1391 - 1398 AD
1391 AD This year, the Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne O Rourkes of West Breifne in the Connacht Province and their kinsmen the O Reillys of East Breifne made peace at Drumlane.
Donnell Mac Carthy the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil King of Desmond / Southern Munster, who had his territory in Co. Kerry, in the south - west of the Munster Province, died this year.
The English Countess of Desmond, who was the daughter of James Butler the second Earl of Ormonde, and the wife of Gerald Fitz Gerald the third Earl of Desmond, died.
The English Spencers were to sell their
Estates in
Co. Kilkenny / Ossory
in the south - west of
Southern Leinster to James Butler who was now the
third English Earl of Ormonde, who also received Kilkenny City
in Co. Kilkenny, where
the Norman English Parliaments
were to be continued to be held in the 13th, 14th
and
15th Centuries AD and where he was to
move his stronghold to after buying the
Manor there and then built Kilkenny
Castle at
Gowran
/
Gabhran (The Place of Horses)
there also, where
the original Anglo Norman
Parliaments had been held. From now on It was to be the chief seat of the Butlers
until 1936 and previously it was the fortress of the
Mac Gilla Patrick
/ Fitz Patrick
Heremonian
Ui Laoghaire Ui Connla
Kings
of Ossory.) After the death of of
Richard de Clare / Strongbow
11,
the original overall leader of the Anglo - Norman Invasion, who had
the
confiscated the territories of the
Gaelic Irish Septs in Southern Leinster granted
to him by Henry 11 the first Scandinavian Norman Plantagenet King of England. (They had
later been split up by the English in
the late 12th Century AD). They had then passed into the hands of
Theobold Fitz Walter
/ Le Buitleir
- the butler of John "Lackland," the son of Henry 11, who had become the
third
Norman Plantagenet English King after his brother Richard 1st. (Theobold Fitz Walter had been the
original direct male line ancestor of
The
Book of Ballymote,
that
was compiled at the Ballymote friary
situated to the
east of Kesh in
Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht
Province (that is now only a ruin), was
composed of 500
pages of
Gaelic Irish
genealogy and
Gaelic
Irish history, which included the key to the
Ogham writing
of the Scythian Nemedian
Tuatha da Danann
Sept. It
had been continued on from the
Book of Leinster,
in which the entries
had concluded in
1130 AD. It was
originally purchased by the
O Connell
Family
for 140 Cows, to
endeavour to preserve it, and it can
now also be found in the Royal
Irish
Academy in
Dublin in
Southern Leinster.
It contains the lineage of the
Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui
Turlogh Ui mBriain Septs
of Thomond /
Northern Munster with pedigrees up to the
time
of
Brian
Catha an Aengagh - of the
Battle of Nenagh
O Brian, the
Ui mBriain King, who would be killed in
1399 AD.
1392 AD 119.Niall O Niall the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain King of Tyrone and Ulster attacked the English Galls who were set up nearby at Dundalk / Dun Dealgan / Dealgan's Fort in Co. Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster.
Enri
Aimreid O Niall,
a son of 119.Niall Mot - the Greater
was now the overall
Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern"
Ui Niaill
King over the
Dal Fiatach
of Ulaid territory in Co. Antrim
and Co. Down
in the east of the Ulster
Province.
The
English Earl of
Gloucester was given 34,000 marks.
1393 AD Aed Mac Dermot / Aodh mac Diarmada was now the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai King of Moylurg / Mag Luirc who had his territory in Co. Roscommon in the east of the Connacht Province, and he would be followed in this position by Mulrooney / Mael Ruanaid Mac Dermot.)
Manus / Magnus (Norse) O Hara was now the Heberian Cianachta Luigni King who had his territory in their kingdom of Leyney in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province.
Brian O Kelly was now the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Ui Maine King who had his territory in the east of Co. Galway and nearby near Athlone in Co. Roscommon in the east of Connacht.
120.Enri Aimreid O Niall, a son of 119.Niall Mor - the Greater O Niall, the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain King of Tyrone and Ulster who had their Sept's main territory in Central Ulster, died.
1394 AD England and France made peace this year, and Richard 11 who was to be the last Norman Plantagenet English King, landed in Ireland with a a massive Military contingent of 34,000 men, and with such a force the Gaelic Irish Princes / Tanaistes gave him no real trouble and he received the homage of the the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlogh Ui mBriain O Brians of Thomond / Northern Munster, and the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig Mac Murroghs of Southern Leinster at Christ Church / Holy Trinity Cathedral in Dublin in the English Pale in the north - east of Southern Leinster, and he gave them all an English knighthood for their submission.
1395 AD During January - February this year, "The Mac Murrogh," "The O Byrne," "The O More," "The O Toole," and "The O Nolan" the Heremonian Ui Felim King of Foherta, and other leading Gaelic Irish Chiefs in Southern Leinster also submitted to Richard 11 the English King and "The Mac Murrogh," who was married to an Anglo - Irish wife was confirmed in his possessions and also given an English knighthood while Noragh O Byrne was also confirmed in his territory in Co. Wicklow, and his kinsman, "The O Toole" was given permission to continue to trade with the Anglo - Irish towns in Southern Leinster.
