Baldongan Church

Baldongan Church, additionally called Baldungan Castle, is an historic church and National Monument in Skerries, County Dublin, Ireland. An earlier church on the website online becomes granted to the Priory of St Mary at Kilbixy in 1190. Baldongan become at first the web site of a fortified church, rectangular in plan with towers on each corner, constructed by the Knights Templar in the 13th century on the web site of an historic dun.

When the Templars have been suppressed in 1313 the Archbishop of Dublin acquired Baldongan, and in 1350 Sir Reginald de Barnwall acquired it in agree with from the Archbishop. Peter Treves, a main choose, owned it in the 1460s. It later exceeded to the de Bermingham family and then as a wedding settlement to the St. Lawrences Lords of Howth in 1508. During the 1640s rebellion a Confederate force held the castle until June 1642, whilst the Irish Royal Army below a Colonel Trafford breached the partitions the use of cannon. The garrison then surrendered, and 200 guys have been placed to dying except for two monks, who had been tortured at the rack and deported to France.