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Fedamore is an 18th-century disused Church of Ireland church built on the site of a medieval church dedicated to St. John the Baptist. The grant to Magio Abbey around 1185 and later legal disputes show the land remained valuable enough to argue over for centuries. John Croker lived to ninety-three before dying in 1717, giving the place a rare measure of human patience. The building still stands where those arguments and lives occurred, waiting for someone to remember the name behind the stones.
18th century disused C of I church built on site of medieval church of Fedamore (O'Kelly 1943, 226). Westropp (1904-5, 373-4) recorded the following details on Fedamore; ‘granted by John, Earl of Mortain, to Magio Abbey, c. 1185 (C.S.P.L, vol. i., p. 136); Fedemer, 1237 (lb., 2383); Reglas Fegmor, named with Glenogra (Plea R. 32 of xxv Ed. II.) S. John de Fedm., 1302; suit of W. de Cammile against Richard de Clare, about Fedemer, 1317 (Plea R. 119 of xi Ed. II); Feadamuir, dedicated to St. John the Baptist, 1410; Fedamor, 1418; Fedamore et Ballone, 1615; ffedamoore (Peyton, p. 2), 1586; Site - The modern I. C. church was built on the old site in 1740. It has monuments of John Croker, of Ballinagarde, 1717, aged 93; John Heart, 1741-1736'. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 03 January 2019

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