Westropp — Ancient Churches in Co. Limerick. 455 



377. Chapel of Eustace, 1302, near Oola. The Hospitallers were 

 rectors. 



378. DooNMOoN (40). — Donmown Church, in Grene, 1291 ; Dun- 

 minoyn, between (Knock)Long and Kilfi-oys, in Any Manor, 1287 

 (C.S.P.I., vol. iii., p. 204) ; Downemoone, alias Eallineheinsy (D.S.(A), 

 55, bba). Site — Perhaps the graveyard of Cloheen, near edge of 

 Doonmoon, 



379. LiNFiELD (24). — In a detached part of Ballyneclogh. There 

 were traces of a church called "Roilig Choluimcille, or Teampul 

 na Cairrge, and Teampul pairc na Cairgge, and a well named Tobar 

 naDrochairigh (O.S.L., 8, p. 115). 



380. KiNNETHiN. — Ware and Archdall give this abbey as in 

 Limerick. .The abbot to be distrained by sheriff of Limerick at suit 

 of Eobert de Eland, Michaelmas, 1304. I believe this to be a mistake 

 for Keynsham, as the forms Kentham, Kennetham, &c., are common 

 in the thirteenth-century Eolls ; and the abbey held an unreasonable 

 share of the benefices and lands of Limerick. 



381. The Feanciscan House of Galballt, though lying in County 

 Tipperary, is so close to the border and so bound up with Galbally 

 itself that I feel compelled to notice it here. It was founded about 

 1220-30 by Donchad Cairbreach O'Erien, King of Thomond, and was 

 dissolved in 1 543, when it was granted with its three gardens, six messu- 

 ages, six acres of arable land to John of Desmond (Pat. xxv, H. YIIL). 

 Father Mooney tells of the capture of its monks in the belfry, and 

 their execution by Sir H. Sidney's soldiers, in 1570. Fabric — The 

 church has a nave and chancel, 44 feet 10 inches by 23 feet, and 

 38 feet 10 inches by same. The east window had three pointed 

 lights, 12 feet high ; two pointed south lights, and a plain north 

 door. The belfry stands at the intersection ; the arches are 27 feet 

 high, and 8 feet 4 inches wide. There are small slits in the lower 

 part of the tower, and trefoil-headed lights above to the north 

 and south. It is 17 feet east and west; the piers, 4 feet 2 inches 

 thick. In the nave the south window and door are defaced, and a 

 staircase of thirty-six steps, lit by narrow slits, leads up the south- 

 west angle to the top of the wall (O.S.L., 9, p. 219), 



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