The First Fruit Board (Irish: Bord na PrÃÆ'mhide ) is an Irish Church institution founded in 1711 by Anne, Queen England to build and upgrade churches and mansions in Ireland. It is funded from taxes collected from administrative income which in turn is funded by the tithe. The Council was replaced in 1833 by the Ecclesiastical Board of Commissioners.
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From the British Reformation of the sixteenth century, most of the Irish chose to remain Roman Catholics and now have to pay tithes worth about 10% of the agricultural produce of the area, to defend and fund the established state church, the Anglican Church of Ireland, where only a small percentage of the converts. Protests against this situation led to a tithe war in the early nineteenth century.
In 1711, Queen Anne agreed that the clerical income tax was given to the Church of Ireland for the construction of new churches and the House of Glebe. To that effect, with the influence of Jonathan Swift, the First Fruit Council was established.
During its first 70 years of existence, the council purchased a glebe field for beneficiaries for a total cost of £ 3,543. He also helped build forty-five luxury homes with prizes of £ 4,080.
In 1778, the Irish Parliament approved a grant of £ 6,000, followed by £ 1500 at 1779-1780, 5,000 each year from 1785 to 1800. During the period 1791-1803, the council spent £ 55,600 towards building 88 churches and 116 glebe houses.
The grant was retained after the Union Act 1800, but the Parliament Act in 1808 saw the consolidation of funds and allowed the council to also repair old churches and glebe houses.
From 1808, annual grants multiplied to à  £ 10,000 and massively increased to à £ 60,000 annually between 1810 and 1816. After that, grants were split between two between 1817 and 1821, eventually reduced to Ã,  £ 10,000 annually in 1822-1823.
Within twenty years after the Act of Union, a total of Ã, £ 807,648 was paid in grants for land purchase in 193 beneficiaries, the construction of 550 glebe houses, and buildings, rebuilding and expanding 697 churches.
The Church Temporalities Act 1833 put an end to the First Fruit Council and the Ecclesiastical Board of Commissioners took over.
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Architects
Many architects work for the First Fruit Council. Here's a few and incomplete lists:
- George Richard Pain
- James Pain
- Joseph Welland
- John Bowden
- John Semple
- William Farrell
Buildings
Many churches and glebe houses are built or repaired with funding from the First Fruit Board.
Church
In County Armagh
- Madden, County Armagh, (Rise 1816)
- St Luke's, Ballymoyer, (Built 1822)
In County Cork
- Dromagh, near Banteer, (Built 1822) *
- St. George's, Mitchelstown, (Rebuild of 1830 funded in part by the Council) *
- Marshalstown (in ruins), near the Funshion River, (Built c1810) *
- St Mary, Castletownroche, (Built c1825) *
In Dublin County
- St Brigid, Castleknock, Fingal, (Reproduced in 1810)
- Christ Church, Taney Parish, Dundrum, (Built 1818)
- St. Philip and St. James Church, Booterstown, (Built 1821)
- Monkstown Church, Dublin, (Built in the 1830s)
- St. Marys Chapel of Ease, Dublin, (Built 1830)
In County Galway
- Portumna, (Built 1832) *
- Kilkerrin, near Glenamaddy, (Built 1784) *
In County Kildare
- Taghadoe, near Maynooth, (Built 1831)
In County Kerry
- St Cartach, Castlemaine, County Kerry, (Built 1816) *
- Templenoe, (Built 1816) *
- Kilcolman, Milltown, (Built 1819) *
In County Longford
- St Thomas', Rathmore near Lough Gowna, (Built 1829)
In County Offaly
- Dunkerrin, (Built 1820) *
- St Mary, Shinrone, (Built 1821) *
In County Tipperary
- Ballynaclogh, on the Nenagh River, (Built 1815) *
- Borrisokane, (Built 1812) *
- St Burchin's, Ballyhenry, County Tipperary, (Built 1814) *
- St Cronan's, Roscrea, (Built 1812) *
- Dorrha, Graigue, Dorrha, (Built 1832) *
- Feigh West, near Borrisokane, (Built 1813) *
- Glebe (in ruins), (built c1790) *
- Holycross, (Built 1821) *
- St Kieran, Cloughjordan, (Built 1837) *
- Kilfithmone, now part of the parish united "Templemore, Thurles and Kilfithmone", (Built 1821) *
- Kilruane, (Built 1820) *
- Kilbiller (in ruins), in Borrisokane Forest (Built 1822) *
- Johnstown, Killodiernan, near Puckane (Built 1811) *
- Littleton, Bally Beg, (Built 1786)
- St Mary, Thurles, (Built c1825) *
- St Michael (in ruins), Cloonmore, Ballymackey, (Built 1815) *
- Modreeny (in ruins), (Built 1828) *
- St Ruadan (in ruins) Curraghmore, on the ground of Finnoe House, near Borrisokane, (Built c1815) *
- Terryglass, (Built 1808) *
Glebe House
- Clondrohid, County Cork
- Clondavaddog, County Donegal (Built c1795)
- Lorrha, County Tipperary (Built 1816) *
- Feigh West, County Tipperary (Built 1816) *
- Killeen, County Tipperary (Built 1816) *
- Dunkitt, County Kilkenny (Built 1817) *
- Ballymoyer, County Armagh (Built 1825)
- Loughkeen, County Tipperary (Built c1830) *
An asterisk indicates that the building is displayed on the National Architecture Heritage Inventory website
See also
- Commissioner Ecclesiastical
References
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