John Clyn was an Anglo-Irish Franciscan friar and the source of Annals of Ireland by Friar John Clyn, written in Kilkenny and cover the stop from the "origin of the public" to 1349. According to the seventeenth-century antiquarian James Ussher, Clyn was natural in Leinster and held the level of doctor. The surname Clyn is not usual in Ireland, but there is a townland a few miles from Kilkenny called Clinstown.
Friday, January 28, 2005
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