Kells (Kenlys in Meath) was given a grant of murage dated 2/8/1388.
This was in the form of:-
Wording
Grant to the sovereign and commonalty of Kenlys in Meath of murage for twenty years, as it lies in the March on every side near the Irish rebels. They are to account at the end of every year before some lieges of the king, assigned ad hoc in Kenlys and nowhere else, for the moneys received under this grant.
Granted by Richard II. (Regnal year 12). Granted at Oxford.
Primary Sources
Maxwell Lyte, H.C. (ed), 1900,
Calendar of Patent Rolls Richard II (1385-89) Vol. 3 p. 501
online copyMacNiocaill, G. (ed), 1964,
Na Buirgéisí, XII-XV Aois (The Burgesses, twelfth to fifteenth centuries) (Dublin) Vol. 1 p. 451n14
Secondary Sources
Coulson, Charles, 2009, Murage Grants (Handwritten list and notes)
Thomas, A., 1992, The Walled Towns of Ireland Vol. 2 (Irish Academic Press) p. 121-23
Comments
Great length of grant, almost vested, tempered by a loose auditing condition. Normally these would be applied under the Irish seal, although quite a few are on the Patent Roll, perhaps since they affected English merchants. Kells is 24 miles inland, west of Drogheda on the Boyne estuary (Coulson).
Record created by Philip Davis. This record created 18/01/2009. Last updated on 03/05/2012. First published online 5/01/2013.
