16th Century
Under Henry VIII the great religious houses were dissolved, 1536–41. All their lands and possessions were confiscated and became the King's property, who subsequently granted them to new owners. In County Wexford the following were among the most important of those dissolved:
- Tintern Abbey – a Cistercian foundation. Its possessions were granted to Anthony Colclough in the mid-16th century.
- Dunbrody Abbey – another Cistercian foundation. Its possessions were granted in 1545 to Osborne Itchingham (or Echingham). In the mid-17th century it passed, through marriage, to Arthur Chichester.
- The Augustinian Priory of Clonmines. In 1546 the Silver mines at Clonmines were re-opened and were worked for the State. The rest of the Priory's lands (small in extent) were divided up and passed through several owners over time.
- The Knights Hospitaller's manor of Kilcloggan – became the possession of Dudley Loftus (son of Adam Loftus) near the end of the 16th century.
- Glascarrig Priory.
- Selskar Abbey.
In the Calendar of Carew Manuscripts there is a description of County Wexford in 1596, as follows:
| “ | That part of the county north of the river Slane is possessed chiefly by the Irish called the Cavenaghes. "It hath on that north side also many English inhabitants;" sc., Synot of Clelande, Roth of Roth, Synot of Ballynerah in the Murros, Masterson at Fernes Castle (where also the Bishop's see is), Peppard at Glascarrig.
The Irish on that side the Slane are these: Donell Mortagh, Edmund O'Morowe of the O'Morowes' country, and others, "ever bad neighbours and rebellious people, under the government of William Synot, by lease from her Majesty." "Other Irish nations are by east them to the sea. The countries are called the Kinshelaghes, Kilconelin, Kilhobock, Farinhamon, inhabited by Art McDermot, McDa More, Mc-Vadock, Darby McMorish, all under the government of Mr. Masterson." On the south-west of the Slane are four English baronies, called Fort, Barge, Shelberre, and Shelmalen, and an Irish barony called the Duffree. The principal men in the English are Browne of Malrancon, Devoureux of Balmagir, Chevers of Ballyhale, Forlong of Horton, FitzHarryes of Kilkevan, Bishop of Fernes, Sir Thomas Colclough of Tyntern, Sir Dudley Losthowse of Kilclogan. In the Durffey dwell Sir Harry Wallop at Iniscorth, Piers Butler, the Viscount Mountgarret. |
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