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form the parochial schools of St. Peter’s. The portion
assigned to the parish of St. Nicholas was obtained by
the Rev. Archdeacon Austin, and was afterwards vested
in the hands of the commissioners for charitable be-
quests by the Rev. Dr. Quarry. In 1822 a grant was
obtained., and a plain and commodious building contain-
ing two school-rooms was erected in Cove-street, to
which, in 1831, the Rev. J. N. Lombard, the present
rector, added a school-room for infants: there are now
in these schools 76 boys and 99 girls, of whom 30 boys
and 25 girls are clothed out of the funds, which now
amount to £189. 14. 10. per annum, and the children
receive a daily supply of bread. The portion belonging
to St. Mary Shandon’s was lost for many years, but by
the exertions of Dr. Quarry, the present rector, £800
was recovered, which, by a legacy of £100 and accumu-
lated interest, has been augmented to £2000 three and
a half per cent, reduced annuities: a commodious build-
ing of red brick ornamented with hewn limestone, and
containing apartments for the master and three spacious
school-rooms with a covered play-ground for the child-
ren, was erected in 1833 under the superintendence of
Dr. Quarry, at the cost of £743. 3. 6. collected by him
for that purpose: the pupils amount to 64 boys and 46
girls. An infants’ school affords instruction to 100
children: the entire average of attendance may be
averaged at 200. A Sunday and an adult school are
also held in the same building. The boys’ and girls’
schools are supported by a portion of the dividends
arising from the funded property, and by local subscrip-
tions, and a collection after a charity sermon; and the
infants’ school by a portion of the same dividends and
subscriptions. The parish of Christ-Church obtained
no portion of Deane’s bequest, the lease of the premises
from which it was payable having expired. The dio-
cesan schools for the sees of Cork, Ross, and Cloyne,
are situated in Prince’s-street, and are attended by 60
pupils, of whom 14 are taught gratuitously. On the
eastern side of the cathedral is a free school founded by
Archdeacon Pomeroy for the instruction in reading,
writing, and arithmetic, of ten boys, to be nominated by
the bishop; the master’s original salary of £10 having
been augmented by the dean and chapter, and by a be-
quest by the late Mrs. Shearman, to £30, twenty boys
are now instructed gratuitously and are also taught the
mathematics. Attached to the school is a library,
founded also by the archdeacon, and much enlarged by
a bequest of the late Bishop Stopford: it contains more
than 4000 volumes, chiefly valuable editions of the clas-
sics and works on Divinity, and is open gratuitously
to the clergy of the diocese and the parishioners of St.
Finbarr’s.
According to the R. C. divisions, the city with
the suburbs is divided into three unions or parishes.
St. Mary’s and St. Anne’s, St. Peter’s and St. Paul’s,
and St. Finbarr’s. St. Mary’s and St. Anne’s com-
prises nearly the whole of the Protestant parishes
of St. Mary, St. Anne, and St. Catherine: the duties
are performed by the parish priest, who is the Bishop,
six curates, and two chaplains. The parochial chapel;
which is’also the cathedral, is a spacious structure;
with a plain exterior: the eastern end having been
destroyed by an accidental fire, it was rebuilt, and;
with the rest of the interior, decorated by the Messrs,
Pain in the later English style of architecture: the
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altar-piece is extremely rich and similar to that of
the abbey of St. Albans, in England. There are
chapels of ease at Brickfields and Clogheen: the former,
dedicated to St. Patrick, is a handsome edifice in the
Grecian style by the Messrs. Pain: the principal front
is ornamented by a lofty and elegant portico of eight
columns of grey marble, not yet finished, and approached
by a flight of steps, extending along the entire front:
from the centre of the roof rises a cupola, supported by
eight Corinthian columns, surmounted by figures repre-
senting as many of the Apostles; the whole topped by
a pedestal and cross. This chapel was opened for divine
service, October 18th, 1836. St. Peter’s and Paul’s,
comprising the Protestant parishes of the same name,
with portions of those of Christ-Church, St. Anne’s, and
St. Finbarr’s, is a mensal of the Bishop: the duties are
performed by an administrator and two curates. The
parochial chapel, a plain edifice, built in 1786, has an
elegant altar in the Corinthian style, with a fine painting
of the Crucifixion. St. Finbarr’s comprises the Protes-
tant parish of St. Nicholas, most part of St. Finbarr’s,
and a small portion of that of Christ-Church: the
duties are performed by a parish priest and four curates,
one of whom resides near Blackrock, and officiates at
the chapel of ease there, which is noticed under the
article descriptive of that village. The parochial chapel
is in Dunbar-street, a spacious building, erected in 1776
in form of a T: under the altar is a figure of a “dead
Christ,” of a single block of white marble, executed at
Rome, at an expense of £500, by Hogan, a native or
Cork. In the chapel is also a monument to the memory
of the Rev. Dr. M c Carthy, coadjutor bishop, in which
he is represented in the act of administering the sacra-
ment to a person labouring under malignant fever, thus
expressing in the most lively manner the cause of his
premature death. There are four friaries belonging
severally to the Augustinians, Franciscans, Dominicans,
and Capuchins; two monasteries for monks, one of the
Presentation order, the other of the Christian Brother-
hood 3 and two convents for nuns of the Presentation
order, one in the southern and the other in the northern
part of the city. The Augustinians had an institution,
called Gill Abbey, founded by St. Finbarr, for canons
regular of the order, largely endowed by Cormac Mac
Carthy, King of Cork, and shortly afterwards completed
by Gilla Aeda, bishop of the see, from whom it derived
its name; it anciently formed the cathedral esta-
blishment. The present state of this and the other
decayed monastic buildings in the city is described in
the subsequent part of this article, which treats of its
antiquities. The institution at present is situated in
Brunswick-street, and consists of a prior and four
priests: the chapel, erected in 1780, was much en-
larged in 1827; over the altar is a good painting of
the Crucifixion. The Franciscan monastery was founded
in 1214, on the north side of the city, by Dermot
Mac Carthy Reagh, and rebuilt in 1240 by Lord
Philip Prendergast. The present institution, situated in
Grattan-street, consists of a guardian and four priests:
the chapel, a neat building, was erected in 1830 by
subscription, at an expense of £4500. The Domini-
can friary was founded in 1229, by the Barry family, on
an island on the south side of the city, whence it ac-
quired the name of the Abbey of the Island. The, insti-
tution is now situated in Dominic-street, on the site of