RAINBOW FARMS AUSTRALIA
1221 AD - 1225 AD
1223 AD 115.Niall Ruadh - of Red Complexion O Niall, who was the brother of 115.Aedh Meith O Niall the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain King of Aileach, in the Ulster Province, had a "liaison" with the daughter of his kinsman O Cane / O Kane / Ui Cathain the Cenel nEogain Chief in Derry in Co. Derry in the north of Ulster Province and because of this he was slain but despite this he would be the one to carry the O Niall aristocratic warrior male line forward.
Donnell O Longergan 111
from the
Heberian Dal gCais
Ui Bloid
Ui Turlough
Sept
the Catholic
Archbishop of Cashel
in
Co. Tipperary in
the kingdom of
Ormond
/ North
- Eastern Munster
retired.
1223 - 1562 AD During this period "The Irish Brehon Laws" were improperly known as the Annals of Connacht.
1224 AD Maelsechlainn 1st O Kelly / Ui Ceallaig, the son of Teague / Tadhg O Kelly, the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Ui Maine King, "died," who had his kingdom and territory in the east of Co. Galway and Co. Roscommon in Connacht Province, and he would later be followed into the Kingship by Donnell 1st / Domhnall O Kelly, the son of Ceithernach O Kelly / Ua Cellaig, who was also to "die" this year.
Mahon / Mathgamain O Cerin the Heberian Cianacht Ciarraige Locha na n Airne King, "died" this year.
115.Cathal Crobhdhearg - of the Wine Red Hand O Connor who had been assisted by the English Galls / foreigners to at first become, been deposed and then regain the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin 58th Kingship of Connacht, "died" this year, as a monk at Abbey Knockmoy in Co. Galway in the south of the Connacht Province, after ruling for 36 years, and with his "demise" this led on to the O Connor Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray Septs once again fighting a civil war between them as to who would be the next Ui Briuin Ai O Connor King of Connacht. 111.Donough Cairbreach O Brian the Heberian Dal gCais King of Northern Munster / Thomond, who was the uncle of 116.Aed mac Cathail Crobhdhearg O Connor, one of the sons of 115.Cathal Crobhdhearg O Connor, supported him with his warriors from the Dalcassian Septs, also acting as the English appointed Lord of Thomond also, with an English Gall contingent. The Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Niaill Septs also joined in with the other "legitimate" members from the O Connor Septs, supporting the "surviving" 2 sons of *115.Rory O Connor who had been the last 183rd King of Ireland as to their choice as who should rightfully be the Heberian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin 58th King of Connacht, under "The Irish Brehon Law," but they were to be forced to "withdraw." Further "switching" policies were then also utilised by the English Norman Barons to try and "reduce" the strength of the Gaelic Irish Septs, as these same opposing O Connors Septs in the Connacht Province were then assisted by the forces of the English Galls / foreigners to besiege the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Turlough Ui mBriain territory in the north - east of Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province where they were able to "defeat" them, and this "once again" only added further to the loss of Gaelic Irish warriors and the overall English agenda in that particular region.
The "sons" of Hugh / Hugo de Lacy
the Anglo - Norman Baron came over to Ireland without the consent of
Henry 111, the son of King John "Lackland," who was now the
"fourth"
Plantagenet Angevin Norman King of England, and there was also
internal dispute still among the English Galls / foreigners themselves, and because of this his
"sons" were to seek aid from
115.Aedh
Meith
O Niall the Heremonian
Dal Cuinn
"northern" Ui Niaill
Cenel nEogain King
of Aileach in the
Ulster Province,
as a combined force they intended to "oppose" the English Galls
who were set up on their confiscated Estates now in
the "north - east" of
Ireland. At first they
besieged Coleraine were they demolished the
Anglo - Norman castle there, and
then feeling more confident they travelled "south" down into
Northern Leinster
the previous territory of the O Melaghlins / O Loughlins Heremonian
Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill
Clann Cholmain kingdom of Meath
/ Midhe, and then from there advanced further into the
whole Leinster
Province were they were to slay many of the
English Galls set up on their confiscted Estates
also there. The
Norman English
then combined a "great force" at Dundalk, and
115.Aedh
Meith
O Niall
and Hugo de Lacy's "sons"
were to oppose them also, but the English Gall contingent was to prove far
"greater" in strength and
115,Aedh Meith
O Niall and the
young de
Lacy's defensive tactics were to prove unsuccessful against these forces. 116.Aed
mac Cathail
Crobhdhearg
O Connor,
the son of
115.Cathal
Crobhdhearg
O Connor
the previous
57th King
of
Connacht
- with defite opposition,
111.Donough
Cairbreach
O Brian
the Heberian Dal gCais King of
Northern Munster /
Thomond
and Diarmait
Cluasach - of the Long Ears
Mac Carthy
the Heberian
Eoghanacht Chaisil King of Southern Munster
/ Desmond at Muirthemne
and Dundalk in Northern Leinster
demanded "hostages" from the sons of 115.Aed
Meith O Niall and of
115.Aed
/ Hugh O Niall
who took up the challenge, while Hugh de Lacy submitted to
William - the Marshall
- the Younger as
they disbanded, despite this set back they were to receive "no tribute" from
115.Aed Meith
O
Niaill. 116.Aed mac Cathail
Crobhdhearg
O Connor
then besieged the
castle at Ard Abla in
Tethba in the west of
the Mac Melaghlin kingdom of
Meath in Northern Leinster
were he slew
everyone therein including the English Galls and the
Gaelic
Irish
who were to "oppose" him there.
