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temporalities became vested in the Ecclesiastical Com-
missioners. Lismore is one of the eleven dioceses
which constitute the ecclesiastical province of Cashel:
it includes the greater part of the county of Waterford
and part of Tipperary, extending 38 miles in length and
37 in breadth, and comprising an estimated superficies
of 323,500 acres, of which 92,000 are in Tipperary and
the remainder in Waterford; the lands belonging to the
see and its gross revenue are comprised in the return
for the see of Waterford. The chapter consists of a
dean, precentor, chancellor, treasurer, archdeacon, and
the prebendaries of Tulloghorton, Dysart, Donoughmore,
Kilrossanty, Modeligo, Kilgobinet, Seskinan, and Clash-
more. There are five vicars choral, who were first
instituted by Bishop Christopher about the year 1230,
and are all appointed by the dean, who has a peculiar
jurisdiction over the parishes of Lismore, Tallow, and
Macollop during eleven months of the year, till inhibited
by the bishop, a month before the episcopal visitation;
he has also a right to appoint a registrar, and can grant
licences under his own consistorial seal; the deanery,
it is said, may be held by a layman. There are com-
prehended in the see the rural deaneries of Lismore,
Whitechurch, Dungarvan, Carrick, Clonmel, and Cahir.
The number of parishes in the diocese is 76, comprised
in 43 benefices, of which 23 are unions of two or more
parishes, and 20 single parishes; of these, 6 are in the
patronage of the Crown, 26 in that of the Archbishop of
Cashel, and the remainder in lay patronage. There are
in the diocese 36 churches, and one other episcopal
place of worship, and 15 glebe-houses.
In the R. C. divisions the diocese is united with that
of Waterford, together forming one of the seven bishop-
ricks suffragan to the archiepiscopal see of Cashel:
it contains 65 chapels; the number of parochial bene-
fices and clergy is stated in the account of the see of
Waterford.
The cathedral church, dedicated to St. Carthagh,
the only one remaining of the numerous ancient
churches of this place, and now used as the parochial
church, after being almost destroyed in the reign of
Elizabeth by Edmund Fitzgibbon, called the “White
Knight,” was restored in 1663 at the expense of the
Earl of Cork. It is a handsome structure, chiefly in
the later English style, with a square tower surmounted
by a light and elegant spire, which were added to it
some few years since, when extensive alterations and
repairs were made. The entrance is at the extremity
of the south transept under a pure Norman arch of
elegant design; the choir, in which the parochial service
is performed, is embellished with windows of stained
glass, executed by the late George M c Allister, of Dublin;
and the bishop’s throne and prebendal stalls are of oak
richly carved. The only ancient monument now re-
maining is one to the family of Mac Grath, dated 1548,
and very richly sculptured; there are some handsome
tablets to the memory of the late Dean Scott, Archdea-
con Ryan, J. H. Lovett, Esq., and to the families of
Musgrave, Chearnley, and others. The economy fund,
on an average of three years ending May 1831, amounted
to £823. 10. 8. per ann., arising from the tithes of the
parishes of Lismore and Macollop; it is appropriated
to the payment of two preachers in the cathedral,
who have respectively stipends of £80 and £65; to the
curate of Cappoquin, whose stipend is £90, and to
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the payment of salaries to the cathedral officers, and
repairs.
The rectory of Lismore has been united from time
immemorial to that of Macollop, and both are appro-
priate to the economy fund of the cathedral; the
vicarage is also united to that of Macollop, and both are
appropriate to the vicars choral, who have cure of souls.
The tithes amount to £1969. 4. 7. for both parishes,
which, with the exception of four townlands in the
county of Cork, comprise about 60,000 statute acres;
there is no glebe-house, but a residence for the Arch-
deacon. The R. C. parish is co-extensive with that of
the Established Church; the chapel is a large and neat
edifice, and there is a chapel also at Ballyduff. There
are places of worship for Presbyterians in connection
with the Synod of Ulster, of the third class, and for
Wesleyan Methodists. About 650 children are taught
in six public schools, of which the classical school is
endowed with a house and £30 per ann. by the late
Earl of Cork; two are partly supported by the Dean
and Chapter and vicars choral, one of which is aided by
a bequest of £17 per ann. from the late Mr. Magner, of
Boston, in the United States; two by Sir R. Musgrave
and Capt. Bushe, and one by the Duke of Devonshire.
There are also 15 private schools, in which are about
700 children, and a Sunday school. Six almshouses
were founded and endowed by the first Earl of Cork
for decayed Protestant soldiers; and there are a fever
hospital and dispensary. Mr. Lovett, in 1805, bequeathed
£500 to the poor. At Kilbree are some remains of a
castle built by King John, situated on an eminence
commanding the Blackwater. There are vestiges of a
double and single trench in this parish, the former,
called Rian-Bn-Padruic, extending eastward from Knock -
meledown, and twice crossing the river in its line
towards Ardmore; and the latter from Cappoquin along
the side of the mountains into the county of Cork.
Halfway between Lismore and Cappoquin is a weak
chalybeate water, and there is another between Lismore
and Knockraeledown; there is also a very strong chaly-
beate spring near Glenmore. Near the church are two
small caves, and one in the grove near the castle; there
is also a cave at Ballymartin, through which flows a
rivulet; there are numerous circular intrenchments in
the parish, especially on both sides of the high road to
Dungarvan and the mountains. Roger Boyle, first Earl
of Orrery, and fifth son of Richard, first Earl of Cork,
an eminent statesman and soldier; Robert Boyle, his
brother, the celebrated natural philosopher; and Jona-
than Henry Lovett, distinguished by his attainments
in the Persian, Hindostanee, and Arabic languages, and
who died off the Cape of Good Hope, in 1805, on his
voyage from India, in the 25th year of his age, were
natives of this parish. Lismore gives the titles of Baron
and Viscount to the family of O’Callaghan.
LISMULLEN, parish, in the barony of SKRYNE,
county of MEATH, and province of LEINSTER, 5 miles
(S. S. E.) from Navan, on the mail road from Dublin to
Enniskillen; containing 107 inhabitants. A house for
Augustinian nuns was founded here in 1240 by Alicia,
sister of Richard de la Corner, bishop of Meath, which
existed until the Reformation: in the reign of Edw.
VI., the buildings and part of the estates were granted to
Thos. Cusack. The parish comprises about 1920 statute
acres of good land, about two-thirds of which are in