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Froceediugs of the Roijal Irish Academy. 



APPE^s^DIX 1} 



A List of the Pkeceptoeies of the Hospital of St. John of 

 Jerusalem m Ieeland, coN^^ECTED with the peincipal house of 

 the Order at Kilmainham, with xotes on" their oRiom, and 

 ON their kestination after the dissolution of the monasteries. 



Preceptories of Templar origin are marhed with the letter T. 



I. County Dublin. 



T. Clontarf. — Granted to the Templars by Charter of Henry II, 

 given at Avanches in ^s^ormandy, probably in 1172. In that 



1 This List is confined to those houses of the Hospitallers which may properly 

 be described as " preceptories," or " commanderies," i.e., residential seats of the 

 Order in direct connexion through their principals or "preceptors" with the 

 administrative organization of the Knights of St. John. Besides these, both 

 Hospitallers and Templars held important and valuable possessions, which were 

 administered by the preceptories or commanderies to which they respectively 

 belonged or Avere adjacent. Such possessions usually comprised manors, lands, and 

 houses, besides ecclesiastical property, as rectories, tithes, advowsons, &c. ; 

 and sometimes extended through several counties. The possessions of the 

 Commandery of Any, or Knockany (now Hospital), County Limerick, as enumerated 

 in the Lease thereof to William Apsley, in 1578, offers a good example of the nature 

 and extent of the endowments of a preceptory of the Knights Hospitallers, us 

 enjoyed about the period of the dissolution : 



" Lease to AVilliam Apsley, Esquire, of the Commandery or Manor of Anee, 

 County Limerick, and all its appurtenances in Anee, Ballenacloige, 

 Lymrick, Kilmallock, Adare, Croghe, Askeinie, Eathkille, Ardagh, 

 Casshell, Carrick, Ardartie, aud Dengen ; also the rectories of Anee, 

 Loinge, Kilfrusse, Kayrecorney, Kairefussock, Killcallane, Moreton, 

 Owlys, Browe, Carnowsie, Rochiston, Ardare, Gary-Uskan, Kilbaren, 

 Meyiiarde, Kilwille, Killene, Killino, Killane, Kiltome, Rathronane, 

 Aressynane, alias Ardfynan, Mortelleston, Cnockgraffin, and Carrin- 

 tobber, in Counties Limerick, Kerry, Tipperary, and Clare, and all other 

 possessions of the Commandery, parcel of the late Hospital of St. John 

 of Jerusalem in Ireland." 



(Fiant Elizabeth, Xo. 3250. Appendix to Thirteenth Report of the Deputy 

 Keeper of the Public Records in Ireland, pp. 68, 69. This Fiant has been printed 

 by Miss Hickson in her admirable notice of " The Knights of St. John in Kerry 

 and Limerick," published in the Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological 

 Association of Ireland, 4th series, vol. ix., p. 184, et seq.) 



