The Board of Ecclesiastical Commissioners was an agency of the Dublin Castle administration which oversaw the funding, building and repairs to churches and glebe houses of the Church of Ireland.
4. c. 37) to supersede the Board of First Fruits as part of a reform and rationalisation of the Church's structure.
[5] The Irish Church Act Amendment Act, 1881 dissolved the Church Temporalities Commission and transferred its remaining functions to by the Irish Land Commission.
The five lay members included the Lord Chancellor of Ireland and the Lord Chief Justice to the Kings Bench, if they were members of the Church of Ireland, and three other laymen or clergymen.
[7] In the beginning, the four provinces of the established church in Ireland were put under the responsibilities of the architects William Farrell (Armagh), Frederick Darley (Dublin), Joseph Welland (Tuam), and James Pain (Cashel).