Ficheiro 28 - Papers about Birr Church of Ireland church and parish

Papers about Birr Church of Ireland church and parish, including historical compilations of the rev. Dr Samuel Hemphill, Rector of Birr, covering the period 1612-1903. The compilations consist of a small quarto notebook containing MS. Copies of 1642 depositions concerning the neighbourhood of Birr; another containing a history of Birr Church of Ireland church (taken from vestry books, parish registers, etc), 1760-1903); and two succession lists of Birr incumbents, 1612-1912. The sub-section also includes a series of printed annual reports on the parish and on the diocese of Killaloe and Kilfenora, 1900-10.

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Supplementary catalogue entry: Also details of the church’s stained glass window including those by Kempo (compiled by David Lawrence).

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June 2021, Leslie Duggan.

Original descriptions by A.W.P Malcomson, Calendar of the Rosse Papers (Dublin, 2008).