Volume 1: Pages 210 to 253 - Cork Past and Present

248 SCULL. [CORK.
1830. Protestant population, 1,898.
1836. Sept. 2. A school-house in towuland of Lisacabee is
licensed for divine service.
1837. Skull : a rectory and vicarage, with cure, 16 miles
long by 6 broad, containing 49,873A. OR. 12r.; gross population,
15,252. Two Curates employed, one for the eastern , and the
other for the western divisions of the parish , at annual stipends
to each of £80 Brit. Tithe composition, £850. 63 acres of
glebe, valued at£100. Subject to visitation fees, 17s; diocesan
schoolmaster £1 [Os. Skull glebe-house in excellent order,
built in 1721, and repaired during the late incumbency at an
expense of £408 18s. 64d. Brit. Incumbent is next in succession
to the improver ; and having paid his predecessor
£306 13s. 94d., and since expended about £35 Brit., he will
be entitled to receive £230 14s. 34'd. from his successor on
account of the improvement charges. Incumbent is resident
in the glebe-house. Exclusive of the moneys aforesaid, the improver,
who was the father of the present incumbent, is reported
to have expended£1,437 4s. 72d. Brit. on the premises, without
having any charge on his successor for the repayment of any
portion thereof. One church, and a chapel of ease in this
parish, distant 44 miles from each other, the former capable of
accommodating 250, and the latter 180 persons. The church,
situate at Skull, built in 1721, but at what cost, or from what
funds, unknown. The chapel of ease, situate near Ballydehob
village, in the eastern division of the parish, built in 1829, by
means of a gift of £650 Brit., granted by the late Board of
First Fruits. No charge on the parish in 1832 on account of
either the church or chapel of ease. Divine service is celebrated
once on Sundays in the church and chapel of ease respectively,
and on Sunday evenings in school-houses, one at a distance of
four miles from the parish church. Four private weekly services
are also celebrated for the benefit of the scattered population of
this parish, and a week-day service has also been latterly performed
in the church and chapel. The sacrament is administered
twelve times in the year in each. The benefice is a
rectory. [Par]. Rep.]
In 1847, £152 2s. was certified to have been expended by
Robert Trail on the glebe-house. [D.R.]
Robert Trail (son of his predecessor) married Anne, sister to
Sir Edmund Hayes, of Drumhoe Castle, county Donegal, and
by her had three sons and five daughters. His exertions in
his parish, during the famine years, for the spiritual and temporal
welfare of his flock were injurious to his health, and he
died on 21st April, 1847. He wrote a Translation of Josephus'
Holy War, which was published after his death.
1847. May 3. Joan TRIPHOOR, A.R., R. V. Scull. [D.R.]
1847. July 9. A commission finds £218 dilapidationsagainst
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Trail's executors. In 1849, Feb. 17 , the annual value of Skull
is certified to be £637 10s. [D.R.]
1854. Sept. 3. Anew church, on new site, is consecrated under
the name of the Holy Trinity. [D.R.]
1857. June 16. £342 6s. 9d. is certified for improvements
at Scull, the net yearly value being £574 6s. 7d. [D.R.]
1860. J. Triphook, Rector ; Richard Hayes, Curate. The
parish church is in good order. There is also a chapel of ease
at Ballydehob. The glebe-house in ,order. 63 acres of glebe,
of which one-half is in the Rector's use, the other is let . Divine
service twice on all Sundays in both church and chapel, and
once during summer, at 10 A.M., on Sundays, at Lesheeneen.
Sacrament 12 times yearly at the church, average of communicants,
35; and also at the chapel, average 33. There are two
Church Education schools, at one of which 69, and at the
other 98, children are on the rolls. The Protestant population
of one division of the parish is 515, of the other 735. The
total Protestant population is 1,240. The rentcharge is £637
15s. per an., with residence.
John Triphook (whose father was born in London, and
settled in Ireland circa 1788, and whose mother was Miss
Trophina Vokes, of Limerick) was born on 10th Sept., 1796,
and after graduating in Dublin University, was ordained
Deacon on 19th May, 1822, for Caatlehaven curacy, and Priest,
on 13th April, 1823, both at Cork.
In 1825 be was Curate of Tullagh.
From 1829 to 1841 he was V. Ardfield; and from 1841 to
1847, he was V. Drinagh.
He married, firstly, in December 1824, Maria, dau. of Rev.
Joseph Wright, V. Aghadowne, &c., and by her had issue two
sons, Thomas-Dawson and Joseph-Robert ; and one daughter,
Jane-Anne. Mr. Triphook married, secondly, on 1st Dec.,
1848, Jane-Ellesmere, dau. of John Noble, esq., of Lisnaskea,
county Fermanagh.
Joseph-Robert Triphook, the second son of Rev. Job n Triphook,
entered T.C.D. in 1848, and graduated A.R. in 1853. He was
ordained Deacon, at Cork, on 18th Dec., 1853, for the curacy
of Aughrim, in county Galway. He was transferred to the
curacy of Nenagh in Oct. 1854; and in 1859 became Precentor
of Killaloe, and Rector of Latteragh. He married, on 3rd
August, 1854, his cousin, Elisabeth-Margaret-Sophia Triphook,
and by her had issue, surviving, three sons, John-Crampton
(born 18th May,1856), Robert Dawson (horn 24th April, 1859),
and Victor-Albert (born 28th August, 1861); and three daughters,
Annie-Elisabeth, Josephine-Jane, and Charlotte-Maria.