Exchequer of Ireland

[5] For much of its history it was based in Dublin, but in the fourteenth century, it moved in 1361, with some of the royal courts, to Carlow, as being more central for the Anglo-Irish government.

The Court's jurisdiction was over matters pertaining to The Crown's revenues, although the Writ of Quominus was used as a work of legal fiction to widen its remit.

The Lord High Treasurer was able to hear any case in the Exchequer of Pleas, and was also tasked with maintaining and increasing The Crown's revenue in Ireland.

[13] Outside of the judiciary, the Auditor-General was tasked with entering all grants of land and records of rent, as a result being an officer of both the Superior and Inferior departments of the Exchequer.

This division was abolished in 1897, although the last Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer retained his title until retiring from the High Court of Justice in 1916.

The officers of the Inferior Exchequer included the Lord High Treasurer, who in practice rarely acted, and his deputy the Vice-Treasurer, who as a result did most of the work.

The Treasurers were in charge of all of The Crown's revenue in Ireland, signing and approving all orders accepting money and paying it out.