Falkiner— 1%^? Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. 307 



document Clontarf is described as " a vill near Dublin called Clenm- 

 thorp." This Chai'ter, under which Crook, Kilbarry, and other 

 possessions of the Templars were also held, was cited in the proceedings 

 between the Abbot of Dunbrody and the Templars referred to at p. 287, 

 supra, and is set out in Sweetman's "Calendar of Documents" 

 (1285-1292), p. 329. The Charter of Henry II was confirmed by a 

 grant in Frankalmoigne, and Charter of Confirmation from Henry III, 

 dated February 11, 1226-7 (Cal. S. P. Ireland, 1172-1251, p. 225). 

 The Charter of Henry III was in turn confirmed by Charter of 

 Edward I, dated November 22, 1280 (Cal. S. P. Ireland, 1252-1284, 

 p. 368). On the suppression of the Templars, the Manor of Clontarf, 

 appurtenant to the foundation, was granted in. 1311 to Eichard de 

 Burgh, Earl of Ulster, but the Preceptory itself was transferred to 

 the Hospitallers. It was sequestered in 1440, in consequence of 

 the disloyalty of Thomas EitzGerald, then Prior of Kilmainham. It 

 was probably restored to the Order, but if so it appears to have been 

 resumed and to have remained in the Crown down to the dissolution of 

 the monasteries, for an Inquisition of the year 1527 speaks of it as 

 then suppressed. In 1541, as narrated above, it was granted to Sir 

 John Rawson, the last Prior of Kilmainham. After the rebellion of 

 1641, the lands were confiscated, and granted to John Blackwell, 

 through whom they passed to the Yernon family. 



II. CoTJXTY Caelow. 



Killergy is situate on the river Slaney, some five miles from 

 CarloWj and some remains still exist at Friarstown. Of this house, 

 Ware states that it was founded for Knights Hospitallers by Gilbert 

 de Borard in the reign of King John. Its name is preserved in that 

 of the parish of Killerig, in the barony of Carlo w. The precise date of 

 the original grant is unknown ; and I am unable to find any authority 

 for the statement that it was a Templar foundation — an assertion 

 which, perhaps, had its origin in a grant by Nicholas Taafie to the 

 Master of the Templars in 1284, of his lands near Killergy. It is not 

 included in the list of Templar possessions in 1307. Archdall gives 

 the names of several of its Preceptors. At the dissolution it was 

 leased to Christopher Dowdall and others for twenty-one years at a 

 rent of £4, subject to the payment of a pension of £24 5^. Id. to 

 the late Preceptor (Fiant Henry YIII, 222). Subsequently it 

 was granted by Elizabeth to *'Mary Travers, now wife of Gerald 



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