Church Temporalities, Commissioners (Cavan)
Griffith’s Valuation records townlands in the county Cavan parishes of Drung, Larah and Drumlannan (Diocese of Kilmore) as in the possession of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. The Church Temporalities Act (1833) providing for the restructuring of much of the administration of the property and finances of the Church of Ireland. It allowed for tenants of Bishops’ leases to purchase the fee simple of their holdings, the purchase price to be paid to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, who paid the Bishop a sum equivalent to the annual rent and renewal fines. In 1869 the Church Temporalities Commission and the Representative Church Body took on the role of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. In 1876, the Church Temporalities Commission owned 10,751 acres in county Cavan.
Associated Families
No associated families were found for this estate
Houses
| Name | Townland | Civil Parish | PLU | DED | Barony | County | Map Ref | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bracklagh | Bracklagh | Drumlumman | Granard | Kilgolagh | Clanmahon | Cavan |
OSI Ref: N389828
OS Sheet: 41 Discovery map: 34 |
Archival sources
- The Armagh Diocesan Registry archive comprises 409 volumes and c.17,655 documents relating to the primacy, the province and the archdiocese of Armagh, 1240, 1291 and 1360-1977. They include title deeds, leases, rentals, maps, and surveys relating to church lands, 1606-1910. DIO/4; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Agreement to sell for £1248.3s.3d. £49/9/3 rent p.a. relating to 202 acres 3r.10p. I.P.M. Corfeehone, Larah, Co. Cavan from Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland to William Richard Earl of Annesley. 25 August 1864. D556/616; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland: letter books, 1849-69.; National Archives of Ireland
- Conveyance made between the Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland, of the first part, James Fegan, Denmore, county Cavan, farmer, of the second part, and John Hartley, Clifferna, county Cavan, farmer, trustee, of the third part. In consideration of payment of sum of £63.2.11 and further sum of £161.12.11 to be secured by mortgage, the Commissioners convey to Fegan that part of the four poles of Dennmore (Denmore), parish of Denn, county Cavan, formerly in the possession of James Fegan and John Fegan and containing about 29 acres. Also formerly in the possession of William Armstrong and part of the demesne of the see of Kilmore. Turbary rights. Annual rent of £8.19.10. Hartley holds the lands in trust for Fegan. 6 December 1876. P017/0098 ; Cavan County Archives Service, Small Private Collections
- Order to merge tithe rent charge in the lands of Killywillin otherwise Killywilly and part of Ballymagauran, parish of Templeport, county Cavan. Issued by the Irish Church Temporalities Commission to the owners of the lands, Matilda Emily Slacke, Dorcas Rebecca Slacke and Susan F. Slacke, all of Ballymagauran, county Cavan, spinsters, and Annie Catherine Slacke, wife of Reverend William J. Slacke, Manchester, clerk. Commissioners have calculated purchase money of £84.7.6 or annual merged sum of £3.15.1 to be paid in lieu of it. 30 April 1879. P017/0102 ; Cavan County Archives Service, Small Private Collections
- Farnham Papers, Conveyance from George de la Poer, Lord Bishop of Kilmore and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners of Ireland to John, 5th Baron of the lands of Breandrum, parish of Kilmore and Drumlaunaght, parish of Urney, both in the barony of Upper Loughtee in consideration of the sum of £310. 9 May 1836. MS 41,121/5; National Library of Ireland
- Published report of the Commissioners of Church Temporalities in Ireland, 1860-1880. CR7/1/A/3/1; Public Record Office, Northern Ireland
- Landed Estates' Court Rentals (O'Brien), Simmonds, 5 Nov 1880, Vol 140 (11), MRGS 39/062, (microfilm copy in NUIG) - 531 acres of Cornakill held from the Commissioners of Church Temporalities; National Archives of Ireland