THE MEMOIRS OF THE ARCHBISHOPS OF DUBLIN. BY JOHN D'ALTON, Esq., M.R.I.A., BARRISTER AT LAW. DUBLIN: HODGES AND SMITH, COLLEGE-GREEN. M.DCCC.XXXVIII. MEMOIRS OF THE ARCHBISHOPS OF DUBLIN. THE Diocese of Dublin has been during so many centuries united with that of Glendalough, that it is difficult to treat of either exclusively. Together they extend over a surface of about fifty Irish miles in length by thirty-six in the greatest breadth, comprising the whole of the County of Dublin, the most of Wicklow, a great part of Kildare, and portions of the Queen's County and Wexford, an estimated area of 477,950a., of which 142,050A. are in the County of Dublin, 257,400A. in Wicklow, 75,000A. in Kildare, 600A. in the Queen's County, and 2,900A. in Wexford. The acreable quantity of church lands belonging to the united sees, and lying within the above scope, has been returned in 1831 as 23,926a. profitable, and 7,100A. unprofitable, let at £3,202 per annum and £4,257 annual renewal fines. While a return of 1833 states the respective number and value of the benefices in both sees as, forty worth B |