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COLONEL- MALCOLMOF POLTALLOCH
CAMPBELL COLLECTION
Rioghachca emeaNN.
ANNALS
OF
THE KINGDOM OF IEELAND,

BY THE FOUR MASTERS,
FKOM
THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE YEAR

A TRANSLATION, AND COPIOUS
1616.
EDITED FROM MSS. IN THE LIBRAE! OF THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY AND OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN,
NOTES,
WITH
BY JOHN O'DONOVAN,
LL.D., M.R.I.A.,
BARRISTER \T LAW.
pro nobis
" Olim Regibus parebaut, nuiic per Principes factionibua et studiU trahuntur nee aliud adversus validissimas gentee Rarus duabus tribusve civitatibus ad propulsandum communt utilius, quam quod in commune non consulunt.
: :
periculum conventus
ita
dum
singuli
pugnant universi vincuntur."
TACITUS, AOKICOLA,
c.
12.
'
SECOND EDITION. VOL.

V.
DUBLIN: HODGES, SMITH, AND CO., GRAFTON.STREET,

BOOKSELLERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.
1856.
DUBLIN
at
tf)t
anttjtrstte
BY
M. H. GILL.
emeaNN.
CR1OSU,
QoipCpiopc,
TTlile,
1501.
cuicc ceD,
a haon.
mesmbip baf na candnac copaoh lit Saof eccnaibe eapccna cclocap, na peappun,i na aipcmnec nachablupcaip cicce aoibeab coiccinD Da 506 aon no picceab a illaiDin, ngaoibilcc
mac Ropa mic comaip

i
oicc
i
-)
pfp
leap, i
a ecc
in
lo Tun.
mac aipc mic eoccain ui neill oecc. T?uDpaije mac uf concobaip pailgij, .1. mac cacaofp mic
Niall
cuinn mic an
calbaij Decc.
Rubpaije mac megmarjamna,

cloinn
.1.
bpian
mac Remainn DO mapbab

~]
la
meg aenjupa. Coccab ecip oipjiallaib
pfin,
.1.
Sbocc aooa puaio,

leip
i
pliocr Remainn.
)
TTlag
macjamna (Ropa) Do
bpfic
a caopaijecca
pop an lucr nje,
amac cfnn hm neill. TTlag marârhna cfccmailod poile ooib ace or an coileip. Dionnpaiccib pop pliocc Remainn,"]
pliocc
Remamn Do
cop ap an cfp
John, the son of Rosso.
the Annals of Ulster adds, that this
The Dublin copy of John was
appears from various old maps of Ulster, is now comprised in the barony of Monaghan, in the
the son of Ross the Bishop, and that he died " in id. Jun. mane die Dominico."
h
county of Monaghan, and which was so called because it was allotted for the maintenance of
Creaghts,
i.
e.
his cattle
and their caretakers.

p. 1224, supra,
Mac Mahon's locc

by Evelyn Philip
See note
'
',
under the year 1496,
ci See Acje or household count of the Territory or Dominion of Farney,
Loughty, or Louty,
a territory which, as
Shirley, Esq., p. 30, note
7-
ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one thousand jive
1501.
hundred
one.
J OHN,
the son of Rossa*, son of
Thomas Oge Maguire, who had been
a canon
and Erenagh in Achadh-Urchair [Aghalurcher], a wise man, learned in Latin and Irish, who kept a house of general hospitality for all that stood in need of it, died in the Ides of June.
chorister in Clogher, Parson
Niall, the son of Art, son of
Owen
i.
O'Neill, died.
e.
Rury, the son of O'Conor Faly,

Calvagh, died.
the son of Cahir, son of Con, son of
Rury, the son of Mac Mahon,
i.
e.
of Brian, the son of
Redmond, was
slain
by the sons of Magennis. A war [broke out] among the people of Oriel themselves, i. e. between the descendants of Hugh Roe and the descendants of Redmond. Mac Mahon
h (Rossa) brought his creaghts with him into the Loughty', and drove the descendants of Redmond from the country to O'Neill. Mac Mahon pursued the descendants of Redmond, and they came to an engagement with each other at
See also Harris's edition of Ware's Antiquities, p. 70, where the following notice of the term
Loughty occurs " The Dynast, or Chieftane, being elected, supported himself and his train, partly out of certain Lands set apart for the Maintenance of
:
but Loghty" [or Logh-tee], out of some tributary Exactions particularly called COSHERINGS, which he imposed on all
his Table, called
to
"
Lands except those of the Church, and of such whom he granted special priviledges of Ex-
emption."
1260
annaca Rioshachca
eirceanN.
[1501.
mac cuinn mic enjn uf neill DO bfic Coippbealbac (.1. mac injine an lapla) ace congnam la pliocc ftemamn. Coippbealbac umoppo, mac cigeajina a DO mapbab la mag marjarhna annpm, q aofpi pobem bd pfpp DO gaoibealaib TTlac mec ooriinaill jallocclac (Goin mac Colla) DO mapbab co pocaibib ele.
(.1. majuiDip) mic Remainn meg macjamna co DO rhapbao ap pliab bfra la cloinn bpiain a 'I' a ann. nap a mnincipe ma pappab. Qciao tia maice po mapbab mac emainn, Comdp mac Duinn mic emainn, copbmac mac Sfam mic
TTlac mejuibip
comdp mac comdip
oicc mic an jiolla buib
5'^
-\
emainn mejuibip, T?uaibpi buibe mac emainn oicc meguibip^ Gmann,-] TTlajDonnchaD Da mac nup eojanac Da mac aoba mic bpiain mejuiDip, bpian, caibcc mic oabfio mic giolla buiDe mic majnupa, coiccfp Don cinib ceona
-|
]
co pocai&ib
DO mapbab amaille ppiu. Caiplen pliccij DO jabail le opeimipib, i cocc paip anuap ap a bapp la la cloinn peibcloinn 17uaibpi mic roippoealbai^ cappaij uf concobaip,
oile
~\
limib mic roippbealbaig cappaij

naill
ui
concobaip.
Ctn
Calbac caoc mac Dom-
concobaip DO mapbab ann, ~| Sfan mac Ruaibpi mic coippoealbaij cappaij uf concobaip DO ruicim lap an ccalbac a pppirûm
mic eoccain
uf
ap
in
lacaip
pin.
f
Qibne mac Sfam

pionn.
cafdin Do
mapbab
la
a Deapbpacaip pfippin bpian
mac pibe copbmaic mic DO mapbab la peiblimib mac Donnchaib mic comdip meginbip. aipc) Gmann mac RicaipD a bupc DO jabdil 16 mac uilliam cloinni RiocaipD
Tllac Domnaill clomne ceallaig (giolla na naerh
05 cocc 6 cupup San Sem.

Dia
puapcclab mop DO bfm
ap,
-|
bpaijDe maice
mumcip imo mac.

Ath-an-choileir,
i.
e.
the ford of the quarry.
rnainn, cotp&ealtiuc,
bajia,
.1.
This
1
name
is
now
obsolete.
i.
mac
mac inline lapla cille cuinn, mic enpi ui neill, an mac

-|
The Earl's daughter, the Earl of Kildare.
e.
tlie
daughter of
cijeapna a aoipe po&em ba pfpp DO gaoioealaiB an can pin, Do mupbao e if in ^car

hipin, Ûcj.
"
This Turlough. This is a remarkable instance of the defect of the style of these Annals.
Sliabh Beatlia,
i.
e.
Bith's mountain,
now
The language should be thus constructed

D'lonnpaij
mac marjamna pop

efjaimpfc
o'ci
pliocc
R-
Slieve Baha, or Slieve Beagh, a long range of mountains extending in a north-eastern direction through the barony of Magherastephana, in the county of Fermanagh, and the
mamn,
coiUip.
-|
jio
poile ace ac an
T?o bnoi
05 conjnurh la pliocc Re-
through
pa-
1501.]

k
1 .
1261
son of the Earl's daughter ), the son of Con, son of Henry O'Neill, assisted the descendants of Redmond [and] this Turlough who was the best son of a lord of the Irish of his time, was there slain by Mac Mahon, as was Mac Donnell Galloglagh (John, the son of Colla), with
Ath-an-choileir
Turlough
(i.
e.
111
many others. The son

i.
of Maguire,
i.
e.
the Maguire,
was
slain
Thomas, son of Thomas Oge, son of Gilla-Duv, on Sliabh Beatha", by the sons of Brian, son of Rede.
:
are the chieftains
mond Mac Mahon, with a slaughter of his who were there slain
people along with him. The following Gilla-Isa, son of Edmond Thomas,
;
Edmond; and Cormac, the son of John, son of Edmond Maguire Rory Boy, the son of Edmond Oge Maguire Edmond and Manus Eoghanagh, the two sons of Hugh, son of Brian Maguire Brian and Donough, the two sons of Teige, son of David, son of Gilla-Boy Mac Manus, and five of
the son of Don, son of
;
the same tribe, besides
numbers of
others.
;
was taken by [means of] ladders and the sons of Rory, son of Turlough Carragh O'Conor, and the sons of Felim, son of Turlough Carcastle of Sligo
The
ragh O'Conor, made their way into it from the top. Calvagh Caech, the son of son of Owen O'Conor, was slain in it and John, the son of Donnell, Rory, son
;
of Turlough Carragh O'Conor,

contest.
fell
by [the hand
of]'
Calvagh
in the heat of the
Aibhne, the son of John O'Kane, was slain by his own brother, Brian Finn. Mac Donnell of Clankelly (Gilla-na-naev, the son of Cormac, who was son
of Art), was slain by Felim, the son of Donough, son of Thomas Maguire. the son of Rickard Burke, was taken Edmond, by Mac William of Clanrickard,
on
his return
from the pilgrimage of
St.
James
[in Spain].
A great
ransom was exacted for him, and good hostages of

rishes of Clones
his people, besides his son.
and Tedavnet, and along the western boundary of the barony of Trough, in
the county of Monaghan, and through a part of the parish of Clogher, in the county of Tyrone.
describes the situation of this mountain as fol-
lows in his Acta Sanctorum, p. 216, note 13: " Est mons Beatha in Ultonia in comitatum de
Monechan
the
et
de Fermanach confinibus."
the
In
is
For some account of the origin of this name the reader is referred to the Leabhar GaJbhda of the
Haliday's edition of the first part ofKeating's History of Ireland, pp. 152, 154;
Down Survey
name of this mountain

;
correctly enough anglicised Slieve Beagh

in Seward's Topographical Dictionary it
but
O'Clerys
is, in-
correctly
made
and O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part
iii.
c.
1.
Colgan
aboriginal
The local and pronunciation of the name will be

Slieve Baugh.
1262
TTlaoileaclainn
lap ccian aofp.
QNNaca Rioghachca emeawN.

mac
[1502.
uilliam megpajnaillcaoifeac muincipe heolaip becc
^065 mac
la cloinn Puaibpi coippbealbaig mic peilim pinn DO rhapbab
mec biapmaba.
amac bpian mac Ruaibpi mec Diapmara bo rhapbab a caiplen cuillpce baon upcop poijbe, ni po habrhab cm pop mapb.
-j
hua cconcobaip pop concobap mac biapmaca Cpeac cdm uf bpocain, i an baile bo lopccab laip.
la
hi
ccaipiul bpa-
Oomnall ua huiccmn
pan
pern.
oibe pccol epeann le ban becc lap bcocc 6
cupup
Oonnchab occ mag capcaij mac bonnchaib mic copbmaic mic bonncha'ib
mic biapmaca mic copbmaic pinn mic borhnaill moip becc, ciccfpna Galla
eipibe.
Coippbealbac o bpiain nccfpna cuabmurhan bo lopccab conncae luimnigh,

]
coipi
mdiji pan ngfirhpfbh.
QO1S CR1OSU,
Qofp Cpiopc,
TTlfle,
1502.
cuicc ceb,
bo.
Semup mac Rubpuije meg marjamna corhapba cluana heoaip becc. Qpc ua gallcubaip eom 6 loipce biap abbab bai in impfpam ppia poile
-\
im abbaine eapa puaib, a necc in aen 16 co noibce. Hlainipcip na mbparap pan ccaban bo jnouccab la hua TCajallaij on l?6irh bo na bpairpib be obpepuannia, nacchaib na mbpdrap be comum uica.
-\
i
recognised by the Irish scholar from the phrase used in the parish of Clones by the natives in
EaUa.fîs
is
the territory
now barony
a river which gives name to of oucai j Balla, or
welcoming their visiters, namely, 86 oo Beaca ap SriliaB 6eaca.

Caisiul-Bracain- Ui-Brocain, i. e. the cashel or stone fort of Bracan O'Brocain See this
place mentioned before at the year 1472. The ruins of this cashel are still to be seen in the
Duhallow, in the north-west of the county of Cork. The head of this branch of the Mac
Carthys took the name or title of Mac Donough. See Smith's Natural and Civil History of
Cork, chap. vi.
q
townlaud of Carrickmore, a short distance to

the south-east of the town of Boyle, in the parish and barony of Boyle, and county of Roscommon.
now Coshma,
Cois-Maighe, \. e. along the Kiver Maigue, a barony along the River Maigh,
or Maigue, in the county of Limerick, The Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster con-
1502.]
ANNALS OP THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Mac Eannall,
1263
at
Melaghlin, the son of William
Chief of Muintir-Eolais, died
an advanced age. Teige, the son of Turlough, son of Felim Finn, was slain by the sons of Rory Mac Dermot.
Brian, the son of
of Tulsk
and
it
Rory Mac Dermot, was slain by a dart cast from the was not confessed who it was that killed him.
castle
O'Conor took a prey from Conor Mac Dermot cain, and burned the town.
at Caisiul-Bracain-Ui-Bhro-
Donnell O'Higgin, Chief Preceptor to the schools of Ireland in poetry, died, after his return from the pilgrimage of St. James.
the son of Donough, son of Cormac, son of Donough, son of Dermot, son of Cormac Finn, son of Donnell More, died. He was Lord of Eallap
.
Donough Oge Mac Carthy,
In the Winter of
this
year Turlough O'Brien, Lord of Thomond, burned

.
the county of Limerick
and Cois-Maighe q
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

Mac Mahon, Coarb
1502.
The Age of Christ, one thousand jive hundred two.

James, son of Rury
for the
of Clones, died.
Art O'Gallagher and John O'Loiste, two abbots who contended with each abbacy of Assaroe, died on the one day.
friars in
The monastery of the

.
for the friars of the order
De
O'Reilly, in opposition to the friars Observantia, [of the
Cavanr was procured from Rome, by
order]
tains the
De Communi
two
:
Vita.
entries following, omitted
by the
kinsmen.
The most distinguished

this occasion
of those
who
Four Masters
were killed on
were the son of the
"A. D.
1501.
The daughter
of
Mac Manus
died this year, son of Cathal

O'Fialain,
i.
i.e.
More, the daughter of Cathal,

an undeniably distin-
Lord of Aig, and the three sons of Colla, son of Alexander Mac Donnell, i. e. Turlough,
Donough, and Ludar."
'
More Mac Manus, and wife of

Farrell,
e.
Cavan.
According to Ware the monas-
guished woman. " The Scots sustained a great defeat on Patrick's day this year, and sixty of them were
slain
tery of Cavan was founded by Gelasius Euf'us O'Eeilly, in the year 1300, for Friars Minor,
and given to the Friars Minor of the Observance in the year 1502.
by Art, the son of
Hugh
O'Neill, and his
emeawN.
Cabcc mac cumn mic Domnaill ui neill, Oomnall mac Gocchan bocc mac neill mic enpf uf neill, Oomnall mac
-\
[1502.
peilim uf neill,
pilip meguibip
oecc.
Cabcc mac comalcaij an emij mac oiapmaca canaipi maiê luipcc t>o cloinn TCuaiopi meic oiapmaba hi ccoillcib cleipij. rhapbao 50 hairfpac la
niaibm na colca pinne
.1. i
la cloinn roippnjlionn Gibnije DO rabaipc
neill puaib, ap 6 mbaoijill oeapbpacaip bealbaij oicc mic coippbealbai mic a nacap .1. Niall bui&e, ou in po mapbab 6 baoijill, Niall cona biap mac .1.
Pu&paijei Domnall ballad co nopuing

Dia po pop cloinn coippbealbaij
ele,-|
ba he
6 baoijill po inoill celcc
pilip mac coippDelInDpaiccib la hua paijillij cfnn cloinne hamlaoib DO piubal -| Do baij meguioip, 1 maijpeibe an cfpe op oile Do leo, -\ Gmann mac pilip piabaij mic arhlaoib co nopuinj
mapbab e bubein. (Sfan mac cacail) ap
lopcab
mapbab.
.1.
Ro mapbab
Oomnall an maja Oonnchab mac concobaip mic comaip oicc mejuibip oecc Do jaib cpo na njon DO paDab paip hi maibm pleibe bfca. Qpr mac enpi mic eoccam uf neill Do mapbab la hope mac cumn mic
enpi mic eoâin uf neill.
on cpluaj pin uf T?ajallai5, TTlac uf Rajallai j bubein mac mic maoilmapcam concobap. ~\
Gojan mac aoba mic aipc

neill.
uf neill
Do mapbab la haob
mac cumn
uf
Carol mac maoileclamn Duib mespampabain DO mapbab

ui
le cloinn
paâllaij ap cappaij mic bpiain -\ a cloinne. Sloicceab la haob occ mac aoba puaib uf bomnaill, i TTIajuibip Sfan Do bol la mac uf bomnaill ap lonnpaiccib noapcpaije coimnnpi ap mac Sfam
i
5
'
Owen Bocht,
i.
e.
i.
Owen
e.
or
Eugene the
poor,
in the
same
parish.
Tulach-finn
is
situated ex-
Coilte Cleirigh,
man's woods.
the clerk's or clergyThis name, which was that of a
actly in the middle of this valley.
The' Kiver
of
woody district in the barony of Boyle, and county Roscommon, is now obsolete. u Tulach-finn, now Tullaghfin, a townland in
and
Eidhneach, which was the ancient boundary of the territory of Tir-Boghaine, now the barony
of Banagh, discharges itself into the harbour of See Battle of Inver, in the bay of Donegal
the parish of Inver, barony of Banagh, of Donegal. county
Magh
x
Rath, p. 156, note
p.
Mac
w GlennEidhnighe,
Eidhneach,
Awley.
This was the name of the
i.
e.
the vale of the River

a remarkable valley
now Gleneany,
chief of a branch of the Maguires, seated in the barony of Clanawley, in the south-west of the
1502.]

;
1265
Teige, the son of Con, son of Donnell O'Neill

O'Neill
;
Donnell, the son of Felim

O'Neill
;
Owen Bocht
5
,
the son of Niall, son of
Henry
and Donnell,
the son of Philip Maguire, died. Teige, son of Tomaltagh the Hospitable Mac Dermot, Tanist of Moylurg, was exultingly slain at Coillte Cleirigh', by the sons of Rory Mac Dermot.
The
defeat of Tulach-finn
u
,
in
Glen-Eidhnighe
was given by the sons of
Turlough Oge, the son of Turlough, son of Niall Roe, to O'Boyle, their paternal uncle, i. e. Niall Boy, where O'Boyle himself and his two sons, Rury and Donnell Ballagh,
was O'Boyle himself that had plotted snare against the sons of Turlough, by which he himself was killed. An incursion was made by O'Reilly (John, the son of Cathal) against Philip,
and
others,
were
slain.
It
the son of Turlough Maguire, and he traversed and burned the level part of the district lying above Clann-Awley, and slew Edmond, the son of Philip
Reagh Mac Awley*, and some

O'Reilly's
i.
others.
y
,
Of
O'Reilly's
own
son,
Donnell-an-mhagha
and the son
own army were slain of Mac Mael-Martainz

,
e.
Conor.
Donough, the son of Conor, who was son of Thomas Oge Maguire, died of the virulence of the wounds inflicted on him in the battle of Sliabh Beatha".
Art, the son of Henry, son of Owen O'Neill, was slain by Art, the son of Con, son of Henry, son of Owen O'Neill.
Owen, the son of Hugh, son of Art
O'Neill,
was
slain
by Hugh, the son of
Con
O'Neill.
Cathal, son of Melaghlin Duv Magauran, was slain by the sons of O'Reilly, at the instigation of the son of Brian [Magauran] and his sons.
Oge, son of Hugh Roe O'Donnell, mustered a force, and, being joined by Maguire, i. e. John, they made an incursion into Dartry-Coninsi", against the
Hugh
county of Cavan.
*
'
Mae
Mael-Martain.
This name
is
now
of the plain.
Irish,
Donnell-an-mhagha, This place
i.
e. is
Donnell, or Daniel,
always anglicised Martin.

a
now
called
maj
in
Sliabh Beatha,
now
Slieve Beagh.
See note
but strangely anglicised Muff. It is situated in the parish of Enniskeen, about four miles from the town of Bailieborough, in the
are
under the year 1501.

b
Dartry-Coninsi,
now
Dartry,
a barony in
barony of Clankee, and county of Cavan. Here still to be seen the ruins of a castle erected
O'Reilly.
the west of the county of fflonaghan. Coninsi, the latter part of this compound name, is the
genitive case of Cu-insi, a man's name, signify-
by Conor, the son of Conor More
ing dog of the island.
7 Y
Rioshachca eiraeaNW.
buibe
[1503.
an cip uile Do Iomlo r ca6 6 abainn na heojanaca leo. Cpeada an cipe DO cficfm pfmpo. Oipjialla Sliocc peiblimib uf Rajallaij, pliocc Donnchaib apcead DO bpfic poppa, DO imceacc co cpooa copccapac ap meguibip. Hlac uf Domnailli TTlasuibip mac eiccm oppa pin uile, mapbab Do benaih boib ap an coip im peilim rocc plan Dia uf Raijaillijj co pocaibib oile, concobaip mic peilim
me5 Tharjamna,
-]
baile mic
Sfam buibe
-|
-\
-|
-\
-]
Oonnchab ua
bpiain Do ecc.
TTlac pibe bpiain mic concobaip mic TTIac-
jamna mic
TTluipcfpcaij mic coippbelbaig
mic caibg mic concobaip na
Uopap poib -| paibbpfpa muman ap piuDaine mic Donnchaib caipppij =fpa. mfbon, njeapna 6 at Dapa 50 luimneach, -\ on mbaile nua co maimpcip an
aonaij.
Uijeapna fchoplac
-\
choille beichne
an Donnchab
hi pin.
QO1S CR1OSC,
QoiS CRiopc,
TTlile,
1503.
cuicc ceo, acpf.
beollam comapba colaim cille nDpuim cliab oecc. ITlajuibip Sfan mac pilip mic comaip moip (.1. an giollaoub) en poja Daonnacr, Dnppabaib epeann ma aimpip, an caon âoibeal pa mo cpocaipe Do copain a cfp, a calam, Do bpeapp Do cler 1 ap peapp Do caomain,
i ~\ -\ -\
Ua
coccaib
c
nacchaib ampine,
~\
coiccpfoc,
pa peapp pmacc, peer,") piajail

called, see
hi
His
toien.
tology
is
In the original unnecessary tauused, as will appear from the literal
and territory so
1457.
f
note under the year

q
,
translation,
which
is
as follows
Adore,
"
6c bapa __See note
under the
A hosting by Hugh
Oge, son of
Hugh
Roe,
year 1464, p. 1034, supra.

Baile-nua, now Newtown, in the parish of Kilkeedy, barony of Pubblebrien, and county of Limerick. See the Ordnance map, sheet 4.
Mainistir-an-aenaigh, now Mannisteranenagh, situated about five miles to the northwest of the little town of Bruff, in a parish of the
"
O'Donnell, and Maguire, John, went with the son of O'Donnell, on an incursion into DartryConinsi, against the son of John Boy Mac Mahon, and the town" [seat] " of John Boy, and all the territory, were completely burned
by them," &c. &c.

d
Fled before them
In the Dublin copy of

is
same name, barony of Pobblebrien, and county

of
the Annals of Ulster the reading
"
:
pppeio
Limerick.
O'Brien,
an
e
King
of
Thomond,
cipi
oo reichio pompa,
i.e.
the people of
their cattle."
founded here, about the year 1151, a monastery

for Franciscan Friars, the magnificent ruins of
the territory fled before
them with
Owenayh.
For the situation of the river
which
still
remain in tolerable preservation.
1503.]

;
1267
c Boy Mac Mahon and they totally burned his town and the whole The spoils of the country fled before them". The people of Oriel territory. e from the Eiver Owenagh inwards, the descendants of Felim O'Reilly, and the descendants of Donough Maguire, came up, and opposed them but the son of O'Donnell and Maguire made a brave and triumphant retreat from them all,
son of John
and slew some of their pursuers, among whom was Felim, the son of Conor, son of Felim O'Reilly, with many others, and returned safe to their homes.
Donough O'Brien
died.
He was
the son of Brian, son of Conor, son of
Mahon, son of Murtough, son of Turlough, son of Teige, son of Conor-na-SiudThis Donough was the fountain of the aine, son of Donough Cairbreach, &c.
he was Lord of [that district extendh s ing] from Adare to Limerick, and from Baile-nua to Mainistir-an-aenaigh
prosperity and affluence of all Munster
f
;
,
k (and) Lord of Aharlagh' and Coill-Beithne
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
O'Beollain,
i.
1503.
three.
Christ, one
thousand jive hundred
Coarb of St Columbkille
e.
at Drumcliff, died.
John, son of Philip, son of Thomas More, i. e. Gilla-Duv, the Maguire, choice of the chieftains of Ireland in his time, the most merciful and humane
of the Irish, the best protector of his country and lands, the most warlike opponent of inimical tribes and neighbours, the best in jurisdiction, authority, and
Before the erection of the monastery the place had been called Aenach-beg, i. e. the small fairplace.
The Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster contain the two following passages under this the Four year which have been omitted by
Masters
:
Aharlagh, a romantic valley in the barony of Clanwilliam, and county of Tipperary, and
1
"A. D.
1502.
The daughter of Kory Caech

i.
about three miles due south of the town of Tipperary.

It lies
Maguire died
in this year,
e.
Meave,
who was
between Slievenamuck and the
Galty mountains, the former being on the north side, and between it and the town of Tipperary.
k
wife to Teige Mac Gaillghille" [now Lilly], " and who had brought forth children for the
Coitt-Beithne,
church, giving
now Kilbehiny, an ancient name to a parish in the southbarony of Coshlea (coif
young abbot. " There was much inclement weather

year so that
Ireland,
it
this
killed the
most of the
cattle of
east extremity of the
and prevented the husbandmen from
ple'ibe), in the county of Limerick.
tilling the earth."
Y2
1268
cwNCK,a Rio^hachca emecmN.

i
[1503.
rcuair Decc malon^popc pfini nmip cficlionn Dia Domnaij Do ponnpaD lap nfipcfcc aippinn, an Seccmab callamn Qppil, mp mbuaiD ongca aicpicche, ~\ a aDnacal mamipnp na mbparap nDun na njall mp rroja
call")
i
-]
66
innre.
TTlac ui Dorhnaill
1
.1.
DonnchaD na nopoocc Do jabdil

uf Dorhnaill
le cloinn cuinn uf neill,
albanaij baoap
hi
ppappaD cloinne cuinn Dia bpfir

De.
leo Do paicciD ui Dorh(.1.
naill
ab'ainn Dian
ao& puab, i Dorhnall mac hainm an oaol) a ecc

-)
Do pccacab DonnchaiD
ocon
bpian mac ao&a mejui&ip Decc. Gmann mac eoâin mic ao6a mejuiDip cona mac, TTlac copbmaic mic ao6a rhe5in6ip, mac roippDealbaij uf maoileoum Do mapbaD nDibfipcc
-| i
oibce la cloinn bpiain mic ao6a mejuiDip. TTlac uf cacain (RipofpD) Do pccacaD la
clfipeac.
a Deapbpacaip
pfin
Domnall
UeboiD mac uaceip a bupc nccfpna conmaicne cuile colaD cfnn Daonnacca oaôinig jail connacc Decc lap peanDacaiD. mbaile Uoippbealbac occ ua concobaip (.1. ua concobaip Donn) Decc
-\
i
cobajp bpi^De lap ccpebloiD paoa. TTlaiDm aDbal mop Id mac uilliam cloinne RiocaipD pop ua cceallaij, -| pop Dpfim DO conmaicmb cuile Dii in po mapbaD eprhop a njalloglac Diblimb Do cloinn noomnaill, ~\ DO cloinn cpuibne a ccimceall a cconpapal, ~\ in po
mapbao uacep mac Sfam a bupc paof cmnpfbna epiDe. UeboiD mac uaceip a bupc accfpna mupccpaiê cuipc Do mapbaD oonnchaD an cuilinn mac uf ceapbaill la concubap ua nDuibi&ip.
-\
1
la
to,
To O'Donneff, DO paiccio u! oorhnaiU, i. e. or towards O'Donnell. t)o pacicm, or bo

is
tion
among the
i. e.
natives
this river
was
called
Dael,
the chafer,
because
it
bends and
foijio
used in the best Irish manuscripts for

to,
winds
n
itself like
that insect.
the modern oionnpoijm,

ad, or usque ad.
or towards,
i.
e.
This was the ancient Muscraighe-Ckuirc. name of the barony of Clanwilliam, in the southwest of the county of Tipperary.
Clanwilliam
is
Dael,
now
in
the River Deel, or
Burn
Deel,
The name
which
rises
Lough
Deel, in the barony of
derived from the clan, or race,
Raphoe, in the county of Donegal, and, winding its course in a south-east direction, discharges
itself into
of William Burke,
who were
seated therein for
the River Foyle, a short distance to
the north of Lifford.
According to the tradi-
Keating, who was well acquainted with the situation of this territory, mentions the church of St. Beacan at the foot of
many
centuries.
1503.]

Church and
having heard mass, and
1269
in regulation, both
State, died, in his fortress at Enniskillen,
on
Sunday, the 7th of the Calends of April, after and was buried in the monastery of the victory of Unction and Penance, at Donegal, which he had selected [as his place of interment].
after the
friars
Donough-na-nordog, was taken prisoner by the O'Neill, and some Scots who were along with them (the sons and Donnell, the son of of Con), and brought to O'Donnell r. e. Hugh Roe m O'Donnell, maimed Donough (at the river which is called Dael ), in conse-
The son sons of Con
of O'Donnell,
i.
e.
quence of which he died. Brian, the son of Hugh Maguire, died. Edmond, the son of Owen, son of Hugh Maguire, with the son of Torlogh
O'Muldoon, were
slain, in
a nocturnal affray,
The son
Cleireach.
of O'Kane (Richard) was
by Brian, the son of Hugh Maguire. maimed by his own brother, Donnell
Theobald, the son of Walter Burke, Lord of Conmaicne-Cuile-Toladh [in the county of Mayo], head of the humanity and hospitality of the English of
Connaught, died
at
an advanced age.
(i.
Turlough Oge O'Conor
e.
O'Conor Don) died
at Ballytober-Bride [in the
county of Roscommon], after a long sickness. Mac William of Clanrickard gave a very great overthrow to O'Kelly and a
party of the people of Conmaicne-Cuile, where the greater part of the gallowglasses of both the Clann-Donnell and Clann-Sweeny were slain around their
constables, and
where Walter, the son of John Burke, a distinguished
captain,
was
also slain.
Theobald, the son of Walter Burke, Lord of Muscraighe-Chuirc", was slain by Donough-an-Chuilinn, the son of O'Carroll, and Conor O'Dwyer.
Slieve Grott, one of the Galty mountains, as in Mus-craighe Chuirc. His words are :
peacon, and is situated in the parish of Killaldriff, in the barony of Clanwilliam, and county
"66can naomca DO beannuij a
cam a
jcill beaITlupcpaije Chuijic oo'n leic ruaio bo
of Tipperary, at the foot of that part of the
ShliaK j-Cpor, i. e. the holy Becan, who blessed Kilbecan in Muscraighe Chuirc, on the north
side of Slieve g-Crot."
Galty mountains still called Slieve should be also remarked that there
called
tains,
Grott.
is
It
a lough,
Lough Muscraighe, on
.Reign of Dermot,
tfte
the Galty mounon the south boundary of the parish of
Son of Fergus.
The church
of this saint
is
now
called Kil-
Templeneiry, in the barony of Clanwilliam. See the Leabhar Breac, fol. 111.
X270
aNNCtca Rio^hachca eiReaww.

hi
[1503.
lapla cille Dapa Do 6ol

hi lairh
Saâib,
Ifip.
-]
a ceacr po buaib eipce
~\
a mac baf
pij pajcan DO cabaipc
la jaoibelaib laijfn 50 Sluaicceab lap an lapla cceona la gallaib Dia beoil peppoe, majline 50 cappaicc pfpccupa Dia po bpip caiplen nDeapna conprdbla hi cappaicc pfpccupa DO mac an cpanrdlaij. la mall mac cuinn mic aoDa buibe cona corhaoncab Sluaicceab abbal
-] -\
mop
gall i gaoibel
uile co
puce a
co hiomldn, crip eoâin Dia po imcij cfp eojain lupcc lomldn Dia cij.
in
-]
uf
eacDac
ITlaibm Id cloinn bpiain mic neill galloa
po
mapbab
-\
in
po gabaD
maice gall caippge pfpccupa.
Rajnall mop mac jiollaeappoig mac mic Oomnaill conpapal albanac epeann, Do ecc nDinbcpian ulat>.
i
Ruaibpi mac oonnchaib concobaip mic uf concobaip puaib, Dubpuilij Da canaipi roccaiDe Do mapbab a meabail Id Sliocc occ peiblimib
Qo6 mac
~]
pinn uf concobaip.
peiolimib
buchaij,
TTlag
~\
mac maolpuanaib mejpagnaill oajabbap raofpicch pop a Donochab baipileip mac maoflcuile Decc. cabcc mac Domnaill oicc Decc, copnamac a arapba, capraij mop
.1.
a narhac, apDaijreoip a capac an cabg ipin. ipli jceoip Copbmac mac oonnchaib mic Domnaill piabaij Decc.
cigheapnaip
-|
cdnaipceacc 6 ccaipppe DO
.1.
nfirhcfo
pfp ga paibe a acap Diapbfpbpacap

.1.
mara an
an
piDipe.
Dunaib.
T?ioipe an jlfnna Decc
Gmann mac comaip, mic

-\
pilip mic Sfam mic
Uabcc
boipneac, TTlupchab,
TTlarsamain, clann TnacgaThna

"]
bpiain
Concobap mac bpiain mic muipcfpcaij mic bpiain puaib, TTiac uf loclainn concobap mac Ruaibpi mic Qna, TTluipcfpcac, mac Uoippbealbaij, mic
-]
In the custody of the King of England. The Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster adds, that his son had been eight years in captivity in
principally in the barony of Upper Antrim, in the county of Antrim. According to an Inquisition,
preserved in the Rolls Office,

the
of
Dublin
London; and that on his being set at liberty he married him in England to the daughter of
an Earl
p
-
1), territory Moylinny was bounded on the south and south-east by the River Six-mile-water; on the north and north-
(7
Jac.
Magh-lme.
is
This name, which

that of a
is
anglicised
west for two miles by the stream of Glancurry
Moylinny,
level territory lying
[now gleunn
u' coipe,
Glenwherry], as far
as
1503.]

of Kildare went to England, and returned
his son,
1271
success,
The Earl
home with
King
bringing with him

to Ma-h-line
p
who had been
in the custody of the
of England".
A hosting by the
same Earl, attended by the English and Irish of Leinster, and he demolished the castle of Belfast, [and] to Carrickfergus
;
and made the son of Sandal" constable of Carrickfergus. A very great army was led by Niall, the son of Con, son of Hugh Boy O'Neill, with his English and Irish confederates, into Tyrone, and traversed all
house. Tyrone and Iveagh, and brought all his men in safety to his battle was gained by the sons of Brian, son of Niall Gallda [O'Neill],
in
which the chiefs of the English of Carrickfergus were slain or taken prisoners. Randal More, son of Giolla Easpuig, who was son of Mac Donnell, Constable
of the Scotsmen of Ireland, died in Duibhthrian-Uladh
r
.
Hugh, the
sorr of Conor, son of
the Black-eyed, two select scendants of Felim Finn O'Conor.
O'Conor Roe, and Rory, the son of Donough tanists, were treacherously slain by the young deto the chieftainship of
Felim, the son of

his country,
Mulrony Mac Rannall, worthy heir
and Donough Baisileir Mac Maoiltuile, died. Mac Carthy More, i. e. Teige, the son of Donnell Oge, defender of mony, humbler of his enemies, and exalter of his friends, died.
.
his patri-
Cormac, the son of Donough, son of Donnell Reagh [Mac Carthy], died. [He was] a man who had retained the lordship and tanistry of Hy-Carbery in despite of his father's brother, Dermot-an-Duna.
The Knight
of
Glynn
5
died, namely,
Edmond, son of Thomas, son of
Philip,
son of John, son of the Knight.
Teige Boirneach Murrough and Mahon, two sons of Mahon O'Brien; Conor, the son of O'Loughlin, the son of Brian, son of Murtough, son of Brian Roe
, ;
i.
e.
Conor, the son of Rory, son of

its
Ana
and Murtough, the son of Turlough,

It is
the mountain of Carncally ;
boundary then
county of Antrim.
written Sandell.
r
extended southwards to Connor, and thence, in

a southern direction, to Edenduffcarrick
distinction in Ireland.
now a family of no In England it is usually

i.
Shanescastle, near the
[now town of Antrim], where
Duibhthrian- Uladh,
e.
the black third of
the aforesaid River Six-mile-water discharges

itself into
q
Ulidia,
now Dufferin,
of Loch
Lough Neagh.
This Anglo-Irish family gave Sandal, near Coleraine, in the
the
left side
a barony stretching along Cuan, or Strangford Lough,
Sandal.
to
in the county of
s
Down,
of Burren, a rocky district,
name
Mount
Boirneach,
i. e.
aNNata Rio^hachca eiReaww.

i
[1504.
.1. Gojan niapcap conmupchaiD mic caiDcc DO 6ol la mac uf plaicbfpcaiji; nacc co pochaibe moip maille ppiu lap nd ccappams Don eojan ceona Da rhac f plaicbepcaij). naghaiD a bpaicpec (RuaiDpi 6cc~\ oomnall an bdio dp ann bdoappibe ap a ccionn a bpoplonjpopc 05 an ccaolpdile puaoh. T?o lonnpaigpec piol mbpiain eojan an poplongpopr, DO ponpac cpeca
i
-]
-|
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a rcopaijecc 100 50 po pijfo eoala. plaicbfpcaij-] an cfp 6 plairbfplopjal fcoppa, 50 ccopcpacap clann TTIacjariina f bpiam.i eojan raij Id muinnp plairbeapraij Don chup pin.
Leanaic clann
QO1S CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopc,
TTlile,
1504.
cuicc ceD, a cfraip.
5'ollapacpaicc 6 conDalaij (.1. mac enpi) abb cluana heoaip, ngnouccaD eppcopoiDe clocaip DO Decc.
Pilip 6 Raâllaij abb cfnannpa, ipm mbaile ceona Decc.
-\
mp
a bfpbparaip Gojan, cananac baof
TTIaghnap mac bpiain mic DonnchaiD abb maimpcpe na cpinoioe pop loch ce corhpaip -\ cipce coirheDa eccna -| eolaip connacc Decc, hi ccill Duiboxiin,
na cpinoioe ap loc ce. CoippDealbac magui&ip cananac copaD clocap, pfppun Doipe maoldin-] mbaile ara buiDe im peil ppioip loca oeipcc Do ruicim Do Soaijpe cloc
"|
a aDnacal
in oilen
Parpaic co po ecc De,
maimpcip an chabham. 17uai6pi mag margamna biocaipe cluana heoaip Decc.

-|
i
a a&nacal
now
1
a barony in the north of the county of

e.
Clare.
Cael-shaile-ruadh,
brine,
i.
the narrow, reddish
Under this year the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster contain the two passages following, omitted by the Four Masters
:
the Killary harbour, which forms the southern boundary of the barony of Murresk, in the
Tribes,
now
county of Mayo. See Genealogies, and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, p. 482,

,
The wife of the King of England, Isibel, the daughter of King Edward, died this year. She was the most illustrious for
1503.
"A. D.
and note

is
p.
278, supra,
charity and benevolence from Italy to Ireland ; and the daughter of the King of the Castles"
The name
natives of
corruptly pronounced by the Murresk and Connamara, as if written

is
now
caol-puipe puao, of which Killary

anglicised form.
a further
" was married by the King, " The " Mape" [of Maperath, in Meath] was killed this year in his own castle by the sons
[Castile]
of
Edmond, the son of Glasny
O'Reilly, in con-
1504.]

;
1273
son of Murrough, son of Teige went with Owen, the son of OTlaherty, into West Connaught, with numerous forces, the same Owen having drawn them his kinsmen (Rory Oge and Donnell of the Boat, two sons of thither
against
them. The OTlaherty), who were encamped at Cael-shaile-ruadh', awaiting O'Briens and Owen attacked the camp, and carried away preys and spoils. The sons of OTlaherty and [the people of] the country followed in pursuit of them,
was fought between them, in which the sons of Mahon O'Brien and Owen OTlaherty were slain by the OTlahertys".
so that a battle
I
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
e.
1504.
thousand Jive hundred four.
Gilla-Patrick O'Conolly"
after
(i.
the son of Henry),
Abbot
of Clones, died,
having obtained the bishopric of Clogher. Philip O'Reilly, Abbot of Kells, and his brother Owen,
who had been
canon in the same town, died.
Manus, the son of Brian Mac Donough, Abbot of the Monastery of the Blessed Trinity on Lough Key, repertory" and repository of the wisdom and
knowledge of Connaught, died
at
Cill-Duibhdhuin y
and was buried
in the
Monastery of the Blessed Trinity on Lough Key. Turlough Maguire, who had been Canon Chorister
at Clogher,
fell
Parson of
Doire Maelain [Derryvullan], and Prior of Lough Derg, case at the town of Athboy, about the festival of St. Patrick, and died of the
fall
;
down
a stone stair-
and he was buried
in the
monastery of Cavan.
died.
game, according to the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster See also Ware's Annals,
Rory Mac Mahon, Vicar of Clones,

sequence of which a war arose between the English and Irish, during which the English
sustained great injuries, and
Mac Simon"
i.
[Fitz-

Coriipaip means an envelope, Repertory or any thing in which precious articles are deSee Book of Fenagh, posited for protection.
p. 2, col. 2, line 15.
y
Simon]
" was slain by the Irish. " The son of Thomas Plunkett,
e.
Alex-
ander, died this year after the Earl of Kildare's return. He was a man of great dignity, and the best English youth of his time."
Gilla-Patrick O' Connolly pestilence called cluici in pi5,
He
i.
died of the
now
Cill-DuMdkuin, L e. Dubhduin's church, Killadoon, a townland giving name to a
e.
the king's
parish in the barony of Tirerrill, and county of
7 z
1274
dNNata Rio^hachca emeaNN.
[1504.
Concobap mac Puaiopi mic Diapmarra ranaipi pil maolpuanaib, cian Daimpip Do mapbab la mac cijeapna bd cpeipi rainicc Da buchaij pe Diapmaca mbealac na nupbpoincfoh. cona bfpbparaip Do mapOpe mac caipppe mic ae&a uf neill cona mac-) bab la Sliochc Remainn meg marjamna. mac pilip) TTlag pampabain emann oecc. mac
i
mac
bpian
meguibip (Sfan
~\
mic oiapmarra) Diapmacra moije luipcc (Concobap mac Puaibpi DO mapbab la maolpuanaib mac comalcaij mic Diapmacra. mic caba DO mapbab 16 bpian mac pairbfprac mac pailge mic bpiam
TTlac
Qlaânoaip oicc mic caba.
ciandin giollapacrpaicc
foDopa,
O
i
caiyioe cuile
Ifijionn,
-\
(.1.
mac raibcc, TTlaoileclainn mac arai]ine ui piapup mac comaiy) ollam leaja meguiDip, Saoi
Deapbra
hi
ppipicceacc, pfp
nge aomfd
coicchinn,
-)
Qmopiap
mic
majcpaic mac comapba cfpmoinn Dabeocc biarac coircfnn Decc. TTlaiDm beoil aca na ngapban DO rabaipr la Sfan abupc mac
mic
uillicc
uillicc
mic Riocaipo cdnaipi cloinne RiocaipD pop ua cceallaig Du hi ccopcaip uanep mac Sfam mic comaip a bupc aDbup cigeapna conmaicne co pochaiDe moip amaille ppip DO cloinn nDomnaill, i Do cloinn nDubjaill. Cpi caiplem la hua cceallaij Do bpipeab 16 TTlac uilliam (.1. an cpfp an japbDoipe, THuine an mfDa, uillfcc) jallach conaD cpfimiDpiDe DO
.1. -|
cuaiD 6 ceallaij.maoileclamn Deccaofne a maibm cnuic cuajh.

Sligo
z
immb
pip an lupcip Dia po cuipeab
See Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Hy-Fiaehrach, p. 485, and map to the same work,
Bealach-na-n- Urbrointeadh,
i.
e.
the road or
',
pass of the mill-stones.
See note
under the
year 1473.
a
G'Keenan,
i.
e.
Gitta-Patrick.
This
is
the
i. e. mouth of the ford name is now obsolete. d The Clann-Donnett and Clann-Dowell, i. e. the families of Mac Donnell and Mac Dowell, or Mac Dugald, who were leaders of gallowglasses. e Garbh-dhoire, i. e. the rough oak wood, now
Bel-atha-na-ngarbhan,
of the rough stones. This
last
Ulster.
entry in the Dublin copy of the Annals of But the copy of these Annals used by the Four Masters came down to 1532, and the
Bodleian copy has entries of events close of the reign of Elizabeth.
Cuil.
corruptly Garbally, a townland in the parish of Moylough, barony of Tiaquin, and county of
Galway.
are
f
Some
to
portions of the ruins of a castle
down
to the
still
be seen in this townland.

i.
Muine-an-mheadha,
e.
the brake or shrub-
This
and
is
now
often called cuil no n-oipeap, It is a anglicised Coole. barony in

is
bery of the
or metheglin, now Monivea, a in a parish of the same name, village barony of
mead
the south-east of the county of Fermanagh.
Tiaquin.
According to the tradition in the
1504.]

Mac Dermot,
12?5
Conor, son of Rory

son of a lord that
had been
for a long time
Tanist of Sil-Maelruana, the most powerful born in the country, was slain by
z
.
Mac Dermot,
by
at
Bealach-na-n-urbrointeadh
Art, the son of Carbry, the son of Hugh O'Neill, and his brother, were slain the descendants of Redmond Mac Mahon.
Brian, the son of
Maguire (John, the son of Philip), and Magauran (Ed-
inond), died.
of Moylurg (Conor, the son of Rory Mac Dermot) was slain by Mulrony, the son of Tomaltagh Mac Dermot. Faherty [rede Flaherty], son of Failge, son of Brian Mac Cabe, was slain by
Brian, son of
Mac Dermot
Alexander Mac Cabe.

a
,
the son of Teige Melaghlin, the son of Ahairne O'Hussey O'Cassidy of Cuil" (i. e. Pierce, the son of Thomas), Ollav to Maguire in physic, a man truly learned in literature and medical science, who had
O'Keenan,i.e.Gilla-Patrick
;
kept an open house of hospitality
and Andreas Magrath, son of the Coarb of
Termon-Daveog [Termonmagrath], a general Betagh, died. The defeat of Bel-atha-na-ngarbhanc was given by John Burke, the son of
which
Ulick, son of Ulick, grandson of Rickard, Tanist of Clanrickard, to O'Kelly, in fell Walter, the son of John, son of Thomas Burke, heir to the lordship of Conmaicne, and many others of the Clann-Donnell and Clann-Dowell", were
slain.
f belonging to O'Kelly, viz. Garbh-dhoire Muine-an-mheadha and Gallach were demolished by Mac William Burke (i. e. Ulick the Third). O'Kelly, i. e. ,Melaghlin, went to the Lord Justice to complain of the injury done
Three
castles
g
,
him, the result of which" was, defeat of Cnoc-Tuagh. o

the site of O'Kelly's castle of this occupied by a mansion-house in
country,
was made by Kildare " not by warrant from the

King, or upon his charge (as
rel of the
is
name
is
now
p.
expressed in the
Monivea demesne
Hy-Many,
g
See Tribes and Customs of note c . 20,

Gallagh,
Book of Howth), but only upon a private quarEarl of Kildare."
And Ware has writ:
Gallach,
now
otherwise
Castle-
Blakeney, a small town in the barony of Killian. few fragments of this castle still remain on a
ten the following remarks on this battle in his Annals of Ireland under the year 1504 " Some
green
11
hill
The
result
near Castleblakeny. Sir John Davis in of which, fyc.
do not stick to report (how true all this business took its first
know not), that

from a
pri-
rise
his Historical Relations asserts that this
journey
vate grudge between Kildare and Ulick, which at last broke out into that open war." See edition
z2
12-6
QNNata Rio^hachca
eiraeciNR
[1504.
Sloicchfb abbal Do cfcclamaoh lap an luprip gfpoice mac comaip mpla Do beacareap ceccup maire leice cuinn ina bocum .1. 6 Oorhcille
oapa.
naill
aob puaoh,
a rhac co maiab cenel
conaill,
-]
-|
Dpong 60 connacraib
.1.
.1.
mac DiapmaDa eigfpna maije ua concobaip pua6, ae6 mac peilim p-inn, maice ula6 cenmora 6 neill ipin cionol ceona ape luipcc. Uangaccap beop mac ae6a uf neill canaipi cenel eojain, oorhnall mac rhecc aenupa, TTlag an 6 hanluain. Uanjacrap Dna 6 Rajallai^, o pfpjail macjamna,
.1.
-j
inlliam bupc, Ifc cuinn ceppop, 6 concobaip pailge Siol cceallaij, i clann uile Dupmop, nf po anpac na ploij Ian rhopa hipin co panjacap co clomn 17ioc)
aipo.
TTlac uilliam cloinne RiocaipD Dna,
Ro
rionoil pi6e ploij
iom6a abbal
rhopa ma najam pi6e .1. Uoippbealbac ua bpiain (.1. mac caiOcc) cijeapna cuabmurhan cona bpairpib cona rionol, 50 Siol aoba apcfna, TTlaolriuanaib
~\
co mairib upua cfpbaill .1. cijeapna ele cona ruaraibh caofpeacaib, muman, apaoh. Oo ponab comaiple cpoba anopin la mac uilliam, i la hua mbpiain cona pocpaioe ân umla na fioipfba Do rabaipc Don luce baf
~\
"]
~|
.1.
ap a ccionn, ache a pppfccpa im each hi ccnoc euagh Do ponnpab. ^nirfji cac cpoba froppa Dana ppie a lonnpamail ip na Dfibfncoib co clop co paoa o na pfbnacaib cacaip na ccairmileab, pfbmanna na ppfinDeb, TCuacap na
of 1 705. The Book of Howth contains an exaggerated account of this battle, which the reader may see in full in the Additional Notes to Har-
book
iii. c. 5 " In the remains of the old Irish annalists

:
we
diman's edition of O'Flaherty's lar-Connaught, p. 149. In this account it is stated that O'Neill
do not find any considerable rancour expressed against the English. They even speak of the actions and fortunes of great English lords with
affection
fought in this battle, but we learn from the Annals of Ulster that O'Neill was not present
and sympathy.
In the few memorials
on the occasion.
boasted
The Anglo-Irish writers have

is
remaining of this present period, written by an Englishman, we are told that immediately after
the victory of Knock tow, Lord Gorman stown turned to the Earl of Kildare, in the utmost
insolence of success,
'
much
it
of the success of the English arms
in this battle,
but the boast
silly
and stupid,
because
was fought, not between the English
we have slaughtered our

complete the good cut the yet farther,
and Irish, but, like the battles of Moy-Lena, Moy-
enemies,' said he, 'but to

deed,
Mucruimhe, and Moy-Alvy, between LeathChuinn and Leath-Mhogha, and the southerns
were, as usual, defeated.
we must proceed
throats of the Irish of our
The honest Leland,
of Hotcth,
'
who was disgusted with the petty insolence of the writer of the account of this battle in the
Book
upon
of
own party.' MS." OTarreU.W&ie. calls him " William
Book
Ferall,
Howth, has the following remarks

subject in his History of Ireland,
Bishop of Ardagh, sometime Lord of the Annaly, even after his consecration."
"
the
The Clann- William Burke,
i.e.
the
Lower
1504.]
1277
A great army was mustered by the Lord Justice, Garrett, the son of Thomas,
Earl of Kildare.
O'Donnell,
i.
e.
He was joined, first, by the chieftains of Leath-Chuinn, namely, Hugh Roe, and his son then by the principal chieftains of
; ;
Kinel-Connell, and a party of the Connacians, namely, O'Conor Roe, i. e. Hugh, and Mac Dermot, Lord of Moylurg. There came also the son of Felim Finn
in the
same muster
son of
Hugh
the chiefs of Ulster, except O'Neill, namely, Art, the O'Neill, Tanist of Kinel-Owen Donnell, the son of Magennis
[all]
; ;
Mac Mahon, and O'Hanlon

;
also O'Reilly,
and
O'Farrell',
;
i.
e.
the bishop
O'Conor Faly the O'Kellys the Clann- William Burke k and the forces of almost all Leath-Chuinn These numerous forces marched, without stopping,
;
1
.
of Clanrickard mustered a great army to give them battle, namely, Turlough, the son of Teige O'Brien, Lord of m and Mulrony Thomond, and his kinsmen, with their forces, the Sil-Aedha
till
they arrived in Clanrickard.
Mac William
O'Carroll, Lord of
Ormond
come
Ely, with all clans and chieftains, joined by the chieftains of and Ara". Mac William and O'Brien, with their forces, then came to
a brave resolution not to yield submission or hostages to their enemies, but to

to a battle
between them, such
with them exactly at Cnoc-Tuagh. fierce battle was fought as had not been known of in latter times. Far away from
the [combating] troops were heard" the violent onset of the martial chiefs, the vehement efforts of the champions, the charge of the royal heroes, the noise
Mac
in the
Williams, or Burkes of Mayo. It is stated Book of Howth that " there was a sore
lated
by Campion
hill in
in 1570,
now Knockdoe,
remarkable
fight after" [the battle of Knocktow]
"between
Mac William
east
and Mac William of the west.

field aforesaid
the parish of Clare-Galway, about eight miles north and by east from the town of Galway. According to the tradition at the place this battle was fought between the summit of the hill of Knockdoe and the town-
By
reason of that
they held not
together ; but he of the east had the worse." 1 All Leath-Chuinn. It is quite evident from this list of chieftains that the main body of Kildare's
land of Turloughmore.
Some musket
balls
and
one cannon ball are said to have been found a
army consisted of aboriginal Irishmen. m The Sil-Aedha, i. e. the race of Aedh, or
battle
few years since on the side of the hill. This was fought, according to Ware's Annals,
Hugh. This was one of the tribe-names of the Mac Namaras of Thomond.
The chieftains of Ormond and Ara, i. e. the Mac-I-Briens of Ara, and the O'Kennedys of
n
on the 19th of August, 1504. p Were heard. This vague description of the battle is taken nearly word for word from the
Annals of Ulster.
style,
It
is
in
that bardic prose
Ormond.
Cnoc-tuagh, i.e. the hill of axes, as trans-
which
sacrifices
sense to
sound,
and
strength to alliteration.
1278
pfojlac,
[1504.
bpopccap na mbuibfn aja mbao^lucchaoh, na ccpfmpeap acca ccpapccpab, muipn-] mfnmanpab na macpaibe, cumnpiorh TDaioeab cpa an car po beoib ap 1 lompopcpaib na nuapal ap na huipiplib. mac uilliam ap ua mbpiain, pop Ifirmoja, l?o lab a nap im TTlupchab
ropann na ctpiar,
-|
-\
-|
mac
Dib
ui
bpiain apab co pochaibe DO paopclanoaib
oile.
Gipm umoppo
-\
pab'acap na naoi ccoipijre jallocclac
ma
ccipe corhbaingfn cara nf cfpna
ndma acr mab aon copucchab fpbabach. Ro mapbairc,

Dipriie
dipfrii
oponja
rhaincc
Do pocpaiDe an
no aipnfip
in
mpnp
po muohuijic bo pfmpa po ba paen. 6a Dfcugep
po mapbab Do rhapcpluaj -\ DO cpoicchceacaib ipm cac pn ap ba Doimceacca an maijfn popp mbctcap la haibble la hioliomar na nechc ntonncorhapcacb ina bpaofnlijib ap na bpiaplfopab, na
-\
ccpaoipeac ap na ccoirhmbpipeab, na pciar ap na pcolcab na ccloibfrh caca ap na mblobab na ccolann ccioppra ccpopbuailce pince pfcrhapb, ~\ na ngiollab
nocc narhulcac co hacheiOij ap na noioeab. lap ppaofneab an mabma pin lap an mpcip po comapleicc ppi hua noomnaill Dol po ceDoip 50 gailbmh.
ISeab acbfpc ua oorhnaill ppip, po mapbaic, po muohuijic ap pe pochaibe aca ap aill Dib co lifppaice map neccmaip. ISeab ip recca Diap muincip
"| -|
ann aipipfrh anocc ipm niaijin po a monncomapca copccaip, poplongpopr DO Denarii linn uaip ciocpaic ap ppianlac, ap nanpab map noocum la cab~|
-|
The noise of
the lords,
copann na ccpiac,
literally,
r
" the noise of the lords or chiefs."

endangered,
When
05 a rnbaojlucchao,
southern chieftains, were at length defeated and cut off with such dreadful slaughter, that of the nine battalions which they had in a solid phalanx
being brought into danger, being thrown into such confusion as that death was inevitable.
s
on the
field,
only one survived, and even this had
sufiered."
The triumphing, lompopcpaib
O'Relly exIn the
plains this
this
word " derout,

it is
defeate," and quotes
very passage as his authority.

Chiefs of Leath-Mhogha,
e.
An-
Ware says that " the fight was sharply continued for some hours with equal loss on both sides ;" but that " at last the victory fell on
Kildare's side."
nals of Ulster
1
written "iniupcaio."
i.
of the southern
countless
number.
The
celebrated Ed-
half of Ireland.
These were few in comparison with the overwhelming number of the northern
Irish chieftains
u
mund Campion, who
wrote in 1570, asserts, in his Historie of Ireland, that "not one English-
who were
battalion.
One broken
arrayed against them. In the Dublin copy of
the Annals of Ulster the language is somewhat better arranged. It should have been constructed as follows
:
man was killed or hurt in this battle" and Ware remarks that the same " almost incredible thing was set down in the White Book of the The fact would apExchequer in Dublin"
1
! !
"
Mac William Burke,
O'Brien,
and
the
be that there was no Englishman fightin the battle on either side. ing According to
pear to
1504.]
1279
when endangered/, the shouts and exulmade by the falling of the brave men, and the tations of the youths, the sound The battle was at length gained triumphing of the nobles over the plebeians. and a great against Mac William, O'Brien, and [the chiefs of] Leath-Mhogha' and among the slain was Murrough Mac-I-Brienslaughter was made of them
of the lords', the clamour of the troops
8
; ;
Ara, together with
many
others of the nobles.
And
of the nine battalions
which
were in
less
solid battle array, there survived only
one broken battalion".

also slain,
A count-
though they routed the others before them. It would be impossible to enumerate or specify all the slain, both horse and foot, in that battle, for the plain on which they were was impassable, from the vast and prodigious numbers of mangled bodies stretched
11
number" of the Lord
Justice's forces
were
of broken spears, cloven shields, shattered battle-swords, mangled and disfigured bodies stretched dead, and beardless youths lying hideous*,
in gory litters
;
After having gained this victory, the Lord Justice proposed to O'Donnell that they should go immediately to Galway, and O'Donnel? replied "A considerable number," said he, "of our forces have been slain [as follows] and overpowered, and others of them are scattered away from us, wherefore it
after expiring.
:
is
advisable to remain in this place to-night, in token of victory, and also to pitch for our soldiers and attendants will on recognizing our standards camp, join us
and banners."
This was accordingly done, and on the following day the Lord
and of young men stretched in heaps of carnage, and of beardless boys, loathsome, unsightly."
battle in the
the exaggerated and lying account given of this Book of Howth, nine thousand of
gled,
Mac William Burke's people were slain ; but Ware, whose knowledge was very accurate, thinks that the real number was two thousand.
*
is
r Hideous, az^mij
eioiji
This word
is
written
in the
It
Mangled
is
bodies
This part of the sentence
Ulster.
Dublin copy of the Annals of means, ugly, unsightly, &c., and is
not in the Annals of Ulster, in which the

simpler and better, as follows
:
language
"
up aimpeiDieal>up an paija o na hechimuo na cpaipech 7 na cloibim 7 na cac r5 iar 7 na colann cpopbuailci comaprac
raiB pe
7
by jpdnna, in O'Clery's Glossary of old The ai prefixed to this word by the Four Masters in an intensitive particle.
glossed
Irish words.
z
O'Donnell.
This reply
is
very different from
w hat
"
the
Book of Howth makes Lord Gormansto the
na njiUaioe namulcac neibiy nairbpe6u, i. e So that the field became rough from the heaps of carnage, from the number of the the the
7
.
nu plaebojtac pinci pecmapb
town say
Earl of Kildare after this battle
We
have,
;
for the
if
enemies
and
most number, killed our we do the like with all the
spears,
swords,
Irishmen that we have with us,

deed."
If,
battle-shields, the bodies cross-wounded,
man-
it were a good O'Donnell and the other however,
1280
aNNCtta uio^hachca emeciNN.
[1505.
ponab paippium aipc aicne pop ap meip 5 f6aib, q pop ap mbpacacaib. Da mac mic LuiD an lupcip -\ o oomnaill ap abapach 50 5 aillimh, 1 pin. an lupnp.l bdcap aohaib ipm mbaile a uilliam.i a injfn a laimh lap LoDap co pubac poimfnmnach lapp an ccopccap pempdice. ppocaip apoile an baile pop a ccomup. CelebpaiD ua Dom,apam cohdcnapio^ puaippfc Don lupcip, 1 cfio cac uaiDib oia ccijib. nailli na maice apcfna ua neill (.1. Domnall) la caDcc ua noccam cona
an caiplen Do jabdil Doib. .clomn hi ccaiplen uf neill pfm .1. Dungfnainn, ~[ bfnaD an baile Diob, -| T?o Diojail Dia an smorii pin poppa po ceooip uaip po Dia clomn, n po pccachaD an cpfp mac Do cloinn po cpochaD caocc -| Diap an raiocc ceona.
pinjin
(.1.
Do
puabaipc
peille
pop
mag capcaij
piabac)
cijeapna ua ccaipbpe oecc,-] DO âbail a lonaiD.

Uilliam
mac DiapmaDa .an DunaiD megcapcaij a bparaip Diapmaic mac Diapmaca an DunaiD
Decc.
mac DOUID mic emainn
Comap
1505.
a bpacaip
ma
lonaD.
QO13 CR1OSC,
QoiS CT?io3c,
TTlile,
cuicc ceD, a cuicc.
DonnchaD ua cacain abb maimpcpe maije copccpain Do cpochaD la Diapmaicr mac Ruaibpi mic majnupa uf cacain, i DiapmaiD pfin Do pccachaD
cpiap an njnfomh
pin.
Gmann Dopca
(DO Sbocc an piDipe
.1.
an cSimunaij) Ppioip pobaip Decc.
Labpap ua plannaccain ppioip Daimmpi Decc. Oomnall mac aipc mic eojam uf neill Do rhapbaD la bpian mac cuinn mic enpi mic eoccham ui neill.
Irish chieftains of their party
had not
assisted
daughters, Diap
the insolent
Gormanstown in this silly battle, O'Brien and Mac William of Clanrickard would
not have found
a
^G'Hogan
c
mac 7 oiap mgfn. This name is now made O'Hagan.
The chief of this family was seated at Tullaghoge.
much
difficulty in cutting off the
Mac Carthy Reagh.
A notice
in the
margin
forces of the Pale.
Daughter
It is stated in the
Dublin copy
children
states that this entry belongs to the year 1505. d Magh-Cosgrain, i. e. Cosgran's plain, now
of the Annals of Ulster that the Earl of Kildare
anglicised Macosquin, a parish in the
barony of
took with him four of
Mac Williams
Coleraine, and county of Londonderry, situated
on this occasion, namely,
two sons and two
about three miles to the south-west of the
1505.]
1281
Justice and O'Donnell proceeded to Galway, the Lord Justice carrying with the two sons, and also a daughter*, of Mac William. They him, as
prisoners,
for
remained
some time together in
this town, cheerful
and elated
after the
aforesaid victory.
;
to Athenry, and obtained possession O'Donnell and the other chiefs took their leaves of of the town [whereupon] the Lord Justice, and went home to their respective houses.
They afterwards went
treacherous attack was
O'Hogan" and his sons, in But God took immediate vengeance on them for that act, for the the castle. castle was re-taken from them and Teige and two of his sons were hanged, and
; ;
made upon O'Neill (i. e. Donnell) by-Teige and they took O'Neill's own castle of Dungannon
his third
son was maimed.

(i.
Fineen
e.
Mac Carthy Reagh

and
his brother,
),
the son of Dermot-an-Duna,
Lord of Hy-
Carbery, died
William
Mac
Dermot, took his place. David, the son of Edmond, died and Thomas, his brother,
;
took his place.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,
1505.
The Age of Christ, one thousand jive hundred jive.
Donough O'Kane, Abbot of the monastery of Magh-Cosgrain", was hanged by Dermot, the son of Rory, son of Manus O'Kane and Dermot himself was maimed for that deed.
;
Edmond Dorcha
Fore
e
,
(of the descendants of the Knight) Fitz Simon, Prior of
died.
,
Laurence O'Flanagan, Prior of Devenish f died.

Donnell, the son of Art, son of
of Con, son of Henry, son of
town of Coleraine.
at
Owen
O'Neill,
was
slain
by Brian, the son
Owen
O'Neill.
See Archdall's Monasticon

p.
Camus;
ii.
Ussher's Primordia,
Ecclesiastical
1009
and
Lanigan's
vol.
c
History of Ireland,
The great abbey of this place, of 22, supra. which the splendid ruins yet remain in tolerable preservation, was founded in 1218, for Benedicp.
p. 67,
and
iii.
p. 146.
tine
This place is called by the natives in Irish baile potkiip, which Ussher
Of Fore, poBaip
monks, by Walter de Lacy, Lord of Meath. See Ware's Monasticon.

f
Devenis/t, a celebrated island in

,
and Ware have incorrectly interpreted the town of books See note *, under the year 1176,
near Enniskillen.
Lough Brne, See note w under the year
1259, p. 372, supra.
1282
awNQta Rio^hachca
eiraeaNN.
[1505.
an pfona Oomhnaill aob puaD mac neill jaipb mic coippDealbaig cenel moain.i loccaip connacc pfp Dap cicchfpna cipe conaill, inp heojam, clann ao6a buiDe, an puea i caednatj, Ro jiallaceap pipmanac, oipsialla, inlliam cloinne TCiocaipO anuap gaoi&il connacc 6 mac iallpac Dna goill, ann DO Diojail 6 oomnaill a anumla paip a Ificpe Dol ina
~\
06, i 516
eipme
cona baf aen cfepairhe pfpainn 6 puca anuap Duchais Da aimDeom co meimc Qn o naeba Don caoib ciap nac paibe po ciopcam Dua Domnaill, 1 o Sliab bd mo cua oomnaill pi cpa epcca lomlan emij uaiple an cuaipceipc, pfp bd pfpp ionnpaicci6 anaD, pfp pob pfpp pmacc, Peace, 5pfnn, i jaipcceaD, pfp DO jamDealaib, ap nf oencaoi DO coirheD ma baf
-) -)
i
aimpip inepmn a linn ace laDaD oopaip na gaoice nama, pfp bd pfpp DO ciono ccip conaill pe cioDlaic almpana aiDble nonoip an coimDe na noul, ecclaipi, i eiccpi, pfp po noun na njjall po pfp lap po cnpccbaD-] lap po cumoaijfo caiplen cerup clannmaicne ina DeaDhaiD, mamipcip oaij gomaD mneoin popaijn Dia Dum na ngall, pfp lap a DC obpepuancia ccfp conaill TTlainipcip bpacap iliomac Do cpeacpluaijfDaib nmallpo epinn, pfp Dap oflfp augupc noeapnab
1
Riajail
-|
.1.
mpraip cuaipceipc eoppa Do pdb

o bfman,
ppip,
opajail bdip lap mbuaiD 6 Dorhan
~j
mp nongaD, -| lap nairpije coccaije ina longpopc pfin i nDiin na njall Dia haofne DO ponnpaD ipin cufcciD fo lulu, ipm occmaD bliaDain SfccbliaDain cfcpacar a plara, ~\ a aDnacal i ipin cfcpamaD mojac a aoipi,
~\
mamipcip oum na
piabaij Decc,
ngall.
.1.
TTlag cdpcaij caipbpeac

~\
pmjm mac Diapmaca an
DunaiD mic Domnaill
a ofpbpachaip Diapmaic Do jabdil a lonaiD. pfiolimiD mac neill mic aipc mic eoccain ui neill Do rhapbaD la cloinn
eoippDealbaicch uf maofleDuin.
Who had obtained hostages, literally, " to whom they gave hostages ;" but the construe8
given hostages to O'Donnell ; and, after grumbling a good deal about their exaggerations ot
the exploits of O'Donnell, he concludes thus " 6peic le bame acd ann DO leabap la hua
:
tion of the Irish could not be imitated in

lish.
Eug-
A critic,
who
read the work of the Four

since, has
Masters, about
lined the
two centuries
under-
tJoriinaill.
Conallac
is
am
cu,
i.
e.
words pipmanac, oipjialla, clann aooa buibe, an puca and caranaij, in the autograph copy, and has written in the margin in
Irish that it is
tence for O'Donnell
in thy book.
a partial senThou art
indeed a Tirconnellian !"

h
Sliabh
n-Aedha,
i.e.
the mountain of the
"a bpeuj jpameamail,
i.e.
race of Aedh, i.e. the
mountain of Kinel-Aedha.
disgusting lie," to say that those
people had
This was the name of that part of the mountain
1505.]

Hugh
1283
Roe, the son of Niall Garv, son of Turlough of the Wine, Lord of Tircounell, Inishowen, Kinel-Moen, and Lower Connaught, died a
O'Donnell,
;
man who had obtained hostages 8 from the people of Fermanagh, Oriel, Clannaand from the O'Kanes, and also the English and Irish of boy, and the Route, Connaught, with the exception of Mac William of Clanrickard, who, however,
did not go unrevenged for his disobedience, for O'Donnell frequently entered his territory, and left not a quarter of land from the River Suck upwards, and h from Sliabh O n-Aedha westwards, which he did not make tributary to him.
of the hospitality and nobility of the North, the most jovial and valiant, the most prudent in war and peace, and of the best for there jurisdiction, law, and rule, of all the Gaels in Ireland in his time
This O'Donnell was the
full
moon
was no defence made
[of the houses] in Tirconnell during his time, except the best protector of the Church and to close the door against the wind only
;
given great alms in honour of the Lord of the Elements the a castle was first raised and erected at Donegal, that it might serve as a sustaining bulwark for his descendants and a monastery for Friars de Observantia in Tirconnell, namely, the monastery of Donegal a
the learned
;
man who had man by whom
man who had made many predatory excursions around through Ireland; and a man who may be justly styled the Augustus of the North-west of Europe. He
having gained the victory over the Devil and the world, and after [Extreme] Unction and good Penance, at his own fortress in Donegal, on Friday, the 5th of the Ides of July, in the seventy -eighth year of his age, and fortydied, after
fourth of his reign, and was interred in the monastery of Donegal. Mac Carthy Cairbreach' i. e. Fineen, the son of Dermot an-Duna, son of
1 ,
Donnell Reagh, died
Dermot, took his place. Felim, the son of Niall, son of Art, son of Owen O'Neill, was sons of Turlough O'Muldoon.
;
and
his brother,
slain
by the
of Sliabh Eohtghe, now Slieve Aughty, situated in the territory of Kinelea, on the conrines of the counties of
Clare and Galway. See and Customs ofHy-Many, p. 91, note k and the map to the same work. The stream
Tribes
,
Carthy Cairbreach, i. e. Mac Carthy Reagh, Chief of Carbery, a territory now divided into four baronies, in the south-west of
'
Mac
the county of Cork. *It is stated in the margin that this passage has been extracted from the
called Abhainn-da-loilgheach, i. e. the river of the two milch cows, divided Sliabh O'n-Aedha
Book
of
Mac Brody
See
it
entered before,
under the year 1504, by a mistake of the Four

Masters.
from the southern portion of Sliabh Echtghe.
A2
Rioshachca eiReawN.
TTlac oomnaill gallocclach
(.1.
[1505.
mac colla) conpapal uf neill DO mac Somaiple puaiD mic oomnaill. rhapbaD in apomaca la jiolla eappuicc CReach la cloinn jiolla pacpaicc mic emann meguiDip ap cloinD oicc
colla
eocchan Do rhapbaoh la cloinn giolla an emamn ceDna, bpian, -] eoccan, m P mac caba D0 ma P^ aD pacpaicc a ccopaijeacc na cpeice, ~\ pfpjup
-|
o cloinn giolla pacpaicc Don cup fin.

TTlac meguioip
(.1.
Sfan
mac
pilip)
occ 5appaiD,-| caDcc

ppiu DO
mac emamn
mac caiDg meg coippDealbac, -] Da mic goiUgiHe, co nocc pfpaib Decc amaille
.1.
bdcaD
uf
ccoice pop loc eipne.
mac
ccham,-]
mac copbmaic Decc. plannaccam, copbmac Sluaicceab la mac uf Domnaill (aoD occ mac aoDa puaiD) hi ccip neobaile neill (.1. Domnaill) Dun n^fnainn DolopccaD lfip,l baile aoDa
i
apceac Dimceacc Do gan ppicbeapc SuiDe pa caiplen na Deipcce 66 ap a lompuD, an caiplen Do gabail Do ppir. a udpoa Dpaccbdil ann. Ool DO ap pin 50 cloinn neill mic aipc), (.1. ap all mic nendin,-) cigeapna Do gaipm De pop cip conaill an Oapa la Daujupc
mic Domnaill
uf neill,
-|
o abainn moip
-]
Do
coil
De i oaofne.
i
Caipppe mac bpiam ui uiccinn oioe le Dan Decc niapcap mibe, bpian occ mac bpiam mic Domnaill caim uf uiccinn Decc. Sfan mac Riocaipo a bupc poja jail macaerh Gpeann Do mapbab a meabail hi mamipcip copaip pacpaicc la cloinn uillic a bupc. la mac Caiplen baile an cobaip Do jabail la hua concobaip noonn,
~\ ~\
Oiapmaoa pop pliocc jpdinne injine uf ceallaij. nouchaij DO cabaipc DO pliocc jpainne.
k
816 Do
Denam
Doib
~\
Mac
GaUlgile.
This
name
is still
common
county of Donegal.
See note
b
,
under the year
in
Fermanagh, but now incorrectly anglicised Mac Alilly, and by some shortened to Lilly.
1
1461, p. 1012, supra. Consent of God and man,

of the clergy
Abliainn-mor,
i.
e.
called the Blackwater.
the great river, now See note ", under the
and
laity.
i. e. by the consent For some account of
year 1483, pp. 1125, 1126, supra.
the ceremony of inaugurating the O'Donnell at Kilmacrenan, the reader is referred to Genealogies,
m Laid
"
siege
to,
literally,
sat
under Castle-
'Tribes,
and Customs of Hy-Fiacltrach,
In Cromwell's time the English phrase derg.'' was " sat round, or sat before the town or
castle."
n
pp. 426-440.
The inauguration
is
stone of the
O'Donnells, which
said to have been originally
on the
hill of
Boon, near the village Kilmacre-
CiU-mic-Nenain,
now Kilmacrenan,
in the
nan, and in latter ages in the church of Kilma-
1.505.]

Galloglagh
(i.
1285
Mac Donnell
was
slain at
e.
Colla, the son of Colla), O'Neill's constable,
Armagh, by
Gillespick, the son of Sorley
Roe Mac Donnell.
Maguire, took a prey from the young sons of the same Edmond, namely, from Brian and Owen and Owen, while in pursuit of the prey, was slain by Gilla-Patrick and Fergus More Mac
sons of Gilla-Patrick, son of
;
;
The
Edmond
Cabe was
slain
on the side of the sons of Gilla-Patrick on that occasion.

(i.
John, the son of Philip), the two sons of Teige Mac Caffry, and Teige Oge, the son of Edmond Mac Gaillgile", together with eighteen men who were along with them, were drowned in a cot on
Turlough, the son of Maguire
e.
Lough Erne. The son of OTlanagan, e. Cormac, the son of Cormac, died. An army was led by the son of O'Donnell (Hugh Oge, son of Hugh Roe) and O'Neill's (Donnell) town, Dungannon, the town of Hugh, into Tyrone the son of Donnell O'Neill, were burned by him and he traversed from the
i.
; ;
Abhainn-mor' inwards without meeting with any opposition. Upon his return m he laid siege to Castlederg, took that castle from the sons of Niall, the son of
Art, and left his warders in it and he proceeded from thence to Cill-mic-Nenain", where he was nominated Lord of Tirconnell, on the 2nd day of August, by
;
consent of
God and man
Carbry, the son of Brian O'Higgin, Professor of Poetry, died in Westmeath and Brian Oge, the son of Brian, son of Donnell Cam O'Higgin, died. John, the son of Rickard Burke, choice of the English youths of Ireland,
;
was treacherously
Patrick".
slain
by the sons of Ulick Burke,
in the
monastery of Tober-
The
made
castle of Ballintober q
1
the descendants of Grainne

;
and their
was taken by O'Conor Don and Mac Dermot from daughter of O'Kelly. A peace was [afterwards] patrimonial inheritance was given to the descendants of
",
Grainne.
crenan, was preserved in the choir of the ruins of that church till about forty years ago, when it was stolen or destroyed.
P
tectural features will be preserved for posterity.

"
Battintober,
i.
e.
Ballintober castle, in the
Tober-Patrick,
i.
e.
Patrick's well,
now
the
monastery of Ballintober, in the county of Mayo. This noble monastery is now undergoing repair, and its venerable walls and archi-
county of Roscommon. " The descendants of Grainne,

the O'Conors
i.
e.
that sept of
descended from Grainne,
the
daughter of O'Kelly.
1286
QNNata raioshachca
QO1S CR1OSC,
CfoiS
eiraeaNN.
[1506.
1506.
CRiopr,
TTlile,
cuicc ceo, a 86.
6 piaic copccpaig, oipcinneac cinema heoaip, i Sfan Decc. oipcinneac ap cpian aipiD bpopccaig
Uomap
bui6e
mac
aeD mac emainn mic romaip 615 meguibip Do mapbaD a ccopaijeacc cpeice DO pinnfo la cloinn cuinD mic enpi uf neill ap cuil na mac Gmainn mac giolla paccpaicc po mapbh eipiumh. noipfp, i ba he pilip
TTlac meguiDip
mic an jiolla Duib megui&ip pfp connail cpaibDeac eipiDe Do ecc i a aDnacal nDun na njall. ITlajnap mac goppaDa puaiD meguiDip ~\ TTlac bpiain reallaije TcDac
pilip
i
Semup mac
(.1.
peilim) Decc.
Uomap mac
laij
.1.
oiliuep ploingceD Do rhapbao la pliocc
TTIarâmna uf pajalgall
-\
lap an ccalbach
mac
pfmlimiD,
-]
la a
cloinn.
CoccaD
gaoibel
bfipge cpicpin. TTlac uf carain
.1.
bpian pionn
uf neill,
~\
mic enpi mic eojain
mac Sfain Do mapbaD la Domnall mac neill mac Don bpian pin Do mapbaD la OonnchaD
ua cacain.
ualrap mac copbmaic mic Sfinian Do mapbaD la hua ccarain .1. romap mac aibne, po mapbaD apaon pip Da mac cuacail uf Domnaill, Da mac uf fjpa, rpi mic uf baoijellain, -] Da mac uf cuinD, ~[ peacr
TTlac uibilin
.1.
-|
pip Decc
QoD
DO maicibh a cionoil ipm puca DO ponnpaD. puaD mac glaipne meg margamna Do mapbaD la hua pajallaij
-]
la a cloinn. (Sfan mac cacail) Oorhnall ua cpaiDen, cfnnaije cpaiboech coccupac Decc ace eipceacc
aippinn
Decc.
Cuil-na-nOirear, now the barony of Coole, on the east side of the Upper Lough Erne, in the south-east of the county of Fermanagh See note under the year 1486.
8
i
noun na ngall.
Paiofn ua maolconaipe en pojaGpeann
ma
aimpip 16 Sfncup, -j 16 pilioecc
mahon, in the south-west of the county of Cavan. u Between the English ami the Irish, i. e. between the Anglo-Irish of the Pale, and the
Gaels, or
mere
Irish.
Descendants of Mahon O'Reilly These were seated in and gave name to the barony of Clann-
'
"
*
Aibhne,
now
anglicised
Evenew.
This
0' Craid/ten,
now
anglicised Crean.
1506.]
1*287
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1506.
six.

of Clones, and
Thomas Boy Mac Cosgraigh, Erenagh The son
John
O'Fiaich, Ere-
of Airech-Broscaigh [Derrybrusk], died. riagh of the third part of Maguire, i. e. Hugh, the son of Edmond, son of Thomas Oge was slain in pursuit of a prey which the sons of Con, son of Henry Maguire, s It was Philip, the son of O'Neill, were carrying off from Cuil-na-nOirear
.
Edmond, son of
Gilla-Patrick, that slew him.
James, the son of Philip, son of Gilla-Duv Maguire, a prudent and pious
man, died, and was interred
at
Donegal.
Manus, the son of
Godfrey Roe Maguire, and Felim, the son of Brian of

slain
Teallach-Eachdhach [Tullyhaw], died.
Thomas, the son of Oliver Plunkett, was

1
,
by the descendants of Mahou

;
in consequence the son of Felim, and his sons O'Reilly namely, by Calvagh, of which, a war broke out between the English and the Irish".
Brian Finn, the son of John, was slain by Donnell, and a son of this Brian the son of Niall, son of Henry, son of Owen O'Neill
of O'Kane,
i.
The son
slain
e.
was
by Donough O'Kane. Mac Quillin, i. e. Walter, the son of Cormac, son of Jenkin, was slain by w There were slain along with him O'Kane, i. e. Thomas, the son of Aibhne two sons of Tuathal O'Donnell, two sons of O'Hara, three sons of O'Boylan, two
.
sons of O'Quin, and seventeen of the chief men of his tribe, in [the territory of] the Route.
Hugh
Roe, the son of Glasny

x
Mac Mahon, was
slain
by O'Reilly (John, the
son of Cathal) and his sons.
Donnell 0'Craidhen
[O'Crean], a pious and conscientious merchant, died,
while hearing mass in Donegal. Paidin O'Mulconry y only choice of Ireland in his time for history and
,
poetry, died.
family afterwards
acquired considerable pro-
ment
1
and are now represented by Andrew Crean Lynch, Esq. of Hollybrook, in the county of Mayo. There is a curious menuperty in lands,
to this family in the monastery of Sligo, of which Mr. Petrie has made a careful drawing.
Paidin QfMulconry, i. e. little Patrick O'MulHe was the father of Maurice O'Mulconry.
1-288
Ric-shacnca eirceaNN.
[1507.
Clr rpuim Do lopccaD Do cene ooaic.

TTla 5 capcaij caipbpeac
naitl piabaij; oecc.
.1.
an ounaiD mic DomDiapmaio mac DiapmaDa

clann cSfam mic aibne DonnchaD
-\
O cacain romap mac
Domnall
'
aibne,-|
banna poip 50 ccuccpac aipjflwn 5P f5 a 10Tn6a le6 1 clepeac Do Dol rap ceacc 50 niolac ~] 50 naicfp pop ccula. ua Caicilin mjfn mpla ofprhurhan .1. romap mac Semaip baincijeapna Dun na le DO ponaoh an bfnn Duo,-| ccaipppe bfn Depcach ofijeimj Decc, ap mbfno. Do Denam la hua mbpiain, roippDealOpoicfe puipc cpoipi pop pionainn bach mac caiDcc mic coippDealbaij, -| la Domnall a Deapbparaip, la heppcop
cille
Da lua
"]
la heppcop cille pionnabpach.
QO1S C171OSC,
QoiS CRiopr,
TTlile,
1507.
cuicc ceD, aSeachr.
Seen pauinc eppcop na miDe bparaip ppepeoiuplepiDe,-] piapup ua maoluiDip
abb clocaip Decc.
mic coippDealbaig, bfn 5painne injfn mejuiDip (.1. emann) bfn pilip Depcac Dfijeimj,-) cacapfona mjfn conconnacc mic majnupa meg macjarhna
Decc.
Decc. plannaccam ruaire paca TTluipceaprac mac TTiuipceapcaij oiDce la mall puaD mac Domnaill mic neill jaipb.
conry,
who made
Book of \Fenagh,
a beautiful transcript of the in the year 1517, for Teige
Cork
See Smith's Natural and Civil History

ii.
of Cork, books
vans.
It
c.
4,
O'Rody, the Coarb of Fenagh. * Herds, aipjfoa is the nominative plural of

aipê, a herd.
states that this castle
where he erroneously was built by the Donoseat of Sir
was the principal
Owen
The word occurs again

is
at the
year 1582.
a
daughter, Joan, was married to Daniel O'Donovan, of Castle Dono-
Mac Carthy Keagh, whose

van, about the year 1584.
c
Horses,
jpfgci
the nominative plural of
5pf5, a horse.
b
Dun-na-m-beann,
i.
e.
fort of the gables, or
Beann-dubh,
i.
e.
the black gable or pinnacle,
pinnacles,
now Dunmanway,
a small
town about
now Banduff,
or Benduff, otherwise Castle Salem,
a strong castle situated about a mile to the north-east of liosscarbery, in the county of
twelve miles west of Bandon, in the county of Cork. Dr. Smith gives no account of the erection of this castle in his Natural
and
Civil His-
1507.]

lightning.
e.
1289
Ath-Trim was burned by
Mac Carthy
O'Kane,
i.
Cairbreach,
i.
Dermot, the son of Dermot-an-Duna, son of
Donnell Reagh, died.
Thomas, the son of Aibhne, and the sons of John, son of Aibhne, namely, Donough and Donnell Cleireach, went eastwards across the Bann, and 1 2 and returned in exultation carried off from thence many herds and horses
e.
,
and triumph.
Thomas, the son of James, Lady of Hy-Carbury, a charitable and truly hospitable woman, died. It was c by her that Beann-dubh" and Dun-na-m-beann were erected.
Catherine, daughter of the Earl of Desmond,
i.
e.
The bridge
of Port-Croisi
upon the Shannon was erected by O'Brien,

;
i.
e.
Turlough, the son of Teige, son of Turlough of Killaloe and the Bishop of Kilfenora.
;
Donnell, his brother
the Bishop
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1507.
seven.
thousand five hundred

friar preacher,
John Pauint', Bishop of Meath, a Abbot of Clogher, died.
and Pierce O'Maeluire,
Grainne, the daughter of Maguire (i. e. Edmond), and wife of Philip, the son of Turlough [Maguire], a charitable and truly hospitable woman, and Catherine, daughter of Cuconnaught, son of Manus Mac Mahon, died.
O'Flanagan of Tuath-Ratha,
i.
e,
Murtough, the son of Murtough,
died.
A nocturnal assault'.
tory
Niall Roe, the son of Donnell, son of Niall Garv.
the town, book
of Cork, where he treats of the origin of ii. c. 4. This castle afterwards
years 1510 and 1597. e John Pauint. His real

Pain.
name was John
belonged to
in
Mac Carthy
it
of Gleann-a-Chruim,
till
He
succeeded in 1483.
He
was the per-
whose possession
d
remained
about the
year 1690.
Port-Croisi.
son appointed to preach the sermon, and proclaim the title of the mock prince, Lambert
Simnel, at his coronation in Christ Church, in
the year 1485, for which he received a pardon in 1488 See Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops,
p. 151.
f
This name
is
yet preserved in
that of the townland of Portcrush, situated on
the Shannon,
in
the
north-west end of the
parish of Castleconnell, in the county of Limerick, where there was a wooden bridge across the Shannon
A nocturnal assault.
This entry
is
evidently
See
it
again referred to at the
left imperfect.
SB
12go
ctNNata Rio^hachca emeaNN.

mac ae6a
uf neill paof cinnpfbna
[1507.
6npi
ain Decc.
Duine ba pfpp aicne ap 506 ealab-
peilim
mag uinnpennam
coccaibe paof clepi opicel ripe conaill bpficfm
co ccpabaD -] co ccaofnsniomaib oecc .12. lulu. Siubdn injfn meg macâmna (.1. deb puab) oecc.
ccfp eojam. im caiplen uf neill (ounsfhain) pochaiDe DO poplonjpopc Do Denarii Do .1. bpian, i 6 neill DO Denam mapbaD DO luce an baile im TTlac jilla puaiD ua noomnaill. Ua Domnaill Do bol apiDe hi ccfnn an lupcip, i
i
Sloicceab la hua nDomnaill (ao6 6cc
mac aooa puaib)
~\
pioDa ppip cenel TTloain Do cpeacaD la hua neill na DeaohaiD,
bpian
mac
uf gaipm-
leaDaij Do riiapbab laip. Niall mac cuinn nrnc aeDa buiDe mic bpiam ballaij uf neill Do jabail la
mumnp
caippje pfpjupa, a bfic pe harhaiD hi Se bpaijoe Decc Do buam app. pin, i CoccaD ecep 6 neill -] clann cuinn uf neill.
lairii,
-]
a legeaD amach lap

bfic
Clann aipc Do
Do raob
cloinne cuinn, i cpi
cpeaca DO
Denarii leo
ap cenel pfpaohaij.
Cpeaca mop
uf puaipc,
DO Denarii la hua
ap cloinn aipc po DeoiD. mac coippDealbaij mic pilip meûiDip Do riiapbaD la mac Ctooh cijfpndn 6cc mac eoccham.
neill
TTlac mejuiDip (cabcc

cloinn DonnchaiD mejjuiDip
~\
mac concobaip mic comaip oicc) Do la Remann occ mace rimcjariina.

-|
riiapbaD la
Caiplen mop caippge pfpgupa,-! mepe an baile peippm Do jabdil la mall mac cuinn (po gabab leopom peace piam) a bpaijDe pfm Do bf pan ccaiplen Do buain amac 66.
Ceampall achaib
ann.
bfice
Do lopccab,-) epmop maicfpa an cfpe Dolopccab
Gmann mac comaip
Ua
oicc mic comaip oicc Decc Do anneap aon oibce. Dundin bomnaij maije Da claofne DO riiapbab Do pabab DO pcfn la a
bpacaip pfm giolla paopaicc

5
mac
pili'p.
Maguinnsenain
in the counties of
This name is still common Meath and Cavan, where it is
lie
made Mac Elsinan by some, Gilson by others, and

in
School of Oldcastle, was of this family, Were taken. One verb is employed to ex-
some instances
The
has been changed to Nugent, late Charles Gilson, the founder of the Pubit
press the taking of the castle and the capturing of the mayor, which would not be considered
correct in English composition.
1507-]

Hugh
,
1291
skilled
Henry, the son of
O'Neill, a distinguished captain, a
man most
in every science, died.
Felim Maguinnsenain8 Official of Tirconnell, a select Brehon, an astic eminent for piety and benevolent deeds, died on the 12th of July.
Joan, daughter of Mac Mahon (i. An army was led by O'Donnell
;
ecclesi-
e.
Hugh
(Hugh
Roe), died. Oge, the son of
Hugh Roe)
into
Tyrone he pitched his camp around O'Neill's castle of Dungannon, and slew numbers of the people of the town, besides Mac Gilroy, i. e. Brian. O'Neill made peace with O'Donnell, and O'Donnell thence went to the Lord Justice.
After O'Donnell's departure O'Neill plundered Kinel-Moen, and slew Brian, the son of O'Gormly.
Hugh Boy, son of Brian Ballagh O'Neill, was taken prisoner by the people of Carrickfergus. He remained for some time in their custody, but was at last liberated, sixteen hostages being obtained in his
Niall, the
son of Con, son of
stead.
and the [broke out] between O'Neill and the sons of Con O'Neill sons of Art sided with the sons of Con, and they took three preys from KinelGreat depredations were afterwards committed by O'Neill upon the Farry.
;
A war
sons of Art.
Hugh, the son of Turlough, son of Philip Maguire, was O'Rourke, Tiernan Oge, the son of Owen.
slain
by the son of
slain
The son
of Maguire (Teige, the son of Conor, son of
Thomas Oge) was
by the sons of Donough Maguire and Redmond Oge Mac Mahon. The Great Castle of Carrickfergus and the mayor of the town were taken"
by Niall, the son of Con, who had some time before been taken by them he rescued his own hostages who were in the castle.
;
and
The church of Achadh-beithe [ Aghavea] was burned

of the riches of the country
and the greater part

of one night's
were burned within

Oge, son of
it.
Edmond,
sickness.
the son of
Thomas
Thomas Oge, died
knife
1
O'Dunan of Domhnach-maighe-da-Chlaoine' was by his own brother, Gilla-Patrick, son of Philip.
killed with a stab of a
Domhnach-maighe-da-Maoine, i. e. the great church of the plain of the two slopes, now
in the
Donagh, an old church giving name to a parish barony of Trough, and county of Mo-
s2
1292
awNac-a Rioshachca eirceaNN.
[1508.
Do mapbaD la coippDealbac 6pian mac mej pampaDain (Domnall bfpnac) mac ae6a mic eoccain meg pampa&din. nodn TTlac conmiDe (Solarh mac Sfain mic polairh) ollarh ui neill Saof
i
i
ppojlaim,
-|
hi ppili&eacr, i pfp
O odlaij maolmuipi moip), ua cuill cfnOpaolaD, O Dalaij pionn joppaioh, 6 jepam (Sfan .1. mac concocaipppeac aengup (.1. mac aenjupa caoic)
-|
TTlagcpair,
comap
(.1.
.30. Occobep. mic comaip mic maolmuipe 615 mic mac pilip
cije aoi6f6 coiccmn [Decc]
baip) oecc.
TTlac an baipo aip jiall, jiollapaopaicc
mac
aoDa,
Uuaral bui6e mac

)
la aDaim jaipb mic an baipo Do mapbaD ap aon la coinulaD ua conDalaij a bpaicpib. Caiplen Dpoma Da eriap.i caiplen na ofipcce Do cuicim. Qn bappac puaD Semap mac Semaip Do Dol Dia oibrpe Don ppdmn co
~\
mairib a muinncipe apaon
pip,
-]
~\
lap
noenam a
noilicpe Doib
Do cuarap
hi
lumj DO poaD
ma
pppicing
ni
pfp a
i
mbap no a mbeaca
~\
opin alle.
Oom-
nall mac caibcc mic giolla micil piaic pair epeann, alban Doioe 16 Sfncup a ccuiccpi laione, i piliDeacca DO baraD hi ppappaD an bappaij ap an oili-
rpe pin a Dubpamap.

Sfan a bupc, mac uillicc, mic uillicc, mic RiocaipD oicc canaipce cloinne piocaipo paop clann jail epeann poiDeac Ian Demeac,-] Dpipinne,cinne cpnaDa
le
cocuccab Decc.
QOIS C171OSC,
Qoip Cpiopr,
TTlaiji
TTlile,
1508.
cuicc ceD, a hocc.
majcpaic eppcop cluana pfpca paoi pacmap piajalra ceillibi cpaiboeac, Decc, -| DauiD mac comaip a bupc Decc ap plicciD na poma mp na oiponeaD ma lonaD ipin fppcopoioe.
naghan.
The
ruins of this church are
still
to
an Irish
title
assumed by the head of a branch
be seen near the village of Glasslough. k Mae Conmidhe, now MacNamee. The
lineal
of the family of De Barry. The name is still retained in the barony of Barryroe, in the south of the county of Cork, which was the patrimonial inheritance of this branch of the See Barrys.
descendants of this poet are still living in the village of Draperstown, in the county of Lon-
donderry.
1
Barry Roe,
i.
e.
Barry the Red.
This was
Natural and Civil History of Cork, book m On board a "

ship, $c.,
literally,
ii.
chap.
3.
they went
1508.]

Magauran (Donnell Bearnach), was
slain
1293
Brian, the son of
by Turlough,
the son of
Hugh, son of
1
Owen Magauran.
the son of John, son of Solomon), Ollav to
Mac Conmidhe (Solomon,

,O'Neill,
'
an adept in rhyming, [general] literature, and poetry, and house of general hospitality, died on the 30th of October.
who
kept a
Magrath (Thomas, the son of Philip, son of Thomas, son of Maelmurry Oge, son of Maelmurry More) O'Cuill (Kenfaela) O'Daly Finn (Godfrey, the son
; ;
of Donough)
O'Geran
(i.
e.
O'Daly Cairbreach (Aengus, the son of Aengus Caech) John, the son of Conor), died.
of Oriel,
i.
and
Mac Ward
the son of
e.
Gilla-Patrick, the son of
Adam Garv Mac Ward,
were both
slain
Hugh, and Tuathal Boy, by Cu-Uladh O'Connolly
and
his
kinsmen.
castle
The
of Druim-da-Ether [Dromahaire] and the castle of the
Derg
[Castlederg],
fell.
1
,
Barry Roe
attended by
i.
e.
James, the son of James, went on a pilgrimage to Spain,

;
of the chiefs of his people and after having performed their m to return home, but no further pilgrimage they embarked on board a ship account, as to whether they survived or perished, was ever received. Upon the pilgrimage aforesaid, along with was drowned Donnell, the son of Barry,
many
Teige, son of Gilla-Michael OTiaich, qualified by his knowledge of Latin and poetry to become chief professor of history for Ireland and Scotland.
John Burke, the son of Ulick, son of Ulick, son of Rickard Oge,-Tanist of
Clanrickard, the noblest of the English of Ireland, a vessel filled with hospitality and truth, and a link of steel in sustaining [the battle], died.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1508.
eight.
Maigi Magrath, Bishop of Clonfert, a prosperous, religious, wise, and pious man, died and David, the son of Thomas Burke, who was appointed his suc;
cessor in the bishopric, died

into a ship to return back,
their living has not been
on
his
way from Rome".

have most undoubtedly perished, as is evident from the subsequent part of the passage.
and their death or
known
ever since."
This
is
the Irish
mode
of saying that they
must
On
his
way from Rome,
literally,
" on the
dNNaca Rioghachca eiReawR

Uomap 6
noip Decc.
[1508.
conjaldin Gppcop Oilepinn,
Uacep a bide eppcop cluana mic
Uilliam occ
mac
aipc mic cacrhaoil Dfjanac clocaip Decc, Deapbpacaip

la
piDe Deocchan Deppcop clocaip.
maolmuaiD (aoD occ) DO mapbaD ma caiplen pfipm
a bpaicpib
buDDfin.
Oorhnall ua bpiain
man, i
5 e P 01cc
TY1ac
caiocc mic coippDealbaij) canaipi cuaomuo6a mic cacail uf pajallaij Decc.

(.1.
mac
mecc marjamna, TCemainn occ mac TJemainn Do mapbaD nDomnac mac emamn. 6d maije Da claofne la pele pacpaicc la mac mejuiDip pibp hamlaiD Do ponaD an gnfom hipn pilip DO 6ol nonoip pacpaic Deipceacc arhail bdcap occ an oipppionn ipin ecclaip Do puacc oipppinn Don baile,
TTlac
i i
~\
Remann occ 50 mbuiDin moip ma
pocaip imon cfmpall.
T?o
haDnaic cfince
leo hi ccficpe haipoib an cfmpuill.
na cluinpm pin Do mac meguiDip Do T?o jpeip a rhuinnp im pdi6 riac lefccpeab cfmpall parpaicc Do lopccaD. nanmaim De, pacpaic. cicc pilip cona bpaicpib amac calma Do ~6enam,
Qp
-|
po mapbab lapam cona pala fcoppa cop cpapcpaD Remann Dia eoc mac bpiain puaib mic jiollabpijDe i jjabcap beop comalca amaille ppip
"|
Oo
.1.
bpaijDe ann co po mopaD
amm
De
~]
pacpaic epic
"|
pin.
Copbmac
pilip
6 ciandin paof ShCncaoa
pip&dna
~\
DonnchaD mac bpiain mic
meûiDip Decc.
TTluipcfpcac mac aeDa mic pfpjail ofcc mic pfpjail puaiD megeoccaccdin DO mapbaD Id a bpaicpib pein. way way
of
to or
Rome," which may from Rome.
signify either
on his
descendant of Laeghaire, Monarch of Ireland in St. Patrick's time. Harris says, in his edition
of Ware's Bishops^ p. 254, that this Thomas O'Congalan, who died in 1508, was Bishop of
O'ConghaJain,
now
Conallan,
or Conlan.
formed from Conghalain, the genitive of Conghalan, which is a diminutive of Conghal. Surnames now often confounded with
is
This surname
Ardagh, and adds,

Bishop of Elphin.
Some have called him But to give you my Senti-
"
each other have been formed from ancestors
named Conallan, Conâlan, Coinjiollan,Coinbealban, and Caomoealban, but there is little

or nothing known of the descents, pedigrees, or localities of any of them except O'ComoealBam,
ments of the matter, it seems evident to me that he never governed the see of Elphin."
p
Owen, Bishop ofdogher.
This
is
the prelate
edition of
called
Eugene Mac Camseil in Harris's
now
Quinlan,
who was
near Trim, in Meath, and
the Chief of Iveleary, who was the lineal
Ware's Bishops, p. 187. and died in 1515.

"
He
succeeded in 1508,
Domhnach-maigke-da-chlaoine,
now Donagh,
1508.]

,
1295
Thomas O'Conghalain
Clonmacnoise, died.
Bishop of Elphin, and Walter Blake, Bishop of
William Oge, the son of Art
Mac
.
Cawell,
Dean
of Clogher, died.
He
was
p brother of Owen, Bishop of Clogher
O'Molloy (Hugh Oge) was killed in his own castle by his own kinsmen. Donnell O'Brien (i. e. the son of Brian), son of Turlough, Tanist of Tho-
mond, and Garrett, the son of Hugh, son of Cathal O'Reilly, died.
The son of Mac Mahon,

i.
i.
e.
q
Redmond
on
St.
Domhnach-maighe-da-Chlaoine
e.
Oge, son of Redmond, was slain at Patrick's 'Festival, by the son of Maguire,
:
This act was perpetrated thus Philip went to the town to hear mass, in honour of St. Patrick, and while they [he and his were at mass within the church, Redmond Oge came around the attendants]
Philip, the son of
Edmond.
church with a large party, and set fire to the four corners of the building. When Maguire heard of this, he said that he would not suffer the church of
St.
Patrick to be burned
and, exciting his people to courage, Philip, with his
kinsmen, came out in the name of God and of St. Patrick. A conflict ensued, in which Redmond was thrown from his horse, and afterwards slain, together
with his foster-brother, the son of Brian Roe Mac Gillabride 1 and prisoners were also taken there. And the names of God' and St. Patrick were magnified
;
by
this occurrence.
Cormac O'Keenan,
a learned historian and poet, and Donough, the son of
Brian, son of Philip Maguire, died.
Murtough, the son of Hugh, son of Farrell Oge, son of Farrell Roe Mageoghegan, was slain by his own kinsmen.
in the
barony of Trough, in the north of the county of Monaghan. It is to be distinguished

from Donaghmoyne, which is called in Irish tDorhnac maijin See note under the year 1507.
r
originally erected
by
St. Patrick,
and they were
so called, according to the Tripartite Life of St.
by them
tires
Set fire, $c., literally, " fires were kindled in the four corners of the church, or
Patrick, published by Colgan, lib. ii. c. 119, because the saint had marked out their foundations on Sunday " In istis partibus in regione Kennactee septem diebus dominicis commoratus
:
were kindled by them in the church in the

i.
septem Domino sacrarum ffidium
fecit
funda-
four opposite points," and west.

s
e.
north,
south, east,
menta quas proinde Dominicas

Trias Tkaum., p. 146.
appellavit."
c.
See also Jocelyn,
91,
Every church in Ireland whose name begins with Domhnach was

St. Patrick.
Church of
and Ussher's Primordia, p. 852. Mac Gillabride. This name is now anglicised
'
1296
pill p
cn-wata Rio^hachca emeawN.

mac bpiain mic pfiblimibuf Rajallaij cfno
ealabam Decc
lap
[1508.
pfbna,-] pfp cije aoibfoh,

-|
Daicne ap jach pfp Ian
mbuaib onjca
aiqiicche.
6 Ruaipc) uf Uicchfpnan occ mac eojain (.1. mac cijfpndm pinn uf Ruaipc. caba Decc. Niall mac alajcancaip mic cabba, -| enpi mac bpiain mic O oomnaill Clob occ mac ao6a puaib DO cocr nfcpaib pop loc epne, o Domnaill DO rabaipc 6 caiplen mpi cfirlionn Dpajailoo Ruaibpi majuibip,-] an caiplem DO pilip tnac coippDealbaij mejuiDip,-) bpaijDe an ripe Dpajail concobap Do ceacc co lump oua Domnaill O neill .1. oomnall.i TTlajuiDip
i
la Sfan puaipc Do mapbab
-\
.1.
cfirlfno
DO paijib
uf
Domnaill i a piapuccaD Doib,
~\
pf6 Do
Denam
ppip.
DO bpipeab Pilip mac bpiain mejuiDip an cfpe .1. Ruaibpi Do Dol hi ccfnn uf puaipc, i 1 clann bpiain pfm Dpdccbdil
ccfnD aipc oicc mic cuinn uf neill. TTIac uf cacdin (goppaiD mac comaip) Do rnapbaD la pliocr
hi uf cacdin.
caiplem pfin ap fccla ui bomnaill,
majnupa
Domnaill guipm Do mapbab Id mac uiDilfn. SloicceaD Id hua noomnaill i nioccap connacc,-] bpaijoe loccaip connacc
66m mac
DO cabaipc laip Dia bpian mac
cij.
pilip mic DonnchaiD mejuiDip Do jabdil Id maguiDip hi ccfm-
pall achaiD lupcaipe. occ mac amlaib
pilip piabaij mic bpiain mic amlaoib mic mic amlaoib mic Duinn cappaij; mejuiDip Decc. Cfnn a aicme pfin -|
.1.
mac
pfp
nje aoibfD epi&e. Copbmac mac neill mic an

-|
jiolla Duib mic
aeba Do rnapbaD la reallac
eacbac,
Id clomn pilip mic bpiain meguibip ap gpeip oibce. 6mann mac majnupa uf gaipmlfohaij Do mapbab la conn
mac
neill
Mac Bride Mac

u
in the county of Monaghan ; but in northern counties of Ulster it is made the more
therefore, the Editor has not repeated the re-
dundant nominative O'Donnell, but has substituted he for

it.
Kilbride, or Kilbride simply.
The
literal translation is as
Full of knowledge.
An English writer would

skilled in the sciences,
say,
who was profoundly
follows "
O'Donnell,
Hugh
Oge, the son of
Hugh
but the Editor has attempted to preserve the

idiom of the Irish.
"'
Eoe, came
castle
upon Lough Erne, and the of Enniskillen was obtained by him from
in vessels
castle
And
delivered
it.
The language
is
unne-
Rory Maguire, and O'Donnell gave the

to Philip,
cessarily redundant here in the
original, and,
the son of Turlough Maguire, and
1.508.]

and who was
1297
son of Philip, the son of Brian,
kept a house of hospitality,
Felim O'Reilly, a captain, and a man who full of knowledge" of each science,
(i. e.
died, after gaining the victory of
Unction and Penance.

the O'Rourke),
Tiernan Oge, the son of Owen O'Rourke John, the son of Tiernan Finn O'Rourke.
Niall, the
was
slain
by
son of Alexander
Mac
Cabe, and Henry, the son of Brian
Mac
Cabe, died.
O'Donnell (Hugh Oge, the son of Hugh Roe) went with boats upon Lough w Erne, took the castle of Enniskillen from Rory Maguire, and delivered it up
to Philip, the son of
country.
to
O'Neill,
i.
Turlough Maguire he also obtained the hostages of the e. Donnell, and Maguire, i. e. Conor, came to Enniskillen
;
meet O'Donnell; and they gave him his demands, and made peace with him. Brian Maguire, demolished his own castle through fear of Philip, the son of O'Donnell. The sons of Brian left the country, i. e. Rory went over to O'Rourke,
and Philip to Art Oge, son of Con O'Neill. The son of O'Kane (Godfrey, the son of Thomas) was
dants of
(
slain
by
the descen-
Manus O'Kane.
John Mac Donnell Gorm was slain by Mac Quillin. An army was led by O'Donnell into Lower Connaught*, and brought the hostages of Lower Connaught with him to his house. Brian, the son of Philip, son of Donough Maguire, was taken prisoner by
Maguire, in the church of Achadh-lurchaire [Aghalurcher]. Philip Oge Magawley, i. e. son of Philip Reagh, son of Brian, son of Auliffe,
son of Philip, son of Auliffe, son of Don Carragh Maguire, died. head of his own tribe y and kept a house of hospitality.
,
He was
the
Cormac, the son of Niall, son of Gilla-Duv, son of Hugh [Maguire], was slain, in a nocturnal assault, by the people of Teallach-Eachdhach [Tullyhaw] and
the sons of Philip, son of Brian Maguire.
Edmond,
the son of
Manus O'Gormly, was
slain
by Con, the son of Niall
the hostages of the country were also obtained by O'Donnell," &c.

*
Connaught."
*
Head of his own
tribe.
He was
head of that
Lower Connaughl
The northern part
of
sept of the Maguires
who
took the surname of
Connaught, at this period the principality of O'Conor Sligo, was and is still usually " Lower
Magawley, and gave name to the barony of Clanawley, in Fermanagh, which was their territory.
8c
1298
aNNdta Rio^hachca emeaNN.

mapbaD
la bpion
[1508.
bfpnaij mic enpf mic eojain, -| conn pfin Do enpf mic eojain ipm mf ceona.
mac
cuinn mic
In Inopaicchib la cloinn DonnchaiD meguiDip (comap, pibp, pfiDlimiD) i cloinn cpfain buiDe mesmacjarhna ap maguiDip concobap. TTlaguiDip ofipje
ma
nacchaibl bpipeaD Do poppa,

buiDe
pfiblimib
mac oonncham Do mapbab

laip,
~|
leip.
bpian mac Sfam mac comaip mic
meg marjamna Do buala&i DO jjabail aipr puaib meg marjamna DO gabail beop.
uf neill
eoccan
Cpeaca mopa la hapr mac cuinn mac uf neill,-] clann mec carmaofl DO
aij DO mapbaD 6 ape
-[
ap cenel peapaobaij.
eiccin
bpfir paip.
Gojan mac Somaiple bacQenjup

-|
na cpfca Do bpfir laip. Ctibilm injfn uf cacain (.1. romap), bfn eojain puaiD meic ui neill Decc. Dorhnall (.1. mac ui bpiain apa) mac cai&cc mic coippDealbaij mic mupchaib na paininije, Saof cmnpfbna ba caoin 16 caipoib, bd hamDiuiD le
apr
pfin
Dimneacc ap
heapccaipDib Decc
bfpc.
mp
ccaicfm a njap Do ceD bliaDain le huaiple,
-|
le hoip-
mop concobap mac pinjin mic miccon Decc. pfp cpoba na nopo, na nficcfp epi&e, a mac pinjin DoipbneaD na copancac, capa iona6 mp na rabaipc amac, ap po baof hi laim hi ccopcaij cuilleab ap
hfiDippcceoil
~\
-|
blia&ain.
TTlas capcaij
mop
Dorhnall
mac caibcc mic

Dorhnaill
Dorhnaill oicc pfp
pejamn
poagallma ago
paibe airni ip
na healabnaib Decc.
.1. -\
CoccaD ofipge ecep ra&g mac
Dfpbparaip meg cdpcaij .1. Dia ccaimcc Die Daoine uaip Do ruic occ picic Decc co cuilleao fcoppa. ITlac mic piapaip Decc .1. Semup mac emainn mic Semaip mic uilliam mic mic piapaip buinlep. RiDipe ap laim laoc ap jaipcceaD epi&e.
-\
mac Don mace capcaij pin, copbmac laDpac mac caibcc mic Dorhnaill oicc
Upon Kinel-Farry, i. e. the Mac Gawells, seated in the barony of Clogher, in Tyrone. a Aibhilin This name is usually anglicised
'
'
It is generally supposed tliat it was co-extensive with the half barony of Ara, or DuthaidhAradh, in the north-west of the county of Tip-
perary ; but
we have
sufficient evidence to
Mac- 1- Brian- Ara
prove
The
territory of Ara,
that
it
was originally more extensive,
for the
or Aradh-Tire,
which originally belonged to the O'Donagaus, became the inheritance of a branch of the O'Briens (descended from Brian Roe
O'Brien, King of Thomond) after the year 1318.
church of Kilmore, situated four miles to the south of Nenagh, and now in the barony of Ormond, is mentioned in the Life of St. Upper Senan as in the territory of Aradh-Tire. The
1508.]

;
1299
and Con himself was slain in Bearnagh, son of Henry, son of Owen [O'Neill] -the son of Con, son of Henry, son of Owen. the same month by Brian, An attack was made on Maguire, i. e. Conor, by the sons of Donough Maand Felim), and guire (Thomas, Philip,
by the sons of John Boy Mac Mahon. Maguire opposed them, and routed them, and slew Felim, the son of Donough he also struck and took prisoner Brian, the son of John Boy Mac Mahon and also made a prisoner of Owen, the son of Thomas, son of Art Roe Mac Mahon.
; ;
.
Great depredations were committed by Art, the son of Con O'Neill, upon z the Kinel-Farry Owen, the son of O'Neill, and the sons of Mac Cawell, over-
and Aengus, son of Sorley Bacagh, was slain on the side of Art but Art himself made his escape from them, and carried off the prey. a Aibhilin the daughter of O'Kane (Thomas), and wife of Owen Roe, the
took him
; ; ,
son of O'Neill, died.
Donnell
(i.
e.
Mac-I-Brian-Ara
c
,
b
),
the son of Teige, son of Turlough, son of
Murrough-na-Raithnighe
fierce to enemies, died,
a distinguished captain,
who was kind
to friends,
and
having spent nearly one hundred years in nobleness and

the son of Fineen, son of
illustrious deeds.
Maccon) died. He was a brave and protecting man, the friend of the [religious] orders and the learned; and his son Fineen was installed in his place, after being liberated, for he had
O'Driscoll
More (Conor,
been imprisoned in Cork for more than a year. Mac Carthy More (Donnell, the son of Teige, son of Donnell Oge), a comely and affable man, and who had a knowledge of the sciences, died.
A war arose between

1
Teige, the son of Donnell,
i.
e.
the son of that
Mac
Carthy, and Mac Carthy's brother, i. e. Cormac Ladhrach, son of Teige, son qf Donnell Oge, whence came the destruction of [their] people, for upwards of three hundred and sixty" persons fell [in the conflicts] between them.
The son
of]
of
Mac
Pierce died,
i;
e.
James, the son of Edmond, son of James,
son of William, the son of
Mac
Pierce Butler.
He was
a knight in [dexterity
hand, and a hero in valour.

e
i.
Nenagh, which was anciently called Finnshruth and Abhainn-O-gCathbhath, formed for many miles the boundary between Aradhriver of
Murrouff/t-na-raithnig/ie,
e.
Murrough, or
"
eighteen
Morgan, of the Femes. d Three hundred and sixty,

score."
literally,
Thire and Muscraighe-Thire.
c2
1300
QNNaca Rioghachca emeaNN.
[isoy.
Ruaipc oa njoipcfp cappuicc parpuicc hi cconnaccaib la a in eppcopoioecr QRoachaio DO eionnpjnab la hua Ruaipc Gojhan mnaof TTlaipjpeg mjfn concobaip uf bpiain.
TTIainipcip baile uf
-]
QO1S CR1OSC,
1509.
Ctoip Cpiopc, Ulile, cuicc ceD,
naof.
6Rian mac caibcc meg uinnpenndin oppicel clocaip oecc. Oonnchab maj puaibpi aipcinneac macaipe na cpoipe, pfp umal
ap peipc noe, ~\ pfp congmala cijhe aoibfo [oecc]. TTlac uf neill ape mac cuinn mic enpf mic eojain Do
eoâin uf neill lap
inipeal
abd>l a bpioll le
mbfich ina cdipofp hope an caiplein mac neill mic ape mic cpfopc aicce, i lap na eocuipeaD cuicce Dia caiplen pfm,-] a mac mall mac a ccabaipc hilaipc i peilim ua maofleaclainn Do jabail amaille ppip,
~|
laimh
uf
Domhnaill,
-|
buaiDhpfoh mop Do eheachc epep an ngabdil
pin.
Sloicceab lap an lupcip lapla cille Dapa hi ccfp eoccham ap cappaing cloinne cuinn uf neill, -| caiplen Duine gfnainn (.1. caiplen f neill) Dpajail Do cloinn cumD pia piu camic an lupcfp ina eimcell. Qn lupcfp DO Dol ap pin
im caiplen na hojmuije co po jabaD laip. Ro gabab laip ann coippbealbac mac neill mic aipc uf neill, eocchan puao mac Suibne. Ro bpipeab an
"]
caiplen lap an lupcip, -j Do COID mppin Dia cicch. O neill Domnall mac enpi mic eoccain eijeapna eipe heojain, pfp ap mo po mill i imop milleaD, "| ap mo DO pome DO coccaD, i Do cpeacaib ace
O'Rourke's town. Ware calls this monas" The place Cruleagh or Balli-ruark." tery
e
was the
first who put a Latin grammar into the hands of Charles O'Conor of Belanagare. See
was afterwards called Craebhliath, i. e. the grey bush or branch, and the name is now anglicised
Creevlea.
It is
Memoirs,
$c.,
by Dr. O'Conor,
p. 157.
Consi-
situated
is
near the village of
derable ruins of this abbey still remain, with the tombs of O'Rourke, and of some of the more
Dromahaire (which
the O'Rourke's town of
distinguished of the local families,
the annalists), in the parish of Killanummery, barony of Dromahaire, and county of Leitrim.
Ware
The
says that this monastery
was founded in
cappuic pacpuic, i.e. PaThis monastery is said by tradition to have been on or near the site of a priCarrickpatrick,
trick's rock.
1509, by Margaret, wife of Eugenius Ruark.

friars
mitive church of this

trick,
were living in cottages near the
name erected by St. Pabut the Editor has not been able to get
to
abbey
in 1718,
when
a poor friar of this convent
any evidence
support this tradition. For the
15090

of O'Rourke's town', which
is
f
1301
The monastery
called Carrickpatrick in Con-
naught, in the diocese of Ardagh, was commenced by O'Rourke his wife, Margaret, the daughter of Conor O'Brien.
(Owen) and
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1509.
nine.
Official of Clogher, died. of Machaire-na-Croise', an humble, meek Donough Mac Rory Erenagh man, for the love of God, and a man who kept a house of hospitality [died].
Brian, the son of Teige

h
,
Magumnsennain*,
of O'Neill (Art, the son of Con, son of Henry, son of Owen) was treacherously taken prisoner by Art of the Castle, son of Niall, son of Art, son
The son
Owen O'Neill, although he was his gossip, and had been invited by him to his own castle and his son, Niall Mac Art, and Felim O'Melaghlin, were also
of
;
taken prisoners along with him, and delivered into the hands of O'Donnell. Great troubles arose out of this capture.
An army was led by the Lord Justice, the Earl of Kildare, into Tyrone, at the
instance of the sons of
castle of
Con
O'Neill; but the sons of Con

the- Lord Justice arrived at
had obtained
it.
O'Neill's
Dungannon before
j
,
The Lord
Justice
proceeded thence to the castle of Omagh, and took it, making prisoners of Turlough, the son of Niall son of Art O'Neill, and Owen Roe Mac Sweeny.
The Lord
Justice demolished the castle, and then returned home.
O'Neill (Donnell, the son of Henry, son of Owen), Lord of Tyrone, a man who [of all the Irish chieftains] had destroyed most men, and about whom the
most had been destroyed, who had carried on the most war, and committed most depredations in contending for" the lordship, until he finally gained it,
acts of the Irish apostle in this
neighbourhood
the reader
is
referred to the Tripartite Life of
St. Patrick,
published by Colgan, lib. ii. c. 103. The great monastery erected by St. Patrick in
this
cross, now Magheracross, a parish in the barony of Tirkennedy, and county of Fermanagh. > Ware says in Turlough, the son of Niall.
his
Annals of Ireland that the Earl of Kildare
neighbourhood was at Druim-lias, about a mile east of the town of Dromahire.

8
11
on this occasion released Arthur, Con's son, who had been kept prisoner in the castle.
k
Maguinmennain, now anglicised Gelsinan.
Contending for,
copnam means contention
Mac
Rory,
now
often anglicised Rogers.

i.e.
as well as defence.
Machaire-na-Croise,
the plain of the
See Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, p. 182, notei.
1302
aNNCica Rioghachca
emeaNR
[1509.
DO mi copnam ciccfpnaip co po jab 6 po beoib, Decc an Seipeab la ape mac aoba mic eojain uf neill DoipDrieab ma lonab. Sloicceabld hua nDomnaill aob occ mac aoba puam ap mac noiapmaca co po mill mopan hi maij luipcc. Uomap mac Remainn mic pilip meguibip DO mapbab on cpluaj, 6 Oorhnaill Dionnpub cap a aip oon rupup pin. O baoijill (emann buibe mac neill) Do mapbab ipm oi&ce oaon upcop
-\
gae la concobap occ ua mbaoijill hi luacpop. Qpc 6 neill Do lecceab ap a bpmjDfnup, bpaijOe ele DO 6ol ap pfm, i a bfpbpacaip bpian.
~\
.1.
a mac
Pilip
mac
bpiain mic pilip mejui&ip, TTlaolm6p6a

~\
naill bain uf pajallaij,
eojan mac
pailge mic Oorhcuinn mic aoba buibe ui neill Decc.
mac
InopaicchiD Id bpian mac cuinn uf neill ap pliocc mjine mec mupcaib ap bpu loca laojaipe. 6npf occ mac enpf oicc, eoccan mac neill bfpnaij iif neill,
bpian
heic
mac
neill bfpnaij,
-j
ITlac
aoDa bailb
uf neill
DO mapbaD
laip,
-|
cfirpe
ap cpi piccib DO buam ofobh. Copbmac mac Sfain mic concobaip oicc meguibip, Oiapmaic mac plomn mic an baipo, cabg 6 cianain Decc.
)
TTlac uilliam cloinne piocaipo, uillecc mac uillicc mic RiocaipD oicc, pfp cfnoaip le caipoib, eccfnoaip le hfpccaipoib Decc.
TTlac
an
pilfb jiollacpipc
Qn coccmaoh
1
paof pipDana Decc. Do piojab op Saâib .22. Qppil. Iting llenpg

1431, 1436, and 1500.
mac amlaib
this army, on cpluaj, i.e. ex exercitu, Thomas, the son of Redmond Maguire, who accompanied O'Donnell on this expedition, was
i.
In
e.
Hugh
'
Balbh,
i.
e.
Hugh
i.
the Stammering.
Mac an
Mac
Fkilid/t,
is
e.
son of the poet.
This
angli-
s' a ' n -
m
to a
name, which
common
in Ulster, is
now
Luachros,
now Loughros, which gives name
cised
Nilly.
is
bay situated between the baronies of Banagh and Boylagh, in the west-of the county of
Donegal.
The 22nd of April __ This

the accession of
the true date of
The point of land

is
originally called
Luachros
that extending westwards from the
See Chronology Henry of History, by Sir Harris Nicolas, second edition, He was crowned on the 24th of June p. 333.
VIII.
following.
village of Ardara, between the bays of Lough-
rosbeg and Loughrosmore. Loch Laeyhaire, i. e. the lake of Laeghairc Buadhach, one of the heroes of the Red Branch,
flourished in the first century notices of this lake at the
The style first adopted by Henry VIII. was, " Henricus Dei Gratia Rex Angli et Francis et Dominus Hiberniffi but in the ;
thirty-third year of his reign
it
was resolved
who
See other
in the English Cabinet that an Irish Parliament
years 1150, 1325,
should confer the
title
of
King of Ireland upon
1509.]

;
1303
died on the sixth day of the month of August and Art, the son of Hugh, son of Owen O'Neill, was inaugurated in his place. An army was led by O'Donnell (Hugh Oge, son of Hugh Eoe) against Mac
Dermot, and he destroyed much in Moylurg.

son of Philip Maguire, was slain in this army
that expedition.
1 .
Thomas, the son of Redmond,
And
O'Donnell returned from
O'Boyle
(Edmond Boy,
m
,
the son of Niall) was slain at night, with one cast
of a javelin, at Luachros
his
by Conor Oge O'Boyle. Art O'Neill was released from captivity, and other hostages were given in stead, namely, his own son, and his brother Brian.
Philip, the son of Brian, son of Philip
;
Maguire Maelmora (Myles), son of and Owen, the son of Failge (Faly), who was son of Donnell Bane O'Reilly
;
Con, son of
Hugh Boy
O'Neill, died.
was made by Brian, the son of Con O'Neill, upon the descendants Mac Murrough, on the margin of Loch Laeghaire". Henry the son of Henry Oge Owen, son of Niall Bearnach O'Neill and the Oge, son of Hugh Balbh O'Neill, were slain by him and sixty-four horses were
attack
An
of the daughter of
taken from them.
Cormac, the son of John, son of Conor Oge Maguire Mac Ward and Teige O'Keenan, died.
;
Dermot, son of Flann
Mac William of Clanrickard (Ulick, the son of Ulick, son of Rickard man kind towards friends, and fierce towards enemies, died. Mac an Fhiledh" (Gilchreest, son of Aulifie), a learned poet, died.
Henry VIII. was made King of England on
the
Oge),
22nd of
April".
his heirs. The Lord Deputy, St. was commissioned to summon a ParliaLedger, " forasmuch as the ment, which enacted, that
him and
Statutes of the Realm, 35 Hen. VIII.

Leland's History of Ireland, book
iii. c.
c. 3,
and
7.
The
King and
joyed
all
his progenitors ever rightfully en-
object of conferring this title upon Henry was to enable him, with the more authority, to carry
of Ireland,
authority royal, by the name of Lords but for lack of the title of King had
on the Kefonnation, and

lands in Ireland.
to confiscate the
abbey
Some
ordinances of state
made
not been duly obeyed, his Highness, and his heirs for ever, shall have the style and honour
of
King of Ireland, and that it should be deemed high treason to impeach this title." .See Ware's Annals of Ireland, ad mm. 1542,
shortly afterwards by the regulation of those districts in Ireland not are adentirely consonant to the English laws,
the Irish Parliament, for
mirable, such as that laymen and boys should
not be admitted to ecclesiastical preferments.
1304
Rio^hachca
emeawK
1510.
[1510.
QO1S CR1OSU,
doiS CftioSc,
TTluipcfpcach Decc.
TTlile,
cuicc ceo, aDeich.

cille
mac mupchaib mic roippbealbaij eppcop
pionnabpac
Decc. QS laippibe ruccab cecup bpaifpe Rajallaij Sfan mac cacail oe obpepuanciae Don caban a hugoappap an papa. aoba uf neill Decc. bpian puab mac Domnaill mic
bpian mac
TTldj
pi lip
uf
la cloinn Remainn mic glaipne pajallaij Do mapbab

cpeice.
-|
meg macjarhna a ccopaijecc

caba bpeipne
.1.
peilim,
mac
loclairm
.1.
uaicne Decc.
uf uiccinn
O pialdn pfpgal oioe Dfppccaigce le Dan,-)

oioe
eocchan mac bpiain
Gpeann oecc.
i
an baipD cfpe conaill eoccan puab Decc mnip mic an Duipn. Sloicceab la gfpoiD lapla cille oapa (.1. an uipciy ) hi ccuicceb muman 50 maicib jalli jaoibeal laijenlaip Dia po cumoaij caiplen Dairhbeom gaoibeal
TTlac
1
Leanaip 6 Domnaill e co nuachab pochaibe ccappaicc cical, murhain piap co compaimc ppip ann pin. Uiajaic cpiap an mibe, -| ipm
muman
hi
n6alla apibem, jabaic caiplen cinncuipc, aipccic an rip. Uiajaicc mppin nofpmumain moip, gabaic caiplen na pailipi, caiplen ele ap bpu mainje
]
~\
This is the prelate called Maurice Murtough O'Brien in Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops,
p.
'
own
624.
8
He
succeeded in 1491.
See Ware's kingdoms ad ann. 1509, 1510. Annals of Ireland, ' Carraig-Cital, now Carrigkettle, a remark
succession to his
He was the head of a once Loughlin of the Kinel-Owen, at this pepowerful family
riod reduced to insignificance, and seated in the territory of Inishowen, in the now county of
Mac
able rock in the parish of Kilteely, barony of
Small-county,
castle is
and county of Limerick.
The
shewn on the map engraved from the
Down
The
Survey, under the
name
of Carrickittle.
Donegal.
c
natives state that the castle stood on the
Inis-mic-an-duirn,
now Inishmacadurn, one
top of the
its
Rock of
of the cluster of islands opposite the Rosses, in
ruins
now
Carrigkettle, but no part of remains.

i.
the barony of Boylagh, in the west of the county

of Donegal.
u
Ceann-tuirc,
e.
the head,
or,
the boar,
now Kanturk,
a small
perhaps, hill of town situated
Lord Justice
Henry
VIII.,
by new
letters
at the confluence of the rivers Allo
and Dalua,
patent, constituted Garrett, or Gerald, Earl of
Kildare, Lord Justice of Ireland,

to
and intimated
and his
whose united streams flow into the River BlackNo water, about two miles below the town.
part of the older castle of Kanturk
him by
letters his father's decease
now
remains,,
1510.]
1305
THE AGE OF CHKIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1510.
ten.
Murtough', the son of Murrough, son of Turlough [O'Brien], Bishop of

Kilfenora, died.
It was he who, by permission O'Reilly (John, the son of Cathal) died. from the Pope, first brought the Friars of the Observance into Cavan.
Brian Roe, the son of Donnell, son of

Brian, the son of Philip O'Reilly,
Hugh
slain
O'Neill, died.
was
by the sons of Redmond, son of
Glasny
Loughlin', i. e. Anthony, died. O'Fialan (Farrell), a distinguished Professor of Poetry, and Owen, the son of Brian O'Higgan, Chief Preceptor of [all] Ireland, died.
i.
Mac Mahon, while Mac Cabe of Breifny,
in pursuit of a prey.
e.
Felim, and
Mac
Mac Ward
of Tirconnell
into
(Owen Roe)
died at Inis-mac-an-Duirn'.
An army
of Ireland,
Munster by Garrett, Earl of Kildare, Lord Justice" attended by the chiefs of the English and Irish of Leinster and he
was led
erected a castle at Carraig-Cital in despite of the Irish. O'Donnell followed with a small number of troops [to assist him] through Meath, and westwards
into Munster, until
he joined him at that place. Thence they passed into Ealla [Duhallow], and they took the castle of Ceann-tuirc, and plundered the country. Then, proceeding into Great Desmond, they took the castle of Pailis*, and y another castle on the bank of the River Mang after which they returned in
,
but the walls of the more magnificent one com-
Descriptive Notices of Cork, &c., second edition,

pp. 386, 387'
menced by Mac Donough Mac Carthy in the reign of Elizabeth, and which was never finished,
still
Castle on the
remain in good preservation. See Smith's Natural and Civil History of Cork, book ii.
x
castle
bank of the River Mang This gave name to the village of Castlemaine,
is
which
and
is
called in Irish
Caiylean na IDamje,
situated on the River Maine, or

falls
Mang,
is
Pailis
This castle stood on an eminence

little to
which
into
the harbour of Castlemaine,

village.
in a
townland of the same name, a
the
about two miles below the
There
north of the lower lake of Killarney in Kerry, and in view of Laune Bridge ; but it was destroyed in the year 1837,
by a road jobber who
view or map of this castle given in Carew's Pacata Hibernia, according to which it was a It was demobridge-castle across the river.
lished
removed
its
materials for the repair of the ad-
by General Ludlow during the
Parlia-
joining highway
See Windele's Historical and
mentary wars
See Smith's History of Kerry.
SB
1306
QNNata Rioghachca
hi
eiraeaNN.
[1510.
-]
cfccaicc flan cap a naip

]
lap pin,
cconncae lujmnig. Do nfao aiccionol pluaig im Shemup mac lapla Dfpmuman co cpuinnigic geapalcaig na murhan
mac oiapmaoa apcfna, -] TTlacc capcaig piabach, Oomhnall mic pmjin, Copbmac occ mac copbmaic mac caiog, -\ goill -\ gaoibilTTlibe, -\ Uionoilio coipp&ealbac mac cai&cc luimneac. laijfn, i ciagaic lapam 50
ngallaib
muman
a pocpaiDe, ITlac conmapa Sfol ao&a Uicc an ciapla (.1. an clann RiocaipD ploig lanrhopa ele ma naghaib. na paobaije, cpe bealac na ngarhna co lupcip) cona pluaj cpe bealac Do ponab la hua mbpiain pop painicc Dpocfc cpo;nn (.1. opoicfc puipc cpoipi) anaip omce hi ppoplongpopc ip in cfp. Sionainn, bpipio piom an Dpoicfc,
uf bpiain ciccfpna cuabnrturiian 50 lion
-]
-]
"|
~\
co ccluineao each t>iob guch âbaiD 6 bpiain poplongpopc compab apoile in oi&ce pin. lap na rhapac po opoaij an lupcip a pluaj po cuip goill i jaoibil muman ap cup, ôill mi&e, i aca cliac ap Deipfb a
-\
-|
ma compoccup
Uoiplmsfb 6 Domnaill an bfccdn bui&ne po baf, anaip ap oeipeb aca cliac-] mi6e, gabaic an achgoipic cpe mofn na mbpacap amfpcc gall
ploi^.
~\
-|
50 luimneac. 17o lonnpaijpioc pluaj pil mbpiain an pluaj gall, -| mapbcap leo bapun cine, ~\ bfpnaualac cipcupcoum, ~\ pochaiDe DO DeajDaofmb nac
Uiagaic ap an pluaj gall a ccoip ma&ma poaic, pluag pil mbpiain iap nairfp -\ lap neoalaib iom6a -| nf baof Do jallaib na Do jaoi&ealaib ap an Da pluaij pin en lam ba mo clu cp66acca jaipcciD in la pin ina 6
aipimcfp.
-|
Domnaill ace bpfic Deipig ploij na ngall

TTlac muipip ciappaije, Domeach Decc. Dfccna,
]
laip.
6mann, mac comaip, mic paopaicfn poiDeac Ian
OiapmaiD mac Domnaill mic Domnaill meg capraig cluapaig Decc.

:
BecUach-na-Fadbaighe
and Bealaek-na-n-
now Monabraher,
townland in the parish of
Gamhna.
These were old names of roads or
Killeely, on the north side of the
passes on the south side of the Shannon, between
the city of Limerick and the townland of Port-
crusha
a
but they are now
obsolete.
Portcroise, Portcrusha, a townland in the parish of Castleconnell, in the county of
now
Shannon, near the city of Limerick. c The short cut to LimericLFrom this account it would appear that the Earl's party did not wait to fight their enemies. Ware a
givs
different account
of
this
:
rencounter in his An-
Limerick.
This place is not to be confounded with O'Brien's Bridge. See other notices of it at the years 1507 and 1597.
"
nals of Ireland, thus
Mom-na-m-brathar,
i.e.
the bog of the
friars,
" Both parties resolved on a Battel, and begun a sore Fight, with great loss on either side but on the Earl's side fell the his
;
greatest loss,
1510.]

They then mustered
additional forces
;
1307
of Limerick. safety to the county
and
the Geraldines of Munster, under the conduct of James, son of the Earl of
Desmond, and
all
the other English of Munster, and also
Mac Carthy Reagh
son of Fineen), Cormac Oge, the son of Cor(Donnell, mac, son of Teige, and the English and Irish of Meath and Leinster, then pro-
son of Dermot, who was
ceeded to Limerick
with
all his forces,
Turlough, the son of Teige O'Brien, Lord of Thomond,
and Mac Namara, the Sil-Aedha, and the Clanrickard, mustered another numerous army to oppose them. The Earl (i. e. the Lord Justice) marched with his army through Bealach-na-Fadbaighe and Bealach-na-nGamhnaz
,
until
he arrived at a wooden bridge (i. e. the bridge of Portcroise"), which O'Brien had constructed over the Shannon and he broke down the bridge,
;
and encamped for the night in the country. O'Brien encamped so near them that they used to hear one another's voices and conversation during the night.
On
the
morrow
the
Lord Justice marshalled
his army, placing the English
and
Irish of
Munster in the van, and the English of Meath and Dublin in the rear. O'Donnell and his small body of troops joined the English of Meath and Dublin
;
in the rear
c
.
took the short cut through Moin na m-bratharb to Limerick O'Brien's army attacked the English, and slew the Baron Kent and Barnwall Kircustown", with many other men of distinction not enumerated.
and they
[all]
The English army escaped by
triumph with great spoils. who won more fame for bravery and prowess than O'Donnell', in leading
the rear of the English army.
and the army of the O'Briens returned in There was not in either army on that day a man
flight,
off
Mac Maurice
vessel of
of Kerry (Edmond, the son of Thomas, son of Patrickin), a

hospitality, died.
wisdom and
Dermot, the son of Donnell, son of Donnell

being laden with spoils and spent with long marchings. Night ended the Battel. The next day the Deputy by advice of his Officers
Mac Carthy
Cluasach, died.
Army
of Meath, sheet 39.
" There was not of the C? Donnell, literally, Galls, or Gaels, in the two armies any hand of
e
(the
Armies keeping their Hanks), withdrew, and without any other loss returned home."
Edition of 1705.
d
greater fame for bravery and prowess on that than O'Donnell in carrying off the rere of
day
Kircustown,
in the
now Crickstown,
townland
the English army with him." The Four Masters praise O'Donnell whether he
defeats or
is
and parish
of
Meath
barony of Eatoath, and county See the Ordnance map of the county
defeated
But
this is pardonable in
them as long as they keep within bounds of truth.
D 2
1308
QNNaca Rio^bachca eiraeaNR

Oomnaill ao6
[1511.
mac ao6a puaiD DO
6ol Don poim

i
Dm
oilicpe,
-\
-]
an ccfm
nooimfnDO bai amuicch baccap a pann -| a capaio mbpon, noojailp, main ina DeaDhaiD, i TTIajnap 6 Dorhnaill a mac Dpagbail Do 03 lomcopnam
i
\
an cfpe an ccfm no biab ina peccmaip.
QO1S CR1OSC,
doip Cpiopc,
ttlile,
1511.
cuicc ceo, a haonDecc.
Qpr mac
Don 17oim)
cuinn ui neill (baoi hitlaim ace ua noorhnaill occ imceacc Do DO leccaD ap a bpaigofnup la TTlajnap mac ui oomnaill, jan cfo
DUO
oorhnaill.i
a mac
.1.
mall occ DO cechc app
njioll 16
comall jac
pior-
chana Da noeapnpar.
anopiu megbpaoaij eppcopi aipcmneac an Da bpeipne ppi pe rpiocac bliaoam, aoin cfnn po piapaijpioc goill, jaoibil, Saof i neacna -| hi eccalpa cpe poipcfcal -| ccpabab, locpann polupra no poillpicceab ruaca
Uomap mac
-\
~|
ppoicfpr, aojaipe raipipi na hfgailpi lap noiponeaD Saccapc
~\
aopa jaca
jpaiD apcfna 66 lap ccoippeccaD cfmpall
-|
peilccfD niomDa, lap ccioDnacal
cpenaib, po paoib a ppipac Docum nime an .4. calainn DO mapra (no aujupr) Dia maipc Do ponripaD i nopuim Da eiriap, mp ccocc DO coippeaccaD fccailpe ipin mbpeipne mpp an peaccmab bliaoain
SeoD
i bfo
DO rpuajaib
~\
Sfpccac a aoipi,-] a abnacal Seacrmaine.
hi
mainipcip an cabciin Dia haoine ap aof laire

Dia po goipeao eppcop ipin mbpeipne Decc pia
Copbmac mace pampa&ain

norclaicc.
Upmop
pfn oibpe cfmpaill
O
cmf6
concobaip pailje,
apDamaca Do lopccab. cacaip mac cuinn mic an calbaicc

-|
-\
peicfrh coiccfnn
oeiccpib, paoi cinnpf&na ppi jallaib,

pfin
.1.
jaoi&elaib Do mapbaD la Dpuinj Dia
clann caiDcc uf concobaip,
clann rpfain ballaij
ui
concobaip
la caob
f
mamiprpeac peopaip.
i.
After him,
e.
in his absence.
Thirty years
ol'
According to Harris's edition
caipip na hfjailpi. This phrase is translated, " Pastor fidelis Ecclesia," by Colgan, in his Trias
Tfiaum., p. 305.
'
Ware's Bishops, p. 229, this prelate sueceeded to the bishopric of Kilmore in 1489, which would leave him but twenty-two years.
h
Druim-da-ethiar,
in a barony of the
now Dromahaire, a village same name, in the county of
faithful shepherd of the Church,
aojaipe
Leitrim.
1511.]
1309
O'Donnell (Hugh, the son of Hugh Roe), went upon a pilgrimage to Rome. While he was abroad, his adherents and friends were in grief and sadness after
him f
and
his son,
Manus O'Donnell, was
left
by him
to protect the country,
while he [himself] should be absent from
it.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

Con
1511.
eleven.
The Age of Christ, one thousand jive hundred

.
Art, the son of
O'Neill,
who was
in O'Donnell's custody at his setting
out for Rome, was liberated from his captivity, by Manus, the son of O'Donnell, without leave from O'Donnell and Niall Oge, the son of Art, gave himself up in
;
his stead, as a pledge for the observance of ever}' peace
which they had concluded. Thomas, the son of Andrew Mac Brady, Bishop and Erenagh of the two
;
8 the only dignitary whom the English Breifnys during a period of thirty years and Irish obeyed a paragon of wisdom and piety a luminous lamp, that
; ;
and preaching and a faithful by shepherd of the Church" after having ordained priests and persons in every degree after having consecrated many churches and cemeteries after having
enlightened the laity and clergy
instruction
;
bestowed rich presents and food on the poor and the mighty, gave up his spirit to heaven on the 4th of the Calends of March (or August), which fell on a
Tuesday,
in
having gone to Breifny to consecrate a church, the sixty-seventh year of his age and was buried in the monastery of Cavan,
at Druim-da-ethiar
the day of the
week being
Friday.
Cormac Magauran", who was called Bishop in Breifny, died before Christmas. The greater part of the old works of the church of Armagh were burned.
O'Conor Faly (Cahir, the son of Con, son of Calvagh), general patron of
the learned, a distinguished captain among the English and Irish, was slain by a party of his own tribe, namely, by the sons of Teige O'Conor and the sons of
John Ballagh O'Conor, beside Mainistir-Feorais

k Cormac Magauran. This is the Bishop Cormac mentioned in Harris's edition of Ware's
1
.
on the 6th provincial synod held at Drogheda in an act of which they are of July, 1495,
styled,
Bishops, p. 229, as having contested the right

to the see of Kilmore with
" Thomas
et
Cormac Dei Gratia Kilmo-
Thomas Brady, menBoth

assisted at a
rensis Episcopi."
'
tioned in the last entry.
Mainistir-Feorais,
now
Monasteroris, near
13 io
QHwaca Rioshacbca eiReaww.
[1511.
mac eaibcc, mic Donnchaib, mic maoileacceallaij ITIaoilpeaclainn oecc. pfp cocaiccee a cpice, a lainn, mic uilliam mic Donnchaib muimnij a clann maicne. peicfm coiecfno Dam 1 oeopaio, pfp lapa noeap~\
caparr,
naoh caiplen jallaij an sapbboipe

TTlac
~\
TTlume an mfba.
mac Donnchaib mic aipc Oecc. mupcaba, TTlupcab ballac

ui paijillij, jlaipne mic concobaip
-]
Tomdp mac
oecc.
emann mac jlaipne

Id luce cije
mac
Gojan mac
concobaip mic Sfam uf paijillij Do
mapbab
carail ui paijillij oecc. bpiain puaib mic

~\
6 Docapcaij Do Docapcaij Sfan mac Domnaill mic concobaip Decc, jaipm DO concobap cappac. TTlac Donnchaib cipe hoilella Sfan Decc, -| a Deapbpacaip ele pCpgal
la mac Diapmaca. ranaipce cipe hoilella DO rhapbab Qpr mac cuinn mic enpf neill DO gabail cuapapcail 6 aob
i
mac Domnaill
mic
enpf.
Seaan mac
6mamn
(.1.
mic comaip 615 meguibip Do ecc.
Qn
Diolmaineac
Semap) macaipe cuipcne
Decc.
Sfain,
Qob mac
peilim mic
majnupa Do mapbab la Semup mac

ui
mic an
eppcoip meguibip.
Oubrac mac Dubraij

bpfpa moip Decc. Sloicceab la hua neill
pinne,
~\
Duibjfnndm paoi 16 pfncup, pfp ponapa,

hi
-\
paiD-
ape mac aoba
ccip conaill Dap loipcc gleann
6 puilij anall, i bfnaip bpaijDe
Dua Docaprai^.
Edenderry, in the barony of Coolestown, in the This abbey north-east of the King's County. was founded in the year 1325, for Conventual
Pranciscans, in the territory of Totmoy, or cuar od riiaiê, in Offaly, by Sir John Bermingham,
Annals of Ireland, edition of 1705
" In these days Charles, or Cahir O'Connor, -Lord of Offaly, was slain by his own Country-
men, near the Abbey of Friars Minors of Monaster-Feoris."
Earl of Louth,
who was
called
Mac
Feorais
by
the Irish, and after whose Irish surname the
now
Galiach,Garbh-dkoire,andMume-an-mhead/ia, See the Gallagh, Garbally, and Monivea

situations of those
castles
See Ware and Archdall, monastery was called and also Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops,
exact
pointed out
Tuam,
p.
610.
is
The
notice of the
death of
under the year 1504, pp. 1274, 1275, supra. n The territory of Mac Mahon's Household.
household
is
O'Conor Faly
entered as follows in Ware's
called
by English writers the
1511.]
1311
O'Kelly (Melaghlin, the son of Teige, son of Donough, son of Melaghlin, son of William, who was son of Donough Muimhneach), died. He was a supporter of his territory, friends, and sons, and a general patron of the learned and distressed. It was he who erected the castles of Gallach, Garbh-dhoire, and
Muine-an-Mheadha
m
.
Mac Murrough (Murrough

died.
Ballagh, son of Donough,
who was
son of Art),
Thomas, the son of Glasny, son of Conor O'Reilly, and Edmond, son of
Glasny, died. Glasny, the son of Conor,
who was
son of John O'Reilly, was slain by the

O'Reilly, died.
household" of
Mac Mahon.
Owen, son of Brian Roe, who was son of Cathal
O'Doherty (John, the son of Donnell, son of Conor) died; and Conor Carragh was called O'Doherty.
Mac Donough
Tirerrill,
of Tirerrill (John) died
and
his brother, Farrell, Tanist of
was
slain
by Mac Dermot.
Art, the son of Con, son of
Henry
O'Neill, accepted stipend
from Hugh,
the son of Donnell, son of Henry.
John, the son of Edmond, son of Thomas Oge Maguire, died. The Dillon (i. e. James), of Machaire-Chuircne [Kilkenny West], died. Hugh, the son of Felim, son of Manus, was slain by James, the son of John, son of the Bishop Maguire.
Duffy, the son of Duffy O'Duigennan, a learned historian, and a
affluence
man
of great
and
riches, died.
;
An army was led by O'Neill (Art, son of Hugh) into Tirconnell and he burned Gleann-Finne" and [the country] from the Swilly" hitherwards, and also
forced O'Doherty to give
him
hostages.
voge, lying to the south-west of the
Loughty. It is comprised in the present barony of Monaghan, in the county of Monaghan. This was a token of Art's infeStipend
riority to
cal,
town of
Hugh.
among
He who accepted of diaperthe ancient Irish, was considered

him who
it.
county of Donegal. " The a river in the county of DoneSwiUy, gal, which flows through the romantic valley of
Glenswilly, and discharges itself into Lough See Swilly, near the town of Letterkenny. other references to this river at the years 1 258,
Letterkenny, in the
paid Gleann-Finne, i. e. the vale of the River Finn, a romantic valley in the parish of Kilteep
the servant or vassal of
1567, 1587, 1595, and 1607.
1312
awwaca Rio^hachca
(.1.
i
eiraeciNN.
[1512.
Cenel pfpabaij
nborhnaill.
cip eoccain)
DO
leip
cpeachab la majnap ua
ccfp conaill lap 6 oomnaill -\ na cpf mfic
hi
O neill ape
nDol
f
mac ao6a DO cpumniuccaD

l?o
pluaij DO bol
Domnaill Docum na porha.

