Sample Grant of Letters of Administration, 1826, Dr. Bell, Surgeon, Cork, from Court of prerogative, Archbishop of Armagh.
Prior to Disestablishment of the Church of Ireland it was the State Church of Ireland. Many functions now carried out by the State including Probate were carried out by the Church as successor of the Medieval Church in Ireland.
West Cork History 
I like your impressions of the letters of administration for the nex of kin o Robert Bell. My late wife was a Bell descendant
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