ascertained that Urban VI. in the year 1381, had commissioned the guardian of that house to excommunicate all the Irish in the province of Munster, who should acknowledge the authority of Clement VII. He asserts that in the church, of which only the walls then remained, many tombs of the founder's and other noble families were to be seen. "Situm est (cœnobium) extra urbis muros, circumducto forti vallo universo ambitui. Vulgariter vocatur Monasterium Hackettorum, fortassis quia gens ista fundavit et protexit. Pleraque horum et aliorum nobilium conspiciuntur adhuc in ecclesiâ sepulcra marmorea. Soli supersunt nunc parietes." Ware, however, asserts that the founder lived in the reign of Henry HI., and his statement has been copied by Stevens and Archdall[1].
- ↑ Wadding, Annal. Minorum, vol. ix. p. 47; Ware's Antiquities of Ireland, p. 104; Stevens, Monasticon Hibernicum, p. 275.