-)
jab majnup
puibne
amail ap
lomcoimfrc na cfpe apo caoipig ceneoil cconaill ace copnam, ~| ace Deac peDpac. Qp a aoi cpa po imcij 6 neill cona pluaj 6
po
-|
pliab poip,
poaip Dia cij gan cpeich gan car.
QO1S CR1OSC,
Qoip Cpiopc,
TTlfle,
1512.
cuicc ceD,
a DO Decc.
maolmoceipje corhapba Dpoma Ifcain Do bacaaD. Piapap mac cpaiDin Deccanac cloinne haoba Decc.
6
Qob
Niall
mac
cuinn mic
ao6a buiDe mic bpiain ballaij

-\
neill
cijeapna
meoaijce 6po, ecclap pfp ajrhap aiceapach na rucc ciop no coma Do cloinn neill no Do cloinn noalaij na Dpiop lonaiD Rij Sa^ron, pfp ba cianpoDa pen paojal, pfp fpccna eolac ap 506 nealabam ecip Shfncup, Dan, Shfmm Do ecc .11. Qppil.
cpm
conjail, pCp
eimj
coiccinn,
-)
-j
Qpc mac cuinn mic neill jaipb f Domnaill Decc (33. Decembep) DO caom a abnacal 50 honopac ip an noun na ngall, cinip hi mup na mbparap
i
-\
mamipcip.
Uuacal
noan, pfp
6 cleipij
nje
6 cleipicc) mac caiDcc cairn paof hi pfncup "| hi aoibfb coircinn Do cpenaib.i Do cpuajaib Decc lap nongaD, ~\
(.1.
lap naicpige .12. nouembep.
Domnaill C(o6
oilicpe lap
mac aoba puaiD Do coiDeacc mbfic pe peccmame Oecc hi lonDain ace

i. e.
on
Roim
lap ppopbaD
Dol poip,-| pe
peccmume
'
The mountain,
lying to the north-east of the
the range of Barnesmore, town of Donegal.

literally, sine prceda,
Inquisitions,
is
moceipje, the
family,
now translated to Early. IDael name of the progenitor of this

"chief of the early rising,"
is
Without prey or
sine proelio
battle,
signifies,
This
is
the Irish
mode
of expres-
sing to battle."
'
'
" without
and hence Early

translation,
u
considered a sufficiently full
acquiring any spoils or coming
Of
Maelmocheirghe.
This name,
which
is
Clann-Hugh, a district comprising the mountainous portion of the barony of Longford, in the
correctly anglicised
O'Mulmoghery in the Ulster
county of Longford.
1512.]
1313
Kinel-Parry, in Tyrone, was totally plundered by Manus O'Donnell. O'Neill (Art, the son of Hugh) mustered an army, and proceeded into Tirconnell, after O'Donnell
-
had
set
out for Rome.
Manus O'Donnell,
the three
Mac
Sweenys, and and defend the country

battle'.
they from the mountain" eastwards, and returned to his house without prey or army
;
the principal chieftains of Tirconnell, proceeded to protect could and O'Neill passed on with his as well as
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1512.
twelve.
Hugh
Pierce
O'Maelmocheirghe', Coarb of Dromlane, was drowned.
Mac
Craidin,
w
Dean of Clann-Hughu
died.
Hugh Boy, son of Brian Ballagh O'Neill, Lord of general hospitality, exalter of the [religious] orders and of the churches, a successful and triumphant man, who had not paid tribute
Niall, the
son of Con, son of

,
of Trian-Congail
man
to the Clann-Neill or
or to the deputy of the King of England, a man of very long prosperity and life, and a man well skilled in the sciences, both of history, poetry, and music, died on the llth of April.
Clann-Daly
Art, the son of Con, son of Niall
Garv O'Donnell, died of

y
,
fit
of sickness,
on the 23rd of December, inMur-na-mbrathar

interred in the monastery.
at
Donegal, and was honourably
the O'Clery), the son of Teige Cam, a man learned in history and poetry, who kept a house of general hospitality for the indigent and the mighty, died, after unction and penance, on the twelfth of November.
Tuathal O'Clery
(i.
e.
finished his pilgrimage,

to
O'Donnell (Hugh, the son of Hugh Roe) returned from Rome, after having and having spent sixteen weeks in London on his way
his return.
Rome, and sixteen weeks on

w
He
received great honour and
This territory comprised Trian-Congail. the districts in the counties of Down and Antrim, afterwards called Clannaboy,
O'Neills, or O'Donnells,
who were
e.
the two
clo-
minant families in Ulster at

y
this period,
Upper and
Mur-na-mbrat/iar,
i.
the house of the
Lower
See other references to this territory
at the years 1383, 1427, 1450, 1471, 1473, 1483,
1485, 1489, and 1493.

1
preserved, and is now applied to the rector's house, in the town of Donegal, which occupies the site of the house
friars.
This name
is still
The Clann-Neill, or Clann-Daly,
i.
e.
to the
of the friars.
SE
13 i4
aNNdta Rio^hachca
eireeaNN.
[1512.
oecc ele ace ceacranoiji. puaippiorh OTiaonoipi aipmioin 6 Rij Sa;ran3&in5 co hepinn,-] baof 16 haraib hi ppiabpup pan mibe, han]ii, rdnic mpam flan 06 caimcc Dia ace, -| bd pubac popbpaoili cealla
-\
lap
ppabdil pldmce euaea Dia coibecc. Coccab mop cap
-\
6 noomnaill
-]
6 neill
.1.
ape mac aoba. Coccab ele beop
cap
6 noorhnaill
-|
mac
uilliam bupc
hi
Gmann mac
RiocaipO,
-|
Ro
pope
manac, ua oomnaill cuicc ceo Decc cuacc DO pao buannacc ooib ap na hionabaib pin, Do caoo pom eab connacc, 6 Doipe 50 panjaoap icecap TTlajnap cona pocpaioe amailte ppiu lapam connacc, appiDe njailfngaib, puibic im caipten beoil an cldip, po gabab
cefp conaill hi pfpaib
hi ccuicc~\
-|
i
-j
-]
pdjbaip a bapoa ann, loccap cap anaip anuap cpe pliab jam, 1 hi cap piacpac, bacrap annpibe achaib Da naimpip. Oo cualaTTIac uilliam bupc an ni pin ccrnicc 50 lion a pocpaioe a rnmceall an caiplein pin beoil an claip in po pdccaib 6 oomnaill a bapoa, O Ro clop la hua noomnaill mac
an baile
laip.
uilliam DO bfic imon mbaile, luib 50 haclarh imepccaib cap a aip puap cpe l?o picap mac uilliam 6 Domnaill oo bfic oia pliab jam, paijib po paccaib
an baile conac puce ua Domnaill paip, Do caoo mac uilliam hi ccip piacpac, 1 pocuip I6n~] bapoa hi ccaiplen eipcpeac abann lap na bfm DO buccapacaib an baile pfm Dia ccapo 6 oorhnaill e piap an can pin. O Ro pioip 6 Domnaill ab hi ccip piacpac Do jab mac uilliam po Ifn 50 nfmlfpcc e jup
nfrhj-abal
cap a aip apfp cappna plebe gam.

1
Oo
"
cuala mac uilliam pin pdsbalp a
Gaileanga.
The country of the Gaileanga,

in
When
the
moone gave
or O'Haras and O'Garas,
Connaught, com-
ham"
[being at the
light Kichard Bingof Bennada] " arose, abbey
prised the entire of the diocese of Ardagh, in the counties of Mayo and The name is Sligo.
and addressing himself and companye marched towards Belclare, seven myles from the abbeye
in the
now
a
retained in the barony of Gallen, in the
highwaye towards the enemy.
Here one
county of Mayo.
Bel-an-cldair, now Ballinclare, a townland in the parish of Kilmacteige, barony of Leyny (a part of the ancient Gaileanga),
Sligo,
of the espyalls came in bringinge news that the Scots lay still encamped at which
where there
is
and county of an old castle in ruins, said
Ardnarye, was twelve myles from the foresaid abbeye of Banneda, and eight myles from the abbeye of
Belclare."
to have
been erected by the family of O'Hara. The situation of this castle appears from the
bllowing passage in Dockwra's Account of Services done in
this passage
Connaught by Sir Richard Bing-
ham
language of the original of very faulty in the use of the pronouns, and the Editor has been obliged to deviate from it. The literal translation is as folis
"
And ifey.The
lows
1512.]

King of England, King Henry.
ill
1315
respect from the
He
laity
arrived safely in Ireland,
but was
for
some time [lying]

;
of a fever, in Meath.
On
recovering his health,

at
he went home to his house

his return.
and the clergy and
were glad and joyous
A great war
Hugh). And O'Donnell hired fifteen hundred liam Burke (Edmond, the son of Bickard). axe-men in Tirconnell, Fermanagh, and the province of Connaught, and billeted
[broke out] between O'Donnell arid O'Neill (Art, the son of another war also [broke out] between O'Donnell and Mac Wil-
them on those
places.
He and Manus
afterwards marched with their forces
from Derry, until they reached Lower Connaught, and from thence into Gailez and they besieged the castle of Bel-an-Chlair a and they b took the town, anga
; ;
and
left their
warders in
it
they then returned over Sliabh
Gamh
c
,
into Tire-
where they remained for some time. When Mac William Burke heard of this [occurrence], he marched with all his forces, and surrounded the castle of Bel-an-Chlair, in which O'Donnell had left his warders [but] when O'Donragh,
;
besieging the town, he returned vigorously and expeditiously over Sliabh Gamh. Mac William, being apprized of O'Donnell's approach, left the town, so that O'Donnell was not able to overtake him.
nell
heard that
Mac William was
Mac William
then proceeded into Tireragh, and placed provisions and warders d in the castle of Eiscir-Abhann having [previously] taken that castle from its
,
hereditary possessors, to
whom
When
O'Donnell was informed that
O'Donnell had sometime before given it up. Mac William had gone into Tireragh, he
;
followed him eagerly and expeditiously back again over Sliabh Gamh but Mac William being made aware of this, he left his son and heir, Ulick, son of
"
He went
afterwards, and
Manus with
their
forces along
with them, from Derry until they
d Eiscir-Abhann, now Inishcrone, near the River Moy in Tireragh. On an old map of the
reached Lower Connaught, thence into Gaileanga, and they sat around the castle of Bel-anchlair,
coasts of Donegal, Leitrim, and Sligo, preserved in the State Papers' Office, London, this castle
is
leaves his warders there.
and the town was taken by him. He They went back up

this
shewn under the name of Uskarowen, and
through Sliabh
construction
is
Gamh, and into Tireragh." The sudden change from they to he in

it
" placed near the margin of the Baye of the the island of Bartragh, and in Moye," opposite the parallel of Killala.
castle
In the year 1432, this
very inelegant, and the Editor

in his translation in the text.
has not adopted

c
Sliabh
Gamh.
See other references to this
was in the possession of Teige Eeagh See Genealogies, O'Dowda, Lord of Tireragh and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, pp. 169 Tribes,
and 305.
mountain at the years 1285 and 1490.
E2
dNNata raioshachca eiReawN.

mac
-|
[1512.
bapoa ele amaille pip DO luiD pfm poime amail ap oeine conipin ccaiplen pin eipccpeac abann, DO mapcpluaij f oomnaill pabapc pdinic oocum aipo na piaj. Ruccpac apaill mcc 50 po cuippfc a mamm e po ap mac uilliam, Ificcicc ma oeaohaio Daofne lomba pnam namuaioe. l?o Ifna6 rap muaiD anonn e, DO bfnao eicq De, i cepna ap ficcin uabaib. Soaip 6 oorhnaill cona pluaj, q puiDic pa mic uilliam. Ro gabaD an caiplen caiplen eipcpeac abann aipm ambaof mac anacal Don bapoa. Do bfpc emeac leo po cfno cfirpe la lap mop paocap,
a
oiDpe, uillfcc
mac 6mainn, mic

-|
Riocaipo,
-\
-]
-\
-\
njiallup aije. T?o popcongaip an IfccaD 50 lap, Do com laparh Dia caiplen Do cop ap uaicnfoaib mp pin, i po cicc co mbuaiD ~\ copccap. Uanaicc cpa mac uilliam ma Diaib lap pin 50 Dun
Gpjabrap mac mic
uitliam laip 50 mbaof
Do bfpc a ojpiap oua Domnaill, leigib 6 Domnaill a mac la mac uilliam Dia ci.
na ngall,
"|
SlcoiceaD la hua nobmnaill
hi
rcfp
eojam 50 maicib
\
loccaip connacc
-|
pfpmanac, -\ co mbuanoaoaib lomoa, Do pai jiD neill aipc mic aoba. niillceapi loipccceap leo ceoup cfp eoccampfmpa no 50 panganrap Dun ngfnainn.
bacrap peccmam ipin cfp agd milleab co ccapacc ua neill pi'6 Doib, co po maic Oua Domnaill jac accpa DO mbaof fcip a pinnpfpaib .1. cfop ceneoil moain, innpi heojain, pfpmanac uile. Uicc ua Domnaill mppm Don ojmaij-)
~\ -|
cumoaijip caiplen na hojmaije ppf pe

cille
aom cpeccmaine
hiapla Dapa pecc piam -| pajbaip ua Domnaill a SloicceaD la jfpoicc, mpla cille Dapa nipcip na hepearn
cconnaccaib, Cpeacaip
-\
lap na bpipeaD la bapDa ann.
cap dc luain 'hi connmaij, jabaip Rop comain pdccbaip bapoa ann, Ufio lap pin hi maij luipcc-] gabaip caiplen baile na huama lap milleaO mopam Don cfp. Uicc ua Domnaill plua mop Dia ccoip
loipeip clann
-j
ipin
coipppliab oagallam an lapla oi&ce ceona co bpficpliab Da

e
-|
Do oenam a Oala
-|
pip.
dec
cap a aip an
poplonjpopc pfm,
po mapbao bfccdn oia
Be placed upon posts, i. e. when a breach was made in one of the walls towards its base,
to introduce a
then dragged from under
prop to sustain
the
superin-
cumbeut weight while the men would be uudermining the next wall, under which, when
undermined, a similar prop should be introduced, and so on till all the base of the walls of
the building were removed.
it by means of ropes pulled by men or horses, and the edifice turnbled often without breaking into fragments. f " Permitted his
son, literally,
O'Donnell
let
his son [go] with
Mac William
to his house."
This is the Irish Before them. " as pressing they passed along."
"
mode
of ex-
The props were
Baile-na-huamha,
now Cavetown,
near the
1512.]
1317
Edmond, son of Rickard, and other guards along with him, in the castle of Esker-Abhann, and he himself marched forward, with all the speed that might Some of O'Donnell's horsemen, espying Mac William, went be, for Ardnarea.
in pursuit of him,
and drove him
to flight,
and
to
swim
across the
Moy.
He
;
was followed across the Moy, and many horses and men were taken from him but he made his escape from them. O'Donnell returned with his army, and laid
of Eiscir-Abhann, siege to the castle
wherein the son of

;
Mac William was and

;
and O'Donnell gave protecafter four days' great labour, they took the castle He took the son of Mac William prisoner, tion and guarantee to the warders.
and detained him as a hostage. He then ordered that the castle should be placed upon posts', and it was tumbled to the earth, after which he returned
home with
to Donegal,
to
victory and triumph.
Mac William
;
afterwards followed O'Donnell
f and gave him his own demands [and] O'Donnell permitted his son go home with Mac William. hosting was made by O'Donnell, accompanied by the chiefs of Lower
Connaught and Fermanagh, and many hired

O'Neill (Art, the son of
soldiers,
into Tyrone, against
Hugh). They Dungannon.
first
them 1
until they reached

it,
ravaged and burned Tyrone before They were for a week in the country
made peace with them, and relinquished in favour destroying of O'Donnell every claim that had been [in dispute] between their ancestors, O'Donnell namely, the rents of Kinel-Moen, Inishowen, and all Fermanagh.
until O'Neill
then came to Omagh, and in the space of one week re-erected the castle of Omagh, which had been some time before broken down by the Earl of Kildare
;
and O'Donnell
left his
own warders
in
it.
An
[the
army was led by Garrett, Earl of Kildare, Lord Justice of Ireland, across Shannon at] Athlone, into Connaught. He plundered and burned Clann-
Conway, took Roscommon, and left warders in it. He afterwards proceeded h to Moylurg, and took the castle of Baile-na-huamha after having destroyed a
,
great part of the country.
O'Donnell set out with a numerous army on foot to the Curlieu mountains, to confer with the Earl, and to form a league with him. He returned back the
same night
to Breic-Shliabh', to his
own camp
'
but a few of his people were

and 1527-
small village of Croghan, in the barony of Boyle, and county of Roscommon See other references
to this castle at the yeurs 1487, 1492,
Breic-ShliaM.
\.
e.
the speckled mountain.
13 is
aNNdta Rioghachca eiReawN.

ipin
[1512.
mumcip ace ceacr cap a aip

Sliccij, i
mbealac mbuioe. Ro p uib
laparii
im caiplen
f concobaip uile, -\ ni pocc po milleab laip oticaij p leacra bpiain laip an baile oo jabdil Don cup pin. Sloicceao la gfpoiD mpla cille Oapa lupcip na hepeann ap cpian conjail Dia po jab caiplen beoil pfippce,-] Dia po bpip caiplen mic eoam na njlinne, Don rfp, ~\ cue mac neill mic cuinn mbpaij1 Dap aipcc na glinne, -\ -mopan
i
Dfnup
laif.
ap jiollamic coippbealbaij meguiDip, baccap pliocc plaicbeppdc|iaicc pilip raicc meguiDip in ppappao Domnaill, Dol Doib ap baile bon abann, -] cpeaca DO glacab leo, bpipceap lapam poppa, po bfnao a ccpeaca Dib. 17o
Inopaiccibla Dorhnallmac
bpmm
mic oomnaill nnc enpf
neill
mac
-|
mic bpiain mic po baibeab oponj Da muincip im mac majnappa mapbab, Domnall mac imp moip, concobaip oicc mejuiDip ecip baile bono abann, an pfca hi ppfpann na hapoa mumnpe bpiain pfin DO jabail hi ccamnaij luinm naonb'ap Da mumcip Do babab hi ccapaib mmncipe banain an la
-j
-\
-\
ceona.
Pilip
mac coippbealbaij meguibip cona
cloinn,
napa megpampabdin Do bol ap lonnpaiccib hi Denamh Dofb ap coippbealbac mac aoba mejpampabafn (canaipce an cfpe), 1 coippbealbac pfipin Do mapbab hi ccopaijecc na cpeice hi'pm, loccap
clann comaip mic majrceallac eacbac, ~\ cpeac DO

-|
appibe po cpancoicc mesparhpabafn po gabab leo an cpannocc, -] mac parhpabdin pfin 56 DO baof cinn, pacaibceap lapam mac pampabdin Daij nip
now Brickliff,
to the west of
Tirerrill
or Bricklieve, a mountain situated
Lough Arrow,
in the
1
in the baronies of
and Corran,
*,
county of Sligo
350, p. 598, supra,
O'Conor, King of Ireland. n Bun-abhann, i. e. the river's mouth, now Bunowen, the name of a level district at the
See note
k
under the year

i.
mouth
the yellow road, an old Bealac/t-buid/ie, road over the Curlieu mountains See note *,
e.
of the River Arney, in the barony of Clanawley, on the west side of Lough Erne, in
the county of Fermanagh.
There
is
an island

the year 1499,
1
p.
1238, supra, and also
in the lake opposite this district called
Greagh-
p.
1252.
Bunowen.
of
Sligo,
literally,
Laid
siege to the castle
Inis-mor.
This
is
the island called Inis-
" sat round the castle of Sligo." m 'Brian 0''Conor Charles O'Conor interOf
polates
mor Loch-mBerraidh, under the year 1367,

p.
638, supra, where the Editor has inadver-
luini, which
is
correct, for
all
the
tently stated that these

It should
names are now
obsolete.
O'Conors of Sligo were descended from Brian Luighneach, one of the sons of Turlough More
have been there stated that the name

is
of the island
now corrupted
to Inishore,
and
1512.]
slain

on
his return
1 ,
1319
through Bealach-Buidhe". He afterwards laid siege to the and destroyed all the country of the descendants of Brian castle of Sligo m O'Conor but did not succeed in taking the town on that occasion.
,
army was led by Garrett, Earl of Kildare, Lord Justice of Ireland, into and he took the castle of Belfast, demolished the Trian-Chongail [Clannaboy]
An
castle of
a great [Bissett] of the Glynns, plundered the Glynns and son of Niall, son of Con [O'Neill], away into portion of the country, and led the
Makeon
captivity.
An
Henry
tion
attack
was made by Donnell, the son of Brian, son of Donnell, son of by the descendants of Flaherty Maguire, against
O'Neill, being joined
Gilla-Patrick, the son of Philip, son of
Turlough Maguire. townland of Bun-abhann", and seized upon into the
He made
spoils
;
an irrup-
but he was
afterwards defeated, and stripped of those spoils. Many of his party, besides the son of Manus, son of Brian, son of Conor Oge Maguire, were slain and
drowned between the townland of Bun-abhann and Inis-mor

,
Donnell, the son
p of Brian himself, was taken prisoner at Tamhnach-an-reata in the land of Arda-
Muintire-Luinin*
r
1 ;
and nine of
his people
were drowned
his sons
at
Caradh
Miiintir-
Banain on the same day.

Philip, the son of
Turlough Maguire, with
and the sons of Thomas,
son of
Manus Magauran, made an

;
incursion into Teallach-Eachdhach [Tully-
haw], and took a prey from Turlough, the son of Hugh Magauran, Tanist of the territory and they slew Turlough himself [as he followed] in pursuit of the prey. From thence they proceeded to the Crannog of Magauran, which
they took
that'the
;
and they
also
made
a prisoner of
p
Magauran
himself, although
he
name Loch m-Berraidh is still preserved
Tamhnach-an-reata,
now Tawny,
in the pa-
and correctly anglicised Lough Barry. It is a part of the Upper Lough Erne, and contains
several islands,
rishes
rish of Derryvullan,
in the barony of Tirken-
nedy and county of Fermanagh,
which belong partly to the paof Derryvullan and Aghalurcher, on the

and partly to the parish of
east of the lake,
Arda Muintire Luinin, now Arda, a townland in the parish of Derryvullan aforesaid, For a curious notice of the family of Muintir
q
Cleenish, in the barony of Clanawley, on the west of the lake. The island now called Inishore-
Luinin, or O'Luinins, see note

1441, p. 924, supra.
r
f
,
under the year

the weir of
tin-
Lough Barry contains an area of nine

belongs to the parish of
acres,
and
Caradh-Muintir-Banain,
i.
e.
Aghalurcher
Seethe
family of O'Banan,
now capcm Ui 6hunuin,
Ordnance map of the county of Fermanagh, sheets 27 and 33.
anglice Carry vanan, in the parish of DerryvulIan, about fifty chains to the south of Belle Islt-
1320
QNNata Rioshachca
eirceaNN.
.1.
[1513.
einann puab mac ui Raijilbj peoacap a cabaipc leo. Rucc mporh mac aoba mic cacailap na mancacaib pin-) ap mac majnaif. bpipcfp laip oppa, l?o mapb'ab Donnchab mac Remainn mic pilip meguibip, pibp mac eojain
-]
mic oomnaill ballaij mejui&ip, Clob

-|
mmpcfpcac pua6 mac mupchaib, Ro beanab beop eic iom6a biob ipin to pin. aibib ele, TTlac mejui&ip bpian mac emainn mic comaip Decc. TTlac pampa&ain cacal mac ae&a mic eoccain Decc, Do comap mac majnupa mejpampa&ain.
-]
mac eojam mic coippbealbaijj meûibip, Semap mac mic cpaic meguibip co poc-
~\
cijeapna Do jaipm
TTlac
cijeapndm
(.1.
uilliam) ceallaij
Duncaba Decc.
pailje mac maolmopba ui pajallaij Do rhapbaD la cloinn cpfain mic eojam mic Domnaill bain la pemup mac coippbealbaij mic eoccain nDpuim
i
]
Ifcain.
UaDcc mac Domnaill
in
bpiain Decc,
-\
bpian
mac Domnaill mic caiDcc
mic coippbealbaij Decc po cfnD Ifc pdice lapam.
QO18 CR1OSU,
Qofp Cpiopc,
TTluipip 6 picceallaij
TTlile,
1513.
cuicc ceo, a cpf Decc.
aipDeppoc ruama maijipcip Diaoacca po ba mo
clu cleipceacca ina aimpip pern Decc.
Qn
coippicel majconjail Decc.

oipjiall,-]
Roppa mac TTlajnapa meg machsarhna cicceapna

maoileclainn
ui
Ua&cc mac
ceallaij
(.1.
nccfpna ua maine) Decc.

i
poplonjpopc DO oenam Dua Domnaill ccimcell Sliccij 6 pel bp^hoe co cincciDip, ap a aof nf po jab an baile ppip an pe pin, po mapBab oume DO rhumcip ui Domnaill Don cup pin Niall mac Gperhom DO cloinn uapal
-|
.1.
cpuibne pomace.
House.
sheet 27.
5
See the Ordnance
map
of Fermanagh,
'
Six weeks, Ifc paice,
i.e.
half a quarter of
a year.
Mac
Tiernan,
now Kiernan and Kernan,
OTihdly.
For a curious account of
this
name very numerous
in the barony of Tullagh-
singularly gifted prelate,
who was
called Flos
donaghy, or Tullyhunco, in the west of the county of Cavan.
Mundi by his cotemporaries, and " who had for many years taught the liberal arts with univer-
1513.]
1321
was
but they afterwards left him behind, because they could not [convethem. The son of O'Reilly, i. e. Edmond Roe, the son niently] take him with of Hugh, son of Cathal, afterwards came up with these men of Fermanagh, and
sick,
grandsons] of Manus, defeated them, and slew Donough, the son of Philip Maguire son of Redmond, Philip, the son of Owen, son of Donnell Ballagh Maguire Hugh, the son of Owen, son of Turlough Maguire
with the son
[recte
Murtough Roe, son of Murrough and James, the son of Magrath Maguire, and many horses were taken from them on that day. besides many others
; ;
of Maguire (Brian, the son of Edmond, son of Thomas) died. Magauran (Cathal, the son of Hugh, son of Owen) died and Thomas, the
;
The son
son of
Manus Maguire, was
styled Lord.
Tiernan' of Teallach-Dunchadha (William) died. Failghe, the son of Maelmora O'Reilly, was slain at Drumlane by the sons of John, son of Owen, son of Donnell Bane, and James, the son of Turlough, son of
Mac
Owen
[O'Reilly].
;
Teige, the son of Donnell O'Brien, died and Brian, the son of Donnell, son of Teige, son of Turlough, died in six weeks' afterwards.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1513.
thirteen.
thousand Jive hundred
Maurice O'Fihelly", Archbishop of Tuam, a professor of divinity of the highest ecclesiastical renown, died.
The
Official
Mac
Congail" died.
Manus Mac Mahon, Lord of Oriel, and Teige, the son of Lord of Hy-Many, died. Melaghlin O'Kelly, O'Donnell formed a camp around Sligo, and remained there from the FesRoss, the son of
tival
of
St.
that time.
Bridget to Whitsuntide he did not, however, take the castle in all gentleman of O'Donuell's people was slain on that occasion, i. e.
;
Niall, the son of
Heremon, of the Clann-Sweeny of Fanad.

w
sal
applause at Padua," see Harris's Edition of
Mac
Gonga.il.
This name
is still
it is
extant in
Ware's Bishops, Tuam, pp. 613, 614, and Writers, pp. 90, 91-
the county of Donegal, where

glicised Magonigle.
usually an-
8F
13 22
aNNdta Rio^hachca
i
eiraeaNN.
[1513.
Caccd occ mac Domnaill mic eocchain uf concobaip, mac ciccfpna ba pfpp emec moccap connachc DO mapbab la a gliocup baf fngnarh, gooff Goccan mac oorhnaill hi ppiull la raob baile uf giollgdin, bfpbparaip pfin ceacc DO bpficfmnap oipeac DC, eogan pfin DO cpochab la hua nDorhnaill
-]
-\
.1.
po cfnn cpf la mppan canpin. na cceall mbfcc ipm G6gan ua mdille Do recr luce cpi long 50 cuan amac ppappab uf Domnaill, oibce, i maire an ripe an can pin ap eipge
i
lomba ann. Rucc DoinCnn Qipccic, 1 loipccie an baile, -\ gabaic bpaigOe Do nfaD cfinnce, -] cfnpoppa gup bo hficcfn Doib anamain nimeal an cfpe
i
odla
Rucc macafm occ afofbach Do cloinn cpuibne impocctip a long. poppa .]. bpian~| clann bpiain mic an eappaic uf jallcubaip, i buibfn pcolocc co Dfijmfipmg, i mapbcap leo 6ogan 6 mdille -| 1 baclac, -\ lonnpaigicr IOD
in
cufcc picic no
a pe amaille
-|
ppip, 1
bfncap Da luing Diob,
")
na bpaigDe po
âbpac cpe miopbuilibh De caicfpiona ipa baile ]io pdpaijpioc. O Domnaill Do ool bfccdn pfbna in Qlbain ap cocuipeab pig Qlban, mp apccaba ccop licpeac-] ceaccab ap a cfno, lap nDol poip DO puaip onoip,
-|
)
lap ccafmclub comhaiple pappab, Don T?ig gan cecc in epinn arhail po rpiall, cicc 6 Domnaill Dia cig lap ppagail guapacca moip Do pop muip. TTlac uilliam bupc Gmann, mac RiocaipD, mic Gmamn, mic comdip, pfp
inopa on T?ij,
~\
lap mbfir pdire DO
ma
~\
Dap bo muincip na huipo,
pacap
.1.
na hollamain DO rhapbab hi ppiull cloinn a bfpbcepoiD piabach,"] 6mann cfocapac Da mac Udceip mic Riocaip.D.'
-\
Qpc mac Qoba hi ccpian congail Dia po loipcc Dia po cpeac na glinne. Rucc mac neill mic cuinn []] mac inbilin magline, ap CUID Don cpluaig, po mapbab Qob mac uf neill Don cup pin. Ceccmaio
Sloicceab Id hua neill
~\
.1.
-\
an pluag
x
-]
an coip ppi apoile ap na rhapach,

"
po mapbab TTlac
St.
uibilin
.1.
now
i.e. O'Gilgau's town, a townland in the parish of Ballygilgan, Drumcliff, barony of Carbury, aud county of
Baik-Ui-Ghiolgain,
St. Catherine.
Catherine
is
the patron
" after his
east
saint of Killybegs.
*
On
his arrival there, literally,
Sligo.
See the Ordnance
map
of that county,
sheet 8.
y
going to the east," O'Donnell's country.

b
Scotland
lying
of
Killybegs,
cealla beacca,
is
i.
e.
the small
Changed, cafriicluo.
This word
is
transp.
churches.
iriving
This
the
name
of a small
town
lated mutatis
by Colgan
in Trias
Tkaum.,
295,
name
to a
harbour in the barony of
and
Banagh, and county of Donegal.
occurs again in these Annals in that sense at the year 1536. It would appear from
it
1513.]

Owen O'Conor,
Owen, son
1323
Cathal Oge, the son of Donnell, son of

hospitality, prowess,
son of a lord, best in
wisdom, and prudence, of all that were in Lower Connaught,
was treacherously
Baile-Ui-Ghiolgain
slain
r
.
by
his
own
brother,
of Donnell, adjacent to
The just judgment
of God followed, for
Owen
himself was
in three days after this evil
deed hanged by O'Donnell. Owen O'Malley came by night with the crews of three ships into the harbour of Killybegs y and the chieftains of the country being all at that time in
;
O'Donnell's army, they plundered and burned the town, and took many prisoners in it. They were overtaken by a storm [on their return], so that they were
compelled to remain on the coast of the country

torches close to their ships.
and they lighted
fires
and
youthful stripling of the Mac Sweenys, i. e. Brian, and the sons of Brian, son of the Bishop O'Gallagher, and a party of farmers and shepherds, overtook them, and attacked them courageously, and slew
O'Malley, and five or six score along with him, and also captured two of their ships, and rescued from them the prisoners they had taken, through the
Owen
miracles of
God and
St.
Catherine
21
whose town they had profaned.
O'Donnell went over to Scotland with a small band, at the invitation of the
King of Scotland, who had sent letters and messengers for him. On his arrival He remained with there*, he received great honour and gifts from the King.
him
a quarter of a year. After having changed the King's resolution of coming to Ireland, as he intended, O'Donnell arrived at his house, after having encountered great dangers at sea.
Mac William Burke (Edmond, the son of Rickard, son of Edmond, Thomas), a man whose domestics were the Orders [Friars] and the
son of
Ollavs
slain by the sons of his brother, viz. Theobald [Chief Poets], was treacherously two sons of Walter, the son of Rickard. Reagh and Edmond Ciocrach",
was led by O'Neill (i. e. Art, the son of Hugh) into Trian Chonhe burned Moylinny, and plundered the Glinns. The son of gail, by which Niall, son of Con, and Mac Quillin, overtook a party of the army, and slew
An army
Hugh, the son of

this passage that
O'Neill.
On
the next day the

c
army and the pursuers met

domestics,
King James IV. of Scotland

O'Donnell's
fate of
Whose
cap Bo mumcip,
i.
i. e.
to
meditated an invasion of Ireland.

"
whom
d
they were
as a family.
e.
advice,
and the recollection of the
Edward
Edmond
Ciocrack,
Edmond
the greedy,
Bruce, would appear to have deterred him.
or ravenous.
8F2
1324
aNNata Rio^hachca eirceaNR

-\
[1513.
Ripofpo mac RuDhpui&e, cap a aip mpam.
Dponj oalbanchoib lap an plo,
-\
rice 6 neill
cloinn jepoirc mic Caiplen Duinlip DO jabail la liUa nDomnaill ap umilin, i a cabaipc Do cloinn Ualcaip mec uibilfn. mac neill mic aipc ui neill Decc .6. augupc, a abnacal noun na
Qpc
-]
nâll.
Gojan puab mac puibne DO mapbab la Donnchab mac coippbealbaij ui baofjill.
cloinn a
Deapbpacap
pfin,
-]
le
ap copbmac labpac Inopaicchib cille oo cabaipc la ca&cc an cai&cc mic oomnaill oicc, ap njaipm meg capfaigh Da jach pfp nfb, a conpapail Do ool amach ap cfgh paibe Copbmac Do lopccab, -\ e pfin i UaiDcc Do mapbab leo, -| copbmac cona rhuincip niman
)
na Ifrhna
mac
cfgh,
-)
conpapal
cechc 50 hajmap aicfpach

co bap caiocc.
TTiac
Dfpmuma DO
cabcc,
poinn ap Do ecip
copbmac
-]
cabj
macj5amna Decc
.1.
mac
coippbealbai^, mic caibcc mic oonnuf
chaib na plaice.
macgamna Concobap
hipin.
piorin
mac concobaip mic Diaptnaca

-|
marsamna
Decc, pfp Do cuaiDh cap lamaibh pinnpfp
poipfp hi
ccfnoup a onichce an
concobap
e
Then returned home,
literally,
"and
O'Neill
comes back afterwards," which is very rude and imperfect, and the Editor has taken the
liberty of substituting then for afterwards.
1
nal of the Irish civil wars of 1641,
written oun liBpe by the writer of a short jourwhich is the

;
present Irish form of the name Dunluce that by Dunlios the Four Masters meant
luce, in the
but
Dun-
Dunlis,
of
i.
e.
the strong fort.
compound
Dun and
liop, in
which oun becomes an adsignifies strong or fortified.
lu> county of Antrim, no doubt can of Ireentertained. Ware says in his Annals
jective to loip,
and
The name
is
now
anglicised Dunluce,
which
is
land under this year, that "Donald [the son of Walter] Mac Guillin took the Fort of Dunluse
in Ulster
that of a celebrated castle on the north coast of
by
assault."
is
For some account of
thi.
The word ounlior is the county of Antrim. used by Keating in the sense of a fortified resi1
castle the reader

Statistical
referred to Dubourdieu's
dence, as will be seen in the following sentence:
a laitti 50 ounlior- TTIhaoila paibe pealao a njeibionn yeachlamn map

"6eipit> Turgesius
Survey of the county of Antrim, PP- 64, 578, 609, and Hamilton's Letters concerning the North Coast of Antrim, pp. 7, 117g -4
treacherous attack, mopaicciD cille,
i. e.
uca, they conveyed Turgesius a prisoner to the diinlios of Maelseachlainn, where they dei.
e.
claen-mofai jib. in c\le. In Cormac's Glossary the word cil

explained by claen, false, treacherous.
]}
The
should not be doubled

is
tained
him
is
for
some time
in captivity."
This
name
latinized
Dunlifsia
by Colgan, and
Teige-na-Leamhna,
i.
e.
Teige, Thaddreus, or
1513.]

Mac
Quillin,
i.
1325
each other, and
e.
were
slain
by the army.
f
And
Richard, the son of Rury, and a party of Scots, 6 O'Neill then returned home
.
The castle of Dun-lis was taken by O'Donnell from the sons of Garrett Mac Quillin, and given up to the sons of Walter Mac Quillin. Art, the son of Niall, son of Art O'Neill, died on the sixth of August, and
was interred
at
Donegal.
slain
Owen Roe Mac Sweeny was
by the sons of
his
own
brother and
Donough, the son of Turlough O' Boyle. A treacherous attack 8 was made by Teige na Leamhna" upon Cormac Ladhrach, the son of Teige, son of Donnell Oge, each having been styled Mac Carthy:
and the house that Cormac was
in
made
their
way
out of the house, and slew Teige's constable'
was burned, but he himself and his constable and Cormac and
;
his people departed successfully
and triumphantly.
Desmond was
divided into
two parts between Cormac and Teige,
until the death of Teige.
MacMahon
Glaice) died.
(Teige, the son of Turlough, son of Teige, son of
Donough na
O'Mahony (Conor Finn, the son of Conor; son of Dermot O'Mahony) died. This Conor made his way to the chieftainship of his native territory in despite
of the Sinsear and the Soisear".
Timothy of the Leamhain,

river in the
aiiglice
Laune,
Scotland
See Uolgan's
Ada Sanctorum,
iii.
p.
252,
county of Kerry, which rises in the north-west extremity of the lower lake of Kil-
and O'FIaherty's Ogygia, part

81.
'
cc.
32 and
bay of Castlemaine. Acording to the Bardic Histories of Ireland this river first began to spring in the
larney, and discharges
itself into the
Teiye's constable,
i.
e.
the captain of his re-
tained Gallowglasses,
>
Mae Mahon.
This was
Mac Mahon
of
reign of Sirna Seaghlach, or Sirna the Longlived, who was monarch of Ireland, according to
Corca-Vaskin, in the south-west of the county of Clare, in Munster, not Mac Mahon of Oriel,
in Ulster.
k
O'FIaherty's Chronology, in the year of the world 3360. Dr. Smith thought that the name of this
river
is
was derived from
Ian, full;
but the name
In despite of the Sinseur and tioiseai; i.e. in despite of his senior and junior rivals; tup
laiiiaili
not Ian, but leamhain, which might be inter-
in
this sentence
i.
means
literally" be-
pretedthe insipid river, or river of the elm trees;

but, according to the Irish Shanachies, it was derived from the name of a lady. There is a river of the same name, and more correctly anglicised Leeen, which flows out of Loch Lomond in
yond
their hands,"
e.
beyond
their exertions;
the hands of both senior and junior rivals being

raised to prevent
him from making
his
way
to
the cfnoup,
.
headship
or chieftainship
of his-
native territory of Ivahagh.
1326
aNNdta uioshachca
QO1S CRIOSU,
eirceaNH.
[1514
1514.
Cloip Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceo,

-]
a cfraip oecc.
CCoO mac gillicpipc f piaic biocabb cfnannpa, paepaicc 6 ouiblfchdin Oecc. aipi QipiO bpopcca O Neill Ctpc, mac Qo6a, mic eojam, mic neill oicc oecc. pfp cuiccpeac
cocaccac, aipbfpcach, ealaonach, cpoba, cfnoapach, eipioe, ap pob annam mac cdnaipce na ciccfpna pop cenel eojain piarh poime. Ctpc mac Cuinn mic Gnpi ooiponeaO na lonab.
uf bpiain Oo mapbao 50 naimofrhail mfojaolmap mic mupchaiO f bpiain .1. TTIupchab, i oonnchao. ôja la clomn coippbealbaij Oo cpooacc an cf copcaip oo roracc, oo cpuap, pfp nepeann oo lairh
)
Oonnchao mac concobaip
-|
annpin.
Ua6cc na
ICmna,
map nap
le
paoilm,
mac oomnaill, mic caiOcc meg capcaij oecc pe haOapc imop milleao oa ccamicc oia aicme pfp ap mo po mill,
"]
cuimne cdich.
Cfnoup pfona mop la hiapla cille oapa, uaip oo imcij cpe coicceab ulab Cln ciapla ceona oo co cappaic pfpjupa,"! an rhuma 50 pailfp megcapcaig;. ni oob annam 6ol im Ifim f bandin, laip gan an caiplen Do bpipeao no oo
-\
jabctil,
cfio Oia cij Oo cionol ploiji opoanaip bao mo. ap po peo QSeao camic oe pin oopom galap a ecca Oia jabdil co nepbailc oe. 6a Rioipe ap jape jaipcciO, ba piojoa, piajalca bpiacpa bpfra an cf cfpca
ni
nf 06.
-]
annpin
1
.1.
êpoicr
lapla.
anglicised Doolaghan,
O'Duibhleachain,
now
year 1513,
"
p.
1325, supra.
without the prefix O.
Been Lord of Kinel-Owen, na riccfpna pop cinel eoâin .i.'na rijeapna onona ctjeapna,
i.
ra
See the situation of this pointed out under the year 1510. The word pailip is
Pailis.
e.
in his lord,
tanist,
it
i.
e.
a lord. His father,
Hugh, who
generally applied to old forts, in the sense of palace of the fairies.

q
was the
ship,
never attained to the chieftain-
Leim-Ui-Bhanain,
its
i.
e.
O'Banan's
leap.
and
a tanist,
reignty,
n
had seldom occurred that the son of who had not succeeded to the sovein a
This castle bears
name
to the present
day
had the good fortune to be made O'Neill,

i.
Unbecomingly, riiiogaolrhap,
e.
man-
among the few who speak Irish in its vicinity, but it is now generally called by the translated name of the Leap Castle. It is situated in the
barony of Ballybritt, which
.
ner unbecoming kinsmen.
Teige-na-Leamhna.
See note
h
,
under the
is a part of Ely O'Carroll (now in the King's County), and
1514.]
ANNALS OF
THP;
KINGDOM OF IRELAND.
1514.
1327
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1 ,
thousand five hundred fourteen.

Kells,
Patrick O.'Duibhleachain
Abbot of
and Hugh, the son of Gilchreest

,
O'Fiaich, Vicar of Airidhbrosca [Derrybrusk]
died.
Hugh, son of Owen Oge) died. He was an intelliand seldom, gent, powerful, nobly-acting, scientific, brave, and majestic man had the son of a Tanist been Lord of Kinel-0wenm before him. Art, indeed, the son of Con, son of Henry, was inaugurated in his place.
O'Neill (Art, the son of
;
Donough, the son of Gonor O'Brien, was vindictively and unbecomingly"
by the sons of Turlough, son of Murrough O'Brien, namely, by Murrough and Donough. The slain had been the choice of the men of Ireland for his dexterity of hand, puissance, vigour, and bravery.
slain
Teige-na-Leamhna the son of Donnell, son of Teige Mac Carthy, died in his bed, as was not expected, he being a man who had destroyed more, and about whom more had been destroyed, than any one that came of his tribe,
,
within the
memory
of man.
;
Great generalship [was exhibited] by the Earl of Kildare

the province of Ulster as far as Carrickfergus, and
p
.
and he overran
Munster
as far as the
q
,
Mac
The same Earl went to Leim-Ui-Bhanain and, Carthy's [castle of] Pailis what was seldom the case with him, he neither broke down nor took the castle, for he was not able to do it any injury. And he [therefore] returned to his
house, to collect
more
taken with a disease,

rett,
and larger ordnance but of which he died. The man who

forces
;
it
happened that he was

namely, Garin his
thus" died,
the Earl
r
,
was a knight
in valour,"
and princely and religious
words
and judgments.
nearly
crea
midway between
Birr, Kinnity, and EosSee other notices of this castle at the
forces, lie
he
fell sick at
began his inarch, but on his journey Athy, where he kept his bed for
years 1516 and 1557.

r
Garrett, the Earl.
The Four Masters should
have entered the death of this Earl under 1513.
a few days, and died on the 30th of the Nones of September. Immediately after his death the of Ireland was, by assent of the government
According to Ware's Annals of Ireland, this

Karl, after having resolved to prosecute the
war
Privy Council, conferred on his son, Gerald, by the name of Lord Justice, and the King afterwards, by
with
in
sufficient forces in
Ely-O'Carroll, at length,
collecting his
new
letters patent,
constituted
him
the
month of August, 1513,
Lord Deputy of Ireland,
1328
aNNdta uio^hachca
'
eiraeciNN.
[1514.
Sloicceab la hiapla cille oapa J5 e P 01 cc occ 1 Die mop DO Denurh Doib innce Don cup pin .1.
mac
Raigillij;
sepoicc, ipn mbpeipne, Gob mac cacail
DO rhapbab laip, pilip a bfpbparaip, -j mac DO pilip, i êpoicc mac Gmamn mic Gomdip ui paijillij. Qccmab ennf DO mapbaD cerpe pip oecc Duaiplib
1 DapDriiaicib
mumcipe pajaillij cenmo cd pochaibe Dia muinap. Ro gabaD ITiaine mac marsarhna. ami bfop TTIdg caba DO bpipeab la hua noomnaill in epaic a ciila pacain Do âbail, Caiplen
.1.
)
pldna Do bpipeaD Do Dorhnall ua cardin. Cpeaca mopa Do Denarii la hUa nDorimaill
nâilfngaib Dap loipcc-j Dap
6 I?ua6ain laip i pocaibe ele. aipcc an cfp 50 cpuachan gailfnj, -\ mapbcap Coccab ofipcce ecip 6 nooriinaill (Qob mac Qoba puaib), ~] 6 nell (Gpc rnac cuinn),
hi
~\
mopan Daoineab opoprab

i
Doib ap 506 caoib,
~]
a mbfic a bpaD
nafirh,
-]
naghaib apoile,-] a cecc Do jpdpaib an ppipaic ppoplongpopc a nDajbaomeab pfbcaipDrriiail DO benarh Doib pe poile, Do coriiaiple
In
-|
a nDol
caipofp cpipc Do benarh Doib le chele, capcacha nuaa (amaille le Dainsmuccao na pfncapcac) DO rabaipc la hua neill DUO borhnaill ap cenel modin, ap imp Gojain, ap pfpaib manac, Do cabaipc a riific map aipccib Dua neill Niall 6cc baf appaD 1 oDorhnaill
ccfno apoile ap opoicfc QpDappara,
]
-|
-|
.1.
piap an can pin illdirh aicce nsioll le caipipeacc. Coblac long ppaoa, baDDo cappainj la hua noomnaill pop loc Gpne, a bfir pe pooa na corimaibe ninip cerlenn. oilein cuil
i
-]
-]
Clipccip
loipccip
na noipfp,
.1.
DO jnf pfb pe pfpaib manach lap ccop a curhacc poppa. TTlac an lapla moip mac êpoicc Do jabdil lap an mpla 6cc henpg e r' cr occ 5
-[
.1.
-
mac Cuinn 50
InDpaicchib la hQob mac Domnaill,! nell, -] Id conn mac neill ap Shfan cluain Dabail, baile Shfam DO lopccab led Cpeaca an cfpe
-]
Cruachan-Gaikang, now Croaghan, a well-
known
Tribes,
district in the parish of Killasser,
barony
agreed that O'Neill should become sponsor, or godfather, to the first child that should be born
to O'Donnell,
of Gallen, and county of Mayo
See Genealogies,
and that O'Donnell should become

first
map to
'
and Customs ofHy-Fiachrach, p. 487, and the same work, on which the position of
shewn.
sponsor to the
O'Neill.
child that should be born to

reli-
This formed a most sacred tye of
this district is
O'Ruadhain, now anglicised Rowan, without

They became gossips
each other,
gious relationship among the ancient Irish. See Harris's Edition of Ware's Antiquities,
p_ 72.
"
the prefix 0.
"
to
i.
e.
they
The islands of Cuil-na-noirear
These are
1514.]
An
into
i.
army was led by the Earl of Kildare (Garrett Oge, the son of Garrett) Breifny, and committed great havock in that country on that expedition,
e.
he slew O'Eeilly (Hugh, son of Cathal), his brother Philip, a son of Philip,
;
and Garrett, the son of Edmond, son of Thomas O'Reilly in short, fourteen of the gentlemen and principal chieftains of the O'Reillys, with a great number Mac Cabe (Many, the son of Mahon) was, moreof their people, were slain.
over, taken prisoner.
The
castle of Coleraine
was taken and demolished by O'Donnell, in revenge
of Donnell O'Kane's violation of his guarantee.
O'Donnell committed great havock in Gaileanga he burned and plundered s and slew O'Ruadhain', and many the country as far as Cruachan-Gaileang
;
,
others.
A war arose between O'Donnell

(Art, the son of for a long time
Con)
(Hugh, the son of Hugh Roe) and O'Neill and they hired many persons on both sides, and remained
encamped opposite each other. It happened, by the grace of the Holy Ghost, and the advice of their chieftains, that they made a friendly on the bridge of peace with each other, and came to a meeting with each other
and they became gossips to each other". And new charters were given by O'Neill to O'Donnell (together with a confirmation of the old charters) O'Donnell also delivered up, as a of Kinel-Moen, Inishowen, and Fermanagh.
Ardstraw
Oge), whom he had for a wng time before in his custody as a hostage for the observance of fidelity. O'Donnell went with a fleet of long ships and boats upon Lough Erne, and
free gift, to O'Neill, his [O'Neill's] son (Niall
took up his abode for a long time in Enniskillen. He plundered and burned v the islands of Cuil-na-noirear and made a peace with the people of Fermanagh,
,
after
The
imposing his authority upon them. son of the Great Earl [of Kildare]
(i.
e.
Henry, the son of Garrett) was
taken by the
Young
Earl,
i.
e.
Garrett Oge.
O'Neill,
An
irruption
son of Niall,
and Con, the into Cluain-Dabhaill", against John, the son of Con and they
;
was made by Hugh, the son of Donnell
beautiful islands in the

site
Upper Lough Erne, oppo-
references to this place at the years 1486, 1506.
the barony of Coole, which was anciently called
cull na n-oipeap, i. e. angulum portuum, the corner or angle of the harbours. There are other
See this passage repeated under the year 1515. On an old map of Ulster, "Cluain-Dabhaill.
made
in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, or James
I.
8G
13so
dNNCK-a Rioshachca eiReaNN.
[1515.
oo cop pfinpa Ooib. cpfcha DO bfm ofob,
O
-|
neill,
-]
TTlac Domnnaill Do bpfic
baD ann
bpipeaD oppa. mac nell, TCuaiDpi mac coippDealbac, mac neill mic Clipc, pailje aooa mic aipc, Oorhnall ballach mac Gipc an caiplem, CtoD mac Gmainn mic aipc neill. Do mapbaD 6 QoD ann Da mac mec a iopp .1. dpc occ
.1.
-|
i
oppa coip cpom, na Cuiccfp Do pliocc aipc i nell DO map-
-)
mapbaD ann beop pelim occ 6 meallain, -| Conn 6 concobaip, -] po bfnaoh oeich neich pichfc Do Chonn Don cup pin. mac pelim mic Piapup mac an abbaiD moip mesui&ip, -| ^lollapacpaicc
bpian. 17o
majnapa
Decc.
odlaij
copcumpuaDraDgmac
DonnchaiD, mic caiDcc, mic cfpbaill, oioe
le Dan, pfp cije aoiohCoh coicchinn Decc
ma
cijh pen hi ppmaij bfpa,
-|
aDnacal
maimpcip copcumpuaD.
aois CRIOST:,
1515.
Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceD, a cuicc Decc.
mac capmaic eppcop Rara bor Decc. Gojan mac aipc mic coin, mic aipc mic cacmaoil eppcop
TTlfnma
J5iollapacpaicc 6 hulcacam pfppun achaiD bfici Decc.
clocaip Decc.
Semup mac comdip puaiD mic an abbaiD meguiDip i mac pemainn mic an pepdpum meguiDip Do mapbaD lap an ccomapba maguiDiphi ppeaponn claofninnpe.
and now preserved in the State Papers' Office, London, this locality is shewn under the name of
New
CLANDAWELL, and
as
bounded on the north and
Quay, in the parish of Abbey, barony of Burren, and county of Clare. At this place is shewn the site of an old stone house, in which
north-west by the River Blackwater, and on the south by Armagh and Owenmagh, or Emania.
O'Daly
school
;
is
said to have
it,
and, near
is
at the
kept a poetical or bardic head of an inlet of
The River Dabhall, which

hill, falls
flows through Rich-
into the Blackwater near Charlemont,

is
shewn the monument of Donough More O'Daly, a poet and gentleman of much
the
sea,
and Loch Dabhaill

x
in the
same
vicinity.
celebrity in his time, of

stories
whom many traditional

See
also
p.
With a strong body of
troops,
i.e.
coip cponi,
a strong or
are
told
in
the neighbourhood.
125, and
literally,
"a heavy
pursuit,"
Tribes
and Customs ofHy-Many,
large
y
body of pursuers."
the side
note
literally,
On
of Hugh, 6 aoo,
i.e.
"there
under the year 1 244, p. 308, supra. The abbey of Corcomroe, i.e. the abbey of
,
were killed from Hugh,"

people.
z
from
or q/'Hugh's
the territory of Corcomroe, which comprised the entire of the diocese of Kilfenora. In the
Finaigh-Bheara,
now Finny vara,
near the
Caithreim Toirdhealbhaigh, at the year
267,
it
1515.]
1331
burned John's town, [and] they sent the preys of the country before them. O'Neill and Mac Dounell, with a strong body of troops V pursued and overtook
them, deprived them of the preys, and routed them [in a conflict, in which] were slain five of the descendants of Art O'Neill, i. e. Turlough, the son of Niall, son of Art; Failghe, the son of Niall; Rory, the son of Hugh, son of Art;
Donnell Ballagh, the son of Art-an-Chaislein and Hugh, the son of Edmond, There fell also on the side of Hugh y the two sons of Macson of Art O'Neill.
;
Art Oge and Brian. Felim Oge O'Meallain and Con O'Conor and Con on that occasion.
a-ghiorr
[Mac Kerr],
i.
e.
There were
thirty horses
also slain there
were taken from
Pierce, the son of the great abbot, Maguire,
and Gilla-Patrick, the son of
Felim
Mac Manus,
died.
O'Daly of Corcomroe (Teige, the son of Donough, son of Teige, son of Carroll), a professor of poetry, who kept a house of general hospitality, died at
2
Finaigh-Bheara
and was buried
in the
abbey of Corcomroe".
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

Meanma Mac Carmac", Bishop
Owen,
Clogher, died.
1515.
The Age of Christ, one thousand jive hundred fifteen.

of Raphoe, died.
the son of Art, son of John, son of
Art Mac Cawell
Bishop of
Gilla-Patrick O'Hultachain, Parson of Achadh-beithe [Aghavea], died. James, the son of Thomas Roe, son of the Abbot Maguire, was slain
by
Maguire, the Coarb, on the land of Claoininis [Cleenish].

is
called the
the east of Burren.
abbey of Burren, and the abbey of This abbey, which was
Pouldoody, and interred in this abbey. b Meanma Mac Carmac In Harris's edition
of Ware's Bishops, p. 274, he is called Menelaus (or Menma) Mac Carmacan. He was educated at Oxford, and died in the habit of a
founded in the year 1194, by Donnell O'Brien, King of Thomond, is situated in the parish of
Abbey, in the barony of Burren. Its church, which was built in a beautiful style, is still in
good preservation
;
and
its
chancel contains a
Franciscan friar on the 9th of May, 1515, and was buried at Donegal in the convent of the
tomb having
O'Brien,
in
a figure of
Conor na Siudaine
at
same order.
c
who was
at
killed
by O'Loughlin Burren
the head of
Mac
Cawell.
He
succeeded in 1508.
See
1267,
Bel-a-chlogaidh,
Harris' edition of Ware's Bishops, p. 187.
8o2
awwaca Rioghachca emeaNN.

Oomnall mac aoba puaib
naill
i
[1516.
bomnaill DO mapbab le haob mbuibe 6 noom-
pa cuaic blabaij, 25. nouembep. On giolla oub mac roippbealbaij meguibip Oecc. Uabcc mac noippbealbaij mejuibip oecc cpe birm fpccaip puaip. Ua6cc 6 huiccinn,-) uacep bpfrnac oiap pacapc DO babab la caob leapa-
jabail.
Cacal mac pCpS 1 mic Domnaill bam uf pajallaij Decc. Coblac long ppaoa la hua nDomnaill aoD occ mac aoba puaiD pop loc Do pipfD laip Daim&eoin na an loc 50 pope na cpuma Dimreacc eipne, la a plojaib pop oilenaib clomne loipccce ile DO Denam cfpe, mapbca,
-|
~\
-]
emamn
cfccrhail DO Dpumg Don noipjiallaib, (Qpr) apr balb mac meg marsamna paof cpluag ppi mumcip mej macjamna, emann. ua conoalaij cinnpfbna DO mapbab lap an pluaj,
i
mesuibip. SloicceaD la hua neill
-)
.1.
-]
QO1S CR1OSC,
Qoip Cpiopc,
1516.
mile, cuicc ceo,
aSe oecc.
Uilliam mac oonnchaib uf pfpjail eppcop na hangaile Decc.
Qn
coipcinneac 6 muipjeapa
.1.
mall Decc.
oocapcaij (concobap cappac) Decc. mac concobaip mic romaip oicc Do mapbab le bpian occ mag macajamna, i le cloinn Donnchaib meguibip.
TTlac meguibip bpian
clomne ceallaij .1. colla Do mapbao. Coccab mop Deipje ecip 6 nDomnaill -\ 6 neill, -] popoab mop Daoine DO benam la gac njeapna aca. Cpeaca mopa DO benam la TTTajnup 6 noomTTlac Domnaill naill ap enpi
laip.
mbalb 6
aibble
neill,
Cpeaca
uprhop an cfpe tnle 6 pliab apceac DO lopccab ele DO benam la bpian 6 neill hi ccenel TTIoein.
~\
Tuath-bhladhack, a district in the north of
O'Dugan's topographical poem, anciently belonged to the families of O'Cearnachain and O'Dalachain.
Tirconnell,
which according
to
cuicim, and so translated by D. F. f Port-na-crumct, i. e. the port or harbour of
Crum, an
island in the
Upper Lough Erne,

it
in
the barony of Coole, or, as

stands
'A fall, eapcap. This word is used throughout these Annals to denote a fall, the same as
was anciently called, Cull na n-oipeap, on which Crum Castle now

See this overrunning of Lough Erne,
1516.]

Roe O'Donnell, was
slain
1333
Donnell, the son of Hugh

at
by Hugh Boy O'Donnell,
Tuath-bhladhach", on the 25th of November.

Gilla-Duv, the son of Turlough Maguire, died. Teige, the son of Turlough Maguire, died, in consequence of a
e
fall
which
he
got.
Teige O'Higgin and Walter Walsh, two

Lisgool.
priests,
were drowned alongside of
son of Donnell Bane O'Reilly, died. O'Donnell (Hugh Oge, son of Hugh Roe) went with a fleet of long ships upon Lough Erne and he passed over and searched all the lake as far as PortCathal, son of Farrell,
;
who was
na-Cruma
trated
f
,
in despite of all the country.
His troops upon
this occasion perpe-
many slaughters and burnings upon the islands of the sons of

;
Edmond
Maguire.
and a part of this army met led by O'Neill (Art) into Oriel and slew Art Balbh g the son of MacMahon, a distinguished Mac Mali on's people,
,
An army was
captain,
and O'Conolly,
i.
e.
Edmond.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
William, the son of
Christ, one
1516.
sixteen.
Donough The Erenagh O'Morissy (i. e. The son
O'Farrell,
Bishop of Annaly [Ardagh], died.
Niall) died.
O'Doherty (Conor Carragh) died.

of Maguire (Brian, the son of Conor, son of Thomas Oge) was slain by Brian Oge Mac Mahon and the sons of Donough Maguire.
Mac Donnell
of Clankelly
(i.
e.
Colla) was
slain.
;
war arose between O'Donnell and O'Neill and each lord hired a Great depredations were committed byManus O'Donnell great number of men.
upon Henry Balbh O'Neill, and the greater part of the country from the mountain inwards was burned by him. Other great depredations were committed
by O'Donnell, already entered, evidently from a different authority, under the year 1514, where the islands of the sons of Edmond Maguire are called
island of Coole-na-norior.
A great
Crum
island
is
one
of these,
and
still
belongs to the barony of
Coole-na-norior.
s
OiUm
cuile
ncl
noipeap, the
Art Balbh,
i.
e.
Art the stammering.
1334
oorhnaill
aNNdca Rioghacnca eiReaww.

-\
[1516.
cenel pfpaDaij DO lopccaD laip, lapam Do bol hi ccip eoccain, cig plan t>m cij laparh. 1 an cfp uile gup an abamn Dan hamm iina, occ mac aoDa puaiD lap Caiplen pliccijj Do jabdil la hua noorhnaill ao6 mbfic achaiD paoa ina peccmaip. Qp amlam appfcc laip a jabail, Rioipe
-]
ppancac Do cocc Dia oilicpe co pupjaccoip pacpaicc pop loc gepcc, T?o gab ace ceacc' ceo ppuaip onoip, DO paijiD f Domnaill ace Dol aipmioin cioD-]
-|
DO ponpac aoncaiD ~\ capaopab pe apoile,-] T?onnjeall laicre,-] cabapraip, an Rioipe pin long ap a mbiaD gonnaDa mopa DO cop DO paiîD uf Domnaill accd lomcopnarh ppip. TCo lap na clop DO 50 paibe an caiplen pin Sliccij
-\
comaill eiccin an RiDipe an nf pin uaip Do piacr an long co cuan na cceall mbfcc. Ro peolaD piap jac nDipeac DO paijiD pliccij, ~| 6 Dorhnaill cona
i
T?o pocpaioe pop rfp co companccacap Do muip, ~] DO cfp imon mbaile. bpipeaD an baile leo pia piu puaippioc he, -| DO bfpc 6 Domnaill tnaicfm nanacail Don bapoa. Do caoo na Domnaill ap pin hi ccfp noilella, gabaip
)
caiplen cinle maofle, caiplen loca ofpccain, i Dun na mona an la pin. p5hi CCUID Dib, -| cucc gialla -] baip bapoa bpaijoe on CCUID ele. Ro mapbaD
Dna Tflac DonnchaiD baile an

ploicc ui Domnaill le
rhoca,-]
mac mic DonnchaiD ace ceacc
hi
ccfnD
oonnchaD mac coippDealbaij f baoigill. Cicc ua Domnaill plan Dia ncc lap mbuaiD ccopccaip mppin. Caiplen mic puibne pcinacc .1. Rciic maolain DO cuirim. O Domnaill DO 6ol po 61 pop y^lnaijeaD hi ccip neoccam, gan racup
-\
no cfsmdil pip innce, na Diojbail oipoeapc DO Denarh aip na laip ace an cfp
Dimcecc
i a hupmop Do rhilleab. CoccaD ecip jeapalcacaib Semup mac muipip

-|
.1.
oibpe na hiaplacca,
DO puiDe im loc ngaip.

h
Rob mD
aipij
a pluaij TTlas capcaij caipppeac

'
Kinel-Farry, now included in the barony of Clogher in Tyrone.

-
The castle ofLough-Dargan, nowCastledargan,

See note', under the year 1422.
i.
in the parish of Kilross, near Colooney, in the
Una, now
Oona,
stream which flows
county of Sligo.
through the parish of Clonfeacle, in the barony of Dungannon, and sits county of Tyrone, and
pay
tribute to the Black water, near Battleford
See the Ordnance

"
Map
Bridge. of Tyrone, sheet 61.
situated in the parish of Kilross, in the barony of Tirer rill, is now called Doonamurray, but in the deed of partition of
is
Dun-na-mona, This castle, which
e.
the fort of the bog.
Lough Gerg, now Lough Derg, in the barony Tirhugh, in the county of Donegal See note , under the year 1497, p. 1238,
supra.
the Sligo estate, 1687,

alias
it is
called
Downamory,
a small
Downamony.
Rath-Maelain,
now Rathmullan,
1516.]
1335
by Brian O'Neill in Kinel-Moen. O'Donnell burned Kinel-Farry", and the whole country, as
afterwards returned safe to his house.
afterwards went to Tyrone, and far as the river called Una', and
The
castle of Sligo
it
Roe), after
was taken by O'Donnell (Hugh Oge, the son of Hugh had been a long time out of his possession. It was thus he suc:
French knight came upon his pilgrimage to St. Patrick's ceeded in taking it k Purgatory on Lough Gerg and on his arrival, and "at his departure, he visited O'Donnell, from whom he received great honours, gifts, and presents and they
; ;
formed a great intimacy and friendship with each other and the knight, upon to learning that the castle of Sligo was defended against O'Donnell, promised
;
and the knight, too, performed that promise, send him,a ship with great guns She was steered directly for the ship arrived in the harbour of Killybegs.
;
westwards to Sligo and O'Donnell and his army marched by land, so that They battered the town very much they met from sea and land at the town.
;
before they obtained possession of
warders.
and O'Donnell gave protection to the From thence O'Donnell proceeded into Tir-Oililla, and on the same
it,
1 ,
day took the castle of Cuil-Maoile [Colooney], the castle of Lough Deargan m and the castle of Dun-na-mona in some of these he left warders, and he
;
brought away hostages and prisoners from the others. Mac Donough of Ballymote and his son were slain, as they were coming towards the army of O'Donnell, by Donough, the son of Turlough O'Boyle. O'Donnell then returned home with victory and triumph.
The
castle of
Mac Sweeny Fanad,
i.
e.
Rath-Maelain",
fell.
O'Donnell made two incursions into Tyrone, without battle or opposition, or without sustaining or inflicting any remarkable injury except traversing
,
the country.
A war broke
out
among
the heir to the earldom, laid
and James, the son of Maurice, p The chiefs of his army were siege to Loch Gair
the Fitzgeralds
;
.
town consisting of a single street on the west

inargin of
of Knox, which has preserved the walls in tolerable preservation to the present day.
Swilly, in the barony of Kiland county of Donegal. The castle macrenan,
Lough
of Rathmullan was soon after rebuilt
by Mac
it,
Remarkable injury, oto^Bail oipoeapc, i. i\ without receiving or inflicting any celebrated

harm. Loch Gair, now Lougli Gur, a lake in the parish of Knockany, barony of Small County,
P
Sweeny Fanad, and
in the year 1618, this castle, to
and a small Carmelite abbey attached
were
converted into a dwelling-house by the family
1336
.1.
QNNata Rio^hachca
mac
pinjin,
eirceciNR
[1516.
oorhnall
Copbmac 65 mac
cojibmaic mic caiDcc,
Copbmac
mac DonnchaiD
-|
oicc
meg capcaij cijeapna Galla, an RiDipe
pionn, RiDipe
-|
an jlfnna, an pulaing an rpluaij
Rioipe ciappaijeac, TTlac muipip, i 6 concobaip,
mag capcaij mop
.1.
copbmac laDpac.
-|
cuip lomUicc Sfan mac
an lapla oeccaofne a imne le Dal ccaip ap po baf coDac, clfmnap fcoppa, bd hi mop injfn oonnchaiD mic bpiain Duib bfn an cSfain pin. Gipjip uaip ncc piapup ua bpiain ppi bdiD connalbup, cionoilip cuabmuimnij, 1 mac Semuip buicilep, i apaile Da pann ina Docom, i ciajaiD Do paijiD an
~\
)
cpl6i
jfpalcaij.
OD
connaipc
mac an mpla maice moppluaij
pfl
~\
mbpiain
Da lonnpaijiD apf comaiple DO ponpac jan reaccmail pe poile, pdccbdil amlaiD pin. an baile gan baogluccaD 50 po pgappac pe poile TTlag capcaij mop .1. copbmac luDpac mac raiDcc cijeapna DTpmuman an ci ap pfpp puaip cijeapnap, ap mo puaip Do coccaD no 50 paibe na
, "|
rljeapna gan ppfpabpa, an cf ba pfpp DO cfnn DeopaiD

pfcc
-|
~\
oeiblen ba pfpp
piajail DO cijfpnaDaib
f
Ifice
mocca
i
Decc.
Caiplen baile
cfpbaill
jfpoiD mac 5fp6io mp baf ipin aimpip pin caiplen Do baD cpuaiDe bpipeaD im cfno a bapDab he.
bdndin Do jab'dil le hiapla cille Dapa ppfimDfb a jabdla Dia acaip, ~\ ap Dfcmaic ma po
.1.
Ifim
copnam
"]
conjrhdil
map 50 po
~l
mop DO rabaipc Demann mac comaip buicilep ap piapup buicilep, ap mac mic piapaip, Dpong mop Da mumcip od mbuanDaDaib DO buam
TTIaiDm
-]
-|
Dibh.
TTlac conmiDe bpian 6cc
mac
bpiain puaiD Decc.

native.
It should
and county of Limerick, about two miles and a

half to the north of the
be constructed as follows
town of
Bruff.
Here
are the ruins of a great castle and other milltary works erected by the Earls of Desmond.
q
lapla maice moppluuij; Da icnnpai jio, ap f coiinaiple Oo pi mbpiain P'jne jan ceaccmail ppiu, ace an baile
opaccb'ail
Oo
connaipc mac an
Dal-Cais,
i.
e.
the O'Briens of
Thomond
i.
jan baojlujao; ajup po pgappac
and their
r
correlatives.
Of the
race of Brian, Sil mbpiain,
e.
of
The meaning is, that pin. when James, the son of Maurice, who was bepe poile ariilam
sieging the fortress of Lough Gur,
who descend from Brian Borumha, who was Monarch of Ireland from 1002 till 1014.
the O'Briens,
$
had perceived
the
army
of the O'Briens
The resolution he came

literally,
ponpac,
ap comaiple oo consilium quod ceperunt. Here

to,
i
raise the siege,
marching upon him to he retreated with his besieging
forces so expeditiously that the O'Briens did not
the construction of the sentence
is
faulty, be-
think
'
cause the son of the Earl
is
the leading nomi-
it prudent to pursue him. Parted from each other, po pjappac pe poile.
1516.]

:
1337
[the following]
Mac Carthy Cairbreach

; ;
Oge, the son of Cormac, son of Teige

the
(Donnell, the son of Fineen) Cormac, the son of Donough

;
Cormac
Oge Mac
;
White Knight the Knight of Glyn the Carthy, Lord of Ealla [Duhallow] Knight of Kerry Mac Maurice O'Conor and the sustaining tower of the
; ; ;
army, Mac Carthy More (Cormac Ladhrach).

to
q
,
John, the son of the Earl, went
complain of his distress to the Dal-Cais for there existed friendship and for More, the daughter of Donough, son of Brian Duv affinity between them,
[O'Brien],
O'Brien, with friendship and respect, rose out and assembled the Thomonians, and was joined by Pierce, the son of
this
was the wife of
John.
James
Butler,
and others of
" 1
his confederates
and they advanced to meet the
Geraldine army. When the son of the Earl perceived the nobles of the great 5 array of the race of Brian approaching, the resolution he came to was, not to
come
an engagement with them, but they parted from each other

to
1
.
to leave the
town unharmed
and thus
Mac Carthy More (Cormac Ladhrach, the son of Teige), Lord of Desmond, one who had best acquired [earned] his lordship, and who had encountered
most hostility until he became Lord without dispute, the best protector of the destitute and the needy", and of best law and regulations, of all the lords of
Leath-Mhodha,
died.
i.
The
it.
castle of O'Carroll's town,
e.
Leim-Ui-Bhanain
w
,
was taken by the

and defended
Earl of Kildare (Garrett, the son of Garrett), his father having failed to take
There was scarcely any castle at that period better than this, until it was demolished upon its warders.
fortified
by Edmond, the son of Thomas Butler, to Pierce Butler and the son of Mac Pierce, and he deprived them of a great number of
their people
A great defeat was given

Mac Namee
and bonaghtmen [hired
soldiers].
(Brian Oge, the son of Brian Roe) died.

See Leap, in Ely-O'Carroll, near Roscrea note q under the year 1514. This fine old
,
i.
e.
is still "
they parted with each other ; and this idiom used in English, though evidently faulty,
The needy, oeiblen.
This word
is
used in
castle
now forms
a part
of the residence of
old Irish manuscripts in the sense of orphan, or any helpless person. In the Feilire Beg, a
H. Darby, Esq. It occupies a high bank immeand commands diately under the hill of Knock,
a splendid
manuscript in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, it is glossed by "debitis .1. nn&ann." w Leim-Ui-Bhanain, now the castle of the
view of the lofty
acclivities of the
mountain of Sliabh Bladhma, the ancient bulwark of the O'Carrolls. Ware, in his Annals
1338
ctNNata Rio^hachca eiReaNN.

f
[1517.
UoippDealbac mac bpiam uaine

TTlac
ppioll la
comapba na caippcce oecc. xif concobaip Do mapbaD hi bpiain caoic mic caiDcc mic eojam mic eoccain, q DO pliocr an cfppmac caiDg na cuaie mic peilim
gallcubaip
CIOIS C171O8U, 1517.
Qoip Cpiopr,
mile, cuicc ceo,
a Sechc oecc.
]
O
mac
concobaip pailje bpian mac cai6cc mic an calbaicc Decc, raibcc DoipDnfoh na lonaD.
an calbac
OonnchaD mac coippDealbaij uf baoijill pfp acumacca poba pfpp DO 6ume uapal, ap mo Do pinne Do cocca6, DO juaipbfpcaib Da ccaimcc Da ciniD pfm, DO Dol lucr baio co copaij, gaoc Dia bpuaoac ipin bpaippge
)
-|
piap, i nf
po pich aon pocal Dia pcelaib 6 Sfan mac cuinn mic enpf mic eoccain
i
pin.
i
neill,
mac ciêapna bd mo
coice,
rpom conach
nulcaib ina pe Decc.
QRc
mac coippDealbaij meguiDip paof cinn pf6na Decc. mac Sfain buiDe meg macjamna pfp pa main caicfm-j copnarh Decc. mac aoDa mic Domnaill ui neill Do mapbaD le mall mac cuinn, mic
.1.
aipc uf nell. cuacail
Qpc DO mapbaD
la
bpaitrpib.
Dub mac DonnchaiD mic romaip mejuiDip Decc. Comap mac uillicc, mic uillicc abupc Do cabaipc cpeice a hupmumain, copaijecc cpom Do bpfin aip hi pope omna, TTIuincfp mapcpluag comaip DO cop DO 6puim na ccpeac lap an ccopaijecc, na cpeaca Do buam Di'b, romap Do mapbaD, pfp a aoipi pa pfpp oipbfpr caimc Do gallaib epeann ina
Ctn giolla
"|
-\
aimpip, ap ip leip DO haipcceaD i DO papaijfoh maimj peachc piamh. a ccop pfm ap Caiplen an loca Do abail ap cloinn copbmaic laDpaij,
]
ad ann. 1516, incorrectly calls this the castle of Lemevan, which is an attempt at
of Ireland,
DO juaipbfpcuiB, i. e. of or deeds, the accomplishing of exploits, acts,
'Dangerous
exploits,
writing Lem-i-vanan,
*
Uim
Bdncnn.
Brian Uaine,
i.
e.
Brian, Bernard, or Bar-
which was attended with danger. * Who had come, oa cctimicc,

been born of his race and name.
b
i.
e.
who had
naby the Green.

y
Teige-na-tuaighe, Teige, or
Thaddsus, of the
Torach,
now Tory
Island, off the north-west
hatchet, or battle-axe.
coast of the
county of Donegal.
See note
',
1517-]
1339
Turlough, son of Brian Uaine* O'Gallagher, Coarb of Carraic, died. The son of Brian Caech, son of Teige, son of Owen O'Conor, was treachey rously slain by the son of Teige-na-tuaighe son of Felim, son of Owen, and the descendants of the Cearrbhach [the gambler].
,
THE AGE OF CHRIST,
1517.
seventeen.
O'Conor Faly (Brian, the son of Teige, son of Calvagh), died vagh, the son of Teige, was inaugurated in his place.
and Cal-
Donough, the son of Turlough O'Boyle, a man who, for his means, was the best gentleman, and who had carried on the most war, and performed most
dangerous exploits of all who had come* of his own tribe, set out with the :rew of a boat for T orach" but a wind drove them westwards through the sea, and no tidings of them was ever since heard.
,
John, the son of Con, son of Henry, son of Owen O'Neill, a son of a lord, the most affluent and wealthy of his time in Ulster, died.
Philip, the son of
Turlough Maguire, a distinguished
captain, died.
Philip, the son of

tection, died.
John Boy Mac Mahon,
man
of good spending and proNiall, the son
Art, the son of
Hugh, son of Donnell

was
slain
O'Neill,
was
slain
by
of Con, son of Art O'Neill.
O'Toole,
i.
e.
Art,
Gilla-Duv, the son
own kinsmen. of Donough, son of Thomas Maguire,

by
his
died.
Thomas, the son of Ulicke, son of Ulick Burke, carried off a prey from Ormond, but was overtaken by a strong body of pursuers. The people and
cavalry of
pursuers
Thomas were driven from the prey, and the prey was taken by the and Thomas himself was slain, the most noble-deeded Englishman
it
of his time, for
was by him
that the
Hy-Many
had, some time before, been
plundered and desolated.
The
c
castle
of the Lake [Killarney] was taken from the sons of

from that time."
This
is
Cormac

tidings of
p. 132, supra. No. tidings of them, literally, " one
a very peculiar Irish
word of
idiom, which occurs very frequently in old ro-
them has not reached
[their friends]
mantic
tales.
n2
a Rioghachca eirceawR
oibipc hi Ific mfic muipip. Cpeaca 6 ccomcinD 6 cnocaib anmp.
[1518.
mopa
la
mac muipip Dap
lepaipcc
ma
SloicceaD lay an lupcip ap cappaincc clomne inline an mpla hi ccip DO bpipeaD laip eoccain, -] caiplen i neill (.1. Qpr mac cumn) .1. Dun gfnainn
Don cup
pin.
CReaca mopa
copaD DO
la hua ccfpbaill (TTlaolpuanaiD)

,
a apccain. CoccaD mop cpmpDe Dia po bpipf6 Dealbna, O maoileaclamn, larcpom DO cappumg an mpla an caiplein). caiplen an pocaip oelbna (.1. gapoa
abail laif
-|
noelbna. Caiplen cinnenp 6 ccfpbaill q
-)
QO13 CR1O3U,
Qoip Cpiopc,
TTlaimpcip na
1518.
mile, cuicc ceo,
a hocc oecc.
mbparap
napomaca Do gnouccaD DO cum na mbpacap

hi
De obpepuancia.
Qeb mac
pfppun
bpaoflij,
in
~\
cananac copaD T?opa mic comaip oicc meguiDip

]
cclocap,
acaD upcoip,
pfppjn
hi
cclaoinimp pop loc epne, pfp pial popail

-]
paof cleipic Decc.

.1.
RuaiDpi mac maolmuipe, pdnanc lainn ace copnam a nêapna, pfp coipbfpra peoD,
TTlac puibne
coraijce jaca commaofne Da gac aon no

pfp ciê aoibeaD
piccfb a Ifp Do ecc.
heoDopa ciorpuatD mac acaipne paof coiccinD DO ecc.

peilim
pip Dana,
mac bpiam mic concobaip

fip
oicc meguiDip oecc lap ccilleab

i
Do
6 cacaip pan pern cap
a rupaip blmoain na njpap, i a ablacaD

.1.
mainip-
np
mumfcdin.
clann Domnaill mic enpf mic eoâin, i an conn i aob) Do bol ap cpeic ap bpian mac cumn mic enpi, i bpian Do comapba mdguiDip
Clann
rieill
(.1.
Magh
rouy
in the
O^gCoinchinn, now Magunihy, a bab county of Kerry. See note , under
and King's County

{
See the Ordnance
map
of
that county, sheets 14 and 15.
the year 1495, p. 1220, supra. * Ceann-cora, i. e. the head of the weir,
Gardka-an-Chaislein,
now
gives
name
now Garryc&stle, which to a barony in the west of the King's

rij;-
Kincora, a townland in the parish of Wheery,

alias Killegally,
in the
barony of Garrycastle,
County. See Bealach-an-fhothair. In defence of kin lord, ace copnatii a
1518.]
1341
Ladhrach [Mac Carthy], and they themselves were banished to Mac Maurice. Great depredations were committed by Mac Maurice [in revenge]-, laying waste Magh O-gCoinchinn" from the hills westwards.
An
army was led by the Lord

into Tyrone,
Justice, at the instance of the sons of the
and he demolished Dungannon, the castle of O'Neill (Art, the son of Con), on that occasion. O'Carroll (Mulrony) committed great depredations in Delvin, and took and c plundered the castle of Ceann-cora in consequence of which a great war broke
Earl's daughter,
,
out between O'Carroll and the people of Delvin. O'Melaghlin and they prevailed on the Earl to come to their assistance and on this occasion Caislen;
an-fhothair in Delvin,
i.
e.
Gardha-an-chaislein
f
,
was demolished.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1518.
eighteen.
The monastery
Observance.
of the friars at
Armagh was
obtained for the friars of the
Hugh, the son of Rossa, son of Thomas Oge Maguire, canon chorister at Clogher, Parson of Achadh-Urchair [Aghalurcher], and Parson of Claoin-inis
[Cleenish] in
siastic, died.
Lough Erne, a
hospitable and cheerful man, and learned eccle-
(Rory, the son of Maelmurry), a rock of support in each battle in defence of his lord8 and his country, and a bestower of jewels and riches on all who stood in want of them, died.
Mac Sweeny Fanad
O'Hosey (Ciothruaidh, the son of Athairne), a learned
poet,
who
kept a
house of general hospitality, died. Felim, the son of Brian, son of Conor Oge Maguire, died, after his return from the city of St. James [in Spain], and after performing his pilgrimage, in
the year of grace", and
was buried
i.
in the monastery of
i.
Monaghan.
plunder Brian, the son
The
sons of O'Neill,
e.
Con and Hugh,
e.
the sons of Donnell, son of
Henry, son of Owen, and Maguire, the coarb,

eapna,
master.
i.
set out to
e.
of O'Donnell,
who was
his lord
and
The three Mac Sweenys were heredi-
tary leaders of gallowglasses to the O'Donnells. h The year of grace, i. e. of the Jubilee.
1342
anwata Rio^hachca
poppa 05 Domnac an
eic,
-]
eiraeaNN.
[1519-
maDmuccab poppa gopo gabab ao6 mac Domnaill. Ro 501106 mac cacrhaoil oonnchab mac emainn, po mapbao aobac mac carrhaoil lapam Dia onaib. pochaibe Do cenel peapaohaij, Clob balb mac cuinn (.1. 6 neill) i neill, DO gabdil la henpf mbalb ua neill,
bpfic
-| -|
cuicc heoca Decc Do bfin Dpuapcclab app.
bpfir laip
emainn meguibip cci'p cfnnpooa ap henpi Inopaiccib la pilip mac mbalb 6 neill, 1 oilen clapaij Do jabail laip, -\ ipaijoe barrap ace enpi Do ua6a .1. ae& balb mac cuinn neill, ~\ mac aoba mic cappaib baof
i
6 pilip pfm oca, T?o 6 pilip Don cup pin.
mapbaD Dna cacal mac Duinn mic emainn meguioip

(.1.
Qn
caoD balb mac cuinn pin
6 neill) a
Dubpamap Decc
noeipeaD
pojrhaip.
TTlac mic
magnapa Remann mac cacail

ecc.
oicc mic
majnapa
pfp Deapcac
oaonnaccac DO
TTlac
mupcaba, Qpr bui&e mac Domnaill piabaij mic gepailc caorhdnaij

6 TTlaoileaclainn) paof
Decc.
epeann ap cpobacc Do mapbaD hi maij elle la a Deapbpacaip pfm ape, ap po 1 ap cfnnap pfona mapbpom a Deapbpacaip .1. peilim piap an ran pin conaD ina DiogailpiDe Ro
(.1.
TTlupchaD 6 maofleaclainn
mapbaDpom
la hapc,
~\
coippDealbac DO jabail a lonaib.
QO1S CR1OSU,
1519.
Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cufcc ceD, a naoi Decc.
Semup mac pilip mic Semaip mic Rubpaije mesmacsarhna eppcop Doipe
Decc.
6mann
1
(.1.
Dub) n Duibibip abb eappa puaib Decc an ceD la Do Nouembep,

now Donaghanie,
a towndiet the former assertion that
Dom/mach-an-eich,
land in the parish of Clogherny, in the barony of Omagh, and county of Tyrone. See Ordnance
tained fifteen horses as a ransom for
Henry Balbh obHugh. The
two
entries
were copied from two different au-
map, sheet 43.

"
Clapach,
now Clappy island,
in
Lough Erne,
and the Four Masters, as usual, did not take the trouble to reconcile them. It looks very
thorities,
belonging to the parish of

1
Carried off with
Mm.
Derrybrusk. This seems to contra-
strange
if
by
force, that
Philip Maguire rescued these prisoners Henry Balbh O'Neill should have
15190
1343
Brian met them at Domhnach-an-eich', and defeated of Con, son of Henry. them; Hugh, the son of Donnell, was taken prisoner; Mac Cawell (Donough, the son of Edmond) was wounded, and many of the Kinel Farry were slain.
Mac Cawell
died of his wounds afterwards.
Hugh
Balbh, the son of

O'Neill,
Con
by Henry Balbh
and
the O'Neill], was taken prisoner exacted fifteen horses for his ransom.
O'Neill
[i.
e.
Philip, the son of Edmond Maguire, into Tir Ceann-foda [Tirkennedy], against Henry Balbh O'Neill, and he took the island k of Clapach and carried off with him [two] prisoners who were with Henry,
An
incursion was
made by
i.
e.
Hugh
Balbh, the son of
Con O'Neill, and Hugh Mac
Caffry,
whom
he had
[own people]. Cathal, the son of Don, son of Edmond Maguire, was slain on the side of Philip on this occasion.
of Philip's
This
Hugh
of
Balbh,
whom we
have mentioned, the son of Con

the son of Cathal
(i.
e.
the
O'Neill), died at the
end of Autumn.
The son
Mac Manus (Redmond,

humane man,
died.
Oge Mac Manus),
a charitable and
Mac Murrough (Art Boy,

nagh), died.
the son of Donnell Reagh, son of Gerald Kava-
the O'Melaghlin), the paragon of Ireland for m valour and leadership, was slain in Magh-Elle by his own brother, Art for he had some time before slain his other brother, Felim, and it was in revenge
Murrough O'Melaghlin
(i.
e.
of
him
that
Art slew him
and Turlough took his
place.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one thousand Jive
1519.
nineteen.
hundred
James, the son of Philip, son of James,

died.
who was
son of Rory
Mac Mahon,
day of No-
Edmond Duv O'Dwyer, Abbot

ubtained a ransom for
of Assaroe", died on the

of Kilmanaghan,
first
Hugh
Balbh O'Neill
barony of Kilcoursey, and

See the Ordnance
but the
fact
is,
that the account of this transac-
King's County.
county, sheet
1,
by the Four Masters. Magh-EUe, now Moyelly, or Moyally castle, in a townland of the same name, in the parish
tion is left unfinished
map of that note m , under the year and

',
1475, p. 1094, supra. n See note Assaroe.
1344
1
awNatu Rio^hachca eiReciNR

i
[1519aibici
abnacal
nDun na njall
naibic
.8.
Ppoincep lap ccpeccean
manai
puippe.
Comapba cluana conmaicne cfnn emij 7 aoibfocaipe ceall conmaicrn oecc. O neill ape 6cc mac cumn paof cinnpfona peap oaonnaccac ofjairnfc DO ecc, i a oeapbpacaip conn [bacac] mac cumn DoipDneab na lonab. O concobaip pua6, eojan mac peilim pinn oecc.
RiocaipD .1. RiocapD occ DO ecc. peiDbm mac majnupa mic bpiain mic oomnaill uf concobaip njeapna loccaip connacc Decc pfp oepcac oaonnaccac eipiDe.
TTlac uilliam cloinne
Uabcc puaD mac maoileaclamn uf ceallaij cijeapna an calaD Oecc. OonnchaD caorhanac peap pacmap po conaij DO Ian mainb laijfn Decc. maoflm mac copna uf maoilconaipe ollarh pil muipeaDhaij peap Ian DO
par*] Deicpi pfp
Docojacrap jeapalcaij,
~\
DO jeibeaD peoio,
ofipcc
hi
i joill cap ollarhnaib epeann, pfp maofne 6 506 aon pop a ccuinjfb Do ecc hi maimpcip
cfrBa.
pfipcfipcne ocuipnfn pfp jpaDa mbaof, i Domnall 6 cuipnin Decc.
eojam
f
uf 17uaipc cfnD eiccpi
an pine Dia
CaDcc mac
.1.
bpiain mic comalcaij

f
InopaicciD la cloinn
bipn canaipce ua mbpiuin Decc. neill (la cloinn Domnaill mic enp'i) ap mac f neill
mac cuino, CReaca mopa DO jabail Doit ap pliab cfop, RobaD DO bpian e Do cionol a mbaf laip Do Daofnib pop a ccionn, -\ a Dpajail Ifnmain a ccopaijechc ~\ bpipeaD Do ap cloinn f neill mp nimceachn a mumcipe uacaib lap na cpechaib, Oa mac f neill (aoD i eoccan) DO gabail ann,
bpian
]
p.
64, and note

i.
p. 99,
supra.
of Leitrim.
e.
Cteone, in the barony of Mohill, in the county See note m , under the year 1253,
p.
Donegal, Dun na njall,
the fort of the
349, supra.
"
mention made of this place strangers. in the Annals of the Four Masters occurs at the
first
The
This is in the handwriting of Bacagh. Charles O'Conor of Belanagare.

'
year
1474.
159-
The monastery was not

first
built
till
Caladh, a territory in
Hy-Many,
;
in latter
entry under that year. There seems to have been an earthen fort erected
See the
times included in the present barony of Kilconnell, in the county of Galway but in an
ancient tract on the tribes and customs of
there
by the Danes
,
at an early period.
See
Hy-
note
on Ath-na-nGall, under the year 1419,
Many, preserved in the Book of Lecan, and

printed in
1843, for the Irish Archaeological
is
supra, and the article on Donegal, in the Irish P. Journal, written by Mr. Petrie.
p. 838,
"
Society, the territory of Caladh
described as
Cluain-Conmhaicne,
now
the village
of
extending from Moiu-inraideach to Cluain-tuais-
1519.]

,
1345
vember, and was buried at Donegal chose rather than that of a monk.
in the Franciscan habit,
which habit he
head of the hospitality and generous entertainment of the churches of Conmaicne, died. O'Neill (Art Oge, the son of Con), a distinguished captain and a humane q and intelligent man, died and his brother, Con [Bacagh ], the son of Con, was
The Coarb
of Cluain-Conmhaicne
inaugurated in his place.
O'Conor Roe (Owen, the son of Felim Finn), died. Mac William of Clanrickard (Rickard Oge), died.
Felim, the son of Manus, son of Brian, son of Donnell O'Conor,
Lord of
Lower Connaught,
was a charitable and humane man. r Teige Roe, son of Melaghlin O'Kelly, Lord of Caladh died. Donough Kavanagh, a prosperous and wealthy man, and one of the chief
died.
,
He
nobles of Leinster, died.

Maoilin, son of Torna O'Mulconry, Ollav of Sil-Murray, a man full of prosperity* and learning, who had been selected by the Geraldines and English to
be their Ollav, in preference to all the chief poets of Ireland, and who had obtained jewels and riches of all from whom he had asked them, died in Mainistir-derg' in Teffia.
Ferceirtne O'Cuirnin, a confidential servant of
Owen
O'Rourke, and head
of the literary men of hi,s tribe, and. Donnell Glas O'Cuirnin, died. Teige, the son of Brian, son of Tomaltagh O'Beirne, Tanist of Hy-Briuin,
died.
made by the sons of Donnell, son of Henry O'Neill, son of O'Neill (Brian, the son of Con), [and] they took against the great preys on the Lower" Mountain. Brian, however, received intelligence their
incursion was
[of
An
pro-
ceedings], assembled
all his
men
to attack
them, went in pursuit of them, and
defeated the sons of O'Neill [themselves], their people having gone on before them with the preys. The two sons of O'Neill, Hugh and Owen, were taken
cirt-na-Sinna
p.
See note
',
in the Leabhar Breac

f
1097, supra.
s
Mainistir-derg, L
e.
by the Latin word gratia. the red abbey, now Ab-
The Irish word par now deProsperity notes prosperity, but in ancient manuscripts it denotes " the grace of God," and is translated
See note *, beyderg, in the county of Longford under the year 1476, p. 1098, supra.
u
Lower, ciop
Jn
this part of Ireland cior-
81
Rio^hachca eiraeaNR
1
~]
[1520.
mac eoccain beop DO mapbao mac cacmaofl cuulab mac emainn, Uomap mac emainn, emano mac giollaparrnaicc mic cacmaofl DO mapbab. Oa mac Ruaibpi mic bpiain mejuibip (.1. Ropa, ca&cc) Do gabdil lap an CUID ele Da cloinn DO cop ap a an ccomapba maguibip. Ruaibpi pfin, an corhapba DO cop na caopaijnouchaij Do, a ccaopaijecc Do buam Dib,-]
-] -\ -j -]
ecca po buanoabaib Do pfin co po pupdil ua oomnaill ap an ccomapba a caopaijeacc DO cabaipc Do puai&pi Dopibipi.
Coccab mop nDealbna ecip pliocc pfpjail mejcoclaiti pliocc oomnaill Dia po mapbab Semup ma^coclain Ppioip jailinne, pfojbamna oealbna Darhna. fcpa Dupcop DO peilep ap caiplen cluana
i
~\
-]
QO13 CR1OSU,
1520.
pice.
Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cufcc ceD,
Nicldp mac piapaip ui plannaccam pfppun Dairhinnpi DO coccbail ap a iona6 co heccopac 16 nfpc ruacaD, i a ecc mbocaib. TTlas aonjupa Domnall mac ao6a mic aipr Decc, i peilim an einij a
i
Deapbpacaip DoipDneab na iona6, a ecc pin Dna,
~\
TTlag
aonjupa Do jaipm
Demann buiDe mdjaenjupa.
mac comaip mic romaip, mpla Dfpmuman Decc. TTIac uilliam clomne piocaipo uillfcc mac uillicc Decc. TDac uilliam bupc maoilip mac cepoic DO mapbaD la
TTluipip
.1.
.1.
cloinn cpfoinfn
moip mfic mic Seomfn.

TTIac mejuiDip
(.1.
Pilip
mac emainn) DO
6ol ap lonnpoijiD ap
mac
in the
means towards the north, and cuap southwards.
Mac Coghlan, and
is
now included
barony
These were the shepherds who Creaghts. took care of the cattle in time of peace, and drove the preys in time of war and incursions.
x
of Garrycastle, in the west of the King's County. This territory, though small, is very celebrated
in Irish history
for its
churches and
castles.
The following
viz.,
Gailinne,
now Gillen, an old church

to a parish in the
in ruins
places are referred to as in it, the churches of Clonmacnoise, Gallen, Kil-
giving
'
name
barony of (Jaris
colgan, Reynagh, Tisaran,
rycastle, in the
King's County. Decdbhna Eathra This territory
the castles
other-
of Kincora,
and Lemanaghan, and Garrycastle, Faddan,
wise called Dealbhna
Meg
Cochlain, or Delvin
Clonawny, Esker, and Coole. In the will of Sir John Coghlan, dated July 10th, 1595, he be-
1520.]

Mac Cawell (Cu-Uladh,
Edmond,
1347
prisoners there, and the son of Owen was killed. of Edmond), Thomas, the son of Edmond, and
son
the son of Gilla-
Patrick
Mac
The
taken prisoners were driven out of their territory, and deprived of their creaghts" and the Coarb kept the creaghts in his own service, until O'Donnell ordered him to
;
Cawell, were [also] slain. two sons of Rory, son of Brian Maguire, i. e. Rossa and Teige, were by Maguire, the Coarb. Rory himself and the rest of his sons
return his creaghts to Rory.
great
war [broke
out] in
Dealbhna between the descendants of Farrell
Mac Coghlan and the descendants of Donnell, in the course of which James x Mac Coghlan, Prior of Gailinne and the Roydamna of Dealbhna Eathra y was
,
,
killed by a shot fired from the castle of Cluain-damhna
z
.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1520.
thousand jive hundred twenty.
Nicholas, the son of Pierce O'Flanagan, Parson of Devenish, was unjustly removed from his place by the influence of the laity, and died at Bohoe". Magennis (Donnell, the son of Hugh, son of Art) died; and Felim the
Hospitable, his brother, was inaugurated in his place
and he also
died,
and
Edmond Boy Magennis was
styled the Magennis. the son of Thomas, son of Thomas, Earl of Maurice,
Desmond,
died.
Mac William of Clanrickard (Ulick, the son of Ulick) died. Mac William Burke (Meyler, the son of Theobald) was slain by Seoinin More, son of Mac Seoininb
.
the son of
The
son of Maguire (Philip, son of
Edmond) made an
incursion into
queaths gifts to the churches of Clonmacnoise, Gallen, Fuire [now Wheery], Raonagh [now
in the barony of Garrycastle,

"
and King's County.

is
So/toe,
mboccuB.
This
the
name of a
See note a ,
This
ReynaghJ, Tisaran, and Lea-Manchayn,

the territory of Delvin
a
in
all in
parish in the baronies of
Magheraboy and Cla-
Mac Coghlan. * now Clonawny, or Clononey, Cluain-damhna, townland containing the ruins of a castle now
good repair, situated on the left
nawley, in the
p. 1147.
b
county of Fermanagh.
Mae Seoinin, now anglicised Jennings.

is
bank of the
family, which
a branch of the Burkes,
is still
River Brosna, near the demesne of Moystown,
highly respectable in the province of Connaught.
i2
1348
nf
i
ciNNata Rio^hachca eiReawN.

-|
[1520.
DO jlacaD ooib, roip rpom DO bpfic pajallaij nfoccap ci'pe, cpeaca meic carail fiagiH^ (.1. pfpgal, oppa im pliocc bpiain uf paijillij-] im cloinn cloinn noomnaill na coinmnp bpipfb ooib ap mac me^1 maolmopba), -| mi
i
i,
lilac meguiDip (Pilip) ap mac pilip mic coippbealbaij meguibip, Da mac pilip mic coipp6ealbai (giollacona mac romap DO mapbab ann, emann) -| coippbealbac mac plaicbeapcai mic comaip oicc
uibip, i
-]
-|
pacpaicc, i
amaille ppiu. mejuiDip DO mapbab arm beop 50 pocaiDib ele Do gabdil a bpioll le Donn mbuioe Ruaibpi mac aoba mejuiDip
.1.
mac
TTlac concobaip mic comaip oicc, -\ a coipbepc uo giollapacpaic mejuiDip occ mic giollapacpaicc mic emainn mejui&ip, 1 a mapbaD laippDe. cfmnCaipppe, mac concobaip, mic caipppe, mic copbmaic bipn conpal-]
i
linp maicne muipfoaij Do ecc.
UoippDealbac mac peilim megcoclam cijeapna Dealbna fcpa paoi nfcna in eolap, pfp paca po paibbpfpa, pfp lap a nofpnab caiplen an pfDam, caiplen cinncopab Do ecc lap nDfijbfrhaib.
i
-|
pidij mop pan macaipe pcepanac oia po eccpaccap pocaibe Do 005

Daoinib.
caipiDe peilim
mac caibcc ollam
Ifja pleacca pilip,-|
Rubpaiê mac
Donnchaib mic aoba meguibip Decc. TTluipip mac romaip, mic an lapla poja gall ngfpnlcoc Do mapbab la conn mac maofleaclainn f mopba co pochaibe ele amaille ppip.
c
lochtar-tire,
i.
e.
the lower part of the

to the tradition in the
means the leading family among
his descendants,
country.
According
The
principal families of this race at this period
neighbourhood of Belturbet and Drumlane this was the name in ancient times, and still is among
the old people who speak the Irish language, for that part of the county of Cavan comprising the baronies of Upper and Lower Loughtee, in the East Breifny, or the county of Cavan.
d
were the O'Conors Don, and Eoe of the Plain of Connaught ; the O'Conors of Sligo ; the Mac Dermots of Moylurg, Airteach, and Tir-Tuaand the Mac Donoughs of Corran and Tirerrill, to all of whom the O'Beirnes were
thail
;
inferior.
'
Con-inis,
'of
i.
e.
dog
island,
now
Coninish, in
The
castle
ofFeadan,
i.
e.
the castle of the
the barony
of
Monaghan.
'
Dartry, in the west of the county This barony is often called Darof Muireadhach
stream or rivulet,
now Faddan.
This castle was
situated in the townland of
traighe Coininse from this island.
Race of Muireadhach,
i.
e.
Newtown, parish of of Garrycastle, and King's Lusmagh, barony County, but it is now level with the ground.
See the years 1540 and 1548. 8 The castle of Ceann-Coradh,
i.
Muilleathan,
ancestor of
King of Connaught, who was the the O'Beirnes, but they were by no
e.
the head of
1520.]
c

They
[Philip's
1349
Iochtar-tire
of Philip O'Reilly. against the son
men] seized
on preys, but were overtaken by a very strong body of pursuers, with the descendants of Brian O'Eeilly and the grandson of Cathal O'Reilly, namely,
Farrell and Maelmora, together with the Clann-Donnell of Con-inis
d
.
They
defeated Maguire and the son of Philip, son of Turlough Maguire [in a conflict in which] the son of Maguire (Philip), and his son, Thomas, as also the two sons of Philip, son of Turlough ( Gilla-Patrick and Edmond) and Turlough, son of Flaherty, son of Thomas Oge Maguire, together with many others, were
slain.
Maguire, was treacherously taken prisoner by Donn Boy Maguire, i. e. the son of Conor, son of Thomas Oge, and delivered up to Gilla-Patrick Oge, the son of Gilla-Patrick, son of Edmond Maguire, by whom he was put to death.
Rory, the son of
Hugh
Carbry, the son of Conor, son of Carbry, son of Cormac O'Beirne, the 6 consul and chief leader of the race of Muireadhach died.
,
in
Mac Coghlan, Lord of Delvin-Eathra, a sage of prosperity and great affluence, and by whom f the castle of Feadan and the castle of Ceann-Coradh g were erected, died, after
Turlough, the son of Felim
learning, a
wisdom and
man
[having spent] a good
life.
A great plague
died.
raged in Machaire-Stefanach", of which
many good men
O'Cassidy (Felim, the son of Teige), ollav to the descendants of Philip [Maguire], in physic, and Rory, the son of Donough, was son of Hugh Maguire, died.
Maurice, the son of Thomas, son of the Earl, the choice of the English [family of the] Geraldines, was slain by Con, the son of Melaghlin O'More, as
were
the-
also
many
others along with him.

the Ordnance
weir,
now
Kincora, a townland in the parish
map
of the King's County, sheets
of
Killegally,
County. a mill here

in this
barony of Garrycastle, and King's The Down Survey shews a castle and
;
14 and 15, and note under the year 1548, infra.

''
Machaire-Stefanach,
a
now Magherastephana,
but there are no ruins of a
castle
townland at present, and it is not improbable that the castle, which was originally
called
barony in the east of the county of Fermanagh, This territory derived its name from its having
been the inheritance of Steafan, or Stephen, the
son of Odhar, the progenitor of the Maguires of
that in the adjoining townland of Coole, on the River Brosna See

is
Ceann copao,
Fermanagh.
aNNdca Rio^hacbca
QO1S CR10SU,
eirceaNN.
[1521.
1521.
pice,
doip CpioSc, mile, cuicc ceD,

Ppioip oairiunpi Decc
.1.
a haon.
pfppuin innpi maigepam, peap oaonnaccac eipme. cleipcibe comnipcil oepcac, Remann mac glaipne, mic Remamn, mic RubTTlag macjarhna oecc DO jaipm Da mac glaipne occ. paije, i THacc macgamna O cacdm Tomap mac aibne Decc, i po gabab e piap an can pa, Do
.1.
Remann mac
.1.
.1.
-|
De la oonnchab ua cacdin. bfnab an cijeapnap ap Oonnchab mac Ruaibpi mic bpiain meguiDip DO mapbab la macaib meg mac ma^nupa megpampabdm .1. oomnall occ mac Domnaill bfpnaij, Uairne bd pfpp ind an DonnchaD ipm. i nf baf Dia cinib pfp a aofpi
eiccin
pampabam,
^Ramne
injfn
comdip
eojain maraip an comapba meguibip, bfn bd

"]
mop ponap-] paiobpfp, Deaplaccab Deajeineac Decc. DealRubpaije mac eiccneacdm Domnaill DO mapbab la gallaib 05 Dun cuinn mic cuinn. e hi ppappab neill jan, Uoippbealbac mac Donnchaib mic puibne DO ecc. Id Cfjeapnup oealbna Do pomn (Id hua maoileaclamn coippbealbac,
i i
.1.
-]
-\
hua cceapbaill Rlaolpuanaib) ecip

puab
i
an piopbopca mac mejcocldin,
pfnjin
copbmac.
Sile
1
mjfn Neill ghaipb

now
uf
Domnaill Decc an 14 Qujupc.

the plain
Inis-Maighe-Samh,
i.e. island of
of sorrel, Inish-mac-saint, an island in Lough Erne, containing the ruins of a church giving name to a parish in the north-west of the
pob eipibe Nmnio Ninny, bishop of Inis moighe samh, on Lough Erne, and he was Ninny Saobhruisc."
6ipne,
-]
The patron
saint of this
Colgan has given a life of Nennidhius from various authorities, but he seems to confound
church
i.
is St.
e. torvi oculi,
Ninny Saebhdhearc, or Saebhruisc, who was a disciple of St. Finian
him with Nennidh Lamhghlan, who was unquesSee Lanigan's Ectionably a different person clesiastical History of Ireland, vol. ii. pp. 51, 55. Colgan states that the bell of this saint was preserved in his time in the church of Inis Muighe
of Clonard, and cotemporary with St. Colurnbkille.
He was a bishop, and his festival was celebrated there on the 18th of January. See Feilire Aenguis, and the Irish Calendar of the
18th January, and Colgan's Ada O'Clerys, Sanctorum, at the same day. His name is entered in the Irish Calendar of the O'Clerys thus " Nmnio eappoj 6 Imp moije parii pop toe
at
:
Samh,
"
in
Lough Erne.
His words are
Hoc Monasterium
olim percelebre temporis
iniuria in parochialem cessit ecclesiam peramplo
gaudentem
districtu in
qua festum Sanctissimi

alij
Nennij celebratur die 18, vel vt
scribunt 16
1521.]
1351
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1521.
thousand five hundred twenty-one.
The
Prior of Devenish died,

clerical", kind,
Samh', a
Redmond, son of the Parson of Inis-Maighecharitable, and humane man.
Redmond, the son of Glasny, son of Redmond, son of Rury and his son, Glasny Oge, was styled the Mac Mahon. O'Kane, i. e. Thomas, the son of Aibhne, died. He had before this time
died,
i.
Mac Mahon
;
e.
been taken prisoner, and forcibly deprived of his lordship by Donough O'Kane. Donough, the son of Rory, son of Brian Maguire, was slain by the sons of
[of his death]
Magauran, namely, Donnell Oge, son of Donnell Bearnagh, and Owny, the And there was not of his tribe in his time a better son of Manus Magauran.
man
than this Donough. Grainne, daughter of
Thomas O'Eoghain, and mother

.
of Maguire, the
Coarb, a
died.
woman
of great prosperity and wealth, of bounty and true hospitality,
Rury, the son of Egneghan O'Donnell, was slain at Dun-Dealgan [Dundalk], by the English, while he was in company with O'Neill, i. e. Con, the son of Con.
Turlough, the son of Donough Mac Sweeny, died. The Lordship of Delvin was divided (by O'Melaghlin, Torlogh, and O'Carroll, Mulrony) between Ferdoragh, the son of the [last] Mac Coghlan (Fineen
Roe), and [his relative] Cormac. Celia, the daughter of Niall Garv O'Donnell, died on the 14th of August.
It is of bronze, of a
lanuarij et ibidem in
magna semper veneratione
habitum
est usque ad nostros dies Cymbalum quod Cloc Nennidh .i. Cymbalum seu campana
wrought, not
cast,
quadrangular form, and and measures five inches in
Nennij appellatur, auro et argento coelatum
the bottom, height, four inches in breadth at hill of Knockand three inches at the top. The
in the ninny, which gives name to a barony is said south of the county of Fermanagh, by
per quod in veritatis asserendse sacramentum illius tractu indigene alijque vicini iurare solent."
Ada
SS., p.
14.
tradition to have derived its
name from
this
This bell
is still
preserved in the
Museum
at
saint.
k
Castle Caldwell, in the county of Fermanagh.
Clerical,
cleinci6e,
i.e.
clergyman-like.
]352
aNNQta Rio^hachca emeaNN.

QO1S CR1OSU,
1522.
pice,
[1522.
Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cufcc ceo,
aoo.
Remann puab
Coccab
anbctil
Decc. mdsuibip, Ppioip Ifpa gabail

6 ap nfipje erip ua noomnaill,-]
neill, TTlac uilliam cloinne
connacc, Sfol mbpiain, Siol ccfnneiccij-] p fol ccfpbaill piocaipo, joilll 500161! DO oenam cortiaonral coimcfngal 16 hua neill naaib f oomnaill oocum an
i
coccaib
TTlac
pil
mbpiain,
05 cecc ap an pluaij aniap, opong Do maiab uilliam clainne piocaipo, uillec mac uillic an pfona, Oonnchab, 1 cabcc, clann coippbealbaij; mic caibcc f bpiain,
fin,
Qciac na main DO
cfngail pe poile
-\
-\
an ceppcop occ 6 bpiain, 6 cfpbaill TTlaolpuanaib
mac Sfam,
-|
f fol ccein-
bupc,
hiacc amain ace na oaofne pop a paibe a cfopcain Do connaccneicn, ~\ DO 50 pin, 6 concobaip puab, 6 concobaip Donn, TTlac uilliam aib,-| oo bi umal TTlac maije luipcc,-] jac a mbaof fcoppa pin hi cconnaccaib.
Diapmaca
i
neplairhe DO cecr ap ua nDomnaill i im peil muipe pojmaip po balpac ppi hua neill hi ccip aoba.
bacap
pibe uile
cpa po nonoilpibe cenel neoccam cerup, clann aenjupa, oipjialla, abbal albanac pa mac mic Domnaill, alapcpann. Raijillij, pipmanac,-) pec'c Do galloccCangacap ann beop plojbuibne lomDa Do jallaib na mibe,
-\
O neill
laecaib cuiccib laijean DO cloinn noomnaill,"] Do cloinn
rpinjapbaib
injine
mpla cille oapa poba macaip Dua neill. O Dorhnaill Dna po rionoilpibe a pocpaiDe mbicc nDeipb
ccenel conaill
.1.
Dilip buoein hi
baip imo mac 6 neill Dia nionnpoiccib

1
obaijill, 6 Docapcaij, na cpi mic puibne,-| muincip âllcuTTlajnup co mbarrap pop an bftpn mbaojail in po ba Dofg leo
.1.
pope no
ccpi
namac, o po clop la hua
neill
an
ni
Combined
forces,
literally,
these are the
martial affairs than became his episcopal function.

"
chiefs
united with each other in coming on this expedition from the west.
who
In readiness,
m The young Bishop O'Brien.
He was Tur-
1587, where
eplumab
neplaime. See the year is used in the sense of
lough, Bishop of Killaloe, who succeeded to that see in 1482, and died in 1525, so that he could
"
preparing or getting ready." The Clann-Donnell and Clann- Sheehy,
i.
e.
not have been very young at this period. Ware of great account says that he was a prelate
of the
Mac Donnells and Mac Sheehys, who
among
lity,
his people for his liberality
and hospitaaddicted to
were Albanachs, or families of Scotch origin, and now employed in Leinster and various other
parts of Ireland as hireling soldiers.
but that he was
much more
1.322.]
1353
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1522.
thousand five hundred twenty-two.
Redmond Roe Maguire,

rickard, the English
Prior of Lisgool, died.
A great war arose between

and
O'Donnell and O'Neill.
Mac William
of Clan-
Connaught, the O'Briens, the O'Kennedys, and the O'Carrolls, joined and leagued with O'Neill against O'Donnell in that The following are the chiefs who came from the west with their comwar.
Irish of
bined forces' on this expedition

of Ulick of the
Mac William
of Clanrickard (Ulick, the son
a party of the chiefs of the O'Briens [namely], Donough and Teige, the sons of Turlough, son of Teige O'Brien and the O'Carroll (Mulrony, the son of John), and the O'Kenyoung Bishop O'Brien
Wine); and
nedys and not they alone, but such of the Connacians as had been until that time under his tribute, and had been obedient to him [O'Donnell], namely, O'Conor Roe, O'Conor Don, Mac William Burke, Mac Dermot of Moylurg, and
;
all
to
that were amongst them in Connaught. All these forces were in readiness" march against O'Donnell, and it was on Lady-day in Harvest they appointed
to join O'Neill in
Tirhugh.
O'Neill, in the meantime, assembled, in the first place, the forces of Kinel-
Owen, [then] the Clan-Aengusa [Magennises], the Oriel, the Reillys, the people of Fermanagh, and a vast number of Scots, under the command of Alexander, the son of Mac Donnell. Great numbers of the English forces of Meath, and
the gallowglasses of the province ofLeinster, of the Clann-Donnell
and Clann-
Sheehy
also
came
thither,
from their attachment" to the daughter of the Earl
of Kildare,
who was
O'Neill's mother.
O'Donnell [on the other hand] assembled his
own
small, but truly faithful,
forces in Kinel-Connell, namely, O'Boyle, O'Doherty, the three Mac Sweenys", and the O'Gallaghers, with his son Manus, at Port-na-dtri-namhad r a perilous
x
,
Attachment,
common
bcuo. This word is still in use in the sense of " esteem, affection,
The
Fanad,
'
three
Mac
Mac
Sweenys, i. e. Mac Sweeny Sweeny na d-Taath, and Mac

e.
or attachment," arising from relationship, aliiance, or identity of country. It is distinguished from 5pao, peapc, and cion, which express love
or affection of a
Sweeny Banagh.
Port-na-dtri-namhad,
i.
the port of the
more intense kind.

8
forgotten in the country, but the position of Portnatrynod
three enemies.
This name
is
now
1354
pin api conaip
QNNaca Rio^hachca emeciNN.
[15-22.
Do luib cpia cenel neoccain jan aipiuccab 50 piacc co cfpmann Dabeocc appibe 50 hoc pfnaij, bai mac mic puibne cipe bojame, bpian an
beoil aca pfnai) coblaij (l?o pajaib ua oomnaill ace lomcoimeD caiplem 05 copnam an baile ppi hua neill amail ap ofc pop caomnaccaip apa aoi
po mapbab mac mic puibne po gabab a baile pa Deoib la hua neill, ann Dna biap Dollamnaib laip co nopuing moip Dia mumcip, T?o mapbab f Dorhnaitl .1. oiapmaic mac caibcc caim f cleipij paof pfncaba pipbana, pfp
rjia
-| ~\
nje mac
aoibfb coiccinn to cpenaib -\ Do cpuajjaib, -| aeba),i apaill ele cenmocdo (.i.an 11 lun).
mac mic an baipo

t?o
~\
(.1.
aob
bun opobaoipi i bel leice la

pluajaib 6
nomnaill,"]
gabab po loipccean G^ poab Do opeim Dia pin. bun opoaaoipi, Po mapbab Rubpaije mac soppaba galloa
hua
neill Don cup
f
ceallaij na bpeipne la caoib psaipbe mnpi an pjiaoic leo. ICfl? na cluinpin oua Domnaill na gnioma pin DO oenam la hua neill po
mac mic
popcongaip pop
lopccab cfpe
ma jnup ua noomnaill co nopuinj Dia pluaig Dol DO cpeacheoam, i Do Deachaib pfm cap bfpnup gup an Ifon capupcaip
f
ma pappab
)
nDeabai^
neill DiniDeajjail cfpe
haoba.
Oala TTIajnupa po
cpeacloipcceab laip ma mbaof ma compocpaib DO cenel eoccain Ro mapbaic po muohaijic Daofne loinba laip beop, poaip 50 ccopccap. O l?o pioip 6 neill (TTlajnap DO bol hi ccip eoccain) poaip ina ppicing
-j
cap
pinn,
-]
po mill an cfp poime 50 cfnn maâip,

-|
~\
DO bepc cpeach a cionn
majaip
is
laip,
luib co ccopccap oia

Ireland, as
rip.
shewn on Mercator's Map of
on the
Tyrone
side of the River Finn, opposite Lifford.
now the River Eany, to the stream of which flows from the rugged mountains. Dobhar,
Eidneach,
It is the present
See other references to this place at the years 1524, 1526, and 1583. The voluminous Life of
St. Columbkille,
barony of Banagh,
in the
west
of the county of Donegal.
now
preserved in the Bodleian

castle
Library
at Oxford,
was compiled in the
Bundrowes 6un opoBaoij'e, i.e. the mouth of the River Drobhaois, or Drowes, as it is now
written in English
1420,
v
of Port-na-dtri-namhad, in the year 1532, under the direction of Manus O'Donnell. See the
See note
g
,
under the year
p.
843, supra.
Stowe Catalogue,
s
p.
397.
i.
Seal-lice,
e.
beat
lie,
translated os rupis by
the
Perilous pass,
beapn baouil,
i.
gap
Philip O'Sullevan Beare in his History of

Catholics, fol.
of danger.
the land or territory of Enna Boghaine, the second son of Conall Gulban, the progenitor of all the Kinel-Connell. This
Tir-Boghaine,
e.
anglicised that of a village on the River Erne, in the barony of Lurg, and county of
136.
is
The name
is
now
Belleek, and
territory
fol.
is
described in the
a,
Book of Fenagh,
Fermanagh, and about two miles to the east of The name signifies ford-mouth Ballyshannon.
of the flag-stone, and the place
47,
a,
as
extending from the River
was
so called
1522.]
1355
through which he supposed O'Neill would make his onslaught upon When O'Neill heard of this [position of the enemy], the route he took them. was through Kinel-Owen [and he marched] unperceived until he arrived at
pass',
;
Termon-Daveog, and from thence
to Ballyshannon.
The son
of
Mac Sweeny
of Tir-Boghaine' (Brian of the Fleet), whom O'Donnell had left to guard the castle of Ballyshannon, defended the town against O'Neill as well as he was
able
;
it
was, however, at length taken
with a great there two of O'Donnell's ollaves, namely, Dermot, the son of Teige Cam O'Clery, a learned historian and poet, a man who kept an open house of general hospipitality for the
number of his
by O'Neill, and the son of Mac Sweeny, was slain by him. There were also slain people,
mighty and the indigent, and the son of Mac Ward (Hugh, the This was on the llth day of son of Hugh), with several others besides these. v Bundrowes" and Beal-lice were also taken, and burned by O'Neill on June.
this occasion.
son
On his return from Bundrowes, a party of his forces slew Rory, of Godfrey, who was son of Hugh Gallda O'Donnell, and the son of Mac
Kelly of Breifny, near Sgairbh-innsi-an-f hraoich*. When O'Donnell heard that O'Neill had done these deeds, he ordered his son, Manus O'Donnell, to proceed into Tyrone with a detachment of his army, and to plunder and burn that country and he himself, with the number of
;
forces he had kept with him, directed his course over Bearnas*, in pursuit of As to Manus, he plundered and burned all O'Neill, and to defend Tirhugh.
the neighbouring parts of

sons,
Kinel-Owen
in triumph.
he also slew and destroyed many per-
and [then] returned
across the [River] Finn,
Manus had gone into Tyrone, he returned and spoiled the country before him as far as CeannMaghair", from whence he carried off a prey and he then proceeded in triumph
O'Neill discovered that
;
When
to his
own
country.
x
from the flat-surfaced rock in the ford, which, when the water decreases in summer, appears
as level as a
Bearnas,
i.
e.
the
gap of Barnismore, in
marble
floor.
i.
the barony of Tirhugh, and county of Donegal. The road from Donegal to Stranorlar passes
w
Sgairbh-innsi-an-fhraoich,
e.
or shallow ford of the island of the heath.
the scarrifT, This
through
'
this gap.
the
name is unknown to the Editor. Inis-fraoich is name of an island in Lough Gill, in the
county of
Sligo.
Ceann-Maffhair, now Kinnaweer, a district in the north of the parish and barony of Kilmacrenan, and county of Donegal. See note
p.
725, supra.
K2
QNNata Rio^hachca
Ro jabab
laparii
eireeaNN.
[1522
lonjpopc la him neill 05 cnoc buibb 05 loc moriann cnoc an boja) gup an pocpaiDe perhpaice cen (ppip a paiceap a ccoiccmne mocd an plojj an ap arhail periiebepcmap.
Imcupa ( borhnaill po pai cap bfpnup lap poccain majnupa 50 neodlaib o nd puce paip lomba Dia paijijib 6 na cappaib ua neill 05 ac pfnaigh mp cinne majaip, po Ifipcfjlamab laipan conpanagaip DO pocnoenarh cpeice an can pin 50 pangacap 50 haon gep bo huacab ppi hiolap Doporh
-|
paioe
pjpuopac a ccoriiaiple onp cm r>o t>enoaofp im na bai pop cino t>6ib uaip po pfoacap na biao a nacmaofn neacpaib Dicuirhgib la hua nell cona pluaj i lap an pluag cconnaccac po Dail cuca Dia ccfp Dia leo poccain a cceann apoile conab comaiple appicc leo inopaicchib
l?o rhaijin co opuimlijfn.
poipeab
neill
ap ape ba neapa ooib uaip poba lamne leo a mubticchab t>o maijin oloap a mbiocpojnarh Do neoc ipin mbic. Qp paip Dfipib leo (o po bdcrap pop lion ploij ma nacchaib) amup longpuipc DO cabaipr ipin aohaib pop
ua
50 po la popaipfba ppi popcoimeD 500 conaipe map Doij leo cenel cconaill DO poccain Dia paiccib,i baf pfm cona ploj hi ccaraip lap na cculaib ma lonjpopc.
neill.
-]
Raimc pabab
pfirhpiop na corhaiple pin 50
hua
neill
lap nmDeall,-| lap nopDuccab,
oua
boriinaill,
ngpepacc lap njeplaoibfb a bfcc ploicc T?o popcongaip poppa a neacpa Dpagbdil, ap nf bai mfnTnapc
mp
-\
aca a lacaip lombuailce Diotnjabail munbab pfmpabd paen. T?o apccnaccap cpd an cucc pin co po Dailpioc hi ccfnD locca in popcoimecca 5an aipiuccab Doib, ap a aof cpd po gabpac a luce pficriie agd eppuaccpa Dm mumcip co
Cnoc-Buidhbh, anciently pronounced KnockBOOT, and now Knockavoe. It received its name from Budhbh, or Boov dearg, a chieftain
of the Tuatha de
'
which memorandum was evidently written immediately after this period, this battle is called TTIaiom toca ITIonann, i.e. the Breach of Lough
Danarm Colony, from whom

Ireland were
Monann.
*
several celebrated fairy hills in

called.
Druim-Lighean, now Drumleene, a townland
See Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, p. 410. This hill is now called
is a very one situated over the town of Strabane, on
in the parish of Clonleigh,
barony of Eaphoe, and county of Donegal, a short distance to the

north of the town of Lifford.
cnoc a Boa, anglice Knockavoe, and

lofty
the boundary of the parish of Leckpatrick.. See the year 1600.

a
See this place mentioned in Keating's History of Ireland, Haliday's edition, p. 266, and again in these Annals, at
c
Loch
Monann
Book
This was the name of a
To become
the years 1524 and 1583. " for

slaves, literally,
it
was more
lough near the foot of Knockavoe.
In a memofol.
1
randum
in the
of Ballymote,
80, col. a,
pleasing to them their being slaughtered" [i. e. that they should be slaughtered] " by field than
1522.]

camp
at
all
1357
O'Neill afterwards pitched his
Cnoc Buidhbh*,
at
Loch Monann*,
commonly
called
Cnoc an Bhogha, with
the forces before mentioned, except
the western army, as
we have
said before.
As
to O'Donnell, after >his son
Manus had reached him with many
spoils,
as he had not caught O'Neill at Ballyshannon, and as he had not overtaken him after the plundering of Ceann-Maghair, he returned across Bearnas, and mustered
all all
the forces he had, though they were few against
many
at that time,
one place to Druim-Lighean They held council to strait difficulties they had to meet, for they knew that they should do in the a contest with O'Neill and his army, they would not be at all able to maintain and with the Connacian army, which was then marching towards their country,
came
to
and they consider what
should they succeed in joining each other [before the engagement] so that the resolution they adopted was to attack O'Neill, as he was the nearest to them, choosing rather to be slain on the field than to become slaves to any one in the
;
world.
They agreed
by
(as the
army opposed
to
them were
so very
numerous)
to
attack O'Neill's
O'Neill, so that
night.
A notice and forewarning of this resolution reached

d
he placed sentinels to guard every pass by which he thought the Kinel-Connell might come to attack him, while he himself, with [the main
body
of] his
army, remained on the watch
at the rere in his
camp.
O'Donnell, having arrayed and marshalled, excited and earnestly exhorted his small army, commanded them to abandon their horses, for they had no
desire
6
to escape
[his
from the
field
of battle unless they should be the victors5
then advanced until they came up to the sentinels [of However, the sentinels began to O'Neill] without being perceived by them.
They
forces]
their constant servitude to
any person in the
means
world."
d is
On
the watch, hi
ccuraip. The word caruip
to avoid or shun. It is thus explained by Michael O'Clery lomjaBail .1. peacria. Ro lomjaib .1. DO peacain. See &\$o Battle ofMagh
:
explained paipe no puipeacpap, i.e. "watching, or awaiting," by Michael O'Clery in his

Glossary of ancient Irish words.
e
Rath, p. 202, line 3.
The meaning
is,
that if
they should not defeat the enemy they did not wish to have horses at hand to fly. This desperation secured
g
Desire,
mfnmapc
thought,
This word
is
is
not in the
them the
victory,
published Dictionaries, but
explained r-muuiof Lecan,
neao,
fol.
'
i.
e.
in
the Book
Unless they should be the victors, munBap " unless the derout pfinpa bet paen, literally,
165,
b.
should be before them,"
i.
e.
unless they should
To escape from the Jield, a luraip lorn6uilct oiom jubail. The word lomjaoail
make
is
the
enemy
retreat before them. This idiom
of very constant occurrence in these Annalf.
1358
aNNata Riohachca
oia poijib.
eiraeciNN.
[1522.
cocap cpa cenel cconaill ap a ninoeall Id a biojaipe po cingpfc ap a uaman leo na pojicomieoaije DO la a bfine bo a naofnpecc pangaccap an longpopc. poccain pfmpa Do paijib f neill gup Ro laipfc gdipe mopa op dipD ace poccain hi ccfnn apoile Ooib. Nip bo meipb f neill ap po gabpac co calma po ppeaccpab an conjaip pin la hanpabaib a bpoplongpuipc. 6aoi an pluaj cfccapba copancac'acc imomfn a pplaca-j ace commapbab apoile. 17o bacap cpeoin accd crpaoace commbualab
mbdcap a mbiot>baba
-\
Oo
~\
chab, 1 laofc
aga Ifopab DO cfccap an Da
Ifice.
bdcap
pip
aga ppobbab,
miDiac pop meapjappaio ipin maijin pin. puaill ma po pfp Id bo poppeil Doib aijce cfcrapna aca cib ppip a ppfpaD a corhlann ap nip hi ccpecumapc apoile. T?o apoile Id Doipce na hoibce -] ap a bluice po bdccap
macrab
QS
-\
an poplongpopc paofneao cpa po 6e6i6 ap ua neill cona pl6 -| po pdccbab 05 ua nDorhnaill. 6d habbal cpa an cap cuccab up ua neill ipin lacaip pin,
po habnaicic Dponâ bfb, -\ lap na coibnfpaib bdccap hi ccoriipocpaib Doib cuilleab ap naof cceo Do cuicim Do pocpaioe neill ipin maioni pin, 50 po Ific ainm, ~\ aipoepcup an mabma pin po epinn uile. bacap iaD bd hoipbfpca copcaip ipin maibm pin, Doriinall occ mac
ap po hdipmfb Id luchc na cceall
in
Domnaill 50 nDpuing Dipim DO jallocclacaib cloinne Domnaill, Coippbealbac mac pfcij co pocaibe moip oia mumcip, 66in bipeD co nuprhop na nalbanac cdirncc laip, aob mac eoccain mic uilliam mecc macgamna co nDpeim Dia
mumcip, Ruaibpf maguibip i apaill Dia mumcip amaille ppip. Copcpaccap ann beop lie DO laijneacaibi Dpepaib TTlibe ap nf cdinicc cfnn ploig; na poc-
mop ipin cionol pin f neill nap bo heccaomcec iaD Diap paccaibpfc Dia mumcip ipin maiîn pin cona Do na hdpaib Daoine ap mo cuccab ecip conallcoib i eogancaib an maibm pin cnuic buibb. Uapcaoap cpa cenel cconaill eic, aipm, i eoeab, Ion bib,-] biocdille,-) peoiD pomaipeaca painfrhla
aibe 6 bfcc co
h
The
is
sentinels,
na poipcoimeoaiê.
This
destiny, or
'
bad end.
term
translated "advanced guards" in a copy of these Annals made for the Chevalier O'Gor-
T/iey could not discern
literally,
one another's faces, " for not visible to them were the faces
man, and
now
."
preserved in the Library of the
Royal
'
Irish
Academy.
inaccao
.1.
of each other for the darkness of the night, and for the closeness in which were in the in-
they
Death,
mapbab."
O'Clery.
termixture of each other."
end."
Evil destiny, mmiac. Diac, " fate, destiny, TTImiac is used in the best O'Reilly.
ill
m The
camp was left to O'Donnett.An English

left
Irish manuscripts in the sense of
fate, evil
writer would say, " O'Donnell was of the camp."
master
1522.]
The Kinelthat their enemies were approaching. give notice to their people Connell now, fearing that the sentinels" would reach O'Neill before them,
rushed onwards with such violence and vehemence that they went out of and they [and the sentinels] reached the camp together. On thus
array
;
coming
their
into collision with one another they raised great shouts aloud,
and
clamour Avas not feebly responded to by O'Neill's common soldiers, for and protectively to defend their chief and their camp. they proceeded bravely Both armies were [engaged] at striking and killing each other, and mighty
men were subdued, and heroes hacked, on
either side
men were hewn
down',
and death' and evil destiny" seized vigorous youths in that place.
Scarcely did any one of them on either side know with whom he should engage in combat, for they could not discern one another's faces' on account of the dark-
At last, howness of the night, and their close intermixing with each other. and the camp was left to O'DonnelF ever, O'Neill and his army were defeated,
1
.
Great" indeed was the slaughter made upon O'Neill [recte, O'Neill's forces] on that spot, for it was calculated by the people of the churches in which many of them were interred, and by those of the neighbours who were near them
fell
[and recognized the bodies], that upwards of nine hundred of O'Neill's army in that engagement, so that the name and renown of that victory spread The most distinguished men who fell in that engagement all over Ireland.
Donnell Oge Mac Donnell, with a countless number of gallowglasses of the Clann-Donnell [Mac Donnell] Turlough Mac Sheeny, a great number of his people John Bissett, with the greater part of the with
were [the following]
Scots
who had come with him

a party of his
Mahon, with
Hugh, the son of Owen, son of William Mac and Rory Maguire, and some of his people troops
;
along with him.
There
fell
there also
many
of the Lagenians and of the
men
of Meath, for there
came not
a leader of a
band or
troop, small or great, in
that muster of O'Neill,
who
were
left
[dead] on that
field
did not complain of the so that this battle of

;
number of his people that Cnoc Buidhbh was one of

seized
the most bloody engagements^ that
had ever occurred between the Kinelupon

horses, arms,
Connell and the Kinel-Owen.

n
The Kinel-Connel
means
[or
Great,
" uobal
.1.
mop."
O'Clery. It
among] the
greatest slaughters of men
made
simply great, or immense.

Bloody engagements, literally,
" so that of
between the Connellians and Owenians was this

defeat of Cnoc-Buidhbh."
1360
ecip epccpaib
aNNata Rio^hachca emeawM.

-|
[1522.
ppaomeab leo 56 po baccap mumcip f bomnaill jan eoca ace Dol ipm ccariopgail baccap eic lomba leo on piallac po aipli^pfe ipm apmac fpm. Do cooap apaill Do plogaib uf bomnaill la a neoalaib Dia cciccib jan comaiplfccab Do, Qpa aoi cpd po pmacc amail ap oeme conpainponl poppa coibecc ma bocom po ceooip,-] po apcna icc (lap na ccojaipm co haon baile) cap bfpnap mop piap cap eipne, cap
blfibfohaib na ploj popp po
-]
Dpobaofp, cap Duib, cpe icecap caipppi 50 po gab poplonjpopc a ccfcpamain na maDab Don caofb cuaib Do bfmo julban, uap cangaecap an pluacc con-
naccac DO pdibpfm 50 mbacap mompuibe im plicceac bail mbdccap bdpr.aba bomnaill ap nf bai aipipfmh poppa jan ceacc co cfp conaill ace co ngaboaofp an baile. Qn can ac cualacap an Da mac uilliam, an Da ua conT
i
i
cobaip
mac Diapmaca, clanD
bpiain, 6 cfpbaill
i
-\
piol ccfmneiccij
cona
ploccaib ua Domnaill Do jabdil poplongpuipc mompoccup Doib,-] an maibm f comaiple po cinnpfc ceacca Do cop pin DO ppaomeab laip ap ua neill ap uara Oaplac pfoba ap ua nDomnaill, i Do paipccpfc DO peib acbepab TTlajnup
6 Domnaill
-\
6 cfpbaill ecip
ua nDomnaill
mac
uilliam im jac camgin i im

pin,
506
nf baf fcoppa.
f
bacap iaD po paibfb ppip na copccaib
Cabcc mac
IN aipfc cpa coippbealbaij bpiain, co noajbdoinib ele amaille ppip. bacap na ceacca ace aipnfip a nairipcc Dua Domnaill api comaiple DO ponpac maice na plo^
1 po cinnpfc pop an ccomaiple hi pin gep bo hiongnab
-]
pabacap, jep bo Deacaip lonnpamail an cploicc baof annpin ap Ifonmaipe a lepcionoil ap uaiple a naipeac, ap aibble a neccpaic ppip an cf baof pop a ccionc DO pob pon pamail pin
~\
pin cona plojaib elub
jan piop on lompuibe
hi
co po aicfb 1 co po oiojjlab cdc Dfob a ainmnne pop apoile. Nf po hanab ~| nf po haipipeab lap na ploccaib pin ppi a cceccaibh na ppi hiomluab naicipcc
pfoba no caofncompaic co puaccacap coipppliab gup bo hann pcappac cijeap-
naba
-]
caoipig na plo
It
pin
pe
poile.
s Ceathramha-na-madadh, i. e. the quarter of the dogs, now Carrownamaddoo, a townland in the parish of Ahamlish, near the mountain of
P Eiscras,
appears from Cormac's Glospina, that
sary, in vote
Gppcop
epcna was a
brazen vessel for measuring wine. q Goblets. 6lei6 is explained " a drinking cup, a goblet," by O'Brien, in his Irish Dietionary,
'
which
is
correct.
Warriors
"
Piallac
.1.
p>anlaoc, no poiO'Clery.
Binn Golban, now Binbulbin, barony of CarSee Genealogies, bury, and county of Sligo. Tribes, and Customs of Hy-Fiachraeh, pp. 480, 483, and the map to the same work, on which
the exact position of this townland
is
peann laoc no jaipêabac."
shewn
1522.]
1361
armour, a store of provisions, strong liquors, and several beautiful and rich p and articles, both eiscras and goblets", of the forces whom they had defeated
;
though O'Donnell's people were without horses on going into the engagement, r from the warriors whom they had cut off in that slaughthey had many horses ter. Some of O'Donnell's forces went to their houses with their [share of the]
without his permission, but he sent them a peremptory order to return and after they had collected to one place at his summons, he to him at once
spoils,
;
marched, with all the speed that might be, westwards, through [the gap of] Bearnas Mor, over the [Rivers] Erne, Drowes, and Duff, and over the lower
Ceathramha-na-madadhs on the north side of Binn-Golban, because the Connacian army, of which we have [already] spoken, had advanced to Sligo, and were laying siege to that town, in which
part of Carbury,
and pitched
his
camp
at
O'Donnell had placed warders and nothing delayed their march to Tirconnell but the taking of the town. When the two Mac Williams, the two O'Conors,
;
Mac Dermot,
the O'Briens, O'Carroll, and the O'Kennedys, with their forces,
heard of O'Donnell's having encamped in their vicinity, and of that victory which he had gained over O'Neill, they resolved to dispatch messengers to sue
for peace
and they offered to him to leave all the covenants and matters in dispute between O'Donnell and Mac William to the arbitration1 of Manus O'Donnell and O'Carroll. Teige, the son of Turlough O'Brien, with
;
from him
other chiefs, were sent with these proposals. While the messengers were delivering their embassy to O'Donnell, the chiefs of the army, together with all
their forces,
came
to the resolution of raising the siege
and they acted on this resolution, though it such an army as was there so numerous, so complete, with leaders so noble, and with enmity so intense against the persons opposed to them should have
retreated in this manner, [and should not have waited] until each party had expended its fury, and wreaked its vengeance on the other. These troops did
and retreating privately was strange and wonderful that

;
not halt or wait for [the return of] their messengers, or the report of their embassy as to peace and tranquillity, until they reached the Curlieu mountains,
where the lords and

See also note
supra.
,
chieftains of the
army separated from one

as follows
:
another.
p- 493,
To
the arbitration.
The
literal translation is
" And they offered to him as [i. e. such terms as] Manus O'Donnell and O'Carroll should say [pronounce] between O'Donnell and
8 L
1362
awNQf-a Rioshacbca emeawN.
[1523.
Domnaill imoppo m' picip pibe na ploicc DO 6ol uaba pan lonnup pin, ap Ro cuip cpa majnup oia ppfpab no biab iria lupc arhail ap Deine conicpab. mac coippbealbaij f bpiain 6 Doriinaill loblacab lap na ceadcaib .1. la rabcc bd mo Do clu no comb ace copppliab puce pop a muinap. dp puaill ma po cnuic buibb in po DO copccap DUO Domnaill ap puD epeann an mai6m pin eDala aibble, ind an bdnmaibm pin cen 50 po puilijdp Oaoine,
papccbab eaoh no 50 po popDeapccaD pop neac fcoppa. Oomnall (.1. oomnall cleipeac) mac Sfam uf cacain Saop macaorh a ciniD DO mapbab lap an pura. peap emij coiccinn pfm, Domnall mac Domnaill uf Ruaipc paof ap uaiple -] ap oipbfpc Do rhapbaD
-] -|
Id cloinn peiblimiD uf puaipc. 6 copcpdm paof Deappccaijce TTlaijipcip peilim
noliccfb cdnonca oecc.
aois CRIOST:,
QoiS CRioSc,
TTlile,
1523.
cuicc ceD, piche, acpf.
Sfan 6 maonaij baf na pfppun

]
njeipill,-]
na cananac copab
i
hi cill
Dapa,
an caon cleipeac bd mo amm oipDeapcap Do baof nuaccap laijean DO ecc. O cardin oonnchab mac Sfam ceano Dam Deopab bd pfpp ma aimpip
-|
Dia cinib pfin Do ecc.
O
ma
mopba ceDac mac

i
TTldipe injfn
laoijpicc Decc. rhaille bfn mic puibne pdnac an
aombfn conpapail bd pfpp

ap eineac
O
oecc.
haimpip Decc. maille copbmac mac eoccain peicfm coiccfnn ap fngnam

TTlac cijfpnain pfpjal
"|
mac
jiolla fopa oicc, mic giolla fopa, mic bpiain
respecting every covenant and respecting every thing that was between them."
u
Mac William,
which means white martyrdom,

martyrdom.
T
i.
e.
bloodless
Bloodless defeat,
ban-maiom,
literally, white
Dennett Cleireach,
i.
e.
Dounell the Clergy-
defeat.
has a
The word ban, when thus compounded, kind of negative meaning, as in ban map-
from his having been man, educated for the Church. His castle was situated
so called probably
cpao (used in the very ancient manuscript at Cambray, an extract from which has been given by Mr. Purten Cooper, so well read by Pertz),
near the old abbey-church of Dungiven, in the
barony of Keenaght, and county of Londonderry, where some of his descendants are still extant.
1523.]

know
that these hosts
1363
O'Donnell, however, did not

this
had
fled
from him
all
e.
after
manner, for had he known it he would have pursued them with Manus O'Donnell sent an escort with the messengers, i. sible speed.
pos-
with
Teige O'Brien [and his associates], and it was at the Curlieu mountains he overtook his people. Scarcely did the defeat of Cnoc-Buidhbh, in which many
slaughtered and vast spoils obtained, procure greater renown or O'Donnell throughout Ireland than this bloodless defeat", although no one among them had lost a drop of blood or received a single wound.
victory for
men had been
Donnell
[i.
e.
Donnell Cleireach
the youth of his tribe, [people of] the Route".
and a
John O'Kane, the paragon of man of general hospitality, was slain by the
],
the son of
Donnell, the son of Donnell O'Rourke, distinguished for his nobleness and great deeds, was slain by the sons of Felim O'Rourke.
Master Felim O'Corcran, a learned doctor of the canon law, died.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1523.
thousand jive hundred twenty-three.
John O'Maenaigh", who was parson of Geshill, and a canon chorister at Kildare, a clergyman of the greatest name and renown in the upper part of
Leinster, died.
his
O'Kane (Donough, the son of John), the best patron of his own time, of the learned and the distressed, died.
tribe, in
O'More (Kedagh, the son of Laoighseach), died. Mary, the daughter of O'Malley, and wife of Mac Sweeny Fanad, the best
wife of a constable in her time, died.
O'Malley (Cormac, the son of Owen), a general supporter for his prowess
and
hospitality, died.
Mac Tiernan
It stood
(Farrell, the son of Gilla-Isa Oge, son of Gilla-Isa, son

the
of
on the brink of a remarkable precipice

its
Mac
Quillins,
an Irish family of Welsh

as yet in-
over the Eiver Roe, but
foundations are
now
origin.
x
The Mac Donnells had not
scarcely discernible. " The Route, a territory in the north of the
va d e d this territory.
O^Maenaigh,
now
anglicised
Mooney, in
county of Antrim, inhabited at this period
by
Meath and
in the King's
County.
8L2
eircectNN.
[1523.
ci 5 eapna
oaonnaccac Oecc, ceallaij Ouncaba peap oepcac

lonaib.
-|
a beapbpachaip
DO jabail a
61?ian
mac eaibcc an comaio, mic roippbealbai

hi
mic bpiain caca an
aonaij opajdil bdip obainn

TTlac uf bpiain
ccluain parhpooa po peil paccpaicc. cuabmuman .1. cabcc mac coipoealbai^, mic caibcc, mic
i
cara an aonaig Do mapbab oupcop Do peilep nar coippbelbaij mic bpiam an camaip pop piuip la buicilepacaib (.1. lap an iiipcip piapup puab buicilep)
pfp a aopa pep
mo eaccla a fpccapac an raDg

mapbaD.
pin.
ITlac gille fain loclainn DO
TTlac conmiDe TTlaoileaclamn Decc.
Qon buioe mac cuinn mic neill mic aipc f neill Do mapbab la T?uai6pi cappac mac copbmaic mic aoba. Gojan mac peilim mic Donnchaib mic cijfpndm oicc puaipc Do bacaoh
i
ap loc jlinDe eoa.
Ropa mac
Ruaibpi, mic bpiam mic peilim mejuibip Dpaâil bdip

.1.
mbpaijpine DO
Deanup ace an ccomapba maguioip Qob mac aipr f ruacail pfp a aoipi ba mo clu einij
cuconnachc.
uaiple
Da
mapbab la bpanacaib. Coccab ecip 6 neill
aob [oub] mac Qoba puaib. hfb an eappaij njlionn pinne, ~\ ppoplonjpopc pe 6 Domnaill Do bol a coibecc plan lap cpiocmiccab a nalbain, TTlajnup O oomnaill -j THajnap Do bol hi ccfp eoccain, -) an rip uile 6 beacuapca.
.1.
conn,
-\
6 Domnaill
Domnaill Do bfir
hi
~\
lach coille na ccuippirfn 50 Dun ngfnamn DO milleab ~] Do lopccaoh leo. baile mic Domnaill .1. cnoc an cluice Do lopccab la hua nDomhnaill ~| lubgopc painy
Teige-an-Chomfutid, or
i.
e.
Teige, Thaddseus,
Timothy of Goad, a townland containing the
not far from the boundary of the county of Donegal. According to the tradition in the
ruins of an old church, near Corofin, in the
country this was the scene of the
county of Clare. * Ath-an-Chamais,

ing water,
i.
e.
the ford of the wind-
first jealousy that took place in Ireland, namely, between Partholan and his wife Delgnaid, a couple who
now Camus
bridge, situated
two miles
to the north of Cashel, in the
county of Tippe-
flourished at a very remote period of Irish history, for some account of whom the reader is
rary.
a
h c
referred to Keating's History of Ireland, HaliGitte
Mac Mac
now Mac Lean. Conmidhe, now Mac Namee.

