Baronies (Donegal and Meath) Act 1791
BARONIES (DONEGAL AND MEATH) ACT 1791 | ||
CHAP. XLVIII. | ||
An Act for the Division of certain Baronies of great Extent in the Counties of Donegal and Meath. | ||
Preamble | ||
After summer assizes 1791, the parishes herein named to be a distinct barony, | ||
and to be rated at 2s. &d. in the pound in presentments; | ||
parishes herein named to be a distinct barony, | ||
and rated at 15 2d. in the pound. | ||
WHEREAS the county of Donegal is of great extent, and divided only into five baronies, and whereas it will tend greatly to the better and more equal disposal of the public money, and case of the public cess, that the said baronies should be subdivided : and whereas the barony of Boylagh and Banagh, one of the said baronies, consists of the parishes of Enver, Killymard, Killaghtee, Glenn, Kilcarr, Killybeggs, Enischiel, Lettermacaward, and Temple Croan, which are rated in the county books, in the proportion of three shillings and five pence for every twenty shillings levied off the county at large; be it enacted by the King’s most excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the summer assizes, which shall be held for the said county, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, the parishes of Enver, Killymard, Killaghtee, Killybeggs, except that part hereafter excepted, Glenn, Kilcarr, and so much of the parish of Enischiel, as lies south of the river Onea, and west of the river Aontaker, shall be to all intents and purposes a distinct barony, and be called and known by the name of the barony of Banagh, and be rated by the treasurer of the county in the apportioning of all money presented to be raised on the county at large, at the rate of two shillings and three pence in the pound, and no more, and the remaining part of the said barony consisting of the parishes of Templecroan, Lettermacaward, that part of Enischiel, lying north of the river Onea, and cast of the river Aontaker, together with a small portion of Killybeggs, eastward of the Aontaker, and the town lands of Carn and Strana-cross, shall be to all intents and purposes a distinct barony, and be called and known by the name of the barony of Boylagh, and shall be rated by the treasurer of the said county in apportioning of all public money presented off the county at large, at the rate of one shilling and two pence in the pound, and no more, and of the said money so apportioned on the said barony of Boylagh, the parish of Templecroan shall pay two-sixths, and the parish of Lettermacaward one-sixth, and no more. |