1551 - 1557 AD
1551 AD 121.Murrough O Brian
who was to be the last inaugurated
Heberian
Dal gCais / Dalcassian
King
of Northern Munster
/ Thomond who had become the
English first Earl of Thomond and first
Baron of Inchiquin, died this
year, and
123.Donough / Donnchad
- the Fat
O
Brien, who was a son of his brother,
Conor O Brian, who had
also been the previous
King of Northern Munster, became the
English
second Earl of Thomond in
Ireland an English title
that was then made
hereditary
by
Edward VI, the young son of Henry V111,
who was
now the Welsh Tudor
English King
of England, who
also granted the Catholic monastery
and territory at
Newry
in
Co. Down
in the south - east of the Ulster
Province to
Nicholas
Bagenal /
Bagnall who
also "planted" the confiscated Estate and rebuilt the castle there.
1552 AD
As a sign of worse things to come
both ethnically and sectarian wise, the
English
Galls / foreigners who made up the garrison
in
Athlone in
Co. Westmeath in the south - west
of Northern Leinster,
now
plundered the Catholic
monastery site at
Clonmacnoise
in Co. Offaly in the north - west of
Southern Leinster, that had been founded in 545 AD
by St. Kieran / St. Ciaran and
went about wrecking all of the religious buildings removing the
bells from their towers, and reducing them all to a final
ruined state that can still be seen today.
John
“Bilious“
Bale,
who had been a monk from Norwich
in England,
and a religious reformer, was to be appointed the Church of England Episcopalian Bishop of
Ossory
in Co. Kilkenny
in the south - west of Southern Leinster until 1553
AD, but was to
leave Ireland later on when
Mary 1st
the Catholic daughter of Henry V111 and Catherine
of Aragon
was to become the Welsh Tudor English Queen, after the death of her younger sickly half -
brother,
1553 AD The young sickly Edward V1 died and his older half - sister Mary 1st was in as the legitimate daughter of Henry V111 and Catherine of Aragon and the Catholic Welsh Tudor Queen of England until 1558 AD, and this meant that the Catholic Church was also to be restored in Ireland, with all of those among the "clergy survivors" who had sold out their original faith for positions were denounced, and a proclamation was issued in all ports for all non - Catholic foreigners to also leave Britain and there was now a glimmer of hope for some normal type of existence returning in Ireland,
Donnell O Brian was recognised by the Dalcassian people as their Irish Prince / Tanaiste (heir apparent) of Northern Munster / Thomond in Co. Clare up until 1559 AD, and he and Turlough O Briain attacked Donough - the Fat O Brien the recent English second Earl of Thomond in his fortress at the Clonroad in the town of Ennis in Co. Clare and he escaped to his tower gravely wounded, where he died a few weeks later, so they burned his stronghold in the town, and also began to lay siege to Mac William Burke / de Burgho the Anglo - Norman English Earl of Clann Rickarde, and also laid siege to Southern Leinster, which they considered, was still under their jurisdiction in Mogha's Half.
Cormac Mac Coghlan the Heberian Dal gCais Prince / Tanaiste of Delvin from the Clan Conor, and Cahir Mac Coghlan, both died.
James Butler,
the son of
Pierce Butler, was now also able to return from exile and
he became
the new tenth Anglo - Norman English
Earl of Ormonde in
Co. Kilkenny
in the south - west of
Southern Leinster
reared for an English purpose
1554 AD Eogan Og Mac Sweeney / The Mac Sweeney na Tuath, the son of the previous Mac Sweeney, was killed in an internal family struggle and the last 2 Mac Sweeney Chieftains were to be his son, also Eogan Og Mac Sweeney, and his grandson Mael Muire Mac Sweeney, the son of Murchad Mall Mac Sweeney.
Mary
1st the
Welsh
Tudor English Queen, who was
the
legitimate Catholic daughter of
Henry
V111 and
Catherine
of Aragon
was still trying to restore the Catholic
faith in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland, and
to this end she was to arrange for the now debilitated
St.
Patrick's Church in
Dublin to be
rebuilt, which had been allowed to fall into decay,
due to a lack of patronage under the
Episcopalian Church of England /
Ireland although it was the original
Church of St.
Patrick in Dublin.
