1191 - 1200 AD
1191
AD John de Courcy
the
Anglo - Norman Baron, who had his fortress in Castle Skrene at Bally Noe in Co. Down
in the south - east of the Ulster
Province
in the kingdom of the
Ulaid
Septs, was replaced in Ireland
as the English Justiciar by
Prince John "Lackland,"
who now had the overall authority as Regent in England on behalf of his older
surviving brother,
Richard 1st who was actually the "official "Norman King
of England, but who was to only spend 6 months in
England during his 10 year reign, which allowed the deranged John "Lackland" the freedom to
do whatever he craved on Rishard 1st's subjects. This major change was brought about because
John de Courcy, had publicly denounced
the murder of Arthur
of
Brittany by
Prince John "Lackland" while he was highly intoxicated as Arthur of Brittany,
who was also his nephew,
had been the
actual
heir - apparent to the English Crown, after his uncle, Richard 1st, being
The
O Reilly's / Ui Raghailligh the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn
Ui Briuin Breifne
Kings
of East Breifne
who had their
kingdom
in Co. Cavan (The Hollow) in
Southern Ulster built a
castle on the hill of Tully Monganas t
Prince John "Lackland" the acting Anglo - Norman overlord in
England for his brother, Richard 1st now appointed
William
Le
Maraschell - the Marshall as the English Earl of Leinster in
Ireland,
All of the
Anglo - Norman
English Galls / foreign forces were now combined to try and finally
submit the remaining and most dominant Irish
Gaelic
Fine that still existed at this
time in Ireland, the Heberian
Dal gCais
Ui Turlogh Ui mBriain Sept in
Thomond
/ Northern Munster,
who were
still under the leadership of 110.Donnell Mor O
Brian the Heberian Dal gCais King of Northern Munster, and to this end
they
first attacked their kinsmen the Heberian Ui Turlogh O Kennedy's
who had their
territory in their kingdom of Ormond
nearby that was situtuated in
Co. Tipperary in the north -
east of the
Munster Province
that overlapped also into Co. Kilkenny
in the south - west of
Southern Leinster. The Anglo
- Norman forces then left
the confines of
Co. Tipperary and crossed over the River Shannon
towards the west into Killaloe,
where they then swept through Co. Clare region in the north -
west of the Munster
Province where to their dismay,
to the south of Killaloe the
Heberian Dal gCais Septs under
110.Donnell
Mor O Brian the Ui mBriain
47th King of Munster
were able to regroup and were waiting
for them to attack, and drove them out of
Co. Clare back to
the eastern side of the River Shannon into Co. Tipperary. The Anglo
- Norman Galls and their foreign forces then retreated further on down into
Thurles in Co. Tipperary in the north - east
of Munster with the Dalcassians
in hot pursuit, who
were then able to defeat them again, just as
they had done before in their first encounter. 110.Donnell
Mor O Brian
this time had not only driven them from
out of the territory in
Upper Ormond,
but also from out of Ara and
Coonagh, and if the
Heremonian Septs from within Southern Leinster had
been there to back
him up at this juncture the English may
have then been driven out of Ireland forever.
110.Donnell Mor
O Brian
then became a church builder, including the present
St. Flannan's
Cathedral at Killaloe.
(which would also be among the Catholic Irish Institutions
that would later be taken over in the future by the Ascendancy Church of England
/ Ireland under
the confiscations of Henry
VIII in the 16th Century AD).
110.Donnell Mor O Brian also built another
church at
Clare Abbey on
the River Fergus, between Ennis and Clarecastle in Co. Clare
after he was also able to regain
the City of
Limerick and St. Mary's Cathedral
The O Duffys / Ui Dubhthaigh, who also had their original territory in Co. Roscommon in the east of the Connacht Province, constructed the Boyle Abbey during the 12th Century AD in Co. Meath in the south - east of Northern Leinster.
John de
Comyn
the
Anglo - Norman Catholic Archbishop of
Dublin pulled down St. Patrick of Insula's Church in
Dublin, and built a new St. Patrick's
Catholic Church there near St. Patrick's
Holy Well and the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity and it too was
to be another of the Catholic Church
lands and Institutions to be
confiscated later on in the 16th Century AD by Henry VIII
and given over to the Ascendancy Church of England / Ireland.
