1301 - 1310 AD
1301
AD With the
Irish Brehon Law
and the Irish Septs
/ Fines
now under more determined pressure from
the Norman English Galls / foreigners it was once again to be "the survival of the fittest,"
as due to all the oppression and savage agression that had occurred since the
Anglo - Norman Invasion there was still no clear overall authority in
Ireland
among the
surviving
Gaelic
Irish Septs.
123.Aed mac Cathail O Connor
who was now the
71st King
of Connacht,who was
the son of 122,Cathal
O Connor
the previous
70th King
of
Connacht, along with the
Clann Murtogh carried out a a
raid on
Teague / Tadhg
O Connor in their territory at
Mag Aidne
to see who
now had the
real authority
in
the
Connacht
Province. The Clann Murtogh
also
killed
Murtogh Mac
Conshnamha /
Mac Kinnawe / Forde / Ford who was
the heir apparent / Tanaiste from the
Muinter Kenny
who had their territory in part of
Co. Leitrim in Northern
Connacht
.
Edward 1st the
fifth Angevin
Anglo - Norman King of
England, along with the Norman Baron, Fitz
Gerald / Gaelicized as
Mac Gerailt),
de Bermingham (Gaelicized as
Mac Feorais),
and the
English Galls
raided Alba /
Scottish Highlands again, but they did not
succeed in conquering it fully.
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1302 AD William Fitz John, an Anglo Norman became the Catholic Bishop of Ossory / Co. Kilkenny, this year, in the south - west of Southern Leinster.
Rory / Ruaidri
O Hara was now the
Heberian Cianacht Luigni King in their kingdom of Leyney
in Co.
Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province.
The Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Uais Mac Donalds (Gaelicized in Ireland as Mac Donnell) who were now set up in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province, and the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Mac Sweeneys / Mheic Suibhne who now had territory in Co. Donegal in the north - west of Ulster were galloglasses / mercenaries of Irish / Scottish / Viking blood who had come over from the Scottish Highlands to assist the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Dal Cuinn Septs against the continued Norman English expansion in Ulster.
Due to the inability of the
English Galls to penetrate further into the west of the
Ulster
Province
at this time,
the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla
Da Crioch
Maguires
/ Mac Guires
were to continue to hold their own in
Co. Fermanagh
in the south - west while their
kinsmen the Colla Da Crioch Mac Mahons were to
also hold on in
Co. Monaghan
in nearby Central Southern
Ulster. The
O Ciassarts
with the Heremonian Dal Cuinn
"northern"
Ui Niaill
Cenel nEogain O Canes / Kanes
/ O Cahans in
Co.
Derry
in Central Northern Ulster,
and the Heremonian Dal Cuinn
"northern"
Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill
O Dohertys in
Inishowen in the north - east of Co
Donegal
were also holding out.
The Anglo - Norman Galls / foreigners there who were originally under
the leadership of John de Courcy
the Anglo - Norman Baron had continued to also survive holding onto their
confiscated Estates still along the coast of
north - east
Ulster,
where the
Bysets had become the
English Earls of the Glens, the
Savages the English
Earls of the Ards, and the
Mandevilles
who had by now Gaelicized their name as
the Mac Quillans
of Route
in
the north of Co.
Antrim,
had
already adopted
Gaelic names and
the tenants of the Irish
Brehon Law.
Donnell
Ruadh
- of Red Complexion
Mac Carthy
the
Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil King of
Desmond in Southern Munster,
died this
year,
123.Aed mac Cathail O Connor
the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai
71st King of
Connacht once again this year besieged
Teague
/ Tadhg
O Connor
and
Sitric Mac Flanahy
/ Mac Flannchaidh,
in their territory at
Mag Cetne, in their ongoing dispute over
who now had the real overall authority in
the
Connacht Province.