Eain,
e. the glen or valley of jeaGlenade, in the county of Leitrim,
i.
day's edition, p. 166.

d
Con.
is
Charles O'Conor interpolates bacac,

correct,
Glenn-eda,
lousy,
which
e
now
Gleann-Finne,
now
Glenfinn, or the vale of
1523.]
1365
Lord of Teallach-Dunchadha [Tullyhunco], a charitable and humane man, died and his brother assumed his place. y son of Torlogh, who was son of Brian Brian, son of Teige-an-Chomhaid
Brian),
;
,
Chatha-an-Aonaigh, died suddenly, about the festival of St. Patrick, at Cluain
Ramhfhoda [Clonroad]. The son of O'Brien of Thomond (Teige, son of Turlough, son of Teige, son of Turlough, son of Brian Catha-an-aenaigh), was killed by a shot of a ball z at Ath-an-Chamais upon the River Suir, by the Butlers, i. e. Pierce Roe
,
Butler,
Lord Justice of
Ireland.
This Teige was, of
all
men
of his age, the
the most dreaded
by
a
his enemies.
Mac Gille Eain (Loughlin) was slain. Mac Conmidhe", e. Melaghlin, died.
i.
Hugh Boy, the son of Con, son of Niall, son of Art O'Neill, was slain by Rory Carragh, the son of Cormac, son of Hugh.
Owen, the son of Felim, son of Donough, son of Tiernan Oge O'Rourke, was drowned in the Lough of Glenn-edac
.
Ross, the son of Rory, son of Brian, son of Felim Maguire, died in captivity with the Coarb Maguire (Cuconnaught).
for
Hugh, the son of Art O'Toole, the most celebrated of his tribe in his time hospitality and nobleness, was slain by the Byrnes. A war [broke out] between O'Neill, i. e. Con d and O'Donnell (Hugh Duv,
son of
Hugh
6
,
Glenn-Finne
O'Donnell remained encamped during the Spring in and Manus O'Donnell went to Scotland; and he returned in
Roe).
O'Dounell and Manus [then] went to Tyrone, and and burned the whole country from Bealach Coille na g-Cuirritinf to ravaged s Dungannon. The town of Mac Donnell, i. e. Cnoc-an-Chluiche was burned
safety after his visit.
,
the River Finn, in the barony of Raphoe, and of Donegal. The River Finn has its county
barony of Raphoe, and county of Donegal. This place was then a part of Tyrone,
i. e. the hill of the game, This place, which was the seat of Mac Donnell, the head of O'Neill's gallowglasses, is
source in
Inishkeel,
situated in the parish of of Boylagh, and county of barony Donegal, and it flows through the town of Stra-
Lough Finn,
Cnoc-an-chluiche,
or play.
norlar,
and joins the River Mourne (mu joopnci)
so called at the present day,
near the town of Lifford.

Bealack-CoiUe-na gCuirritin, now the road ol Killygordin, in the parish of Donaghmore,
f
Knockinclohy.
It
is
and is anglicised a townland in the parish
ofPomeroy,
in the
barony of Dungannon, and
county of Tyrone.
cnwata Rio^hachca emeaNN.

(mail bai ann Do gfppab i DO ceapccab lap an pluaj,
-j
[1523.
longpuipc
oib,
-|
hi
cculaij 6cc.
Qn
-|
cfp DO rmlleab,-]
a mbfic aohaib Do mop ajiccain ap jac caob
17o mapbab, baccap Dna aohaib poplongpuipc la caobh caipn cpiagail, canâccap plan lap nionnpab l?o buailfb buap lomba, aipccce aibble,
-]
an cfpe leo Don cup pin. Do beachaib cpd ua oomnaill Do pibipi hi ccfp neogain. T?o hoipcceab co noeapna ua neill pfb pip a nofipfb na bliabna pa, po millfb-an cfp laip ecc oipofipc fcoppa ariilaib pin. 1 nf oeapna
-]
hua noorhnaill aob occ mac aoba puaib lap noenarii pfoba hi ccoiccpic laip, Dol Do la hua neill lap cceacclainab a pocpaiDe hi ccfp eDala an cfpe Do chup la piopu bpeipne co bpeipne uf ftuaipc. Cpeacha, Dia' nimbfofn pop nopoibelaib an cfpe Dia momcoiriieD noiampaib
InDpaiccib la
-| -|
i
-)
~\
ua noorhnaill. bacap clann uf puaipc gup an Ifon pluaj cappupcaip ina bpapua Domnaill an cfp Don cupup pab 05 imbfjail an cfpe, ap a aof cpd Do imcij a hapbanna, co nap paccaib nf bd T?o loipcceab laip a poipccnfrha, pin.
~\
lonaiprhe innce jan lopccab.
la âllaib mibe, -\ Sluaicceab abbal mop la geapoiD mpla cille Dapa, la hua neill conn mac cuinn, mic enpi, mic eojain ap ua cconcobaip ppailje,
)
ap jaoibealaib laijfn apcfna. Na gaoibil pin Danamam uile ap pab f neill, ap a b'pficfmnap fcoppa, ~\ an ciapla,"] 6 neill ap nDenarh pfoba fcoppa Do cabaipc jiall, -\ bpajacc na ngaoibeal pin
1
ap conall ua mopba
"|
~\
in
uplaim an mpla a njioll le 506 accpa Da paibe aicce oppa, pe poile po pfb amlaib pin.
a pccapab
la plua^
pfpabac buibe 6 maoaccain canaipi

uf ceapbaill
h
is
.1.
pfl
namcaba DO mapbab
TTlaolpuanaib.
This word, which is exCoiccpioc, which is now inNeighbourhood. used to denote a stranger or foreigner, correctly
>
Herb garden, luBjopt

.1.
often
incorrectly written lujbopc,
plained lu ib-jopc
in
jopc luibe, an herb-garden,

Its diminutive,
Cormac's Glossary.
is
lubjop-
can,
the
name of some townlands,

i. e.
anglicised
always employed by the Four Masters in the sense of " neighbourhood or confine." It is derived from com, which is equivalent to the
is
Luffertane, Lorton, and even

1
Lowertown.
Cam
t-Siaghail,
the earn of Sedulius, or
Latin con, com, and cploc, i. strange that Keating used

sense,
e. finis.
It is
vry
it
in the opposite
Shell,
now
Carnteel, a small village in the ba-
namely,
in that of strange
or foreign
rony of
Dungannon, and county of Tyrone. See note ", under the year 1239, p. 297, supra.
country.
k
Breifny-0'' Rourke.
This territory com-
1523.]
136?
by O'Donnell, and a beautiful herb garden" there was cut down and destroyed by his forces. They remained for some time encamped at Tullyhoge, and
ravaged and plundered the country on every side and again they encamped for a time at one side of Cam t-Siaghail' [Carnteel], where they killed and de;
stroyed numbers of cattle, and committed other great depredations, and they returned safe after having [thus] plundered the country on that expedition.
O'Donnell went again to Tyrone and continued to plunder and devastate the country until the end of the year, when O'Neill made peace with him, and so no other remarkable exploit was performed between them.
O'Donnell (Hugh Oge, the son of Hugh Roe), after having made peace with O'Neill, assembled the forces within his own territory, and those of his
k neighbourhood^ and made an irruption into Breifny-0'Eourke Spoils and of the country were conveyed by the men of Breifny into the wilds and goods
.
fastnesses of the country, to
sons of O'Rourke, with
all
guard and protect them against O'Donnell. The the forces which they had with them, were defending
O'Donnell, however, overran the country on
the country against O'Donnell.

this occasion,
burned
its
edifices
and corn, and
left
nothing worth notice in
it
without burning.
very great army was led by Garrett, Earl of Kildare, the English of Meath, and O'Neill (Con, the son of Con, son of Henry, son of Owen), against
Irish abided
O'Conor Faly, Connell O'More, and the Irish of Leinster in general. All these by the decision., and arbitration of O'Neill between them and the
and O'Neill,
after
Earl,
having made peace between them, delivered the pledges

1
and hostages of the Irish into the keeping of the Earl, in security for [the performance of] every demand he made of them and so they separated from
;
each other in peace. m
Fearadhach
Boy O'Madden,
i.
Tanist of Sil-Anmchadha, was slain by the
army of O'Carroll,
e.
Mulrony.
of Irish Annals for Sir often quoted.
prised the whole of the present county of Leitrim, and originally the baronies of Tullyhaw
James Ware already
and Tullyhunco, in the west of the county of Cavan, but in latter ages these baronies were a
part of Breifny-O'Eeilly.
Demand, accpa. This word is translated challenge by Duald Mac Firbis, in his version
m Fearadhach. This name, which was very common among the O'Maddens and O'Naghtans till very recently, is now obsolete as the proper name of a man but it is preserved in the
;
counties of Tyrone and Fermanagh, in the sur-
1368
awNQta Rio^hachca eiReawN.

QO1S CR1OSU,
QOIS C171O3C,
1524.
[1524.
mile, cuicc ceo, piclie, aceacaip.

-\
Oiap mac
bomnaill, mall japb,
eoccan clann aoba oicc mic aoba
coccaib pe poile,-| a mbfic leliachaib ace buaibpuaib Do cfnjal commbdba Dol i nacchaib a cele. T?o gabab pea6 an rfpe 50 po cuipeab pucaib pein baile neill jaipb .1. cpannocc loca bfchaij la heojan, lap mbfic Don baile pop a locci pop a loncaib pein. pdccbaip mall an cfp, i cucc lonnpaiccib paoa imcian Dopibipi ap an mbaile co mbaoi a cceilcc a ccompoccup Do. T?o piDip
mbaof mall, l?o gabpac 05 lommeojan an nf pn, po lonnpaij 50 haipm bualab achaib paoa pe poile 50 po mapbab eojan ap an lacap pin. Po rpoml?o ba mop an cecc piap an loiceab mall co nepbailr Dia jonaib lappm.
i
-|
ran
ui bpiain, pfp a cijeapnaip pein ap pfpp no piapab luce cuingfoa nfir paip, pfp po ba buaine eineac, enjnarh, pfp po paofleab Danmain le hinme") 16 hoipeacup a buicce DO ecc lap nongab mp
]
)
an Diap copcaip ann pin. Diapmaicc mac an jiolla buib

pin
naicpije.
hi ccfp neoccam Diap loipcceab i Diap an rip laip, reacc plan laparh. haipcceab Sloicceab lap an lupcip gfpoicc mac gfpoicc lapla cille Dapa Dpoipibm a bpacap f neill .1. conn mac cuinn hi mfbon pojmaip DO ponnpab Do cocr pop
~\ .1.
Sloicceab la hua nDomnaill
ua noomnaill Daire a diniccne paip, nf po haipipeab leo co piaccaccap na ccpi namar, ap ba hinmll, ba Damjfn leo bfic ipm maijm pin ap Pope uaman f bomnaill, ap po bacrap Domain bfoja ralrhan i Ifcan clapa lan-] -)
Daingne
ma nuipnmceall
is
ann Do ponabld TTlajnup ua noomnaill pecc

bush
r
piarh.
name Farry, which

radhaigh.
n
an anglicising of O'Fea-
in its vicinity."
Loch Beatha, now Lough- Veagh, near GarSee note c under tan, in the county of Donegal
,
Before this time, piap an can pin, i. e. had they fallen before they had disturbed the country by their contentions, their deaths would have
the year 1258, p. 364, supra. From a great distance. This could not be
literally translated.
been tMe cause of great lamentations in Tirconnell. But at this time the people thought it a
blessing that they had fallen
lish
The nearest that the Engthe following " Niall leaves the country and gave [made] a long, far incursion again on the town, so that he was in amwould bear
is
:
hands, as the civil
war
in the
connell was then at an end,
by each others' kingdom of Tirand their father was
enabled to wage war with more effect on O'Neill
1524.]
1369
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

*
1524.
The Age of Christ, one thousand jive hundred twenty-four.
The
Oge, continued for some time disturbing the country, until at length they were induced to oppose each other. The town of Niall Garv, i. e. the Crannog of
;
Hugh
two sons of O'Donnell, namely, Niall Garv and Owen, the sons of son of Hugh Roe, formed a confederacy to wage war and they
Loch
taker,
Beatha", in
which he had been

[to his
left [only]
by Owen
as protector
and
care-
was seized
own
use]
Niall left the territory, and again

;
marched
town [mansion] and he lay in ambush in received intelligence of this, repaired to the place its vicinity. Owen, having where Niall was and they fought there for a long time, until Owen was slain
from a great distance
to attack the
;
on the spot
and Niall was so deeply wounded, that he died of his wounds [soon] afterwards. The [loss of] two who fell there would have been the cause
;
.
p of great -grief before this time Dermot, son of Gilla-Duv O'Brien, a
man who
assisted those that requested

;
any thing of him better than any other man, owning a like extent of territory a man of the most untiring hospitality and prowess, who was rather expected
to live
and enjoy the wealth and dignity of
his patrimony, died, after
Unction
and Penance.
An
army was
the country, after
by O'Donnell into Tyrone which he returned safe.

led
and he burned and ravaged
was led by the Lord Justice ( Garrett, the son of Garrett, Earl of Kildare), precisely in the middle of Autumn, to relieve his kinsman, O'Neill, i. e. Con, the son of Con, and to wreak his vengeance upon O'Donnell and he
;
An army
never halted until he arrived at Port-na-dtri-namhadq for they [i. e. he and his forces] considered themselves secure and protected in that place against O'Don,
nell,
they were afraid, for there lay all around them deep ditches and strong' and broad trenches, which had been formed some time before by Manus
of
his neighbours.
whom
and
Irish in the
margin
in
Charles O'Conor writes in " The brothers of
">
Port-na-dtri-namhad
This was the name
Manus,
son of
other,
Hugh Duv,
and
son of
Hugh
Roe,
fell
by each
of a place on the east side of the River Foyle, near Strabane. See note under the year 1522.
r
good soothe they richly deserved
Strong
The
adjective
lanbamjne
is
is
here
;
this misfortune."
made
8
to agree
with ctapa, which
incorrect
1370
QNNaca Rioghachca
eirceaNN.
[1524.
a cpice ppip an ponab cionol cpom ploij la hua noomnaill DO copnarh bdccap iaD canjaccap hi pocpaibe borhnaill cenlupci'p, i p|ii hua neill. moca a pocpaioe btinaib bubbein, peace a&bal albanac Duaiplib cloinne
00
oomnaill na halban pa
pfm QlapDpann mac coin cacanaij, co pocaibi DO pa aengup mac coin cacanaig, pa mac oomnaill gallocclac oeaj&aofnib ele a halbain amaille ppiu. Nf po hanab leo pibe co pangarraji co opuimlijfn, po baf jfallab immbualaib fcoppa ap na rhapac. l?o baf
mac
Dorhnaill
-\
~\
6 neill Dionnpaiccib in aohaib mpcip Damsne an ionai6 ina pabarrap, ap uaman an opDandip bdcap la mumcip an nipcfp. Oo coib cpa majnup 5011 DO comapleccab Dua bomnaill hi mfpcc na njallocclac Dia coip t>o caicfm an luprfp f neill po gabpac pop a noiubpaccab mfpccbuaibpeab cpluaij
~\ ~\
]
TTlajnup 6 Domnaill '05 lappaib an la pin i nf po paom 6 Domnaill pin
~\
~\
Do paiab paijicc condp Ificcpfc cararh no nonnabpab ooib 50 po mapbab an calbac mac uf bpiain leo co pochaibe ele amaille nip,"j pob ecr mop epibe
ma
Durhaij pfm. dpi comaiple po cinn an lupcfp, 6 neill ap abapac coinne pfo&a DO cop 50 hua noomnaill, Do ponab on, ap po naibm an luprfp pib ecip 6 nDomnaill -j ua neill, -| 6 pfin hi pldnaib Oo ponab beop caipofp froppa.
-\
cpfopc
1 1
map an cceDna po caomcompac cpe

Dua
neill
ecip an lupcip,
-|
6 Domnaill co po
pcapparc po
pioh,
mfopbailib De Don Dul pm.

neill,
dec cionncub Don
lupcip,
mic cuinn, mic aoba buibe, mic bpiain an ran Do cuala aob na ballaij pluacc mop ace milleab cfpe heoccam, ploij pin DO bfic cuicce, T?o cuip upmop a ploij pein poime Id cpeacaib ~| la
-|
puapaccap aob, mac
heoalaib an cfpe. Ro aipip pein co cian ma nofohaib in uachab ploij co ciucc an cploij ele paip. Ro e lap nd pajbail nfccappuccpar lonnpaijpioc baojal co po mapbab (6. occobep), i co po mubaijheao leo he ap in lacaip bd rpoj cpa bd Doilij an cpaop clann poicinelac Doioheab amlaib pin.
i -]
tor although the clapa, or trenches, helped to
na-dtri-namhad, where the

'
enemy was encamped.

is
render the fortification oamgean, strong, still they could not with propriety be said to be
A promise of battle
but the meaning
This
is
the literal trans-
bainêan themselves.
help this, for he
their
But the Editor cannot must allow the Four Masters

it
own mode of expression, though
be often
that there was every lation, that they would come to an engageappearance ment on the following day. u " Was O'Donnell
desirous, literally,
Manus
inelegant,
s
and even sometimes incorrect

and not
from Port-
was asking to attack the Justiciary and O'Neill

that night."
'
DruMighean, now Drumleen, on the west

far
side of the River Foyle,
To conclude a peace,
literally, to
send a mes-
1524.]
1371
O'Donnell. O'Donnell mustered a numerous army to defend his country against the Lord Justice and O'Neill. The following are those who joined the army of O'Donnell on this occasion, exclusive of his own native forces a great body of
:
gentlemen of the Clann-Donnell of Scotland, under [the conduct of] Mac Donnell himself, i. e. Alexander, the son of John Cahanagh, and under Mac Donnell Galloglagh, with many others of the chieftains of ScotScots, consisting of the
land
who accompanied
8
,
lighean
them. These never halted until they arrived at Druimand there was a promise of battle between them on the morrow.
1
Manus O'Donnell was
desirous" of attacking the
Lord Justice and O'Niall on
that night, but to this O'Donnell would not consent, on account of the strength of the position of the enemy, and from a dread of the ordnance which the Lord Justice's people had with them. Manus, however, without consulting O'Don-
out on foot with a party of gallowglasses, to harass and confuse the army of the Lord Justice and O'Neill, and commenced discharging showers of arrows at them, so that they neither allowed them to sleep nor rest and they
nell, set
;
slew Calvagh, the son of O'Brien, and many others along with him.
who was a great loss The resolution which
in his
own
territory,
the
Lord
Justice and
O'Neill adopted on the following day was, to send messengers to O'Donnell, This was requesting him to come to a conference, and conclude a peace".
accordingly done, and the Lord Justice confirmed a peace between O'Neill and A gossipred was also O'Donnell, he himself being as surety between them.
formed between the Lord Justice and O'Donnell, so that on this occasion they parted from each other in friendship and amity, through the miraculous interposition of God.
on their return, found Hugh, the son of Niall, son of Con, son of Hugh Boy, son of Brian Ballagh, ravaging Tyrone with a numerous army and Hugh, when he heard that these hosts were approaching him, sent the greater number of his forces onwards with the
Justice
O'Neill,
;
The Lord
and
preys and spoils of the country, and he himself remained at a great distance behind them, with only a small body of troops, so that the main body of the other army overtook him. They attacked him, and, being caugty in a perilous
condition, he
It
was overpowered and killed on the spot, on the 6th of October. was a rueful and grievous thing that this noble and highborn chieftain should
nell
This indeed was done, for the sage of peace. Lord Justice ratified a peace between O'Don-
and O'Neill, and he himself
as surety be-
tween them.
8x2
Rio^hachca eiReaww.
pin
[1524.
baof a pamail Do cenel eojain pe cian oaimpip ap uaiple, ap fpjna conaD Dpopaicmfc a bciip po ap eineac ap cpoDacc, ap comnapc, ap copnam
ap
nf
pdiDean
cfraip picfc pip pom,
mile cuicc ceo Do blia&naib,
jfm De co haob 601616 oa mbe aon Da piappoijio.

6
TTlac uiDilfn copbmac, i
mac pfam
Duib mic oomnaill DO lor
-|
DO jabail
a haicle an mapbra
TjopmlaiD mjfn
pin la muincip
ui
f neill.
aoDa mic neill mic cuinn f neill, bfn po ba mo cumaofn ap opDaib po ba mo ofplaccaD } Deijeineac ollamnaib (Deicbip on ap baof ofi^pfp a Dion^1 eccalpaib, ap eiccpib i ap
Dotiinaill
(Qo6 pua6)
bfn
-|
mala le) Decc lap mbpfir buaDa 6 ooman, i ofman. CoccaD mop ecip carancaib Dap mapbaD cumaiê mac bpiain pinn uf cacdin, i pfpoopca mac RuaiDpi an puca, po mapbaD pop an coccaD pin aoD 16 goppam mac goppaDa uf cacam, i Dponj Da cappac mac ui Docapcaij muinnp amaille pip lap nool Doib Do congnam la Sfan mac romdip f carain. Cumaije ballac mac Domnaill f cacam paof Duine uapail ap a cumaccaib
~\
DO mapbaD la CUID Don purca. TTlac DonnchaiD cipe hoilella Decc

-)
17uaiDpi mac comalraij mic bpiain, Do bfic ecip cloinn noonchaiD pa cijeapnup na cfpe, mac impeapam DonnchaiD Do jaipm DO copbmac mac caiDcc mic bpiain. Ttlac puibne cipe bojaine mall mop mac eoccain conpapal ba pfpp lam
.1.
-|
1
-]
laochDacr, i ba cpuaiDe cpoiDe-) comaiple, ba pfpp aipipiorh, ~] lonnpaijiD, ba pfpp enec -) fngnam, ba mo muipfp -\ mfpjappaD, ] ap lia lap po bpipeaD
1
Tir-Bogkaiw,
i.
e.
the country of
Enna
Boghaine, Gulban, the ancestor of
who was
is
the second son of Conall

all
and published by Colgan (lib. ii. c. 40), places the lofty mountain of Sliabh-Liag, now Slieveleague, in
p. 135.
the Kinel-Connell.
this territory
See Trias Thaum.,
This territory
fol.
47, a, a,
described in theBook of Fenagh, as extending from the Eiver Eidhfalls
The name of
this territory is still pre-
neach,
now
the Eiver Eany, which
into the
served in that of the barony of Baghaineach, now anglice Banagh, in the west of the county
of Donegal.
phical
harbour of Inver, in the bay of Donegal, to the stream of Dobhar flowing from the rugged
mountains
See Battle of
Magh
Rath, p. 156.
According to O'Dugan's TopograPoem, this territory belonged to the O'Boyles but for about two centuries before
;
The
Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, translated
the confiscation of Ulster
it
was the country of
1524.]

off,
1373
thus be cut
for his peer for nobleness, intelligence, hospitality, valour,
prowess, and protection, had not been [found] for a long time [before] among The following [quatrain] was composed in commemoration the Kinel-Owen.
of [the year of] his death
:
Four and twenty years, 'tis true, A thousand and five hundred,
From
birth of Christ
till
death of Hugh,
Should any one inquire.
Mac
Quillin
(Cormac) and the son of John Duv Mac Donnell were wounded
after this killing [of
and taken prisoners
Hugh], by
O'Neill's people.
Gormley, the daughter of O'Donnell (Hugh Roe), and wife of Hugh, the son of Niall, son of Con O'Neill, a most bounteous and hospitable woman, who
had bestowed many gifts upon the orders and churches, and upon the literary men and ollaves (which, indeed, was what might have been expected from her, for she had a husband worthy of her), died, having gained the victory over the
Devil and the world.
A great war
In
this
[broke out]
among
the O'Kanes, in which Cumaighe, the son
of Brian Finn O'Kane,
was
slain,
and Ferdoragh, the son of Rory, of the Route.

Carragh, the son of O'Doherty, by Godfrey,
war was
also slain
Hugh
the son of Godfrey O'Kane, together with a party of his people, they having gone to assist John, the son of Thomas O'Kane.
Cumhaighe
considering his means,
Ballagh, the son of Donnell O'Kane, a distinguished gentleman, was slain by some [of the people] of the Route.
Mac Donough
Brian
;
of Tirerrill died, namely, Rory, the son of Tomaltagh, son of whereupon a contention arose among the Mac Donoughs, concerning
;
the lordship of the country and Cormac, the son of Teige, son of Brian, was the Mac Donough. [at last] styled
of Tir-Boghaine (Niall More, the son of Owen), a constable of hardiest hand and heroism, of boldest heart and counsel, best at withholding and attacking*, best in hospitality and prowess, who had the most numerous
troops,
Mac Sweeny
and most vigorous
soldiers,
and who had forced the greatest number of

of
dicious in deciding
Mac Sweeny Banagh, a hereditary leader gallowglasses to the O'Donnells.

*
when
it
was best to
retreat,
or keep from action, and
when
to join battle
Withholding and attacking,
i.
e.
the most ju-
with the enemy.
Rioghachca eiReciNN.
DO bfpnabaib baojail oia caom cenel pfm Decc lap nongab
caiplen pfm hi pacain .14. oecembep.
-)
[1524.
lap naicpije
ma
i
bol ap cpeic concobaip ciappaije (concobap mac concobaip) Do rmuchcnj ealla q copbmac occ mac copbmaic mic caibcc Do bpfic paip,
-|
Do loc q Do jabail, paoineab laip pop ua cconcobaip, q 6 concobaip pein Concobap mac Diapmaoa mic an giolla buib f bpiam, i DiapmaiD mac copbmaic
copbmac mac caibcc. ITlaj capcaij piabac (Domnall mac pfngin, mic Diapmaoa) Do 6ol ap piubal cpeice njlionn plfipce, i muincip na cfpe ap mbpfic paip 05 pdgbail
uf mdille
Do mapbab
ipin
mbpipeab
pin la
an jlfnna, e pfm DO
baile
jabctil
-\
TTlajspajnaill (caral occ
Dponj Dia muincip Do mapbab. mac carail) Do mapbab a ppioll ap pairce a
pfm le cloinn
f
i
rhaoilmiabaij.
(.1.
TTlop injean
bpiain
coippbealbac
f
mac
caibcc) bean Donnchaib mic
marjamna
bpiain, bfn cije aoibfb coiccinn Decc.
Ctibilin injfn
Rioipe an jleanna, bfn
concobaip ciappaije ofijbfn oepcac
Daonnaccac oecc.
Coippbealbac mac peilim buibe uf concobaip Do mapbab la coippbealbac puab mic caibcc buibe mic cacail puaib.
RuaiDpi mac bpiain mic pilip mejuibip paof cinnpfbna Decc. THac uf paijillij .1. cacal mac epccain mic cacail Do jabail la cloinn
cpfam mic cacail
uf paijillig, -| milleab na bpeipne uile Do ceacc epic 6 Raijillij -] clann pm ecip cpfam f Raiîllij, i 6 neill (conn mac cuinn) Do bol pluaj po bf ipm mbpeipne Do milleab coDa cloinni cSfain Don bpeipne,
cpfam Do milleab cooa uf paijillij, an ppioip occ, mac cacail, mic peapgail, mic Sfain DO mapbab oopcop Do pilep pa caiplen colca moain,
1 clann
-]
l?oba paof cinnpfbna eipibe.

Perilous passes, literally, " and most of gaps of danger were broken."
5
'
by whom
Gleann-Fleisce,
i.
e.
the vale of the Flesk, a
river rising in the south-east of the
barony of
Rathain,
village of
now Eahin
castle,
not far from the
Magunihy,
into the
in the
Duncaneely, in the parish of Killaghty, barony of Banagh, and county of Donegal.

Duthaigh- Ealla, i. e. the district of the River Ealla, now Duhallow, a barony in the
Lower
county of Kerry, and falling Lake of Kilkenny, near the

i.
town.
c
The Green, paicce,
e.
the green, lawn,
platea, or field of exercise, opposite his house,
north-west of the county of Cork See note under the year 1501, p. 1262, supra.
p
,
or castle.
*
At
the castle, literally,
under the
castle.
The
1524.]
1375
of his own fair tribe, died, after Unction and Penance, perilous passes" of any man z in his own castle of Kathain on the 14th of December.
,
upon a predatory incursion into Duthaidh-Ealla but was overtaken by Cormac Oge, the son of Cormac, son of Teige [Mac Carthy], who defeated O'Conor, wounded him, and took him prisoner. In this defeat Conor, the son of Dermot, son of Gilla-Duv O'Brien, and Dermot, the son of Cormac O'Malley, were slain by Cormac, son
a
,
O'Conor Kerry (Conor, the son of Conor) set out
of Teige
(Mac Carthy).
;
(Donnell, the son of Fineen, son of Dermot) made a b but, being overtaken by the people predatory incursion into Gleann-Fleisce of the country as he was leaving the glen, he himself was taken prisoner, and
Mac Carthy Reagh
some of
his people
were
slain.
MacRannall (Cathal Oge, the son of Cathal) was treacherously c green of his own town, by the sons of O'Mulvey.
slain
on the
More, the daughter of O'Brien (i. e. Turlough, the son of Teige), and wife of Donough, the son of Mahon O'Brien, a woman who kept a house of open
hospitality, died.
Eveleen, daughter of the Knight of Glynn, and wife of O'Conor Kerry, a

good, charitable, and humane woman, died. Turlough, the son of Felim Boy O'Conor, was slain by Turlough Roe, the son of Teige Boy, son of Cathal Roe.
Rory, the son of Brian, son of Philip Maguire, a distinguished captain, died. The son of O'Reilly (Cathal, the son of Owen, son of Cathal) was taken prisoner by the sons of John, son of Cathal O'Reilly, the consequence of which
was, the desolation of all Breifny, between O'Reilly and the sons of John O'Reilly. O'Neill (Con, the son of Con) twice marched with an army into Breifny, to
which belonged to the sons of John and the sons of John destroyed O'Reilly's part and the young Prior, son of Cathal, son of Farrell, son of John, a distinguished captain, was killed by the shot of a ball at the castle" of Tulach Moain'.
destroy that part of
it
; ;
ball
must have been
fired
through a window or
in Irish cului j
maom, and
anglice Tullavin.
It
aperture in the castle while he

beneath,
e
was standing
is the name of a small village on the road leading from Cootehill to Cavan, and about three
Tiilaclt
Moain,
i.
e.
Moan's
hill,
now
called
miles from the former.
1376
QNNata Rio^hachca
mac
eirceaNN.
[1525.
ITlac meguibip concobap

f
Sfain mic pilip
Do mapbab la pliocc aipc

claoin
neill.
Ropp mac Ruaibpi mic romaip oicc megmbip Do bachab hi pope 6 mac meguibip giolla paccpaicc mac mnpi mp ccabaipc cpeice DO
.1.
conco-
baip.
oicc meg margamna. Qpogal mac bpian mac giollaparpaicc mic aoba aoba oicc, i eochaib mac aoba oicc Do ceacc 50 baile megmacjamna (.1-
glaipne
mac Remainn, mic

poba
-|
glaipne
mejmargamna) Depnai&m
~\
-]
oo bainj-
a ccfngail, a piooa Doib pip pa mionnaib pa planaib lomba, l?o paccaibpioc an baile jan eaccla gan imuaman. l?o cuipeaD bpian na moiceipje mag macjarhna ~\ lucr ri je mejniuccao a
pip, 1 iap
-|
nDenam a ccuip
marjamna ma
meabail,
~\
Ifiimam,
pfin
bd hiac
po mapbab bpian i apDgal leo cpe cangnacr Diay a ccorhaopa ba pfpp baf ma ccorhpocpaib.
-j
%
-|
Sfan buibe
mac ainopiapa megcpaic
pfp puim pocondij 50
momac
pain-
bpfpa epen, i a ecc.
bpeiplfm eoccan occ,

(.1.
TTIac picbfpcaij
eoccain, ollam meguibip 16 bpficfmnap Decc. cuconnacc) ollam meguibip le Dan Decc.
mac
QO1S CR1OSC,
Qoip Cpfopc,
1525.
mile, cuicc ceD, pice, acuicc.

.1.
^niom upgpanna abuarmap Do benam an bliabainpi ap na mapbab hi meabail la mac an abbab mic mupcaba,
amaille le gpab i le capranacc,
'
~\
eppcop Ifirjlmr.e he ina caoimceacr

cille
-]
an Dpong ap a puce mpla

land
oapa DO
Brian-na-moicheirgke,
i.
e.
Brian or Bernard
of the early rising.
Mac Mahon's /wwehold.They

to the
gave name
but in Bowling's Annals the murder is ; entered under the year 1522, and the punishment of it under 1524, or 1525, but evidently
Loughty [luce cije], a territory DOW included in the barony and county of Monaghan.
*
by a mistake of the
Treachery.peall."
1
"
Cangnacc
.1.
meabal no Mac
transcriber. Cowling gives the following account of the transaction " A. D. 1522. Mauritius episcopus Leighlen
:
O'Clery.
cognominatus Deoran
in
Mac
Lexia jam vocata,
RibMeartaigh,
now
anglicised
Queenes County in Leinster, frater minorum,

professor in Theologia, controversia et conversatione eloquentissimus predicator, castus a nativitate,
Crifferty.
J
Abominable deed.
This murder
in
is
entered
Ire-
Ware's Annals of
episcopatum regebat
annum cum
dimi-
1525.]
1377
of Maguire (Conor, the son of John, son of Philip) was slain by the descendants of Art O'Neill.
Ross, son of Rory, son of Thomas Oge Maguire, was drowned in the port of Claoininis [Cleenish], after having carried off a prey from the son of Maguire, i. e. Gilla-Patrick, the son of Conor.
Brian, the son of Gilla-Patrick, son of
The son
Hugh Oge Mac Mahon
Ardgal, son
Oge, came to the town of Mac Mahon e. of (i. Glasny, the son of Redmond, son of Glasny Mac Mahon), to confirm and ratify their peace with him and there, having made peace, and concluded
of
Hugh Oge
and Eochy, son of
Hugh
their covenants
and compacts with him by many oaths and

fear or apprehension
8
, ;
sureties,
f
they
left
the
town without
but Brian-na-Moicheirghe
in pursuit of them,
Mac Mahon,
were
slain
and Mac Mahon's household
were sent
and Brian and
Ardgal, two of the best men, of their years, by them through treachery" and deceit.
and- very wealthy, died.
in their neighbourhood,
John Boy, the son of Andrew Magrath, a man of note, a prosperous man,
O'Breslen
died.
'
(Owen Oge,
1
the son of Owen), Ollav to Maguire in judicature,
Mac
Rithbheartaigh
(i
e.
Cuconnaught), Ollav
to
Maguiro
in poetry, died.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1525.
thousand five hundred twenty-five.
A foul and abominable deed' was

who was
in his
committed in
this year,
namely, the Bishop
of Leighlin was treacherously murdered by
Mac an-Abbaidh Mac Murrough
[and others], company, with [the appearance of] love and chaAs many of the perpetrators of this crime as were apprehended by the rity.
dis et
duobus mensibus
interfectus fuit per
oves
Maurum Cavenagh archidiaconum

ter
dioceseos in-
quam destruere. "A. D. 1524. Geraldus Comes

episcopi
Kildarise ju-
Kilneyn et Cloaghruish, eo quod dicti archidiacoui et aliorum redarguit perversitatem et

corrigere proposuit.
ejus adventu
cari Iste Episcopus in jocundo quibusdam persuadentibus duplicleri
ratusdeputatus, qui Maurum Guer, id est

interfectorem
affigere curavit, at
'sharp'
Deoran predicti cruci the head of Glan Keynald by
Leighlin, et ibidem intralia ejus fecit comburi,
subsidium
respondit
Meluis radere
anno 1525."
a Rio^haclica emeaNN.
luce
[1525.
Denma an mfjnioma pin po popcongaip a mbpfir gup an maijm in po a monacaip Do mapbpac an ceppcop, hi bpfnoab beo ap cup, a nabaije
-j -| -\
bfm apDa,
lopccab ina bpiabnaipi.

in
mic bpiain cara Uoippbealbac mac macjarhna, mic coippbealbaij, aonaij i bpiain eppcop cille Da l.ua Do ecc.
Qn
oecc.
ofganac
mac
bpiain puaib mic conmibe peap cije
aomf6 coiccinn
Corhcpuinniuccab pfp nepeann ôhaonbaile

cille Da]ia(5fpoiD occ
mac
gfpoic) Du hi
nan cliac lap an mpcip mpla rcangaccap iapla6a bapinn, Rmii
-]
Do cuaib cpa po&aofne, -\ upmop jaomeal -\ gall epeann apcfna. 6 neill conn mac cuinn, -] 6 oomnaill, ao6 mac ao6a puaib DO cfngal a ccop
peaba,
-]
lap naijnfp ppiaDnaipi an lupcfp, lap ccaccpa gaca cainsne po bai fcoppa piam 50 pin Doib pfm ~\ od ccaipDib gall ~| 50016eal nf po cuimsfb a pfo&uccaD lap an lupcip na lap na maicib ap cfna 50
1
hi
]
DacDainjniuccao a pfoDa
ccangacnap po eippfb Dia ccijib 50 po pap an coccab ceona fcoppa Dopibipe. Oo Deachaib rpa ua oomnaiU po bf hi ccfp eojain an bliabam pi 50 po
loipceab,
50 po leipinopao gac aipo in po jab Don cfp uile laip, -| nf puaip cacap no ceoccrhdil pip ace Dol no ace ceacr aoinpecc Dib pin. Do ponar pfb lapam fcoppa a ccup an po jmaip DO ponnpab co po rmêallpac aipij^rh
")
ap gac
acbepab an lupcipi TTlajnup 6 Dorhnaill. O carain Sfan mac comaip DO mapbab la Dpfim Dia cimb pfm mac Ruampi an pura ui cardin, mac goppaba uf cacain, ^c. a habnacal co honopac hi Cacapiona mjfn f Duibgfnndm Decc, 9. lun,
caoi'b peib
.1.
.1.
-j
-]
mainipcip Duin na ngall.

T?oip injfn meguibip (Sfan) Decc.
Siubcm injfn mecc

k
mafjamna
(bpian) Decc.
indeed they have from a different authority.
Burned before them. This is badly told. It should be, " and the entrails of one of the murderers were taken out and
faces of others
burned before the

but
flayed,
but evidently without recognising that they were recording the same event which they had
entered under 1525.
This, and
who were
living,
and
al-
many
other en-
of others
who were
as yet
untouched, but
tries of a similar nature,

is
prove that their work

interpolates bacac,
e.
lowed to view the horrible tortures which they themselves were presently to receive."
1
a hurried compilation.
m CfeK.-Charles O' Conor

the lame, which
rone,
is
i.
A general meeting
The Four Masters should

as
correct.
He was the chief of Ty-
have given this entry under the next year,
who was
afterwards created Earl of Tyrone.
1525.]
1379
Earl of Kildare, were by his orders brought to the spot on which they had murdered the bishop, and condemned to be first flayed alive, and then to have
their
bowels and entrails taken out and burned before them*.
Turlough, the son of Mahon, son of Turlough, son of Brian Catha an aenaigh O'Brien, Bishop of Killaloe, died.
The Dean,
the son of Brian
Roe Mac Conmidhe [Mac Namee], who kept
house of general hospitality, died.

general meeting of the [principal] men of Ireland was held in Dublin, by the Lord Justice, the Earl of Kildare (Garrett Oge, son of Garrett). Thither repaired the earls and barons, knights and other distinguished men, and
1
Irish and the English of all Ireland. Thither repaired of Con) and O'Donnell (Hugh, the son of Hugh Roe), the son O'Neill (Con with intent to form a league and reconfirm their peace in presence of the Lord
the greater
number of the
m
,
Justice.
[But] after they themselves, and their English and Irish friends, had debated and argued upon every covenant that had ever been entered into
till
between them
and
all
that time,
it
was
still
the other chieftains to reconcile

strife,
found impossible for the Lord Justice them to each other so that they
;
returned to their homes at
and the war between them was renewed.

this year,
and burned and devastated every part of the country through which he passed, and received neither battle nor opposition, either in going or returning, on either of these expeditions. In the beginning of the following harvest, however, a peace was concluded between them and they mutually agreed to abide, on each side, by the arbitration of
;
O'Donnell went twice into Tyrone
the
Lord Justice and Manus O'Donnell.

O'Kane,
i.
John, the son of Thomas, was slain by a party of his own tribe, namely, Rory O'Kane of the Route", the son of Godfrey O'Kane, and others.
e.
Catherine, the daughter of O'Duigennan, died on the 9th of June, and was honourably buried in the monastery of Donegal.
Rose, the daughter of Maguire (John), died. Joan, daughter of Mac Mahon (Brian), died.
Rory O'Kane oftfte Route. A branch of the O'Kanes had, about a century previous to this,
"
they were dispossessed in this century by Sorley Boy Mac Donnell of the Isles, to whom Queen
Elizabeth
established themselves at Dunseverick, in this territory, in despite of the Mac Quillins, but
made
a grant of all his conquests in
this territory.
8*2
1380
aNNCtta Rio^hachca emeaNN.
[1.526.
QO1S CR1OSC,
Qofp Cpiopr,
1526.
mile, cuicc ceo, pice, aSe.
Sab^laipne mac aoba meg aongupa abb manac an mbaip ppioip oum aill DO mapbab la clomn Dorhnaill 11165 ctongupa .1. la oorhnall 6cc cona
~|
bpairpib.
Raigillig oecc
.1.
eojan.
Coccab mop Do pap ecip a
cinfb imon cijeap-
nap lap na eccporh co po gaipeab ua paijillig opfpgal mac Sfam a comaiple an tupcip i mopain DO mairib gall q gaoibel 56 po baccap Daofne ba pine
ina
pom ace cup

TTlac uf
cuicce.
.1.
Ruaipc
.1.
rabcc mac eoccam DO mapbab
meabail la muincipa
Deapbpacap pfm.
cono, i TTIagnap 6 Dorhnaill Do bol DO lacaip an lupcip Do benarh pioba conallac, eoganac, -| ap ccionol mopain Do maicib gall -| jaoibel Da poijib Dia piobuccab, nf po peopac naibm piooa no caipofpa fcoppa co
neill
)
ccanjarrap ap cculaibh po eippfb Don cup pin. Sluaicceab la hua nDomnaill (lap rroibecr TTlajnupa 6 dc cliac) la TTlajnup pfippin cona pocpaioe Diblfnib hi rcup an eappaij DO ponnpab hi ccfp eogain. Cpeaca lomoa aipccche aibble Do benam leo ipm cip.i in inic DO benam boib popp na cpeacaib pin hi ccoill na Ion hi piol mbaoijill, can~)
-] "|
gaccap plan Dia cnjib lapom co neodlaib lomoaib. Gapaenra mop ap nfipje nioccap connacc, ap po cfnjlaccap a nupmop uile pe poile najaib f bomnaill. ba hiao Do pome an coimcfngal pin bpian
i i
mac
peilim uf concobaip, TTlac carail oicc uf concobaip

i.
(.1.
rabcc) pa pliochc
Of Newry, an mbaip,
See the
1162.
first
e.
of the yew.
Journal, p. 102.
No
part of the ruins of this
A
i.
part of these Annals at the year monastery was erected at lubap cmn
e.
monastery p Elder than he

tion,
is,
is
now
extant.
This
is
the literal transla-
cpacca,
the
yew
at the
head of the strand,
of Newry, in the county of Down, by Muirchertach, or Mauricius Mac Loughlin, 11 60. See King of all Ireland, about the
now the town
but the meaning intended to be conveyed that some of his rivals were his elders, or of
year the charter of foundation, printed in its original form by Dr. O'Conor in his Rerum Hibernicarum
a senior branch of the family, according to the law of tanistry.

q
Manus CPDonnett
This
is
the true date
and account of what has been above entered

under the year 1525, where it is stated that O'Donnell himself attended at Dublin. Ware
Scriptores, 2 prolegomena ad Annales, p. 158, and a translation, with notes, in the Dublin P.
1526.]
1381
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1526.
thousand Jive hundred twenty-six.
Glasny, the son of Hugh Magennis, Abbot of the Monks of Newry", and Prior of Down and Saul, was slain by the sons of Donnell Magennis, namely,
by Donnell Oge and

O'Reilly,
his kinsmen.
i. e. Owen, died. After his death a great war arose among the of his tribe concerning the lordship, [and continued] until Farrell, the chiefs son of John, was styled O'Reilly, by advice of the Lord Justice and many
others of the English and Irish chieftains, though
some of his
rivals
were elder
than he
p
.
The son of O'Rourke, e. Teige, the son of Owen, was treacherously slain own brother's people. by O'Neill (Con) and Manus O'Donnell" went before the Lord Justice to make
i.
his
peace between the Kinel-Connell and Kinel-Owen

the English and Irish assembled to
establish peace or amity
and many of the chiefs of reconcile them, [but] they were not able to
;
between them, so that they returned home
in
enmity
on that occasion.
O'Donnell (after the return of Manus from Dublin), and Manus himself, with the forces of both, marched, in the beginning of Spring, into Tyrone they
;
committed many depredations and great devastations in the

feasted
territory.
s
,
They
upon those preys during Shrovetide" at Coill-na-lon

safety,
in Sil-Baoighill,
and then returned home in
loaded with great booty.
A
them'
great dissension arose in

[i.
Lower Connaught.
:
The
greater
e.
of the inhabitants]
were those
who formed
this
combined against O'Donnell. confederacy Brian, the son of Felim O'Conor, and
together with the descendants of Cormac
"they made
preys."
use.
5
number of The following
Teige, the son of Cathal
Oge O'Conor,
between O'Neill
gives the account of the meeting
and the deputy of O'Donnell, under the year 526 only, which is the correct date, and says that the person who attended at Dublin was
1
or passed Shrovetide on those This strange idiom is still in common
Coill-na-lon,
i.
e.
the
wood of the
blackbirds,
Manus, the
r
eldest son of
.
Hugh O'Donnell, Lord

,
of Tirconnell
now Kilnalun, Don egal

.
in Tyrone,
on the borders of
During
Shrovetide,
mic oo oenari
literally,
Of them.
The
style
is
here awkward, but
OHNOUI uio^KJchca
cop*MBc
mac.
eiBfcOMH.
oomchaaa
a.
caeca*, 1 Hlwpcfpcac
can
<xUnrr,-j coiia
Vmamma, W po*rac a lce fin cpeac a woctxtp caipppi me eoccam m coacvfcnp,! pKcpac cpeaca U ! Mag bapcc op i Hocdbaio mi oomknaiL potto*; jfn of bol O c*ala * vumuaiU cpeaca ft oo tyanm. no poiUD oorwl
lcc op fixicr pwlm
IB| \m ccGm afwile
.1.
cmn oo Ue
no bptfft caifUn
cofionp,
I
spampge 9001
cicomacc co cowdlac,^ o oeOoqi In ocappp. Ro ffif, oo cwfl6 f F"^4*^ ^"r -*~ *** T*** **311
aaciB
1
lik,
maij Impcc fUwj p pnqoo coccam Hxtcc lipuai tairccc<llair<oirm,i nemcmp p,T cwwtc poai wa ci^. Oo cwdaccwp a cy-xA 6 ooHMonU oo 6ol cap o aif h crfp cxmanll txnârcap pfi**) a clam co Ubn a cdoamla icêull fboci^. Ro abfac 05 poDorcapaoc cp oo cw a* Baile oo jaficbl no
oo tet>
wpmi
fa
bfwwci^ T po po iU
606 OMIM. Mtnc od wop ju RwiltifH hoUrtr flMK. f oopc, RonBTijpic on idbmle an la pn.-| cf^MHiîi oo p*p non bailc,-| lap cdm^n no focel pn oa rxjwrcoU came co MiUfcc Mfiiâbal 901 papcoc gtm paaUiê Ofoipioiii cj-bca^. 1 M po haf*oa> ppif op poccoHi 06, op oo cowpoc fid CCOnCOwOtp 1 CUDM IMMMnCIMDO JO DCl OB OpOtdC. Wo ll II O OOMHOlU COTH
~
piol oconcototp.
pop
elfAim
nooMnchoio, i po *KipSa&
woe
>
x maoAeocloHrt mac tag/am
mac pniailiiutj co yutlMaoe
Ro cmpeo6 bpiin IMK peilw one
a^Bpi
de cumouuup ow
eoc, -\\m\tf.
olwp -, rxnr/gne na ooiUcoD capla a crrmcraU beovl an opncic pace op oaaOiB c, ij aobepac apoile nap 66 iM^fian an atle co bpwnp bap lap ccpiolL Ro paocaiB a fUucc COMMCJ.UC fM eoala Mapa eac, capm, ~\
upii
1526.]

namely,
1383
Mac Donough,
Owen and Murtough,

in the
with their sons mul followers.
These people committed a depredation

descendants ofFelim, the son of
lower part of Carbury, upon
tin-
OwenO'Conor; and they carried oft' the pre\with them into Moylurg, for the inhabitants of that territory were at peace with
them, for having opposed O'DonnelJ. When O'Donnell had heard of these depredations having been committed, he mustered his forces together, namely, some of the chiefs of Tirconnell and
Maguire (Ouconnanght), with the rising-out" of Fermanagh. He first proceeded to Carbury, where he, without delay, demolished the castle of (Jrainseaeh*, the
He afterwards mansion-seat] of the descendants of Brian O'Conor. marched at the head of this army into Moylurg, and ravaged and burned the
town
[i.
e.
O'Conor having shunned him on this he returned home. When theO'Conors heard that .O'Donnell had occasion, relumed into Tirconnell, they and the Ma.c Donoughs, already mentioned. came with all their forces around Sligo, and proceeded to cut down the
'uimtry
;
the descendants of Brian
e.rops
and corn
fields;
and they were preparing
to lake the
town, until Korv

slain
;
Ballagh, the son of O'Hart, a
good man
of their people,
was
and tlu\
departed from the town on that day; but, they again collected around it. O'Donnell, on receiving intelligence of their proceedings, went, without delay
neglect, vigorously and e.xpeditiously. to the relief of Sligo-; but the others did not await his coming, lor the ( )'( 'ouors and Mac Donoughs \\ent to lial-an
MI
droichit".
O'Donnell pursued them with all possible speed, and he at once )'< 'ouors routed the said and Mac DonoughsV The son of Mae Donough
<
|
|
Melnvldin, the son ol'Owen) and
the son of Felini, son of
by the closeness
many others besides him, were slain Brian, Manus O'Conor, was ihrowu from his horse, and was ami fastness oflhe wood that surrounded Hel-an ilroiehii thai
;
il
he was enabled to escape* from them,

leelly well
and some
sa\
that
lie
was never per
The
',.1111:1,
from [the period of] thai defeat until he died some time afterwards. inn aim\ left, V:l :p..ils, [consisting of") horses, arms, and armour.
, I,
To MCOpI,
it.
Tin' Mil-nil
i-tii"
l.riiii.sliil.inn
I'M
"
in,
li,'
ami
I
of
In
ulu.h
',,1111,1
i-.fil.ici
i<.
,,,iil.l
hardly
l''.,lil,,r
In-
:ill,
>,>!
WIIH
I,
lie
rln
uinl
Mir
.,
in
inn!
lli,'
li:i:;
Ink. n
Mint,
happened tobi urouml

linn
|
Hfl-uu-ilroir.liit i.lmt
1
MH-
lilu-i-i\
III,'
m:il,.-
u n\\^\\t iiliniiniiu- ulU'ialiun

u,il
IK. in
lli,. I,,."
II,.
il,,
iv
tlir
,
1,1,111!
!.nin*lnli,,ii.
u ui runlnl
l,\
M,,-
Ofi
oumjne
ur,-
HI;I,|,.
;,,!,,,,
l:
1384
awwaâ Rioghachca
eirceaNN.
[1526.
eioeaO 05 cenel cconaill Don cup pin, uaip 6 DO pao ao6 puab mac neill jaipb maibm an cfioi bpoijmj pop connaccaib hi ccopcpacap lie Di'b nf capopac cenel cconaill pop connaccaib en rhaiDm po ba copccpaiDe Doib DO cup, -| op
baiDble a neoala
an Dpoicic. O neill DO ceacc Do coipmfpcc caiplein no cionnpccam TTlajnap 6 Dorhnaill hi pope na ccpi nariiac, TTlajnup Do cfgmdil pia ccup an rpluaij,
pin beoil
-| -|
map an maibm
enpi
mac pfam
cacdin
neill
i
O
mac
1
f
.1.
Do jabail laip,i 6 neill pfin oimceacc a ccoip maDma. goppaiD mac joppaDa DO mapbaD 05 bealac an camdin la
neill
6cc,-|
.1.
mall
mall pfin DO jabail po cfnD cpill mppin la hua
neill,
mbpaijDfnap ppf pe pooa. caram (goppaiD) aDbap cijeapna a cfpe peipin DO 6ol ap piubal Do ponnpab, a eccpom ppi haDpucpeice njlionn concaban a rnf mnuapn aipe na pme gfimpfca conac ppic aon pocal Dia pcelaib no 50 pppi'c a copp a nofipfo an copjaip ap cino, enpi mac neill mic bpiain cijepna baile na
TTlac
i
bfic
~\
~\
bpajac Do mapbaD Don cup
pin,")
pocaiDi ele beop oecc
Do puacc,
~]
Do
piapaip ap clomn emainn mic comaip buicilep Du in po mapbaD concobap occ mac concobaip caoic uf Domnaill baf na conpapal gallocclac, i aga mbaf lam maic co mime piap aD can pin, ~\ an
la pin DaipiDe
p nip Ificc
mapbaD amaille ppiu. TTlaiDm Do rabaipc la
mac mic
meo a mfnman
~|
-|
peabap a laime 66 anacal Do

t>o
jabdil lap na caipccpin Do,
copcpacap pocaiDe mop

ipin
DajDaofnib, Do
mapcpluaj,
-|
DO gallocclacaib
maiDm
pin ina pappaD.

~|
O
*
Docapcaij eacmapcac cijeapna mnpi heoccam oecc,

In the original
it is
impfpain mop
:
And
uaip, for, which
randum written by
oeaccao
is
incorrect, even according to the genius

a
and
the scribe at the end " Ct ccaiplen puipc na ccpi nariiac imoppu DO
idiom of the Irish language.

Ceideach-droighneach, i.e. hill of the black-
thorn,
or sloe bushes, now Keadydrinagh, a townland in the barony of Carbury, and county of Sligo.
b
in beacao po an can ba plan Da b'liaode ap picic ap cuic c6& up rhile oon See this manuscript described, ciêapna." Stowe Catalogue, p. 397. This castle stood on
6um
Port-na-dtri-namhad.
castle
The erection of this was completed by Manus O'Donnell, who
the east side of the river, close to the present town of Strabane See note under the year
1522.
c
compiled there, in the year 1532, his celebrated Life of St. Columbkille, the original of which
is
Bealach-an-chamain,
i.
e.
winding,
*
now Ballaghcommon,
the pass of the in the barony of
preserved in the Bodleian Library at Oxford, as appears from the following memo-
now
Strabane, and county of Tyrone.

Gleann-Concact/ian, anglicised Glenconkeine,
1526.]

on that occasion
;
1385
to the Kinel-Connell
and 2 from the time that
Hugh
Roe, the
son of Niall Garv, had gained the battle of Ceideach-droighneach" over the Connacians, where many of them were slain, the Kinel-Connell had not given a defeat to the Connacians which redounded more to their triumph, or by which
than this defeat of Bel-an-droichit. they obtained more spoils, O'Neill set out to prevent the erection of a castle which Manus O'Donnell
but Manus met the van of his army, and took Henry, the son of John O'Neill, prisoner whereupon O'Neill himself took
had begun
to flight.
at
Port-na-dtri-namhad
O'Kane (Godfrey, son of Godfrey) was slain at Bealach-an-Chamain by the and Niall himself was soon afterwards taken prison of O'Neill (Niall Oge)
, ;
soner by O'Neill, and he was detained a long time in captivity. The son of O'Kane, i. e. Godfrey, heir to the lordship of his own country, set out upon a predatory incursion into Gleann-Concadhan", in the month of
January and he perished in consequence of the intense cold of the winter nor was there a word heard about him until the end of the following Lent,
;
;
when his body was
discovered. Henry, son of Niall, who was son of Niall, Lord of Baile-na-braghat was slain on this occasion and many others perished of
f
,
cold and were slain along with them. defeat was given by the son of
Mac
Pierce to the sons of
Edmond, son
of Thomas Butler, in which was slain Conor Oge, son of Conor Caech O'Don-
and who had often before that time, but especially on that day, made a display of the prowess and activity of his arm for the greatness of his mind and the dexterity of his hand would not
nell,
who was
a constable of gallowglasses,
And a great number of chieftains of cavalry and of gallowglasses were slain in that defeat along with him.
suffer
him
to accept quarter, after
it
had been offered him.
O'Doherty (Eachmarcach), Lord of Inishowen, died

name now applied to a valley in the barony of Ballynascreen, in the south-west of the county
a
and a great contention

who were
tributary to
sept of the Kinel-Owen,

O'Neill, not to O'Kane,
whose territory joined
of Londonderry ; but it was anciently the name of a territory comprising the parishes of Ballynascreen, Kilcronaghan, and Desertmartin. Ac-
them on the north
side.
Intense cold of the winter, literally, " he died of the intense cold of the wintry weather."
f
cording to the tradition in the country this was the territory of the O'Henerys, a respectable
Baile-na-braghat,
now
Braid, a townland
in the barony of
Omagh, and county of Tyrone.
80
Rioshachca eiraeawN.
ap nfipge
eci|i
[1526.
a cmeaD pem pa cijeapnap 50 po goipeaD cijeapna Do geapalc

f
mac
oorhnaill mic pfilim
oocapcaijj.
TTlajuiDip
-|
hua noomnaill In ccfp amalgam ap cappaing plecca maice ceneoil cconaill ap an pluaicceaD pin, Riocaipo a bupc, baccap cuconnacc co neipje amac pfpmanac amaille ppip, ni po hanaDh
SluaiccheaD la
-|
Ro co pangaccap co plicceac cecup. po haipipfD lap na huaiplib pin lomDa baoi ace pliocc bpiain hi concobaip caippngfo-i po cfjlamab apbanna an ni na po faphi ccuil lap an pluaj pin uf 6oriinaill
nf
loppa 50 plicceac he. paingpfc De po millpfc co leip
-|
UfiD 6
ooriinaill
-\
laip, puaip po gaBab caiplen caopcanndin l?o leaccaD, po lainbpipfb bpaijoe, i eoala iom6a pna caiplenaib fpin. mcc conap bo hionaiccpeaba inncib ap a haicle. Do pona6 laip lap pin laip corhaoncab ecip pliocc Riocaipo a bupc -| baipeoaij comoap caoac,
aljam,
cona plua maoiliona cpop
hi
rcip narh-|
pic,
-|
copaij ppiapoile.
poa6 Diia oomnaill po jab poplonjpopc im cul maoile in anurhla pip an can pin. Ro milleaD ~| po loipcceaD ma bai in eccpaiofp mbaoi oapbap 05 pliocc copbmaic mic Donncham laip conaD mp na milleab cuccpac lap na mi imipc Do ponpac a bper pfm DO pic pip ua nDomnaill,
Qj
-]
-)
-\
ponpac pliocc bpiain po jeallpac ppip. bpai^De DO ppi comall gac i an ceDna uaip cuccpac a piap a bpfc pfin DO pic Dua Dorhnaill concobaip mp mbpipfb caiplein na jpampije, lap Tnilleab a mbaipp, a napba uile,
nfic
~\ ~\ ~\ ~|
Oo
DO paopac a ccaopaijeacc Don cip lapam, Do caoD 6 Domnaill cona plocc plan lap mbuaiD, ccopccap Don cup pin, i f6 bfcc pia pamham Do ponaD an
~\
pluaicceaD pin la hua noomnaill.
bpeapal ua maDagdm
cfnnpa ceapcbpfcac oecc.
8 Until.
(.1.
cijeapna
pil
nanmcaDa), pfp caoin cpoDa,
It will
be seen that the construe-
county of Sligo
but
it
appears from the deed
would not make perfect sense without sup" But plying the words enclosed in brackets.
tion
at length"
lish.
h
of partition of the Sligo estate, dated 21st of " Cullurra comJuly, 1687, that the district of
prised the parishes of St. John,
would be considered better
in
Eng-
Kilmacowen,
and Killaspickbrone."
The rising
CuU-irra.
'out,
i.
e.
the military force of
Caerthanan,
ash.
i.
e.
a place abounding in the

is
Fermanagh.
applied to a district supposed to be coextensive with the parish of Killaspugbrone, in the barony of Carbury, and
is
1
mountain
This
The
place
it is
so called in Irish at
now
the present day, but

tlehill in English.
It is
generally called Gassituated on the west
side of
Lough Conn,
in the
barony of Tirawley,
1526.]

among
was
at last styled Lord.
at the instance of the
1387
arose
8 his tribe concerning the lordship, [and continued] until Gerald,
the son of Donnell, son of Felim O'Doherty,
An army was led by O'Donnell into Tirawley,

ants of Richard Burke.
;
descend-
In this army were the chiefs of Tirconnell and Maguire, with the rising-out" of Fermanagh and these chieftains marched, without delaying or halting, on to Sligo. This army of O'Donnell collected in Cuil-irra
1
a great quantity of corn, belonging to the descendants of Brian O'Conor,
and
drew
it
into Sligo
and such corn
as they did not carry off they totally de-
O'Donnell then marched his army into Tirawley, where he took the k castles of Caerthanan and Cros-Maoiliona in which he found hostages and
stroyed.
1 ,
many
spoils
and he then threw down and
totally
demolished these
castles, so
were no longer habitable. He afterwards established peace, amity, and concord, between the descendants of Rickard Burke and the Barretts, so
that they that they
his
were
[for a long time afterwards] friendly
towards one another.
On
way home O'Donnell pitched

were in
;
his
camp
at
Cul-Maoile [Collooney], the inha-
bitants of which
[a state of] hostility
and insubordination to him
at that
time
and he destroyed and burned all the corn belonging to the descendants of Cormac Mac Donough and it was not until after they had been plundered
;
and ruined that they made peace with O'Donnell, upon his own conditions, and
gave him hostages for the fulfilment to him of every thing they promised. The descendants of Brian O'Conor acted in like manner, for they gave O'Donnell his
demands, and made peace with him on his own terms, after he had demolished the castle of Grainseach [Grange], and destroyed all their crops and corn.
O'Donnell, with his returned safe, after victory and triumph, on that expedition. This hosting army, was made by O'Donnell a short time before Allhallowtide.
their creaghts into the country.
They afterwards took
Breasal O'Madden,
Lord of Sil-Anmchadha, a kind, brave, mild, and
justly-
judging man,
died.
and county of Mayo -See Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, pp. 233, 482.
1
of
Lough Conn, and
six miles west
from Bal-
lina.
See Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of
Cros-Maoiliona.
i.
This should be Cros-Ui-
Mhaoilfhiona,
e.
O'Mulleeny's cross,
now Cros-
molina, a village in the barony of Tirawley, and county of Mayo, situated one mile north-west
Hy-Fiachrach, pp. 12, 13, 487. m So that This they were no knger habitable. " so that they were not might also be rendered fit to be dwelt in afterwards."
o2
1388
awwata Rioghachca eiReaww.

QO1S CR1OSU,
QoiS CRiopc,
1527.
[1527.
mile, cuicc ceD, piche apeacc.
Cabpap abb
.1.
Ifpa gabail Decc.
Do jaipm ina lonab Don comhapba DO comconnacc, mac conconnacc, mic bpiain, la hua noomnaill. peilim mac goppaba mic Uoippbealbac mac eiccneacdm f Domnaill, Sfam luipcc f oomnaill DO ecc.
TTlajuiDip concobap Decc,-] TTlaguiDip
-]
TTlac oonnchaib cipe hoilella
impeapairi DQ bfic ecip cloinn oonnchaio Deoccan mac DonnchaiD mic mupchaiD. bpian mac peilim mic ITlajnupa uf concobaip,
copbmac mac caibcc mic bpiain Oecc, noonnchaib pan njeapnap no jup joipeaD mac
.1.
~\
-|
Domnall mac peilim mic
coippbealbaij cappaij
ui
concobaip Decc.
plaicbfpnac mac RuaiDpi mic bpiain meguiDip DO mapbaD la ceallac eacDac .1. la huairne mac TTla^nupa megpampaDam. Qrhlaoib 6cc Dub majarhalsaiD raofpeac calpaije DO ruicim Id cloinn
colmain, 1 po Diojailpiorh e pein pia na
mapbaD
uaip Do
mapbaoh piacha
hi
mageocajain laip ap an laraip O cleipij .1. an jiolla piabac

i
pin.
mac raiDcc
cairn paoi le
-]
healabam
pfncup,
~\
nOan, 1 hi Ifijionn pfp puim, paiDbip, pocondig, in aibicc San pponpeip an. 8. la DO TTIhapca.
cumaing moip
eipiDe,
a ecc
Qn
pa of
Decc
ooccuip ua Dumnpleibe DonnchaD mac eoccain, Doccuip hi Ifiêap -\ ineaolabnaib ele, pfp conaij moip, -| Saibbpfpa, i nje naoibfb coiccinn
.30. Sepcembep. FRac majnupa mesuibip romdp 6cc mac cacail oicc, mic carail oicc biacac an cpfnaij, oppicel loca heipne, pfp fpccna eolac in ealabnaib, pfp po
.1.
bd Ian DO clu
Doipbeapcap in gac lonab baf ma corhpoccup, a ecc. Ruaibpi mac mupchaib mic puibne Do rhapbab Id a bpaicpib.
~\ -|
John Luirg, i. e. John of Lurg, so called because he was fostered in the barony of Lurg,
in the north of the
Magaurans of the barony of Tullyhaw,

Fermanagh, P Clann-Colman.
in the
north-west of the county of Cavan, adjoining
county of Fermanagh, by
i.
the O'Muldoons.
Teattach-Eachdkach,
uf Eachaidh.
This was the tribe-name
the family or tribe This was the tribe- name of the

e.
of the O'Melaghlins, whose territory at this period was circumscribed to the limits of the pre-
152?.]
1389
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1527.
thousand five hundred twenty-seven.
Laurence, Abbot of Lisgool, died. Maguire (Conor) died and the Coarb, namely, Cuconnaught, son of Cuconin his place by O'Donnell. naught, who was son of Brian, was styled Maguire
;
Turlough, the son of Egneghan O'Donnell, and Felim, the son of Godfrey,
son of
John Luirg" O'Donnell,
died.
;
of Tirerrill (Cormac, the son of Teige, son of Brian), died and a contention arose between the Clann-Donough concerning the lordship,
Mac Donough
[and continued] until Owen, the son of Donough, son of Murrough, was styled
Mac Donough.
Brian, the son of Felim, son of
Manus O'Conor, and Donnell,
the son of
Felim, son of Turlough Carragh Flaherty, the son of Rory, son of Brian Maguire, was slain by TeallachEachdhach i. e. by Owny, the son of Manus Magauran.
O'Conor, died.
Auliffe
Oge Duv Magawley, Chief

fall,
of Calry,
fell
p by the Clann-Colman but

;
before his
he himself avenged himself, for he slew Fiacha Mageoghegan on

scientific
the field of contest.
O'Clery (Gilla-Reagh, the son of Teige Cam), a

poetry,
adept in history,
and a man of consideration, wealth, prosperity, and great power, died in the habit of St. Francis, on the 8th day of March. The physician O'Donlevy (Donough, son of Owen), a Doctor of Medicine, and learned in other sciences, a man of great affluence and wealth, who a and
literature,
kept house of general hospitality, died on the 30th of September. Mac Manus Maguire (Thomas Oge, the son of Cathal Oge, son of Cathal Oge), Biatach of Seanadh", and Official of Lough Erne, a wise man, skilled in
the sciences, a
died.
man
of great fame and
renown throughout
slain
his
neighbourhood,
kinsmen.
Rory, the son of Murrough
Mac Sweeny, was

'
by
his
own
sent barony of Clanlonari, in the county of Westmeath. The Magawleys were in the parish of Ballyloughloe, in the same territory, and
in the
Biatach of Seanadh, i. e. farmer of Belle Isle, Upper Lough Erne. This was the son of
tributary to the O'Melaghlins.
the compiler of the Annals of Ulster, whose death is recorded above under the year 1498.
13go
awNaca rcioshachca emeciNN.

mac amopiapa me 5 cpaic peap paiobpeapa
.1.
-|
[1527.
Uilliam
pocondijh oecc.
baf Caicilm mjfn cuinn mic oomnaill i neill bfn cpaiFDeac Oegeinij po ace ua Ruaipc mppin oecc mp 05 ua Rajallaij ap cup, 1 05 ofspfpaib
nonjaO 1 lap nairpije. SloicceaD la hua nDomnaill ao6
mac ao6a puaiD Do
Dol
hi
cconnaccaib,
dciacc cangaccap ma
connacc cona nfipje Ro milleab an cfp co
co caiplen mop
o Docapcaij, pochpaicce, o baoijill,
cuconnachc co neipje puibne, majuioip,
amac pfpmanac,
-j
na cpi mfic maice loccaip
amac
Ifip
-|
nf
po haipipeao leo co piaccaccap
maj
luipcc.
leo ectp apbap -] poipccnfm. Qpfo lorap laparii mic joipoealbaij oia jabdil. 6a DaingCn Diocoghlaiji eipi6e
naimoib peib ip Deach baof in epinn ap po bdoap an uile ai6me Cabala ppi an can pin ipin mbaile fpin ecip bmb -| opoanap jac aiDme apcfna, apa aoi cpa po jabpar na maice pin ace lompuiDe imon mbaile, -\ Ro ppeacnaijpfc a ploja ma uiprimceall condp Ificcpfc neac anonn no anall oia paiccib 50
-\
po jabab an caiplen leo po 6e6i6. Ro gabab leo Don cup pm caiplen an rhfnDoDa, caiplen an calaiD, baile an caiplen piabac, -\ po bpipic na caiplein pin uile leo lap na huarha,
-\
na njabdil. Ro mapbaD beop ao6 buiDe mac an Dubalraij uf jallcubatp ap an pluaiccea6 pin (6 ua noomnaill) mucc an bealaij buiDe. Caiplen Ificbip Do cpiocnuccaDld TTIajnup ua nDomnaill ecip obaip cloice,
cpoinn, i cldpaij,-)
pin Id
ua
neill
a ccoccab
paip.
Qp ann po
cionnpccnaD an obaip
majnup an ceDaoin
lap ppeil bpenainn ipin
cpampab i po cpiocnuicceab
a CCUID Don cpampaD ceDna.

This phrase is Rising-out, \. e. the forces. used even by the English writers of the reign of Elizabeth. See Moryson's History of Ireland,
r
castle is shewn.
book
ii. c. i,
edition of 1735, pp. 235, 237.
It
Meannoda, now Bannady, near the little town of Ballaghaderreen, close to the boundary of the counties of Mayo and Eoscommon.
l
was used by
see his
Hugh Mac
p.
Curtin so late as 1717;

the
Cola,
now
Callow, a small tract of level
Brief Discourse in Vindication of

173-
land on the south side of
Lough Gara,
in the
Antiquity of Ireland,
1
Castlemore-Costello, caijlen
i.
mop mic
joip-
parish of Kilnamannagh, barony of Frenchpark and county (lately a part of the barony of Boyle),
of
6ealbai j,
now
the great castle of Mac Costello, Castlemore, in the barony of Costello, and
e.
Roscommon.
the
which was
i.
The foundations of this castle, locally called babboun a calaio,

of Callow, are
lake.
i.
See Genealogies, Tribes, and county of Mayo Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, p. 482, and the map
to the
e.
Bawn
still
pointed out
same work, on which the position of this
on the margin of the w
Baile-na-huamha,
e.
town of the
cave,
1527.]
1391
William, the son of Andrew Magrath, a man of wealth and prosperity, died. Catherine, the daughter of Con, son of Donnell O'Neill, a pious and truly hospitable woman, who had been married to good men, namely, first to O'Reilly,
and afterwards
An
O'Rourke, died, after unction and penance. army was mustered by O'Donnell (Hugh, the son of
to
Hugh
Roe), to
:
inarch into Connaught.
The
following were those
who
joined his forces
O'Boyle, O'Doherty, the three Mac Sweenys, Maguire (Cuconnaught), with the r rising-out of Fermanagh, and also the chiefs of Lower Connaught, with their
and they marched on, without halting, until they reached Moylurg. They destroyed the whole country, both corn and buildings. They afterwards 8 proceeded to Castlemore-Costello for the purpose of taking it. This was an
rising-out
; ,
contained provisions, and every kind of engines, impregnable fortress, the best to be found at that time in Ireland for resisting enemies, such as
for
it
cannon, and
all sorts
;
of weapons.
These
chieftains,
nevertheless, proceeded
and they placed their army did not permit any person to pass from it or towards they took it.
to besiege the castle
in order all
it,
around
it,
so that
until they at last
they [also] took the castle of Meannoda', and the castles w of Gala", Baile-na-huamha and Castlereagh 1 all which they demolished, after One of O'Donnell's men, Hugh Boy, the son of Dubhthey had taken them.
this expedition
,
,
On
altach O'Gallagher,
Bealach-buidhe y [Ballaghboy] The castle of Leithbhir 2 was completed by Manus O'Donnell, with
slain close to
.
was
its
works
of stone, wood, and boards, while- O'Neill
menced
this
was at war with him. Manus comwork on the Wednesday before the festival of St: Brendan", in
it
summer, and finished

now Cavetown,
town of Boyle,
in the course of the
same summer.
four miles to the south of the

in the
See barony of Boyle this place before referred to under the years 1487, 1492, and 1512.
x
is
namhad, i. e. the port of the three enemies, and shewn on Mercator's map of Ireland at Lifbut on the east side of the river Finn, it unites with the Mourne, or the Foyle,
ford,
where
as
Castkreagh.
*
Bealach-buidhe.
See the years 1489, 1499. See this pass before re-
ferred to at the years 1497, 1499, and 1512.
it is now called See the notice of the commencement of the erection of this castle by Manus O'Donnell, under the year 1526.
on the River Foyle, in the barony of Raphoe, and county of Donegal. This castle was otherwise called Port-na-dtriLeithbhir,
'
now
Lifford,
Festival of St. Brendan,
i.
e.
of St. Brendan
of Clonfert, whose festival
fell
on the 16th of
May.
1392
dNNCK-a Rio<5hactica
eiraectNN.
[1528.
aois crciosc,
Goip Cpiopc,
1528.
mile, cuicc ceo, pice,
a hochr.
TCuaipc eoccan ciêapna na bpeipne uppa cocaijre emigh, eanjnama, Decc in aibfcr .8. Pjionpeip lap nongab, ~\ lap 1 uaiple pleacca aoba pmn
nairpije.
coippbealbac mac caibcc an caon mac jjaoibil ba poiDe le 16 heineac Dolfic moja, oibpe oiongrhala bpiam bopoime ap conjhuaipte, a mac OoiptmeaD mdil coccaib pe jallaib Decc lap nonccab, ~\ lap naicpije
bpiam
-\
.1.
-\
ina iona6
.1.
concobap mac coippbealb'aij.

(.1.
pionnjuala injeari f b'piain mic bpiam cara an aonaij) bfn
uf
Concobaip na ppona mic roipp6ealb'ai 6omnaill dob puab, an aofn bfn ap mo DO
copam
clu
~\
lianmain
mp
oip&eapcup Da mbaof na comaimpip a Ific ppia cupp -| ppia a hinme le Deipc, -[ 16 Daonnacc"] lap mbfic ccairfm a haoipi
]
oa bliaDam ap
(.1.
picic in aibfcc
i
pebpuapn), buDem. haimpip

15.
an. 5.
San Pponpeip Decc an ceD la Don copccap a habnacal mainipcip Duin na ngall Do ponaD ma
i
i
Conn mac neill mic aipc neill paof cmnpfona epiDe Do mapbaD (.1. an. la cuiD Do pliocc aoba megappil) la mac aipr 615 neill (.1. 6 neill),
i
-j
(.1. ape occ) enpi, copbmac baf laim 05 ua neill a ppao piap an can pin Do cabaipc (oua neill) Do cloinn conn mac cuinn) (.1. cuinn mic neill, clano cuinn Do cpocab na Deipi pin a noiojail a nacap. TTlac oiapmaoa maije luipcc (Copbmac mac puaibpi) peiceam coiccfnc ap eineac ap peile, mip cpuaba connacc ap coccab comptfacab, pfp copanra a cpice ap eaccaipcenelaib Decc lap nongab lap naicpicce ~\ a Deapb-
uiDip, i
Da mac
neill
.1.
-|
~\
-j
~|
-\
pacaip Diapmaic DO jabail a lonaic.

TTlacc capraij piabac Domnall Decc. Caiplen cuile maoile DO jjabail ap mac nDonnchaib la
pfin la
a Deapbpacaip
pein
-\
muipceapcac mac Donnchaib mic mupchaib,

Charles O'Conor of Belanagare adds
inter tineas:
c
~\
mac Donnchaib
Owen.
his pedigree,
"mac cijeapnum
i.e.
error,
d
i. e.
The 5th of February. This is a palpable and should evidently be the 5th of April.
captivity, literally,
mic caiD5 mic cijeapnam moip,
the soaof
In
in
"who were on
hand,
Tiernan, son of Teige, son of Tiernan More."
captivity
(i.
e.
Con, the son of Con) with
1528.]
1393
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
b
1528.
Christ, one
thousand jive hundred twenty-eight.

hospitality,
St.
O'Rourke (Owen ), Lord of Breifny, sustaining pillar of the prowess, and nobility, of the race of Hugh Finn, died in the habit of after unction and penance.
Francis,
O'Brien (Turlough, the son of Teige), who, of all the Irish in Leath Mhogha, had spent the longest time in [acts of] nobility and hospitality, the worthy heir
of Brian Boru in maintaining
war
against the English, died, after unction

to his place.
and
penance
and
his son,
Conor Mac Turlough, was appointed
Finola, the daughter of O'Brien (Conor-na-Srona, son of Turlough, son of Brian Catha an-aenaigh), and wife of O'Donnell (Hugh Roe), a woman who, as
regarded both body and soul, had gained more fame and renown than any of her contemporaries, having spent her life and her wealth in acts of charity and and after having been twenty-two years in the habit of St. Francis, humanity,
died on the
bviried in
day of Lent (which fell on the 5th of February'), and was the monastery of Donegal, which had been founded in her own time.
first
Con, the son of Niall, son of Art O'Neill, a distinguished captain, was slain on the 15th of April, by the son of Art Oge O'Neill (i. e. the O'Neill), and a
party of the descendants of
Oge), namely,
other] O'Neill
Hugh Maguire and the two Henry and Cormac, who had been detained
;
sons of O'Neill (Art

in captivity*
1
by
[the
Con, the son of Con), for a long time before, were given up by him to the sons of Con, son of Niall and the sons of Con hanged them
(i.
e.
both, in revenge of their father.
of Moylurg (Cormac, the son of Rory), a general supporter of e hospitality and generosity, the hardiest man in Connaught in war and in battle, the defender of his territory against exterior tribes, died, after unction
Mac Dermot
and penance
and
his brother,
Dermot, took his

died.
place.
Mac Carthy Reagh

The
(Donnell)
own
_
[Colooney] was taken from Mac Douough by his and Mac brother, Murtough, the son of Donough, son of Murrough
castle of Cuil-Maoile
;
O'Neill for a long time."

'
of steel literally, the piece
of Connaught, which
The hardiest man,
mip cpuaba connacc,
is
rather a rude metaphor.
8 P
1394
aNwata Rio^hachca
eirceawN.
-|
[1529.
a mac mupchaD Do jabdil 50 haicjeapp lap fin la hua nDiiboa, lap an muipceapcac cceOna, mac ele Do mac DonnchaiD .1. DonnchaD Do rhapbaD leo an can pin. Sloicceab la hua noomnaill (co nDpuing moip oalbancaib amaille ppip im
-\
an bealac bui&e Do eappa6 alapcpann mac coin cacdnaij) hi maij luipcc,-] 6 mac oiapmaoa, -| coiDecc plan Dia ci'p. leo. cfop Do pajbail bpaijoe, O maoilmiaDaij caoipeac ceallaij ceapballam .1. cacal mac oorhnaill
-\
mic uaicne buibe Decc.

nfipje an aofne pia noolaicc 50 po la pioD ap mop po 6pmn 50 po cpapcaip cio6 apaill Do cumDaijcib cloch ~\ cpann, 17o bpip beop mup maimpcpe Duin na njall, T?o puaDaij Ro bdiD, ~\ po b'pip apcpaije iom6a.
âoc mop ap
QO1S CR1OSU,
1529.
Cloip Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceD, pice, anaof.
pdnac Domnall occ mac oomnaill, mic coippDealbaij puaiDh cijeapna pdnac ppi haon bliabam Decc Do pajail bdip mp ccop aibicce uipD
TTlac puibne
muipe uime.
emann puaD a mac DO cuicim in aon 16 Id coippDealbac mac Ruaibpi, mic maolmuipe mic puibne. bpian ballac mac neill mic cuinn f neill DO rhapbab Id copbmac mac uiDelin (mp mbfic Don copbmac pin hi ppappaD bpiain pfm pop a rhuincepup) lap bpaccbdil caippge peapjupa Doib. Cacal mac eoccain mic aoba meguibip Decc.
oorhnaill mic puibne,
~[
]
Gmann mac
bpian pua&
mac
pfain rhejuiDip
cuile,
-\
foapjaipe ecip rhumcip na
Do mapbaD Daon upcop Do paiîD ace mumcip an macaipe.

of Composition, made in 1585, it appears that the family of O'Mulvey, and the Sleight Eyre Magranill, had fifty and one-half quarters of
< Bedach Buidhe, now Ballaghboy, to the north of Boyle, in the county of Roscommon See note % under the year 1497, p. 1232, supra.
Teattach-ChearlhaMain
This was the tribe-
name
of the O'Mulveys, who were seated near the River Shannon in Maigh-nis, in the
upper
land in Moyntirolish Oghteragh, otherwise called See O'Flaherty's lar-Connaught, Moynyshe edited by Mr. Hardiman for the Irish Archasological Society,
"
part of Muintir-Eolais, in the south of the present county of Leitrim. From the Indentures
Appendix,
i.
p.
349.
The
Mm,
e.
mup na m-bparap
This
1529.]
1395
Donough himself and his son, Murrough, were soon afterwards taken prisoners of Mac Donough's sons, by O'Dowda and the same Murtough and another
;
i. e. Donough, was slain by them at that time. An army was led by O'Donnell, accompanied by a great body of Scots, tinder the conduct of Alexander, the son of John Cahanagh, into Moylurg, and Bea-
lach buidhe
was cut through by them. He obtained hostages and rents from Mac Dermot, and then returned home safe to his country.
f
s O'Mulvey, Chieftain of Teallach-Chearbhallain (Cathal, the son of Donnell,
son of
Owny
Boy), died.
great wind arose on the Friday before Christmas, which prostrated a number of trees throughout Ireland, threw down many stone and wooden great buildings, destroyed the Mur" of the monastery of Donegal, and swept away,
sank,
and wrecked many
vessels.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

Mac Sweeny Fanad (Donnell
Roe), Lord of Fanad
order" of [the Blessed Virgin]
1529.
The Age of Christ, one thousand Jive hundred twenty-nine.

Oge, the son of Donnell, son of Turlough
for eleven years, died, after having taken the habit of the
Mary.
Mac Sweeny, and Edmond Roe, his son, fell on the same day by [the hand of] Turlough, the son of Rory, son of Maelmurry
Edmond,
the son of Donnell
Mac Sweeny.
Brian Ballagh, the son of Niall, son of Con O'Neill, was slain by Cormac Mac Quillin, the said Cormac having set out from Carrickfergus in company
and friendship with Brian.

Cathal, the son of
Owen, son of Hugh Maguire, died. Brian Roe, the son of John Maguire, was slain by one
cast of a dart, while

k
.
interposing [to quell a riot] between the people of Coole and Machaire
was the name of a distinct house at Donegal, and its site is now occupied by the rector's
house, which retains
1
crenan
*
See note under the year 1516.
its
name.
Sfc.,
i.
the people of Coole and Machaire, i.ebetween the inhabitants of the barony of Coole-
Between
The habit of the
order,
e.
in his
own
8
na-noirear and those of Magherastephana, in the
abbey of Eathmullen, in the barony of Kilma-
P2
1396
QNNata Rioshachca eirceauR
[1530.
TTlac mfic Dubjaill na halban DO mapbaD la haob oaon buille oo cloiDim i noopup cuile mic an cpecSin.
mbuiDe ua nDomnaill
Caiplen cuile mic an cpein Do jabail la majnup ua nDoriinaill, -\ mp pccpuDab a comaiple apfo Do cinnfo laip an caiplen Do bpipfb. Qn copnamac mac pfpjail mic oormchaiD Duib mic ae&accdin paof pa hi mbpficfrhnup ruaice baf hi hi ppiliDeacc, hoipoeapca hi ppfmeacup, a abnacal noilpum. ccfpib gaoibeal Decc,
-\
~\
i
-|
TTlac
aebaccam
(.1.
upmuman)
-j
.1.
oomnall mac ae&a mic Oorhnaill cfnn
eiccfp Idee
moja ap pfmeacup pili&eacc Decc. Gojan mac peilim mic majnupa, i a bean gpainne
injfn concobaip meg-
uiDip Decc.
QO1S CR1OSU,
Qofp cpiopc,
1530.
mile, cuicc ceD, cpiocac.
Gppcop
oilpinn
CaibiDil na
an ceppcbp jpeccac Decc. mbpacap noun na ngall, bd he' ua Domnaill

.1.
i
DO pao Doib 506
ni
pangarcap a leap,
f
-|
aoD occ) pob aiDilcc leo Don cup pin an ccfm

-\
(.1.
botccap hi ppappab apoile. Caicilin in^fn mic puibne bfn

i
bocapcaij,-) Roip injfn
cardm
bfn peilim
oocapcaij Decc.
Concobap occ o
buijill
(.1.
mall mac
baoiccill canaipi baoijeallac DO rhapbaD Id coippbealbaig) ap an leacac an. 6. lanuapn.
clomo
uf
uf buijill DO mapbaD Id cloinn uf baoijill. mac puibne conpapal rfpe bajaine [Decc]. TTlaolmi)i]ie Dorhnall mac bpiain mic Domnaill neill DO 6ol ap cpfic pan macaipe
i
peilim mac concobaip
Cuil-mic-an-treoin, now Castleforward, in the barony of Eaphoe, and county of Donegal, and about seven miles from See
professors of law and physic in Ireland " They speake Latine like a vulgar language,
:
note
Londonderry. under the year 1440, pp. 920, 921, supra, m Fenechas, i. e. the Brehon law See note m under the year 1317, p. 516, supra.
y
, ,
learned in their
common
schooles of Leachcraft
and Law, whereat they begin children, and hold on sixteene or twentie yeares, conning by roate
the Aphorisines of Hypocrates and the Civill Institutions" [i. e. the Pandects of Justinian], " and a few other parings of these two faculties.
I
Lay Brehonship The celebrated Jesuit, Edmund Campion, who wrote his Historic of
Ireland in 1570, has the following notice of the
"
have seene them where they kept Schoole, teu
1539.]

son of
1397
of Scotland was slain by Hugh Boy O'Donnell with one stroke of a sword, on the threshold of [the castle of] Cuil-
The
Mac Dowell [Mac Dugald]
mic-an-treoin
The
castle of Cuil-mic-an-treoin
called a council to
was taken by Manus O'Donnell and having decide on what was best to be done, he determined on
;
demolishing the castle. Cosnamhach, the son of Farrell, son of

distinguished adept in the
Irish territories,
Donough Duv Mac Egan,
the most
in all the
Fenechas, poetry, and lay Brehonship^ died, and was interred at Elphin.
Mac Egan
the learned of
of
Ormond
(Donnell, the son of

in
Leath-Mhogha
died.
Hugh, son of Donnell), head of Feneachus and poetry, died.

his wife, Grainne, daughter of
Owen, Conor Maguire,
the son of Felim
Mac Manus, and
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1530.
thirty.

,
e. the Greek Bishop died. was held at Donegal and it was O'Donnell (Hugh Oge) that supplied them with every thing they stood in need of, or desired, while they remained together on that occasion.
The Bishop
of Elphin,
i.
A chapter of the friars
Catherine, the daughter of
Mac Sweeny, and
wife of O'Doherty, and Rose,

>
the daughter of O'Kane, and wife of Felim O'Dohertv, died.

'
Conor Oge O'Boyle, Tanist of Boylagh, was slain by the sons of O' Boyle (Niall, the son of Turlough), on the Leacach", on the 6th of January. Felim, the son of Conor O'Boyle, was slain by the sons of O'Boyle.
q Mulmurry Mac Sweeny, Constable of Tir-Baghaine [died]. Donnell, the son of Brien, son of Donnell O'Neill, went upon
,
a predatory
in
some on chamber groveling upon couches of

themselves
straw, their bookes at their noses,
shop is given by Ware or Harris, nor in any of the older Irish annals known to the Editor.
"
lying flatte prostrate, and so to chaunte out

their lessons
Leacach,
now Lackagh,
townland near
by peece meale, being the most
Loughros
"
Bay, in the
barony of Boylagh, in the

the barony of Banagh,
part lustie fellowes of twenty-five yeares and
west of the county of Donegal.

Tir-Baghaine,
upWards." Dublin edition of 1809, pp. 25, 26. The Greek Bishop No account of this bi-
now
in the west of the county of Donegal.
1398
emeciNN,
-|
[1530.
pceapanac,
cpfc DO glacab la a muineip.
Ifnrham 50 pliab bfea 50 pucpae paip,-] lab a nap laip, Du -| paofnfb poppa 50 po
f
DO cpmnniuccab a oomnall DO cionncub ppip an copaib,

cip
-|
Qn
map gabaD Da mac eojain puaib neill in po mapbab cpiup Do cloinn Ruaibpi na Ifpjan Diap mac majnaip mac enpi mic bpiain, comap na caippcce mac emainn mesrhacjamna,
-| ~\
m 65111 Dip.
mac copbmaic mic aipc cuile meguiDip Decc, pob ba pfpp cfj naoibfb ma aimpip hi ppfpaib manac. Sloicceab la hua noomnaill hi ccuicceab connacc, QSeab po jab cerrup hi maij luipcc DO rpia coillnb concobaip, epcib pibe cpiap an canaipceacc
5'olla paecpaicc
-\
eipibe pfp a
mme
copab opoma puipcc cap pionainn.

eolaiplaip, T?o
mapbab mac an pipbopca mic puibne nup

coib
Dpong oia
-|
po lainmilleab muincip im caiplen liac Dpoma imTTlhajmuinnp im TTihac mic coilin coippbealbac Dub. Oo
l?o loipcceab,
)
macaipe connacc, DO Dpoicfc aca po cpeacloipcceab clann connmaij laip., 17o moja cap puca, Ro cpoicfb, cill cpuain bailee mfic Dauib, 1 puaip eDala aibble loipcc beop ^linnpce pna cfpib pin. T?o loipcceab beop laip laparh baile an cobaip, puaip a ciop
mpam
appin cap pionainn piap Do

~\
'
~\
-|
ua cconcobaip puab.i. Se pmjmne pan ccfcpamain Da Duchaij, cicc cap a aip cpep an mbealac mbuibe gan Die DO benam bo lap millfb mui je luipcc. Uanaic mpccain Don bpfipne po loipcceab la pluaj ui bomnaill an cfj
-] -\ *
Sliabh-Beatha,
now
Slieve Beagli, a range
Mogha
which
at the year 1595.
It is
now
called Beal-
of mountains in Ulster, extending through the barony of Magherastephana, in the county of
atha-Mogha,
is
anglice
Ballimoe,
or
Ballymoe,
Fermanagh.
p.
8
See note n , under the year 1501, See note

d
,
a small village on the River Suck, on the borders of the counties of Eoscommon and
1260, supra.
Coittte-Chonchubhair.
Gal way.
under the
Glinsce,
See note under the year 1595. now Glinske, a townland contain-
year 1471i p. 1071, supra. ' Caradh-Droma-ruisc. This

anglicised Carrickdrumroosk,
name is usually
ing the ruins of a beautiful castle, in the parish of Ballynakill, barony of Ballymoe, and county
of Galway.
y
which was the old
name of the present town of Carrick-on- Shannon,

as appears
Cill-Cruain,
now
Kilcrone, an old church
from the
Down
ancient
maps of
Colin,
Ireland.
Survey, and several See also Dean Swift's
giving
name
to a townland
and parish
in the
barony of Ballymoe, and county of Galway. The

castle of Kilcrone stood near the
translation of
u
pleapaca na Ruapcac.
high road, a
Cullen, a family pectable in the county of Leitrim.
Mac
now
still res-
short distance to the west of the old church of

Kilcrone.
It is said to
have been the residence
w
Ath-Mog/ia
This place
is
called Bel-atha-
of a celebrated heroine called Nuala-na-meadoige
1530.]
1399
excursion into Machaire-Stefanach [Magherastephana], and his people seized
[The people of] the country assembled, and pursued them to r Sliabh-Beatha where they overtook them but Donnell turned round on the pursuers, and defeated them with great slaughter, in which the two sons of
on a prey.
, ;
Owen Roe O'Neill were taken prisoners, and three sons of Rory na Leargan two sons of Manus Mac Mahon, the son of Henry, son of Brian, and Thomas of the Rock, the son of Edmond Maguire, were slain.
:
Gilla-Patrick, the son of
He
kept, for
Cormac, son of Art Guile [of Coole] Maguire, died. his means, the best house of hospitality of all those that were in
Fermanagh
in his time.
;
was led by O'Donnell into the province of Connaught he first passed through Coillte-Chonchubhair", and from thence proceeded through the
Tanist's portion of
An army
Moylurg, by the Caradh-Droma-ruisc', across the Shannon,

;
and burned and

people were
totally desolated the territory of Muintir-Eolais
some of
his
slain
around the
castle of Leitrim,
among whom
were Manus, the
son of Ferdoragh Mac Sweeny, and the son of Mac Colin" (Turlough Duv). He afterwards proceeded westwards across the Shannon, into Machaire Chonnacht, to the bridge of
Ath-Mogha.
; ;
He
destroyed and devastated by

,
fire
the
y territory of Clann-Conway he also burned Glinsce* and Cill-Cruain the towns and he obtained great spoil in these countries. He [castles] of Mac David
afterwards burned Ballintober also, and obtained his tribute from O'Conor Roe,
namely, six pence on every quarter of land in his territory. After having destroyed Moylurg, he returned home by Bealach-buidhe [Ballaghboy], without
sustaining any injury.
He
afterwards went to Breifny, where his army burned

The founder
Ny-Finaghty, the mother of David Burke, the

ancestor of
of this family, however, was Sir
Mac David Burke
of Glinske.
The
re-
effigy of William (said to
be the founder of this
David, the son of Rickard Finn, by Nuala, the daughter of O'Finaghty, through whose treach-
family), beautifully carved in limestone,
and
ery he obtained the territory of Clann-Conway,
presented as clad in mail,
with a conical helmet
which was O'Finaghty's country. The William

represented by this effigy was probably William, the son of David, son of Edmond, son of Hubert,
and slender sword,

is
is
to be seen in the old
church
effigy
of Ballynakill, near Glinske.
Under the
the following inscription : " HERE STANDS THE EFFIGJES OF
WILLIAM
son of Sir David (from whom this branch of the Burkes took the Irish surname of
who was
BURKE, THE FIRST OF WHOM DIED 1*16, AND ERECTED BY HARRY BURKE, 1722."
David), who was son of Rickard Finn, son of Rickard More, son of William Fitz Adelm.
Mac
1400
aNNCKXi Rio^hachca eiraeaNN.

in eipinn
.1.
[1531.
cpannjaile ap oeach bai
conpnarha ap loc aillmne. milleab,"] po Diolaicpiccheab an bpeipne uile 6 pliaB piap leo Don cupup CReac mop DO benam la haob mbuibe ua nDomnaill ngailfnjaib'.
cfj
rhfic
i
Ro
pin.
Sloicceab la hua nooriinaill (hi mf Sepcembep DO ponnpab) ap mac mlliam bupc Dia po milleab blab mop Don rip. Ro hfpnaibmeab pfr froppa
mpccain,
-\
cicc 6 Dorhnaill plan Dia ace.
oapa jfpoio mac gfpoiD (bai pe cian hi laim ace pf Saân) a mbfic ap aon ace DO ceacc in Gpinn, lupnp Saânac DO cfcc laip, milleab mopain pa jaoibealaib. Po 5abab leo ona 6 Raiîlbj lap rceacr ma ccfnn ap a mocc pfin.
ICtpla cille
1
-]
-\
ma
Rubpaije mac eoccain mic aoba bailb cfp pfin DO ecc.

Injfn uf baofjill
.1.
rnic
pfam
ui
Docapcaig, echr mop
Roip mjfn coippbealbaij mic
neill
oeijeimj,
-)
Sfle injfn ui
ecc.
pallamam
bfn caipppe rnic
puaib bfn Oepcach an ppiopa bfn Daonnacneal-
cac DeijDealbba Do
Qob
6 plaiuiaccain
mac
~\
pfppuin mnpi maije
abain, pfp puaipc, Seâinn,
paof nfccna, i ba maic rfj naoibfb Decc. pfp po

i
pam
QO1S CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopc,
TTlfle,
1531.
cuicc ceo, cpioca, ahaon.
Uuaual mac
neill
.1.
mac aipc mic
cuinn Do jabcul la
hua
nell
.1.
16 conn
mac
'
cuinn.
Mac Cownava, now ridiculously anglicised Forde by the whole clan in the county of Leitrim. Towards the close of the seventeenth
century it was anglicised times Mac Anawe.
*
He was Farrell, the eldest son of O'Reilly John O'Eeilly, by his second wife, Catherine
"
O'Neill, or Ny-Neill.
c
Mac Kinaw, and some-
Upon
honour,
ap a niocc pfm,
at their
own
An English Justiciary
He
was Sir William
In request and assurance of faith and honour. the pedigree of the Count O'Reilly, compiled
Skeffington, a Leicestershire man.

in
They arrived
by the
late Chevalier
O'Gorman,
this passage is
'
Dublin in the month of June, and a solemn procession of the mayor and citizens came to meet them on the Green of St. Mary's Abbey, who received Kildare with great acclamations See Ware's Annals of Ireland at this
year.
incorrectly translated as follows, and the same version is given in the copy of these Annals
made by Maurice Gorman, now

of the Eoyal Irish
in the Library
Academy
"A. D.
1530. Gerald, Earl of Kildare,
who
1531.]

wooden house
in all Ireland,
i.
1401
z
the best Allen.
e.
the house of Mac Consnava on
Lough
The whole
of Breifny, from the mountain westwards, was destroyed
and desolated by them on that expedition. A great depredation was committed by

the county of Mayo]. [Gallen, in An army was led by O'Donnell, in the
Hugh Boy
O'Donnell in Gaileanga
month of September,
against
Mac
and he destroyed a large portion of his country. peace was between them, and O'Donnell returned safe to his house. afterwards ratified The Earl of Kildare, Garrett Oge, the son of Garrett, who had been for a
William Burke
;
custody] of the King of England, returned to Ireand they both continued to do land, in company with an English Justiciary* much injury to the Irish. They made a prisoner of O'Reilly", who had gone
long time in the hands
[i.
e.
upon honour'
to visit them.
Rury, the son of Owen, son of

a great loss" in his
Hugh
Balbh, son of John O'Doherty, died
own
country.
i.
Rose, daughter of Turlough, son of Niall Roe, a charitable and truly hospitable woman, and Sile [Celia], daughter of O'Fallon, and wife of Carbry, son of the Prior, a humane and beautiful' woman, died.
of O'Boyle,
e.
The daughter
Hugh
O'Flanagan, son of the Parson of Inis-maighe-Samh

science,
wisdom and
a paragon of and a merry and comely man, who kept a good house of
,
hospitality, died.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,
1531.
thirty-one.

Tuathal, the son of O'Neill,
i. e.
the son of Art, son of Con,
was taken
pri-
soner by O'Neill,
i.
e.
by Con, the son of Con.

" on their own word of honour."
cc mop, generally means an great loss, occurrence, or catastrophe, which excites great
grief or compassion. e Beautiful, oei joealBoa,
d
had been kept in confinement in England for some time, returned to Ireland with Sir William
Skeffington, the English Lord Justice, both of whom did great damage to the Irish. even
They
made O'Reilly
prisoner,
house for hospitality, But ma ccfnn in this passage clearly means " to " them," not to him," and ap a niocc fC\n does not mean " without being invited," but
though they came to his without being invited."
i.
e.
well-counte-
nanced, or comely-faced.
Inishmacsaint, a paInis-maighe-samh, rish in O'Flanagan's country of Tooraah, in the
f
now
north-west of the county of Fermanagh.
8Q
1402
QNNaca Rio^hachca eiReaww.
[1531.
Oomnall mac pinjm mic Diapmara nj;eapna ua ba mair pmacc, fngnam, piajail, pfp po ba maic omeac ccaipppe, pfp po cucc gaipm eimj opfpaib Gpeann Doneoc baf 05 cuingib nfir oib, Do ecc. pfp
ITlaj capraij piabac
]
)
pfp
Oonnchab mac coippbealbai oenma emi^, uaiple oecc.

-\
mic cai6cc uf bpiain cdnaipi cuabmuman
mall mac concobaip cappaij oecc. oocapcaij Conn mac Sfam buibe mejmanjarhna DO rhapbab la mag macâmna, clomn bpiam mesmacsarhna.
TTlac
f
.1.
i la
Goccan mac jiollapaccpaicc

(.1.
oicc mejuibip
oo rhapbab la a Deapbparaip
emann).
Concobap mac carail mic oumn meguibip DO mapbab la hfoccap cfpe. O plannaccdm ruaice paca TTlajnup mac gillibepr mic copbmaic paof
le huaiple, i congmdlaib cie aoibfb Decc (25. pebpuapn), DO âipm DO jiolla fopa mac roippbealbai^.
~\
6 plannagdin
muipcfpcac mac concobaip meg cocldin ppioip jailinne, biocaipe lermancdin DO cuicim hi ppiull la coippbealbac dec 6 maofleaclainn Id pub~\
-|
paije.
Oiapmairc mac Sfam mic aoba an pliocc aoba mic maolpuanaib Decc.
cf
Do bpfpp uaiple
-|
Daonnacc Do
Copbmac mac cacail

oipbeapc Decc.
oicc mic carail,
m>c TDajnupa pfp cige aoibfo

giolla parcpaicc
Uuacal mac
Inopaiccib le
bomnalldin macaipe maonmaije,
-|
mac
abaim mic an baipo Decc.
mac
TTlheguibip
copbmac
hi
i
ccenel pfpaDhaij, Do p6nab

~\
cpeac laip ipm maijin pin pfipin ace copavjeacr a cpeice,

8
ap mac
-]
bpiain neill, po mapbab mac bpiain DO pao mac mejuibip an ccpeic laip.
was originally monastic, and its ruins are to be seen in Mr. Armstrong's demesne, adjoining the
village of Farbane.
k
A man of hospitality,
fyc.,
literally,
"a
man
of the
making of hospitality and nobleness," i. e. a man who had practised acts of generosity and
nobleness.
h
Liath-Manchain,
i.
e.
St.
Manclian's grey
lochtar-tire, the lower or nothern part of the
land,
now Lemanaghan,
a parish in the north
territory.
'
under the year 1520. Gailinn, now Gillen, an old church giving
See note
,
of the barony of Garrycastle, in the King's County, where there is an old church of great
antiquity, dedicated to St.
Innai, whose
festival
name
to a parish in the
in the north of the King's
barony of Garrycastle, County. This church
Manchan, the son of was celebrated there an-
1531.]
1403
Mac Carthy Keagh (Donnell, the son of Fineen, son of Dermot), Lord of and rule, and of great hospitality and Hy-Carbery, a man of good jurisdiction invitation of hospitality to all those in prowess, a man who had given a general Ireland who sought gifts, died.
Donough, the son of Turlough, son of Teige O'Brien, Tanist of Thomond, 8 a man of hospitality and nobleness, died.
son of O'Doherty, i. e. Niall, the son of Owen Carragh, died. Con, the son of John Boy Mac Mahon, was slain by Mac Mahon and the
The
sons of Brian
Mac Mahon.
Oge Maguire, was
killed
Owen, Edmond.
the son of Gilla-Patrick
by
his brother,
Conor, the son of Cathal, son of

lochtar-tire".
Don
Maguire, was slain by [the people of]
OTlanagan of Tuath-Eatha (Manus, the son of Gilbert, son of Cormac), distinguished for his nobleness, and the keeper of a house of hospitality, died and Gilla-Isa, the son of Turlough, was styled on the 25th of February
;
O'Flanagan.
Murtough, the son of Conor Mac Coghlan, Prior of Gailinn and Vicar of Liath-Manchain", was treacherously slain by Turlough Oge O'Melaghlin and
1 ,
Rury.
Dermot, the son of John, son of Hugh, the most noble and humane of the
descendants of Hugh, son of Mulrony [Mac Donough], died. Cormac, the son of Cathal Oge, son of Cathal Mac Manus, illustrious for his
house of hospitality, died. Tuathal, the son of O'Donnellan of Machaire-Maenmaighe and Gilla-Patrick,
1
the son of
An
He
Adam* Mac Ward, died. irruption was made by the son of Maguire (Cormac)
into Kinel-Farry.
there took a prey from the son of Brian O'Neill, and the son of Brian himself was slain in pursuit of the prey ; and the son of Maguire carried off the prey.
It is stated in nually on the 24th of January. the Liber Viridis Midensis that the old church
Catholic chapel of this parish,

'
Machaire-Maenmaighe,
i.
e.
the plain
of
of
Lemanaghan was situated in the middle of a

i.
bog, impassable in the time of the writer,
e.
Moinmoy, which was the ancient name of the level district around Loughrea, in the county of
A. D. 1615
of St.
but
is
it is still
no longer
so.
The shrine
Galway
p. 70,
See Tribes and Customs ofHy-Many,

z
.
Manchan
preserved in the
Roman
8
note
Q 2*
1404
aNNd&a Rioghachca eiReawN.
[1531.
SloicceaD lap an lupcip Saânac, le hiapla alle Dapa,-] le mairib jaoiDel Gpeann hi ccip neoccain ap cappaing f Doriinaill ~\ neill oicc f neill,-| Sleacca
aoba
neill,
cfp
eoccam Do lopccab
-]
led 6 Dun gal co habainn moip. Caiplen
nua puipc an paillfccdin Do bpipfb,

~|
lopccab lap an pluacc fpm, O Doriinaill mall Do Dol hi ccfnn an cpluaicch galloa pin co cinnapo,
-\
Ouchaig bpiain na moiceipê DO cpfch mumeacdin Dpaccbdil polarh pop a ccionn.

-j
caiplen cinnaipD Do bpipfo

pin Dia ccijibh Ifc
Ifc
f
leo.
nell
imoppa
bai pi6e plua^ ofpime pe
nucc co nap lariipar Dol caipip pin

ap
T?uai6pi galloa
hi rcfp
neoccain co po impdipioc na ploi^
mac
gan pfc gan opaD 05 ua neill piu. neill Do jabail la hua neill .1. la conn mac cumn.
jiolla Duib meguiDip Decc
GOD
occ
mac comaip mic comaip mic an

i o
mp
mbpfir buaba 6 Dorhan
Dfman.
pfppuin innpi, pfp po ba
Semup
6aile
6 plannaccain
mac
mop ainm
~\
oipDeapcup
i
ina cfp pfin Decc.

ui
Donnjaile DionnpaijiD la mall occ

]
mac
aipc mic cumn
nell
an
baile DO bpipfo laip,

]
mac
neill
(oalca
tiaile
ui
Donngaile) Do jabail
a bpfic
laip co neacaib, Caiplen beoil leice Do jabdil le
co neoalaib an
apaon pip. haoD mbuiDe ua nDomnaill,
-j
buai&peaD
cipe conaill DO ceacc De pin. TTlaûiDip DO Dol pluaj hi ccfp conaill ap cappaing ui Dorhnaill ap po
bdcrap clann
m
ui
Doriinaill
ppicbeapc ppia poile ap
oriian
nee uaDaib DO
This was anglicised Dunnagoale, Dungal. and was the name of a townland adjoining
Annaghilla, in the parish of Errigal Keeroge, and barony of Clogher, and about midway be-
Innis,
i.
e.
of Inishmacsaint, a parish in the
territory of Tooraah in
s
Baile- Ui-Donnghaik,
Fermanagh. i. e. the town or
resiits
dence of O'Donnelly, a fan^ly which derives
tween Augher and Ballygawly

Inquisitions, Tyrone,
n
See Ulster
name and
origin from Donnghaile O'Neill, seven-
No. 19-
teenth in descent fromNiall the Great, ancestor of

the royal house of O'Neill. This place is shewn on an old map of Ulster, preserved in the State " Fort and Papers' Office, London, as Lough O'Donnellie," to the west of Dungannon. Bally-
Abhamn-mhor, i. e. the Eiver Blackwater a See note under the year 1483, p. 1125, supra,
,
Port-an-Fhaileagain, now Portnelligan, the seat of T. J. Tenison, Esq., in the barony of
Tiranny, and county of

P
Armagh.
i.
donnelly (which
is
now
called
Castlecaulfield,
Brian-na-Moicheirghe, of the Early Rising.

*
e.
Brian or Bernard
after that distinguished soldier, Sir

field,
Toby CaulI.)
ancestor of the Earls of Charlemont, to

it
Kinard.
Now
Caledon, in the barony of
whom
was granted by King James
con-
Dungannon, and county of Tyrone.
tained twenty-four ballyboes, as appears from an
1531.]

army was led by
1405
the English Lord Justice, the Earl of Kildare, and the chiefs of the Irish [recte English] of Ireland, into Tyrone, at the instance of
An
O'Donnell and Niall Oge O'Neill, and of the descendants of Hugh O'Neill and n m from Dungal to Abhainn-mhor demolished the new castle they burned Tyrone
;
of Port-an-Fhaileagain, and plundered and burned the country of Brian-nap Monaghan was left empty to them. O'Donnell and Niall set out Moicheirghe
.
to join that English
O'Neill
army at Kinard and demolished the castle of Kinard but, being hear them with a very numerous army, they dared not advance
,
Tyrone so that these hosts returned to their several homes, O'Neill not having come to terms of peace or armistice with them. Kory Gallda (the Anglicised), son of O'Neill, was taken prisoner by O'Neill
further into
;
(Con, the son of Con). Hugh Oge, the son of Thomas, son of Thomas, son of Gilla-Duv Maguire, died, after having gained the victory over the Devil and the world.
r James O'Flanagan, the son of the Parson of Innis a man of great name and renown in his own country, died.
,
Baile-Ui-Donnghaile was assaulted by Niall Oge, son of Art, son of Con He demolished the castle and he made a prisoner of the son of O'Neill. 1 O'Neill, who was foster-son of O'Donnelly and carried him off, together with
;
,
the horses and the other spoils of the town. The castle of Belleek was taken by Hugh
Boy
O'Donnell, from which
fol-
lowed the disturbance of Tirconnell.
Maguire proceeded with an army into Tirconnell, at the instance of O'Donnell, for O'Donnell's sons were at strife with each other, from fear that the one
inquisition taken at
Dungannon on
the 23rd of
over the northern forces by Sir Phelim O'Neill

in 1641, and was one of Sir Phelim's chief counsellers,
August, 1610. The following is translated from an Irish MS. Journal of the rebellion of 1 64
1 ,
in the possession of
Lord
O'Neill.
him
Cauldfield's
to
" A. D. 1641, October.
and mainly instrumental in inducing assume the title of Earl of Tyrone.
Lord
Castle in Baile-I-Donghaile was taken by Patrick Modardha It (the gloomy) O'Donnelly."
Pynnar, in his Survey of Ulster, in 1618-19, calls this place Ballydonnell, but this is a palpable error.
See Appendix,
p.
2429, for the
appears from the depositions taken before the
pedigree of O'Donnelly.
lebrated
government commissioners and now preserved in the
after the rebellion,
Library of Trinity College, Dublin, that this Patrick Modardha O'Donnelly was one of the four Captains placed
This was the ceJohn Donnghaileach, or the Donnellian O'Neill, otherwise called John or Shane-andiomais, i. e. John of the Pride, or ambition.
Foster-son of O'Donnelly
1406
QNNata Rioghachca eiReaNN.

poile
i
[1532.
poccam pia na
TTlajnupa
ui
ccfnnup lap necc a nacap ap po Ifc amm -\ eipOeapcap Domnaill po Gpmn uile, nf namd hi ccenel cconaill ace ip na
a bpairpib pamnpiub. 6d himfccla cfpib a neaccaip,"] po bai ace poppdn pop a 6ol pfm neineipce la hua noomnaill gailpine Do benam boib pop apoile app a lop conab aipe po cojaipm ua oorhnaill Ulaguibip Dia paijiD Dup an
-|
i
ccaompacci'p TTlajnup DO cuiboiujab ppi caipipi -\ bpacaippi ppi a compuilibib. Do coib mparh maguibip ~\ aob buiDe ua Domnaill co na pocpaiDe 50 pangac-
rap co pmn 50 po cpfcpac hann baof TTlajnup an can

i
ma
pin
mbaof po rhdmup TTlhajnupa 6 op co hop. 6d pop paicce caiplem na pinne 50 li'on a rionoil,
i
DO cuarcap cpa clann majnupa co nopuinj Dia muincip cap pccaipb beccoice nDocum an cploij bai Dia paijib. Spaomceap ap lonchaib an baile naipfp
~\
haob mbuiDe 50 po cuipic 50 haimDeonac po DiDfn an Oo bfpc aon Do rhuincip jallcubaip Do riiapcpluaj majnupa popcaiplfin. jam DO jae pop coippDealbac mac DonnchaiD mic bpiain mic pilip meguiDip,
poppa la maguiDip
i la
DO epnct beojonca ap, i bpfca mparh Dia cij co nepbailc pia ccionn ceopa Do caoc cdc uaibib Dia longpopc lapam. noibce lap mbuaiD naicpije.
-\
QO13 CR1OSU,
1532.
Ctoip Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceo, cpiocac,
DO.
Comap mac
piapaip puaiD
(.1.
mpla upmuman) Do rhapbaD
noppaijib le
Diapmaicc mac giolla paccpaicc, abbap cijeapna oppaiê an DiapmaiD pin, 1 nip bo cian mp pin 50 po coipbipeaD DiapmaiD la a Deapbpacaip pein (la mac jiolla paccpaicc) Don lapla,-] po cfnjlaD Diapmaicc mparh lap an mpla a nofojail a mic, -\ gac uilc ele Da noeapnaD le Diapmaic ppip 56 pin.
u
The one might
attain,
$c
"The
senior fear-
ing that the junior should be elected to the

chieftainship, in preference to himself,
county of Donegal. * Opposite, ap lonchaib

corhaip.
.1.
ap ajaib, no op
i
and the
The phrase eineac
n-ionchaib
is
junior being so conscious of his

popularity, to win the
x
own power,
and fame, that he was determined chieftainship, whatever troubles he
used throughout these Annals in the sense of " face to face."

x
Forced
to
retreat
"
literally,
they were
cas-
might cause in the territory."

Scairbh-Begoige, i. e. the shallow ford of Begog, a ford on the River Finn, near the little town of Castlefinn, in the of and
forcibly driven
tie." "
under the shelter of the
barony
Eaphoe,
Belonging to : literally, laghers of Manus' cavalry."
" one of the O'Gal-
1532.]
1407
might
death
;
attain to the chieftainship in preference to the other", after their father's
name and renown of Manus O'Donnell had spread not only through all Tirconnell, but through external territories and he was oppressing his own kindred. O'Donnell was afraid that they would commit fratricide upon
for the
;
weakened, wherewhether they could reconfore he had invited Maguire cile Manus with his relatives through friendship and brotherly love. Maguire and Hugh Boy O'Donnell afterwards marched with their troops until they
each other, and that his
to
own power would,

come
in consequence, be
to him, to see
arrived at the [River] Fin and they plundered all [the territory] that was under Manus at this time was on the jurisdiction of Manus, from border to border.
;
the
Green of
Castlefinn, with all his forces
assembled
and the sons of Manus,
with a party of their people, set out across Scairbh-Begoige*, opposite y the town and meet the army that was advancing towards them. They [castle], to await
were routed by Maguire and

for protection.
Hugh
Boy, and forced to retreat into the castle

a
of the O'Gallaghers, belonging to Manus's cavalry, made a thrust of a spear at Turlough, the son of Donough, son of Brian, son of Philip
One
Maguire,
all
who
escaped", severely
at the
where he died
wounded, and was then carried to his house, end of three nights, after the victory of penance. They
then returned to their several fortresses.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1532.
thousand jive hundred thirty-two.
Thomas, the son of Pierce Roe, Earl of Ormond, was slain in Ossory by Dermot MacGillapatrick who was heir to the lordship of Ossory. Not long after this, Dermot was delivered up by his own brother (the Mac Gillapatrick)
,
to the Earl,
by whom he was fettered, in revenge of his son and of every other misdeed which Dermot had committed against him up to that time.
b
Escaped, Do epna beojonca.
He
escaped
terwards, they had the consolation to see him

die a good penitent, and, what was an almost equally great satisfaction in those days, to have
severely wounded.
expression.
The
that
a strange mode of intended to be conmeaning
This
is
veyed is, Turlough, though moitally wounded, escaped from falling into the hands of his enemies, which was some satisfaction to his
friends, for
him
c
tutelage of his
own family tomb under the own patron saint, Mac Gillapatrick, now always anglicised
interred in his
though he died in three nights
af-
Fitzpatrick.
1408
emecwN.
[1532.
bd pfpp jape, gaipcceao, 05 cfpbaill (TTlaolpuanaib) an caon pfp an cf Dap bo bumeac Dam, -| oeopaiD eccalpa oipoeapcap Dm cmel pfipin, ap mo DO
-|
-|
-|
Do noolaic camic Dia bunaiD ppeim, CuinjiD cionoil, eiccpi, i congmala cdic, Soiuip cfpc cobpaiD a cinfD buacail rfnn caipccil na ccpeab, mdl meabpac mopbdlac miiman, Ifg lo^rhap, gfm cappmogail, inneom popaip, uaicne oip na neileac Decc (.1. la pele mara puipcel) ma longpopc pfm, i
-|
a mac pfpjanamm Doiponeab ma ionao. TTiaiDm an la pin pein pe necc maolpuanaib Id a clomD ap lapla npmuman, ~| ap cloinn cpfain f cfpbaill. eic lomoa, ~\ opoanap Da ngoipri pabciim Dib, comD De Do T?o bfhab Daofne bd he pin Ifn bel aca na ppabcun Don dc in po ppaofneaD an maiDm fpm
-] ~\
copccap Dei&fnac maolpuanaiD. l?o jaipeab 6 cfpbaill (amail a Dubpamap) Dpopganainm ap belaib a pinnpiop clann cpfain ui cfpbaill. Uangaccap uilc
iom6a cpeimir pin ipin cfp ap po jabpac clann cpfain cerup caiplen bioppa, 1 po millpioc an cip ap. 17o cuic mac an pfppuin uf ceapbaill Id mac f ceapbaill
baill
.1.
caDcc caoc ap paicce bioppa. (pfpjanainm) a cliamam mpla

Id
.1.
a haicle pin po cappaing 6 cfpcille Dapa lupcip na hGpeann ap

County above-mentioned.
Q8
Generosity,
japr
This word
is
explained
ronies in the King's
eineac by O'Clery, and pele in Corrnac's Glossary.

*
O'Carroll's strongest castle was Leim-Ui-Bhanain,
now
triumphant rfnn caipcil na ccpeab, literally, a boy of stout traversing of tribes. The style is here child-
traverser of tribes,
buucail
1514, 1516.
the Castle of the Leap. See the years Sir Charles O'Carroll, in a letter
to the Lord Deputy, written in 1595, preserved in the Library at Lambeth Palace, complains that the
The meaning is that he was a boy or youth who made stout incursions among But as buacail really means " a cowtribes.
ishly ridiculous.
Bight Honourable the Earl of Ormond had subtracted several territories from Thomond which
he added to his " Countie Pallentine of Typperarie, though there be no coullor for it, parti-
boy," it is entirely beneath the dignity of the bombastic bardic style, which the Four Masters
here affect to imitate, to apply
f
it
to O'Carroll.
Munster champion. The territory of Ely O'Carroll originally belonged to Munster, and still belongs to the diocese of Killaloe, though it
is
Muskryhyry, which he improperlye and usurpedly called the Heither [Neither ?] Ormond, though it was ever heretofore reputed, knowen,
cularly
and taken
tracted
as of
Thomoud,
until of late sub-
now a part of the King's County, in Leinster. O'Carroll was originally chief of all the tract of
country
lisk
by the greatnesse, countenance, and export power of the said Eric." 8 Carbuncle This is a far better metagem
" buacail phor than cfnn-caipcil na ccpeab." " Principatum habent carbunculi in gemmis."
Pliny, xxvii. 7-
now
divided into the baronies of Clon-
and Ballybritt, in the King's County, and of
the adjoining barony of Ikerrin, in the county of Tipperary, but for many centuries his country
" It
is
believed that a car-
was considered as co-extensive with the two ba-
buncle doth shine in the dark, like a burning Wilkini. coal, from whence it hath its name."
1532.]
1409
O'Carroll (Mulrony), the most distinguished man of his own tribe for geneand renown a man to whom the poets, the exiled, rosity' valour, prosperity,
1
, ;
gathered and bestowed more [wealth] than any other person of his stock; a protecting hero to all; the
the clergy, and the learned, were indebted
;
who had
guiding, firm
helm of
his tribe
a triumphant traverser of tribes'

;
;
a jocund
;
a precious stone a carbuncle gem s the and majestic Munster champion anvil of the solidity, and the golden pillar of the Elyans", died in his own fortress,
on the
festival of St.
Matthew
the Evangelist
and
his son,
Ferganainm,
On that very day, and before the death of Mulrony, his sons defeated the Earl of Ormond and the sons of John O'Carroll, who were deprived of many men and horses, and of cannon called falcons', in consewas inaugurated
in his place.
quence of which the ford at which the defeat was given was called Bel-atha-nabhfabhcun" and this was Mulrony's last victory. His son, Ferganainm (as we have already stated), was styled the O'Carroll, in preference to his seniors,
;
the sons of
John
1
O'Carroll.
Many
first
evils resulted to the
country in consequence
of
this, for
the sons of
it
.
country out of
took the castle of Birr, and plundered the m The son of the parson O'Carroll was slain on the Green
John
of Birr by Teige Caech, the son of O'Carroll cliamhain" [father-in-law], the Earl of Kildare,
Elyans, i. e. of the men of Ely. O'Meagher Chief of Ikerrin, was another chieftain of the
h
After this O'Carroll drew his
Lord Justice of Ireland,
against
any name like it in the King's County, or any where in its neighbourhood.
Out of it, i. e. making sudden sallies from the castle they plundered the country, m Green, pairce, a field of exercise, is trans'
Elyans but O'Fogarty, who got possession of south Ely at an early period, was not of the
;
race,
but descended from Eochaidh Balldearg,

of
King
from
Thomond.
The men of Ely descended
Eile,
the seventh in descent from Kian,
lated platea in Cormac's Glossary. It is now generally used to denote a fair-green. The term
the son of Oilioll Olum, King of Munster in the third century.

'
enters largely into the names of places in Ireland,

n
Cliamhain
This word means
relative by
Falcons, paBcuin.
"
A
at
falcon
is
a sort of
is
marriage.
Ferganainm was married
to
the
cannon,
inches,
whose diameter
the bore
five
Earl's daughter, as
we
are informed
by Ware
weight seven hundred and fifty pounds, seven foot, load two pounds and a length quarter, shot two inches and a half diameter and two
in his Annals of Ireland, under the year 1532, where he writes: " And to strengthen himself
the better by the Friendship of the Irish, he

[the Earl of KildareJ gave one of his daughters to wife to O'Conor of Offaly, and the other to
pounds and a half weight."

k
Harris.
i. e. mouth of the name has not been
Bel-atha-na-bhfabhcun, ford of the falcons. This
Ferganainm O'Carroll."
edition of 1705, p. 86.
See Ware's Works,
perpetuated, at least the Editor could not find
8E
1410
cloinn
awNaca Rio^hacbca eiReawN.

cpfam gup gabaD leo caiplen
cille lujim, caiplen
i
[1532.
i
na heccailpi,
~\
caiplen
haile an ounaiD.
baf Deabaib ccimceall bioppae, fcoppa i bdpoa an caiplein 50 no bfn peilep ina caob Don mpla ay an LuiD an ciapla ccaiplen amac. l?o ofcleic innpin 50 po jaba6 an caiplen. bd ipm eappac ap ccinn cainicc ap an caoV> cap a aip, i baf an pelep inn,
T?o puibpioD laparh
~\
apaill De.
bd opopairmfc
TTIfle
baip maolpuanaib ui cfpbaill DO pdiDfo,
bliaDain ip cuicc CCD, pice ~\ Da bliaDain Decc,
6 jfin cpiopr
DO pldnaij
pinn,
50 pojrhap bdip uf cfpbaill.
6occan mac cijeapndm mic eoccain uf Ruaipc paof buine uapail Do Id a bpaicpib' ihapbaD Id hua maoflmia&aij, mamipcip opoma Da eaap. CoippDealbac mac meg plannchaib Do rhapb'ab Id a Diap Deapbparap
~\
i
pfin
noopup baite mejplannchaio, nDapcpaije cpep an mapbaD pin.

i
~\
bpian 6 puaipc Do milleao mopdin
pdnac bean uf baoijill Decc co hobanD mp na heapccap Dia heoc noopup a baile pein, 21 appil. TTIac uiblfn ualrap mac jfpoicc DO rhapbaD nfcclaip Dume bo,-] concobap
TTldipe injfn mic puibne
i
i
mac
.1.
uf cardin, pfp
coicceac cpomcondi^ Do lopccaD anD
-]
lilac conulaD
f
Semup mac aipr mic conulaD DO gabdil

Cill-Iurin,
la cloinn Dorhnaill clepi^
cacdm.
now
Killurin, a townland in the

in the King's
west of the parish of Geshill,

County.
distance to the south-west of the road leading from Birr to Cloghan.

r
No
it
ruins of the walls of this castle
Sat round,
fyc.
TJo f-uiopioc mparii
ccim-
now
remain, but the entrenchments which surare

still
ceall bioppae,
Birrce,
insederunt posted
in
circuilu
rounded
to be seen.
This castle
is
shewn on the
p
old
map
of Leix and Ophaly
made
in the reign of Philip
and Mary.
i. e. prcecinxerunt oppidum copiis. This is the Irish phrase to express " they laid siege to, sat about, beleaguered, or invested the castle."
*
Eaglais,
i.
e.
ecclesia,
now
Eglish, which
in thn
His
other side
Ware
enters the account of
gives
name
to a parish
and barony
King's
this inroad into
County.
q
Baik-an-duna,
i.
e.
the town of the
fort,
1533, which is " The Parliament

of Kildare
Ely O'Carroll under the year the correct date, as follows

:
now Ballindown,
Fircall, in the
in the
barony of Eglish, or
made
being prorogued, the Earl an inrode with his Army into
King's County. The walls of this castle are now level with the ground, but its site is still traceable in the south-west extre-
mity of the townland of Ballindown, a short
by the advice of his Son in Law, Fergananim (that is without a name) O'Caroll (who assumed the right of that Country to hirnself), where, whilst he was destroying and haEly O'Caroll,
1532.]

and they took the
q
.
1411
the sons of John;
castle of Cill-Iurin
p the castle of Eaglais

r
;
and the
castle of Baile-an-duna
They
afterwards sat round Birr
and a
fight
was continued between them and the warders of the

from the
castle,
castle, until a ball, fired
entered the side of the Earl, but this [circumstance] was kept secret until the castle was taken. The Earl returned home, and the ball remained 5 in him until the following spring, when it came out at his other side
.
commemoration of the year of the death of Mulrony O'Carroll that the following [quatrain] was composed
It
was
in
One thousand and
five
hundred
years,
Twenty years and twelve beside,
From To
the birth of Christ
who
saved us
died.
the
autumn when O'Carroll
Owen, the son of Tiernan, son of Owen O'Rourke, a distinguished gentleman, was slain by O'Mulvey and his kinsmen, in the monastery of Druim-da-Ethiar
[Dromahaire].
the threshold of
Clancy, was killed by his own two brothers, on and Brian O'Rourke destroyed much Clancy's mansion in Dartry, on account [i. e. in revenge] of this killing. Mary, the daughter of Mac Sweeny Fanad, and wife of O'Boyle, died sud-
Turlough, the son of
Mac
Mac
denly, after having been
thrown from her horse,
at the
door of her
own
mansion,
on the 21st of April.
Mac Quillin (Walter, the son of Garrett) was killed in the church of Dunbo and Conor, the son of O'Kane, a rich and affluent man, was burned u in it, and Mac Con-Uladh (viz. James, the son of Art Mac Con-Uladh) was
c
;
taken prisoner by the son of Donnell Cleireach O'Kane.

rassing those parts,
castle of Bir,
when he came near

is
the
thrice shot with Bullets, yet I
am now whole
which was prepossessed by the son

incorrect
in the thigh with a
:
of the deceased O'Caroll." [This
and that the Earl should sharply reply in these words I would you had received the fourth in
:
ED.]
"
He was wounded
my stead."
sion,
*
Edition of 170-5,
p. 87-
Cox
asserts
Bullet, which hastened his return
nor did he
that the Earl was shot in the head on this occa-
ever after fully recover his former health. story goes of the Earl, being thus hurt, and
but he had no authority
for this assertion,
groaning with the pain of his
common
souldier standing
Wound, that a nigh him should say,

so,
nowDunboe, Dun-bo, i.e. townland giving name to a parish in the barony of Coleraine, and county of Londonderry.
a
u
the fort of the cow,
My
Lord,
why
do you sigh
myself was
Mac Con
Uladh,
now Mac Cullagh, an
Irish
R2
14i2
awNQf-a Rioshachca emectNN.

.1.
[1532.
bpian Decc. Corhapba pfoonaca achaib bfire oecc. Copbmac ua hulcacam aipcinneac
TTlac
pampabd'n
.1.
mac TTlajnupa mic romdip caofpeac reaUaig eac&ac
Decc.
Sfan
nall
pern.
mac pilip mic roippbealbaij, mic pilip megui&ip DO mapbab la Dommac conconnacb mic bpiain mic pilip Daon parab DO mac mejuibip
.1.
conmaolconaipe copna Decc, -| 6 maolconaipe Do jjaipm ma lonab Do cobap mac oomnaill puam, a eccpibe 50 hairjfpp lap pin. .1. ullliam Ooomnaill, nTlaguiDip ap nool hi ccfnn an mpcip Shaânai^
~\
-]
an lupcip DO ceacr leo pceimoncon.i pann -| cacrac Do cfngal Doib pe poile, Dun ngfnamn Do bpipeab, -] an cfp Do milleab. hi ccfn eojam,
-\
lapla
P'5-
cille
Dapa
.1.
jepoirc mac jepoicr Do reacr

hi
nepmn
ina lupcip on
O
.1.
Domnaill DO Dol
maij luipcc cona
plojjhaib,
-\
mac Domnaill
TPag
laip
alapopann mac
coin caranai j, T?o cpeachaD, i po lopccaD
luipcc la
hua noomnaill DO pace mac Diapmara a piap 66 po beoib gup bo pi'oDac ppip. Clann 111 neill .1. clann aipc oicc, oomnall, i cuaral baf a bparr a mbpaijofnap ace ua neill DO cpochaD laip. Caiplen aipD na piaj Do jabail la cloinn 6uboa ap mac pfam a bupc
i -|
coccabofipje froppa,
-|
pliocc piocaipc a bupc. Cpeaca
mapbra lomba DO
benam Doib pop apoile. Cpeaca aibble aipccce aimapmapcaca Do benarh la mall occ 6 neill ap lûibilin mac Domnaill, i a mbpfin laip hi ppfpaib manac. Copbmac mac meguiDip DO jabdil ppiullld cloinn neill le pfpoopca
-\
i
.1.
mac
cuinn mic euinn,
la peilim Doiblenaij
mac
aipr oicc mic cuinn
neill,
Da mapcpluag Do mapbab amaille ppip im uilbam mac Diapmaca,

family,
collected
of whose history very little has been by the Four Masters.
destruction.
The Four Masters should have

of his
entered
As Lord Justice
He
arrived in Dublin in
August, 1532, where he was received with great acclamations, and received the sword of state from Skeffington, who, however, harboured revenge in his breast, and soon after lodged such
accusations against
inroad into Ely O' Carroll, above given, under the year 1533, as Ware has done.
the account
*
Ard-na-riagfi,
Ballina,
1
*
now Ardnarea,
Mayo.
suburb
to
in the county of
both sides, literally,
i.
On
" on each other."
him
as finally
wrought
his
Felim DoibMenael/,
e.
Felim the Devlinian,
1532.]

i.
1413
The Coarb of Fenagh, e. Brian, died. Cormac O'Hultachain, Erenach of Achadh-Beithe [Aghavea],
died.
Magauran, son of Manus, son of Thomas, Chief of Teallach-Eachdhach

[Tullyhaw], died. John, the son of Philip, son of Turlough, son of Philip Maguire, was killed with one stab of a knife [dagger] by Donnell, the son of Maguire, i. e. by the son of Cuconnaught, son of Brian, son of Philip.
O'Mulconry (Torna, the son of Torna) died; and Conor, the son of Donuell Roe, was styled O'Mulconry in his place. He, too, died shortly afterward.
O'Donnell and Maguire went to the English Lord Justice, William Skeffington, and after they had formed a league of mutual friendship and amity
with each other, the Lord Justice went with them into Tyrone.
of
The
castle
Dungannon was broken down and the country was ravaged. The Earl of Kildare (Garrett, the son of Garrett) came to Ireland from the King as Lord Justice.
O'Donnell proceeded to Moylurg with his forces, being accompanied by Mac Donnell, namely, Alexander, the son of John Cahanagh. O'Donnell plundered and burned Moylurg, until at last Mac Dermot gave him his demand that he might be at peace with him.
own
The
sons of O'Neill,
i.
e.
the sons of Art Oge, namely, Donnell and Tuathal,
who had been

The
for a long time detained in captivity
by
[the other] O'Neill,
were
hanged by him.
castle of Ard-na-riagh* [Ardnarea] was taken by the sons of O'Dowda from the sons of John Burke, in consequence of which a war arose between them and the descendants of Richard Burke, and many depredations and slaughters were committed on both sides*.
O'Neill
Great depredations and desperate ravages were committed by Niall Oge upon Ruibilin Mac Donnell, and he carried the spoils into Fermanagh.
Cormac, the son of Maguire, was treacherously taken prisoner by the sons of O'Neill, namely, by Ferdoragh, the son of Con, son of Con, and Felim z Doibhlenach the son of Art Oge, son of Con O'Neill. A party of his cavalry
,
were
slain,
and,
among
the rest, William, the son of Dermot, son of

the west side of
Cormac
so called because he
anglice O'Devlin, Chief of Muintir-Devlin,
was fostered by O'Doibhlen, on
Lough Neagh, on the borders
of the counties of Londonderry and Tyrone.
1414
aNNdta Rioghachca eiKeaww.
[1533.
mic copbmaic, mic gappaib i imon ngiolla ballad mac enpi buibe mic goppaib ann beop. CID lace clann i neill Dna 50 pocaibib ele, i po gabab cib apaill no loireaD upmop a cculaib ap Do buaileaO nfp bo hiomldn lorrap pop
"]
mumcipe
irn
peilim
mac
neill.
QO1S CR10SU,
1533.
Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceo cpioca acpf.

