Robert Dowdall

In 1446, he took a lease of lands in County Louth from Robert FitzRery, the future Attorney General for Ireland, who was later a colleague of Dowdall on the Court of Common Pleas.

She owned substantial dower lands, including Clongowes Wood, but lost Rathcoffey Castle itself, following a bitter inheritance dispute with her cousin Richard Wogan, former Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

[4] Although Robert and Anne appealed to the King and Council for redress, Owain and Katherine remained in possession of Picton Castle, the Wogan's stronghold in Wales.

[1] Rathcoffey Castle He was a companion of the Brotherhood of Saint George, a short-lived military order founded by King Edward IV in 1474 for the defence of the Pale.

At Pentecost 1462, Dowdall, who was making a pilgrimage to a holy well 'one of the shrines of the Pale', was attacked 'near Clonliff' (North of Dublin city) by Keating, armed with a sword, and was put in fear of his life.

[7] The motive for the attack is unknown: Elrington Ball, comparing it to the murder of James Cornwalsh, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer, twenty years earlier, argued that crimes of violence were endemic in medieval Ireland.

Keating, despite his clerical office, was clearly a violent and turbulent individual, who dealt with an attempt to remove him as Prior by throwing his intended successor, Marmaduke Langley, into prison, where he died.