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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.
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Grand juries may or vide any other baronies in find co. within 3 years from it May 1791.
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II. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the grand juries of the said county may at any assizes, within three years from the first of May, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, divide by presentment any other of the said baronies, and ascertain the limits of the same, and what parishes or portion of parishes shall belong to each of said baronies so to be divided.
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Oh serving the same proportions.
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III. Provided always, That in applotting and apportioning such money as shall be presented to be levied on the said divided baronies, the same proportion or rate shall be, maintained between the said baronies so divided, and the other baronies and the county at large, as was kept and maintained between the said divided baronies, before the division thereof, and the said other baronies and the county at large before such division thereof.
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After summer assizes 1791, the lands herein described shall be deemed an entire barony, and called lower slane.
and rated as herein;
parishes hereto named to be esthol lower Slane.
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V. And whereas the barony of Slane in the county of Meath, is very extensive, and rated in the county books at twenty-one thousand one hundred and six acres, and it is expedient for the case and more equal disposal of the public cess, that it should be divided into two baronies, to be called and known by the name of the baronies of upper and lower Slane; be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the summer assizes, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-one, the several town lands in the parishes of Slane, Gornonstown, Stackalien, Douth, Moricknewtown, Grange-geath, and such part of the lordship of Mellefont, as lies south and west of the Mattock river, and which several lands are bounded on the south by the river Boyne, on the east by the Mattock river, on the north by the Mattock river and the parish of Killary, and on the west by the baronies of Navan and Moygallion, shall be separated from the rest of the barony of Slane, and shall be deemed one entire barony, and shall be called the barony of upper Slane, and shall be rated by the treasurer of the county of Meath in all presentments for public money, as containing nine thousand one hundred and sixty-three acres, and no more; and that the parishes of Killary, Mitchelstown, Loghbrackan, Sidden, Innishmore, Dromeonrath, Ardagh, part of Ennisteen parish, and part of Nobber parish, being the remainder of the said barony, shall be deemed an entire barony, and shall be called the barony of lower Slane, and shall be rated by the treasurer of the county of Meath in all presentments of public money, as containing eleven thousand nine hundred and forty three acres, and no more.
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