BROWSE
field
Porch Field
(English)

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53.5504, -6.80383latitude, longitude
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1597
Porchfeild
Livery to Gerald, son and heir of George Aylmer, late - of Trym and of Clonecurry, gent…Recites an inquisition taken at Donboyne, 20 Jan., xxxix., finding that said George died, 26 Dec, 1582, seised in tail male of the gift of Edw. Cusacke, of the abbey of the B. V. M. of Trym, Porchfeild with lands in Trym, land called Blackfryers, Friers park, the Maudlins, a tuck mill in Trym, three messuage and gardens in Trym, co. Meath ; Gerald his son and heir was aged 9 years at his father's death and unmarried. F 6118
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1598
Porchfeild...the Porchgate
Pardon to Patrick Locke, of Ardbrackan, yeoman ; for an alienation to him by…Richard Cusacke, of Lesmullen, co. Meath, son and heir of Edward Cusacke, late of Lesmullen…Chr. Wellesly, of the Dengin, Edw. Aylmer, of Kilbrue, co. Meath, and Gerald Aylmer, son and heir of George Aylmer, late of Trym, by deed of 17 Dec, 1597 ; of the site of the abbey of the B. V. M. of Trym, land called Porchfeild near the site, and a garden without the Porchgate ; the site and possessions of the monastery of friars preachers of Trym ; the Maudlen chapel and cemetery, a close extending from an eel weir on the Boyne to Lync's park, the Maudelen land in the fields of Trym, the king's park alias the park of Trym, possessions of the house of friars minor observants of Trym ; of which Thomas Cusacke, late of Lesmullen, knt., F 6267
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