BnR^fARD — The Charier a oj Ihc Abbeij oj Duiskc. 37 



Taxation of Idroiic' lie Ihinlis tliis may have been BallycUin, near Ullard (see 

 no. 14). 



Bathkcnny- was the name of a church on the estate (apparently in co. Meath) 

 of Nicholas le Petit in 1229. 



llathscnboth in the barony of Forth may, perhaps, be identified with Templc- 

 shanbo, in co. Wexford, the root of both being the word seanbotha, which means 

 " old huts." 



We liave already had several of the witnesses : Theobald Walter the second 

 (p. 32) ; William (.'rassus senior (p. 16), who appears here as seneschal of Leinster, 

 an office which we know he held in 1224 f Hamo Crassus (p. 55) ; Osbcrt, prior of 

 St. John's, Kilkenny (p. 27) ; and Balpli, the pai-son of Gowran (p. 11). 



Bicardus Pinccrna was probably connected somehow with the Walters, and 

 perhaps we should call him Kichard Fitz Walter (see p. 42). He attested, along 

 with Thomas Fitz Antony (see p. 15), a grant by one Simon Power, which is 

 included in the Eegister of St. Thomas' Abbey.' 



The priory of Inistiogc was founded for Austin canons, by Thomas Fitz Antony 

 about 1210, and Aliired of the priory of Keils, formerly of Bodmin (see p. 22), was 

 chosen as the first prior of the new bouse. He witnesses several of our charters,' 

 the latest in date being nos. 43, 44, about the year 1232. A fine stone effigy is still 

 preserved in Inistioge church, which is thought to represent Alured, and to have 

 been placed over his grave. "^ 



Nicliolas le Marchis or Marsh (see no. 42) was the owner of a fish-pond in the 

 river Barrow, and probably held land adjoining. 



The date of this charter (no. 13) is about 1224. 



14. 

 Grant, for the good of his soul, &c., by Alan Beg, with the consent of 

 William de Caunteton and his wife Cecilia, daughter and heiress of 

 the said Alan, to the convent of Duiske (in the abbey of wliich he 

 chooses a burial-place for himself), of half the church of Ullard, viz., 

 all its tithes from his holdings in that vill. 



Omnibus Saucte Matris Ecclesie filiis ad quos presens scriptum peruenerit 

 Alanus Beg eteruam in domino salutem. 



Sciatis quod ego pro salute anime mee et uxoris mee Neste et omnium 

 parentum predecessorum ac successoruni nieorum asseusu et uoluntateWillclmi 

 de Kantintune et uxoris sue Cecilia filie mee, hereduni scilicet meorum, dedi 

 et concessi, quantum ad ius pertinet patroni, el hac presenli carta niea contir- 

 maui abbatie beate Marie de Valle Sancti Saluatoris ad susteutatiouem abbatis 

 et nionachorum ibidem deo seruientium niedieLatem ecclesie de Erard, scilicet 

 decimas omnes et obueutiones ad eandeni ecclesiam de terra quaui in eadem 



1 C.D.I. V, p. 250. Odrone or Idrone {Ui Drona) is a large district in co. Carlow. 



2 C.D.I, i, 1673, 2037, 2163. 



3 Oormiindon Ite<j., f. 209. He also held it in ov after 1235 (ibid., f. 208). 

 * R.T.A. 208. ° See R.T.A. 133 for a charter grautcd by hhu. 



Carrigan, iv, 113. 



