Fethard was given a grant of murage dated 26/1/1409.
This was in the form of:-
Wording
26 Jan. 1409 Kilkenny
LICENCE, for twelve years, to the provost, burgesses and community of the town of Fethard, co. Tipperary, and their successors, to take certain customs from goods coming to that town for sale, in aid of enclosing the said town with a wall.
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Rex concess' praeposito, burgensib' et communitati ville de Fythard in co Typ' et posteris suis burgens et comib' ville praed', quod, in auxilium ville praed' muro claudende, capere possint per 12 an' custumas contas de reb' venalib' ad eam vill' venient'. Ib', 26 Jan.
Granted by Henry IV. (Regnal year 10). Granted at Kilkenny.
Primary Sources
A Calendar of Irish Chancery Letters, c. 1244-1509, PR 10 Hen. IV
View CIRCLE recordTresham, Edward (ed), 1828,
Rotulorum patentium et clausorum cancellariae Hiberniae calendarium (Dublin; His Majesty's printers) p. 189-90 No. 25
Secondary Sources
O'Keeffe, T., 1999, 'Townscape as text: the topography of social interaction in Fethard, county Tipperary, AD 1300-1700'
Irish Geography Vol. 32.1 p. 9-25
online copyO'Keeffe, T., 1996, Fethard, Co. Tipperary A Guide to the Medieval Town (Fethard Historical Society) (I'm informed his source is Laffan)
Laffan, Thomas, 1906, 'Fethard, County Tipperary: its charters and corporation records, with some notice of the Fethard Everards'
Journal of The Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Vol. 36.2 p. 143-53
online copy
Comments
Henry IV made a further grant for the walling of Fethard in 1409; nothing is known of its details. (O'Keeffe p. 12)
A succession of charters of murage were subsequently granted, which do not seem, from their limited scope, to merit more than passing mention. These were one conferred in 1376, in the 49th of Edward III,'s reign; a second in the 10th Henry IV. (Laffan)
Laffan was working from the town charters, not the royal rolls. Does this original still survive at Fethard?
Record created by Philip Davis. This record created 01/04/2009. Last updated on 04/06/2012. First published online 5/01/2013.