March:
The
Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil Mac Carthys and
certain other
Gaelic Irish
Chiefs
also submitted in the
Munster Province. "The O Niall,"
" The O Brian" and
"The O Connor Faly"
were also given English knighthoods for their
submission to Richard 11 the English King and
119.Niall Mor
- the Greater
O Niall
the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn
"northern"
Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain King
of Tyrone also wrote and requested that Richard 11 act as a shield
between him
and Richard de Burgh / Burke who was now the English Earl of
Ulster. Many of the Gaelic
Irish Chiefs agreed that the past rebellions were
mainly due to the individual actions of the greedy Old English / Anglo -
Irish
Barons, including
"The O Connor
Faly" the Heremonian Cu Corb Chief who had his territory in
Co. Offaly
in the north west of
Southern Leinster.
"The O Donnell" the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill King of Tyrconnell / Co. Donegal in the north - west of the Ulster Province, "The Maguire" the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch King who had his territory in Co. Fermanagh in the south - west of Ulster, and the Gaelic Kings in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province, and the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai O Connor Kings of Connacht did not submit and as soon as Richard 11 left the shores of Ireland, with his massive English Military force, it was back to business as usual for the Gaelic Irish Septs as they continued on with their attacks on the English Galls who had now had their many vast Estates throughout Ireland.
November: Richard 11 the
Norman King of England replied to
119.Niall
Mor - the Greater O Niall the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern"
Ui Niaill
Cenel
nEogain King
of Tyrone who had his
territory in the
Ulster Province, and invited him personally to visit Westminster
in England.
1396 AD February: Donogh O Brian the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain King of Thomond / Northern Munster visited England and was granted 80 marks per annum as an Irish Captain.
August: Donogh O Brian returned to England with Thomas Kavanagh from the Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig Sept who represented "The Mac Murrogh" the King of Leinster in the south - east of Southern Leinster and 10 other Gaelic Irish Chiefs there.
December: O Carroll the Heberian Cianacht King of Ely who had his territory in the north - east of the Munster Province and nearby Co. Offaly also visited England and accompanied Richard 11, the Norman English King to Calais in France, and it was crucial now that Gerald Fitz Gerald the third English appointed Earl of Desmond / Southern Munster, and James Butler the third English Earl of Ormonde in Co. Kilkenny in Southern Leinster should play their part in the scheme of things but instead they only took this opportunity to bolster their own individual positions at the expense of the Gaelic Irish Chiefs and a great opportunity was now to be lost for the overall benefit of everyone in Ireland.
Edmund Mortimer the English Earl of March, who Richard 11 had appointed English Viceroy
in Ireland) for some reason only known to him,
took the opportunity because of his position to besiege Co. Longford in the north - west of
Northern Leinster were he defeated the
defending
Gaelic Milesian
Irian O Farrells / O Ferrells
there, and also the
O Reillys' territory nearby in Co. Cavan
in
Southern Ulster
who were the Heremonian Dal Cuinn
Ui Briuin Breifne Kings
of East Breifne. For no reason at all he also attacked
119.Niall Mor
- the Greater
O Niaill
the
Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern"
Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain King
of Ulster, and was accompanied also on this
expedition by James Butler the third English Earl of Ormonde,
and Gerald Fitz Gerald
the third English Earl of Kildare and many other Norman English
Barons.
Slowly rebellion in
Ireland was to return being stirred on by the English
Gall's personal ambitions once again and their individual opportunism.
1397 AD
Rebellion was now the order of the day
throughout Ireland, especially in Southern Leinster,
which was in an outright state of war, but Richard 11 the
Norman English King had
to cancel a further expedition to Ireland
to try and sought out the problems,
1398 AD 119.Niall Mor - the Greater O Niall the previous Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain King of Tyrone and Ulster, died this year, and his son, 120.Niaill Og - the Younger O Niall who was now the Cenel Eogain King besieged Mullashee (The Mound of Aed) of his northern kinsmen, the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill, above the waterfall at Assaroe / Es Aeda Ruaid in Tyrconnell / Co. Donegal in their territory in the west of the Ulster Province to try and express his overall authority in Ulster.
Niall Og / Oc - the Younger Mac Dunlevy ? was the Heremonian Dal Fiatach King of Ulaid in Co. Antrim and Co. Down in the east of the Ulster Province.
Maelsechlainn O More / Ua Mordha who was the Gaelic Milesian Irian Ui Laoighis King in their territory in Co. Laois / Leix in the mid - north - west of Southern Leinster, died this year.
Rory / Ruaidri was the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai King of Moylurg / Mag Luirc in their territory in Co. Roscommon in the east of the Connacht Province.
Art mac Airt was the Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig King of Leinster.
Mulrooney
/
Mael Ruanaid was now the Heremonian Dal Cuinn
Ui Briuin King of Tir nAililla
(The Land of 90.Ailill)
in Co. Sligo
in the north - west
of the Connacht Province.
Gerald Fitz Gerald
the third English Earl of Desmond, died,
who was a poet, and
his successor
?
Fitz Gerald became the fourth English Earl of
Desmond
who was to
mysteriously
disappear
while living in the castle beside
Loch
Gur in
Co. Limerick
in the north - west of the
Munster Province and a
July: The ferocious Heremonian Cu Corb O Byrnes and O Tooles, who were the Ui Dunlainge Chiefs in Co. Wicklow in the south - east of Southern Leinster, now go on the attack against the English Galls with a fury, and manage to kill the instigator of all the recent troubles, Edmund Mortimer the Younger the English Earl of March, who was the English Viceroy in Ireland, for Richard 11 the Norman King of England with the battle occurring at Kellistown / Callan in Co. Kilkenny / Ossory in the south - west of Southern Leinster and because of this Richard 11 swears all out revenge against the Gaelic Irish and rebellion then only spread further in Ireland.