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Bun Duiske (which is the Irish for ' the Mouth of the Black Water ') is 

 beautifully situated on the western bank of the river Barrow, which divides 

 the county of Kilkenny from that of Carlow. It is now called Graiguena- 

 managh, or ' the Grange of the Monks.'' We learn from Charter Xo. 6 that 

 a cemetery was consecrated here for the monks on 6 June, 1204, so that the 

 land must have been granted to the new convent by William Marshal before 

 that dat«, or (at any rate) a promise must have been made by him upon 

 which the monks felt they could rely with confidence. 



The earliest extant charter embodies a quittance of claim upon land at 

 Duiske, which was essential as a pieliminary to its transfer to the convent. 



1. 

 Quit claim by GeodVoy Fil/.Eobort in respect of the lands of Duiske and 

 Anuamult to William Mar.shal, carl of I'embroke, and his Cistercian 

 monks from Stanley, for the abbey to be founded in honour of the 

 Saviour. 



Galfridus tilius KolKJrli omnibus amicis et hominibus suis ad quos presens 

 scriptum pcruencrit sahitcm. 



Sciatis ijuod ego rclaxaui la cnuolani claniaui unmein demandam cum 

 omni iurc clr Ciilumpnia totA quam liabiii in terra de Duwisky, et in terra 

 similiter de Alhermolt, domino mco Guillclino Marescallo Comiti Pembroc et 

 monachis suis Cisterciensis ordinis do Stanleg, de me et heredibus meis sine 

 omni reclauialione in porpetuum, ad abbatiam suam fundandam in houore 

 Sancti Saluatoris. 



Et ut hoc ratum permaneat et stabile in pcrpctuum in testimonium 

 predict*! relaxalionis sigillum meum presenti scripto apposni. 



Hiis t«stiliu8 llugone episcopo Ossoriensi, Johanne Marescallo, lladulfo 

 Bloet, Johanne Luix), Nicholao Aucnol, Thoma de Kocheford, Willelmo de 

 Boseuille, Eustacio capellano, Thoma filio Anlonii, Bicardo l'an(nin), Odone 

 Archidiacono, Herberto et Michaelc, clericis comitis, et aliis. 



William Marshal, earl of Pembroke, did not take up bis fief in Ireland until 

 early in 1207,' but this instrument was probably executed before his arrival, and 

 may be dated in the year 1204. The grantor, Geoffrey Fiiz Iloberl, was one of 

 William Marshal's knights and at one time his seneschal. Later, he attested the 

 Earl's charters to Kilkenny' and to Dunbrody Abbey,* and he died about 1211.' 

 He was Baron of Kells and the founder of Kells Priory for Austin canons, whom 

 be imported from Bodmin in Cornwall. One of these was Hugh Hiiftis, or le Rous, 



' Hogan'fi Onomasticon gives a different derivation, viz., that Graiguenamanagh 

 = Graig-na-l>reathnach , 'the Grange of the Britons,' i.e. the Welsh colonists who 

 settled there. 



- Orpen, Irelnud under the Normans, ii, 209. 



' Chartae, p. 34. • CM. A. ii. 160. ^ Orpen, I.e., ii, 26fl. 



