OLDEN— On some Ancient Remains at Kilmaclenine. 127 
Inchiquin; in Fermoy, with the “‘nobilis vir Mauritius de Rupe 
dominus de Fermoy”’; and at Kilmaclenine with Sir Philip Barry, 
““dominus de Olethan et Muscerydonygan.”’ In this covenant, which is 
the same as the others, Barry undertakes that he will not in future by 
himself or others in his name impose ‘‘ bonys cowys guidagia vel pedagia 
super castrum et dominium de Kylmaclenyn, ac tenentes in eisdem perma- 
nentes seu commorantes, et quoad burgenses dicte ville de Kylmaclenyn, 
promisit ut supra, quod minime ponet onera rllicita super eos,” &c.;* and 
he is willing, if he breaks this promise (quod absit!), that the bishop 
should excommunicate him, and suppress his house within the diocese 
by an interdict. 
One can easily see how these terrible exactions of bonacht and cud- 
oidche, and others too numerous to mention, classed simply as “‘ ¢/icrta 
onera,”’ must have impoverished the little community. The ‘‘ suppor- 
tacio turbarum et satellitum,’’ referred to in another place, suggests 
the lawless rabble who followed in the train of the lord, and like 
locusts devoured the substance of the villagers. The bishop’s power 
had evidently declined; he was no longer able to protect the bur- 
gesses, or even himself; the agreement with the Lord of Olethan was 
mere waste paper. After this we hear no more of the burgesses, and 
two years later, in 1406, King Henry IV. has to come to the bishop’s 
aid with all the power of the Crown, which, however, appears to have 
been small, threatening the “‘ filii iniquitatis,”’ who put ‘‘ diversas im- 
positiones et illicita onera”’ on the bishop and his tenants, and ordering 
public proclamation to be made against them as rebels.’ In such a 
state of things no settled industry was possible ; the inhabitants would 
gradually move away to more peaceful homes, and the village aban- 
doned would quickly decay, and finally disappear. 
The next mention of Kilmaclenine is in a visitation book of 1591, 
that is 185 years later, and it runs thus—‘‘ Keclesia de Kilm‘lenny, 
locus desertus et vastatus.”*» Here the name is mis-spelt, and the place 
seems entirely unknown. One hundred years later, in 1698, the 
Bishop of Cloyne writes—‘‘ The fine estate of Kilmaclenine, with 
others, was entirely lost by the determination of the Commissioners 
against the claim of the Church.”’ And so it passed once more into lay 
hands, and is now the property of Charles Purdon Coote, v.t., after 
being Church land for 1100 years, and passing through many ecclesi- 
astical changes. 
There remain still a few observations to make with respect to 
Barry of Kilmaclenine. There is a local tradition that at a time 
not specified, but probably in the seventeenth century, the last of 
the family rode down in haste to Ballyclough Castle, and asked to 
see Colonel Purdon. The Colonel was away, and his wife refused 
18 Pipa, p. 54. 19 76., p. 59. 
“OMS. T.C.D., E 14, quoted in Brady’s Records of Cork, Cloyne, and Ross, vol. 
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