The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1915-12-11

AN, hllmaClOy, anu C1Ouau1. there 4
re very few references in Irish annals +,
o the Templars in Ireland, and it was
lot until 1907 that any reliable &C.
count of this Order in Ireland could
,e obtained. In that year Mr.. Herbert
Wood of the Irish Record Office, pub
ished an account of the Templars in
ireland, in the Proceedings of the
Royal Irish Academy. In this interest
ing paper the author briefly outlines
The history of the Order, and their ar
rival in Ireland soon after the coming
Of Henry II. From this brief sketch it
would appear that there was no settle
ment Of the Knights Templars in Ire
land until the twelfth century. This |
has been obtained through |
a deed chronicled in the Chartulary |
Of St. Mary's Abbey, Dublin, dated
1885. There are also in Christ Church
Deeds, No. 468, the signatures Of
Archbishop OToole, and Matthew. the
Templar. Archbishop O'Toole died in
the document shows that the deed was
made about 1177. Accordingly" says
Mr.. Wood, 1--WE may conclude that
Henry II issued his charter to the
Templars between 1872 and 1177."
There is only one royal grant to the
Templars in Ireland on record, but the
mobiles and feudal lords followed the
Kings example and gave grants of
lands to the Order. Therefore it is
quite likely that the Castle of the Tenn.
plars at Thurles was granted by the
feudal lords Of the county palatine of
Tipperary.
The County Palatine of Tipperary
was originally created by letters pat
ent, granted in 1923 by Edward III to
James lie Botiller, Earl of Ormond, and
confirmed by successive Monarchs to
that nobleman's successors. The juris.
diction thus granted embraced the
whole of the county of Tipperary,
with the exception of certain Church
lands. These lands were known as the
county of the Cross of Tipperary. In
1921, the County Palatinate of Tip.
perary was seized by the Crown and
remained in allegiance until the time
of Charles II, who restored it in favor
of the Duke of Ormond. The County
Of the Cross of Tipperary, which was
unaffected by the seizure of James l,
was included in the new Palatinate
The liberties and royalties of the
whole county of Tipperary were en-.
joyed by the Ormond family until the
attainder of the second Duke of Or
mond in IT'S. This put an end to the
last Irish example of these great me-
dieval jurisdictions. A special Act
of Parliament passed in the second
year of George l enacted that what
soever hath been denominated or
called Tipperary, or Cross Tipperary,
shall henceforth be and remain one
county forever, under the name of
county Tipperary." The Manor and
town of Thurles were granted to the
Earl of Ossory and Lord James Butler.
In 1897 Sir Henry Wallop, writing to
Cecil, announces the execution of
Piers, son of Sir Edmund Butler, at
Thurles for an attempted instruction.
In 1918, the Earl of Ormond made a
claim for the lands of Thurles Abbey,
/ w Uo t01 To h nd h ie
cessors. In 1916 Richard Power, the
receiver of Thurles and Holy Cross,
forwards the sum Of SO Os 1Od to the
treasurers of the Confederate Catho.
lies at Kilkenny. The Castle of Thurles
was besieged by Cromwell during his
campaign in Ireland, and the town was
alternately occupied by the Royalist
and Parliamentarian forces during that
period the property in the Parish of
Thurles was almost exclusively in the
hands of the Cromwellian planters
The following is a list of the principal
Irish families found in the parish at
that time: Bourke, Meagher, Staple
ton. Purcell, Fogarty, Carroll and Ca
hill.
| The following is the account of
Thurles Parish in the Book of Distri-
button of Forfeited Land in the Co.
Tipperary, Returned by ye Downe
Survey, shelving whose they were in
Ammo 1641 and to whom they are now
set out by We Act of Settlement and
Explanation"
| In the summer of 1916 an election
took place for two members to repre-
sent Tipperary in the Irish Parlia-
ment, and in the Tipperary County
Poll Book We find the following names
of the voters from Thurles-Peter Ar
dagh, John Ardagh, Michael Brown,
Pierce Butler, Philip Barton, James
Boyton, Patrick Brien, William Bowen,
William Cornell, Thos. Carr, James
Carr, Daniel Conner, John Edgerton,
James Edgerton, George Evans, Joseph
Fitzgerald, Rev. Francis Garnet, Nath.
Goodwiss, John Hawkins, George Hale,
Richard Jeffcott, Francis Kearney,
Denis Kearney, Henry Lawders, David
Logan, VIM. Lewis, VIM. Mathew, 10.
seph Mills. Thos. Mathew, Thos. Pros.
ser, VIM. Russell, Ben Russell, Rich.
ard Ryan, Patk. Size, James Saunder-
son, Mathew Thompson, John Tate,