[1] In 1394 Richard II lodged in the church while making plans for his assault on the Irish clans in the Wicklow Mountains.

[1] It was said to be the scene of the surrender of four Irish clan chiefs (the O'Conor Don, de Burgo, O'Brien and O'Kennedy) to Richard II in 1395 when he made one of his two visits to Ireland.

[3] The friary was suppressed by the dissolution of the monasteries of April 1541 by Henry VIII, but the friars were allowed to remain in the city.

[citation needed] In the seventeenth century, the choir of the church was adapted by Bishop Nathaniel Foy for use by Huguenots who had been invited to Waterford to work in the linen industry.

[4] Among the graves in the graveyard are those of: Sir Hugh Purcell (in about 1250), who was the founder of the church and lies beside of the high altar; Lord Richard Poer (8 August 1607), Baron of Curraghmore, an ardent supporter of the Catholic faith and that of his wife, Catherine de Barry, daughter of the Great Barry, Viscount of Buttivant; Sir Nicholas Walsh (12 April 1615), one of the chief judges of the kingdom in the Court of Common Pleas.