Westropp — Ancient Churches in Co. Limerick. 421 



Elenor, 1635; Elizabeth, daughter of Daniel Webb, 1684; Laurence 

 MacNamara and his wife Mary Fitzgerald, 1754 ; Elizabeth, wife of 

 Chidley Coote, 1781. 



The College held the livings of Cloncagh, Clonelty, Corcomohide, 

 Crecora, Kilfergus, Kilgobbin, Kilmoyland, Kiltearny, and Morgans, 

 with Chapel Miuet, and half Chapel Martin. 



235. St. John's Chapel. — Same. " Vicus S. Johannis " is named in 

 Kilmalloc, c. 1270 (B.B.L., p. 71); church, between the bridge and 

 St. John's gate," 1410. 



236. St. Mocheallog's Church. — Mc. Kerdiff has fled to the church 

 of St. Myhallok at Kylmehalloc, 1318 (Plea R., 116., m. 35). 

 *'S. Mathologus, on the hill of Kilmallock,"^ 1410. Fahric—HhQ 

 foundations of large blocks, but only a couple of feet high in 1840, 

 and 3 inches thick, and measure 22^ feet by 12 feet 3 inches ; they 

 lie on a rising ground. 



237. The Do:u:inicax Convent. — Same. In October, 1291, the 

 Dominicans entered on a plot of land given by a burgess of Kilmallock, 

 but they were violently evicted, and their house destroyed by the 

 bishop's retainers (C.S.P.I., vol. iii., IS'o. 962). It is alleged that the 

 convent was founded that year by Maurice Lord Offaley, or, as de 

 Burgo says, by a second son of John, of Callan (1260). In 1318 

 "William, bishop of Imelac (Emly), accused of taking a box of silver 

 out of the church of the Eriars Preachers at Kilmallock (Plea R., 123 

 of xi Ed. II., m. 30). In 1648, Eather David Eitzgerald and a lay 

 brother, David Fox, were put to death by the Republicans. For 

 other items, see ''Hibernia Dominicana" and the ^' Monasticons." It 

 was granted to Nicholas Miagh, sovereign" of Kilmallock and the 

 commonalty (Ap. 24, xxxvi Eliz.), being the Dominican House, with 

 a church, cloister, room, buildings, an orchard, and three gardens, 

 eleven acres in Kilmallock, and a water-mill (MSS., T.C.D., E. 425). 

 Fabric — An interesting ruin with a beautiful church. The chancel is 

 66^ feet by 24 feet, with a fine five-light east window, ^ six south 

 windows, and a canopied tomb. The nave had a side aisle, the 

 arcade of which has fallen, with a west window and pointed door, a 

 north clerestory, with an unusual round window, and a two-aisled 

 transept with two side chapels, and a beautiful reticulated window, 



1 Lackanaspike, or Parcell of the Bishop, near the Hill of Kilmallock. 

 "Limerick Terriers," P.R.O.L, No. 42. 

 - View, Plate XI. ; Plan, Plate XVII. 



