Total number 298 of whom 258 active. Compiled by J Chatterston, Clerk of Peace, Co. Cork, 1836. Looking at the list the vast majority are Protestants, in a County which was probably 85% Catholic, some of local families originally Catholic who converted and a small few Catholic. Apart from Landowners many are Church of Ireland clergy. At that time it was the State Church and the clergy performed many civic functions.

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