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towards Emly, the cross, mill, &c., &c. Nic. Stoppil was then provost. 

 Sandy r, the harper, &c.^ The suit with Athassell Ahbey was tried on 

 the 4th day (octave of St. John Baptist, 1253) in the greater chui'ch 

 of Kilmehallok (p. 87). The surrender of the disputed churches is 

 dated there (p. 103), and a grant of Bishop Hubert to J. Cornubiens, 

 of Kilmalloek, 1223 (p. 132). In 1361 B. Dullard, sch., was licensed 

 to be chancellor of Limerick, prebend of Ballycathan, and perpetual 

 vicar of SS. Peter and Paul's, Kilmalloek (Papal Petit., i., p. 383). 

 The church was enlarged by Maur. f . Gerald, 1 320.^ Ecc. de Kyllocia, 

 1418, ded. to SS. Peter and Paul, 1410. Dom. S. Petri de Kilmal- 

 loek, collegiata ecclesia," with cloister, hall, buildings, and orchard, 

 1594 (MSS. T.C.D., F. 4, 25). The church was the scene of the 

 surrender of James Fitzmaurice, of Desmond, to Perrot, and of the 

 service attended by James, earl of Desmond, which led to so serious an 

 outbreak of his late adherents. In 1657 Kilmalloek was "totally 

 ruined and uninhabited." (D.S. (A), 516); see also map (51).^ 

 Fabric — An interesting and massive building within the town wall, on 

 the brink of the Lubagh stream. It has a chancel, 49^ feet by 25^ 

 feet, with a large five-light east window, and still in use. The nave 

 has side aisles, with plain arcades of four pointed arches to each side, 

 and is 80 feet by 65 feet. The west window has three large lights, and 

 below it is a well-moulded pointed door of early thirteenth century. 

 Embedded in it, at the end of the north arcade, is a much modified but 

 ancient Irish round tower, now battlemented, with a door on the ground, 

 and covered thickly Avith ivy since I first examined it in 1878, There 

 are a broken porch, the inner door of c. 1420 with crockets, and a side 

 chapel with late insertions. Monuments — John Yerdon (put up by 

 Sir W. Coppinger), 1614, and his wife Alsona Haly, 1626; Thomas 

 Fitzgerald and Joane Burke, 1630 ; Maurice, their son, and his wife 



1 A later but important document, " Forfeited houses in the town of Kilmal- 

 locke," September, 1664, names several streets and specifies the houses, w hether of 

 stone or mud, the gardens, and tenants ; it notes the ruined castle in the High street. 

 "Limerick Terriers," P.R.O.L, No. 40. 



2 It is generally taken to be the Augustiniau House; but the 1410 list gives 

 " the Monastery of the Regulars of St. Augustine in Kilmalloek " as separate 

 from " the collegiate and parish church . . . dedicated to . . . Peter and 

 Paul." An ahbey called " Flacispaghe " had been demolished before 1586 (Inq. 

 xxix Eliz.) ; perhaps " Lackanaspike," as in section 236. 



3 A fallen dolmen of three large slabs lies behind the new Roman Catholic 

 church. It is described and figured by Mr. P. J. Lynch in ' ' Limerick Field Club," 

 vol. ii., p. 282 ; but Avas first noted by Rev. J. Dovvd. 



