1141 - 1450 AD
1441 AD Conor Mac Donagh the Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Ai Ui Conchobar Meic Diamada Ui Ailella King, died, who had their territory in the Connacht Province,
The
Anglo - Irish Council
wanted, the the Old English / Anglo - Irish,
who had been born in Ireland
to have the same rights in England as the New English who had been
born in England, and because of this previously imposed
prejudice against them, it was to make them feel their actual
Irish identity even more, which then also boosted that
inward emotion that
they already felt under the frontier / marches conditions of being Anglo
- Irish in Ireland.
1443 AD Fineen Mac Gilla Patrick and Dermot Mac Gilla Patrick / Fitz Patrick, two of the sons of Mac Gilla Patrick the Heremonian Ui Connla King of Ossory / Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster were treacherously slain in Kilkenny City in Co. Kilkenny at the instigation of Mac Richard Butler the Anglo - Norman English Baron.
Mulrooney O Carroll / Maolruanaidh Ua Cerbaill the Heberian Cianacht King of Ely, died who had his kingdom and territory mainly in Co. Offaly and also in the north of Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province.
Sheeda Mac Namara / Sioda Masc Con Mara the Heberian Dal gCais Chief of the Clann Culien, died, who had his territory in the east of Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province.
The castle at Athlone was captured by Murtaugh O Kelly, but it was retaken by the English Galls, James Dillon, and William Boy Dillon who was killed.
Mahon Dall O Brian the Heberian Dal gCais King of Thomond / Northern Munster was blinded naturally and he would be succeeded by his brother, Turlogh Bog - the Soft O Brian.
1444 AD Aed Bhuidhe - of the Yellow Hair O Niall the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Clann Aeda Bhuidhe / Clannaboye Chief who was the son of Brian Ballach O Niaill was killed by a javelin in the territory of the Gaelic Milesian Irian Mac Guinness / Mac Aenghusa Sept who had their kingdom in the east of the Ulster Province.
Turlogh Mac Coughlan / Mac Cochlainn the King of Delbna, died who had his kingdom and territory in the south - west of Northern Leinster.
James O
Kennedy was now
James Butler
1V
the fourth English Earl of Ormonde
who had his Estates in Ossory / Co. Kilkenny
in the south - west of Southern Leinster
and
Sir John Talbot
/ Lord Furnival the officious English appointed Governor in Ireland finally came to a
mutual agreement with Talbot's son marrying Butler’s daughter, but this respite
would not see the end of their internal conflicts in
Ireland.
1445 AD William O Farrell the Gaelic Milesian Irian Chief of Annerley, died, who had his territory in Co. Longford in the north - west of Northern Leinster and Donnell Bhuidhe - of the Yellow Hair O Farrell became the new Chief there.
This year also a castle was
built at
Fethard
/ Fiodh Ard (The High Wood) in
Co. Tipperary
in the north - east of the Munster Province,
of which there are some ruins still there in existence, and the
Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil Mac
Carthys
also constructed
another
castle at
Carrigaphooca
in Co. Cork
in Southern Munster.
Turlogh Bog - the Soft O Brian now deposed his brother, Mahon Dall - the Sightless O Brian, and he was to become the next Heberian Dal gCais Ui mBriain King of Thomond / Northern Munster until 1459 AD, and was also a son of Brian Catha an Aenagh O Brian, and also a younger brother to Teague na Glenmoor O Brian.
1447 AD Edward Fitz Maurice Fitz Gerald the Anglo - Irish fifth Earl of Desmond / Southern Munster who had Gaelic Irish leanings along with O More the Gaelic Milesian Irian Chief who had his kingdom and territory in Co. Laois in the mid - north - west of Southern Leinster and Mac Gilla Patrick / Fitz Patrick the Heremonian Ui Connla Chief of Ossory besieged the Earldom of Ormond, including Kilkenny City in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster and the adjoining Co. Tipperary in north - east of the Munster Province. This was the territory that was now under the control of James Butler the fourth English Earl of Ormond and 76 towns and 16 churches were destroyed, and many there were killed and prisoners taken, along with many cattle and property was regained from all of those English Galls who had been placed there in the former territory there of the Gaelic Irish Septs.
Rory O Cane / Kane, the son of Magnus O Cane / Kane, the son of Cu Muighe O Cane / Kane, the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain King of Cianacht / Keenaught, died who had his kingdom and territory now in Co. Derry in the north of the Ulster Province.
1448 AD
Donnell Mac Carthy
Mor
- the Greater
the
Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil Chief of Desmond /
Southern Munster founded
the Muckross
/ Irreelagh monastery on
Loch Lein in
Co. Kerry
in the south - west
of the Munster Province
for the
Franciscan friars, where he was to be eventually
interred, and it became a
Heberian Eoghanacht cemetery only and many of the
Gaelic Irish
Eoghanacht Chieftains from the
Mac Carthys,
the O Sullivans
and the
O Donoghues
were to be interred there, and it also contains the remains of the
3
Co. Kerry
poets
Egan O Rahilly,
Geoffrey O Donoghue
and
Owen
Roe
- of Red Complexion
O Sullivan. (The
Anglo - Norman English Earls
of
Co. Kerry
were to be interred at
Ardfert
Abbey.)
