea and Kilpole with the parish of Wicklow to be proper and convenient, which we submit to your Grace accord-ingly.
In testimony whereof we have hereunto signed our name, and caused our archiepiscopal seal to be affixed, the Twentieth day of February, in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirty.
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W.
DUBLIN.
True Copy of the original Report, received at the Council-office on the 2_d of February 1830, and prepared in pursuance of an Order of The House of Commons of the 17 th of February 1831.
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