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and a door to each side ; the priest's residence was at the west end, and 

 is 25 feet by 21 feet.^ ]S"o ancient tombs remain. The Quins (after- 

 wards Earls of Dunraven) buried in the chancel.- 



66. Eael Desmond's Chapel-of-ease. — A small mortuary chapel, 

 with a vault below, 34 feet by 16 feet. The east, north, and south win- 

 dows have flat splays and trefoil-headed lights ; the west is similar, but 

 is 12 feet above the floor, and has window seats, and near it are corbels 

 for a galleiy. The chapel seems of the fifteenth century ; but its 

 founder, and the origin of its name, are unknown ; it stands 78 feet to 

 the north of the church. 



67. St. James' House. — It is named in 1291 " domus Beati Jacobi 

 de Adare," worth 40^. The site are unknown ; some suppose it to 

 have been embodied in the Franciscan convent.^ (See Appendix.) 



68. The Trinitarian House, or White Abbey, or Manister Bean. 

 — Founded for the redemption of captives, the only Irish House of the 

 order. The "Memorials" (p. 36) gives an elaborate account of its 

 foundation from Lopez and Bonaventui-a Baron,^ but the accounts 

 are late and demonstrably inaccurate. The alleged date is 1230 ; the 

 founder, Lord Ossory ; and the monks were (it is said) brought from 

 Aberdeen. JS'icholas Sandford was prior in 1299 (B. B, L., p. 98). 

 Peter, " minister of the Order of the Holy Trinity at Adare," was prior 

 in 1319, and was, with three monks, John Groyne, John Lees, and 

 Gilbert de Clare, accused of seizing the goods of the Augustinians 

 (Plea E. 127 of xiii Ed. II.). He got license to purchase 3 acres in 

 Adare in 1329 (Patent B.). The convent had a grant of £20 per 

 annum "to the convent of SS. Trinity of Addara," in 1359 (^Ihid.). 

 IS'umerous other documents relate to the house, which was granted on 

 its dissolution in 1567 to Warham St. Leger. [N'umerous other grants 

 exist, perhaps the most important being that to Sir Edward Ormsby, 

 1667, of part of the Commons of Adare, the Black, AYhite, and Poore 

 Abbeys, Spittle Land, gardens and burgess lands of W. Stritch, 

 Stephen Lee, Pierce Creagh, Lisaght, &c. (Act Sett. Boll, xix Car. II., 



1 See plan of it aud the chapel, Plate XVIII. 



-The Quin chaUce at Adare is inscribed "for the use of the parish of 

 St. Nicholas Adare, 1726," by Thady Quin, Esq., "orate pro eo," R.S.A.I., 

 xxviii., p. 136. 



R.S.A.I., vol. xxi. (1890, '91), pp. 322-3 (but see Cal. Papal Lett., vi., p. 397). 

 ^ As Mr. Hewson has pointed out, '\Baron" or Baronius enjoys undeserved 

 regard, beiug confused with the learned annalist, Cardinal Baronius, a century 

 earlier. 



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