Falkiner — The Hoqntal of St. John of Jerusalem. 311 



and the Hospital or Commandery of Any has since remained in 

 the Keninare family. (See the " Lismore Papers," first series, 

 vol. ii., p. 236).^ 



VIII. County Louth. 



T. Kiharan is situate in the barony of Ardee, close to Castle- 

 bellingham. According to Ware, this seat first belonged to the 

 Knights Templars, by donation of Maud de Lacy, but was afterwards 

 given to the Knights of the Hospital in the reign of Edward II." 

 Maud (le Lacy seems also to have presented the Order with the 

 advowson of the Church of CarJingford. In 1438, Marmaduke Lomley, 

 whose misfortunes have been mentioned above, was appointed its 

 Preceptor. Prior to the dissolution it appears to liave been leased 

 by the Priors of Kilmainham to Sir Oliver Plunkett, and in 1570 

 a lease was given to Sir Thomas Plunkett, Lord of Louth (Fiant 

 Elizabeth, 1483), from whom Kilsaran appears to have passed to 

 the Pellew family. ^ 



IX. County Meath. 



1. Kilmainham-heg is situate in the barony of Lower Kells, 

 twelve miles from !Navan. According to Ware, it was " founded by 

 Walter de Lacy, Lord of Meath, in the reign of llichard I, for the 

 Knights Hospitallers." This house appears to have been leased before 

 the dissolution to John Earnewall, Lord Trimleston, and another, for 

 sixty years; and in 1585 Sir Patrick Earnewall, on surrendering this 

 lease, received a new one from the Crown for sixty-one years. An 

 Inquisition of 21st James I shows that Sir Patrick had subsequently 

 acquired the fee. 



2. Kilmainliam Wood, also situate in the barony of Lower Kells, 

 some three miles from IN^obber, is described by Ware simply as 



^ Most of the Plantagenet and Tudor grants relating to their preceptory and 

 its possessions have been referred to by Mr. T. J. Westropp, m.r.i.a., in his 

 " Ancient Castles of the County Limerick," at p. 182 of this volume. 



- The Templars were also possessed of the Manor of Cooley, or Cowley, now 

 Templetown, situate some five miles from Carlingford, in the barony of Lower 

 Dundalk. The place was of considerable importance, and in a Certificate dated 

 1st Edward I, it appears to have ranked as the wealthiest manor of the Templars, 

 to whom it was granted by Matilda de Lacy. That the manor passed to the 

 Hospitallers appears both by the Inquisition taken in Elizabeth's time, which 

 recites a demise by Prior Eawson to Oliver Plunket of the '* Lordship of 

 Templetown in Cowley," and by the Inquisition of 34 Hen. VIII, which mentions 

 "an ancient castle and 120 acres of arable land in Templeton." But, though 

 evidently an important station, there is no reason for believing that it ever held 

 the rank of a commandery or preceptory under either Order. 



