Tithe Composition Act

The Oxford Companion to Irish History | 2007 | 654 words | Copyright

Tithe Composition Act (1823). Introduced as a conciliatory measure under Wellesley, this did away with the contentious annual valuation of crops by permitting clergymen and parishioners to negotiate a fixed twice‐yearly payment. This charge was apportioned among landholders of the parish, a process recorded in the Tithe Applotment Books (National Archives, Dublin), a major source for pre‐ Famine landholding patterns as well as for family history. By including pasture as well as cultivated land, the act reversed an exemption established in 1735. By 1830 half of all parishes had compounded. An act of 1832 made composition compulsory.

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