134 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



It has been surmised that au effigy, still extant at Giaiguenainauagh, represents 

 this Sir John de la Poer, but there is no evidence on the point.' 



In 1330 (Dec. 31) one Eichard O'Nolan was besieged in the belfry of the 

 abbey, and was compelled to give his son as a hostage.' We know nothing 

 further of the circumstances. 



In 1331 we have an account of a massacre in the neighbourhood of the 

 abbey, following a wedding. "Douiinus Willelmus de Brimegham cum sua 

 familia occupauit tenuitet niansit in sylva monachoruni de Dowsky in estate ; 

 et ibidem dominus Eustailiins le I'ucr die Mercurii in festo Gervasii et 

 Prothasii desponsavit filiam Johannis de Brimegham, comitis de Lowlit. Et 

 sabbato proximo sequenti, interfecti sunt novem de Eupeiisibus [the Roches] ; 

 inter ijuos ink-rfeclus fuit David filius David filii Alcxandri de Fermoy et 

 alii cum eis XIX."' 



In 1342 Keginuld, abbot of Mullifont, and Henry, abbot of Duiske, appear 

 as judges in a dispute between the abbeys of Dunbrody and St. Mary's, 

 Dublin.* 



We have a ni>l« in llie Extracts (FL) of a Cliarter, dated '1 .Ian. 1.U7, by 

 which Milo Swectman, clerk, granted eight sliillint^'s ant! sixjience yearly to 

 the convent of Duiske, being rent from a messuage of liis in Kilkenny. The 

 gniutor was, doubtless, Milo Sweelman, who was Treasurer of Ossory, and 

 became Archbishop of Annagh in 1361. 



The Black Death ravagetl the county of Kilkenny in the year 1348, but 

 we have no knowledge of its presence at our ablwy, which can hardly have 

 e8cape«l without a visitation, although it was noticed that mountainous 

 districts were not so subject to the plague as other places. 



98. 



Ratification by James Butler, carl of Ormonde, for the good of his 



soul, &C,, of the grant by Henrj' Fitz Henry Boche, fonnerly lord of 



the Kower. to the convent of Dniske, of fishing rights from rolmounty 



to Thomastown [no. 80]. 



Dated at Gowran, 29 Sept., 1352. 



Uniuersis Christi fidelibus presentcs literas uisuris uel audituris Jacobus 

 filius Jacobi le Botiller Tincema Hibemie et Comes Drmonie salutem in 

 domino. 



' See Mr. P. 0'Le«ry'a pa[M>r on "the Cistercian Abbey of Graignamanagh " (Journal 

 R.S.A.I., 1892, p. 242 n.) ; and for a description of the effigy see the same Journal, vol. ii 

 (1853), p. 64. ' ayn's AnnaU. ^ lUd. • CM. A. ii, 20. 



