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The Hospital of St John of Jerusalem was a medieval hospital and priory of the Knights Hospitaller ("Order of St John of Jerusalem") at Kilmainham, west of Dublin city in Ireland. It was the chief house of the Hospitallers in Ireland, founded in the 1170s under a charter from Richard de Clare, 2nd Earl of Pembroke ("Strongbow") and lasting until the dissolution of the Irish monasteries after 1537.

In 1307, the Knights Templar were suppressed and (?much of?) their land was given the the Hospitallers. Although nineteenth-century antiquarians believed that Kilmainham was among the Templar acquisitions, later research showed that its original grant was to the Hospitallers.

The prior of Kilmainham was among the prelates summoned to the Parliament of Ireland in the medieval period, until the lords spiritual were restricted to the bishops with abbots excluded.

The Royal Hospital Kilmainham (?or Kilmainham Gaol?) was built on the site of the priory. The Manor of Kilmainham included fishing rights on much of the River Liffey, and the land that later became the Phoenix Park.

Sources

• Barrow, G. Lennox (June 1985). "The Knights Hospitaller of St. John of Jerusalem at Kilmainham". Dublin Historical Record. 38 (3). Old Dublin Society: 108–112. JSTOR 30100662.
• Falkiner, Cæsar Litton (1906–1907). "The Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in Ireland". Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature. 26: 275–317. JSTOR 25502745.
• McNeill, Charles (30 June 1924). "The Hospitallers at Kilmainham and Their Guests". Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland. Sixth Series, Vol. 14 (1): 15–30. JSTOR 25513314.
• Martin, Browne; Ó Clabaigh, Colmán, eds. (2016). Soldiers of Christ: The Knights Hospitaller and the Knights Templar in medieval Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press. ISBN 978-1-84682-572-9.
• White, Newport B. (1943). Extents of Irish Monastic possessions 1540–1. Dublin: Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission. Retrieved 29 June 2017.

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• Pierce Nicholas Netterville Synnott, Knights Hospitallers in Ireland., 1980. (National Library of Ireland 4A 1990)
• Niall Byrne, The Irish Crusade: A History of the Knights Hospitaller, the Knights Templar, and the Knights of Malta, in the South-East of Ireland (Dublin: Linden Publishing, 2008)
• Eithne Massey, Prior Roger Outlaw of Kilmainham, 1314- 1341 (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2000)

Further reading

• McNeill, Charles, ed. (1932). Registrum de Kilmainham : register of chapter acts of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem in Ireland, 1326-1339 under the grand prior, Sir Roger Outlawe with additions for the times of his successors, Sir John Mareschall, Sir John Larcher and Sir John Fitzrichard, grand priors of Ireland. Dublin: Stationery Office for the Irish Manuscripts Commission.

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