RAINBOW FARMS AUSTRALIA
1271 - 1280 AD
1271 AD Aed mac Comharba O Connor, the son of Comharba Comain O Connor, was killed by Thomas Butler the Anglo - Norman English Baron at Muine Ingene Creachain, and Donnell O Flynn / Ua Flainn was also killed by a son of Robin Laighleis the English Gall, at Shrule, and Mahon O Connor was also killed by the English Galls of Dunmore, while Conor O Connor, the son of Tiernan / Tigernan O Connor, was killed by Mael Sechlainn O Rourke, the son of Art O Rourke, and the Clann Fermaighe.
117.Aed mac Cathail Crobhdhearg O Connor who was still the "uinofficial" 63rd King of Connacht destroyed the English Gall's castles at Templehouse, Sligo and Athleague in the Connacht Province.
Nicholas de Verdun / de Bheardun, the son of John de Verdun, the Anglo - Norman English Baron who now had his confiscated Estates in the Heremonian Dal Cuinn 3 Colla kingdom of Orghialla / Oriel, was killed by Goffraidh O Farrell and his warriors from the Gaelic Milesian Irian Muintir Conghaile who had their territory nearby in Co. Longford in the north - west of Northern Leinster in their kingdom of Annerley.
Walter de Burgh the Anglo - Norman English Earl of Ulster who was the overlord of the English Galls in the Connacht Province, died in Galway in Co. Galway in the south - west of Connacht, and Thomas Fitz Maurice Fitz Gerald, the son of the second Anglo - Norman English Baron of Offaly, also died this year.
1272 AD Henri Butler / le buitleir who was now the Anglo - Norman English Baron in the O Malleys Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ui Maille kingdom of the Umall / The Owles in Co. Mayo in the mid - north - west of the Connacht Province and Hodge Medbnic were killed by Cathal O Connor, the son of Conor Ruadh - of Red Complexion O Connor and the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Princes / Tanaistes of Connacht and 117.Aed mac Cathail Crobhdhearg O Connor the "unofficial" 63rd King of Connacht also destroyed the English Gall's magnificent Roscommon Castle in Roscommon in his territory in Co. Roscommon in the east of the Connacht Province. He also burnt the territory nearby there that was now controlled by the English Galls in the O Melaghlins / O Loughlins Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill kingdom of Meath on the eastern side of the River Shannon in the south - west of Northern Leinster as far as Granard and Athlone in Co. Westmeath and also destroyed the bridge there, and had a large fleet on Loch Ree from where he ravaged the English Galls throughout the region there also creating great confusion among them.
118.Teague Dall - the Blind O Connor, the son of 117.Aed mac Cathail Crobhdhearg O Connor the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai "unofficial" 63rd King of Connacht, who had previously been the "unofficial" heir apparent / Tanaiste until he was previously blinded by the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne O Reillys / Ui Raghailligh who had their territory in Co. Cavan in their kingdom of East Breifne in Southern Ulster, died this year.
Jacques de Audeley, the Anglo - Norman English Justicar in Ireland was killed by accident while he was besieging the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain O Brians in their territory and kingdom in Thomond / Northern Munster.
Richard Tuit / de Tuite, the Anglo - Norman English Baron, also died this year, who also had his confiscated Estates in the O Melaghlins / O Loughlins Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill territory in Co. Westmeath in the south - west of the Northern Leinster.
The
Cistercian
Order now founded
Hore Abbey on the Rock
of Cashel in
Co. Tipperary in the north - east
of the
Munster Province with monks who came down from
Mellifont in
Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster, who would speak only
Gaelic
Irish, after the
Benedictines who had a school
building there were expelled by the Catholic
Archbishop of Cashel.
Edward
1st, the fifth Anglo - Norman English King,
until 1307 AD, who was a son of Henry 111, tried to bring further English
reform into
Ireland,
and to this end he put in strong English Governors, beginning with
Geoffrey de Geneville the Anglo -
Norman Baron, who married the
Norman English
de
Lacy heiress, and later on he would be followed into this position by
John Wogan / Ugan / Gwgan - frown (Welsh).
