The Precinct of St John’s Priory, Kilkenny, at the Close of the Middle Ages

Documents, principally preserved at Kilkenny, uniquely allow us to glimpse the domestic details of the dissolution of a medieval Irish religious house, namely, St John’s Priory, Kilkenny. We can trace in detail the way its assets were divided up and appropriated, and the identity of the persons who profited from the undertaking.