TTlac
Diapmacra maije luipcc DiapmaiD mac Ruai&pi mic oiapmaca DO

eoccain mic rai&cc mic Diapmacca,-] eoccan ppiull la cloinn
mapba&a
mac
raiDcc DO gabdil njeapnaip na DeaohaiD. maolmuaiD Domnall caoc mac an copnamaij
rhapbaD a ppiull la a Deapbparaip pein (.1. rap .1. apr ap paicce lainne heala, -] 6 maolmuaiD Do jaipm oa Deapbpacaip
.1.
njeapna peap cceall Do cucoicpice),-) la mac a oeapbpa-
cacaoip.
peilim bacac
mac
neill
mic cuinn
neill Decc.
f
Oa mac
nDorhnaill.
peilim mic RuaiDpi bacaij
neill
DO mapbab la TTlajnup ua
mic neill, mic aipc Do rhapbaD la cloinn meguibip. Do gabail la ca&cc occ mac cai&cc, mic aoDa uf concobaip Caiplen pliccij ap lonnpaicciD oiDce lap mbpar an baile, lap na cup amac DO bapDaib an
cuinn,
-|
6mann mac
caiplein pfm.
Caiplen aipD na piaj Do jabdil map an cceona pan oiDce la cloinn comaip a bupc ap cloinn f ouboa. Cpeac mop Do Denarii la hua noorhnaill ap ua nfjpa mbuibe ecip Da abainn cpe na aimpfip DO Denarii Dua nfjpa.
Niall
mac mupchaiD mic

~[
occ macaorh ba pfpp,
puibne Do rhapbaD ap Dpoicfr pliccij. ba Dfppcaijre Dia ciniD buoein.
ba
hepiDe
TTluipceapcac
a
mac
peilim, mic coippbealbaij cappaij uf concobaip Do

c
,
Fircail,
peapa ceall.
p.
See note
under the
town of Tullamore,
in the King's County.
There
year 1216,
"
189, supra.
was a church erected here
in the sixth century
Lann-Ealla, i. e. the church of Ealla, which was the name of an ancient forest, nowLynally, situated about a mile to the south-west of the
by
St.
Colman
Elo.
pp. 910, 961.
The present ruins
See Ussher's Primordia, of the church
of Lynally are not ancient, but the wall which
1533.]
1415
Mac
Caffry,
others.
and Gilla-Ballagh, the son of Henry Boy Mac Cafiry, and many Several were also taken prisoners but, though the sons of O'Neill were
;
victorious, they did not return scathless, for the greater part of their people were and among the rest Felim, the son of O'Neill. severely beaten and wounded,
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1533.
thirty-three.
Mac Dermot
treacherously slain
of Moylurg (Dermot, the son of Rory Mac Dermot) was by the sons of Owen, son of Teige Mac Derrnot and Owen,
;
the son of Teige, assumed the lordship after him. O'Molloy (Donnell Caech, the son of Cosnamhach),
Lord of
Fircall",
was
treacherously slain on the Green of Lann-Ealla" by his own brother, Cucogry, and Art, his brother's son and his brother, Cahir, was styled O'Molloy. Felim Bacagh, the son of Niall, son of Con O'Neill, died.
;
The two sons Manus O'Donnell.
of Felim, the son of
Rory Bacagh
O'Neill,
were
slain
by
by
Edmond, the son of Con, son

the sons of Maguire.
of Niall, son of
Art
[O'Neill],
was
slain
was taken by Teige Oge, the son of Teige Oge, son of Hugh O'Conor, by means of a nocturnal assault, the warders of the castle having betrayed it and surrendered it to them. The castle of Ard-na-riagh [Ardnarea] was likewise taken at night by the
castle of Sligo
The
sons of
Thomas Burke, from

rivers
the sons of O'Dowda.
A great depredation was committed by O'Donnell upon O'Hara Boy, between

the
two
because the latter had been disobedient to him.
Niall,
son of Murrough
Mac Sweeny, was
slain
on the bridge of
Sligo.
He
was the best and most renowned youth of his own tribe. Murtough, son of Felim, who was son of Turlough Carragh O'Conor, was
encloses the churchyard
is
of considerable antito the south of the

to
Between
the two rivers,
i.
e.
between the
quity.
There
is
moat
church which would appear to have belonged

a castle, as
it
Owenmore, which flows through Collooney, and the river of Coolaney, which unites with it near
Annaghmore,
of Sligo.
in the
contains in its interior a vault
barony of Leyny and county
built of stone with lime and sand cement.
emeawN.
[1534.
Da cpocab la hua noomnaill ap pairce caiplem eanaijh lap ppeimDeab cloinn, i Da bpairpib an bade oo rabaipc ap. cille Dapa DO ceacc apip 50 hele DO cabaip pipjanamm i ceapbaill
lapla 50
pmbe an pom,-] a bfic a bpopbaipi imon ccaipleri, i conpapal an baile. O cfpbaill Do jaipm muinnp DO mapbab, a lompub mp ngabdil ouaicne cappac mac Sfain in accaib pipganamm, fpaonca coccaib oeipcce
-]
mair Dia
-\
nele cpfcpin.
Copbmac mac cocldin cijeapna cloinne concobaip Decc. Decc. Cacaofp mac cocldin-aipcmneac cluana mic noip
QO1S CR1OSC,
1534.
Qofp Cpiopr, mile, cine ceo, cpioca, a cearaip.
O
jijaipm
concobaip puab rabcc buibe
mac
cacail puaiD Decc,
~|
6 concobaip Do
od mac
.1.
coippbealbac puab.
oiapmaoa maije luipcc (eoccan) Decc pan ccappaicc lap mbfir bbabain a ccijeapnap,"] TTlacc luipcc Do beic eapaonrabac cojrac pe a linn, TTlac Diapmacca Do gaipm Dabb rta buille .1. aob mac copbmaic mic DiapITlac
marca. Clann caibcc mic oiapmacca DO jabail na caippcce paip, -| nip bo lucca a cdc fapaonca an rfpe pe a linn. 6occan mac aoba mic neill mic cuinn, an caom peap ba peapp Do pliocc
aoba buibe Do rhapbab Id halbancoib oupcop Do paijirc pop loc cuan. Uoippbealbac Dub 6 Diomapaicc DO rhapbab a ppiull Id a bpacaip
pein,
la TTIuipceapcac 6cc 6 nofomapaicc lap mbfir bo ap pldnab De ~\ naofm eirhin, 1 TTluipceapcac 6cc buDbein Do mapbab a ccpaioe lap pin Id hua mopDa
ppe miopbuilib De,
-j
eirhin.
jallcubaip
.1.
Gmann mac
coin mic cuarail Decc co hobann.
Copbmac mac pfpjail mic an baipo, paof le Dan aon bd pfpp baoi ina ppf Daonnacc Decc nonjab, aimpip Dia cinfb a Ific ppi Dope lap nairpicce.
-| ~\
Eanack, i. e. a boggy land, now Annagh, a townland in the barony of Carbury, and county of Sligo. See Deed of Partition of the Sligo
estate, already often referred to.
Suidhe-an-roin,
i.
e.
the sitting place of the
seal or
hairy person,
now
Shinrone, a small town

five miles to the
in the King's County,
about
north of Roscrea.
1534.]
1417
of the castle of Eanach", his sons and relahanged by O'Donnell on the Green tives having previously refused to give up the castle for his ransom. The Earl of Kildare went a second time into Ely, to assist Ferganainm
c
O'Carroll, to Suidhe-an-roin
and he
;
laid siege to the castle,
on which occasion
and, having taken the castle, he returned home. Owny Carragh, son of John, was styled O'Carroll in opposition to of which internal dissensions arose in Ely. Ferganainm, in consequence Cormac Mac Coghlan, Lord of Clann-Conor, died.
he
lost a
good constable of
his people
Cahir
Mac
Coghlan, Erenagh of Clonmacnoise, died.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1534.
thirty-four.
O'Conor Roe (Teige Boy, the son of Cathal Roe) died Turlough Roe, was styled O'Conor.
and
his
son,
i.
e.
of Moylurg (Owen) died in the Rock [of Lough Key], after having been a year in the lordship, during which time Moylurg was in a state of disturbance and commotion. The Abbot of Boyle was then styled Mac Der-
Mac Dermot
The sons of Teige Mac mot, namely, Hugh, the son of Cormac Mac Dermot. Dermot [however] took the Rock from him, and the country was not less disturbed during his time.
Owen, son of Hugh, son of Niall, son of Con, the best man of the descendants of Hugh Boy [O'Neill], was slain with a cast of a dart by a party of Scots, on Loch Cuanf
.
treacherously killed by his own kinsman, Murtough Oge O'Dempsey, although he was under the protection of God and g St. Evin Murtough Oge was slain himself soon afterwards by O'More, through
Turlough
Duv O'Dempsey was
the miracles of
God and
St.
Evin.
O'Gallagher, i. e. Edmond, the son of John, son of Tuathal, died suddenly. Cormac, the son of Farrell Mac Ward, a learned poet, the best of his tribe
in his time for alms-deeds
and humanity,
died, after unction
and penance.
Loch Cuan, now Lough Cone, or Strangford

in the county of
B St.
Evin.
He was
the patron saint of the
Lough,
Down.
O'Dempseys, and the original founder of the
8s
1418
aNNdta Rio^hachca emeawN.
[1535.
Hlaolmuijie mac eocaba abbap ollarhan laijjean 16 Dan, pfp fpccna lollodnac bd maic cfj naoibfb DO mapbab 50 cfccmaipeac la Dfpbpdrpib a rhacap
la cloinn
f
ruacail.
TTlagnup buibe 6 oiiibjfnndin Do raccab Da rhnaof pfm pan oibce. Gccnac, lomcopaofo mop DO 6ol 6 mainb gall"] on comaiple ap an mpcip (mpla cille oapa gfpoicc occ mac gfpoicc, mic comaip poplamaib nfipc cumacra Gpeann) gup an pfj an coccrhab enpi 50 Saâib, -| an napla Do
~\ -]
~] nip bo capba Do ap po baof ann ppi hfb mbliabna, -| po bap ace âbab e, po cuipeab ipm cop, ~| imipc oligib pa'p. T?o pdccaib an napla gfpoicc cloibim an pij 050 mac
-\
bol Do paijib an pfj DO jabail a Ificpceil ppip,
Dol DO 50 pa^raib. baof ina lupcip in lonan g
comap 05
Qcbfpac apoile gup bo he uilliam pcceimonron
QO1S CR1OSU,
Qofp Cpiopc,
1535.
mile, cuicc ceo, cpioca,
cuicc.
IQpla cille Dapa (.1. lupcip na h6peann) jfpoicc occ mac jfpoicr imc comaip oeappcaijueac jail gaoibeal Gpeann ina aimpip, uaip nf namci po Ifr a ainm a epDeapcup po epmn uile ace po clop hi cpiochaib eiopcianaib a apo nop, DO ecc ina bpaijDfnup hi lonnDam. F?o eaccaip ceneoil a allab,
-| -|
~\
gab lapam mac an mpla comap 05 ofojail a arap ap gallaib, ap gac naen cucc pocann Dia cop a hfipinn, po accuip cloibfm an pfj uaba, Do uilc lomba ppi gallaib, aca cliac aomeab laip, ap gnf po jeib aipoeppoc
.1.
-\
~\
-]
~\
church of Mainistir Eimuin, now Monastereven,

notwithstanding Dr. Lanigan's attempt to prove the contrary. Seenote r , under the year 1394,
p.
'
Skeffington.
that
As soon as the King had heard Thomas had resigned the sword and young
731, supra.
h
broken out into open rebellion, he again appointed William Skeffington, Lord Deputy of
Ireland __ See Ware's Annals.
"
His son Thomas.
Ware
says, in his
Annals
of Ireland, that before his departure from Ireland he received a command from the King to
Who had
derunt causam,
a
choose a successor, on whose fidelity he might rely, and that the Earl in an unlucky hour laid
this
much
been instrumented, literally, "dewho gave cause." Ware gives better account of these transactions in
his
Annals of Ireland, under the year 1534,
solemn charge on the weak shoulders of his eldest son, who was then scarcely twenty-one
in
years of age,
council, at Drogheda,
the presence of the King's where he took shipping.
where he says that the enemies of the family of the Geraldines went to work deceitfully; that no sooner was the Earl cast into than he
prison
was beheaded, and that the same
fate threatened
1535.]
1419
Mulmurry Mac Keogh, intended Ollav of Leinster in poetry, a learned man, skilled in various arts, who kept a good house of hospitality, was accidentally
killed
by
his mother's brothers, the sons of O'Toole.
strangled in the night by his own wife. Great complaints and accusations were transmitted from the chiefs of the from the Council, to the King, Henry VIII., of EngEnglish [of Ireland] and land, against the Lord Justice (i. e. the Earl of Kildare, Garrett Oge, the son of Garrett, son of Thomas, commander of the strength and power of Ireland)
Manus Boy O'Duigennan was
and the Earl went over

it
was of no
avail,
conduct before him, but for he was taken and confined in the tower, where he reto the King, to vindicate his
and they were exerting [the rigours of] the law against him. The Earl Garrett, on his departure for England, left the sword of the King mained
for one year,
with his son, Thomas".
Others [however] say that
it
was William Skeffington
who succeeded
Garrett in the office of Lord Justice.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1535.
thirty-jive.
Earl of Kildare, Lord Justice of Ireland (Garrett Oge), the son of Garrett, son of Thomas, the most illustrious of the English and Irish of Ireland
in his time, for not only
The
had his name and renown spread through all Ireland, but his fame and exalted character were heard of in distant countries of foreign
11
London. After which his son, Thomas, proceeded to avenge his father upon the English and all who had been instrumental in removing him from Ireland. He resigned the King's sword, and did many injuries to the English. The Archbishop of Dublin came by his death through
nations, died in captivity in
1
Thomas, his two brothers, and uncles.
That
the rash youth, suffering himself to be deceived with these lies, on the llth day of June, being
cured the murder of Archbishop Alan that in the mean time his father, having notice of these
;
guarded with one hundred and forty well-armed horse, he hastened towards Mary's Abbey, near Dublin, where he resigned up the sword and
robes of
state,
proceedings in prison, was struck through as with a deadly arrow, gave himself wholly up to
sadness,
and died in the month of September,
1534.
the Lord Chancellor
Cromer per-
suading him in vain to the contrary, and that he then broke out into open rebellion and pro-
John Alan, Archbishop of The Archbishop Dublin, was murdered at Artane on fhe 28th
'
of July,
1534,
by John Teling and Nicholas
S2
1420
aNNdta Rio^hachca eiReaww.

i
[1535.
baofpibe
naccaib a acap
-|
po maptiab beop oaoine ele amaille ppip.

~|
Oo
gabab laip baile ara cliac on ngfca nua amach, DO pat>a6 geill bpai joe 66 ap a orhan on ccuicc ele Don bcnle. Ro leipaipccfb, po ldinrhillear> afa gup bo poD cpinj an riiibe uile la pine jail 6 Shliab puab 50 opoicfc mac an mpla Don cup pin. lap nn piop pin Don pfjj no cuip poipibin 50 gallaib
~\ ~|
pcemoncon ina mpcip, linapD gpai 50 ccoblac mop amatlle ppiu ace milleab a mbaof po mamup mic an mpla. âbcap leo 1 po gabpacc pibe TTlaj nuabau i po lonnapbpacc comap ap an cfp. lapccam baile comaip najhaib comaip DO conjnarh Sipgicc beop coicceap Deapbparap a acap la gallaib (Semup mfpccfc, oiliuep, Sfan, uacep, Ripofpo) ap ba Doij leo jomab la haon aca an laplacc Dia cclofci mnf romap. Qn can na caomnacrap
.1.
uilliam
~|
.1.
-\
na pajcain pempdire comap Do fpjab'ail lap mbuain a bailcfb a rhainep De, nucc gaoibel Dfipcipc epeann, 50 ponnpabac pfol mbpiain, 1 mp na accup
~j
i
)
ccleic cobpaib corhnaipc ina naccaiD lacpem 05 coccaD ppiu ba he nf Do pccpuDpac ina naiple bpecc pf& Do caipccpin Do, 1 cealcc DO Denarii cuicce 50 po paoi'Dpfc lopD linapD hi ccfnn mic an mpla,
1 6 concobaip pailje, uile
)
ma
po rinjeall pibe papDun DO a hucc an pf^ 50 po bpecc laip 50 paâib e. âbrap mac an lapla po ceDoip, cuiprfp hi ccop an pij e inbpaijDfnup
-]
i
1 cimibeacc.
mpcip
baof
Uanaic lopD linapD nepmn cap a aip oopibipi, i po ecc an uilliam Scemoncon, geibibpium lonab an nepinn lupcip cuicce
i
.1.
~\
Wafer, two of Kildare's servants. See Ware's Annals of Ireland at the year 1534, Cox's Hibernia Anglicana,
p.
county of Dublin.
"
Tremble, literally,
so that all
Meath was
234, and Harris's edition of
Ware's Bishops,
ful
p.
347-
For
this
its
murder the
most vengeand
it
[made] a trembling sod by the son of the Earl on that occasion. See a similar phrase relating
to the invasion of
sentence of excommunication, in
Bruce
in 1315, quoted
from a
and tremendous form, was issued against Lord

his uncles,
Thomas and
is
John and
Oliver,
fragment of the Book of and Customs of Hy-Many,
Hy-Many
p.
in Tribes
137
"5 U
P" ^
1
copy of this awful curse was transmitted to the Lieutenant of the Tower of Lonsaid that a
Gipiu 'na li-aencu<nb cpicij ba'n coimeipji This is paraphrased by Mageoghegan in pin."
his Translation of the as follows
:
don, and
struck
shewn to Kildare, the him through the heart.

SluiB pua6,
is
i.
sight of which
Annals of Clonmacnoise
Slieve Roe.
e.
the reddish
mountain.
This name
still
applied to the
" All the inhabitants of the kingdom, both English and Irish, were stricken with so great
terrour that
it
Three-rpck mountain, near Dublin, by those who speak Irish in Meath, and by the Con-
made
the Lands and Inhabitants
of Ireland to shake with fear."
naughtmen, though the name
is
forgotten in the
Magh-Nuadhat,
i.
e.
the plain of Nuadhat,
1535.]

:
1421
him, for he had been opposed to his father many others were slain along with him. He took Dublin from Newgate outwards, and pledges and hostages were town through fear of him. The son of the Earl given him by the rest of the m on this occasion totally plundered and devastated Fingall from Slieve Roe to
Drogheda, and made all Meath [as it were] tremble beneath his feet. When the King had received intelligence of this he sent relief to the English, namely, William Skeffington, as Lord Justice, and Leonard Gray, with a great fleet,
11
and these proceeded to plunder

tion of the Earl's son.
all
(the territory) that
was under the
jurisdic-
They
afterwards took
Magh
Nuadhat", Thomas's town,
and expelled himself from his territory. His father's five brothers also rose up against Thomas, to assist the English, namely, James Meirgeach, Oliver, John, Walter, and Richard, for they thought that if Thomas were conquered
one of themselves might obtain the earldom. When the aforesaid Englishmen were not able to make a prisoner of Thomas (after having taken his manors and towns from him, and driven him for an asylum to the Irish of the south of
and O'Conor Faly, who all were a firm and powerful bulwark against them, and at war Avith them) they resolved in council to proffer him a pretended peace, and take him by treachery p whereIreland, especially to the O'Briens
;
upon
they sent
Lord Leonard
to the Earl's
son,
who promised pardon on
behalf of the King, so that he coaxed him with him to England, where he was immediately seized and placed in the King's tower, in bondage and captivity. Lord Leonard returned to Ireland and the Lord Justice of Ireland, William
;
Skeffington, having died,

a man's name,
Kildare.
he assumed his place, and he took

annalists
to
him the sons of

of
it,
now Maynooth, in the county of See Dublin P. Journal, vol. i. p. 299, vhere the Editor published a translation of this
passage in the year 1833.
uf March, 1535,
make no mention
to be one of the
we may
easily
believe
it
many pure fabrica-
tions with
which Stanihurst has embellished
The
castle of
May-
his narrative.
p
nooth was besieged by Skeffington on the 15th
By
treachery
Ware
does not seem to bea
and the
fortress,
its
which was
furniture,
lieve that
is
Gray promised him
pardon
but
it
accounted, for the abundance of
one of the richest houses under the crown of
by Stanihurst to have been befrayed by Christopher Pareis ; but in Sir WilEngland,

is said
quite obvious from the letter of the Council of Ireland to King Henry VIII. (State Papers, ciii.), that the hopes of pardon were held out
to
Ham
Skeffington's own account of the siege in the State Papers, there is not the slightest allusion to any such betrayal ; and as the Irish
Lord Thomas more strongly than they were In willing to express to the angry monarch.
their prayer they state that, in consequence of
" the words of comfort spoken to Lord Thomas,
1422
1
awNata Rio^hachca
rhoip cille
]
eiraeaNN.
.1.
[1535.
cucc Dia paiccib clann lapla
Dapa
clann gfpoicr mic romaip,

-|
Semup mfipsfc, Oileuep, Sfan udcep, PipoeapD bacrap ma caoimreacc, Ro gabab laip mcc po beoibiap mbeic ooib pop 1 ma mumceapap Do gpep. a loncaib, DO cuip Do paijib pij Sajcan lao. l?o cuipicc pibe po ceooip hi
-]
rcop an pfj aipm

pfipeap.
mbaof oibpe na hiaplacca

f
.1.
romap 50 mbarcap ann
ina
la cloinn uf baoijill. INjfn f neill Siuban injfn cuinn mic enpf mic eoccain bfn TTlajnupa uf Dorhnaill Decc (.1. an. 21. Qugupc) a lap mfbon a haofp "| a hinrhe, bfn a
Giccneacan mac oomnaill
oorhnaill DO
mapbab
haopa bd ofppccaijre cpdbab, i fineac baf in aon aimpip pia ap nfp bo plan Di ace .^ln. an can po paoi'b a ppipac, i a habnacal 50 honopac hi mainipnp .8. Ppompeip hi noun na njall.
TTlac puibne cipe bojaine TTIaolmuipe
bab
.1.
hi ppioll la a Deapbparaip pfm Racain a bpeil pfoaip poil. pfpoopca mag cocldin cijeapna Dealbna fcpa Decc, pelim mac mdoflip mej cocldin DO gabail a lonaib. Pmgin mac connla meg coclain Do mapbab Id pfpjanamm mac pipoopca.
.1.
~\ -]
mop mac neill mic puibne Do rhapmall 05 oopup caiplfin mic puibne
a biap mac Sfan glap muipceapcac mac oonnchaib, mic mupchaib, peapgal Do mapbab hi maij imleac la hua nfjpa mbuibe lap na mbpach 50 tneablac DO neoc Da mumnp pfin.
~[
-j
mac amlaoib Du map mapbab cijeapna claonjlaipi, copuccab mop Do cloinn cpiaj, po mapbab ann a pppiocjum maolmui],e mac bpiain mic puibne conpapal mic amlaoib pop
TTlaibm
mop DO cabaipc
~|
Id
TTiac giobuin, i
a ccopac na hiomjona.
to allure
him
to yealde himself up," the royal
clemencymight be extended towards him, "more

especially as regarded his life."
q
rony of Garrycastle, in the King's County, s Magh-Imleach, now Moyemlagh, a townland

in the parish of Kilcolman,
barony of Leyny,
Batkain,
now Rahin
in the
barony
Castle, near Inver Bay, of Banagh, in the west of the
and county of
'
Sligo.
Mac
Auliffe
He was
seated in the barony
county of Donegal.
1524.
'
See note under the year
of Duhallow, in the north-west of the county of
Delvin Eathra, oealBna eacpa This territory, which is otherwise called Delvin Mac Coghlan, was coextensive with the present ba-
Cork, and was in latter ages tributary to Mac Donough Mac Carthy, head chief of all Duhallow, as were the O'Keefes and O'Callaghans.
See Smith's Natural and Civil History of Cork,
1535.]
1423
Thomas, the Great Earl of Kildare, namely, James Meirand Richard, and they were for some time in his geach, Oliver, John, Walter, company and friendship. They were [however] finally seized on, they being
Garrett, the son of
under his protection, and sent to the King of England and they were immein which was also the heir to the earldiately clapped into the King's tower,
;
and there were they all six Egneghan, the son of Donnell O'Donnell, was slain by the sons of O'Boyle. The daughter of O'Neill and wife of Manus O'Donnell, namely, Judith, daughter of Con, son of Henry, son of Owen, died on the 21st of August, in
dom,
i.
e.
Thomas
the middle of her age and affluence.
She was the most renowned woman
for
her years of her time for piety and hospitality, for she was only forty-two years of age when she resigned her spirit, and was honourably buried in the monastery of St. Francis at Donegal.
Mac Sweeny
Sweeny's
of
of Tir-Boghaine
slain
(Mulmurry More,
his
the
son of Niall
Sweeny) was treacherously

castle of Rathain",
by
own
brother, Niall, at the
Mac door of Mac
on the
festival of SS.
Peter and Paul.

r
,
Ferdoragh Mac Coghlan, Lord of Delvin Eathra died, and Felim, the son Meyler Mac Coghlan, took his place. Fineen, the son of Conla Mac Coghlan, was slain by Ferganainm, son of
Ferdoragh.
Murtough Mac Donough, the son of Murrough, and his two sons, John Glas and Farrell, were slain at Magh-Imleach* by O'Hara Boy, having been
first
deceitfully betrayed
by one of
their
own
people.
AuliflV gained a great battle, in which were slain the Lord of Claenand Mac Gibbon", with a large battalion of the Clann-Sheehy*. Maelglais" murry, son of Brian Mac Sweeny, was slain in the commencement and fury of
the conflict.
vol.
u
i.
Mac
p. 42, edition
of 1750.
anglicised Clonlish, a wild
raids
See note
e
,
p.
400,
Claenglais,
district in the
now
supra.
barony of Upper Connillo, in the
south-west of the county of Limerick, adjoining

the counties of Cork and Kerry. O'Coileain, now Collins, was originally the chief of this district
;
Gibbon, now Fitzgibbon. He was chief of the territory of Clangibbon, in the county of
w Mac
Cork.
*
Clann-Sheehy,
i.
e.
the
Mac
Sheehys,
who
but, at the period of
which we are now
were of Scotch
origin,
and hereditary gallow-
treating, it belonged to a
branch of the Fitzge-
glasses in Ireland.
1424
TTlaofleaclainn
ctNNCica
Rio^hachca eiReawN.
i
[1536.
mac caipppe
bipn Do
mapbab
la clomn carail mic meic
oiapmaca.
QO1S CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopr,
TTlainipcip
1536.
mile, cuicc ceo, cpioca,
Se.
Dpoma bd eriap Do lopccab 50 cfccmaipeac pan

eperhon 6 Domnaill bpacaip mairfpa apcfna Do milleab innce.
-|
oibce lap
ccoDlab oo cdc a ccoiccinne,

innre,
mmup
Do lopccab
pldij coircfnn, galap bpeac, Dia po eccpac pocaibe. plu;r, 1 piabpap Copbmac 6cc mac copbmaic mic raibcc megcapcaij, aon poja gaoibeal Ifice moja Decc mp mbpfic buaba 6 borhan, -\ o bfman -j a abnacal hi call
pi
mopan Ueabmanna-| galpa

")
lie ipin
mbbabain
.1.
cpebe.
TDac uilliam cloinne piocaipD, Sfan mac PiocaipD mic emainn Decc coccab mop Dfipje hi clomn Riocaipo pan njeapnap Dia po gaipmfb Da mac uilliam ipin cfp, TTlac uilliam Do RipoeapD bacac mac uillicc, mac
~[ -\
uilliam Duillfcc
mac RiocaipD mac
oicc,
-]
uillfcc
na ccfno Do Bfir 05 congnam
la T?ipDeapD mbacac.
O
~]
Rajaillij pfpjal
pfp, pial,
maicne
ua mbpiuin conpopaib, pipinneacyDeaplaicceac ofijeinij Decc lap ccomain

-\
pfain mic carail ciêapna
pacappaic.
mag
plannchaib caofpeac Dapcpaije

eipibe.
-|
.1.
pfpabac mac uilliam Decc,
-\
bcc
pfp Depcac, Daonnaccac
Uomap
njjeapnam
6 huiccinn oiDe pfp nepeann,

i
alban le Dan Decc.
peilim mac peilim

i
puaipc Decc
ngfirhel
05 bpian mac eoccain mic
puaipc.
Sfofnfn,
Carol mac
condij Do ecc.
5
mic Sfain
ui
maoi'lmoicfpje pfp bioccairmfc buan
Galar-breac,
'
Kikrea.
1038,
p.
a
the small pox. ', under the year 1475, and note e under the year 1495,
i.
e.
so called
See note
he had cut
p. 889,
from the many heads of enemies which off. See note ", under the year 1432,
',
and note
p. 998,
p. 1213, supra.
supra.'
i.
Richard Bacagh,
Ulick-na-gCeann,
e.
i.
Richard the lame.

e.
Ulick of the heads,
Hy-Briuin and Conmaicne, i. e. he was lord of the Hy-Briuin in the two Breifnys, and of
1536.]
1425
was slain by the sons of Cathal, Melaghlin, the son of Carbry O'Beirne, son of Mac Dermot.
THE AGE OF CHEIST,
1536.
thirty-six.
of Druim-da-ethiar [Dromahaire] was accidentally burned in the night, while all were asleep, and Eremon O'Donnell, a Friar Minor, was burned within it, and a great quantity of property was also destroyed in it.
The monastery
and maladies raged in this year, namely, a general plague, galar-breac the flux, and fever, of which many died. Cormac Oge, the son of Cormac, son of Teige Mac Carthy, the choice of
Many
diseases
y
,
the Irish of Leath-Mhogha, died, after having gained the victory over the z Devil and the world, and was interred at Kilcrea
.
Mac William
of Clanrickard (John, son of Rickard, son of
Edmond)
;
,
died;
and a great war broke out in Clanrickard, concerning the lordship two Mac a Williams were nominated in the country, namely, Richard Bacagh the son
of Ulick,
was called Mac William, and Ulick, son of Richard Oge, was called Mac William also. On this occasion Ulick-na-gCeannb sided with Richard
Bacagh.
O'Reilly (Farrell, the son of John, son of Cathal),
Lord of Hy-Briuin and

after
Conmaicne
a generous, potent, upright,
and truly hospitable man, died,
receiving the
communion and
sacrifice.
Clancy, Chief of Dartry (Feradhach, the son of William), died. was a charitable and humane man.
Mac
He
Thomas O'Higgin, Chief Preceptor

poetry, died.
of the
men
of Ireland and Scotland in
d Felim, the son of Felim O'Rourke, died in captivity with Brian the son of Owen, son of Tiernan O'Rourke.
,
Cathal, the son of Johnin, son of John
O'Mulmoghery a constantly-spending
and
lastingly-affluent
man, died.
he and Brian were imprisoned together, but that Felim was the prisoner of Brian when he
died.
the Mac Rannalls or Conmaicne-Rein, in the south of the county of Leitrim. d In captivity with. This does not mean that
8x
14 26
ciNNata Rio^hachna emeawN.

.1.
[1536.
TTlaice loccaip connacc
cacail oicc uf concobaip
caDcc 6cc mac caiDcc, mic ao6a caDcc mac clann Diiboa Do 6ol ap pbocc clann noonnchaiD,
i
-]
an eppaig baipeo, cpeaca an cfpe Do cficfrh Riocaipo a bupc ap cappaing an cfppog Da cabaipc ap an cfpmann pfmpa 50 cfpmann cijfpnam oipiD DO paijjiD an cploij, gan na cpeaca oai peace nonoip an naofm. O concobaip DO jaipm Do caDcc occ mac caiDcc mic aoba mic coippbeal-] -]
i
-]
bd hepiDe ceo Duine Dap goipeaD o concobaip baij cappaij uf concobaip bd mac Dorhnaill mic muipniocrap connacc Do pliocc bpiain luijnigh oip no a ccumacca an rpleacra pin co ceapcaij amm an cf no bioD hi ccfnnap
-|
i
pin, i
Do DeappccujaD Dona njfpnaib cainic pfime DO bd ap oaij onopa cua concobaip nua pin, mac cacail pome pium an caorhcluD anma pin. Qn hi cclomn goipDealbaij, nf pucc]>ac oicc ui concobaip DO 6ol ap lonnpaiîb 6 nd puaippioc eDala po gabpac poplon^popc a ccimceall cille ap cpfic
-|
-]
-]
-|
colmam
hua
baile mic pubpaije mic soipoealbaij, -| cainic pein hillaim 50 cconcobaip ap a baile Doleccan paop Do, -\ DO bfpcluipeac oipDeapc DO
.1.
baf aicce
.1.
liiipeac
mic peopaip Dua concobaip

laip a
ngioll 16
-\
ncc ua concobaip co
a IdnpuapcclaD. plicceac jup an mbpajaicc pin maire loccaip T?o eipig an can pin coccaD fpaonca ecip ua nDomnaill connacc uile cenmoca bpian mac eoccain uf puaipc namd, ap nf baofpiDe
"|
-|
agcongnamla cfccap na Dib pa nionam pin. T?o cionoileaD DepiDe ploicceaD Id hua nDomnaill cona clomn accmaD Tlla^nup namd uaip nf caimccpiDe hi
I'ocpaioe a
i
acap Don cup pa ap baijpn

aoD mac maolmopDa co
i.
neill.
Uainicc ip
in
pocpaioe pin
aipc, TTlac
f
Domnaill, TTlasuiDip ciiconnacc TTlac uf neill, mall occ
mac
^
e
'
.1.
nfipjê
amac
uf paiîlli j.
Canâccap
1420,
The Clann-Dmough,
Bishop Barrett.
e.
the
He was
Mac Donoughs. Kichard Barrett,
sept of the O'Conors at the years 1413,
1431, 1462, 1471, 1488, 1494, 1495.
See Harris's edition of Bishop of Killala. Ware's Bishops, p. 652.
Errew, a monastery on the margin of Lough Conn, in the barony of Tirawley, and county of Mayo. See note', under the year 1413, p. 813,
supra, and note", under the year 1172.
t)o oeappccujao oo, always Outshine. means, to excel or outshine, and the preposition bo in this phrase means over, above, or beyond. It has the same meaning in the ancient phrase
i
po
cm
oo,
i.
e.
excelled, exceeded, or outshone.
See the Editor's Irish Grammar,

chap.
k
vii. p.
part n.
in the
Donnett Mic Murtough This appellation or title was derived from Donnell Mac
11
Mac
302.
Kikdman.
The name of a church
Murtough, LordofSligo and Carbury, who died

in' 1395.
See other notices of chiefs of this
barony of Costello, and county of Mayo. See note under the year 1270, p. 412, and note',
,
1.536.]

chiefs of
1427
The
of Teige,
who
north] Connaught, namely, Teige Oge, the son was son of Hugh Teige, the son of Cathal Oge O'Conor the
[i.
Lower
e.
Clann-Donough", and the sons of O'Dowda, went [on an excursion] against the f The descendants of Richard Burke, at the instance of the Bishop Barrett
.
country fled [i. e. were carried] before them to the Termon of St. Tiernan of Errewg but the bishop took them out of the Termon to the army, and the spoils were not restored in honour of the saint.
spoils of the
,
Teige Oge, the son of Teige, son of Hugh, son of Turlough Carragh O'Conor, was styled O'Conor. He was the first man of the descendants of
Brian Luighneach, in Lower Connaught, who was styled O'Conor, for he who until then had the leadership, or chief command, of that tribe was styled Mac Donnell MicMurtough" and it was for sake of honour, and in order to outshine'
;
the lords
who had preceded him

;
that he
made
that change in the name.
This
new O'Conor and
the son of Cathal
Oge O'Conor made an
incursion against
the Clann-Costello but they seized on no prey, and as they did not obtain any spoils, they encamped around Kilcolman", the town [i. e. mansion] of the son of Rury Mac Costello, who came to O'Conor, and delivered himself into
his hands,
on condition that O'Conor would spare his town, and presented to O'Conor a grand coat of mail which he had, namely, the coat of mail of Mac
1
.
Feorais
O'Conor then returned
to Sligo
with this hostage [and purposing to

all
keep him] in pledge for a full ransom for him. At this time war and contentions arose between O'Donnell and
chieftains of
the
Lower Connaught, with the single exception of Brian, the son of O'Rourke, who did not, on this occasion, join either side. An army was, therefore, mustered by O'Donnell and his sons (excepting Manus alone, who
Owen
did not
come
into his father's
army on
this expedition,
because he was biassed

;
by
O'Neill).
Into this
son of O'Neill (Niall
army of O'Donnell came Maguire (Cuconnaught) the Oge, the son of Art) and the son of O'Reilly (Hugh, the
;
under the year 1285, p. 441, supra. The coat of mail of Mac Feorais.
1
Here the
thing to that effect. " for he was not aidm Who did not, literally, ing any of them at that time ;" but the ap, for, is incorrectly applied in this sentence, and the
language is abrupt and the narrative imperfect, " And he It should be presented to O'Conor
:
a splendid suit of
armour which he had won

in a recent battle," or
from Mac Feorais
some-
Editor has taken the liberty to leave the translation.
it
out in
8x2
14 -28
awNaca Rio^hachca emeaNN.

f
[1536
piol
Domnaill peib jjpepac pmbne, i baoijeallaij ipin cionol pin na ploi pn 6 ac pfnaig oeoblaof co po gabpac popaD i lonjjpopc enp Looap ouib i opobaoip. lap ccocaicfrh a bppoinne -\ a ccorhalcaip t6ib po cuippfc
leo.
bd
luce pficme ~\ puipfcpaip Do coimeD na conaipe baof fcoppa mag ccficne Do fabaipc amaip longpuipc ap bd horhan leo piol cconcobaip cona ccionol
-]
poppa 0615 po baccap piDe ina ccaofp boDba ap na leip cionol ap a ccionn hi DO rabaipc Dua Dorhnaill cen co po poipplicceac, i mo ace comaicfrh cocaip ea6 leo poccain apoile. 6d he cecup luib ipin ppopaipe DiomcoiTfiecc Don cplo^
mall mac coipptbealbaij ap ba Doi^ laip 50 bpuigbfb a bioobaba a ccionn coriiaip cuicce Dimipc a bapamne popaib. Oo 6616 Dna muincip aoDa
ua
baoijill,
buiDe mic
cconaip naile gan paruccao Dua mbaoijill nac Dia muincip, Do pfccaim ecip na Dib buiDnib 50 po jabpac ac coThmbuaIa6 apoile, i nf capac Dponj Dib aicne pop apaill. ba hambpfnoa ainiapDa
i
DOTYinaill
Dpopcoimeo
hi
naghaib a bio&baD (anDaplaip) 50 po muohaijeaD gan coiccill laip Dpong rhop Don cploj an can baf 05 a ppoppach an cucc pin Do ponpacc buaile bobba ina uipfimceall 50 bpuaip
i
DO pjjfo an imaipfcc pin la hua mbaoijill
aoibfD pa Deoib la a pfop caipoib ip

ihuine.
an
cf
in Dapa calainn augupc ap ai laife peccDo boccaib DaDailccneacaib DO cliapaib cficfpnaib Doilij mop copcaip annpin .1. an cf mail mac coippbealbai j. êp bo poor la hua
6a
~\
~|
nDomnaill an moip ecc
po coipmipcc a eaccpa, luiDpfime 50 paimcc 50 pinnpip. Dponj DO mapcpluaj cacail oicc .1. Do muincip aipc 50 bpagaicc cuillije, Uiagaic Dpfm DO mapcpluaj f Domnaill ma na^haiD 50 corhpainicc cdc Dib ppia poile mbealac Duin lapainn. Tllapbcap mapcac
pin, nf
~\
Oo caeo
maic DO muincip aipc
ipin
cacap
pin,
-|
ofblaic pe poile Don cup pin.

-j
Qipipm
ua Domnaill
n
ina poplonjpopc pfin in aohaiD pin,

These are two rivers in
luiD
poime
ipin
maiDin ap
Duff and Drowes.
the south of the county of Donegal close to the borders of the county of Sligo. See note under
the year 1522.
Braghait-Chuillighe, now Bradhullian, in the barony of Carbury, to the south-west of the
mountain of Binbulbin.
is
On an
old
map
of the
MoghgCeidne.
1301, p. 474, supra.
*
See note m under the year

,
coasts of the counties of Sligo
place
hillye.
r
shewn with a
castle,
and Donegal, this and called Brad-
Finftr,
now
rish of Drumcliff, situated

cliff
Finned, a townland in the pabetween the Drum-
Bealach-Duin-iarainn,
nierin, is the
name
now anglicised Dooof a fort and townland about
strand and that inlet of the sea near Carney
four miles to the north-west of the town of

Sligo.
The
old road from Sligo to Drumcliff
1.536.]

Mac Sweenys and
;
1429
son of Maelmora), with O'Reilly's rising out.
Into this muster of O'Donnell
the O'Boyles. These forces marched from Ballyshannon in the afternoon, and pitched their camp that night between and there having taken dinner and refreshments the rivers Duff and Drowes"
came
also, as usual, the
they sent guards and sentinels to watch the pass between them and Magh gCeidne for they were afraid that the O'Conors, with all their forces, might
,
surprise
them
[that night] in their
camp, inasmuch
as they
were then
all
as soon as they should

for the
assembled in a naming body at Sligo, threatening to give battle to O'Donnell meet him. The first person who went out to watch
army was O'Boyle (Niall, the son of Turlough), who supposed that his enemies would soon come up to him, and that he would be able to wreak his vengeance upon them. But the people of Hugh Boy, the son of O'Donnell, went at the same time, without giving notice to O'Boyle, or his people, to
guard another
other, they
pass.
Both
parties met, and, neither of
them 'recognising
the
proceeded to strike at each other. Fiercely and resolutely did O'Boyle fight in this skirmish against his enemies (as he thought), and he unbut as he was slaughsparingly cut off great numbers of [the opposite] host
;
tering them in this manner, they formed a huge circle around him, so that he at last met his death from his own true and faithful friends, on the second of the
Calends of August, * * * day of the week. The death of the person being the here slain, i. e. Niall, the son of Turlough, was a cause of great grief to the poor and indigent, and to the literati and the kerns. Although O'Donnell was nmch
did not, nevertheless, prevent his [prop jected] expedition, but he marched onward as far as Finfir party of Cathal Oge's [O'Conor's] cavalry, composed of the O'Hartes, set out for Braghaitit
.
grieved at this lamentable occurrence,
and a troop of O'Donnell's cavalry marched likewise against them; and they met at Bealach-Duin-iarainn r where a skirmish ensued, in which a distinguished horseman of the O'Hartes was slain, whereupon both parties withChuillighe
, ,
drew
for that time.
O'Donnell remained within his own camp that night, and

it
ran close to this

ancient
fort,
from which
received
its
and
if
the tide be out they can cross the fearsad
name of Bealach Duin-iarainn, or Doo-
(trajectus),
nierin road.
Sometimes people going to the village of Grange still travel by this old road as
tar as the strand to the
See Genealogies,
Fiachrach,
p.
and proceed directly to Grange Tribes, and Customs of Hy479, and
map
to the
is
same work,
shewn.
south-west of Drumcliff,
on which the position of this road
14 30
aNNQf-a Rioshachca emeawH.
[1536.
na mapac 50 pfppaicc pfnna an liaccdm DO 6ol caipip In ccuil ippae. 6aof 6 concobaip hi plicceac 05 opDuccaD a muincipe DO &ol naipfp Domnaill ace coipmfpcc a Dola caippib, an ccfin bd Ian an 5up an ppfppaicc cceccna miDearham ace mopoecain apoile. ba pi corhaiple muip bdccap na ploij 05 nac baof coimlion plmj la hua noomnaill jan po cinn ua concobaip uaip aDuac fippiurii cona ploj pia cacap ppip ipm maijin pin ap po jab gpainn hua nooriinaill, ap ninneall ap nopouccaD a rhumcipe ap puiDiuccaD a njona naiDmfoai apcfna ap upna peippoe 50 ppajb'aD 50 nfmpiiipice he hi na6 maijm naile. UeiD 6 oomnaill cap an ppfppaic gan nac ppiocopjam mpna cocuccab ap a cionn. Ro cuippioc mpam Dpong paccbdil jan copnarh jan
i
-]
-]
-|
-]
oo maicib loccaip connacc paijin lompuaccca pop rhinncip oorhnaill. T?o an pluaj naile 50 po mapbao ecc mop Do ppeapclaD po ppeajpaD mcc lap cloinn noonnchaiD Don cup pin .1. TTlaeleaclainn mac caiDcc mic puai&pi oupT?o mapbab Dna mapcac ele Do muincip Domnaill la puapma
i
-|
cop peleip.
DO gae
.1.
Semupballac mac
6 Domnaill
~\
i
neill
mic Sfam. 17o Deibjpioc mppin ppia

i
poile.
Oo com
lapam
hoi&che ag milleab,
mbel an opoicic
cpaij piap
hi
hi
nouraij pleacca bpiain concobaip, ace lopccaD an ci'pe, -\ 6 concobaip ina compocpaib Qpf conaip Do DeachaiD lapccam cap ppoplonspojic.
~\
i
baf cfopa
ccfp piacpac nmaiDe. Ro moiprhilleab apbanna lap an pluaj 6ip baof an rip ap a cumap pfin accmao cuiD
-\
bailee lomba
caiplenaib.
Da
17uccpac na ploij ap buap lomba a ccimcell plebe jam. Uiajaicc cap muaiD piap ap cappamj plecca Ricaipo a bupc hi Ifnmain coDa Do caopaij-
eacc clomne
DubDa.
Uappup
leo Don cup pin

is
mjfn uaceip a bupc bfn eoccam

:
s This was the Fearsat-reanna-an-Liagain. ancient name of a ford on the river of Sligo
as follows
"The
resolution which O'Conor
(or Gitly, as
it is
still
now
called),
near
its
its
mouth.
adopted was, because he was not equal in forces to O'Donnell, not to fight with him at that place
(for
This river
is
fordable near
low water.
fonts
See Genealogies, Tribes,

p.
mouth at and Cus-
at [the sight of] O'Donnell,
dismay and horror seized him with his army on account of the
of Hy-Fiachrach,
490, and the
map
to
the same work.

'
Cuil-irrae, a well
known
district in the ba-
order and arrangement of his people, the position of their guns and other military engines on the margin of the Fearsat), [but to wait]
till
rony of Carbury, lying between the rivers of

Ballysadare and
spicuous hill the year 1422, p. 856, supra.

y
Sligo, and containing the conof Knocknarea See note b under

,
he should find him unprepared in another There is a free but correct translation place."
of this passage given in the O'Gorman copy of these Annals, in the Library of the Royal Irish
Seeing
that.
The
literal translation
of this
Academy, evidently made by Charles O'Conor
1536-]

s
,
1431
on the morrow marched on to Fearsat-Reanna-an-Liagain to cross over into Cuil-irrae'. O'Conor was at Sligo, preparing his people to march against O'Donnell to the same Fearsat, to prevent his crossing it. While the tide was
full
both armies were reconnoitering and observing each other. O'Conor seeing that" he had not equal forces with O'Donnell's, and being, together with his army, seized with terror and awe at the sight of the arrangement and array
of his [O'Donnell's] troops, and the position of his cannon, and other military on the borders of the resolved not to come to an engagement engines, Fearsa|,
with him at that place, but to wait until he should find him less prepared somewhere else. O'Donnell crossed the Fearsat without [meeting] any opposition,
it
without guard against him. Some of the chiefbeing left without defence tains of Lower Connaught sent a party to skirmish with O'Donnell's army [but] they were responded to and opposed by the other host, and one who was
,
a great loss to the
Rory, was
'
killed
namely, Malachy, the son of Teige, son of on that occasion with the shot of a ball. Another horseman
Mac Donoughs,
of O'Donnell's people, namely,
[O'Donnell], was slain then and O'Donnell proceeded into the country of the descendants of Brian
;
James Ballagh, the son of Niall, son of John by a thrust of a spear. They withdrew from each other
1 O'Conor, and remained for three nights destroying and burning the country and O'Conor was all this time encamped near him, at Bel-an-droichit y After z this O'Donnell marched westwards across the Strand into Tireragh of the
;
.
army did extensively destroy the corn and many towns, for the was in their power, except a few of its castles. The forces seized on country
Moy
and
his
many cows around
they marched westwards across the [River] Moy, at the instance of the descendants of Rickard Burke, in pursuit of a party of the creaghts of the sons of O'Dowda. On this occasion the daughter of
Sliabh
;
Gamha
Walter Burke, the wife of

of Belanagare,
elegant,
Owen O'Dowda, was
taken by them, with her pro-
who always made the translation whether the original was so or not.
defence.
left
w Without
"
say,
*
y
See it before reEothuile, near Ballysadare. ferred to at the years 1249, 1282, 1367, and see
exact position pointed out in note the year 1282, p. 437, supra.
its
*
',
it
being
An English writer would undefended against him."

"were."
See note',
under
Remained,
literally,
Sliabh
jW-aw-</m'c/V,nowBallydrihid.
the
this
Ox
Gamh, now sometimes corruptly called mountain See other references to

at

'
The strand,
i.e.
p. 1214, supra. the great strand of Traigh
mountain
the years -1285,
1490, and
1512.
1432
i

cpeic. T?o baof oaibble
[1536.
bubba cona
ccabapcaof Da mapc ap an inbonn ma oiapmacca, clann caiocc mic oiapmacca, clann rrnc Dauioh Do congnam la hioccap connacc nacchaib ui bomnaiU. Upiallaib 6 oomnaill poabcap a ba cinnce -\ pob aip mp noenam a ccopcca hi ccfp piacpac Don Dul pin. T?o
-|
-|
i
eoala floij f oomnaill 50 poplongpopc an can pin. Cicc mac
cpeac
la 506 pocpaioe canjaccap ma uplarh lap na maicib pin loccaip connacc, ~\ DUO Dorhnaill ace ceacc rap a aip, ~] nf cuccccionol 50 cciubpaoaip cacap
ace paijin lompuagra 05 pfppaic pfrioa an baccain (ap aipe aobeapap pinn liagain pip an maijin pin uaip liajan laoc mileaD oporiioipib DO ceap ann la luj larhpaoa ag cocc DO paijiD cara niuije cuipeaD cona uaba pac
eiccin
ammnijceap) 6d pop an lompuaccaD pin ag Dol cap an ppfppaicc Do ploj Dorhnaill po mapb'aD mapcac DO mumcip cacail 615 concobaip .1. aoD ballac mac bpiain mic aoba, po cpomloiceaD mac mic Diapmacaî. aoD mac eoccain mic caiDcc. Do DeachaiD ua Domnaill Dia cij gan ciop gan cobac
i
i
-\
$an umla jan uppaim Dpajail 6 rhaicib loccaip connacc Don oul
pin
amail
po ba nfrhjndc laip. TTlac DonncbaiD Do jaipm Do DonnchaD mac caibcc mic RuaiDpi mic concobaip mic caibcc mic comalcaij mic muipjfpa mic DonnchaiD, ~\ jan mac oonnchaiD pen Decc .1. eojan mac DonnchaiD mic mupchaib, ap a aoi baof
mac neppa aoipi lap na ballab. l?o eipij coccab ecip cloinn eojain DonnchaiD imon cijeapnap ace nf po milleab nf puaicneab fcoppa. Sloicceab la hua cconcobaip pliccij, la bpian mac ui puaipc, -| la mac
pibe
i
-\
~\
cacail oicc uf concobaip ap cappaing mic oiapmaoa,

b
~\
cloinne caibcc mic
Bonn.
This word
is still
used in Ireland to
a cow.
Intentions.
denote a groat, or four-penny piece. See Ware's Annals at the year 1563, where it is stated that
Copcca
:
which
is
explained
is the plural of coipc, " voluntas hominis" in Cor-
the Bungall [bonn geal], as called by the Irish, passed for six pence. In the O'Gorman copy of
these Annals this word, bonn,
translated " a milch cow."
is
:
mac's Glossary
"Nac
oume
oarh,
i.
ni iaparii
ip
incorrectly
ippeo
e.
Thus
lu ip lamb, no ip aolaic bepap. coipc oarh .1. ip coil whatever is pleasing to one, or whatis
" Such was the immensity of the prey and booty taken by him on this expedition that two
beeves would be given for one milch cow within the camp."
ever
i.
is
his wish,
called coipc
coipc Dam,
e. it is
my
will."
Fearsat-Reanna-an-Liagan would mean the

promontory, of
it is
pass, or trajectus of the point, or
The
for
translator, in fact,
mistook bonn, a groat,
the pillar stone, and
to be suspected that the
bom, the dative or ablative singular of bo,
derivation in the text
is
mere invention of the
1536.]
1433
So immense were the preys and spoils obtained by O'Donnell's army on that expedition, that two beeves used to be given for a bom? in his camp Mac Dermot, the sons of Teige Mac Dermot, and the sons of at that time.
perty.
Mac
David, came to aid [the ppople of]
Lower Connaught
against O'Donnell.
O'Donnell, after having accomplished his intentions' in Tireragh on that expeand all those dition, prepared to return home. The chiefs of Lower Connaught,
who joined
their muster,
were resolved and prepared

;
to'
come
to an
engagement
with O'Donnell, on his return
they did not, however, [give him battle], but
with him at Fearsat-Reanna-an-Liagan". (This place is called Rinn-Liagain from Liagan, a heroic warrior of the Fomoriansi who was slain there by Lugh the Longhanded 6 as he was on his way to the
merely came
to a slight. skirmish
,
battle of
It was in this skirmish, named). Magh-Tuireadh while O'Donnell's army was crossing the Fearsat, that a horseman of the people
,
and from him
it is
of Cathal
Oge O'Conor, namely, Hugh

;
Ballagh, the son of Brian, son of
Hugh
[O'Conor], was slain and the son of Mac Dermot, namely, Hugh, the son of Owen, son of Teige Mac Dermot, was also severely wounded. O'Donnell returned home, without obtaining rent or tribute, submission or homage, from
the chiefs of
Lower Connaught, on
,
that occasion,
which was unusual with him.
Donough, the son of Teige, son of Rory, son of Conor, son of Tomaltagh, son of Maurice, son of Donough 8 was styled Mac Donough, before the death of
Mac Donough
himself, namely,
however, was in the
Owen, son of Donough, son of Murrough, who, decline of his life, and had lost his sight. A war broke
out between the sons of

lordship
;
Owen and [the new] Mac Donough, concerning the but nothing remarkable was destroyed [in the contests] between
;
them.
An
army was led by O'Conor Sligo
Brian, the son of
O'Rourke
and by
the son of Cathal
Oge O'Conor,
at the instance of
'
Mac Dermot and

i.
the sons of
writer of the account of the second battle of
Magh-Tuireadh,
Tuireadh,
e.
the Northern
Magh-
Magh-Tuireadh. have incorporated this notice of the derivation

of the
e
The Four Masters should not
name
of this place with the text.
or Motirry, in the of Kihnactranny, barony of Tirerrill, and parish See note c , under the year county of Sligo
now Moytuirry,
Lugh
the
chadha.
He
Longhanded, or Lughaidh Lamhwas king of the Tuatha de Dato O'Flaherty's
1398, pp. 762, 763, supra.

g
Son of Donough.
This
is
the
Donough from
surname of
nanns, A. M. 2764, according
whom
this family has taken their
Chronology.
Magh Donough.
8u
1434
aNNdta Rio^hachca
aji
eiraeaNN.
mic caeail puaiD
i
[1536.
oiapmacea
baip.
eoippbealbac puao
mac
eaiDj; buibe
"]
conco-
Na
cluaince DO milleaD Leo ecip all
cuaie.
~|
cuaeaibh, i mumcip dmliji Do cabaipc giall ecfpe a nDol appiDe 50 mameacaib, 506 aon bd capa Dua concobaip puaD Oib DO milleabi Do rhopapccain leo ace an rheiD Do aimc mac uf puaipc ap
-|
Ool Doib ap pin ip na bpajaec Doib cap cfnn a
DO milleaD nfie Do cuai6 ace Do pioDuccaD enp mac DiapmaDa cona bpaiepib, i 6 concobaip puab cona combdiD coccaiD Da jac lee. âbcap lap na
ni
ploccaib fpin caiplen an cuppaicc") bpipcfp leo he.
Uicc Donncfia6 mac
uf ceallaij cuca ngeillpine ap oman a ape Do milleaD leo. -iaan pluaj pin cap anaip lap ccop a ccuapca amail ba lamn leo, cuccaicc mac uf ceallaij, -| mac uf ainliî, cuccpac pac na bpaijDe pin 50 plicceac leo beop comla bpeac an caiplein pin po jabaD leo Dia cop ppi Dopap caiplen
i
emamn
"j
.1.
pliccij.
SloicceaD lap an lupcip Saânac ipm mumain piap oia po jab cappaic o camnell i Dia po bpip opolcfc TTlhupchaiD i bpiain") aobfpacc apoile 50
mbaof cuiD Do DonnchaD mac
bpian Do cappaing an lupcip Don cup

uf puaipc
)
pin.
Ruaipc DO jaipm Dobpian mac eojain mic cijfpndm an caipce Do IfccaD laip.
caiplen
ceallaij cCnnpfona coccai&e, canaipce ua maine 6 capaib 50 gpfin, eiccneacdn mac maoileaclainn mic DonnchaiD a Deapbpacap DO mapba6 apaon hi ppiull la ITiaoileaclainn mac uilliam mic maofleaclamn uf ceallaij 05 pfoaib ara luain cpia popconjpa clomne
~\ -]
Domnall mac DonnchaiD
uf
ofpbparap Dorhnaill buoein .1. clann caiDcc mic DonnchaiD f cellaij. Clann mic uilliam clomne piocaipD STan Dub, i Remann puaD Diap mac
h
The Cluainte,
now
anglice Cloonties, a well-
castle in ruins
on a lofty
hill,
in a
townland of
known
district situated to the
west of StrokesIt consists
town, in the county of Roscommon.

of twenty-four townlands, with Cluain.
1
the same barony of Pubblebrien, about four miles from the city of Limerick.
name, in the
whose names begin

a townland in the
'
Brian
i.
Charles O'Conor interpolates balspeckled, which

is
lac,
e.
correct.
Turraic,
now Turrock,
Caiskn-an-chairthe,
,
now
487.
Castlecar
See
parish of Taghboy, barony of Athlone, and See Tribes and Customs county of Roscommon
note k under the year

"
From Caraidh
to
Gh-ian.All authorities
ofHy-Many, map work and also the Ordnance map of the county of Roscommon, sheet 44.
;
p. Ill, and the
to the
same
agree that the territory of from Caradh to Grian. It

that the former
is
Hy-Many extended
is highly probable Carranadoo, in the barony of
Carrac 0' Camnell,
now
Carrigogonnell, a
Ballintober, and county of
Roscommon, and the
1536.]
1435
Teige Mac Dermot, against Turlough Roe, the son of Teige Boy, son of Cathal Roe O'Conor. They desolated the Cluainte", as well ecclesiastical as lay posthence they marched into the Tuathas, where the O'Hanlys gave them pledges and hostages in behalf of their country and from thence
sessions.
;
From
they passed into
Hy-Many, where they spoiled and completely plundered every one who was the friend of O'Conor Roe, save only those whom the son of O'Rourke protected, for it was not to destroy that O'Rourke had gone thither,
but to establish a peace between
Mac Dermot and

on the other.
his
kindred on the one
side,
and O'Conor Roe and
all his allies

it.
These troops took the
castle
of Turraic', and demolished
Donough, the son of Edmond O'Kelly, came
and surrendered himself
as a hostage, lest they should destroy his country.
These troops [then] returned, having accomplished their expedition as was pleasing to them and they took with them to Sligo those hostages, namely, the
;
son of O'Kelly and the son of O'Hanly and they also carried with them the variegated door of the castle which they had taken, in order to place it as a
;
door to the castle of Sligo.
The English
Justiciary
k
,
marched with an army
into Munster,
where he took
Carrac-0-Cainnell
assert that the son of

tice to
and broke down the bridge of Murrough O'Brien. Some Donough O'Brien was a party to inducing the Chief Justhe
go on
1
this expedition.
Brian
son of Owen,
O'Rourke
of
who was son of Tiernan O'Rourke, was styled and he pulled down Caislen-an-chairthe m [now Castlecar].
Donough O'Kelly, a distinguished captain, and Tanist from Caraidh to Grian", and Egneghan, the son of Melaghlin, son Hy-Many of Donough, his nephew, were both treacherously slain by Melaghlin, the son
of William, son of Melaghlin O'Kelly, in the Feadha of Athlone, at the instiof the sons of Donnell's own brother, gation namely, the sons of Teige, son of
Donnell, the son of
Donough O'Kelly. The sons of Mac William of Clanrickard, John Duv and Redmond Roe, 'the
latter is certainly the River Grian, which rises on the confines of the county of Clare. But though Hy-Many was once of this extent, it was of much
Many,
p.
34.
i.
The Feadha,
e.
the woods of Athlone, a
woody
in
district containing thirty quarters of land,
narrower limits at the period of which we are now treating. See Tribes and Customs of Hy-
the
barony of Athlone.
p. 175.
See Tribes and
Customs of Hy-Many,
8u2
1436
aNwata Rio^hachca
uillicc
eiraeaNN.
.1.
[1537.
RicaipD mic
clann Riocaipo Do mapbab le cloinn mic uilbam oile nice lap mbpfic poppa a ccopaijeacc lap ccfcclamab cpeac an ripe t>6ib. Sfan mac an jiolla 6uib, pfp ofplaicreac, ofijeim^ TTlac goipoealbaig
~\
ofijcfnnaip pfbna ppi Denarh uaiple Do
mapbab rpe cangnacc
la opuing Dia
cmfb pfm.
concobaip pailje, bpian mac cacaofp Dionnapbab ap a buchaig, -\ a Dia muincip ajd njabail lap an caiplein uile DO bpipfb lap mapbab pocaibe cpia imoeall Deapbpdrap mpcip Saânac .1. lopD linapo, i cpia popmac,
-|
uf concobaip pfin
.1.
caral puab Do ponaD innpm.
DonnchaD ua
bfpbpacaip
pfin,
~\
cfpbaill Daicpfocchab
pipganamm,
~\
uairne cappaijh a
cijfpnap DO
bfin Dib apaon.
QO1S C171OSC,
Qoip Cpiopr,
1537.
mile, cuicc ceo, cpiocac, a Seacr.

~|
CoccaD ecip ao6 mbuiDe 6 noomnaill TTlajnup 6 Domnaill. Clann uf aoo pfippin DO bfic ccaiplen Dum na baoijill DO bfic 05 conjnam la haob, l?o eipij commbuaibpeaD mop hi ccenel cconaill cpe fpaonra cloinne ngall.
i
-\
Domnaill ppia poile Dia po mapbab opong DO pliocc an eppuicc uf jallcubaip la cloinn uf baoijill .1. mac coippbealbaij oicc mic bpiain, i Diap mac eoccain
i
tiallaij
mic bpiain apaill ele cenmorac. O Domhnaill aob mac aoba puaib mic neill jaipb mic coippoealbaig an pfona cijfpna ripe conaill innpi heoccam, cenel moain pfpmanac, loccaip 6 ripib oile cuicce popp connacc, pfp gup a ccanjaccap corhra, cfopcana
)
-\
TTIacaipe connacc clann connmai j, goipDealbai j, gailfnjaij, cip amalgam, 1 conmaicr.e cuile Don caoVi
-\
mbaof a pmacc
a curhacca amail aca
maj luipcc,
Lord Leonard.
nard Gray.
called
q
This should be Lord LeoSee the year 1535, where he is

"a
county of Eoscommou.
s
Machaire-Chonnacht,
i.e.
the plain of Con-
Cinapo ypai. Extended his jurisdiction,

to
$c., literally,
man
was>
r
whom came
naught, comprising the countries of O'Conor Roe and O'Conor Don, in the county of Ros-
gifts
and tributes from other
common.
Clann-Conway. This was at the period of which we are treating Mac David Burke's country, in the
'
territories
on which his jurisdiction and power

i.
Moylurg,
e.
Mac Dermot's
country, coex-
barony of Ballymoe, in the north-east
tensive with the old
barony of Boyle, in the
of the county of Galway.
1537-]

slain
1437
two sons of Rickard, son of Ulick, were

liam, namely, the sons of
by the sons of the other Mac Wilin a pursuit, after
Rickard Oge, they being overtaken
of the country. they had gathered the .preys Mac Costello (John, son of Gilla-Duv), a bountiful and truly hospitable
man, a captain distinguished for noble

of his
feats,
was treacherously
slain
by
a party
own
tribe.
all
O'Conor Faly (Brian, the son of Cahir) was banished from his country, and and numbers of his people were slain, during his castles were demolished
;
the taking of them,
by
the English
Lord
Justice,
i.
e.
Lord Leonard
15
.
And
this
was done through the envy and machinations of Cathal Roe, O'Conor's own
brother.
Donough O'Carroll deposed Ferganainm, and Owny Carragh,

ther,
his
own
bro-
and deprived both of the lordship.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1537.
thirty-seven.
war [broke out] between Hugh Boy O'Donnell and Manus O'Doimell. The sons of O'Boyle sided with Hugh, who was in the castle of Donegal. In
between the sons of O'Donnell, a great commotion arose in Tirconnell, during which a party of the descendants of the Bishop O'Gallagher were slain by the sons of O'Boyle, namely, the son of Turlough
consequence of
this dissension
Oge, son of Brian, and the two sons of

others besides these.
Owen
Ballagh, the son of Brian, and
O'Donnell (Hugh, the son of Hugh Roe, son of Niall Garv, son of Turlough of the Wine, Lord of Tirconnell, Inishowen, Kinel-Moen, Fermanagh, and Lower
Connaught), [died he was] a man to whom rents and tributes were paid by q other territories over which he had extended his jurisdiction and power such
;
,
as
u
Moylurg
Machaire-Chonnacht
8
,
Clann-Conway', Costello", Galleanga", TiO'Haras and O'Garas, in the county of Sligo but it was applied, at the period of which we are
;
Costello, a barony in the south-east of the county of Mayo, taking its name from the fa-
mily of Mac Costello,

the proprietors of
it.
who were
at this period
now
treating, to
Mac
w
Galleanga.
This was the tribe name of the
present barony of Gallen, county of Mayo.
Jordan's country, or the in the east of the
143s'
QNNaca Rio^hachca eiReaNN.

-)
[1537-
nap,
Don caob coip beop, oipecc f cacdin, an puca -| clann aoba buibe, ap la caob a ciopa copanca ni baoi aon rip ofbpibe ndc ccuccpac cornea Do 6d he an pfp po rpa po cabaij capcaca nuaa ap imp oioc 50 humal ppip. eoccain ap cenel moairi, ap pfpaib manac (ap an ccfcpap cijfpnaba bdcap to bainsniuccab ap na pfncapcachaib bai acca pe na linn ccip eoccain) co mbaof a cnjfpnap a nfipje atnac co pmnpeapaib ap na cfpib pin lonnap Nfp bo macrnab pon oip nf pacup a buaib 561 pocaip pioccanca aicce. bio6baib, 1 ni capo cpoicc ceichib pe nuacab na pe pocaibe, pfp coipccci
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i
-\
Doijnioriiq opocbep,
olucaijce pecca
ppia
pfiriifp
-|
mbirbfnac, pfp peap mubaijci q malapca tnfipleac na ccoip piajla lap na cecca, pfp ago pabaccap pfona'iap
-j
gup bo coipceac cupcupcac muip i cfp ina plair, pfp lap po cond baof aincpme neic cmpfo 506 aon ina cfp pop a buchai^ noilip buofipm t>ib ppia poile, pfp na po leicc nfpc gall ina cip buofin uaip po cfnjail pib ~\
uaibib capaopab le Rij Saân, ot> connaipc na cdpopac gaoibil cfnnap Daon a pppfcbfpc ppia poile, pfp buofm ace an caop caipofpa, coiriipialapa a nfiriicenacaip lap na coip oupoaib oeccalpaibh opilfbaib, i congriiala oollariinaib. Qn cua oomnaill pempaice (ao6 mac ao6a puaib) Oecc .5. lulu Dia oapoaofn Do ponpaD maimpcip Duin na njall lap nDol naibfcc San
-]
)
Ppompeip, lap ccaof a cionab a cupgabal lap naicpije ina peccoib caipma abnacal ipin maimpcip ceDna co nonoip co naipmiDin moip ceaccaib,
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~\
amail po ba Dfp. TTlajnup 6 ooriinaill Doiponeab ina lonab Id coriiapbaib coluim cille Do cfo -\ DO corhaiple maice cenel cconaill enp cuaic"] ecclaip.
Mayo at this period was the of the Burkes and Barretts. country 1 ConmaicneGuile, now the barony of KilTirawly, in
:
territories paid tribute to
O'Donnell he was the
most powerful man in Ireland at this period ; but it is to be feared that his own historiographers have exaggerated his tributes and influence, though there can be but little doubt that
maine, in the county of Mayo, at this time the country of the Lower Mac William Burke.
in the
O'Kane's country, of Londonderry. county 8 The Eoute. This was the country of the Mac Quillins, in the north of the county of
Oireachl-Ui-Chathain.
he had overrun
off
all
these territories and carried
preys and prisoners from each of them. c Tribute of protection Ciop copanca was a
certain tribute paid to O'Donnell
by the
chiefs
Antrim.
The Mac Donnells had not
as yet
of these
territories
for
his
protecting
them
wrested this territory from them. b Clannahoy, in the present counties of Down and Antrim, the principality of a very powerful
against their enemies.
For
a notice of a similar
tribute paid to the lower
Mac William Burke
and warlike branch of the O'Neills. If
all
these
by Cathal Duv O'Dowda, see Historia familioe de Burgo, a curious manuscript preserved in the
1537

11
,
1439
rawly
ain
z
,
and Conmaicne-Cuile r to the west

,
and
to the east, Oireaqht-Ui-Chath-
and Clannaboy had not given him presents, besides

the Eoute
,
;
for of these there
was not one

It
territory that
his tribute of protection'.
was
this
man
also that compelled the four lords
him new
ruled Tyrone during his time to give charters of Inishowen, Kinel-Moen, and Fermanagh, as a further con-
who
firmation of the old charters

;
proof of their so that he quietly and peaceably had lordship over for these countries title] d This was not to be wondered at, for them, and commanded their rising-out
.
which his ancestors had held
[as a
never was victory seen with his enemies, never did he retreat one foot from any army, small or great he was the represser of evil deeds and evil customs, the
;
destroyer and banisher of rebels and thieves, an enforcer of the laws and ordinances after the justest manner a man in whose reign the seasons were favour;
able
6
,
so that sea
and land were productive

a
man who
established every one
in his
did not suffer the power of the English to come into his country, for he formed a league of peace and friendship with the King of England, when he saw that the Irish would not yield supe;
country in his bear enmity towards another
proper hereditary possessions, that no one of them might
man who
riority to
any one among themselves, but that friends and blood relations conf tended against one another a man who duly protected their termon lands
;
for the friars, churches, poets,
and
ollavs.
The
aforesaid O'Donnell
(Hugh, the
died on the 5th of July, being Wednesday, in the monastery of Donegal, having first taken upon him the habit of St. Francis, and having wept for his crimes and iniquities, and done penance for his sins and transgresson of
Hugh Roe)
sions.
He was buried
;
as
was meet
same monastery with great honour and solemnity, and Manus O'Donnell was inaugurated in his place by the sucin the
,
cessors of St. Columbkille 8 with the permission
and by the advice of the nobles
of Tirconnell, both lay and ecclesiastical.

Library of Trinity College, Dublin, F. 4. 13, and Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of HyFiachrach, p. 455.
d
when the reigning prince was the seasons were favourable, and the earth just, and sea productive See Battle of Magh Rath,
cient Irish that
p. 100,
f
Commanded
their rising out,
i.
e.
that he
note
peaceably enjoyed dominion over them, and had authority to call their forces to the field whenever he required them.
'
Termon
lands,
nfiriiceineaccup.
See this
word explained
in a
manuscript in the Library
Favourable.
It
was a belief among the an-
of Trinity College, Dublin, H. 2. 16, p. 120. The successors of St. ColumbkiUe, i. e. the
1440
QNNaca Rio^hachca
eiraeaNN.
[1537.
TTlajuibip cuconnacc,
manac, pfp DO pliocc na ccollab le pe cian oaimpip, uipcce po a pmacc, pfp coipccci bicfnac,
1
mac conconnacc mic bpiain mic pibp cifpna pfpeimj Da ccamicc bepcac Daonnaccac bd mo clu laime.i uaiple
-\
-\
~|
DO cuip 6 cluain eoaip co caolaopa uilc, pfji acca mbaof ponap

(.1.
-\
paibbpiop pe a
linn
DO mapbab
(.8.
occobep) ap cpeacan
oilen
na
la pliocc mbpacap) pop loc eiprie a ppiull la pliocc comaip mejuibip, romaip meguibiji,"] la pliocc coipjiDealbaicch (.1. plairbeapcac mac pilip mic coinpDealbaij) mejuiDip. Q abnacal nDaiminip ap cup, l?o coccbab a ccfnn achaib lap pin lap na bpaicpib minupa, cuccpac leo he co maimpcip bum na ngall, po habnaicfb e ap a haicle lap na bpaicpib amail po ba Du. Sloicceab la hua neill (conn) hi ccpian conjail co po mill, co po cpeac Don cfp ana aof no gabab mac f neill 05 bel pfippce ap bfipifb cpluaig mopdn
i
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1 cicc 6 neill Dia ci
laparh.
Niall 6cc
mac
neill
an can
pin.
neill
bo poaD Do
mic cuinn f neill cijeapna cpm conjail Decc 50 hobann a mac baf hi pibipi hi ccpian conjail,
-\
-j
laimh Dpajbdil
cijfpnup. Niall
bo,
-|
eapaonca
neill
impeapain bo bfic
ccpian conjail pan
cuinn mic aoba buibe abbap cijfpra cpin Ifnmain luipcc a pinnpiop ap uaiple ap eineac, congail pfp lep coprhail ap biol bam ~\ beopab bo mapbab la halbancoib.
TTlac uf Raijillij (bpian
mac aoba mic
mic
mac
pfpgail ecc abbal
ma
buchaij pfippin) bo
i
mapbab la muinciji an lupnp Saânaij ap cceacc boib ap cpeic macjamna. ITlac mfic puibne (ITlaolmuipe) DO mapbaD la clouin mupchaib mic
i
ccloinn
Suibne.
Sloicceab la hua nDomnaill TTlajnup nioccap connacc hi mi pepcebep bia po milleab apbap lomba laip, bian loipcc, -\ biap imcicc icecap connacc
uile
.1.
Caipppe, cfp piacpac, an bd luiccne, an copann

'
-]
cfp oilella, 17o
jabab
Bishop of Derry and the coarbs of Kilmacrenan, and other churches; but O'Freel, the Coarb of
Kilmacrenan, was the ecclesiastic whose presence was indispensable at the inauguration of
O'Donnell.
h
Creackan, now Craghan, an island in Lough Erne, belonging to the parish of Derry vullan,
barony of Tirkennedy, and county of Fermanagh.

k
In a becoming manner,
Clann-Ma/ion,
literally,
" as was
Cael-Uisge,
y
,
now
Cael-na-h-Eirne,
near
meet."
'
Castlecaldwell, in the county of
Fermanagh
p. 166, supra.
now Clannmahon,
barony
See note
in the south-west of the county of Cavan.
1537-]

*.
1441
Maguire (Cuconnaught, the son of Cuconnaught, son of Brian, son of Philip), Lord of Fermanagh, a charitable and humane man, the most renowned for dexterity of hand, nobleness,
and
hospitality, that
came of the race of the Collas
for
a long period of time
who had brought under
his jurisdiction [that tract of
country] from Clones to Cael-Uisge"; the suppressor of thieves and evil-doers; a man who possessed happiness and affluence in his time, was, on the 8th of October, treacherously slain on Creachan', an island in
to the Friars,
by
the descendants of
Lough Erne, belonging Thomas Maguire, and the descendants of
Turlough, i. e. by Flaherty, the son of Philip, son of Turlough Maguire. He was first buried in Devenish, but was sometime afterward disinterred by the
Friars Minor,
who
carried
him
to the
monastery of Donegal, and there interred
him
becoming manner". An army was led by O'Neill (Con) into Trian-Chongail [Clannaboy], and spoiled and plundered a great part of the country the son of O'Neill, however, was taken prisoner in the rear of the army, at Belfast. O'Neill then returned
in a
;
to his house.
Niall Oge, the son of Niall, son of
Con
;
O'Neill,
Lord of Trian-Chongail
[Clannaboy], died suddenly at that time [and] O'Neill returned again into and obtained his son, who was in captivity and dissensions Trian-Chongail,
;
and contentions afterwards arose in Trian-Chongail concerning the lordship. Niall, the son of Hugh, son of Niall, son of Con, son of Hugh Boy, heir to the lordship of Trian-Chongail, a man who was likely to follow in the wake of
his ancestors in nobleness
and
hospitality,
and
in the patronage of the learned
and the
destitute,
was
slain
by
the Scots.
of O'Reilly (Brian, the son of Farrell), a great loss in his own country, was slain by the people of the English Lord Justice, who came to
The son
commit ravages
in
Clann-Mahon
1
.
The son
of
Mac Sweeny (Mulmurry) was
slain
by the sons of Murrough
Mac Sweeny.
army was led by O'Donnell (Manus) into Lower Connaught, in the month of September and he destroyed much corn, and traversed and burned " all Lower Connaught, namely, Carbury, Tireragh, the two Leynys", Corran,
1
An
m Traversed and burned.

is
In the original it " burned and traversed" which is not very
correct,
n
The two Leynys,
i.
e.
the territories of the
8x
1442
la
awwata Rio^hachca emeaNN.

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[1537.
him noomnaill Don cup pin baile f fjpa piabaij Do paD eineac maicfrh nanacail Dua nfjpa pfin lap mbfic Do pop a cumap, i Do bfpc laip njiallnup
-|
i
6 Dia cij.
O
Decc.
ga&pa eoccan mac oiapmaca, mic eoccain cigeapna cuile 6 ppmn

cionaoic
Uabcc mac aoba mic aoDa mic conpnama caofpeac mumnpe

Decc.
Paijillij (Cacaofp a ccopaijecc la Sa;cancoib.

i
TTlac
moDapra mac Sfam mic cacail) DO mapbab
mall caoc mac gfpailc mic Domnaill mic peilim Do mbaile na mapbaD ap spfip oiDce la Rubpuije mac peilim Docapcaij ccandnac hi ccfpmmann Doipe.
TTlac uf
Docapcaij
.1.
O
pfin i
a mac Do mapbaD la a cinf6 plannaccam cuaice para giolla fopa, uilc iom6a Do Denam ppfpaib manac ecip lopccaD cpeacaD lap
~\
i ]
mbap megui&ip. Cpeaca loipccci Do Denam

~[
lap an ccalbac 6 nDomnaill
hi
ccloinn arh-
laoib, i
cpeac ele Do Denam laip ap 6 ccacain. concobaip pailje DO gabail nfipc a Duirce Dopibipi Do nfmcoil an
.1.
lupcip Sha^ranaij, ~\ a bpairpeac pfm noaofnib Do mapboD laip.

TTlac uf maoileaclainn,
clann uf concobaip
~\
pocaiDe Da
con-
cobaip pailje pfp
Semup mac mupchaDa DO rhapbab la mac a comaopa bd mo clu, caicpfim Dia ciniD pfm fipiDe.
i
"|
Coipp&ealbac clepeac .1. clomn peilim .1. ceDac conall,

-|
6 maofleaclainn
-\
DO rhapbab hi ccalpaije la apr 6 maoileaclainn Do jabail lonaiD f
maoileaclainn.
Uomap mac mpla
cille
Dapa mac ap pfpp cainicc ma aimpip Do ^

Canons, now corrupted to Ballymagown, but in the Ulster Inquisitions it is called Ballygan, which is a corruption of Ballygannon. The
two O'Haras, both included in the present barony of Leyny, in the county of Sligo. Muintir- Kenny. See a territory on the west
note
Allen, in the county of Leitrim under the year 1252, p. 345 ; note m under 1294, p. 461 and note *, under the year
side of
*,
Lough
termon of Derry comprised the greater portion of that part of the present parish of Templemore situated on the west side of the Eiver
Foyle.
1303, p. 478, supra.

p
q
See the Ordnance Memoir of that pa-
On a pursuit,
i. e.
in the pursuit of a prey.

i.
rish.
'
Baik-na-gCananach,
e.
the town of the
Clanawley, a barony in the county of Fer-
1537-]

On
;
1443
and
Tirrerill.
this occasion the
town
[castle] of
by O'Donnell and having got O'Hara himself in him mercy and protection, and carried him away as a hostage to his own house. O'Gara (Owen, the son of Dermot, son of Owen), Lord of Coolavin, died.
Teige, the son of
died.
O'Hara Reagh was taken his power, he extended to
Hugh, son of Mac Consnamha, Chief of Muintir-Kenny
The son of
slain
O'Keilly (Cahir Modardha, the son of John, son of Cathal)

1 ".
was
by the English on a pursuit The son of O'Doherty (Niall Caech, the son of Gerald, son of Donnell, son of Felim) was slain in a nocturnal assault by Rury, son of Felim O'Doherty, at
q Baile-na-gCananach in the Termon of Derry. O'Flanagan of Tuath-Ratha (Gilla-Isa) and. his son were slain by his own tribe and many other misdeeds were done in Fermanagh, both by burning and plundering, after the death of Maguire.
,
Depredations and burnings were committed by Calvagh O'Donnell in Clanr awley and another depredation was committed by him on O'Kane.
;
O'Conor Faly obtained the dominion of his own territory again, contrary to the will of the English Lord Justice and his own relatives, the sons of O'Conor and many of their people were slain by him.
;
of O'Melaghlin (James, son of Murrough) was slain by the son of O'Conor Faly. He was the most illustrious and triumphant of his tribe in his
time.
The son
Turlough Cleireach,
O'Melaghlin.
i.
e.
the O'Melaghlin,
;
was
slain in Calry,
by
the sons of
Felim, namely, Kedagh and Connell
and Art O'Melaghlin took the place of
Thomas', the son of the Earl of Kildare, the best

managh, on the west side of Lough Erne. 8 Thomas He was usually called Silken
man
of the English of Ire-
It appears compiler of the Book of Howth. from a curious letter, written by Lord Thomas
Thomas.
Cox
gives
many
particulars of the
lord,
rebellion of this rash

details are not at all
young
but
as his
was not allowed during his confinement the commonest necessaries of life,
to Eothe, that he
borne out by the public
but was indebted
to the charity of his fellow-
records, or Irish annals, the Editor shall pass them by in silence, believing them to be mere
traditional stories, arranged, enlarged,
and em-
garments which covered him. In this letter he writes as follows " I never had eny mony sins I cam into pryprisoners for the tattered
:
bellished
by Holinshed, Stanihurst, and the
son,
but a nobull, nor
have had nether hosyn,
8x2
1444
dNNam
]
Rio^hachca eiReaww.
amailpemebepcmap (.i.Semup
hi pajcaib .3.
[1537.
Gpeann,"] cmccfp ofpbparap a araji

Oiliuep, Sfan, uacep,
mfipccfc,
Pipoeapo) Do cop cum baip

Daecup
-\
nonap pe-
Oapa Do roccbdil DO cum an pij jac Duine ap a puccab Do clepeac no Do cuara Da muincip DO cup cum bciip bioeoiDfoa. 6a habbal na hecca na hfpbaDa
bpuapu,
-)
jfpalcaij laijfn uile

-|
DionnapbaD. laplace
cille
-|
-\
ap puD Gpeann mopen an ran pin. lonnoccbail cpia Sfcpan nua hi pajcaib cpia Diumap, Giepincceacc, rpe lomaec ealaDan neccpamail co nDeacaccap pip accobap, i ancoil, ace aca ni cfna po aDpaccap DO baparhpa^can naccaiD anphapa"] na poma
-\ -\ ~\
i
Do pfnpeacc maofpi ap airpip an ciniD luDaije,-] po jaippion Don pij. Oo ponaD lap an pij lap an aipDcfnn fcclaipi De ina plairfp pfm pcacuin nuaiDe lap na ccoil pfm. Ro pcpiopaD leo na ccomaiple Dlijre
laib eârhlaib,
~[
] ]
huipo Diap bo cfoaijcec pealb paojalca Do bfic occa .1. manaij, cananaij cailleaca Duba, ~\ bpaicpi cpoipi, ~\ na cfirpe nuipo bochca .1. an copo minup
ppepiDiup, capmutin,
~]
augupcmiani.
T?o coccbaD a rciccfpnup
a mbfca
Re Reacpac a po uile gup an pfj. T?o bpipeaD leo Dna na maimpcpeca. ccinn i a cclucca cona baof aon maimpnp 6 apainn na naom co muip mode
?;an
j
bpipeaD, jan buanpebab ace
maD
;
bfccan
nama
i.
nepinn na cuccpac joill

through a multiplicity of va-
dublet, nor shoys,
nor shyrt but on" [one]
neccpariiail,
e.
"nor eny other garment, but
a syngyll fryse
rious, or strange sciences.
The
adjective eccpa-
gowne, for a velve furryd wythe bowge, and so I have gone wolward, and barefote, and barelegyd, divirse times (whan ytt hath not ben vory warme) and so I shuld have done styll, and now, but that pore prysoners, ofthergentylnes, hath sumtyme geven me old hosyn, and
;
tharl
.1.
ecc-copariiail, sometimes
means
dissi-
milar, diverse, different,
or strange, and sometimes, but rarely, various. 6ala6a, or eala6am, means any art or science.
x
Adopted, 12o
which would
literally
This phrase, aopaccap DO mean " they paid worship
shoys, and old shyrtes." raid to Rothe, State Papers,

r
Lord Thomas Fitzgeclviii.
to," is of constant occurrence in ancient Irish
Tortured and put
to
death.
In the original
" writings in the sense of they embraced, loved, followed, or respected; 05 aopao oo riinaoi
two verbs nearly synonimous are used, which

could not be literally translated into anything like respectable English. It would look rather
ridiculous to say that a
u
and aj aopab o'pfpinne, occur very frequently, J In his own kingdom, i. e. they appointed King Henry VIII. supreme head of the Church
of
man was
is
killed,
put to
God
as far as his temporal jurisdiction ex-
death, and exterminated.
Sprang up
There
no verb
in the ori-
The word plairfp sometimes means a kingdom, and sometimes the reign of a king, and the reader may take his choice of either
tended.
sense here.
Many
strange sciences, cpe
tomacc eala&an
153?.]

whom we have
;
1445
land in his time, and his father's five brothers,
already mentioned,
and Richard, were put to death namely, James Meirgeach, Oliver, John, Walter, and all the Geraldines of in England on the 3rd of the Nones of February Leinster were exiled and banished. The earldom of Kildare was vested in the
who was apprehended, whether lay or eccleKing and every one of the family and put to death These were great losses, and the cause siastical, was tortured
;
of lamentation throughout Ireland.
A heresy and a new error [sprang up

avarice,
in England, through pride, vain-glory,
and through many strange sciences", so that the men of England went into opposition to the Pope and to Rome. They at the same time the old law of Moses, in imitaadopted* various opinions, and [among others]
and
lust,
tion of the
Jewish people
in his
Church of God
and they styled the King the Chief Head of the own kingdom y New laws and statutes were enacted by
;
.
the King and Council [Parliament] according to their' own will. They destroyed the orders to whom worldly possessions were allowed, namely, the Monks,
and the four poor orders, i. e. the orders of the Minors, Preachers, Carmelites, and Augustinians and the lordships and a They broke down the molivings of all these were taken up for the King.
Canons, Nuns, Brethren of the Cross
, ;
nasteries,
and sold their roofs and
bells, so that
from Aran of the Saints" to
the Iccian Sea there

tered,
was not one monastery that was notd broken and shatwith the exception of a few in Ireland, of which the English took no
the Cross,
e.
Brethren of
i.
the Crossed or
Crouched
p.
Friars.
See Archdall's Monasticon,
this fact:
Lives of St. Albeus and St. Deolanus in proof of " Est autem mare Icht illud
quod
xx.
a
Galliam et Britanniam interfluit."

i.
See also
Taken up for,
e.
were confiscated and
Colgan's Trias Thaum.,

Ogygia, part
vol.
d
i.
p. 2, c.
;
30
O'FlahertyJs
vested in the king.
iii.
c.
85
and Gough's Camden,

" without being English writer
Aran of the Saints, i. e. the island of Araiimore, in the bay of Galway, celebrated as the
residence of St. Endeus, and afterwards of a
p. 221. not, literally,
That was
broken and shattered."
An
multitude of anchorites and holy

Ogygia,
p.
men
See
would say
part
iii.
c.
11,
and Hiar-Connaught,
is
Aran
" So that from the great island of to the Eng(off the west coast of Ireland)
:
79c
The Iccian Sea.
This
the
name by which
there was not one monastery left undemolished, with the exception of a few in
lish channel,
the ancient Irish writers always call the British Sea, which divides England from France See
the more remote parts of Ireland, which were protected by the power of the native chieftains."
Primordia,
p.
823, where Ussher refers to the
1446
[1537.
nufoh nac oia naipe. l?o loipcpfc beop,

pcpine i caipi naerii
~\
po bpippfcc lomdije oipoeapca
Gpeann
~\
Shaman. 17o loipccpioc
map an cceona
~\ -|
lap
pi
nealb Hluipe oipoeapc haof
in
aigfo ooill, buibip, i bacaij, i
ac cpuim oo jnioD pfpra miopbala DO plcmaop gaca cfoma apcfna, an bacall fopa baof
has mistranslated these passages.
renders, at 784, sacrilega direptio
e Took no notice or heed, nd ruccyac goill Dia nuibh nac Dia naipe, literally, " which the English did not give to their heed or observa-
This word he
;
at 1027, sa-
tion."
The Four Masters frequently use synoUioh means

kjjd merely for the sake heed, and aipe, notice,
destroyed on
this occa-
nimous words of this

of sound.
or observation.
crilege raptum; and at 1030, ablatum sacrilege; from which it is quite clear that he took the word papu jab to mean " a sacrilegious and forcible carrying off," and he gives his readers
The number of monasteries,

It appears
to understand that the Bachall Isa
was forcibly
:
nunneries, priories, &c., sion has not been determined.
carried
away from Armagh on those occasions

is
from
various Inquisitions that many of them were concealed for a long time after this period, and
not the meaning of fdpu 506 in those passages can be proved to a demonstration from various examples of the use of the
term, and from the definition of
it
but that such
the friars continued to live in the neighbourhood of several of them to a recent, and some still re-
given by the
main, as at Multifarnham, Ballyhaunis, &c.
glossographers of the Brehon laws. And the Editor, seeing that Dr. O'Conor has done much
oealo muipe oipbeapc. adjective oipbeapc agrees with oealB, and not with mu ipe, for if it agreed with the latter it would be written Dealb muipe oipbeipce.
Celebrated image,
injury to the cause of the truth of Irish history,
Here the
by giving to certain
Irish words meanings which were never attached to them before his time, deems it his duty to correct him ; and to avoid
This
is
the celebrated image of the Blessed

calls
all
Virgin Mary which Archbishop Browne the "Idoll of Trym," 10th August, 1538
it
See
dogmatical assertions respecting the meaning of papujaD, he shall here lay before the reader such evidences as will enable him to judge for
In the Annals of the Four Masters, at the year 907, the word pdpujao is thus used " A. D. 907- Sapujab apbamacha la cfpna:
already referred to at the year 1397, p. 750,

",
himself.
and note
pra.
s
p. 936, su-
The staff of Jesus.
This was the crozier of

it
St. Patrick,
who
is
said to have received
from
cill i
chan mac builjen .1. cimbib DO bpeic ap in a baboo hi loch cuip ppi hapomachu
whom
a hermit in an island of the Etruscan Sea, to it had been delivered, as was believed,
aniap.
Cfpnachan DO babab la mall mac

pi j in
by
Qoba,
cuaipcipc
ip in
loc ceona hi ccion
the Redeemer himself (whence the name Bachall Isa), with an order to give it to St. Patrick
fdpaijre paopaicc."
D. 907. The sarughadh of Armagh by Cearnachan, son of Duilgen; i. e. he took a person prisoner out of the church and drowned
"A.
when he should
arrive there.
Jocelyn and the
Tripartite Life of St. Patrick
(lib. i. c. 36, 37), give some prodigious stories relative to it, and compare it with the rod of Moses. It is men-
him
in
Loch Cuir
to the west of Armagh.

Niall,
Cear-
nachan was drowned by

.
son of Aedh,
tioned in the Annals of the
Four Masters
at the
years 784, 1027, and 1030, but Dr. O'Conor, not understanding the meaning of the word
king of the north, in the same lake, in revenge of the sarughadftof Patrick." See note v under
,
papujab,
the year 1223, p. 207, supra.
1537.]

e
.
1447
notice or heed
saints
They
of Ireland and England
afterwards burned the images, shrines, and relics, of the f they likewise burned the celebrated image of
;
at Trim, which used to perform wonders and mira[the Blessed Virgin] Mary cles, which used to heal the blind, the deaf, and the crippled, and persons affected
with
all
kinds of diseases
and [they
also
burned] the
staff
of Jesus 8 which was

,
" a forcible and sasarughadh meant crilegious carrying off," as Dr. O' Conor thinks, it would follow that the church of Armagh
Now
if
were
Trinity College, Dublin (H. 3. 18, p. 159), there different kinds of papu jut>, for which dif-
Patrick would have been forcibly carried off on this occasion ! But it is evident that the
and
St.
ferent fines were paid, according to the dignity of the person whose guarantee was violated, or
crime of sarughadh was committed against the

St. Patrick, by violating the priviof protection which the sanctuary of Arlege magh possessed ; and that Cearnachan (as it is
the character of the relic or sanctuary which was profaned. In another manuscript in the
church and
same library (H.

thus defined
"
:
4. 22, p. 76),
bicin-papu jao
is
po
expressly stated in the passage) was punished,
Ipea6 ap oian-papujab ann, a beir pop comaipci nocap anaie uaoa oliji DO caipcpin, i. e. a dian-sarughadh
picip
-|
not for taking and drowning the prisoner, who had probably deserved his fate, but for violating the privilege of the church of St. Patrick.
(i.
e.
violent sarughadh),
is
is
when
it is
known
that he
the law
is
under protection, and the benefit of not extended to him." But to return
St.
In a tract on the settlement of the people

called Ciarraighe,
to the crozier.
Bernard describes
it,
in his
in Connaught, preserved in
Life of St. Malachy, as covered over with gold,
the Library of Trinity College, Dublin (H. 3. 1 7, p. 875), an example of the use of this word occurs which shews that the idea of carrying off" is not attached to it. It is stated that Aedh, King of Connaught, granted to this people a tract of
and adorned with most precious gems, and says

that Nigellus, the usurper of the see of Armagh,
had taken
it away, together with the book of the Gospels, which had belonged to St. Patrick, adding, that both were held in such veneration
country, and that the virgin St. Caelainn, the patroness of the Ciarraighe, was guarantee for the observance of the conditions ; that afterwards
that any one who had them in his possession was considered by the foolish people as the real
bishop.
Giraldus Cambrensis says that
it
was
the king, wishing to annul the grant, ordered that Cairbre, the chief of the Ciarraighe, should be poi-
removed from Armagh
to Dublin, shortly after
soned at a public
feast,
but that St. Caelainn, hav-
the English Invasion. For more particulars respecting the history of this relic see Colgan's
Trias Thaum., p. 263
;
ing received notice of his intention, came to the " CID oia feast and asked the king, pum papai jip
Lanigan's Ecclesiastical
i.
History of Ireland, vol.
p. 178,
&c.
and
Obits
u Cleo? Sapaijperpa cupa poo

hast thou violated me,
piji
mo.
Why
and Mariyrology of Christ Church, Dublin, Introduction, p.

i.
O Aedh ?
I will violate
to xx.
See also Ware's Annals,
thee as regards thy kingdom for it." Here it is evident that Aedh had not committed the crime
of
against the pious virgin by carrying her off forcibly and sacrilegiously," but by violating her guarantee. According to a tract
where the notice of the destruction of this crozier, and of the image of the Blessed Virgin at
Trim,
is
papujao
"
entered under the year 1538.
The celebrated Jesuit, Edmund Campion, who

wrote his Historic of Ireland in 1571, has the
following notice of the Bachall Isa
:
of the Brehon laws, preserved in the Library of
1448
in
awNCK-a Rio^hachca
Denarii
emeaNK
[1538.
miopbal beop 6 aimpip pacpaicc gup an pe pin, baof Suib illdim cpiopc t>ia mbaoi enji baofmb. Do ponab leo cpa aipoeppcoip, Romanac nacchaib na gep mop injpfim na mmpipfb eppcoip aca pfm, on poim anoip piarii condc ficcip camic a commop po hfccailpi ap puaill ind a cuapupcbdil Dpaipnfip no Dinnipin muna naipnfiofb an cf t>o connaipc
ac cliac ace
-]
-|
-\
i.
QOIS CR1OSC,
1538.
QofS Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceo, cpioca, ahocc.
Qo6
bui6e ua Doriinaill
mac aoba mic ao6a puai6 a6bap cijeapna

-|
cfpe
ap mo po ngupc jliab, mbfipn baojail, paofleab DO poccain cijfpnaip a ripe pfm DO pfip poipcine aippbfn Do ecc .22. Do mapci. hi ccill 6 ccompaip lap ccomam, Shacpamen
i
conaill, pfp po ba maic airne ofigeineac, bd pfpp fngnamh
eolup
in
jach ealabam, bd pfpp DeaplacaD")

i -\
]
-\
-|
Niall
mac cumn mic aipc
ueill paof
\
roccaibe ap oipbeapc
ria
~\
"]
ap uaiple
neill
DO rhapbab ap jpfip oibce le mac neill neill hi ccaiplen mbpar an baile DO bpfim Da paib'e ipcigh ipin ccaiplen
bpipfb an caiplem tap
TTlac
"|
hojrhaije lap
mall 6
DO
pin, pin pop a mac pein. meg plannchaib cacaoip mac pfpaohaij mic uilliam abbap raofpig
a bfic a nDiaib an mapbda
Daprpaije Decc inDun ccaipppe.
pfp5anamm mac pipDopca mec cocldm

Id cloinn an ppiopq meg cocldm. Sloicceab la hua noorimaill TTiajnup
i
canaipi Dealbna frpa Do
mapbab
nioccap connacc Dia pojabab laip
caiplen pliccij 50 haicfpac bai po congaib mair bapoab 1 opoanaip lap

"
sies,
They have been used

to.
in solemne controver-
''
For
themselves,
i.
e.
without any authority

.1.
Staffe,
protest and sweare by Saint Patrick's called Bachal esu, which oath, because
from the^Pope.
'
Scarcely,
glosses
*
it
if puaill,
ip
ceapc.
O'Clery
upon breach thereof heavy plagues ensued, they feared more to breake then if they had sworne
by beaj,
i.
little.
From Rome,
e.
literally,
" from
Eome from
by the holy Evangelist."

pp. 23, 24.
Edition of 1809,
the east;"
scarcely had so great a persecution of the Church of Christ issued from Eome
It may be here added, that the breach of the oath here referred to by the good Campion, was called Sapuâo na baicle Ipa, by technically
when
'
superstition, than that
she was the focus of Pagan power and now set on foot in Chris-
tian England.
the ancient Irish writers.
The adverb anoip here means " from the east," but not from Pagan Kome
1538.]

from the time of
St.
1449
to that time,
in Dublin, performing miracles,
Patrick
down
and had been in the hands of Christ while he was among men. They also and sub-bishops for themselves"; and, though great was appointed archbishops the persecution of the Roman emperors agairfst the Church, scarcely' had there
ever come so great a persecution from Rome* as this so that it is impossible to narrate or tell its description, unless it should be narrated by one who saw it.
;
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1538.
thirty-eight.
O'Donnell, son of Hugh' [Duv], son of Hugh Roe, heir to the lordship of Tirconnell, a man who was well skilled and learned in every science, who was most distinguished for munificence and hospitality, for prowess in the
Hugh Boy
field of battle
and the gap of danger, and who was expected, from

to the lordship of his
his steadiness
and [other]
characteristics, to attain
own country
[Tir-
connell], died at Cill O'dTomhrair", on the 22nd of March, after having received the Communion and Extreme Unction.
Niall, the
son of Con, son of Art O'Neill, a
man
first
illustrious for his valiant
deeds and nobleness, was slain in a nocturnal assault by the son of Niall O'Neill,
in the castle of
Omagh
castle.
the castle having been
betrayed by a party
who
were within the

secuted his
Niall O'Neill afterwards destroyed the castle,
and per-
own son
for this killing.
of 'Mac Clancy (Cahir, the son of Feradhach, son of William), heir to the chieftainship of Dartry, died in Dun-Carbry.
~
The son
Ferganainm, the son of Ferdoragh

slain
Mac
Coghlan, Tanist of Delvin Eathra,
was
by
the sons of the Prior
Mac
Coghlan.
was led by O'Donnell (Manus) into Lower Connaught, and triumphantly took the castle of Sligo, which was well defended by warders and
into Ireland, but over the Christian congregations of the west.
'
An army
the O'Tomhrairs, anglice Toners,

in the
now Killymard,
Hugh
Charles 0' Conor of Belanagare inovi ib,
barony of Raphoe, and county of Donegal. Dun-Carbry, now Doongarbry, a townland
terpolates
black,
which
is
correct.
to.
m To
"
attain,
DO pocccim, to reach
i.
containing the ruins of a castle in the parish of Rossinver, barony of Rossclogher, and county of
Leitrim.
Cill
(ydTomhrair,
e.
church of the family of
8 Y
1450
QNNaca Rioshachca eiReaNN.

acham ma
[1539.
mbfic Oo
a araip co na peccrhaip aga copnarh co cornnapc ppi

-] -]
caomnacap a jabail 56 pin, ap ngabail an baile, lap ppaccbdil a bapoa ann oo caoo lapam hi mai luipcc,-) po milleab an cfp co leip laip. Gig coibeacc cap a aip Do po cabaill jup an ccaiplen oian hamm TTlaj uf ja6pa,
-]
oecembep, (mall gapb po jabab laip oo peilep ap an ccaiplen an can baccap mac magnupa) 50 cupBa&ac oupcop 05 lonccpaiccib an Baile. Oo paoab maicfrh nanacail la hua noomnaill oon
e.
f 1 1
T?o
mapbab mac
bomnaill,
Do pome anjniom fpm 50 po cuip plan e oia lonchaib. Do caoo oOomnaill cona ploj plan (cenmoca an moip echc pin) mp milleaD maije luipcc macaipe connacc, ace an meo po ba piapac 06.
cf
-\
QO18 CR1O3U,
Qoip cpiopc,
1539.
mile, cuicc ceo, cpioca, anaof.
O
uibfic
6piam cuaomuman, Concobap mac coippbealbaij mic caiocc oecc

achaiO
i
lap
an cfp oo bfic co coicceac cpomconaij pe a linn, ccijfpnup, fflupchab mac f bpiain .1. mac coippoealbaij mic caibj ooiponfb na lonab amail oo cuill a aipillfb pfippm.
~\
Sloicceab la hua noomnaill, ITlajnup nioccap connacc ecip noolaicc ~\ peil bpfjoe oia po bfn a lam peip oo ciop -| oo bpaijoib ofob, ~\ cainic plan oia cij.
i
O
naill, i
Neill
.1.
conn oo cocc 50 oun na njall im caipcc oo paiîoh uf bompfc,
po naibmpioc
poile.
capaopab,
~\
cooac amail ap oeac
-|
ap oainjne po
peopac ppia
copbmac, mac conconnacc, mic conconnacc, mic bpiain, mic pilip canaipi pfpmanac ofipfp co nuaiple co nfineac oo rhapbab hi meabail la mumcip a oeapbpairpeac ma ppiabnaipe [piabnaipe] babein.
TTiac meguibip
-)
After
it
it
had
been.
:
express a considerable time deprived of this castle, for
thus
An English writer would " The O'Donnells had been for

it
Moygara,
or Moyogara,
where the extensive

to be seen, near the
ruins of a castle are
still
margin of
Lough
Gara, at its northern extre-
had made an
effectual resistance to the present
O'Donnell's father,
and neither of them sueuntil that time."

i.e.
mity, in the barony of Coolavin, and county of See Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Sligo
ceeded in taking
q
it
Hy-Fiachrack,
p.
494, and
map to the same work.

i.
Magh-Ui-Ghadkra,
O'Gara's plain,
now
Under
his protection,
e.
when
the castle
1539.]

it
1451
cannon, after
had had been"
for
some time out of his
possession, having
been
his father, and it could not be taken until then. powerfully defended against And after having taken this castle, and left .his warders in it, he proceeded to
Moylurg, and ravaged

called
all
q
,
that country.
Magh-Ui-Ghadhra and took it. son of Manus) was unfortunately slain on the llth of December by the shot The of a ball [fired] from the castle, when they were approaching the town.
Upon his return he visited the castle The son of O'Donnell (Niall Garv, the
person, however,
who had done

his protection
r
.
this act
him away under
was pardoned by O'Donnell, who sent O'Donnell then returned with his army safe
(except the great misfortune already alluded to), after having ravaged all Moylurg and Machaire-Chonnacht, excepting such parts as were obedient to him.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1539.
thousand jive hundred thirty -nine.
O'Brien of Thomond (Conor, the son of Turlough, son of Teige) died, after having been for some time in the lordship and the country was prosperous and flourishing in his time. Murrough', the son of O'Brien, i. e. the son of
;
Turlough, son of Teige, was inaugurated in his place, as his qualifications

deserved.
;
by O'Donnell (Manus) into Lower Connaught, between Christmas and the festival of St. Bridget and he exacted from them [the inha-
An
army was
led
bitants] his full tribute
and hostages, and returned safe to his house. and O'Neill, i. e. Con, came to Donegal about Easter, to visit O'Donnell they made peace, friendship, and alliance with each other, as well and as firmly
;
as they possibly could.
The son
of Maguire (Cormac, the son of Cuconnaught, son of Cucohnaught,
son of Brien, son of Philip), Tanist of Fermanagh, a good man of nobleness and hospitality, was treacherously slain by the people of his brother, in his
[brother's]
own
presence.
protection.
was taken the person who had fired the ball at Niall Garv would have been killed on the spot
He
was then O'Donnell's protegee,

to kill
and whoever happened
or
maim him
by O'Donnell's
people, had not O'Donnell
inter-
posed, and extended to
him not only pardon but

"8
should pay eric to O'Donnell. s Mumiugh He was the brother of Conor,
Y2
1452
aNNata Rioghacnca emeawN.
[1539.
Sloicceab la hua neill conn,-] la hua nDomnaill, ffiajmip Daon comaiple Dona cfpib pin Do milleab 1 Daon aonca gup an mi6e ~\ an pob aimpiapac Doib PO pfr eDala a;bble lomba Don cupup pin 1 DO lopccab jifmpa 50 cfmpai j.
an
no rionoilpioc gaoibil Do paijib gall ip na haimpeapaib Dfibfncoib aon na mibe map an cpeacploijeab fpin, ploijfo ap mo lep milleab Do mairfp lolmaome, mpainn, lonnmup, Doij pob lomba eoala oip ~\ aipccicc, urha,
ni
)
~|
a baile ara pipbiab, ap a nuacongbail lap 1 gaca mairfpa apcfna cuccpac na lomapccam leo Don cupup pin. Qg nonncuD Dona plogaib pin ma pppirDiomup iaD ap amble a neoala ona bopppaD, uaill, mg, T?o jab bpi j,
~|
-]
~\
Ctn can po clop lap an lupcip Sa^ranach LopD puaippioc ppicbfpr ppiu. linapo na pccela pin, Do ponao lep cionol a paibe Do Saâncoib nepinn uile na miDe ecip cill -| cuair, i a mbaof DO coblaip, -] pocpaioe bailcfD mop
i
laigib
ap na cuancaib ma compocpaib, "] co haipi&i coblac aobal baof pop cuan caiplmne. lap ccocr na ccoicfpcal pin uile 50 haonbaile gup an lupcip
po
Ifn
jaoibealac 50 hoipjiallaib, hi ppfpnmaij aipm acca bel ara hoa, nf puacc lap an pluaj ngaoi&ealac Dol in mneall no a nopouccaD arhail ni mo po ba Di'p Doib, po upmaippioc corhaiple a naipeac DO jabdil Do copnam no Dococuccab caclaicpeac ace po imajpior 50 hfppafce anopDaijre
an plua
-]
50 po pagaibpioc mop Dia neoalaib pfm
-]
Deoalaib gall ipm mai jmpm aga

~\
mbiobbabaib lap ppaofnfo pfppa. Po mapbab Dponj Dia nDaopjap pluaj nf jio mapbab a bfcc Dia nuaiplib cenmoca TTlaolmuipe mfipgfc mac coin
puaib mic puibne copcaip 6 cenel conaill ap an laraip pin. TTlag aongupa Do jabail la Dpfim Doipjiallaib, lap na pajbail nuarab lap rnuipceapcac
i
which,
if the
annalist
had thought of mentioning,
called
as
would have saved them the trouble of repeating

the pedigree.
1
is its present Irish name, the natives of Meath. Ware, pronounced by
an
Uarii,
which
who seems
It appears
to have
known
the ancient and

it
mo-
Nuaclumgbhail.
St. Fechin,
from the Life of
the ancient
name
published by Colgan, that this was of the place where the town of
:
dern names of this place, calls Annals of Ireland, at this year,

u
Navan,
in his
In
the adjacent harbours.
The word cuan

is
Navan, in Meath, now stands

"
certainly means
a harbour,
and
synonimous
Nuadhchongbhail
est
ripam Boinnii fluvii a " decem millibus
oppidum Media ad Pontano" [Drogheda]
with the Latin sinus. w Carlinne. This
is
still
the Irish
name
of
passuum distans ab Authru-
mia quinque."
Acta Sanctorum, pp. 135, 141.
Carlingford harbour, in the north-east, of the county of Louth.

x
In the account of this invasion of the Pale, given in the Annals of Kilronan, this town is
Bd-atha-hoa
The
site
of this battle was at
a ford near the old bridge of Belahoe,
which
I53, ).]
1453
army was led by O'Neill (Con) and O'Donnell (Manus), with one will and accord, into Meath and such part of these territories as were disobedient to them they spoiled and burned before them, as far as Tara, and the posses;
An
sions of all those
who
refused to submit to them.
They obtained immense and
innumerable spoils on this expedition, for the Irish had not in latter times assembled to oppose the English army, that destroyed more of the property of
the spoils of gold and silver, copper, iron, and every sort of goods and valuables besides, which they took from the towns of Ardee and Nuachongbhail', which they entirely plundered on that expedition. Upon their return, these troops were elated with courage
this
Meath than
plundering army
for
many were
with] pride and haughtiness, on account of the vastness of their spoils, and because they had not met any opposition. x When the English Lord Justice, Lord Leonard, heard the news of this, he made a complete muster of all the English in Ireland, the forces of the great towns of
spirits,
and high
[and
filled
Meath, both ecclesiastical and lay, and all the fleets in the adjacent harbours", and especially the large fleet in the bay of Carlinne w After all these forces
.
had collected to one place to the Lord Justice, he set out in pursuit of the Irish x army into Oriel, and [came up with them] at a place called Bel-atha-hoa in
,
Farney.
for
The
;
them
go into order or array, as was meet nor did they take the advice of their chiefs, to stand and maintain
to
Irish
army were not able
their battle-ground, but they fled in a scattered and disorderly manner, leaving a great deal of their own property, and of the spoils taken from the English at that place, to their enemies, after routed. Some of their common
being people but none of their gentlemen, except Mulmurry Mergeach, son of John Roe Mac Sweeny, whom the Tirconnellians lost on that field. After this
were
slain,
defeat" of Bel-atha-hoa,
Magennis (Murtough), who had wandered away from

by
a party of the Oriels, after he
was the principal pass into the famous territory of Farney in Oriel. It is about four miles and a
quarter south of Carrickmacross, on the boun(lary of the counties of Meath and
was found with
a few, after having separated from his people in this defeat of Bel-atha-hoa, and he was for some
Monaghan,
time privately in their custody, so that they
close to the lake of the
same name
See Some
Accotmt of the Territory or Dominion of Farney,

I'"
'
'
After
this defeat.
:
The
literal translation is
him treacherously at the inown tribe, for they gave rewards from them (to the people with whom he was) for putting, him to death."
afterwards killed
stigation of a party of his
as follows
"Magennis (Murtough) was taken
In the fabricated account of this battle given
1454
awNata Kio^hachca emeciNN.

maibm
pin beoil
i
[1540.
nofbail pe a riunneip if in
ara
hoa,-|
a bfic
le
harhaib illdim
50 hinclfice aca 50 po mapbp ac
cmfb
bdif.
pfin,
meabail e lap fin rpe aplac Dpuinge Dm luchc 050 mbaof) ap a cop cum uaip cucpae fibe corhra uara (Don
Nmll
occ o baoijill DO
maoileaclamn ape, leaclamn oeccanac cluana DO rhapbab leaclainn, peilim Do jabail njfpnaip
]
mapbab la concobap mac uf baoiîll. a mac cacaofp pfp ajmap lonnfaijceac,

-|
i
o maofuf
ppopnocc la clomn peilim

i
maof-
la clomn f ffiaTTlaj cocldin peilim mac maoilip DO mapbab mbfnocop Dagdin .1. TTlaofleaclainn 500, eccerpi,a noiaib aippinn Dia Domnaij an Dapa
nonap
lulu.
Uijeapnap Dealbna Do poinn Id hua maoileaclamn peilim ecip ape mac TTlaoileclainn mac emainn. copbmaic meg cocldin, oomnall mac pipoopca,
~\
QO18 CR1O3U,
1540.
Cloip cpiopr, mile, cuicc ceD, cfcpacac.
Ruaibpi ua maofleoin eppcop apoachaib, pfp ibnaiD eppcoip cluana [TTIhic Noip] pfp parmap po conaij eipibe DO ecc.
~]
Ulainiprip cluana parhpaoa Do cabaipc Dona bpairpib De obpepuancia
ap popconjpa uf bpiain mhupchaib mic coippbealbai j, Do cfc i Daoncaib uaccapdn Da opo .8. Ppompeip.
Sapanaij Do bfir
-|
-|
maice cuabmuman
jac die ap puD epeann map cuippfr a ccumacca) ag ingpeim 05 lonnapbab na nopD, i 50 haipibe ITlampcip rhuineacdin DO milleao boib,i gaipoian na maimpcpe 50 nDpuing DO na bpaicpib Do bicfnDab led
(in
Diap mac
by Holinshed
relies as
uf baoijill
mall puab,
on which Cox
-)
concobap DO bfir
He
nimpfpam
-\
nfp-
in his Chronicles,
even rejects the account of it given in the
true history, it is stated that Magennis was killed by the Baron of Slane. See Some
Annals of Kilronan, which the Editor translated for his use, and which was transmitted to him
several years since. Ware, whose almost invariably correct, mentions the defeat at Belahoe, and adds that O'Neill made
is
Account of the Territory or Dominion ofFarney, by Evelyn Philip Shirley, Esq., p. 37 ; Cox's
Hibernia Anglicana, A. D. 1539does not seem to believe that there
by Mr. Petrie
judgment
Mr. Moore
is
any truth
this descent
upon the Pale
in the account of this rencounter at Belahoe.
retaliation for
in August, 1539, in an expedition made into Ulster
1.540.]
1455
"
and was attended only by a few troops, was taken prisoner by a and they privately detained him for some time as party of the people of Oriel a prisoner, and afterwards treacherously slew him, at the instance of a party of
his people,
;
his
own
bribed them to put him to death. Niall Oge O'Boyle was slain by Conor, the son of O'Boyle. O'Melaghlin (Art), a successful and warlike man, and his son, Cahir O'Metribe,
who had
laghlin,
Deacon of Cluain z
;
were
slain
at
Fornocht
1
,
by the sons of Felim
O'Melaghlin
and Felim assumed the lordship.
Mac Coghlan (Felim, the son of Meyler) was slain at Beannchor", by the sons of O'Madden (Melaghlin God, &c.), after he had heard mass on Sunday,
the second of the
Nones of July.
lordship of Delvin was parcelled out by O'Melaghlin (Felim) among the son of Cormac Mac Coghlan Art, Donnell, the son of Ferdoragh and
; ;
The
Melaghlin, the son of
Edmond.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,
1540.
The Age of Christ, one thousand jive hundred forty.
Rory O'Maloue, Bishop of Ardagh, and representative of the Bishop of Clonmacnoise, a prosperous and affluent man, died.
of Cluain-Ramhfhoda [Clonroad] was given to the friars of the Observance, by order of O'Brien (Murrough, the son of Turlough) and the
chiefs of
The monastery
Thomond, and by the consent and permission of

St.
the superiors of the
Order of
Francis.
where they extended their power, were persecuting and banishing the Orders, and particularly they destroyed the monastery of Monaghan, and beheaded the guardian, and some of
English, throughout every part of Ireland
the friars.
The
The two
by
'
sons of O'Boyle, Niall
Roe and Conor, were
in contention
and
at
tlie
Lord Gray
i.
Cluain,
e.
in the preceding May. of Cluain-mic-Nois, now Clon-
in the barony of Clonlonan, and county ol'West-
meath.
u
uiacnoise, in the King's

a
County.
Beannchor,
probably the place now called Farnagh, situated near the town of Moat,
This
is
Fornocht
east side of the

rycastle,
now Bauagher, a town on the Shannon, in the barony of Gar-
and King's County.
14.56
dNNa&a Rio^hachca emeaNN.

-\
[1540.
'aonca pe poile,
mall DO bol ap lonnpaiccib ap concobap co luacpap (ap ba a bfic a cceilcc in aohaib fin corhnaibe concobaip), hann bai aipipiorh ccfmpall Sfncdin,-] concobap DO ceacc ap na bapac pop an bpomain la caob
-\
-|
i
OD connaipc Niall co na muincip oeipje DO ap an cfmpall. concobap Dia paijpb mo luib pop a niomjabail 6 na baf pocaibe ma pappab
an cfmpaill.
cenmocd uachab namd nap bo hmpfbma. Qpfb DO beachaib a aenap rap e peib ap ofine conpdnaic, puce uibe pia cpaij luacpaip pfop. Lfnaib niatl na muincip pfippin ace cojpaim concobaip co ccappaibe co mba coriipaimcc Doib pe poile co beoba bapbapba jan popaicrhfc caipofpa no coirhpialapa.
-]
pao concobap bfim DO mall ina cfnomullac 50 po rpapccaip 50 lap e ap an laraip pin. Luib concobap ope cpeccnaijre ap. Uangaccap a muincip Do paijib neill, i acbepc ppiu concobap Dolfnmam, na baoi pfm nsuaip ecca
~\
i
Do
Don cup pin. Oo ponao paippiorh p:n, "| puccpar muincip neill ap concobap la caob loca baoi ma ccompoccup, -\ nf po larhpac lombualab ppipô po cpapccaippioc e lap na clocaib baoi naipfp in loca conab mp na cpapcaipc po Ni imippfc apm paip, i 05 poab Doib po jeibicc mail mapb gan anmainn.
i
baoi Dia ccinfb pfm 16 hachaib oiap
a ccomaopa po bab mo Deccaib

.1.
indiD
an Diap
pin copcaip pe apoile.
Clann uilliam mac an eappuicc
uf jallcubaip
.1.
amba DO mapbab la cloinn noijail mapbca a nacap.
uf baoijill
la Domnall
uilliam 6cc i aooh jpula coippbealbac a -\
po aipip clann conn50 painicc ITlaj luipcc, appibe hi ccloinn connmaij. TTlag luipcc maij DO leipmilleab 1 DO lopccab laip, DO pome laparh cpfca an coipppleibe,
]
Sloicceab la hua noomnaill, TTlajnup
hi
ccoicceab connacc,
nf
-]
caimcc plan lap pin lap mbuaib, copccap. Sloicceab ele la hua noomnaill bdccap iaD cangaDap ma pocpaiDe, mall mac aipc oicc cdnaipe cfpe heoccam, mac mic Domnaill na halban Colla mac alapDpainn co nalbancoib lomba amaille ppipp, 6 Domnaill ~\ an
~\
~\
-\
~]
Luachrag,
now Loughros, near Ardara,
in
of three old churches are
still to
be seen in the
the west of the county of Donegal See note m , under the year 1509, p. 1302, supra. The site
of O'Boyle's residence at Loughros Bay is yet, pointed out by the natives of the barony of Boylagh.
It
neighbourhood of Loughros bay, namely, Kilturis, Kilkenny, and Kilcashel, but the memory
of St. Senchan
is
not
now
celebrated at any of
them.
d
was called Crannog bhuidhe,

or
i.
e.
the
Ferociously __ Co
bapbapba
is
might mean
meaning
yellow crannog,
wooden house.
The ruins
"barbarously," but this
scarcely the
1540.]
strife

with each other.
Niall
1457
into Luachras
c
made an
incursion against
Conor
(for
in
Conor had his seat and residence there), and remained that night in ambush the church of St. Seanchan. Conor next morning went upon the hill adjacent
and Niall and
his people sallied forth
to the church,
from the church against
Conor saw them approaching him, he ran away to avoid them, as he had with him only a few [and these] persons unfit to bear arms, and he prohim.
When
ceeded alone down across the strand of Luachras. Niall pursued him as quickly as he was able, and he outran his own people in his eagerness to catch Conor
;
he overtook him, and they engaged each other vigorously and ferociously", forgetful of friendship and relationship. Conor gave Niall a blow on the top of the head,
and prostrated him on the ground, and then fled away, severely wounded. His people came up to Niall, who told them to pursue Conor, and that he himself was not in danger of death on that occasion. They did so at his request,
and overtook Conor on the borders of a neighbouring lake and they did not dare to come to blows with him, until they had first knocked him down with
;
the stones which were on the strand of the lake
and when he was prostrated,
they struck at him with weapons. And on their return they found Niall dead". There had not been of their tribe, for some time, two of the same ages who
were more generally lamented than these two who were
slain
by each
other.
sons of William, son of the Bishop O'Gallagher, namely, William Oge and Hugh Gruama, were slain by the sons of O'Boyle, namely, by Donnell and in revenge of their father. Turlough,
The
was led by O'Donnell (Manus) into Connaught, and never halted he arrived in Moylurg,from whence he passed into Clann-Conway; and he f devastated and burned totally Moylurg and Clann-Conway. He afterwards plundered the Curlieu Mountains, and then returned home safe, after victory and triumph.
until
An army
Another hosting was made by O'Donnell, and he was 8 joined by Niall the son of Art Oge, Tanist of Tyrone, and by Mac Donnell of Scotland (Colla, the
,
son of Alexander), with

intended by the Four Masters.
many
Scots along with him. O'Donnell and this

f
army
Dead, literally, " they found Niall dead without a soul," which is a strange redundance
of language.
This is a striking example of the Moylurg redundance of the style of the Four Masters,
mall.
lachj L
e>
Charles O'Conor interpolates Conalthe Conallian, which is correct.
8z
1458
pin
aNNQta Rio^hachca emeaNN.

hi
[1540.
DO bolcerup
ppfpaib manac,
le
-|
mopan DO
rhillfb
ooib ipm cip ap cup 50
luibpioc lapam cpe bpeipne piap. bpuaippioc lapam cuip -| pldna co coipppliab ~\ poplongpopr DO benarh Doib ipm coipppliab, ui puaipc appibe an bealac bui&e DO jfppaD leo, -\ gac conaip Dooaing ele baof pop a 1 ccionn DO pei6iuccha6 66ib. Uanjarcap clcmn maolpuanaib uile cuca lap
pin, i
na
Oo
cucpac bpaijoe Dua Domnaill
16
na bpfir pfm 6
pin
amac,
~]
cainic
plan laparh Dia ricch. ClanD f Domnaill (.1.

i
Qo6 occ mac aoDa puaib) OonncaD caipbpeac, ~| 6ol najam f bomnaill (TTla^nup a nofpbpacaip peipin), -\ a Sfan luipcc DO nool pop cpannoicc loca bfchai j, -\ ,iao Do bfir ace millfo an cipe eipre. Domnaill Da njabdil ma noip, ~\ DO gabdil eiccneacdin ui Domnaill mbaile
Sfan luipcc Do cpochaD laip, iccneacan i Donnchab Do cop loca bfchaig Do bpipfo -| Do DianpgaofleaD 66. ngfimlib, i cpannocc Docapcaij .1. jfyialc mac Domnaill mic peilim peap co nuaiple ~) co
na congbdla.
nfmeach Decc lap ccianaofp mp mbpfic buaba 6 Dorhan, 6 Dfman, O baoijill DO gaipm Do Domnall mac neill baoijill. Sfan mac cumn f Domnaill DO mapbao la cloinn TTlupchaiD mic puibne na
] i
ccuar.
Caiplen liarDpoma DO Denam Id hua puaipc bpian mac eoccam, coccaD mop DO bfic paip ap gac caob .1. hi maig luipcc, muinnp eolaip, mbpfipne ui paijillij,-] a mac pfm Do bfir a ccoccaD pip map Dpong Dpfpaib bpeipne
~]
i i
-\
-)
an cceona,
DO ponab an caiplen laippiom le haimpip aicjipp, DO mill hi maij luipcc pana luce coccaib. mopdn âipm einij Do cabaipc Id Ruaibpi mac caibcc mic Diapmaoa, la a mnaoi mjfn mfic uilliam cloinne piocaipD. Scold Gpeann, luce cinnsfoa
-\
]
-\
-]
nfir
pin.
DO ceacr cuca gup an ccappaicc,
-|
a piapuccab uile lap an Idnarham
Uabcc mac bpiam mic majnupa meic Diapmaoa puaib Do barab pop an
mbanna,
"
-]
e pop pluacc hi ppappab ui puaipc.
The Clann-Midrony,
i.
e.
the
Mac Dermots
and Mac Donoughs.

'TheCrannogofLoch-Beathaigh, i.e. the wooden house of Lough Beithe, now Loughveagh, a
beautiful lake in the parish of Gartan, barony
of Kilmacrenan, and county of Donegal. island on which this wooden house stood
The
was
well
years since for a potteen distillery, belonging to a Teige O'Boyle, who gave the Editor some curious information connected
known some
1540.]
1459
proceeded into Fermanagh, and they at first destroyed much in the country, until they obtained pledges and guarantees of submission. After that they
marched through Breifny O'Rourke, and from thence to the Curlieu mountains, where they pitched their camp, and destroyed Bealach-Buidhe, and cleared
every other
difficult passage.
Upon
this the
Clann-Mulrony came
his
to them,
and
gave
hostages to
O'Donnell for the observance of
own
conditions for the
time to come.
O'Donnell then returned

e. (i.
safe to his house.
Hugh Oge, the son of Hugh Eoe), namely, Cairbreach and John of Lurg, rose up in opposition to O'Donnell Donough
(Manus, their own brother), and went into the Crannog of Loch-Beiathaigh', from which they proceeded to spoil the country. O'Donnell took them both
prisoners,
The
sons of O'Donnell
of
and took
also
hanged John
of Lurg,
Egneghan O'Donnell in the town of Conwall". He and put Egneghan and Donough in fetters and he broke
;
down and demolished
O'Doherty, i. e. pitable man, died at an advanced age, after having vanquished the Devil and
the world.
Crannog of Loch-Beathaigh. Gerald, the son of Donnell, son of Felim, a noble and hos-
the
Donnell, the son of Niall O'Boyle, was styled O'Boyle. John, son of Con O'Donnell, was slain by the sons of Morogh
na-dtuath
1
.
Mac Sweeny
was erected by O'Rourke (Brian, the son of Owen) while a great war was waged against him on every side, namely, in Moylurg, and his own son and a party of the men Muintir-Eolais, and Breifny-O'Reilly of Breifny were also at war with him. He finished the castle in a short time,
castle of Leitrim
;
The
and destroyed a great portion of Moylurg on his opponents. general invitation of hospitality was given by Kory, the son of Teige Mac Dermot, and his wife, the daughter of Mac William of Clanrickard. The schools
of Ireland, and those
who
Lough Key], and they were
sought for presents, flocked to them to the Rock [of all attended to by that couple.
Teige, the son of Brian, son of Manus Mac Dermot Roe, was the [River] Bann, while on an excursion along with Q'Rourke.
with the ancient
localities of this part of the of Donegal in the county year 1835. k Conwatt. This was a near Letter-
drowned
in
See note kenny, in the county of Donegal under the year 1258, p. 366, supra.
'
',
village
Mac Sweeny-na-dTuadh,
i.
e.
Mac Sweeny
Z2
1460
awNata Rio^hachca eineawN.

cocldin DO DicfnoaD la ceOac
.1.
[1541.
ua maoileaclainn hi ppiull ma caiplen pfin caiplen an pfodin,-] Die mop Do Denarii an cpfipDon cip cpio piDe. peilim 6 maoileaclainn Do caBaipc Saânac ineip leip 50 Delbna, ap a aof nf po gabpac an pfodn, po impai&pioc Dia
-\
-\ "|
Semup 6cc mac an Ppiopa meg
rrijib lap millf6
mopdm
Doib.
Oomnall mac an pipoopca meg coctain ceano a jabldin pfm Decc pia mapbaD Semaip oicc mic an ppiopa.
CtOlS
CR10SU,
1541.
Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cine ceo, cfcpaca, ahaon.

Doinfnn
Dfpriiaip, Sioc,
)
pnfcra a ccup na bliaDna po co nd po leicc ap

i
nd cpeabab lap ccoip Do Denam
nepinn.
-]
6 oall cfpbaill pfpganainm mac maolpuanaiD Do mapbaD (hi ppiull la ca&cc mac Donnchaib mic Sfain uf cfpbaill cona bpaicpib, i la Di'paoaipc) mac uf maoflmuaiD Sfan mac Doriinaill caofc hi ccaiplen cluana lipcc, 56
-|
po baoi 6 cfpbaill
com
nainm
pfnoip cianaopDa Do pome fngnarh i congnarh mop DO noipoeapcup DO ap luce a rhapbca. T?o mapbaD Dna Da pfp
ma
Decc Dia riiumnp amaille ppip.
O maolmuaiD
Decc.
.1.
cacaoip, pfp po ba
mop
clu,
-|
oipDeapcup
ma
aimpip pfin
Ceaj pdpain ecip cijib rfmplaib Do lopccaD i Dopccain ipm copgup Do ponnpaD Id cloinn uf TTlaDagdin, THupohaD, bpeapal, cacal. peilim
-| -]
of the districts, which had belonged to the O'Boyles before the Mac Sweenys came thither
weather, and means, bad, inclement, or severe

weather.
Oeapmaip
is
explained in Cormac's
i.
from Scotland. m Feadan, now Faddan,

See
it
Glossary by aoBal mop,

in the parish of
e.
Lus-
He
being blind,
literally,
very great. " and he blind,
inagh, barony of Garrycastle,
and King's County.
sightless,"
which
is
a strange
redundancy of
already referred to at the year 1520,
language,
Cluam-lisg, now Clonlisk, giving name to a barony in the south of the King's County. In a manuscript missal, preserved in the Library
*"
and again at 1548 and 1557n The treasurer, i. e. Sir William Brabazon See Table of Chief Governors of Ireland in
Harris's edition of Ware's Antiquities, p. 109. Severe weather, oomfnn oeapmaip. The
of Trinity College, Dublin, Class B. Tab. 3. No. 1, there is a memorandum of the death of
word ooinfrm
is
the opposite of pomfnn, fair
Ferganainm O'Carroll,
as follows
1541.]
1461
James Oge, son of the Prior Mac Coghlan, was treacherously beheaded by Kedagh O'Melaghlin, in his own [James Oge's] castle, i.e. the castle of Feadan
ra
,
Felim O'Mein consequence of which great injury was done to the country. laghlin brought the English and the Treasurer" with him to Delvin, but did not,
however, take the Feadan having destroyed much.
;
and they returned
to their [respective]
homes, after
Donnell, the son of Ferdoragh Mac Coghlan, head of his own branch [of that family], died before the killing of James Oge, son of the Prior.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,
1541.
The Age of Christ, one thousand jive hundred forty-one.
There was much severe weather

year,
frost,
and snow, the beginning of
this
which prevented
tillage
and ploughing from being properly done in
Ire-
land.
O'Carroll (Ferganainm.the son of Mulrony) was treacherously slain (he being blindp ) by Teige, the son of Donough, son of John O'Carroll, and his kinsmen,
and by the son of O'Molloy (John, the son of Donnell Caech), in the castle of Cluain-lisg"; but though O'Carroll was an old man, he, nevertheless, displayed great prowess and strength [in defending himself] against his slayers, which gained him a name and renown. Twelve of his people were killed along with him.
O'Molloy (Cahir), a man of great character and renown in his time, died. Teagh-Sarain both houses and churches, was burned and plundered in Lent by the sons of O'Madden, namely, Murrough, Breasal, and Cathal. After
8
,
"Hie obiitVir
"
qui fuit
sine
nomine" [peap jan
amm]
dominus
et princeps Eiie occisus in
taneus in Octava Epiphanie et sepultus in Kylcormac, A. D. 1542."

s
Castro suo proprio in Cluoinlis morte incognita,

et nisi predicitur improvisa,
Teagh-Sarain, I
e.
St. Saran's church,
now
et qui fuit
;
magne
sapientie et mirabilis fortitudinis
cujus anime
propitietur Deus. Amen, in anno lessimo cccccxli ."

r
Domini mil-
Tisaran, an old church giving name to a parish in the barony of Garrycastle, and King's County, It is situated in the centre of the demesne of
Moystown [maj
is
(yMottoy.
The death
of this chieftain
in the
the River Brosna, and near

dicated to St. Saran.
saint
is
ipceun], on the west side of it is a holy well de-
thus noticed in a
:
memorandum
O'Mylmoy
same ma-
curious account of this
nuscript " Obiit Karolus
sue nationis capi-
given in the Registry of Clonmacnoise, as translated by Duald Mac Firbis for Sir James
1462
awwaca Rio^hachca eiraeaNK

pin,i
[1541.
ua maofleaclainn DO bol co cluain pfpca lap 1 an mainipcip oo bpipfb oopccam laip.

~\
cfmpall mop cluana pfpra
Uuacal balb mac Sfam rrnc Ruaibpi rfno maiab oipecca tfpe conaill Decc
i
uf
jallcubaip paof
mime
baof ap
gaipcceab gen 50 mapbab crpoic no ccacap nac biab bpdije laip.
ba mair gal -j (i pebpuapn), pfp no co muohaijjfb oaofne ap nf oeachaib pibe hi
pfb paoeapa Dopom pin ap po baof apaile annpip ina aofoib 05 coicpfcc ppi pfnmoip -\ ppi ppocfpc bparap
ba
painpfbaij DO bpaicpib bum na ngall, ~] aucuala aga ppioccab nap bo main DO poccain pocpaice Daofne DO mapbab na oopcab a ppola, conab aipe pin
po cinn eiccin
TTlaibm
ma mfnmain
gan gum ouine,
~\
po corhaill DO gpep innpin an

.1.
ccein poba beo.
mop DO cabaipc DO TTlhac uibilfn 17ubpaije mac ualcaip ap cloinn aoba uf neill Dii in po mapbab aonjup mac Donnchaib mic maolmuipe DO jallocclacaib ripe conaill apaon pip. meic puibne, 17o mapbab Dpong
~\
ann ona copucchab gallocclac DO cloinn nDomnaill jallocclac cenmocac. TTlac uibilin DO bol pluaj Dopibipi ap cloinn aoba uf
pocaibe ele neill, -| clann
aoba
.1.
Domnall DO mapbab laip. Domnaill Ulajnup DO bol hi ccfnn an lupcip Shaânaij Don cabdn
conn, i
-|
-j
an lupcip Da jabdil cuicce 16 honoip 16 peuepeup mop. capaopab Do cfngal ooib pe poile Don cup pin.
Sfc,
caDac,
"\
Qn
cpannocc aipcfpac baof ap loc glinne oallain Do jabail la cloinn

by the Four Masters
"
I
Ware, now preserved in the British Museum, Clarend. No. LI.

c
Though he never used

is
to kill.
In this phrase
found a fragment of an Epistle, wherein a vertuous Monke declareth that to him (travailing in Vlster)
gen 50 u In
is
negative.
came
a grave
Gentleman about
"
his youth,
ma
aoioio.
The word aoioe
Easter, desirous to be confessed and howseled"

[i-
youth, in O'Clery's Glossary, and by Teige O'Rody in his gloss on the Ode to Brian na Murtha O'Eourke. This passage shews
glossed
by
oijje,
e.
to receive the
communion],
who
in all
his lifetime
that Tuathal
had not been well instructed in

in his childhood.
had never yet received the blessed sacrament. When he had said his minde, the Priest demaunded him, whether he were faultHomicide
?
the Ten
Commandments
The
lesse in the sinne of
He
answered,
celebrated Jesuit,
Edmund Campion,
has, in his
vi., the following reference to the religious ignorance of the Irish fighting gentlemen, which is not very different
Historie of Ireland, cap.
that hee never wist the matter to bee haynous before ; but, being instructed thereof, hee confessed the
murther of
[recte,
five,
the rest he
left
wounded"
" so as
from this account of Tuathal O'Gallagher given
and the wounding of others], he knew not whether they lived or no.
541.]
this
1463
and demolished [and in revenge of it] Felim O'Melaghlin went to Clonfert, and plundered the Great Church and the monastery of Clonfert.
Tuathal Balbh [Balbus], the son of John, son of Rory O'Gallagher, a worthy man, and one of the most powerful of the sub-chieftains of Tirconnell, died on
of valour and prowess, though he never used to kill' or destroy persons, for there was no battle or skirmish into which he went from which he would not bring away prisoners. The reason of his
the 1st of February. a
He was
man
youth" that he was listening to a sermon and exhortation of one of the friars of Donegal, he heard it inculcated that, in
acting thus
was
this
one time
in his
order to attain [everlasting] reward, it was not meet to kill persons, or to shed their blood wherefore he made a resolution never to wound a man, and this
;
[vow] he always kept while he
lived.
great defeat was given by Mac Quillin (Rury, the son of Walter) to the sous of Hugh O'Neill, in which was slain Aengus, the son of Donough, son of
Mulmurry Mac Sweeny, together with a party of

nell.
the gallowglasses of Tircon-
In
it
were
also slain a battalion of the gallowglasses of the Clann-Donnell,
Mac Quillin went a second time with a Galloglagh, and many others besides. force against the sons of Hugh O'Neill, and slew Con and Donnell, the sons of
Hugh.
the
O'Donnell (Manus) went to Cavan to meet the English Lord Justice and Lord Justice received him with great honour and respect and they formed
;
a league of peace, alliance, and friendship with each other. The eastern crannog* on the Lough of Glenn-Dallain* Then was he taught that both the one and the
other were execrable, and verie meekelie
was taken by the
hum-
bled himself to repentence." Here the good Jesuit, whether he was telling the truth or not (and who can doubt his veracity?), has written as rudely as the
ters, as
1 Gleann-DaUain, i. e. Dalian's glen, a romantic valley in the parish of Killasnet, barony of Eossclogher, and county of Leitrim. It is now
generally called Glencar, from O'Rourke's castle of Caislean a'chartha See Colgan's Actu Sanc-
Four Masis
appears by the words in brackets.
torum, p. 337, where this valley is erroneously " Osnata de Gleaim dallain placed in Carbria
:
Reward, pocpoice
The word pocpaice
in Carbria."
It is true that this valley
extends
" reused in ancient Irish writings to denote " eterward in the next world," and sometimes
nal happiness."
127,
x
6, a.
into the barony of Carbury, in the county of Sligo, but the church of St. Osnata, now anglice
Killasnet, is in that part of it
See the Leabhar Breac,
foL
which
lies in
the
county of Leitrim.
C'rannog, a
wooden house.
See this valley again referred to at the years 1595 and 1597.
1464
awNata Rioshachca emeaNN.
[1541.
borhnaill mic Donnchaib uf puaipc ap oonnchab mac Donncaib f puaipc. cfnn aimpipe lap pin cucpac clann Donnchaib uf puaipc (Oorhnall, i pfp-
ganainm) lonnpaiccib aji an ccpannoicc 50 po cuippfc cfme ip in mbaile gan pop. l?o pdcaijfb po mocaijfb in nf pin,"] Ifncap iao ipinloc,-) bfipic clann
~\
bdicfpleo pfpganainm mac bonnchaiD, T?o jabab annpin Dorhnall, i po cpochab lapam la cloinn Domnaill mic oonnchaiD
oomnaill oppa, TTlapbcap
ui
-|
puaipc.
Sloicceab la hua noomnaill TTlajnup hi ccoinne an lupcfp Shaânaij hi ccfp eoccain, -] an rfp Oimreacc "| Do milleab leo Don coipcc pin. Qn lupcfp
DO cilleaD cap a aip ipm mibe, 6 Domnaill DiompuD uaba cap a aip cpe ceacc plan jan cacap gan cfgmail Dpa jail Do ace Dol no ace cfp eojain, ceacc Don cupup pm,i O Domnaill Do jabail Don caob coip DO loc ppfpaib manach. Cuil na noipfp 6 loc poip DO milleab laip ecip cfp oilena uaip
-\
~\ i -\
~\
apcpaicce aige 05 milleab i ace apccain na noilen, a plua 05 innpab na cfpe 50 po pdccaib neapbaib apba iao an bliabam pin. Sloicceab la hua noomnaill a ccfnn achaiD tap pin hi ppfpaib manac Don
baccap baiD
-\
caob ciap Do loc, po cuip Dpong Dia plojaib napcpaijib ap puo an loca, 1 po jab pfm jup an lion ploicc cappupcaip ina pappaDh pop cfp 50 po inDipDo cfp 50 panjaoap 50 hinip pioc an cpfoc uile a ccoinne a ceile Do loch
i
~\
cficlionn.
Ro
bpipfb, i po Ifgab leo caiplen mnpi cficlionn,^ cangaccap plan
lap ccopccap Don cup pin.
Oorhnall
mac
neill
jaipb mic aoba, mic aba puaib Do
mbaoijill ap nDol DO oomnall DO conjnam la

in
mapbaoh la hua coippbealbac mac uf baoijill
acchaib a acap.
-]
ua baoijill ppiupom,
naill laip.
Uuccpaccparh puaicc Dua mbaoijill ap cup impafbib maiohib poppa 50 po mapbaD an mac pin neill f Dom-
Conn mac
bpiain mic eoccain uf T?uaipc Do
mapbab
la cloinn TTlajnupa
cipe cuacail. TTlac an baipb concobap puaD
mac
pfpgail ollam uf Domnaill 16 Dan oioe

i
i
pcol i paof gan upDubab

1
ppojlaim an Dana
nealabnaib
oile, pfp
nje
The town, baile This word is applied to be it ever so insignificant. any village,
Cuil-na-nOirear, now the barony of Coole, on the east side of Lough Erne, in the south of
a
the county of Fermanagh.
See this territory
already referred to at the years 1486, 1506, and 1514.

b
Clann-Manus.
They were
a sept of the
1541.]
1465
sons of Donnell, son of Donnell O'Rourke, from Donough, the son of Douough O'Rourke. In some time after this the sons of Donough O'Rourke, i. e. Donnell
and Ferganainm, made an attack upon the crannog, and privately set fire to the town 2 but that thing being discovered and perceived, they were pursued upon
;
the lake, and overtaken
Donough, was
hanged, by
slain
by the sons of Donnell. Ferganainm, the son of and drowned and Donnell was taken, and afterwards
;
the sons of Donnell, son of
Donough O'Rourke.
was led by O'Donnell (Manus) into Tyrone, to meet the English Lord Justice and they traversed and desolated the country. The Lord Justice
;
An army
returned into Meath, and O'Donnell, separating from him, went back through Tyrone, and arrived safe, without meeting battle or opposition on that occasion,
O'Donnell marched along the eastern side of the lake in Fermanagh, and destroyed Cuil-na-noireara and from the lake for he had boats and vessels spoiling eastwards, both mainland and islands
either in going or returning.
, ;
And
and plundering the islands, and his army devastating the country, so that he left them in want of corn for that year.
army was led by O'Donnell, some time afterwards, into Fermanagh, [and pursued his route] on the west side of the lake and he sent part of his forces in boats along the lake, while he himself, with the number he kept along
;
An
with him, proceeded by land, so that they plundered the whole country, both lake and land, until they reached Enniskillen and they broke and threw down
;
the castle of Enniskillen, and returned safe from that expedition in triumph.
Donnell, the son of Niall Garv, son of Hugh, son of Hugh Roe [O'Donnell], was slain by O'Boyle, after Donnell had gone to assist Turlough, the son of
O'Boyle, against his father. They first gave O'Boyle the onset,' but O'Boyle turned upon and defeated them, and slew this son of Niall O'Donnell.
Con, the son of Brian, son of
Owen
O'Rourke, was slain by the Clann-
Manus" of Tir-Tuathail.
Roe, the son of Farrell), Ollav to O'Donnell in poetry, a superintendent of schools, and a man not excelled in poetry and other arts,
O'Conors, seated in Tir-Thuathail, orTirhoohil,
in the north-east of the
Mac "Ward (Conor
1464, 1486, and 1495.
barony of Boyle, in
See this territory
1460,
Not
eclipsis,"
excelled,
i.
literally,
" a sage without
the county of
Roscommon
e.
not eclipsed, excelled, or thrown
already referred to at the years 1411,
into the shade
by another.
1466
dNNata Rioshachca emeaNH.

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[1542.
aoi&fo coiccinn Do conjrhail
Opocuccab Decc lap
nonjjab,
"]
lap
naicpije
an 20 oecembep.
QO1S CR1OSU,
1542.
Goip Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceo, cfcpacha, aoo.

TTlac
f
neill
.1.
pelim caoch
mac
-\
cuinn mic
Dirfp
naill gallocclach
Daon buille 50,
cumn DO mapbab la mac oommac ele Do cloinn neill Decc.

\
6pian mac
neill
mic aipc oicc mic cuinn

clu uaiple, einij,
ipin
-\
nfojam, pfp mic neill le cian oaimpip Decc

TTlac uf
in
poba mo
oarhna cijfpna cenel fnjnama rainicc DO cenel eoâin

f
neill
cpfn caiplen.
TTIupchaib mic coippbealbaijij Decc le
-j
bpiam coippDealbac mac

innpi
f
habapc
cuinn pfp a afpa ba pfpp lam, lompaoh,
oipbfpcup
ma
aimpip epibe. TTlac con mic conmfoa mic Dormchaib mic Ruaibpi mic miccon cfnmnoip DO mapbab 50 miojaolmap la TTlaccon, mac Ruaibpi, mic miccon mic Ruaibpi
mic miccon cfnmhoip.
Copbmac mac Diapmaca mic caipcc

aibe Do conueinc Duin na ngall Decc.
TTlac conmibe bpian
cairn ui clepi^
bpacaip minup co^le poghlaim, pfp
Dopcha mac Solairh paof
le Dan,
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coicceach, cpom conaijh, pfp cighe aoiohfoh coiccinn Do cdc oecc im peil colaim cille, cpe miopbuilib De i colaim cille, i cpe eapccaine ui Robhapcai^h, ap DO pao pap, -\ Dimiccin Don cpoip moip, ap pop buail f piap an can
pin.
TTlaoileachlainn, pelim 6cc,

oicc,
mac
pelim, mic cuinn, mic aipc, mic cuinD

i
mic copbmaic
mic copbmaic ballaij DO mapbab

eochagain, connla, i
mbaile pccpiccin
-\
ipin
oibche la cloinn
meg
ceDach puab,
la
hemann puaDh
NiaM,
i.
nullai j,
e.
Charles O' Conor interpolates cothe Conallian, or of Tirconnell,

i.e.
situated 011 a peninsula at the northern side of a remarkable lake, and consists of the remains
which
e
is
correct.
O'Quin's lake, now Inname to a barony in the county ohiquin, giving

Inis-I-Chuinn,
of Clare.
house attached to
that this eastle
of a barbican tower, keep, and old mansionit. Mr. Petrie is of opinion
was erected by Teige O'Brien,

in 1466, as its archi-
name, which was built by the head of the O'Briens some time
castle of this
after the expulsion of the family of
The
King of Thomond, who died

tectural features are
most
strictly characteristic
O'Quin,
is
of the style of the age in which he flourished.
1542.]

and penance.
1467
who had founded and kept

December,
after unction
a house of general hospitality, died on the 20th of
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1542.
thousand jive hundred forty-two.
The son
O'Neill died.
of O'Neill (Felim Caech, the son of Con, son of
Con) was
killed
with one cast of a javelin,

d
by Mac Donnell
Galloglagh.
Two
other sons of
son of Art Oge, son of Con O'Neill, heir to the lordship of Tyrone, the most illustrious man for nobleness, hospitality, and prowess, of all that came of the tribe of Owen, son of Niall, for a long time, died in the old
Brian, son of Niall
,
castle.
The son
famous and
in his bed, at Inis-I-Chuinn illustrious
of O'Brien (Turlough, the son of Murrough, son of Turlough) died e He was the most expert at arms f the most
.
,
man, of his years, in his time.
Mac Con,
son of Cu-meadha, son of Donough, son of Rory, son of
Maccon
of the large head [Mac Namara], was unbecomingly slain by his kinsman, by Maccon, son of Rory, son of Maccon, who was son of Rory, son of Maccon of
the large head.
Cormac, the son of Dermot, son of Teige of the convent of Donegal, died.
Cam
O'Clery, a worthy Friar Minor
Mac Conmidhe 8
and
for
literature,
all,
(Brian Doragh,the son of Solomon), a man skilled in poetry a rich and affluent man, who kept a house of general hospitality
and
St. Columbkille, through the miracles of God and the curse of O'Roarty, because he had profaned and Columbkille, dishonoured the Great Cross, for he had struck it before that time.
died about the festival of
St.
O'Melaghlin (Felim Oge, the son of Felim, son of Con, son of Art, son of Con, son of Cormac Oge, son of Cormac Ballagh) was slain in the night, at
Baile-Sgrigm",
f
by the sons of Mageoghegan, namely, Conla and Kedagh Roe,

Namee.
h The Editor has not been Baik-Sgrigin. able to find any place now bearing this name in
" the man of arms, literally, his age [i. e. years] of best hand, report, and renown, in his time was he."
Most expert
at
Mac
Conmidke,
now always
anglicised
Mac
y
the county of Westmeath.
A2
1468
QNNata Rio^hachea emeaNN.

in
-j plaicfp a pinnpeap epibe. maoileachlainn Do paiohfoh
:
[1542.
Diolimnn, pfp Diap bo DU aipeachup,
Conab Do
cuirhniucchab baip
TTlile
bliaban ip cuicc ceD,
aoo cfchpachac jan beo

o bpfich cpiopc rpe cion an cpoinn,
ecc peilim ui maoileclainn.

