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The precise location of a ‘possible preceptory of the Knight’s Hospitallers’ in the vicinity of Adare has not been identified (Gwynn and Hadcock 1970, 339; Westropp 1916, 68). Described by Westropp (1904-5, 379) as following; 'House of the Knights of St. John. It is named 1410, and is perhaps the spital land in the map, D.S.(A.) 49,3 and the spittle land in Adare, granted to Sir Edward Ormsby, 1627 (Act. Sett. xix Car. II., m. 1d.)'. Westropp (1916, 68) recorded that 'The Hospital, or House of the Knights of St. John, has left us no ruin, nor (though the "Spital Land" appears on the curious detailed map of the Abbey lands at Adare in the Down Survey, (1651-55), is its site known'.
Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly
Date of upload: 31 July 2020
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