Barony of Idrone Act 1799

BARONY OF IDRONE ACT 1799

CHAP. IX.

An Act for the Division of the Barony of Idrone, in the County of Carlow.

Monday the twenty-fifth day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, Royal Assent given.

JOHN GAYER, D. CLER. PARL.

The barony of Idrone is of great extent, and should be divided:

so much of said barony as lies Eastward of the Barrow, shall be called the barony of East Idrone, and rated as containing 15,479 acres. the remainder shall be called the barony of West Idrone, and rated as containing 5070 acres.

WHEREAS the barony of Idrone, in the county of Carlow, is of great and inconvenient extent, and rated in the county books at twenty thousand five hundred and forty-nine acres, and it is expedient, for the more equal disposal of the public cess, that it should be divided into two baronies, to be called and known by the names of the baronies, of east Idrone and west Idrone; 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 authothority of the same, that from and after the passing of this act, all that part of the said barony that lies on the east side of the river Barrow, shall be separated from the rest of the barony of Idrone, and shall be deemed one entire barony, and shall be called the barony of east Idrone, and shall be rated by the treasurer of the county of Carlow, in all presentments of public money, as containing fifteen thousand four hundred and seventy-nine acres, and no more; and that the remainder of the said barony, all of which lies on the west side of the river Barrow, shall be deemed an entire barony, and shall be called the barony of west Idrone, and shall be rated by the treasurer of the county of Carlow, in all presentments of public money, as containing five thousand and seventy acres, and no more.