1273 AD Eochy Mac Mahon
/ Eochaidh Mheic Mathgamain
who
was the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch King
of Orghialla / Airghialla /
Oriel, who had their territory in Co. Monaghan
and
Co. Armagh in the south of
the Ulster
Province,
Conor Buide - of the Yellow Hair
O Rourke, the son of
Auliffe
/ Amlaib O Rourke,
the son of Art O Rourke, who was
now the Heremonian
Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne
King of West
Breifne, who had his territory in Co. Leitrim in
Northern Connacht,
was killed by Conor
The
de Mandevilles / de Moinbhiol the Anglo - Norman English Barons and the other
English Barons who now had confiscated Estates
in the
Ulster Province,
in their own interest
had used the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill
O
Nialls to create havoc when
William Fitz Warrine the
English Seneschall, (who they
all hated), tried to collect levies for
Edward 1st
1274 AD 117.Aed mac Cathail Crobhdhearg O Connor who had been the "unofficial" 63rd King of Connacht for 9 years, died, and his grandson, 119.Eogan O Connor, became the new "unofficial" 64th King of Connacht, who was a son of 118.Rory O Connor, but within 3 months another 119.Rory O Connor who was his cousin and a son of 118.Turlough O Connor, another of the sons of 117.Aed mac Cathail Crobhdhearg O Connor, killed him in the church of the Friars in Roscommon in Co. Roscommon in the east of the Connacht Province. This particular 119.Rory O Connor too was to only rule for 3 months as the "unofficial" 65th King of Connacht as he was to be killed by the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Sept who had their kingdom of Aileach to the north in the Ulster Province. 119.Aed mac Cathal Crobhdhearg Dall O Connor, the son of 118.Cathal Dall O Connor, another of the sons of 117.Aed mac Cathail Crobhdhearg O Connor, became the new "unofficial" 66th King of Connacht and he too was soon killed within 2 weeks by Mac Geraghty / Mag Oireachtaigh from the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Ui Tomaltaig Sept at Grainsech Sruthar and Gilli Crist O Beirne / Ua Birn. This all meant that during the continuing unstability that 3 Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray "unofficial" Kings of Connacht had died in quick succession did nothing for the many Gaelic Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Septs in Connacht, let alone for Ireland, as 119.Teague O Connor, another of the sons of 118.Turlough O Connor, a son of 117.Aed mac Cathail Crobhdhearg O Connor became the new "unofficial" 67th King of Connacht
Tiernan / Tigernan O Rourke who was the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin King of West Breifne who had their territory in Co. Leitrim in Northern Connacht, also died this year.
Gilla na Naimh - (Devotee of the Saints) O Farrell / Ua Fearghail the Gaelic Milesian Irian Chief of the Clann Conmaig Meic Fergusa, was also killed while defending his territory in their kingdom of Annaly in Co. Longford in the north - west of Northern, Leinster against the English Galls, and he was then succeeded by Cathal O Farrell, his son, who would rule Annaly for the next 10 years.
Cathal Mag Flanahy / Mheic Flannchaidh the King of Dartry in the Connacht Province, also died this year, and Maelsechlainn O Rourke, the son of Auliffe / Amlaib O Rourke, the son of Art O Rourke, who had been a previous Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne King of Dartry from the Clann Fermaighe, whose territory was in the north of Co. Leitrim in the Connacht Province, was also killed by Conor O Rourke, the son of Donnell O Rourke the son of Tiernan nGall O Rourke at Killarga, who then became the new King of Dartry in Connacht.
Rathfran Abbey in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the Connacht Province was founded by the Dominican Order this year, and would be rebuilt in the 15th and 16th Centuries AD, and the ruins of this Abbey are still there to be seen.
Allen O Lonergan a Heberian
Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlough Franciscan
friar was consecrated as the Catholic Bishop of Cloyne.
