Allen's Hospital (Walsh)

From Walsh's History of the Irish Hierarchy: With the Monasteries of Each County, Biographical Notices of the Irish Saints, Prelates, and Religious, 1854, c. xliv p. 429.

Allen's Hospital. Walter archbishop of Dublin, about the year 1500, granted a space of ground on which to build a stone house for ten poor men.  June 8th, 1504, John Allen, then dean of St Patrick's cathedral, founded this hospital for sick poor to be chosen from the families of Allen, Barret, Begge, Hill, Dillon and Rodier in the diocese of Dublin and Meath, and to be good and faithful catholics of good fame and honest conversation the dean assigned lands for their support and maintenance and further endowed the hospital with a messuage in the town of Duleek county of Meath. The founder died January the 2nd, 1505.