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former times enfeeoffed the Prior and his house with all the lands of 

 Kilmainham. 



Killergy, County Carlo w, is another place which has been 

 associated with the Templars. Ware, in his Antiquities (vol. ii, 

 p. 271), says that this preceptory beloDged first to the Templars, and 

 then to the Hospitallers. The Abbe MacGeoghegan in his ''Histoire 

 de i'lrlande," also states that it belonged to the former Order, and 

 passed, on its dissolution, to the latter. That both these authors 

 were wrong, we have a proof in an entry on the Plea Roll 32 Ed. I, 

 where, in the account for County Kildare, we find that Friar 

 Bernard, brother of the Hospital of Kylergi, and Friar Robert, 

 Master of the Hospital of Toly, were fined. A few years before 

 this, viz., in 1290, in the confirmation of a charter from the Prior 

 of the Hospitallers to Henry Marshal, citizen of Dublin, we find 

 the Master of Killergy as a witness.^ It is extremely unlikely that 

 this preceptory could have belonged once to the Templars and been 

 afterwards transferred by them to the Hospitallers, as the friction 

 between the two Orders was so great as to render such a transaction 

 almost an impossibility. 



Killure, County Waterford, is another preceptory which, by 

 various authorities, has been considered as part of the Templars' 

 property. But in Plea Roll 28 Ed. I, m. 8, we find that, in a 

 certain action. Friar Hugh, Preceptor of the house of Killeur, was 

 acting as attorney for the Prior of the Hospital of S. John, which 

 he would not have done if he had been a Templar. 



Ballyhook (Balicanok or Ballycaok), County Wexford, is also 

 attributed by some to the Templars, but, I think, without any 

 grounds. In Plea Roll 6 Ed. I (m. 7), Richard de Kalmondesdon, 

 Master of the house of Ballycaok, is associated with the Prior of the 

 Hospital of S. John of Jerusalem in an action against Philip, son 

 of Benedict, and he is also a witness to the confirmation of the 

 charter of the Prior of the Hospitallers in 1290 mentioned above. 

 If any further proof is needed, it may be pointed out that the head 

 of a subsidiary house of the Hospitallers was often called " Master," 

 a term which amongst the Templars in Ireland was only given to the 

 head of the Order, and then not as master of any particular place, 

 but as Master of the Order. 



Smith in his "History of the County and City of Cork," 1750, 

 states that the preceptory of Mourne ( Bally namony or Monaster de 



^ Cal. Irish Documents, 1285-92. No. 787. 



