Falktner — The Uo^pUal of St. John of Jenimlcm. 315 



(or ^""allocli), near Wexford, and Adgmile, a Burgess of Wexford with 

 all his Chattels," cannot be supposed to refer to Kilclogan. The grant 

 of Kilclogan to the Templars, who were unquestionably in possession 

 of it at the date of their suppression, has been generally ascribed 

 to Conogher O'Morras {sic), of Leix, a twelfth-century chief. If 

 this be so, it is the only Templar foundation derived from Irish 

 as distinguished from Anglo-jSTorman patronage. Ware merely 

 states that Kilclogan was " the habitation of the Knights Templars in 

 the reign of King John." Mr. Here in his ''History of the Town 

 and County of Wexford," vol. iv., where many facts concerning the 

 Templars in Ireland are collected, discusses the probabilities as to this 

 grant, but without adducing any conclusive evidence (pp. 262-4). 

 At the dissolution, Kilclogan was leased, with the Hospitallers' house 

 in Wexford, to James Sherlock of Waterford, at a rent of £26 13s. 4:d. 

 (Fiant Henry YIII). It was subsequently leased to Sir Thomas 

 Radcliff, afterwards Earl of Sussex, and after being held by Sir Henry 

 Harrington was ultimately acquired by Sir Dudley Loftus, in whose 

 family it has since remained (Fiants Elizabeth, 2697 and 5080).' 



2. Wexford. — The Priory of St. John and St. Bridget, in the town 

 of AVexford, was founded, as stated by Ware, "by William 

 Alareschall, Earl of Pembroke, for Knights of the Hospital." 

 Archdall states that previous to the abolition of the TempLirs this was 

 the principal liouse of the Hospitallers in Ireland. There is no 

 authority for this statement, though it is probable enough that a 

 house founded by the Earl of Pembroke was always one of considerable 

 consequence. This priory was leased in 1575, with Kilclogan and 

 other possessions of the Hospitallers, to Sir Thomas Padcliff, afterwards 

 Earl of Sussex, and subsequently, in 1557, to Sir Henry Harrington 

 (Fiants Elizabeth, 2697 and 5080). Later it became with Kilclogan 

 the property of Sir Dudley Loftus (Here's "History of Wexford," 

 vol. iv., p. 294). 



^ Ballyhaek, also in the Barony of Shelburne, and one mile from Duncannon, 

 appears to have been dependent on Kilclogan, and hence it has been deemed by 

 some writers to have been a Templar establishment. There is, however, no 

 sufficient warrant for this assumption. There is no record of its founder, or the 

 date of its foundation, and the appearance of the name of the "Master of Bally- 

 canok," in a list of witnesses to a 13th-century Charter, in company with the heads 

 of several unquestionably Hospitallers' houses, seems to show that it was originally 

 associated Avith the Hospital of St. John. Very possibly on the acquisition of 

 Kilclogan by the latter, it was thought convenient to affiliate the smaller 

 foundation of Ballyhaek to the more important house of Kilclogan. 



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