1607 - 1610 AD
1607 AD The Catholic Cathedral at Emly / Imleach (The Lake Border ) in Co. Tipperary in the north - east of the Munster Province, that was also previously taken over during the confiscation of the Irish Catholic Church Institutions by Henry V111 was ruined during the fighting and it had a special significance to the Irish Septs, as it was the site of an ancient church that had been founded there originally by St. Ailbhe the initial Catholic Bishop of Emly who had been a contemporary of St. Patrick and he had personally converted the whole area there to the Catholic faith in 528 A.D, and when he died he had been interred there. and his personal cell is still there to be seen.
August:
Although
126.Aed
Dubh
/
Black
Hugh
O Niall "The O Nial"l
had submitted to
James 1st the new French Stuart English King,
James 1st was still not satisfied, as he
wanted the last vestiges of the
Irish
Ulster
Chiefs gone
from Ireland altogether, and
to this end, those who were the leaders of the Irish
Ulster Septs were from now on subjected to ongoing aggressive English
officials, until he was finally able to instigate a charge of Conspiracy, against them
and
126.Aed Dubh
O Niall / The O Niall
was then summoned to London to
answer these trumped up charges, and while he was
absent from Ireland, James 1st
had arranged for two real "survivors,"
Sir
Cahir O Doherty of Lifford and
Sir Henry
Oge
O Neill to
be in charge of the
Juries in Ulster.
They were to ensure that those at
Lifford and Strabane,
under their directions,
brought in an indictment of Treason and Conspiracy against the
Irish
Ulster
Earls
with no chance of any defence and this then also
involved an Attainder,
(Off with their Heads)
and further confiscation of their
Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill territories to the
English Crown and Sir
Arthur Chichester, James 1st's personal agent in Ulster, only wanted to give one 1/2 of these further
confiscated territories back to the
Irish Catholics who lived there, as he had previously proposed
that all Irish Catholics should be driven out
altogether, and that English
Ascendancy Episcopalian plantations
should then
be carried out in their respective territories. From now on, under
James 1st's direction, Sir Arthur Chichester once more began further confiscations of
the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill territories
there in Ulster,
in
Co. Armagh, in
Co. Cavan, in Coleraine in
Co. Derry, in Co. Donegal,
in Co. Fermanagh
and in
Co. Tyrone and all of this extra pre - meditated ethnic and
religious Ascendancy persecution was to bring about
the desired result, with the forthcoming
"Flight of the Earls"
September 14th: 12 a.m.
The "Flight of the Earls"
occurred when
126.Aed
Dubh
O Niall /
The O Niall, and
Rory O Donnell / The O Donnell
and his one year old son, along with his brother,
Caffar
O Donnell, together with
"The Maguire" who was the
Colla Da Crioch Chieftain in
Co. Fermanagh, were
all to be the last titled
Gaelic Milesian
independent Irish Chieftains as
126.Aed Dubh O Niaill, Rory O Donnell and
Caffar O Donnell were all descended from
90.Niall
-
of the Nine Hostages the
126th King of Tara / Ireland,
and
"The Maguire"
from
88.Colla Da Crioch
- of the Two Countries whose older brother,
88.Colla Uais
had been the
121st King of Ireland descended from 84.Cormac Mac
Airt the 115th KIng of Ireland.
Together with 95
other Ulster Province
Irish leaders
and members of their individual Families, who for good reason were by now all in fear of their lives, boarded
their ships and left Ireland
forever to
go into exile
from out of
Rathmullan on
Loch Swilly (The Lake of Shadows)
in
Co. Donegal
in the north - west
of
Ulster.