1275 AD Art O Rourke, the son of Cathal Riabach O Rourke, the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin King of West Breifne, was killed by Mac Finnabair and the Muintir Geradhain along with many of the English Galls at Granard, where his people were slaughtered.
The son of Chu Cathail O Reilly / Ua Raghailligh who had their Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin kingdom of East Breifne in what is now Co. Cavan in Southern Ulster, was killed by the Clann Cathail.
The English Galls were defeated this year in the Ulster Province where 200 of them were killed and 200 of their horses were seized.
Maurice Fitzgerald the Anglo - Norman English Baron who was the grandson of the original Anglo - Norman Marcher Baron who had landed in Ireland in 1169 AD of the same name, constructed another castle against the Gaelic Irish Septs there, and also a Dominican friary in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province.
In the north the Anglo - Norman de Burghs now changed their name to Burke, while in the south the Anglo - Norman Fitz Geralds were by now intermarrying with the Irish Septs there.
1276 AD Diarmait O Morna, the son of Gilla Muire O Morna, who was the Heremonian Dal Fiatach King of Ulaid who now had their territory and kingdom in both Co. Antrim and Co. Down in the north - east of the Ulster Province, died this year.
Edward 1st
the Anglo - Norman English King
tried once
again to impose
English Law
in Ireland,
against the Irish Brehon Law,
with the
Gaelic
Irish
Septs
not allowed any recourse at all under
these
new English Laws, and although many
of the Gaelic
Irish Septs
anglicized their names at
this time to try and fit in, it failed completely. He
also officially granted the Heberian Dal gCais
kingdom of
Thomond /
Northern Munster to one of his Anglo - Norman Barons,
Thomas de Clare, who was a younger brother to
his personal friend the Anglo - Norman
English Earl of Gloucester,
and English
foreign
planters were brought into the Mac Murrough's Heremonian
Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb
kingdom
and the Giolla Padraigs / Fitz Patrick Ui Laoghaire Ui Connla
territories and kingdoms in Southern
Leinster,
and the
O Melaghlins
/ O Loughlins
Heremonian Dal Cuinn
"southern" Ui Niaill
kingdom in Meath /
Midhe in the south of Northern
Leinster, and also into
the'various Heberian kingdoms in the
Munster Province,
including the Mac
Carthy's kingdom of Desmond in Dingle in
Co. Kerry in
the south - west of
Munster,
and
also into
the Heremonian Dal Cuinn
Ui Briuin
territory around the kingdom of Erris in
Co. Mayo
in the mid - north - west of the
Connacht Province.
The Anglo - Norman English families of the Bellews, the Plunkets, the de Peppards, the Nugents and the de Bathes at this time all had their confiscated English Estates in the O Melaghlins / O Loughlins Heemonian Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill kingdom of Meath in the south of Northern Leinster and by now only 11 of the Gaelic Chieftains held their own Sept's territories under the overall control of Walter de Burgh the Anglo - Norman Baron who was the English Earl of Ulster, for which in return they were to provide him with 355 fighting Irishmen / Bonnacht each, who were to also later on be supposed to take part in Edward 1st's campaign against the Scottii in the Scottish Highlands.
117.Aed Muimneach O Connor, an illegitimate son of 116.Felim mac Cathail Crobhdhearg O Connor the previous "unofficial" 61st King of Connacht, who had been born after his father's demise, came up to the north from out of the Munster Province and sought protection from Donnell Mor - the Greater O Donnell the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill King who raised a force in his cause and escorted him as far as Aghanagh, and from there he went into the Connacht Province where he was looked upon then as a definite successor to his father. 119. Teague O Connor who was now "unofficial" 67th King of Connacht, the son of 118.Turlough O Connor then raided and burnt the territory there, but gained nothing from it while his sons also besieged 117.Aed Muimneach O Connor and the sons of Mac Dermot, killing Gilla Crist O Mailbrenainn, and 117.Aed Muimneach O Connor with his followers then besieged the Clann Murtough who were nevertheless able to defeat him. 119.Teague O Connor the "unofficial" 67th King of Connacht also raided the territory of the Muintir Nechtain, from where he was driven off, and Donnell O Rourke was killed, the son of Niall O Rourke, along with many others. Gilla Crist O Nechtain and William O Nechtain were also to be killed later on by 119.Teague O Connor the "unofficial" 67th King of Connacht.