Siubal i lonopaicchib Do benarh la cloinn ui maoajain pa caiplen an Dm po cpfchpar an baile. l?o mapbpac TTIaopfoain Dia pa loipccpioc, q
leachlainn 6 paighne Don cup pin, Do DeachaiD an cfp ina Ifnriiam 50 ngh Sapain,i po ppaoineaD ap an copaib l?o mapbaD TTlaelechlainn mac emainn
pelim mic oonnchaib, i coippbealbac mac pfpjail mic concobaip co pocaibib ele amaille ppni in, 4. nonap occobpip. SloicceaD la hua nDorhnaill Hlajnup a nioccap connacr co na cloinn .1. an
mic cochldin, DOUID
mac
ua Docapcaij Do 6ol ap piubal cpeice piap an ploj 50 baile an mocaij, i ITlac DonnchaiD DO cpfchaD Doib, i na cpeaca DO rabaipc 50 hua noomnaill. TTlaire loccaip connacc Do ceacc ina cfnn, TTlac DonnchaiD baile an mocaij Do ponnpab a noiaiD a cpfice, a cfop Dfoc
calbac
~\
aoD.
Qn
clann pin
"|
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-]
pip 6 noomnaill Doib Don Dul pin. concobaip (.1. o concobaip
puab) coippDealbac puaD Do âbail la

ce.
puaibpi
mac caibcc mic oiapmacca ap cappaicc loca

-|
Qn
mic
Dorhnaill.
calbac 6 Dorhnaill DO bol ap piubal cpeice ap pliocc aoba ballaij reacc plan Don Cpeaca mapbca Do benam laip poppa
~|
cup pin lap ccopccap. Sloicceab la hua noomnaill,
-|
lap an ccalbac
hi
pampab na bliaona
po.
Uanaicc
Uanaicc beop 6 cacain mac Donnchaib ipm roicfpcal ceOna lap ccfcclamaD Doib apfb po TTla^nup
1
o puaipc bpian hi pocpairce uf oorhnaill,
Feadan.
to at the years
k
1
See this castle already referred 1520 and 1540.
those
who had
carried
it
oft'.
CPRaighne, now Rainy. Teagh-Sarain, now Tisaran. under the year 1541.
See note
s
,
Brian __ Charles O'Conor interpolates bal" lac, speckled, or freckled," which is correct, " cliariimn oo and he adds in the
The original is a nbiaib a cpfice, ^Property. is not correct, for the property carried off" could be called a cpeac in reference only to
which
margin, an cua Ruaipc pin .1. bpian ballac, TTIhajnur' i. e. this O'Eourke, i. e. Brian Ballagh, was son in law to Manus."
Joined
their
muster __ The construction of
1542.]

Dillon.
1469
and Edraond Roe

principality
lin's
He was
It
the lawful possessor of the chieftainship and

to
of his ancestors.
was
commemorate
:
[the year of] O'Melagh-
death the following [quatrain] was composed
One thousand and
five
hundred
years,
two-and-forty, without error, Since Christ was born for the crime of the Tree,
And
To
the death of Felim O'Melaghlin.
An
castle
and attack was made by the sons of O'Madden against the of Feadan' and they burned and plundered the town. On this occasion
irruption
;
they slew Melaghlin O'Raigne of them as far as Teagh-Sarain

the son of
k
.
The people
of the territory went in pursuit
Edmond Mac
but the pursuers were defeated, and Melaghlin, Coghlan David, the son of Felim, son of Donough
1 ; ; ; ;
Turlough, the son of Farrell, son of Conor the 4th of the Nones of October.
and many
others,
were
slain,
on
by O'Donnell (Manus), with his sons, i. e. Calvagh and Hugh, into Lower Connaught. These sons and O'Doherty went on before the army, on a plundering excursion, as far as Ballymote and they plundered
An
army was
led
Mac Donough, and
carried off the spoils to O'Donnell.

1
The
chiefs of
Lower
Connaught came to O'Donnell, and particularly Mac Donough of Ballymote, who came in pursuit of his property" and they all paid O'Donnell his rents on
;
that occasion.
O'Conor Roe (Turlough Roe) was taken prisoner by Rory, the son of Teige
Mac Dermot, on
Rock of Lough Key. Calvagh O'Donnell went upon a plundering excursion

the
against the descen-
dants of Hugh Ballagh, son of Donnell.

ters
He
committed depredations and slaugh-
upon them, and returned home safe after that enterprise, in triumph. hosting by O'Donnell and Calvagh in the summer of this year and O'Rourke (Brian") and O'Kane (Manus, the son of Donough) joined their mus-
ter
After they had assembled together, they agreed to march against

is
Mac
the original
here very rude. The literal trans" hosting by O'Donnell and by the Calvagh in the summer of this year.
lation is as follows
:
nell.
O'Kane
into the
came
also, Manus, son of Donough, same muster. After they had as-
sembled what they resolved upon was to go

against
O'Eourke, Brian, came into this army of O'Don-
Mac
Quillin," &c.
1470
aNNCtta Rio^hachca eiReawH.

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[1542.
annpioc Ool ap mac uioilfn (.1. RuDpaije mac ualcaiji), nf po haipipfb leo 50 panjaccap gup an mbanna. l?o pannaD an pluaj; a crpf leo DO 6ol cap pfppcib na banna ap po coipccic apcpaige na banna poppa po odij baf TTlac uibilin
pocaibe mop Do jjallaib ina pappab Don caob apaill 05 copnam na habann ppiu cond leicceab cdippi lace ap a aoi DO beacaccap na ploicch Dia naimbeoin
1
cap banna anonn

caippi. lap nool
i
hi
puapaccap baoccal bdicci guappacc abbal mop 05 Dol ccfp Doib Do leiccpfc pcceirhealca pccaoilce pgannpaijce
~\
Sccfimlfo ele la caob SgeimleaD poip 50 cnoc lea, ap puD an cipe uaca banna puap,i puccpac pop cpeacaib cpoma coipcfmla,-] pop aipcccib aiDblib lolapoaib in jac maijm in po jabpar. Qcc cfna po pic lap an ccalbac 6 nDonhla hua ccacdin co na ploccaib cpeaca naill, la hua puaipc, baccap moa
.1.
~\
~\
~\
baccap lolapoa olodo na cpeaca capcup lap an ploj aile. T?o âb jac plo^ aca poplonjpopc ap leic in oiDce pin cona ccpeachaib cona neDalaib. Ro
-\
na haipgci aiDble poppa ap nd bdpac na cpeaca Do bualaD, DO beomapbaD Do combach Do cndimjfppaD. Oo ponaD pm inn pin. bo hupupa cpd pfom no aipfrh an cpeach buailce Do paippiom Nip ann pin cenmocd a ccuccpacc pip bpfipne panaD cacanaij gan mapbableo
-\
)
popconsaip 6 Domnaill
-]
-\
Dia cciprb Dib. Uanaicc Dna mac uiDilfn hi ccfnD cornea mopa Deacaib -\ DfmfD, ~] Do peoaib paD
ppip.
Domnaill lap pini DO pamfmlaib 66 Do pome p,6

f
-\
Uicc 6 Domnaill co na ploccaib plan Don cup

.1.
pin Dia ccijib lap ccop-
ccap.
TTlac mic Domnaill Do bol in RuDpaije mac ualcaip, oipeacc uf cacain, cpeaca mopa DO Denam Doib. O cacdin TTlajnup mac oonnchaib Do Dol a ccopaijecc na buannaba Do cloino DO ccpfc
TTlac uiDilfn
-|
-| .1. -\
cpuibne
bfic ina
pappaD an can pin
.1.
mac meic
~\
puibne panac,
-]
pliocc puaiDpi mic

uiDilin
Suibne. lap mbpeic
Dua cacain
Do cloinn cpuibne ap mac

-\
cona
cpeacaib po piccfb lomaipfcc amDpfnca fcoppa, po rheabaiD pop mac uiDilin i pop na halbancoib lomba baccap ina pappaD co ppapccaibpioc dp Daoine im TTlhac alapopamn cappaij mic Domnaill, im mac mic Sfam 50 ele Do pluaj Tlleic uioilin. Qc pulaib mac uioilfn pfm -| mac nopumj moip
-]
To defend the river, a s copnari) na habann " to conThis might be also translated, test the river with them."
FP'U.
q
tuated to the south of Ballycastle, in the barony of Carey, and county of Antrim,
r
Substantial, coipcfmla,
i.
e.
baulky,
i.
e.
what
Cnoc-Lea,
now Knocklayd,
a mountain
si-
has substance and real value.
1542.]

and they did not halt
1471
Quillin (Rury, the son of Walter),
until they arrived at
the Bann.
the
Here they divided the army into three portions, in order to fords of the Bann, for they were prevented from using the boats of the
cross
river,
because Mac Quillin, together with a strong body of English troops, was at the other side, to defend the river p against them, and to prevent them from crossing
it.
The
forces [of O'Donnell], however, crossed the

it,
Bann
in despite of them,
though, in crossing
they were in danger of being drowned, and encountered
Upon landing, they sent forth light scouring and terror-striking the country, namely, one detachment eastwards to Cnoc-Lea q parties through
very great
peril.
,
"
and another up along the Bann, and these seized upon heavy and substantial But preys, and many great spoils, in every place through which they passed.
1
Calbhach O'Donnell, O'Rourke, and O'Kane, and their forces, obtained still greater and more numerous spoils than those seized upon by the other detachments.
spoils
kill,
Each of these detachments encamped separately with for that night. On the morrow O'Donnell ordered them
their preys
to
and
hough, and break the bones of these immense spoils they accordingly did and it would be difficult to enumerate or reckon the number of cattle that were here struck down, besides more which the men of
;
knock down, and preys, which
Breifny and the O'Kanes drove off to their
own
countries alive.
After this
Mac
Quillin
came
sisting of horses,
and bestowed upon him great presents, conarmour, and other beautiful articles of value, and made peace
to O'Donnell,
with him.
O'Donnell, with his army, returned
home
safe
and
in
triumph from
that expedition.
Rury, the son of Walter, and the son of Mac Donnell, went into Oireacht-Ui-Chathain s and committed great depredations. O'Kane, i. e. Manus, the son of Donough, with bonaghtmen of the Clann-Sweeny, whom he. had then in his service, namely, the son of Mac Sweeny Fanad, and the desceni.
Mac Quillin,
e.
dants of
Rory Mac Sweeny, went
in pursuit of the preys
and, having over-
taken
in
Mac Quillin with his preys, a fierce engagement took place between them, which Mac Quillin and the numerous Scots whom he had along with him
were defeated, with a great slaughter of men, together with the son of Alexander, Mac Donnell, and the son of Mac Shane, with many others of Mac Carragh
0ireacht-Ui-Chathain, i.e. O'Kane's country, comprising the baronies of Tirkeeran, Keenaght,
S
and Coleraine, situated between the Foyle and the Bann, in the county of Londonderry.
1472
ctNNaca Rioghachca eiraeuNN.
[1542.
meic oomnaill ap eiccin ap,-| po baicfo pocaibi m6]i oia uiuinrip ap an
mbanna 05 Dol
Shajcanaij
caippi Doib.
Sloicceab la
-|
mac
uibilm ap 6
ccafam
oopiD.pi lap
ccappamg an rpeipmep
Caiplen uf cardin .1. ina mbaof Do bapoaib ipm mbaile Do mapbab Ifim an maoaiD Do gabail leo DO mubucchab, -] 171 ac inoili'n oimrecc plan lap ccopccap Don cup pin. 1 TTlac uibiUn umoppo a ccfnn achaib mp pin Do cojaipm cloinn puibne cuicce
-|
opuinge moipe DO jallaib amaille ppip.
Sliocc Ruaibpi mic puibne TTlac Donnchaib mic meic ap buannacc puibne ITlac meic puibne na ccuar, TTlac mupchaib mic pu.bne, bajanaig co
.1.
-]
nDpuing moip ele Doccaib cloinne puibne amaille pp:u.

paijiD meic
ccuip i
uiDilin,
-\
baecap co miabac muipneac

ppip.
Oo cooap pen Do ma pappaD 05 cfngal a
poriab cornaiple meablac miopunac la mac meic Domnaill, i la halbancoib, ~\ la mic u.Dilfn be op .1. an cpaop clann poicenelac pin cloinne puibne DionnpaicchiD lap nool ina ccfnn Doib, ~\
a cconnapra
Oo
mumnp
iap noenarh jac cfngail

~\
Da nDeapnpacr
le TTlac
uiDib'ri.
17o cinnpfc pop
an
po pobaippioc lace gan piop jjan aipiuccab iap bpdccbail ccomaiple fpin, baile meic niDiUn 50 po rhapbpac uile a nupmop. T?o mapbaD ann Dna mac
'
castle stood over the
Leim-an-Mhadaigh, i. e. the dog's leap. This River Roe, in a beautiful
tain devises for the reformation
of Ireland (iu
situation, near the present
town of Newtown-
the State Papers, Ireland), signed John Tiavers, who was Master of the Ordnance and warden
of the castle of Coleraine in 1542, the following notice of the irruptions of the Scots into this
the barony of Keenaght, and county of Londonderry. No part of the ruins remains.
Limavady,
in
Soicenelac, means of good tribe, "Highborn. race, or family.
This clause is After they had gone to them intended to explain the great wickedness of the
plot.
part of Ireland occurs : "Item, whereas a company of Irishe" [i.e. Gaelic speaking] " Scottes, otherwise called Redshankes, daily cometh into the northe partes of Ireland, and purchaseth castels and piles uppon the see coste ther so as it is thought that
there be at this present above" the
The meaning
Donnell, with his

people, concocted
Mac and Mac Quillin's own Scots, this plot, though they knew
is,
that the son of
nombre of
this
two or three thousande of them within

Realme,
the said
it is
Mac Sweenys had come into the terriat the invitation of Mac Quillin, who had tory entered into a regular compact with them. The Mac Donnells were at this time meditating the invasion of Mac Quillin's territory, and they
that the
dispossessed this family soon after
mete that they be expulsed from castels, and order taken that non of
to
them be permytted
this
haunte nor resorte into
by treachery.
In cer-
becawse they greatly coveyt to populate the same being most vile in their living of any nation next Irishmen.
countrye,
rather
"
See Gough's Camden,
vol. iv. p. 431.
Item, that the captain appointed at Knock-
1542.]

Mac
;
1473
Quillin's forces.
difficulty
by
flight
and the son of Mac Donnell escaped with but great numbers of their people were drowned as they
Quillin himself
were crossing the Bann.

having induced the English Treasurer and a great number of the English to assist him, made a second incursion against O'Kane. They took O'Kane's castle, i. e. Leim-an-Mhadaidh', and slew and destroyed all the war-
Mac
Quillin,
ders
who were
in the
town
and Mac Quillin departed

afterwards
;
safe
and victorious on
that occasion.
Some time
Mac
Quillin called into his service the
descendants of Rory Mac Sweeny the son of Donough, son of Mac Sweenyna-dTuath the son of Murrough Mac Sweeny and the son of Mac Sweeny Banagh and many others of the youths of the Clann-Sweeny along with them.
; ; ;
and were treated by him in an honourable and friendly manner, and entered into agreements and covenants with him. treacherous and malicious plot was formed by the son of Mac Donnell, by the
to
Quillin.
These repaired
Mac
Quillin's people, namely, to come upon those noble and of the Clann-Sweeny and attack them, after they had high-born youths gone Scots,
and
also
by Mac
11
to
them T and
,
after
every agreement they had made with

fell
Mac
Quillin.
They
resolved upon this plot, and
upon them as they were coming out of Mac Quillin's town, without warning", and unperceived by the Mac Sweenys, so that There were slain here the son of Mac they slew the greater part of them.
may have a galley or barke man from tyme to tyme
.rogh, otherwise called
selff saith, will
all
fergus in Wolderflyt
assigned, which he
to
Mac Donell, who,
as him-
shall
take the kinge's parte against
kepe the
seas
so as the Skottes
betuxt Scotlande and Irrlande, may be dryven from further

letter in the State
men, and so he promysed
me
at our laste
arryval in those paries of the northe."

It
would appear from a

p.
1
being together, but under the pretence to doo the kinge's grace servyce since he takyth the countrie to himself and others of the Scottes."
Papers of Ireland, vol. iii.
33,
from Brabazon
to
Duald Mac
Firbis, in his pedigree of the Earl
Cromwell, A. D. 1539, that Alexander Carragh,

the father of Sorley Boy Mac Donnell, had some castles in the Glinns at this time. The writer says " I doo certifie your Lordship that ther is
:
of Antrim, states that they had been Lords of the Glynns for 227 years before the date at
now men
of Scottes dwelling in Ireland above 2000 of warre, as I am credibly informed, which Scottes have as well dryven away the freeholders
which he wrote, 1650, and if so, they had settlements here so early as 1423. But Sorley Boy was certainly the person that deprived Mac Quillin of his territory in the reign of Elizabeth.
w Without An English writer would warning. " without say, giving any warning beforehand of their design, and unperceived by the Mac
being Englishmen of that country as others the Irishmen, and have buylded certeyn castells ther.
The hed capteyn of them
is
oon Alexander Kar-
Sweenys."
9B
1474
ctNNata Rio^hachca eiReawN.

mac mupchaib mic
puibne, co nac
[1542.
meic puibne bajanaij i
mop ceapna ap
nacpejab in po mapbaD Dfob. Uanaic luce luinge paioe DO oenam pojla cfna a hiapcap connace hi hi ccfp bojame. ccfp conaill. 6d hann po gabpac hi peacpamn muineipe bipn Do bfpc lap net pi op pin Do coi ppDealbac mac meic puibne efpe bojaine
-\
pobaipc pocaib co na ceapna pfp innipce pccel ap Dib ace mab an caipeac i an coDnac bof poppo .1. TTiac uf plaicbfpcaicc Dia ecapcc eoippbealbac
maiefm nanacail, po cuip plan Dia loncaib e co piacr conmaicne mapa. Sloicceab la hua noomnaill TTlajnup mac aoDa mic aoba puaib hi cconnaccoib hi ppogmap na bliabna po, canjarcap maice locraip connacc ina
"| -]
cfnn maitle 16 pin-] le caipofp,

ppip, i
-|
po locpac a cfop
-|
a cijfpnap 50 humal
Do
com
uaibib Dia chicch.

i
Nip bo cian lap pccaofleaD Don cpluacc pin Domnaill 50 rrainic TTlac uilliam cloinne 17iocaipD uilleacc na ccfnn mac T?iocaipD, ~\ Ulac uilliam bupc DauiD mac uillicc ptuaj Ian mop ele DO Dol nioccap connacc. 17o
i
gabaD leo baile

TTlac
uf plannaccdin beoil
-)
Diapmacca, cap cpa maice loccaip connacc

eioipfoa bdccap occa,
aca huaccaip ap cup, cfccaicc pfm, clann caibcc mic DiapmaDa nioccap connacc. Uangac-|
i
hi
ccfnn mic uilliam,

~|
-|
1 luib pop cculaib 50 cloinn Riocaipo 50
O DubDa,
mac
TTlac DonnchaiD
mbpaijDib an copainn
~\
po gabab laip mcc co nfioipib. QciaD

~\
CUID Do cloinn
'
cpuibne connacc im TTlaolmuipe
mac
colla
a ecc ina bpaijofnap pia piu
po leiccfb, i bpaijoe ele 6

TTlac uf Domnaill
ui
cacail oicc uf concobaip.

~[
Domnaill,
x
/ra
pi'b
an calbac DO Dol hi cfnn an lupcip Shaânaij pfc DO cfngal DO pnaDmaD ppip ceacc plan lapam. pfm
-]
~\
m acpejao. The word means comparison. The literal transarpeûb " so that what lation is, escaped of them was
comparison with,
of Queen Elizabeth.
*
Reachrainn-Muintire-Birn,
i.
e.
O'Beirne's
not great in comparison with what was killed of them." See note under the year 1543,
mfra.
Reachrainn, or rocky island, now Kaghlybirne, an island situated in the ocean, about three
miles to the west of Teelin head, in the parish
of Glencolumbkille,
anglice
a
To plunder and prey, literally, " to make plunder and prey." Ceuna, in this sentence, is
3
barony of Tir-Boghaine, Banagh, and county of Donegal,

i.
Outside his protection,
e.
when the son, Mac
the genitive case of c ion, spoil, prey, booty. It is frequently used in this sense by Fergananim
Sweeny,
Mac Keogh,
of
in his
poem
reciting the triumphs
extended protection to the son of O'Flaherty, he was bound in honour to prevent his being killed within the district over which
Hugh
O'Byrne of Glenmalure, in the reign
he had command
but when he had sent him
1542.]

the son of
1475
Sweeny Banagh, and
Murrough Mac Sweeny
and the number that
escaped was not great, in comparison with* the number killed. The crew of a long ship came from West Connaught to Tirconnell, to plunz der and prey y The place which they put in at was Reachrainn-Muintire-Birn
. ,
Turlough, the son of Mac Sweeny of Tir-Boghaine, of this, he made an attack upon them, so that none of them received intelligence escaped to tell the tale [of what had happened], except their chief and captain,
in Tir-Boghaine.
When
namely, the son of OTlaherty, to

tection
;
whom Mac Sweeny
granted pardon and pro,
and he sent him home
safe,
outside his protection*1 to Conmaicne-marab
An army was led by O'Donnell (Mamis, the son of Hugh, son of Hugh Roe) and the chieftains of Lower Coninto Connaught, in the autumn of this year
;
naught came to him with peace and friendship, and obediently paid him and he then returned to his house. rents and chiefries
;
his
Not long after the dispersion of this army of O'Donnell, Mac William of Clanrickard (Ulick na-gCeann, the son of Rickard), and Mac William Burke,
marched another very great army first took the town of O'Flanagan
to proceed into
Lower Connaught.
c
,
They
and then proceeded, together with Mac Dermot and the sons of Teige Mac Dermot, into Lower Connaught. The chieftains of Lower Connaught repaired to meet Mac William and he made them his prisoners, and returned home to Clanrickard with These were the hostages O'Dowda, Mac Donough prisoners and hostages.
at Bel-atha-Uachtair
;
:
of Corran, and some of the Clann-Sweeny of Connaught, with "Mulmurry, the son of Colla, who died in captivity before he was set at and other liberty
11 ,
pri-
from the son of Cathal Oge O'Conor. The son of O'Donnell (Calvagh) repaired to the English Lord Justice, and confirmed and ratified the peace of O'Donnell6 and his own peace, with him,
soners, taken
,
and then returned

home
b
safe.
in safety
he was not bound to protect him
any longer.
Conmaicne-mara,
county of Roscommon. o Before he was set at liberty.
What the writer
now Conamara,
or the ba-
rony of Ballynahinch, in the north-west of the

county of Galway.
c
intends to say is, that he was not liberated at all, but that he died in his imprisonment before his friends had time or means to pay a ransom
for him.
Bel-atha- Uachlair,
ford,
i.
e.
the
mouth
of the
upper
now
Bally oughter, a townland in

in
the parish of Kilcorkey,
the barony and
The peace of O'Donnell, i.e. he concluded a peace with him in behalf of his father and himself.
B2
14 76
(iNNaca Rioshachca eiraeaNN.

paca
~\
[1542.
mhdgumip, Sfan mac conconnacr ap milleab mopdin pa maûioip poime pin la hua noomnailla ralrhan oua borhnaill a ape oia pfm,-] DO fabaipc
Tndjuibip
O oomnaill TTIajnap to raBaipc cuaice

rabaipc
luipcc Do
-)
a buchaij 50 haipibe cucc niaguibip eipge amac aip pfin .-] ap Uucc beop Ifr epca mapbca Duir.e 66, no cam pan eipje amac nac ppuijri. pfpmanac uile map an cceona DUO oomriaill. ap a pon ap puD
pin,
~\
an coccrhaD henpi an pi DO aipm mpla oua neill,-) a popcongpa paip gan 6 neill c-o gaipm 6e on pij Don cup pin. nf ba pipe, puaip 6 neill onoip mop TTlac uilliam cloinne RiocaipD uillfcc r,a ccfnn, -] 6 bpiam .1. TllupchaD aon aca,-( canjaccap cap a nai]DO bol hi 1 mpla DO jaipm Da gac
ne.ll
conn
mac
cuinn Do bol hi ccfnD pfj pa^ran
.1.
-|
-|
Saâib,
baof plan ace mac uilliam

TTlaolmuipe
hi
ppiab'pap
puib'ne
~\
nip
bo hojpldn uaoa.
Do rhapbabld cloinn TTlaolmuipe mic colla mic puibne a ccfno cpeaccmaine lap necc TTlaolmuipi mic colla buDein. a mbailce DO Clann TTlaolmuipe mic colla oionnapbaD ap an cip,
mac eojain mic
-]
Da luce Ifnamna Do mapbaD. bpipeaD, pfp Diob pfm -\ Dpong uf oorhnaill (.i.aeD occ mac aoba puaib), T?u6paie clann -j
,
Tuath-Ratha and Lurg __ Tuath-ratha, which was O'Flanagan's country, is included in the
1
the forces ofMaguire's country, and whenever Maguire could not furnish such forces he agreed
to
present barony of Magheraboy, in the county of Fermanagh, and Lurg is still the name of- a
'
pay a certain tribute in lieu of them." Charles O'Conor of Belanagare O'Neill.
barony in the same county, separated from Tuath-Ratha, or Tooraah, by the Lower Lough
Erne.
" under Maguire."
interpolates bacac,
which
is
correct.
O'Neill
at
had renounced the Pope's authority

nooth, in January this year.
May-
He
set sail for
Upon
Maffuire, literally,
England
in September,
accompanied by
Hugh
" O'Donnell havwriter would say, some time before destroyed much of Maing guire's territory or property." " h Maguire gave himRising out, literally, and gave his country and land to O'Donnell self,
An English
O'Cervallan, Bishop of Clogher, and arrived on
the 24th of that

the most
month at Greenwich, where in humble manner he disclaimed the name
of O'Neill and the title of prince, and surrendered his territory and all that he had into the
for that,
and particularly Maguire gave a rising out on himself and on his country to him, or a tribute in the rising out which would not be
King's hands
same by
letters patent
but he received a re-grant of the under the great seal of
An English writer would say it obtained." thus " In return for this Maguire submitted
:
England, bearing date at Greenwich the 1st of October 1542, together with the title of Earl of
himself, his country,
and
lands, to O'Donnell,
all
Tirowen, and at the same time Matthew (falsely supposed, in the opinion of Camden and Ware,
to be his son)
and ceded to him the privilege of calling for
was created Baron of Dunganuon,
1542.]

f
1477
O'Donnell (Manus) gave Tuath-Ratha and Lurg to Maguire (John, sou of some time before destroyed a great deal upon Cuconnaught), O'Donnell having 8 For this Maguire gave up himself, his country, and his land, to Maguire O'Donnell, and in particular the privilege of calling for the rising-out" of his
.
lie also gave [i. e. in lieu of the rising-out not obtained, country, or a tribute to give] to O'Donnell half the eric [i. e. fine] paid for killing men through-
agreed out Fermanagh.
O'Neill' (Con, the
Henry VIII.
the
son of Con) went to the King of England, namely, and the King created O'Neill an Earl, and enjoined that he
O'Neill received great honour from
should not be called O'Neill any longer.
King on
this occasion.
of Clanrickard (Ulick na gCeann) and O'Brien' (Murrough) went to England, and were both created Earls and they returned home safe, except that Mac William had taken a fever [in England], from which he was
Mac William
not perfectly recovered". Mulmurry, the son of
murry, the son of Colla Mulmurry, the son of Colla.
Owen Mac Sweeny, was Mac Sweeny, a week after
slain
by the sons of Mul-
the death of [their father]
The
sons of Mulmurry, son of Colla
Mac Sweeny, were
banished from their
country, their towns were destroyed, and one of themselves and a party of his followers were slain.
Maguire (John), and Rory and Naghtan, the sons of O'Donnell (Hugh Oge,
and two of the family of Magennis, who accompanied him, were dubbed knights, and the Bishop of Clogher was confirmed by the King's patent, It appears from a letter written by the King to
the Lord Deputy and Council (State Paters, ccclxxxi.), that O'Neill had no money of his
see Cox's Hibernia Anglicana, A. D. 1541, 1542, 1543, and Moore's -History of Ireland, vol. iii. p. 322.
creations,
J
O'Brien.
This should be entered under the
year 1543.
Maurice O'Bryen was created Earl
own on
After announcing the creation His Majesty adds: "And for his reward "We gave unto him a chayne of threescore poundes
this occasion.
of Thomond, July 1st, 1543. The King granted to each of these noblemen a house and lands near
horses,
and odde,
We payd
Dublin, for the keeping of their retinues and whenever they resorted thither to attend
for his robes
and the charges
Parliament and Councils.

cccxcvi.
k
See State Papers,
of his creation three score and fyve poundes
tenne shillinges two pens, and we gave him in redy money oon hundreth poundes
sterling."
Not perfectly
recovered.
He
to Sir Richard Cox, on the
died, according 19th of October,
For some curious particulars respecting these
1545
See note under the year 1544.
1478
aNNata Rio^hachca eiReawN.
[1543.
Do pccaoileab i 1 neaccain Do bol ap piubal cpeice nDapcpaije, i pcceimlfb uaca ap puD an cfpe,i TTlac uf Doriinaill neaccain Do rhapbab Oupcop DO jae.
pelim Dub mac aoba

TTlaipe injfn
uf neill
DO rhapbab.
mej
pariipabdm, bfn
mej plannchatb (pfpabac)
Decc.
QO1S CR1OSU,
1543.
acpi.
Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cufcc ceo, ceacpaca,
6mano mac
bpiain uf gallcubaip
eppcop paca boc Decc, 26 pebpuapu,

Doriinaill oicc
abbap cigfpna DO riiapbab Idcloinn meic puibne pdnacc .1. Donnchab TTlaolmuipe, pdnacc clann coippbealbaij, mic puaibpi, mic TTlaolmuipe laopibe. "foal, gaipcceab, fngnarh i uppclaiji Do Denarh bo ariiail po ba jpepac laip pia na mapbab,
"|
~\
lap ppajbdil ppicbfpca imon eppcopoicce. ITIac meic puibne panac TTlaolmuipe mac
uaip po riiapb an oubalcac mac pipbopca mic puibne an geppac gaipccib ba Deappccaijce baof ma acchaib.
TTlac rhec puibne bajamij,
Gom mooapba mac

neill,
neill
moip Do ecc a ccup
aofpi
"1
oipbfpca.
TTlac uf baoigill, bpian
mac
mic coippbealbaij DO mapbab cpe canjpfm,"]
nacc la cloinn
1
neill oicc uf baoijill
baccap ina riiuinceapup
ma pappab
pop a cuapapcal.
TTlagnup Do bol jup an ccorhaiple moip co hdc cliac co na maille ppip eiccneacdn ~\ Donnchab baccap bpaicpib ngeirhlib le hachaib
Doriinaill
i
occa, i a Ificcfn cpe corhaiple an lupcip,

narii
-]
pioba
-[
caoncorhpaic fcoppa.
hi paproibh)
Conn
lap nDe6 Doriinaill (a bfpbpacaip baof le
ITlhaice
6peann apcfna
hachaib poDa
pajraib Dopibipi Do paijib an
DO piobuccab pip map an cceona. Conn Do bol 50 a bfic ma pocaip co nonoip co naiprhiDin. pig,
-) ~]
05 cacaofp rhac cuacail bailb uf jallcubaip, i ace Dpuing DO pliocc aoba uf gallcubaip Dia lomcoirheo, ba
1
Caiplen Ificbip po pdjaib 6 Doriinaill
Bishop ofEaphoe.
tion of this
Harris makes no men-
m /w
him.
"
his friendship,
i.
e.
on friendly terms with
Raphoe. year 1515
Bishop in his list of the Bishops of There is a chasm in his list from the
till
Between them,
i.
e.
between O'Donnell and
1550.
his kinsmen,
Egneghan and Donough.
1543.]

Hugh
1479
the son of
Roe), went upon a predatory excursion into Dartry, and despatched a marauding party through the country and Naghtan, the son of O'Donnell, was killed by the cast of a dart.
;
Felim Duv, the son of
Hugh
O'Neill,
was
slain.
Mary, the daughter of Magauran, and wife of Mac Clancy (Feradhach), died.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1543.
thousand five hundred forty-three.
Edmond,
the son of Brian O'Gallagher, Bishop of
Raphoe died on the 26th

,
of February, after having received opposition respecting the bishopric. The son of Mac Sweeny Fanad (Mulmurry, son of Donnell Oge), heir to
by the sons of [the late] Mac Sweeny Fanad, namely, Donough and Mulmurry, the sons of Turlough, son of Rory, son of
the lordship of Fanad,
was
slain
Mulmurry. Before his death lie shewed, as usual, great valour, bravery, prowess, and dexterity at arms for he slew Dubhaltach, the son of Ferdoragh Mac
;
champion that opposed him. The son of Mac Sweeny Banagh (John Modhordha, the son of Niall More) died in the beginning of his life and renowned career.
of O'Boyle (Brian, the son of Niall, son of Turlough) was treacherously slain by the sons of Niall Oge O'Boyle, who were in his friendship" in
1 ,
Sweeny, the most valiant
The son
his
company, and in his pay. O'Donnell (Manus) repaired
to the great Council at Dublin, together with
Egneghan and Donough, who had been for some time held in fetters by him, but were set at liberty by the advice of the Lord Justice and the chiefs of Ireland in general, after they had made peace and friendship between
his relatives,
them".
Con
O'Donnell, his brother,
also reconciled to him.
who had been a long time in England, was Con returned to England to the King, and remained
,
with him, with honour and respect. The castle of Leithbher which O'Donnell had given to Cahir, the son of Donnell Balbh O'Gallagher, and to a party of the descendants of Hugh
The castle of Leithbher, i. e. of Lefford, on the frontiers of the counties of Donegal and
See note
Tyrone
p.
",
1391, supra.
1480
pfb
t>o
aNNdta Rioghachca emeaNH.

ponab leopom an caiplen DO congihail aca oaob mac
1
[1543.
uf
bomnaill
-|
Doib babesn, i po arcuippiocc pamrhuinrip uf Dorhnaill, ~] ooippeoip an baile uabaib. 601 baipneac 6 oomnaill, ] an calbac ppiu oepibe, po gab an calbac
)
painpaib aga aire poppa a noeipjenpac co po mubaijfb apaill Do baoinib

innile Do rhalaipc, DO mfimipc. Ro (boppa cfccap nae la caob cfrpa, mapbao la luce an baile an Dubalcac mac colla mic puibne gallocclac roccaibe ap aoi jaipccib fnjnama epibe. baof cpa Donnchab mac uf Dom-| -\ ~\
ace congnam la pliocc ao6a f gallcubaip, 17u6paibe mac uf oorhnaill pfpoopca mac coin mic cuarail uf âllcubaip cona clomn, ~] mac Sfain balnaill
abail la lai^ mic coin DO cuarail bailb uf jallcubaip.

TTlac uf
DonnchaD mac af Domnaill,
~\
la cardoip
mac
Docapcaij (Cacaofp mac jfpailc mic Domnaill, mic peilim) DO

~\
T?u6paie Sfan, clanri peilim mic concobaip cappaij Ro mapbpac beop mac ao6a gpuamba uf bocapcaij, O Domnaill cona ploj DO bol ap ua noocapcaij DO Diojail na necc pin paip, po gab pop milleaD apbann an cfpe 50 ppuaip bpaijoe 6 ua noocapcaij a ngioll 16 le na bpfir pfin cpe coll a pmacca. na piap,
mapbaD
la cloinn uf bocapcai^,
~\
~\
~|
Ro gabaD
oua Domnaill,
uf gallcubaip,
lap pin cacaoip

i
mac cuacail
bailb la
hua noocapcaij
~\
DO pao
an baile
-|
Ro jab o Domnaill peippm coippbealbac mac peilim pinn Do bfpc na bpaijoe pin laip DO paijiD lecbip oup an ppuigbfo nocan puaip iDip Don cup pin.
~\
cpeice
1 o
Sliocc eoccain mic puibne "| Sliocc copbmaic mic DonnchaiD Dol ap piubal ap 6 nfjpa mbuioe, ~\ 6 concobaip .1. cabcc occ mac raiDcc mic aoDa,
po ppaofnfo leo ap cloinn cpuibne 50 po mapbaD clann maolmuipe mic eojain, i opong Do pliocc puaibpi mac oubjaill, copbmaic mic Donnchaib 50 pocaibib Dia muincip amaille ppiu Don cup pin.
hfjpa DO bpfir poppa

~\
-[
Abused.
The
Irish
were in the habit of

q
p.
210.
houghing the cattle of their enemies with their slaughtering knives when they did not find it
convenient to
drive them
off alive
Violation
of
his jurisdiction,
cpe
coll a
pmacca
The word
coll, as used
by the
Four
See the
" hi ccoll Masters, A. D. 889, in the phrase
entry under the year 1542, p. 1472, line 15, The word rhalaipc, as here used, is to supra.
be distinguished from the modern word inalaipc, See note x , on malapcac, exchange, or barter.
emic pbaopaic," is translated impingere by and again used Colgan, Trias Thaum, p. 296 in the sense of "to break, or violate," by the Four Masters, at the year 1549; cpe coll a
;
under the year 1186, pp. 70, 71,
also note g ,
peacca, for breaking, or violating his law
See
1543.]
1481
for Hugh, the O'Gallagher, to be guarded by them, was maintained by them and they banished O'Donnell's loyal son of O'Donnell, and for themselves
;
and Calvagh were greatly incensed at this, and Calvagh [who] proceeded to wreak his vengeance upon them for what they had done, so that some persons were killed between both parties, besides herds and flocks which were [in the contests]
of the castle. O'Donnell people, and the doorkeeper
in particular,
abused p and injured. The people of the town slew Dubhaltach, the son of Colla
Mac Sweeny,
occasion.
a gallowglass distinguished for his valour and prowess. Donough, son of O'Donnell, assisted the descendants of Hugh O'Gallagher on this the
Ferdoragh, the son of John, son of Tuathal O'Gallagher, and his sons; and the sons of John Ballagh, son of John, were taken prisoners by Donough, the son of O'Donnell, and by Cahir, the son
;
Rory, the son of O'Donnell
of Tuathal Balbh O'Gallagher. The son of O'Doherty- (Cahir, the son of Gerald, son of Donnell, son of
Felim) was slain by the sons of O'Doherty, Rory and John, the sons of Felim, son of Conor Caragh. They also slew Hugh Gruama O'Doherty. And marched with his forces against O'Doherty, to take revenge of him O'Donnell
for these deaths,
and proceeded to destroy the corn of the country, until he obtained hostages from O'Doherty, as pledges for his obedience, and for his
own award
for the violation of his jurisdiction'.

r
Cahir, the son of Tuathal Balbh
and delivered up
to
O'Donnell
was afterwards taken prisoner by O'Doherty, and O'Donnell himself made a prisoner of
,
Turlough, the son of Felim Fin O'Gallagher, and brought both these prisoners to Lifford, to see whether he could obtain the town but he did not obtain it
;
on that occasion.
The descendants of Owen Mac Sweeny and the descendants of Cormac Mac Donough went on a predatory excursion against O'Hara Boy. O' Conor (Teige Oge, the son of Teige, son of Hugh) came up with them, and defeated the
Clann- Sweeny, and slew Rory, the son of Donnell, the sons of Mulmurry, son of Owen, and a party of the descendants of Cormac Mac Donough, together
with numbers of their people, on that occasion.

also
Book of Lismore,
p. 6,
where
-|
it is
used in
the Stammerer.
solete as a
The name Tuathal
is
now
is
obpre-
the same sense: ipcoll cuna jeipi oampa pub. r Tuathal Balbh, i. e. Tutting Balbus, or Tuathal
man's baptismal name, but
served in the surname O'Toole.
9c
1482
dNNaca rcioshachca
-\
i
eiraeaNN.
[1543.
ITlac puibne na ccuar,
connacc
ninip
a rhac bjimn Do gabdil la coblac a hiapcap a mbpfic leo a mbpaijofnap. mic an Duipn,
"| ~\
Sliocc coippbealbai Sliocc coippbealbai^ DO cecc hi ccfp conaill 50 mbaccap 05 meguibip. Uanaic TTlagumip hi ccfnn nf Dorhpojail i 05 injpeim ap pfpaib manac.
Gappaonca coccaib ap neipe ecip ITlajuibiji,
naill, i
DO pome a pfc
-\
a capaccpab pip peib DO poine peachc

ui rhaoilconaipe paof le
piarh.
pfp
TTIuipjfp mac paiccfn co ccpom co croice

-]
peancup,
-j
le pilibeacc
conac, pccpibnij fpccna lap ap pgpiobaD linbaip

~\
lomDa,-] lap a noeapnaD Duana

narfi
-|
lap a mbdccap pccola ace ppioc05 pojlaim,-] no conjbaD pocaiDe Dib ina ri buDein DO gpep, Decc lap
Dpecra,
-\
inbpfic
buaba 6 6fman
"|
6 Doman.
Ceoac
uf
6 maoileaclainn DoiponeaD ap cloinn colmain ap belaib Rubpaiê
maofleaclamn, ~\ nfp bo poinrheac po baccap clann colmain pe linn na Deipi pin in arpegaD amail po baccap hi pe peiDlimiD ap po baof coccaD, cpeaclopccaD, uacc,-) jopca, golmaipcc -] larhcomaipc ppi linn na Dfipi pin ipin cfp,
"|
DO ponab ulca aibble fcoppa gep bo gfpp an pe puaippiocr. InDpaiccib aibce Do cabaipc la a bpaicpib pa maj gailinne noealbna Dia po loipccpfc, la Rubpaije, Dia po cpeacpac an maj. ITIaoileaclamn balb ua maDagdin, ape mag coc1
po coccbab
cfop,
-|
cobac
TJCC
gac aon aca ap
maj
coppctm,
-\
-|
-|
~\
Idin Dia Ifnmain co
mac ua
ccuccpar cacap Doib njaibnne Du in po mapbab copbmaoilfclainn Deapbpafaip pubpaije co ccpvb pfpaib oecc DO niaicib
i
a mumcipe DO mapbab
s
~]
Do bachab Don cup

the island
pin.
Inis-mic-an-Duirn.
This
is
now
Maurice made a beautiful copy of the old Book

of the
Rutland Island, and situated opposite Roshin, the residence of Robert Russell,
called in English
Abbey
of Fenagh, in the county of Lei-
trim, in the year 1516, for Teige
O'Rody, Coarb
fragment
is
the resident agent to the proprietor, the Marquis of Conyngham. It belongs to the parish of Templecrone, or district of the Rosses,
Ksq.,
.
of Fenagh.
still
Of
this a considerable
extant, which contains several historical
in the
barony of Boylagh, in the west of the county of Donegal but the inhabitants of the village of Dunglow and its vicinity still call it
;
poems relating to the O'Rourkes, O'Donnells, and other families, and several poems of a prophetic kind attributed to St. Cailliri, the patron saint of Fenagh, which, though mere fabrications
of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, are
still
Duipn, when speaking the Irish language, as the Editor learned from the most intelligent of the native Irish of the district, in
Imp
thic
u'
very valuable as throwing light on the history

of the times.
the year 1835.

1
"
Compared
to,
Maurice,
the son
ofPaidin OfMidconri/.
This
comparison of."
in 110^6506, literally, See note ", under the year

i
"
1543.]

s
1483
a fleet
Mac Sweeny na-dtuath and his son, Brian, were taken prisoners by from West Connaught, at Inis-mic-an-Duirn and carried into captivity.
,
Dissensions of war having broken out between Maguire and the descendants of Turlough Maguire, the descendants of Turlough went into Tirconnell, and
were harassing and annoying the people of Fermanagh. Maguire [upon this] and made [a league of] peace and friendship with him, repaired to O'Donnell,
as
he had done some time before.

Maurice', the son of Paidin O'Mulconry, a
man
learned in history and poetry,
man
of wealth and affluence, a learned scribe, by
whom many books had
been
transcribed,
had been composed, and who had kept many schools superintending and learning, several of which he had
and by
lays
whom many poems and
constantly kept in his own house, died, after having gained the victory over the Devil and the world.
Kedagh O'Melaghlin was inaugurated Chief of the Clann-Colman, in opposition to Rury O'Melaghlin. The Clann-Colman were not happy during the of these two, compared to" what they had been during the time of Felim; period for, during the time of these two, war and devastation, cold and famine, weepRent and tribute were ing and clapping of hands, prevailed in the country. levied for each of them in Magh-Corrain" and though their career was but of
;
short continuance, they, nevertheless, wrought innumerable evils.

irruption
A nocturnal
,
was made by Rury and his kinsmen into the plain of Gailinnv in Delvin, and burned and plundered the plain. Melaghlin Balbh O'Madden and Art Mac Coghlan pursued them, and gave them battle at [the church of]
Gailinn,
chiefs
where Cormac O'Melaghlin, the brother of Rury, and thirteen of the of his people, were slain and [recte or] drowned".
i
1542, p. 1474, supra, where another example of the use of this word occurs.
'
Gailinn,
now Gillan,
a townland and parish
Magh-Corrain, a plain in the barony of Clonlonan, in Westmeath. The castles of Clonlonan, Farnagh, Kilbillaghan, Castletown,
in the containing the ruins of an old church, of Garrycastle, in the King's County ibarony
and
See note x under the year 1519, w Slain and drowned. This
,
p.
1346, supra.
phrase, bo
map-
See this place again referred to at the years 1548 and 1553. O'Meit.
Newcastle, were in
Bab
-|
DO Bacliao,
these Annals, is
which occurs throughout not correct DO riiapbao no oo

;
have possessed chiefry over the Mac Coghlans, in the barony of Garlaghlin
to
rycastle, in the King's
would appear
bachub would be much better. An English " writer would say, they perished by field or
flood."
County.
9 c 2
1484
aNNCCta Rio^hachca emeaNN.
[1544;
QO1S CR1OSC,
Gofp cpfopr,
mile, cuicc ceo,
1544.
cfrpaca acearaip.
aon bapp dij jail connacc oecc, lapla cloinne Piocaipo uillfcc na ccfnD, bubein eipibe. Sapaonra mop Deipje hi ccloinn 1 bd pccel a6Bal ma ap mac RiocaipD oicc, piocaipo pan ci jfpnap, ~\ TTlac uilliam DO jaipm ouillfcc
1
pocaibe
comap mac
ccoiccpic DO bfir uillicc na ccfno.

ccfp,
~\
hi
ma
acchaib Id mac meic uilliam
Rubpaije 6 maoileaclainn DO mapbab hi cclapca Id pipoepo Dalacun, Id a bpaicpib' ap amup oibce, ap ap rhair Do ceoac ua maoileaclamn DO
~\
-|
ponpar an mapbaD
TTlac
f
(pin.
DO aipc oicc ranaipi ap mo DO pulaing DO 6ua6 i Docap coccaiD ecip cenel eoccain -\ cenel conaill caimc DO pliocc eojain mic neill poiDreac Diongmala Do cijfpnap cfpe heoâin Da leiccrf cuicce he,
neill, Niall
mac
pfp Ian Diul obano.
-]
oairne ap jac nealaDam Decc
ip in
cpfncaiplen Do jalap
pdnac coippbealbac mac puaiDpi mic maolmuipe, pfp bpiojac boipbbeoba po pulaing mop DO coccaD i Do compuachab ma cfp pein le hachaib co pin DO mapbab Id cloinn Domnaill oicc mic puibne a noiojail a nofpbpacap po mapbab la a cloinn piom. bdccap larc anmanna na cloinne
TTlac puibne
Domnall a nofpnab an mapbab Ruaibpi cappac ôpm. T?o mapbab beop eom mac Donnchaib mic maolmuipe apaon la mac an ci lap puibne,-] gib epibe (.1. coin) ni rfpna uab gan cpeccnuccab 50 mop Domnall jopm. lilac puibne DO aipm DO puaibpi cappac mac po mapbab
pin Domnaill oicc lap
.1.
-]
.1.
Domnaill oicc lap

x
pin.
In
his own, literally,
" in the territory and
in the neighbourhood."
The Four Masters
ge-
nerally use coiccpioc in the sense of confine, or neighbouring territory. According to Sir
question was raised as to which of his sous was his true heir according to the laws of England, But the Earl of Ormond and other commissioners
KichardCox, Ulick, the
first Earl
of Clanrickard,
appointed by the Lord Deputy and Council to settle this affair, adjudged Grany,
died on the 19th of October, 154-5.
After his
death a great contention arose between his sons about the title and inheritance, for it appears that the Earl Ulick had had three wives, and a
the daughter of O'Carroll, who was the mother of Richard, the Earl's eldest son, to be his true
and accordingly they placed Richard in ; the earldom and estate of his father but because
wife
:
1544.]
1485
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1544.
thousand Jive hundred forty-four.
Earl of Clanrickard (Ulick-na-gCeann), the most valiant of the English of Connaught, died. This was news of great moment in his country. Great
The
dissensions arose in Clanrickard concerning the lordship
and Ulick, the son
of Rickard Oge, was styled Mac William, although many in his own* and in the neighbouring territories were opposed to him, in favour of Thomas, the son
Thomas, the son of Ulick-na-gCeann. y Rory O'Melaghlin was slain at Clartha by Richard Dalton and his kinsmen, in a nocturnal assault and it was for the interests of Kedagh O'Melaghlin
William,
i.
of
Mac
e.
they committed this slaughter. The son of O'Neill (Niallz the son of Art Oge), a Tanist, who had suffered most toil and hardship of war, between the Kinel-Owen and the Kinel-Connell,
,
of any that had come of the race of Owen, son of Niall a select vessel to become Lord of Tyrone, had he been permitted to attain to it, [and] a man full of skill and knowledge in every science, died of a sudden illness in the old
;
castle.
Mac Sweeny Fanad

energetic, fierce,
(Turlough, the son of Rory, son of Mulmurry), an and vivacious man, who had suffered much from wars and
disturbances in his
own country
for
some time
till
then,
was
slain
by the sons
of Donnell
sons had
Oge Mac Sweeny, in revenge
of their brother,
whom his
[Turlough's]
These were the names of those sons of Donnell Oge who committed that slaughter, namely, Rory Carragh and Donnell Gorm. John, the son
slain.
of Donough, son of
Mulmurry, was
also slain along
with
Mac Sweeny
but
though he (John) fell, his slayer, i. e. Donnell Gorm, did not escape without After this Rory Carragh, the son 'of Donnell Oge, being severely wounded.
was styled Mac Sweeny.

he was under age, they made Ulick Burke capsituated ou a conspicuous hill in the parish of
Killare, not far
good behaviour, and during the minority of Richard See Cox's Hibernia Anglicana., A. D. 1545.
Clartha, now called in Irish Caiplean Ctdpcci, and incorrectly anglicised Clare Castle. It is
y
tain of the country during his
from the celebrated, but now
poor village of Ballymore county of Westmeath.

z
Lough Sewdy,
in the
JVa//.
Charles O'Conor of Belanagare iu-
terpolates Conallac,
which
is
correct.
1486
QNNaca Rio^hachca
eiraeciNN.
[1544.
na ccuac poof ap eineac, ap uaiple, TTlu|icha6 mac meic piubne beoDacc, i oonncat) a ofpbparaip oecc ina nofp.
TTlaipspeg
i
i
-|
ap
.1.
oomnaill infn meic oorhnaill (.1. mjfn aorigupa ilij) bfn an. 19. oecembep. TTlajnup (lap Smbdin ingm neill) oecc, oomnaill (bfn pibe 111 baoiîl' oorhnall) Oecc an. Sile injfn magnupa
i
14.
pebpuapn.
TTIac
f
an lupcip Shaânai^, caipDo cabaipc laip hi ccfp conaill Do paijiD Dorhnaill. O Dorhci'm Saânaca co naiomib gabala baile naill, an calKac, iaDpi6e DO Dol co nopDanap
Oorhnaill,
an calb'ac DO bol
hi
ccfnri
~\
-]
~\
leo Dionnpaijib lecbip Dia jabail pop pliocc
ao6a
uf jallcubaip.
Oo pao
ua Dorhnaill bpai^De pleacra aoDa baof occa le hacham .1. Caraofp rnac coippDealbac mac peilim pmn oona Saprancaib 05 Dol gup an mbaile Doib Do cop uaubaip lomorhain ap luce an baile. T?o pobaippioc an
cuarail
"] -]
baile lapam.
mapbaD aon Dona jallaib po ceDoip, TTlapbair na paâin mac cuarail ma glapaib a nDioj;ail an ôill. Oo pao ao6 mac Caraoip f Domnailli pliocc ao6a an caiplein ap mac pelim pinn,~| ap mac ele cuacail
T?o
i
bailb baccap
ngfimlib,-]
paccbaicc
pfin
an rfp lap
pin.
T?o leicc o Domnaill
na Saâin uaDa Dia ccicch mp nfoc a ccuapupcail ppiu. Sloicceab la hua noorhnaill ap an puCa Dia po gabaD laip mnpi an locain
paibe caiplen cpoinn, ~\ oain^fn Di'cojlaiji 05 TTIac uiDilin ~\ mp 17o ngabdil an caiplein la hua nDomnaill Do pao an baile oua cacain. 5aba6 ona Don cup pin caiplen baile an laca la hua noomnaill, ~j po jeib
aipm
hi
eoala lom&a ecip apm,

l?o
~|
eiccfo urha,
~\
mpann,
im,
-\
biuO ip na bailcib
pin.
jabab beop mp pin imp loca buppann, ~\ imp loca Ificmnpi Id hua noorhnaill, i puaip eoala lomoa on muD cceona poppa, po loipcceaD an cfp co
-|
leip
*
ma hiomcacmong
laip,
-\
cainic plan lap ccopccap.

lough, about a mile and a half to the south of Coleraine, and still exhibits traces of earthen
fortifications,
Dismissed them,
literally,
" O'Donnell let
the English [go] from him to their house after
paying their wages to them."

b
but no remains of stone
walls.
Inis-an-lockain,
lake.
i.
e.
the island of the small
This island
is
shewn on the Down Survey

It is still so
This station was of great importance to Mac Quillin, as commanding the fishery of the Lower
under, the
name
of Inishloughan.
Bann, which
c
is
described by English writers as
called in Irish,
but usually called in English the Loughan Island. It is situated in the River Bann, which here expands into a kind of small
the most fertile river in Europe,

Baile-an-lacha,
now
Ballylough, in the ba-
rony of
Lower Dunluce, and county of Antrim.
1544.]
1487
for hos-
Murrough, the son of Mac Sweeny na dTuath, a man distinguished and vigour, arid Donough, his brother, both died. pitality, nobleness,
Margaret, the daughter of Mac Donnell (Aengus of Ilea), the wife of O'Donnell (Manus) after Joan, the daughter of O'Neill, died on the 19th of December.
daughter of Manus O'Donnell, and wife of O'Boyle (Donnell), died on the 14th of February.
Celia, the
Calvagh, the son of O'Donnell, went to the English Lord Justice, and brought English captains with him into Tirconnell to O'Donnell. O'Donnell.
Calvagh, and these captains, went with ordnance and engines for taking towns to [the castle of] Lifford, to take it from the descendants of Hugh O' Gallagher.
As
they were approaching the castle, O'Donnell gave up the hostages of the sons of Hugh, whom he had had for some time in his custody (viz. Cahir, the
son of Tuathal, and Turlough, the son of Felim), to the Englishmen, in order to strike terror and alarm into the minds of the people in the town. They after-
wards attacked the town.
and the English,
of the English was shortly afterwards killed to avenge him, killed Cahir, the son of Tuathal, in his fetters. the son of O'Donnell, and the descendants of Hugh, surrendered the Hugh, castle for the liberation ojf the son of Felim Finn, and of the other son of Tua;
One
thal Balbh,
who were
detained in fetters
and they themselves then
left
the
country.
their
O'Donnell, having paid the English their wages, dismissed them" to
home.
,
b army was led by O'Donnell into the Route, and took Inis-an-lochain whereon Mac Quillin had a wooden castle and an impregnable fastness. O'Don-
An
nell took this castle,
and gave
it
up
to
c
,
O'Kane.
On
this expedition
O'Donnell
also took the castle of Baile-an-lacha
weapons, armour, copper, iron, butter, wards took the island of Loch-Burrannd and the island of Loch-Leithinnsi e
,
and obtained many spoils, consisting of and provisions, in these towns. He after,
where he likewise obtained many spoils. He burned the whole country around, and then returned home safe after victory.
On
is
au old
map
to
of Ulster, preserved in the State
Papers
Office,
shewn
d
London, the castle of Ballenlough the south of Bonamargy. It is

it.
parish of Ballintoy, in the same barony; but it is now dried up, and the place called Loughaverra.
e
Loch-LeiMnnsi,
i.
e.
the lake of the hallin the parish
about seven miles south of

Loch- Bur rann.
island,
now Lough Lynch,

same barony.
of Billy,
This was situated in the
in the
1488
dNNaca Rioghachca eiRecmN.
[1544.
hi
Coccab Deipje ecip 6 noorhnaill, i 6 neill. O Domnaill ap nool hi cceilcc ccomjap Don cpfncaiplen,-] apaill DO baofmb DO mapbab laip, mac rheic
-|
Don coipcc pin. bpiain combpaijDb ele Do jabailoo neill DO beriarh cpeice la caob na habann Dianab amin pionn.
Qn
calbac 6 oomnaill Do
Doriinaill
Do Denam
Doriinaill
rcfp eoccain. cpeice ele hi ccfp eoccain.

hi
Denam cpeice
i colla)
-\
ClanD meic
painj meic
(Semup,
uf
uibilfn.
TTIac uibilfn
jabab
ap bdpoaib a paibe ap aon pipi ninnpi an locdin Do lopccab ecip baofnib eocnl, apm, i Do benam la TTlac uibilm ap 6 ccacam an eiofb. Cpeaca Diojbala mopa can pin. O cacain Dpopoab gallocclac .1. Sliocc puaibpi meic puibne, i aon Do
-| ~\ ~| i
leo an baile
Do ceacc peace albanach ap caplaDpfin DO Dol um imp an locdin, po mac Oonncaib uf cacdin, cacain. bpian
~\
ccdimcc TTlac uibilm rap banna co rappaib cpeic, O cacain, "] a ccopaijeacc 50 po bfnpacc an cpec be. l?o âllocclai^ Do bpfic paip
Idib Dia
mapbparc, po loicpoc Dponj mop Dia muincip. lapla upmumari DO bol hi ccloinn piocaipo Do conjnarfi la a bpacaip uilbam bupc mac RiocaipD, bpfprhaibm DO cabaipc la cloinn PiocaipD oicc aip, ba moa bapun maic (.1. macooa) Dia muincip DO mapbab,
]
.1.
~\
~\
~\
oloctp cfcpacha
copcpacuap Do pluag an lapla
nDopap baile aca na pfoj
Don cup
pin.
Caiplen bfnDcmp Do aicoenam la hua ccfpbaill cabcc caoc cap papuccab

cloinne colmain, i pfl maoasam, uaip baccap pibe in fppaonca ppia poile. TTlaoileaclainn mac bpfpail ui maoagain (an Dapa cijfpna baof pop piol nanmchaba -\ nip bo po bo Dia mbaoh lamcijeapna ap a pele ~| ap a oipbfpc)
Do mapbab la TTlaoileaclainri gocc o matiajam a
cfricc
rpeccmume
lap
ccionnpgnab bfnDcuip.
f
Mac Oda
This was an Irish
name assumed
1641, but retained some of his estates
till
1688.
by the head of the family of Archdeacon, who were seated in the barony of Galmoy, in the county of
Kilkenny, adjoining the Queen's County.
It is
great grandfather, Patrick Mac Oda of Tinahoe, in the barony of Iverk, and county
The Editor's
now
corruptly anglicised Cody. of this family was Pierce Mac Oda, or Otho, " Sir alias Archdeacon, Pierce," popularly called of Ercke, who was in the rebellion of implicated
The
last chief
of Kilkenny, and his brother, Fulk Archdeacon, of Fiddown, in the same barony, were his representatives in the beginning of the last century but their descendants have become since so scattered that the Editor could not find any of them
;
1544.]
1489,
A war arose between O'Donnell and O'Neill. O'DonnejJ went [and lay] in ambush near the old castle, and slew several persons and he took the grand;
son of Brian and others prisoners on that occasion.

O'Neill committed a depredation along the river which
is
called Finn.
Calvagh O'Donnell committed a depredation in Tyrone. O'Donnell committed another depredation in Tyrone. The sons of Mac Donnell, James and Colla, came [into the Route] with 'a band of Scots, at the instance of Mac Quillin and he and they proceeded to
;
Inis-an-lochain,
and took that town from O'Kane's warders.
Brian, the son of
Donough O'Kane, and all that were with him on Inis-an-lochain, were burned, and also all the property, arms, and armour. Great depredations and injuries
were committed by Mac Quillin upon O'Kane on that occasion. O'Kane hired gallowglasses of the race of Rory Mac Sweeny and one day as Mac Quillin crossed the Bann, and seized on a prey, O'Kane and his gallowglasses pursued and overtook him, stripped him of the prey, and slew and
;
wounded a great number of his people. The Earl of Ormond went into Clanrickard
Burke, son of Rickard
;
to assist his kinsman, William but the sons of Rickard Oge suddenly defeated him f and more than arid a good baron of his people, namely, Mac Oda was slain 8 forty of the Earl's troops were slain in the gateway of Athenry on that occa;
,
sion.
Banagher" was re-erected by O'Carroll (Teige Caech), in despite of the Clann-Colman and the O'Maddens, for they were at strife with each other.
castle of
The
Melaghlin, son of Breasal O'Madden, the second lord that had been in SilAnmchadha (and the entire lordship would not be too much for him', on account of his hospitality and noble deeds), was slain by Melaghlin God O'Madden, a
week
after the
commencement
[of the re-erection] of Banagher.
in this or the adjoining barony of Ida, in the year 1 839- For a curious notice of this family see Grace's Annals, edited by the Rev. Richard
one
h
still
Banaglter, a well-known
remains in tolerable preservation, town on the east

in
side of the River Shannon,
Butler, p. 120, note'.
Gateway. There were two or three gateways in the town wall of Athenry. The eastern
Garrycastle, and King's County. under the year 1539, supra.

'
the barony of See note
Too much for him, nip 66 po DO.
Here
po,
1490
aHNQta Rio^hachca emeawN.

QO1S C171OSU,
Qoip Cpiopr,
1545.
[1545.
mile, cuicc ceo, ceacpaccr, a cufcc.
Niall conallac
TTlac Suibne na
mac
aipc,
(.1.
mic ctnnn
neill oecc.
in
ccuar
eoccan) Decc
urimll uf rhcnlle.
Giccrieacan 6 Domnaill
uf Domnaill.
t>o
rhapbaD la Dpuinj; Do rhumcip an calbaig
O concobaip Sliccij raDcc occ mac caiDcc, mic aoba Do rhapbao Id Dpuinj
DO maij
in'
luipg.
TTIaibm caille na ccuippiccin lap an ccalbac 6 nbomnaill ap cloinn borhnaill moip Du in po mapbab Donnchab caipppeac 6 Domnaill.
i
blob DO cfmpall cpiopc nac cliac DO bpipfb la haibilcc eiccin, ~\ cumba cloice Dpajail ann ina paibe copp eppuicc cona culab eppcoip uime. Deic
ppainne op&a ima Deich mepaib, i caileac aippinD 6p6a ina pfparh la caob a a copp, a Dfol pfm Daic ap na cocailc 16 ponpupa muinil,-| ap arhlaib baof ipin ccloic Doap a cuma pfm ~\ Do coccbaD e a Ifnmam Dm poile, DO cuipf6
-] -\
ina pfparh ppip an alcoip
lob aon nf Dia eDac, i bd
po an comap&a naomcacca innpin. mop an Soinpilep Dol Impfpain Deipge ecip lapla upmurhan, -| an lupcip Doib DO lacaip an pij imon ccoinncinn pin, i cuccpac moiD apaon nd ciocpaD
e,
~\ ~\
Do
bi
ann map
pin achaiD,
nip cpfon
~|
.1.
-|
cap a aip ace pfp

hi Sapraib, i cainic
.1.
eiccin Dib.
an lupnp
T?o pfopaD nepinn. T?o
an
uaip DO ecc an ciapla ba Doilij ecc an ci acbac annpin

nf hi'pm
Semup mac piapaip
puaiD, mic Semaip, mic emainn buicilep
munbaD ap
mill Don ecclaip rpe comaiple

which
is
na nfirpiciccfb.
norlar and Castleliuu, in the barony of Raphoe,
usually prefixed to adjectives as a conis
significant particle,
used as an adjective
sig-
and county of Donegal.

n
'Chisel.
nifying excessive.
*
The word ponpupa
is
still
used
Niall Conallagh.
He was
i.
so called because
he was fostered in Tirconnell.

1
among mean "
the tradesmen, of the south of Ireland to

a chisel."
This passage was published
Umhall-Ui-Mhaitte,
e.
Owel, or Urnallia,
in the Annals of Dublin, in the Dublin P. Journal, in 1833.
the country of O'Malley, which comprised the baronies of Murresk and Burrishoole, in the
county of Mayo.
No part of the dress. Here it will be observed that aon nl oia eoac is the nominative
case to the verbs cpion
ever, is a
m
Coill-na-gatiridin,
i. e.
the' wood of the pars-
and lob.
writer,
This,
how-
nips,
now
Killygardan, situated between Stra-
mere mistake of the
who
should
1545.]
1491
THE .AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1545.
thousand five hundred forty-jive.
Niall Conallagh", the son of Art, son of
Con
O'Neill, died.
1
.
Mac Sweeny-na-dTuath (Owen)
died in Umhall-Ui-Mhaille
Egneglian O'Donnell was slain by a party of Calvagh O'Donnell's people. O'Conor Sligo (Teige Oge, the son of Teige, son of Hugh) was slain by a
party from Moylurg. The defeat of Coill-na-gcuiridinm was given
sons of the great O'Donnell More, in
by Calvagh O'Donnell
to the
which Donough Cairbreach O'Donnell
was
slain.
Church in Dublin was broken down for some purpose, arid a stone coffin was discovered, in which was the body of a bishop, in his episcopal dress, with ten gold rings on his ten fingers, and a gold mass-chalice
part of Christ's
chisel" as to
The body lay in a hollow, so cut in the stone by a standing beside his neck. fit the of the body and it was taken up, all the parts adshape
;
hering together, and placed in a standing position, supported against the altar, and left there for some time. No part of the dress had faded or rotted, and this was a great sign of/sanctity.
A dispute
arose between the Earl of Ormond and the

;
Lord
Justice, namely,
and both repaired to the King of England to settle that dispute before him, both having sworn that only one of them p should return to Ireland. And so it fell outq for the Earl diedr in England, and the Lord Justice returned
the Chancellor
,
to Ireland.
The death
Butler,
of that individual,
i.
e.
of
Edmond
would have been lamented, were

by advice of the
heretics.
James, the son of Pierce Roe, son it not that he had greatly
injured the Church,
have written
ni po cplon it thus i nip loB an copp na aon ni oia eoac, ba mop an corhapca naorhcacca mnpn; i.e. and the body or any part of its dress had not rotted or faded,
:
-)
And so
it fell
out, literally,
" and
this thing
-|
was
'
verified."
The Earl
died.
Sir Richard
Cox
asserts, in
his Hibernia Anglicana, p. 280, at
A. D. 1545,
and
p
was a great sign of sanctity. Only one of them, i. e. both having sworn
this
that the Earl of
Ormond and
thirty-five of his
that only the one or the other of
them should
servants were poisoned at a feast at Ely house, in Holborn, and that he and sixteen of them
return to Ireland.
died
but
this historian does
not take upon
ciNNaca Rio^hachca
TTlac meic uilliam cloinne piocaipD
.1.
eiraeciNN.
[1545.
uillicc
comap pappanca mac
na
ccfnn mic TCiocaipO, mic uillicc cnuic cuaj DO bol ap lonnpaiccib hi pfol nanmcaba. lap na oipiuccab ipm cfp la piol nanmchaba po Ifnab 6 co bealac
ripe icain co po
mapbao ipm maiîn
fin e la TTluincip TTlaoileaclainn bailb',
-]
amaille ppip. pice Do poi^nib a muincipe

mbliabainpi co ccucccaoi pe pingine (.1. Do pfnaipsfcr) bdna ipm mi&e. ap an mbaipjin hi cconnacraib, no pe pinginne Coccab enp o puaipc bpian ballac mac eoccain, ~\ a bfpbpacaip pfm Do
Docmara mop ipm
caoib a rharap .1. cabcc mac cacail oicc uf concobaip cijfpna Sbccij. Oioj;bet Dfbpen b'ala mopa DO benarh fcoppa ap jac caob, coippbealbac 6 paijilli^
]
cliamain
oicc.
puaipc Do rhapbab Dupcop Do pelep
nbopap
pliccij la
mac carail
TTlac uf bpiain
i
apa (connla) Do mapbab ina caiplen pfm
la bpaijDib baf
laim aije.
Gom.mac an giolla Duib mic concobaip mic Donnchaib, mic Domnaill na mabmann mic pmbne DO rhapbab la concobap mac rmipchaib mic concobai]i
mic puibne. "Cabcc mac comaip mic pgannlain mic Diapmaoa
50 mfjaolrhap la cloinn TTlhuipcfpcaij TTlhegopmain.
megopmam Do rhapbab
Piapup 6 rnuipjfpa maijipnip pccol, pfp Ifijinn coircinn peap nepeann peap Denma Dfipce cpabaib Do ecc. Oomnall mac an oipipceil moip meg congail Decc.
-\
"j
i
himself to decide whether this happened by acIt cident or mistake, or was done by design.
looks very strange that the Irish annalists should have made no reference to this poisoning.
s
Tire-Ithain,
now
Tirran, a district in the
barony of Longford, containing four quarters of land. See Indentures of Compositions, ten^pore
Elizabeth,
in
Hardiman's edition of Koderic
Thomas Farranta,
i.
e.
Thomas
the athletic
O'Flaherty's (Jhorographical Description of larConnaught, p. 321.

x One of them, i. e. one of the great injuries done between them.
J
or puissant.
Cnoc Tuagh, now Knockdoe. Ulick was so called from having fought a battle at this place
'
Son-in-law.
The word cliamain means
re-
in 1504
See note
under that year,

i.
p.
1277,
lative
'-
by marriage.
supra.
u
The Sil-Anmchadha,
e.
the O'Maddens of
the barony of Longford, in the county of Gal-
The word is often apGateway, oopap. to the military gate of a town, which is plied otherwise called ppappa, and ppaippe ; but the
word oopap
is
way.
now always used
in the spoken
1545.]

of
1493
(Thomas Farranta", the son of Ulick-na-gCeann, son of Eickard, son of Ulick of Cnoc-Tuagh ) went upon an excursion into Sil-Anmchadha. When he was observed in the territory by the w Sil-Anmchadha", they pursued him to the pass of Tire-Ithain where he was
The son
Mac William
of Clanrickard
slain by the people of Melaghlin Balbh [O'Madden], together with twenty of the most distinguished of his people.
Great dearth [prevailed] in this year, so that sixpence of the old money were given for a cake of bread in Connaught, or six white pence in Meath. war [broke out] between O'Rourke (Brian Ballagh, the son of Owen)
and his own brother by the mother's side, namely, Teige, the son- of Cathal Oge O'Conor, Lord of Sligo. Great injuries were done on both sides between
them and one of them" was

;
the killing of
ball, in the
y Turlough O'Reilly, the son-in-law of
O'Rourke, with the shot of a

Oge. Mac-I-Brien of
2 gateway of Sligo, by the son of Cathal
Ara (Conla) was
slain in his
own
castle
by some prisoners
whom
he had in
captivity.
John, the son of Gilla-Duv t son of Conor, son of
Donough, son of Donnell-
na-madhmann a Mac Sweeny, was Conor Mac Sweeny.

1*
slain -by
Conor, the son of Murrough, son of
Teige, the son of Thomas, son of Scanlan, son of DermotMac Gorman, was unbecomingly slain by the sons of Murtough Mac Gorman.
Pierce O'Morrissy, a master of schools, a general lecturer Ireland, and a man of charity and piety", died.
of the
men
of
Donnell, son of the great
official,
Mag Congail
;
6
,
died.
Irish language to denote door or doorway never gate, or gateway. a Donnell-na-madhmann, i. e. Donnell of the
defeats.
Thaum.,
p.
295, and
p.
1
lector
same work,
298
and
sen professor in the at p. 299, he renders
aipopeap 16 jinn,
theologice professor.
archischolasticus, seu prcecipuits
This
Mac Morissy would not
adjective mijaolmap signifies unrelation-like, or unbecoming a kins-
Unbecomingly.
The
appear to have been an ecclesiastic.

evidently a
d
He was
mere
literary teacher,
man
c
and an adjective
is
made
into an adverb
A man
-|
of charity and piety,
peap oenihu
of the doing
in Irish
by prefixing 50, or co.

i.
ofipce
e.
cpaBaio, literally, a
man
lecturer, pfp Id jinn, or literature. This term reading,
General
man
of
of [acts of] charity and piety,

e Mag Congail, now Magonigle, a name cornmori in the south of the county of Donegal.
is
translated
sckolasticus, seu lector theologies,
byColgan mTrias
14<)4
QHNata Rioshachca
QO1S CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopc,
imfle,
eirceawN.
[1546.
1546.
cuicc ceo, cfcpaca, aye.

f
Oorhnall mac aoba ouib mic ao&a puaib
oorhnaill Do
mapbab
(an. 20.
mac emainn ~\ la a rhnaoi onopa appil) a ppiull la hua njallcubaip, Gojan uf gallcubaip lap na cocuipfo Dia paijio 50 hinip pairhep injfn cuacail bailb
miific an baipD goppaiD, "| concoicpice mic oiapmaca mic 6d liac oibfb an cf copcdip annpin, ap nf baof pfp clfipicc. a aopa Do clannrhaicne conaill mic neill ap ap mo paoflfccain pocaiDe map. 17o fipgfccap Dfbfpccaij iom6a Do gfpalcacaib inajam na Saânac DO
ap planaib DC, caiDcc caim uf
~|
biojail
cille
a monnappra ap a nouehaij poppa Uilliam mac Semaip mac mpla occbaib TTluipip an pfba mac Semaip meipccij mic an mpla oapa,
.1. -]
~\
etc amaille ppiu.
Do ponaD Dfojbdla
Diaipnfipi leo.
6a
DiBpi&e cpeaca baile
moip na nupcdpac Cpeaca paca bile,i a mbaof ina compocpaib. Cpeacaoh co puccpac an luce ceDna il mile bo nuimip nac 1 lopccab Rara lombdm no dipfrh leo Don cup pin. poic pirn
-]
Inopaicchib la hua cceallaij hi piol namchaba, ~\ la pliocc bpfpail uf maDajjain ap TTlhaoileaclainn gore 6 maccaccctin. Do bfcpac an cfp ina
DO bfpcpac puabaip'c poppa. Soairpium ppiu co po mapbpac nf bd moa oloap cfcpacac Don copaij, "| pob fpbabach an cfp ~| upmumam on
nofohaib,
~\
caicjleo
pin.
Qpccain
perhpdice,
-j
lopccab cldip caipppe
-\
caiplem caipppe lap na Dibfpccacaib
Id
)
pfm bpian, DO cuala an lupcip ancoin Sencligep

f
mac uf concobaip pailê Oonnchab 6 concobaip. ua mopba giollapacpaicc Dfipje ipm ccoccab lap
in nf pin cainic
i
Ua concobaip Qn can pin.

T?o inDip
nuib pailje.
Invited him,
lap
na rocuipfo oia
faijio,
plunderer or rebel
to
an outlawed person given

e.
literally, after
Inis-Saimer.
the inviting of him to them to t)ia pa'jio means usque ad ittos.

called Fish island,
is
plunder and
'
acts of revenge.
i.
Tnis-Saimer,
now
a small
Maurice-an-fheadha, wood.
Maurice of the
the great town
island in the River Erne,
under the cataract of
^Baile-mor-na-n-Iustasach,
i.
e.
Assaroe at Ballyshannon.
g
of the Eustaces,
Expected by
the
multitude
Majors spe plelis.
Disaffected persons.
is
The word otbpeapjoc
Ballymore-Eustace, situated on the River Liffey, in the barony of Newcastle, and county of Dublin,
'
now
used in ancient Irish manuscripts to denote a
Rath-bile,
i.
e.
the fort of the old tree,
now
1546.]
1495
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one thousand jive
1546.
hundred forty -six.
Donnell, the son of Hugh Duv, son of Hugh Roe O'Donnell, was treacherously slain, on the 20th of April, by O'Gallagher (Owen, the son of Edmond) and his wife Honora, daughter of Tuathal Balbh O'Gallagher, after they had into Inis-Saimer, under the protection of God, of Mac Ward (Godfrey), and Cucogry, the son of Dermot, son of Teige Cam O'Clery. The death of this man was the cause of great sorrow, for of all the descendants of Connell, the
vited
him f
son of Niall, there was not on& of his years from the multitude 8
.
whom more was
expected by
up against the Saxons, in of their expulsion from their patrimony, namely, William, the son of revenge James, the son of the Earl of Kildare Maurice-an-fheadha', son of James
Many
disaffected persons" of the Geraldines rose
and many other youths besides these. They did indescribable damages, among which were the plundering of Baile-mor-nak n-Iustasach and the plundering of Rath-bile and of all the country around m them and the plundering and burning of Rath-Iomdhain from which they carried away on that occasion many thousands of cows, a number [in fine] that
Meirgeach, son of the Earl
; 1
,
could not be enumerated
or*
reckoned.
An incursion was made by O'K^lly and the descendants of Breasal O'Madden

into Sil-anmchadha, against Melaghlin
God O'Madden. The
[inhabitants of the]
;
country went in pursuit of them, and made an attack upon them but they turned round on them [their pursuers], and slew more than forty of them and the territory and Ormond felt the loss sustained in this battle.
;
and Castle-Carbury were plundered and burned by the aforenamed insurgents, and by Donough, the son of O'Conor Faly. O'Conor himself (Brian) and O'More (Gilla-Patrick) afterwards rose up, to join in this
plain of Cairbre"
insurrection.
The
When
the
,
Lord
Justice,
Anthony
St.
Leger, had heard of
this,
Kathvilly, a village situated on the River Slaney,
and giving name to a barony in the county of

Carlow.
in the county of Kildare. The plain ofCairbre, i. e. the present barony of Carbury, in the north-west of the county of
n
known town
Rath-Ionwlhain,
now Rathangan,
a well
Kildare, which
is
remarkably
level.
1496
1 po loipcc
awNata Rio^hachca emeaiw.

-\ -|
[1546.
an rfp co cocap cpuacain, p oaib gan aipipib of oibce innce, mac ui concobaip Rubpai jje Do bol pa baile aca ai, car jan piap. O mopba, an mop Do cabaipc leo (ecip an rhainipcip DO lopccab Doib, an baile
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i
cfp
-[
Diocuccab
.1.
fca, i
apba.
17o paccaib
bapoa
ipin
mbaile le haccaib uf conco~\
ceD paijoiuip cona ceD mapcach ceD co njonabaib, ceo co ccuajaib baip a ppupcain Do biub Da gac noaopccappluaj amaille ppiu. T?o paccaib
-)
naibilcc aca, i luib app,
~\
Do Deachaib co na mop pocpaiDe 50
laoijip,
~\
camnicc lapla Dfpmuman coicc la Decc ele ace inDpab an
pluaijfb Ian
mop ina coinne Dia corhmopab barrap cfpe hf pin. âbcap leo caiplen buf la
inn.
hua mopba
.1.
baile
aoam,
~\
pdccbaicr bapDa
T?o cinp an
pn'i
lupnp
lappin
cfp,
~\
licpeaca i pccpibenna co maicib ua ppailge Dia pab concobaip DO cpeccean, i co cciobpab papoun ooib.
cocc Don
-j
UangaDap cpa
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nfp
bo cian Doib lap pin an can po lompaipioc goill Don cfp 50 po peallpac poppa, ua mopba 1 gop bfiipac il mile Do buaib bfob. Ro puaccpab ua concobaip,
po epmn, i Do coccbab a nouchaij gup an pij, i Do caeD ua concobaip hi connaccaib Do cuinjib pocpaicce. lompafo pipceall i TTlaseocugain (ap popcongpa an lupcip) qp muincip uf concobaip, 50 po bfnpac bu lomba
-\
Togher of Cruackan, now the townl^nd of Togher, situated near the conspicuous hill of
the county of Kildfre.

*
By burning and slaying,
literally,
"and great
Cruachan, or Croghan, in the north of the King's County. See note ', under the year 1385,
p.
slaughter was given [made] by them (between burning and slaying) upon the Saxons and the
Irish
r
700, and note

p
Ath-Ai,
i.
e.
m under 1395, p. 736, supra. , the ford of Ae, the son of Der-
on that occasion."
gabhail, the fosterer of Eochaidh Finn Fuathairt, who was slain at this ford in a battle which was
The word fca is the genitive case Crops. of loc, corn, and apBa is a synonimous word but it must be borne in mind that the style of
;
fought here in the third century between Laoighseach Ceannmhor, the ancestor of the O'Mores,
the Four Masters

kind.
s
is full
of redundancies of this
and the forces of Munster.

fol.
See Book of Lecan, The place was afterwards called in Irish 6aile ara C(oi, i. e. the town of the ford of Ae. The name is now anglicised Athy, which is that of a well-known town on the River Bar105, a.
In
the town.
According
to
Ware, who
is
followed by Cox, the town in which the Lord
William Brabazon, left the garrison on this occasion was Athy; but the Editor is of opinion that the garrison was on this occasion
Justice, Sir
in the fort of
row, in the barony of Narragh and Rheban, in
Daingean
in Ofialy (ai'terwards
1546.]

Offaly,
1497
and plundered and burned the country as far as the Togher and he remained there two nights, but he returned without of Cruachan submission. O'More and the son of O'Conor (Rury) at[receiving] battle or
he came into
;
p tacked the town of Ath-Ai and burned the town and monastery, and destroyed many persons, both English and Irish, both by burning and slaying", on this
,
occasion.
came a second time into Offaly, and remained fifteen days in the country, plundering and spoiling it, burning churches and monasteries, 5 and destroying crops' and corn. He left a garrison in the town to oppose O'Conor, namely, one hundred horsemen, one hundred [armed] with guns, one
Justice
,
The Lord
hundred with
battle-axes,
left
and one hundred
soldiers, together
with their
common
attendants; he
them
a sufficiency of food,
and
all
other necessaries, and
of
then departed, and proceeded with his great army into Leix, whither the Earl Desmond came with a numerous army to join him. They remained for
and they took Baile-Adam', a castle days plundering that country belonging to O'More, and left warders in it. After this the Lord Justice sent
fifteen
;
and writings to the chieftains" of Offaly, inviting them" to come into the territory, and abandon O'Conor, and that he would grant them pardon. They
letters
but not long afterwards the English returned into the accordingly did return territory, and acted treacherously" towards them, so that they deprived them of many thousands of cows. O'Conor and O'More were proclaimed [traitors]
;
throughout Ireland, and their territories were transferred" to the King. And O'Conor went into Connaught to look for forces and the people of Fircall and
;
Mageoghegan,
at the request of the
Lord
Justice, turned
upon O'Conor's
the sub-chieftains
people,
called Philipstown), sion to

ters
which he built on
this occa-
Chieftains,
i.
e.
who were
subdue O'Conor Faly. The Four Masshould have written it thus " He erected
:
tributary to O'Conor, as
O'Dempsey, O'Dunne,
"
telling
O'Hennessy, &c.
"
a fort at Daingean in Offaly, in which he left a garrison to oppose O'Conor, namely, one hun-
Inviting them, literally,
them
to
come into the

*
territory."
dred horsemen, one hundred gunners, one hundred axemen, and one hundred soldiers [sagittarii?]
'
Acted treacherously. This treacherous conduct of Sir William Brabazon is not referred to
with their attendants."
by Ware, Cox, Leland, or any of the modern

Irish historians.
y
Baile-Adam, now Ballyadams, a castle in
ruins, giving
name
to a
barony in the north-east
Tram/erred,
i. e.
confiscated or seized to the
of the Queen's County.
King's use.
9 E
Rio^hachca einecmN.
bpcnjoe
lie Dib.
[1546.
cabccdin an cceDna ponpac clann colmdin i muincip oeoalaib ip na Dfmfn(Ip ing ma po cfcclamab a ccomrhop pin Daipcccib coib conao arhlaiD fin po haccuipeaD occup po hionnapbab ceann ponupa
Do
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bpian 6 concobaip, i po puipib pibe pai&bpfpa an Ifice ippaibe pein oepinn hi cconnaccaib co noolaicc lap njaipm cpecupa De la gallaib.
.1.
TTlac giolla paccpaicc
cojaibe eippiDe),
1 goill Dia
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bpian DO jabail a mic pfm .1. ca&cc (cfnn pfona a cup 50 hdc cliac co na coipcib pfn pccpiobca apaon pip,
.1.
bdpuccab ap popdilfrh a acap. TTlonab nua Do reacc nepinn copap, pobficcfn Dpeapaib epeann a bci ha&bal nfpc Sajcanaij nepinn an can pa jabail map aipccfrc. 6d mop co mba puaill ma baof aicjin na bpoioe mbdccap Ifc moja piarh piap an can
i
.1.
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-]
pom.
Ua6cc
6 cobcaij OIDC pcol

illairh hi
pdice co Ific
a bfic epeann le Dan Do jabail la jallaib ccaiplen an pij cpe na commbdiD 16 gaoi&ealaib co
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po pobpaD aoiDfo, apa aoi cepna plan pa DeorD.
Na
Qn
"
Saâin ace Denam caiplem an Dainjin,
bpipeaD
a cop pan obaip, pfipfoh Gouapo Do piojaoh op Saâib.

leo,
]
-\
cfmpall cille o Duippn Do pfppun cpuacain Do milleaD boib.

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28. lanuapt'f.
p. 50,
The Clann-Colman,
i.
e.
the O'Melaghlins,
the
Coinage of Ireland,
states that these
who were
barony of Clonlonan, in the county of Westmeath. a Muintir-Tadhgain, i. e. the Foxes, who were
at this period seated in the
coins, according to indenture,
were
to
be eight
that, as
ounces
fine,
and four ounces
alloy.;
but
at this period seated in the
in the county of
b
barony of Kilcoursey, Westmeath.

In
Simon and Euding justly obser/e, they were only four ounces fine and eight alloy. From
several of these coins yet remaining, it
is quite evident that they were mixed, not pure brass, as Ware says, or pure copper, as the Four Mas-
Scarcely.
dp
Ing
.1.
is
thus explained by
" O'Clery:
eijjen."
c
Sigfn.
ay ing
.1.
ay ap
Ire-
ters
have
it.
It is probable that neither
Ware
Copper
land,
Ware
says, in his
Annals of
nor the Four Masters ever saw any one of these

coins.
d
under
this year, that
King Henry,
to main-
tain his charges in Ireland (being in
want of
and
Eighteen weeks, literally,
"a quarter and a
money, by reason of the vast treasure he had

wasted on his
expeditions into
half."
e
France
Daingean,
now
Scotland), gave directions to have brass

coined,
money
County.
The
site of this
Philipstown, in the King's Daingean, or fort of
and commanded by proclamation that it should pass for current and lawful money in all
parts of Ireland.
See also Cox's Hibernia Arir
Philipstown, is now occupied by Mr. Blacker's house, situated at that extremity of the town nearest to Tullamore. In the wall of this house the proprietor pointed out to the Editor in
1
glicana, p. 280.
Mr. Lindsay, in his View of
838,
1546.]
1499
z and took many cows and prisoners, from them. The Clann-Colman and Muina tir-Tadhgain did the same and scarcely" had there been in modern times
;
And thus was he expelled and so much booty and spoil collected together. banished, he who had been the head of the happiness and prosperity of that half
of Ireland in which he lived, namely, Brian O'Conor.
And
he remained in
Connaught
traitor
until [the following] Christmas, after'
having been proclaimed a

son, Teige, a distinguished
by the English.
Gilla-Patrick (Brian) took prisoner his
Mac
captain,
own
and sent him

;
to
Dublin with
[a statement of] his crimes written along to death at the request of his
with him
father.
and the English of Dublin put him

i.
New
At
coin was introduced into Ireland,

it
e.
copper
and the men of Ireland
were obliged to use

this
as silver.
so that the
time the power of the English was great and immense in Ireland, bondage in which the people of Leath-Mhogha were had scarcely
been ever equalled before that time.

Teige O'Coffey, preceptor of the schools of Ireland in poetry, was taken prisoner by the English, and confined for eighteen weeks' in the King's castle
1
for his attachment to the Irish. It
was intended that he should be put

e
to death,
but he escaped safe from them
at length.
,
The English
Cill 0'Duirthi
f
,
erected the castle of Daingean and destroyed the church of and used its materials in the work and they ruined the castle
;
of Cruachan.
Edward VI. S was crowned King
of England on the 28th of January.
two stonea on which are sculptured the royal arms of England, and the date 1556. The Editor is of opinion that this was the place which was
garrisoned
King's County.
No
it
part of this church
is
now
standing, nor does
appear to have been ever
rebuilt after this period.

*
by the Lord
Justice in this year to

as is generally
Edward VI.
The Four Masters should have
subdue O'Conor, and not Athy,

stated
by Irish historians. If so, this entry should precede the one above given, beginning
p.
entered this passage under the next year. Sir Harris Nicolas, in his Chronology of History, second edition, p. 334, shews from the most
1497, line 7, supra.

'Gill CPDuirthi,
i.
e.
the church of the Ui-
authentic sources, that Edward VI. ascended the throne on the day of the death of his father,
Duirthi,
now
rish comprising the
Killodurhy, or Killoderhy, a patown of Philipstown, in the
Henry
VIII., namely, Friday, the 28th of Ja-
nuary, 1547.
E2
i.5oo
ctNNata Ric-shachca emeciNR
[1547.
QO1S CR1OSU,
Qoip cpiopc,
TTlac puibne
1547.
mile, cufcc ceo, cfcpacar,
a Seacr.
bajamec, mall occ Do mapbab an.

clann TTlaolmuipe
.1.
3.
pepeembep la
bet
cloinn,
a beapbpacap
.1.
Dorhnall occ
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bpian occ.
harm po
mapbab mapbab
cuiOi
he i mbpai gDfmip a noiojail nacap po p ibe ipin mbabbbun nua, -\ an ofpbpacaip ele nf po la Niall peer piam, ITIaolmuipe mfipgeac
pibe an
mapbab
ipin.
ofppccai^ce ofijeimj Decc. na oibfpccacaib i mbaile na crpi ccaiplen la y apcCacpaofnfb mop popp ancoib 1 la bpian an coccaib mac roippbealbaij uf ruacail ou in po jabab
bfn TTlop injfn uf cfpbaill
od mac Semaip mic an mpla TTluipip an pfba hanpai co ccfirpe peapaib Ruccab co hac cliac lace lap pin, Decc Dia muinnp. Do ponab cfcpamna Dfb uile cenmoca ITluipip, hi ccaiplen an pig ace po cuipeab lompuipec'le
.1.
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comaiple cia bap Do bepcaof 1 na Dibfpccai^ amlaib pin

ppojail.
bo.
)
po pcanpab na pojlaba jep bo geapp a pe .1. bliabain, pob abbal a

T?o pccaofleab,
"]
concobaip
-\
ccloinn
ma
ccoinne
~\
mopba Do bol rap pionamn, ap nool Do bpmnj Da co hac cpoic, pocaibe mop DO rionol Doib Do bol Do
-| -\ ~|
Diojail a nDuirce
a ppfpoinn ap Shajcancoib, a nDol lap pin illaijnib. âoc mop Deipje an omce pia ppeil bpfjDe gup bo puaill ma cainic a
6 jfin cpiopc alle 50 po bpip cfmpail,
co caiplem haipibe po bpip pi an Da uillmn lapcapaij Do rfmpall cluana mic noip. Smacc ~\ nfpc abbal ace Saôib co na Ificcfb an fccla Do neoc biaDh na caomna Do cabaipc Dua concobaip na Dua mopba.
commop
maimpcpe
-]
Qn
lonaiD
lupcipeacc Do
.1.
buam
t>o
ancoin Sencligep,
-\
uipcip nua Do gabail a
eDuapD bellijam.
ITluipip an pfba
h
mac mpla
i.
cille
Dapa Do bdpuecab
tion,
nar
cliar.
Baile-na-dtri-gCaiden,
three castles,
Liffey, in
e.
the town of the
now
the Three Castles on the River
there
sent.
'
there were three castles at the place, but is only-the ruins of one of them at preBrian, or Bernard",
the parish of Blessington, barony of
Lower Talbotstown, and county of Wicklow.

It is
Brian-cm- Chogaidh,
Atk-Croich.
i.
e.
called " the
Town
of the Three Castles"
of the war.
)
in the
Down
Survey, and, according to tradi-
This was the name of a ford on
1547.]
1501
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1547.
thousand five hundred forty-seven.
Mac Sweeny Baghaineach (Niall Oge) was slain on the 3rd of September, by the sons of his own brother, namely, the sons of Maelmurry, namely, DonHe was killed while in prison, in the new Badh nell Oge and Donnell Oge. Bawn, in revenge of their father, who had been slain some time before by Niall.
Maelmurry Meirgeach,
their other brother, did not assist
them
in this killing.
More, daughter of O'Carroll, an excellent and truly hospitable woman, died.
The
rebels [Fitzgeralds] sustained a great defeat at Baile-na-dtri-gCaislen"

1
from the English, and from Brian-an-chogaidh' the son of Turlough O'Toole, in which the two sons of James, son of the Earl, namely, Maurice-an-fheadha and Henry, with fourteen of their people, were taken prisoners. They were
,
afterwards conveyed to Dublin, and all cut into quarters, excepting Maurice, who was imprisoned in the King's castle, until it should be determined what
these plunderers and rebels dispersed and scared and although their career was but of short duration (one year only), committed vast depredations. they
death he should receive.

;
Thus were
for
O'Conor and O'More crossed the Shannon, some of their sons having come them to Ath-Croich They assembled numerous forces for the purpose of
j
.
wreaking their vengeance on the English, who were in possession of their monial lands and they afterwards proceeded into Leinster.
;
patri-
A great
wind arose the night before the
festival of St. Bridget.
Scarcely
had so great a storm occurred from the birth of Christ until then. It threw down churches, monasteries, and castles, and particularly the two western wings of the church of Clonmacnoise.
of the English prevailed so much, that, through terror", no one dared to give food or protection to O'Conor or O'More. The justiceship was taken out of the hands of Anthony St. Leger and a
v
The power and jurisdiction
new
Justice assumed his place, namely,
Edward Bellingham.
Maurice-an-fheadha, son of the Earl of Kildare, was put to death in Dublin.

the Shannon, near Shannon Harbour See Tribes and Customs ofHy-Many, p. 5, note
.
immense j urisdiction and power, so that fear used

to prevent every person
from giving food or
"
Through
terror,
literally,
" the English had
shelter to O'Conor, or O'More."
1502
QNNata Rioghachca emectNN.

TTlaeleaclainn got) 6
[1547.
Cpeaca mopa (.1. cuicc ceO bo) DO oenamh la gdm ap ufb oomnalldm. Caiplen aca luain Do copuccab la gallaib
pmep an
pf
i
maDa-
nepinn,-] la gallaib,
laij) (oonncab
mac emamn)
-\
bpabapon cpe-' na mibe (Daimbeoin uf cealgaoibealaib gaoibeal cconnacc. t>accap Dna floij an
.1.
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16 huilliam
mpcip an can
pin hillaijip
ace Denarii Duncluib ace an mbdbun

~\
piagotfiac,
~\
uf rnopDa. po pdccaibpioD bapDa ann le hajhaib uf concobaip Cobcac mac TTlaoileaclainn mic bpfpail uf maDagdin macaom a aopa bliabam ap picic) pob pfpp Dia cinfo babein DO riiapbaD la mumcip uf cfp(.1.
baill
uf
muinnp maoileaclamn bailb uf maoacam. maDaccdin Dfpbpacaip TTlaoileaclainn bailb baof

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la
ma Diogail la bpairpib cobcaij Dia nabnacal iaD. puccaD

cpochaD
UlupcaD piabac mac ngfiiheal ag cobcac Do la a mumcip conaD a naofnpeacc

i
O
poile
i
concobaip
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cacaoip puaD co na bpaicpib Do Denarh cfngail 50 nua pe
nacchaib gall, uaip po bfnpac goill a nouchaij DfbpiDe arhail po bfnpac Dua concobaip conab aipe pin DO loccap a ccombdib uf concobaip. Id cloinn cacaoip uf concobaip Inopaicchib DO cabaipc Id hua'mopba hi concae cille Dapa 50 50 po cpeachab uprhop cpice lupcapac po loipcceab leo. Ro anpacc laparii ipin cfp 50 puce an lupcfp poppa. T?o ppaofneab
~\ ~\
pop na gaoibelaib pin, ~\ po mapbab Da ceo cpoijrec oib laip Don cup TTlaibm DO cabaipc ap ua maoileaclamn (conn mac aipc) co na
Id mall
pin.
bpaicpib
mac
peilim uf maofleaclainn, -\ Id
ciapain DU in
mumcip bapuin Dealbna ap paicce 6 maoileaclamn conn, po mapbab copbmac a beapbpacaip

-\
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canaipi cloinne colmdin,
pice no bo amaille ppiu.

6
concobaip bpian,
~\
mopba
giolla
paccpaicc (iap nd ccpeccean Do
gaoibealaib) Do bol hi ccfnn jail pa na mbpfic pfin ap comaipce joill uapail .i. leucenanc bd hole an comaipce hipin. -]
1
From
the
Here the uiB

fix of
O'Donnettans, 6 uib oomnallam. is the dative plural of O, the pre-
O'Dunnes, in the barony of Tinahinch and Queen's County. This is probably Castlebrack,
situated near Cloonaslee in this barony. Faithche- Chiarain, i. e. St. Kieran's green, The Editor has not been able to find any place
the surname, not of the tribe-name, which
was Clann-Breasail.
this
For the true descent of
family, see Tribes
and Customs ofHy-Many,
pp. 32, 76.
Badhun-Riaganach, i. e. the bawn of the Hy- Regan which was the tribe-name of the
bearing this
name
in the county of
Westmeath.
The Lieutenant.
who
This was Francis Brian, married the Countess Dowager of Ormond,
1547-]

off
1
1503
Great preys, i. e. five hundred cows, were carried O'Madden from the O'Donnellans
.
by Melaghlin God
Athlone was repaired by the English, namely, by William Brabazon, the King's Treasurer in Ireland, and the English and Irish of Meath, in despite of O'Kelly (Donough, the son of Edmond) and the Irish of Con-
The
castle of
forces of the Lord Justice were [engaged in] erecting naught. At this time the m where they left warriors to a fortification in Leix around Badhun-Riaganach
,
oppose O'Conor and O'More. Coffey, the son of Melaghlin, son of Breasal O'Madden, the best youth of his age (twenty-one years) of his tribe, was slain by the people of O'Carroll
and of Melaghlin Balbh O'Madden. [But] Murrough Eeagh, the son of 0*Mad~ den, the brother of Melaghlin Balbh, who was in prison with Coffey, was hanged,
in revenge of him,
for interment at
by Coffey's kinsmen and people the same time.

their kindred,
so that both
were carried
O'Conor and Cahir Roe, and
formed a new confederacy
against the English, for the English had stripped these also of their patrimony, and therefore they joined in confederacy with O'Conor. as well as O'Conor
;
irruption was made by O'More and the sons of Cahir O'Conor into the county of Kildare, and burned and plundered the greater part of the territory of the Eustaces. They remained in that country until the Lord Justice over-
An
took them.
These
Irish. were defeated
on
this occasion,
with the loss of two
hundred foot
soldiers.
O'Melaghlin (Con, the son of Art) and his kinsmen were defeated by Niall,
the son of Felim O'Melaghlin, and the people of the Baron of Delvin, at Faithche-
O'Melaghlin (Con) and Cormac, his brother, Tanist of Clann-Colman, and a score or two along with them. O'Conor (Brian) and O'More (Gilla-Pa trick), having been abandoned by
Chiarain",
slain
where there were
the Irish,
went over
to the English, to
make submission
i.
to
them upon
their
.
own
terms, under the protection of an English gentleman, however, was a bad protection.
and was made Marshal of Ireland, and governor of the counties of Tipperary and Kilkenny. He
e.
the Lieutenant
This,
was chosen Lord Justice of Ireland on the 27th

of December, 1549, but did not long enjoy this
honour, for having made a journey into the /county of Tipperary, to check the incursions of O'Carroll, he died at Clonmel on the 2nd of
February following.
1504
Riojjhachca
[1548.
Cucoiccjvice mac emainn meg coclain cfnn a jjablain pfm DO mapbab hi mac coippbealbaij. ppiull la maoileaclamn ua maoileaclainn, -\ la TTlupcab TTlac mupcaDa, TTluipcfprac mac aipr bume Decc.
t
aois crciosc,
Qoip Cpiopr, mile, cufcc
TTlaiDm
cet),
1548.
cfcpaca, a hocc.
ppac bo piaich ap a mac pfm .1. an calbac, ap 6 ccaran .1. TTlajnup mac DonnchaiD Du in po mapbaD 6 carain pfippin co pocaiDib ele an peaccmao la Do mi pebpu. TTlaipe mfn meic conmiDe DO ecc, an. 4. appil.
nDorhnaill TTIajnup ap
~]
mop DO rabaipc la hua
Mac Murrough,
fyc.
The
entries
under
this
congress! duos
filios
Jacobi
filii
comitis Kildariae,
year are translated into Latin in a manuscript in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, F. 1. 18, p. 287. It is in the handwriting of
Henricum et 14 eorum comites ceperunt, qui postea Dublinium adducti omnes

Mauritium,
et
in carcerem acti et in
quatuor partes dissecti

qui in vincula
Daniel Molyneux, who was Ulster King at Arms, but the translation was made for Sir
sunt
praster
unum Mauritium
James Ware, by some good Irish and Latin scholar, probably Dr. John Lynch, the author
of Cambrensis Eversus.
it
conjectus arci Eegia custodiendus traditur, dum concilium miretur qua poena multaretur, atque
The Editor
considers
hoc pacto ea societas dissoluta est, qua? exiguo unius anni spatio quo florebat, clades pene innumeras edidit. " O'Conchauro et o Moro ultra Sinneum am-
to lay this translation before the reader, that he may be enabled to judge for
his
duty
himself; but
it
should be remarked that the
translator does not follow the irregularities or imperfections of his original :
nem profectis ex vadum de Croich
6 Conchauri
filiis x
atque ad
occurrunt,
et
copiis
quam
maximis comparatis Lageniam ingrediuntur ad

avitos agros sibi eximi vendicandos, vel injurias
sibi
1547. Mac Suinius Bagnensis, Nellus juvenis a fratris ejus Mariani filiis quern jampriinteremerat, Daniele juveni & Briano juveni vita privatus est jn mandro novo, etiam turn ad eum in vinculis haberent ; vt nimirum
ultione de patris nece
"
dem
ab Anglis illatas vindicandas. " Pridie f. Sanctas Bridgidse venti adeo vehe-
menter extuli sunt, ut post Christum natum tanta vehementia concitati non putantur templa,
monasteria
c*teris
sumerent.
Sed frater
ne con-
&
castella solo adsequarunt ac prse
eorum Marianus Mergeach

scius nee consors fuit.
illius coedis
duo anguli occidentales templi Clonmac-
nosiensis evertuntur.
" Mora "
filia
o Cearvalli proba mulier et hos-
pitalis obiit.
" Anglorum potentia eo provecta est ut nemo cibum aut quidvis aliud subsidium 6 Conchauro
aut O'Moro subministrare auderet, " Anthonio St. Legero proregi successit in
filius
Angli et Brianus cognomento bellicosus Turdelachi 6 Tuathali cum prascriptis Ge-
raldinis in villa
Trium Castellorum pugnam
proregum munere obeundo Edw. Bellingliamus.
1548.]

Edmond Mac
slain
1505
of that
Cucogry, the son of

family,
Coghlan, head of his
own branch
was treacherously
by Melaghlin O'Melaghlin and Murrough, the

the son of Art Boy) died".
son of Turlough.
Mac Murrough (Murtough,
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1548.
thousand jive hundred forty-eight.

to his
A great
defeat
was given by O'Donnell (Manus)
own
,
son, Calvagh,
and O'Kane (Manus, the son of Donough), at Srath-bo-Fiaichq where O'Kane himself and numbers of others were slain, on the 7th of the month of February.
Mary, the daughter of Mac Conmidhe [Mac Namee], died on the 4th of April.
" Mauritius an fedha Comitis Kildariaj
filius
extreme supplicio Dublinii afficitur. " Malachias Got 6 Maddin 500 bourn
comitatum Kildarias progresses, et in eo postquam Eustachiorum agros devastates diutius

hsrentes Prorex preelio aggressus fudit, 200
peditibus interneoioni datis. " Cum 6 Moelachlino Cono Arturi
ac
pradam
ab Uibh-Donellanis retulit. " Castellum Athlonise a Gulielmo Brabazono

Hibernise Thesauro et Anglis et Hibernis Midiam
incolentibus instauratur invitis etiam O'Kellio,
filio
propinquis ejus in certamen veniunt Nellus Felemei O'Moelachlini filius et Baronis Delvinise
filius in
Donal
filio
Edmundi,
ac cseteris Hibernis Cona-
Campo
Ciarani his victoriam reportan-
Proregis Exercitus per ea tempora in Leghsia agens, vallum de *Riaganach muro valido et prsesidio militum munivit, ut se o Conciensibus.
tibus 0' Moelachlino,
Cormaco
fratre .Clancolaliis
manorum
20
post O'Moelachlinum Dynasta, et
desideratis.
chauri
& 6 Mori conatibus opponeret. " Cobtachus filius Malachite filii
" O'Conchaurus et O'Morus a suis derelicti

Bressali
ad nobilis cujusdam procenturionis Angli pro-
Maddin juvenis 21 annos natus contemporaneorum gentis ejus prsestantissimus, occisus est
6
fugium se ultro receperunt, quod tutum postea deprehenderunt.

"
in
sibi
minime
a clientela o Carvalli
&
Malachiae Balbi 6 Mad-
Cuchogrius
filius
Edmundi Mac Coghlani
din;
frater
sed
Murachus Riabhach Malachise Balbi apud Cobtachum in vinculis pcenam cedis

suspendio afiectus, a memorati Cob-
tribu ejus primus proditione a Malachia O'Moelachlin et Muracho Terdelachi filio coesus
"
illius dedit,
est.
tachi propinquis et clientibus ita ut
eodem
fu-
Mac Murchus, Murchertachus,

Srath-bo-Fiaick,
i. e.
filius
Arturi
nere ad sepulturam elati fuerunt. " Cahirus Rufus novo se armorum societate
6 Conchauro junxit ut quern etiam Angli non secus quam 6 Conchaurum avitis possessionibus
Flavi obiit."
q
the holm or strath of
the cows
of Fiach, a
man's name.
This was the
extirparunt.
name of a very beautiful strath, situated along the banks of the River Finn, near the town of
Bally bofey, in the barony of Raphoe, and county
"O'Morum
et Cahiri
O'Conchuuri
filios
in
9F
1506
aNNCtta Rio^hachca eiRecnw.
[1548.
conoobaip i 6 mopba DO bol hi pa;caib tap an leucenanc pa gpapaib an pij an pi DO cabaipc a nouirce .1. laoijipp ui pailje Don leucenanc, -] Da cuipr rhopa Do benarh leo pna cipib pin .1. an campa hilDia bparaip,
-| -\ -|
laoijip,
-]
an Dcnngfn
nuib pailje,
-|
-]
po jabpac ace cabaipr na bpfponn pin
ap ciop DO Shaâncoib
-|
DfipfnDcoib ariiail pob
acapba
.1.
Dilfp Doib pfin

)
mD mp
o concobaip, 6 mopba narcup mp monnapbao a noibpeab bunab eipcib co na ccmfb co na cclannmaicne'apcfna. O maoileaclainn cabcc puab DO fabaipc Gniainn apan pocpaioe laijneac Ifip 50 oealbna Dia hionDpaD, ~\ ap arhlaiD capla Doib, T?o gabaD TTlaoileaclainn mac aipc uf maoileaclainn la hemann apan ap cceacc Do
~\
.1.
-|
le
hemann
e.
pfin
Don rip ap popconjjpa corhaiple an

caiplen cinn
-|
pij, i
po cuip pe co har
copab mainipcip gailinne lahua maoilOo impa ua maofleaclainn po airmela ân umla eaclainn,"] la hemann. jan eiDipe. 6af emann apan 05 gabdil Delbna a hucc an pij ap belaib
cliac
ui
Ro gabab Dna
buaileab e pfin ppia, uaip po accuip
maoileaclainn conab amlaib pin cucc 6 maoileaclainn plac laip Dia po ~\ po lonoapb emann a pan e pfin co na
uile 6 belbna,
-|
cmfb
po Diociup e eipce amail Diocinpfp an paire nua an
pfn paire.
Ro
jaip pe lapam TTIacc cocldin Dope
mac copbmaic,
DC.
~|
po bfn
pe an cuio Don rip DO bf 05 copbmac
mac an pipDopca
-|
T?o cpeac, T?o
ionnapb,i po bibip e rap pionainn piap hi mainechaib, ~\ lap noiocap copbmaic
bo po acnuabaij caiplen cille comainn, Do cuip Ion pleacra pfpjail ann, bapDa uaba pfin. Sluaicceab la copbmac, 9. man, i la mameachaib noealbna,
-|
i
l?o loipccpfc,
of Donegal.
"]
po cpeacpac lomcluain
plainle,
~\
cnoc paca benain,
-\
po
wordBaile, " holm."

r
After the erection of the town the " town" was substituted for Strath,
in
O'Fahys are
Irish,
and were seated in the county
of Gal way; but the Fays are Anglo-Normans, and were seated in Westmeath. See an Inquisition taken at Mullingar,
Campa, now the town of Maryborough,
on the
Oth of July,
the Queen's County.
1620.
Cox
calls
him Edmond Fahy, and supI
Daingean, now Philipstown, in the King's County. It should be here remarked that what
*
poses that he was an Irish rebel

u
the English and Anglo-Irish writers call 'the fort of Leix, is called Campa by the Irish annalists;
of
Kincora, in the parish of Garrycastle, and King's Wheery, barony See note e under the year 1517, County
,
Ceann-Coradh, now
and that what the

This name
as Sir
latter call
Daingean in
p. 1340, supra.
Ui
1
" Fort of Falie." Failghe, the former call the
w
,
Galinn,
now
Gillen,
near the village of
Faii.
is
now
not Fahy,
Richard Cox
written Fay, has it. The
Firbane, in the King's County,

*
To
strike himself,
i.
e.
a rod for his
own
1548. J

to
1507
O'Conor and O'More went

at the King's
England with the Lieutenant [Francis Bryan],

their patrimonial inheritances,
mercy.
The King, however, gave
namely, Leix and Offaly, to the Lieutenant and his kinsman,

large courts [mansions] in these territories, namely, the
s
,
;
who
r
,
built
two
and
Campa
in Leix,
Daingean in Offaly and they proceeded to let these lands at rents to the English and Irish, as if they were their own lawful patrimonial inheritances, after having banished and expelled their own rightful, original inheritors,
O'Conor and O'More, from thence, with

O'Melaghlin,
i.e.
all their
adherents and descendants.
TeigeKoe, brought Edmond a Faii' and the forces ofLeinster

It
into Delvin, to plunder that territory. a prisoner of Melaghlin, the son of
happened that
Edmond
a Faii
made
Art O'Melaghlin, who had come along with Edmond, by order of the King's Council, and sent him to Dublin. The castle u of Ceann-coradh and the monastery of Galinn" were taken on this occasion
O'Melaghlin returned [from Delvin] in sorrow, without [obtaining] submissions or hostages and Edmond continued to conquer Delvin in the King's name, in opposition to O'Melaghlin and thus had O'Melaghlin brought a rod into the country to strike himself, for Edmond
; ;
by O'Melaghlin and Edmond.
a Faii expelled and banished himself and
all his tribe
out of Delvin, just as the
young swarm
[of bees] expels the old.
Cormac, the Mac
afterwards styled Art, the son' of Coghlan, and deprived Cormac, the son of Ferdoragh, of that
He
portion of the country which he possessed.
plundered [him, and] expelled and banished him westwards, across the Shannon, into Hy-Many and after thus expelling Cormac, he repaired the castle of Cill-Comainn v and placed the
; ,
He
Cormac provisions of the descendants of Farrell and his own warders in it. and the Hy-Many, on the 9th of May, made an incursion into Delvin and they burned and plundered Lomchluain-I-Flaithile z and Cnoc-Ratha-Benain a and
; ,
breech,
a very trite proverb.

i.e.
County
lation
See extract from Mageoghegan'strans-
Citt-Comainn,
the church of St. Coman,
now Kilcommon,
in the
barony of Clonlisk, and
of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, quoted under the year 1285, note e p. 442, supra. The
,
See an Inquisition taken at King's County. Drumkenan on the 15th of December, 1621.
'
O'Flaithilys, or Flatterys, as they are now called, are a branch of the Dealbhna-Eathra, said to be
or
meadow
Lomchluain-I-Flaithile, of O'Flaithile
a
i.
e.
the bare lawn
senior to the
Mac
Coghlans.
They
are
still
nu-
(now
Flattery).
Now
merous enough
a
in the territory of Delvin, or the
Lumploon,
an,
townland near the village of Cloghin the barony of Garrycastle, and King's
barony of Garrycastle.
Cnoc-Ratha-Beanain,
i.
e.
the
hill
of Banan's
F2
1508
awNQta Riogbachca eiRecmw.

pfipeap bo baofnib,
-]
[1548.
mapbpar
aon
mac
uf piajjailTTluipceapcac pfp
a aopa
bd pfpp le Ifijfp Da mbaof ina compocpaib. Do pala boib laparh 50 ccomaipnicc mag cocldin, an rip, "| na buanbaba paneaca ppiu 05 bel aca na ccaopac pop bubabamn,
Rd mapbab ppaofneab pop copbmac co na pluacc, cuilleab ap picic Dib im TTlhaoileaclamn mac Sfam uf ceallaij im mac im mac bubaill mic neaccain, -[ ba moa olbdp pice uf pollamain peilim le hfibfb lomba po pdccaibpioc, eac amaille le hapm po bdicf6 apaill l?o Dicfnoaic lace uile a haen comaiple an luan lap pin, ele bib. pnccab
Ro
-\
-\
~\
-\
-\
a ccinn 50 baile emainn pan (.1. baile mic aoam hi ccenel peapga nele f roccbab pop biopcuailbb ndipbe iacc"hi ccomapba coy^ccaip. cfpbaill), i po
i
poplongpopc la hemann a pan a ccimceall caiplem an pfbdin ppi pe ocr cocldin bo bfir lycij ipm ccaiplen 50 po bfnab bpaijbe De, Id,"] copbmac mag
i emann caipbfp cpiopc ppia poile. Coccab mop ecip ppanjcacaib, Saâncoib, albancoib, Oonncab mac uf concobaip pailge, clann cacaoip uf concobaip bo bol ccuapupbal an pfj, 1 a ccup 50 paôib bo conjnam coccaib, 1 bia nbfocup 6 narapba co 1
bo pomepiorh,
-\
-[
nfipje
ppiu bo cfinpn cofccib laijfn ~\ na mibe. Qn calbac 6 cfpbaill bo bol co hdr cliac bionnpaiccib na cuipce moipe, a gabail hi ppiull, -\ a cup hi ccaiplen an pij hillaim ~[ gan piop a abbaip nele
amac moip amaille
no a puaplaiccci bo rabaipc bo neoc. Qn leurenonc, -| emann a pan bo bol pa 66 ap pluaiccfb
-)
imeaccla
cabcc lupc bepibe 50 po eipij coccab fcoppa be pin. Nip bo cian lap pin 50 po lapp emann a pan ap rhdg cocldin ap bealbna bol laip ap caopaijeacr nele. Ro fimgfccap pum bna an nf pin, 17o lonuf ceapbaill
-]
i
mop bo jabail
naiccfo i po pfpccaiccfo
The Editor has not been
The head of
emann cpfb
able to identify
pin 50 po eipij
eapaonca fcoppa,
-]
po
rath.
this place.
b CPSheil.
this family lived at
Bd-atha-na-gcaerach, i. e. mouth of the ford This name is now obsolete, at of the sheep. least the Editor did not meet any one resid-
Baile-Ui-Shiaghail, now Ballysheil, near the River Brusna, in the parish of Gillen, in the
ing in this neighbourhood that ever heard of it. d Dubk-Ab/iainn, i. e. the Black River, now
the Blackwater, a small river which forms for
barony of Garrycastle, and King's County. The O'Sheils of this district were hereditary physicians to the
Mac
Coghlans.
Niall O'Sheil and
some miles the boundary between the parishes of Tisaran and Clonmacnoise, in the barony of
Garrycastle, and King's County, e Baile-mic-Adam, i.e. the town of Mac
Hugh
O'Sheil were subscribing witnesses to the
will of Sir
John Coghlan, made
in 1590.
Adam,
1548.]
1509
slew six persons, besides the only son of O'Sheil" (Murtough), the best physician of his years in the neighbourhood. It happened afterwards that Mac Coghlan, the inhabitants of the country, and the bonaghtmen of the Faiis, met them at
c
Bel-atha-na-gcaerach
his
a ford on the River
Dubh-Abhainnd where Cormac and

,
together with Melaghlin, the son of John O'Kelly, the son of O'Fallon (Felim), and the son of Dowell Mac Naghtan and they left behind them twenty horses, besides weapons and
slain,
;
army were defeated, and more than twenty
armour.
Others of them were drowned.

;
By common
,
consent they were
all
beheaded on the Monday following and their heads were carried to the town f c of Edmond a Faii, namely, Baile-mic-Adam in Kiuel-Fearga in Ely O'Carroll,
,
and elevated on sharp poles
as trophies of victory.
,
Edmond
the castle,
a Faii pitched his
there for eight days.
5 camp around the castle of Feadan and remained Cormac Mac Coghlan, who during this time was wijthin
was compelled
to give hostages
and he and
Edmond formed
gossipred with each other.
A great
Scots,
war having broken out between the French, the English, and the Donough, the son of O'Conor Faly, and the sons of O'Conor Faly, en.
tered the King's service, and were sent to

[thus] to be banished
England
to assist in the war,
and
from their patrimonial inheritances. They were attended
by numerous muster of the kerns of the province of Leinster and Meath. Calvagh O'Carroll went to Dublin to the great court, and was taken by nor was any one suffered to treachery, and imprisoned in the King's castle
a
;
know why he was taken, or how much would be demanded for his ransom. The Lieutenant and Edmond a Faii made two incursions into Ely, which very much alarmed O'Carroll and a war broke out between [him and] them in consequence. ,Not long after this Edmond a Faii requested Mac Coghlan
;
and the people of Delvin to accompany him on a predatory excursion into Ely. This they refused to do and Edmond became highly enraged and incensed on
;
account of
it,
so that hostilities broke out
between them
and O'Carroll and
or of the son of Adam,
now Cadamstown,
in the
barony of Ballybritt, and King's County, about six miles westwards from the little town of
Clonaslee, in the Queen's County.
'
and territory in Ely O'Carroll, nearly, if not of Ballyexactly, coextensive with the barony
britt, in
the King's County.
Kinel-Fearga.
This was the name of a tribe
Feadan, now Faddan, in the parish of Lusmagh, barony of Garrycastle, and King's County.
[1548
oiocuip 6 cfjibaill i
mag
pin
cocldin
emann uaca cpia na anppolcaib

-|
~\
rpe na
noaop-
anpmacc poppa.
paip conab arhlaib
Ro gabab
leo caiplen citle comainD
caiplen cinncopab
DO bfnab oealbna oe
mp
mbfir
If.r
bliabam
bpoiD occa.
Scujip ciapdin,
la
-|
cill
copbmaic Do lopccab,
-|
DO bpipfb la Sajcancoib
-|
hua
ccfpbaill.
Sluaiccfb lap an leucenonc, i la gallaib ap rappaing emainn a pan (a Delbna 50 po loipccfb, -] co po cpechab leo 6 bealac nbiojjail a lonnapbca) 50 an pocaip 50 cocap (.1. cocap cino rhona), i baile mej uallacdin hillupmaj, mbaile na cloice, -] luibpior ap cculaib ap aohaib
-]
poplonjpuipr na riiapac 50 ccpfcaib, 1 co neoalaib gan Deabaib gan Diubpaccab. la gallaib ara Inopab maiê plmne la hua maofleaclainn rabcc puab,
i
bdccap
-)
luain, i la
coblac an calaib.
ele, i
Caiplen
caiplen oelbna
.1.
bfnncop, caiplen maiî ipccfn
clocan
na cceapac DO bpipfb ap eccla na njall. Sluaiccfb lap an ccaipcin puab ap ua ccTpbaill 50 cappaicc an compaic no arpf Dib laip. 1 DO paD ua cfpbaill cacap Doib 50 po mapbab Da ppic
Oo
ponab pluaiccfc po cpf

-\
an compaic,
nf
aon paice lap an ccapcfn puaDh co cappaicc repna gan caemnaccaip nf Don bealac na Don caiplen,
in
-]
piap lap ppajail mapla,
~\
lap ppdgbdil Dpuinge Dia muincip.

~|
Caraofp puab ua concobaip DO gabdil Id 17iocapD pajcanac a bupc, coijibepc Do allaib.

h
Saighir-Ghiarain,
now
Seirkieran, a town-
Garrycastle, and King's County.

to Tribes
See the
map
land giving
name
to a parish in the
barony of
and Customs of Hy-Many, on which

is
e.
Ballybritt, and King's County, about four miles to the east of the town of Birr. There are some
the position of this place

'
shewn,
ruins of the old church
still
to be seen here,
and the
'
sites
of various buildings are faintly

it.
i.
the causeway at the Tocfiar-cinn-mona, head of the bog, now Togher, in the parish of Lemanaghan, in the north of the King's County,
i.
traceable around
Cill-Cormaic,
is
e.
the church of St. Corrnac.
This place
small
now
called Frantford,
which
is
From the situation of these two places it is quite evident that the annalists intended to say that the whole of Mac Coghlan's country was burned
and ravaged on this occasion.
"'
town
in the
King's County.
k
barony of Ballyboy, in the See the Miscellany of the Irish
Baile- Mheg-Uallachain,
\.
e.
Mac
a
Ualla-
Archaeological Society for 1846.

Bealach-an-fhothair,
chain's town,
now Ballymacuolahan,
townland
now
Ballaghanoher, a
situated in the west of the parish of
Lusmagh,
townland in the parish of Reynagh, barony of
barony of Garrycastle.
See Tribes and Customs
1548.]
1511
Mac Coghlan banished Edmond for his insolence and tyranny towards from him They took the castle of Kilcommon and the castle of Kincora
thus was he deprived of Delvin, after dage under him.
it
them.
;
and
had been
for half a year in cruel bon-
Saighir-Chiarain" and Cill-Cormaic' were burned
and destroyed by the
English and O'Carroll. The Lieutenant and the English made an incursion into Delvin, at the instance of Edmond aFaii (in revenge of his expulsion), and burned and plun-
dered (the country) from Bealach-an-fhothair" to Tochar-cinn-mona and also m in Lusmhagh. They remained encamped for one night Baile Mheg-Uallachain n at Baile-na-Cloiche and returned on the morrow with booty and spoils, without
, ,
receiving battle or opposition.
Magh-Slaine was plundered by O'Melaghlin (Teige Roe), by the English of Athlone, and by the fleet of Caladh". The castles of Ely and Delvin were demolished through fear of the English,
namely, Banagher, the castle of Magh-Istean", and Clochan-na-gceapach The Red Captain made an army against O'Carroll to Carraig-an-Chomhraic",
.
where O'Carroll gave
battle to them,
and slew forty or sixty of them.
The Red Captain made
three incursions into Carraig-an-Chomhraic in one
quarter of a year, but was not able to do any damage to the pass or the castle, and returned without obtaining submission, having (also) received insult, and lost several of his people.
Cahir Roe O'Conor was taken prisoner by Richard Saxonagh Burke, and
delivered up to the English.
p. 184, and the map to the same on which the position of this place is work, marked. Henry Cuolahan, Esq. of Cogran, is
of Hy- Many,
barony of Garrycastle, and King's County. p Caladh, a territory lying along the Shannon, in the barony of Rathcline, and county of Long_.
the present representative of the family of BalSee his pedigree traced for elelymacuolahan
ford.
ven generations in the work already referred p. 183-186.

"
to,
Magh-Istean, now Moystown, on the River Brusna, in the barony of Garrycastle.

>
Baile-iM-doiche,
i.
e.
town of the
stone,
now
Clockan-na-gCeapach, now Cloghan Castle, the residence of Garrett Moore, Esq., who gener
Stonestown, in the parish of Gillen,

aforesaid barony of Garrycastle.
in the
nerally styles himself the O'Moore, situated on the banks of the Little Brosna, about three miles
to the south of the
Magh-Slaine,
now Muigh-Shlaine,
a well-
town of Banagher.
rock of the
known
district in
the parish of Lemanaghan,
^Carraig-an-Ckomhraic, i.e. the
1512
emectNN.
[1548.
an aenai^j cfpbaill DO lopccaD Ro loipcc baile o baDbDun amac.

-\
ap an ccaiprin puab eeip maimprip beop Don cup fin mainiprip uairne, Do paD mfpcbuaiDpeaD mop poppa Dia po cloi po Diocuip Saânaij epce a n'p mcc cenmora apaill Dia mope, i Dia ccalmacap 50 po poccaip ap mic magnupa nama. .1. hi uacha6 bapDab baof ipin aonac crop TTlaoilfclainn nac cliar, 6 concobaip Do b'apuccaD Caeaoip puaD
-| -|
i
-|
ua maofleaclainn Do cepnuD a
gfirheal 6 jallaib.
hi Sa^raib
mopDa
.1.
jiollapaccpaicc Decc
jail.
50 hopann,
-\
po ba
mop an
pgel eippiDe
munbaD nfpc
cfmplaib la hua ccfpbaill raDcc caoc, ~\ la a nanppolca ap Delb'na, i popTTlag coclctm (ape mac copbmaic) a nDiojail lonspopc DO oenam leo an oi&ce pin pan Ifcach amaDldm.
InopaD maije coppain
cijib,
Sfan
6 neill
mac neill Do Dol plua-ij ap cloinn aoba buiDe, mac neill oicc, mic neill, mic cuinn, mic aoDa buibe
\
-\
bpian pajapcac
pfp
ajmap
lonn-
paijreac, paof Dfplaicceac, Deijemij, i Reola polaip na clannmaicne Dia mbaoi DO mapBaD la Sfan ua neill Don cup pin.
confluence, or contest,
now Carrickachorig, or a small village in the parish of Carrigahorig, Terryglass, barony of Lower Ormond, and
county of Tipperary.
'
more, a townland in the parish of Lemanaghan,

in the barony of Garrycastle,
and King's County,

if
and close to Magh-Corrain,

*
not in
it.
On
that occasion.
The
entries
under
this
Uaithne,
now Abbington,
of
in the barony of
Owny, and county of Limerick.

u T/ie tower
year are translated into Latin as follows, F. 1. 18:
in
name of the the Bound" of Nenagh. The Editor has not been able to discover who this Mac Manus was, after
Mac Manus. This was " massy tower, now called
the
" O'Donellus apud Strath bo fiach memorabilem victoriam de filio suo Calbhacho extulit,
filio
O'Cahano, Magno,
filio
Donati, qui
opem
ferebat ac multis aliis csesis ad 7 Februarii.
whom
w
this
tower was
called.
Escaped from the English. t)o repnuo a means, that he escaped from confinement, or from his gyves, as D. F. renders it. An
jfirheal,
" Maria, filia Mac Conmii obiit 4 April. " O'Conchaurus et O'Morus in Angliam a
procenturione
se
illo
deduct! ad Eegis arbitrium
English writer would express
it thus Melaghlin O'Melaghlin effected his escape from the King's Tower in Dublin, where he had been confined
:
causamque suam prorsus referunt, spectantes favorem aliquem sibi ab ipso exhibitum iri ;
sed procenturio et frater ejus amborum ditiones Leghsiam et Offalgiam a Rege donati in Hiber-
by the English
*
for his rebellious practices.
niam ocyus contendunt, &duo palatiaCampanum

in Leghsia, et Daingin in Offalia, extruunt, fun-
Magh-Corrain.
This was the name of a
level district in the south of the
barony of Clonin the county of Westmeath. lonan, 7 Leacach Amadlain, now evidently Lackagh-
praetio locantes,
dos omnes quibuscunque Anglis sive Hibernis non secus ac si avitum patri-
monium
adiissent,
nee
solum justos Heredes
*
1.548.]

On this
1513
O'Carroll burned
Nenagh upon the Red Captain, both monastery and town,

occasion he also burned the monastery of Uaithne',
it,
from the fortress
out.
banished the Saxons out of
and created great confusion among them, by which he weakened their power, and diminished their bravery so that he ordered them [all] out of his country, except a few warders who were at
;
Nenagh,
in the
tower of
Mac Manus".
;
Cahir Eoe O'Conor was put to death in Dublin
and Melaghlin O'Melaghlin
made
a
his escape
from the English".

;
O'More (Gilla-Patrick) died suddenly in England and he would have been lamentable loss, were it not for the power of the English. Magh-Corrain* was burned, both houses and churches, by O'Carroll (Teige
Caech) and Mac Coghlan (Art, the son of Cormac), that they might wreak their vengeance upon Delvin. They pitched their camp for the night at Leacach
Amadlain".
John, the son of O'Neill, marched an army against the Clann-Hugh Boy and Brian Faghartach O'Neill, the son of Niall Oge, son of Niall, son of Con, son of Hugh Boy, a successful and warlike man, a bountiful and truly hospitable worthy, the brilliant star of the tribe to
;
which he belonged, was
slain
by
John O'Neill on
o
that occasion
2
.
Conchaurum et 6 Morum, excluserunt, sed etiam omnes ad eorum familias originem referentes longe arcuerunt, ut
linus flagellum comparavit
ipsum enim
inse
antiquum indigenorum
quo ipse vapularetur, gentem ipsius universam Delbhfinibus expulit, quemadmodum examina reet
jus antiquarent.
centia
apud apes vetusta protrudunt.
Turn
O'Moelachlinus, Tadeus Eufus, Edmundum Faium et copias Lagenise ad Delbhinam expi-
"
landam
sibi adscivit, et
Edmundus Malachiam
filium Arturi 6 Moelachlini, ad hanc expeditionem ipsum ducentem, senatu regio jubente,
cepit et Dublinio ablegavit.
ipse sic
Mac Coghlani titulo in Arturum filium Corrnaci collate, Cormacum filium Ferdorchi parte agrorum quam possederat etpecunia spoliavit,et trans Sineum amnem in Imanachiam fugavit qua re pacta, Kilcommanam reparavit, et commeatu
;
O'Moelachlinus et
sed gentis Ferghallia et suo prsesidio instruxit;
debellando congress! sunt et castellum
nouo Mali Cormacus

agminibus Delbhinam
infestis
Imanachiensium
de Kincoradh et Gailinnia: monasterium expugnaverunt. Deinde, obside nullo a suis relata,
incursat, direptionibus et exustionibus Lonichluainiam Ui Flaithiliam et
ab
Edmundo
digreditur, peenitentia pene obsibi ulla
montem"
nivit,
[recte
collem]
" Rathbeniam exinafilio
rutus,
quod ilium
tate junxerat. Porro,
unquam belli socieEdmundus Regis nomine,

nimirum O'Moelach-
6 hominibus
et "unico
O'Sedulii
(Sighelii),
Murchertacho,
rei medicse in eo trac-
nulla O' Moelachlini ratione habita, Delbhinam

sibi
tu scientissimo,
obedientem esse
cogit,
copis Mac 9 G
Inde progress Coghlain, incolas, Faianos milite^

interemptis.
1514
[1549.
CIOIS
CR1OSU,
1549.
Gofp Cpiopr, mile, cufcc ceo, cfcpac, anaoi.
neill mic roippDealbaijj Decc, an. baoijill Dorhnall mac Qibilfn injfn f Dorhnaill bfn uf baoijill coippDealbac Decc.
pi
I
4.
aujupc.
TTlaofleaclainn joe ua-maoaccain canaipi
nanmcaDa DO mapbaD la
-\
maoileaclainn mooapDa na maoajam,
-|
la
a bpairpib a nDioccail a arap
a Dfpbpacap.
mbaile an caiplein nuf la mall ua maoilfclamn ap ua maofleaclainn cabcc puaD, 1 ap a bpacaip TTlupcaD. Ro loipcceab an cfj poppa, 17o mapbaD, po loiceab ruilleaD ap picic ann, T?o mapba6 a bpacaip mupcaD ap, naonbap DO laraip Dib. 'Cepna ua maofleaclainn
Ueach oionnpaicchiD
~]
-]
acr po gonab TTlupcaD Don cup

irnmissos ad
pin.
Os Vadi Ovium
in
Amne
Nigro ob-
vios habuerunt,
cum quibus
uerimt, profligatas
manus conser20 eorum desiderarunt supra

ibi
profectus arci Regise per insidias in custodiam traditur, causa ipsius in carcerem tradendi nee
ipsi
nee
ulli
mortalium indicata" [nee quo

ille
ly tro
qui sub Malachia, filio Joannis O' Kelly, Felimeo O'Falani filio, et filius Dubhgalli mac Naghtain meruerunt, plures etiam quam 20 equos, loricas
multas, arma plurima in conflictu, praBter alios amne absorptos, amiserunt. Die vero Lunas
liberaretur].
" Procenturio
supra memoratus et Ed-
pugnam
captis
iusecuta, de
omnium conseusu
capita
mundus Faius, copiis in Eliam bis ductis, O'Carvallum Tadeum Luscum ita terruerunt, ut bellum pro se tuendo suscipere dubitaverit. Proinde Mac Coglilanum et Delbhinas incolas Edmundus,
ut, se
vit,
amputata ad Edmundum Faium in villam suamBallimacadam in Kinelferga Elite Carolina
bellum
Elise inferente, comitarentur, roga-
a quibus
cum repulsam
eorum
ferret, iracundia sic
deferebantur, ubi in contorum cuspides elata pro trophajis visenda exhibebantur. " Postea Edmundus Faius Fadani castellum,
exarsit ut ab
illis
amicitia protinus desciverit ; etiam in sententia firmius persistentibus
quo
se
Cormacus
receperat,
octidua obsidione
et
patriot
non mediocris erupit ; quas eo usque ut viam aperuit O'Carvallo et Mac provecta
discordia
est,
cinxit,
Cormaco obsides tradente
feodus" [Gossipred] "cum co ineunte acquievit. " Magno bello inter Gallos Anglos et Scotos
exorto,
Coghlano Edmundi a suis finibus pellendi. Ejus enim insolentiam diutius ferre non poterunt.
Donatus
filius
O'Conchauri Falgii et
militiaj adscript!, in
Quare Castella de Kilcomain et Cancoradh ei ademerunt et hoc facto Delbhinam a dominationis jugo,
Cahiri O'Conchauri
filii,
quo semiannum premebatur,
libe-
Angliam
abducti
specie
quidem ut sub Rege stipendia

ut
avitis sedibus
rarunt.
facerent, revera
suiit,
amoverentur,
"
Saighria Keirani et Kilcormac immisso per

et
magno Lageuiensium acMidensium militum numero illos ad ea arma insecuto.

" Calbach\is O'Carvaill Dublinium ad concilia
Anglos
runt.
O'Carvallum igne dirutce conflagrasibi
"
Procenturio,
aliis
Anglis adjunetis, in
1549-]
1515
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1549.
thousand jive hundred forty-nine.
O'Boyle (Donnell, the son of

4th of August.
Niall,
who was son
of
Tur lough) died on
the
Eveleen, the daughter of O'Donnell, and wife of O'Boyle (Turlough), died. Melaghlin God O'Madden, Tanist of Sil-Anmchadha, was slain by Melaghlin
Modhardha O'Madden and
his kinsmen, in revenge of his father
and brother.
A house
by
was attacked
at the
town of Newcastle
[in
Clonlonan, Westmeath],
upon O'Melaghlin (Teige Roe) and his kinsman, Murrough. The house was burned over them, and more than twenty persons were nine of them were killed on the spot. O'Melaghlin and killed and wounded
Niall O'Melaghlin,
;
his kinsman,
Murrough, escaped; but Murrough was wounded on that occasion.

Fail,
Delbhinam crebris hortatibus Edmundi
vindictam ob se ab incolis ejectum spirantis, pertractus, agros inter Belachantochair et Tochar-
igne absumpsit, quo minus autem castellum et pomoerium ejus ab eadem ruina prohibuerunt
prsBsidiarii
;
ignem etiam 6 Carvallus Uathnise

illo
cinnmona,
et Bailimiouallachain in
Lusmagh
ra-
monasterio admovit, et ex
Anglos expulit.
et po;
pinis et deflagrationibus procucurrerat.
Obsi-
Quse res et
tentise
dione deinde unius noctis Balinacloiha; admota
eorum viribus decrementum contemptum non modicum peperit
et ad
operam
lusit,
nam
postridie sine prteda,
sine
earn potestatem 6 Carvallum extulit, ut tota di-
pugna, sine deditione abire coactus est. " Maighslaniam terra O'Moelachlinius et Athlonienses Angli, mari classis de Caladh devastarunt.
tione sua illos abegerit prater paucos pra;sidiarios qui Enachse
Mac Magnusi turrim insederunt. " Cahirius Rufus 6 Conchaurus Dublinii

et Malachias 6
morte multatus,
Delbhineeque castella de
Moelachlinus
est.
"
Elite
Banchor de
vinculis solutus, in libertatem eductus
Maighistin de Clochannageapach ab incolis solo adsequata sunt ne receptacula forent Anglorum.
" O'Morus
Gillapatricius
in Anglia
morte
" Centurio [Rufus] versus O'Carvallum ad altercationis adortus, acie dimicans 40 Kupem
vel
quit,
repentina sublatus, magnum magnus evasurus nisi Anglorum potentia
sui desiderium reli-
obstitisset.
60 suorum desideravit, nihilominus tamen triuhi tantum mensium spatio restauratas copias
Maighcoraniam, tigh, templa" [recte, tecta pariterac ecclesias] "6 Carvallus, Tadams Coccus,
et
filius pout hac ratione poenas ab incolis expulati sunt,
"
ad
Rupem
altercationis [ter] aduxit ; nee aliud
Mac Coghlanus Arturus, Cormaci,
quidpiam quam
toties
dedecus et suorum amissionem
rursus retulit.
igerent injuriarum quibus Delbhinam non ita
" Cahirus Rufus O'Conchaurus, aRicardo Anglico de
pridem
affecerant.
Nocte vero populationem
Burgo
captus, in
manus Anglorum
tra-
ditur.
insecuta apud Laccach de Amanlain castra posuerunt.
" O'Carvallus Enachoe vicum et monasterium
"Johannes oNelli
filius,
ducto in Clannaboiam
G 2
1516
dNNaca Rio^hachca
lupcip eouapD belligam DO 6ul
lonao, i cuipr
riiop
eirceaNN.
-|
[1550.
.1.
Gn
hi Sa;coib,
uilliam bpabapon
an
cpepmep ma
~|
lap an mpcip
pin hi
luimneac.
cfpbaill
DO 6ol gup an ccuipr pin ap comaipce mpla ofpmuman, -| mepae luimnij, -| maice gall j;aoi6el, baoi ap in ccuijic, i a ceacc plan pop cculaib maille Da pann DO jaoiDealaib .1. TTlac mupcaba, 6 ceallaij, le pioccdin Do pfin
~|
6 maoileaclamn,
-|
pocaiDe ele nac aipiriirep.

pan,
-|
baile
rnic
aoam DO buam Demann a

~\
pfol ccfpbaill
Do bfic anD
DO
piDipi,"]
ba mop luacjaipe gaipDeacup ele De pin. Oonnchab ua pfpsail ranaipi ua ppfpgail Do mapbaD la a bfpbparaip
riieabail.
pfm cpe
O
ab'ail
Suillebctn Diapmaicc,
lopccao la
puoap ma
-|
lonaiD,
peap cfnoaip caipofriiail niacca naimoibe DO a ofpbpacaip ariilaoib 6 puillebain DO caiplen pfm, ariilaoib pfippin Do rhapbab laparh.
-|
QO1S CR1O3U,
1550.
Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceo, caocca.
Rubpaije mac oonnchaiD mic ao&a puaiD f Domnaill eppcop Doipe, a abnacal noun na ngall in bpacaip ap aoi ccoile oecc an. 8. occobep, 8. aibfcc, Ppompep. Qn cabb (.1. fpa puaiD coin a aimnpiDe) mac Dorhnaill puam i gallcub'aip
-| -|
i
Decc, an. 29. appil.

exercitu, Brianum Fagartach O'Nell, filium Nelli
lachi obiit.
Juvenis,
filii
Nelli,
filii
Coni,
filii
Hugonis
Flavi,
" Malachias Moddartha 6 Maddin

sariis suis
cum
neces-
virum antea prosperitate

studio
a
et bellicis aggressio-
Malachiam Got o Maddin 6 Maddino
nibus clarum, hospitalitatis laude, et suorum commendatum, lucidam inter contribules

stellam interficit."
in
Silanmchia dignitate proximum, paternse

"
&
fraterna; cajdis painas repetens vita privavit.
Domus
Baik- Mic- Adam, now Cadamstown, in the
linus,
in pago Castelli novi, qua 6 MoelachTadeus Rufus, et frater ejus Murachus
barony of Ballybritt, King's County. " Soon afterwards The entries under this
year are translated into Latin as
follows
in
jecto, conflagravit.
claudebantur, igne Nelli o Melachlini opera inInter plures quam 20 in eo
tumultu
csesos et
vulneratos 9 loco viri non ex-
cesserunt.
O'Melachlinus et Murachus evase-
"
chi, obiit
"
O'Boyliua, Daniel, filius Nelli, 4 Augusti.
filii
Terdela-
Evelina
filia
6 Donnell uxor 6 Boyl Terde-
ille incolumis, hie vulnere affectus. " Edwardus Bellingham proregis in Angliam profecti vices Thesaurarius Brabazonus in Hiber-
runt,
15.50.]

the
1517
Edward Bellingham,
by
this
Lord
Justice,
went
to
England
and William Bra-
bazon, the Treasurer, [was appointed] in his place.
Lord
great court was held Justice in Limerick, to which O'Carroll repaired, under the safe
of Desmond, the Mayor of Limerick, and the chiefs of protection of the Earl the English and Irish who were present at that court ; and he returned home
with [terms of] peace for himself and his Irish confederates, namely, Murrough, O'Kelly, O'Melaghlin, and many others not enumerated.
safe,
Mac
Baile-Mic-Adam" was taken from

to
it
Edmond a Faii, and the O'Carrolls returned
again
in
consequence of which there was great rejoicing and exultation
in Ely.
Donough own brother.
O'Farrell, Tanist of the O'Farrells,
was treacherously
slain
by
his
0' Sullivan (Dermot), a kind and friendly

inimical [to his enemies],
6
.
man
[to his friends],
and
castle
fierce
;
was burned by gunpowder in his own and and he also was his brother, Auliffe O'Sullivan, took his place
;
and
killed soon
afterwards
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ-,
1550.
one thousand jive hundred fifty.
Rury, the son of Donough, son of
and a
friar
by
his
own
will
O'Donnell, Bishop of Derry, died, and was buried in the monastery of Donegal,
Hugh Roe
in the habit of St. Francis.
The Abbot
of Assaroe (John, the son of Donnell
Roe O'Gallagher), died
on the 29th of April.
A quo cum comitia Limerici indicead ea O'Carvallus, comitis Desmonise, rentur,

nia obivit.
prffitoris
Limericensis
ac
omnium Anglorum
O'Ferrall, O'Ferrallo dignitate a fratre suo per fraudem necatur. proximus " O'Sullevanus Dermitius, bello fortis, hosti
formidabilis, amicis charus, pulvere tormentorio ambustus in suo casfortuito
" Donatus
Hibernorumque qui ad ea comitia confluxerunt

praesidio tectus, concessit, et impunitate sibi ac
ignem
concipiente
pace sibi confederatis, O'Kellio, O'Mfelachlino et

aliis
tello interiit, ac
fratrem
suum Amlaivum
suc-
hie
non
recensitis,
impetrata
domum
inco-
cessorem habuit, sed non diuturnum ut qui paulo

post interemptus fuit."
c
lumis rediit. " Villa de Macadam
Edmundo
Faio ablata et
By his
oven will,
ap aoi
coile,
1.
i.
familia .O'Carvallorum [restituta, quod] Eliam

in
luntatem.
The
translator in F.
18,
e. quoad vounderstands
summse voluptate
perfudit.
this passage
thus
" Studio tanto ordinis mi-
1518
lTlac puibne
dNNaca Rio^hachca
coilin
uilliarti
eiraecwN.
i
[1551.
bajaineac coippbealbac meipcceac DO rhapbab

(.1.
mbaile
meic puibne la cloinn cem, 8. lanuapu.

TCuaibpi ballac
cabs
~\
Seaan),
-|
la cloinn coinneic-
puibne Do beic ace cumjib cijeapna ceallaib naipcfpe bojame pop ua nDorhnaill,i 6 na puaip DO beachaib gup bfja, i po leipinDpab an baile laip, -\ po mapbabpom lapam la TTlaolmuipe mac ae6a pia ccino paice .1. an 31. DO TTlapca.
mac eojain Ruaib mic
TTlac
an baipo ape
conaill,
peapgal mac Domnaill puaib paof pipbana,
-\
oioe pccol, pfp po ba mop amm, -\ oipofpcup ap malaij coircfnn cije naoibfo Decc.
puD epeann
i
ma
aimpip, cong-
Qnconi Sincbgep
lupap, i
poime nepinn Do recc nepinn ma Dpong mop DO maicib epeann Do ool ina Docum gup an ccuipc moip
.1.
an lupcif, DO
bf
50 har cliac.
lapla DO jaipm Do Riocapo Saânac
mac
uillicc
na ccfno.
QO13 CR10SU,
GoiS CRiopr,
1551.
mile, cuicc ceD, caocca, ahaon.

