1411 - 1420 AD

1411 AD Donnell  O Brian, the son of Conor Mor - the Greater O Brian,  who was the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlogh Ui mBriain King of Thomond / Northern Munster / Tuaisceart Mhumhain, was killed by Barry Mor the Norman English Baron.

    Siobhan Mac Carthy, the daughter of Fitz Gerald the Earl of Desmond, who was the wife of Mac Carthy Mor - the Greater. the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil King of Desmond, who had his territory in Co. Kerry in Southern Munster, died. O Sullivan Mor - the Greater from the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil Sept was captured and his son was killed, and Mac Carthy Mor was banished by O Sullivan Mor in Southern Munster.

    Fitz Gerald the English Earl of Desmond was banished by James Fitz Gerald, the son of Gerald Fitz Gerald, his brother.   

    Myles / Maelmordha O Reilly the Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne King of the Muintir Maelmordha, who had their territory in their kingdom of East Breifne in Co. Cavan in Southern Ulster, also died this year.

1412 AD The English Galls captured Fore / Fobhar (The Spring) in Co. Westmeath in Northern Leinster and burnt it, and then took many captives from nearby in the Gaelic Milesian Irian O Farrell territory of Co. Longford to the north of there, which was also in Northern Leinster.

      121.Aed O Niaill, another of the the sons of 120.Enri O Niall, from the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain escaped from the Dublin Castle and the English Galls after being held there for 10 years in captivity, bringing many others with him back to the Ulster Province.  

     Tiernan O Rourke / Tigernan Ua Ruairc was now the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne King of West Breifne who had their kingdom and territory in Co. Leitrim in Northern Connacht.  

     Fergal O Hara was now the Heberian Cianachta Luigni King of Leyney in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province.

     An image of Mary the Blessed Virgin at Trim / Baile Atha Troim / (The Town of the Ford of the Elder Tree) where the ford crosses over the River Boyne was credited with working Miracles at this time.

    The town of Galway held by the English Galls was burnt in the far west of Co. Galway in the Connacht Province.

     Hugh de Lacy and Thomas Fitz Gerald, the son of Maurice Fitz Gerald the fourth English Earl of Kildare, who were both English Galls, met at Kilmallock / Cill Mocheallog (The Church of St. Mocheallog) in Co. Limerick in the mid - north - west of the Munster Province, were they killed each other. 

     Henry IV / Henry Bolingbroke the Usurper who was first Norman Lancaster English King combined the two separated towns of Drogheda in Co. Louth in north - east of Northern Leinster into one, to try and further strengthen the English Galls stronghold on the north - eastern edge of the English Pale, along the coast surrounding Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster,

1413 AD Sheeda / Sioda Cam Mac Namara had constructed the Quinn Abbey in Quin in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province, on the ruins of the old castle previously built by Thomas de Clare the Anglo - Norman Baron against the Gaelic Heberian Dal gCais Septs there, and it was to be his own last resting place as the Lord Marshall of the Dal gCais Ui mBriain Tuath / Family region, and altogether the Mac Namaras who were to become great castle builders would construct 42 Castles in Co. Clare. 

     Tomas O Reilly from the Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne kingdom of East Breifne whose territory was in Co. Cavan in Southern Ulster this year made a stand against the English Galls and was wounded in the leg by a spear.  

    Art Mac Murrogh from the Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig Sept, who had their kingdom in Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster defeated the English Galls there and killed many in the process while the ferocious O Byrnes / Ui Broin from the Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Dunlaing Sept who had their territory nearby further to the north in Co. Wicklow and much closer to the English Pale defeated the English Galls in Dublin in Co. Dublin in the north - east of Southern Leinster.

      Limerick City in Co. Limerick in the mid - north - west of the Munster Province, which was occupied by the English Galls, was burnt. 

      Conor O Doherty / Ua Dochartaigh the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill Chief of Ardmire and the King of Inishowen, in Co. Donegal, died this year.  

     The Abbey at Clontuskert, in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht, that had been originally founded in the 9th Century AD by St. Baodan, was burnt down this year.

