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                                                                                                                                                      1131 - 1140 AD 

 

1131 AD By now a great alliance, of the various disaffected Septs in Ireland who were up against *114.Turlogh O Connor the Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ui Conchobair 55th King of Connacht and they were to besiege the Connacht Province from the north and the south of Ireland, but despite their combined all out effort he was still able to retain his previous growing 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 Dal Fiatach 64th King of Ulaid, a son of 111.Conor / Conchobar Cisenach, who had previously died in 1107 AD, who had been 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 killed 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 / Fine 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 Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch King in Co. Armagh, and he was therefore really not accepted in that position either there.

      113.Diarmait mac Murrogh 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 men of Ossory and also the Vikings at Port Lairge, while continuing to also expand his authority into those outer regions there in Southern Leinster.

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

1136 - 1156 AD *114.Turlogh 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 who had been the first 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, 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.Turlogh 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 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 the Mac Carthys, whose grandfather, 105.Donogh mac Callaghan / Cellachain had been the previous Eoghanacht Chaisil 38th King of Cashel / Munster who had died in 963 AD).

     109.Cormac 11 Mac Carthy who was 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 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 altogether, going down to Skellig Michael in Southern Munster, were 109.Cormac 11 Mac Carthy the Heberian Eoghanacht King of Southern Munster / Desmond and 46d King of Cashel / Munster 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 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 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 Dal Fiatach 56th King of Ulaid, who had been killed in 1091 AD, and his descendants were to only use the surname of Mac Donleavy / Mac 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.Turlogh O Brian, who was the 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. (This attack was carried out in retaliation for 109.Cormac Mac Carthy's previous attack over sovereignty in Munster 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 men of Munster.   

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 / Fines, during this period still held as their role models the Southern Leinster Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Laoghaire Chieftain, 83.Finn Mac Coole / Fionn Mac 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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