6,093

3,900

N.B.-Kilmore and Tuam are affected by Ardagh being now placed with the latter.

Dr. Beaufort makes the average of the 1120 Irish Benefices, in 1792, to be 11,919 acres Irish. 1270 1291 108,973 265,392

Wakefield says, (vol. ii. p. 472,) the livings in the gift of the Archbishop of Cashell are worth 35,000l. per annum; those of the Bishop of Clonfert, not so much; of Cloyne, 50,000l.; of Cork, 30,0001. of Ferns, 30,0001. Killaloe has many benefices worth 15001. per annum.

In page 490, Wakefield says, there are 118 wholly impropriate parishes, and 562 impropriate rectories with vicarial endowments.

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Sir Thomas Foster has three other livings in Dublin; he has also the mastership of Carysfort School, a perfect sinecure: in Armagh, 4670 acres, with 17 acres of glebe, and a house; in Dublin, 12,800 acres, with 30 of glebe, and a house.

Charles Beresford has an entire rectory, but there is no return of quantity; he has, however, 4000 acres of glebe, 477 in an improved state. He has also an entire rectory in Kilmore, no quantity returned, with 1300 acres of glebe.

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James Graham has two entire rectories, but no quantity returned; to which are appended 337 acres, 2 houses, besides 84 acres of mountain tract.

The Honourable Charles Knox has two livings, without any description whatever, with 529 acres of glebe, and a house. He holds also four other parishes in Dublin, containing 9600 acres, with 24 acres of glebe, and a house.

The Rev. William Knox, in Derry, has two rectories and vicarages, with 84 acres of glebe, and two houses. See Derry.

Rev. Spencer Knox has two rectories and vicarages, with 428 acres of glebe and two houses. These two gentlemen are on the continent, with their wives, by permission of their relation, the Bishop of Derry.

The Hon. Edmund Knox, Dean of Down, has tithes of 5 parishes, 20,035 acres. John Russel Knox has a vicarage, without any quantity returned, in Kilmore, with 541 acres of glebe, and a house.

For Viscount Lifford, Dean of Armagh, see LIFFORD, Clogher.

Nathaniel Smith has two entire rectories, with 395 acres of glebe, and two houses. Henry Stewart, probably a relative of the Archbishop, has one entire rectory, with 40 acres of glebe, and a house. He has also (episcopally united in 1810) three other parishes, containing 19,200 acres, in Lismore, 150 miles distant.

Richard Stewart has an entire rectory, without quantity returned, and 527 acres of glebe, and a house. He has also another benefice, but not stated where.

Other glebes are very large :-John Jephson, 1082 acres, house, and entire rectory. James Lowry, 946 acres, of which only 9 are unimproved, with an entire rectory, and house. William Bissett, 700 acres, house, and a rectory. Dr. Stewart, 515 acres, house, and a rectory.

The extent of Armagh, by Dr. Beaufort's Map of Ireland, appears to be about 470,000 acres, which would yield an average of 6000 acres to each benefice, one tenth of the produce of which cannot be taken at less than £3000, exclusive of glebes and houses.