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The following description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Carlow' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Also known as Friarstown and founded by Gilbert de Borand (OSL 1839, 16-25). Registrum de Kilmainham (152) states it was confirmed to the Knights Hospitallers in 1212. In 1540 the jurors reported in Frerton a ruined castle and three messuages (Gwynn and Hadcockk 1988, 337). Down Survey records a castle in good repair here in 1650. Farmyard on site, no trace of medieval structures. (Gwynn and Hadcock 1988, 336-7)

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St. John the Baptists Preceptory (in Ruins) — Killerrig

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