.1.
Qipofppocc caipil emann buinlep mac piapaip lapla upmuman Decc. TTlupcaD mac coippDealbaij, mic caiDcc, mic roippoealbaij ui bpiain lapla
cuaomuman a hucc
le hionnpaicciD,
gall i an pij,
bpiain e Do jnac gaoibeal, peap

Saibbip,
ajmap
comnapr
16 cocuccaD, Suim,
co molrhaofnib, ba
-\
hepibe ceD Duine
Dm po
jaipmfb lapla Do piol mbpiain Do ecc,

lonab.
mac a Deap-
bpacap Donnchab mac concobaip Doiponfo ina

norum
affectus ut sancti Franoisci habitu indu-
27 Aprilis.
"
tus in monasterio Dungallensi sepultus fuerit." d Was styled Earl. The entries under this
Mac Suinius
gach, occisus est in villa
Baganensis, Terdelachus MerMac Suinnii a Clancolin
year are translated into Latin as follows in F. 1. 18 " Rodericus, filius Donati, filii Hugonis Rufi
:
Gulielmo, Tadeo et Johanne, et Clanconnagen, 8

Januarii.
Cum
autem Kodericus,
filius
Eugenii
o Donnelli, Episcopus Derensis, obiit 8 Octobris, studio tanto ordinis minorum affectus ut Sancti
Francisci habitu indutus in monasterio Dungallensi sepultus fuerit.
Run Mac Suinnii, diu cum O'Donnello ageret, et ipse Mac Suinnius Baganensis renunciaretur
nee voto potiretur, ira percitus Kilbeggam penitus diripit quod facinus non diu multum tulit ;
nam
Donati,
3 mensibus
nondum
filio
"
elapsis,
31
primo
periit.
Edmundus
filius
Abbas Asroe,
obiit
Martii, a Mariano
Hugonis confossus,
1551.]
1519
Mac Sweeny Banagh (Turlough Meirgeach) was slain on the 8th of Januthe Clann-Coilin (William, Teige, and John) ary, at Mac Sweeny's town, by
and the Clann-Coinnegein.
Rory Ballagh, the son of Owen Roe Mac Sweeny, requested O'Donnell to give him the lordship of Tir-Boghaine and as he did not obtain it, he went to He was slain three months afterthat town. Killybegs, and totally plundered
;
wards by Mulmurry, the son of Hugh, on the 31st of March. Mac Ward of Tirconnell (Farrell, the son of Donnell Roe), a learned poet, a superintendent of schools, and a man of great name and renown throughout
Ireland in his time,
who
kept a house of general hospitality, died.
Anthony
went
to
St.
Leger,
who had been sometime Lord

;
Justice of Ireland, reIrish chieftains
turned to Ireland as Lord Justice
and a great number of the
meet him
at the great court in Dublin.
Richard Saxanagh, the son of tllick-na-gceann, was styled Earl" [of Clanrickard].
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

Edmond
1551.
The Age of Christ, one thousand five hundred fifty-one.
The Archbishop
Ormond,
died.
of Cashel,
Butler, the son of Pierce, Earl of
Murrough, the son of Turlough, son of Teige, son of Turlough O'Brien, [styled] Earl of Thomond by the English and the King, but [styled] O'Brien, according to the custom of the Irish, a man valiant in making and puissant in
sustaining an attack, influential, rich, and wealthy, the first of the race of Brian who was styled Earl, died and the son of his brother, Donough, the son of
;
Conor, was inaugurated in his place.

" Macanbhard Tirconellensis, Fergallus filius Dauielis Rufi, obiit, qui, ob summam rei poeticae
linii
honoratus, in Hiberniam rediit, a quo cum Dubcomitia indicerentur, multi ex Hibernis
scientiam et plurimos eruditionis in ejus Schola

excultos, nominis celebritate per totam Hiber-
proceribus eo confluxerunt.
niam
inclaruit, nee
modicam etiam laudem con-
" Richardus deBurgo, cognomen to Anglicus, filius Ulechi (a capitibus), comitis dignitate
creatus."
e
secutus est quod jedes ejus advenis pauperibus

hospitio excipiendis patuerit.
"AnthoniusSt. Legerus, denuo proregis titulo
lineas
Charles O'Conor writes, inter Inaugurated. " too) : oectpmao punn oom 6616, i.e.
15 20
aNNQta Rioghachca
eiReciNN.
[1551.
-]
mic aoba Duib mic aoba puaib, TTlac uf baoijjill, Cacbapp mac maj;nupa TTlac meic puibne bajainij DO mapbab (50 luce lumge paioe amaille ppiu)
i
la halbancoib
DO Sepeembep. mic ao6a, mic aoba puaib bfn uf puaijic b]iian ^painne mjfn ttlajnupa, mac eoccain Do ecc, an 29. appil. ancom Siridigep DO bpfie poip, lupcip ele uo chup ma iona6 Qn
ceopaij
an. 16.
lupcip
-j
co hepinn .1. Semup cpopeep. Sluaicceab lap an lupcip
eeopac pojmaip,^ po cuippioe luce Do cuingiD qieach. 6accap clann meic co peacpainn cf.cpe nfcap uacaib halban ipm oilen ace imbeajail na cpice .1. Semup,-] colla maolDomnaill na Dub. lomaipeacc fcoppa 50 paofmiD pop na Sajrancofb co na cepna
i
nullcoib
peacap
~\
cenmord a ccaofpeac .1. leucenonc po gabaD lap na halbancoib baofpibe njiallnup aca co ppuaijipioc a noeajibpacaip app bliaDna Somaiple buiDe mac Domnaill baoi njfimel 05 gallaib aca cliac Ob
Dib pfp aicpipre pgel
i
.1.
piap an can
pin,
i
Cuipc mop
puapcclab mop ele amaille ppip. nac cliac lap niompiiD anall Don lupcip,
-|
-\
po jaba6 6 neill
-]
foapcopaoiD an bapun, coccaD mop DO Denarii Do ckrnn oicc a mfic pfm pfpoopca an mbapun a nofojail jjabala a nacap, Diojbala f neill ppi gallaib i ppip iom6a DO Denarii Tcoppa.
.1.
"| ~\
conn mac cuinn lapla cfpe heoccam an can
pin cp;a lonnlac
SluaicceaD la jallaib oopiDipi nulcuib Do D'ojail a naincpibe pop cloinn mfic Dorhnaill, i pop cloinn i neill, pop mac neill oicc mic neill mic cuinn,
i
]
mic aoa buiDe.
baccap
)
ulaiD"] albanaij
neplairiie
In
ap a ccionn.
T?o pijfe
caciopjal arhnup ainiapDa fcoppa lap poccain
ccfnn apoile Doib co po

~\
meabaiD pop
there
is
jallaib,
50 po mapbab Da ceD Do Shapranco b
Dfipfnr.coib
a mistake here iu
my opinion." The error

oiponecub, for
This Donough, on surrendering the patent to
consists in using the
word
title
VIII. had granted the

to
of Earl of
Henry Thomond
King Edward VI., obtained

dignities for himself
new grant
of the
and the heirs male of his
Murrough O'Brien for life, remainder to his nephew, Donough O'Brien, and the title of Baron of Inchiquin to his own heirs male. The reason of
thiskindof succession was because ConorO'Brien,
the elder brother of Murrough, was the last chief
of
son, Donough, was considered by the King to have been the true heir.
body by patent, dated 7th November, 1552, and also possession of all the honours and lands which
had
f
fallen to the
crown by the death of his
uncle,
Tory Island.
An
island off the north-west

x
,
coast of Donegal
See note
under the year

or Eathlin,
a
Thomond, and his
1202,
s
p. 132,
supra.
Beachrainn,
now Eaghery,
1551.]
ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OP IRELAND.
1521
Manus, son of Hugh Duv, son of Hugh Roe [O'DonneH] the son of O'Boyle, and the son of Mac Sweeny Banagh, together witli the crew f of a long ship, were slain by the Scots on the 16th of September, on Tory Island
Caffer, the son of
;
.
Grainne, the daughter of Manus, the son of Hugh, son of Hugh Roe [O'Donof O'Rourke (Brian, the son of Owen), died on the 29th of nell], and wife
April.
-
The Lord
Justice,
Anthony
St.
Leger, was called to England
and another
was sent
to Ireland in his stead, namely,
James
Crofts.
A hosting was made by the Lord Justice into Ulster in the beginning of Autumn and he sent the crews of four ships to the island of Reachrainng to seek for plunders. The sons of Mac Donnell of Scotland, James and Colla Maelduv,
;
,
were upon the island to protect the district. A battle was fought between them, in which the English were defeated, so that not one of them escaped to
relate their story,
except their chief, a lieutenant", whom these Scots took prisoner, and kept in qustody until they obtained [in exchange] for him their own
in Dublin by the English for another great ransom along with him. and court was held in Dublin after the arrival of the Lord Justice and great O'Neill (Con, the son of Con), Earl of Tyrone f was at that time taken prisoner,
brother, Sorley Boy, who the space of a year before,
had been imprisoned
in consequence of the complaints
and accusations of
his
own
son, Ferdoragh,
the Baron
and the young sons of O'Neill waged a great war with the English and the Baron, in revenge of the taking of their father. Many injuries were done between them.
;
A hosting
their vengeance
was made by the English a second time into Ulster, to wreak on the sons of Mac Donnell, the sons of O'Neill, and the son
of Niall Oge, son of Niall, son of Con, son of Hugh Boy. The Ultonians and Scots were prepared to receive them. On coming together, a fierce and furious battle was fought between them, in which the English were defeated, and two
well-known island
off the
north coast of the
Life of St. Comgall.

p.
See Ussher's Primordia,

Statistical Survey of the 450-454; and Hamilton's
county of Antrim. This island is mentioned various ancient writers it is called Eicnea,
:
by by
958
Dubourdieu's
p.
County of Antrim,
nan
Ricina by Ptolemy Rechrea by AdamRadinda by Buchanan ; Rachryne by Fordun and Reachraind by the author of the
Pliny
;
Letters concerning the North
Coast of Antrim,
pp. 9, 14, 15, 39.

h
Lieutenant,
His name was Bagnall.
1522
[1552.
Don cup pin, i a ccepna ap Dfb canjarcap ap cculaib po acaip, i po DiommbuaiD Don Da cupup pin. nacluain, i TTlag coclam Do Dol gup an ccuipc fpm, -| a Cuipc rhop Delbna fcpa Do 6ol po cfop papDun opdjbdil DO, ~\ pacenc ap a Duchaij, i Don pij. O concobaip pailje .1. bpian Do bfic illaim Saâib 6 puccab poip e, i
i i
mppaiD DO cabaipc Do pop a bpaijofnup pioppume ap

Ooriinalt
eluD,
~|
bpfic paip. puaippiorii
a anam
DopiDipi,
-|
haicle.
mag
congail Decc.
QOIS CR1OSU,
Qofp Cpiopc,
InnpaD,
~\
1552.
mile, cufcc ceD, caocca, aDo.
na cluicc mopa opccain cluana mic noip la gallaib aca luain, -| DO bpfir ap an ccloiccreac, nf po paccbab pop clocc bfcc no mop, lomaij na
From these two expeditions This should be, " returned back in disgrace having been unsuc'
filius Terdelachi, filii Tadei, filii Terdelachi O'Brian, Comitis Tuomonias titulu, ab
" Murachus
cessful
on these two hostings. The Latin trans1.
Anglis, 6 Briani
nomen ab Hibernis
consecytus,
lator, in F.
18, observing the defect in the has improved it thus original,

:
vir in oppugnationibus audax, in propugnatio-
nibus
fortis,
opibus affluens, obiit

ille
Comitis Donate,
"
Angli profligati, ducentis, tarn Anglis

csesis,
quam
honore,
segerrime tulerunt se adversa pugna, in duabus illis expeditionibus, fusos fuisse."

k
Hibernis, ex ipsorum exercitu
quern primus suo ex Conchauro fratre nepoti delate. " Cathbarus, filius Magni, filii Hugonis Nigri,
filii
obtinuit,
Hugonis Eufi,
filius O'Boillii,
filius
Mac
Dealb/ina-Eathra.
This territory
is
now
included in the barony of Garrycastle, in the
SuinniiBaganensis, et tot prseterea homines quot cymba grandior capere poterat ; a Scotis in Tora-
King's County.
1
chan 16 Septembris mersi sunt.

to be~\
[sentenced added in brackets are absolutely necessary, because, as will be seen hereafter, he was after-
He was
kept
The words
"
Grania,
filia
Magni,
filii
filii
Hugonis
Rufi,
uxor
O'Kuarki Briani
"
Eugenii, obiit 29 Aprilis.
Proregi Anthonio Senlegero in Angliam
wards
set at liberty,
at the mediation of his
accito suffectus est Jacobus Crofts, qui Autumno
daughter, by
Queen Mary.
ineunte, ducto in ultoniam exercitu, 4 grandioris
m Mac
under
:
Congail,
now Mac
Gonigle.
The entries
1
.
forma;
cymbas
in
Eachranna; insulam armatas
this year are translated in F.
8, as fol-
lows " Edmundus Butler

inonioo
filius
Petri Comitis Orobiit.
vehi jussit, ut educti inde boves militibus suppeditarentur in vitam. Sed Scoti sub imperio filiorum Mac Donnelli, Jacobi et Collai Moeldulfi,
Arcluepiscopus Casse-lensis
ad pecorum et insulte custodiam con-
1552.]

;
hundred of the English and Irish [of their party] were slain and such of them as escaped returned back in disgrace and discomfiture from these two expeditions'.
A
court,
great court was held at Athlone
and
Mac Coghlan
his territory
repaired to that
;
and obtained
his pardon,
and a patent for
and Dealbhna-
Eathra" became tributary to the Bang. O'Conor Faly, i. e. Brian, continued in prison in England from the time that he was taken thither. He made an attempt to escape, but he was taken. His
life
was spared, but he was [sentenced

Donnell
to be] kept in constant confinement ever
afterwards.
Mac
Congail
died.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1552.
thousand jive hundred fifty-two.

;
Clonmacnoise was plundered and devastated by the English of Athlone and the large bells were taken from the Cloigtheach". There was not left,
stituti
non modo invasorum
praedee
inhiantium
cinctos offenderunt,
infestis
qua cum
infensis animis et
impetum
erit
prohibuerunt, sed omnes ita interne-
armis utrinque
quam acerrime
concur-
cione deleverunt, ut ne nuncius cladi superfu-
prater solum procenturionem qui ceeteris quern non ante dimiserunt quam prseficiebatur
:
ducentis tarn Anglis Hibernis ex ipsorum exercitu csesis, segerquam rime tulerunt se adversa pugna, in duabus illis
reretur,
Angli
profligati,
fratremjuvenemSomharliumFlavumecaptione,
jam Dublinii sustinuerat, in quam libertatem assertum, et lytrum non mediocre

praeterea reciperent.
sex menses
expeditionibus, fusos fuisse. " Ad comitia per illud tempus Athlonise habita
Mac Coghlanus
venit et delectorum veniam
ac diploma quo suas sibi possessiones habere
Ab hac expeditione pervenit Dublinium, comitia indixit, et 6 Nellus, Conus filius Coni,
captus
est,
"
permitteretur impetravit. Delbhna Eathra jam obnoxia facta Eegii Vectigalis persolutioni.
Ferdoracho
illo
filio
ejus,
Dunganoniae
" O'Conchaurus Falgia? longo jam tempore in
Barone, de
niores o Nelli
et
filii
querelam subornante, qua re jusic commoti sunt, ut Anglis
Anglia custodies traditus fuga elabi contendit,

sed interceptus et in fuga retractus, vivere permissus perpetuo tamen carceri addictus.
Baroni bellum prseterea inferre non dubitaverint, ex quo, altera parte alteram pertinaciter
infestante,
" Daniel Mac Conghail

n
obiit."
multa nocumenta enata sunt.
Cloigtheach,
i.
e.
the
Round Tower
Angli deinde O'Nelli et Mac Donelli filios, necnon etiam filium Nelli juvenis, filii Coni, filii
"
This was the Tower
now
Belfry. called O'Rourke's.
Hugonis
Flavi, armis impetentes ad
pugnam
ac-
See this passage already published in Petrie's Ancient Ecclet. Architecture of Ireland, p. 388.
H2
1524 alcoip
not
QNNaca Rio^hachca
leabap nd jemab piu jloine
eipce.
hi
eiraectNN.
[1552.
ppuinneoicc 6 balla na hfccailpi
amac nac puccab

an
naoirii eplairh.
bd
cpuaj; cpa an gniorh pin inDpab carpac ciapdin
Uabcc
apoile po
6 puaipc canaipi bpeipne Do cpochab la a rhuincip pein. Ctc bepac baof cum DO bpian 6 puaipc (.1. oeapbpacaip a acap) a noenam
fpin.
an piajca
TTIac puibne
pdnacc puaibpi,
niall
a bpacaip,
~\
bpian
mac emamn Do
Do mapbaD
mapbab a
bpioll hi mainipcip.
TTIarjarhain
mac
bpiain mic raiDcc mic coippbealbaij
bpiain
Id muincip DonnchaiD mic concobaip ui bpiain.

TTIac ui bpiain
cuabmuman Diapmaicc mac mupchai6 mic roippbealbai^

i
Decc oiDce peile bpfjoe, -] a abnacal mainipcip innpi. Coccab mop an bliabam pi ecip jallaib Do leir,~| ulaib (cenmocd uachab) 1 albanaij Don Ific apaill, i uilc lomba Do benam fcoppa.
(.1.
Sluaicceab lap an lupcip 50 hullcaib Do pibipi Do paijib meic neill oicc, aob 6 neill) ~\ na nalbanac. Do beachaib cecup Dponj DO na Saâncoib ~\
pala mac neill oicc bfpc puabaipc pocaib 50 po muib poppa 50 po TTIac an cpdbaipij laip, -| Da picir no a rpi amaille ppip. Qp a aof mapbab DO cocap na ploicc ele anonn,") po jabpacr ace Denarii caiplem mbel pfippce.
TTIac
an cpabaofpij pluaj pfmpa Diappaib cpeac.
Oo
ppiu 05 bel pfippce.
Do
puccparc buaib, ni puaippioc bpaijoe na cpeaca,"] po maolab Da mfbaip Don cup pin. Do raoo mporh mac ui neill peapoopca (.1. iiiopan an bapun) pluaj mop Do cabaip an lupcip na njall, ni panaicc laip poccfna
nf
~]
-| -]
Qcc
cfnn in aohaib pin, -\ po jab longpopc ma corhpocpaib. l?o Ifn a Sfan oonngaileac 6 neill e co pluacc ele amaille ppip, ~] Do bpacaip bfpc amup longpuipc ipin oibce ap pluaj an bdpuin, i po riieabaib piarh poppa co
cain
ma
Teige O'Rourke
Charles O'Conor of Belai.
name
nagare interpolates TTIac 6050111,
e.
son of
in the east of the
of the head of the Savadges of the Ards, county of Down.
Owen, which
p
is correct.
perfect.
In a monastery. This sentence is left knIt was probably intended to be "DO

:
r Their spirits were greatly damped, literally, " much of their mirth was blunted." s
Kinsman.
John was the legitimate son of Con,
mapbciD a Bpioll hi mainipcip Raca TYluelain, i. e. were treacherously slain in the monastery
of Rathmullan."
q
firstEarlofTyrone,andFerdoragh,BaronofDungannon, who was many years older than he, was

a bastard, according to
Mac an
tSabhaoisigh
This was the Irish
Edmund Campion, Fynes Moryson, Camden, and Ware. John O'Neil him-
1552.]

*
1525
moreover, a bell, small or large, an image, or an altar, or a book, or a gem, or even glass in a window, from the 'wall of the church out, which was not carried
off.
Lamentable was
this deed, the
plundering of the city of Kieran, the holy
patron.
Teige O'Rourke Tanist of Breifny, was hanged by his own people. Some assert that Brian O'Kourke, his father's brother, had a part in causing this
,
execution.
Mac Sweeny Fanad
(Rory), Niall, his relative, and Brian, the son of Edslain in a

1
mond, were treacherously
monastery
".
Mahon, the son of Brian, son of Teige, son of Turlough O'Brien, was by the people of Donough, son of Conor O'Brien.
slain
The son
in the
of O'Brien of
Thomond (Dermot,
the son of Murrough,

St. Bridget,
who was
son of Turlough) died on the eve of the festival of
and was buried
monastery of Ennis.
out] in this year
between the English, on the one side, and the Ultonians (a few only excepted) and Scofs, on the other, during which great injuries were committed between them.
hosting was made by the Lord Justice again into Ulster, against the son of Niall Oge (i. e. Hugh O'Neill) and the Scots. party of the English and
A great war [broke A
Mac an
preceded them with a force, in quest of preys but the son of Niall Oge met these at Belfast, and he rushed on and defeated them, and slew Mac an tSabhaoisigh, together with forty or sixty others. The other
tSabhaoisigh
;
troops, however,
at Belfast,
went across
[the River Lagan],
but they gained no victory,
and proceeded to erect a castle and obtained no hostages or spoil's and

;
their spirits
doragh,
i.
e.
were greatly dampedr on this occasion. The son of O'Neill (Ferthe Baron) went afterwards with a great army to assist the Lord
;
Justice and the English
but not being able on that night to come up with 8 them, he pitched his camp in their vicinity. His kinsman John Donghaileach O'Neill, pursued him with another army, and made a nocturnal attack upon the
,
forces of the
Baron
in their
camp
and he routed them before him', and slew

piam, ever. This sentence is improved by the Latin translator, in F. 1. 18, as follows : " Sed mora aliqua injecta in loco nonnullum
_ab Anglis dissito pernoctare cogebatur; fratrem
self under took to prove in
England that Ferdoragh was the son of a blacksmith of Dundalk.

1
phrase
Riam in this Routed them before him. is the old form of poiriie, before him, not
1526
emecmR
i
[1552.
an pf nepinn copcpaccap pocaioe ile laip. Uilliam Ppapapun cpepinep cumDaicceaD cuipc nac Do b'ai ran ina lupcip, le hachaiD pooa, lap ap luain Decc pop an pluaijjeaD perhpdice. RuccaD a copp nfcap co hoc cliar, a mppm gup an pi 5 Do oeapb'aD a pojnama a pipinne 66.
i
-j
-)
cpoiDe
-\
Ua
neill
DO
bfic illairh beop,

Denarii
ip in
(ao6) Do bfic ace
Stuaicceab ele
a mac Sfan Donnjaileac, mac neill oicc coccaiD ap an mbapun, ap jallaib ma bfojail. ppojmap lap an lupcip nullcoib, nf cappam nf
-| -] -[
i
-]
acr juipr DO milleao gan

pfc.
DO,-]
oponj oia muincip Do mapbaoh,-] ranaic jan piap
CoccaD mop ecip 6 Rajallaij,-) na la hua paijillij poppa.
pa^ranaij,-)
cpeaca lomoa Do
Denarii
concobaip pailê Do bfic
Saôib,
~|
gan
puil caic 16
cochc ina
ppir-
ing 06.
6apun Dealbna Do Dol hi Sapoib,-] a recc cap aip nuccaD a copcca ariiail ap Deac pop caeriinaccaip.
ina ppicing lap ccpfoc-
Qn
.1.
lupcip
Semup cpapc Do Dol
hi Saôib,
~\
an Soinpilep comap ciorhpocc
ciorhpoccac baile cuipin Do bfic na lupcip ina lonacc.

of Skreen, near Tara, in the county of Meath. See Ordnance map of Meath, sheets 32, 33, 38,
39-
ej us Joannes,
cognomento Dungalach, ea se nocte non junxisse nesciens, in castra ejus noctu prorumpit,
alios
u
et excitato
vertit,
tumultu omnia turbavit,

multos neci dedit."
The
entries
1.
under this year are translated

18, as follows
:
ad fugam
court.
in to Latin inF.
By
the
word cuipc the

1.
Irish at
" Clonmacnoisiam qui Athloniam incolebant
this
day mean any
large,
quadrangular mansion18, renders
house.
this,
The Latin
heart.
translator in F.
Angli miserum in modum expilarunt, majora campana ex obeliscis campanariis extraxerunt,

a minoribus etiam campanis eripiendis, ab imaginibus communcendis et altaribus evertendis
sacrilegias
" Athlonia? Castellum."
body was interred in Trinity Church, Dublin, but that his heart was sent to England, where it is- said
says that his
to
"
His
Ware
manus non continuerunt,
libros
om-
nes et fenestrarum vitra quse parietum ipsius

ecclesia fenestris
have been interred in the monument of his

x
non inha?rebant, exportarunt.
ancestors.
Sic locus sanctissimo Kierano
summa omnium
"
Upon among
English writer would say, them ;" but the Editor thinks that
them.
An
veneratione impense cultu sacratus sacrilegorum horninum audacia fisdata est, magno bonorum
this characteristic Irish
served in the translation.

in F.
1.
idiom should be preThe Latin translator,
omnium
luctu.
ipsi
" Tadeo O'Euarko in Brefnia, O'Kuarko

dignitate proximo, sui laqueo
18, renders
it,
"ab
his ille plurimas
gulam
eliserunt,
prsedas adtulit."
7
Baile- Cuisin, now Cushinstown, in the barony
cujus facti consortem patruum ipsius Brianum fuisse nonulli asserunt.
1552.]

numbers of them.
1527
great
On
this occasion,
for a long time the King's Treasurer in
William Brabazon, who had been Ireland, and who had been Lord Justice
at Athlone, died
;
for
some
time,
and had erected a court"
His body was brought in a ship to Dublin wards sent to the King, in token of his loyalty and truth towards him.
dition.
on the aforesaid expeand his heart" was after-
remained in prison in revenge of which his son, John Donncontinued waging ghaileach, and Hugh, the son of Niall Oge [of Clannaboy], war with the Baron and the English.
O'Neill
still
;
Another hosting was made by the Lord Justice into Ulster, in Autumn, but effected nothing, except that he destroyed corn-fields. After having lost a great
part of his people, he returned without submission or peace. great war broke out between O'Reilly and the English
and O'Reilly
committed many depredations upon them*. O'Conor Faly remained in England, no one expecting his return. The Baron of Delvin went to England, and returned home, after having transacted his business as well as he was able.
The Lord
i.
Justice,
James
Croftes,
y
,
e.
the Cusack of Baile-Cuisin
England and Thomas Cusack, the Chancellor, became Lord Justice in his
went
to
stead.
Suinius Fanatensis Rodericus, propinquus ejus Nellus, et Brianus filius Edmundi per insidias occisi sunt in monasterio. " Mahonius filius Briani filii filii TerTadei,
"
Mac
cum 40
sunt.
vel
60
aliis
occiso dirempta,
except!
castel-
Angli tamen vadum transeuntes

Belferstiam moliti sunt
;
lum ad
sed nee victo-
delachi O'Brien, occisus est a famulantibus Do-
riam nee obsides nee prsedam retulerunt, ita ut hac expeditione fastus et potestas multum repressa fuerat.
nato filio Conchauri O'Brien. " Dermitius filius O'Briani Tuomonice MuraTerdelachi mortuus in prasvigiliis S. in monasterio de Innis sepultus est. Brigidce " Gravissimo ex una Ultochi
filii
Fardorchus O'Neill,
accessione copiarum
et
filius
Baro
Dungannensis,
traxerat
quas convires
maximas proregis
Anglorum
bello,
Angli
parte,
augere contendens, ad castra pfoperat, sed mora aliqua injecta in loco nonnullum ab Anglis dissito
Frater ejus Joannes cogse nocte non junxisse in castra ejus noctu prorumpit, et exnesciens-, citato tumultu omnia turbavit, alios ad fugam
pernoctare cogebatur.
nienses omnes, prseter paucos, et Scoti, ex altera
parte inter se committuntur, multis malis ad
nomento Dungalach, ea
Rempublicam ex eorum
dissidiis
redundantibus.
"ProrexinUltoniamcontraHugonemO'Nellum, Nelli juvenis filium, et Scotos movit, et emissarii ex hostico prsedas abducere et explorare
si
vertit,
multos neci dedit.
Gulielmus Braba-
zonus Thesauri munere diu in Hiberniafunctus,

qui ssepius etiam proregis vices obivit, et Athcastellum restauravit, in castris vita ex-
itinera copiis sint pervia jussi, ad Bel-
lerstium in
Hugonem
filio,
inciderunt, a quo,
pugna
Ionise
non
nisi
Sovasio
qui creteris prajficiebatur,
cessit.
Cadaver ejus Dublinium feretro"
[recte,
1528
aNNdta Rio^hachca eiReaNN.

QO1S CR1OSC,
Qoip cpiopr,
1553.
[1553.
mfle, cuicc ceo, caocca, arju.
<3HUe6NG TnCn?|9 DO oipDneab
op Scrxaib, an.
6. lull.
-|
a bpafcpib pfin (Domnalt coippbealbac a noeapbpacaip oonnchab mop mac concobaip clann concobaip bpiain) ap (cigeapna cuabmuman) 50 cluain parhpoDa, an baile Do lopccab, oapccam
Qmmap
oibce Do rabaipc Id
.uf
~\
oaofne DO rhapbab leo, -| 6 bpiain oonnchab DO bol ipin cop baf ipin mbaile -] Dia imbfofn poppa. CX rrup an copjaip DO ponpaD innpin. 661 he pocann na
mbpiain uaip po jnouij DonncaD on pig cfpc oibpeacca l?o lonnaicceab Dia mac pfm 50 po gaipfb bapun De ap belaib a pmnpiop. na Deapbpatcpi De pin conab aipe Do ponpac an lonnpaiccib pempaice ~\ T?o eipij aobfpofp apoile nap bo maccnab lace Do jniom ina noeapnpacc.
hfpaonca
pin ecip pfol
eapaonca
poile uaip po ecc Donnchab
mp
lun.
pin, i
nimpeapain ppia ua bpiain mpla cuabmuTnan pqrapn na pdipi mop Domnall a lonaD. po jab
oepibe,
~\
hi
ccuabmumain
nip
bo cian bdccap
Siubcifn injfri
majnupa
ui
Domnaill bfn uf concobaip pliccij Decc an.

uf bpiain Decc.
16.
Donncab mac coippbealbaij mic mupchaib

Niall
peilim uf maoiteaclainn canaipi cloinne colmain pfp djmap lonnpaijceac, -] pfp a aopa bd pfpp Dia maicne Do mapbab a ppiull Id hua
9
mac
" delatum et cor cadaver! extractum nayigio] in Angliam missum est, ut eo indicio pateret fidem ilium Regi pra?stitisse. " O'Nello in vinctdis adhuc apud Anglos persistente, filius ejus Joannes et HugoNellijuvenis
filius
"
O'ConchaurusFalgiasinAnglia versebatura,
nee speratur unquam venturus in patriam. " Baro Delvinise profectus in Angliam et
perstiterunt etiam
cum Barone
et
Anglis
illatis
bellum gerere. " Pronax in Autumno armis Ultonise

nihil aliud prastitit
redux venit in patriam post [negotium] finitum ex animi sententia. " Jacobi Crofti proregis in Angliam profecti vices obivit Cancellarius Thomas Cusacus de
illinc
Balecusin."
*
quam conculcare segetes et coedem suorum ab hoste factam pati, hoste nee
ad obsidem nee ad pacem redacto. " Magno bello inter O'Eaughlie" [O'Reilly] " et Anglos exorto, ab his ille plurimas prsedas
adtulit.
Queen Mary.
to the
This fixes the accession of

;
day on which Edward VI. died Mary but Lady Jane Grey usurped the sovereignty for about thirteen days ; a fact which seems to
have been unknown to the Irish annalists. See Chronology of History, by Sir Harris Nicolas,
1553.]
1529
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1553.
thousand jive hundred fifty-three.
z Queen Mary was made Queen in England on the 6th of July. A nocturnal attack was made by Donnell and Turlough, sons of Conor O'Brien, upon their brother, Donough More Mac Conor, Lord of Thomond, at
Cluam-Ramhfhoda"; and they burned and plundered the town, and slew many And O'Brien (Donough) went into a tower which was in the town, persons.
to protect himself against them.
The cause
of this dissension was, that
This happened in the very beginning of Lent. Donough had obtained from the King
the right of succession for his son, who had been styled Baron in preference to In consequence of this the brothers became enraged, and made his seniors. the aforesaid attack
upon O'Brien.
Some
this,
assert that
it
was no wonderb
that
they should have acted thus. they did not continue long at
first
From
strife
disturbances arose in
Thomond
but
with each other, for Donough More O'Brien, Earl of Thomond, died on the Passion-Saturday ensuing and Donnell
;
took his place.

Joan, the daughter of Manus O'Donnell, and wife of O'Conor Sligo, died on the 16th of June.
Donough, the son of Turlough, son of Murrough O'Brien, died. Niall, son of Felim O'Melaghlin, Tanist of Clann-Colman, a successful and c warlike man and the best of his tribe for his years, was treacherously slain by
,
second edition,
*
p.
334.
i.
The
e.
literal translation,
however,
is
"
:
Aliqui
fece-
Cluain-Ramhfhoda,
or insulated
the lawn, meadow,
dicunt non
runt."
c
mirum
esse illos fecisse
quod
holm of the long rowing
Now
Clonroad, a townland on the Kiver Fergus, in the parish of Drumcliff, and county of Clare,
adjoining the town of Ennis. the year 1408, p. 796, supra.
b
successful
See note
*,
under
lonnpaijceac. ders this, " Vir bellicosus et in aggressionibus

imperterritus," from which
it is
and warlike man, pfp ajriiap The translator, in F. 1. 18, renevident that
wonder, nap bo maccnab. The word " maccab, or maccnao, is explained lon^nab," i. e. a wonder, Michael O'Clery, in his Glosby The Latin transsary of difficult Irish words.
lator, in F. 1. 18,
No
he takes a jmap to be an adjective derived from a .1. car, a battle, not from 65, prosperity, or
luck, as the Editor has taken
it
throughout, on
the authority of the printed dictionaries and

living language,
to
renders
it
"
loosely
:
Quo jure
merito
illos
commotos multorum
est sententia."
lonnr-aijreac means "given making incursions, or warlike expeditions."
9i
1530
QNNaca Rioghachca
eiraeaNN.
[1553.
maofleaclainn cabcc puaD 05 bel an ara 05 cfcc 6 cuipr an muilinn cipp. an caiplen nua, InDpab maije coppam, i gabdil a caiplem .1. cluain lonain,-| la gallaib ara luain a noiola bapun Delbna 1 lonnapbab i maoileaclainn ail mapbra neill mic peilim.
]
TTlai6m Do cabaipc ap ITlac uilliam bupc .1. RipofpD an mpainnld clotnD romaip bacaig a bupc, -] la gailfnjacaib ou in po gabab Ripofpo pfin -] in po
mapbab ceD co
Ific
Dia pluacc.
Sloicceab la hua
mbpmin oomnall
hillaijnib 50
hillaoijip ipin bpopr gup pccap pu amaille le 6 ua ccfpbaill laip ppi corhall pioba.
noeapna coinne le 17ucc Dna pioccdin.
Injfn uf concobaip pailje TTlaipjpecc Do ool hi paccyoib

~\
a hucc a
caip-
a hucc a bepla omppaib a hacap ap an mbanpfojain coip, Dfpa, queen mapia,-] lap nool Di po na jpapaib puaip a hacaip cucc le nepinn e, Don comaiple 1 DO paDab bpaijDe ele app Don lupcip, 17uDpaiê 6 concobaip pinnpeap a cloinne pfin 50 mbpaijDib ele amaille ppip. a gaoil
~\ i -\
-\
.1.
eDuapD Do ceacc 50 hepinn mp mbfic pop lonoapbaD Doib ppi pe pe mbliaDan Decc ip in Roirii ip in fccaill, 1 ip in bppainc, puapaccap aipeacc a nouicce, a niaplacra on mbanpfocille
Clann mpla
Dapd jfpoicc
occ, i
"]
Uainicc beop mac lapla oppaije comdp mac Semaip nnc Piapaip jain. buinilep ina lapla nionaD a acap. Canaic map an cceDna oiDpe meic jiolla pacrpaicc, bpian occ mac bpiam
i
apaon
upmoip
Id cloinn lapla cille Dapa,

Ifire
~\
Id hiap'la oppaije.
6d mop luarjaipe
i
mplacca
moja Dia ccoiDeacc pi&e, ~\ nf po paoilpioc aofnneac ap pliocc cille Dapa ind ua concobaip DO coi&eacc 50 bpdc nepinn.
i
Sluaicceao Id bapun Dealbna

caofc i pleacca pfpjail
d
mecc cocldm
of the ford,
nDealbna fcpa ap rappaing copbmaic coiccip inDiaiD na parhna, i a bfic DI

plain in the barony of and county of Westmeath. Clonlonan, f Cluain- Lonain, i. e. the lawn, meadow, or
'
Be/-an-at/ia,
e.
thu
mouth
now
Maylt-Corrain,
a.
of a townland and bridge in the parish of Mullingar, barony of Moyashel

Ballina, the
name
undMagheradernon, and county of Westmeath. See the Ordnance map of this county, sheets 18, 19. It is different from Bel-atha-glasarnach,
bog island of Lon an, a man's name, now Clonlonan, which gives name to the barony.
e Newcastle, in the parish of Kilcleagh, barony of Clonlonan, and county of Westmeath. Tradition still points out this as one of the castles
now
Bellyglass,
in
the
1
same parish, already

450, page 970, note
",
mentioned
supra.
at the year
erected
by the O'Melnghlins.
It
appears from
1553.]

d
,
1531
O'Melaghlin (Teige Roe), at Bel-an-atha as he was retiring from the court of c Mullingar. In revenge of 'this killing ofNiall, son of Felim, Magh-Corrairi
f was plundered, and its castles, i. e. Cluain-Lonain and Newcastle 8 were taken, and O'Melaghlin was expelled by the Baron of Delvin and the English of
,
Athlone.
A defeat was given A
to
Mac William
Burke,
i.
e.
Richard-an-Iarainn, by the
sons of Thomas Bacagh Burke and the people of Gallen, in which Bichard himself was taken prisoner, and one hundred and fifty of his army were slain. and he held a hosting was made by O'Brien (Donnell) into Leinster
;
conference with the English at the fort in Leix, and he parted from them in He took hostages from O'Carroll [as pledges] for keeping the peace. peace.
The daughter of O'Conor Faly, Margaret, went to England, relying on the number of her friends and relatives there, and on her knowledge of the English and on her language, to request Queen Mary to restore her father to her to her mercy, she obtained her father, and brought him home to appealing
;
Ireland
and other hostages were given up
to the
Lord Justice and
the Council
host-
in his stead, namely,
Eury O'Conor, the
eldest of his
own
sons,
and other
ages along with him. The sons of the Earl of Kildare, Garrett
after
Oge and Edward, came
to Ireland,
having been in exile for a period of sixteen years in Rome, Italy, and France, and obtained from the Queen the restoration of their patrimonial inheThe son of the Earl of Ossory, James, the son of ritances, and the Earldom.
Pierce Butler, also returned, and succeeded as Earl in the place of his father. The heir of Mac Gillapatrick, Brian Oge, the son of Brian, came along with the
sons of the Earl of Kildare and the Earl of Ossory. There was great rejoicing throughout the greater part of Leath-Mhogha because of their arrival; for it
was thought that not one of the descendants of the Earls of Kildare, or of the O'Conors Faly, would ever come to Ireland.
hosting was made by the Baron of Delvin into Delvin Eathra, at the instance of Cormac Caech and the descendants of Farrell Mac Coghlan, a fortthe forfeitures of 1641, that Newcastle was fortified
h
by Callogh The Fort, i. e. Port-Laoighise,

is
"
Mac Loughlin,
Irish Papist."
i.e. the fort
See it called by this town of Maryborough name at the years 1580, 1597, 1598, and 1600.
already mentioned at the year 1548, under Ware calls it Campaw, the name of Cainpa.
See
it
of Leix, which
the present Irish
name
of the
12
1.532
[1553.
oiDce hi ppoplonjpopc ipin cfp co po loipcceab 1 co po hmopaD laip 6 bealac an pocaip co eocap cinn rhona, -\ ba habbal in po rhillpioc an pluaj pin cen
co noeapnab cpeaca no mapbab oipoeapc laip. Coccab Diojlac Do eipje ecip mag coclain,-] pliocc pfpjail 6 maolrhuaib Do benarh fcoppa. ba pop an oiojb'dla nctc ^pobaing opaipnfip mppin, ccoccab pin DO ponab griforii ionj;nab hi ccluam nona .1. baclach DO rhuit.cip an DO benarii peille pap b'apDaib an baile, -] cpiup Dfppccaijreac Dib baile
-\ -|
pfm
DO riiapbab la cuaij connaij, i bfn Do baof ipcij Do cfngal ba Dana an gnfom aen mojaib innpin. laip,
~|
-|
an caiplen DO
rhoip bao\ in
Domnall Do cop mpla cloinne piocaipD on mhfinn lompuiDe ap Shfan a bupc.

bpiain
.1.
otherwise Protector, and Cox,
Campaum,
alias
Protector, both having misprinted Portleix.

'
Bealach-an-fhothair,
now
Ballaghanoher, a
oppidum diripiunt et cremant nonnullos etiam occidunt. Donatus in turri abditus eorum se furori subduxit. Illi autem ad hoc facinus ideo
impulsi sunt, quod filium suum Baronis titulo exornatum, ac proinde ad avitam haereditatem
post se fato functum adeundam designatum, contra patrias leges et consuetudines longa tem-
townland in the parish of Keynagh, in the barony of Garrycastle, and King's County.
k Tochar-cinn-mona, i. e. the causeway at the head of the bog, now Togher, a townland in the
of Garryparish of Lemanaghan, in the barony

castle.
1
porum
torum
tilla,
diuturnitate corroboratas, adultioribus
protulerit,
i.
although they acquired daughter, no remarkable booty, or slew no person worthy

of note.
Or
e.
est sententia.
quo jure merito illos commotos mulSed hsec contentionis scin-
quse in belli
est,
flammam eruptura videbatur,
m Cluain-Nona, udw Clonony

on the
left
castle, situated
Moystown,
in the
bank of the River Brosna, near barony of Garrycastle, and
ineunte quadragesimali tempore, a Clonramhodensi turnultu initium duceret, Donato, Sabatho ante Dominicam
brevi sopita
Passionis,
nam cum,
mortuo,
et
Daniele
illi
surrogate,
the year 1519, this castle King's County. is called Cluain-damhna, which is evidently the
At
true ancient form of the name.
See note
',
finem habuit. " Joanna, Magni O'Donelli filia, uxor O'Conchauri Sligoensis, obiit 16 Junii.
,
under the year 1519, p. 1347, supra. n Town. The word buile here means
"
Donellus, filius Terdelachi,
hlii
Murachi,
castle.
obiit.
Beann-mor, now Benmore, a townland in

the parish of Grange, barony of Loughrea, and county of Gal way. The entries under this year
are translated into Latin in F. 1. 18, as follows: " Regina Maria Anglioe regnum inivit G Julii. " Donatum Tomonioi domi-
"Nellus,
lilius
Felimaei,
O'Moelachlini,
vir
bellicosus et in aggressionibus imperterritus et
inter SUED gentis cosevos prsestantissimu?, quum e comitiis Mtilengaria; rediret, ab O'Moelachlino,
Tadeo
Rui'o,
apud Belanatha (aditum vadi)

spoliatur
;
Magnum
O'Brian,
frauduk-nter vita
sed foedam hanc
num, Clonramhodse di versatum, fratres

et Terdelachus
sui Daniel
nocturne impetu aggrediuntur,
cajdem non diu impunitam tulit, nam Maighcorannia vastata, castello Clonlonanensi et Castro
1553.] J
1:533
night after Allhallowtide, and he remained for two nights encamped in that
and he burned and plundered [the territory] from Bealach-an-fhothair' to Tochar-cinn-mona"; and this army caused great destruction, though they committed no remarkable depredations or slaughter After this a vindictive war arose between Mac Coghlan and the descencountry
;
1 .
dants of Farrell and O'Molloy, during which injuries not easily described were done between them. During this war an astonishing exploit was performed at m Cluain-Nona namely, a peasant of the people of the town acted treacherously towards the warders of the town", and slew three distinguished men of them
,
with a chopping-axe, tied a woman who was within, and then took possession of the castle and this was a bold achievement for one churl
;
O'Brien (Donnell) drove the Earl of Clanrickard from the [castle of] Beannmor, which he was laying siege to on John Burke.
Novo
captis, ipse suorum ditione et finibus pulsus est a Barone Delvinias et Anglis Athlonien-
venit
Thomas
Butler,
jam comes renunciatus
sibus.
il
post patrem Jacobum, filium Petri Butleri ; OssiTIX Comitem ; se comitem in redditu addit Bria-
Filii
victoria de
Thoruse Claudide Burgo et Galiiigenses, Mac Wilielmo Bourk, Richardo a
maxima
tillus e
nus Juvenis Mac Gillepadrigi haeres qui omnes totius pene Leithmoe gratulatione ex:
ferro, relata,
ipsum cjeperunt
et
150 milites ejus
cepti sunt,
spem enim omnes abjecerant
fere
ut
occiderunt.
Comitum
Kildaria; prosapia oriundus,
"O'Brianus, Daniel, in Lageniam

citu profectus, ad
cum
exer-
aut 0' Conch aurus Ofalgi*, Hiberniam

vel oculis usurparetur.
unquam
Portum
Loighsia? locum ab
Anglis condictum venit; a quibus, post pacem initam digressus, observandse pacis obsides ab
O'Carvallo retulit. " Margareta* O'Conchauri Falgise
in
" Delvinia? Baro, suadente Corinaco Coeco et

stirpe Fergalli
Mac
Csghlani, circa
medium No-
filia,
An-
vembris Delbhinam Ethram ingressus est armatus, et, positis biduo castris, per agros inter,
Balachanothar et Tocharnamona positos vastationes et incendia late circumtulit, et regioui
gliam transmisit, a Regina patri redituin impetratura, quippe

linguae Anglicanse gnara, et fre-
quenti cognatioiii in
lius
lit;
Anglia
freta voti se faci-
compotem
fore sperabat, nee earn spes fefel-
multis quidem detrimentis, bili cade aut praeda rediit.

postea flagravit inter
pern Fergalli ac
seel
nulla
memora-
nam
pater, opera ejus, in
Hiberniam redire
Hsec tamen expeditio ansam prsebuit acerbissimo bello, quod
et in ea
&
permanere promissus est, datis proregi senatui obsidibus, haerede suo Roderico et
in fide inviolabiliter persisturum.
Mac Coghlanum
et stir-
O'Melmuaidhum, quo
tot serum-
aliis, se
"Filii comitis Kildariffi, Geraldus Juvenis et
per earn regionem diffusse sunt, ut illse vix ulla narratione pertexi possint. In eo bello
Edwardus, post 16 annos

donati, in
in exilio per
Galliam
et Italiam transactos, avito
honore et hgereditate
Hiberniam revertuntur; eodem etiam
unius agricolae aut robur aut astutia enituit, qui, conatu nimis audaci sed prospero tamen, uastclliun Clnainnonae prsesidiariis adimere co-
1534
QNNaca Rioghachca
QO1S CR1OSC,
Qoip Cpiopc,
eiReciNN.
[1554.
1554.
mfle, cuicc ceD, caocca, a cfcaip.
Cacaofp mac aipc mic Diapmacca laimbfipcc meic mupchaba poof ajrhap ofol laijfn t>o ajeapna rriunbab gabalcap gall oecc. lonnpaijjceac, O cfpbaill an calbac (.1. mac Donricaib) Do mapbab la huilliam o6ap, la
-|
~|
mopba a noiojail na peille pliocc maolpuanaib DO pinnepiurii ap cabcc caoc piap an can pm,i ba mair po haicfo an mfjniom cabcc mac Donnchaib a oeapbpacaip a pn paippum uaip Do pocaip pfm 6 ceapbaill DO gaipm Duilccionaib an mignioma yin pia ccionn mbliaDna,
uf cfpbaill,") la conall 6cc 6
]
-|
liam 6 cfpbaill ma lonaD. Sluaicceab la Domnall ua mbpiain cijeapna cuaDmuman 50 caiplen bum mfcil ap concobap jpoibleac mac DonnchaiD bpiain DO jabail an baile paip.
\
on ccaiflen. lapla upmuman co na yluaj Do rocc Do ofocup ui bpiain Sluaicceab la hua mbpiain ipin rpeccmain lap pn hi ccloinn RiocaipD 50 noeapna cpeac mop ap Dpeim Don cfp. Ool ap pin Do 50 Dun lacpaij, Sliocc
RiocarpD oicc pliocc maoflip abupc DO cocc ina cfnD, ~| Do jabail oilfmna 1 cuaparcail uab. fflaibm cinnpalac hi ccloic cinnpaolaib DO rab'aipc ecip cloinn cpuibne na ccuar la pamna Do ponnpab. baccap lace bdcrap DO raoib Don lomaipfcc
~\
111
Ulac puibne eoccain occ mac eoccain, a Deapbpacaip coippbealbac mall mac maolmuipe. Clann Donnchaib mic Suibne Don Ific ele cappac i .1. aob buibe, Gmann, i concobap Domnall. Ro mapbab ann pin mac Suibne
pin
~|
-|
co na Deapbpacaip coippbealbac cappach

natus est
tern, ac
;
~\
mall mac maolmuipe, Do pocaip

they agreed to foster some of
fight in his service for pay.
1. 18,
is
paguin incoluit castello adjacenfacilis ei

sit
Bunratty, and county of Clare,

r
proinde
ergo cum
ingressus mactavit, et castellum expugnavit.
patuit accessus ; solus 3 valentes homines securi
Fosterage,
his children,
i.
e.
and to
The
translator, in F.
:
renders
it
very well,
O'Brien Daniel Comitem Clanrichardise, Richardum, aBenmorias [Castello] removrt, ad quod

coznes,utJoannemdeBurgoadoriretur,accessit." p " and was
taken, literally, Ample revenge well was that evil deed revenged upon him."
q
as follows
" Ac, nonnullorum obducta prceda, in Dunlatracham concessit, quo qui Richardo Juveni et
Meylero Bourk oriundi erant eum adeuntes nutricationis aut stipendii vinculo ei se obstrinxe-
Dun-Michil,
now Doon,
alias
Doomnulvihil,
runt."
s
in the parish of luchicronan,
barony of
Upper
Ceann-salach,
i.
e.
dirty head.
This
is
pro-
1554.]
1535
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1554.
thousand five hundred fifty-four.
Cahir, the son of Art, son of
and warlike man, and worthy to
Dermot Lavderg Mac Murrough, a successful have become Lord of Leinster, had it not been
for the invasion of the English, died.
O'Carroll (Calvagh, i. e. the son of Donough) was slain by .William Odhar, the descendants of Mulrony O'Carroll, and Connell Oge O'More, in requital of
the treachery
For
this treacherous
which he had practised towards Teige Caech some time before. conduct ample revenge was taken" of O'Carroll, for, before
his brother,
the expiration of a year after the perpetration of his treacherous deed, he himself
and Teige Mac Donough,
were
slain
and William O'Carroll
was styled O'Carroll in his place. Donnell O'Brien, Lord of Thomond, marched with an army to the castle of Dun-Michilq against Conor Groibhleach, the son of Donough O'Brien, to take
the castle from
him
but the Earl of
Ormond
arrived with his force, to drive
O'Brien from the castle
A hosting was made the
week
after this
by O'Brien
into Clanrickard
and
he committed a great depredation upon some people of that country. From thence he proceeded to Dun-Lathraigh [in the county of Gal way], to which the descendants of Richard Oge and the descendants of Meyler Burke repaired,
and received fosterage and wages from him.
was fought by the Clahn-Sweeny of the Tuathas, precisely on the day of Samhain [1st of November]. In this engagement were, on the one side, Mac Sweeny (Owen Oge, the son of Owen) and his brother, Turlough Carragh, and Niall, the son of Mulmurry;
,
The
battle of Ceann-salach
in Cloch-Chinnfhaelaidh',
on the other side were the sons of Donough Mac Sweeny, namely, Hugh Boy, Edmond, Conor, and Donnell. On the one side were slain in it, Mac Sweeny
and
his brother,
Turlough Carragh, and
Niall, the son of
Mulmurry
'
on the
now called Bloody Foreland, sitnated opposite Tory Island, barony of Kilmaorenan, and county of Donegal.
bably the place
'
trict in the
barony of Kilniacrenan, and county
of Donegal, comprising the parishes of
Kaymun',
terdoney and Tullaghobegly

the year
1
See note
under
Clock- Chinnfltaelaidh,
now Cloghineely,
a dis-
284, p. 440; supra.
1536
QNNata Rio^hachca
eiraeaNN.
-|
[1554.
oon caob apaill Diap Do cloinn Donnchaib .1. emann concobap Do popcpaccap Dna pocaibe DO bfjbaofmb fcoppa aDiu anall cenmocdc pibe.
~\
bapun oealbna, la mop pocpaioe gaoibel nulroib ap peilim puab mac aipc mic aoba neill ap cappaing ba mo olodp caoca cSfain bonnjaili j mic f neill. Do ponab cpeac mop leo,
)
TTloppluaicceab la hjapla cille Dapa, la

i
-|
po mapbab Sluaicceab la hua
oia muincip Don cup

neill
pin.
~\
conn
mp
ina
1
po mbaof Do plocc aca pop a cionn imd compaimc Doib co peimib pop ua 50 po lab dp a muincipe uaip copcpaccap cpi ceo Dia ploâib.
-|
nDol DO
in n'p ip
cionoil
mac cuinn DO bol pop cloinn aoba buibe, aob mac neill oicc f neill clanD mic Domnaill
neill,
66jiaime
mop
.1.
oct picic,
~\
cpi
ceD bo Do poinn,
-|
DO cogbdil ap bealbna
la
Dapa a nepaic a comalra Robepc nugenc po mapbab hope mac copbmaic meg cocldin.
frpa Diapla cille
concobaip pailge .1. bpian DO bfic illaim 05 jallaib'. CXob mac anmcaba uf maDajam njeapna pil nanmchaba Decc, i Sfan
mac bpfpail uf maoaccam Do gabdil a lonaio. Uabcc mac aoba uf cob'raij ppiom oioe epeann, alban le Dan Decc. Copbmac mac pipoopca meg cocldin cfnn a jabldin pfm, abbap nj~\ -]
eapna Dealbna frpa Decc

u
hi
ccluain londin.
x This term is Chief preceptor, ppioriiome. rendered " praecipuus institutor" by the trans-
For, uaip
This gives the style a clumsy

it
appearance, but the Editor has deemed
proper to preserve the exact construction of the It could be better expressed in fewer original. " And an words, thus engagement ensued, in
:
lator in F.
'
8.
which O'Neill was defeated, and three hundred of his forces were slain." The Latin translator,
in F.
1.
This was the principal castle in O'Melaghlin's country, and gave name to the barony of Clonlonan, in the county of WestClonlonan.
meath.
The
entries
under
this year are trans1.
18, renders it
thus
lated into Latin as follows, in F.
18
" Et pugna
late edita
sic incaluit,
ut O'Nellorum strage
"
Cahirus, films Arturi,
filii
Dermitii a
manu
300 desiderati sunt."

should be
O'Nellorum
is
rubra Mac Murchus, vir domi militiseque clarus,

dignus qui Lagenias prsefuerit
liceret, obiit.
si
incorrect, because they

sides.' It
:
were O'Neills on both " et pugna sic incaluit, ut
per Anglorum
O'Nelli copiarum strage late edita 300 desiderati sunt."

"
potentiam " O'Carvallus Calbachus, films Donati, occisi
non
Eric, a fine, or mulct.
This entry affords
evidence that the Brehon, or ancient Irish laws,
pridem Tadsei cocci pgenas morte dedit, Gulielmi Odhar, stirpis Moelruani o Caropera vaill et Conalli Juvenis oMordhi nimirum Deus
ita
;
were put
in force
as the reign of
by Queen Mary.
the Earl of Kildare, so late

>
annum elabi passusest, cum execrandam hanc cadem authoris ejus O'Carvalli et sui fratris
vix
1554.]
1537
other side, two of the sons of Donough, namely, Edmond and Conor. Numbers of other distinguished persons were also slain on each side, besides those
[already mentioned].
A great hosting was made by the

They committed
a great depredation,
Earl of Kildare, the Baron of Delvin, and
a great number of the Irish, into Ulster, against Felim Roe, the son of Art, son of Hugh O'Neill, at the instance of John Donghaileach, the son of O'Neill.
of their people on that expedition. An army was mustered by O'Neill (Con, the son of Con), to march against the Clann-Hugh-Boy. Upon his arrival in the country, Hugh, the son of Niall Oge O'Neill, and the sons of Mac Donnell, assembled all the
lost
fifty
and
more than
forces they
had
to
meet him
was defeated and

slain.
his
and an engagement followed, in which O'Neill people slaughtered, for" three hundred of his forces were
;
-A
great fine in cows, namely, three
hundred and forty cows, was apporslain
tioned upon and obtained from Delvin-Eathra by the Earl of Kildare, as an

eric" for his foster-brother,
Robert Nugent, who had been
by Art, the son
of
Cormac Mac Coghlan.

O' Conor Faly (Brian) was held in custody by the English. Hugh, the son of Anmchadh O'Madden, Lord of Sil- Anmchadha, died
and
John, the son of Breasal O'Madden, took his place. Teige, the son of Hugh O'Cofley, Chief Precentor* of Ireland and Scotland
in poetry, died.
Cormac, the son of Ferdoragh Mac Coghlan, head of his own branch [of that family], and heir to the lordship of Delvin-Eathra, died at Clonlonan".
Tadei sanguine expiari curavit
post
Calbachum
Bourk oriundi erant eum adeuntes

"
nutrica-
sublatum, O'Carvalli
nomen
ao dignitas Guli-
tionis aut stipend!! vinculo ei se obstrinxerunt.
elmo Odhar collata " Daniel

sidione
est.
Mac
Suinii Tuathenses in duas partes facdiscissi
O'Brien, Tuomonia? Dominus, ab ob-
tionibus
ad manus venerunt, alterius

ipse,
qua Dunmicheliam, castellum Cornelii Groblechi, filii DonatiO'Brian, cingebat, Comite
partes causam foverunt Mac Suinius
Euge-
nius Juvenis, Eugenii

adhaarebant
filius,
frater ejus Terdela-
Ormonise ad obsidionem solvendam appropinquante, recessit, et hebdomada proxime sequente in Clanricardiam cum exercitu abscessit, ac, non-
chusCalvus, etNellus, Mariani filius ;alteri parti filii Donati Mac Suinii, Hugo Flavus,
ullorum abducta -preeda, in Dunlatracham concessit,
Edmundus, Conchaurus et Daniel,utraque pars ipsis calendis Novembris ad Kinsalach de ClochKinfaelaidh in aciem prodiit et infestis animis et
quo qui Richardo Juveni
et
Meylero
9.K
1.538
QNwaca Rioghachca eiReawN.

Q01S CR1OSC,
Gofp Cpiopc,
1555.
[155.5.
mile, cuicc ceo, coocca, a cuicc.
QoD mac
laij
i
neill oicc, mic neill,
mic cuinn, mic ao&a bui&e mic bpiain bal-
aoba bui&e, pfp cocaccac coipbfpcach Deaplaicreac oeijemij, Rigoamna op puipeacaib, cijeapna ap rpen copnam, pfp nd nd po leicc geill nd fioipfoa cucc umla, nd uppcnm oaoin neac Do jaoibelaib a cip, ajd mbdrcap geill, pfp Do pao bpfpmabmanna lomoa p ua6a ap
neill ciccfpna cloinne
~\
~\
jallaib i ap jaomelaib 05
copnam a npe ppiu Do mapbab
Id halbancoib
Dupcop
peileip.
-|
.1. comap Supig, ancom pencligep .1. an DO Diocup poip. SluaicceaD lap an lupcip pin po ceDoip ap pean lupcip cappamj f neill Do bi'ocup cloinne meic Domnaill, na nalbanac bdccap 05 oenam gabalcaip ip in puca, hi cloinn aoba bui&e. 6aof an lupcip co na
lupcip nua DO cede 50 hepinn
-\
-]
pluaj Ifepdice ace inopab na nalbanac, -j Do pome cpeca iom6a poppa. 17o mapbaD ceD no Do Do na halbancoib laip, ~\ lui& co na ploj pop ccula jan
piap gan bpaijDib.
bpian mac cacaofp puaib
111
concobaip pailje Do
mapbaD
Id
DonnchaD
mac
uf concobaip
(.1.
bpian).
armis acerrime decertavit.

tionis parte tres supra
Tandem ex
et ex
ilia fac-
currit et
pugna
sic
incaluit,
ut O'Nellorum
memorati
hac Ed-
strage late edita
300 desiderati fuerint
miihdus et Conchaurus aliisque preestantes viri
" 340 bourn mulctam Delbhinffi Ethrse, irro-
animam profuderunt. Copias immensas Kildarise Comes et Delviniee Baro, magno Hibernorum numero illos ad
praster plebeios
"
gatam Kildarise Comes, ob collectaneum suum Robertum Nugent, ab Arturo, filio Cormaci Mac
Coghlan csesum,
"
exigit.
ea
arma prosequente,
filii
in Ultoniam, ut Felimei
Angli O'Conchaurum Falgia; Brianum
in
Hugonis 6 Nelli audaciam reprimerent, Joanne Dungalacho O'Nello rogante, duxerunt quidem prasdas magnas sed 50 suorum retulerunt.
Rufi,
Arturi,
filii
vinculis conjiciunt.
"
Hugoni Anmchadi O'Maddini
filio
morienti
dignitate
Joannes, Bressali O'Maddini

sticcessit.
filius, in
"O'Nellus, Conus Coni
filius,
bello-se
cum
" Tadeus Hugonis O'Cobthaigli, pra;cipuus per Hiberniam et Scotiam poeseos institutor fato functus est. " Cormacus, filius Ferdorchi Mac Coghlan, qui familiam in suo tribu duxit, et Delbhinse Ethra;
Clannaboiensibus gerendo involvit, sed Hugo, Nelli juvenis O'Neill filius, et Mac Donelli filii,
facto
appaad certamen capessendum accinguntur, nee mora, ubi acies utraque occurrit, mox conratu,
quam potuerunt maximo militum
Dominus
foret, obiit
apud Cluain lonain."
1555.]
1539
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1555,
thousand jive hundred fifty-five.
Hugh, the son of

and
a
truly hospitable
Niall Oge, son of Mall, son of Con, son of
Hugh
Boy, son
of Brian Ballagh O'Neill,
Lord of Clannaboy, an
influential, bountiful, generous,
man, a prince over chieftains, a mighty lord in defending, not yielded submission or obedience to any of the Irish, who had never given pledges or hostages for his territory, and who had [received] hostages himself, a man who had given many defeats to the English and Irish
man who had
in the defence of his territory against them,
was
killed
by
the Scots, with the
shot of a ball
2
.
A new Lord Justice,

thony
St.
namely,
Thomas
Sussex",
came
to Ireland
11
.
and An-
Leger, the old Justice, was banished to England hosting was immediately made by this Lord Justice, at the instance of O'Neill, to expel the sons of Mac Donnell and the Scots, who were making conquests in the Route
and Clannaboy.
them.
The Lord
Justice remained for half a quarter of a year with

;
his army, harassing the Scots
He
and he committed many depredations upon slew one or two hundred of these Scots, and then returned with
his army, without obtaining submission or hostages.
Brian, the son of Cahir
Roe O'Conor
Faly,
was
slain
by Donough, the son
of O'Conor (Brian).
z
Shot of a
ball.
Ware
adds, that after
Hugh,
the son of Niall, junior, had been shot through
committed her government once more to Saintleger, whom sundry Noblemen pelted and lifted
at,
till
with a bullet in
a.
skirmish with the Scots, the
Lord Lieutenant and Council, on the 15th of September, divided Clannaboy between Phelim O'Neal and the sons of Phelim Bacagh.
*Thon}as Sussex.
credit.
they shouldered him quite out of all He to be counted forward and plyable
to the taste of
King Edward the
sixt his raigne,
This
is
is
intended forThomas,
It should
rymed against the Reall Presence for his pastime, and let the papers fall where Courtiers
might light thereon, who greatly magnified the But pith and conveyance of that noble sonnet. the original of his own handwriting, had the
same firmely (though contrary to his own Judgement) wandering in so many hands, that his adversary caught, and tripped it in his way
:
Earl of Sussex, which be : " Thomas

b
not correct.
Kadcliff,
Viscount Fitz Walter,
afterwards Earl of Sussex.
Banished
to
England,
literally,
"expelled
eastwards."
Of the cause
of the removal of St.
Leger, Campion writes as follows in his Historic
of Ireland (Dublin edition of 1809,

"
p.
184):
Queene Mary established in her Crowne, 9
the spot whereof he could never wipe out. Thus was he removed, a discreete Gentleman, very
K2
1540
[1555.
Do 6ol Don mumain. Ua bpiain Do luprip na hGpeann DO Denam ploijiD nonol ploijj ele ma ashaiopiurh, -| Dol Do hi ccoinne an lupcip 50 huib' piaccain. Si'6 Do Denarh Doib pe poile, gaoiDil 6 beapba 50 pionamn ap pic
ui bpiain,
-|
goill
TTlac uf
murhan ap pir an luprfp. Doriinaill .1. an calbac DO Dol 50 halbam 50 nuacab Dajoaofne
(.1. giolla eppaig Donn) a ccoipijeacc poppa. Uanarec lapam 50 ppeacc mop 1 maijipcip appibel albanac laip DO rhilleaD DO mfimipc ripe conuill. 6a Don cup pin Do bfpc an gonna cam lap po bpipfD caiplen nua mnpi heoccam, laip gonna oia ngoipci cueacc Do cecup Don rip, l?o gabab laip ua Domnaill 1 caiplen eanaij. lap
"]
ma
caofrnceacc, i puaip pocpaioe ploij 6
mac
cailfn
uaDa an peace albanac pin on TTla^nup a acaip hi ppoppaca, nf po Ificc
cpampum a rnanjacrap 50
illciim
peil bpenainn
ap ccionn.
baoi cpa ua oorhnaill
50 a
ecc.
studious of the State of Ireland, enriched, stout
year 1305.
The ruins
it
of this castle
still
remain-
enough, without gall." Ware adds in his annals that he died
ing shew that

in Kent,
was one of the strongest and
where he was born, and that he was buried on

the 12th of March, 1559c
most important fortresses in all Ireland. See note h under the year 1305, p. 481 and note *,
,

h
Hy-Regan.
This was the tribe-name of the
Eanack
551, supra. This castle is called the Tower of

p.
family of O'Dunne and their correlatives, who were seated in the present barony of Tinnahinch,
in the north-west of the
d
e
f
Enagh by Ware
this year
;
in his Annals of Ireland, under and " Arx nobilissimse O'Cathano-
On
the part,
literally,
Queen's County. " on the
rum" by
tantum
Colgan,
who
describes
it,
as
" tertio
Arsibel,
now Archibald,
i.e.
peace." or Archbold.
milliari versus
aquilonem
distans ab
p.
ipsa civitate Dorensi." ee note

q
,
Trias Thaum.,
450.
Gonna- Cam,
it.
the Crooked Gun, or Tor1.
rnentum Curvum,
renders
dictory,
g
as the translator, in F.
if
18,
supra.
in
under the year 1197, p. 108, This castle was situated on an island
This was a very odd,

for a gun.
not contra-
name
i.
Newcastle.
e.
This castle
is still
called Caip-
Lough Enagh East, in the parish of Clondermot, near the City of Londonderry. This castle must have been afterwards re-edified, as
shewn on
several
by the Irish-speaking inhabitants of Inishowen, though it is now in

castle,
lean nua,
new
it is
maps of
Ulster,
I.
made
in
ruins,
called Newcastle
and of respectable antiquity. It is also on Mercator's Map of Ireland,

1629,
the reigns of Elizabeth and James no ruins of it at present.

'
There are
Rosrachd.
This
is
made
in
but now always in English

It is situated in the parish of
called Rossreagh,
which
probably the place now is a townland in the
" Greencastle."
parish of Tullyfern, barony of-Kilmacrenau, and
Moville, on the western
near
its
mouth.
margin of Lough Foyle, This castle was erected by the
county of Donegal. It would appear from the account of the defeat of John O'Neill, in the year
1557, that Calvagh O'Donnell then set his father
Ked Earl
of Ulster (Richard
DC Burgo),
in the
1555.]

Justice of Ireland mustered an
1541
army to march into Munster. c O'Brien mustered another army to oppose him, and marched to Hy-Regan to meet the Lord Justice. They [however] made peace with each other the and the EngIrish, from the Barrow to the Shannon, on the part" of O'Brien
The Lord
lish of
The son
select
Munster on the part of the Lord Justice. of O'Donnell, i. e. Calvagh, went to Scotland, attended by a few persons, and obtained auxiliary forces from Mac Calin (Gillaspick Don),
afterwards came back, with a great body of Scots, to desolate and ravage Tirconnell. It was on this occasion f g that he brought with him a gun called Gonna-Cam by which Newcastle in
,
under the command of Master Arsibel*.
He
Inishowen, and the castle of Eanach", were demolished.
Upon
his first arrival
in the country, he took O'Donnell (Manus), his father, prisoner, at Rosracha',
and retained
this
arrived, until the festival of St.
body of Scottish troops from the Allhallowtide, in which they Brendan following. O'Donnell remained in
captivity until his death.

at
liberty.
The
entries
under
this year are

1.
translated into Latin, as follows, in F.
18:
filii
Proregi in Momoniam, ut obviam conatibus occurreret, castra moventi O'Brian etiam armatus ad Ibhriaganum obviam
fit,
"
"
Hugo,
filii
filius Nelli
Juvenis,
filii
filii
Nelli,
ubi pace inita
Coni,
O'Nelli,
Hugonis Dominus Clanaboise, vir

Flavi,
Briani Nffivosi
soliditate,
digrediuntur et qui
flumine ad Sinneum
Hiberni agros e Berbhse
mu-
amnem
extensas incolunt,
nificentia, gravitate et hospital! tate celeberrimus,
qui nobilitatis ac tuenda?
ptrise
praarogativa
pacis ab O'Brieno impetratse participes esse permissi sunt, et Angali Momonise in proregis prse-
palmam
aliis
prsecipere visus est, qui nemini
ex
Hibernis proceribus obsequium unquam detulit, ab aliis obsides ssepe retulerit, victorias plures de Anglis et Hibernis in sua ditione propug-
sidium cesserunt. " Calbachi O'Donelli
filii paucis admodum comitantibus in Scotiam profectus agmina militaria quam plurima quibus Mr. Arsibellus pr-
nanda reportaverit. glande

interiit.
a Scotis transfossus
ficiebatur, a
Mac
Callino Gillaspico
Donno imTorindic-
petrata in
St.
Hiberniam duxit, quorum ope fultus

quietem turbis interrupit.
" Anthonio moto,
Thomas Sussexius
Legero proregis dignitate excepit qui ab O'Nello
Tirconallias
mento
bellico cui tormenti curvi
nomen
rogatus ducto in Ultoniam exercitu, filiorum Mac Donelli et Scotorum potentiam Rutam et
tum
vit.
Inisoeniae et
Clanoiboiam armis sibi vendicantium coercere

conatus
est,
Hiberniam importato Castellum Castellum Enaghense solo adasquaPrimum illius in Hibernia facinus fuit paest turn in
sed post sesquimensem in ea expe-
ditione, nihil
memorabile prastitit prseterquam quod Scotos magno pecorum numero et ex ipsis 100 aut 200 vita spoliaverit nee eorum obsequiis nee obsedibus relatis.
est
rentem Rosracha; cupere, quern non ante passus vinulis educi, quam corporis ergastulo anima
Nee Scotos in Hiberniam ineunte Novembre adductos ante medium Mali abire
solveretur.
permisit."
1542
awNaca Rio^hachca emeciNR

CR1OSC,
Qoip Cpiopc,
1556.
[1556.
mile, cuicc ceb, caocca, aSe.

i
colaim o clapaicch comapba paccpaicc

cfnD
finis, i
nuapdn maige
lap
haof,
)
paiDbpiopa comapbab
connacc, pficfm coiccfhn DO cpuajaib,

-)
Do cpenaib Decc hi ccloinn Riocaipo mp nd lonnapbab a huapan, ba& a rnfic (Diapmaic puab o clabaij) Id cloinD connmaig. O mopba conall occ Do epjabdil lap an lupcip.
Caiplen 6 nbdlacain
lip
hi
map-
cluaine
.1.
noealbna Do cpiocnuccab Id maofleaclainri
ppeil maca Suipcel. CacpaofnCo la hua mbpiain DoriinaU pop rabcc

in
05 caiplen an Dipipc Du
i
OonnchaD mac ui nbpuim Da maije ap loncaib, i ap eineac mpla cille Dapa. 17o cuip an lupcip, i an ciapla ceacca uacaib Ifc ap Ifc gup an mbainpiojairi 50 Sa^raib
Dup cpeD a DepaD Do Denam lap na bpaijDibh (pin uaip baf 6 concobaip, DonnchaD 50 mbpaijDib ele illaim ag an lupcip an can pin. I7o leicceab 6 mopba, DonnchaD 6 concobaip po Daijin na comaipce baof aca lapla cille Dapa, mpla upmumhan map r,dp paoi'leaD Do Denam 66. O pfpgail ban .1. caDcc mac conmaic Decc lap pfnoacaio coccaiDe.
]
mac mupcaioh ui bpiain Do Daofnib no nf ap mile. po mapbaD rpioca concobaip pailje (.1. bpian) Do epjabail lap an lupnp
~|
.1.
-|
maoajain (.1. Sfan mac bpfpail) cijfpna pil nanmcaDa Do mapbaD Id Da cigeapna Do jaipm ap pfol nanmcaDa bpfpal Dub 6 maoagdin bpfpal Dub, i maofleaclairm mooapba. Uaicne mac uilliam uf cobcaicc paof 6peann le Dan DO mapbaD pan oioce a ppiull mbaile an luicc maijbacla, nf peap cia po rhapb.
-|
.1.
-|
an.
peilim (.1. ua Docapcaij) mac concobaip cappaij 6. DO Decembep.

Uaran-Maiffhe-Aoi,
i.
uf
oocapcaij DO ecc
e.
Oran of Moy-Aoi,
,
in the parish of Tisaran,
barony of Garrycastle,
this castle
now Oran, in the barony of Ballymoe, and See note r under the county of Koscommon year 1201, p. 130, supra, where the ruins now
to
and King's County.

are
still
The ruins of
to
be seen in this townland.
Tht-
O'Dalaghans were respectable and numerous

here in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
'
be seen at this place are mentioned.

k
Lis-duaine, i. e. the fort of the meadow, lawn, or bog island, now Liscloony, a townland
Disert,
now Dysart-O'Dea,
in the barony
of Inchiquin, and county of Clare.
1.556.]
1543
THE AGE OF CHRIST,
1556.
The Age of Christ, one thousand jive hundred fifty-six.

Gilla-Columb O'Clabby, Coarb of St. Patrick at Uaran-Maighe-Aoi head of the hospitality and affluence of the Coarbs of Connaught, general entertainer
J ,
of the indigent and the mighty, died in Clanrickard, after having been banished from Uaran, and after his son, Dermot Roe O'Clabby, had been slain by the
Clann-Conway.
O'More (Connell Oge) was taken prisoner by the Lord Justice. The castle of Lis-cluaine k in Delvin, was finished by Melaghlin O'Dalachain,
,
on the
the Evangelist. O'Brien (Donnell) defeated Teige, the son of Murrough O'Brien, at the castle of Disert', where thirty persons or more were slain.
festival of St.
Matthew
Donough, the son of O'Conor Faly (Brian), was taken prisoner by the Lord m while he was under the safe protection and Justice, at Druim-da-mhaighe
,
The Lord Justice and the Earl sent each a guarantee of the Earl of Kildare. messenger to England to the Queen, to learn what should be done with those
hostages [whom they had] for the Lord Justice had O'Conor and Donough, as well as other hostages, in his custody. O'More and Donough O'Conor were afterwards set at liberty, on account of their guarantees, namely, the Earl of
;
Kildare and the Earl of Ormond.
This had not been expected. O'Farrell Bane (Teige, son of Cormac) died at a venerable old age. O'Madden (John, the son of Breasal), Lord of Sil-Anmchadha, was slain by Breasal Duv O'Madden and two lords were set up in Sil-Anmchadha, namely,
;
Breasal
Duv and
Melaghlin Modhardha.
slain at night, at Baile-an-luig in
n
Owny,
the son of William O'Coifey, the most learned in Ireland in poetry,
was treacherously
Magh-bhachla, but
it is
not
known by whom.
O'Doherty (Felim, the son of Conor Carragh) died on the 6th of December.
m
Druim-da-mhaighe,
i.
e.
the hill of the two

in the parish
da-mhaighe,
n
i.
e.
the district of the two plains,
plains,
now
evidently
Drum-caw,
in the east of the
King's County,
i.
of Ballynakill, barony of Coolestown, King's County (Ordnance map, sheet 19); a remarkable hill in the district of Tethmoy, or Tuath-
Baile-an-luig,
e.
the
town of the hollow,
now
Ballinlig, a subdivision of
Mayh-bkac/ila,
Moy voughly. now Moyvoughly, three miles
1.544
[1557.
QO1S CR1OSU,
\
1557.
Qoip Cpiopr,
Inopab apDamaca po
TTlac
6f
i
mfle, cuicc ceo, caocca, a Seacc.
mupcaba
.1.
naon mi lap an lupcip comap puipij. TTlupcaD mac muipip caomdnaicch Do bdpuccao
hi Ifir-
baf pibe ace cpiall apoaijre, i jlionn la gallaib, ap

i
fpaonca ppiu co po
peallpac paip ipc'j ccicc na comaiple. noelbna earpa Do jabail la bpajaicr baof illairh Caiplen an pfodin DO TTlhaj cocldm,-] pliocc pfpgail DionnapbaD, a mbpaijoe inD,-] a rabaipc
i
-]
la gallaibh aca luain, cocldm 6 maoileaclamn mpcrain. CoccaD oeipje ecip mag pfol cconcobaip Dionnapbab ap an cfp DopiDipi i a InDpaD ua ppailje, mbpaijDe Do conjbail lap an lupcip. Qciac na bpaijoe O concobaip pailge,
~\ -] -\
Do cpochaD luan inirce .1. an ceD la Do mapca. Caiplen pacpa Do bpipfo la hua maofleaclainn
mac a Deapbparap
.1.
T?opa
mac mupchaib
~\
co pocaiDib ele amaille ppiu.
na bpaijoe pin uile la gallaib ace 6 concobaip nama. O mopba conall Do gabdil Id gallaib, a bdpuccaD leo hi Ifirglmn. ba cpuaj cpa Id gaoibelaib an Diac pin Do bpfta pop a paopclancaib poiceT?o bapaijicc
nelcaib giongup cuimjfccap nf Doib.
Sluaicceab lap an lupcip Do Dfocnp

north from the town of Moat, in the county of
p(l
concobaip ap TTliliucc lap na
finem fecit Malachias O'Dalachan in festo Sancti

Mathaei.
Westmeath.
The
entries
under
1.
this year are
translated as follows in F.
18
"
:
O'Brienus, Daniel,
cum Tadeo
filio
Murachi
" Gillacolumbius O'Clabbaidh, Comorbanus
O'Brien, ad castellum de Disert signa contulit,
norum
Sancti Patricii in Oran de Moyhai, ComorbaConacise opulentia et hospitalitate Cory-
ubi e Tadei parte 30 vel plures ceciderunt. " Donatum O'Conchauri
Falgias, Briani, filium,
phaeus ad cujus
domus
temiioris et opulentioris
fortunes hominibus facilis patuit accessus, ut quse
prorex in vincula, comite Kildariae annuente, dari jussit sed Regina quid de ipso ac ejus
;
omnibus publior gratiutius
diversorii in-
patre, cseterisque carcere inclusis statim vellet
star erat,
in Clanricardia, ubi, sua pulsus sede
consulta, 6
pra?ter
Morus
et
Donatus in libertatem
educti
sunt,
Dermitium a Clanchonmhoensibus interfectum, exulare coactus est animam exhapost filium

lavit.
omnium expectationem
Kildariffi et
Ormonise comitibus in se accipien-
" O'Mordhus Conallus Juvenis, a prorege in

custodiam tradi jussus " Castelli
est.
tibus ipsos in sede posthac inviolata? permansuros.
" O'FarrellusAlbus Cormaci
filius
senio con-
Lisclonensis in
extruendi Iêlvina
fectus obiit.
1557.]
1545
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

*
1557.
The Age of Christ, one thousand jive hundred fifty -seven. one month by Thomas Sussex. Mac Murrough (Murrough, the son of Maurice Kavanagh) was killed at to exalt himself, and foment Leighlin by the English, because he had begun
Armagh was plundered twice

p
in
disturbances against
them
whereupon they dealt treacherously by him

,
in the
house of the council.
The
castle of
Feadanq
in Delvin-Eathra
confined therein, and given up to
was taken by a prisoner who was Mac Coghlan and the descendants of Farrell
;
were banished, and their hostages hanged, on Shrove-Monday, being the day of March.
first
The
Athlone
;
castle of
after
Rachra was demolished by O'Melaghlin and the "English of which a war broke out between Mac Coghlan and O'Melaghlin.
:
Offaly
Lord
was ravaged, and the O'Conors were again banished from it, by the 0' Conor Justice, and their hostages detained. These were the hostages
Ross, son of Murrough, with many others All these hostages were put to death by the English, except
i.
Faly, and the son of his brother,
e.
along with them.
O'Conor
only.
O'More (Connell) was taken by the English, and put to death by them at It was grievous to the Irish that their free-born noble chieftains Leighlin.
should be overtaken by such an evil destiny
;
but they could not afford them
any assistance.
A hosting was
"
made by
the
Lord Justice
to banish the
O'Conors [of Offaly]
per BressalumNigrumO'Maddin interempto, Silanmchia duos dominos Bressalum Nigrum et Malachiam
O'Maddino, Joanne, Bressali
filio,
of Ireland, that " Maurice Cavenagh and Conall
rebels,
O'Moore," were sentenced to death as stubborn and executed at Leighlin Bridge this
Moddarha puti coactaque.

Gulielmi 6 Cobthaigh, poeseos HiberuicK peritissimus, in Baileanluicc de
;'
year.
i Feadan, now Faddan, in the parish of Lusmagh, barony of Garrycastle, and King's County. See note f , under the year 1520, p. 1348,
Uathnius,
filius
Maighbachla nocturna fraude peremptus
est,
nee prodi poterit quis csedis fuerit auctor. " O'Dochartus, Felimeus, filius Conchauri
Calvi,
"
supra.
r
See other notices of this castle at the
years 1540 and 1548.
6 Decembris occubuit [obiit]."
Rachra,
now Raghra,
otherwise Shannon
Mac Murrough.
Ware
states, in his
Annals
Bridge, in the barony of Garrycastle, King's
9L
1546
aNNaca Riohachca eiReaNN.

-|
[1557.
clopcin 06 a mbfic ann,
jjonnaba
mopa oimpfbain
~|
hac
-|
luain,
-\
appibe,
naprpaijib 50 miliucc,
-\
DO cappaing laip 50 a pluaj cpe bealac an pocaip

-]
DO lujiccam lupmaije,
bpfc cluam laip, l?o
pfm ma ppappab. 17o ?;abab laparh TTliliucc q mapbab oonnchab mac colla, q Dpong ele Don bapoa
e
hinDpab an cfp uile Don cup pin. Do hionnapbab clann maoileaclainn bailb ap an cfp gup na oibeapccaib amaille ppiu. pdccbaip an lupcip conpcabla Saânac hi miliucc .1. TTlaijipcip ppanpip,
amaille
ppip.
l?o cpoicfoh q po
-|
puce bpaijoe
on'
Da 6 maoagdin
.1.
ele 6 TTlag cocldin
mac
~|
ITIaoilfclamn moDapoa, -| bpfpal,~| bpaijDe apaill ele conab arhlaiD pin po jabab pfol
.1.
hupupa a piom nac a aipiorh gac ap milleab Don rupup pin. Upi pfccmaine pia lu^napa Do ponnpab innpin. O pfpjail ban ooriinall Do mapbab la paccna mac caibcc uf pfp jail
nanmcaba,
-]
nf
~\
paccna peippin Dionnapbab cpiap an njmorh pin la jallaib. Domnall maclaoi jpij uf mopba njeapna pleibe TTlaipcce DO cpochab la
ftallaib
.1.
la maijipcip
pill.
Sluaicceab lap an lupnp hi ppfpaib ceall Do bfocup na ppojlab epce ap a 3ca ^ a T ce po 10 o maolcualaib co mbaccap pop coillcib pfp cceall. po muaib co mbpaijoib ele. Luib appibe 50 hele 50 po jabab Ifim ui bdnam
'
Soaip an lupcip cap a aip lap ccabaipc mfpccbuaibpeab pop jaoibelaib na nionab pin. Ufio Sluaicceab ele lap an laparh hi Saâib, i pdccbaip an cpeipinep ma lonab.
laip, i
bd he peabap a eic puce 6 cfpbaill app uaba.
ape bfic 05 ppeapaib ceall Dia Diojail ap ua maolmuaib caomna na cficipne coille, na nDibfpccac. Ro hionopab an cfp 6 coill
cpeipmep
hi
.1. ~|
/
County, where a modern fort occupies the

of the old castle.
s
site
DO rapConveyed and carried, oimpfoam These two verbs are nearly synonimous. " Impeaoain .1. caplub no cuppamj."
-\
Meelick, and his army through Ballaghanoher, and by Lurgan Lusmhaighe, and he himself along with them."
u
*
pamj
Becdach-an-fhothair,
in
now Ballaghauoher,
King's County
near Banagher,
it
the
See
O'Clery.
already referred to at the years 1548 and
very rudely stated appear from the literal "A translation, which is as follows hosting by the Justiciary to banish the Race of Conor from
is
While he himself.
This
1553.
in the original, as will
Lurgan- Lusmhaighe.
This was a townland
in the parish of Lusmagh, barony of Garrycastle,
and King's County; but the name

lete.
is
now
obso-
was heard by him that they were there; and great guns were drawn and carMeelick, afterit
Breac-chluain,
i.
e.
the speckled lawn, mea-
ried
by him
to Athlone, and thence in vessels to
dow, or bog-island,
now
Brackloon, a townland
1557-]

after
;
1547
having heard that they were there and he conveyed and carried great guns to Athlone, and from thence [sent them] in boats to Meeu and by lick, while he himself' marched his army through Bealach-an-fhothair
from Meelick,
5
Lurgan-Lusmhaighe
He
afterwards took Meelick and Breac-chluain*, and
The slew Donough, the son of Colla, together with others of the warders. entire territory was plundered and ravaged on that occasion. The sons of Melaghlin Balbh
were banished from the
territory, together
i.
The Lord
Justice left an English constable at Meelick,
with the insurgents. e. Master Francis, and
took hostages from the two O'Maddens, namely, from Melaghlin Modhardha and Breasal, and other hostages from Mac Coghlan, namely, his son and others
:
and thus was Siol-Anmchadha taken, and all that was destroyed on that expedition.
[expedition] was made. O'Farrell
it is
not easy to state or enumerate Three weeks before Lammas that
Bane (Donnell) was slain by Fachtna, the son of Teige O'Farrell; and Fachtna himself was banished for this deed by the English. z Donnell, son of Laoighseach" O'More, Lord of Sliabh Mairge was hanged
,
by, the English, namely,
by Master
Sili.
A hosting was made by the Lord Justice into Fircall, to expel the plunderers
from
had heard that they were in the woods of Fircall. He took Theobald O'Molloy and others prisoners, and proceeded from thence into Ely, where he took Leim-Ui-Bhanaina and it was the goodness of his steed
it,
for he
[alone]
O'Conor to escape from him. The Justice returned back, after having thrown the Irish of these parts into confusion. He afterwards went to England, and left the Treasurer" in his place. Another hosting was made by the Treasurer into Fircall, to take vengeance upon O'Molloy (Art) for his protection of the wood kerns and other insurgents. On this occasion the whole
that enabled
in the parish of Clonfert,
and county of Galway.
barony of Longford, In this townland still
seat of
Leim- Ui-Bhanain, now the Leap Castle, the H. Darby, Esq., in the King's County,
five miles to
,
stands a square tower said to have been built
about
note
the north of Eoscrea
See
by O'Madden, Chief of Sil-Anamchy.

y
'
Laoighseach, now anglicised Lewis. Sliabh Mairffe, now' the barony of Slew-
under the year 1514, p. 1326; and note w under the year 1516, p. 1337, supra. T/ie Treasurer. This was Sir Henry Sidney,
,
margy, or Slievemarague, in the south-east of the Queen's See note h under the County
,
afterwards so celebrated in Irish history Ware's Annals of Ireland, A. D. 1557.

c
See
year 1398,
p.
763, supra.
Wood kerns,
i. e.
the outlawed kerns. O'Fla-
9 L.2
1548
poip, T?o
[1557.
mac
plojj
-)
toipcceab baile mic abainn lanneala njpb cfmplaib,-] po mapbab u f maolmuaib .1. an calbac ace bel aca glaipi lap an cpepmep co na
]
po lope an cfp,i po jfpp a coillce, a lonnapbab, i cpenf rapo pir no oppab oua maolmuaib ace a arcop DO rfpoio 6 maolmiiaib iap ppdgbdil Do jaipm be, capccaib njfpnap ruip a rhfic map bpdjairr aicce ma lonab pfin.
Don cup
pin.
Uainicpibe Dopib-pi,
~|
-]
-|
Coccab abbal enp jallaib

., Si'ol
-|
ina
mbaof amuij-nna naccaib Do jaoibelaib

maoflmuaib
~\
cconcobaip, 8folm6pba,
-j.Sfol
-]
Sfol ccfpbaill co
nac eioip
po^la Do ponab leo 6 cd-pionamn 50 pliab apiom an Uon cpeac mapbca, 6 cd blabma 50 cliobna, ") 6 cd eoip gup an ccliobna cceona. pnab,
"I
herty (Ogygia, part iii. c. 27), iu his strictures on Peter Walsh, acknowledges that the term
kethern,
Lord
f
Charleville's lake.
i.
Sliabh-ruadh,
e.
the red mountain.
There
which was originally a military term, was used in a bad sense, even by the Irish themselves, after the Irish soldiery
is
anglicised Slieverue, near Blessington, on the frontiers of
a mountain
of this
name, now
war, and forced to live in woods and uncivilized manner.

d
were reduced by in a barbarous
the counties of
Wicklow and Dublin
but the
Three Rock Mountain, and the whole range of hills to the south of Dublin, were anciently
called Sliabh-ruadh,
Baile-mhic-Abhainn,
now pronounced by
the
and they
to.
are, doubtlessly,
few old people

as if written
who
speak Irish in this district,
the range here referred

g
baile ic uBuinn, and anglicised a castle in a barony of the same Ballycowan, name, about two miles to the west of Tullamore.
It is stated in a
Sliece Bloom, a range of
mountains on the
boundary between
Counties
h
the
x
,
King's and Queen's
See note

the
poem composed by Ferganainin Mac Keogh, on the triumphs of Hugh O'Byrne of Glenmalur, that Hugh O'Byrne plundered and burned this place, the name of which he
writes baile cob'ain, as
it
Cliodhna
This
i.
is
e.
Conn Chliobna,
is
more frequently called wave of Cleena, who

sprite
believed to be the familiar
of the
south of Ireland, as Oeibhinn,

Aoibhill,
to
is
now
corruptly
Nq part
;
of O'Molloy's castle
now pronouced. now remains at this

is
of
North Munster
Aenguis,
but, according-
the
Feilire
Cliodhna of Toim-
place but its site is occupied by a more modern castle, wected in 1626, by Sir Jasper Harbert, as appears from the style of it,, and the follow-
Chliodhna was a saint venerated on 17th March.

Tliis locality is referred to iu a
ing inscription ever the -entrance " This house was built by Sir Jasper Harbert and Mary Dean Finglas, in the year 1626."
:
to Donncll O'Donovan,
name
styles
it is
it.
in 1639,
poem addressed who became chief of his by Muldowny O'Morrison, who
him " Dragon of Cliodhna," from which quite clear that he had a residence near The name Toun-Chliodhua
is
'
Bel-atka-glaisi,
i.
e.
mouth of
is
the ford of the
This was the castle of Eaheen in the pa-
streamlet,
now
called Bellaglash,
and sometimes
rish of Myross.
Glash, a ford over which there
now
a bridge,
on a stream which
rises in
thetowuland of Der-
not yet forgotten, and is -applied to a loud surge in the harbour of Cuan-Dor, now Glandore, in
the south of the county of Cork.
x
rybeg, in the barony of Geshil], and flows into
Mr. James
1557-]

Wood
;
country, from the

d
Baile-mhic[of Coill inor] eastwards, was ravaged both houses and churches, were burned and Calvagh, Abhainn and Lynally, e son of O'Mollov, was killed at Bel-atha-glaisi by the Treasurer and his army,
;
,
on that occasion.
down
its
carne a second time, and burned the territory, and cut woods, and gave neither peace nor rest to O'Mollov, but chased and
traitor,
He
banished him. and proclaimed him a
and gave the lordship
to
Theobald
delivered up to him his son as a hostage jri his own place. O'Mollov, great war between the English and all those Irish who had turned out
who
against them, namely, the
O'Conors [Faly], O'Mores, O'Molloys, and O'Carrolls;
so that it is impossible to enumerate the number of preys, slaughters, and plunf ders, which were committed by them, from the Shannon to Sliabh-ruadh from
.
Slieve
Bloom
to Cliodhna",
and from the
Eoir' to the
same Cliodhna.
O'Donovan, of Sqiiince, now living at Gravesend in Kent, describes its situation in a letter to the Editor, from which the following extract
though general, description).
When
the wind
is
north-east offshore, the waves, resounding in the

caverns, send forth a deep, loud, hollow,
mono-
any having heard the name Tonn Cleena (Cleena's wave) ? I have heard the name, and often enough
may be interesting, as the situation of Tonn Chliodhna has never been pointed out " You ask me if I have recollection of
:
tonous roar, which hi a calm night is peculiarly impressive on the imagination, producing sensations either of melancholy or fear." See Smith's Natural and Civil History of Cork, vol. i. first
edition,
p. 273,
where Dean Swift's poem
is
the wave, or the roar of the surge, both in calm and in storm. You will be surprised when I say in calm, but it is a day, or sometimes two days, before the wind shifts from any other point
to the
printed.
There is a Carraig- Chliodhna on the coast of the townland of Keenogrena, parish of Kilfaughnabeg, in the west division of the barony of East
Carbery, and another rock of the same name in the parish of Kilshannick, barony of Duhallow, in the same county, where Cliodhna is believed
to
north-east
that the
noise
is
loudest
and at Squince, where it is heard perhaps loudetst, it was and is always taken as a certain indication of a shift of wind to the north-east.
The
have held her

is
aerial
palace.
But Tonn-
old people will have it that it emanates from a rock which is off the point of the western entrance of Glandore'iarbour, connected with which
Cliodhna
the text.
'
evidently the place alluded to in
The Eoir,
called
Feoir
by Keating and
there exists a curious legend ; but the truth is, that this remarkable roar, ev&i in a calm, when
u north-east
O'Heerin, now
the River Nore, which rises in
the Devil's Bit mountain,
wind
is
approaching, emanates from
barony of Ikerrin, and county of Tipperary, u^d flowing, by a

very circuitous course, close to Borris-ia-Ossory, and through Castletown, Abbeyleix, Kil-
the eastern side of the harbour's entrance.

cliffs
The
facing the south and south-west being of stupendous height, and hollowed out into enor-
mous caverns
in his
(of which Dean Swift has given,
kenny, Thonuibtowii, and Enistiogue, unites with the Barrow about a m;le below New Ros.-,
poem
Carberia? Rupes.
it
very accurate.
wher" they form
a verv i-oiiîdiTa'-ilf river,
and
1550
aNNata Rio^hachca
cfpbaill
(.1.
eirceaNN.
aji
[1557.
uilliam obap) DO jabail caiplem an leime
jallaib lap
bpajbail baojail paip.
Uoippbealbac mac coricobaip mic coippbealbaij mic caibcc an comaiD

uf
bpiam Decc. Seaan 6 neill

DO 6ol
i
.1.
mac
cuinn, mic cuirin
oo ufcclamab,
~\
ma ccfp conaill .1. ria haipsialla uile, -\ DO jjaoibelaib o cpdij baile mic buain 50 pinn. Uangaccap pioe uile
Idnrhoip
1
oo lepcionol Sloij mbaof DO gallaib

-|
ma cionol,
po haipipeab lap na plojaib fpm 50 po gabpac longpopc Ifran laocapmac cerup ace an ccappaicc Ific ecip Da abamn .1. pionn, 6d pommeac po boc illongpopc mic uf neill ap po baof cpfic 1 TTlobapn.
ma
coiceapeal, 1
nf
-\
gac nabailcce apcfna ann. pfona, cfnnaijecc mfoa, a mboRanaicc pccela 50 mac uf neill 50 po cuippfc cenel cconaill a mbu an cfpe lap na cculaib, accbepcpom nac cdmre noiarhpaib nopoibelaib
-j
-)
eogaD nuapal,
-|
~\
murhain, no Dfobpmm Dopuibe, ap cia no ciopcaofp illaijmb no biabpom ma lupcc conap cuccab 50 piapaijce mcr po a siamup bdbein, cond biab ace aon pig pop ulca;b DO ^pep. Cenel cconaill ona ap amlaib bdcrap e illdim accd mac rienfipre, pein i ua Domnaill TTlajnup neapldince an calbac ppi pe od bliaban paime pin, i an calbac hi ccfnoap na cfpe.
baof bo
-\
~|
baof beop a bCfibpacaip aob co na luce Ifnarhna hi pppicbfpc ppip, baof pibe hi ppappab Shfain, a bpacap an can pin. O po clialaib an calbac Sfan
"|
flow in a southern direction for about twelve
the Latin translator, in F.

it
:
18,
well renders
they unite with the Suir at Cheek point, near Waterford. The point where they meet is called Comarna d-tri n-uisceadh by the old Irish which is translated " ConIrish miles
till
opportunitate quam nactus est arrepta." m Teiffe-an-Chomkaid,i.e. Teige, or Timothy,
"
writers,
of Goad, a townland containing the ruins of a small church, near Corofin, in the county of
Clare. n His
fluentia
Trium fluviorum," by Colgan, in Trias Tfiaum., p. 164, and by others "the Meeting of
See Keating's History of Ireland, Haliday's edition, preface, p. xxx. k The castle ofLeim, i. e. of Leim-Ui-Bhanain,
muster and
army
The
Irish
words
the three waters."
cionol and coiceapcal are synonymous here, and merely introduced for the sake of the alliteration.
i. e. the grey rock, now Cara townland situated between the Rivers ricklea,
now the Leap

situated about
Castle,
flje
in the King's County, miles to the north of the

it
Carraig-liath,
town of Eoscrea,
1
See
already mentioned at
Finn and Mourne, about one mile above their

confluence, in the parish of Urney, barony of Strabane, and county of Tyrone, " until p To submit to his
authority, literally,
the years 1514, 1516.
" after having found danger on it;" by which strange idiom is meant "by taking an advantage of its warders," or, as
Unprotected, literally,
he would bring them obedient to his own juris-
1557.]

Leim k
,
1551
O'Carroll (William Odhar) took the castle of

1
after
having found
it
unprotected
son of Teige-an-Chomaid Turlough, the son of Conor, son of Turlough,
O'Brien, died.
John
and
all
O'Neill,
i.
e.
the son 6f Con, son of Con, assembled and mustered a

all
into Tirconnell, namely, very numerous army to proceed
the people of Oriel,
the English and Irish from Tragh-Bhaile-mhic-Buain [Dundalk] to the these came to join his muster and army", and marched with[River] Fin. All out halting until they had, in the first place, pitched their spacious and herothronged camp at'Carraig Liath between the two rivers, Finn and Mourne.
,
The time was spent very happily in the camp of the son of O'Neill, for they carried on the buying and selling of mead, wine, rich clothing, and all other News came to the son of O'Neill that the Kinel-Connell had sent necessaries.
cows and herds into the wilds and fastnesses of the country for' protection but he declared that not one cow of them was inaccessible, for that, even though they should pass [with their cattle] into Leinster or Munster, he
off all their
;
would pursue them
he should compel them to submit to his authority so As for the Kinelthat there should be but one king in Ulster for the future.
until
1
",
Connell, they were thus circumstanced
and
infirmity,
and had now
O'Donnell (Manus) was in bad health been for two years incarcerated by his son Calvagh,
:
who had assumed
the government of the country. Moreover, his brother

1
Hugh,
with his adherents, was in opposition to him, and was at this time along with John [O'Neill], his kinsman ". When Calvagh heard that John [O'Neill]' and
diction."
This passage
his History of Ireland,
is quoted by Leland in book iii. c. 8, as trans-
much more faithfully as follows "Ubi nuntii pervenerunt Tirconallenses

:
ar-
lated for
him by Charles O'Conor
of Belanagare,
who, in his
zeal to dignify Irish history, brings
menta sua et greges ad invia loca et remotissimos Tirconallise recessus abegisse, hinc (inquit)
nullum haurient emolumentum, nam
Lageniam
efficit
si
all his translations
from the Irish into his own

:
vel in
pompous style of English " Let them drive our prey into the midst of
Leinster, or let
vel
Momoniam pecudes
ablegarent,
,
vel illinc etiam extractas nobis vindicaremus
them hide
pursue
it
in the South, cried
O'Nial,
we
shall
it
to
the remotest
shall protect
perfecto posthac ut Ultonia uno pareat, nee patiar de provincia quidpiam illius imperio
surripi."
q
quarter of the Island.
No power
our enemies, or stop the progress of the prince and sovereign of Ulster."
His kinsman
"
Charles O'Conor of Belana-
The Latin
translator, in F.
1.
18, renders
it
oeapbparaip riiarap, gare interpolates his mother's brother," yhich is correct.
i.
e.
1.552
ctNNata Rioghachca eirceaNN.

i
[1557.
co na pliijaib Do jabdil longpoipc
nup na ripe ]io baof aga pccpuoaD ina Do jenab ppip an eiccfnodil moip po bai ace comaicfm paip, mfnmain oup c;6 cia haipm imipc co jenab pop cionn 1 po comaipleicc ppia araip TTlajnup a biobbab cecib ran ciopcaoip Don cfp. 6d pi comaiple DO pao 6 Domnaill a
mac uf neill jan Dol a naipfp caca araip bo 6 na baof coiriib'on ploicc la cuicce acr aipipiom ace imbeaâil a miMicipe cen co ccoippfb Don cfp, -| Dia ccaompqb an can pin amup longpoipc DO cabaipc paip Dia mfpccbuaibbepab copccap. Qp paip oeiyiD aca innpin. Oala na ploccaib po caipmcfnnnijpioc jan aipipiorh on ccappaicc Shfam neill co ler 50 pangaccap cap pinn la caob paca bor cpep an laccdn 50 po gabpac popab i longpopc Id caob bade aiîb caoi'n a ccoriipoccup Don cppuic pilfp
peab.
bd
>6ij;
laip ni
ap an copap Dianib ainm cabapcac. Do ponab bora i belpccaldna Id a Go calbac imoppo, ap ann baof pibe co ra mac conn an la plogaib mp pin. noipeaccap In mullac bfinnfn co nuachab ina pappab, ap nf baof ace pin aon cpioca mapcac, i Da copujab gallocclac DO cloirin cpuibne pariacc Sliocc Ruasbpi im ualcap mac mupchaib,"] Sbocc Domnaill im bomnall gopm
i
.1.
mac
puibne,"]
Oo
cualaib an calbac Sfan co na plocc DO ceacc
in
Du
pin,
Ro
paofb Diap Dia painrhuincip DO caipccelab pop r.a plojaibh -| baccap iaD a nanmanna Donnchao occ mac Donnchaib puaib meguibip,") TTluipip mac ailfn.
Do
'
cooap pibe
Dni 50
mbaccap gan pdcucchab

a
ccpecumapcc na plog uaip
Protecting his people, ac imbeaâil

i
mum-
cipe.
i. e.
5
The word moeagail is explained anneal, by Michael O'Clery.

t'lis.
protection,
sary arid every luxury is brought tliither and exposed to sale, as in a regular market, yet the state and magnificence of the enemy may be
greater than his precaution.
;
They agreed upon adopting
Leland, in
Attack
his
camp
his History of Ireland,

\vith
book
ii|.
c. 8,
dwelling
particular interest on this local
war be-
by night one sudden and vigorous disperse our enemies at once."
effort
may
tween O'Neill and O'Donnell, makes Manus O'Doimtll speak as follows on the authority of
the Annals of Donegal, which is the name by which he calls the Annals of the Four Masters
This passage was furnished to Leland by Charles O'Conor of Belanagare, who, in his zeal to magnify every thing Irish, has gone far be-
throughout
"
yond his original in this instance but as he was furnishing materials for history, not ro;
attempt with our inferior numbers to meet the enemy in the field. O'Neill is advancing on us, and in this
Do
not," said the father,
"
mance,
it was entirely beneath his dignity to swell the simple words of the Four Masters into such a flood of magniloquence. The translator
1.
new
pect
situation his
;
camp bears
;
a formidable as-
in F.
18,
:
keeps
much
closer to the original,
but what though it be provided with stores of every kind what though every neces-
as follows
" Patris sententia fuit, ne marte aperto Jo-
1557.]
1553
in his
;
were encamped on the frontiers of the territory, he ponderetl mind what he should do in this great danger which now threatened him
his forces
and
he advised with his

adopt in opposing
father,
his enemies,
Manus, upon the military movement he ought to whensoever they should come into the territory.
he had not an army equal to that of the son of O'Neill, not to go forth to meet him in battle, but to remain protecting his [own] people until he [O'Neill] should come into the
advice which O'Donnell, his father, gave
1
The
him was,
as
",
he were able, to make an attack upon his camp, and throw territory, them into confusion. He thought that victory could thus be gained, [and] they
and then,
if
agreed upon adopting this [movement]. As for John O'Neill and his forces, they marched without halting from Carraig-liath, across the Finn, close to
Raphoe, through the Lagan'; and they halted, and encamped alongside of Baileaighidh-chaoin", near the stream that flows from the well of Cabhartach", where
the
army constructed booths and tents. Calvagh and his son, Con, were on that day at a meeting on the summit of Beinnin* with a small party, namely,
only thirty horsemen, and two companys of gallowglasses of the Mac Sweenys of Fanad, i. e. of the descendants of Rory, under Walter, the son of Murrough, and the descendants of Donnell, under Donnell Gorm Mac Sweeny. And when
Calvagh heard that John had arrived
at that place ,with his army,

;
he sent two
of his trusty friends to reconnoitre the forces their names were Donough Oge, the son of Donough Roe Maguire, and Maurice Mac Ailin. These two
pro-
ceeded to the enemy's camp, and mingled with the troops, without being noticed;
annem
adorieretur, sed noctis silentio in castra
at least not generally
known,
as the Editor,
ejus irrumpens milites incautos, et de salute sua
who examined
securos improvise perturbaret."

'
the localities of Baile-aighidhchaoin, with great care, in 1835, could not meet
Lagan.
district
This
is
the
name
of a well-known
any one that ever heard of such a name.

natives are of opinion that
called Tober-Slan,
salutifer, a
i.
The
comprising the parishes of Taughboyne, Ryemoghy, and All Saints, in the barony of
Raphoe, and county of Donegal. u Baile-aighidh-chaoin, i. e. the town of the
beautiful face or surface,
it is
the well
now
e.
fons sanvs, sanans, seu

import.
name of nearly the same

This
is
Beinnin
not the Bennin, in the
now
Balleeghan, a
parish of
Clonmany
in Inishowen,
mentioned
townland containing the ruins of a beautiful old church, situated on an arm of Lough S willy, in
the parish of Ryemoghy, and barony of Raphoe. * The well of Cobhartach. This name, which
by
Philip O'Sullevau Beare, in his History of the
170, but the conspicuous Binnion, in the parish of Taughboyne, in the district called the Lagan, in the barony
Irish Catholics, foL
hill of
means helping, or
assisting, is
now
obsolete, or
of Raphoe.
1554
QNNaca Rio^hachca eirceawR

~\
[1557.
baoi DO Ifonmaipe,
baoein
aicrte po]i
DO lepbacr na ploccli baf annpin nap bo pobain^ ooib apoile jemab la no bfic aim muna ceabpareaofp aicne pop
l?o
abpac an Oiap pempaice 05 mireacc 6 gac cene 56 apoile 50 pangaccap gup an ccene moip mfbonaij bof nbopup puiple mfic f neill i Succpall abbal mop (ba pdmirfp mfbon pip fipibe) baof pop buan
a naipfcaib nama.
i
lapab ea6 on cene co pfpccarc jallocclac gpuamba jjniom aimeil 50 mbiailib co pfpccac albanac amoiuio airêpaib ailrmje noipcill -a nimfpca aca,
i
-|
amoiappaiD co na ccloibriiib
cpoma
caoiblfrna copcbuilleaca
-\
iria
Inmaib ppi
Qn cpac 05 popaipe 05 popcoimen rainicc ionam pjiommjre oona plojaib,l T boc ag poinn 05 poccail poppa po pijpfc an Diap caipcelca po paibpioni a larfia jup an ponnaipe a ccuma
hiombualab
-\
aipipiorh
riieic
neill,
-\
cdic,
ba pfb t>o pala cfinnbepc co na Ian mine co ppupcain na mine mm. Luibpfr pop cculaib mparh gup a nionncomapca pin leo DO paiccib a tnu;n]
uipe, i
ba lap net raipbenab po cpeiDeab uaca na pccela po aipnfibpioc. l?o popcongaip an calbac pop a muinnp a nfiofb po ceDoip, Do ponao paippiurh nen copuccab, conn jan puipeac innpin, oo coibpioc an Da copuccab
i
~\
ooomnaill Dia coip ecip udlcap pfmpa DO paijib an longpoipc,

y
-]
-\
DO pao a eac Dia araip. Loccap Dorhnall, m po anpac 50 pangarcap, gup na buibnib
-|
huge
torch,
f uccpal a6bal
"a
torch, huge, great (it
mop, literally, was thicker than the
in mediis castris pra? foribus tabernaouli Joannis
middle of a man), constantly flaming at some distance from the fire." Dr. Leland, who had a
free translation of this passage
eminus conspicati e
earn
O'Nelli collocatum accesseTunt, lucernam paulo scirpis a sevo immersis ad
magnitudinem intextis ut densitate medii

ceinn-bfieart, literally, a eeinn-b/teart,
from Charles
hominis molem adsequaret."

*
O'Conor of Belanagare, condenses the description of this huge torch, and the general's bodyguards, as follows,
in his History of Ireland,
with
its full
of meal.
The term
ceinn-bheart denotes
for the
a helmet, hat, or
any covering
1.
head,
book
"
iii.
c.
8:
The Latin
translator, in F.
18, renders it:
unusual blaze of large tapers directed them to the general's pavilion, where John
O'Xial lay surrounded by his body-guards, conMsting of sixty Irish vassals, bearing the battleaxe,
An
" Cortex arboris in vasculum efformata."
tion,
Lelaud, drawing largely on his own imaginamanufactures this simple narrative in su9h
and
as
many mercenary
translator, in F.
Scots,
armed with
manner as to give us a very inaccurate idea of the kind of food in the camp, and the manner in
a
their broad cutting swords
and targets."
1.
The Latin
"
18,
keeps
:
much
closer to the original words, as follows
which it was distributed. His words are " And so little were the youths suspected, that when supper was brought to these guards
:
Exploratores illi postquam singulis pene ignibus tantillum astarent, ad majorem ignem
* they invited them to partake of their repast.
To
accept this invitation was to form a friend-
1557.]
fer, in
it
1555
consequence of the numbers and variety of the troops who were there was not easy for them to discriminate between one another, even if it were
day, except
by recognising
fire to
their chieftains alone.
The two persons
aforesaid
proceeded from one
another, until they
came
;
to the great central fire,

,
which was
at the entrance of the
son of O'Neill's tent
than a man's body, was constantly flaming at sixty grim and redoubtable gallowglasses, with sharp, keen axes, terrible and ready for action, and sixty stern and terrific Scots, with massive, broad, and
and a huge torch y thicker a short distance from the fire, and
heavy striking swords in their hands, [ready] to strike and parry, were watching and guarding the son of O'Neill. When the time came for the troops to dine,
and food was divided and distributed among them, the two spies mentioned stretched out their hands to the distributor, like the
whom we
rest
;
have
and that
which
fell to
their share
was a ceinn-bheartz
this
filled
with meal, and a suitable
complement of butter. With

;
testimony [of their adventure] they returned to their own people and, upon the exhibition of it, their entire narrative was believed. Calvagh commanded his people to arm" directly, which they did
without delay the two battalions formed into one and Con O'Donnell proceeded on foot, between Walter and Donnell", having given his horee to bis
;
;
father.
They advanced towards

men
the camp, and did not halt until they had

Anglo-Irishmen of various territories, they found no difficulty in passing for two of
O'Neill's soldiers.
ship with these
not to be violated, which
should prevent them from giving any intelligence, or, if discovered, would have rendered
their intelligence suspected.
From
the notice of the two
They, therefore,
getting a hat-full of meal, and a suitable quantity of butter, it is quite evident that every
declined the courtesy ; and flying to their companions, related what they had seen and heard,
two
and inflamed them with impatience to surprise

the enemy."
quite obvious that all this is wrong, for there is no authority for asserting that O'Neill's body-guards had invited the two
it
is
formed a mess, and that they were allowed to sit down wherever they pleased and take their
repast.
Nothing, however, but confusion and
Now
the darkness of the night, or chance, could have enabled them to escape, as Hugh O'Donnell, the
spies
partake of their repast, or that the latter declined such an invitation. All this is
to
brother of Calvagh, was within the camp at the time, with many followers out of Tircounell,
who would have

two
a
that these easily recognised
created by Leland's historical muse, to give his
spies belonged to
Calvagh O'Donnell's party,

to harness, or dress
warmth and interest, according to his own mode ef philosophising. The fact wris that the two spies mingled with O'Neill's tumulsubject
To arm,
ti-nfiofo, i.e.
themselves for battle.

b
Walter and Donnell.
These were two capof Funad.
tuous troops, and as they consisted of Irish and
tains of the
Mac Sweenys
M2
Rio^hachca eiReaww.
[15.57.
Oo bfpcpacc uapbupccab mfboncoib bdccap ace popcoiriieo riieic i neill. ndmac pop luce an longpoipc, -| po gabpacc pop corhmapbab, -| pop corhmubace accunia, 05 cioppbab, ag coirhleaopab a cele uccab, ace aipleac,
"-]
-|
oia mbiailib bldicib bicpaobpacaib,"! oia cclommcib cpuaibgeapa cupaca 50 laoic lap an ppianlac Do oeacaib anopin. poippsicc pip, -] co po leonaic Oo cualaib pfan copann an cpomploicc, -] bpopccap na tnbuibfn bd oeapb oon longpopc, -| ac Idipibe cpe mpcap a laip bdccap ndrhaicc cdngaccap
'
puiple gan pdcuccan.
Ro
baf an aohaib 05 pfpcain a ppop pfoppbuc,

-]
-]
an ci'pe. capapnach ciunbpaon co po ruilpioc aibne, inbfpa pop an pluaj pin cenel neoccain po 6eoi6 ryie nfpc lomgona
17o ppaoineab
-\
lombualca co
nf po Ifn cib aofnneac Dia mumcip 6, accmab po Id6 a nofpccdp. Sfan imoppa aon Diap Oo mumcip aooa mic majnupa f oomnaill im bonnchab mac peilim
pinn uf jallcubaip,
oaofl,
cpe Oiarhaip gaca conaipe 50 bd pop pndm na cceopa nabann cap pinn, cap ofipcc, painicc cap oo beachaib co na biap caoirhceaccaib, appibe 50 cfpmonn uf moain 50 pin painicc pdbeoib Id oobap poillpi po cfnoaij eac 6 na moain in aohaib pin, na maione 50 haipfccal odciapocc. Ro aipip an calbac co na beacc pluaj
-\
luib
cpe acjoipicc,
~|
-)
-|
~\
(ina nibaof poirhe oon oibce) ipin lonjpopc
mfbpac
riioipTTifrimnac
baf Id Sfan
baccap ace corhol pinplfb na poipne pin pop po ppaofneab leo co mabain ap a bapac. Oo paoab eoala lotnba a ccaipbenab leo ipin 16 ap ccmn ecip apm, eppab, feoeab, eocaib conab cfirpe picic eac
ua
neill
a ccup
oibce,
~\
~\
Kill, destroy,
Sfc.
The Latin
translator, in
rentes,
F.
attempt to translate this string of words, which are introduced by the Four Masters to convey a general idea of con1.
18, does not at all
This, however,
omnia prosternunt." must be regarded rather

Irish.
as a
paraphrase than a translation of the

style is too
<>
The
much improved,
fused and furious fighting. He condenses the ideas intended to be conveyed by the wild
jumble of words into the following

tence
:
clear sen-
" the night was pourdown rain in a truly wetting shower, and ing But it is not corin a mist of silent drops."
Was
rainy, literally,
rect, at least in English,
to
make
rain.
the night the
"
Itaque,
tractis,
duobus cohortibus in
unum
et
con-
agent which produced the

translator, in
The Latin
it simply, demitteba-
patre Coni
equum
conscendente, in hos-
F.
1.
18,
renders
ea nocte
tium castra derepente prorumpunt,

illum lucis
ad ignem et molis magnitudine reliquis emi-
"
magna imbrium copia

e
tur."
nentiorem primo delati insultu omnes perturbant incautos et acriter ferrum stringunt, et,
per castra terrorem et stragem effuse circumfe-
are
The Deel, the Finn, and the Derg. These three well-known rivers, in the present county of Donegal, and on O'Neill's way as he
1557-]

men
in the camp,
155?
reached the central troops that were guarding the son of O'Neill.
a furious and fierce attack
They made
and [both parties then] one another proceeded to kill, destroy slaughter, hack, mangle, and mutilate with their polished sharp axes, and with their well-tempered, keen-edged, hero-
upon the
so that men were wounded, and warriors disabled, by this who had come into the camp. When John [O'Neill] heard the body of men
befitting
swords
and the clamour of the bands, he was convinced that they were enemies who had entered the camp, and he passed through the westThe night was rainy d very heavy showers ern end- of his tent unobserved.
noise of the heavy troops,
,
being followed by silent dripping, so that the rivers and streams of the country were flooded. At last the army of the Kinel-Owen were defeated, with dreadful
As for John [O'Neill], not one of his havoc, by dint of conflict and fighting. own party followed him, but two only of the people of Hugh, the son of Manus O'Donnell, with Donough, the son of Felim Finn O'Gallagher. He proceeded on
by the shortest ways and the most lonesome passages, until he had crossed the e and it was by swimming that he, with his two Deel, the Finn, and the Derg
;
companions, crossed these three rivers.
Thence he proceeded
to Tearmorin-
Ui-Moain
arrived
where he purchased a horse that night from O'Moain, and at length break of day at Aireagal-da-Chiarog*. by Calvagh remained with his
,
small
army
for the rest of the night in the
camp
in
which O'Neill and

;
his
army
had passed the beginning of the night in merriment and high spirits and they remained until morning drinking the .wines of the party whom they had defeated.
On
the following day they took with them, and displayed with pride,
many
passed from Balleeghan to Tearmonn-Ui-Mhoain. The Deel, now Dale-burn, rises in Lough Deel,
in the
falls
derg and Ardstraw, near the latter of which they join the Shrule and the united waters then take
;
north-west of the barony of Kaphoe, and into the Foyle, a short distance to the
;
north of the town of Lifford
the Finn rises in
Mourne River, and flow nearly in a northern direction to Lifford, where, mingling with the River Finn, they all lose their names
the
of the
name
Lough
Finn, and unites with the
Mourue
at
Lifford Bridge ; the Derg has its source in the t'amous Lough Derg, in the barony of Tirhugh;
and waters in the gigantic Foyle. Tearmonn- Ui-Mhoain, now Termonomoni
course nearly in a north-east direction through the parish of Termonomongan, in

it
winds
its
gan, an old parish church near .the River Derg, in the north-west of the barony of Omagh, and
county of Tyrone. O'Moain, now Mongan, was

the Erenagh of this church,
Aireagal-Dacltiarog, i. e. St. Dachiarog's house, or habitation, now Errigal-Keeroge, a
g
the county of Tyrone, where

called
it
joins the stream

glide,
Mournebeg, and both united
under
the
name of Derg, through
the villages of Castle-
1553
emectNN.
[1557.
baof DO coriipamn eoala 05 conn f neill Dia ngoipfi mac an lolaip.
mac an
dp
calbaicc cenmora eac oipDfipc mic ing ma po ppir hi maiom cnuic buibb
neill
neipcc po bpippfo la
hua noomnaill (Qo6 occ mac aoba puaib) ap ua

cu]i pin.
oeoalaib Don pamail a ppucuppoc cenel cconaill

well-known church and parish, in the barony of Clogher, and county of Tyrone. h Cnoc-Buidhbh-Derg. See note ', under the
year 1522,
cum
aliis e prresidiariis ca-so,
et Bracluana in
lllis deinde finibus cjus potentiam devenere. in ul turn concussis [DO cpoireuo] et yastatis
The entries under p. 1536, supra. are translated into Latin as follows in this year F. 1. 18:
Malachia; Balbi
tur.
filii
et proscripti reliqui arceu-
Turn Magistro Francisco Anglo Milika:
prajfecto, et obsidibus
eum
a multis
aliis
turn
"A proregeThomaSussexio Ardmacha ruensis

unius spatio iterata vastatione infesta. " Mac Murchus, Murachus, filius Mauritii
prffiserthn a
duobus 6 Maddinis, Malachia Modrilio
dardo et Brassillo, abductis,
etiam
Mac
Coemhanachi, in
ipsis Concilii aidibus,
in ali-
Coghlani obsidum numeruni augente, prorex Dum autem hac ratione eis finibus excessit.
cujus concitationis nova; moliendae suspicionem

venisse proditus, Leghlinice morte plectitur.
Silanmchia mense Julii expugnaretur, damnorum quae passa est numerus vix ac ne vix
" Fedana: Castellum,
in
Delvinia Ethra,
quidem
"
filius
iuiri potest.
quodam
ibi in
vinculis posito
captum
et
Mac
O'Ferghallum
Album Danielem
Fachtnaus
Coghlano traditum est. Deinde qui ad Fergallium generis originem referunt proscribuntur, et eorum obsides reste strangulati die Luna? ipsis
Martii Calendis.
Tada;iO'Ferghail4rucidavit, sed illius in-
teritum Augli inorte Fachtnai ulti sunt. " Danieli O'Moro, Loighsi filio, Magister Silius
Anglus gulam laqueo
elisit.
" Castellum llathcrase ab o Moelachlino et

Anglis Athloniensibus evertitur, bellum postea
inter
"
Prorex, accipiens proscriptos in Fercallia?

latitare, eo profectus
uemoribus
armatus Theo;
ipsum
et
Mac Coghlanus
exarsit.
baldum O'Moelmuaidhum
cepit
in
Eliam inde
Offalgia devastata 6 Conchaurorum familia pellitur, capto a prorege prater alios multos
"
migraus Lcimibhanaiu sua? potestatis fecit, ubi O'Carvallum equi prffistantia discrimini subduxit.
o Conchauro ipso, et Kosso, ejus ex fratre nepote ; de quibus omnibus, uuo 6 Conchauro excepto, mortis supplicium suruptum
est.
Sed, post
multam
inolestiam
illoruin
finium
Hibernis facessitam, Dublinii tandem

contrahens, in Angliam transmisit, Qua;s-
moram
ab Anglis capto, niors infertur ; non miru,m est HiberLeighlinitu

etiani Conallo,
" O'Moro
Ille tore jusso vice sua proregis officio fungi. sibi munus naviter obiturus arma in injuuctum
niam
in luctu versari
eum
tanta so ingenui sui
Fercalliam infert, ut poenas de 6 Moelmuaidho,
sanguinis profusione funestari videret. " Prorex, 6 Conchauros Milikaj versari certior
factus, eo protinus iter arripuit, tornieutis
Arthuro, sumeret, quod proscriptis et legum prsesidio exemptis subveutione ulla prodesse
fuerit. Itaque fines illius regionis omnes, qui uemori ab orienti adjacent, populatus, Balemacabaniam, Laneliam, et Titauipliam" \jrecle
ma-
ausus
joribus Athloniam
itinere
terrestri
transferri
prmissis
et iude
cymbarum vectura
Milikani
adductis, copias per Belachanohaiv et
Lusniaghse viam, ipso prajeunte, capessunt. diu moratus est cum Milika, Donate Collai
Lurgam Nee
filio
ffique tecta et ecclesias]
"incendiis prodidit, tilium
6 Moelmuaidhi Calbachum ad Belaghglassiam

vita spoliavit, nee uiultum
tempus
eftiuxit
cum
1557.]
1550
of spoils, consisting
arms, dresses, coats of mail, and horses, so that Coh, the son
of Calvagh, had for his dividend of the booty eighty horses, besides the celebrated steed of O'Neill's son, called the Son of the Eagle. Scarcely had so much booty been obtained at the battle of Cnoc-Buidhbh-Derg", which was
the son of gained by O'Donnell (Hugh Oge, Kinel-Connell obtained on that occasion.
Hugh Roe)
over Neill, as the
iterata incursione
Fercalliam
perlustrans vna
paratis,
abundat ad Joannem in his
castris
deflagratione universam profligaret et everteret,

silvis
constipata.
lenses
Ubi n until pervenerunt Tirconelet greges
penitus excisis, venia dilectorum 6 Moelfacta,
armenta sua
ad invia loca et
abegisse,
muaidho minime
imo
avitis finibus procul
remotissimos
'
Tirconellia?
recessus
amotum
IsesffiMajestatisreumpronunciavit, ejus dignitate ac dominio in Theobaldum 6 Moel-
hinc (inquit) nullum haurient emolumentum,

si
nam,
vel in Lageniam, vel
Momoniam, pecudes
posthac ut Ultonia
illud
muaidhum
recepto.
collate,
filio
ejus ante in obsidem
ablegarent, vel illinc etiam extractas nobis vin-
dicaremus,
efficit praefecto
Angli, Hibernis omnibus a se proscriptis et legum beneficio exclusis, 6 Conchaurorum et
"
uno
illius
pareat, nee patiar de provincia qijidpiam
imperio surripi.'
Per
autem tempus
6 Mororum, 6 MoelmuuidhorSim, 6 Carvallorum

familiis
res in Tirconnallia
non adeo
pacatse fuerunt.
grave bellum indixerunt,

inter
quo totus
agri tractus inter
Ruium,
Sinneum anmem et Montem Montem Blamiam Clioniam et
O'Donnellus enim propter efioetam ffitatem et insuper quia jam biennio eum Calbhacus filius
in vinculis detinebat, nihil prseclari praestare
Feoriam positus conflagravit, nt credium, incendiorum et deprasdationum ultra citroque fact'o-
potuit; ejus etiam alter filius
Hugo, a
fratre
rum summa ad
"
portunitate
vindicavit.
calculos revocari
non potuerit.
O'Carvallus, Castelli Leimice capessendi op-
privata simultate alienatus, etiam tune apud Joannem O'Nellum suis in castris agebat, ad -qua? clientes suos et vernaculos etiam adduxit.
quam
nactus est arrepta, illud sibi
rum
filius
Calbachus, qui Tirconalliae dominabatur, hoc restatu, et, Joannis O'Nelli copiis fines suas
ingressis, perculsus ac
" Terdalachus
chi
filii
Conchauri
filii
Terdela-
jam
pene consternatus,
Tadei O'Brien de Comaid vita excessit.

filius,
"Joannes, 6 Nelli
Tirconallia? ad
suam
animo secum versens quid in tanto discrimine optimum factum esset, patrem consuluit qua
ratione potissimuin
ditionem adjungenda? cupiditate nagrans, numerosissimum connavit exercitum, ad quern Orghellise quicunque, Angli aut Hiberni, ab usque littore de Bale mic Buain ad agros Finnurn amnem pertingentes incolebant, con-
suorum
et sua; saluti
ad tarn
arctas angustias redact

tris sententia
i'uit,
prospioere possit.
Pa-
omnes,
et
ne marte aperto Joannem

incautos et de salute sua se-
adorieretur, sed noctis silentio in castra ejus
irrumpens
castris
niilites
nuxerunt.
tude, castris
Hasc armatorum
hominum
multi-
curos improviso perturbaret. Joannes O'NeLlus,
ainnes
primum ad Carraigleihaui inter duos Finnum etModorrium positis, per campos
nem non
bachus
ex Carrigletha motis, ultra Finnum amprocul a Rathboa per Laganum proPorro Cal-
omni apparatu bellico cumulate instructa, sed advectis vinis, vestibus, et aliorum generum mercibus ad voluptateui comlate diffusa, nee soluni
gressus, ad Bailecoeniam consedit.
cum
filio
Cono
in verticem mentis Bein-
nin eo die ad suorum coitionem concessit, 30
1560
[1558.
QO1S CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopc,
1558.
mile, cuicc ceo, caocca, a hocr.

Sfain,
mic comaif, mic Semuif mic gfpoirr an ofijjpip fin 6;p ni piccrf a Iff eallac mpla oecc. 6a Ooilig Dia burhai j Die a linn 6 bun caofn hi cciappaije co cumoionnpaicne, no Dopup Do 6una6 pe map cpi nuipcce nimelglap hi ccoiccpic coicceab eacbac mic lucca, laijfn,
~\
IQpla bfprhuman Semuf, mac
a mac gfpoicr Doiponeab

et
ma
lonab.
narrare.
tantum equitibus
2 peditum cohortibus e
Proinde rerum a se conspectarum
se-
Mac
Suiniis Fanatse comitantibus,
quorum qui
filio,
riem narrantibus
mox
fides habita est.
Et Cal-
Koderico oriundi erant Waltero Murachi
qui ac Daniele, Danieli Cseruleo rebant qui, cum accepisset Joannem appropinquasse, 2 ex intimis ac vetustis amicis fidissimos
:
Mac
Suinio pa-
bachus pugnandi ardor accensus, omni abjecta mora, in hostem alacriter irruere protinus decreverat.
Itaque,
duobus cohortibus
in
unum
Donatum Juvenem, filium Donati Rufi Macguier, Mauricium Mac Cailinum in hostilem exercitum exploratores suramisit qui, confertse hoset
;
contractis, patre Coni equum conscendente, in hostium castra derepente prorumpunt, et ad ig-
tium
mviltitudini, per noctis tenebras protinus
nem ilium lucis et molis magnitudine reliquis eminentiorem prirno delati insultu omnes perturbant incautos, et'acriter ferrum stringunt, et
per castra terrorem et stragem effuse circumferentes omnia, prosternunt.
immisti
quaqua
agniti.
impune aberrabant,
quippe
nemini
Exploratores illi, postquam singulis pene ignibus tantillum astarent, ad majorem ignem in mediis castris prse foribus
tabernaculi Joannis O'Nelli collocatum accesserunt, lucernam paulo eminus conspicati e scirpis a sevo immersis ad earn magnitudinem intextarn
Joannes autem
O'Nellus, strepitum trepidantium et insultan-
tium fremitus exaudiens, plane perspexit hostili audacia hos tumultus excitatos fuisse. Quare per aversam tabernaculi portam fuga se periculo
prsripuit, 2 tantum ex Hugonis 6 Donelli
famulitio, qui
filii
ut densitate medii hominis molem adsequaret, et lucem ad longa spatia late diffunderet. Custodia, qua ad tentorii praetorii aditum foco subinde assidens excubias agebat, e 60 valentis-
sub signis Donati
filii
Felimei
o Galchaur militabant, fuga? se comites ei prsebentibus. Magna imbrium copia ea nocte de-*
mittebatur, et
ille,
cum viarum compendia

tria flumina,
ubi-
simis hominibus bipennes
quam
acutissimas ges-
tantibus et totidem Scotis singulis latiore ense accinctis, constabat. Quando autem cibajiorum
num
que consectaretur, et Dergum nando
Daslium, Fin-
comitibus.
apponendorum tempus
advenit, et portitor de-
niens
trajiceret cum duobus Tandem ad Termonimuoii perveequum pretio ab 6 Muano comparavit,
mensum suum
singulis
viritim
attribueret,
quo
chus
celeriter evectus, elucescente
jam
die,
apud
dictis speculatoribus cortex arboris in
vasculum
Hargailldachiarog tantisper subsistit.
Calba-
efformata ac farina referta, bytiri massula in obsonium adjecta, sorte obvenit, qua esca ideo
cum
paucis
illis
copiis suis
reliquam noctis
egit,
partem
in profligatis
se
castris
vino
non
vesci statuerunt, ut ad
statum divertendi
et lautiis
fugorum
esculentis suos largius uti

et equo-
locum
relata indicio foret, se a vero
non aliena
permittens ;
armorum quidem, vestium
1558.]
1561
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1558.
thousand jive hundred fifty-eight.
The
Earl of Desmond, James, the son of John, son of Thomas, son of James,
son of Garrett the Earl, died.

country, for there
in Kerry, to the
The
to
loss
was no need
watch
of this good man was woful to his cattle, or close doors, from Dun-caoin',
1
green-bordered meeting of the three waters", on the confines And his son, of the province of Eochaidh, the son of Luchta and Leinster.
,
Garrett,
was
installed in his place.
rum magna
preedae
copia Tirconallensibus cessit; et magnitudinem vel hie assequi quia
posset,
in sortione 80 equi praeter equum Joannis 6 Nelli (Filium Aquilce dicproprium tum) ad Conum Calbachi filium devenerunt
qua
mine author sayeth, it was as bigg cauldron, the greatest goose might easily any pass through the two holes of his eyes, and in
bigness, as
as
the place, or hole where the marrow was towards his throat, a goose might enter."
nee verisimile est in victoria de Cnucbuibhderg quam 6 Donellus Hugo Juvenis, Hugonis Rufi
filius,
de 6 Nello Cono, reportavit, tot spolia

e.
relata fuisse."
'
From the boundaries above given it appears that at this period the Earl of Desmond claimed jurisdiction over all Munster, except that part of it belonging to the Earls of Ormond and
The exact amount of the tributes imposed by the Earls of Desmond upon Mac Carthy More, has not been determined. The author of Carbrice Notitia, who wrote in 1686,
Thomond.
has the following reference to the tribute which they had imposed on Carbery, and which conti-
Dun-caoin,
i.
the beautiful dun, or fort,
now Dunquin,
or Dunqueen, situated to the west of Ventry, in the barony of Corcaguiny,
and county of Kerry.

Meeting of the Three Waters, i. e. the confluence of the Eivers Suire, Nore, and Barrow,
k
The opposite Cheek Point, near Waterford. Nore and Barrow unite about twelve miles further to the north.
1
nued
to be exacted
down
to the time of the
writer : " But the family of the

it
The province of Eochaidh,
the son
of Luchta
According to Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, Eochy Mac Lughta
Mac Carthys, though were great and numerous, never recovered their former grandeur, notwithstanding the deheirs,
was King of North Munster at the period of the birth of Christ. In the same chronicle the following notice
king's scull,
cay of the Cogans and Fitzstephens, and their Carew and Courcy, and that because of a
given of the discovery of this at the year 1 157

:
branch of the Fitzgeralds of English race, which seated themselves in Munster, and particularly
in Kerry, and, being elevated with the title of Earle of Desmond, supported by great alliances,
" A. D.
157.
The head
of Eochie
mac Lughta,
that reigned King of Munster at the time of the birth of Christ (as before is remembered), was
this year taken out of the earth,
and having enlarged their possessions by marriages, purchases, and tirrany, and more espe-
buried at Fyncorey.
It
where it was was of such wonderful 9
by the damned exaction of Coyn and livery, did all they could to suppress their comcially
1562
[15.58.
bpiain
cuabmurhan
Doriinall
mac
concobaip, mic coippbealbaij, mic
caibcc, mic coippbealbaig, mic bpiain caca an aonaij oionnapbab ap a acapba Id lupcip na hepeann, ~\ an laplacc Do buain DC lap an lupcip ceona
.1.
comap picjuacep,
-\ concobaip ui bpiain. caip na cipe, -| nf hiacc amain ace an cfp uile erip papach ~| diciucchab Dpdgbdil ap oupn mfic Oonnchaib uf bpiain Id gallaib ~| a oiponeab map mpla
mac a bfpbpacap concobap mac Oonnchaib, mic Cluam pampooa, bunpaice, an clap mop puipc oipea"|
Id
op cionn na cpice
pin,
-]
be
mp
noipDneab.
l?o
pob 6 pin ceo lapla cloinne caip mp nainm gion gup pdp abuach uppccac, spam, jdbaD njaoibelaib
i
~\
gtanbanba Don gnfom pin .1. rpe Dibipn Domnaill ui bpiain, DO cpiocnai^pioc ice Don claocluD beop clanna cumn -) cacaofp Sliocc eipmom eimip, fp
~\ -|
pin.
Qn bapun
eoccain Do
6 neill, pfpoopca
mapbaD
bacaij, mic cumn, mic enpf mic Dob e 50 miojaolmap Id muincip a beapbparap Sfan
-\
mac cumn
especially the Mac Cartyes, being the most powerful and chief of them. " No history can parallel the bloody, malicious, and tedious contests, that have been bepetitors,
and
there were forfeited to the
Crown 574,628
acres
of land."
m Earldom
This
is
a mistake of the
Four
Masters, for Donnell, the son of Conor O'Brien,
tweeen these two families, in which, tho' the Mac Cartyes behaved themselves briskly, and
slew no less than two Lords of the Fitzgeralds in one day, viz. the father and grandfather of
was not Earl of Thomond.

chief, or
He was
prince,
king of Thomond, according

e.
to the
law
of tanistry.
n
Clar-mor,
i.
the
town of
Clare,
from
Thomas Nappagh,
1266
ralds
;
at Callan in
Desmond, anno
yet at length the more powerful Fitzgeit,
had the best of
and imposed on Carbry

not maintain-
which the county took its name. In title This probably means nothing more than that he was the first of the O'Briens who was popularly
happened
that,
a most unjust and slavish tribute called Earl's
called
" Earl ;" for
it
may have
Beeves, which
tho',"as I conceive,
able by Law, is yet tamely paid by the Carbrians to this day for want of unity amongst
created Earl for
though Murrough O'Brien was life in 1543, he was never called
themselves to join in proper methods to get legally discharged of it. '* However, the Mac Cartyes did not dwindle
to soe
derstands
Earl by the people. The Latin translator un" it thus Qui Comitis nomen quidem
:
sed non dignitatem

tulit."
Dalgassiorum primus
re-
low a degree, but that they continued
Leland, quoting the Annals of Donegal, " ' He writes, book iii. c. 8 accepted the title
:
seised of almost six entire baronyes, viz. Glana-
rough, Iveragh, and Dunkerron, in
Desmond
of Earl,' say their annalists, ' but gave up the dignity of Dalcais, to the astonishment and in-
and Carbry, Muskry, and Duhallow, in the county of Cork ; but the Earle of Desmond
dignation of
all
the descendants of Heber, HereThis, however,

is
mon, and
Ith.'
"
not the mean-
grew
so powerfull,
that
uppon
his attainder
ing intended to be conveyed by the Four Masters,
1558.]

Thomond
L563
(Donnell, the son of Conor, son of Turlough, son of was banished from his patrimony by the Teige, son of Brian Catha-an-aenaigh) " and he was stripped of his earldom by the same Lord Lord Justice of Ireland;
O'Brien of
Conor, the son n the of Donough, son of Conor O'Brien. Clonroad, Bunratty, and Clar-mor chief towns of the country,, and not only these, but the entire country, as well waste lands as inhabited lands, were placed in the hands of the son of Donough
Justice,
i.
e.
Thomas
Fitzwalter,
and by the son of
his brother,
O'Brien by the English, who appointed him Earl over that country. He was the first Earl of the Race of Cas in title but not [the first] by inauguration. In consequence of this deed, i.e. the expulsion of Donnell O'Brien, the Irish of
,
noble Banbap were seized with horror, dread, fear, and apprehension of danger r and the descendants of Conq and of Cathaoir the descendants of Heremon and
;
, ,
Heber
5
,
of Ir' and Ith
u
,
were alarmed
at this change".
The Baron
O'Neill (Ferdoragh, the son of

slain (a
Con Bacagh, son
of Con,v son of
Henry, son of Owen) was

who
state that the Irish
deed unbecoming in a kinsman) by the peoomits Con and Cathaoir, which purges the sentence of a disagreeable redundancy.
Ir. According to the Irish genealogies he was the brother of Heber and Heremon, and the
1
were alarmed at the
change introduced in the law of succession. ' Hanbo,, i. e. one of the old names of Ireland.
See Keating's History of Ireland, Haliday's
edition, p.
q
]
16.
i.
Of Con,
e.
of
Con
of the
Hundred
Battles.
ancestor of the old kings of Ulster, whose descendants settled in various parts of Ireland, as
Monarch of
Ireland,
A. D. 177.
He was
the
ancestor of the most powerful families in Ireland, as the O'Neills, O'Donnells, O'Melaghlins,
the Magennises of Iveagh, the O'Conors of X3orcomroe and Kerry, the O'Loughlins of Burren, the O'Farrells in the county ôf Longford, and Mac Rannalls in the county of Leitrim, and all the septs in Connaught called Conmaicne, the
Mageoghegans, Maguires, MacMahons, O'Kellys, O'Conors of Connaught, O'Dowdas, O'Malleys, O'Flahertys, and their correlatives.
'
O'Mores, and their correlatives, the seven septs

of Leix, in the
u
Cathaoir,
i.
e.
of Cathaoir Mor,
Monarch of
Ireland, A. D. 174.
families of
He was
the ancestor of the
Ith
now Queen's County. He was the uncle of Milesius, and
the
Mac Murrough Kavanagh, O'Conor Faly, O'Dempsey, O'Dunne, Mac Gorman, O'Murroughbe, now Murphy, O'Toole, O'Byrne,
and
all
ancestor of the O'Driscolls, and their correlatives,
in the territory of Corca-Luighe,
which
their
correlatives
in
Leinster, except
was originally coextensive with the diocese of Ross, in the county of Cork of the Mac Clancys
;
Mac
s
Gillapatrick of Ossory.
of Dartry, in the county of Leitrim, and of other

of the
Heremon and Heber,
i. e.
two sons of
families.
Milesius.
They were the ancestors of Con and
Change, clctocluo.
use,
This word
is
still
in
Cathaoir, and, therefore, are not happily intro-
common
duced here.
The Latin
translator, in F.
1.
18,
and synonymous with caorhclub. See Colgan, Trias Thaum., p. 295.
1564
[1558.
Do abbap a oibfoa uaip po pamlaijjfb aipfcup a atapba pip oamab raopcca eccpab a araip map. oonnchab mac bpmm TTHC cacaofp mic cuinn TTlac ui concobaip pail^g uaicne mac aoba DO paccmic an calbaicc DO rhapbab la him noiomapaij
.1.
.1.
aib an bap pin bfpba pa bpon,
-|
pailgij co pann,
pin.
-\
Icnjin hi len,
-\
pa
peil
pacpaicc DO ponnpab DO ponab an gmorh

TTIaibm
l?iocapo
\nllicc
mop la hiapla cloinne piocaipD ap albancoib, i po be an ciapla pin mac uillicc na ccfnn, mic RiocaipD, mic uillecc cnuic cuaj, mic an
uillicc
mfbonaicc mic
an
pfona,-]
pobiaD na halbanaij pop a ccuccab

-]
an maibm pin oorhnall mac Dubjaill mic giollaeppuicc mic ailin, rnibjall mac oonnchaba mic giollaeppuicc mic ailfn, Da occ conpapal uppamanca
le cenel conaill pfc baccap ace peic a nampaine achaib paDa le hulcoib, cdc. Oo lompaibfccap froppa pfin le bopppab beobacca le hiomapcpaib appacCaip na hoipip pin Dpagbail, i Dol Doipbfpcuccab a nanmanD ap puD
~\ -|
Was
appointed.
Con O'Neill was created

life,
be
Earl of Tyrone for
remainder to his son,
nure
held of the King, of English form and teArmes he gave the bloody hand a terrible
:
Matthew, who was

See note
',
created Baron of Dungannon.

