Friday, 12 July 2019

Palmerstown Priory (Walsh)



From Walsh's History of the Irish HierarchyWith the Monasteries of Each County, Biographical Notices of the Irish Saints, Prelates, and Religious, 1854, c. xliv p. 435

Palmerstown in the barony of Newcastle on the river Liffey and miles west of Dublin. Richard, prior of the house of St. Lawrence near Dublin sued Reginald de Barnevalle and his mother Joan for a freehold in Tyrnewer they held contrary to law. 

AD 1427 Henry VI granted the custody of the leper house near to John Waile to hold the same with all the messuages and tenements thereunto belonging at the yearly rent of three shillings so long as the same would continue in his the king's hands.