1616 - 1620 AD

1616 AD 126.Aed Dubh / Black Hugh O Niall  "The O Niall" who would be the last of the Irish titled Chieftains from the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Septs in the Ulster Province, died this year at Simancas in Spain, and because of his great commitment he was also interred in the Church of San Pietro di Montorio in Rome.

      The English Ascendancy system whereby the English Crown controlled the ward ships of minors entitled to any property, at their discretion, was also used now in the further seizures and confiscations of Irish land, and was to be a great revenue earner for James 1st the French Stuart English King and this greedy grab for the legacy of Juveniles really upset the Anglo - Irish / Old English in Ireland.

      At this time there was still an Irish Catholic church surviving at Dromore West in Co. Sligo in the north - west of the Connacht Province, which is now only a ruin.  

1617 AD During this time Teague O Higgins / Tadhg O h lUiginn who was from the Heremonian Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain whose Sept had migrated to the Connacht Province previously and was now in Co. Sligo in the north west of Connacht and Eochy / Eochaidh O LEoghasa from Co. Fermanagh in the south - west of the Ulster Province nearby, were 2 of the great Irish poets.

    The Gaelic Celts in the Highlands of Scotland and the Gaelic Celts in Ireland were also still united at this period in time.  

       As further English foreign non - Catholic plantations occurred in the confiscated Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill territories in the Ulster Province the merchants from the English Skinners Company, built a castle this year against the surviving surrounding Irish Septs at Dingiven in Co. Derry in the north - east of the Ulster Province in the previous kingdom and territory of the O Canes / Kanes / Ui Cahans from the  Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel nEogain Sept, 

      Donnell Cam O Sullivan the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil Chieftain who had previously had his kingdom and territory at Beare Haven in Co. Cork in Southern Munster where he had stood up to the English onslaught was now in Spain was created the Count of Beare Haven by Philip 111 the King of Spain, which upset James 1st the French Stuart English King, no end.

1618 AD Due to the great amount of Irish territories that had been confiscated by the English, leases and sub - leases of Irish land were now increasing even to the Mere Irish themselves, although it was now against English Law, as the Irish continued to always drift back to their original ancestral territory previously belonging to their individual Septs as the Lowland Scottish Presbyterian planters and the English Episcopalian Church of England planters found they really needed the Irish to have any chance of making use of all of their recently confiscated Irish land, even though fines were being levied against them for doing so. James 1st the French Stuart English King this year also granted the town of Derry in Co. Derry in the north - east of the Ulster Province to the newly formed English - Irish Society who began the construction of a town there and encircled it with walls one mile around and with 7 gates to keep the Irish Septs in that region surrounding Derry out of there altogether.

    This year also one of James 1st's Ascendancy Undertakers, Malcolm Hamilton constructed a castle at Monea in Co. Fermanagh in the south - west of the Ulster Province, against the surrounding Irish Septs there.

      Sir Richard Wingfield who James 1st  previously granted the kingdom and territory of the Heremonian Ui Laoghaire Ui Lughaidh Cu Corb Ui Dunlange O Tooles and O Byrnes, comprised of 26,000 acres at Bray in Co. Wicklow in the south - east of Southern Leinster in 1608 AD, was this year also created the English Earl of Powerscourt. by James 1st.

July: Donnell Cam O Sullivan the Heberian Eoghanacht Chaisil Chief of Beare in Co. Cork in Southern Munster, and Count of Beare Haven, who was now in exile in Spain, died this month, after being stabbed in the neck by John Bathe who was of Anglo - Norman descent and there was great conjecture as to who put him up to it.

       The "aged" Aed / Hugh mac Aed Dubh O Donnell  the Dal Cuinn "northern" Ui Niaill Cenel Conall heir apparent / "Tánaiste," died, who had been a brother to Manus mac Aed O Donnell who had been "The O Donnell and their father had been Aed / Dubh O Donnell who had died in 1537 AD.

      David Rothe was to become the Anglo - Irish Catholic Bishop of Ossory / Co. Kilkenny in the south - west of Southern Leinster until 1650 AD.

     Sir Walter Raleigh, died this year, who had been also granted large Estates of land in Ireland at Youghal in Co. Cork in Southern Munster by Elizabeth 1st, after acting as her Ascendancy Undertaker in the foreign non - Catholic plantation of Munster Province and he had also previously received 220,000 acres from her in the Ulster Province, which he had lost in a card game over night, so she had then given him 40,000 acres of the confiscated territories of the Fitz Geralds of Desmond known as "Myrtle Grove" where one of his original houses is still there to be seen. 

