1607 - 1610 AD
1607 AD The Catholic Cathedral at Emly / Imleach (The Lake Border ) in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province, that was also previously taken over during the confiscation of the Irish Catholic Church Institutions by Henry V111 was ruined during the fighting, and it had a special significance to the Irish Septs, as it was the site of an ancient church that had been founded there originally by St. Ailbhe, the initial Catholic Bishop of Emly, who had been a contemporary of St. Patrick, and who had personally converted the whole area there to the Catholic faith in 528 A.D, and when he died he had been interred there. and his personal cell is still there to be seen.
August:
Although
126.Aed Dubh
/ Black
Hugh
O Niall / The O Nial
had submitted to
James 1st the new Stuart English King was still not satisfied, as he
wanted the last vestiges of the
Gaelic Irish
Ulster
Chiefs gone
from Ireland altogether, and
to this end, those who were the leaders of the Irish
Ulster Septs were from now on subjected to ongoing aggressive English
officials, until he was finally able to instigate a charge of Conspiracy, against them
and
126.Aed Dubh
O Niall / The O Niall
was then summoned to London to
answer these trumped up charges, and while he was
absent from Ireland, James 1st
had arranged for two real "survivors,"
Sir
Cahir O Doherty of Lifford and
Sir Henry
Oge - the Younger
O Neill to
be in charge of the
Juries in Ulster.
Their instructions were to ensure that those at
Lifford and
Strabane,
who were
under their directions,
were to bring in an indictment of Treason and Conspiracy against the
Irish
Ulster
Earls
with no chance of any defence, and this then also
involved an Attainder,
(Off with their Heads)
and further confiscation of their
Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill territories to the
English Crown, and Sir
Arthur Chichester, James 1st's personal agent in Ulster, only wanted to give one 1/2 of these further
confiscated territories back to the
Irish Catholics there, as he had previously proposed
that all Irish Catholics should be
driven out
altogether, and that English
Ascendancy Episcopalian "plantations"
should then
be carried out in these further territories. From now on, under
James 1st's direction, Sir Arthur Chichester began increased confiscations of
the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill territories
there in Ulster,
in
Co. Armagh, in
Co. Cavan, in
Coleraine, in
Co. Derry, in Co. Donegal,
in Co. Fermanagh
and in
Co. Tyrone, and all of this extra pre - meditated ethnic and
religious Ascendancy persecution was to bring about
the desired result, with the forthcoming
"Flight of the Earls"
September 14th: 12 a.m.
The "Flight of the Earls"
occurred when
126.Aed
Dubh
O Niall /
The O Niall, and
Rory O Donnell / The O Donnell
and his one year old son, along with his brother,
Caffar
O Donnell, together with
The Maguire who was the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Chieftain in
Co. Fermanagh,
who were
all to be the last titled
Gaelic Milesian
independent Irish Chieftains as
126.Aed Dubh O Niaill, Rory O Donnell and
Caffar O Donnell were all descended from *90.Niall
-
of the Nine Hostages the
126th King of Tara / Ireland,
and
The Maguire who was decended
from
88.Colla Da Crioch
- of the Two Countries whose older brother,
*88.Colla Uais
had been the
121st King of Ireland descended from
*84.Cormac Mac
Airt who had been the
115th KIng of Ireland.
95
other Ulster
Province
Irish leaders
and members of their individual Septs / Families, who for good reason were by now all in fear of their lives, boarded
their ships and left Ireland
forever to
go into exile
from out of
Rathmullan on
Loch Swilly (The Lake of Shadows)
in
Co. Donegal
in the north - west
of
Ulster.
