Falkiner — The Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. 313 



mentioned in the " Annals of Lough Ce." According to Col. Wood- 

 Martin, in his " History of Sligo," p. 286, no mention is made of 

 Templehouse between 1271 and 1559, when it was plundered by 

 Eoderick MacDermot, of Moylurg. Eut it had certainly been held 

 during the greater part of this long interval by the Hospitallers. 

 After the dissolution Teach-Temple was leased first, 1569, to 

 Christopher Havers and Charles Egingham ; later, in 1578, to 

 Thomas Chester and Charles Goodman; and again, in 1596, to 

 William Taaffe (Fiants Elizabeth, 1483, 3241, and 6016). 



XII. County Tipperary. 



T. Clomulj now Clonoulty, situated in the barony of Kilnamanagh, 

 about midway between Tipperary and Thurles, and some six miles 

 from Cashel, is simply described by Ware as "first the seat of the 

 Templars, afterward of the Hospitallers." It is not mentioned in 

 the list of the Templars' possessions in 1307, already referred to. 

 Eut in the certificate of their goods and chattels, cited above, it 

 is enumerated among other Templar foundations. After the dissolu- 

 tion " the Commandery of Clonhall, alias Clonnell, in the Diocese of 

 Casshel," was leased for forty years from 1575 to Jasper Horsey. 

 But in 1596, a fresh lease was made of the Preceptory to Eichard 

 Harding (Fiants Elizabeth, 2406 and 5988). 



XIII. County Watkkford. 



T. 1 . Crook is situate in the Barony of Gaultier, about six miles from 

 Waterford, a little below Passage. It was granted by the Charter of 

 Henry II, cited under Clontarf, and confirmed by the other Charters 

 there referred to, " with ten carucates of land." The Preceptory of 

 Crook was leased with that of Killure, in 1578, to Eobert Woodford, 

 and in 1584, to Anthony Power (Eiants Elizabeth 3227 and 4529). 



£32 " (Mag. Eot. Scac. Hib., 19 Edwd. II, No. 541-7, P.R.O.L.). Here's 

 '•History of Wexford," iv., p. 281. 



Of the places above enumerated, Le Coly, in Louth, Rathronan and Akyltan, 

 in Tipperary ; Ballygaveran (the modern Gowran, in Co. Kilkenny) ; Kylcorke 

 and Kilbride, in Kildare, do not appear to have been preceptories or commanderies 

 even in Templar times. If they were such, they belong to the class of 

 possessions which were diverted to lay ownership after the suppression of the 

 Orders, as only the rectories of these parishes seem to have become the property of 

 the Hospitallers. 



