CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT OF If tELAND. ii Appendix ( A.)— continued. DIOCESES OF CORK AND ROSS— continued- NO parishes have been united under the authority of the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland, from the ist January i& i8, within the said dioceses. NO parishes have been disunited under the authority of the Lord Lieutenant and Council of Ireland, since the ist January 1818, in the said dioceses; the several parishes which have been disunited within these later years, having been so done by the Bishop's own authority. An Account of all the Unions of Parishes now subsisting in the Dioceses of Cork and Ross, effected by episcopal authority; specifying the number of Parishes, whether Vicarages or Rectories, and the date of commencement of such Union, and the estimated extent of the Parishes so united, together with the name of the Bishop by whom such Union has been authorized. NAMES OF PARISHES. Kilbrellan, prebend. Rathclarin, rectory and vicarage. Extent, 4 miles by 2 \ miles. Kilnaglory, prebend. Athnowen, rectory and vicarage. Extent, 6 miles by 2 miles. Moviddy, rectory and vicarage. Kilbonane, vicarage. Aglish, vicarage. Extent, 4 miles by 3 miles. Garrynoe, rectory. Kilowney, rectory. These parishes are very small in extent and value, and are in the presentation of Lord Kinsale. St. Mary Shandon. St. Catherine's, near Shandon. Within the city of Cork, and very small in extent. Rincurran, rectory and vicarage. Taxax, rectory. Kilmichael, rectory and vicarage. Macloneigh, rectory and vicarage. Estimated extent, 10 miles by 4 miles. Brinny, rectory and vicarage. Knockavilly, rectory. Estimated extent, 4 miles by 3 miles. BISHOP BY WHOM AUTHORIZED. These parishes have been episcopally united from time im- memorial. Bishop Bennett authorized the last union, in con- sideration of the very inconsiderable value of the prebend. These parishes have been episcopally united for a great length of time. The last union authorized by Bishop Mann. These parishes had been long united to the prebend of Ins- kenny. The last union was authorized by Bishop St. Lawrance, by whom they were severed from the prebend. United as long as records reach. The union last authorized, at the request of the patron, by Bishop Stopford. The cure of souls of St. Catherine's appears by the earliest records of the diocese, to have been committed to the rector of St. Mary Shandon, and to have been so continued ever since. Such continuance last authorized by Bishop In the presentation of the Kiug, by whose commands the union of them was last authorized by Bishop St. Lawrance. United for a great length of time. The last union authorized by Bishop Stopford. United immemorially. St. Lawrance. The last union authorized by Bishop DIOCESE OF ROSS. Kilgarruff, vicarage. Desert, vicarage. Kilkerran, vicarage. Ardfielld, vicarage. Cash urn Ventry, vicarage. Of these vicarages the rectories are impropriate; the estimated extent of the whole is 6 miles by 7 miles. Lislee, rectory. Kilsillagh, rectory. The extent of these parishes, which surround the parish of Do- nougmore, including the same, is about 4 miles by !-}• mile. These vicarages appear to have been always united with the prebend of the island. The last union authorized by Bishop Mann, 1786. Lislee and Kilsillagh are hardly separable ; the latter, which is very small and inconsiderable, being included within the former.- The last union authorized by the Primate, when Bishop of Cork and Ross. f ( continued.)