108.Donn Carrach
Maguire
/ Mac Guire
/ Mag Uidhir
the
Heremonian
Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Prince
/ Tanaiste of
Fermanagh
in the south - west of the Ulster Province,
died this
year.
1303 AD Turlogh O Donnell
who was now the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn
"northern"
Ui Niaill
Cenel Conaill King
of Tir Conaill
(The Land of
91.Conall Gulban.) Tyrconnell / Co.
Donegal in the north - west of the Ulster
Edward 1st the
Anglo - Norman King of England
besieged the
Scottish Highlands again, and Burke ? the
Norman
English Earl in Ireland and many of the
Galls / foreigners, and the
Gaelic Irish
who had been previously committed to his service, went in a fleet to join him and they
were to gain overall control there this time around.
Donnell
/
Domhnall
Og - the
Younger Mac
Carthy the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil
King
of Desmond
in Southern Munster,
who had his territory in Co. Kerry, died this year.
Magnus
Magowran / Magauran / Mac Govern
/ Mac Goveran / Mag Shamhrain the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn
Ui Briuin Breifne
King
of Tully Haw,
in the
O Reilly
kingdom of East Breifne,
who had his territory at Ballymagauran in
Co. Cavan
in Southern Ulster,
was also killed
this year.
1304 AD Matha O Reilly, the son of
Gilla Isa O Reilly, who was the
Heremonian
Dal Cuinn
Ui Briuin Breifne
King
of East
Breifne who had their territory in
Co. Cavan
in
Southern Ulster
was killed by the Tellach
Dunchada Sept at Aghnacor
1305 AD 123.Aed mac Cathail O Connor, from the Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Clann Murtogh, who was the 71st King of Connacht, and the Clann Murtogh defeated the Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne Muintir Reilly of East Breifne in their territory in nearby Co. Cavan in Southern Ulster killing Philip O Reilly and the Tanaiste / heir apparent to the Clann Mac Sweeney / Suibhne along with 140 others.
The
de Berminghams,
the Norman English Barons, had
constructed
4 Castles in
Co. Kildare / Ossory
in Central Southern Leinster,
against the Gaelic Irish
Septs there, all within
the sight of
each other at Carbery,
Mylerstown, Kinnaford, and
Carrick and
Pierce /
Piers
de Bermingham
in the castle at Carbury in Co. Kildare
was to later
treacherously kill
Murtogh O Connor
the
Heremonian
Ui Laoghaire Cu Corb
Ui Failge
O Faly Prince
and his brother, along
with 26 of his kinsmen who had their territory in
Co. Offaly
in the mid - west of Southern Leinster.
The
de Berminghams in
Connacht Province had
also Gallicized their surname to
Mac Feorais
(Descended from a son of Piers),
which was later on also anglicized as
Corish.
The Carlingford Priory
had been founded by
Ricarde de Burgh / Burke
the Norman English Red Earl of
Ulster
in Co.
Louth in the north - east of
Northern
Leinster,
who had also constructed another castle at Inishowen in the north of the
Ulster Province
against the
Gaelic Irish
Septs there.
1306 AD 120.Aed mac Eogain O Connor, the previous Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray 68th King of Connacht, the son of 119.Eogan O Connor, and the Sil Murray Sept carried out a great campaign against 123.Aed mac Cathail Connor, the son of 122.Cathal O Connor, with the Kings and Chiefs of Connacht and also Breifne, and they were to be in constant conflict across the River Shannon for 4 months. Flann O Flynn / Ua Flainn the Siol Mael Ruan Prince / Tanaiste, and Brian O Connor, the son of Donogh Riabach O Connor were killed, and the O Connor stronghold was burnt along with the palace of the King of Connacht. 120.Aed mac Eogain O Connor, who was originally descended from 115.Cathal Crobhdhearg O Connor who had been the acting 59th King of Connacht, was also killed. 123.Aed mac Cathail O Connor and the Clann Murtogh raided Carbury again where they killed many of the English / Galls who were set up there.