     Henry V became the new English Norman King as the second of the Norman Lancasters until 1422 AD, who was a son of Henry 1V the Usurper and Mary de Bohun, and he appointed Sir John Talbot / Lord Furnival as the future English Lieutenant Governor in Ireland who would be unrelenting against the Gaelic Irish Septs.

1414 AD 121.Aed  O Niall, the other son of 120.Enri O Niall, attacked 122.Eogan O Niall, the son of 121.Niall Og - the Younger O Niall intending to use him as a hostage for the return of his brother, 121.Donnell O Niall who was still held in captivity, who was then released and was then able to take back the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Kingship of Tyrone and Ulster.

      Murrogh / Murchad O Connor Faly the Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Failghe King of Offaly who had his territory in Co. Offaly in the north - west of Southern Leinster defeated the English Galls in battle who came from out of the Dal Cuinn "southern" UI Niaill Clann Cholmain kingdom of Meath to the north of there in the south of Northern Leinster, at Cell Echi / Eochain, and the English Baron of Skreen who had his Estates in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province was killed during the conflict.

    Art Mac Murrogh from the Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig Sept this year once again carried out a great campaign against the English Galls in his territory in Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster. 

     Sir John Talbot / Lord Furnival arrived into Ireland as the newly appointed English Lieutenant Governor, to force the Gaelic Irish Septs, especially on the frontier regions / marches of the English Pale, to submit to Henry V the new Norman Lancaster English King, as did James Butler the English Earl of Ormonde who brought with him from England 100 men at arms and 460 archers, and Fitz Gerald the Earl of Desmond came also to devastate the kingdom of Meath in the south of Northern Leinster. John Stanley who was to also act for Henry V came to Ireland with the sole purpose of eliminating the Gaelic Irish, and to this end he gave no quarter to anyone at all, but he was to meet his end within weeks of arriving.

   This year on the ancient site of the original church founded there by St. Conall, the Franciscan friary of Kilconnell / Cill Chonaill (The Church of Conall) in Co. Galway in Southern Connacht was constructed by William O Kelly the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Ui Maine King, and is still there to see and is in good repair containing the tombs of the Anglo - Norman Barons the Bytaghs, the Barneswells, and the Gaelic Irish Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Ui Maine O Dalys / Ui Dalaigh, the Dal CuinnColla Da Crioch Ui Maine O Kellys and the Sodhan Mac A Wards / Meic an Bhaird. There is also a tablet to the memory of the English Trimblestones there, who would die at Moinivae in 1667 AD. who were all to be among those Gaelic Irish and Anglo - Irish Catholics, who were to be transplanted "To Hell or Connacht" later on by Oliver Cromwell who was to carry out his terrible Invasion in Ireland with great ethnic and religious slaughter under the Puritans as the English Lord Protector, "Giving all of the glory of his massacres to God."   

    The town of Sligo in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province, together with the Abbey monastery there founded in 1252 AD was burnt down this year and although it was to be rebuilt, the priory is now only a ruin.    

      Art Cavanagh / Kavanagh / Caomhanach was now the Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig King of Leinster, descended from 113.Diarmait Mac Murrogh na Gall who had been the 59th King of Leinster who had precipitated the invasion of the English Galls into Ireland in 1169 AD.

    Eochy Mac Mahon / Eochaidh Ua Mathgamain was now the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch King of Orghialla / Airghialla / Oriel who had their territory in Co. Monaghan and Co. Armagh in Southern Ulster.

1415 AD Aed O Malley / Ua Maille who was the Heremonian Ui Cobhthaigh Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin King of Umall / the Owles whose territory was in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the Connacht Province, was killed this year, which saw the end of his particular male line to the Kingship there, and Diarmait O Malley became the new King of Umall. 

     Sir John Talbot / Lord Furnival the newly appointed English Lord Lieutenant Governor in Ireland for Henry V, constructed Talbot Castle at Trim in Co. Meath in the south - east of Northern Leinster against the Gaelic Irish Septs there on the edge of the English Pale, and he ravaged Co. Laois to the south of there also in the mid - west of Southern Leinster, and the Caislean na Cuilenntraige taking away booty from the Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch kingdom of Orghialla / Oriel and he also hung Gerald Fitz Gerald, a son of Thomas Caech Fitz Gerald and plundered the Gaelic Irish poets who were now rich, and was to be renowned for his vicious behaviour giving no quarter to anyone while he was in control in Ireland.

