Westropp — Ancient Churches in Co. Limerick, 363 



1626, belonging to the Limerick Franciscans, are described by Rev. 

 C. P. Meehan. See " Franciscans," and P.M.D.I., p. 443. Lenihan, 

 ''Limerick," pp. 653, 66L 



17. The Templaes' House. — It is said that the ohl Methodist 

 church stood on its site in St. Francis' Abbey. The Exchequer 

 Rolls, London (1327, i Ed. TIL, and MSS., T.C.D., 1060), mention 

 " Lymer civit. De bonis Templariorum, 3s. per Robertum de Trim."^ 

 Lenihan says that the Templary was in Quay Lane. 



ChUECHES i^OETH OF THE ShAN^ON. 



Certain churches and parishes in the civic bounds, but to the north 

 of the river, may here be noticed. These v^eve Xellchuan, or Kilquane, 

 and Killiedan (? Killeely), named in the Inq. M. f. H., 1201 ; Ivilcohan 

 (Tvilquane), Killieil (Killeely), Kilhyntena (Kilfintinan), and Kilrussce 

 (Kilrush), given in 1302, Papal Taxation. Creattalech (Crattoe), and 

 Yharmid (Huamerith, 1199, y-Emrid, 1287, or Hy Aimrid, the district 

 at Kilfintinan), alias Kylkennan, and Kyllyntynan^ were claimed in the 

 Tax. Proc, 1418. These, except Kilfintinan, Killeely, and Kilrush, 

 were retained by the diocese of Killaloe, and are in County Clare. ^ 



18. KiLEUSH (5). — St. Munchin's parish. Kellross, with church of 

 S. Macuchini, 1201; Kilrussce, 1302; " Kyllross, Synynd, intermino," 

 1400.* The name is obviously from the land in the bend of the river ; 

 but a patroness, St. Rossa, sister of St. Munchin, has been invented. 

 Fabric — A very early Irish oratory stands in the grounds of Oldchurch 

 The west door has inclined jambs, and a massive lintel;^ the east window 

 has a circular head and splay arch. A curious window, with an 

 obscure inscription of the Quinlinans, is set in the south wall ; this was 

 brought (as already stated) from St, Mary's Lane, preserved by the 



^I hesitate to include in a list confined to ecclesiastical structures ''the 

 Hospital, or House of Leapers, near the city of Limerick." It held forty ploughlands 

 by patent from Henry III., as appeared by the ancient record in 1G15. It was 

 granted to the Earls of Desmond, and, on attainder of Earl Gerald, to Robert 

 Aneslie (Inquis., 18th March, xii Jac. I.). Spital, alias Hospitall Land, 1657 

 (D.S.(A.) 10), near Eosbreen. 



- Killfentenan appears as in the deanery of Limerick in the Yisitatio Regalis, 

 3 633, March 17. The vicarage was in the County of Clare and Diocese of 

 Limerick even in 1805. Limerick Terriers, P.R.O.I., jSo. 39. 



^ Proc. R.I.A., Ser. 3., vol. vi., pp. 151, 153. 

 One of the last entries in the Black Book tells of the recovery by Bishop 

 Barnard Adams of ^ carucate at Killrois, long lost to his predecessors. 



° See sketch infra, Plate X. 