1619 AD James 1st, the French Stuart English King, who was to be well known for his avarice and greed, was continuing to sell English Baronies for money.

    Adam Loftus, a nephew of the Ascendancy Episcopalian Church of England Archbishop of Dublin, was appointed by James 1st the French Stuart English King to be the English Chancellor in Ireland, a position which he was to hold until 1629 AD when he was to then become the English appointed Lord Justice in overall control in Ireland with Richard Boyle the English 1st Earl of Cork.      

     This year, the 25' high walls which were constructed around the City of Derry in Co. Derry in the north - east of the Ulster Province, to keep the Irish Septs out, were completed, and are still there today and Crom Castle was also constructed at Newtown Butler in Co Fermanagh in the south - west of Ulster, 5 miles to the west on the Upper Loch Erne, by the foreign non - Catholic planters there against the recently displaced Irish Families in that region and Salter's Castle was also constructed on Loch Neagh to the south of Ballyronan in Co. Derry for the same reason, and the ruins are still there to be seen with Castle Upton at Templepatrick in Co. Antrim in the north - east of Ulster was also constructed this year for the same purpose. In Tir Conaill / Tyrconnell / Co. Donegal, John Murray was granted Boylagh and Banagh, while other non - Catholic foreigners who were granted the Irish Sept's territories there were Thomas Dutton, Alexander Cunningham / Conyngham, John Cunningham, James Cunningham, Cuthbert Cunningham, another James Cunningham, James Mac Cullagh, William Stewart, Alexander Mac Awley, Stewart, John Stewart, Peter Benson, William Wilson, Thomas Davis, Mansfield, John Kingsmill, Ralph Bingley, Thomas Coach, George Marburie, William Stewart, Basil Brooke, Thomas Chichester, John Vaughan, John Wray, Arthur Terrie, Henry Hart, Paul Gore, Nathaniel Rowley, William Lynn and Captain Sandford, Brownlow, Carpenter, Cockayne and Hewitt in Lifford.  

      Thomas "Black Tom" Wentworth who was later to become the English Earl of Strafford and English appointed Lord Deputy in Ireland, under James 1st's even more greedy son, Charles 1st, at this time was able to purchase all of the available country between Tinahely in Co. Wicklow and Shillelagh in the south - east of Southern Leinster, and was to last visit the area 20 years later on in 1639 AD.

1620 AD By this time, although there were now 2,500,000 Irish acres in the hands of 2,000 foreign non - Catholic planters in 3 of the Irish Provinces, there was still only 1 Parish out of 6 that had a Church of England / Ireland minister in them, and in the meantime the Lords of the Isles, the Dal Cuinn Colla Uais Irish Scottish Mac Donnells / Mac Donalds who had their Estates in Co. Antrim in the north - east of the Ulster Province had caused a Catholic revival there.

     Co. Wexford in the south - east of Southern Leinster had by now been successfully English non - Catholic planted, while Co. Leitrim in Northern Connacht and Co. Longford nearby in the north - east of Northern Leinster were not going along as well as James 1st the French Stuart English had planned.  

     Meanwhile, the Heberian Cianacht O Carrolls of Ely who had Birr Castle in their kingdom and territory in Co. Offaly in the north - west of Southern Leinster were also "outlawed," and the territory of the Chief of Ely O Carroll were also confiscated and granted to Sir William - Lawrence Parsons the English appointed foreign non - Catholic planter Ascendancy Undertaker and all of this continuing repression by the English Government under James 1st only further united the Old English / Anglo - Irish with the Mere Irish who were both being more and more effected in the two most common causes of both religion and land.

   Turlogh Mac Coghlan was the Heberian Dal gCais Chief of Delvin who had his territory and kingdom in Co. Offaly who was the son of John Oge - the Younger Mac Coghlan who had been the last Prince / Tanaiste of Delvin.

   The Quin Abbey constructed in the 15th Century AD, by the Mac Namaras in Co. Clare in the north - west of the Munster Province, on the ruins of the old castle built their previously by Thomas de Clare the Anglo - Norman Baron, contained many of their Family tombs, and it was now given over to Donogh O Brien the English appointed fourth English Earl of Thomond, together with the Tithes of the parish.

      During this year, Captain O Sullivan, originally also from Beare in Co. Cork in Southern Munster, who was now in the Spanish Navy, put out a book on the effects and troubles during the 9 Rebellions in Ireland under the ethnic and religious oppression of Elizabeth 1st known now as the "Elizabethan Wars."

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