• The Irish catholic is forbidden the exercise of his religion.
• The Irish catholic is forbidden to receive education.
• The Irish catholic is forbidden to enter a profession.
• The Irish catholic is forbidden to hold public office.
• The Irish catholic is forbidden to engage in trade or commerce.
• The Irish catholic is forbidden to live in a corporate town or within five miles thereof.
• The Irish catholic is forbidden to own a horse of greater value than five pounds.
• The Irish catholic is forbidden to purchase land.
• The Irish catholic is forbidden to lease land.
• The Irish catholic is forbidden to accept a mortgage on land in security for a loan.
• The Irish catholic is forbidden to vote.
• The Irish catholic is forbidden to keep any arms for his protection.
• The Irish catholic is forbidden to hold a life annuity.
• The Irish catholic is forbidden to buy land from a Protestant.
• The Irish catholic is forbidden to accept a gift of land from a Protestant.
• The Irish catholic is forbidden to inherit anything from a Protestant.
• The Irish catholic is forbidden to rent any land that was worth more than thirty shillings a year.
• The Irish catholic is forbidden to reap from his land any profit exceeding a third of the rent.
• The Irish catholic can not be a guardian to a child.
• The Irish catholic can not, when dying, leave his infant children under Catholic guardianship.
• The Irish catholic can not attend Catholic worship.
• The Irish catholic is compelled by law to attend Protestant worship.
• The Irish catholic can not himself educate his children.
• The Irish catholic can not send his child to a Catholic teacher.
• The Irish catholic can not employ a Catholic teacher to come to his child.
• The Irish catholic can not send his child abroad to receive an education

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