The abbey of Carmelite or White friars
In the year 1278 the Carmelite friars represented to King Edward I that, by several grants of Roger Owen James de Bermingham and Nicholas Bacuir, they had procured a habitation for themselves with certain tenements and other possessions within the city of Dublin, and that they proposed to erect thereon a church. The king, by writ dated the 6th of November, commanded the bailiffs and citizens of Dublin to permit the friars to inhabit the said place and build their church without let or hindrance. The citizens obstinately opposed the friars, shewing the many inconveniences that would arise from their petition. Being thus defeated the Carmelites applied with more success to Sir Robert Bagot, knight, chief justice of the king's bench, who built a monastery for them in the parish of St Peter in the south suburbs of the city, on a site which he purchased from the abbey of Baltinglass in the county of Wicklow.
AD 1320 John Sugdaeus provincial of the Carmelite friars in Ireland held a chapter of the order
AD 1333 the parliament sat in a hall of this monastery. Among its benefactors were Richard II, Henry IV and Henry VI, from whom this house obtained a grant of 100l annually to be paid out of the customs of the city of Dublin.
William Kelly was the last prior and in the thirty-fourth of Henry VIII, this convent, with eleven acres, nine houses, gardens and orchards, was granted to Nicholas Stanehurst at the annual rent of 2s 6d. It was afterwards conceded by Elizabeth to Francis Aungier, created baron of Longford, in June, 1621.
The Carmelites have again established themselves in the metropolis of Ireland.
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