Donogh Mac Dermot
was now the
Heremonian
Dal Cuinn
Ui Briuin
Siol Murray
King in their kingdom of
Moylurg / Mag Luirc in Co.
Roscommon in the east of the
Connacht
April 10th: 114.Turlogh O Brian the Heberian Dalcassian Ui Bloid Ui Turlogh Ui mBriain King of Thomond / Northern Munster, the son of 113.Brian Ruadh O Brian died, and was interred in the Ennis Abbey in Co. Clare, and his son 115.Donogh O Brian became the new King of Thomond and together with his kinsman, Donnell / Domhnall Bawn O Brian he was to lay siege to Thomas de Clare the Norman English Baron and his Dalcassian allies on many occasions over the following years. Thomas de Clare was to make great use of his persuasive "switching" tactics of taking the opportunity to put the individual Dal gCais Septs against one another in Co. Clare in their struggle to gain overall authority in Thomond centred on their stronghold in the north - west of the Munster Province. On one of these occasions 115.Donogh O Brian and Donnell O Brian were to be defeated at Dysert O Dea in Co. Clare by their own kinsman, 115.Murtogh O Brian.
1307 AD
Offerlane in the north of the
Cantred of Aghaboe,
which was by now a Norman
English Gall / foreign settlement, came under
siege from the Heremonian Ui
Laoghaire Ui Connla Mac Gilla Patricks
/ Fitz Patricks,
as the whole northern region of Co. Kilkenny / Ossory
in the south - west of
Southern Leinster was now under the control of the English Galls, including the territory of their Ui Connla kinsmen the O Brennans
/ Ui
Braonain.
Awley
/ Amhlaibh
O Rourke, the son of
Art O Rourke, was now the
Heremonian
Dal Cuinn King of the Ui Briuin Breifne
Sept in their kingdom of
West Breifne in
Co. Leitrim in
Northern Connacht.
Donogh 1st
Muimneach O Kelly,
the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da
Crioch King
of the
Ui Maine
Sept, who had their kingdom
in the east of Co. Galway
and near Athlone in
Co. Roscommon
in the east of the Connacht
Province, killed all of the
English Galls
in Roscommon in Co. Roscommon
before he died
this year, and his son, Teague O Kelly
was to also die soon after him,
and
Maelsechlainn O Gormley /
Ua
Gairmleadhaigh
the Heremonian
Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill
Cenel nEogain
Cineal Moen / Moain Chief
who had his territory at Raphoe in
Co. Donegal
in the north - east of the
Ulster Province and nearby in Tyrone
in Central
Ulster,
died this year.
1307 AD - 1327 AD Edward 11, the son of Edward 1st - the Hammer of the Scots was to be the Anglo - Norman King of England and he would form Co. Antrim calling it after the main town there Aendruim / Excellent Hill / aen / aon - excellent, Druim / hill.
1308 AD Mulroney / Mael Ruanaid Mac Dermot raided the son of Donnell O Connor in Carbury, and also the English Galls who were now set up in the Heberian Cianacht O Hara kingdom of Leyney and Tireagh in the Connacht Province, together with Brian O Dowd / Ua Dubda from the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Fiachrach Muaide Sept and the Clann Murtogh also carried out an attack on the English Galls, but then made peace with them and gave over hostages. The sons of Donnell O Connor went to Slieve Daen where they were followed by the English Galls who were set up in the kingdoms of Leyney and Tireragh, who they were still able to drive off to Lecc Easa Dara, killing Thomas Mac Walter de Burgh / Burke and his brother, along with many others.
Aed mac Cathail O Connor, one of the sons of Cathal O Connor, besieged Rory mac Cathail O Connor who was his own brother and during the conflict killed Magnus Og - the Younger O Conor, the son of Magnus O Connor.
