Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Knights Hospitallers
Killerrig, County Carlow, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Killerrig
- County
- Carlow
- Country
- Ireland
- Latest-edition OS map
- St. John the Baptists Preceptory (in Ruins)
- Coordinates
- 52.84665, -6.79280
- SMR number
- CW008-007----
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007
Also known as Friarstown and founded by Gilbert de Borand (OSL 1839, 16-25). Registrum de Kilmainham (152) states it was confirmed to the Knights Hospitallers in 1212. In 1540 the jurors reported in Frerton a ruined castle and three messuages (Gwynn and Hadcockk 1988, 337). Down Survey records a castle in good repair here in 1650. Farmyard on site, no trace of medieval structures. (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 336-7)
References
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.