DUNDONS
FROM NORMAN TIMES
TO THE TIME OF CROMWELL
Below are the earliest references to Dundons in Ireland found so far. The first refers to M Dondun of Stuardstone (Howardstowne) in County Limerick.
1181-1212
Robert son of Richard grants in perpetual alms to Holy Trinity and to Archbishop John and his successors a knight’s fee in Carabria [*Note: By report of the bishop of Limerick the free tenant of this fee is M. Dondun, who has a castle there called (Stuardstone with a park...water and very pleasant arable land of the earl of Kildare there, in Munster a short distance from the said monastery whose chief R. cor] rents XXs yearly.[i]
The second reference is to one, John Dandon, a tenant in Swords, County Dublin.
1256-1266
List of wax-rent. Swerdes. John Dandon a tenant.[ii]
[i] Archbishop Allen’s Register, 163 (427) on p. 127.
[ii] Archbishop Allen’s Register, 126b (318) on p. 34. The Register is a pre-reformation record of the Diocese of
Dublin, 1181-1212
1181-1212
Robert son of Richard grants in perpetual alms to Holy Trinity and to Archbishop John and his successors a knight’s fee in Carabria [*Note: By report of the bishop of Limerick the free tenant of this fee is M. Dondun, who has a castle there called (Stuardstone with a park...water and very pleasant arable land of the earl of Kildare there, in Munster a short distance from the said monastery whose chief R. cor] rents XXs yearly.[i]
The second reference is to one, John Dandon, a tenant in Swords, County Dublin.
1256-1266
List of wax-rent. Swerdes. John Dandon a tenant.[ii]
[i] Archbishop Allen’s Register, 163 (427) on p. 127.
[ii] Archbishop Allen’s Register, 126b (318) on p. 34. The Register is a pre-reformation record of the Diocese of
Dublin, 1181-1212