1121 - 1130 AD 

1121 AD Kelly / Ceallach the Abbot and Catholic Bishop of Armagh in the south - east of the Ulster Province travelled down to Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster, and while he was away he put St. Malachy O Morgair in charge of Armagh, who was now only 26 years of age, and he was to introduce "reforms" there, and when Kelly returned to Armagh later on, St. Malachy also went south himself to Lismore monastery in Co. Waterford in the south - east of the Munster Province to continue his studies with Malchus to find other ways of trying to bring about further "reform" to the "religious orders" in Ireland.

      *109.Donnell O Loughlin / Domhnall Ua Lochlainn the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain 51st King of Aileach who had since been the 179th King of Ireland - with no opposition for the last 2 years, "died" this year, who was the son of 108.Ardgar mac Loughlin who had been the 44th King of Aileach who had died in 1064 AD, and one of *109.Donnell O Loughlin's sons110.Conor mac Loughlin  / Conchobar mac Lochlainn would become the 52nd / 54th King of Aileach, while another of his sons 110.Niall mac Loughlin would be the father of *111.Murtough / Muirchertach Mac Loughlin who would become the 55/57th King of Aileach and the 182nd King of Ireland - although still with opposition.

1121 - 1136 AD For the next 15 years there was a state of "flux" in Ireland among the various important Irish Septs as not one Gaelic Milesian Sept was now "strong enough" to assume the overall Kingship of Ireland but  *114. Turlough O Connor who would be the Heremonian Dal Cuinn UI Briuin 55th King of Connacht for 50 years would eventually rise to the occasion and rule over Ireland from 1136 AD - 1156 AD.

1122 AD Conor O Liddy from the Heberian Dal gCais Muintir Dobharchon Sept who was a successor to St. Ailbe of Emly in the Munster Povince, "died" this year.       

1123 AD *114.Turlough O Connor the Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray Ui Conchobair 55th King of Connacht besieged the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Connla kingdom of Ossory in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster to assert his personal authority once again in Mogha's Half, and many of the Septs of Ossory were slain, together with the Ui Carog Sept, and he also took many hostages back with him from there to his territory in the Connacht Province attempting to ensure their continuing "submission" to him. As the 55th King of Connacht he also had the "Cross of Cong" / Cung, (which was 30" high x 18 3/4 " across x 1 3/4 " thick), made this year in Co. Roscommon in the east of Connacht where it was covered in copper with a crystal at the front, so as to be able to see the splinter of the "True Cross of Christ" placed inside, with 18 jewels set out at regular intervals and at first he was to house it in the Church at Tuam in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht, but after Murray O Duffy / Muireadhach Ua Dubhthaigh the Catholic Archbishop of Connacht was to die in 1150 AD he transferred it to the "Abbey of Cong" from which it would receive its name.

     Donough mac Gilla Patrick / Donnchad Mac Giolla Patraic (Fitz Patrick), the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Connla King of Ossory, "died" this year, who was a son of Gilla Patraic Ruadh - of Red Complexion a previous King of Ossory, and a change of "dynasty" was now to occur once again in the kingdom of Ossory / Co. Kilkenny. The Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig Sept who were now the Kings of Leinster were to also gain the overall control there in nearby Ossory, and 113.Murrough mac Murrough / Murchad Mheic Murchada was to become instead the new Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig King of Ossory, until 1126 AD. He was also a son of 112.Donough mac Murrogh / Donnchad mac Murchada the previous Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig 56th King of Leinster, who was to be descended from 96.Enda Cennsalach / Kinsella who had been the original Heremoniaqn Cu Corb 2nd King of Leinster and the ancestor of all of the Ui Cheinnselaig Septs who was also a descendant of *90.Cahir / Cathair Mor who had been the 109th King of Tara / Ireland and 87.Nia Corb one of the 4 sons of 86.Cu Corb.

1124 AD St. Malachy O Morgair became the Catholic Bishop of Conor, and the Abbot of Bangor in the Ulster Province where he was to come up against great \'opposition\' to his proposals to bring about further religious "reform," and the monastery at Bangor was "destroyed" due to the violent opposition to these proposals, and St. Malachy fled to the south to the safety once again of Lismore in Co. Waterford in the south - east of the Munster Province were he founded a new monastery near Cashel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of Munster. (He was so "upset" by these violent events that he gave up any further thoughts of bringing in religious reform at this time).

      A fort / dun was constructed this year in Co. Galway in the south - west of the Connacht Province, which was to form the beginnings of what would become the City of Galway.