115.Aedh
Meith
O Niall
the Heremonian Dal Cuinn
"northern"
Ui Niaill
Cenel nEogain King
of
Aileach
in
Tir Eogain / Tyrone
"allied" with his "northern" Ui Niall kinsman,
Donnell
Mor
- the Greater
O Donnell the
Heremonian
Dal Cuinn
"northern" Ui
NIaill Cenel Conaill
Ui Dalaigh King
of Tyrconnell / Tir
Conaill / Co. Donegal
/ Dun na Gall
(The Fort of the Strangers) in
the north - west of the Ulster Province, and
together they also now brought
Co.
Fermanagh
in the south - west of the
Ulster Province under his personal "overall control."
The
"Dominican
Black Friars" of
St. Dominic now arrived in
England
and
Ireland,
where they were well loved and founded a
friary at
Dowth in the previous
O Melaglins / O Loughlins
Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern"
Ui
Niaill Clann Cholmain kingdom of
Meath
in the south of Northern Leinster, and the
Catholic Archbishop
of Armagh
then
founded another friary for them at
Drogheda
in Co. Louth there in the north - east,
as further religious building was to continue on
while construction was also to be carried out on the previous
stronghold of the
Cashel / Munster
Kings
on the Rock of Cashel in
Co. Tipperary
in the north - east of the Munster
Province until
1289 AD.
1225 AD With the previous Viking disruptions and the Anglo - Norman English Invasion "The Irish Brehon Law" was in tatters, and the recent "demise" of 115.Cathal Crobhdhearg O Connor the 58th King of Connacht in the Connacht Province had by now set the "cat among the pigeons" and 116.Turlough mac Ruaidri O Connor and 116.Aed mac Ruaidri O Connor, another 2 of the sons of *115.Rory O Connor who had been the "legitimate" 56th King of Connacht and the last 183rd King of Ireland from the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray Ui Conchobair Sept, now looked to 115.Aedh Meith O Niall the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain King of Aileach in the Ulster Province to assist them to "regain" their "rightful position" under "The Brehon Law as the "legitimate" Tanaistes and Kings of Connacht. (Their older brother, 116.Conor Maenmaige O Connor had been the previous "official" 57th King of Connacht.) 116.Aed mac Cathail Crobhdhearg O Connor, the son of the recently deceased "unofficial" 115.Cathal Crobhdhearg O Connor the previous 58th King of Connacht - with definite opposition had been "stirred" on by Donn Og - the Younger mac Geretty / Mheic Airechtaig who was another of the Chiefs of the Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray Sept, to persist in his claim and also Cormac Mac Dermot / Diarmata the son of Tomalty Mac Dermot / Tomaltach Mheic Diarmada who was also against *115.Rory O Connor's 2 sons being able to gain the position.The "whole" of Connacht Province was now in "revolt" because of the dispute over the "legitimate" Kingship of Connacht, even 116.Aed O Flaherty / Ua Flaithbertaigh the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Seola King of West Connacht / Iarthar Connacht had also become involved, and to further assist *115.Rory O Connors 2 sons 115.Aed Meath O Niall then took his entourage south - west wards through the length of Connacht Province to the woods of Ath Luain and spent a night in the heights of Uana where he pillaged Lochnen securing the original Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray Ui Conchobair O Connor Royal possessions, and journeyed on further to Carn Free / Carn Fraich, were 116.Turlough mac Ruaidri O Connor, the "oldest" son of *115.Rory O Connor, was "inaugurated" under "The Irish Brehon Law" as the new "official" 59th King of Connacht.
