suggests that the name was in honor of the first priest to provide religious services to the Irish settlers in that area: Rev. Malachy Reynolds , himself an Irish emigrant. There were too few priests in P.E.I , for one settlement to have its own resident pastor. Occasional visits by priests travelling the parishes circuit sufficted until the 1860's. Burke and Blanchard relate stories of religious services being celebrated in the homes and barns of settlers before the church was built. The photograph of the church on page 12 shows St . Malachy's church sometime after 1872, after certain additions were made to it. After the death of Mr. Mann , the estate passed to his wife, and was managed by a Mr. Gillian , who had married the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mann , Isabella; he was a lawyer anallived in Philadelphia. (20) Mr. and Mrs. Gillian visited the Mann estate in 1849, and according to Burke and Blanchard, promised an additional gift of thirty acres for the parish; they are also credited by Burke and Blanchard with gifts of religious articles for the church, including an altar carved by Mr. Gillian . //