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24 children are entirely supported. A penitentiary ad-
joins it, which was opened in 1794 for the reception of
females discharged from the Lock Hospital. Here are
parochial schools for boys and girls, who are totally-
provided for; a free school for both sexes, an infants’
school, and schools for boys and girls in connection
with the Scots’ Church. A female ahnshouse in Den-
mark-street was founded by Tristram Fostriek, Esq.,
in 1789. Mrs. Mary Damer, in 1753, bequeathed £1765,
and Richard Cave, Esq., in 1830, £1600 to the parish
for charitable uses.
St. Michael’s parish was created a prebend with cure
of souls in Christ Church cathedral, in 1554, by Arch-
bishop Browne: it contains 2288 inhabitants, and 112
houses valued at £5 and upwards, the total annual
value being £3670. The rectory or prebend is in the
gift of the Dean and Chapter of Christ-Church; the
minister’s money amounts to £50. 5. 11., and the gross
income is £250. 8. The church stands at the corner of
Miehael’s-hill and High-street, and is a small building
in the pointed style of architecture. The tower, which
is without a spire, is ancient and of large dimensions,
very disproportionate to the small structure of which
it now forms the vestibule. There is a parochial school;
20 of the children are clothed.
St. M ichan’s parish was also erected into a prebend
of Christ-Church, with cure of souls, by Archbishop
Browne, in 1554, and comprehended the whole of Dublin
north of the Liffey until 1697, when the parishes of
St. Mary and St. Paul were severed from it. It contains
23,918 inhabitants, and 1464 houses valued at £5 and
upwards, the total annual value being £43,568. 10.
The prebend is in the patronage of the Dean and
Chapter of Christ- Church; the minister’s money is
£488. 15.7., and the gross income, £719. 7. 6. The
church, situated in Church-street, is one of the oldest
in the city, being supposed to have been founded
by the Ostmen previously to the erection of Christ-
Church, and to have boon originally the cathedral
church of the diocese. It is a very spacious cruciform
structure, with a square tower, erected at a compara-
tively modern period, although the whole has an appear-
ance of great antiquity. It was re-roofed and thoroughly
repaired in 1828, at a cost of about £1500, defrayed by
parish cess, since which time the Ecclesiastical Com-
missioners have granted £230. 19. l. for its further re-
pair. On one side, of the communion table is an ancient
figure of a bishop or an abbot; there is also a monu
mental tablet to the memory of the celebrated Dr.Lucas,
There are a parochial school for girls, a day school for
girls, mid au infants’.school, four day schools for boys,
and two for girls, and a Sunday school,
St. Nichol?s Within included also the parishes of St.
Nicholas Without and St. Luke until 1707, when they
were formed into separate parishes. It contains 1845
inhabitants, and 103 houses valued at £5 and upwards,
the total annual value being £3929. 10. The living is
a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of the Dean and
Chapter of St. Patrick’s; the minister’s money is
£3. 0. 7., and the gross income £125. The church, an
unsightly edifice, situated in Nicholas-street, has been
taken down and is to be rebuilt under the directions of
the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, till which time di-
vine service is performed in the school-room. Then-
is a lectureship attached to it, which is maintained
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by the rent of lands in the county of Louth. There
is a parochial school for 12 boys, who are clothed,
educated, and apprenticed: it is supported by the rent
of two houses, amounting to £36 per annum, and an
annual charity sermon.
St. Nicholas Without, formed into a pariah in 1707,
contains 12,391 inhabitants, and 871 houses valued at
£5 and upwards, the total annual value being £226.8,10.1
The living is a perpetual curacy, in the patronage of
the Dean and Chapter of St. Patrick’s; the minister’s
money is £207. 12. 6., and the gross income £264. 10.
The church, which was dedicated to St. Myra, and occu-
pied the north transept of St. Patrick’s cathedral, having
fallen into decay, has been restored, and still forms part
of that building. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners have
granted £432. 7. 7. for its repair. There are parochial
schools for boys, girls, and infants, and two Sunday
schools.
St. Paul’s, which, previously to the year 1697,
formed part of St. Michan’s parish, contains 10,570 in-
habitants, and 786 houses valued at £5 and upwards,
the total annual value being £21,632. The living is a
rectory, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of
Christ-Church; the minister’s money is £255. 4. 1.
and the gross income £386, 9. 4. The church, situated
in North King-street, was rebuilt in 1824, and is now a
neat edifice in the Gothic style, with a small but elegant
spire. The cemetery is the usual place of interment for
the garrison of Dublin: it contains a monument to the
memory of Lieut.-Col. Lyde Brown, of the 21st Fusi-
leers; a mural tablet to that of three privates of the
same regiment, who were killed in the insurrection of
1803; and a mausoleum for the family of Col.?,
The chapel of the King’s or Blue-coat Hospital is in this
parish. There are parochial schools for boys and girls,
an infants’ school, and a Sunday school. The late Lord
Netterville bequeathed £9000 to this and the adjoining
parish of St. Michan for a dispensary and hospital,
which is also supported by subscription.
St. Peter’s parish, erected by order of council in 1680,
is the largest in the city, comprising the ancient parishes
of St. Peter and St. Kevin, and a portion of that?
St. Stephen: it contain ‘27,176’ inhabitants, ami 2260
houses valued at £5 and upwards?, the total annual
value being £124865. 10. It is a vicarage, united to
the rectories of Tawney, Donnybrook
and district of Booterstown together forming the corps
of the archdeaconry of Dublin, in the patronage of the
Archbishop; the minister’s. money is £1086 10. 4.,
and the gross annual income is £2768, out of which
there are 12 curates to be paid The church, situated in
Aungier-street, is a very large unornamented building,
in the form of the letter T: the Ecclesiantieal Commi-
sioners have granted £735. 0. 6 for its repair. In the
attached cemetery arc interred the remains. of many
persons of rank; those of the celebrated John Fitzgib-
bon, Earl of Clare, lie here under a plain tombstone,
Maturin, the poet, who was curate of the parish, is also
buried here. There are within its limits three chapels
of case, one in Kcvin-.street, one in Upper Mount street,
Merrion-square, and a third at Rathmines; and within
the parish are Sandford Episcopal chapel at Cullens
wood, and an Episcopal chapel in Upper Baggot-street.
The church or chapel of St. Kevin is a plain ediffice,
in the form of the letter T, situated to the south of