Although they were initially intending to set
sail directly for
Spain,
due to the storms they encountered along the way, they first ended up in
Norway, and later on still in the
Spanish Netherlands. Among
them also was the "aged"
The
Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niall territories in the
Ulster Province,
belonging to the various
Irish Septs in
Co. Donegal
and
Co. Tyrone were now confiscated outright by the
English, and the
Irish there were driven
out
above the 600' level to starve to death, as
Co. Armagh,
Coleraine, Co. Fermanagh,
Tyre
and Co. Cavan
were to be also closer settled with
AScendancy Episcopalian English planters with
"No Irish
allowed"
and
Ulster
was cut up into
1000, 1500
and 2000 acre lots with
3,000 acres to go to the
English Ascendancy Superiors who would bear arms and
build individual defences against the
Irish
Families
there in their regions.
Despite all of the English Laws that were constantly imposed
against the Irish to ensure their
total obliteration in Ireland,
the Irish people eventually came back to work their own land, but for a
greater rent as tenants, as the
planters had no one else capable of doing the work on the
vast
amount of Irish territory that they had by then taken over.
80 % of
Co. Derry in the north - east of
Ulster was
also given over to the Episcopalian Ascendancy Church of England and the Scottish
Presbyterian planters, with
Coleraine
given over to the merchants from the
City of London, and
Inishowen
went
to the English appointed Lord Deputy,
with
English planters.
The
lowland Scottish
planters were
placed next to the
rivers and the
Old English /
Anglo - Irish
were
further out and under
new English Laws the English Undertakers and non - Catholic planters were now all
forbidden to use
Irish
tenants,
while another 5 % of the
Irish territory there was given to former English soldiers, who were allowed to make use of
Irish
tenants, with the
15 % balance
of the land there to go to the
Irish
tenants who were
then forced to pay double rent.
The
Dal Cuinn Colla Uais
Mac Donnells
/ Mac Donalds
who were previously Irish
Scottish galloglasses
/ mercenaries descended from the 88.Colla
Uais the 121st King of Ireland and the
Lord of the Isles there in
Scotland, and personally connected to James 1st
the Stuart English
King received the territory of the Dal Cuinn
"northern" Ui Niaill Sept in
Co. Antrim
in the north - east of the
Ulster Province.
England under James 1st the French Stuart
English
King had
by now gained complete control over the
Irish
population with the Irish
leaders who still existed in the Ulster Province gone, and with half
of the Irish
population done away with, by one means or another, and those
Catholic
Irish and Anglo - Irish who had survived so far had
lost
either, their
Family
territory, close members of their
Families, their right to
practice their Catholic
faith and all of their previous democratic rights under the
Irish Brehon Law.
Those who were left behind were now under a total foreign -
system of serfdom, which was completely opposite to their Celtic Culture, and which
now also gave them no recognition as
actually legally exist in their own Country of
Ireland under
English Common Law that would continue on right up to 1869 AD, and in
reality
this should have meant, as was intended, the final end of the
Irish Nation altogether as by not being able to existing legally under English Common Law they
had no rights as to reclaiming their
territory or their
property or being legally part of the common community now in
Ireland. For the previous 4 Centuries up until
this period in time
those in authority in England had
been
originally about either ethnic
cleansing, or ethnic and
religious cleansing
as their overall goal had been the total
annihilation of
the
Irish population as an individual Celtic
people, but
despite the fact that they now had them under their physical and
economic control their
Irish and
Anglo - Irish
Minds were still
free.
The mandates originally given to the Ascendancy anti - Catholic protagonists, Sir Arthur Chichester and Sir John Davies by James 1st the French Stuart English King to harass the Catholic Irish and the Anglo - Irish by fines and imprisonment had by now served their intended purpose and were to be abandoned for the present, by the English authorities, as there was now growing fear among them of having gone too far and creating further Irish revolts in Ireland.
John Mac Eniry of Castletown Mac Eniry in Co. Limerick who was the Chief of the Heberian Eoghanacht Ui Fidgeinti Ui Cairbre Aebda Sept, Gerald Mac Eniry his cousin and Shane mac Thomas Mac Eniry of Kilmore in Co. Limerick his brother - in - law had their territories that the Sept had held for 200 years in Co. Cork and Co. Limerick confiscated.
Moore Abbey
was constructed this year by the English planters in
Drogheda in Co.
