Ecclesiastical Establishment of Ireland. 



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all of wliich it would be interesting to 

 exhibit. The number of benefices in 

 each diocese also is wantiug. It 

 would also be exceedingly interesting 



[May I. 



and knowledge is now marching on 

 in strides too grand and imposing^ for 

 clamour and envy to have any influ- 

 ence in the question ; and the clergy 

 and important, in a national point of of England, as a body, would do well 



view, to have a return of the actual 

 income of each living, distinguishing 

 the proportioa derived from fees, from 

 glebes, and tithes: this is desirable, not 

 on the principle of gratifying vulgar 

 curiosity, but as the means of ensuring 

 tlie best application of the resources. 

 Tithes and clerical mummery, it is 

 true, are become incompatible with 

 the advanced intelligence of the pub- 

 lic: but the clergy, as teachers of 

 divine trutli and moral rectitude, have 

 nothing to fear from an exposure of 

 their incomes ; for, as long as they con- 

 duct themselves as becomes their avo- 

 cations, their incomes, however great, 

 will never be envied : envy and cla- 

 mour are the offsprings of ignorance ; 



in uniting their exertions, and as such 

 using all their influence in supporting 

 a measure for the revision of their iu • 

 comes, and deriving them from sources 

 more compatible with the intelligence, 

 the interests, and the feelings, of the 

 people at large. 



As the Protestant ecclesiastical 

 establishment of Ireland has lately 

 been before the public, through tlio 

 medium of Parliament, I present you 

 also with a summary of tliat establish- 

 ment, compiled from the Ecclesiastical 

 Register of Ireland, published in Dub- 

 lin in 1820; with which statement I 

 shall conclude my present communi- 

 cation. J. M. 



"PATrtONAGE. 



IT/ioie in CapilttU are 

 ^rcMit/injirics.] 



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ARMAGH 

 Clogher •• 

 Meath • • • • 

 Dowu and 



Connor 

 Derry • • • • 



Raphoe 



Kilmore 



Drornore • • 



DUBLIN ; St.Patrick < 



Christ Church I 



Kildare 



Ossory 



Feins and S 



Leighlin - i 



CASHELLand S 



Einly ^ 



Limerick •• •• S 



Ardfert and Aghadoe ( 

 Waterford and S 



Lismore ^ 



Cork and i 



Koss i 



Cloyne 



Killaloe and < 



Kilfenora I 



TUAM and i 



Ardagh ( 



Elphin •. 



Clonfert and i 



X G 



Kilmacduogfa ' 

 Kilala and 

 Acbonry 



Totals . • 22 38 108 178 



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103 

 41 



224 



114 



48 

 31 

 39 

 26 



209 



81 

 136 



232 



O 5 





176 



106 



127 

 137 

 138 



89 

 75 

 60 



52 



2249 



144 



30 

 76 



171 



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43 



94 

 106 

 131 



79 

 72 

 43 



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