1193 AD Dervorgilla O Rourke, the wife of the "aged" and murdered 113.Tiernan O Rourke who had been the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne King of West Breifne, who had also been a sister to Diarmait O Melaghlin / Ua Mael Sechlainn the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill Clann Cholmain King of Meath, died at her retreat in the Mellifont Abbey in Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster. (She had been the original spark for the expulsion of 113.Diarmait Mac Murrogh na Gall - of the Foreigners (who had also killed her brother), and the following Anglo - Norman English Invasion.)
Affreca,
the wife of John de
Courcy the Anglo - Norman Baron,
who was the daughter of
Gottfried the Norse
Viking King of Man and the Southern Hebrides / Inse Gall
(The Isle of
Foreigners) founded the Cistercian Grey Abbey on Loch Cuan
/ Stangford Loch in Co. Down
in the south - east of the Ulster Province.
1194
AD
110.Donnell
Mor
O
Brian, died, as the last Heberian Dal gCais
Ui Bloid Ui Turlogh Ui mBriain
47th
King
of
Munster,
Geoffrey Fitz Robert de Marisco, the Anglo - Norman Baron, founded an Augustinian friary this year at Kells in Co. Kilkenny / Ossory in the south - west of Southern Leinster.
Melaghlin / Mael Sechlainn Mac Gilla Patrick (Fitz Patrick) who was now the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Connla King of Ossory / Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster, died this year, who had been the son of Donnell Mac Gilla Patrick (Fitz Patrick), a grandson of Gilla Patrick.
1195
AD
William - the Marshall
/
le
Maraschell the Anglo - Norman Baron, who was now also the English Earl of Leinster rebuilt a fortress at
Kilkenny City
in Co. Kilkenny / Ossory in the south - west of
Southern Leinster that would also be rebuilt once
again in
the 13th Century AD as Kilkenny Castle
also
against the Irish Septs there.
Corcomroe Abbey was founded by the Cistercian Order at Corcomroe in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province were there is still an effigy to be seen of 111.Conor Ruadh - of Red Complexion O Brian the Heberian Dal gCais King of Northern Munster / Thomond at this time.
113.Rory Mac Dunleavy / Ruaidri Dunn Sliebe the Heremonian Dal Fiatach 69th King of Ulaid whose territory was in the south - east of the Ulster Province was at this time being personally supported by John de Courcy the Anglo - Norman Baron to suite his own agenda, and their combined forces attacked Derry / Daire in Ulster and burnt down the Abbey there but despite this type of extreme attack, the Anglo - Norman Barons there in the north - ease of Ulster were never able to really gain complete control in that particular region.
Kells / Ceanannus Mor in Co. Meath in the south - east of Northern Leinster was situated on the very edge of the "English Pale" that by now surrounded Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster that was always used to protect the English Galls / foreigners within its boundaries, and also to continue to attack the Irish Septs and their territories further out both in Leinster Province and Munster Province.
Donnell O Gara the Heberian Cianacht Catholic Bishop of Killaloe in Co. Clare in the north - east of the Munster Province, died his year.
Prince John
"Lackland"
the Plantagenet Angevin Norman English acting Regent in England for his brother,
Richard 1st, renewed the charter on
the Mellifont Abbey in Co. Louth in the north - east
of Northern Leinster as the principal house of the
Cistercian Order
1196 AD 112.Murtogh Mac Loughlin / Mac Lochlainn the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain 58th King of Aileach in the Ulster Province, died this year, who was the son of *111.Murtogh Mor Mac Loughlin the previous 55th King of Aileach and 174th King of Ireland - with opposition who had previously perished at the hands of O Carroll in 1166 AD for the terrible deed he did at that time while going back on his word.
Further Irish
terriory was allotted
again by William - the Marshall the Anglo - Norman Baron of Leinster to the Anglo - Norman Barons
under his control in Ireland in Co. Kilkenny /
Ossory in the south - west of Southern Leinster,
including his knights. with Thomas Fitz Anthony receiving
the Cantred of Ogenty,
Geoffrey Fitz Robert the Cantred of
Kells,
John
de Erlee in succession to Baldwin de Hamptonsford the Cantred of Erley,
William Maillard his standard bearer
received what is now known as Mallardstown in
Erley,
while
William - the Marshall retained the Cantreds of
Kilkenny and
Callan for
himself.
1197 AD O Mulderry / O Mulderry / Ua Maoldoraidh was now the Dal Cuinn Cenel Conaill "northern" Ui Niaill King of Tyrconnell / Co. Donegal in the Ulster Province where he was up against the ongoing conflicting interests of the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Mac Loughlins and their Cenel nEogain kinsmen the O Nialls.
