Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Religious house - Knights Hospitallers
Adare, County Limerick, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Adare
- County
- Limerick
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- SMR number
- LI021-142----
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The National Monuments Service's description
The precise location of a ‘possible preceptory of the Knight’s Hospitallers’ in the vicinity of Adare has not been identified (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 339; Westropp 1916, 68). Described by Westropp (1904-5, 379) as following; 'House of the Knights of St. John. It is named 1410, and is perhaps the spital land in the map, D.S.(A.) 49,3 and the spittle land in Adare, granted to Sir Edward Ormsby, 1627 (Act. Sett. xix Car. II., m. 1d.)'. Westropp (1916, 68) recorded that 'The Hospital, or House of the Knights of St. John, has left us no ruin, nor (though the "Spital Land" appears on the curious detailed map of the Abbey lands at Adare in the Down Survey, (1651-55), is its site known'.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 31 July 2020
References
Westropp, T.J. 1916 The antiquities of Limerick and its neighbourhood, Antiquarian Handbook Series 7, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland.
Westropp, T.J. 1904-5 A survey of the ancient churches of Co. Limerick. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 25C, 327-479.
Gwynn, A. and Hadcock, R.N. 1970 (Reprint 1988) Medieval religious houses of Ireland. Dublin. Irish Academic Press.