RAINBOW FARMS AUSTRALIA                                            

                                                                                                                                                      1131 - 1140 AD  

1131 AD By now a "great alliance," of the various disaffected Septs in Ireland who were up against the rising fortunes of *114.Turlough O Connor the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ui Conchobair 55th King of Connacht and in a "combined" effort  they were to besiege his territory in the the Connacht Province from the north and the south of Ireland, but despite their all out effort he was still to be able to retain his authority over all of the other Septs in Ireland.

    Rannal O Hoey / Raghnall Gilla Comgaill Ua hEochada the Heremonian Dal Fiatach 63rd King of Ulaid, who had his territory in the east of the Ulster Province, "died" this year, and was followed into the position by 112.Cu Ulaid who became the Heremonian Dal Fiatach 64th King of Ulaid, who was a son of 111.Conor / Conchobar Cisenach, who had previously died in 1107 AD, one of the 3 sons of 109.Dunlevy / Donn Sleibe the  previous 56th King of Ulaid, who had died in 1091 AD.

      Conor O Longergan from the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlogh Sept was slain this year.         

1132 AD  Gilbert the Catholic Bishop of Limerick, who was now the acting "Papal Legate"  in Ireland, enticed St. Malachy O Morgair to take up the position as the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh in the Ulster Province.

    Mulbrennan O Hanrahan from the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlogh Sept who was a successor of St. Brendan at Clonfert, "died" and Gilla Brennan O Hanrahan, his kinsman, became his successor, who was from Corcaree in Co. Westmeath in Northern Leinster.

1133 AD Gorman, who had studied in England and France, was now the head of the "Great School / University of Armagh" in Co Armagh in the south - east of the Ulster Province, were he would remain in charge until 1154 AD.

1134 AD Although St. Malachy O Morgair had now been "officially" installed as the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh in the south - east of the Ulster Province, he was well aware that it was with the "opposition" of the local Heremoniaqn Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch King in Co. Armagh, and he was therefore really "not accepted" in that position either there.

    113.Diarmait mac Murrough na Gall - of the Foreigners who was now the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig 59th King of Leinster, who had his territory in Southern Leinster, in a sign of his own personal ambitions and disposition, "besieged" the nearby Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Connla kingdom of Ossory / Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster to further extend his own overall authority in Southern Leinster, but to his amazement his forces were "devastated" nonetheless, but despite this initial defeat, he was to return later on and carry out a "terrible slaughter" against the Septs of Ossory and also the Vikings at Port Lairge, while continuing to also expand his overlordship into those outer regions there in Southern Leinster.

 1135 AD Cu Mara / Warrior of the Sea, the son of Cu Mara the "ancestor" of all of the Mac Namara Septs, who had been a son of Donnell / Domhnall the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Caisin King was slain in battle in Thomond / Northern Munster this year. 

1136 - 1156 AD *114.Turlough O Connor the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray Ui Conchobair 55th King of Connacht was to become the 181st King of Ireland in his own right, as the "first ever" from the Ui Briuin Septs, descended originally from 90.Brion the "first" Heremonian Dal Cuinn King of Connacht whose father had been *89.Eochy Mugmedon the 124th King of Tara / Ireland, and as he had also gained overall control over the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain Septs and in a attempt to further "weaken" the authority of his main rival, the Ui mBriain O Brians, he "divided" up the Munster Province, and by so doing improved the fortunes once more of the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil Mac Carthys there in the south in Des Muma / Desmond / Southern Munster.

      *114.Turlough O Connor as the 181st King of Ireland, re - convened the Oenach Tailten (The Fair of Tailten), which was his prerogative, and he also fortified his own territory in the Connacht Province, using the River Shannon as a natural boundary. 109.Teague / Tadhg Mac Carthy was now the Heberian Eoghanacht King of Southern Munster / Desmuma / Desmond and 46c King of Cashel / Munster who was descended from 107.Carthy / Carrthach the "direct male" line ancestor of all of the Mac Carthys of Southern Munster / Desmond, whose grandfather, 105.Donough mac Callaghan / Cellachain had been the previous Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil 38th King of Cashel / Munster who had died in 963 AD).

