Falkinkr — The Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. 281 



Tyrel's gift of Kylmehanok added to the original grant of 

 Strongbow the lands on the north side of the Liffey which imme- 

 diately face Kilmainhara — an area now connected with the latter by 

 Sarah Bridge, more familiarly known as Island Bridge, but in those 

 early days by the fords known originally as the Fords of Kylmehanok 

 and Tyrol's Ford. The place was one already interesting for its 

 historical associations. For here, on Wednesday morning, Sept. 15th, 

 919, JSfiall Glun-dub, or Black-knee, marching to capture Dublin, 

 was defeated by the Danes and mortally wounded in the "Battle of 

 Dublin."^ The ford of Cell-mo-samocc, to give the spot its Irish 

 name,^ has long been one of the most important of Dublin landmarks, 

 helping to mark the boundaries of the liberties of Dublin. In the 

 account of the riding of the franchises, in 1488, the record recites 

 how in that year the Mayor of Dublin, and his civic brethren, having 



Auenehf, usque ad ductum aque juxta gybbettum. Et postea venit idem Hugo, 

 et feofFavit predictum priorem et domum de Kylmaynan de Kylmehanok, cum 

 omnibus pertinenciis predictis. Et postea venit predictus Henricus, rex, et 

 confirmavit donum predicti Ricardi Strangbowe de Kylmaynan et donum predict! 

 Hugonis Tyrel de Kylmehanok, cum omnibus pertinenciis predictis, unacum 

 feoffamento omnium illorum qui predictum priorem et predictam domum feoffa- 

 verunt. Postea venit dominus, rex, nunc et feoffavit civitatem DubHn ad 

 feodifirmam de civitate DubHn, cum aqua de Auenehf et omnibus pertinenciis, 

 exceptis illis qui prius f uerint feoffati. Dicunt eciamquod predictus prior et domus 

 de Kylmaynan longo tempore feoffati fuerunt antequam predicti maior et com- 

 muna fuissent feoffati."— Dublin White Book, fol. 107. See Gilbert's Historic 

 and Municipal Documents," p. 495, and " Calendar of Dublin Records," i., 161. 



1 The scene of this battle is wrongly placed by O'Donovan, Haliday, Todd, and 

 other writers, of whom the latest is my friend Mr. Stephen Gwynn, at Kiima- 

 shogue Mountain, some seven or eight miles away, a distance which hardly 

 squares with the Four Masters' description of " the battle of Ath-Cliath, that is 

 of Cil-M.osnmhogjhj the side of Aih-cliath.^' For this identification of the site 

 of the battle with Cill-mo-samocc, I am indebted to Father Hogan and his friend 

 Mr. Charles M'Neill. The date of the battle given above is based on the follow- 

 ing note from Father Hogan: — Date of the battle—* Wednesday, the 17th of 

 October, 917. In that year Easter fell on April 25 and Low Sunday fell in 

 summer.'— Four Masters, O'Donovan's Notes. The criteria here indicate the year 

 919. Dr. McCarthy (Codex Palatino-Yaticanus, p. 371) says :—* October 17 in 

 917 was Friday' ; the Easter incidence shows that the year was 919; the true 

 reading is given in the Annals of Ulster :— • 17th of the Kalends of October ; 

 September 15 fell on Wednesday in 919.' Dr. McCarthy omits the date 919 in 

 the Annals of Ulster Index." 



2 Mo-samoc, as I learn from Father Hogan, means ' my sorrel.' Father Hogan 

 also points out that the name Kilmehauog occurs in the Red Book of Ossory as 

 the name of a church in that diocese. See Rev. W. Carrigan's History of the 

 Diocese of Ossory." 



