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the rectory of St. Catharine, near Shandon, which has
merged into it, united from time immemorial, and in
the alternate patronage of the Duke of Leinster, and
the Rev. Robert Longfield. There is neither glebe nor
glebe-house: the tithes amount to £25, under the com-
position act, and the minister’s money to £40 per ann.,
in addition to which the rector receives a rental of
£95. 10. 9., from 7 houses in Shandon-street. This
income is charged with the stipend of £75 per annum
to a licensed curate. The church of the ancient parish
of Shandon, which comprised the present parishes of
St. Mary, St. Anne, and St. Paul, occupied the site of
St. Anne’s church, and from its proximity to Shandon
castle, was several times damaged by contending factions
and ultimately destroyed by the Irish about 1690: the
present church, a neat edifice, was built in 1696, on a
new site, and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners have
lately granted £198. 19. 4. for its repairs, St., Anne’s
Shandon is a rectory, in the alternate patronage of the
Duke of Leinster, and the Rev. Robert Longfield. It has
neither glebe nor glebe-hiouse. The tithes under the
composition act amount to £240. 3. 5½., and the minis-
ter’s money is about £370 per annum. The church, a
large and handsome edifice, with a tower of several
stories, 120 feet high, was built by subscription in 1772,
on the site of the old church of Shandon, and being
erected on an eminence, is prominently conspicuous
from most parts of the city: the Ecclesiastical Commis-
sioners have granted £259. 9. 10. for its repairs. A
chapel of ease to this parish was erected in 1836, near
the Brickfields, in the later English style of architec-
ture, from a design of Messrs. Pain, with a western
tower surmounted by a light and elegant spire and two
lofty pinnacles at the east end; capacious school-rooms
have been formed below the level of the floor at the
same end where the ground declines rapidly; the late
Board of First Fruits granted £1000, and an equal sum
was raised by subscription for the erection of this build-
ing. The living of St. Paul’s is a rectory, in the alter-
nate patronage of the Duke of Leinster, and the Rev.
Robert Longfield. The parish was formed, in 1726, out
of the districts of the East Marsh, in the parish of St.
Mary Shandon, and Dunscombe’s Marsh, in that of
Christ-Church: the income, amounting to about £200
per ann., is derived solely from assessments of minis-
ter’s money: there is neither glebe nor glebe-house.
The church is a neat edifice in the Grecian style,
built by subscription on the formation of the parish,
and on ground granted by the corporation. The living
of St. Nicholas’ is a rectory, united by act of council in
1752 with those of St. Bridget, St. John of Jerusalem,
St. Stephen, St. Mary de Narde, St. Dominic, and St.
Magdalene, which together constitute the corps of the
chancellorship, in the patronage of the Bishop. The
income of the union is £293. 18. 0., arising from houses
assessed to minister’s money, the tithes of St.. Magda-
lene amounting to £21, the tithes of St. Nicholas and
houses producing £5. 18. 0. per ann. The church, for-
merly a chapel of ease to St. Finbarr’s, was built in
1723 by contributions from Bishop Browne and others,
and is a small neat edifice, situate in the southern part
of the city. A free church, near the South Infirmary, is
now nearly completed, and above St. Patrick’s bridge
the hulk of an old vessel forms the Bethel or Mariner’s
church. The church of St. Brandon, which was situate
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on the north side of the river, on the road to Youghal,
has been entirely destroyed, but the cemetery is still
in use.
The principal schools in connection with the Esta-
blished Church are the following. St. Stephen’s Blue
Coat Hospital was founded pursuant to a grant of
lands and tenements in the north and south liber-
ties by the Honourable William Worth, by deed dated
Sept. 2nd, 1699, now producing a rental of £443. 4. 4.
which, with the interest of £500 saved by the trus-
tees, is expended in the maintenance, clothing, and
education of 22 boys, the sons of reduced Protest-
ant citizens, and in aid of the support of four students
at Trinity College, Dublin: it is under the superintend-
ence of the mayor and council, who nominate the boys.
The school premises are situated on an eminence in the
parish of St. Nicholas, and comprise a good school-room,
dining-hall, apartments for the governor, and suitable
offices, with an enclosed playground in front. The
Green Coat Hospital, in the churchyard of St. Anne’s
Shandon, was founded about 1715, chiefly through the
exertions of some military gentlemen and others to the
number of 25, who by an act passed in 1717 were incor-
porated trustees, for the instruction of 20 children of
each sex in the rudiments of useful knowledge and the
principles of the Protestant religion, and for appren-
ticing them at a proper age, with a preference to the
children of military men who had served their country.
No regular system appears to have been introduced
prior to 1751, but subsequently 40 children were clothed
and educated till 1812; the number has since been in-
creased by aid of a parliamentary grant, and at present
there are 40 boys and 28 girls in the school. The
income amounts to £96. 7. 11¼. per annum, of which
£83. 15. 11¼. arises from donations and bequests, and
the remainder from annual subscriptions: the chief benefactors
were Daniel Thresher, who devised the lands
of Rickenhead, in the county of Dublin, now let for £26
per annum on lease, which will expire in 1844, when
they will probably produce at least £100 per annum;
and Francis Edwards, of London, who devised eleven
ploughlands in the parish of Ballyvourney, let perma-
nently for £11 per annum: a librarian and treasurer,
chosen from among the trustees, act gratuitously. The
building consists of a centre and two wings, the former
containing two school-rooms and apartments for the
master; in the west wing are a library and board-room,
with apartments for the mistress; and the other wing
contains lodging-rooms for about 38 poor parishioners.
Deane’s charity schools were founded under the will,
dated in 1726, of Moses Deane, Esq., of this city, who
devised the rents of certain premises held for a term of
years in trust to the corporation, to accumulate until
they should yield a sum of £1200 for the parishes of
St. Peter, St. Nicholas, St. Mary Shandon, and Christ-
Church respectively, which sums were to be invested in
lands in the county of Cork, and the rents applied to
the instruction and clothing of 20 boys and 20 girls of
each parish. The portion of the bequest assigned to
the parish of St. Peter having been paid, the school was
re-opened in 1817, and now affords instruction to 30
boys and 35 girls, of whom 20 of each sex are clothed:
the endowment produces £66. 17. per, annum, and an
additional sum of about £50 is raised annually by sub-
scriptions and the proceeds of an annual sermon: these