ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION (IRELAND).
ANNUAL REPORT AND ACCOUNT
OF THE
ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSIONERS FOR IRELAND,
for the Year ended the 1st day of August 1S67.
TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE MOST NOBLE JAMES MARQUIS OF ABERCORN, LORD LIEUTENANT GENERAL
AND GENERAL GOVERNOR OF IRELAND, &c.
&c.
&c.
WE, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland, whose hands and cor¬
porate seal are hereunto annexed, beg leave, in pursuance of the pro¬ visions of the Act 3 & 4 Will.
4, c.
37, to submit to your Excellency the Report of the proceedings of the Commissioners for the year which ended the 1st of August 3 867, and an account of their receipts and disbursements during the same period, distinguishing the specific sources from which all moneys have been derived, and the specific purposes to which they have been applied; also, an account of their receipts and disbursements in relation to Primate Boulter's and Primate Robin¬ son's Funds.
The sum appropriated at the usual annual special meeting of the Board in November 1866, for the several Church works of this year, amounted to 51,928 I.
13 5.
6<£; of this sum, 6,706/.
2 s.
2d.
was set apart towards the completion of 24 Churches undertaken in former years, and 13,3701 towards erecting 8 Parish and District Parochial Churches, and restoring the Cathedral and Parochial Church of St.
Caniee, Kilkenny, 477 I.
1 s.
to complete the amounts required for the enlargement of 12 Churches already partially pro¬ vided for, and 3,716 I.
4 s.
8 d.
towards the enlargement of 13 other Churches, and the residue, amounting to 27,659 I 5 s.
8 d.,
was appropriated to the repairs of Churches, and for fencing Churchyards, including the expenses connected with carrying out these several works.
The 8 Parish and District Parochial Churches, for the building of which grants were made, are,—
Grange Oneiland -in the Diocese of Armagh.
ArdstraW " -" "1 in the Diocese of Derry.
Burt ----
-J Drumbeg --
-" \ in the Diocese of Down.
Kilmore -
--
-J St.
Andrew, Belfast -
-in the Diocese of Connor.
Castle M'Adam -
--in the Diocese of Dublin.
Drumcliffe (Ennis) -in the Diocese of Killaloe.
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