In the
20th Century AD the
Muckross Estate
together with the Friary and 10,000
acres
was to be purchased back and donated to the people of
Ireland as a
National Park,
Donnell O Kennedy was
1449 AD Donogh O Rourke was now the Heremonian Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne King of West Breifne who had their territory in Co. Leitrim in Northern Connacht.
Eogan O Reilly, the son of Seoan O Reilly, the Dal Cuinn Ui Briuin Breifne Muintir Reilly King, died, who had his kingdom of East Breifne in Co. Cavan in Southern Ulster.
The
Heberian Dal gCais
Ui mBriain
O Brians
who had their territory in Thomond
/ Northern Munster and
the
Heremonian Ui Connla
Mac Gilla Patricks
/ Fitz Patricks
who had their territory nearby in Ossory / Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of
Southern Leinster, still being territory in
Mogha's Half fought many battles at
Aherlow in
Co. Tipperary in the north
- east of the Munster Province. The
O
Brians who had held the adjoining area for over
300 years constructed
Moor Abbey,
a Franciscan friary there,
while the
Mac Gilla Patrick /
Fitz Patricks constructed a
castle further north at
Aghmacart in
Co. Laois
in the mid - north - west of
Southern Leinster.
Richard
of York who was the heir - apparent to the
English monarchy,
was sent to
Ireland
to act as the
English appointed Lord Lieutenant and won
respect from the Anglo -
Irish
/
Old English gentry, and his wife gave birth to their son,
Edward thr future Edward 1V the White Rose York King of England while in Ireland, which
further strengthened their ties with
Ireland.
This year, James Butler the English fourth Earl of Ormond founded an Augustinian friary at Callan in Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster where later on Brother Rice the founder of the Catholic teaching Order of the Christian Brothers was to be born.
The Walls
/ de Valle / an Faltagh the previous Anglo - Norman Barons who were now also an
Anglo
- Irish family, who had also become
"More Irish then the Irish"
constructed
Garraunboy
Castle 2 mile south - east of
Adare in
Co. Limerick
in the mid - north - west
of
the Munster Province.
Bartholomew O Flannigan was the prior this year of the original monastery founded by St. Molaisse, where also St. Finnian had been a pupil on Devenish Island in Co. Fermanagh in the south - west of the Ulster Province.
The
Bissetts
who Gaelicized
their name as Mac Eoins / Mac Keowns who were previous
Anglo
- Norman Barons constructed a
Franciscan
friary at
Glenarm in
Co. Antrim
in the north - east of Ulster and later on in the 16th
Century AD during the
6 Rebellions under the ethnic and religious
oppression of the then Welsh Tudor English Queen, Elizabeth 1st,
the body of her "Greatest Fear,"
125.Shane O Niall
the Heremonian
Dal Cuinn
"northern" Ui Niaill Cenel
nEogain Chieftain,
would be interred there, after his head was to be cut off and pickled,
and sent to Dublin to be impaled on the spikes at Dublin Castle (The Devil's 1/2
acre).
1450 AD
Richard
of York,
the English appointed Lord Lieutenant
in Ireland,
returned to
England due to the
ongoing conflict between the
descendants of John of Gaunt, the
Lancasters / Red Rose) and the Yorks / White Rose, involving the "War of the Roses."
During this year, Peter Butler, died, and was interred in his tomb at Jerpoint Abbey in Co. Kilkenny in the south - east of Southern Leinster.
The O Brians from the Heberian Dal gCais Ui Turlogh Ui mBriain Sept had Inchiquin Castle constructed at Corofin in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province.
Mac Con Mac Sioda Mac Namara the Dal gCais
Ui Caisin
Lord Marshall for the
Heberian Dal gCais
Ui mBriains O Brians
constructed another castle in
Co. Clare.
The O Donnells from the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conaill Sept built a Franciscan friary in their territory at Kilmacrenan, previously known as Doire Eithne (Eithne's Oak Wood) in Co. Donegal on the River Leannan on the original site of 94.St. Columba's / Columbcille's Abbey. (This was on the land previously owned by his mother, Eithne, and where he had put in his nephew, the son of Neanan in charge, and these particular ruins are still there to be seen).
Doon Rock, situated 2 mile west of Kilmacrenan, was the Inauguration Place for the O Donnell Kings of Tyrconnell / Co. Donegal in the west of the Ulster Province, and to the east of there is the Holy Well of Doon, which is noted for its great healing properties.