     109.Cormac 11 Mac Carthy who was now the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil King of Southern Munster / Desmond and the 46d King of Cashel / Munster had Cormac's Chapel on the Rock of Cashel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province finally "finished" in the Romanesque Style, and he then had the Catholic Archbishop of Cashel and the other Catholic Bishops there in Munster dedicate it to Mary the mother of Jesus Christ. (It had been constructed, so that the Sun would shine directly through the altar window in her month of May).   

     St. Malachy O Morgair, was now "ousted" from his position as the Catholic Archbishop of Armagh in the south - east of the Ulster Province, by Niall the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Abbot of Armagh, so he "resigned" that position in favour of "Gelasius" the Abbot of Derry, and retired to the Bangor Monastery in the south - east of the Ulster Province, which he made the centre of the Bishopric of Down, but he was then also "driven" from Bangor, so he left Ulster Province altogether, going down to Skellig Michael in Southern Munster, were 109.Cormac 11 Mac Carthy was now the Heberian Eoghanacht King of Southern Munster / Desmond and 46d King of Cashel / Munster who gave him land to build on at Ibrach. Later he was to go on to Rome to have Armagh in Co. Armagh and Cashel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province recognized "officially" by Pope Anacletus 11, and on the way there he called in at Clairvaux were he met up with St. Bernard, (While there he was so impressed with the piety of the Cistercian monks under St. Bernard's leadership that he later sent some of his own "novices" from Ireland over to Clairvaux to learn their pious ways. The "first" Irish Cistercian house, was then to be founded later on at Mellifont , which was situated in a secluded valley on the banks of the River Mattock in Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster, which divides Co. Louth from the north - west corner of Co. Meath. The territory there was to be given to him by Donnell O Carroll the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Prince of Orghialla / Oriel in Southern Ulster, who also personally supported the Cistercian community there, and the Cistercian Order was from then on to spread throughout Ireland. During his journey, St. Malachy was also to call in at the Augustinian Abbey at Arronaise from were the "Cannon Regulars of St. Augustine" and it's rule was also to provide new Cathedrals in Ireland, such as Holy Trinity in Dublin. (Both of these religious "Orders" were to bring about new Catholic Christian religious "reform" in Ireland). 

1137 AD After this date the Heremonian Dal Fiatach Kingship of Ulaid in the east of the Ulster Province, would be "restricted" only to the descendants of 109.Donlevy / Donn Sleibe O Hoey / Ua hEochadha who had been the previous Heremonian Dal Fiatach 56th King of Ulaid, who had been slain in 1091 AD, and his descendants were to only use the surname of Mac Donleavy / Mheic Duinnshliebe from now on.

     Donnell O Gunning / Ua Conaing the Heberian Dal gCais Catholic Archbishop of Leath Mogha / Leinster Province and Munster Province, "died" this year.  

1138 AD 109.Turlough O Brian, who was the Heberian Dal gCais Prince / Tanaiste of Northern Munster / Thomond, who was a brother to 109.Conor na Catharach O Brian who was the present Heberian Dalcassian Ui mBriain King of Northern Munster / Thomond, slew 109.Cormac 11 Mac Carthy the Heberian Eoghanacht King of Southern Munster / Desmond who was also the 46d King of Cashel / Munster, on the Rock of Cashel in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province. as a result of retaliation for 109.Cormac Mac Carthy's previous attack over sovereignty in Munster Province on the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain territory in Limerick in the mid - north - west of Munster.109.Cormac 11 Mac Carthy, was to be interred in his newly constructed "Chapel" devoted to Mary, which he had just recently finished on the Rock of Cashel, where his own personal "Crozier" would be found in later times. Both the names of 109.Cormac 11 Mac Carthy and his older brother, 109.Teague / Tadhg Mac Carthy were to be "inscribed" nearby on the arm of the bronze shrine of St. Lachtine of Achad Ur (Freshford) in Ossory / Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster who had been "revered" as the protector of all the Septs of Munster Province.   

1140 AD Donnell O Casey the Heberian Cianacht King of Saithne in Co. Meath in the south of Northern Leinster, "died" this year, and was succeeded by his brother, Flaherty O Casey.

     The Irish Gaelic Septs during this period still held as their "role models" the previous Southern Leinster Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Laoghaire Chieftain, 83.Finn Mac Coole / Fionn Mheic Cumhail and his Fianna Warriors, together with the "holiness" of St. Patrick, who they believed would judge them on "judgement" day at the great Rath Cruachan / Croghan in the Connacht Province.

 

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