The Highland Scots were still using the same Gaelic language as the Irish, while in the Lowlands and Wales they were speaking P - Celtic, and in Strathclyde Brython.
1277 AD Thomas de Clare, the son of Richard de Clare the Anglo - Norman English Earl of Gloucester, finally finished building Bunratty Castle (Named for the Mouth of the River Raite, and it is still in existence today and held in trust by the Irish Government). in Co. Clare in the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain kingdom of Thomond / Northern Munster and invited his previous ally, 113.Brian Ruadh - of Red Complexion O Brian the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain King of Northern Munster / Thomond there who decided to accept his invitation after Thomas de Clare made a religious oath to do him no harm, but once inside he put him in prison and then tortured him and while he was still alive pulled him apart with two horses. This was to lead onto what became known as "The Great Wars of Thomond," with one of the sons of 113.Brian Ruadh O Brian siding with his murderer Thomas de Clare the Norman English Baron for his own personal advantage, and these particular conflicts in Co. Clare were to continue on now for 41 years until 1318 AD when both Thomas de Clare and his son were to be killed by the determined effort of the Heberian Dal gCais O Deas who had originally fostered 113.Brian Ruadh O Brian's other son, 114,Turlough O Brian, who they now fully supported as the Tanaiste / heir apparent.
The magnificient English Galls' Roscommon Castle
1278 AD 114.Donough O Brian,
a
son
of
113.Brian
Ruadh
O Brian the recently deceased
King of Northern Munster
/
Thomond
now ruled the territory in the west of
Co.
Clare
in the north - west of the
Munster Province and St. Finghin's Church was
constructed this year at Quin in
Co. Clare,
which was to be near the other castle in the village of Quin to be
eventually also constructed there by Thomas de Clare
the Anglo - Norman English Baron. (The
church's
ruins are still there near the
Quin Abbey which would be constructed also later on, on the Quin castle ruins
there, by the Mac Namaras the
Heberian Dal gCais Ui Caisin Lord Marshalls
for the Heberian Dal gCais Ui
Bloid Ui Turlough Ui mBriain O Brians. His
brother, 114.Turlough
O Brian,
supported by the
Heberian
Dal gCais
O Deas,
who
was soon to become the new
Heberian Dal gCais
Ui mBriain
King
of Northern Munster
/ Thomond
until 1306 AD began a campaign to drive Thomas de Clare and the
English Galls out of
the territory he occupied in the east of
Co. Clare, except for a few
who were held up in
Bunratty Castle,
Towards this end the
Heberian Dal gCais
Septs under the
leadership of the sons of
113.Brian
Ruadh
O Brian
were able to
defeat Thomas de Clare at Quin where they also burnt
the recently constructed
St. Finghin's
Church at
Quin in
Co. Clare, after the
English planted foreigners
there,
who were de Clare's supporters, tried to
use it to escape from their fury and many were killed, but Thomas de Clare was
able to escape and continue on with his efforts to gain total overall control in
Co. Clare. 114.Turlough
O Brian
then constructed the first
Irish stone castle near
the main centre of
Ennis in
Co. Clare,
which would be totally
destroyed
300
years later on, and
he also improved the Abbey at
Clonroad in
the main town of Ennis itself.
119.Teague / Tadhg O Connor who was now the "unofficial" 67th King of Connacht was killed by the sons of Cathal Mac Dermot after ruling in Connacht for 3 years, and 119.Rory O Connor, another of the sons of 118.Turlough O Connor, who was the "unofficial" Tanaiste / heir apparent was also to be killed by Gilla Crist Mag Flanahy / Ua Flannchaidh and members of the Dartraige Sept, on the border of Drumcliff along with many others and Tomalty / Tomaltach Mag Geraghty / Mac Oireachtaigh of Cagal the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray Chief was also killed by members of his own Sept and 117.Aed Muimneach O Connor, the illegitimate son of 116.Felim Mac Cathail Crobhdhearg O Connor was now able to assume the "unofficial" 68th Kingship of Connacht.
