Registrum Prioratus Omnium Sanctorum juxta Dublin / Edited from a manuscript in the library of Trinity College, Dublin; with additions from other sources, and notes, by the Rev. Richard Butler.

  • All Hallows' Priory (Dublin, Ireland)
Date:
1845
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Credit: Registrum Prioratus Omnium Sanctorum juxta Dublin / Edited from a manuscript in the library of Trinity College, Dublin; with additions from other sources, and notes, by the Rev. Richard Butler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    As long as this monastic rule was fully observed the canons of All-Hallows must have mingled little in the affairs of life, and have been little noticed in public history, and accordingly we have been able to discover only few and indistinct traces of this house in the records and chronicles of the time. Still, the situation of the priory, at the very gate of Dublin, at the head of the level ground then called the Steyn, stretching along the south bank of the Litfey to the sea, must have made the canons spectators at least of many great events. From this plain' Hasculf and John le Dene, with their iron-clad Danes, some in long breastplates and some in iron plates sewn to- gether, and with round red shields edged with iron, prepared to assault Dublin, “ Une cite mult loe Que Hathcleyth iert einz nome,” which Strongbow had given to the safe-keeping of Miles Cogan; and it was here “ Desur le Hogges de Sustein;” that Gilmeholmoc^, having agreed with Cogan to be “ strong upon the stronger side,” awaited the issue of the contest, ready to join the conqueror; and it was near this priory, at the old Thengmote of the Danish colonists, at St. Andrew’s Church, the site of the present Castle Market, on the south side of Dame-street,—alas for the tran- sitoriness of human grandeur—that Henry 11.“ spent from iMartinmas to Shrovetide, A.D. 1171-2, in a royal palace, “de virgis levigatis ad modum patrias illius constructum,” where, at Christmas, to please the Hibernia Expugnata, lib. i. cap. 21. River Dodder flows. He was of the same j Gilmeholmoc.—D. Macgilla Colmoc is stock with the O’Byrnes of OfFelan.— one of the witnesses to Dermod's charter. J. O'D. See No. xlix. He was chief of Hy-Dun- ^ Henry II.—Hib. Expug. I. 30. Hove- chadha, the district through which the den, p. 302.