1416 AD The Fir Manach Sept who had come up originally from Southern Leinster, to settle in Co. Monaghan in Southern Ulster, and the Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Fir Breifne were now in conflict in their territory there in Southern Ulster, and the Fir Manach were to suffer great losses. (At this time (Garbtrian) the kingdom of Breifne, included both Co. Cavan and Co. Leitrim in the Connacht Province, but Co. Cavan would be eventually taken out of Connacht by the English and put in the Ulster Province later on with the confiscation of the 3,500,000 acres in the north by James 1st the French Stuart King of England in 1603 AD.

      Murrogh O Connor Faly, the Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Failghe / O Faly King of Co. Offaly, who had his territory in the north - west of Southern Leinster defeated the English Galls again who came again from out of the north from the Dal Cuinn "southern" Ui Niaill Clann Cholmain kingdom of Meath in the south of Northern Leinster, and had another great victory over them. 

     Mac Murrogh from the Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig Sept defeated the English Galls again also in his territory in Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster, killing 140 and gained great booty from them.

      Toole O Malley / Tuathal Ua Maille at this time was the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin King of Umall / The Owls who had their territory in Co. Mayo in the mid - west of the Connacht Province.

    Ardgal Mac Mahon, the son of Brian Mor - the Greater Mac Mahon, who was the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch King of Orghialla / Airghialla / Oriel who had their territory in Co. Monaghan and Co. Armagh in Southern Ulster, died this year.

    Art Og - the Younger Cavanagh / Kavanagh / Caomhanach, the son of Art Cavanagh / Kavanagh, the son of Murtogh / Muirchertach Cavanagh / Kavanagh, the son of Maurice / Murris Cavanagh / Kavanagh / Caomhanach, the Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig King of Leinster, descended from 113.Diarmait Mac Murrough na Gall the 59th King of Leinster, died this year. 

   Edenberry Castle was burnt by Sir John Talbot / Lord Furnival the English appointed Lord Lieutenant in Ireland who also plundered the Clann Craith / Mac Graths in Northern Munster. 

    Edward Fitz Maurice Fitz Gerald the fifth English Earl of Desmond, was a foster son of the Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain O Brians, was also to be a cousin to Henry V1 the future English Norman Lancaster King of England who would be a son of Henry V.  

    "The O Donoghue" Mor - the Greater from the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil Sept built Ros Peninsular Castle in Co. Kerry in the south - west of the Munster Province surrounded by 158 acres, which had been cut off from the mainland by a man - made channel, where the O Donoghues had been driven to in the Co. Kerry Glens originally between Killarney / Cill Airne (The Church of St. Airne) and the border of Co. Cork, by the other Heberian Eoghanacht Chieftains, where they also built Killaha / Cill Agata (The Church of St. Agatha) Castle.

    The monastery in Sligo in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province was rebuilt by Brian Mac Donagh / Mac Donnchadha, the son of Diarmait Mac Donagh the Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Ui Conchobar Mac Diarmada King.

    The church on Church Island in Loch Gill in Co. Leitrim in the north of the Connacht Province was burnt, and the Lebar Gerr of the Muintir Cuirnin / O Curneens, who were a family of Ollavs / poets to the Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne O Rourkes of West Breifne, was also burnt with it. 

      This year, The Book of Lecain containing 502 pages on vellum was compiled at Castle Firbis in Enniscrone in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province, which had been continued on from the Book of Leinster, which had ended in 1130 AD, and contained the pedigrees of the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Bloid Ui Turlogh Ui mBriain O Brian Kings of Thomond / Northern Munster down to 1399 AD when Brian Catha na Aenagh O Brian had been killed. (It also contains the genealogy of the individual Tuaths / Family regions and of the ancient Scythian Tuatha De Danann Sept..

1417 AD Rory / Ruaidri O Dowd / Ua Dubda who was the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Fiachrach Muaide King of Tireagh who had their kingdom and territory also in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province, died, and was succeeded by his brother, Teague Riabach O Dowd. 

