CH. IX.] TAXES AND TITHES. 113 



In the province of Munster, and principally in the 

 barony of Conello, the disturbances have been the greatest, 

 and the landlords take to themselves the half of the tithes, 

 and support the peasantry in their resistance to the En- 

 glish clergy. 



The Commissioners inquired what taxes the Catholic 

 inhabitants imposed upon themselves to support their own 

 worship. 



In the barony of Kilconnel, the large landholders 

 usually pay to the parish priest 21. a year, and the small 

 tenants pay from 2s. to 5s. ; more than one-third of the 

 parishioners however pay nothing at all. In addition to 

 this, the priest receives fees on marriages, etc., and raises 

 subscriptions for the building and repairing of chapels, 

 etc. ; but the receipts from all these sources do not exceed 

 60/. a year. 



In the barony of Dromahair a Catholic chapel has been 

 erected, and the Protestants pay their proportion of the 

 expense, from the kindly feeling existing between them 

 and the Roman Catholics. 



In the barony of Murrisk, the tenants generally con- 

 tribute to the priest 2s. 2d. a year; but the Commis- 

 sioners were told by the witnesses, that if they examined 

 the books of the priests and landlords, they would always 

 find more due to the former than to the latter. 



The following is a table of the population of the eccle- 

 siastical provinces of Ireland, distinguishing the different 

 religions into which the country is divided, which was 

 furnished by the Commissioners of Inquiry into the State 

 of Instruction in this country in 1834. 



