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had become the property of the city. In 1285 is found a grant of 

 rents to the Hospital of S. John without the New Gate, and also one 

 to the Nuns of Tachmelyn. ^ 



Some further interesting particulars may be gleaned from these 

 documents of S. Anne's gild. In the year 1486, Thomas Talbot, lord 

 of Malahide, held lands in Kilmainham, while Eichard Mareward, 

 baron of Skreen,- owned a messuage near the Bull-ring and the High 

 Pipe, which in 1454 he dealt with as owner. A Chief Justice of the 

 Court of Common Pleas, in the reign of Henry VIII., had his residence 

 by the High Pipe, and the premises would appear to have extended to 

 Rochel-lane ; this was Patrick Bermingham, whose ancestor had been 

 Chief Justice of the King's Bench in the time of Edward lY. Land 

 in the same vicinity, held by Eleanor Howdall, wife of "William 

 Preston, yiscount Gormanston, is named (No. 82) as bounding, in 

 1527, a tenement dealt with in one of the Deeds. Sir "William 

 Domvile, Attorney-General for Ireland, in the reign of Charles 11. , 

 held some of the gild property, as in the year 1664 he is found 

 surrendering what was known as the small farm," containing 

 twenty-six acres, which lay in Kilmainham (No. 159). The name of 

 a Yiear of i^'aas, not previously known, has been recovered. He — 

 Thomas de Donabat — appears in a document of 1376 (^^o. 133) as 

 grantee of a cellar in Winetavern- street. 



In 1482, the gild of S. Anne granted {No. 120) to Rowland 

 FitzEustace, lord of Portlester, and !Margaret, his wife, for their own 

 lives, and the lives of two sons,^ a messuage near S. Audoen's ceme- 

 tery. This nobleman, in 1455, had erected in S. Audoen's church 

 the chapel in honoui' of S. Mary, known as the Portlester chapel, and in 

 the porch is still to be found portion of an altar-tomb (a cenotaph) 

 erected to the memory of himself and his wife, which bears their 

 effigies. This chapel was constructed by extending S. Anne's chapel 

 or aisle eastward alongside the chancel and choir, terminating in line 

 with the eastern gable ; the south wall for the length of the new 

 chapel was taken down, and, by means of pillars, three bays were 



1 Timolin, Co. Kildare. 



2 This title was originally bestowed by Hugh de Lacy, as Lord Palatine of 

 Meath, on the Feipo family ; on failure of the male line, and marriage of Margaret, 

 heiress of Francis Feipo, with Thomas Mareward, it was assumed by the Mareward 

 family. 



3 These sons— Richard and Oliver— are not mentioned in Burke's Dormant 

 Peerage. They may have died without issue in the lifetime of Rowland, lord 

 Portlester, who survived until 1496. 