      *114.Turlough O Connor the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin U Conchobair 55th King of Connacht, still pushing his growing authority, together with his supporting warriors from the Connacht Septs went over the falls / rapids at Doonas (Danann's / Eas Danainne), situated on the River Shannon between Killaloe and Limerick near Castle Connell on the Co. Clare and Co. Limerick border to once again try to assert his overall authority over the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain Septs and this action also enabled the Septs from the Connacht Province to besiege the Lower Shannon area down to the Island of Foynes. 109.Conor na Catharach O Brian who was now the Heberian Dal gCais King of Northern Munster / Thomond did not let him get away with it so easy this time, as he gathered up his Dalcassian warriors and set sail after them up as far as Loch Derg in the Ulster Province and besieged *114.Turlogh O Connor's forces and was able to "defeat" them in this particular battle.

     The O Rourkes from the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne Sept who were now the Kings and Princes / Tanaistes of West Breifne who had their territory in Co. Leitrim in the north of the Connacht Province constructed a Tower this year containing a Belfry / Cloic Theach for O Malone / Ua Maoil Eoin (Descended from a devotee of St. John) the Catholic Bishop of Clonmacnoise monastery in Co. Offaly, in the mid - west of Southern Leinster. (The original monastery had been previously founded there by St. Kieran / St. Ciaran).    

      109.Teague / Tadhg Mac Carthy who had been the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil King of Southern Munster / Desmond / Des Muma and the 46c King of Cashel / Munster, who had his main territory in Co. Kerry, "died" this year, who was a son of 108.Murray / Muireadhach Mac Carthy, the son of 107.Carthy / Carrthach (The Loving One) the "direct male line" ancestor of all of the Mac Carthys in Desmond / Southern Munster. His ancestor 107.Carthy had been a son of 106.Saebrethach, the son of 105.Donough / Donnchad the previous 38th King of Cashel / Munster. 109.Teague Mac Carthy's brother 109.Cormac 11 Mac Carthy the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil King of Southern Munster / Desmond / Desmuma / became the new 46d King of Cashel / Munster on the Rock of Cashel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province, over the burning ambitions of the Heberian Dalcassian Ui mBriain O Brians, until he was to be eventually slain by one of their Septs in a dispute in 1138 AD.  

1125 AD The ambitions of *114.Turlough O Connor the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray Ui Conchobair 55th King of Connacht was continuing to gain momentum, and this year he also "divided" the declining O Melaghlin's Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill Clann Cholmain kingdom of Meath / Midhe in the south of Northern Leinster "again," but this time into 4 parts, to continue to reduce their overall influence in Conn's Half and any ambitions they still held towards the KIngship of Ireland and he also "expelled" the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill Clann Cholmain King, giving 3 parts of the territory there to other "lesser" Kings from the same lineage, and the 4th part to his "ally" and kinsmen, 113.Tiernan O Rourke the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne King of West Breifne who had his territory nearby in Co. Leitrim in the north of the Connacht Province.

       Kennedy O Gunning / Ua Conaing from the Heberian Dal gCais Sept who was the "Erenach" of Killaloe / Cill Dulua in Co. Clare in the north - west of Northern Munster / Thomond, "died" this year.

1126 AD 113.Murrough mac Murrough / Murchad Mheic Murchada who had been the one and only Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig King of Ossory, "died" this year, who was a son of 112.Donnchad mac Murrough / Murchada the previous Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig 56th King of Leinster. The Kingship of Ossory / Co. Kilkenny was now to "return" to the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Connla Septs as 115.Gilla Patraic mac Donnell mac Gilla (Fitz Patrick) now became the new Heremonian Ui Connla King of Ossory until 1146 AD, who was a son of 114. Donnell mac Donough / Domhnall mac Donnchada.

       113.Enda / Enna Mac Murrough the Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig 58th King of Leinster, "died," who was a brother to the  future "infamous," 113.Diarmait Mac Murrough na Gall - of the Foreigners who later on was to become the Heremonian Ui Cheinnselaig 59th King of Leinster who would bring on the Anglo - Norman English Invasion and totally change the lives of every Gaelic Sept in Ireland forever. At this time also *114. Turlough O Connor the Heberian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh Ui Conchobair 55th King of Connacht took the opportunity to try and change the "dynasty" there also in Southern Leinster by installing his "own son" as the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin King of Leinster, and also of Dublin instead of the "infamous" 113.Diarmait Mac Murrogh na Gall, Despite this imposition, once again, as fate would have it, his son was to be "deposed" within a few years, and this would clear the way by then for 113.Diarmait Mac Murrough na Gall to gain "overall" control in Southern Leinster, and change the Gaelic history of Ireland and the lives of everyone to be involved "forever." *114.Turlough O Connor continued to lay siege to the Munster Province in Mogha's Half regularly, while trying to keep the two most important Heberian aristocratic warrior  Heberian Septs, the Heberian Eoghanacht Mac Carthys and the Heberian Dal gCais O Brians there "divided and weakened," while he also continued to besiege both Southern Leinster, and Northern Leinster in Conn's Half for the same purpose. Another important factor in the scheme of things was that the infamous 113.Diarmait Mac Murrough na Gall - of the Foreigners was to be an "ally" of *111.Murtough O Loughlin the Heberian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain 55th / 57th King of Aileach in the Ulster Province who at this time because of his father previously, also had a "strong claim" on the Kingship of Ireland.