Although they were initially intending to set
sail directly for
Spain,
due to the storms they encountered along the way, they first ended up in
Norway, and later on still in the
Spanish Netherlands
and among
them also was the "aged"
The
Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niall territories in the
Ulster Province,
belonging to the various
Irish Septs in
Co. Donegal
and
Co. Tyrone were now confiscated outright by the
English, and the
Irish Septs there were driven
out above the 600' level to starve to death, as
Co. Armagh, Coleraine, Co. Fermanagh, Tyre
and Co. Cavan
were to be also "planted" with
Ascendancy Episcopalian English with
"No Irish
allowed"
and
Ulster
was cut up into
1000, 1500
and 2000 acre lots with
3,000 acres to go to the
English Ascendancy Superiors who would bear arms and
build individual defences against the
Irish Septs
there in their regions.
Despite all of the English Laws that were constantly imposed
against the Irish to ensure their
total obliteration in Ireland,
the Irish people eventually came back down to work their own land, for a rent as tenants, as the
Ascendancy Episcopalian "planters" had no one else capable of doing the work on the
vast
amount of Irish territory that they had confiscated
while over
80 % of
Co. Derry in the north - east of
Ulster was
also given over to the Ascendancy Church of England and the
Presbyterian "planters," with
Coleraine
given over to the merchants from the
City of London, and
Inishowen
went
to the English Lord Deputy
with
English Ascendancy Episcopalian "planters."
The
lowland
Presbyterian "planters" were
placed next to the
rivers and the
Old English /
Anglo - Irish
were
further out, and under
new English Laws the English Undertakers and non - Catholic
"planters" were now all
forbidden to make use of any
Irish
tenants,
while another 5 % of the
Irish territory there was given to former English soldiers, who were allowed to make use of
Irish
tenants, with the
15 % remaining balance
of the land there to go to the
Irish
tenants who were
also forced to pay double rent.
The
Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Uais
Mac Donnells
/ Mac Donalds
who were previously Irish
Scottish galloglasses
/ mercenaries descended from the *88.Colla
Uais the 121st King of Ireland and the
Lord of the Isles there in
Scotland, and personally connected to James 1st
the Stuart English
King received the territory of the Heremonian Dal Cuinn
"northern" Ui Niaill
Cenel nEogain Sept in
Co. Antrim
in the north - east of the
Ulster Province.
England under James 1st the Stuart
English
King had
by now gained complete control over the
Irish
population with the committed Irish
leaders who had still existed in the Ulster Province gone, and
now with half
of the Irish
population done away
with, by one means or another, and those
Catholic
Irish and Anglo - Irish who had
survived so far had
lost
either, their
Family
territory, close members of their
Families, their right to
practice their Catholic
faith and all of their previous democratic rights they treasured
dear under the
Irish Brehon Law.
Those who were left behind were now under a total foreign -
system of serfdom, which was completely opposite to their Celtic Culture, and which
now also gave them no recognition as
actually legally existing in their own Country of
Ireland under
English Common Law that would continue on right up to
1869 AD, and in
reality
this should have meant, as was intended, the final end
of the
Irish people and their
Nation altogether, as by not being able to exist legally under English Common Law they
had no rights as to reclaiming their
territory or their
property or being legally part of the community now existing in
Ireland. For the previous 4 Centuries up until
this period in time
those in authority in England had
been about either ethnic
cleansing, or ethnic and
religious cleansing
as their overall goal had been the total
annihilation of
the
Irish population as a Celtic
people, but
despite the fact that they now had them under their physical and
economic control their
Irish and Anglo -
Irish
Minds were still
free.
The mandates originally given to the Ascendancy anti - Catholic protagonists, Sir Arthur Chichester and Sir John Davies by James 1st the Stuart English King to harass the Catholic Irish and Anglo - Irish by fines and imprisonment had by now served their intended purpose and were to be abandoned for the present, by the English authorities, as there was now growing fear among them of having gone too far and creating further Irish revolts in Ireland.
John Mac Eniry of Castletown Mac Eniry in Co. Limerick who was the Chief of the Heberian Eoghanacht Ui Fidgeinti Ui Cairbre Aebda Sept, Gerald Mac Eniry his cousin and Shane mac Thomas Mac Eniry of Kilmore in Co. Limerick his brother - in - law had their territories that the Sept had held for 200 years in Co. Cork and Co. Limerick also confiscated.