115.Aedh Meith O Niall the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain King of Aileach then returned home to the Ulster Province as he had been informed that a large force of English Galls / foreigners under 111.Donough Cairbreach O Brian the Heberian Dal gCais King of Northern Munster / Thomond, who was now also the English appointed Earl of Thomond, O Mael Sechlainn / O Melaghlin and his followers, and Geoffrey de Marisco the Anglo - Norman Marcher Baron who was the English Justicar Deputy to William - the Marshall were all supporting the cause of 116.Aed mac Cathail Crobhdhearg O Connor who had called on the English Galls to assist him to gain the position, and he was now "leading" this group accompanied by his main supporter Cormac Mac Dermot, and they were all heading his way. When they realised that they were not able to "catch up" to 115.Aedh Meith O Niall they decided that they would go after the 2 sons of *115.Rory O Connor instead, and they went as far as Mellick Abbey and plundered the kingdom of Leyney / Luigni in the Heberian Cianacht kingdom of the O Haras and their kinsmen the O Garas, including Coolcarney and Bally Cong where many of the Irish children who were there at the time were drowned while "fleeing" from their onslaught. Owing to their outright acts of "savagery" on the general population there, *115.Rory O Connor's 2 sons decided to "disband" until the English Galls were gone out of the reion. Echmarcach Mac Brennan / Branain the Corco Achlan Chief, whose territory was in the "east" of the Connacht Province, was one of those slain at Cell Cellaigh on this occasion by the English Galls from out of Thomond. Meanwhile in the southern part of the Connacht Province the English Galls from out of Southern Leinster and the English Galls from out of the Munster Province, along with 111.Murtough Fionn O Brian, came against them with another party of English Galls from out of Desmond / Southern Munster and the English Sheriff of Cork, and they continued plundering throughout the region and "slaying" anyone that they came across there also. Their supposed catylist for all of this 116.Aed mac Cathail Crobhdhearg O Connor was not happy about the extra "savagery" being carried out and the attention it receiuved, as he had "not requested" their help on this occassion, but he was nevertheless still after some of the "booty" that the English Justicar and his English Galls had gained while plundering the Connacht Province due to their nefarious activities, and 4 of the sons of Mac Murrough / Mac Murchadha were also slain during these attacks and the Connacht Province itself had been generally "sacked". 116.Aed mac Cathail Crobhdhearg O Connor and his "allies" then went to Co. Mayo in the mid - west of Connacht Province where he "submitted" the Gaelic Irish Chiefs there, and then on to Kilmaine where the 3 armies of the English Galls were to be combined and 116.Aed O Flaherty also came in and "submitted" to 116.Aed mac Cathail Crobhdhearg O Connor and the English Justicar, and 111.Donough Cairbreach O Brian also undertook to send *115.Rory O Connor's 2 sons packing. 116.Aed mac Cathail Crobhdhearg O Connor then went to Tuam where he "dismissed" the English Galls who were from Southern Leinster and Desmond / Southern Munster and escorted the English Justicar to safety past Athlone. In the meantime, 111.Donough Cairbreach O Brian had sent his forces with a "great booty to return to Co. Clare, but on the way they came up against 116.Aed mac Ruaidri O Connor, the "younger" son of *115.Rory O Connor, who "defeated" them and regained the booty, and as a result 111.Donough Cairbreach O Brian made "peace" giving his word and guaranteeing not to march "against" either of *115.Rory O Connor's 2 sons, which he had "no intention" of keeping. When the English Galls left 116.Aed mac Cathail Crobhdhearg O Connor to his own devices, 116.Aed O Flaherty and the sons of Murtough O Flaherty joined in with *115.Rory O Connor's 2 surviving younger sons again, but 116.Aed mac Cathail Crobhdhearg O Connor once again sent for the English Galls to assist him, advising them that he now had a "second revolt" against him personally in the Connacht Province. The Southern Leinster English Galls under William Le Gros Fitz Gerald the Anglo - Norman Seneschall of Southern Leinster and Griffin Fitz William, who was a brother of Raymond Le Gros / The Large Fitz Gerald, sent their combined foreign English Gall forces and attacked *115.Rory O Connor's 2 sons and also the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Fiachrach Aidni Septs in Southern Connacht, Aed O Flaherty and the sons of Murtough O Flaherty went to help Eoghan O hEdin the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Fiachrach Aidni Chief. but on seeing the great force that the English Galls had combined, the 2 younger sons of *115.Rory O Connor decided to go "north" and seek out the protection of 115.Aedh Meith O Niall the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain King of Aileach. 116.Aed mac Cathail Crobhdhearg O Connor then attacked Aed O Flaherty who was forced to submit once again to him and went north to Kilmaine and Co. Mayo where he was forced to submit again.
The Black Abbey, which was a "Dominican" friary, was
founded in Kilkenny
City in Co. Kilkenny / Ossory in
the south - west of Southern
Leinster by William Marshall
- the Younger who was now the
English
appointed Justicar and Norman Earl
there.
Conor 1st
/ Conchobar
O Kelly was
now the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch
Ui Maine
King
who had his
kingdom and territory in the east of
Co. Galway and nearby in Co. Roscommon in the
Connacht Province.
Duarchan O Hara the Heberian Cianachta King of Leyney who had his kingdom and territory in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province, Teague O Hara and Edina the daughter of Dermod the son of Donnell, all "died" this year.