Uniting of Parishes Act 1710
UNITING OF PARISHES ACT 1710 | ||
CHAP. XII. | ||
An Act for uniting several parishes, and building several parish-churches in more convenient places. | ||
Union of Kilkeevin, Baslick and Ballintober, in Elphin: | ||
the church at Castlereagh the parish church. | ||
WHEREAS the parish-church of Kilkeevin, situate in the town of Castlereagh, is convenient to the inhabitants of the parish of Kilkeevin, Baslick, and Ballintober in the diocess of Elphin, and the said parishes are fit to be united and made one parish: be it therefore enacted by the Queen’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 it shall and may be lawful to and for the bishop of the said diocess, with the approbation of the archbishop of the province, and the consent of the respective patrons, incumbents, and major part of the inhabitants of the said parishes, to unite the said parishes of Kilkeevin, Baslick, and Ballintober, and the parish-church now built at Castlereagh in the parish of Kilkeevin may be deemed the only parish-church of the united parishes; the said parishes so united to be called by the name of the parish of Kilkeevin; and the inhabitants of the said several parishes to be from time to time liable to and chargeable with the repairs of the said church at Castlereagh. |