      Sir John Talbot / Lord Furnival, the English appointed Lieutenant in Ireland for Henry V, now arrested Fitz Gerald the Earl of Kildare (who was also the father - in - law of James Butler the fourth English Earl of Ormonde, and he also arrested Sir Christopher Preston for intending to seize the English Deputy, kill his men and nominate a Lieutenant Governor of their own in Ireland as Christopher Preston had been seized carrying documents incriminating him in this revolt, which included a Gaelic Irish version of the English Coronation oath and how the parliaments in Ireland should be actually conducted. 

   Thomas Mac Maurice Fitz Gerald, the son of Mac Maurice Fitz Gerald of Kerry, was killed by James Fitz Gerald, the son of Gerald Fitz Gerald the previous third English Earl of Desmond, who became the sixth English Earl of Desmond.

   James Butler, the son of Edmund Butler was now the English Earl of Ormonde.

   The surrounds of Lissordowln Castle were burnt this year. 

December: An Anglo - Irish / Old English Great Council met at Naas in Co. Kildare in Southern Leinster, and proclaimed the superiority in Ireland of the actual governing Anglo - Irish Parliament in Ireland itself, and later this Parliament also decreed that Ireland could only be bound by Statutes enacted by the Anglo - Irish Lords and Anglo - Irish Commons in Ireland.

1418 AD Niall O Donnell from the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill besieged O Niall from the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain and drove him eastwards across the River Bann.

       John Talbot / Lord Furnival the English appointed Lord Lieutenant in Ireland for Henry V the second English Lancaster King (later to be the Earl of Shrewsbury) raided Aed Mac Guinness / Mag Aenghusa the Gaelic Milesian Irian King of Iveagh in the north - east of the Ulster Province, and Mac Guinness and Mac Buidhe O Niall combined and followed the English Galls and killed many of them gaining back their cattle.

     The the second Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Clann na Buidhe King had been Mac Aeda Buidhe O Niall , Murtogh O Niall had been the third, Brian Ballach O Niall the fourth who was a grandson of Enri O Niall. and Aed Og - the Younger O Niall would become  the eighth. 

      Teague 111 O Kelly / Tadhg Ua Cheallaig was now the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Ui Maine King who had their territory in the east of Co. Galway and in Co. Roscommon in the east of the Connacht Province.

     Risderd O Reilly, a son of Tomas O Reilly, was the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne King of East Breifne who had their territory in Co. Cavan in Southern Ulster and he was to be drowned this year in Loch Sheelin along with his younger son and others, and Eogan O Reilly, the son of Seoan O Reilly, the son of Philip O Reilly, became the new King of East Breifne and the Muintir Maelmordha.

    Tiernan Mor - the Greater O Rourke / Tigernan Ua Ruairc, who was a son of Ualgarg O Rourke, and the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin King of West Breifne who had their territory in Northern Connacht, died, and was interred in the Sligo monastery in Co. Sligo in the Connacht Province, and he was to be succeeded by Aed Buidhe - of the Yellow Hair O Rourke who became the new the King of West Breifne. 

   Tomalty / Tomaltach was the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai King of Moylurg / Mag Luirc who had their territory in Co. Roscommon in the east of the Connacht Province.

   Henry V the second Norman Lancaster King of England was in France as England was once again at War with the French.

1419 AD 121.Donnell O Niall, the son of 120.Enri O Niall, the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain King of Tyrone and Ulster, was banished by the English Galls along with Eogan O Niall and the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill, Brian Mac Mahon the Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch King of Orghialla / Oriel and the Fir Manach in the Ulster Province.

 May: Sir John Talbot / Lord Furnival the English appointed Lieutenant Governor in Ireland for Henry V the second Lancaster King of England took Mac Murrogh the Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig King in Southern Leinster prisoner, and he later came up against James Butler the fourth English Earl of Ormonde in the south - west of Southern Leinster and an all out struggle by the English Galls now occurred for control of Ireland and the confiscation of James Butler the English Earl of Ormonde's Estates in Ireland taken into Henry V's hands by Sir John Talbot made it even worse, as he too had also inherited confiscated Gaelic Irish territories in Ireland. He was to continue to quarrel with James Butler for years to come.

     Hugh Cokesy was also created an English knight this year.

