Three Articles

The Galway Advertiser, Vo. XIV No. 5, 28th November, 1832

Tithe Meeting — Parish of Faitiana

A meeting of the inhabitants of the parish of Faitiana was held at the old Castle of Cabra, on Monday, the 16th instant, for the purpose of petitioning the Legislature for the abolition of Tithes, and calling the particular attention of Parliament to the grievances under which they labour. There are circumstances which make the payment of Tithes in Faitiana a peculiar hardship, though, it is true, may of the causes are common to several other parishes in this county. In Faitiana there is not even one Protestant parishioner — there is no church — and notwithstanding the Tithes are compounded for the sum of 2001, a year, with his grave the Archbishop of Cashel though his predecessors seldom obtained one hundred annually from the parish, and more generally but 801, in the times of war prices. This composition they complain of having been entered into without the knowledge of the generality of the parishioners ; but what renders even this more annoying, is that in a conversation held with Messrs. Fogarty and Max, proprietors of nearly 1000 acres of land and deputed from the Catholic parish of Moycarkey, of which Faitiana is a part, to solicit his Grace's subscription for the building of a chapel last year, his Grace denied all knowledge of this parish, or that he received any Tithes though Mr. Fogarty assured him, he had paid twenty pounds a year himself, and his Grace is still the only exception to the proprietors of land or property in the parish, in the way of subscription, to this necessary work. Mr. R. Mannin, of Shanballa, in proposing a resolution at the meeting, spoke of the general hardships of the Tithes, and of the number of surrounding parishes paying to the amount of 8001. yearly, without any church, and few Protestants. In his own parish, which is Moycarkey, according to the Protestant arrangement there was but one Protestant individual, for whose salvation they paid 2001. a year. Faitiana, which belonged to the Catholic parish of Moycarkey, did not contain even one.
— Tipperary Free Press.

O'Connell Tribute

We have for the last fortnight refrained from saying anything about the O'Connell tribute, in expectation that the signal would be given for a simultaneous collection of it in every part of Ireland, by the Dublin people appointing the tribute day, and we must say that those gentlemen in Dublin who took upon themselves to arrange the day for collecting the tribute, have extremely disappointed the people in this part of Ireland, by not, here now, coming to some determination on the subject. People from almost every parish in the surrounding counties have called at our office within the last week to ascertain the day of collection, in order to make the necessary arrangements for rendering it as efficient as practicable; and from the neglect or want of exertion, or we know not what, on the part of our Dublin friends, we have not been able to give them any answer. We now, in the name of our fellow citizens, and on the part of the people of the south of Ireland, call upon the people of Dublin to at once appoint the Tribute day. If they do not, the people in this part of Ireland will wait no longer, and, instead of having a simultaneous collection in every part of Ireland in one day, there will probably be as many different days appointed as there are parishes in Ireland, by which means the tribute will neither be as great in amount, nor as complimentary from the mode of collecting it, as it ought to be to O'Connell. We shall say no more on the subject at present, in the hope that before our nest number goes to Press, a day will be appointed by the people of Dublin for a simultaneous collection of the tribute in every part of Ireland
— Waterford Chronicle.

Distress in Cork

At the Board of Health on Thursday, a report was handed in from the parish of St. Paul's Of a population of 5,068, which the parish contains, two thousand nine hundred and twenty—four are found quite destitute. There were but 200 houses paying rates and taxes, but they were likely to be greatly diminished in a short time. The Parish of St. Peter's was likewise represented as in a deplorable state of distress.