Piers Gaveston an English knight, personally connected to Edward 11 who was now the Norman English King came to Ireland and killed Dermot O Dempsey / Ua Dimusaigh from the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb Clann Malier who had their territory in Co. Laois and Co. Offaly in the north west of Southern Leinster.
John le Decer
who was the Norman English Mayor of
Dublin at this time built the bridge over the
River Liffey at
Leixlip in
Co. Kildare
in Central Southern Leinster,
while
another new bridge was also constructed there across the
River Liffey at
Celbridge.
William de Burgh
/ Burke was now the English
Deputy
Justiciar in Ireland, and he was the one who
was to become the
direct male line ancestor of the actual
"Burkes" themselves
and also the
"Mac Williams"
in Ireland, both the Upper and
the
Lower branches.
Pierce de Bermingham the Norman English Baron
feloniously murdered the
Heremonian
Ui Laogharie Cu Corb
O
Connors who had their kingdom and
territory in Co. Offaly in
the north - west of Southern Leinster, at his castle at
Carbury in Co.
Kildare in Central Southern Leinster killing
30 of them all up in a treacherous
act of betrayal after inviting them there to dine with him.
1309 AD 120.Aed mac Eogain O Connor, who had previously been the 69th King of Connacht was killed by Aed Brefnech O Connor, the son of Cathal Ruadh O Connor at Coill in Chlachain in the Ui Briuin Breifne kingdom of West Breifne where many of the men of Connacht were also killed, and Aed Brefnech O Connor then entered the Connacht Province where the 3 Connachta submitted to him. Mulrooney / Maolruanaidh Mac Dermot the Ui Briuin Ai King of Moylurg then came to the Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray Sept to gain the new Kingship of Connacht for his foster - son, 121.Felim / Fedelmid O Connor and sent for assistance to William de Burgh / Burke the English Earl, the English Galls, and the Gaelic Irish. who camped at Fuad Ratha Cruachan to combine all those who were committed to his cause. He took submissions from the Gaelic Chiefs and their sub - Kings to the King of Connacht on behalf of 121.Felim O Connor, and all of the Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh submitted and William de Burgh then took the the Siol Muireadhaigh to Elphin. Aed mac Cathal O Conor, the son of Cathal O Connor went to engage the English Earl in the kingdom of Meath in the south of Northern Leinster and while he was gone the 3 Connachta revolted against him, so on returning from Meath he carried out a raid on Aed O Flanagan in the territory of Uachtar Tire. Rory mac Cathal O Connor, the son of Cathal O Connor, and Aed O Flanagan, went to Machaire where they killed Mac Feorais / de Bermingham the Norman English Baron, and a meeting was then arranged between Rory O Connor, Aed O Connor's brother, who was another son of Cathal O Connor and Mac William de Burgh at Ath Slisen, but Rory O Connor was besieged and some of his men were killed. William de Burgh went to the monastery at Boyle, and the Clann Murtogh came into Tirerril burning and destroying the crops, and Mac William de Burgh crossed over the Curlieu Mountains in Co. Leitrim and drove Aed Brefnech O Connor, the son of Cathal O Connor, from his stronghold, and also killed Donogh O Finaghty / Finerty / Ua Fionnachta from the Siol Muireadhaigh / Sil Murray and many others, and the English Galls then also raided the Clann Fermaighe and carried out raids further north as far as Ben Bulben.
A Norman English Parliament was held at Kilkenny
again in
Co. Kilkenny / Ossory in the south - west of
Southern
Leinster enacting further Irish
Penal Laws
especially against any of the Old English / Anglo - Irish who took up any Gaelic
Irish customs.
1310
AD
A Norman
English Parliament
was held again in Co. Kilkenny / Ossory
with English Law well
established in the
English Pale area
surrounding Dublin in the north - east of
Southern Leinster under their control, and another
Act was passed that,
"No more Irish shall be received into a Religious
Order among the English in the Land of Peace (The Pale)
to which
Walter Jorz / Joyce the Catholic
Bishop
of
Armagh
successfully appealed to
Edward 11
the Norman English King of England to repeal.