Moore Abbey
was constructed this year by the English "planters" in
Drogheda in Co.
Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster on the site of the old monastery at
Monasterevin,
which today is an Irish
Catholic
convent.
1608 AD
April: 126.Aed Dubh
/
Black Hugh O Niall
/
The O Niall and the other
Irish
Ulster Province leaders,
who had fled via
Loch Swilly in
Co. Donegal in the north - west of
Ulster in
fear of their lives had finally arrived in
Rome were they came under the
protection of
Pope
Paul V.
April 18th: Sir Cahir O Doherty the determined "survivor" who had turned Episcopalian to hold on to his part of the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill territory at Inishowen in Co. Derry in the north - east of the Ulster Province was by now also made subject to the same aggressive treatment, when he was to be personally insulted by the English Governor in Derry, and because of this he decided to besiege Culmore Fort on nearby Loch Foyle, and on the following day he also laid siege to the town of Derry itself, which had been previously captured by the English in 1600 AD, which he destroyed.
July:
Sir
Cahir O Doherty
was now also charged with Treason and then
executed in
Co. Donegal
and
all of his followers and Family were then
hunted down over a
six week period, until they were also all to be finally
killed by
September, and this meant that there
was now more Irish territory available to
confiscate
in
Ulster.
All up
James 1st
the Stuart
English
King confiscated 3,750,000 acres of
Irish
territory in the Ulster Province, which included nearly all of
Co. Donegal, Coleraine in Co. Derry, Co.
Tyrone, Co. Fermanagh, Co. Cavan
and
Co. Armagh,
and he set up an English Commission to
then survey 6
of the
9
Ulster
Counties for
further Ascendancy non - Catholic "plantations" beginning with
Co. Derry.
Powerscourt Estate at Bray, which was composed of 26,000 acres in Co. Wicklow in the south - east of Southern Leinster was originally taken from the Irish Septs there by the Anglo - Norman Baron, de la Poer / Power under Strongbow 11 after the original Anglo - Normans, and it had then been recaptured by the "ferocious" Heremonian Cu Corb O Byrnes, O Tooles and Cavanghs / Kavanaghs, during Henry VIII's reign, until it was then later retaken by the English and given to the Anglo - Norman Talbots and it was now given by James 1st the Stuart English King to Sir Richard Wingfield the English Earl of Rosse / Lord Powerscourt.
Rory
/
Ruaidhri
O Donnell,
the last of the
Heremonian
Dal Cuinn Chiefs / The O Donnell from the "northern"
Ui Niaill
Cenel Conaill Sept,
died, this year and was interred in the
Church of San Pietro di Montorio in
Rome, and he had been a younger brother to
Aed
Ruadh /
Red Hugh
O Donnell
/
The O
Donnell before him, and to
Fionnuala the wife of
Niall
Garbh - the Rough O
Donnell, and their father had been the "aged"
Aed
Dubh
O Donnell
who had been previously also
The O
Donnell who had died in
1600 AD, while another brother,
Manus O Donnell was to be killed in
1691 AD by another
Niall
Garbh
O Donnell.
Richard Boyle the 1st English
Earl of Cork founded the City of
Bandon in
Co. Cork in
Southern Munster, and
Irish
Catholics
were to be banned from the
City for the next
100 years
while
James 1st the Stuart English King also declared
Kilkenny
and Irishtown there (Kilkenny
City) free boroughs and
Ossory /
Co.
Kilkenny
became a County in its own right
in the south - west of Southern Leinster.
1609 AD
May: The
Heremonian
Dal Cuinn
"northern"
Ui Niaill
Cenel nEogain
O
Cahans
/
O Canes / Kanes
in the north - east of the Ulster Province were
now to be removed also, and
their territory in
Co. Derry
and
Coleraine and
the surrounding areas were given over to the
Common Council of London
merchants
with
60 out of every
1000 acres
also going to the
Ascendancy Episcopalian Church of England,
and they called themselves the
Irish Society and put in
26
members to run it for them, but kept
Derry and
Coleraine for
themselves, while giving the rest to the merchants of
12 London Companies, and walls were
constructed around
Derry to
fortify it against the
Irish Rebels.