Brian O Dowd
the
Heremonian
Dal Cuinn "northern"
Ui Fiachrach Muaidhe
Galway
City
in Co. Galway in
Southern Connacht was by now a walled town constructed to keep the
Gaelic Irish
Septs
out, and was governed by the
Anglo - Norman
English and
the
14
foreign families
who were settled there, who are generically known as the
14 Tribes of Galway,
including the
Athys, the Blakes, the Bodkins,
the
Brownes, the D' Arcys,
the
Deanes / Le Den, the Ffronts,
the
Ffrenchs / French, the Joyces,
the
Kirwans, the Lynchs,
the
Martins, the Morris and the
Skerrets who were mainly of Welsh origins.
Maurice Fitz Gibbon Fitz Gerald
the
Norman English Baron, also
known as the
White Knight,
constructed a Dominican
friary
this year.
1280 AD Due to the constant harassment by the English Galls and the overall authority of the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn
"northern"
Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Sept in
the north - east of the Ulster Province, the Heberian Cianacht O Carrolls
/ Ui Cerbaill, who had their kingdom at Keenaught /
Cianacht there in
Ulster
gave up the struggle to retain their own individual kingdom and their territories there and decided to migrate
further to the
west to the protection of the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill
Cenel Conaill O Donnell's
/ Ui Domhnaill territory of
Tir Chonaill
/ Tyrconnell /
Co. Donegal in the north - west of Ulster, who were also
always themselves up against the expansion of their
nearby kinsmen, the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill
Cenel nEogain Sept of Tyrone
/ Tir
Eogan. The
Cianacht O Carroll
Sept are now
more modernly known as
the Mac Nultys
/
Mheic an Ultaigh (Descended from a
son of the Ulsterman) and they were to become the hereditary physicians in Tyrconnell
to
the O Donnells, which was similar to what happened to the
O Clery
/ Ui Cleirigh Sept who were descended from the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern"
Ui Fiachrach Aidne
Kings in Southern
Connacht, who were also to find protection with the
Heremonian
Dal Cuinn Cenel Conaill O Donnells,
and then also became the Cenel Conaill historians and
genealogists there in Co. Donegal (The Fort of the
Strangers).
Thomas de Clare the Anglo - Norman English Baron, who was a brother to the English Earl of Gloucester, (and who had been granted the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain kingdom of Thomond / Northern Munster by Edward 1st the English Norman King, if he could clean out the Heberian Septs there, constructed another castle at Quin in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province, which would be utilised later on in the early 15th Century as the base for the magnificent Quin Abbey to be constructed by Sioda Cam Mac Namara who would at that time be the Lord Marshall for the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain O Brians in Thomond.
117.Aed Muimneach O Connor who had since become the "unofficial" 68th King of Connacht, the illegitimate son of 116.Felim Mac Cathail Crobhdhearg O Connor the previous "unofficial" 60th King of Connacht, and the descendents of 119.Murtough Muimneach O Connor came into conflict and he was killed in the woods at Daingean where Maelsechlainn O Connor, the son of Magnus / Manus O Connor, was taken prisoner and later ransomed by Donnell O Donnell for 400 cows and 20 horses and 121.Cathal O Connor, the son of 120.Conor Ruad - of Red Complexion O Connor, the son of 119.Murtough Muimneach O Conor, the son of 118.Turlough Mor O Connor, became the new Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray "unofficial" 69th King of Connacht.
The Abbey
of
St. Wolftan was founded this year, by
Adam Fitz Hereford
the English Baron, who now had confiscated Estates at
Leixlip in
Co. Kildare
in Central Southern Leinster, and
Liscarroll Castle was also constructed by the English Galls on the
River Blackwater in
Co. Cork