Aed Brefnech O Connor, the son of Cathal O Connor, carried out a raid on Mulroney Mac Dermot in Clogher in Co. Roscommon in the Connacht Province and many were killed there, and they set up a stronghold in Uachtar Tire against Mulroney Mac Dermot and the Siol Muireadhach / Sil Murray and William de Burgh went after Aed Brefnech O Connor again while he was at Killummod opposite, and Aed Brefnech O Connor sent a message to his brother, Rory O Connor to go to Bunnina Castle, from where William de Burgh had left, and Rory O Connor together with Aed O Connor, the son of Magnus O Connor, and their followers then plundered and burnt the castle. Aed Brefnech mac Cathail Ruadh O Connor was slain by Sean / Seoan Mac Uidlin who had agreed to a reward from Mac William de Burgh beforehand, as he was the chief of the mercenaries who were supposed to be guarding him. Mac William de Burgh and Mulroney Mac Dermot and the Siol Muireadhach then began raiding the territory there as far as Bennan Brechmaige to the north and Mag Cetne of the Fomora, and ravaged everywhere they went and oppressed everyone who he thought had supported Aed Brefnech O Connor. Mulroney Mac Dermot seeing the overall oppression Mac William de Burgh was carrying out on the Gaelic Irish Tuaths / Family regions thought he would put it to use by pushing his foster - son 121.Felim O Connor furthr forward as the new King of Connacht by force, so he took him to Carnfree and placed him on the Inauguration Mound, 121.Felim O Connor, the son of 120.Aed O Connor the 68th King of Connacht, the son of 119,Eogan O Connor, was then inaugurated as the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai 72nd King of Connacht by his foster - father Mulroney Mac Dermot who was the Ui Briuin Ai Siol Muireadhaigh Ui Conchobair King who had his territory at Carn Froich / Carnfree, which was the place of their Inauguration Mound situated three miles from Cruachan / Cruachu the original ancient capital of the Connacht Province.
Mac Raith Mac Guire / Maguire / Mac Uidhir the Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Prince / Tanaiste of Fermanagh, who had their territory in the south - west of the Ulster Province, and Donogh Mac Gilla Micheil the Clann Congaile Chief were burnt by Roald Mac Mahon / Mag Mathgamain from the Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Siol Daim Argait (Ui Cremthainn) Clann Nadsluaigh Sept of Truagh. The Mac Mahons in the near future were to become the leading Sept and Kings of Orghialla / Airghialla / Oriel in the east of Southern Ulster and nearby in Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster. They were to be Princes, Chiefs and Kings at Clones in Co. Monaghan who had their territory there originally on the River Inny.
Cormac O Flanagan the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Ui Felim Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill Cenel Cairbre King of Toorah, was killed this year by Enri Mac Ailla Fhinnein the Muintir Pheodachain Chief.
William de Burgh / Burke the Norman English Baron, who was a first cousin of the important English Earl Richard de Grey, was married to Finola / Fionnuala O Brian at this time, connecting him even more by marriage to the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlogh Ui mBriain O Brian Sept in Thomond / Northern Munster. (The Norman English at this time where still known to the Irish as the Galls / foreigners.) The English Earl of Ulster rebuilt Sligo Castle in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province in the kingdom and territory of the O Haras who were the Heberian Cianacht Kings there.
The
Mac Feorais / de Berminghams
had their Estates in
the
Connacht Province centred on
Athenry in Co.
Galway in the mid - south of the Connacht Province,
while their main branch was at
Tethmoy on the border of
Co. Meath
in the south - east of Northern Leinster and the
north - west of
Co. Kildare
in Central Southern Leinster, where they were associated with
John Fitz Thomas
Fitz Gerald who
later on in 1316 AD
would become
the first English Earl of
Kildare.