    Brian O Connor and Northern Connacht destroyed Tir Aed and the crops from Ath na nGall to Ballyshannon burning Murbach, which was O Donnell's stronghold.  

    Maelsechlainn O Kelly went to join up with Raymond Burke to attack the Gall's Clann Rickard, including Walter Mac William Burke, Donough O Kelly the Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Ui Maine King, Cathal O Connor, Tomas Mac Dermot, galloglasses, the Clann Donnchadha under Turlogh Mac Donagh, and the Clann Dubgaill went to Slieve Aughty, but Raymond Burke did not show and they then burnt the countryside as they went to Bel Atha Liege were they ran into Mac William Burke from the Clann Rickard, Ulick Burke, the son of Richard Burke, and his men, Teague O Brian and Mahon O Brian and their Lord Marshalls the Mac Namaras from the Dal gCais Clann Culien and Donnell Sweeney and his galloglasses and they were then driven off into the Connacht Province and defeated. (William O Kelly, the son of Maelsechlainn O Kelly, married Mary Burke, and when he was to die she was to marry Fitz Gerald the Earl of Desmond.)  

     Aed Buidhe - of the Yellow Hair O Rourke who was the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin King of West Breifne who had their territory in Co. Leitrim in Northern Connacht died, and Teague O Rourke became the King of the Muintir Rourke who had their territory from Sliab an Iarainn westwards, whlie Art O Reilly, the son Teague O Reilly who became the King of East Breifne from the mountain eastwards of the Muintir Reilly. Teague O Rourke gathered an army of warriors, and the Muintir Reilly returned to their homes and Art O Reilly who was now deserted by his followers fled and Teague O Rourke went on a rampage attacking Carrigallen and constructed a stronghold at Killtoghert and attacked Cill Deman burning the town and many were killed on both sides.

    Murrogh O Flaherty / Murchad Ui Flaithbheartaigh, the son of Brian O Flaherty, who was the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Seola King of West Connacht / Iarthar Chonnacht who had his kingdom and territory also in Co. Galway in the Connacht Province, died.

   Donogh Cavanagh / Kavanagh was now the Heremonian Cu Corb Ui Cheinnselaig King of Leinster who was captured by the English Galls. 

   Brian Mac Mahon was now the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch King of Orghialla / Airghialla / Oriel who had their territory in Co. Monaghan and Co. Armagh in Southern Ulster.

    Donogh 11 O Kelly / Donnchad Ua Chellaig was now the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Colla Da Crioch Ui Maine King who had their territory in the east of Co. Galway and Co. Roscommon in the Connacht Province.   

1420 AD Niall 11 Garb - the Rough O Donnell  the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill King of Tir Conaill / of Tyrconnell / Co. Donegal who had their kingdom and territory in the north - west of the Ulster Province, Donnell O Donnell and Nechtain O Donnell, the sons of O Donnell, who were at Magh Ene became involved in a conflict at Assaroe Bay / Ballyshannon with the sons of Brian O Connor and some were killed, including Brian O Connor's son, Seoan O Connor, and Brian O Connor then took his own men to Magh Ene where another battle occurred and the men from the Cenel Conaill Sept were then either killed in the conflict or fled the scene.

    Bundrowes Castle was constructed by Brian O Connor this year.

    Donnell O Niall the Heremonian Dal Cuinn ""northern" Ui Niaill King of Tir Eogain /  Tyrone and Ulster was now in exile in the Connacht Province with Brian Mac Dermot.

   The English Galls captured the Granard / Granaird Castle in Cairpri Gabra in the kingdom of Annaly in Co. Longford in the north - west of Northern Leinster from William O Farrell / Ua Fearghail the Gaelic Milesian Irian Chief, which they then abandoned, and he demolished it so they could not use it again.      

     Teague / Tadhg O Hara the Heberian Cianachta Prince / Tanaiste of Leyney / Luigni in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province, who was a son of Fergal O Hara, died this year. O Hara Ruadh the Catholic Bishop of Achrony, also died.

     Giolla na New O Heerin, died, who had written a continuation of Shane O Dugan's Topography, which included the names of Chiefs and Clans in Ireland from the 12th Century AD.  

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