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Kilmainham Preceptory

📍 Dublin ⛪ erroneously given as Knights Templar 🏛️ dissolved 1540

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Knights Hospitaller founded c.1174 by Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare, Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke and Striguil, on the site of earlier monastery (see immediately above); erroneously given as Knights Templar[notes 91]; dissolved 1540;…

Knights Hospitaller founded c.1174 by Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare, Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke and Striguil, on the site of earlier monastery (see immediately above); erroneously given as Knights Templar[notes 91]; dissolved 1540; restored 1557; dissolved November 1558

Historical Information

Alternative Names:
  • Priory of St John the Baptist
Communities & Provenance:

Knights Hospitaller founded c.1174 by Richard Fitz Gilbert de Clare, Strongbow, Earl of Pembroke and Striguil, on the site of earlier monastery (see immediately above); erroneously given as Knights Templar[notes 91]; dissolved 1540; restored 1557; dissolved November 1558

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