Armagh Clergy lawti Parishes. By the Rev. James B. Leslie.
(W. Tempest, Dundalk. 12s. 6d.)—Mr. Leslie, who is Rector of Kilsaran, in the diocese of Armagh, has with most commendable industry compiled this record of the Cathedral, with its dignities, from the Primacy downwards, and of the various parishes, giving, where it is possible, the names of incurabents and other available information. Our notice of the work must be much more brief than its merit would seem to demand. We can do little more than say that it is a good work well done. One thing strikes us as we look throne], it—the rarity of any old parochial records. It is seldom that we find any mention of registers going back beyond the eighteenth century. In many parishes their terminus a quo is after 1800. The earliest dates, to take a few chief towns, for Armagh is 1750, for Charlemont 1733, Dundalk 1727, Dunleer 1725, Louth 1750. The fact increases both the need and the merits of such works as this.
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