500,000
acres
were now under the personal control of Sir
Arthur Chichester
and the English Militia in the Ulster Province
and they were to be put aside for
Lowland
Presbyterian "planters", while the
English Ascendancy Episcopalian Church of England "planters" were placed
inland where they were made the
Undertakers, and the
lower class
Presbyterians were given land on less
favourable terms then the English.
Co. Antrim,
Co. Down
and
Co. Monaghan
were not in the non - Catholic plantation
areas, as
Elizabeth
1st
the previous Welsh Tudor Queen of England had given
Co. Monaghan
to
7 of the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn
3 Colla
Mac
Mahons and a
Mac
Kenna, who were among the "survivors"" at that time and had conformed
to suite, while the
Anglo
- Norman Russells,
Savages and
Whites, (originally bought over by
the Anglo - Norman Baron,
Hugh de Courcy,) held on to
Co. Down.
St.
Antony of Padua
was at
Louvain College / Freres de Charite
(The Brothers of
Charity) in France were
he was able to maintain a register of
Irish History and
traditions for future Irish
historians, and many of the
O
Nialls, the O Dohertys,
the O Donnells,
the Lynches,
the Murphys and other
exiled
Irish
Families
are interred there also, including
Father O Mulloy the
poet and
Bonaventura
O hEoghana an
Irish woman who was also a poet.
Alan Cooke founded
Cookestown in the
confiscated territories, 3 mile
south in the
Rath of Tullyhogue
in
Co. Tyrone
in Central Southern Ulster,
and
In Ireland there was still 10,000 or so mercenaries in the pay of the various English Lords and other "Landed Gentlemen" of means, who used them as their own private armies, which was always a constant worry to James 1st the Stuart English King and the English Government.
1610 AD Ascendancy English "plantations" in Ireland continued on, with the Ulster Province non - Catholic "plantations" in the hands of James 1st's English Undertakers there, who were using English names for the Irish regions, with some of these also occurring in Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster, which had also been previously taken over as this particular confiscation of Irish territories were based on a long ago surrender of land way back to Richard 11 in the 14th Century AD, as had also been carried out in Co. Leitrim in Northern Connacht and Co. Offaly in the north - west of Southern Leinster the previous territory of the Heberian Cianacht Chieftain O Carroll of Ely. There was also some attempts at "plantation" by the Old English / Anglo - Irish in the east of Co. Galway in Southern Connacht, and also in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province. James 1st was desperate also to remove the Irish Families out of the Connacht Province altogether, and was even to use fraud to accomplish this, just as his future unfortunate greedy son, Charles 1st would also continue to do later on through the insatiable efforts of his faithful servant, William "Black Tom" Wentworth who would also go the same way as Charles 1st.
Sir Thomas Phillips built the town of Limavady in Co. Derry in the north - east of the Ulster Province, and Nicholas Ward built Castle Ward in Co. Down in the south - east of Ulster against the Irish Septs there, which is now only a ruin.
Sir Basil Brooke built onto the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern"Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill O Donnell's castle in Donegal town in Co. Donegal in the north - west of Ulster, which eventually became a ruin also, and is now being restored by the Irish Government.
James 1st the
Stuart English King also gave
Birr Castle in
Co. Offaly
in the north - west of
Southern Leinster to
Sir
Lawrence Parsons
whose family were to be later created the English Earls of Rosse.
The
Heberian Dal gCais
Ui Casein
Mac Namaras constructed the
Cratloe Castle on the
Limerick - Bunratty Castle
Road in
Co. Clare
in the north - west of the Munster
Province,
which is also still there to see, although in ruins, and was to be only one of the 42
castles they were to build all up in Co. Clare.