1
cognizance.
-542, p. 476, supra. Campion gives the following account of the killing of the Baron of Dungannon, in his His1
under the year
of Ireland, which was written in twelve years after it had taken place " Of all the Irish none was
toric
:
thew, because Matthew was a lusty horseman, welbeloved, and a tryed souldiour, Shane but a Boy, and not of much hope, the father obtained the
;
a bastard,
This O'Neale had two sonnes, Matand Shane, legitimate but
Princes, though
Barony of Donganon, and the remainder of his Earledome to Matthew. When Shane arid his
foster brethren" [the O'Donnellys]
then comparable to O'Neale for antiquity and nobleness of blood, yet had the same endured
"
grew
to
sundry
varieties
and vexations,
at
untill the divi-
and tyyeares, they considered of the injury done by policie of the base O'Neale. and ranny
with rearing hue and cry at the side of a Castle where he lay that night, when the gentleman ran suddainely forth to answere the cry, as the
sion began in
lies,
England of the
two
royall fami-
Yorke and Lancaster,
which time the
English Lords of Ireland, either for zeale, or for kindred and affection, transporting their
force thither to uphold a side, the meere Irish
custome
is,
The
father, not utterly discontent
they betrayed and murdered him. with his dis-
waxed
insolent,
and
chiefly
O'Neale incroached
patch,
upon the full possession of Ulster, abiding so uncontrolled till Shane" [recte, Con] " O'Neale,
fearing the puissance of Henry 8, exhibited to him a voluntary submission, surrendered all
titles of
when he saw the proof of his lawful 1 sonne and heire, thenceforward fancied Shane
O'Neale, put him in trust with all, himself being but a cripple, notwithstanding that Mat-
thew
left issue
male which
;
liveth, to
whom
the
honour, received at his hands the Earle-
inheritance appertained
decease,
yet after his father's

for the
dome
of Ter-Owen,
commonly
called Tirone, to
Shane was reputed
rightfull
1558.]

John
;
1565
pie of his brother,

51
and the cause of
his killing
was because he was
i. e. Donough, the son of Brian, son of Cahir, son was slain 'by O'Dempsey (Owny, the son of Hugh). of Con, son of Calvagh, This death left the Barrow in sorrow, the Hy-Faly feeble, and Leinster in grief. And that deed was perpetrated precisely on the festival of St. Patrick.
appointed to the dignity The son of O'Conor Faly,
of his father, if his father should die before him.
This Earl was of Clanrickard gave a great defeat to the Scots. son of Rickard, son of Ulick of Cnoc-tuagh y ,son Rickard, son of Ulick-na-gCeann,
The Earl
Meodhanach, son of Ulick of the Wine and the Scots who sustained that defeat were Donnell, the son of Dowell, son of Gillespick Mac Allen [Campof Ulick
;
and Dowell, the son of Donough, son of Gillespick Mac Allen, two brave young constables of gallowglasses, who had been a long time before hired into
bell],
the service of the Ultonians, but
more
particularly in the service of Tirconnell.
They had agreed among
themselves, [stimulated] by extraordinary vigour and
bravery, to leave those districts", and to proceed through Connaught, to render

O'Neale, tooke
it, kept it, challenged superioover the Irish Lords of Ulster, warred also rity upon the English part, subdued Oreyly, imprisoned Odonil, his wife, and his sonne, enriched
ther had
made
to
King Henry the
Eigh'th,
and
the restoration which the King made to his father again were of no force ; inasmuch as his
father had no right to the lands which he sur-
himselfe with
plate,
all
Odonils
"forts,
castles,
and
by way
of ransome, detained pledges of
life
rendered to the King, except during his own ;- that he (John) himself was O'Neill by the
obedience, the wife
(whom he
carnally abused),
and the
rone,
Tywhich he named spitefully Foogh-ni-Gatt, that is, the hate of Englishmen, whom he so dehe hanged a souldiour for eating English bisket another by the feet, mistrusted for a spy; another Captaineof the Gallowglasses
tested, that
;
childe, fortified a strong
Hand
in
law of Tanistry, and by popular election and tha^ he assumed no superiority over the chieftains of the north, except what had belonged to
;
his ancestors.
"
Cnoc-tuagh,
now Knockdoe, near Clare-Gal,
way.
supra.
*
See note
p. 1277,
he slew with torture, &c. &c."

0/1809,
p.
Dublin edition
i.
Hired into
the service,
ace peic a nampaine,
187-189.
e,
selling their service.

1.
Ware
says in his Annals of Ireland, that
John
in F.
18, renders it
thus:
The Latin "Turn
translator,
in Ultonia
being examined by the Lord Justice Sidney about these matters, answered that he was the
son and heir of Con and Alice, his wife, and
that
aliquamdiu plerumque in Tirconallia stipendia

faciebant."
a
To leave
i.
those districts,
Matthew was the son of a smith
in
Dun-
bdil,
e.
to leave the territories of Ulster
na hoipip fin bpu jand
dalk, born after his father's marriage with his
proceed into Connaught in quest of adventures.
mother, Alice, and that he claimed his father's

estate justly; that the surrender
The word
oipip
is
translated fines
p.
which his
fa-
See Trias Thaum.,
115.
by Colgan The Latin trans-
1566
coiccib connacc,
cmNCua Rio^hachca
-|
eircectNN.
[1558.
apfb po jabpac cecup co cpich caipppe mic neill cpe in po cobpaig copbmac gailfng mac icecap ua noilella, DO epic jailfng (bail a acap) i DO rip amalgam caibcc, mic cfm, mic oilealla olvnm lap loc emj
mic piacpac. Udnaicc mac uilliam ma ccoinne annpm .1. TCipoeapD an mpainn mac DauiD, mic emainn, mic uillicc, po jeall a ccocuccab ap bdi cpeac lomca a corhappan polmaijce a eapccapacc. OD cualaib mpla cloinne
-\ "|
DO ceacc le a caob DO rionoil an lion piocaipo an coimrionol coiccpice pin nf po aipipgupan maijin ambaopoanaip, aplia popeo Dapmdil eioeab, oap na halbanaij 05 muaib,-| pob pfipDe Do a nionnpaiccib uaip DO bpip pop
~\ -]
ni po cuimmjpioc an ppfbam allmapba, pop na poipnib ppaocDuilje pin, a pao 6 narapba, 6 mbpaicpib bunaib uaip po pulamjpioc Da nfpccaipDib a bd pfpp buaib naipleac ap enlacaip. Oo mapbab amipm Domnall-] oubjall,
-\
-| ~| -\
a nanacail olodp buaib a njona uaip Do jebcaoi a ccomrpom Da jac fpnail lonnmapa epcib, i Dob eccpeimcce albanaij co cfnD achaib Da naimpip hi
ccoicceab connacc an'ionnpaiccib
pin.
Spaonrhaibm Do rabaipc Id Saâncoib ap uilliam obap (.1. 6 cfpbaill) mac pipjanainm mic maolpuanaib mic Sfain uf cfpbaill ap rhaj cinn copcaige DO pdccbab ann DO hfpbaijfb oicc, -] DO mubaijfb milib ap an maj pin,
-\
TTlupchab gfnjcac
mac
-|
emainn, mic mupchaibt mic emainn, mic Suibne Do

rfp boâine lap nourcap,
-]
conpaplaib Dalccaip,
DO
cepna 6 ceapbaill
pfin
ap an ppoipeiccfn
lator, in F.
1.
pin.
18, condenses the
language thus:
in
fable that it is of very little historical value.
"
Qui
vel propaganda fama; gratii vel ne vaca-
Up
to this period the country of the Gailenga,

far
tione militias juventus torperet,

profecti sunt, &c."
b
Conaciam
which was
more extensive than the present
The territory of Carbry, the son of Niatt, now the barony of Carbury, in the north of the county of Sligo.
c
barony of Gallen, in the county of Mayo, was inhabited by the Damnonii and Galeni, who were
tribes of the Firbolgs
;
but King Cormac, the son
of Art, granted this territory to

leang, his near relative,
Cormac Gai-
Settled,
cobpaij.
Cormac
fled
from Mun-
who,
in course of time,
having incensed his father by killthe five sons of Conall, the son of Eoching aidh, son of Magh Nuadhat, who were fabled to
ster,
after
either totally dispossessed or enslaved the Firbolgs.
The most distinguished
families of his
have been transformed into badgers by Grian Gruadhsholuis, a Tuatha de Danann sorceress.
race in this territory, after the establishment of surnames, were the O'Haras and O'Garas. See
O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part

d
iii. c.
69.
The legend
H.
3. 18,
is
given at full length in a
manuin
Violated the guarantee __ The legend recites
script in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin,

p.
that
Cormac Gaileang had
offered the sons of
42
but
it
is
so
wrapped up
Conall his father's protection, on condition that
1558.]

names famous.
b
,
1567
their
They
first
passed through the territory of Carbry, the son
of Niall
Cormac
after
through the lower part of Tirerrill, by the territory of Gaileang (where Gaileang, the son of Teige, son of Kian, son of Oilioll Olum, settled'
1
having violated the guarantee" of his father), and into the country of In this last mentioned territory Mac William Awley of Fiachra [Tirawley].
e
(Eichard-an-iarrainn
the son of David, son of

to support
Edmond, son of Ulick) came

his
to
neighbours and harassing his enemies. When the Earl of Clanrickard heard that this f foreign host had arrived in his neighbourhood, he collected the greatest number
;
meet them
and he promised
them for plundering
was able of mail-clad warriors and ordnance, and did not halt till he He was the better arrived at the place where those Scots were, by the Moy.
that he
of attacking them [there], for he routed this foreign band of fiercely-rapacious warriors, who did not consider their distance from their native country and
enemies to slaughter them oil the spot. Donnell and Dowell were slain there but the victory 8 would have been greater if they had been taken prisoners, instead of being slain, for an equivalent rantheir kindred, for they suffered their
;
som
in
any kind of riches would have been received for them.
The power
of
the Scots was enfeebled in Connaught for a considerable time after this attack. defeat was given to O'Carroll (William Odhar, the son of Ferganainm,
son of Mulrony, son of John) by the English, on the plain of Ceann-Corcaighe", where youths were cut off, and warriors slain, and, among the rest, Murrough
Geangcach, the son of Edmond, son of Murrough, son of Edmond Mac Sweeny, one of the constables of Dal-gCais, and of the family of Tir-Boghaine'. O'Carroll
himself escaped from that perilous conflict.
they would come out of their stronghold ; and that he slew them with his father's spear as soon
as
victory of killing them, for there would have
they came
*
f
forth.
i.
been received their equivalent of each kind of wealth for them. And the Scots were the
feebler of this attack in the province of naught for a period of their time."
1
Richard-an-iarrainn,
e.
Kiehard of the
iron,
Con-
Here Foreign host, coiriicionol coiccpice the Four Masters use the word coiccpice, in
the sense of strange, or foreign, although they generally use this term to denote confine, or
cunterraneous boundary.
g
cass,
'
Ceann-Corcaighe, i. e. the head of the coror marshy land ; not identified,

literally,
i.
Of the family of Tir-Boghaine,
" of
e.
The
victory, literally,
" better would have
Tir-Boghaine as to his native country,"
he
was of the family of the Mac Sweenys of Banagh, in the west of the county of Donegal.
been the victory of protecting them than the
1.568
[1559.
ui
Gipcioeocain cille'odlua oecc .1. oonnchab occ mac bonnchaib, mic niocoil gpaoa, cijeajina hi call hi ccuaic an cf efpca annpn.
-|
(Sueene Glijabech DO oiponeab of Sa;caib an.
17.
Nouembep.
QO1S CttlOSC,
1559.
anaoi. Cfoip Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceo, caocca,
Neill
c*on
bacac,
mac
cuinn, mic enpi, mic eoccain oecc lap ccaicfm

~\
aoipi i
aimppe gan oilbfim gan im6fpcca6, po ba ooilij DO cenel eoccain a a 6i'ol Doibpe Dpaccbail ma a pfnop&acc, eccpbe munbab a ffnoacaib
~] ~\
.1.
iona6
k
Sfan.
In church and
state,
i.
e.
he was head of his
alia
quvis
loca,
seu
tribe, and a dignitary in the church. On the \1th of November. Elizabeth

1
brata,
as-
seu avia fuerunt aut
hominum frequentia celehumano cultu ad-
cended the throne on the day of the death of her half sister, Queen Mary, November the 17th,
1
huc vacua, eidem Conchauro concesserunt, qui comitis nomen quidem, sed non dignitatem
Dalgassiorum, primus retulit.
vitas
Cujus
et
rei
no-
558
from which date her regnal years were
maximam admirationem
indignationem
See Chronology of Hisaccordingly reckoned. Sir Harris Nicolas, second edition, tory, by
primipilis Hibernis, et qui generi originem ad
Heberum, Erymonem, Irium

runt, movit.
et
Ithium
refe-
The entries under this year are transp. 338. lated into Latin as follows, in F. 1. 18
:
" Ferd~orcho Baroni, Comitis Tironiae
filio,
" Gomes' Desmonise Jacobus,

filii
filius
Joannis,
vitam nefarie Joannis
fratris clientes eripuerunt,
Thomae,
filii
Jacobi,
sui
filii
Geraldi, fatis conce-
quod
in avita hsereditate
obeunda patri successor
desiderium apud clientes magnum nam, eo florente, nee fortunis asserreliquit; vandis custodiam apponere, nee latronibus ex-,
dens,
designaretur.
"Donatum, O'ConchauriFalgite Briani filium, Uathnicus 6 Dimosaigh interemit circa fes-
cludendis januas occludere necesse fuit, in toto

illo
tum
lore,
Sancti Patricii, quod facinus Bearvam do-
terrarum tractu qui Kerriee Dunkinite ad Trium Aquarum Confluentem in Lagenise et

confinio expansus est.
filius
filii
Offalgiam luctu,
Lageniam
sollicitudine
affecit.
Momonias
"
Magna Scotorum manus, tum

filio
in Ultonia
" O'Brienus Tuomonias, Daniel,

chauri,
filii
Con-
aliquamdiu plerumque Dubhgalli

Callini
in Tirconallia, Daniele
Terdelachi,
filii
Tadei,
Briani
Gillaspec
filio
Mac
Callin nepote, et
de Cathanaonaigh, possessionibus et dignitate a prorege Thoma Fizwalter exutus est, qui eas
Dubhgallo Donati
filii,
ejus de Gillaspec
Mac
Conchaurum, Danielis ex fratre Donate nepotem, et Tuomonise comitem jam renunciatum imo Cluanramhoda, Bunraitta et Clara Magna, insigniora ditionis oppida, necnon etiam
contulit ;
ducibus, stipendia faciebant ; qui, vel propagandas fama; gratia, vel ne vacatione militia?
juventus torperet,
bella gesturis
in
Conaciam
profecti
sunt,
operam locaturi, suscepto itenere per Carberiam inferiores Tirconalliw
1559-]

of Killaloe died,
i.
1569
The Archdeacon
e.
Donough Oge,
the son of Donough,

k
.
He was a lord in Church and State son of Nicholas O'Grady. Queen Elizabeth was made sovereign over England on the 17th of November
1
.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
O'Neill
Christ, one
1559.
thousand five hundred fifty-nine.

died, after having
(Con Bacagh, the son of Henry, son of Owen)
and time without blemish or reproach. His death would have been a cause of great grief to the Kinel-Owen but for his great age and infirspent his age
mity, and that he left an heir worthy of him,
Cormaco Galingo
Olilli
i.
e.
Johnm
oraa
ac
Galingam
filii
(a
filii
filio
vel appenso in trutina ad
ipsorum pondus
sere,
Tadei,
Keni,
Oluim, cujus
ibi
pater vulneratus fuit"
quam
[recte, qui ibi sedit post" noviola verat proteotionem patris suij,
minatam) ad provinciam pervenerunt, ubi Mac Ulielnms Bourk, Kichardus a ferro, filius Davidis,
filii
suorum opera vinculis educerentur. Clades autem sicut Scotis luctuosa, sic Conatiae fuit utilis, ut quae a Scotorum excursionibus diu immunis erat. " O'Carvallus, Ulielmus Moddara, filius Nehemiae,
filii
Edmundi, filii Ullechi,
eos conduxit ut
ipsis adversa-
Moelruani,
filii
Joannis,
acie
finitimis bello petendis, et eis
qui
apud Maighcancorcagiam
fugus
est,
cum Anglis decernens late
rentur prosternendis vires et arma impenderent,
sed ipse fuga elapsus, multis
Cum
filius
autem Clanrickardiae Comes, Richardus,
desideratis ac preecipue
suorum Muracho Gancach, filius

filii
Ullechi a capitibus, filii Richardi, filii Ullechi deCnoctuagh, filii Ulechi Medii, filii Ullechi a
vino, advenas in Conatise viscera
accepisset,
Edmundi,
filii
Murachi,
Edmundi Mac
Tirboghaniae
Suinnii, viro
admodum
strenuo,
ne a
jam penetrasse proprius accedentibus commiconscribit, quern
oriundo, sub Dalgaissiis merere consueto.
" Donatus Juvenis,
filius
Donati,
filii
Nicholai
nus damna perferre cogeretur, exercitum quam

potest
6 Grada, Archidiaconus Laonensis, vir magnae

potentise, tarn inter sacri quarn profani ordinis
maximum
omni
bellico
apparatu apprime tormentis etiam bellicis ad hanc expeditionem
instructum, in aciem eduxit,
usus, tanta porro celeritate ac tarn exiguo strepitu processit ut ante pene in hostium conspectu
homines, diem suum obiit. " Elizabetha Anglise Regina salutata est." The Latin translation from the Annals of
Donegal, in F. 1. 18, ends here. m John. Charles O'Conor interpolates t)onâileac,
for
i.
Moam amnem consedentium pervenerit, quam eum in armis fuisse cognoverint, ut primum
ad
e.
the Donnellian, which
is
correct,
hostem conspicatus
est, in
pugnam cum
eo de-
John was usually
so called, because he
had
scendit, nee diu in ancipiti victoria stetit,
cum
been fostered by O'Donelly.

called
See note
s
,
under
also
Scoti late sternentur, ducibus in aciem cadentibus,
He was
reliqui profligati internecione delentur. Duces vero si capti potius quam caesi fuissent,
Seaun an ofomaip,
i.
e.
Shane, or John,
of the pride, or ambition.
15 yo
aNNaf,a Rioghacbca emeaNN.
[1559.
emann buicilep, mac
clucma meala-] cacpac a aimpipe, a cciip a aofpe maijpe caoibjeal clacc copcpa DO cimbibe .1. piapup mac emamn. oeapbpacaip cr acap DO jabail a jonaiD
-|
comdip, mic emainn, mic comaip Decc, cigfpna cpfna oume mpc'caij pop piuip, buaball bldic bionnpogpac
-\
bpiam ap a mi lun Do ponnpab ap cloinn TTlupchcub puibe pe hacchaib mnpi Donnchab DO bai ui bpiain, 1 baof mac DO cloinn TTlupchaib ip in mbaile a mbuancoimicreacc mpla cabcc mac mupchaiD f bpiain mbiorjnaip Do eccaofn rabcc a nuicce pin 6 oibipc Domnaill uf bpiain 50
lapla cuabmuman, concobap
i
mac Donnchaib mic concobaip

.1.
uf
cuinn-
~\
~\
ofprnurhan
-|
a oubaipr gup baojal laip a bfic gan baile jan bparaip muna ppajbab pupcacc abpoccup. Oo jab an ciapla an lomcopaoiD a jlanpluajaib,"] nonol ap a ruacaib, gibeaD pin cai&cc,-) Do cuip gaipm ap
anbpoplann pip an mpla,
"|
nfp
an 16 cpuinmuccab
map ba
coip
acr Do cfimnij ap a cfpragliaiD 50 oeola
Dapaccac cpe ppucpacaib pionna ppiubjlome. OD cualaiD lapla cuabmuman Do pdccaib an cionol pin ace cpiall po na ruaipim Do eipij 6 imp f cuinn,
~\
an poplonjpopc polam,
DO acaij a piop capa imd poipiDm .1. iap|,a cloinne Dob pfipoe Do an cacac pin oip nip an le a aiciappaib ace DO T?iocaipD, cjluaip po ceooip, i ni po aipip gup an maijpn hi mbaof mpla cuabmuman. Oala lapla Dfpmuman nf po hanab laip 50 nDeachaib ap paicce mnpi
~\
cap*a aip 50 baile aille an oibce ceDna. Nip bo paDa 6 paile poplongpuipc na maplab an oibce pin. Ro eipij mpla ofprnurhan a mocofbail na maiDne ap na bapac, cue copuccab caca, inneall lombualca
ui cuinn, i
po
pill
ap a occbaib,
"
oip
ba
DOI j laip nac ccfpnaipfo

p
gan cpoio on Da
ci jeapria
capla
Edmond
Butler.
His father, Thomas, was
Catltair-Duiiie-Iascaiyh,
i.
e.
the stone fort
raised to the peerage of Ireland, 10th
November,
,
of the
Dun, or earthen
fort of the fish,
now
1543, by the title of Baron of Caher. Edmond succeeded as second Baron of Caher, but died
Cahir, in the barony of Iffa and Offa West, in
without
his
issue,
when the barony

became his
expired, and
The .site of the orithe county of Tippcrary. ginal Caher, or stone fort, is occupied by the
Castle of Cahir, which stands on a rock sur-
two half
sisters
heirs.
But the
dignity was revived 6th May, 1583, by a new patent granted to his first cousin, Sir Theobald
Butler.
rounded by the Kiver Suir

described in the Irish
Petrie.
See this castle
Penny Journal by Mr.
Trian-CUuana- Meala,
This was the
Offa East,
i.
e.
Clonmel-third.
"
Took his place.
Pierce took his place as
name
of the barony of Ifia and
in the south-east of the
county of
head of this branch of the Butlers, according to the Irish law of tauistry, not as Baron of Caher.
This branch of the Butlers descend from James
Tippcrary.
1559-]

Butler", the son of
,
1571
Edmond
of Trian-Chluana-Meala
Thomas, son of Edmond, son of Edmond, Lord and of Cathair-Duine-Iascaigh" on the Suire, died.
fair, ruddy-coloured youth, of his life and career and his father's brother, beginning the son of Edmond, took his place". Pierce, The Earl of Thomond (Conor, the son of Donough, son of Conor O'Brien) sat before Inchiquin, precisely in the month of June, to oppose the sons of
This beautiful, sweet-sounding trumpet, a whitesided,

off in the
was cut
Murrough O'Brien. And Donough, one of the sons of Murrough, was in the town but Teige, the other son of Murrough, had been constantly in the com;
pany and society of the Earl of Desmond, since the expulsion of Donnell O'Brien up to that period. And Teige had complained of his distress to the Earl, and
had
said that he should be [left] without
home
or kinsmen, unless he obtained
speedy assistance. The Earl took this complaint of Teige [to heart], and he assembled his gallant troops, and mustered his tribes he did not, however,
;
a proper muster, but proceeded at once, with boldness and intreWhen the Earl of pidity, across the waters of the limpidly-rolling Shannon. Thomond heard that this army was marching upon him, he departed from Inchi-
wait to
make
quin, leaving the
camp empty, and went
to solicit the assistance of his trusty
friend, the Earl of Clanrickard.
He was
the better of this solicitation, for the
Earl did not wait to be asked a second time, but set out immediately, and did As for not halt until he reached the place where the Earl of Thomond was.
the Earl of Thomond, he did not halt
till
he arrived on the green of Inchiquin

.
s and he returned back the same night to Baile-Ui-Aille The camps of the Earls were not far asunder on that night. On the morrow, at day-break, the Earl of Desmond arose, and marshalled his youthful warriors in battle-array
and fighting order, for he thought that he should not part from the two nobles who were pursuing him without fighting. This was indeed true, for they proButler, the natural son of James, third Earl of
Ormond.
*
Templemaley, barony of Upper Bunratty, and county of Clare, and about two miles and a
quarter to the north of the town of Ennis. In a list of the castles of the county of Clare, preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin,
this castle
is
To
solicit,
literally,
" and he requested his

i.
true friend to his relief,

rickard."
6
e.
the Earl of Clan-
JBaile- Ui-Aille,
i.
e.
O'Haly's town,
now
mentioned
it
as belonging to
James
Ballyally, a townland containing a small portion of the ruins of a castle, in the parish of
Nellan.
See
again referred to at the year
1601.
9o2
1572
QNNaca RioTjhachea
&d
piop on
eiRectNN.
~\
[1559.
ajd ropaijeacc.
mnpm
oip
Go jjabpac ace cairfm
ace com-
a lonspopc 50 popab mullaij cnuic puapcoilli. dp puabaipc ann pin DO roilij an roice, DO cfoaij an cinnfmam a ccup ap aon maiîn, -| Do acpai pen caca cloinne caip an la pin oip DO be a njnaruccab co nuicce
apoile 6 dicib
-|
pin
1
maiom DO
jjnuipib
gemab
e an la pin
cpoDa maille 16 na cfccmala, i coimeipjje an cnuic ap na hiaplaDaib uaiple ammfpa Do panncuij a pdpuccaD, i Do pobaip a popcarhluccaD 50 po pdccbaccap a noccbaiD
po apmaib a nfpccapac po bpfir a mbfobbaD. Oo pdccbab annpin Donnchab joba mac bpiain mtc roippbealbaij mic caibcc mic marjamna, i po mapbab ann Dpong DO Dfjbaofmb pfl aoba, po mapbab ano apDconpapal
"| -|
ap jfpalcacaib pfmpa in jac culaij a rcacpaccaoi'p, pfm baof eabcc mac mupchaib f bpiain 05 cabaipr na gCpoiD. Oo bfn jeapoicc mac Semaip,-] eabcc 6 bpiain eeibfb
T?uaibpi moip, mic puibne, i 'colla mac mupchaib mic puaibpi moip, Ro mapbab Dna cpiup mac mupchaib, mic oonnchaib mic Oomnaill na mabmann mfic puibne .1. concobap (conpapal ciiabmuman) eojan, -| Donnchab, Ro pdccbab ann clann emainn mic mnpchaib mic emainn,
cloinne piocaipD
.1.
emann mac
mete puibne
ace cepnoiapla Dfpmuman
Donnchab. Mi biu Da naipfm nf bup pipi mbuaib ccopccaip,-] ccommaoibme cap a aip. mp Sluaicceab cfnoaip pfbna Id hua ccfpbaill uilliam obap mac pipjanamm
.1.
TTlaolmuipe buibe,
-]
mic maolpuanaib, mic pfain ap mac uf bpiain apa .1. coippbealbac mac muipmic^ Domnaill, mic raiDcc, mic cfpcaij, coippbealbaij, mic mupchaib na paicmje. Oo lomab, i DO leppcpiopab an cfp 50 cinnfpnac Id hua ccfpbaill 6 bel an dca 50 muileann uf occdm. Oo 16 ceDna
mapbab
it
Ifip
pa
DeapbpaMur-
'
Cnoc-Fuarchoilli,
i.
e.
the hill of the cold
that
was the
wood, now corruptly called in Irish Cnoc up.U, and incorrectly translated Spancel Hill. the name of a small village noted for its
horse
fairs,
fact of Teige,
the son of
situated in the townland of
rough O'Brien, being on the side of the Earl of Desmond, that prevented the Geraldines from being scared with dismay when they came to a
battle with the Dal-Cais on a hill,
*
Mucki-
nish, parish of Clooney,
and about
six miles east
To oppress him,
recte,
"
the town of Ennis, in the county of Clare. The will of destiny, M it was there
literally,
it
them," or
Teige
destiny willed and fate permitted to put
them on one place."
style of the original is here exceedingly faulty, on account of the careless use made of the pronouns
O'Brien."
The
The word
is
denotes place or locality, and
always explained .onab an insinuation
mmjm
words eo^c'apuc and b.oooao are synonymous, and introduced into

the text merely for the sake of sound.
Their foes.
- The
SMI
on that
<%._This
is
Donwll-'na-madhmann,
i.
e.
Donnell, or Da-
1559.]

to fire at
till
1
1573
ceeded
encamped,
each other, and to skirmish from the places where they were they arrived at the summit of Cnoc-Fuarchoilli where it was
,
the will of destiny" and the decree of fate to bring them same place. The success of battle of the race of Cas changed on that day, for until then they had been accustomed to drive the Geraldines [panic-stricken] before their faces
to the
on every
hill
on which they had contended
and even on that day
son of Murrough O'Brien, was fighting along with Garrett. of James, and Teige O'Brien, gained the onset of the battle, and the rising of the hill, upon the two noble and vigorous Earls, who had coveted to oppress
Teige, the Garrett, the son
him T [Teige], and who had attempted

their youths [soldiers] beneath the
to
subdue him
but they [the Earls]
left
weapons of their
adversaries,
and
at the
mercy
of their foes".
Donough Gobha, the son of Brian, son of Turlough, son of Teige, son of Mahon, was left behind a number of the chieftains of the Sil-Aedha
;
were
slain, as
were
also the
Chief Constable of Clanrickard,

Colla,
of Rory
More Mac Sweeny, and

also three sons of
2
Edmond, son the son of Murrough, son of Rory More

i.
e.
Murrough, the son of Donough, son of Donnellna-madhmann Mac Sweeny, namely, Conor, Constable of Thomond, Owen, and Donough and there also fell the sons of Edmond, son of Murrough, son of
;
Mac Sweeny;
Edmond Mac Sweeny, namely, Mulmurry Boy and Edmond. I shall not enumerate them any longer. But the Earl of Desmond returned home after victory
in
triumph.
expedition* was made by O'Carroll (William Odhar, the son of Ferganainm, son of Mulrony, son of Johji), against Mac-I-Brien of Ara, i. e. Turlough, the son of Murtough, son of Donnell, son of Teige, son of Tur[first]
A captain's
On this occasion O'Carroll at once lough, son of Murrough-na-Raithnighe. devastated and totally ravaged the country from Bel-an-athab to Muilleann-Uic
Ogain
niel, *
On
the same day he slew Mac-I-Brien' s brother, namely,

site Killaloe, in
Mumnigh,
of the defeats.
captain's expedition.
Every
Irish
chief-
of Tipperary.
The ruins of one

still
the barony of Ara, and county of Mac-I-Brien

to be seen near Ballina
tain
thought it his duty to perform a predatory excursion as soon after his inauguration as possible,
Ara's castles are

Bridge.
c
and
this
was
called his
"rluaiêab ceanof the ford,
Muilleann-Ui-Ogain,
a place rony of
rary.
i.
e.
O'Hogan's
in
mill,
naijb
peaona."
i.
situated
near Ardcrony,
the ba-
Bel-an-atha,
e.
the
mouth
now
Lower Ormond, and county of Tippe-
Ballina,
on the east side of the Shannon, oppo-
1574
aNNdta Rioghachca eiReuNN.
[1559.
raip rhfic ui bpiain .1. TTlupchab mac muipcfpcaij paoi cmnpfona ap luja DO bole ooccbaiD pleacca bjiiain puaiD. Oo cuip mac ui bpiain cpuinniuccab
ap ap a caipoib ap a hairle oo 6ol oaice a eaponopa ap ua ccfpbaill, ccocc oa cpiarbuibnib na cimcell DO eapccna ap a aghaiD, apfo coccaip ui caipin DO cpeaclomab Don cuaipc pin, -| ap anri ]io cinn an cinnfmam
]
~|
ap a cionn an oibce pin ap mullac cnmc nuib caipin ace fipeeacc ppip an cfp ma cimceall, ap 6 bun an cnuic ap ap cobpai 6 cfpbaill DO leicc mac uf bpiain pccaofleab Da pcceimelcoib Dapccam na
Dua ceapbaill
bfir
~\
nimreacc Da occbaio ua&a DO connaipc 6 cfpbaill cuicce a ccopuccaD cara, i nopDuccab lommbuailce, ni mo cion neac gan nfpc a pulainj na a lomgabala rapla ap a loncoib annpin. T?o mapbaD Don cup pin 506 aon
noipfp.
dp
pob mecca DO muincip rhfic ui bpiain DO mapbaD ann a conpapal n, ac an giolla Duib, mic concobaip, mic DonnchaiD meic Suibne.
.1.
epemon
an a
Do jabab
ann mac
ui bpiain pfm,
-\
baoi capba pa cfpapccam pin oip nip imcij
puapglab.
CaDcc an cpuapain mac Domnaill mic concobaip ui bpiain oecc hi ppfpaib manac nDuchaij mejuiDip, e ace cup a cuapra ecip a caipoib coicpice
i
-|
lap na lonnapbaD ap a acapDa apaon la a acaip an bliaDam poirhe pin, pfp a aopa DO bpfpp luc i lancapaD milfracc -\ mapcacap DO clanoaib copbmaic
caip, 1
a abnacal
in
achaD beiche.
Qn
calbac 6 Domnaill DO jabdil la hua neill Sfan an 14 DO Ulan.
6d
hamlaiD appicr an jabail ipin. Cacbapp mac ITlajnupa Do bfir a pppicbfpc ppipp an ccalbac, i ppia a mac conn. 6a hann baoi lonacracc cachbaipp
pop cpannoicc loca bfrhaij.
calbaij co mbaccap hi an can pin hi call o ccorhpaip 50 nuachaD pochaibe cenmondr
d
cionoileab pluaj an cipe im conn mac an ppopbaippi imon ccpannoicc. 6d hann baof an calbac
Ro
mna
~\
pilfba.
the north of the county of Tipperary.

territory belonged to O'Meagher,
ginally tributary to O'Carroll.
Hy-Cairin, now the barony of Ik errin, in This
his forces to plunder the districts.
The word
i.
oipfp
is
here used in the same sense as in the

or oipeap gaoioeal,
e.
who was
ori-
name aipeap,
trict of
f
the dis-
He saw
Baili cuicce
O'Carroll.
.1.
t)o connaipc 6 CfpDO connaipc ye 6 CeapBaill

O'Carroll did not
hill until
Argyle, in Scotland. Teige-an-lsuaain, i. e. Teige, or Timothy, of
the Gaels,
now
the long
e
uncombed
hair.
[as ceacc] cuije. descent from the
make
his
he perceived that
The word coiccpice is here used in the same sense as that in which
friends.
Remo te
Mac-I-Brien had sent forth the main body of
Keating and the Munster writers employ
it.
1559-]
1575
the son of Murtough, a distinguished captain, by no means the worst of the youths of the descendants of Brian Roe. Mac-I-Brien afterwards made a muster
of his friends, to go and avenge this dishonour upon O'Carroll
and
as soon as
his lordly bands had assembled around him, he marched forwards, resolved to d ravage the territory of Hy-Cairin on that expedition. Destiny had so disposed
[affairs]
for O'Carroll, that
he was on the summit of a

;
hill in
Hy-Cairin, listen-
and it was from the foot of this hill on which ing to the country around him was stationed that Mac-I-Brien sent forth a body of his scouts to O'Carroll
plunder the
6
districts.
When
his youths
had
sallied forth
from him, he saw

;
O'Carroll approaching him in battle-array, and in fighting order and npt one of those who were there before him was able to withstand his strength, or
escape by
Every man of Mac-I-Brien's people able to bear arms was slain; his constable, Heremon, the son of Gilla-Duv, son of Conor, son of Donough Mac Sweeny, was slain. Mac-I-Brien himself was taken prisoner
flight.
;
and there was

a ransom.
profit in giving
him
quarter, for he
was not
set at liberty
without
Teige-an-tsuasain
the son of O'Donnell, son of Conor O'Brien, died in Fer-
managh, in Maguire's country, while on a visit wijh his more remote friends*, for he had been banished the preceding year from his patrimony, together with
his father.
tial
the most distinguished of his age for agility, strength, marand he was interred feats, and horsemanship, of the race of Cormac Cas
;
He was
Achadh-beithe [Aghavea]. Calvagh O'Donnell was taken prisoner by O'Neill (John) on the 14th of May. This capture was effected thus Caffar, the son of Manus, was at strife with Calvagh and his son, Con. Caffar had his abode at this time in the Crannog
at
:
of Loch-Beathach"; and Con, the son of Calvagh, assembled the forces of the Calvagh was at this time at Cillcountry, and laid siege to the Crannog.
O'dTomhrair' with a few

But coiccpic
ters,
soldiers, besides
women and
c
,
poets; [and]
some of the
originally meant confine, and is generally used in that sense by the Four Mas-
under the year 1258, p. 364, supra, and other references to this lake at the years 1524
note
who
evidently transcribed
this
passage
and 1540.
'
from Munster annals.

"
Cttl-O'dTomhrair.
Locft-Beathach,
now
anglice
Lough Veagh,
called in Irish
This monastery is now oil uu ocorhpail, anglice Killoin
a lake situated in the parish of Gartan, barony of Kilmacrenan, and county of Donegal See
donnell. It
is
situated close to Fort Stewart, near
the upper end of
Longh
Swilly,
the barony
1576
T7o mai|inpfc Djiong
pin
cmNa&a Rio^hachca
DO cenel cconaill oua
eiraeawN.
[1560.
gon popcoimeD 5an lomcopnam. 50 piacc gup an lion ploij po ba Daca laip gan pabab jan pacuccab 50 po mbpacr tmon cej6aip mbaof an calbac ip in mainipcip co po epjabpac e
i
an calbac Do bfic pon lonnap Nf po paillicceab la hua neill an ni pin

nbill
co cip eoccham. Do paoab cimibeacc oocpaib oicomipcil mparh la hua neill Don calbac ~\ po munbab an aoncuig piDe beop la hinin TTlec gilleaain co puce cloinn noo,
pein i a bfn
.1.
mjfn mec gilleam,
-j
puccpac leo
mrc
-j
uain ppic ap cenel cconaill Don cup pin niba pobaing Do jaoibealaib bpfir a pplara uara an rucc pm.
QO1S QR1OSU,
1560.
Qofp Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceD, Seapcca.
meg capcaij .1. aibilin injfn Domnaill, mic copbmaic labpaij bfn bfn lapla Semup mac Sfain, mic comaip, mpla ofpmuriian ap a haoiofb
Injfn
.1.
~\
cuabmuman mppm
o
.1.
i
.1.
concobap mac oonnchaib mic

pin
concobaip, bfn Depcac
Daonnaccac connail cpaiboeac an concaoip
Decc
-|
a habnacal noraplije
i
pmnpeap noipbelac. Tndg macjamna Qpc

.1.
pluaj f neill meic uibilin. CeiD pinn jaca caca,"] coimeoaib a coDa Don coicceab nacchaib pfp mbpfj,-) mibe an cf copcaip ann pin,-| mac a bfpbparap Doiponeab ma lonab .1. Qob mac bjnain na moiceipje mic Remainn mic jjlaipne.
i
mac Remainn, mic glaipne Do mapbab ap ofpbaib a lomcoimeDa la halbanchaib ecip Da pfbain hi pura
tnaol
uf
puaipc .1. bpian (.1. bpian ballac) mac eoccam puaipc Dimreacc Daoibeabaib anaibce. 6occhan ceoamup ap amne puaip
Cabcc
eoccan Da mac
uf
aoibfb, bfic
laim
hi
mbpai^Dfnup agd bparaip 05 cabcc, ape baile ina paibe liaccpuim, rapla Do 50 bpuaip paill pa ppopcoimerc baof
i
hi
~\
-|
of Kilmacrenan, and county of Donegal. See this place already referred to at the year 1538, and correct an error inadvertently fallen into in
m
n
Easy.
The word pooainj
is
the opposite
of bo&ainj, difficult.
For
the Gaels.
The writer would have im" Kinel-Owen"

is
raaking this
k
Killymard
This
in note n , p. 1449.
is
proved this idea

for " Gaels."
by substituting
father
!
Mac
Gilleain.
the Irish and Erse
This
the Calvagh
who had
imu
,
form of the family name Mac Clean.

'
prisoned his
own
youth,
Advantage, uain.
This
is still
a living
word
In her
ap a huoiofo.
p.
See note
denoting opportunity, advantage, &c.
1462, supra.
1560.]
1577
Kinel-Connell informed O'Neill that Calvagh -was thus situated, without guard O'Neill neglected not this opportunity, but proceeded with the or protection.
number
of forces he had in readiness, without notice or forewarning, so that

;
in which Calvagh was and they surrounded the apartment of the monastery and his wife, the daughter of Mac Gilleain", thus they made prisoners of himself
Tyrone. O'Neill detained Calvagh in close and cruel confinement, and, moreover, cohabited with his wife, the daughter of Mac Gilleain, so that she bore children unto him. Were it not for the advantage taken
and carried them
off into
of the Kinel-Connell on the occasion,

for the Gaels" to carry off their
would not have been an easy matter chief from them at the time.
it
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

*
1560.
The' Age of Christ, one thousand five hundred sixty.
The daughter of Mac Carthy, e. Eveleen, daughter of Donnell, son of Cormac Ladhrach, the wife of the Earl of Desmond in her youth namely, of
i.
,
James, the son of John, who was son of Thomas, and afterwards the wife of the Earl of Thomond, namely, of Conor, the son of Donough, son of Conor, a charitable,
humane,
friendly,
and pious ^Countess, died, and was interred

.
in
the
p burial-place of her ancestors, namely, at Oirbhealach Mac Mahon, i. e. Art Mael, the son of Kedmond, son of Glasny, was slain in O'Neill's army by the Scots, from want of being guarded, between two bands,
in the route [the territory] of
Mac
Quillin.
He who was
there slain was the
foremost spear in every battle, and the defender of his portion of the province His brother, Hugh, son of Brian-naagainst the men of Bregia and of Meath.
Moicheirghe, son of Redmond, son of Glasny, was installed in his place. Teige and Owen, the two sons of O'Rourke (Brian Ballagh, the son of Owen),
came by untimely deaths. Owen first met his death thus he was held in and it came to pass captivity by his kinsman, Teige, in the town of Leitrim
:
that,
having got an opportunity of the guard, he slew the person
whom
Teige
Oirbhealach, now Irrelagh, or Muckruss Abbey, situated near the rocky shore of a small bay at the eastern end of the lower lake of
"
Killarney, and within the demesne of Muckruss, in the county of Kerry. See notes r, s , ', under
the year 1340,
p.
566, supra.
1578
|io
awwata Rio^hachca eirceaNR
[1560.
6 cabcc, DO coib ap bapp an baile, rhapb an pfp baof aga lomcoimeD

-|
*]
no
a cumap, nap copa Don rip rabcc Do puaccaip 50 paibe an caiplen ap raobab ina eippiom. Oo cualaib gfomanac baof amuij DO mumrrip caibcc in
DO amaip eoccan 50 hinDellDfpec co DO leacc a jpuaib ap a gonna, Uabcc ona Do noechaib an pelep cpe na imlinn gup pdccaib gan anmain. bdrab hi ppojriiap na bliabna po 05 ool DO coDlab ap cpannoicc fpil mpccunf pin
-|
1,015 t
muinci r e
a T-
bat> co
nic n a ^pac,i
Dob apccam en ngpibe,
-]
DO ba6 paicciD Ifpca ap
leoriian
Uabcc buiDe mac

Diappma copbmaic
map.
cfin,
a nionnpaicciD Damab Dfinlfic no imepoaip. mic oilella uf fjpa Do rfiapbab 16 cacal 6cc mac
-| nip cm 6 cfin mdip hi cconnacraib baD pfpp ap pfpacr eic pfp ap aoi6f6caipe
-|
caibcc mic cacail oicc uf concobaip,

gailfnj,
Compuabaipr caca imjeallaD lopjaile enp mpla noeapmuman gfpoiD mac Semaip, mic Sfain, mpla upmuman comap mac Semaip mic piapaip mic Semaip, mic emamn.i DO be aDbap a mmpfpna pfpainn coip Siinpe, puaib
~|
.1.
-]
.1.
(Duchaij pleacca eojain moip, ~\ cloinne copbmaic caip) 6 nap peDaD pfoDgcc poinn pe poile 05 na hiapla&aib anDurcapaca pin, DO na paopclanoaib Do aoncaijfcrap Dol naimpip aipiDe naipfp cara uccaD
1
eojanacc
caipil
~\
pe poile i apf culac cfgrhala Do rojarcap an borap mop a ccomjap cndrhDo cpumni jfrcap a ccompoiccpi gall, gaoiDeal coille, i noppar apann.
~\
bealac conglaip mic Duinnoepa an pemDfba mapcap Da cuicceab mfnaille muman gup an mbfpba 6 loc gapman glaip mic mbanpccochai^,
Ifc
ap
Ifc 6
.-)
boma
"
lice co
cuan luimmj Ifran cubpaij

The word baile
castle.
is
hi
ccoiccpic
i
ua ppibsfmce,
" his bed or
lair."
na
The
castle.
certainly
w His den,
*
literally,
i.
here used to denote

r
Navel,
imlinn
This word
is
translated
This was Bothar-mor, the old road leading from Tipperary to Cashel.
e.
the great road.
umbilicum in Cormac's Glossary.

5
Bereft him of life,
" left literally,
him withso
incorrectly cnearii-coill, a townland in the parish of awjlice Cleghile,
Cnamhckoill,
now
out a soul."
'
Crannog, a wooden house.
The houses
Kilshane, barony of Clanwilliam, and county of Tipperary, about a mile and a half to the east
of the
called
in fresh
u
were frequently placed on water loughs.
artificial islands
town of Tipperary.
Haliday, in his edi-
tion of the first part of Keating's History oflreland, p. 139, anglicises this
Griffin,
a fabled animal, said to be generated

eagle.
Knawhill
but the
between the lion and the
The word
is
Cnarii-coiU, near Tipperary, was never called
probably used here by the Four Masters to denote any bird of prey.
Knawhill
in English.
The only place

documents
is
in Ireland
so called in Anglo-Irish
Knawhill,
1560.]

as his keeper,
,
1579
had appointed
that the castle
was
in his
and ascending to the top of the castle 9 cried out power, [and] that the country had no more right to
side with Teige than with himself.
When
a soldier, one of the people of Teige,
who was
at
outside, heard this,
he
laid his
Owen,
so that the ball entered at
cheek on his gun, and took direct aim 8 r his navel and bereft him of life Teige
,
.
drowned in the autumn of this year, as he [the other son] was a lake] to sleep in a low, retired crannog', in Muintir-Eolais.
if
was going [across
To
attack them,
w
fighting
on the same
side,
would have been

of the
as
dangerous as to rob the nest

.
of a serpent, to plunder the young griffin", the son of Kian, son of Oilioll O'Hara, was slain by Cathal Oge, Teige Boy, For a long time before there the son of Teige, son of Cathal Oge O'Conor.
or to attack a lion in his den
had not appeared
in
Connaught, of the race of Cormac Gaileang, a man more
distinguished for horsemanship, or hospitality to strangers, than he. declaration of battle, and promise of conflict, between the Earl of Des-
mond
Garrett, the son of James, son of John )
and the Earl of Ormond ( Thomas,
the son of James, son of Pierce Roe, son of James, son of Edmond).
The
cause
of these hostilities was a dispute concerning the lands about the Suire and Eoghanacht Chaisil, the lawful patrimonial inheritances of the descendants of
Owen More and Cormac

parcelling out
Cas, which those Earls of foreign extraction were

;
among themselves and
as the nobles
were not able
to terminate
the
their dispute, they '[themselves] agreed to appoint a certain time for deciding affair by a battle ; and the place of battle which selected was Bothar-
they
mor1
CnamhchoilF and Tipperary. Thither crowded their respecz tive English and Irish neighbours from the road of Conglas the son of the hero, Donn-Desa, in the west of the two smooth-surfaced and beautiful provinces
,
adjacent to
of Munster, to the white-flowery-banked River Barrow and from the lake of Garman Glas a the son of Boma-lice, to the wide foamy harbour of Luimneach",
;
,
a townland in the parish of nocktemplej ba-rony of Duhallow, and county of Cork. See
c. 8.
The Four Masters
are evidently
wrong
in
placing this in the

a
west of Munster.
Book ofLismore, foL 230, where Coppoca, now Corroge, close to the town of Tipperary, on the
mentioned as a part of Cnamcoill. z The road of Conglas. Keating says that Bealach Chonglais was 05 Copcaij, " at Cork,"
east side, is
The lake of Garman Glas, now Loch Garman,

is
which
b
the Irish
name
This
of the present
town of
Wexford.
Luimneach.
is
now
the Irish
name
and
is
followed
by O'Flaherty, Ogygia, part
iii.
of the city of Limerick, but it appears from the Life of St. Carthach of Lisnjore, and various
9P2
1,580
dNNdca Rio^hachca
eiraeciNN.
[1560.
i
Do na cpompluaccaib cul pe caoille an copnarha. Ctp cceacc DO cuip an caon noia ainjel na porcana Da paijiD ccul.i ogham nacchaib na pocaibibh gup jabpacr ceill imon ccaruccab lonnap jjup p'obaijfb ecip
Oeipi bicce
\
)
Dul pn. gup pccapyac jan Deabaib Don Uomap, i Semup Da mac muipip DuiB mic Sfam mic comaip mic an lapla DO ool ap pubal pluaicch hi ccaipppeachaib, TTlac mecc capraicc piabaicch Donnchab mac Domnaill mic pfnjin mic Dorhnaill, oeipje po na hfijmib
.1. -\
capla ina pocaip an
can
pin
coippbeaUiac mac maolmuipe, mic oonnchaib
mic coippbealbaij meic puibne Do pliocc Donnchaib moip a cuacaib copaije 50 ccuiDeaccam njlan cojca ngallocclac, DO Ifnaccap na laocbuibne co
-j
Do bpip Don pftiain eccaipceneoil pe hucc na habann po upcomaip innpi heojandin Don caob apaill gac nDipeac. Oo mapb'ab, ~] DO bdiDfb Da ceD no a cpi Do stanpluaj gfpalrac jep biaD caipppij pa ba mop a noic on DeabaiD pin oip Do bfnab a lam DO copccpac po cop,
bpuac na bannoan,
-]
-]
i
-]
coippbealbac mac
uaip pin 50 a ecc.
puibne co nac paibe ace cop cpoinn ago lompulang on
lapla rtiabmuman Do bol niapcap connacc ap caibcc mic mupchaib mic puaibpi ui'plaicbfpcai;^.
i
mupcab na ccuaj mac
Oo cuap
leip
po epic
other ancient Irish authorities, that
it
was
ori-
rick.
The following
b,
passage, in a very ancient
ginally the name of the Lower Shannon Acta SS. of the Bollandists, 3rd
See
historical tale, preserved in the

fol.
Book of Leinster,
is
and Life of St.

c
May; p. 380, Senanus, published by Colgan.
105, a,
clearly points out the position of
this territory.
The hero Cuchullin
intro-
Hy-Fid/tgeinte, translated Nepotes Fidgenti, in the Life of St. Molua. It was the name of a
duced as standing on the top of the hill of Knockany, near Bruff, pointing out the mountains tutor,
tribe and territory situated in the present county
was bounded on the north by the Shannon, on the south by Sliabh-Luachra, on the east by the River Maigue, and the Morning-Star River, and on the west by Ciarraighe,
of Limerick.
It
and other features of the country to his Laigh " dpaip, a popa 0:15, m pecappu ca cpich
:
or Kerry.
Brian Borumha was King of Munster, Donovan, the ancestor of the O'Donovan family, was chief of all this but
territory,
When
puilem? Nab. pecap jx>n am. 6a pecappa am, ap Cuchullamn Ceano aBpac Slebi Cain peo reap; SleiBci eBlmni peo ruam lino Cuimruj m lino polopmop ur ar chf; Opuim
:
ma
collcailli peo
i
puilem, pip napapCftni Cliach,

i
his descendants
were driven from
it
shortly after
the English invasion See note m , A. D.I 176. d a .territory lying around the hill DeisBeag, of
now
Knockany, and containing Brugh-na-Deise, the town ofBruff, in the county.of Lime-
ccpic na t)epi bici; piuno a noep aca an Cliu mail mic Ugaine, plua pepuno mic Oapi." Conpui Say, my Tutor Laigh, dost thou know what
i .
territory
we are in ?
know not indeed.
know,
1560.]
1581
c e on the confines of Hy-Fidhgeinte and Deis-Beag" with Caoill-an-Chosnamha When [however] these great hosts had come front to front, and face to face, the
.
great
God
between
sent the angel of peace to them, so that concord was established f the hosts, for, having reflected concerning the battle, they parted
without coming to any engagement on that occasion.
Thomas and James,
the two sons of Maurice Duv, son of John, son of Tho-
The son of mas, the son of the Earl, 'marched with an. army into Carbery. of Donnell, son of Fineen, son of Donnell) Mac Carthy Reagh (Donough, the son
He had with him at this time rose up, on hearing the shouts,, to oppose them. Turlough, son of Mulmurry, son of Donough, son of Turlough Mac Sweeny, of
the descendants of
g Donough More from Tuatha-Toraighe with a company
, ;
of
and they pursued the warlike bands [of the Geralfine select gallowglasses dines] to the banks of the Banndan", where, on the margin of the river, directly
opposite Inis-Eogbanain', they defeated this band 'of adventurers. Two or three hundred of the fine troops of the Geraldines were slain and drowned"; and
though the men of Carbery were victorious, their loss was great from that battle, for Turlough Mac Sweeny lost a leg and an arm, so that he was supported only by a wooden leg from that time until his death.
The
dtuath
1 ,
Earl of Thomond marched into
West Connaught
against Murrough-na-
the son of Teige, son of Murrough,

:
son of Rory O'Flaherty.
He
then, said Cuchullin
Ceann-Abhrat Sleibhe;
" to the south [mountain] mountains of Ebhlinni, these to the north

Cain,
this"
river of
the
having reflected on the dreadful consequences of the battle, they parted without a single blow."
Tuatha-Toraighe, i. e. the district opposite Tory Island, off the north coast of Donegal,
b
the
Luimneach
;
is
tjiat
bright river
is
which
thou
seest
Druim-Collchoilli
is
this
on which
Banndan,
i.
e.
the Eiver Bandon, in the

the island or holm of
;
we
are,
which
called Aini-Cliach, in the ter-
county of Cork.
'
ritory of Deis Beg ; to the south of us is the army in Cliu-Mail-mic-Ugaine, in the land of
Inis-Eoghanain, Eoghanan, a man's

small
i.
e.
name
now
Inishannon, a
Curoi, son of Dari."
Caoitt-an-Chosnamha, a district extending from the mouth of the Eiver Maigne towards the city of Limerick. The exact boundary be-
head of the estuary of the Bandon Eiver, 'four miles from the town
at the
town situated
of Bandon.
k
Stain
say,
tween
f
it
and the territory of Deis Beg has not
would
'
and drowned. An English writer "were cut off by field and flood."
i.
been yet determined.
For having
reflected.
could be
slightly
materially
The language here improved by deviating

follows: "for,
Murrough-na-dtuath, gan, of the battle- axes.

this remarkable
tion
e. Murrough, or MorFor some account of
from the
original, as
of West Connavgkt, Appendix,
man, see CltorographicalDescripp. 384-400.
1582
dNNata Rioghachca emeaNN.

-\
~\
[1560.
pa bun an bonnain. Do cuaoap mumefp baile na pan puachaij, Do chuaiD caippib Do roil, ap. gaillme DO copnam dea efpe hoilein aip, cloinne piocaipD 05 cocc, i ace irnceacc ap an ccop eiccin, cpe opldp
Sheoac,
]
-]
cceona.
TTlacjarhain
mac coippbealbaig, mic

i
eaibcc, mic DonnchaiD, mic Dorhnaill
mic coipp&ealbaij rhfic DO Dol nofpmumain luce lumge, -\ aprpaij a hapainn. bpaijDe DO jabail Do ipm cfp cfp, -| acbfpae apoile nap bo maie a a aip 16 a ppajbdil i jup ab ap caipipece canjaceap, -| ace pillfb Do cap
eoalaibh DO pap jaipbe pan njaofc, puapnab pan ppiopwamenc,"] Do ofblab pe poile an long, ~\ an capcpac,"] ace Denam Don luing co na luce nupcopac
~\
i
oiDce ap dpainn DO puaDaicceaD a peol

-\
a jlacaib pfp
hi
i
-\
pfinDfD Dionnaib
ceD
~\
Do caclaD pppaijcib na piopmamenci, buaileab an loncc Da eipi pin pa cappaicc mbeol cuain an pip moip mapaofn cpiap cap connacc, i po bdi&fb f co na poipinn cenmoca macsariiam, Do baibfo cuilleaD ap ceo pan calaD pin Dib im cuacal ua maille oile,
coccannaib corhmbloDca
i
ma
-|
-]
pciupupmann coblaij paoa ba pfpp ina aimpip. Uabcc mac mupchaib ui bpiain Do jaoail ap popailfrh an uipcip hi luimneac a cup ap pin 50 hoc cbac Da coimeD, i ao bfpeaD cac co mbaof cuiD
~|
Diapla
euaDmuman
in
ip in
ngabdil
pin.
jallcubaip, eoccan mac emainn, mic coin, en

ullcoib Decc.
is
mac
Duine oipecca ap
luja DO bole
m The country of the Joyces
included in the
Tir-Oilein
This place
is
so called in Irish
present barony of Ross, in the north-west of the county of Galway. See Chorographical Description
11
at the present day, It is a
but anglicised Terryland.
townland situated near the town of
of West Connaught,
Fuathach,
p.
246.
Eiver, otherwise
now
the
Fuagh
Galway, and bounded on the west by the Eiver This townland contains the ruins of Gaillimh.
a large house which belonged to the Earl of Clanrickard. See Inquisition taken at Galway
of Moycullen,
pp. 52, 53.
Owenriffe, in the parish of Kilcummin, barony and county of Galway See

Chorographical Description of West Connaught,
on the 20th of March, 1608, before Geoffrey

Osbaldston, Esq.
Bon-an-Ekonnain.1his
arm of Lough Corrib
(in the
is
the
name of that
Turlough Meitfi,
the fat or corpulent.
i.
e.
county of Galway)
He was
Turlough, or Terence, the ancestor of the
which receives the river of Belanabrack, near the Hen's Castle, in See Joyce's country.
Chorographical Description of West Connaught, pp. 50, 51, and the map to the same work. See
also note
r
,
Clann-Teige O'Brien of Aran, for a curious account of whom the reader is referred to the Late
ofTanistry by Dr. O'Brien, published in Vallancey's Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, pp. 557,
558, 559
;
p.
278, supra.
and Hardiman's History of Galway,
1560.]

1 ,
1583
.
passed into the country of the Joyces" by Fuathach", by Bon-an-Bhonnain The inhabitants of the town of Galway came to defend the ford of Tir-Oilein
against him, but he crossed
it
with the good-will of some, and in despite of others, and marched through the plain of Clanrickard, both when going and
returning.
Mahon, the son of Turlough, son of Teige, son of Donough, son of Donnell, son of Turlough Meithq [O'Brien], went into Desmond with the crew of a ship
and
boat,
from the island of Aran.
He
took prisoners in the southern country,
but some assert that the taking of them was of no advantage, and that they only accompanied him through friendship. On his return with his spoils, the wind
became rough r and the sky angry and the ship and boat were separated from each other and when the ship was making for Aran in the beginning of the night, the sail was swept away from the hands of the men and warriors, and
,
torn to rags off the ropes and tackles, [and wafted] into the regions of the firmament and the ship afterwards struck upon a rock, which is at the mouth of
;
Cuan-an-fhir-mhoir', in
except Mahon and

that harbour,
three others.
West Connaught, where she was lost, with her crew, Upwards of one hundred were drowned in
the best pilot of a fleet of
among whom was Tuathal O'Malley,
long ships in his time. Teige, the son of Murrough O'Brien, was taken prisoner at Limerick, by order of the Lord Justice, and sent from thence to Dublin, to be imprisoned and all said that the Earl of Thomond had a hand in this capture.
;
O'Gallagher (Owen, the son of Edmond, the worst son of a chieftain in Ulster, died.
pp. 52, 207, 319.
T
who was
son of John), by no means
the
mouth
of the river which falls into

It
it
is
Became
"
rough,
literally,
roughness grew
called
Inbeap mop.
should be also observed
in the wind, anger in the firmament."

*
that
Cuan
inBip ihoip,
Cuan-an-fhir-mhoir,
now
" the Great Man's
of Invermore," and
Cuan an
meaning "the harbour pip moip, mean-
Harbour," barony of Moycullen, and county of Galway, opposite the Great Island of Aran.
" the harbour of the great man," Would be in the west of Ireland, similarly pronounced
ing
The Four Masters have written

correctly, for the true
this
is
name
in-
and hence the mistake about this name.

Editor's attention was
first
The
unquestionably Cuan mbip moip, i. e. the harbour of Invermore. This is evident from the fact, that it
is
form of it
directed to this mis-
take of the Four Masters, and of popular tradition, by the Eight Rev. Dr. O'Donnell, E. C. Bi-
Irish
pronounced exactly like Cuan mBip rhoip, the name for Broad Haven in Erris, and that
shop of Galway, who is well acquainted with the topographical nomenclature of the west of Ireland.
1,584
dNNCK,a Rioghachca eirceaNR
[1561.
QO1S CR1OSC,
Goip Cpiopc,
1561.
mile, cuig ceD, Sfpcca, ahaon.

i
Gpr mac
majaip,
13.
Gugupr. mic Goba Duib uf oomnaill bfn TTIaipe in^fn an calbaijh, mic TTlajnupa, Shfain opajail bdip Dabuar,") Dupjpam, Do cpuaije,-] DO rpomnemele neill na Daoipcimibechca oochpaibe Do pao ua nell Don calbach Dia hacaip ma
i
Racha boch Decc peilim pino uf jallcubaip eppcop Sccel mop rcip conaill eipibe.
i
ccfnt)
piabnaipi.
bfipn ca&cc,
mac
-|
caipppe, mic maoileachlainn, pfp fpjna, loloanac

ip
illaiDin, i ingaoibeilcc,
an Da DlijCoh
.1.
ciuil
-|
ccinoin,
Do ecc,
~\
a mac
6cc Doiponeao
ma
lonao.
Uairne,
mac pipjanamm, mic maolpuanaiD mic

uf cuipc
i -|
bab
ceill
mbaile
no a jabail,
mapnupmumain. Ni'p bo piu a ccapla ma cimceall a juin Do ba Dfltecca Duchai j ele Dia eip an uaip pin 6ip DO bfnpac
~\
Sfain uf cfpbaill Do
Da ccabaip Da ccopnam 6 Do imcij uaicne. Neccam, mac an Calbai^, mic majnupa uf Domnaill Do mapbab 50 an gae 050 cetcceab cuicce a ofonaijce Dupcop DO jae DO cair pe pfm,
~\
ppicipi.
QpDiupcip na hGpeann comap pi?uacep Do bol ccfp eojain a nDiojail gabala an calbaigh uf Domnaill, ap a polcanap pfm ppip an rip "] pop.1.
i
]
lonccpopr pluaij lionrhap DO puibiuccab Do i napomaca, -| paca poboimne, -| Dunclaib Diococchlaiji DO roccbail Do a ccimcell cfmpaill moip QpDamacha po 0015 co ppuicpfb bapoa acca buancoimhecr. lap na piop pin oua neill
Dia aopa jpaba tap an ccalbac (Sfan) po cuip Dpong Dia pammuincip, ua noomnaill Dia lomjabail Dia lomcoimfcr pop an lupcfp 6 gac imp -\
-)
-|
6 506 oilen 50 apoile
nDiarhpaibh,
i
]
nopoibelaib cfpe heojain 50 po pacccohabiting with Calvagh O'Donnell's wife, was the stepmother of his own wife.
Ceann-Maghair,
anglice
now Ceann a mhaghair, Kinnaweer, in the north of the parish
who
now
and barony of Kilmacrenan, in the county of See this place already referred to at Donegal.
the year 1392, 1461, 1522.
"
Baile-Ui-Chuirc,
i.e.
O'Quirk's town,
Ballyquirk, a
townland containing the ruins of
0'A
i#.
-The crime of O'Neill was ren-
dered
a castle in good preservation, in the parish of Lorha, barony of Lower Orniond, and county of
still
darker and more loathsome by his
Tipperary
See this place again referred to at
1561-]
1585
THE AGE OF CHKIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1561.
sixty-one.
Maghair'
connell.
Art, the son- of Felim Fin O'Gallagher, Bishop of Raphoe, died at Ceann(Kinaweer), on the 13th of August. He was much lamented in Tir-
Mary, the daughter of Calvagh, son of Manus, son of
Hugh Duv
O'Donnell,
grief, and deep anguish, in consequence of the severity of the imprisonment inflicted on her father, Calvagh, u by O'Neill in her presence.
and wife of O'Neill (John), died of horror, loathing,
O'Beirne (Teige, the son of Carbry, son of Melaghlin), a learned man, well skilled in Latin and Irish, and in the two laws, namely, civil and canon, died
;
and
young son was installed in his place. Owny, the son of Ferganainm, son of Mulrony, son of John O'Carroll, was
his
w
,
Those who surrounded him were not worthy to have wounded or taken him. The territory of Ely was an orphan after him, for they felt the loss of their help and protection after the death of
slain at Baile-Ui-Chuirc
in
Ormond.
Owny.
Naghtan, son of Calvagh, son of Manus O'Donnell, was designedly killed by the cast of a javelin, which he himself had first thrown, and which was cast
back
at
himself again.
Justice of Ireland,
The Lord Chief

Tyrone, to
Thomas
Fitz- Walter",
proceeded into
avenge the capture of Calvagh O'Donnell, and on account of his
own
;
enmity against that country.
He pitched his camp of numerous hosts at Armagh

1
and he erected strong raths and impregnable .ramparts around the great church of Armagh, in order that he might leave warders constantly guarding that place. When O'Neill (John) received intelligence of this, he sent some of his own faithful friends, and his servants of trust, to guard and keep Calvagh O'Donnell out of the
way
of the Lord Justice, from one island" and

until the
islet to
another,
in the wilds
the year 1599.
x
and recesses of Tyrone,
Lord Justice should leave the

on which O'Neill had cran-
fresh water loughs,
Fitz- Walter
This
is
incorrect, for he
was
Earl of Sussex at this time.
See Account of the .Donogs, or wooden houses. minion or Territory of Farney, by Evelyn Philip
Shirley, Esq., p. 90,
et sequent.
From
one island.
These were islands in
9Q
dNNam
baib an lupcip an cfp.
Rioghachca eiweaHN.
cpa an lupcip on ccampa
[1561.
pin CtpDa maca Do benarii cpeac cuioecca Do capcinib 50 mile pfp ecip rpoijceac i mapcac na cpomplogaib puaip 6 neillbpac-] caipcelab ap
l?o paofb
1 oipccnei rioipjialloibh,-}
pin
Do bol
noipjiallaib,-]
DO cappamcc co caof copcabac Dia paigib,
-|
puaip
T?o picchfo lomaipfcc fccoppa 50 po lap ccpuinniucchab a ccpeach. mapbab Dpecca Didipme Dib Ifch ap Ifc. T?o paccbab na cpfcha po Dfoib ago noaofnib pfm Don cup pin. O Nell Do bfic ace cornice, -| ace cpeachao cpfche bpfghi miDe an can
mcc
Uip conaill ap na cfnnpucchaD calbaij poimhe pin, -\ lap mbfic Dua

po.
-|
ap na cimceallaD laip lap ngabail an

Doriinaill hi ppocaiDe,
i
-|
hi
ppfpempce,
cona baof aofnneach ace pollamhnucchaD plairfpa

po.
ccenel cconaill Don cup
aca 50 hepne, conap bo maccnaD coiccfoach op ullroib Do jaipm De an can po rnunbaoh

l?o
jab ua
neill (Sfan) nfpc coicciD
UlaD
uile o Dpoicfc
ppicbfpr jail ppip.
Qn Calbach ua
Doriinaill
Do leccab a serhel la hua
neill lap
na puap-
laccaoh la cenel cconaill.

lupcip ceona DO cionol cpomploiccfb Dopibipi Do bol ccfp eogain i ppojmap na bliabna po ap cappaing an calbaij ui Doriinaill. "Canccaccap ina
i
Qn
roichfpcal na cuicc lapla baccap i nepinn in lonbaiDh pin .1. gfpoicc mac jfpoicc, mic gfpoicc, mic Semaip, mic Sfain, mic comdip lapla cille Dapae. e I oicc, mac Uomdp, mac Semaip, mic piapaip puaib lapla upmuman,
Semaip, mic Sfain, mic comdip lapla ofpmuman, Concubap, mac Donnchaib, mic concobaip, mic coippbealbaij uf bpiam mpla cuabmuman, -| Riocapo
mac
uillicc
piocaipD.
na ccfnD, mic piocaipo, mic uillicc cnuic cuaj lapla cloinne T?o imci^ cpa an lupcip na hiaplabae pin co na pochpaicce cfp
~|
eojain jan ppfpabpa, gan ppicopccain ppiu 50 pangacap 50 loch pebail.
dec poab cap a

hua
neill
~\
aip Don lupcip
ap
corhaiple po chinn, piDh Do Denarii le
a papDun Do cabaipc Do,-) a bapDa DO bpfic a hCtpD macha. Ctpeab Do coib an lupcip co na pocpaicce laparh ccfp conuill .julban 50 po
i *
CFDonneH,
i,
e.
Manus, the father of Calcoiccfbach op is always used

" a provincial
va gh" Provincial King of Ulster,

ullcoib.
See Keating's History of Ireland, reign of Tuathal Teachtmhar, and O'Flaherty's Ogygia,
king." part
"
iii. c.
56.
The word coiccfoach
in old Irish writings to denote
Loch Feabhail, i. e. the lake of Feabhal, the son of Lodan, one of the Tuatha De Dauann
1561.]

The Lord
Justice sent out from the
158"
a
country.
camp
at
Armagh
company of
captains, with one thousand
in Oriel.
And
men, both horse and foot, to take preys and spoils O'Neill received information and notice of the advance of these
;
great troops into Oriel
and he marched
silently
and
stealthily to
and came up with fought between them,
them, after they

in
had collected
their preys.
slain
meet them, battle was

sides.
which countless numbers were
on both
Bregia Tirconnell was also subjugated and surrounded by him, after z having already made a prisoner of Calvagh, and O'Donnell being sick and O'Neill infirm, so that there was no one ruling Kinel-Connell at this time.
The spoils were finally left to their own rightful owners. At this time O'Neill was harassing and plundering the
territories of
and Meath.
(John) then assumed the sovereign command of all Ulster, from Drogheda to the Erne, so that at this time he might have been called with propriety the 2z were it not for the opposition of the English to him. provincial King of Ulster
,
Calvach O'Donnell was released from his captivity by O'Neill, been ransomed by the Kinel-Connell.
after
he had
The same Lord

numerous
year.
rett,
Justice, at the instance of
Calvagh O'Donnell, assembled a
army, to
march a second time
into Tyrone, in the
Autumn
of this
then in Ireland joined his army, namely, Garthe son of Garrett, son of Garrett, son of James, son of John, son of Thomas,
five earls
;
The
who were
Earl of Kildare
Thomas, the son of James, son of Pierce Roe, Earl of Ormond
Garrett, the son of James, son of John, son of Thomas, Earl of
Desmond
Conor, the son of Donough, son of Conor, son of Turlough O'Brien, Earl of Thomond and Rickard, the son of Ulick-na-gceann, son of Rickard, son of Ulick
;
of Crioc-Tuagh, Earl of Clanrickard. The Lord Justice and the Earls proceeded with their forces through Tyrone, until they arrived at Loch Feabhail",
without opposition or
battle.
When
the
Lord
Justice was returning, the reso-
lution he adopted was, to
make peace with

and
b
O'Neill,
and to grant him pardon,
and take away
his
own warders from Armagh. He

,
his forces into Tir-Chonaill-Gulban b
left
afterwards proceeded with the command of the fortresses

e.
colony,
now Lough
Foyle, situated between the
Tir-Chonaill-Gulban,
i.
the country of
counties of Londonderry and Donegal. See the Poem on Aileach, printed in the Ordnance
Conall Gulban, the son of the Monarch Niall of

the Nine 'Hostages, and ancestor of the O'Donnells, O'Dohertys, and other distinguished fami-
Memoir
of Templemore.
Q2
1588
[1561.
ua nDorhnaill. caiplen cfpe conuill ace an ccalbac paccaib cfnoup longpopr, tuib laparh rap eipne ccpich coipppe DO popbaipe pop caiplen Sliccij. Raraighip an Calbach inopin conioh e aipfcc ap painicc a rhfipcce bubfin DO
-\
i
a noccab pop caibhlib an ruip combo cop 50 hinclece gup in mbaile, an lupcip cia an mbpacac ac po bfpc DO cac ccoiccinne. 17o accomaipc ppipcapc an Calbac, -| acbepc gup bo hi a bpacach bubfin, -\ connaipc.
-\
i
gup bo laip pfm, la a bunab cenel 6 cfin maip an baile ipin, conab laparii Do pao an lupcip eocpabae an baile Don calbac. O Nell DO bol Sacpoibh ccimcell na parhna Dionnpaijib na bampiojhna,
-\
i i
lies
of Tirconnell.
This
name
is
usually angli-
sides.
Thence he sped home againe, gratiously
cised Tirconnell.
dealt with, used Civility, expelled the Scots out

all Vlster, where they intended a conquest, wounded and tooke prisoner Captaine lames Mac
in
The appearance of O'Neill thus described by Camden in his Annals of the reign of Elizabeth " A. D. 1562. Ex Hibernia venerat
To
the
Queen.
is
of
London
Conill, theire Chieftaine,
whereof the said lames

so properly, that
jam
deceased': ordered the

if
North
Shanus O'Neal, ut quod ante annum promiserat,

prsestaret,
litio,
cum
securigero Galloglassorum satel-
any subject could approve the losse of money or goods within his precinct, he woul(J assuredly
either force the robber to restitution, or of his
capitibus nudis, crispatis cincinnis depen-
dentibus, cainisiis flavis croco, vel

infectis,
humana urina
owne
cost
redeeme the harme to the loosers con-
manicis largioribus, tuniculis brevioribus, et lacernis villosis quos Angli non minori
:
tentation.
Sitting at meate, before he put one morsell into his mouth, he used to slice a portion above the dayly almes,
tune admiratione,
quara hodie Chinenses et

Edition of 1639,
and send
Americanos, prosequebantur."
p.
to
some begger
at his gate, saying, it
it namely was meete
69.
to serve Christ first." his
Campion has the following account of

hisllistoire of Ireland, written in
submission, and conduct on his return home, in
1570; Dublin
Ware, and from him Cox, says that he made Ambassadors of Sweden and Savoy that upon his prohis submission in the presence of the
;
edition of 1809, p. 189
" After this usurpation and tyranny, hee was yet perswaded by Melchior Husse, sent unto
mise of amendment the Queen gave him some presents, and Cox adds that she lent him two
thousand
five
hundred pounds.
See Hibernia
him from Gerald, Earle of Kildare, to reconcile himselfe to good order, and to remember the
honourable estate wherein King Henry placed his father, which monition he accepted, besought
his protection,
Anglicana, p. 316.
1563, he
On
the 18th of November,

articles to serve the
bound himself by
the most loyal manner, as appears from Patent Eoll of that date, of which the fol-
Queen
in
and made a voyage into England, where the Courtiers noting his haughtiness and O'Neale the barbarity, devised his stile thus great, Cousin to S. Patricks, friend to the
:
Queene of England, enemy
to all the
world be-
lowing abstract will give the reader an idea of the nature of his submission. The original is in Latin " Whereas at the humble suit of John O'Nele, son of Conacius, late Earle of Tirone, made
:
1561.]

country with Calvagh O'Donnell.
1589
then proceeded across the Erne, into the territory of Carbury, to lay siege to the castle of Sligo. Calvagh, noticing this, bethought him of a stratagem [namely], he sent his own standard to the town, and displayed it on the battlements of the tower, so that
and
castles of that
He
it
was
visible to
all.
The Lord
Justice asked
whose standard
it
was that he
;
Calvagh made answer, and said, that it was his own standard and that the town was his own, and had belonged to his ancestors from a remote period upon which the Lord Justice delivered up the keys of the town to Calvagh.
saw.
;
O'Neill
went
to
England about Allhallowtide,

had caused
tents
to
to the
Queen
and he
re-
Jsnown
to the
Queen by Sir Thomas Cusake,
be annexed to these Letters Pa-
Knight, Privy Councillor, she was given to understand that he had submitted himself in all
things to her Majesty, as a good and faithful subject, and sincerely repented of all his past
actions,
under the great Seal, and to be indented between her and him, the contents of which she
hereby approved and
sor,
ratified.
Dated at
Wynd-
committed or meditated by him and his
15th January, 1563. By which articles, in consideration of his becoming a faithful subject,
adherents in disturbance of the peace, in the
county of Ulster, by which, as he said (and so the truth was by the relation of others), he was
reduced with the feare of his
he was constituted captain or governor of the territory or province of Tirone in Ulster, under
her Majesty, in the same manner as other captains
by a conspiand racy of some wicked persons against him now, that he might obtain Her Majesty's grace and favor, faithfully promised for himself, and all her subjects under his jurisdiction, who aclife,
;
of the
said
nation,
called O'Neles,
had
rightfully
lawfully executed that office in the time of King Hen. 8 ; and moreover should
&
enjoy and have the name and title of O'Nele, with the like authority, jurisdiction, and pre-
cording to their ancient custom derived from their ancestors, had any way been subservient
to him, that he and they for the future would behave themselves as the Queen's good and
eminence, as any other of his ancestors, called O'Neles, had lawfully enjoyed the same ; with
the service and
tains, called
homage of all the
lords aud cap-
faithful subjects against all persons whatever.
Urraughts, and other nobles of the said nation of O'Nele, in the Lordship and Territory of Tirone, as his ancestors
Which humble submission
the Queen graciously
considering, was pleased to accept him into her grace and favor, and that her said favor might
&
had rightfully lawfully enjoyed, or ought to have had the same, upon condition that he and his said nobles
be the more conspicuous for his comfort, and in order to retain him the better in his office, Her
Majesty hereby confirms certain articles" [which " concluded between the follow the
should truly and faithfully, from time to time, serve her Majesty, and where necessary, wage
upon
Roll]
said Sir
Thomas Cusake and him executed under

seal,
war against all her enemies, in such manner as the Chief Governor or Lord Lieutenant for the time being should direct. Which name or title
his
hand and
and subscribed by almost
all
the noble and principal persons of his jurisdiction" [ditionis], " and which articles the Queen
John should enjoy and use only so long as the Letters Patent of King Hen. 8, for the county of Tiroue, granted to his
of O'Nele, the said
1590
[1562.
puaip onoip, i aipmiccin bliabna ap ccionn.

-]
mop
uaice,
-\
canaicc cap a aip
mbelcene na
6occhan mac aoba buibe mic aoba Duib

oecc. poiceneoil eapccna ilcfpoac
oomnaill pfp paopclcsnnDa

ui baoijill
Cabcc mac coippbealbaij, mic neill, mic coppbealbaijj mapbab ccfpmonn mecc cpaic la mac alapcpainn jallDa.
i
-
DO
QO1S CR1OSC,
1562.
Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceD, Sfpccac, aoo.

pil ppfpccna ~\ cacaaoba luce iomcaip.-| oilfmna cfnoaij -] corhab a mbaoi on ccalab hi pinn, pfp Dap co Dpobaoip ccopcapcaij cconnmaijpij coiccpioc coiccib ccpic ua maine
Ruaipc bpian ballad mac eocchainpinnpeap
gpanapo cfcba 50 cpaij eocuile an cpaoip ccip ua ppiacpac muaibe, 05 pin an ci pa coccaibe Duanaipe Duapa abmolca a mac aob baoi Dia bunab ppeim Do ecc Do bicin bappcuiple Do pala Do, jjalloa Do oiponeab ina lonab. lapla cuabmurhan Do bol ap cuaipc cfnDaip pfbna nouchaij ui concoollblaDhach ulab,
"|
-|
-|
baip,")
nslfnD copbpaije.
TTlac ui loclamn
Do mapbab uaba Daon upcop
father, Conacius O'Neyle,
with the appointment
of the honor and title of the said county to the
evidently appear in the said Parliament to have belonged to him or his predecessors, O'Neles.
barony of Dungannon, by the name of the son

of his said father, after the death of the said
should be assigned to him by authority of the said Parliament or her Majesty's Letters Patents,
all other things which the said Parliament should adjudge to have belonged to his said In consifather, as O'Nele, or Earl of Tirone.
Conacius, should be viewed and considered
by
with
authority of the next Parliament to be summoned in Ireland, of what value and effect in
law they were from the beginning, or now ought to be and if the same shall be adjudged
;
deration of which great favor and royal cle-
void
by Parliament,
or be revoked
by
the said
mency, he promised as a faithful and true subject, upon his corporal oath, to observe all and
singular such things, which
Parliament for just cause and annihilated, then he should forbear to use the said title of O'Nele,
by right or custom
fulfilled
ought
his
to
have been observed and
by
to
and should be created and named Earl of Tirone,

as his father
his ancestors or captains, called O'Nele,
and
was created and named before him,

said
to
and should have the

and honor of Tirone,
all his
county with the
title
power preserve peace and justice, and to make such full satisfaction and restitution for all injuries,
losses,
him and the heirs males

And, moreover,
and
offences,
which should be
his said
of his body lawfully begotten.
hereafter
committed by him or
followers, called Urraughts,
who
should
raughts, or any others adherents to
Urhim or them,
1,562.]

He
returned to Ireland in the
1591
ceived great honour and respect from her.

following.
May
Owen, the son of Hugh Boy, son of Hugh Duv O'Donnell, and noble descent, learned and skilled in various arts, died.
man
of high
of Niall, son of Turlough O'Boyle, was Teige, the son of Turlough, son slain at Termon-Magrath,-by Mac Allister Gallda.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1562.
thousand five hundred sixty-two.
O'Rourke (Brian Ballagh, son of Owen"), the senior of Sil-Feargna, and of 6 the race of Aedh Finn a man whose supporters, fosterers, adherents, and tri,
butaries,
extended from Caladh
f
,
in the territory of
Hy-Many,
8 to the fertile
and salmon-full Drowes, the boundary of the far-famed province of Ulster from Granard in Teffia to the strand of Eothuile", the Artificer, in Tireragh of
;
the best collection of poems, and who, of all his tribe, had bestowed the greatest number of presents for poetical eulogies, died in consethe
Moy,
who had
fall
quence of a
and
his son,
Hugh
The
Earl of
Thomond went
Gallda, was installed in his place. upon a chieftain's expedition into the territory
j
,
of O'Conor', and into Gleann-Corbraighe

upon any of her Majesty's
subjects, as should
on which occasion there was
slain
be adjudged, upon a true examination thereof before four good men, two to be chosen by the Chief Governor for the time being, and two by
O'Rourkes, O'Reillys, and their correlatives in the counties of Leitrim and Cavan.
f
Caladh, a
marshy meadow, now Callow,
in
him the
said
delay or fraud of any party.
John O'Nele, and this without any Dated at Benborbe,

Moreover, the Queen should re-
the parish and barony of Kilconnell, in the county of Galway. See note ', under the year
1475, p. 1097, supra.
*
18 Nov. 1563.
Fertile,
p.
copcapraij
line 14,
is
See Battle of
Magh
voke
former confessions contrary to this, made by the said John O'Nele with her Majesty, and should only hold this confirmed and ratified
all
Rath,
104,
where the compound
pon-cupconpcech
" aboundused to express
(6. D. R. d Owen.
I.)"
ing in seals." h The strand of Eothuile,

Ballysadare, in the
'
now Trawohelly,
i.
near
Charles O'Conor of Belanagare, adds
county of Sligo.
e.
in Irish that this
Owen was
the son of Tiernan,
The
territory
of O'Conor,
of O'Conor
who was
son of Teige, the son of Tiernan More
O'Rourke, which is correct. e The race of Aedh Finn.
the barony of Iraghticonor, in the north of the county of Kerry.

>
Kerry, now
These were the
Gleann-Corbraig/ie,
now
Glin, on the south
QNNata Rio^hachra
a
cloic
eiraecmN.
[1562.
lfnDa Don cup
pint
.1.
TTIaoileclainn
mac
uaicne, mic maoileaclainn,
mic Rubpaije, mic ana, mic oonnchaib an cuil, mic ana bacaij. Gn niapla ceona DO 6ol copppluaj cfnoaip pfbna pa caenpaige ipm aimpip mic Shuibne DO mapbab ceona Dubâll mac an iolla buib mic concobaip
-\
RiocapD mac Duinn, mic concobaip, mic aobfipa sup bo he pin aofn pfp gpaba ba pfpp 05 comaip, mic Domnaill, ma aimpip. Concobap mac concobaip mic l?iocaipo Do lapla ruabmuman jabait a lonaib. Domnall mac concobaip, mic coippoealbaij, mic caibcc uf bpiain an cf
.1. -|
uaba Don oul pin. TDac giolla piabaijj Decc
pia concobap mac Donnchaib, ~| Dia ngoipDip Dia lonnapbab Dia Deopaijeacc Dia bibipc a huljaoibil o bpiain DO cocc roibh cap a aip Dia acapba pfipin, i ba in aofn cpeaccmam cainiccpium i rabcc mac mupchaib mic c,oippbealbaij lap nelub a haccliar, "] lap crocc
baof
ma
lapla
ruabmuman
-]
Doib
naoinpfcr Dia rcip, cuccpac a naijce anaofnpecc ap lapla cuabmurhan. T?o cuip an ciapla poplongpopc lomba pe a nacchai j. Oo be ceD puacap
i
na ccommbpairpeac po ap apoile, lonDpaicchib oibce DO paopaD Da mac TDupchaib uf bpiain ap poplonjpopc baile mej piagdin, DO mapbab Daofne leo,
1 po cpuinm^pioc cpeaca,
-]
caimc an cfp
ma
ccopaiêacc.
i
IS anD Do jlan
la ap na laocbinbnib Ifr ap
1
i
nuaccap balccaip.
of-
05 cacaip meg gopmain mfbon ua ppfpmaic, bdccap an clann pin TTlupchaib uf bpiain (cabcc,
Ifc
-|
side
the Shannon, in the barony of Lower Connello, and county of Limerick, near the bor-
CaenraigJte, now Kenry, a barony on the south side of the River Shannon, in the north of
'
it is
ders of Kerry See the year 1600, under which stated that Gleann Corbraighe is the glen
the county of Limerick
or valley from which the Knight of Glen took " his name ^leann Copbpaiê op hainmni:
and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, " there was m

Lost, literally,
See Genealogies, Tribes, n p. 309, note

.
slain
from him."
Mac-Gilla-Rialhaigh
glicised
This would be an-
ea6 Rmipe an
k
leanna."
Mac
Gilreevy.
it is
Clock- Gleanna, i.e. the rock of the
Glen or
O'Sullevan Beare,
According to Philip the name which was

Keating, however, of
Valley, latinised Vallirupes by Philip O'Sullevan, throughout his History of the Catholics. It was the name of the castle of Glen, the seat of
called in English Creagh.
writes the
name of the famous Archbishop
the Knight of Glen. See it again referred to at the year 1600, where it is described as on the
brink, of the
Armagh, of the Creagh family, TJifDeapo Cpaobac, from which it would appear that he did not consider it the same as TDac jilla piabaij.
According to the tradition among the Creaghs themselves their name was originally O'Neill,
Shannon
"6aile
pil
pop Bpuac
no Sionno."
1562.]
ANNALS OF THE' KINGDOM OF IRELAND.
1593
by one shot from Cloch-Gleanna", the son of O'Loughlin, namely, Melaghlin, the son of Owny, son of Melaghlin, son of Rury, son of Ana, who was son of Donough-an-chuil, son of Ana Bacagh. The same Earl proceeded with
on
his side,
a host
upon a
chieftain's expedition into

lost
Caenraighe
about the same time, and
on that occasion
Conor Mac Sweeny. Mac Gilla-Riabhaigh" died, namely, Rickard, the son of Donn, son of Conor, It was said that he was the best servant of son of Thomas, son of Donnell. of Thomond had had in his time. trust that the Earl Conor, son of Conor,
Dowell, the son of Gilla-Duv, son of
who was
son of Rickard, took his place. Donnell (the son of Conor, son of Turlough, son of Teige) O'Brien, who had been Earl of Thomond before Conor, the son of Donough, and whom the
Irish used to style O'Brien, returned
his expulsion, exile,
from Ulster, to his own patrimony, after and banishment and in the same week Teige, the son of
;
Murrough, son of Turlough,

of Thomond.
test
11
made
his escape
from Dublin
and,
upon
their
arrival together in their [native] territory, they united in opposition to the Earl
The Earl raised many encampments against them. The first conbetween these kinsmen was a nocturnal assault, made by the two sons of
at
q
,
;
Murrough O'Brien, upon the encampment
on which Baile-Meg-Riagain occasion they slew several persons, and obtained spoils but the inhabitants of that country went in pursuit of them. The day dawned upon both these heroic
bands
in the
at
r
Cathair-Meg-Gormain
in the centre of the territory of Hy-Fearmaic',
upper part of Dal-Cais'.
The two
sons of Murrough O'Brien, Teige and

O'Brien made upon the encampment of Baile
and they obtained the cognomen Cpaobac, i. e. Ramifer, from one of their ancestors who carried a green branch in a battle fought at
rick.
Meg
q
Lime-
Who
had been Earl of Thomond.
This
is
an
now Ballymacregan, a townland in the parish of Dysart, barony of Inchiquin, and county of Clare,
r
Riagain," &c. Baile- Meg- Riagain,
error of the
Four Masters,
for this Donnell,
who
Calhair-Meg-Gormain,
i.e.
was the brother of Donough, second Earl of Thomond, could not have succeeded as Earl, but he exerted himself to set aside the earldom, and succeed as O'Brien, or king of Thomond, according to the Irish law of tanistry.
The first contest, literally, " the first attack of these kinsmen upon each other was a noctur11
Caher, or circular stone fort.

still
Mac Gorman's This name is
preserved in Cahermagorman, a cottage in the townland of Soheen, parish of Dysart O'Dea,
barony of Inchiquin, and county of Clare, This was the tribe-name of Hy-Fearmaic
'
the O'Deas, and their correlatives, in the barony of Inchiquin.

'
nnl attack which the
two sons of Murrough
The upper part of Dal-Cais
Hy-Fearmaic
9 K
1594
QNNaca rcioshachca eiReaNN.
[1.563.
cnoc an pccamail oonnchab) 05 lomcap a nanppoplainn 50 habnaipeac 50 an ccopaib, 1 po riium Do mumcip op cfnD para blarmaic. Ro pillpfc ap Ro an mpla. Do mapbao Dpecca Da nof^baoinib, Da nDaopccappluacc. cabcc 6cc mac caibcc, mic an ^lolla bmb, mic coippbealbaij uf bpiain.
-]
jjabab
Oo gabab
uf bpiain,
ui
-|
ann ona bpian oub mac oonnchaib mic concobaip na ppona an cpelcca opaccbail ace cabcc mac mupchaib nip unrig jan
puapclao.
bpiain
ma
Donnchab mac conconnacc, mic conconnacc, mic bpiain, mic pilip mic oo saoibealaib comaip mejuibip t>o ecc, pfp a aoipi ap lucca pob olc rfipc co pojecc an can po. ecc pe habapc an pfp na po paoilfb Do
cuaipceipc,
mic puibne a cfp boâine Do ecc Don alap bpeac. TTlaj cpaic cfpmainn Da beocc DO ecc. mic TTlaj machjamhna, Ctooh mac bpiain na moicheipje mic Remainn
Gob mac
neill oicc
j;laipne
Do mapbab la pfpaib pfpnmaiê.
Q01S CR1OSU,
1563.
X
[Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceD,
peapca a
cpf.]
Dorhnaill TTlajhnap
mac Ctoba
ouib, mic
Qoba
puaib, mic neill jaipb,
mic coippbealbaij an piona, ciccfpna cenel cconaill, innpi heoccham, cenel moam, p(pmanacli, -j loccaip connacc, pfp na po Ificc a pai]ibpi j na a lomapcpaib lap na cijeapnabaib baccap ma comappain, ~] ma compocpaibh co haim-
a eneipce, pfp ajgapbh, ainmin, ainoiuiD amnap ppi naimDib, 1 biobbabaibh 50 ccabpab 50 pomamaighce Dia pfip, pfp mm, mumcfpba, cfnoaip, caipofmail, ofplaiccec, ofiê'm^ Do bdrhaib, Do bfopabaib, oficcpib,
pip
~\
a pochaibe,
was anciently the most northern portion of the

oountry of the Dal-Cais, for the present baronies of Burren and Corcomroe belonged to a different
race,
u
hill.
It is the
name
oi'
a hill situated irnme-
diately to the south of the old

in the
church of Rath,
barony
oi'
Inchiquin.
See the Caithreim
named the
Donough.
Rudhraigh of Ulster. This Donough is the ancestor of
race of
Thoirdhecdbhaigh, at the year 1318,

hill is called
where
this
Sgumall na Raca, exactly

i.
as it is
the family of Lemeneh, now represented by Sir Lucius O'Brien of Drumoland, in the county of
Clare.
now pronounced.
*
Rath-Blath'tnaic,
e.
Blathmac's
fort,
now
Cnoc-an-scamhail,
writ ten
now pronounced
as if
the old church of Rath, in the barony of Inchiquin. The festival of St. Blathmac was cele-
Cnoc un
pcurhail, and anglicised Scool-
brated here on the yth of July, according to
1,563.]
1595
Donough", shamefully suffered themselves to be all along beaten, until they x reached Cnoc-an-scamhair, over Rath-Blathmaic where they turned round on their pursuers, and the Earl's people were defeated, numbers of their chieftains
,
and plebeians were
and Teige Oge, the son of Teige, son of Gilla-Duv, son of Turlough O'Brien, was taken prisoner, as was also Brian Duv, son of Donough, son of Conor na-Srona O'Brien and he [Brian] was not set at liberty
slain,
;
until
Selga" had been given
to Teige, the son of
Murrough O'Brien,
for his
ransom.
Donough, the son of Cuconnaught, son of Cuconnaught, son of Brian, son of a man by no means the least famous of Philip, son of Thomas Maguire, died
;
the Irish of his age, and
who was
not expected to die as he did
die, in his bed.
Hugh, the son of

z
Niall
Oge Mac Sweeny from Tir-Boghaine, died

,
of the
galar-breac
a Magrath, of Termon-Daveog died. Mac Mahon (Hugh, son of Brian-na-Moicheirghe, son of Redmond, son of
(Jlasny)
'
was
slain
by the men of Farney.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1563.
sixty-three.
O'Donnell (Manus, the son of
Hugh Duv,
;
son of
Hugh
Roe, son of Niall
Garv, son of Turlough of the Wine), Lord of Tirconnell, Inishowen, Kinel-
who were
Moen, Fermanagh, and Lower Connaught a man who never suffered the chiefs in his neighbourhood and vicinity to encroach upon any of his superabundant possessions, even to the time of his disease and infirmity a fierce,
;
obdurate, wrathful, and combative
man towards
his
;
he had made them obedient -to
his jurisdiction
enemies and opponents, until and a mild, friendly, benign,

destitute,
amicable, bountiful, and hospitable man towards the learned, the

the Irish Calendar of the O'Clerys, and the .Fezlere
y
<Sefya,
*
now Shall ee, in the barony of Inchiquin.

i.
Aenguis, in
i.
which
it
is
placed
nuaccap
Galar-breac,
e.
the speckled disease,
i.
e.
t)ail Cair,
e.
in the upper, or northern part

is
the small pox.

"
of Dal-Cais.
Blathmac's name
still
is
remem-
Termon-Daveog,
now Termon- Magrath,
in
bered at the church, but his festival

celebrated.
no longer
the parish of Templecarn, barony of Tirhugh, and county of Donegal.
R2
1596
1
aNNCita Rioghactica eiraeaNN.
[1564.
oollamnaib, Dupuaib,-] Deccailpib arhail ap peil ace pfnaib -| ace pfncaibib, naicne ap gac nealabam ap cfna pfp fpjna, ilcfpoac co mbuaib ninnclecca,-]
00 ecc,
9.
pebpuapg ina longpopc pfip pin

i
illficbfp ipin
-]
pium cecup oaimbfoin neill, cenel eojain, co naipminoun na ngall maimpcip .8. Pponpep co nonoip, 1 a pinnpiop o bfrhan. ccm moip mp mbpfic buaoa 6 borhan, O Suillebdn beippe oomnall, mac Diapmaca, mic ooriinaill, mic oorhnaill,
i
-|
mbaile DO ponab laipa aonacal nocaplije a pfn

-|
-|
mac 5iollacuoa, êp Diapmaca bailb DO cuicim le Dpochuppab baobclopac Diapmaic a araip baoi a biol ooibpe pa Dorhnall pin,-) a bpacaip eojan 6 puillebain DO jabdil a lonaib.
rnic
.1.
-|
TTlaipgpecc injfn cSemaip, mic Sfain, mic comaip, mic an lapla bfn TTlfic
muipip ciappaije Do ecc,
"]
ba habbap eccaonie
ipiohe.
Uomap mac Uuabmuma

an
bliabainpi.
muipip Duib, mic Sfain, mic an mpla Oecc. na cuinn coccab, na clec cfnnaipce on callainri 50 a cele
"|
Do bpipeab ap cloinn TTIupchaib ui Bpiam lap an iapla lap ccabaipc opoanaip i pocpaicce 6 luimneac laip cuicce. baile ui capfai^ map an cceccna DO jabail lap an iapla.
baile
ui
jalaij DO jabail
-\
TTlac bpuaiofba ollam o
mbpacam
~\
concobaip mic Diapmaca, mic Sfain,
bpfpmaic Decc .1. Diapmaic, mac a bparaip TTlaoilin Do jabail a lonaiD.

-\
QO1S CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopc,
1564.
mile, cuicc ceD, Sfpcca, a cfcaip.
J?uaipc QoD sallba, mac bpiam ballaij mic eojam DO mapbab co mipccnech miopunac la a muincip pfm hi liarDpuim muincipe heolaip,
b
From
the
one Calends,
i. e.
from the Calends
of
of January, 1563, to the Calends of January, 1564. This expression is very common in an-cient Irish writings, as in the Life of St.
Trinity College, already often referred to (E. 2. 14), so that it is probable that Baile-Uia corruption of Baile-Ui-Aille, now See note s under 1559, p. 1571, sup. Ballyally. d Baile- Ui-Charthaigh, i. e. the townland of
Ghalaigh
is
Maidoc
and other
tracts.
Baile- Ui-Ghalaigh
There
is
no
castle
or
O'Carthaigh.
This
is
still
so
called in Irish,
place
now bearing
this
Clare, nor
mentioned
in the county of in the list of the castles of
name
but
Clare preserved in the manuscript in the Library
anglicised Ballycarhy, and sometimes shortened to Ballycarre. It is the name of a townland in the parish of Tomfinlough, barony
is
1564.]
1597
the poets, and the ollaves, towards the [religious] orders and the church, as is a learned man, evident from the [accounts of] old people and historians skilled in many arts, gifted with a profound intellect, and the knowledge of
;
every science, died on the 9th of February, at his own mansion-seat at Liiford, a castle which he had erected in despite of O'Neill and the Kinel-Owen, and
was interred
in the
in the burial place of his predecessors,

St. Francis,
and ancestors
at Donegal,
monastery of
with great honour and veneration, after having
vanquished the Devil and the world.

0' Sullivan Beare (Donnell, the son of Dermot, son of Donnell, son of Donuell, son of Dermot Balbh) was slain by a bad man, namely, Mac Gillycuddy
;
and
if
his father,
heir of him.
Dermot, was a man of great renown, this Donnell was a worthy His kinsman, Owen O'Sullivan, took his place.
Margaret, the daughter of James, son of John, son of Thomas, the son of the Earl [of Desmond], and wife of Mac Maurice, died; and she [i. e. her death] was a cause of lamentation.
Thomas, the son of Maurice Duv, son of John, the son of the Earl, died. Thomond was one scene of warfare and contention, from the one Calends b
to the other, this year.
c
Baile-Ui-Ghalaigh taken and demolished
the residence of the sons of

the Earl,
Murrough O'Brien, was

forces
by
who had brought ordnance and
from
Limerick for that purpose. d Baile-Ui-Charthaigh was likewise taken by the Earl. Mac Brody, Ollav of Hy-Bracain and Hy-Fearmaice
son of Conor, son of Dermot, son of John
place.
;
died,
i.
e.
Dermot,
and
his brother, Maoilin, took his
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1564.
sixty-four.
O'Rourke (Hugh Gallda, son of Brian Ballagh, son of Owen* ) was maliciously and malignantly slain by his own people, at Leitrim, in Muintir-Eolais
;
of
Bunratty, and county of Clare.

e
Hy-Bracain and Hy-Fearmaic, i. e. the baronies of Ibrickan and Inchiquin, in the county
of Clare.
Bally broden, a townland in the parish of DysartO'Dea, and barony of Inchiquin, and about one
Mac Brody
resided at Ballybrody, or
mile west of Ballygriffy Castle, ' Owen. Charles O'Conor of Belanagare adds
1598
aNNQta uio^hachca eiReaNN.
[1564.
an cip uile apa haicle fin Do labab pa bpian mac bpiain ui puaipc an mi'sniorh mebla pin gion 50 paibhe cuiD acbfipci $up ab Do no ponab ma Denarii. Qob buioe mac bpiain, mic eogain ui puaipc a mbpacaip
-\
Dopam
ele,
popap aoba jalloa,
-|
pmnpeap bpiain DO
aipm
uf
puaipc De pfm a hucc
ui neill.
an Calbach,-] Ua baoijill coippbealb'ac DO bul co hac char DO poijhiD an lupcip Do benarh a copcca ppip, puaip o Domnaill onoip poaip Ua Domnaill Dp cocc Dia ci 50 painic 50 pfpaib aipmiccin uaba,
Ua
OoriiTiaill
-|
-|
-|
manac,
-|
calbai Nip bo cian baof ua baoipll ip in mbaile an can po cumoij conn paip cocc laip 50 Dun na njall Dup an ccafmpab a jabail pop GOD, mac Qoba oicc, mic'Ctoba puaib baf ann an can pin. 6a hann baof conn Da riiac Qoba oipipiom an Qoba hfpin ipm cop nua,~] po cuip eiccnecan
~]
aipipioh ann,-| cicc pop a cionn hipuibe.
Ua
baoijill Dia baile pfippin. bai conn
mac an
clann a bfpbparap ipm cpfncaiplen, -j bacap mDpibe buibe mic Qoba Uanaic cpa conn ~\ Ua baoi jill DO bai ace caipccelab an baile Do Chonn. ba haohaib ann an can pin. l?o Ificcpfc clann Qoba buibe paijib an baile,
Duib'
-]
DO paibpioc na Ificcpiccip Ua baoigill co na conn Dia poijib po cfccoip mumcip cuca inunn. Qcbfpcpac muincip ui baoijill na Ificcpiccip a cciccfpna uaca a aenap. Do coib lapccam Ua baoijill 50 maimpcip na mbpacap Do
-|
Denarii
an cuip
cuapca aca. (5 eiD 'b conn ua Dorimaill, clann Qoba buibe pop cojail mbaoi Qob mac Qoba Duib. Ni po pdchaijpioc nac nf 50 po boipc
-\ i -|
ppuiclejen ploij lionrhaip lanmoip ap puo an baile,
ma lomracmonj
in
gac
aipD 6a hiaobdccap annpin Ua nell Sfan,-| Qob macmajnupa uf ooriinaill co na pocpaicce, 50 Ifp ploij lionrhaip lanmoip ma ppappab lap ccluinpin Ui Doriinaill Do bfir pop plijib Qca cliac -) na ccoriimbpacap naile Do bfic
i
najaib apoile.
jabab ainnpibe Conn mac an calbaij an 14 TTlag, bfcacap pipche ploij ui neill ap puD cipe bojaine, i po mapbab leo mac
T?o
in Irish that this
-\
DO
riiec
Owen was
the son of Tiernan,
To
see.
"
t)up
.1.
oa F'r>"
This
is
to
know.
who was
g
the son of Teige. Brian Charles O'Conor adds that this was
G'Clery.
'
Who
were betraying
a striking in-
Brian na murtha.
11
At home.}?
town.
Requested.
in
mbaile, means at home, or he asked,
stance of the defect of the style of the Four Masters. They speak here as if the reader were
in the
Ro
cumoij;,
i.
e.
already in possession of what they are about to narrate. The style could be easily corrected by
begged, or requested.
omitting laopoe ba', and writing baccup r-ume
1.564.]

,
1599
;
which the whole country closed round Brian2 the son of Brian O'Rourke and it was rumoured that it was for him this treacherous misdeed was comHugh Boy, the mitted, though he had no [personal] share in perpetrating it.
after
sou of Brian, son of
Owen
O'Rourke, another brother,
who was younger
than
Hugh, but older than

O'Neill.
Brian, called himself
O'Rourke by the influence of
O'Donuell (Calvagh) and O'Boyle (Turlough) repaired to Dublin to the Lord Justice, to confer with him. O'Donnell received great honour and respect
from him.
O'Donnell returned for home, and came into Fermanagh, where he

;
stopped [for some time] and O'Boyle proceeded directly to his own residence, where Con, the son of Calvagh, had come to meet him. O'Boyle had not been
long at home" he could take

in it at
k go with him to Donegal, to see if it from Hugh, the son of Hugh Oge, son of Hugh Roe, who was that time. Hugh at that time held his residence in the new tower and
when Con
requested'
him
to
he had sent Egneghan and Con, the two sons of

his brother's sons, into the old castle
1 ;
Hugh Boy, son of Hugh Duv, and these were the two who were betray;
ing the castle to Con. Con and O'Boyle came to the town by night and the sons of Hugh Boy admitted Con at once, but they said that they would not
permit O'Boyle to come into them with his people [and] O'Boyle's people said that they would not suffer their lord to go from them alone. O'Boyle,
;
Con thereupon, went to the monastery of the friars to make them a visit. O'Donnell and the sons of Hugh Boy proceeded to demolish the tower in which
Hugh, the son of Hugh Duv, was and they took no notice of anything until very numerous hosts had poured into the town and around it in every direc;
tion.
Hugh, the son of .M anus O'Donnell, with their forces, which were very great and numerous [who had come thither], after having heard that O'Donnell was on his way from Dublin, and that these other relatives were at strife with each other. Con, the
:
These are they who were there
O'Neill (John), and
son of Calvagh, was taken prisoner here on the 14th of May and marauding parties of O'Neill's army went forth through Tir-Boghaine, and slew the son
;
HCC cuipcceluo but the Editor will leave the Four Masters their own mode of narrating
;
events, though, indeed, they are very often not
only inelegant, but even inaccurate in their diction.
On his way from Dublin, pop p'-'S 11' Ctra cliac literally, " on the way of Dublin." It " " may mean either going to," or returning from Dublin."
In
1600
puib'ne
-]
ctNNata Rioghachca eiReaww.

.1.
[1.564.
TTlaolmuipe mfipcceac,
dob
Siol
mfipccfch,
mac maolmuipe, mic mac eom mooapba rhec puibne 50
neill
nslionn eibnije,
pocatbib oile amaille
ppm.
mbpiain co himpfpnac pe apoile an bliabam pi. Clann concobaip mic clann TTlupcliaib in bpiain cabcc, eoippbealbaijj ui bpiain oomnall -) caocc, -|
ccloinn cuilem. oonnchab Do 6ol ap cpeich coip abann o ccfpna) Gp Do lomaipccan can pin pa T?op pua6. Oo loipcceab ann capla an ciapla eab leo an baile pin peac gac mbail& DO ponnpab. Ruccpac an cip oppa o pinn fnaij co pcaipb. ap j;ac aen caeb o pleib oibfba an pij 50 luchac, ecim ap jlaplaich an lapla co po mapbao a ngap Do ceo puapacappom Dib Don Dulpm.i ni po lampac a monnpaicchib lap pin co hoibce. Uepndcap
i
~]
-\
an cpiol mbpiain pin uaccaip cuabmuman gan puiliuccab gan poipofpccab co na nsabalaib leo. Oo caprap pinnlfpccaib popccaip co na ccpfcaib. luce cuapupcal cap Sionamn DO cloinn buannaba ofpmapa paingpioc cpa
~\ -|
cpuibne
~|
Do cloinn cpicijh
-\
baf piubal na cipe,
a cpeaca,
a ccumup co ccaipnicc aimpip a mbuannab. Qcc cfna ni ace aiccpeabcacaib an cipe luac ap Ificcfb epce lap na harhpaib pin cap cfnn a nampaine.
i
a cornea ap po an Da naipnfip
-\
co na buannacc bona, a polacap pfpainn Copcumpuab co na cfop, Do rabaipc DO ccipib cuabmumar, i a bfraijre ecclaipi amaille pip pin
~\
Gleann-Eidhnigke, i. e. the vale of the River Eany, now Gleneany, a remarkable valley in the
near Newmarket, in the barony of Bunratty,
and county of Clare.

T
barony of Tir-Boghaine, or parish and county of Donegal See note *, Banagh, under the year 1502, p. 1264, supra,
of Inver,
Sliabh-Oidheadha-an-Righ,
i.
e.
the
moun-
tain of the death
Crimhthann Mor
land,
of the king, so called from Mac Fidhaigh, monarch of Ire-
Abhainn OfgCearnaiyh, now the River Ogarney, which rises near Broadford, in Glenomra,
flows through the village of Six-mile-bridge,
who died here of poison which had been administered to him by his sister, Mongfinn, the wife of the Irish monarch Eochaidh Muighmheadhoin,
in the latter part of the fourth century.
and discharges
itself into
the Shannon at
Bun-
This
is
ratty. This river was originally called the Raite, and derived its present name from the territory
now
tain.
called the Cratloe, or Glennagross
moun;
of Ui-Cearnaigh, through
f
which
it flows.
Circuit
See O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part iii. c. 81 of Muircheartach Mac Neill, p. 47 and

;
Clann-Coilen.
This was one of the tribeit
Genealogies,
Tribes,
and Customs of Hy-Fiach-
names of the Mac Namaras, and

see note
q
was
also ap-
rack, pp. 343, 344.
plied to their territory, for the extent of

',
which
under the year 1311, p. 498, supra. Ros-ruadh, i.e. the red wood, now Rossroe,
Luchat, now Lughid, or Lowhid bridge, in the townland of Moanreagh, parish of Kilkeedy, barony of Inchiquin, and county of Clare. The
s
1564.]

i.
1601
of
Mac Sweeny,
e.
Mulmurry Meirgeach,
and
the son of Mulmurry, son of Mail,
in Gleann-Eidhnighe",
Meirgeach, the son of John Modardha Mac Sweeny, and many others along with them. The O'Briens were at strife with one another in this year. Donnell and
Hugh
sons of Conor, son of Turlough O'Brien, and Teige and Donough, the sons of Murrough, set out upon a predatory excursion alongside Abhainn
Teig'e, the
O'gCearnaigh in Clann-Coilen". The Earl happened to be at this time at Ross-ruadh q and they burned and plundered that town more that they did any other. The [inhabitants of the] country from all quarters, from Sliabh,
Oidheadha-an-Righ to Luchat and from Kinn-Eanaigh' to Scairbh", overtook them. They took an advantage of the soldiers of the Earl, and slew near a hundred of them on that occasion, but dared not approach them again until
,
These O'Briens of the upper part of Thomond made their escape across the fair fields of the Fergus" with their preys and acquisitions, without receiving
night.
wound
or injury.
They afterwards brought from beyond
the Shannon
nume;
rous bonnaghtmen and mercenaries of the Clann-Sweeny and Clann-Sheehy and they had the ranging of the country, and its preys and property in their
power, until the expiration of the term pf their bonnaght. There remained not however, of cattle* with the inhabitants of the country, the value of what
was permitted
to
be taken out of
its
Corcomroe, with
in the territories
by those soldiers for their services. and customary services, and acquirements in land of Thomond, and its church livings, were given to Donnell
it
rents
ford over which this bridge stands

luccim, in a
is
called
ar
poem by Cormac Mac Cullenan, on the boundaries of Thomond, and an old road which ran in this direction is called 6ealac na
lucame by Keating,
in the reign of Diarmaid,
town in the parish of Tomgraney, baof Upper Tullagh, and county of Clare, rony and near that arm of Lough Deirgdhere -which
a small
contains Iniscealltra.
son of Fearghus Ceirbheoil. ' Rinn-Eanaigh, i. e. the point of the marsh or morass, now Rinanny, a townland in the
now the Fergus, a river which north of the barbny of Inchiquin, and, flowing by Ennis, unites with the Shannon near the ancient town, now poor village of
Forgm,
rises in the
"
south extremity of the parish of Kilconry, in the barony of Lower Bunratty, and county of It forms a rinn, or point of land, exClare.
tending into the River Shannon, a short distance to the east of the mouth of the River Fergus.
u
Clare.
x
Of
cattle
This
is
a roundabout
mode of
saying that these O'Briens gave the hired soldiers for their stipends more of the cattle of the
country than what remained to the inhabitants

after their departure.
Scairbk,
i.
e.
the shallow ford,
now
Scarriff'
9s
Rioghachca eiraeaNN.
[1565.
bomnall ua bpiain Do comaib a ciccfpnap cuabmurhan, -| rap cfnn pioba njfimpeab na bliaohna po. DO 6ol a]i cpfic mupccpaije. Clann muipip Dub mac Sfcon mic an iapla mic raiDcc meg capcaij DO bpfich caibcc, mic copbmaic oicc, mic copbmaic, copbmac, muipip Do bfcfhoab leo, -\ ba pfpp capba a
i i
paip
.1.
Diapmaic,
-]
cfpaipccci
map ap
buabaijfb
-]
aipcccfoip a eapccapac,
cpuaba gfpalcac ap gupc gabaib, a biobbab an cf ropcaip anD pin. bapaijrfoip

TTlfp
Dm bap.
QO1S CR1OSC,
1565.
Ctoip Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceo, Sfpcca,
cuicc.
pccelaib
Siuban injfn cSemaip, mic TTluipip, mic comaip Decc. Ifire moja ipiDe ilfic ppi Dfipc -| Daonnachr.
.1.
Ro ba Do*mop
jfpoicr mac Semaip mic Sfam Cuaipc Da noeachaib lapla Dfpmuman mic Sfam noeipib muman, DO cuip nccfpna ofipeach .1. TTluipip mac geapailr mic jfpoicc rappainj ceitcce ap lapla npmuman .1. romap mac Semaip, mic Don rip, piapaip puaiD, in oipcill lapla Dfpmuman. Uanaicc Dna an ciapta nf puaip pabaDjo hiaDab uime ap gac caob pan maijm oiamb ainm ac mfb-|
ain.
T7o luib
~\
lomao anppoplamn paip 50 po gabab
~|
50 po gonab
e.
Ro
jabab
po mapbab Dpong mop Dia mumcip
ma
)
pocaip.
poirhfnmnac buicilepaij cpia lomar a mbpaijofb

'
bacrap pubac a neoala an la pin. 66:
The lordship of Thomond.
Donnell O'Brien
would have succeeded
to the lordship of
Tho-
battle are preserved in the neighbourhood of Cappoquin, in the county of Waterford. The
mond, according to the Irish law of tanistic succession; and the,English, to pacify him, gave
place
It is
is still
called
Qr
riieaoam, anglice Affane.
him O'Conor Corcomroe's country, and some

as as
of
the forfeited church lands, and also such lands
of a townland and parish, in the barony of Decies without Drum, but the a ford on the locality originally so called was
now the name
descended to himself by gavelkind, or such he had acquired in any other way. From this Donnell, Christopher O'Brien of Ennistimon,
living in 1713,
*
River Nemh,
now
the Blackwater, and situated
about two miles to the south of Cappoquin. The Life of St. Carthach of Lismore gives the exact
situation and a curious description of this ford,
was the
fifth in descent.
This territory is now comprised in the baronies of East and West Muskerry, in
Muskerry
under the name of Ath-medhoin, which is translated Vadum alvei. For a fuller account of this
rencounler between the Earls of
the county of Cork.

a
Desmond and
is
Ath-meadhain.
The
situation of this ford
Ormond
at Affane,
the reader
referred to
is still
well known, and vivid traditions of this
Philip O'Sullevan Beare's History of the Irish
1.565.]

,
1603
y and for his obserO'Brien, as a compensation for the lordship of Thompnd vance of peace in the winter of this year. Maurice Duv, the son of John, son of the Earl [of Desmond], went upon a
2 The sons ofTeige, son of Cormac Oge, predatory excursion into Muskerry son of Teige Mac Carthy, namely, Dermot and Cormac, overson of Cormac,
.
took him, and beheaded him, though the profit of sparing him would have been better than the victory gained by his death. He who was there slain was the
firm steel of the Geraldines in the field of danger, the plunderer of his enemies, and the destroyer of his opponents
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1565.
sixty-jive.
Her Joan, the daughter of James, son of Maurice, son of Maurice, died. death was among the sorrowful news of Leath-Mhogha, on account of her charity
and humanity. On one occasion
John) went on a
(Garrett, the son of James, son of visitation into the Desies of Munster, the Lord of the Desies
as the Earl of
Desmond
(Maurice Fitzgerald, the son of John, son of Garrett) treacherously drew the Earl of Ormond (Thomas, the son of James, son of Pierce Roe) into the country,
Desmond] arrived in the country, and received no notice [of their designs] until he was surrounded on every side, at a place called Ath-meadhain", where he was overpowered by numbers, so that he was wounded and taken prisoner, and many of his people were slain and taken prisoners along with him. The Butlers were elated" and in high spirits on that day, by reason of the great number of their prisoners
[of
Catholics, torn.
ii.
unknown
to the Earl of
Desmond.
The Earl
lib. 4,
Gircddinorum, ; A. D. 1564 ; Cox's Hibernia Anglicana

c. c.
14
and Inilium, fyc. Ware's Annals of Ireland,

c. 8,
;
had the
spirit
to reply
'
:
Where, but in
his
and the
Abbe Ma-geoghegan'sZZz'stozVerf'/rfewrfe, torn. iii.

Leland, book iv. c. 1, adds " As the Ormondians conveyed him" [Desmond] "from the field, stretched on a bier, his
21, p. 396.
:
proper place ? still upon the necks of the Butlers.'" This anecdote, however, is from romantic writers, and not worthy the serious
notice of the historian.
b
Elated,
baccap puBac roimfnmnac.
The
supporters exclaimed, with a natural triumph, Where is now the great lord of Desmond!' He
'
older writers would say, bdctcip pubcnj poiSee the Editor's Irish Grammar, ihfnmnaij.
part
iii. c.
1. p.
352.
s2
1604
QNHata Rio^riachca
eiraeaNN.
[1565.
he cpfoc na gqbala pin an Da lapla oo 6ol co papcoib po cogaipm na bamceace ooib cap anaip po ne pioba piojan, -| a mbfic achaib hi lonoainn,
-|
)
caipome.
macjarham, mac coippbealbaij manncaij mic DonnchaiD, mic oorhnaill, mic coippbealbaij mfie DO mapbab hi ppiull Dia luce coimiceacca,-| comjaoil ina baile pfm pan aipcin in dpainn. Oo cualaccap maice na gaillme in ni pin Do cuaccap oaice a mfjniovh pop luce na peille 50 po pupailpoc poppa
ba hann po jabpae ceicheab 6 a cnjib co nDeacacrap napcpac pop muip calab hi ccuan puip hi ccpic copca baipcino laprapaije. lap na cluinpin pin DO Domnall mac concobaip uf bpiain, Do coibpibe Oia paijiD amail ap Deine
i
-\
DO bfpn laip noaofpcfngal iaD co maj glae nuaccap copcumbpnaD po Oaig'jjjomab moiDe a maofr, ~| a cc^ppi pabapc an lonaib ma noeapnpac an mfjniom pin Dpaicpin. Ro cpochab Dponj Dib laip, i po loipcceab apaill perb po cuill a mi'bepa boib.
conpdnaicc,
i
-|
po gabaD laip a nupmop,
-]
TTlaibm
mop
la
hua
neill (Sfan,
.1.
mac cumn mic

-\
Semup, Ctongup, ramie a bap a ccionn bliabna DO aonjup, po jonab Semup, Ro babbal an cecc oioheab an uapail Do cfp Don âib cpo na jona hfpin.
nice Domnaill na halban
cuinn mic enpi) ap clomn T?o mapbab ann Sorhaiple.
Ro gabab
"|
~\
cup pin paof ap eineac ~\ ap fngnamh pfp cairrheac, congaipeac, cioblaicreac, coipbfpcac. Ni baof DO cloinn nDomnaill nepinn ndc nalbam a lonnpamail an can pm, ni ba po la a baof nib pfm a comrpom Dop DO cabaipc ap Da
i i
~|
Under
literally
d
the appearance.
The phrase
Sn^
village of Killeany.
The outer
wall facing the
means " sub
specie."
sea is nearly perfect,
but the other walls have
Aircin, in
Aran
-The chiefs of the O'Briens
of Aran, the head of
whom was commonly called

held their residence at
Mac
Aran.
Teige
O'Brien,
disappeared, with the exception of a small tower and some fragments of walls, against which some fishermen's cabins now stand. This sept
Aircin,
Arkin, on the great island of They were soon after expelled by the
anglice
of the O'Briens had also a castle of considerable
strength on Inis Oirthir,

in
now
Inisheer, or south
still
O'Flahertys, who, in their turn, were dispossessed by Queen Elizabeth, by whom the castle
of
island of Aran, the ruins of
which
remain
good preservation.
c
Arkin was erected on the
site of
O'Brien's
residence
See Choroyraphical Description of West Connauffht, pp. 78, 82. This castle was
These were the merChief men'of Galway chants of Gal way, who paid the head of this sept of the O'Briens a certain tribute in consideration of their protection and expenses in
pulled
down
in Cromwell's tune,
and a strong
fort erected in its place, of which some ruins are stiU visible on the edge of a low cliff at the
pirates
guarding the bay and harbour of Gal way against and coast plunderers. See Hardiman's
1565.]

The
go)
to in
1605
e.
and
spoils.
result of this capture was, that the
two Earls went
(i.
were
obliged to
for
England,
at the
summons of the Queen; and having remained
some time
London, they returned, under the appearance of peace and
friendship.
Mahon, the son of Turlough Mantagh, son of Donough, son of Donnell, son d of Turlough Meith, was treacherously slain in his own town of Aircin, in Aran
,
by
his
own
associates
and
relations.
When
the chief
men
of
Galway heard of
they set out to revenge this misdeed upon the treacherous perpetrators, so that they compelled them to fly from their houses and they [the fugitives]
this,
;
went
into a boat,
f
,
of Ross
in
and where they landed was in the harbour 8 West Corca-Bhaiscinn Donnell, the son of Conor O'Brien, having
to sea
;
.
and put
hear<i of this,
he hastened to meet them with
all
the speed that he could exert
and he made prisoners of the greater number of them, and carried them in close h fetters to Magh Glae in the upper part of Corcomroe, in order that their sorrow and anguish might be the greater for being in view of the place where
,
they
had perpetrated the crime he hanged some of them, and burned

;
others, accord-
ing as their evil practices deserved.
A great defeat was given by O'Neill (John, the

of Henry) to the sons of
1 .
son of Con, son of Con, son
Mac Donnell of Scotland, namely, James, Aengus, and Sorley was slain, and James was wounded and taken prisoner, Aengus and he died of the virulence of his wounds at the end of a year. The death of
this
gentleman was generally bewailed
prowess, a festive
man
of
[to
And
his peer
was not
;
he was a paragon of hospitality and many troops, and a bountiful and munificent man. be found] at that time among the Clann-Donnell in
;
Ireland or in Scotland
and
d
.
his
own
people would not have deemed

'
it
too
much
History ofGalway, p. 52, note

f
comroe.
From
this district
Tadhg Glae O'Brien,
bay, situated a short distance to the north of Loophead, in the barony of Moyarta, in the south-
Harbour of Ross, cuan
Ruir-,
now Ross
the ancestor of the Clann-Teige of Aran, re-
ceived his cognomen, and not from yle, neat, or fair, as Dr. O'Brien incorrectly states in his
west of the county of Clare. g West Corca-Bhaiscinn, now the barouy of .Moyarta, in the west of the county of Clare.
11
Law
p.
of Tanistry
Illustrated,
published in Vali.
lancey's
Collectanea de Rebus Ifibernicis, vol.
558.
'
Mayh
Glae,
now commonly
called
Tuath-
Aengus and
Sorley.
Charles O'Conor of
Clae, a district situated within sight of the Aran Islands, in the upper or northern of Cor-|
part
Belanagare adds, in Irish, that they were "the sons of Alexander, the son of John Cahanagh."
1606
aNNata raioshachna
66.
eiraeciNN.
[1566.
mab puapcclab
pin jlinne caipi.
Uopcpaccap cpa pocaibe ele nac aipimreap pan maibm

ooriinaill
mic Ruaibpi ui plaicbfpraij Do bacab. O cleipij cabcc cam mac ruacail ollam ui bomnaill le Sfncup paof hi Do barhaib, Do beoppilibeacc, 1 hi ccpoinic, pope congmala cije naoibfo
TTlupchab
~\
mac
pabaib, i
(.1.
DO pealmacaib pojlama na ccpioc bacrap compoccup Do Do ecc
an
20. la
-|
6 boman,
Doccobep) lap pfnoacaib cojaibe lap mbpfic buaba o Dfman i a abnacal mainipnp .8. Pponpeip nDun na njall co naipmicin,
i i
1 co nonoip ndbbal.
QO1S CP1OSU,
Qofp Cpiopc,
1566.
<
mile, cuicc ceo, Sfpcca, aSe.
mic aoba puaib, mic neill jaipb TTlic coippbealbaij an piona Do ruicim Dia eoch .1. hi crup an jfimpeab .1. 26. Nouembep, ap an cconaip ccoiccinn baile ajaibecip caofn,-] cfmpall paca nfiDipmfbon a mapcpluaj gan anpocpacr gan oilbfim 5 an pgf'nm gan Sccar lap crocc Do 6 Shacpoib an bliabain
TTlajnupa, mic
Duib,
i
Domnaill an calbac
mac
aoba
pin pein.
Uijeapna
ap ceilli ap cpuc an calbac pin geppac ap jail, ap jaipcceab nfrhcaip niaca ppi nairhoib connalbac caipoeamail ppi caipDibh, gan maccnab, gan moipionjnab hi maic Da haibble Da noingenab, neac na po paofleab ecc an lonnapp pin acr co poipcceab laip Diojail speipi a ceneoil. beapbparaip, aob mac majnapa ui Domnaill Do ma jonab. oiponeab TTlaipe mjfn TTlhajnapa mic aoba Duib mic aoba puaib ui bomnaill bfn TTIecc aenjapa oecc an 8. Doccobep.
-\
Gleann-taisi
in the country, the place
According to the tradition where John O'Neill

is
inglionn caipi la hua neill," &c.

'
Baik-oghaidh-chaoin,
defeated the Scots, on this occasion,

flesk,
Glen-
Lough
now Balleeghan, near Swilly, in the barony of Eaphoe, and

See note
u
,
a remarkable valley near Ballycastle, in
county -of Donegal
under the year
the north of the county of Antrim. There is a place called Glentask, in the parish of Dunluce, in the same county; but there is no glen there,
1557, p. 1553, supra. The church ofHath

are
still to
The ruins of this church
be seen near Manor Cunningham, in
nor does there exist a tradition of a battle connected with the place. This name should have been introduced earlier into this entry by the Four Masters, thus "ITlaiDm mop DO robaipc
:
the parish of Eathmoaghy, now corruptly moghy, in the barony of Eaphoe, Donegal,
Eye,
That same year.

says, in his History
Philip O'Sullevan Beare
of the Irish
Catholics, that
1506.]
160?
to give his
Many
weight in gold for his ransom, if he could have been ransomed. others not enumerated were slain in this defeat of Gleann-taisi".
Murrough, the son of Donnell, son of Rory O'Flaherty, was drowned. O'Clery (Teige Cam, the son of Tuathal), Ollav to O'Donnell in history,
learned in poetry and chronology, a prop (i. e. a supporter), house of hospitality for the learned, the exiled, and the literary
a.
man
who men
kept a of the
on the 20th of October, at a venerable old age, after having gained the victory over the Devil and the world; and was buried with great respect and honour in the monastery of St. Francis, at Donegal.
neighbouring
territories, died,
THE AGE OF CHRIST,
1566.
sixty-six.
O'Donnell (Calvagh, the son of Manus, son of Hugh Duv, son of Hugh -Roe, son of Niall Garv, son of Turlough of the Wine) fell [dead] from his horse, in
the beginning of Winter,
i.
1
e.
on the 26th of October,' on the public road, be,
tween Bajle-aghaidh-chaoin and the church of Rathm
in the midst of his cavalry,
without the slightest starting, stumbling, shying, or prancing of his horse, after his return from England, where he had been that same This Calvagh year
.
was
a lord in understanding
and personal shape, a hero
in valour
and prowess,
;
towards his enemies, kind and benign towards his friends he was so celebrated for his goodness, that any good act of his, be it ever so great,
stern
fierce
and
meet
was never a matter of wonder or surprise a man who was not expected to his death in this manner, but who was expected to live until he should
;
'
have avenged the wrongs of his
tribe.
His brother, Hugh, the son of Manus
O'Donnell, was inaugurated in 'his place. Mary, the daughter of Manus, son of
nell,
Hugh Duv,
son of
Hugh Roe O'Don-
and wife of Magennis, died on the 8th of October.

que
deletis his
O'Donnell had richly deserved this fate for having brought the English, a short time before, to
profane the monastery of Derry. His words are: " Odonellus quoque qui Catholicus in oppidum sanctum Hsereticos induxit sacra contami-
Anglis
in
cum magnum
clientium
et in
suorum exercitum
Onellum duceret,
pressus exanimis
medio ejus serena die

incederet subito rnalo
corruit.
Illi
Iretus et viribus validus
equo
successit
Hugo Odonellus
frater,"
nantes haud sero dignas poenas pependit.
Nam-
&c.
fol.
84.
1608
awNaca Rioghachca eiReaNR

cqconnace
.1.
[1566.
T?6ip injfn mesuibip
an comapba bfn Go6a buiDe mic Cte6a

nmc pilib an mpcfp iap na
bpiain,
Duib oecc an 22.
lul.
Tnaguibip Sfan
mac conconnacc, nrc conconnacr, mic

.1.
mic comaip mejuibip oecc

lonnapbaD oua
eipibe.
neill
29 Sepcembep, ap plua a cfp/. Uijeapna cuiccpeac tpfibeac cioblaicreac ap Nf ba pupail Do plaicfp Da meD Da bpirf jbeab ap lomac a 6am, a
"] -|
Deopab, ap rpoma a buap,

iona6
.1.
a beajcoipbeapc, 1 a b'pafaip DoipDneaD
ma
cuconnacr.
i
O
mac
Ruaipc aoD binbe mac bpiain ballaij Do mapbab
la conallcoib po 0015 50
bpiain mic eoccain)
mab
la
mac
injine TTlagnupa ui
mbaile an cocaip Domnaill (.1. bpian
rijeapnap na bpeipne. TDag capcaij piabac Decc pingin, mac Domnaill, mic pmgin, mic Domnaill Duine nap cuip puim ipin paojal, la na baof eolap ap a cpumniuccaD
.1. ~\
no ap a coiccill.
maoajdin
.1.
TTlaoileaclainn
-\
moDapba mac maoileaclumn mic bpeapail
Decc, lejcoip laione,
gaoibilcce ap luja ba hole Duaiplib epeann
ma
pe,
copnamac a pfpainn,
lonaib.
a cpice ap comappanaib, uaicne ibmacaip ban -j bocc Domnall mac Sfain ui maoagam DO jabail a 1 aopa anppann anappacca,
-| -]
Piapup buicilep mac emainn cijeapna rpfna cluana meala Decc neac puaip inrhe oibpeacc a buicce gan cac gan coccaD Duine nap pealbaiD en pinginn Do cuiD fglaipi De le cfpr papa no ppionnpa,-] a mac nap polacaip
-\
)
repoiD
ma
iona6.
hi
Cior eipcc ap na pfpcain

The
"
ccip conaill an bliaDam
pi.
vastness, literally,
the weight.
Ballintogher,
a vil-
" There were with
me
that descended of
Baile-an-toc/tair,
now
lage in the parish of Killerry, barony of Tirerrill, and county of Sligo.
English race, Sir Maurice Fitzgarrold, brother to the Viscounte Decies ; Sir Thibald Butler,
now
:
Clonmel-third, the barony of Ifia and Offa East, in the county of Tipperary.
,
Trian-Chluana- Meala,
i.e.
whose uncle and cozen gernaaine were Baronnes of the Cayre [Cahir], whose lands he lawfuUye and justlye enjoyete, and better deserveth that
title of
honor than any of theim ever did

I
for
Theobald.
knighthood in
Sir
ter to the
rick,
honour of 1567, from the Lord Deputy

received
He
the
Henry Sidney, who mentions him

27th February, 1577, as follows:
in a let-
intende more speciallye to write, for for his deserte, he is worthie any corntrulye, mendation."
whouie
Lords of the Council, dated Lime-
shower offish.
water-spout often opens
The pipe or vacuum of a upon a shoal of herrings,
1566-]
1609
Rose, the daughter of Maguire (Cuconnaught, the Coarb), and wife of Hugh Boy, the son of Hugh Duv, died on the 22nd of July.
Maguire (John, the son of Cuconnaught, son of Cuconnaught, son of Brian, son of Philip, son of Thomas) died on the 29th of September, in the army of
having been banished from his country by O'Neill. He he was worthy of any chiefintelligent, virtuous, and bounteous lord tainship he could obtain, by reason of the great number of learned men and
the
Lord
Justice, after
was an
by him, and the vastness of his premiums and goodly gifts. His brother, Cuconnaught, was inaugurated in his place. O'Rourke (Hugh Boy, the son of Brian Ballagh) was slain by the Kinelexiles supported
p Connell, at Baile-an-tochair in order that the son of the daughter of Manus O'Donnell, namely, Brian, the son of Brian, son of Owen (O'Rourke), might
,
enjoy the lordship of Breifny.
Mac Carthy Reagh (Fineen, the son of Donnell, son of Fineen, son of DonHe was a man who had not placed his affections on this world, and nell) died. who had no knowledge of his possessions, or how much he had laid up.
O'Madden (MelaghlinModardha,
the son- of Melaghlin, son of Breasal) died.
He
was, as a reader of Latin
and
Irish,
the gentlemen of Ireland in his time.
by no means the least distinguished of He was the defender of his lands and his
territory against his neighbours, a supporting pillar of
of the
place.
weak and unwarlike
women, of the poor, and and Donnell, the son of John O'Madden, took his
Pierce Butler, the son of
Edmond, Lord of Trian-Chluana-Meala
11
died.
who had obtained the wealth and inheritance of his territory without battle or war, a man who did not possess or procure [the value of] a single penny of the property of the Church of God by right of Pope or prince.
a person
He was
And
his son,
Theobald
A shower of fish*
when they
is
[succeeded] in his place. in Tirconnell this year.

,
are sucked
up
into the cloud which
coasts of Ireland, a
shower offish.
A shower of
since,
over the column of water.
Such spouts are
this description fell
some twenty years
often driven
from the sea
to a considerable dis-
tance over land, where they at length break and deluge the plain with water and live herrings, This is what is now called, on the western
near Slievemore, on Achill Island, in the county of Mayo, where the natives, who preserve a distinct recollection of
it,
state the herrings re-
mained putrid on the fields for weeks afterwards.
9 T
eirceciNN.
[1567
Sloiccheab la hua noomnaill aob

njfirhpfb
mac magnupa
laip,
-|
hi
DO ponnpab,
-]
Do ponab cpeaca lomba
ccfp eoccain ipin caimg plan Dia cij.
aOlS CRIOSC,
1567.
cuicc ceo, Sfpcca, aSeacc. Ctoip Cpiopc, mile,
Sluaicceab la hua noomnaill aob ipin eappac Do ponnpab. Ipeab Do beachaib cap loc peabail-jo painicc gup an pliab ccapbacac 50 po lomaipr ccfb i co po lepinDpab laip ina mbaoi ina compocpaib, i p oai r T^ an Dia ^5Sloicceab Idnmop lepcionoilce la hua neill (Sfan mac cuinn, mic cnmn
mic enpi, mic eoccain) DO bol hi ccenel cconaill pop ua noomnaill (dob mac DO opccain na cfpe majnupa, mic aoba oicc, mic aoba puaib) Do lonopab ua Domnaill peib DO ponab laip peace piam cib an can na caomnaccaip
~\
a einfipce, (TTIajnup) pollarhuccab na pfp imbeajjail a placa ndc a cfpe ap a cloinne bubein ppia poile. 1 a eaplaince, -\ cpia ppicbeapc -\ compuaccain
66:
hann DO pala oua Domnaill (aob) a bfic 50 nuachab pocpaice im aob mac aoba oicc mic aoba puaib co na compuilibib a$ apD an jdipe alia cuaib Don inbfp Dianib ainm Suileac,-] lap na cloipceacc Do 50 po Oail 6 neill co na Do Dia plpjaib Don cfp po paofb ceacca DO cocuipeab in po bo compoccup
aipeacaib i baf pfipin aga nepnaibe an Du pin, ap a aof nf canjaccap pom meallma po a cojaipm. mbaccap ann lapam i nupropac laof nf po pdchaij-
conuppacaccap fb a pabaipc uaca Don caob apaill opeappaic puilibi ina bale plan DO ploccaib ace Dianapccnam ina noocum ina nDponjaib nDiopmaib, nf po anpac Dia pfimim co pangaccap gan anab gan aipipiom cap an ppfppaic ap bd haicb'e ann an can pin. Qp na aipiuccab pin Dua Domnaill
pioc nf
"|
po
1
cmp a bpoolom. bfcc
ploicch
mnneall,
-\
nopouccab po ceooip,
Hugh Oge was
-\
po la
Sliabh gCarbatach, now Slieve Carbadagh, near Strabane, in the county of Tyrone. " a u en-
that this
otherwise called
is
QOD
oub,
v
i.
e.
Black Hugh, which
correct.
Very numerous,
literally,
full-great
tire-assembled hosting
by O'Neill."
i.
w OfDonnett.
adds,
Charles O'Conor of Belanagare
Ard-an-gkaire, i. e. height or hill of the shouting or laughter, now Ardingary, a place near the town of Letterkenny, on the north
mac a oeapb
is
peacpa,
e.
" his sister's
son," which
1
correct.
Hugh Oge
Charles O'Conor interpolates
River Swilly, in the parish of Aughinunshin, barony of Kilmacrenan, and county of Donegal.
side of the
1587-]
1611
A hosting was
in the
safe to his house.
made by O'Donnell (Hugh, the son of Manus) into Tyrone, winter of this year and he committed many depredations. He returned
;
THE AGE OF CHRIST,
1567.
sixty-seven.
A hosting was
year
;
and,
made by O'Donnell (Hugh) precisely in the spring of this having crossed Lough Foyle, he proceeded to Sliabh gCarbatach',
totally
and plundered and
ravaged the whole neighbourhood, and he returned
in safety to his house.
O'Neill (John, son of Con, who was son of Henry, who was son of Owen) mustered a very numerous" army, to march into Tirconnell against O'Donnell* (Hug*h, the son of Manus, son of Hugh Oge, son of Hugh Roe), to plunder and
ravage the country, as he had done some time before, when O'Donnell (Manus) was not able to govern of defend his principality or country, in consequence of
his
own
infirmity
x
and
ill
health,
and the
strife
and contention of few forces
his sons.
The
place
where O'Donnell happened

,
to be with a
at this time, with
Hugh Oge
y
an-ghaire
Roe, [and] with others of his relations, was Ardon the north side of the estuary which is called Suileach and,
the son of
Hugh
hearing that O'Neill
had arrived with
messengers to summon such of his he himself awaited them there [at Ard-an-ghaire] they did not, however, come As they were here waiting, they received no fully assembled at his summons.
;
his forces in the country, he dispatched chieftains as were in his neighbourhood, and
notice of any thing
2
,
until, at
break of day, they perceived, just within
sight,
on
the other side of Fearsad-Suilighe", a powerful

;
body offerees rapidly advancing
towards them, in hosts and squadrons [and] they stopped not in their course, without halting or delaying, until, without halting or delaying", they had crossed
the Fearsad, for the tide
was out
at the time.
When
O'Donnell perceived
this,
* They received no notice of any thing, i. e. they remained ignorant of the proceedings of the
the east of the

site
town of Lettetkenny, and oppoIt
Ardingary.
can be
now
easily crossed at
enemy.
a
low water.
i.
Fearsad- Suilighe,
e.
the trajectus, or pasis
sage of the Swilly.
Farsetmore, and
is
This trajectus is now called situated about two miles to
The language Without halting or delaying. but it would be here childishly redundant,
to leave a single
wrong
word untranslated.
T2
IQ12
awwaca Rio^hachca emeaNH.

ui
[1567-
oiopma mancplmcch im mac

i
bomnaill
.1.
afb
mac afba Do beabaib
ppi
lomldn laip copy na peb a copac an eploij aji odij co ecoippfb cpoijceacha inmll na caompacaip a biobbaba a cimmaijib ccappapaip e 50 hionao uf bomnaill ceallab, ndc a cacmancc. Ima companaicc ecip mapcpluacc oonnchaib caipbpij mic aoba mall mac upcopac mapcploij ui neill Do pocaip oomnall ullcac mac an ooccuipa ollam uf oomnaill mic aoba puaib,
-)
oicc,
~]
cfp
050 mbaof lomcoimeo cacaije colaim cille, la ab la a rhinncip bubein Do pluaj uf neill. dec cfna aobeapao apaile gup neoccam TTIac mecc marjamna mall 6 Domnaill. Oo pocaip beop 6 cfnel
le Ifijfp, 1 TTlagpabapraij
Ro pit>ip mac ui oomnaill (.1. aeb mac co nopoing oile cenmo cd pom. Oo poccain ap oaingfn, 17o aoba) an poplfon baof ma acchaib, i a cijeapna
a DO bpfic paip. Ifnpam he conup cappaib ace aipipnimh ppi poipi&in muinnpe Mi cian cpa baofpiumh in ubmaille moip mfnman conup paca Dpecca Dia Udnaic ann ina bocum bd po lie laipium a poccain cuicce.
painmumcip
cerup mac puibne na ccuar, TTlupcab mall mac eoccain oicc mic eoccain, mac puibne clann mec puibne panacc, coippbealbac occ 1 aob buibe,
~\
lap poccain 50 Tiaon maijin boâmeac, TTlaolmuipe mac aoba, mic neill, Doib mp bo habbal a pocpaioe ap nf jiabaoap cenmocd ceicpi ceo nama. T?o
-|
acaoin ua Domnaill a imnfb
a eccualang ppip na mairib pin, acbfpc ppiu no j;up bo lainne i gup bo maipi laip a ecc, -| a oicreab DO maijin, piapiu DO capcapal paip bubfin, poDaimpfoh an DO paDpac cenel eoccain DO cap
~\
-|
~\
pop a compuilibib amail nd po pulaing ~] na po p'obaim a bunab cenel piam poirhe,"] 50 ponnpabac an ofmiab ~] an Dirhiccin po imippfc paip Don cup pin .1. a accupi a lonnapbab co poipeicneac ap alongpopc. 17o
pop a bfpbpine,
-|
aoncuijpioc na maice pin uile ppi haicfpcc an apDplaca,

pfop na popcanca
~\
bo -\ acbeapcpac gup na puijle po can conab paip ofipib oca ua neill co na plocc Dionnpaiccib. 6d Dana oocoipcc, ainDiuiD, ecceillij an comaiple Do ponab ann pin paiccib an mop jabaib an mop guapacca po baof pop cionn
.1. ~]
The enemy,
Ultagh,
literally,
"the army."
a curious
by wliorn
it
d
e
now Donlevy.
This
is
of the Royal Irish
has been deposited in the Museum b Academy. See note , un-
The Cathach
box cou-
taining a copy of the Psalter, supposed to be in the handwriting of St. Columbkille. It is the
year 1499,
f
der the year 1497, p. 1232, supra. p. 1252.
See also the
To fall and
to
die
property of Sir Richard O'Donnell of Newport,
remarkably redundant.
The language is here The literal translation
1567.]
1613
he instantly drew up his little army in order and array, and dispatched a troop of cavalry, under the command of the son of O'Donnell (Hugh, the son of
Hugh),
to
engage the van of the enemy
in order that
infantry across the level fields into a secure position,
he might bring all his where his enemies could
not encompass or surround them. In the engagement which followed between O'Donnell's cavalry and the van of the cavalry of O'Neill, fell, by O'Neill's army, Niall, the soft of Donpugh Cairbreach, son of Hugh Oge, son of Hugh Roe
Donnell Ultagh d son of the Doctor, Ollav to O'Donnell in physic and Magroarty, who had the custody of the Cathach6 of St. Columbkille. Some,
[O'Donnell]
;
however, assert that Niall O'Donnell was slain by his

of the Kinel-Owen
fell
own
people.
On
the side
the son of
son of O'Donnell (Hugh, the son
Mac Mahon, and many others. When the of Hugh) perceived the numbers who were
opposed to him, and that his lord had retired to a place of security, he followed him, in order to await the arrival of relief from his people. Nor was he long
in a depressed state of mind,
when he perceived numbers
of his faithful people
advancing towards him, and rejoiced was he

the
first place,
at their arrival.
Thither came, in
Mac Sweeny-na-dTuath (Murrough Mall, the son of Owen Oge, son of Owen); the sons of Mac Sweeny Fanad, Turlough Oge and Hugh Boy; and Mac Sweeny Banagh (Mulmurry, the son of Hugh, son of Niall). And
when
all
had arrived at one
place, they
formed no very great
force, for they
were only four hundred in number. To these chiefs O'Donnell complained of his distress and injuries and he protested to them that he would deem it more
;
in the field, than to endure the conand dishonour with which he himself, his tribe, and his relations, had tempt been treated by the Kinel-Owen, such as his ancestors had never suffered or endured before but more especially the insult and indignity they had offered him on this occasion, by violently expelling and banishing him from his fortress.
fall
pleasing and becoming to
and
to die
All the chieftains assented to the speech of their prince, and said that all the remarks and sentiments he had expressed were true, so that they resolved to
attack O'Neill and his army.
The
resolution here adopted, of facing the great
danger and peril which awaited them, was bold, daring, obdurate, and irrational;
is
:
" and he said to them that
it
would be more
pleasing and becoming with him that his death and destruction should take place field,
sooner than brook what of insult and indigaity the Kinel-Owen had offered to himself, his
tribe,
by
and
his relations,"
\-c.
1014
ooib.
aNNata Rioshachca emeawN.

