What is recorded here

Killfruishe fell in 1615 after Jacob Stak robbed it in 1318, leaving behind a graveyard and a well named Tobercolman. Mr. Gubbins later levelled the graves on his own land, erasing the last visible proof that people had prayed there for centuries. The church vanished not through war or decay but through ownership, its memory reduced to a boundary line on someone else's estate.

Westropp (1904-5, 450) recorded the following details about Kilfrush; 'Kilfroys, 1287 (Inq. of T. de Clare); Kilfrussce in Grene Deanery, 1302; Jacob. Stak robbed Kilfrosse Church, 1318 (Plea R. 123 of xi Ed. II, m. 34); Kylfrushe, 1586 (Peyton, p. 14); Killfruishe, down, 1615. Site - It was known in 1840; and some remembered fragments of wall there. Its graveyard (LI040-035002-), in Mr. Gubbins' demesne, had then been levelled by him. The well (LI040-034----) was Tobercolman'. In 1840 the Ordnance Survey Letters recorded that 'an old graveyard where there were, some time ago, some remains of an old church observable is situated in the Demesne of Mr. Gubbins. The grave yard is not much in use' (OSL Kilfrush Parish). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 June 2019

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