Louth in the north - east of Northern Leinster on the site of the old monastery at
Monasterevin,
which today as fate would have it is an Irish Catholic
convent.
1608 AD
April: 126.Aed Dubh
/
Black
Hugh O Niall
/
The O Niall and the other
Irish
Ulster Province leaders,
who had fled from Loch Swilly in
Co. Donegal in the north - west of
Ulster in
fear of their lives had finally arrived in
Rome were they came under the
protection of Pope
Paul V.
April 18th: Sir
Cahir O Doherty
the "survivor"
who had turned Episcopalian to hold on to his part of the Dal Cuinn
"northern"
Ui Niaill Cenel
Conaill territory
at Inishowen
in Co. Derry in the north - east of the
Ulster Province was
by now also made subject to the same aggressive personal treatment, when he was
to be persopnly insulted by the English Governor
in
Derry, and because of this he
decided to besiege Culmore Fort
on
nearby Loch Foyle and on the following day he also laid siege to the town of
Derry itself, which
had been previously captured by the English
in 1600 AD,
which he destroyed. July:
Sir
Cahir O Doherty
was now also charged with Treason and then
executed in
Co. Donegal
and
all his followers and family were then
hunted down over a
six week
period, until they were also all to be finally killed by
September, and this meant that there
was now more Irish territory available to
confiscate
in
Ulster.
All up
James 1st the French Stuart
English
King confiscated 3,750,000 acres of
Irish
territory in the Ulster Province, which included nearly all of
Co. Donegal,
Coleraine in Co. Derry, Co.
Tyrone, Co. Fermanagh, Co. Cavan
and
Co. Armagh,
and he set up an English Commission to
then survey 6
of the
9
Ulster
Counties for
further Ascendancy non - Catholic
plantations beginning with
Co. Derry.
Powerscourt Estate at Bray, which was composed of 26,000 acres in Co. Wicklow in the south - east of Southern Leinster was originally taken from the Irish Septs there by the Anglo - Norman Baron, de la Poer / Power under Strongbow 11 after the original Anglo - Norman Invasion and it had then been recaptured by the Heremonian Cu Corb O Byrnes, O Tooles and Cavanghs / Kavanaghs, during Henry VIII's reign, until it was then later retaken by the English and given to the Anglo - Norman, Talbots and it was now given over, by James 1st the French Stuart English King to Sir Richard Wingfield the English Earl of Rosse / Lord Powerscourt.
Rory
/
Ruaidhri
O Donnell,
the last of the
Dal Cuinn Chiefs / The O Donnell from the Dal
Cuinn "northern"
Ui Niaill
Cenel Conaill Sept,
died, this year and was interred in the
Church of San Pietro di Montorio in
Rome and he had been a younger brother to
Aed
Ruadh /
Red Hugh
O Donnell
/
The O
Donnell before him, and to
Fionnuala the wife of
Niall
Garbh - the Rough O
Donnell, and their father had been
Aed
Dubh
O Donnell
who had been previously also
The O
Donnell who had died in
1600 AD, and another brother,
Manus O Donnell was to be killed in
1691 AD by another
Niall
Garbh
O Donnell.
Richard Boyle the 1st English
Earl of Cork founded the City of
Bandon in
Co. Cork in
Southern Munster and
Irish
Catholics
were to be banned from the
City for the next
100 years
while
James 1st the French Stuart English King also declared
Kilkenny
and Irishtown there (Kilkenny
City) free boroughs and
Ossory /
Co.
Kilkenny
became a County in its own right
in the south - west of Southern Leinster.
1609 AD
May: The
Dal Cuinn
northern
Ui Niaill
Cenel nEogain
O
Cahans
/
O Canes / Kanes
in the north - east of the Ulster Province were
now to be removed also, and
their territory in
Co. Derry
and
Coleraine and
the surrounding areas were given over to the
Common Council of London
merchants
with
60 out of every
1000 acres
also going to the
Ascendancy Episcopalian Church of England
and they called themselves the
Irish Society and put in
26
members to run it for them, but kept
Derry and
Coleraine for
themselves, while giving the rest to the merchants of
12 London Companies, and walls were
constructed around
Derry to
fortify it against the
Irish "Rebels."
