1 Pound St. Mary's Parochial Bank

St. Mary's Parochial Bank was one of the last surviving Irish private note-issuing institutions operating under the pre-1845 framework that had, in theory, been designed to phase out exactly these kinds of small local issuers. The bank continued issuing long past the point where most of its contemporaries had surrendered their rights, a tenacity that kept notes of this type circulating in limited regional use well into the late Victorian period.

The Pick S-prefix designation places this firmly in the specialized Irish provincial banking category. Survivors are uncommon — not because the series was short-lived, but because rural Irish paper money of this period was worked hard and rarely preserved.