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(Patent R.), to Eclmond Sexten (despite a petition of the Corpora- 

 tion for the house " which Edmund Sexten craftily obtained " 

 C.S.P.L, 24th December, 1539). Site— It stood to the south of the 

 Franciscan House, on the Island of Limerick, at Sir Harry's Mall, 

 and has been long since demolished. In 1559 it was found to be 

 sublet to seven tenants — some of it in poor, small tenements. The 

 body of the church, hospital, steeple, a waste garden, barns, and close 

 then remained (Inq. iv. and v Ph. and 31., June). In 1594 Stephen 

 Sexten held " the religious house of the B.Y.M. and the Holy Cross," 

 with a mansion house and a belfry, in ruins, a choir, or chancel, a little 

 garden, and a thatched house (Inq. xxxvii Eliz.). 



15. The DoMiNiCAx Coxvext, or ''The Monastery of Doxxoho 

 Carbrt."^ — It was founded by Donchad Cairbreach O'Brien, King of 

 Thomond, about 1225, and he was buried in it in 1241. Here were 

 also buried several Bishops- — Hubert de Burgh, of Limerick, 1250, 

 Donald O'Kennedy, and Matthew O'Hogan, of Killaloe, 1251 and 

 1281, and Christian, Simon O'Currin, and Maurice O'Brien, of 

 Kilfenora, 1254, 1303, and 1321. The monastery of St. Saviour of the 

 Dominicans, 1410. Lenihan (History, p. 6-f6) gives a long history, 

 citing inter alia the Book of the Eriars Preachers in the Sloane MSS. 

 (Brit. Mus. 4793), to which I refer. The house was granted to James, 

 Earl of Desmond, and, on the attainder of Earl Gerald, to the corpora- 

 tion, 1586. Pope Innocent X. erected it into a university in 1644; 

 and it was tui'ned into a barrack, 1679. Fabric — The 1590 map shows 

 a lofty belfry without battlements, four ranges of buildings in repair, 

 and the side arcades (or windows) and doorway of the ruined church.^ 

 It is described in 1535 as the site of a church, steeple, dormitory, 

 three chambers, a cemetery, sundry closes and gardens, and four acres, 

 with 30 acres of land at Courtbrack, a fishery of salmon, and Mona- 

 braher, near Parteen (Jan. 7, xxv Hen. YIII.). The ivied north 



1 Peyton's " Survey," 1586. 



- Their epitaph is preserved in the Eegister, " senos poiitifices in se locus 

 claudit iste ; . . . Hubertus de Burgh presul quondam Limerici ; Donaldus, 

 Matthaeus pastores Laonienses ; Christian, Mauritius, Simon, Fenaborensis," &c. 

 See Fitzgerald, vol. ii., p. 571. Donchud Cairbreach O'Brien. The founder was 

 here buried, 1241. See Lenihan, p. 646, for his epitaph, and a long account of 

 the abbey. It will be remembered that Terence O'Brien, K.C. Bishop of Emly, 

 who was executed by Ireton in 1651, was friar of this house, and provincial of 

 the order in 1644. 



■^Richard Bultingfort by his will, 1405, left a legacy to the Friars Preachers, 

 for the repair of Holy Trinity Church. See ll.S.A.L, xxviii., p. 121. 



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