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Templetown has received its name from the Kinights Templar, a brotherhood of monastic warriors originating during the crusades in the Holy Land. When the Anglo-Normans under Strongbow added Ireland to their property portfolio the military orders soon followed. Henry II of England swore to provide for 200 Templars after the murder of St. Thomas a Beckett - and in 1172 gave away wide stretches of Ireland to fulfil this promise. The Manor of Kilcloggan, basically the whole southern end of the Hook Peninsula, fell to the order. Today only few remains of their church in Templetown are visible (the impressive tower is a later construction, the church even from the 19th century). But the churchyard holds a graveslab with a cross and the agnus dei (Lamb of God), typical for a Templar grave.