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we learn that it had a preceptor, provost, chamberlain, cook, free 

 servants, hay ward, &c. Curious grants of board and lodging, 

 1335-1349 (Mon. Hib., Archdall, p. 4). In 1311 the prior of tiie 

 Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem impleaded E.. de Clare for 

 imprisoning his friar, Adam, an Irishman (Plea R., iv Ed. II,, m. 21). 

 John Thome was the preceptor, 1365-9 ; he contested the right of W., 

 Bishop of Emly, to make visitation of the House or Hospital of Aney 

 (Cal. Papal L., vol. iv., pp. 15, 52). In 1541 Eneas O'Heffernan, the 

 last preceptor, was made Bishop of Emly, and the Hospital dissolved 

 (Plants, 212-285). In 1566 it was leased with its rectories of Ane, 

 ^loreton, Ballymon(a), Ballinlough, Kilkallan, Carecorne, Ballynarde, 

 Broo, Rochestown, Knocklong, and Templebridan to John Cockerham. 

 In 1578 the commandery of Anee, late Hospital of St. John of 

 Jerusalem, was granted to W. Apsley, with the rectories of 

 Ballenecloighe, Loinge, Kilfrussce, Kayrecorney, Kairefussock, Kil- 

 callane, Moreton, Owlys, Browe, Carnowrie, Bochistown, Batbronan, 

 and MorteUstown, with their lands (Fiants, 3250) ; Oippit)eal 

 (O'Donovan). Fabric — The "abbey" stood in the village; the church 

 was 86 feet by 21 feet 9 inches, and had two windows in the east end — 

 one pointed, and one defaced. There were five defaced windows in the 

 south wall, and doors in each side at 20 feet from the west end. 

 The walls were 22 feet by 5 feet ; part of the belfry tower stands 

 at the west end. It was as broad as the church, and 10 feet deep, 

 with two vaulted floors, being 30 feet high to the south, and 10 

 feet to the east. There was an effigy of a knight, 7 feet long, supposed 

 to be the founder (O.8.L., 8, p. 322). 



354. KiLFEusH (40).— A parish. Kilfi'oys, 1287 (Inq. of T. de 

 Clare) ; Kilfrussce in Grrene Deanery, 1302 ; Jacob. Stak robbed Kilfrosse 

 Church, 1318 (Plea B. 123 of xi Ed. II., m. 34); Kylfrushe, 1586 

 (Peyton, p. 14) ; Killfruishe, down, 1615; Cilippuip (O'Donovan). 

 Site — It was known in 1840; and some remembered fragments of 

 wall there. Its graveyard, in ]\Ir. Gubbins' demesne, had then been 

 levelled by him. The well was Tobercolman. 



355, 356. YiLL. of Michael ai^d Caeeigmich Churches in Grene 

 deanery ; the hospitallers were rectors, 1302. Sites — Unknown. 



357. Cellmalatch.— The " Tripartite Life," p. 199, tells how 

 St. Patrick dwelt in Hui Cuanach, and rebuked the British Culdee, 

 Malaich, for want of faith ; he prophesied that Malaich's Conghabhaile 

 should not be lofty." The author adds that it lay in the north-east 

 angle of the Southern Deisi ; its name is Cell Malaich ; five cows can 



