Falktner— Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. 309 



Thomas de Stan well, described as Master of Ulster," probably 

 represented this Preceptory. After the dissolution, the Preceptory of 

 Ards was leased, in 1584, with the Manor of Johnstown and other 

 lands, to George Alexander (Fiant Elizabeth, 4420).^ 



V. County Galwat. 



Kinalehin is situate in the parish of Bally nakill, and Parony of 

 Leitrim, about three and a-half miles from Woodford. Of this 

 house AVare merely observes that it was a Preceptory of tlie Order 

 of Knights Hospitallers ; and he mentions a Priary of Minorites 

 at the same place. Archdall says, on the authority of Alemand, 

 that ''a Commandery for Knights Hospitallers was founded here 



in the tliirteenth century by O'Plaherty," and gives the 



names of three fourteenth-century Priors. Archdall, misled by the 

 O'Flaherty origin, supposes Kinalekin to be in lar-Connaught. But 

 O'Donovan has shown its real situation to be in the Clanricarde 

 country (Pour Masters, p. 2230). His detailed description of the 

 remains of the Preceptory will be found in the Ordnance Survey 

 Papers for Co. Galway at the Royal Irish Academy, vol. ii. p. 504. 

 In a power of attorney given by the last Prior of Kilmainham, printed 

 in "Blake Family Records," first series, p. 67, mention is made of 

 "the tithes of Kenaleghen, in the Diocese of Clonfert." At the 

 dissolution Kinalekin was leased to Walter Hope (Fiant Elizabeth, 

 1639), and in 1578, "the rectory of Kynnaleighane, Co. Galway, 

 with the tithes of Kynnaleighane and Barneboye, possessions of 

 the late Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in Ireland," were granted, 

 inter alia, to the provost and burgesses of Athenry (Fiant Eliza- 

 beth, 3419). 



VI. County Kildaee. 



Ware enumerates Kilbegs, Kilheel, and Tully as "three Precep- 

 tories of Knights Hospitallers, whereof Kilheel was the donation of 

 Maurice FitzGerald." 



1. Kilhegs is situated in the Barony of Clane, four miles north- 

 west of Naas. Its name is preserved in that of the parish of Killybegs, 

 in the Diocese of Kildare. Archdall says : " The Knights Hospitallers 

 had a Commandery here, of which we have no further account." 



1 For a note on the extent of the preceptory of Ards, see Bishop ^Reeves's 

 Ecclesiastical Antiquities of Down, Connor, and Dromore," p. 164. 



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