      Murray O Collins the Heberian Eoghanacht Ui Fidgeinti "Erenagh" of Clogher was slain this year.

1127 AD Monks from the Benedictine Order had earlier arrived in Co. Down in the south - east of the Ulster Province from Furness, and St. Malachy O Morgair now wanted to return to the simple monastic way of life, but Pope Innocent 11 refused to let him leave his office and also appointed him the "Papal Legate" in Ireland, sending him back to Ireland to hold another "Religious Synod."

      *114.Turlough O Connor the ascending Heberian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray Ui Conchobar 55th King of Connacht this year was to also "separate" the whole of the Leinster Province in a further endeavour to continue on with his policy of "divide and rule," to try and continually maintain his grip on the "overall control" there also in Mogha's Half while positioning himself further for a future crack at the KIngship of Ireland.

      109.Cormac 11 Mac Carthy the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil King of Southern Munster / Desmond / Des Muma and 46d King of Cashel / Munster, who had his main territory in Co. Kerry in the south - west of the Munster Province began to build his own personal "Chapel" on the Rock of Cashel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province. (Also there on the Rock, is the "Cross of Cashel", which is situated near the entrance of the Chapel with the figure of  St. Patrick cut into the stone face containing a pedestal on which the Cashel / Munster Kings stood during their Inaugurations). (109.Cormac Mac Carthy would be interred there in the Chapel later on after his demise).

     110.Aed / Niall the Heremonian Dal Fiatach 62nd King of Ulaid, "died" this year, who was one of the 4 sons of 109.Donn Sliebe / Dunlevy the previous 56th King of Ulaid who had their territory in the east of the Ulster Province who had died in in 1091 AD and Rannal O Hoey / Raghnall Gilla Comgaill Ua hEochada now became the new Heremonian Dal Fiatach 63rd King of Ulaid.

1128 AD *114. Turlough O Connor the Heberian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray Ui Conchobair 55th King of Connacht pushing his increasing position further to become the King of Ireland besieged the Leinster Province again, ravaging it from the north to the south, endeavouring to continue to maintain his overall authority there also in Mogha's Half.

   O Gara the Heberian Cianachta Chief in the kingdom of Leyney in the Connacht Province. was slain while on an "expedition" into the Leinster Province and his kinsman, O Gara of Moy was also slain in the "Battle of Ardee."

1129 AD  Kelly / Ceallach the Catholic Bishop from the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Ui Sinaig Sept designated St. Malachy O Morgair to be his successor in Armagh, who personally was not pleased with this appointment, as the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Ui Sinaig Sept generally in the Ulster Province had previously "always" been the Abbots there for the past 100 years and they had already made plans to install their "own successor."

      The Gaelic Milesian Irian Ulaid Septs in the north - east of the Ulster Province were to win back their old status from 115.Conor O Connor who was now the appointed Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray Ui Conchobair King of Meath / Midhe in Northern Leinster, who was the son of *114.Turlough O Connor the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai 55th King of Connacht. who was increasingly making his move forward to pursue the Kingship of Ireland.

   *114.Turlough O Connor the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai 55th King of Connacht. expanding his overall control further constructed a wooden fortress and a bridge over the River Shannon from out of the Connacht Province to the adjoining territory at Athlone in Co. Westmeath in the south - west of Northern Leinster, which would be burnt down two years later.

     110.Niall Mac Loughlin from the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Sept, "died" this year, who had been a son of *109.Donnell O Loughlin the previous 51st King of Aileach and 179th King of Ireland - with opposition, the son of 108.Ardgar O Loughlin who had been the 44th King of Aileach who had died in 1064 AD, and 109.Murray / Muireadhach Mac Loughlin was to become the 53rd King of Aileach, who was also a son of 108.Ardgar O Loughlin and he also "died" this year.

1130 AD The Book of Leinster, the "second oldest" historical record, was finally compiled by Finn Mac Gorman the Catholic Bishop of Kildare in the south - west of Southern Leinster who would die in 1160 AD, and the genealogy, legends and history of Ireland was to be continued from then in the Book of Ballymote in 1391 AD and the Book of Lecan in 1416 AD.

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