Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Knights Hospitallers
Englishtown,limerick City, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Englishtown,limerick City
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- Coordinates
- 52.66760, -8.62353
- SMR number
- LI005-017165-
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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
According to Hodkinson (2009, 37) 'the 1292 charter of Edward I granted the Knights Templar the right to have a frankhouse in the city; however this may simply be the formalisation of an already existing situation. Their house lay in Bridge St., inside what are now the grounds of St. Mary's cathedral [LI005-017015-] just uphill of the present entrance. With the suppression of the order it passed to the Knights Hospitallers who held it to the dissolution, whereupon it passed to the Brownes of Kenmare' (Hodkinson 2003, 118-9).
References
Hodkinson, B. 2009 The medieval city of Limerick. Matthew Potter, Gearóid Ó Tuathaigh and Liam Irwin (eds.), Limerick history and society: interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county, 17-40. Dublin. Geography Publications.
Hodkinson, B. 2003 The Knights Templar House in Limerick. North Munster Antiquarian Journal 43, 118-9.
Nearby in the register
- House - medievalunder 1 mi
- Cross - Market crossunder 1 mi
- Graveyardunder 1 mi
- Quayunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.