ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION, IRELAND.
THE ANNUAL REPORT OF the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of Ireland, to the Lord
dated 9 August 1841,
TO HIS EXCELLENCY HUGH, EARL FORTESCUE,
LORD LIEUTENANT-GENERAL, AND GENERAL GOVERNOR OF IRELAND.
WE, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland.,
whose hands and corporate
seal are hereunto annexed, beg leave to submit to your Excellency the Annual Report of the Commissioners, pursuant to the provisions of the Act 3 & 4 Will.
4, c.
37.
We have to state that a further instalment to the amount of 10,000 I.
has been repaid in liquidation of the sum of 100,000 I.
advanced to the Commissioners by the Board of Works, under the provisions of the Act 4 & 5 Will.
4, c.
90, thereby-leaving a balance now due of 60,000 /.
Since the date of the last Annual Report, it appears by the Returns of the Archbishops and Bishops that five Dignities, seven Prebends, one Canonry, and 79 Benefices have become vacant; of which 31 are liable to tax.
In regard to the dignity of the Treasurership of the Cathedral Church of Limerick, and to the Prebend of Lattin, in the Cathedral Church of Emly, your Excellency and the Council have ordered that the Parishes of Cahirvalla and Emlygrennan be disappropriated from said Dignity, and those of Clonpet, Cordangan, Corroge, Bruis, and Lattin from said Prebend, and transferred to the general fund of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; and on the recommendation of the Commissioners, your Excellency and Council have also ordered that the apppointment of Clerks to the Prebend of Kilmacdouagh in the Cathedral Church of Cloyne, to the fourth Canonry of the Cathedral Church of Kildare, and to the Rectory of Terryglass in the Diocese of Killaloe, be suspended, it appearing that the late Incumbents thereof had not cure of souls in any parish forming the corps of such Prebend or Canonry, or within the Rectory of Terryglass.
And under the provisions of the 3d k 4th Will.
4, c.
37, the Commissioners have suspended the appointment of Clerks to the five Benefices of Kilquane, in the Diocese of Ard-fert, of the annual value of 85 /.
1 s.
6 d.;
of Bodenstown, in the Diocese of Kil¬ dare, of the annual value of 63 I.
15 s.;
of Templebredin, in the Diocese of Emly, bf the annual value of 93/.
7 s.
6d.;
of Tulloghorton, in the Diocese of Lismore, of the annual value of 105/.
lis.
lid.,
and of Killure Union, in the Diocese of Waterford, of the annual value of 149 /.
1 s.
6 d.,
it appearing by the certificates of the respective Ordinaries that Divine Service had not been celebrated within any of these benefices within the three years ending 1st February 1833, but clue provision has been made for the discharge of the spiritual duties in all the parishes so disappropriated, or to which the appointments of Clerks have been suspended as aforesaid.
With reference to the several Churches which are under the superintendence of the Board, the sum appropriated for repairs within the year has amounted to 17,395 /.
and is now in course of expenditure, although by the account hereunto annexed it will appear that an expenditure to a greater amount has taken place under this head, in consequence of previous engagements having been dis¬ charged within the current year.
The Commissioners continue to receive favourable reports of the general state of the Churches; but it is to be expected that the outlay on repairs cannot fail to form a considerable item of their expense, not merely from the nature of these buildings, but from the postponement of internal works of painting and 142.
a cleaning,