500,000
acres
were now under the control of Sir
Arthur Chichester
and the English Militia in the Ulster Province
and they were to be put aside for
Lowland
Scottish Presbyterian planters, while the
English Episcopalian Church of England planters were placed
inland where they were made the
Undertakers, and the lower class
Scots were given land on less
favourable terms then the English.
Co. Antrim,
Co. Down
and
Co. Monaghan
were not in the non - Catholic plantation
areas, as
Elizabeth 1st
the previous Tudor Queen of England had
previously given
Co. Monaghan
to
7 of the
Dal Cuinn
3 Colla
Mac
Mahons and a
Mac
Kenna, who were among the "survivors"" at that time and had conformed
to suite, while the
Anglo
- Irish Russells,
Savages and
Whites, (originally bought over by
the Anglo - Norman Baron,
Hugh de Courcy,) held on to
Co. Down.
At
this time,
St.
Antony of Padua
was at
Louvain College / Freres de Charite
(The Brothers of
Charity) in France were
he was able to maintain a register of
Irish History and
traditions for future Irish
historians, and many of the
O
Nialls, the O Dohertys,
the O Donnells,
the Lynches,
the Murphys and other
exiled
Irish
Families
are interred there also, including
Father O Mulloy the
poet and
Bonaventura
O hEoghana an
Irish woman who was also a poet.
This year,
Alan Cooke founded
Cookestown in the
confiscated territories, 3 mile
south in the
Rath of Tullyhogue
in
Co. Tyrone
in Central Southern Ulster,
and
At this time also in Ireland there was still 10,000 or so mercenaries in the pay of the various English Lords and other Landed Gentlemen of means, who used them as their own private armies, which was always a constant worry to James 1st the Stuart English King and the English Government.
1610 AD Ascendancy English plantations in Ireland continued on with the Ulster Province non - Catholic plantations in the hands of James 1st's English Undertakers there, who were using English names for the Irish regions, with some of these also occurring in Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster, which had also been confiscated as this particular confiscation of Irish territories were based on a long ago surrender of land way back to Richard 11 in the 14th Century AD, ashad also been carried out in Co. Leitrim in Northern Connacht and Co. Offaly in the north - west of Southern Leinster the previous territory of the Heberian Cianacht Chieftain, O Carroll of Ely. There was also some attempts at plantation by the Old English / Anglo - Irish in the east of Co. Galway in Southern Connacht, and also in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province. James 1st was desperate also to remove the Irish Families out of the Connacht Province altogether, and was even to use fraud to accomplish this, just as his future unfortunate greedy son, Charles 1st would also do later on through the insatiable efforts of his faithful servant, William "Black Tom" Wentworth who would go the same way as Charles 1st..
Sir
Thomas Phillips
built the town of
Limavady in
Co. Derry
in the north - east of the Ulster
Province and
Nicholas Ward built
Castle Ward
in
Co. Down in the south - east
of
Ulster
against the
Irish
Septs there, which is now
only a ruin.
Sir
Basil Brooke built onto the Dal Cuinn
"northern"Ui Niaill
Cenel Conaill O Donnell's castle in
Donegal
town in Co. Donegal in
the north - west of Ulster, which eventually became a ruin also, and is now being
restored by the Irish Government.
James 1st the
Stuart English King also gave
Birr Castle in
Co. Offaly
in the north - west of
Southern Leinster to
Sir
Lawrence Parsons
whose family were to be later created the English Earls of Rosse.
The
Heberian Dal gCais
Ui Casein
Mac Namaras constructed the
Cratloe Castle on the
Limerick - Bunratty Castle
Road in
Co. Clare
in the north - west of the Munster
Province,
which is also still there to see, although in ruins, and was to be only one of the 42
castles they were to build all up in Co. Clare.