Patrick
Gilla
O Hehir
the Abbot of
Inis Fallen in Co. Kerry
in the south - west of the Munster Province,
died this year
1198
AD
111.Conor
Ruadh / Roe -
of Red Complexion O Brian who was set up
in the Ui Turlogh Ui mBriain territory at Killaloe in Co. Clare
in the north - east of the
Munster Province
lost his position this year as the Heberian Dal gCais
Ui mBriain
King of
Northern Munster
/
Thomond.
*115.Rory O
Connor
who had been the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui
Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray
Ui Conchobair 183rd King of Ireland, died
at 82
years of ages, after spending his declining years in the Cong Abbey in
Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the
Connacht Province, while leaving the Irish
Gaelic Septs in Ireland
totally leaderless, and his remains were interred at Clonmacnoise monastery situated on
the eastern side of the River Shannon in
Co. Offaly
in the north - west of
Southern
Leinster.
In
the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Connla Mac Gilla Phadraig
(Fitz Patrick) kingdom of
Ossory / Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of
Southern
Leinster, bordering to the west on the Munster Province, the
Cantreds of Odogh, Galmoy
and Shillelogher were now
also sub - divided
among William - the Marshall's lesser Norman knights with Grace / Le
Gros granted
Tullaroan,
St. Leger Tullaghanbrogue and
Attanagh, de Valle granted
Ballbur and
Castleinch, Fitz Gerald
granted Burnchurch,
Avemal was granted Kilferagh, the
Catholic Bishop of Ossory was granted
Freshford and Durrow, Bigod
was granted
Aghmacart,
Drohull was granted Tubbridbritain,
Fanyn was granted
Clomantagh, Syward,
and later still Fitz Gerald was also granted
Glashare and
Fertagh, Archdeacon / Cody was
granted Galmoy (Ercke?), Smith was granted
Coolcashin, de Rochford was granted
Sheffin and
Odagh?,
Fitz Warin,
and later still de Freyne, was granted
Rathbeagh, and
Devereux was granted
Aharney.
1199 - 1216 AD. King John "Lackland" who was now in as the third Plantagenet Norman Angevin English King had Lismore Castle constructed in Co. Cork in Southern Munster against the surrounding Irish Septs there.
1200 AD William de Burgh / Burgho / Burke the Anglo - Norman Baron
now led a
force against
the Connacht
Province
and was this time supported by the
Heberian Dal gCais
Ui mBriain O Brians
of Northern Munster /
Thomond
who were now related as his in - laws,
to support
115.Cathal Crobhdhearg
O Connor - of the Wine Red Hand the illegitimate son of
*114.Turlogh O Connor the
previous
Dal Cuinn
Ui Briuin Ai 55th King of Connacht
and
173rd King
of Ireland and they deposed the
rightful
O Connor King
who had been recently installed by the
Dal Cuinn
Ui Briuin Ai
Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil
Murray Septs themselves under the
provisions of the
Brehon Law, and
re - installed
115.Cathal
Crobhdhearg
O Connor
as the
58th King
of
Connacht
William - the Marshall
the Anglo - Norman English Earl of Leinster was to set up towns in
New Ross in Co. Wexford in
the south - east of the
Southern Leinster, and in Kilkenny in Co.
Kilkenny in the south - west of
Southern Leinster, while other Anglo - Norman
Barons such as
Hugh de Lacy
set up the town of Drogheda in
Co. Louth in the north - east of
Midhe
/ Northern Leinster,
de Burgh
(Burke) set up
the City of
Galway in Co.
Galway in the south of the Connacht Province,
while
de Bermingham also set up
the settlement of
Athenry
Theobold Fitz Walter - le buitleir (Butler) who was to be the first Butler in Ormonde with Estates in Co. Kilkenny, in the Mac Gilla Phadraigs Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Connla kingdom of Ossory in the south - west of Southern Leinster, constructed a castle there, and founded a Priory at Nenagh nearby in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province, as the Anglo - Norman Barons continued to make steady inroads against the Gaelic Irish aristocratic warrior Septs there.
One of the finest Round
Towers in Ireland was constructed at Ardmore in
Co. Waterford in the south - east of the Munster
Province and nearly 80
of these
Round Towers still exist in Ireland
today).
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