As the holdings of de Feypo in Herefordshire appear to have been modest it is no surprise that he reappears in Ireland in 1171 where there are great 'possibilities'.
Anyone born here, who has never left its healthy soil and air, if he be the native people never suffers from the three kinds of fevers.
On the successful outcome, for King Henry's occupying army, Hugh de Lacy had the Kingdom of Meath and Dublin bestowed on him.
[3] Hugh then established a defensive shield around Dublin by granting land to a number of his loyal knights.
The hill of Skryne with its castle, the only one in Adam de Feypo's fiefdom which has a motte, is in the centre of his lands.
(The original 1659 map showing the Barony of Skryne and the lands of Adam de Feypo is held in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris).
[6] It is interesting to see that the early Normans like the Romans in Britain upgraded and built special roads along which to move their troops and goods.
In Ireland, these were called 'royal roads' and two charters c1191 describe one which ran from Skryne to Tara (Chartul, St Mary's, Dublin, i, 97,98).
Around the year 1100, William came across a ruined chapel in the Welsh mountains and decided to devote himself to solitary prayer and study there.
It should also be noted that Adam's relative Geoffrey de Cusack also gave tithes to both these priories possibly for the same reason.
There were also many gifts, involving Adam after his death, to St Mary's, Dublin executed in his name by charter between 1192 and 1200 and ratified by Pope Clement III.
One of these is confirmed by Bishop Simon and the following is the acknowledgement[8] 'To the monastery of St.Mary, near Dublin, and the monks of the Cistercian Order serving God there, all the churches and chapels and all the ecclesiastical benefices, lands possessions, tithes and offerings, and all things which they at present justly and peacefully possess in our diocese, or which they will be able in the future to obtain as a kind gift by the generosity of princes and offerings of the faithful or by any other just title Among these we have caused the following to be mentioned by their special names: The church of Saint Columba of Scrin, with the chapel of Saint Nicholas belonging to the castle of Scrin, with all churches, chapels, tithes, offerings and all other ecclesiastical benefices and all that belongs to them from the estate and seigniory of Scrin, that is to say Geoffrey de Cusack, Amauri de Feypo the elder, Walter Duff, William Garbe, A.Beg, Richard Talbot, Walter de Folevill, Robert de Aveni, Maurice de Beaufussel, Stephen de Kent, Ranulph, Robert Coci, Walter Lescuier.'
St.Mary's, Dublin, i, 93) Let it be known to all, both those now living and posterity, to whom the present document may come, that I Adam de Feypo, while I was still alive and of sound mind, offered to God and solemnly promise my body to be buried in the monastery of the Blessed Mary of Dublin, where the white monks serve God, and where my brother Thomas (born of the same parents) assumed the habit of religion, and to which monastery I had formerly granted a certain grange, together with all ecclesiastical benefits of all property which I held between Dublin and the river Boyne.