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The church at Coote-hill to be the parish church of Drumgoone in Kilmore?
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XIII. And whereas the parish-church of Drumgoone in the diocess of Kilmore has been of a long time ruinous and out of repair, and is also inconveniently situated, being remote from the inhabitants of the said parish, or some of them, have built a church or chappel at Coote-hill within the said parish, and inclosed a church-yard thereunto contiguous, by and with the consent of the bishop of the diocess: be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said church or chappel, and church-yard, now erected at Cootehill, be from henceforward deemed and taken as the parish-church and church-yard of Drumgoone parish, and be as such repaired and repairable by the inhabitants of the said parish from time to time, in like manner as other parish-churches in this kingdom are repaired, and under the same regulation; and also it shall and may be lawful to and for the honourable Thomas Coote, esquire, second justice of her Majesty’s court of Queen’s-bench in Ireland, proprietor of the said land, whereon the said church or chappel, and church-yard as aforesaid, erected, by any instrument in writing under his hand and seal for that purpose duly to be perfected, to convey to the church-wardens of the said parish, and their successors for ever, the said church or chappel and church-yard; who are hereby enabled to take and receive such grant, to the use and behoof of the said church-wardens, and their successors, for the ends and purposes aforesaid, notwithstanding the statute of mortmain.
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