1555 AD
The
Heremonian
Ui Cobhthaigh
Dal Cuinn Colla Uais
Mac Donnells
(Mac
Donalds) had increased their
Scottish tenants throughout this Century in the territory that they now
controlled in
Co. Antrim in the
north - east of
the
Ulster Province,
and
Mary 1st the
English Welsh Tudor
Queen wanted them out, and to be replaced by
English and
Welsh planters.
1556 AD Mary 1st the Welsh Tudor English Queen confiscated the territories of the Irish Chiefs in Co. Offaly and Co. Laois in the north - west of Southern Leinster stuated further out from The English Pale, and intended to put English "planters" into those two Counties also, as they were along the border region of The Pale held by the English, surrounding Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster, to further extend the English inner controlled territories in Ireland allowing greater intervention and further expansion into the frontiers. (Both of the Counties there were to be renamed by the English, with Co. Offaly becoming Kings Co. and Co. Laois becoming Queens Co.
125.Shane O Niaill
/ The O Niall
and the Heremonian Dal Cuinn
"northern"
Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain King
of Ulster received no submission from his
nearby kinsman The O Donnell the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn
"northern" Ui Niaill
Cenel Conaill King of Tyrconnell / Co. Donegal
in the west of the Ulster Province so he went to War
against him to attempt to gain overall authority in Ulster.
Grace O
Malley / Grainne Ua
Maille the Pirate
Queen from the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ui Maille
Sept had her fort at
Carrigahooly Castle
on
Clare Island
near
Newport in
Co. Mayo
in the mid - west of the
Connacht Province
whose father had been
Owen
Black Oak
O Malley
/ Eogan Dubh Dara
O
Maille
the Lord of the Isles in
Ireland, and she
gained control over her own people when she was only
19
years of age, after
she had successfully removed her younger brother and became
famous for carrying out a raid on the
English shipping, and
the English had offered
500 pounds reward for
her capture, and as a result they were to besiege her castle
for 14
days from their
stronghold in the
City of Galway, but still failed to capture her. Much later on she was
also to
remove the young English heir
of Lord Howth on the coast of
Co.
Dublin
in the north - east of Southern Leinster, taking
him as a hostage, because
they had their gate locked at dinner time when she
had arrived there and after her first
husband,
The O
Flaherty was
killed
she was to marry
Sir Richard Burke
the Anglo - Norman Earl, known also as
Mac William
Eighter of
Carrigahooly, who was the
leader of the
Anglo
- Norman Burkes / de Burghos in
Co. Galway
in Southern Connacht, on a
12 months trial basis. After this
she disposed of him and produced a son,
Toby Burke who she was to later on hand over to
Elizabeth
1st
the Welsh Tudor English Queen, "As he had Saxon -
blood in him," who
was to also rear him in
England as a non - Catholic Episcopalian for an English purpose, and
he later became the English Earl of
Mayo. (When Grace O Malley later died she was
interred there in the
Abbey in
Co. Mayo).
Also during this period the
26,000 acres of
Irish Septs'
territory at
Bray in
Co. Wicklow
in the south - east of Southern Leinster, that was
originally taken from
the Heremonian Cu Corb Irish
Septs there by the Anglo - Normans and granted to
the Anglo - Norman de la Poers
/
Powers, after
Strongbow 11, was now back in
Irish
hands under the control
of the
Heremonian Cu
Corb
Ui Cheinnselaig
Cavanaghs / Kavanaghs who were descended from an illegitimate son of
113.Dermot Mac Murrough
na Gall
- of the Foreigners who had been the
disgraced
59th King of Leinster. While in exile
113.Dermot na Gall had brought in the
English
Anglo Normans,
which was
against the Irish Brehon Law,
to regain his own lost kingdom in Southern Leinster and had
even married his daughter
114.Eva
/ Aoife to
Strongbow 11 / Richard de Clare, the
Anglo - Norman leader, giving him
total control over
Southern Leinster,
after
113.Dermot na Gall
died.
The Mac Murroughs
and their
Septs,
which included the
Cavanaghs
and the
Cinsellas / Kinsellas
of
Bannow,
were the original
Gaelic Milesian
Tuaths in the area, who were the
Cu Corb
Kings
of Leinster.
After the
de la Poers / Powers the territory there
had then been
recaptured and taken back into
Irish
hands once again under the
Heremonian Cu
Corb
Ui Dunlainge O
Byrnes
and
O Toole
Chiefs, during the previous reign of
Henry
VIII and later on
after this it was to be confiscated once again by the
English and given to the English
Talbots, until it came once
again under the control of the
Cavanaghs / Kavanaghs.