Gp
[1567
a aof bd mo po popcamluig, gpab a neimj, ~\ a nacapba ma ccpibe a ccaorhanmann. T?o apccndccap laparh co haofn olodp 5pab a ccopp, mfnmnac pop ccula ma ninneall cpobfcc bobba,-] ina naonbpoin narapba pop
-]
6 neill ma bocom gac nOipeac longpoipc uf neill. Gmail ao connaipc lac, po cfip a riieanma co mop oppa co nebipr, QS maccnab, -| ap lonjnab abballfm ap pe nap bupa oon luce uo ap noijpiap 1 ap mbpfca opulang,
amup
oia mubuccab po ceDoip Diap paijib. Dia mbaof Dia naipleac na hiompainb pin po boiprpioc oampaib cenel cconaill go.Diojdip popp odpaccac hj ccfnn ploij uf neill, nip bo peic opra la hanpabaib f rieill an ni
map cocc
-\
bdcrap 050 nfiofb amail ap oeme conpangaccap 6 oo puaccacap pom eab a ppaipccpiona ooib. bd pi'ocba popgpanna an peccab popniaca popjpuamba Oo bfpc cac pop apoile Dib oionnaib a pope pmnpabapcac, t>o
pin uaip
bfpcpac a njdipe caca op aipo jup bo lop Dpupail rime ceicme pop piallac anbpann anappacra an comjdipiuccab oo ponpac 05 pocrain hi ccfnn apoile ooib. T?o gabpac pop cuapgam pop rpenarcuma pop maccab pop mub-\ -j -]
uccab apoile ppi pe pooa co po papccbab pip hi paoinlije cupaib cpecclaoic IfiOmeaca ap na ppiaplfopab pan apmac oicc arjaofce, naijce, i ap
-\ ~\
cfna po rheabaib pop cenel neojain rpe nfpc lomjjona -| lomccpioll. bualca gup bo hdccfnn Ooib a lacaip caca opolmuccab, -| paijib gup an cconaip popp a ccubcaccap îon jup bo pobamg Ooib a poccain an can pin
Qcc
ap po
ppfppaic capp a ccangaccap a ccup laof, co nap bo pobula caippi mip, munbab cmnepnaiji na cogpama, oeolachc -\ ouipe na opuinge bdccap ma noiuib ace aice a noimiaba, a nanppalab, -| a naincpibe
lion
an muip
ipin
aj popconjpa poppa a hionnpaiccib. Nfp bo hailpfbac po cin^pioc gup an pianrhuip ap ni aipipfb neac oib ppia commbpacaip, na ppia compuilibe gion gup bo cepnub a gdbab no a guapacc Ooib Roccain gup an imbeap oiccen oub Domain baof pop a ccionn. Nip bo paijib cfpa mp ppnacc, na anacail
lap nficcfn an lonnpaiccib pin, ap po bdibeab lion oipime pop noorhain oib jep bo lainn la cdc uabaib a
(anoapleo)
an lionnmuip Ian legab oia paijio. T?o

"
express
terrific,"
s
i.
e.
all
1
The love of their protegees, 5pa& a nemij, the love of their wives and children, and of others who looked to them for protection. " Venomous, acapoa, literally, serpent-
uses
roparapoa
to
from
copacmp, a monster. To sustain their onset,

'
literally,
" this was
not an onset of refusal with the soldiers of

O'Neill."
like."
The writer of the
Battle of
Magh Rath
The verb obub, which
is
sometimes
1567-]
1615
but the love of their protegees 8 and inheritances prevailed in their hearts over the love of body and life, and they marched back with unanimous courage, in a regularly arrayed small body, and in a venomous" phalanx, towards the camp
of O'Neill.
became
O'Neill perceived them [moving] directly towards him, he " It is very wonderful and amazing to disturbed in spirit, and he said
:
When
me that those people should not find it easier to make full concessions to us, and submit to our awards, than thus come forward to us to be immediately
While he was saying these words the troops of slaughtered and destroyed." the Kinel-Connell rushed vehemently and boldly upon the army of O'Neill ;'
nor did O'Neill's soldiers refuse to sustain their
Kinel-Connell] had come within
onset', for
when they
[the
sight" of them, they began to accoutre themselves with all possible speed. Fierce and desperate were the grim and terrible looks that each cast at the other from their starlike eyes they raised the battle
;
cry aloud, and their united shouting, when rushing together, was sufficient to strike with dismay and turn to flight the feeble and the unwarlike. They pro-
ceeded [and continued] to

for a long time, so that
strike,
men
mangle, slaughter,_and cut down one another were soon laid low, heroes wounded, youths slain,
and robust heroes mangled in the slaughter. But, however, the Kmel-Owen were at length defeated by dint of slaughtering and fighting, and forced to
and retreat by the same road they had come by, though it was not easy for them to pass it at this time, for the sea [the tide] had flowed into the Fearsad, which they had crossed in the morning, so that to
field of battle,
abandon the
cross
would have been impracticable, were it not that the vehemence of the pursuit, the fierceness, bravery, and resoluteness of the people who were in
it
pursuit of them, to be revenged on them for their [previous] insults, enmity, and animosity, compelled them to face it. They eagerly plunged into the swollen sea, and no one would wait for a brother or a relation, although it was no escape from danger or peril for them to have reached the dark^deep ocean This was not an approach to Iwmth after estuary which was before them.
cold, or to
protection after violence, for a countless
drowned
written
in the
deep
full tide,
though
it
number of them was would be happy for them all, as they

' >
opao, means
" to shun,
or refuse,"
FF ul P cc r lonu
F eat>
u paoaipce,
i-
e distance
-
obcio caca, the refusal of battle.
"Within
sigf/t,
6 DO puactarup porn eao a
of their sight. This is the ancient Irish mode of In the modern Iansaying ''within view."
1616
ctNNata rciohachca emeciNN.
[1567
uf neill ipin maijin paccbairc pocaibe lomba ecip rhapbab-] babab Do p luaj neill co pin. bdceap 100 ba haipQjba Dibpibe bpian mac enpi mic Sfain
i
na oeapbpafaip, TTlac oomnaill jallocclac conpapal f neill co nDpuinj; moip DO cloinn noomnaill amaille ppip, an oubalrac ua Donrijaile Deapbcomalca
i
neill
(aom
pfp ba Dile
-\
ba coca laip
ipin
-]
opecca oeapmapa Do muinnp coinne, a cumaip, po mapbab, po bdiDfb cpi ceD oecc DO pluacc
-]
mbic) co pocaibe moip Dia cineab, Do muincip again. Ctcr cfna apfb
i
~\
neill ipin ccaic-
^leo
ploij
pin,
f
Gcbeapac apaile liubaip gup bo cpi rhile pfp co ccuilleab eapbaib neill ipin 16 pin. Oala neill cpa cepna pibe ap an maibm fpin,
i
-|
ba peapp laip ndc repnapfb oip po paobab a ciall, a cecpar.a Dia eip. Qclai' gohinclfice gan aipiuccab to neoc la caob na habann puap 50 paimcc
-|
ccorhpocpaib oon Sgaipb polaip la heolap Dpumje Do muinnp jallcubaip (ooipeacc ~\ Dpfop muincip uf Domnaill pfipin) ~\ nf po hanab laip 50 puacc cpe cliorap Diarhaip jaca conaipe 50 cfp eogain, Nfp bo
hi
rap dr caippi
hiomba Dna cf^ no cfjbaip

'
50 pinn
50 peabail. eofb 05 cenel cconaill Don cup eachaib, apm, mdn DO ponnpab Do ppaofneab an maibm ipin.
i
-j
Darhna Dep i pora pfopcaofneab 6 caiplinn bd~haDbal, ba Dipim an po pdccbab Deoalaib ecip
j;an
pin.
~\
Ctn
roccmab
ni
Id DO mf
lapnooloua
no pabaile laip,
neill
-j
ccip neoccam arhail
pemebepcmap
Deapnabpocpacc,
po cuil a puancararii 50 po cuip cojaipm -j cappaing cloinn cSemaip mic ap alapcpainrc mic eoin caranaij rheic rheic ooriinaill 50 halbain. bd cuap cimoibi bd habbap oibfba Doporii innpin .1. clann paojail an pip DO ruic laip peace oo cuicce. co
nf
-]
piarii
cocuipeab
Uanjaccap
pibe
cmneapnac coblac mop muipibe 50 po gabpac pope 05 bun abann Duine

gViage
i
it
would be expressed, " 6 pdnjaoappan

'
but the ford

sholais
n-a paoapc. 1
1
is known and lies between Sgairbhand the town of Letterkenny, in the
Dubfudtach
cised Dwaltagh,
1
This name is sometimes angliand sometimes Dudley.

i.
county of Donegal.
Sgairbh-sholais,
light,
i.
e.
the shallow ford of the
O'Coinne.
"
MuintHtjfoinm, This is to be distinguished from O'Quin, hibernicl O'Cumn.

Muintir- Again,
e.
of the family of
now
by
Scarriffhollis, a ford
which was de-
fended
a castle,
on the River Swilly, about
i. e. the family of O'Hagan. Upwards here means towards the source of
two miles west of the town of Letterkenny. The site of the castle is still pointed out on the
south side of the river ; but
level
its
the River Swilly.
He
walls were nearly
therefore proceeded west-
with the earth in 1835, when the Editor

retired
wards
"
visited this locality.
Ath-thairsi
This name
is
now
obsolete,
By
and
solitary ways, literally,
"
by
1567-]

it.
1617
Great numbers of O'Neill's army were lost here, both by slaying and drowning the most distinguished of whom were Mac Donnell Brian, the son of Henry, son of John O'Neill, and his brother
thought, to be permitted to approach
;
:
Galloglagh, constable of O'Neill, with

1
many
of the Clann-Donnell besides
Dubhaltach O'Donnelly, O'Neill's own foster-brother, and the person most also faithful and dear to him in existence, with a great number of his tribe
;
and Muintir- Again". In short, the total great numbers of Muintir-Coinne" of O'Neill's army that were slain and drowned in that battle was thirnumber
teen hundred
;
some books [however]
state that O'Neill's loss in this battle
was upwards of three thousand men. As for O'Neill, he escaped from this but he would rather that he had not, for his reason and senses became battle
;
passed privately, unperceived by any one [of his enemies] upwards along the river side towards its source, until he crossed Athq p a ford which is in the vicinity of Sgairbh-sholais under the guidance thairsi
deranged after
it.
He
of a party of the O'Gallaghers, some of O'Donnell's

r
own
subjects and people
he arrived in Tyrone. and he travelled on by retired and solitary ways There were not many houses or families, from Cairlinn* to the River Finn and
until
to the Foyle,
not reason for weeping, and cause for lamentation. Great and innumerable were the spoils, comprising horses, arms, and armour, that
who had
were
left
behind to the Kinel-Connell on
this occasion.
This defeat of Fersad
Swilly was given on the 8th day of May. After O'Neill had arrived in Tyrone, as
we have
already stated, he did not
take ease, nor did he enjoy sleep, until he had sent messengers to Scotland, to invite James, the 'son of Alexander, son of John Cahanagh Mac Donnell [to come to his assistance]. It was an omen of destruction of life, and the cause of his death, that he should invite to his assistance the sons of the
man who
had
fallen
by himself some time

at
before.
They came hastily with
a great marine
fleet,
and landed
Bun-abhann-Duine', in Ulster, where they pitched their

preserved in the State Papers' Office, London, and also on Norden's map, the place at which
the solitary shelter of each passage."

5
Cairlinn,
now
Carlingford bay, in the

the
county
of the
of Louth.
'
Bun-abhann Duine,
i.
e.
mouth
Shane O'Neill was murdered is dune, which is shown in the
called
Bunon-
parallel of the
River Dun,
now Cushendun,
made
in the
Glenann, and county of Antrim.
barony of On an old
present Cushendun, and at it is written on the " Here Shane O'Neale was face of the m&p
:
map
of Ulster,
in the reign of Elizabeth,
slaine."
9 u
lliH
millcaib.
CINNCKXI
[1567.
lonjpopr paibbip ppaiolionrhap leo annpin. OD cualaiD 6 neill an cpom Dam pin DO rocc po a ruaipim ni po pec om fpccaipofp ppiu jan ool ap lonchaib na odirhe Doppba Oiojalcaiê ipm jan cop jan
Ro
puibijjfo
comcnpce ap Dai a amcpiDe i a am inne DO oiojail -\ oaire pop cenel cconmbfic achaib ma ppocaip (mji rcubab aill,i ba he piaDuccab puaip uara lap
ooibpiurh a neccpaicip
mfb gan
u
coiccill
a nanppolaiD ppip) a Ifopab 50 lanarlam 50 ppapccaibpioc mapb gan anmain.

-]
~]
cloio-
Hit enmity tneards them

"
:
would say
that
An English writer the cause of enmity Forgetting

them and
himself, he
binis plnjies.
Possessione et bonis Parlamen-
taria regai Hibernias authoritate in fiscum redactis,
subsisted between
Turloghus Lenigh ex O-Neali familia
intrusted himself to their protection without'
potentissimus vir sedato ingenio, Eegina volente
guard or guarantee." " The The word pioouccao is used reception " salutation or in these Annals in the sense of
reception."
Hugo tapopulari electione O'Neal salutatur. men Baro Dunganoni vulgo dictus Shani ex
Matthseo fratre nothd nepos, juveni tune despectus,
See
it
again used at the years 1587
and 1600.
x left
qui postea patriae turbo, imo pestis, Eeginae in gratiam recipitur ut haberet quern
" so that Bereave kirn of life, literally, they him dead without a son!" Caniden de-
Turloghs opponeret, si forte ab officio recederet" Rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum Annalet

regnante Elizabetha, edition of 1639, A. D. 1567,
scribes this
murder much better than the Four

:
Masters, as follows " Ad hos

.L
pramisso eorom
fratre Surleio Baio
Surleis Flaro, quern captivum diu detinuerat,
See also Carve, A. D. 1567; Ware's Annals of Ireland, A. D. 1567; Hooker, p. 113; Cox, A, D. 1567; Leland's History of
pp.
127-130.
accessit, cum rapta O'Donelli" [mortui] " conjuge" [nunc conci-
ad gratiam redintegrandam,
Ireland,
the City
and Stuart's Memoirs of of Armagh, pp. 258-261.
book
iv. c. 1
liata].
The celebrated
Jesuit,
Edmund Campion,
" Dli in vindictam fratrum, et cognatorum ex ardentes, simulata comitate quos occiderat,
exceperunt, et
who was
led to
it,
in Ireland at the time, describes the
particulars of his murder, and the causes that

as follows
:
mox in tentorium admissum inter

verbis, strictis machaeris aggre-
pocula ad jurgia prolapsi de probrosis Shani in
eorum matrem
diuntur,
" But the Lords of Vlster, and elsewhere, whom he yoked and spoiled at pleasure, abhorring his pride and extortion, craved assistance of the Deputy for redresse thereof: O'Neale
advertised, increaseth his rage, disturbeth
ipsumque
et e comitibus
plerosque
contrucidarunt.
Hunc cruentum
vitae
exitum
habuit medio lunio Shanus, qui patrem dominatu, fratrem nothum vita spoliaverat, homicidiis
and
et
adulteriis contaminatissimus,
helluo
ruaximus, ebrietate adeo insigni, ut ad corpus, vino et aqua vitae immodice hausta inflamina-
the plaintiffe, burneth the Metropolitane Church of Ardmagh, be" no cause" [reete, in order that] English army might lodge therein, for which sacriledge the
driveth out
Mac Gwire,
tum, refrigerandum, saepius mento tenus terra conderetur. Liberos ex uxore reliquit Henri-
Primate accursed him,

ayde, as appeareth
besiegeth
Dundalke,
practiseth to call strangers ijito the land for
cum
et Shanuin,
ex O'Donelli uxore et concu-
by those
letters
which Sir
1567.:
rich,
1619
many-tented camp. As ~oon as O'Xeill heard of the arrival of that great host, he did not consider his enmity towards them"; he went under the protection of that fierce and vindictive host without surety or security, in order that
[by their assistance] he might be able to wreak his vengeance upon the KinelConnelL And the reception" he got from them, after having been for some
time in their company (after having shewn [the causes of] their enmity and animosity towards him), was to mangle him nimbly, and put him unsparingly to the sword, and bereave him of life*. Grievous to the race of Owen, son of
Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy,
pieth all the
intercepted, ooculet
North of
Ireland, being 100
my lea
broad, 120 long. Then addressed he plausible letters to the Potentates of Mounster, exhorting
us prove an extreame shift, and there be perswaded him to joyne with the Scots, whom he had lately banished : of whom, should he be
the force of F.igltu1 t This maMagt once might be dismembered. the Deputy prevented, stayed the Countrey,
rebell, that
them to
refused or finde inconvenience, at any time, submission to the Deputy might then be used
when
all faileth.
Shane knew himselfe odious
abridged him of that hope, and then proclaimed
him Traytor.
of a
An
Irish
lester
standing by,
and hearing O'Neale denounced with addition
to the Soots, especially to them whom be thought to linck with the brother and kindred of lames Mac ConilT [Mac Donnell], " yet in those hard oddei hee devised rather to assay their friendship then to grate upon mercy, which 90 oft and so intollerably he had abused.
new name,
traytor be'a
traytor Except (quoth he) more honourable title than O'Neale,

:
he shall never take " While the
it upon by my consent. Deputy was absent in England.
"Mac
ConilL
whom Shane
Sister,
overthrew,
left
two brethren and a
whereof one Suarly
the towne of Droghedagh was in hazard to be taken by the Rebels, which to preserve, at the
motion of the Lady Sidney, then abiding in Droghedagh, came Master Sarafield. then Major of Diveiin. with a chosen band of goodly young
O'Neale, entertayned" a prisoner] " after his brother's death. The [as other was Alexander Oge, who with 600 Scots
Torwy remained with
men
citizens,
and brake the rage
o,f
the enemies.
incamped now in Claneboy. The woman was Agnes Dye, whose husband Shane slew in the and discomfiture. Agnes had a sonne, Mac
Gilrye Aspucke,
his father's
The Deputy returning made him knight, and

utterly to weede and roote out the Traytor, he furnished a substantiall army, and with the readiness thereof has-
finding
it
now high time
and vnde's
who betrayed O'Neale to avenge At the first quarrell.
meeting (for thither he came accompanied with " Torwy" [Sorley Boy], and his Secretary, and
tened the Irish
whome
him and
rished, cut off his adherents,
O'Xeale had impoveand all aocesse of
SO horsemen) the Captaines made great

and feO to
quaffing,
cheere,
bat Aspucke, minding to
succour, chased
hinij cast
his into corners, spent
him
into such despaire. that he coo-
enter into his purpose, there openly challenged his Secretary as the Author of a dishonourable
report, that
suited with Secretary Neale
Mac Connor
to
Mac ConiTs wife
did offer to forsake
present himself
unknowne and
disguised to the
his pardon.
Deputy, with an halter about his neck, begging Ere you doe so (quoth his Clarke),
her country and friends, and to marry with Sham O'Neafe her husband's destruction; Mary
(quoth the Secretary),
if thine
Aunt were Queen
u2
1620
[1567-
DO cenel eoccam mic neill oiofb an ci copcaip ann pin, ap bd he a cconcob'ap ap coiccfbacap, a lu j lampaoa ap laocoacc, a njpfio gdib Sfan conab Dpopairmfc a oiofba DO pamfo. neill fin 1 gaipcceab an cua Secc mbliabna Sfpccacc cuicc ceo,
ba
ooilij
~\
.1.
mile blia&dm ip nf bpecc, co bap rpfain mic mic cuinn

6 coi&ecc cpiopc hi ccolainn.
of Scotland,
it
seeke such a marriage.
might beseeme her full well, to To this brawle O'Neale
Esq., of Tristernagh,
conformed to the Roman
gave eare, upheld his man, advaunced his own The comparison bred a fray betweene degree.
theire souldiours
;
Catholic Church, and prevailed upon his sons to embrace the same faith, of whom Thomas, his
third son, became a Franciscan friar.
His great
Out sprang Aspucke, and
beat O'Neale's man, and then suddainly brought his band upon them in the tent, where the souldiours, with their slaughter-knives, killed the
grandson, Sir Henry Piers of Tristernagh, was the author of A Chorographical Description of the County of Westmeath, a work of great merit for
the age which produced it. It was published in 1770, in the first volume of Vallancey's Cottec-
Secretary and Shane O'Neale, mangled him cruelly, lapped him in an old Irish Shirte, and
taneade Rebus Hibernicis. The family residence at

Tristernagh
dation,
is
tumbled him into a

:
pit,
within an old Chappell
now in
a frightful state of dilapi-
hard by whose head four dayes after Captaine Pierce cut off and met therewith the Deputy,
and the family estates much incumbered.

Editor's late friend,
The
Matthew O'Conor,
who
sent
it
before
him staked on a pole

it
to the
It is
Esq., of
Mount Druid,
has, in his Recollections of
castle of Divelin,
where
now
standeth.
Switzerland, instituted
this
thought that Tirlagh, who now usurpeth the name of O'Neale, practised this devise with
Agnes, Alexander, and Torwy, when he perceived Shane discouraged, and not able to hold
out.
a comparison between remarkable Irishman and Arminius. His

:
words are
"Woe to the reputation of a people whose fame

and character are
at the mercy of conquerors. The Irish were subdued the Germans ultimately triumphed. The Romans conquered Carthage,
;
Thus the wretched man ended, who might
have lived like a prince had he not quenched the sparks of grace that appeared in him, with
arrogancy and contempt against his prince."
Historie of Ireland, reprinted edition of 1809,
and Livy their historian has decried Annibal, the greatest general, statesman, and patriot of
antiquity.
The
character of Shane O'Neal has
pp. 189-192.
Ware adds that Captain Pierce received a thousand marks, which was the reward promised by proclamation to him who should bring up
his head.
been discoloured by the national prejudices of Camden. The noble mind of Tacitus disdained
falsehood, and in his admiration of heroism, even
in a foe, has erected a to Arminius, any which poetry, Shane painting, or statuary could have raised. O'Neal is represented as a glutton, a drunkard, an adulterer, and a murderer yet this barba-
monument
which
will last longer than
The Captain Pierce here referred to was William Piers, Esq., from whom Sir John Piers, of
Tristernagh Abbey, in the county ofWestmeath, is the ninth in descent. His son, Piers,
Henry
rian,
by the natural vigour of his mind,
raised
1567-]
Niall,

was the death of him who was there
1621
slain, for that O'Neill, i. e. John, had been their Conchobhar y in provincial dignity, their Lugh Longhanded 2 in hero3 The ism, and their/ champion in [time of] danger and prowess.
following
[quatrain]
was composed
to
commemorate"
his death
Seven years, seventy, five hundred, And a thousand years, it is no falsehood,
To
From
the death of John, grandson of Con, the soming of Christ into a body.
by which also the name O'Neill, with the ceremonies used at its inauguration, was abolished, and heavy penalties were enacted against any
person who should assume that title ; and Shane's lands were vested in the Crown for ever. It was,
armies, erectedJjorts, besieged fortified towns, defeated regular troops led on by experienced
generals,
first
and made a resolute stand against the nation then in the world in riches, in arts,
and in arms.
He was
often victorious and never
vanquished. generous historian would have beheld in him a second Arminius, the champion
of the freedom of his native country
:
however, enacted that a portion of the country might be held by English tenure by Turlough
both were
Luineach O'Neill and his adherents.
There are
unconquered
in war, both
were opponents to
mighty powers, both were treacherously slain by their own relatives, both were long famed among their respective nations, and their praises
were transmitted
to
curious intercepted letters and other original materials for a life of this remarkable man in the Libraries of Lambeth and the British
Muanti-
seum, which,
quaries will
y
many
successive
genera;
hoped, some one of our collect and give to the public.

it is
i.
tions in the songs of bards
and shanchies
both
Conchobhar,
e.
were unknown -to the polished nations of their ages, and both were deserving of the notice of
posterity.
Mac Nessa
in maintaining the rights
he was another^Conchobhar and dig-
Shane O'Neal slumbers
in oblivion
For some acnity of the province of Ulster. count of Conchobhar and his heroes of the Red Branch
in Ulster, see Keating's
Arminius
will live for ever in the
immortal
pages of Tacitus."
pp. 46, 47. Doctor Stuart, in his Historical
land, Haliday's edition, pp.
Histwy of Ire370-405, and O'Flaa
Memoirs of the
herty's Ogygia, part

*
iii. c.
47, 48.
City of Armagh, p. 261, shews, from the public records, that the war with this O'Neill cost the
Lugh Longkanded.
celebrated in
He was
King of the
is
Tuatha De Dananns, A. M. 2764, and

ancient Irish historical
iii. c.
much
Queen of England the sum of one hundred and forty-seven thousand four hundred and seven
pounds three shillings and nine pence, independent of the cesses laid on the country for its support, and of the great damages sustained
tales.
See Ogygia, part
13.
is
''Champion
Jjpeic,
The word jpeio

is
^so written
which
explained
.1.
by
Michael O'Clery: "gpeic

5;peiD 35016
.1.
jcnpgeuohac by jaipgeaohcic, ba
i.
h/;r
subjects
five
and that of her
soldiers, three
ba jjuipjeaohac u njaBafr,
.1.
e.
he
thousand
his troops.
by Shane and Shane was attainted by Act of Parslain
hundred were
was a champion in [time of] danger." " b To commemorate popuirtheuo

niujciD."
O'Clery.
cuim-
liament, passed on the 23rd of February, 1569,
1622
Riojjhachca
neill
[1567.
O
ba6
DO
mac aipm Do coippDealbac luineac
neill conallaij lap
map-
Shfain.
an mpcip hi ccill moceallocc -| a bpfic lapla ofprhuman DO gabail lap har luain -| co hac cliac laparii mp laip 50 luimneac, appiDe 50 gaiUim 50 DO ponab in gabdil pin, -| Do cuaiD a bparaip Sfan mac
ppeil parrpaicc
an iapla,-| po gabaD Semaip popamam apccionrchi ccfnn gall Dpi oppuccaD Ro cmpeaD apaon 50 pa^raib iaD laparh. e po ceooip. mag piapaip Decc emann mac Semaip mic emainn, peap emij coiccinn, a mac hi crfngroib mbeaplaib eipioe, 1 nje naoibfo, pfp pojlamra
.1.
i
-]
-\
Semup ooipDneab Sfan abupc, mac

la hanoaoinib,^ la
TTlac ui bpiain
ma
lonao.
Sfain,
mic Sfam na bpiacal, mic uillicc pua'b Do rhapbaD

raDcc,
.1.
moâbaib mipccneaca Do muinnp mpla clomne piocaipD.
cuaDmuman
.1.
coippDealbaij. TTlac
c
mpla upmuman
Donnchaio, mic concobaip, mic Semap occ mac Semaip, mic piapaip
mac
He was so called from Turlough Luineach. been fostered by O'Luinigh of Muintirhaving

Luinigh in Tyrone. d The Earl of Desmond was taken prisoner at The Lord Deputy soon after this KUmallock
capture went over to England, taking with him the Earl of Desmond, the Baron of Dungannon,
Knyght, our Deputie of that our realme, hither to our Courte, to [acknowledge his loyall dutie to us his soveraigne Lady, hayth very humbly and
voluntary ly submy tted himselfe to our grace, and freelie surrendered to us all his possessions ;
whereupon wee have receyved hym into our accorded to make protection, and have farther
and theyres males of his father, cerEstates of Inheritaunce, as more at lardge tayne
unto
O'Conor
Slige,
and
other's.
The Earl of Des-
hym
mond and O'Conor

;
Tower of London made his submission

'set
Sligo were confined in the but O'Conor, by indenture,

to
may
will
appeare by our letters patents, which he

:
the Queen, and was,
The Earl made his therefore, submission on the 12th of July, 1568, when he was likewise enlarged. The Queen wrote the
at liberty.
showe youe Wee have thought mete to recommend hym unto youe, as one whom wee a certaynly trust will prove and continue faythfull subject
:
and, therfor,
to here
following letter in favour of
O'Conor
Sligo, in
you
readily
wee will and chardge souch complaynts as he
pursuance of which he afterwards received a

patent for his estates, bearing date the 22nd of December,* 5 84
:
hayth to make unto you, for the deteyning cer'tain his castells from him, as he sayth, that is
to say, the castells of Bondrowys by O'Donnell, and Bayleintochair [Ballintogher] by O'Warch [O'Eourke], & Ardnariach [Ardnarea] by
"Rot. Pat. anno 10
Eliz. Dorso.
" Eliz. E.
By
Whereas
the Queene.
" Trustie &c.

Sligo,
Olyver Burghe's sons,

sd
&
that
you cause
th>3
Sir Donald
O'Conor
parties to appeare
and make aunswer before
Knyght, of the partes of Conagh, cumright trustie Sir
myng with our
Henry Sydney,
shall thinke yourselfes or souch other as youe mete, to hear the complaynts of the said O'Conor
1567-]

,,
1623
After the murder of John, Turlough Luineach
the son of Niall Conallagh,
was styled
O'Neill.
Desmond" was taken prisoner at Kilmallock, by the Lord Justo Galway, tice, who conveyed him from thence to Limerick, and from thence This capture was made a short time to Athlone, and afterwards to Dublin.
The Earl
of
after the festival of St. Patrick.
And
his kinsman, John, the son of James,
went
to the English to visit the Earl the ensuing Allhallowtide,
and he was
immediately taken prisoner. Both were afterwards sent to England. Mac Pierce6 died, i. e. Edmond, the son of James, son of Edmond.
a
He was
a free house of guests, a man learned and his son, James, was elected in his place. in tongues and languages f son of John, who was son of John-na-bhfiacal son of Ulick John Burke,
man
of general hospitality,
;
who kept
Roe, was
killed
by [some] peasants and
spiteful labourers belonging to the
Earl of Clanrickard.
The son
of O'Brien of
;
Thomond,
i.
e.
Conor, son of Turlough
the son of the Earl of
Teige, the son of Donough, son of Ormond, i. e. James Oge, the
Slego, and to give direction for restitution to the said Sir Donald O'Conor, of that which shall
be found due to
hym by
order of justice
And
furthermore wee vKl, that yf there hath bene any spoyles "made of any his goods during his
absence, in that
good and faythfull subject, wee will and chardge you requyre your to ayde & assist hym, in our name, to the best of your power, for so wee are disposed to shewe
shall belong
to a
aide,
all
favor to so good a servant
&
subject as wee
commyng
hither
&
retourne thither,
take
him
to
be
and by the experience, wee
upon
his complaynt,
order be gyven for
made to hym as the case shall requyre Lastly, wee let youe to understande that upon his humble and
the triall thereof, and restitution to be
:
have sene of his behavior here, wee thinke assuredly he will contynue And where he hayth
:
required that he
this
myght have the
true copie of
reasonable request, wee are well contented that the howse of the Fryerie of Slego, whearin, he
wee are contented that youe shall delyver unto him a copie of the same, in souche
our
letter,
sort as in lyke cases
the sepulture of his Auncestors hayth bene, shalbe so preserved, as the Friars thear
sayth
our
seale theare
youe are accustomed, under Yeven under our signet at
our Palais of Westminster, the xxv th daie of

January, 1567, the tenth year of out reign. " To our trustie, the Justices of our realm
of Ireland."
e
.
being converted to secular prestes, the same Howse may remayne & contynue as well for the
sepulture of his posteritie, as for the rnayntenance of prayer and service of God. And yf in
Mac
Pierce
He was
the head of a branch
any outher reasonable thingethe said Sir Donald O'Conor Slego shall for the mayntenance of hymself,
of the Butlers.
See Harris's edition of Ware's

viii. sect. 3, p.
i.
Antiquities, chap.
1
59teeth.
his tenants
and possessions in our Peax, as
John-na-lhfiacal,
e.
John of the
1624
aNNaca Rioghachca emeciNN.

eoan mac copbmaic
oicc,
[1568.
puaioh, i TTlac 0165 capcaij, caibcc DO ecc an bliabain pi.

ITIajjnup
mic copbmaic, mic
mac
emainn, mic
majnupa mic prij DO

~|
riiapbab la
mac muipip
ciappaije .1. le romap cineab ba pfpp fngnam
mac emainn mic comaip,

1
nf
baof peap a aopa Dia
eineac map.
.1.
Opoicfc ara luain Do henam la lupcip na hepennn
Sip
henpD piDneg.
QOIS CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopc,
1568.
mile, cuicc ceo, Sfpcca,
a hocr.
Concaoip cloinne piocaipo .1. ITIaipjpecc injfn DonnchaiD mic concobaip a corhmic coippbealbai^, aon lanbeoilpfp nepeann, bfn cocaijre a capac,
"|
jijaoil
Decc.
.1.
bpian occ mac macjarhna cijeapna copcabaipcinn aipreapaije mic caibcc bpiain mic roippbealbaij mic caiDcc Decc,-| cabcc mac mupchaib puaib mic rofppbealbaij mic caibcc Do jabail a lonaib. ITlac puibne panac Dorhnall gopm mac Domnaill oicc Do mapbab hi ppiull
fllac
la Dpfim Dia minncipi
mumcip ppuicein. Caicilfn mjfn meguibip (cuconnacc) bfn ui baoijill (coippbealbac mac neill mic coippbealbaij) an aom bfn cofpig ba pfpp nullcdib Decc an._5pfm
.1.
i
lanuapi.
Samup mac muipip mic Sfam mic an lapla (im lujnapab DO. ponnpab) ap mac muipip ciappaije comap mac emainn. ba he an Semup pin poba cobnac ap geapalcacaib a nionab cloinne Semaip mic Sfam
Sluaicceab la
.1.
DO haipcceab, Do loipcceab ~| Do loimcpeachab an cfp 50 cinnfpnac le pemup co na ploccaib. T?o ceicpioc uprhop an cfpe, pucpac an po peDpacc Dia mnnilib leo 50 lie
baof hillaim hillonoainn le bliabain poime
pin.
~\
-|
Do hionopab
pnama. baof oiomacc

8
~\
DO Uonmaipe ploij Semaip 50 po

Clare.
'
puibi jeab
Da
Sir
Henry Sidney.
.1.
Charles O'Conor inter-
polates
henpi mop na beopac, "i.e. Big Henry of the Beer." East Cvrca-Bhaiscinn. This territory is in-
This James.
O'Daly
the Geraldines, c. xvii.,
states, in his History of that the Earl of Desmond
eluded in the present barony of Moyferta, or Moyarta, in the south-west of the county of
and his brother privately intimated to this James their anxious desire that he would take upon
himself the leadership of the Geraldines, while
1568.]

;
1625
i.
son of James, son of Pierce Roe

of
and the son of Mac Carthy,
e.
Owen, son
Cormac Oge, son of Cormac, son of Teige, died in this year. Manus, the son of Edmond, son of ManuS Mac Sheehy, was slain by Mac Maurice (Fitzmaurice) of Kerry, i. e. by Thomas, the son of Edmond, son of Thomas. And there was not of his tribe a man of his years more distinguished
for prowess
and hospitality than he. The bridge of Athlone was built by the Lord Justice of Ireland,
8
.
i.
e.
Sir
Henry Sidney
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1568.
sixty-eight.

i.
The Countess
of Clanrickard,
e.
Margaret, daughter of Donough, son of
Conpr, son of Turlough, the most famous of her friends and relations, died.
woman
i.
in Ireland,
and the supporter
Brian Oge, the son of Brian, son of Turlough, son of Teige, died and Teige, the son of Murrough, son of Teige Roe, son of Turlough, son of Teige, took his place.
Corca-Bhaiscinn",
;
Mac Mahon, Lord of East
e.
Mac Sweeny Fanad
(Donnell Gorm, the son of Donnell Oge) was treach-
erously slain by a party of his own people, i. e. by Muintir-Sruithen. Catherine, the daughter of Maguire (Cuconnaught), and wife of O'Boyle (Turlough, the son of Niall, son of Turlough), the best chieftain's wife in Ulster,
died on the 5th of January.
was made by James, the son of Maurice, son of John, son of the Earl, about Lammas, against Mac Maurice of Kerry, i. e. against Thomas, the son of Edmond. This James was commander of the Geraldines in the stead
1
A hosting
who had been kept in captivity in London for a year previous to that time. The country was soon plundered, devastated, The greater part of the burned, and totally ravaged by James and his forces. [inhabitants of the] country fled, carrying with them to Lec-Snamha as much
of the sons of James, son of John,
j
they should be detained in captivity. J Lec-Snamha, i. e. the flag-stone of the
of Clanmaurice, and county of Kerry.
Close to
swimming, now Lixnaw, a village on the River Brick, which is one of the tributaries of the
Casan Ciarraighe, or Cashen
river, in the
the village are to be seen the ruins of an old church, and the extensive remains of the castellated mansion of the Fitzmaurices, the Earls of
barony
Kerry, and a monument to the third Earl of Kerry.
9x
Rio^hachca
eiraeciNN.
[1568.
caob Don baile. T?o cuip 6 concobaip pope Uonmapa Idnaibble laip ap gac clcmn cpfehi^ co na ccoipijeib, uppann Duaiplib'-j Daipeacaib ciappaije, Don baile. Oo chuaib pfm gup an luce an eploij amaille ppiu Don caob eoip baof mac Don baile, bd laip DO bfic ma pocaip Don caob ciap
~\ -]
mfnmapc
"|
baof beop po bpue aeoip rhoip fcoppa. ariiail po ba Du ip in aimpip pin pip bo heigfn Da cfp, i ciopmac abbal Id noaofnfb, 1 Da naipnfip mfppdile na habann ool le cpuime an capca
muipip co na muincip
hi
ccfnnca
Ro
-)
pobapca a po mac an jiolla
locan.
buib,
Qp
e bd conpapal DO
mac muipip an can
pin
emann
mec
puibne,-] ni
mic concobaip, mic Donnchaib mic Domnaill na maDmann capla ma pocaip ace bfcc buiDfn jallocclac Da luce Ifnarhna
co nap bo puaill 50 mbaof

ccaicfrh aimpipe
ma pappaD jenmoca aon caoccac pfp nnmd ap a nampaine. Qp a aoi nip bo miaD led imceacc 6 mac
muipip lap mbpfic Don poipficcfn pin paip, Do baof beop ipm mbaile pin Sfan na SeolcaD mac Domnaill uf maille luce luinge paiDe DO caipDib coblaij TTlheic muipip came DO caoall cuapca ma cfnO jan cop gan cfnnac,-] nfp bo
Oo cuaiD mac muipip Da comaipliuccaD ppip maipi a parboil Don cup pin. na maicib pin Dia pop cpeo Do jenaD. Ppipcapcpac Do, acbepcpac ppip bo canaipi Dia mbdp a mbfca arhail pobaccap, ~\ noca Daicfpcc aofnpip gup
-]
cabaip DO jebatn Do beoin an locc a cdiD map naccham pilfc niompuiDe rnic an mpla apf6 ap poipn, i 6 ndc mfnmapc lacpa giallab Do mac muipip
i
an condij ipin 16 Denca DUIC DO pen i DO pobapcan DO cop nucc an coice po aniu, i jab cugacc map CUID Dfipinn 50 hoiDce ma mbia po bonnaib Do
i
"|
biobbab,! lonnpaijfm clann rpichij uaip ip ppiu ap mo ap ppfpcc lap ccinnfo ap an ccomaiple pin Doib Do ponpac eipje aclamh
-\
ap ppola.
aom
pip,
~\
cucc
opouccab caca ap an mojall Do cpunnpluaj cuccaDh copac 16 hiombualab DO cloinn caipDfrhail capla ma pappab,
inneall
~]
mac muipip
~|
cpuibne.
*
1
Ni baof inme no apDplaicfp (an Dap leo) pob pfpp le cloinn

"
ried innumerable trophies;
Innile, .1. aipnîp." O'Ckry. O'Daly, in his History of the Geraldines, does not describe the particular acts of this James while he was leader of the Geral-
Cattle.
and that Queen
Eli-
James
zabeth, dreading his growing power, sent
him
an embassy to bring about a peace, " John-na-Seoltadh, i. e. Joannes vdowm, John

of the
sails.
dines ; but he remarks, in general terms, that
He was
so called from the
number
auring the five years that he held this office, and carried on the war by permission of the
Pope, he
won many
a glorious victory,
and
car-
which he had manufactured, and perhaps from his skill in sailing. The O'Malleys are celebrated by the Irish poets, as the most exof sails
1568.]

1
1627
James had so numerous an army that he of their cattle" as they were able. He placed pitched two very extensive camps on both sides of this town.
O'Conor Kerry and the Clann-Sheehy, with their battalions, and a proportionate number of the gentlemen and chiefs of the army along, with them, at the
eastern side of the
town
which he wished to Maurice and his people were

the
air,
and he himself went, with that portion of the army accompany him, to the west side of the town, so that Mac
;
in great jeopardy
between them.
Intense heat of
at that
sultriness
and
parching drought, also prevailed (as
was natural
season), so that their people
and
cattle
were obliged
to drink the brackish
water of the river, in consequence of the intensity of their drought and the Edmond, the son of Gilla-Duv, son of Conor, oppressiveness of their thirst.
Mac Maurice
son of Donough, son of Donnell-na-madhman Mac Sweeny, was constable to and he had with him only a small party of gallowat this time
;
men, the time of their service being exfrom Mac Maurice, pired. However, they did not think it honourable to depart There happened also to be in the town at as this danger had overtaken him.
glasses of his followers, scarcely
fifty
this time
one John-na-Seoltadh", son of Donnell O'Malley, with the crew of a long ship, who, being friends to the fleet of Mae Maurice, had come to visit him without visitation or engagement, and did not think it becoming to desert him
on, that occasion.
Mac Maurice
consulted with those chieftains, to
know
:
" In They answered and said unto him with one accord our present situation our life is next to death, and it is not relief we shall receive by the consent of those who are opposed to us, and who are be-
what he should
do.
sieging us and, as it is not thy wish to give hostages to the son of Maurice, the son of the Earl, what thou shouldst do is, to resign thy luck and prosperity to fate and fortune" this day, and take for thy portion of Ireland till
; 1
night what shall be under the feet of thine enemies, and let us attack the Clann-Sheehy, for against them our enmity and indignation are greatest." This
resolution being agreed
to,
they rose up quickly with one accord, and
Mac
Maurice placed in order and array of battle the small body of friendly forces that he had with him, and the Clann-Sweeny were placed in the van to make
pert mariners ip
all
Ireland.
1559, note
sense thus
p
,
m To The word coice cerfate and fortune means fate or destiny here See the year tainly
"
:
where the word is used in the same Gp arm pin GO co>li an coice
-\
oo cfoai j an cmnfmuin a ccup ap aon riiaijm,
9x2
1628
aNNdta
-|
TJiognachca eiraeaNN.
[1568.
cpichij
a crapla ina ccimceall ma a ppaicpm oia nionnpaiccib ap an Diob ap en laraip map bfir 05 ire opouccab pin uaip pob pfpp leo a ccopcc ace ibe pimp uipcce pe a naccaib amail po bacrap. Spain glaipp oepaicc, coiccinn 50 Imcupa riific muipip a mumcipe nf po jabpacr cop Don conaip a ppaobaip plfj, pangaccap hi ccfno cloinne pici&, 50 po pecab leo pulang a ccacbapp, Ifc ap Ifc, mp cpuaib pfb a pamcac, coinjeall a ccloibfm, ooib ace an ccomcuapccain pin po ppaoineab t>on jlan ccaicfmh pee aimpipe cul pe compopuccao a cuccpac acchaib ap imceacc, jfpalcac
16
~| ~\ ~\ ~\
pluaj
-j
-]
nofohaij la municip meic inui]iip DiannnnCpnaijfD ccaclaicpeac. acca pfopaipleac co ndji bupapa po jabpac aja ppaoiglfb ciappaije, oo cloinn rpichij ipm pfom no aipfrh 506 ap paccbab to gfpalcacaib,
-]
Ro
ma
~\
~|
Ro mapbab ecc mop ann pin 6 concobaip ciappaije, conppaomeaD cobap mac concobaip, 6a Do moip ecraib cloinne Rubpaije an can pin an ci
hi pin.
.1.
copcaip ann
a clannmaicne, popap Dia painicc pin, aoibeal beo a cineab, a acapba ap belaib pinnpeap, uaicne pulaing Dam, oeopaoh, ~\ oplamap ofg aopa jaca Dana, pope cocaijre coccaib, i cfnnaippce ppi corhappanaib
-\
-)
mic pfchij apD conpapal jfpalcac, pfp coicceac cpomconaij 50 Ian ainm laime cije aoibfb,"] TTlupchab balb mac majnupa, mic pichij, Uabcc puab o ceallacam, Sfon mac TTlac ui buibibip, TTlac an pioipe pmn, Palcac buine maoilin,
1 coiccpiochaib.
-) -|
Ro paccbab
ann ona, emann occ mac
emamn
jjeapoio mic geapailc oibpe leice bebionn. Rogabaoh ann puaibpi mac majnupa mic pichi j, Ro mapbab ~\ po gabab pocaibe ele cenmocdc pibe Don
cup
i.
pin.
e. it
was there that
fate, will,
and destiny per-
forth so soon to the engagement, for they felt
mitted to bring them to one place." "Subdue tliem. The style here is clumsy, or, at least, very artless. It could be easily im-
confident that so small a
number could be easily

.1.
subdued."
The
eacr."
'
strength.
" Seuo
laioip no laioip-
proved by altering the construction and purifying the language, bitt this would not be fair
QfGlery.
i.
Clanna-Rury,
e.
the descendants of
Rudh-
The whole story could be " The Clannbetter told in fewer words thus whose only food since they had enSheehy,
in
any
translator.
raighe Mor, King of Ulster, A. M. 3845, accord-
Duald Mac ing to O'Flaherty's Chronology. Firbis states, in his pedigrees of the ClannaRudhraighe, that O'Conor Kerry is the most He illustrious chieftain he finds among them.
'
at Lixnaw was the green grain from the blade of corn, and whose only drink was the brackish water of the River Brick, rejoiced ex-
camped
gives the pedigree of
two branches of
this fa-
ceedingly at seeing Fitz Maurice's party
come
mily, namely, of John, the son of Conor, son of
1568.]

No
1629
wealth or principality was, they thought, more agreeable to the Clann-Sheehy, and all those who were about them, than to see them approach in this order, for they had rather subdue them" on the spot [as they thought
the onset.
they could], than to remain awaiting them [any longer], eating, as they had been, the green grain from the blade of corn, and drinking cold water. As for Mac Maurice and his people, they deviated not from the common ,road
until they
came up with the Clann-Sheehy; and then
it
was
that both parties
made
of the temper of their sharp spears, the strength of their battle-axes, the keenness of their swords, and the hardness of their helmets and after
trial
;
having thus fought for some time, the fine
army
of the Geraldines. were worsted,

field of battle.
and took
to flight,
and turned
their backs
from maintaining the
They were vehemently and swiftly pursued by the people of Mac Maurice of Kerry, who proceeded to wound and slaughter them so that it would not be easy to reckon or enumerate all of the Geraldines and of the Clann-Sheehy
;
that fell in this defeat.
There was one
in particular slain there
whose
fall
was
O'Conor Kerry (Conor, the son of Conor); his death was one of the mournful losses of the Clanna-Rury p at this time the lively brand of his tribe and race a junior, to whom devolved the chieftainship of
a cause of great grief, namely,
; ;
prop of the learned, the distressed, and the professors of the arts a pillar of support in war and contest against his neighbours and against foreigners. There also fell Edniond Oge, the son of Edmond Mac Sheehy, chief constable to the Geraldines, 'a
;
his native territory, in preference to his seniors; a sustaining
wealthy and affluent man, famed for his dexterity of hand and house of hospialso Murrough Balbh, the son of Manus Mac tality Sheehy Teige Roe
; ;
White Knight Faltach of O'Dwyer and John, the son of Garrett Fitzgerald, heir to Lec-Beibhiorm r There Rory, son of Manus Mac Sheehy, was"taken prisoner and many others besides these were slain or taken prisoners.
O'Callaghan Dun-Maoilin q
;
the son of
the son of the
son
Conor, son of Conor, son of John, son of Conor, of Conor, son of Conor, son of Dermot
in de-
fifth in
*
Dun-maoilm,
descent from the same Riulhraighe. i. e. Maoilin's fort, now Dun-
O'Conor Kerry, who was the fifty-eighth
scent from Iludhraighe, and of an older branch,
who would appear
to
have been extinct in the
moylin, near the village of Ardagh, in the barouy of Lower Conillo, and county of Limerick. ' Lec-Beibhionn, now Lickbevune castle, built
writer's time, namely, of Conor, son of John, son of Conor, son of Dermot, who was the fifty-
on a
cliff
over the
sea, in
the parish of Kilconly,
barony of Iraghticonor, and county of Kerry.
1630
dNNCK,a Rio^hachca eiraeaNN.
[1569.
QO1S CR1OSC,
1569.
cuicc ceo, Sfpcca, anaof. Cfoip Cpiopc, mile,
Gppocc cillejodlua
uf bpiain oecc.
.1.
coippDealbac mac macjarhna mic coippDealbaijij
Sfchnapaicch .1. an giolla oub mac Diapmarca, mic uilliam, mic Sfain buibe rulac coiplfnja Do jallaib -| Do jaoiDelaib Doneoc ciccfo Dia paigiD hi laibin no hi mbepla poba mo cion -\ call hi ppiaDbib, pfp jan bfir eolac
naipi gall
Sfan DO gabdil a lonaioh. Sldine injfnTTlupchaiD mic coippDealbai^, mic caibcc, mic coippDealbaij
an pfp
pin,
-|
ecc.
Q mac
uf bpiain oecc.
pecac injfn bpiain, mic caibcc, mic roipp&ealbaij, mic bpiain caca an aonaij uf bpiain bfn ui peacnapaicc .1. DiapmaiD mac uilliam mic Sfain
TTlop
buioe bfn oeappccaijce ap Deilb i ap DeaplaccaD ipiDe Do ecc. Semup mac muipip mic an lapla Do bfic na Duine coccrac conjaipfc an bliaDain pi 50 po cfiigailpior goitl ~\ gaoiDil na muman 6 beapba co capn
oaon pann i Daon noamjfn ppip najaiD comaiple an pfj. lapla upmuman DO bfir Sa;coib .1. comap mac Semaip mic piapaip mic Semaip, a Diap Deapbpacap .1. emann an calaD eDuapD DO Dol in en mic emainn,
uf nfiD
i i ~\ ~\
Semup n>ac muipip, Do cocrap an Diap mac pin an mpla la peile bd Dfpim Doaipneip ap glacpac Deachaib, muipe mop pa aonac innpi copp, Qn 1 SP 01 ^' D P 1 Daipccfcc, i DeappaDaib allmapba ap an aonac pin.
pann 16
-\
1
?)
ciapla Dna DO ceacc ppip an Scdca.

s
in
epinn an bliaDain ceDna
")
pioDucchab Dia bpairpib
Bishop ofKiUaloe.
Harris
states, in his edi-
Sir Dermot,
who was knighted by King Henry

See Genealogies,
Tribes,
tion of Ware's Bishops, p. 595, that this Tur-
VHI.
u
in
1533.
and
lough, or, as
him, Terence, obtained the bishopric of Killaloe in the reign of Queen Mary, and governed it until the end t>f the
calls
he
Customs of Hy-Fiachrach,
More Phecagh,
i.
e.
p. 376. More, or Martha, the
gaudy, or showy.
Y
year 1566; but adds, that he had not been able to discover how long after. This entry settles
this point.
His real name Gilla-Duv,i.e.juvenisniger. was Ruaidhri, Rory, or Roger, and usually called Sir Roger O'Shaughnessy. He was the son of
An English writer " broke out into open rebellion this say, that when this James was year." O'Daly says elevated to the place vacated by the imprisonwarlike,
fyc
Son of the Earl, w Was a
i.
e.
of the Earl of Desmond,
would
ment of the
Earl, lie sent a herald to
Pope Gre-
1.5690
1631
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
8
,
1569.
sixty-nine.
The Bishop
O'Brien, died.
of Killaloe
i.
e.
Turlough, the son of Mahon, son of Turlough

the son of Dermot, son of William, son of
;
O'Shaughnessy (Gilla-Duv
),
the English and Irish who came to him a man who, though not skilled in Latin or English, was held in much respect and esteem by the English, died. His son, John, took his place.
John Boy, the
alighting hill to all
Slaine, the daughter of
Murrough, son of Teige, son of Teige, son of Tur-
lough O'Brien, died.

of Bpian, the son of Teige, son of Turlough, son of Brian Catha-an-aenaigh O'Brien, and wife of O'Shaughnessy, i. e. Dermot, the son of William, son of John Boy, a woman distinguished for her beaiity
More Phecagh", daughter
and munificence, died.

James, the son of Maurice, son of the Earl", was a warlike" man of many troops this year and the English and Irish of Munster, from the Barrow to
;
Carn-Ui-Neid*, entered into a unanimous and firm confederacy with him against the Queen's Parliament. The Earl of Ormond, i. e. Thomas, theson of James,
son of Pierce, son of James, son of

his
Edmond, being
[at this time] in
England,
two brothers, Edmond of Caladh and Edward, had confederated with James, the son of Maurice. These two sons of the Earl went to the fair of Inis-corr y
on Great Lady-Day
;
steeds, horses, gold,
The
Earl returned to
would be difficult to enumerate or describe all the silver, and foreign wares, they seized upon at that fair. Ireland the same year, and his brothers were reconciled
and
it
to the State".
gory XIII. to pray his blessing on the success of the; war, and that his Holiness animated this
chieftain to the glorious work.
*
c. xvii.
of Clann-Deirgthine. ' Innis-corr Cox
makes
this
Iniscorthy
Cam- Ui-Neid,
i.
e.
the earn of the grand-
son of Neid, one of the Tuatha-De-Dananns.
This earn was near Mizen-head, in. the southwest of the county of Cork See this place iiiriiin referred to at the year 1580, where it is
described as in the south-west of the province
(now Enniscorthy), on the River Slaney, in the county of Wexford, Hibernia Anglicana, A. D. 1568, which is probably correct; and if so, thr Four Masters should have written this name
Imp coprao,
See note
'
as
they have
it
at the year 1460.

p.
c
,
under that year,

to the State.
1009, supra.
says that they
Reconciled
Cox
1632
awNae-a Rio^hachna
emecmR
[1569.
Sluaicceab mop la lupcip na h6peann Sip hanpp SiDng hi ppojmap na an Oamjmjre Do ponblia&na po Do &ol ap muimneacaib a noiaib na pioba pac, apfb Do ab cpe laijnib piapbeap, 1 nf po aipip 50 painicc 50 huib
]
-|
maccaille pa murhain, -| po puibijft) longpopc pocpaib pluaijbfoba laip hi ccimceall baile na mapcpa, i baf pfccmain le hacchaib an baile, bdccap laof Don cpeaccmain pin lomaipeqcc Do cabaipc Don muirhnij 05 bajap gac
-]
in nf pin. T?o jabab an baile pa beoib a hucc na banpfojna inn. Do cuaib ap po paccaib bapoa lap an lupcip, an bappaij, cpe jlfnn majaip Do 6ol 50 copcaij. baccap pin cpe Duchaij eipje amac muirhneac ann pin ap a cionn'in oipcill lommbuailce ppip. Cfp
lupcip co na pluaj,-] nf po comaillpioc

~|
-]
aof DO leicceab
an conaip Don
lupcip.
baof an lupcip le hachaiD
hi
ccop-
cai, i a pannca coccaib 05 oeilmccab le Semap an aipfc pin ace ceacc ap ppoce^ i ap papDun. Uanaic an lupcip ap pin 50 luimneac,-] po bpipfb blaD DO bailcib na muriian laip ecip copcaij-j luimneac. l?o jabaD cluain Dubdin
~\
baile
bfcdin hi
ccuaDmumain Don coipcc
pin lap an mpcip,
~\
Do coib
laparh 50 5aillimh. 6af piDe ppi hfb ip in mbaile pin 05 cfnnpuccab Dalccaip 1 cloinne huilliam, -| mpcaip connacc, -| lap ppaccbdil na gaillme Do po
Dun mop mec peopaip, i T?opcomam, 17o paccaib Ppepioenp mbaile aca luam op cfnn coiccib connacc uile 6 Dpobaofp 50 luimneac aja
gabab
laip
ppollamnuccab
pin piam, Sip
agd ppipcfnnpuccab. ba hepibe ceo ppepiDenc na cfpe 17o puf an lupcip cap a aip hi ppine eouajiD Picun a ainm.
~| /
were pardoned
for ttie sake
of the Earl, and
perhaps by special orders from the Queen, who by the mother was related to this noble family,
to boast of the untainted loyalty of the house of Ormond. See also Camden's An-
tiful glen with a ^mall village, about four miles to the north of the city of Cork See
Smith's Natural and Civil History of Cork, vol.

p. 167.
f
i.
and Used
Cluain-Dub/iain,
i.
e.
Duane's lawn, meaCloonoan, a castle in
nals of the Reign of Elizabeth, A. D. 1569, edition of 1639, p. -173.

a
dow, or bog island,
now
ruins, near Rockvale,
the residence of James
Ui-MaccaiUe,
in the
b
now
the barony of Imokilly,
Darcy, Esq., in the parish of Kilkeedy, barony

of Inchiquin, and county of Clare.
g
county of Cork.
Castlemartyr, in the barony of Imokilly, and county of Cork. c This threat, literally, " this thing." d Barry's country, now the barony of BarryBaile-na-martra,
now
Baile- Ui-Bheachain,
i.
e.
the
town of
O'Beaghan.
This name
is
now
anglicised Bal-
lyvaughan, and applied to a small village in the parish of Drumcreehy, barony of Burren, and
more, in the county of Cork.

e
Gleo,nn-Maghair,
now Glanmire,
a beau-
county of Clare. The castle of this place stood on the brink of the bay close to the village, but
1569-]
1633
A great hosting was made by the Lord Justice of Ireland, Sir Henry Sidney,
autumn of this year, to proceed against the Munstermen, after the peace and league which they had made and the route he took was south-west, through Leinster and he did Sot halt until he arrived in Ui-Mac Caile", in
in the
; ;
Munster, and there he pitched a commodious camp of vigorous hosts around b and he remained for a week besieging the town, the MunBaile-na-martra
,
stermen threatening every day of that week to give battle to the Lord Justice and his army, but they did not put this threat into execution. The town
taken by the Lord Justice, and he left warders in it to guard it for He passed from thence through Barry's country", and through the Queen. Here there was a rising out of MunGleann-Maghair', to proceed to Cork.
was
finally
stermen in readiness to give him battle

to the
Lord
Justice.
but the pass was nevertheless ceded The Lord Justice abode some time in Cork, during
;
which time
in
his military confederates
under protection and pardon. Limerick, and he demolished some of the towns of Munster between Cork and
Limerick.
were separating from James, and coming From thence the Lord Justice went on to
f
On
this expedition
Cluain-Dubhain
Thomond, were taken by the Lord Justice, Galway. In that town he remained some time, reducing the
and Baile-Ui-Bheachains in and he afterwards proceeded to

Dal-Cais, the
Clann- William, and [the inhabitants of] West Connaught, to subjection. On h his departure from Galway he took Dunmore-Mic-Feorais and Roscommon,
(and) he
left a president in Athlone to govern and reduce to obedience all the of Connaught from Drobhaois to Limerick This was the first preprovince sident ever [appointed] in that country his name was Sir Edward Phitun*.
1
The Lord
Justice returned at the close of that
autumn
into Fine-Ghall and

1
only a few scattered fragments of the walls are
Sligo and the county of Leitrim, to the city of
now
h
to
be seen.
i.
Limerick.
e.
The county of Clare was made a
Dunmore-Mic-Feorais,
a Bermingham's great fort, small town in a of the same name, about barony eight miles to the north of Tuam, in the county of Galway.
1
Mac Feorais's now Dunmore,
or
part of the province of Connaught in this reign. k Leland calls him Sir Sir Edward Phitun
Edward
book
'
Fitton.
See his History of Ireland,

This
the Irish
iv. c. 2.
is
Fine- Ghatt.
name for what

call
Limerick, Eiver Drowes, which forms the boundary bei.
From
Drobhaois
to
e.
from the
English and Anglo-Irish writers

lish Pale."
the " Eng-
On
the fifth of the Calends of
March
Eli-
tween the barony of Carbury,
in the
county of
this year the
Pope excommunicated Queen
1634
CINNCHXI
50 bar cliac lap mbuaib ccopccaip nepinn oeajina peap icmaio an pfj
i
i
[1569-
nfcfipeab an
pojmaip
pin
bubem,
-]
ni
piarii
la hoipfc an cploij po baoi-
piorh
DO ponab laippiurh. eaccpa pob aiceapaije map an piubal pin

of which by \\isBullaDedaratoria, a copy
ciall
zabeth,
was posted by night, in the year 1570, on the See door of the Episcopal Palace in London.
Camdeii's Annals, at the year 1570, where this Bull is printed, and Philip O'Sullivan's II! story
Favors in manner and forme following. e " Furst. That the said I Brene Araa
delyver unto youe, our said Deputie, a full & pleyne particular Note & Extent of all the Manors, Castells, Lordshippes, Landes, Tenementes,
of the
Catholics, fol. 237-
Seignories, Rules, Rentes, Dutyes, Customesi
&
On the 3rd day of November, 1569, the Lord Deputy and Council issued an order in favour of
Mac-I-Brien, Chief of Arra, or Dooharra, in the
1
Comodities, whearof he
meane seysed
at this
by any maner of present, & after wee wyll

is
.
north-west of the county of Tipperary, in pursuance of the Queen's letter, dated the last day As the Four Masters have of February, 1567given no notice of Mac-I-Brien's submission, the Editor deems it his duty to give the Queen's
letter and the subsequent order of the Council in this place, as these documents have never been
order that our Chauncellor. shall accepte & c I Brene Araa, by Deed, receyve of the said
&
be enrolled in our Courte of Chancery within that our Realme of Ireland, the submyssion of
to
the said
c
.
Brene Araa,
&
c
surrender
&
resig-
nation of his
all
Name
of
Brene Araa,
&
of
the said Manors, Castells, Lordshippes, Seig-
nories, Eules, Hereditaments, Comodities,

fits,
& Pro-
printed " Rot. Pat, de Anno 12 JEliz. Dorso. " For Mac I Brene Arra.
:
with
all
and singular their Appurtenances.
After which submyssion
&
surrender so made,
our pleasure
is,
that youe, our Deputie, cause our
"
Elizabeth, ^R.
"
By
the Queene.
"
Right trustie
&
I
welbeloved, wee greete youe
Letters Patentes, under the greate seaje of that c I Brene our Realme, to be made to the said
well.
Wheras M"
Brene Araaj our faythfull
&
humbly submytted hymself to our trustie & welbeloved Sir Henry Sydney, Knyght of our order of the Garter &
lovinge subjecte, hayth
Araa, & gotten &
theyres males of his body leafully beto be begotten, of all the said Castells,
Manors, Landes, Tenements,

to hold of us,
our Heires,
& Hereditaments, & Successors, in Capite & Succes& Attendance,

use, or cus-
Deputy of [our] Realme of Ireland, recognysing hymselfe as a faithfull subjecte to us and to our
Crowne, offring to surrender his Estate from hym & his sequele, and to receyve from us an Estate
according to our Pleasure,
by Knyght's Fees,
buting,
&
yealding, payeng, contri-
&
doyng, to us,
our Heires,
sours, all souch Rentes, Services,

as
nowe by any Lawe, Composition,

is
&
haith sent his son
Donagh
preslie
to
make
offers,
in our Presence the said sub-
bound, or oughte to doe, with souche farther Reservations, as to you, our Deputie,
tome he
myssyon &
who hayth very
lowlie
&
ex-
by Assent of the
said
c
.
Brene Araa, shalbe
done the same.
deration of the said
Wee, thearfor, in humble submyssion &
consioffers,
are pleased to accept
&
allowe the said
it shall thought convenyent. seame necessarie to youe, our Deputie, to alter
Neverthelesse, yf
or change the said Rentes, Duties,
& Attendance,
Brene Araa,
& Donagh
his son, as our Liege
which
c
.
Brene Araa
is
presentlie holden to
men &
leafull subjectes,
they shall
and are pleased that receyve from us thies Graces & spe-
doe, into outher kyndes, meeter for our service,
wee authorise you
so to doe.
1569.]

;
1635
and triumph and no deputy of the King of Ireland had ever before made a more successful expedition, with a like number of
to Dublin, after victory
forces, than that
journey performed by him.

is,
"Item.
that all
Our Pleasure
in Consideration
is
" Order of Councill for " " H. Sydney.

"
c
.
c
.
Brene Arra.
manner
of obedyence
by the said
Brene Araa, for hym & his, offred to us, that is due fora good and faythfull subjecte, that ther be added in the said Letters Patents a
c
By
the La. Deputie and
Counsayll.
speciall
Proviso
c
.
Brcne Araa,
& &
Condition,
that
the
said
Wheare Tirelagh M I Brene Arra, Chief of his nation, in the Con trie of Arra, and Laid
of the said Countrie, have
his said Heires males of his
made
his
humble
body, their issues, offspringe, Posteritie, Sequele,

Servants, Tenants,
&
Folowers, shall, to the ut-
submyssion unto the Queene's moost excellent Majestie, requiring her Highnes to accepte of
termost of their Powers, contynue for ever true .& faythfull & loyall subjectes to us, our Heires,
hym
Arra,
the surrender of his
Name
of
c
.
I Brene
all
&
of the said Contrie of Arra, and
and Successours, as outher our Subjectes of that Realme are bound by their Allegyance to doe,
outher his Castells, Lands, Tenements, & Heredit s with all & singular their Appurtenances ;
.
and in lyke manner

effectually
shall
accepte, obey, and

fulfyll
and further that
it
might please her Majestie
to
accomplyshe &
the
Lawes,
graunt the same to him
&
the Heires males of
Statutes, Writtes, Processes,
our Heires
said
&
Successours.
& ordinances of us, And yf youe, our<
Deputie and Counsayll there, thinke necesc sarie to deale with the said I Brene .Araa,
his body lawfully begotten & to be begotten, to hold of her Highnes Whearunto she moost have condiscended, as more amply graciouslie
:
by her Majestie's
Raigne,
said Letters,
dated the last
more
shall
particularlie,
wee are pleased that youe
daie of February, 1567, in the tenth yere of her
& may adde

to
to the said Letters Patentes, so
&
signed with her Majestie's most gra-
to
hym
be made, souche further Articles
&
cious Hande, enrolled in *the Rolles of her
Ma-
Covenaunts, on his parte, to be observed by hym, his said Heires, Sequele, & Folowers for
theirr better Instruction
selvtfs
howe
to
behave theym-
Forjestie's Court of Chauncery, doth appere. asmuch as souch Circumstances & Ceremonies as necessarilie doth appertaine to be executed
for the Perfection of the Premises cannot, for
to all
towardes us, our Heires, & Successors, outher our loving Subjectes, & to free
& &
exempt from the Exactions, Servitude,

pression of
all
&
op-
many occasions, be presentlie accomplyshed in due forme as becometh. We, the Lord
outher, contrary to
our Lawes,
&
Counsaill,
Deputy whose Names are hereunto sub-
demanding eny thinge of hym or theyru, yeoven under our Signett at our Pallais of Westminster the last
scribed, consideringe neverthelesse the gracious
day of February 1567 and in the
and princelie meaninge of her most excellent Majestie towards the said M. I Brene Arra, expressed in the said Letters, which for our parts
tenth yere of our Eeigne." " To our trustie
&
welbeloved our
we
will
I
see
inviolably observed to
the said
Deputie
1
&
Chauncellor of our
for the
M.
Brene Arra
&
his said Heires males of his
Realme of Ireland,
said
tyme
body.
being, or to the Justices of our
Majestie's
Therfore we will and require all her officers, Mynisters and other her
Realme."
faith full subjects, to
permitt and
suffir
the said
r 2
1636
QNNata Rio^hachua eiReawn.

QO1S CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopc,
1570.
[1570.
mile, cuicc ceo, Sfcrmojac.
pdnac .1. roippbealbac occ, mac coijipbealbaig, mic maola bparaip aob bui6e puab, TTlac puibne na cruac, TTlupchab mall muipe, mac eoccain oicc DO rhapbaD noun na long hi ppnill hi ppiabnaipi i neill
TTlac puibne
-]
~\
(coippbealbac luineac) la cloinn nDorhnaill gallocclac -\ pob oilbfim a&bal ofmeac ofnsnarh, Do rpeoip, "| Do caippcijce Do copnam, ~\ DO cocuccab
]
cuaipceipc epeann cuicim an cpfp fpm, -| pob ecc mop pfp Dib pin gep bo maic an Diap naile .1. TTlupchab mall cnu op cpobaing, gpipbeo gan bd&aD, epp aipccio gaoibel, pinn lomapbaja peap nulab nacchaib peap nepeann, uaicne
i
bpipce bepne baojail, pobailceac peD -| paop maofneab pfl puibne an mup r chab pin. bpacaip eoccan occ DO gabail a lonaib, i a bparaip oomnall Doiponeab nionaoh TTlheic puibne pctnar.
bomnaill Do mapbab hi ppiull 05 cionncub o pluaj uf Dorhnaill la pfpDopca mac uf jallcubaip co na mumcip -| la Dpuing ele DO pliocc Donnchaib uf jallcubaip.
uf
Giccneacan mac aoba buibe
TTiac conmapa, Sfan,
mac
pfooa, mic meiccon, mic SfoDa, mic caibcc mic
loclamn nêapna an caoibe roip DO cloinn coilefn Do ecc Duine miabac mopI Brene Arra, & his Heires males Tirrelagh of his body begotten and to be gotten, to have and enjoy the full benefit of her Majestie's said
c
.
Dun-na-lony, i. e. the fort of the ships, now Dunnalong, on the Foyle, in the north-west of the barony of Strabane, in the county of Tyrone,
gracious Letters, according the tenor of the said Letters, as yf the same were duely & formally
and about
five
miles to the south of Lon-
done
executed by Letters Patentes under the Seall. All whiche is fully mente to be to great hym past by Letters Patentes with all conve-
&
donderry. n Without extinction have written " A

:
The Four Masters should champion who was a glowing
nyent spede.
the contrarie.
of
Hereof we eftsones will

to faile, as
at
& com-
maunde you not
Yeoven
you will aunswer to Dublin the third dale
furnace in military ardour, till he was extinguished by the Clann-Donnell on this occasion." " Champion 6afip no epp .1. jaipjeaohoc." CfClery.
p
November 1569.
P. Carewe.
The star of
conflict.
The
Irish
word pinn
weapon.
" Robert Weston, Cane.

T.
signifies a star,
and
also the point of a
Armachan.
Dublin.
[Rot. Pat. de
H. Draycourt.
Frances Agard.
Adam
Either meaning could be figuratively applied to a distinguished warrior.

i
John Chaloner."
Pas* of danger,
literally,
" the pillar of
Anno 12
Eliz.
d.~\
breaking the gap of danger."
The word cu-
1570.]
1037
THE AGE OF CHRIST,
1570.
seventy.
The Age of Christ, one thousand five hundred
Mac Sweeny Fanad (Turlough Oge, the son of Turlough, son of Mulmurry), the brother of Hugh Boy Roe and Mac Sweeny-na-dtuath (Murrough
Mall, the son of
m treacherously slain at Dun-na-long in the presence of O'Neill (Turlough Luineach), by the Clann-Donnell Galloglagh. The fall of these three was a great blow to the hospitality and prowess, to the
Owen Oge) were
and support of the north of Ireland, but [the death of] one of them was more particularly a cause of great lamentation, though the other two were truly good, namely, Murrough Mall, who was
to the protection
power and pomp,
renowned above heroes, a burning brand without

the
extinction", the
champion
of the valour of the Gaels, the star of the conflict" of the
men
men
q
,
Danger His kinsman
of Ireland, a mighty champion at forcing his way the distributor of the jewels and noble wealth of the Clann-Sweeny.
r
,
of Ulster against thrcmgh the Pass of
Oge, took his [Murrough' s] place Donnell, was elected in the place of Mac Sweeny Fanad.
Owen
and
his
kinsman,
Egneghan, the son of Hugh Boy O'Donnell, was treacherously slain, on his return from O'Donnell's army, by Ferdoragh, the son of O'Gallagher, and his
people,
and by others of the descendants of Donough O'Gallagher. Mac Namara (John, the son of Sida, son of Maccon, son of Sida*, son of Teige, son of Loughlin), Lord of the eastern part of Clann-Coilen', died. He
'
would be better here than uairne. The beupna baoâil, i. e. gap of danger, was a perilous pass, where the chief usually placed guards to prevent his enemies from making a,n irruption
into his territory.
Sida
This name
the family of
cised Sheedy,
'
is still common amongst Mac Namara, and usually angli-
but sometimes translated
Silk.
Clann-Coilen.
According to a Description
For a beautiful description of a pass of this kind the reader is referred to Sir Walter Scott's Waverley, vol. i. c. 15.
'
of the
County of Clare, preserved in the Library
of Trinity College, Dublin, the territory of the eastern Mac Namara, who was otherwise called
His kinsman.
is
The construction of the

It
ori:
Mac Namara
Finn, comprised the following pa-
ginal
here very careless.
should run thus
rishes in the east of the county of Clare, viz.,
Mac Sweeny-na-dtuath was succeeded by his kinsman, Owen Oge Mac Sweeny, and Mac
S weeny Fanad was succeeded by
Donnell
his relative,
"
Kilkedy, Kilroouy, Tullagh, Moynoe, Kilnoe, Killokennedy, KiltiKillaloe, Aglish, Killurin,
nanelea, Feakle, Kilfinaghty, and Inishcaltragh.
Mac Sweeny."
According to this
list,
the O'Gradys,
who were
!638
aNNdta Rio^hachca eiReawn.

-| -|
[1570.
balac leanDan ban, injfn ap puapca,-) ap p ibfnpab, conmfba, mic Donnchaib DO sabail a lonaib.
Domnall piabac mac

la ppepiDenp
Pogpa cuipce
hi
mamipcip
innpi hi
-\
ccuabmumain DO cop
50 huaccap connacc, cabcc mac mupchaib uf bpiain ape bd pippiam ip in cfp an can pm,-] pob epibe ceD pippiam cuabmuman. Do ponab laipi&e upsnam bi'6, i bioraille po corhaip an Ppecoiccib connacc 50 pfol mbpiain,
Uicc lapam an Ppepioenp Don baile a ccimcell na pele bpijDe Do ponnpab. bd hann baof mpla cuabmuman concobap mac oonchaib mic concobaip uf bpiain ip in clap in can pin. l?o cuip an ppepioenp
piDenp
hi
mainipcip innpi.
ipin
Do looap Dpong DO jdpDa an ppepiDenp Do rhaicib cpfp Id jaipm paip,-|

~\
a mapcpluaij DO cocuipeab an mpla. 6d in aqn uaip Do 16 DO Domnall mac concobaip uf bpiain ace cocc cooap pibe 50 Dopup an baile 6d hi comaiple po cmneab lap an mpla, Domnall cuicce map an cceona. na comlab apceac DO jabdil, Dpong Da paibe amuij Dib a paibe 6 plabpab
a muincipe
~\
~\ ~\
DO mapbab. T?o imcij an CUID ele Dib bo copab pfca pionnluaip a neac hi Ro imcij an ppepiDenp ap na mapac, -] clann ccfnn an ppepiDenp gohinip. mupchaib mic coippbealbaij .1. cabcc Donnchab Da rpeopuccab ap in cfp,
-| -[
ace Denam eolaip DO cpe capcpaib'cumgaib,'] cpe Dpoibelaib Diampa DOIbaof an ciapla dgd ccopaijecc,-] 05 cabaipc amaip poppa 50 pan" eolaip.
1
jaccap jopc
lupcip
innpi
juaipe
in
aDhaij
pin.
lap poccain na pccel pin gup an

~\
pojab pfpcc i lonnup e,") apfb po cinn pOn, an comaiple apopconjpa ap mpla upmuman, Uomap mac Semaip mic piapnip puaib a hucc na banpfojna cocc Do cfnnpuccab mpla cuabmuman ip in njniorh anuaibpeac Do a mbpacaippi Dia poile. Uainicc mpla upmupinne uaip bd 5ap a njaol man co na ploj hi ccuabmumain po ceooip, DO piacc an ciapla concobap in
-]
die lomaccallma ppip,
-]
DO êall 50 noiongnab a
Y
coil
piumh
-)
coil,
na
corn-
seated at Tomgraney, Scarriff, andMoynoe, were tributary to this chief of the Mac Namaras.
u
Narrow
passes.
The word cnpcaip, which

county of Clare See Carcair-
makes capcpaib
in the dative or ablative case
Upper Connaught,
i.
e.
the southern part of
plural, is still understood in the

as denoting a steep,
Connaught. v
uncle,
x
i.
narrow
pass".
Donnelly the son of Conor.

e.
He was the Earl's
his father's brother.
na-gcleireach at the years 1599 and 1600. z Gort-innsiGuaire, i. e. the field of the
island or
The rest of them. The style h.ere is remarkably imperfect, as appears from the words enclosed in brackets.
holm of Guaire, now the town of
Gort, in the south-west of the county of Galway. Some will have it that this place took its
1570.]
1639
was a noble and majestic man, the favourite of women and damsels, on account of his mirthfulness and pleasantry. And Donnell Keagh, the son of Cumeadha,
son of Donough, took his place.
Thomorid, was issued by the President of the province of Connaught, to the O'Briens and
[the inhabitants of]
A proclamation for holding a court in the

Upper Connaught".
monastery of Ennis,
in
Teige, the son of
Murrough O'Brien,
who was at this time sheriff in the territory (and he was the first sheriff of Thomond), placed a quantity of food and liquors in the monastery of Ennis The President arrived in the town about the for. the use of the President.
festival of St. Bridget.
Conor, the son of Donough, son of Conor O'Brien) was at this time at Clare, [and] the President on the
Earl
o,f
The
Thomond
third day dispatched a party of his guards, [consisting] of the chiefs of his It was at the same hour of the people and his cavalry, to summon the Earl.
day that these and Donnell, the son of Conor" O'Brien, who was also coming
to the Earl,
arrived at the gate of the town.
The Earl came
to the reso-
making prisoners of Donnell and all those who were withinside the chain of the gate, and killing some of those who were outside. [This he did].
lution of
The
[perceiving his intention] escaped, by swiftness of foot and the fleetness of their horses, to the President, to Ennis. On the following day the President departed, and the sons of Murrough, son of Turlough [O'Brien],
rest of
them
11
i.
Teige and Donough, conducted him out of the country, and guided him through the .narrow passes" and the wild and intricate ways. The Earl fole.
lowed
in pursuit of them,
arrived at
and continued skirmishing with them until they Gort-innsi-Guaire on that night. When this news reached the Lord
z
Justice, he
with wrath and indignation and he and the Council agreed to order the Earl of Ormond (Thomas, the son of James, son of Pierce Roe), in the Queen's name, to go to chastise the Earl of Thomond for that very
filled
;
was
arrogant deed which he had committed, for there was a close relationship and The Earl of Ormojjd [accordingly] immediately friendship between them. proceeded into Thomond with his forces; [and] the Earl, Conor (O'Brien],
came
to a conference
with him, and promised that he would do his bidding "

'
a Guaire O'Shaughnessy, but the general opinion is, that it was called after the celebrated Guaire Aidhne,
name from
who
flourished in the seventh century.
See
Genealogies, Tribes,
and Customs ofHy-Fiachrac/i,
King of Connaught,
pp. 35, 61, 376.
1640
aiple.
dNNaca
Do pao a
Rioishachca eiraeaNN.
[1570.
bailee pop Idim mpla upmuman .1. cluain pampaoa an clap 6 bpiain, -| maice bpaijjofb cuab/numop, -] bunpaice, i po leicceab oorhnall man bdccap hilldim 05 an mpla amac,-] bpaijoe an ppepioenp map cceDna.
jab laparh aicpeacup,-) accuippi an ciapla pa nabailcib,-) pa na bpaijoib DO cabaipc uaba, uaip nf paibe Da lonjpopcaib aicce ace maj 6 mbpacdin amain, apf corhaiple Do pinne po pdccaib bapoaba buancaipipi ann, 5an Dol po blijfo na po jpdpaib comaiple na hepeann coibce, puce DO
T?o
-\
-|
-j
bfie ap paoinoeal -\ ap pojpa, ~\ cul DO cup pe a pojain gup bo pfpp laip 6aof laparh le hachaio^go buchaij i pe a bfjacapDa map Dol Dia paijiD. ccloinn Tnhuipip,-| Do cuaiD ap pin a ccimceall rja pele 66m Don hinclfice hi
ppamc,-| bdi pe h(b ann pin,-) 1 onoip 6 banpiojam cpaân,
cicc laparh 50 Sajroibh,-] puaip jpapa, papoun,

]
Do paD licipeaca laip Dionnpaijib comaiple na hGpeann Dia aicne oiob an ciapla DonopuccaD "j cainicc njfirhpeaD na
i
bliabna
cona
cap a aip 50 hepmn.
ppepiDenc ceona, ~] mpla cloinne piocaipD .1. 17iocapc mac uilbcc na ccfnn mic piocaipo mic uillicc cnuic cuaj Do puibe 16 hacchaib Spucpa hi
parhpab nabliabna
popjla cofpeac,
aoi
i
po.
Qn
bdccap pop an pluaijeab

-\
50 heccge,
-\
cpenmileab lacgaile o jaillim 50 hacluam.
ppepiDenp gaipccm uaccaip connacc 6 maj bdccap pop hi ppoplongpopc an
pin hi ppocaip an
ppepiDenp Dpong mop DO caipcimb co na paijoiurpib amaille ppiu, i Da copuccab no a cpi DO gfomdncoib gaoibealcoib. baof ann beop an calbac mac
coippbealbaij, mic coin cappaij, mic
a
mec Domnaill co na biap mac,

the Fitzgeralds, who took the Maurice, or Fitz Maurice.
f
-|
co na
of
Clar-mor,
"
i.
e.
the town of Clare, from which

its
name
Mac
the county of Clare took
name.
Magh 0-mBracain, now Moymore, in the

'
i.e.
the plain of Ibrickan, parish of Kilfarboy, ba-
Sruthair,
now
Shrule, a well-known village
rony of Ibrickan, and county of Clare, and about three miles to the north of Milltown
Malbay. Small portions of the north and south walls of

c
boundary of the counties of Mayo and Gal way. See Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs ofHy-Fiachrach, p. 497, and the map
to the
8
situated on the
same work.
i.
this castle still remain.
Upper Connaugkt,
Magh-Aoi, a plain
e.
wanderer, literally, claimed."

d
the southern part of
"wandering and pro" to " them," usque
Connaught.
h
in the
county of Rosto.
Among
them, literally,
common, already often referred

'
ad eos -"
Clanmaurice,
a barony in the county of
Echtge,
now
Sliabh Eachtaighe, anglice Slieve
Aughty
Kerry, belonging at this period to a branch of
fort's Ecclesiastical
and incorrectly Sliebaughta, on Beaumap of Ireland, a mountain
1570.]
1641
and the bidding of the Council. He gave up his towns, namely, Clonroad, Clar-mor1 and Bunratty, into the hands of the Earl of Ormond and Donnell
,
O'Brien and the other chieftains of Thomond,
whom
the Earl
had
as prisoners,
and likewise the President's prisoners. The Earl was afterwards seized with sorrow and regret for having given up his towns and priwere
set at liberty,
soners, for
he
now
retained only one
of
all
his fortresses,
;
namely,
Magh
O-mBracain"; and in this he left ever faithful warders and, he resolved that he never would submit himself to the law, or the mercy of the Council of Ireland, choosing rather to be a wanderer and an outlaw, and even- to abandon
He afterwards and goodly patrimony, than to go among them d remained for some time concealed in Clanmaurice' from whence he passed,
his estates
. 1 ,
about the festival of
He
the
John, into France, where he stopped for some time. afterwards went to England, and received favour, pardon, and honour, from
St.
Queen of England, who sent by him letters to the Council of Ireland, commanding them to honour the Earl and he returned to Ireland in the winter
;
of the same year.
President and the Earl of Clanrickard (Rickard, son of Ulick-naf son of Rickard, son of Ulick of Cnoc-Tuagh) laid siege to Sruthir gCeann, in the summer of this year [21st June]. On this expedition, along with the
President, were most of the chieftains and mighty champions of valour and s prowess of Upper Connaught from Magh-Aoi* to Echtge' and from Galway
1
The same
camp a great number of captains, with their soldiers along with them, and two or three battalions of Irish
to Athlone.
also in the President's
There were
hireling soldiers.
There were
in
it
also Calvagh, the son of

sons',
Turlough, son of
;
John Carragh, son of
Mac
Donnell', and his two
with their forces
also
on the confines of the counties of Clare and

Galway.
1263.
J
See
it
before referred to at the year
Calvagh, the son of Turlough, $c
He was
The pedigree of this branch of the Mac Donells given by O'Farrell, in his Linea Antigua, and by Duald Mac Firbis, in his genealogical work, under the name of Clann t)oimiaill 6aijean,
is
chief of one of the septs of the Mac Donnells He was seated at Tinnakill, in of Leinsler.
fboccCoip&ealbai j
Donnell 615, i.e. the Clann-
the parish of Coolbanagher,
barony of Port-
ofLeinster, the posterity of Turlough Oge. They descend from that most powerful of all the clans
nahinch, and Queen's County, where he possessed a considerable territory, as appears from various authorities, and where the keep of his
castle
still
of the Highlands of Scotland, the Lords of the Isles, and through Marcus, according to these
writers, a
remains in tolerable preservation,
of Sir Walter Scott's
younger son of Aengus Oge, the hero Lord of the Isles (see note F
9 z
1642
[1570.
t>o
pocpcnoe, i opfm
ruibne
.1.
aob mac
mic eoccain na lacaije, mic pliocr oomnaill, mic coin, eoccain mic oomnaill oicc, "] oomnall mac munchaib mic
to that
poem), who had married a daughter of O'Kane. The eldest brother of this Marcus was
John,
is
who
died in 1387, who, by a
first alliance,
stretched along the foot of the mountain range, upon the marches of the Pale, bore the name of " the Clandonnell's countrie," as late at least as
S. Depositions, Kildare and Wick1641 see low, in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, F. 2. 4. and 6. As early as 1524, "Alexander,
:
ancestor of the chieftains of Claim- Raghnaill, or Clanronald, and Glengarry ; and by his subse-
MS
quent marriage with the princess Margaret of Scotland, daughter of King Robert II., had issue,
1
films Terentii,
filii
Meilmore Mac Donnell de
st,
Donnell, or Donald,
Lord of the
Isles,
who,
iri
1411, at the head of, ten thousand vassals,
Balliranan, Generosus/' granted five townlands in this district to Gerald, Earl of Kildare,
convulsed the kingdom of Scotland, and fought the famous battle of Harlaw, in defence of his
with an annual rent of three marks for ever.

(Inquisition, Rolls' Office.)
His
son, Tirlagh,
Earldom of Ross, the heiress of which he had married 2nd, John More, who espoused the heiress of Bissett, or Mac Eoin
right to the
;
or
Turlough Oge mac Alexander, appears
as
Bissett of the Glinns of Antrim, and
became
" the three septs of Gallowglasses of the Clandonnells," whose curious indenture of composition with the Lord Deputy
chieftain of one of
ancestor of the powerful family, which, in right of that marriage, on the partial subjugation of
Sidney, dated 7th May, 1578 (which see under that year), is inrolled in the record branch of the
Office of
the Highland clans in the time of James IV. ancTV. of Scotland, settled in the north of the
The two other
Paymaster of Civil Services, Dublin. chiefs at that time were Multhe former of Rahin, and the
county of Antrim, in the sixteenth century, and founded the Earldom of Antrim ; 3rd, Alexander, said to be the ancestor of Keppoch.
murry mac Edmond and Hugh Boy mac Callogh

[or Calvagh],
latter of Tenekille, in the It appears
Marcus, the ancestor of the Leinster branch, was slain, according to the Annals of Ulster, in
the year 1397.
is
Queen's County. from a memorial presented to the Earl of Essex in 1599, by the Irish Council,
The death of his
son,
Turlough,
recorded in the same annals at the year 1435. This Turlough had a son, Turlough Oge, in
settled in
and printed by Fynes Moryson, that the then chief of the Wicklow sept was in arms with the
O'Byrnes and O'Tooles in the mountains of the county of Dublin, and that the head of the Queen's County branch was in rebellion with
the O'Mores.
whose time the family appear to have

Leinster.
that,
The annals
"
in 1466,
of Dudley Firbisse state John, son to Mac Donell, the
best captaine of the English," was slain in a skirmish in Ofaly ; and the Annals of Kilronan
record that a son of Turlough Oge Mac Donnell was slain in Leix [in the Queen's County] in
1504.
On the 26th of December, 1606, their chiefs had each a grant of sixteen shillings, Irish, per diem for life (See Erck'sRepert. Chan. Enroll.)
Several Inquisitions in the Rolls and Chief
About
this period the
Mac Donnells
of
Remembrancer's
Offices ascertain the estates
and
Leinster formed three septs, of whom two were seated in the now Queen's County, and the third
in the present
succession of the line given

logists,
by the
Irish genea-
with which,
as well as
with the notices
barony of Talbotstown, in the
in these Annals, they perfectly accord.

quisitio post
The In-
county of Wicklow, where their possessions,
mortem of the Calvagh Mac Donnell,
1570.]
1643
a party of the descendants of Donnell, the son of John, son of Owen-najj Mac Sweeny, namely, Hugh, the son of Owen, son of Donnell Oge
Lathaighe
mentioned above in the

of the
text, finds
him
possessed
bells."
See MSS. Depositions in the Library of
town and
castle of Tenekill, &c.,

services,
and
Trin. Coll.
Dub.
Of
these
was Alexander Mac
bound, among other
" to keepe and
Donnell of Wicklow, gentleman, called in these

Depositions,
mainteyne twelve able galloglas, on said castel and lands, sufficiently armed for the better inhabiting and preserving of the premises ;" upon sufficient warning to attend upon the Governor
of Ireland, or his deputy, and "to go upon any Irishman bordering upon the foresaid countie"
"the constable of Wicklow," by
which
meant, according to the usage of the Irish at this period, the commander of the galis
lowglasses.
At
the Revolution
many
of the
Mac Donnells
of Leinster enrolled themselves under the banner
The jurors find that his death took [of Leix]. place on the 18th of June, 1570, which accords
with the notice in the
text.
;
of James
II.
In a
roll of his officers, in 1690,
preserved in
MS.
in the Library of Trin. Coll.
He
left
two
sons,
Dublin, several of the name are mentioned as belonging to the regiments levied in that province. In that of Colonel John Grace of Moyelly, occurs
the name of Lieutenant Francis Mac Donnell, who
Hugh Boy and Alexander
the former was then
of age, being born in 1546, and succeeded to the estate ; the latter was slain in the year 1577, q- v. infra. Hugh Boy died on the 31st
of August, 1618, lord of the
kill
manor of Tene-
was evidently of this family, and probably the same who afterwards captured MarshalVilleroy,
and shed such a
light upon Irish honour, at the memorable storming of Cremona in 1702 See Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Charles
and Ballycrassel, &c., and was succeeded by his son and heir, Fergus, born 1575. Fergus
died in 1637, lord of the
manor of
Tenekill,
and was succeeded by his son and heir, James, born 1617, .and then aged twenty years and married.
O* Conor of Belanagare, p.
138-J40; and Mili-
tary Memoirs of the Irish Nation, p. 248.
At
This James made a conspicuous figure in the Queen's County in 1641, when, at the age of
twenty-four, he was a colonel of the confederate Catholics. On the 8th of February in that year
the same period Charles Mac Donnell, likewise evidently of this race, was lieutenant in Sir
guards
Gregory Byrne's company in King James's foot and in Colonel Francis Toole's regi;
of foot, in the same service, was Lieute-
the Lords Justices proclaimed a reward of four hundred pounds, and a free pardon, for his head.
ment
pears
His possessions were then 'confiscated. It apby an Inquisition taken in 1679, that his
nant Brian Mac Donnell, fourth in descent from whom is Alexander Mac Donnell, Esq., J. P., of
widow was allowed dower, but the
estate
was
Bonabrougha, in the county of Wicklow, who married Marcella, heiress of Charles O'Hanlon,
Esq. of Ballynorran, in the same county, one of the lineal representatives of the ancient chiefs
or Reguli of Orior, hereditary royal standard bearers north of the Boyne, whose territory now forms two baronies in the county of Ar-
never restored. This James had a cousin, James, son of Edmond Mac Donnell, who also lived at
Tinnakill,
and was a captain of the confederate
Catholics in 1641.
in
The Mac Donnells made a considerable figure Wicklow also during the wars of 1641, and
some of them are distinguished by the Parlia" notorious commanders of Rementarians, as 9
magh, and was forfeited, for the most part, in the reign of James I. By her he has issue Charles
:
P.
O'Hanlon Mac Donnell, M. R.
I.
A.
2nd,
Z2
1644
QHNaca Rio^hachca emeaNN.

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[1570.
Ruaibpi moip 50 ccoipijcib slan cojea jallocclac amaille ppiu, copujab eipje amac on nâillirh. baof galloglac ele Do cloinn noub'jaill, opoandp
~\
ann beop gappab Oo rhapcpluag mfpba

50 nfiofoaib pldc.
cpi
ceo a
Ifon
pen 50 luipeachaib,
-\
inlliam bupc Sfan mac oiluepaip, mic Sfain, an coicfpcail ploij Ian moip pin oo bfic ace an ppepioenc -\ 05 an mpla a ecimcell
Oo
cualaib
mac
bd mfpccab mfnman laip an nf pin, po cionail cuicce po ceooip bupcaig locrapaca,"] pliocc maoilip a bupc, clann rioorhnaill THupchao na rruaj mac raiOcc mic mupchaib, mic puaibpi âllocclach
ppucpa bd cpab cpoibe,
-\
-\
-\
in'
plairbfpraij.
Cô
Uangacrap pi&e Ona gup an lion ap lia po peopac opajbail nf po hanab teo oalbancoib, i oeipfnncoib oampaib Oocclacaib, 50
"|
~|
puaccarcap ap cnoc baof a ppoccap Oo lon^popc an ppepioenc i an laplg, baccap accd comaipliuccab fcoppa bubein cionnup oo bepoaofp olmje
-]
no oianpccaofleab ap na ofjpluaccavb Oiocoipcce baccap 05 poppdn poppa ima ccfp i imd nouchaij. Ro cinoeab leo cecup rpoijri^ bo oenam od
mapcpluaj,
-\
oo coibpioc lapam
ninneall
-|
nopouccao,
-|
oia poile jan pccaoileab no pccainopeab ap an innell pin oia ba paen. Ro heppuajpab leo beop oia pfmpa mapbca mdc no
po ringeallpac mab poppa no
bpacaip neic biob
ap a belaib gan anrhum occa ace ool caipip po ceooip amail ba nama anaicmb, 1 po cinccpioc pon coicim pin Oo paijib na plo^ naile. Ddla an ppepioenp an mpla po pinbijpioc a nopoanap, a a luce halabapo, a paiomipi, luce eioeab placa oia ccoip ap na bfpnabaib belcumgaib in po ba 0615 leo an luce ele oia paijib, Id a ccaoib pibe clann cpuibne, clann po cuippioc
-]
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)
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noomnaill, clann noubjaill,
-]
coipijce an cploij apcfna.
Do
cooap pfm
an mfp jappab mapcploi^ capla
ma ppappab
nell, or
hi
Ifcuppain na cpona Oon
John O'Hanlon Mac Donnell 3rd, Alexander James O'Hanlon Mac Donnell, an officer of the fifth (Lichtenstein) Chevaux Legers, in the Im;
Mac
Daniel, in the Queen's County, and
other parts of Leinster, many of doubt, of the race of Turlough
whom
Oge
;
are,
no
but the
perial Service,
and several other children.
The
is
Rev. J.
Mac
Daniel, of the Queen's County,
Editor has not been able to discover any others who have not fallen into obscurity, and the
thought to be descended from the house of Eahine but the Editor is not aware whether
;
Wicklow
ii
family above mentioned appear to be the chief representatives of that warlike race,
is any proof of this further than his havbeen born in the ing neighbourhood of Rahiue.
there
Owen-na-Lathaighe,
i.
e.
Owen, or Eugene,
of the slough or
"
There are various persons of the name Mac Don-
quagmire. Clann- Dovsell, called by the Scotch Clann-
1570.]

-
1045
and Donnell, the son of Murrough, son of Eory More, with five chosen battalions of gallowglasses, and also a battalion of gallowglasses of the Clann-Dowell k
;
the ordnance
to the
and forces of Galway. There were
also a troop of vigorous cavalry,
number
of three hundred, in armour and coats of mail.
William Burke (John, the son of Oliver, son of John) heard that the President and the Earl had this great army assembled around Sruthair,
grieved his heart and disturbed his mind and he called forthwith to his assistance the Lower Burkes" and the descendants of Meyler Burke, also the Clann-Donnell Galloglagh, and Murrough of the Battle-axes, the son of Teige,
1
When Mac
it
These came, attended by as many son of Murrough, son of Rory O'Flaherty. as they had been able to procure of Scots and Irish, hired soldiers and youths
;
and here they held consultation, to consider in what way they could disperse or scatter those choice and irresistible forces, who had invaded them for their territory and patrimony. They resolved first
;
and they never the President and the Earl
halted until they
reached a
hill
which was nigh
to the
camp
of
and [having done so] they formed into order and array and they promised one another that they would not disperse or depart from that order, whether they should route the enemy" or be routed by them. They all resolved that if the son or kinsman of one of them should
to convert their cavalry into infantry,
;
they Avould not stop with him, but In such pass over him at once, as though they were enemies and strangers state they advanced towards the other army. As for the President and the
be
slain in his [the survivor's] presence,
Earl, they placed their ordnance, their soldiers'" [gunners], their halberdiers,
and
their
men
in
armour on
foot, in the perilous
narrow
defiles
through which
they supposed that the other party would advance upon them, and placed by their side the Clann-Sweeny, the Clann-Donnell, the Clann-Dowell, and all the
other infantry of their army while they themselves, and the body of vigorous cavalry they had with them, stood on one side in reserve, to support the fight
;
Dugald.
"that thing was vexation of heart and confusion of mind to him." m The Lower i. e. the northern Burkes
'
It grieved his heart, literally,
which
routing snould be upon them, or before them," is an idiom of common occurrence in old
Irish writings.
Burkes,
Enemies and
enemies,
i.
strangers, literally,
unknown
seated in the county of Mayo, of

self
11
whom
"
he him-
e.
enemies with
-
whom
they had no
was the
Rout
the
chief.
enemy,
literally,
whether the
personal acquaintance. " Soldiert, or sagittarii, archers.
1646
QNNaca Rio^haclica eiReaNN.

ele.
[1570.
eaoib
l?o
ba Dail
le oocaip,
-\
Dob ogham ap eccualanj ooccbaib
lapeaipî loccaip connacc cop

~\
fin. Ctpa aoi po DO cooap an can puapaccap a nip bo cian apccnapac pop a nagham, a ccuipp DO cpeccnuccab lap an ceD ppaip Do leicceab ccaoib DO collab, a bo6a6aib blaic pijne, nf pjfirnn no ppea a jonnaDaib span aoibleaca
~\ -|
oocum na.conaipe conjaipije
pom piap na cpeccoiubpaiceib pin pccae, ace Dol gan coiccill pop a ccfpcacchaib 50 po pecpae pirpiilang a pamcac
nf
mepefn no mioblacup po ?;abpae
cpuap a ccloibfm, epoma a cruajh ap cloignib, ap cfnnmullaijib a cceleaD comlamn. Nfp bo paoa po puilngfo na pfomanna pin lap an ppoipmn rapla pop a ccionn an can po bpuccbpip DianmdiDm Dapaccac Dib pop cculaib 50
~\ -\
malaipc aice Dfob. po bfn an cpenbui&fn cainicc oia pai 516 lomlaoiD lonaiD 17o jabpac pioe laparh 05 Dfoclaicpiuccab na Dpinnje capla pfmpo 05 Ifnriiain an luaumaDma aj cfnDab na copaijeacca, 05 Dpucc 05 Dinse
~]
~\
T?o pleaccaD, nofghaiD na nDpongbuiDfn ap pf6 Da mile on ppoplonjpopc. an aipfo pin. lap nool DO muincip meic 1 po ppaoijleaD pocaiDe Di'ob leo inlliam bupc cap an mapcpluaj baof Dia Ifccaob, cuccpac na Diopmanna
i
mapcpluaj ainup pop Deipeab na noccbaiD piap a mbaof an boipbbpipeab co po Dicaijic Dpecca Dia nDponjbuibnib leo, po mubaijpe ni ba mo munbaD a n opoaijce cuccpac poppa a ccup an laoi. Oo Dluice i Daingne a n innill
"|
-j
Deacacap laparh pop cculaib lap mbuaib ccopccaip i ccorhmaoiDme
~]
mp
ppaoirieaD pop a mbioDbaohaib, ace amain ba pf6 a noeapnpac Do Deapmac conganca (o po polmaijfo an caclacaip leo, lap mbpipeab pop a mbipobabaib) gan anrhain ipin ppoplongpopc in oiDce pin, uaip Da nanDoip nf biab
im oipDeapcup an rhp&ma DO bfic poppa. Odla ppfpabpa ppiu im ainm an ppepioenc, -\ mpla cloinne piocaipD DO anpac ptbe,-| pliocc Domnaill mec puibne (na po pagaibaiD a mbonn Da mbio&ba&aib an la pin) Dponj Dia
-| -\
05 ppoplongpopc in oiDce pin. baccap lapam 05 aicne, a ccapac, -| 05 pabbaD na ppfp ngonca peacnon an abnacal a ccaom Oo ponab ecc mpp /inn pin 6 jallaib .1. paccpaiccin ciumpocc, 1?o apmaij.
paijDiuipib
ip in
-j ~\
mapbab ann beop an calbac mac coippbealbaij mic eom cappaij,

This is a very old Irish word "a shower," and ppapac, an adjective formed from it, denotes " showery."
denoting
r 1
-\
pocaibe
VoUey, FP a T-
They
cut
down,
literally,
"great numbers
them were cut down and scourged by them." The verb pleacrao is applied in the early pertion of these Annals, and the best Irish manuscripts, to the felling or cutting down of woods
of
1570.]
[at the
1647
proper time]. It was grappling with difficulty, and facing impossibility, for the youths of West and Lower Connaught to attack this well-defended posi-
marched onward, but they had not advanced far before their sides were pierced, and their bodies wounded, by the first volley" of fiery shot discharged at them from the guns, and [of arrows] from the beautiful
tion
;
nevertheless, they
elastic
bows. It was not, however, terror or
fear,
cowardliness or dastardliness,
volleys produced in them, but [a magnanimous determinaforward so that they tried the force of their lances, tion] to advance directly of their swords, and the heaviness of their battle-axes, on the skulls the
that these
wounding
temper
Their opponents did not long withstand these vigorous onslaughts, before a numerous body of them gave way, and retreated upon which the powerful party who came up took their places precipitately
and
crests of their antagonists.
and then proceeded to exterminate those who stood before them, and, following up the route, they pressed closely and vehemently after the from the camp, during which pursuit flying troops for the distance of two miles and
position,
r When the people of Mac Wilthey cut down and lacerated great numbers. liam Burke, in following up the pursuit, had passed by the cavalry, they were attacked in the rear by that numerous body which had been kept on one side
and numbers of their troops were slain by them and a greater number would have been cut off, but for the closeness and firmness of the
[in reserve],
;
battle-array
and order which they had formed that morning.
They
afterwards
returned
in triumph, after having They had, committed one great mistake when they had cleared the field of however, battle, by putting their enemies to flight, not to have remained that night in
:
home
defeated their enemies.
the
camp
for,
their having the
had they done so, there could not have been any dispute as to name and renown of having gained the victory. As for the
President and the Earl of Clanrickard, they and the descendants of Donnell Mac Sweeny (who had not fled from their enemies on that day), with a party
of their soldiers, remained in the
to search for
camp
that night.
and
inter their slain relatives
and
afterwards stopped friends, and to relieve the
They
wounded throughout
the field of ^laughter. Little Patrick Cusack was slain in this battle on the side of the English, and his death was generally lamented
;
or
forests.
The noun ppaoijil

and fpaoi^ledb, which
signifies
is
" a
noun formed from

or beat severely.
it,
denote?, to flog, scourge,
scourge,"
a verbal
1648
dNNata Rio^hachca emeaNN.
[1570.
pdccbab ann Don Ific ele udcep mac Sfain mic maoilip a bupc Dia njoipn cluap le ooininn,-] Rajnall mac meic Domnaill gallocclaij, 1 Da mac com Gipeannaij Da conpapal DO cloinn noorhnaill na halhan. Oo
ele note aipirhcip. l?o
Dipime amaille piu pin oepennchaib Dalbancoib, Do clomn noomnaill, DO clom cpuibne, -\ DO luce Ifnamna bupcac. C(n Dap lap an ploj ppip nap cofaicceab an caclara'p pfop tap po ppaofneab ma mbaoi pfmpa,
pdccbao ann
li'on
-|
ap aca pfm baof buaio na cfccmala, i oap lap na cijeapnabaib po an ip in ppoplonjpopc in oibce pin ap poppa pein po ba Dip clu an mabma DO beir. SloicceaD la hiapla tipmuman hi ppojmap na bliabna po.i. la comap mac
Semaip mic piapaip puaiD cap
conaill jabpa,
loic 6p Ifrhain
~\
i
piuip piap
ni
Do
cliu mail
mic ucchjame
nuib
po aipip gup jab -| gup bpip Dun COICCID conpaf mic odipe. nofipcceapc paip bpaijoe -]
-|
Do ciappaije luacpa,
Do pill hi ppicing nu conaipe ceona jan cpoiD eoala iom6a Dan cupup pin, jan racap, i ba pfD po Deapa Dopom pin, clann mpla Deapmuman Do bfic hilld,im hillonnoain, nacchaiD gall Semup mac muipip ma aon Dpme
-\
i
-]
geapalcac, aghaiD, pdc ap nac ppuaip an ciapla cfccrhail ap baof congnam ploi j na banpfojna aicce ap an cupup pin.
-)
an cfp uile 05 cup
ma
-)
ele
'
Gluas-le-doininn, i.e. ear to the tempest.
Cliu-Mail-mhic- Ugaine, -i. e. the division of Mal, son of Ugaine More, Monarch of Ireland,
'
and to the western coast of Ireland
Bealach Chonglais, close to Cork, to Luimneach, See Hali-
A. M. 3619
the
name
See Ogygia, iii. c. 38. This was of a district in the barony of Coshlea,
day's edition of Keating's History of Ireland, p. 135.

"
In this year the following Irish chieftains

their submissions
and county of Limerick, and situated between the hill of Knockany and the mountain of Slieve
See note on Beal-atha-na-nDeise, unde,r Reagh. the year 1579, where it is shewn that the ford of Athneasy, on the Morning Star River, near
the village of "Elton, in the barony of Coshlea, is in the very centre of this river. See also
made
by indenture, namely,
Brian, sou of Cahir, son of Art Kavanagh of Ballyanne, in the county of Wexford ; Mac
Vaddock
of the
a sept of the
Duff, of the
same county, who was head of Mac Murroughs Mac Edmond same county Mac Damore, or Mac
;
note
u
.
d
,
p.
1580, supra.
'
Dun-Loic/t,
now Dunlow
Castle,
on the
David More, of the same county, head of another sept of the Mac Murroughs, seated in the and O'Farrell Bane and "barony of Gorey
;
River Leamhain, near Killarney, in tA county of Kerry See note J , under the year 1215, p. 188, supra, and the Ordnance map of Kerry,
sheets 65.
O'Farrell Boy, of the county of Longford. The following documents, never before published,
will
shew the nature of their submission
The province of Curoi, the son of Daire This was a name for Desmond, or South Munster,
'
"This Indenture, made the 15 th day of Marche, 1570, betwyxt the Right Honorable Sir Henrie
Sidney, Knt. lord Deputie of Ireland, for and on behalfe of the Queene's most excellent Ma" e
extending,
according
to Keating,
from
1570.]
1649
John Carragh, and many others not enumerated. On the side of the Irish were slain Walter, the son of John, s son of Meyler Burke, who was called Cluas-le-doininn and Randal, the son of
and
also Calvagh, the son of Turlough, son of
,
Mac Donnell
numbers of
Galloglagh also the two sons of John Ereanagh, two constables There were also left [slain] here countless of the Clann-Donnell of Scotland.
;
and Scots of the Clann-Donnell, the Clann-Sweeny, and of The Lower [northern] army, who had routed the adherents of the Burkes.
Irish
such of the forces as had given way, but who had not maintained the field, believed that in this rencounter the victory was theirs while those lords who
;
remained during the night in the camp considered that they alone were entitled to the fame of that victory.
A hosting
i.
was made
in the
autumn of this year by the Earl of Ormond,
Thomas, the son of James, son of Pierce Roe, [and he marched] westwards across the Suir, by Cliu-Mail-mhic-Ugaine', into Hy-rConnell-Gaura, and to Kerry
e.
Luachra; (and) he never halted until he took and demolished Dun-Loich on T the River Leamhain, in the south of the province of Curoi, the son of Daire On this expedition he obtained hostages and spoils and he returned home by
, . ;
The reason that he the same road without receiving battle or opposition. received none was, that the sons of the Earl of Desmond were [then] in prison in London and James Mac Maurice, the only person of his tribe who was
;
opposed whole country.
to the English
was [himself] opposed by the Another reason why the Earl met no resistance was, that he
to the Geraldines,
and
had the
assistance of the Queen's
army on
this
expedition.
all
of thone parte, and Bryane Cahir M'Art of liallyan, in the county of Wexford, Kavanagh
gent, cheife of his
Courts of Chauncerie of Ireland,

castells, lands,
all
such manors,
tenements, rents, revercons, and
name and
for
cept called Slaght
Dirmod Lawdarage,
selfe
and on behalfe of him-
other hereditaments that they and everie of them have within the said countrie, the same
and
all
the rest of the gent, and freeholders
to be given back
by
letters patents to
be held
of the
said
Baronies of Ballyan, S ( Molinge,
by them and
and in Clan Harricke, and Ffassagh Slew boye, in the countie aforesaid, and in the countie of
Witnesseth Catherlaghe, of the other partie c that the said Bryane Cahir, and the Test
their heires for ever, at the yearly rent to bcr reserved in the said patents, but to
be free from the bonaghte accustomed to be paid to the Queen's Galloglasses in discharge of which they are to pay 52 markes yearly."
"
of the Office (Inrolled in the Record branch
above named, do covenant, agree, and condescend to and with the said lord Deputie, to surrender
and give up in the Queen's most Honorable
of Paymaster of Civil Services, Dublin.)" th " This Indenture, made the 26 day of June,
10 A
1&50
[1571.
aois crciosc,
Qofp Cpiopc,
mile,'
1571.
cincc ceo, Seccmoâc, ahaon.
-|
ITIacConmapa ra&cc mac conmea&a, mic conmapa, mic Sfain, poo a painn a capao Do coruccab, a namao opolmuccab opdpuccab oecc, a mac
-\ ~\ ~|
(Sfan) oo jabdil a
lonaib.
heires
1570, betwyxt the Kight Honorable Sir Henry of Ireland, for and on Sidny, Knt. lord Deputie
1
and successors."
behalfe of the Queene's most excellent
Ma
tle
,
of
thone parte ; and Theobald
Morish M'Vadick
(Inrolled in the Record branch of the Office of Paymaster of Civil Services, Dublin.)" " This Indenture, made the 26th day of June,
"
of Ballinecoill, in the countrey called Kensele,

in the county of Wexford; Gerold
Theobald
1570, betwyxte Sir Henrie Sidney, Knt. lorde Deputy of Ireland, for and in the behalfe of the
e Queene's most excellent Ma"
,
M M M
Vadick, of Bally Carro well; Gillepatrick Oge

Ishill
;
of thone parte
M" Donyll Moile of the Cowill

c c
Edmond
and Dermot M"
Edmund Duff of the Newtowne,
Donill Moile of Monynecrosse ; Tirreloghe Morighe of Ballinemone ; Moriertagh buy
in the countrey called Kensell, in the
MFheilim
of the
Mengane
the Cowill Ishill; Cahire
M
c
Shane Sharvey of Morish of Bally-
county of and other the freeholders of the said Wexford, contrey, of the other part. Witnesseth that the
said
Dermot M" Edmund, and the
rest above
nemolle ; Donyll Rowe nenocke ; Ffargananym
Donyll
M Gerrald buy of RossM Vadick of Bally byne

; ;
named, do covenant, agree, and condescend to and with the said lorde Deputy, to surrender and
give up in the Queene's most Honorable Courte of Chauncerie of Ireland, all such manors, castells,
Gillepatrick
Morighe
of Ballaghedoroghe of Ballagheclare Gillepatrick

of Ballehedick
; ;
Thomas Eiree
hire
Owingarive of
lands, tenements, rents, revercons,
and
all
M buy Teige Ewillane James c Donogh Ronoe Morish M Ffallen Donogh c c Riough Cahire M Teige Oge Owen M Shane c c Moriertagh M Hughe; Cahire Row M Edmond; Henry Begge and Donogh Morighe, of the other
;
;
Clougheilleke c Geralde
c
Edmond
;
Donyll Moill ; Ca-
other hereditaments that they and everie of them have within the said countrie. And the
said lorde
Deputy doe promise and graunte that
the same shall be by letters patents given back, to be held at and under the yearly rent of six
score markes,
payable to her
Ma
Ul
',
her heires
Witnesseth that the said Theobald, and parte the rest above named, do covenant, agree and condescend to and with the said lorde Deputy,
to surrender
and successors."
(Inrolled in the Record branch of the office of Paymaster of civil Services, Dublin.)" " This Indenture, made the 26th day of June,
"
and give up in the Queen's most Honorable Courte of Chauncerie of Weland, all
castells, lands,
1570, betwyxt the Right Honorable Sir Henrie
such manors,
revercons,
tenements, rents,
& all other hereditaments that they and everie of them have within the said countrie
called Kensele.
letters patents,
Sidney, Knt. lord Deputie of Ireland, for and on behalfe of the Queene's most excellent Ma lle
of thone parte, and Phelim Damore of Molliallesterne, in the country called Kinseele, in
The same
to
to be given back by be held at and under the
the county
of
Wexford
Cahire Madden of
;
yearly rent of 40 markes payable to her
Ma" e
Killegrine; Morighane Piperre of the Parke
1571.]
1651
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1571.
thousand jive hundred seventy-one.
(Teige, the son of Cumeadha, son of Cumara, who was son of John), supporter of his adherents and friends, and exterminator and destroyer and his son, John, took his place. of his enemies, died
Mac Namara
Rick fitz Donyll O'Dorane of Ballygerale of Ballyduff Thorn More of Roisse Symons
; ;
of thone part; and Ffaghnie O'Ferrall, otherwise called O'Ferrall bane of Tullie, in the
Moriertaghe Meirregagh of Ballenskertane; Moc Cahire of Collineculbu Donyll riertagh Duff
county of Longford, somtyme called the countrye of theAnnellie; William ffitzDonell O'Ferrall of
Teige rioughe of Bellynegame ; Murc . Tirrerough buy of Ballyedane ; Melaghlyn of Kilbride; Edmond Riough of the O'Moklagh
duff
1
the Molt; John O'Fferrall of the Glane,
Captayne of Williame's sept; Donell O'Fferrall

of the Reene,
now
Moroghe
in tliewe
Moy-
laghe Conoghor M Walter of Monencle Redmond M Lucas of Killone Manus M Davyd of Bally vadage Caher M Art of Ballycam; ;
laghlin O'Fferrall of Molenlegan, called M" Hy og of Moythra ; Ffellym boy O'Qwyne of the
Brewne, called O'Coyne; Donill x>'Fferrall of

Kilgref, capten of Gillernewes sept, in the said
clone ;
Anthony Peppard of Ballinomenge; Cahire c Doran of Monanecholane ; Edm. Donel
M
;
countie, gent, of the other partie
Witnesseth
moyle of the Gurtine Teige Riough of Ballyec Dallow of Ballycahill nacgerode ; Hugh
;
that the saidFaghnie, and the rest above named,
Art of Carranebrede, and
Edm
Shane of
other
do covenant, agree, and condescend to and with the said lorde Deputy, to surrender and give up
in the
Cloneredmounde,
partie.
ffreehoulders,
of the
Queen's most Honorable Courte of Chaun-
Witnesseth that the said Phelim
cerie of Ireland, all such manors, castells, lands,
Damore, and the rest above named, do covenant, agree, and condescend to and with the said lorde
Deputie to surrender and give up in the Queen's
tenements, rents, revercons, and
all
other here-
ditaments that they and everie of them have within the said countrie called Annalie. The
most Honorable Courte of Chauncerie of Ireland,

all
such manors,
castles, lands,
tenements, rents,
revercons, and all other hereditaments that they and everie of them have within the said countrie
called Kinseele.
letters patents,
same to be given back by letters patents free of bonnaght, to be held at and under the yearly rent of 200 markes, payable to her Ma" e her
,
heires and successors.
And
for lacke of
The same
to
to be given back
by
be held at and under the
the same to be paid in Kyne, as shall be worth and sold in the markets of Ath-
money the same Kyne
yearly rent of 40 markes, payable to her Ma"", her heires and successors." " in the Record branch of the office
(Inrolled
boy and Navan."

(Inrolled in the Record branch of the Office of Paymaster of Civil Services, Dublin.)" " This Indenture, made the 10th day of Feb.,
"
of Paymaster of Civil Services, Dublin.)" " This Indenture, made the llth day of Feb.
1570, betwyxt
the Right Honorable Sir Henrie
1570, betwyxt the Right Honorable Sir Henrie Sidney, Knt. lord Deputye of Ireland, for and
Sidney, Knt. lord Deputie of Ireland, for and on behalfe of the Queene's most excellent Ma"',
on behalfe of the Queene's most excellent Ma" e and Faghnie O'Ferrall, otherof thone parte
, ;
10
A2
1652
[1571.
Qn
ciorhpoccac
baof po epf
Comap mac Sfam cfnD comaiple ma piop lonaio pig nGpmn Decc.
i
jjall.Gpeann peap po
mac comdip mic maoileaclainn Duib cojTTlaj gopmain TTlaoileaclainn bdlaij epoj, -] cije naofbeab Decc.
DO jabailcille moceallocc,i ni odiljfp a hionnrhaip, no a hiolmaofne jep bo hiolapba a heodla ace po bic bd hionab oipeaccaip, DO jfpalcacaib le hacchaib ShemaipTDo 1 ba culac cupleime Do jallaib
TTluipip
~\
Semup mac
ndrhac pop an luce bdccap 50 poinrheac puan pep. cooalcac in upcopac oibce la mfpjappaD clomne Suibne ~\ cloinne pichij bdccap hi ccaofmreacc Semaip mic muipip pia nuaip cfipce ap a bapac 50
poinn oip, aipgic '-\ lolrhaofne, ~\ peo pomaomeac, nd haioemaD an cacaip Dia eibpe, no an macaip Dia hinjin an Id piam. Po bdp Dna leo
Do paoab uapbupccab
mbdccap 05
ceopa noibce 05 cop jac eapnaile lonnmupa i uapail eappao, cuac,-] copn ccumoaijce pop gpfjaib, i eocaib po coillcib po pfbaib eacapa ccoiccele. Oo lac, i apaill ele 50 hmcleire DO paicchib a ccapac,
~\
~\
ppi hfb cpf Id")
bfpcpac lapam cpoimnell ceineab Dlucbpac Dobapba Duibciac oapp an mbaile laparh lap mbpipfb -\ lap mblaibpebab a cumDai^fb cloc clapab
-| -j
wise called O'Ferrall of thePallice, in the county

of Longford, some time called the country of the Annalie; Kedagh O'Fferrall of
nycke O'Ferrall of Corilaghau
Eowry
AI Ger-
Eaharewy;
O'Ferc
rott O'Ferrall ofClonfowre; Teige duf O'Ferrall c of the same; Conall Shane O'Fferrall of
Fargus O'Ferrall of the Bawne;
Edmond
Dromed
Gillarnew
;
rall of Crieduff; Iriel O'Ferrall, son to the said
O'Ferrall of the Mornyne; Teige Duffe mucke of the Killincriebote ; Cormock
O'Ferrall of the
O'Ferrall of
Camace
;
Drumvinge
M CorM Eory Bryan M Eurye Shane M Gerrote

c c c
of Eaclyne
Belalyene
Keraunkeyll
Cassellbage;
M M Ffaughuie O Ferrall Cowle M Hebbard Fferrall of Ffelem W Donell O'Fferrall of Concor M Eosse Q Ferrall of Hibbard M Eosse O Fferrall of
c c
;
Ffurbeill; .Teige
Moriartye O'Ferrall of Car-
O'Ferrall of the Cargin; Tirrelage O'Bardan of Dromhishen; William O'Bardan of the same;
ry 11; Jefiery oge O'Ferrall of Cerownagerake ; c Edmoud O'Fferrall of LyMoriaughtaughe
Rory M'Eosse O'Ferrall of Killmacshane

rold
Ge-
nery;
Howe
Owen
of
O'Ferrall of Durey; Teige boy
Shane
O'Ferrall O'Ferrall
Tirlyken
Irriell
;
Hebbard O'Ferrall of Killacomoge; Murrough M" Donc uell O'Ferrall of Athey-donell; Eosse M DonBrian
nell O'Ferrall of
of Ballerohan
M M
Dontay O'Fferrall of Carigwyn; Donell O'Ffer-rall of the Corey; Felim

;
William
Owyu of the Brewn Breyn Queyiiof Acwrauake
DonJefTery Qwyn of Heasdowffe ; William kaye O'Fferrall of Dermore; Donell M'Calle

of Croilaght in said county gent, of the other
partie.
rall,
Ballywrmgham
;
Teige O'Ferrall Bealclare,
Murroughe c called M Heb;
bard O'Ferrall of Dwelyne
Murugh
Con-
Witnesseththat the said Faghnie O'Ferand the rest above named, do covenant, agree and condescend to and with the said lorde
1571.]
1653
Cusack* (Thpmas, son of John), head of the counsel of the English of Ireland, who had been thrice Viceroy of Ireland, Aed. Mac Gorman (Melaghlin, the son of Thomas, son of Melaghlin Duv), supporter of the indigent and of a house of hospitality, died. James Mac Maurice" took Kilmallock not from a desire of [obtaining] its riches and various treasures, though its riches were immense, but because it
21
had always been the rendezvous and

[in their contests] against him".
sally-port of the English
and Geraldines
Before sunrise" in the morning those who had gone to sleep happily and comfortably were aroused from their slumber by "a furious attack made by the warlike troops of the Clann- Sweeny and Clann-
Sheehy,
divide
who were
among
and they proceeded to along with James Mac Maurice themselves its gold, silver, various riches, and valuable jewels,
;
which the father would not have acknowledged to his heir, or the mother to her daughter, on the day before. They were engaged for the space of three
the several kinds of riches and precious goods, as cups and ornamented goblets, upon their horses and steeds, to the woods
iri
days and nights
carrying
away
and
forests of Etharlach
and sending others of them privately
to their friends
and companions. They then set fire to the town, and raised a dense, heavy cloud, and a black, thick, and gloomy shroud of smoke about it, after they had so that Kilmallock torn down and demolished its houses of stone and wood
;
Deputy to surrender and give up in the Queene's most Honorable Courte of Chauncerie of Ireland
all
of Ireland
by some
enthusiastic, but ignorant
or dishonest, popular writers; but the remains
such manors,
castells, lands,
tenements, rents,
is
of the castles, houses, walls, &c., shew that there no building there older than the thirteenth
be given back letters patents to be held at and under the by e yearly rent of 200 markes payable to her Ma"
called the Annalie.
to
,
The same
century (many of them still more modern), except, perhaps, a part of one round tower, which
may be
a
is
as old as the eleventh century,
her heires and successors, but to be free 'of bonnaght."

"(Inrolled in the Record branch of the Office of Paymaster of Civil Services, Dublin.)"
x
In the original it is " James," which cumbersome and not to be imitated. ,
Him,
Before sunrise, pia nuaip ceipce

is
The word
'"
reipc
explained "sunrise" by O'Keilly; and

it
is
Cusack
See note
y
,
under the year
1-552,
in Cormac's Glossary hora."

c
explained
tertia
]>.
1526, supra.
1
Eiharlach,
now Aharlagh,
or Aharlow, a
p.
Maurice, anglice Fitzinaurice. " Kilmallock See note , under the year 1412, This town, is called the Balbec 809, supra.
Mac
beautiful valley situated between Slievenamuck and the Galty mountains, and about four miles
to the south of the
town of Tipperary.
16.54
aNNa?,a rcioshachca eirceaNN.

bo liaicce
-|
[1571.
5p
gup bo haoba DO conaib allca all moceallocc lap gac

i
ndinfp baof innee 56 pin.
PpepiDenc Sapranac DO reacr op cfno Da coicceab muman neappac na bliabna po, Sip Seon pappoic a airnn. bdccap laip lomae long-] laoibfnj, CCD, Ro jabpar uppaba,i uapal cobnac, cijfpna, cofpeac an cfpe 1 caipefnfb. eapuppaba luce ruillme, cuapupoail po ceooip laip, geibirc ona arhaip an ripe IdSemap jion 50 mbaof Dm Dun apapaib aicce acn caiplen na mamje
-]
~|
-|
an ppepiDenc pop peapaib murhan ceacc 50 lionrhap leprionoilce ina Docum cp na lomcib pfm leo le hajaib caiplein na mainge im ccionn. Oo ponab paippiorii pin, } po gabpac 05 lompuibe an peil com ap
nama.
T?o poccaip
nf po capmnaij nf Doib ap nf po jabmfbon pojamaip, pac an baile an blmbain pin. Ceic an ppepiDenr co copcaij, po pgaoilpioc
baile 6 peil coin 50
-|
-\
pip murhari-Dia ccijib.
noecc la Ppepioenc cuiccib connacc hi mainipnp innpi DO cfpcuccab,"] DO cfnDpuccab Dalccaip, Sip eouapophicun an Ppepi1 uaccaip connacr po peil pacpaicc na bliabna po. Uanaicc rpct
T?o
pogpab cuipc
ppi hfb occ la
oenc 50 mapcpluag mfpba 50 paijDiuipib pomeamlaib, uaip po ba cuirhneac baof gac laof pe laip an eiccfnoail mbaof la Dal ccaip an bliabam poirhe,
~\
i
-j
hfo na node la noecc perhpdice 05 coiccfpr pecc
~|
piajla,
-|
05 lonnapbaD
eccopa
ui
i inolicchib.
Do
beapr mpla cuabmuman concobap mac oonnchaib

i
a cijeapnapDonppepioenc nfc an inolicchib Do pome oia bailcib ace an maj paip peace piamh i 6 na baof occa ap a comup 6 mbpfcain Do paD Do e beop 50 mbaof an maj, bunpaiee, an clap mop
bpwtin
a Duchaig
-]
cluain
pamaoa
ap laim an phpepioenc 05 pdgbdil an n'pe bo,

hi
gaca huppaib Da mbaof

d
puce bpaijoe haclnam. Nfop bo hupupa ccuabrhumain laip 50

-\
Wolves, literally
" wild dogs, or dogs of
the wood."
Ireland at
Wolves were very numerous in this period, and for more than a cenPhilip O'Sullevan mentions, in his
the Irish
have shot the
year a Cormac O'Neill is said by tradition to last of the wolves of Glenshane,
in the townland of Sheskinnamaddy, parish of
tury
later.
History of battle of Kinsale,
Catholics,
that,
after
the
Dungiven, and County of Londonderry. The last native wolf of Ireland was seen in the mountains of Kerry, in the year
the hungry wolves sallied from the woods to attack the men who were
of
the Life
Sen Memoirs 1720 and Writings of Charles 0''Conor of
weak with hunger.
There was a native Irish
Belanagare, p. 450.
e
wolf killed at Waringstown, in the county of Down, in the year 1700 ; and about the same
James.
He was
the son of Maurice Duv, son
of John, son of Thomas, son of the Earl of Des-
1571.]
1655
became the receptacle and abode of wolves",
in addition to all the other misfor-
tunes up to that time. In the spring of this year an English President, Sir John Perrott, was appointed over the two provinces of Munster. He had many ships and barques, companies and captains.
;
The
joined him at once troops of the country sided with James', though, of (all) his fortified residences, f he retained Caislen-na-Mainge only. The President commanded the men of
noble rulers, lords, and dynasts of the country but the soldiers, insurgents, the mercenaries and retained
chiefs,
Munster
to
to
muster
all their forces,
and, providing their
own provisions,
to
come
him on the ensuing
na-Mainge.
They
John, for the purpose of besieging Caislendid so at his command, and continued besieging the castle
festival of St.
from the
festival of St.
John
to the
middle of autumn
but their
efforts
proved
fruitless, for they did not take the castle that year. The President (upon this) went to Cork, and the men of Munster departed for their respective homes.
On
the festival of
St.
Co'nnaught, Sir
Edward
Patrick in this year, the President of the province of Phiton, issued a proclamation for holding a court
,
s during eighteen days in the monastery of Ennis [to devise measures] to set to rights and reduce the Dal-Cais and [the inhabitants of] Upper Corinaught".
President, mindful of the perilous position in which he had been placed in the preceding year by the Dal-Cais, went attended by a strong body of
The
and he was occupied for the eighteen days before mentioned in establishing laws and regulations, and abolishing injustice and
cavalry and stout soldiers
;
(Conor, the son of Donough O'Brien) gave up his country and his lordship to the President, as an atonement for the lawlawlessness.
The Earl
of
Thomond
less act
which he had formerly committed against him, and gave up to him Magh O'mBreacain the only one of his (former) towns then in his possession; so that the towns of Magh [O'mBreacain], Bunratty, Claremore, and Clonroad,
1
were
in the possession of the President, on his leaving the territory and he carried hostages from every chieftain in Thomond along with him to Athlone.
;
inond, and was at this period the chief leader of the disaffected Geraldines of Desmond.
the English made at this period a part of the province of Connaught.

h
i. e.
'
Caislen-na-Mainge,
i.
e.
the castle of the River
Mang, now
g
Castlemaine, in the county of Kerry, Enni.), a town in the county of Clare, which
Upper Connaught, i.e. South Connaught, the Earl of Clanrickard and his adherents.
Magh CPmBreaeain,
i.e.
the plain of Ibrickan,
1656
awwata Rio^hachca
eiraeciNN.
[1572.
jiforh
an Do paDab Do DO ceoaib bo 6 cuaDmumain pe hfo an Da bliaban
DiapmaDa baoi na ua peacnapaig o bap a an mbliaDam pi, 17o bfnaD an cainm pin acap gup gopc mnpi juaipe oe la a acap .1. DiapmaiD piabach mac Diapmaba ap bet hepibe ba Deapbparaip pinnpeap ann lap ppip.
-|
baoi na Ppepioenc occa. Sfan mac an jiolla Duib mic
Q01S CttlOSC,
Qoip Cpiopc,
mile, cuicc ceD,
1572.
Seaccmojacc, aoo.
-\
Qipoeppcop cuama Cpiopcoip
boiDicin Decc,
a aDlacaD
njaillim.
Gppucc
cille
pionnabpac, Sfan occ
mac
hi
Sfain mic amlaofb uf mallain
call pionnabpac buoein. ITlaipspeg mjfn concobaip mic coipp&ealbaij mic caiDcc uf bpiain bfn Ian ttpele oionnpacup, Do connla, DO cpabab, DO jloine, i DO sfnmnaijecc
pTp poipcfcail bpficpe
i
De Decc,
a aDnacal
Decc.
TTluipipniac geapailc, mic Sfain mic geapoic mic Semuip mic geapoiD lapla Decc, -] a bpacaip .1. Semup DoiponeaD ina ionaD. Sfan mac comaip mic Riocaipo oicc, mic uillicc puaiD, mic uillicc an
Uijeapna Deipeac
.1.
pfona Do ba6a& ipin puca.
henpi 6 cpaiben cfnoaije paibbip poconaij Dioccap connacc 065. Gojan puaD mac peapjail mic Dorhnaill puaiD mic an baipD, TTluipip
ballac
mac
concoiccpice mic
DiapmaDa
ui
cleipij, i TTlac uf TTlhoipin

-]
DO
hi pfncup, i
-)
pobDap paoice epochal la hiapla cuaDmuman concobap mac DonnchaiD, nDan an muipip an ceojan pempaice, i po ba oamna aoipe, eapccaoine Don mpla an peilljniom fpin.
i -]
mic Domnaill, mic eoccain mic Domnaill Decc. Poccpa cuipce Do cabaipr la Ppepioenc cuicciD connacc Sip eouapD phicun im pel pacpaicc njaillim Da paibe po cumaccaib na bainpiojna
colla,
i
6om mac
now Moigh,
or
Moymore, a townland situated
logics, fyc.
'
of Hy-Fiaclirach, pp. 377, 378.

i.
near Mill town Malbay, in the barony of Ibrickan,
Gort-Insi-Guaire,
e.
the field or enclosure
of Guaire's holm, or island,
now
the
town of
He was John, the John, son of Gitta-Duv son of Sir Roger O'Shaughnessy. See Genea-
Gort, in the barony of Kiltartan, and county of Galway.
1572.]
It

to
1657
the hundreds of kine that were given to the President during the two years that he remained in Thomond.
would not be easy
enumerate
all
John, son of Gilla-Duv", son of Dermot, who had been the O'Shaughnessy from .[the time of] the death of his father to this ye'ar, was deprived of that
title,
and also of Gort-Insi-Guaire
1 ,
by
his father's brother,

reality.
Dermot Reagh,
the
son of Dermot, for he was the senior in
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1572.
thousand Jive hundred seventy-two.

died,
The Archbishop
Galway.
of
Tuam, Christopher Bodkin,
and was interred
at
The Bishop
lain
m
),
of Kilfenora (John Oge, the son of John, son of Auliffe O'Nialteacher of the Word of God, died, and was interred in Kilfenora itself.
Margaret, daughter of Conor, the son of Turlough, son of Teige O'Brien,' a woman full of hospitality, integrity, piety, purity, and chastity, died.
The Lord
Garrett,
who
Maurice, son of Gerald, son of John, who was son of was son of James, who was son of Garrett the EarP, died and
Desies,
i.
e.
his brother, James,
was appointed to his place. John, the son of Thomas, son of Richard Oge, son Ulick of the Wine, was drowned in the [River] Suck.
of.
Ulick Roe, son of
Henry O'Craidhen
a rich and affluent merchant of
Owen
Roe, the son of Farrell, son of Donnell
Lower Connaught, died. Roe Mac Ward Maurice

;
and the son of O'Moirin, Ballagh, the son of Cucogry, son of Dermot O'Clery were hanged by the Earl of Thomond (Conor, the son of Donough). The
;
Maurice and
Owen
aforesaid
were learned
in history
and poetry
and
this
treacherous act was the -cause of satire and malediction to the Earl.
John, the son of Colla, son of Donnell, son of
Owen Mac
Donnell, died.
A proclamation was issued by the

Sir
Edward
O^Niallain,
President of the province of Connaught, Phiton, about the festival of St. Patrick, respecting a court to be
m
n
now
i.
anglice Nealan, or Neylan.
The Earl,
e.
of
Desmond.
anglice
Crean Lynch, Esq., of the county of Mayo, is the present head of this family. His paternal name
is
CPCraidhen,
now
Crean.
Andrew
Crean, not Lynch.
10 B
1658
aNNom
.1.
~\
Rioghachca eineaNH.
[1572.
6 luimneac 50 pligeac.
na cloinn
a bupc,
Canjacrap pon cojaipm pin lapla cloinne l?iocaipo co Sliocc Riocaipo oicc Sfan 50 mairib a mumcipe uilleacc Sfan abupc mac oiluepaip mic Sfain 50 TTiac uilliam loccaip
~\
.1.
lap odlccaip co na ccoimcionol. mbupcacaib loccapacaib hi maille ppip ccocc Doib ccfnD an ppepiDenc 50 gaillirh, aD cualaccap Da mac lapla
-]
i
cloinne Riocaipo uillfcc
Sfan popccab pcceoill eiccin cpep po orhnuigpioc an Ppepioenc i po elaibpfc co hinclfte ap an mbaile. Qmail ac cualaib an Ppepioenp an nf pin po jabab maire cloinne piocaipD laip, i po paccaib
-\
ipm mbaile laD, ~[ Iui6 pfm an napla (acaip na cloinne pin) po pepc ap pibe 50 liar cliac, po paccaib an nap la ann, joaip laip 50 hacluam, OD cualarrap clann an lapla an nf pin cuccarpein DO pibipi 50 harluain.
illaim
~] -\ ~\ ~\
cap eppuaccpa oarhpaib Daop ruapapoail na coiccpfoc ccompoccap rocr gan caipDe ina noocum. Ro ppejpaD 50 nfirhlfpcc la cloinn cpuibne uaccaip la cloinn nDomnaill gallocclac (50 nil ceoaib albanac 1 loccaip connacu
~|
-|
apaon piu) an cojaipm fpm Ria piu paimcc leopibe nonol 50 haon rhaijin. T?ucc an ppepiDenc a Diopma ploij paijDiuipibe laip 50 gaillirh, puce opDanap i eipje amac na jaillrhe laip 50 hachao na niubap .1. baile cloinne
~| ~\
ba he TTlupchaD na rcuaj mac caibcc uf plairbfpraij baof aga cappamj ap an cupup pin. Ro pdccbaD Diap DO pliocc Domnaill uf plaicbfpraij ccimceall an baile, l?o Ific bpipfb -]' po Ian gabab
Domnaill uf plaicbfpcaij,
~\
i
an baile lap an
lairh TTlu|ichaib
jaillim
pRepiDenc mp pin, po pajaib an rheiD baof plan' oe ap na ccuaj uf plairbfpcaij. Oo pill an Ppepioenc cpa 50 rpe cloinn RiocaipD, cpe uib mame.gan rpoiD gan cacap 50 paimcc
]
-]
co har luain.
lap ccionol na pocpaioe pempaice Do paijib cloinne an mpla ap gac aipD po cfngailpior, -| po baingmjpioc pein, -| TTlac uilliam bupc pe poile .1. Sfan
mac
f
oiluepaip,-|
ba he ceo
nf
DO ponpar lap
pin
a bfic ace bpipfb cop ccaoball
Of all
:
it
thus
An English writer would say iho$e. " The President of Connaught, Sir
issued a proclamation about the
der the power." The meaning is, obedient to the laws of the Queen.
r
who were
Edward Fitton,
festival
The Lower Jiurkes,
i. e.
the northern Burkes,
who
of St. Patrick, commanding all those were submissive to the Queen, in the re-
seated in the county of Mayo,

s
Achadh-na-n-iubhar,
i.
e.
the field of the
gion extending from Limerick to Sligo, to attend a court at Galway."

q
yews, the ruins of a castle,

inin,
now Aughnanure,
townland containing in the parish of Kilcuma
Who
were under the authority, literally, "un-
barony of Moycullen, and county of Gal-
1572.]

all
1659
held at Galway of
those
who were under

summons
Limerick to
sons,
Sligo.
At
this
the authority of the Queen, from came the Earl of Clanrickard and his
;
11
the descendants of Ulick and John, with the chiefs of their people Burke the Lower Mac William, i. e. John Burke, the son of Richard Oge r and the Dal-Cais, with Oliver, son of John, together with the Lower Burkes
; ;
Galway, the two sons of the Earl of Clanrickard, Ulick and John, heard some rumour, on account of which they dreaded the President, and privily fled from the town.
their adherents.
Upon
their arrival before the President in
When
the President heard of this fact, he

left
made
prisoners of the chieftains of

;
them in durance in the town and he himself, with the Earl (the father of the two already referred to, whom he had arrested), proceeded to Athlone, and from thence to Dublin, where he left the Earl, and
Clanrickard, and
As soon as the sons of the Earl (then) he himself returned again to Athlone. heard of that affair, they ordered the soldiers and mercenaries of the neighbouring territories to repair to them without delay. That summons was promptly
responded to by the Clann-Sweeny of Upper and Lower Connaught, and by the Clann-Donnell Galloglagh (who had many hundreds of Scots along with
them). Before [however] they had time to assemble together, the President took his forces and soldiers with him to Galway, and carried with him the
ordnance and rising-out of that town to Achadh-na-n-iubhar', the castle of the sons of Donnell O'Flaherty and it was Murrough-na-dtuagh, the son of Teige Two of the sons of O'Flaherty, that induced him to go on this expedition.
;
Donnell O'Flaherty were

after
left
about
[i.
e.
in care of] the castle.
The
President,
having hah destroyed the
castle,
took complete possession of
it,
and
left
such part of it as remained undestroyed to Murrough-na-dtuagh O'Flaherty. He then returned to Galway, and passed through Clanrickard and Hy-Many to Athlone, without receiving battle or opposition.
After the aforesaid forces had gathered from all quarters to the sons of the Earl, they and Mac William Burke (John, the son of Oliver) entered into and
confirmed a league with each other and the first thing that they did after that was to set about demolishing the white-sided towers and the strong castles of
;
way.
.
castle
For an interesting description of this by Mr. Petrie, see the Irish P. Journal,
see
West Connaught, by Roderic O'Flaherty, edited by Mr. Hardiman, page 54,

col Description of
Dublin, 1841, page 1;
also
Chorographi-
note
8.
10 B 2
1660
dNNam
t
Rio^hachca eiReaww.
[1572.
jeal, i caiplen ccomoaingfn cloinne piocaipo 50 po bpipiD bailre an cipe 6 pionainn 50 boipinn leo genmoca uachab. Ro haipcceab leo lap pin ecip
Shuca i Sionann-j na pf6a, gac aon agd mbaoi bdib no pann 16 gallaib 50 uopup aca luain. QpeaD Do beacaccap laparh lairhbfp pe pionainn poip jac nDfpeac 50 pliab bajna na ccuac,"] anonn DO calab na hanjaile 50 po loipccace ace Dioldicpinccab 05 lonopab, pioc dc liacc. Po jabpar 05 Dob
-\
-|
~\
opccain gaca
pangaccap cfpp i ap pi6e 50 Dopup aca tuam 50 po loipccpioc a mbaof 6 bpoicfc anonn Don baile. Qppeab locrap laparh Don caob call 50 oealbna Tnejcocldin,"] cap
i
baile 50
niaptap mi6e.
Roba Diobpi&e an
TThnlfno
a naip 50 piol nanmchaba, i nf po pdccaibpioc cofpeac cuaice 6 eaccje 50 opobaofp nap cuippioc a naon pann coccaiD ppiu Don cup pin. 17o bpipea&leo
ballaba baile aca an
pfoj,")
a tnje
cloc,"]
a caipciall"| po rhuppac an baile
co nap bo hupupa a aicbenarh 50 haimpip imcfin Dia nfip. Oo cuap leo po bf niapcap connacc Daimbeoin minncipe na 501 lime, ~\ na SaijDiuipibe Sajcanac po pdccaib an Ppepioenc 05 consnam bapDacca an baile, ~\ po mapbab
i
leo caipcin na paijoiuip paânac pin 05 an oopap lapcapac Don baile,
-|
bd
Daimbeoin muincipe plaicbfpcaij beop DO beacaccap an Da uaip pin Don cfp ni baof conaip aca ace Dol ag ceacc ace cpe dc cfpe hoilem namd, -] Do
-]
]
ponpac cpeaca -] oipccne aibble ap TTlupchab 6 plaicbeapcaij 506 uaip aca bdccap cpa clann an mpla arhlaib pin 6 beipeab eappaij 50 mfbon pin.
pojamaip 05 corhloc na ccfnoabac, i 05 milleab jac nfic po peopac im jallaib, i imo panncoib gall jaoibeal apcfna. Qpeab po cinnpioc comaiple aca maice gall an ciapla Do leccab amac po pfb, "] caipDine 6p cionn a cliac, 1
~\
cpice i a pfpainn, -] DO cfhopuccab a cloinDe, -| cdinicc Dna Dia map na bliabna po po cfnopaij a clano, -| po leiccpioc pcaoileab
ci'p hi
ppoj-
Da
nariipaib
ap
nfc
a ccuillrhe
-j
an-iapla
'
mapaon
i.
16
baf Din Semup mac muipip mic cloinn lapla cloinne piocaipo ap na himceaccaib pin 05
a ccuapapcail
ppiu.
Towns,
u
e.
castles.
i.
in the east of the

e.
county of Eoscommon.
See
,
The Feadha,
Feadha Atha
luain,
O'Naghtan's territory, in the barony of Athlone, and county of Roscommon, containing

thirty quarters of land.
and Customs of Hy- Many, p. 90, note h and the map to the same work on which the position of the mountain is shewn,
Tribes
* Ccdadh na h-Anghaile, i.e. Callow of Anualy, a well-known district in the barony of RathSee it already cline, and county of Longford
See note
under the
year 1536,
*
p.
Eastwards,
w
1435, supra. recte, north-eastwards.
Sliabh-Baghna-na-dTuath, nowSlieveBtvun,
mentioned at the years 1411 and 1486.
1572.]

i
1661
Clanrickard ; so that they destroyed the towns' of the territory, from the Shan-
non
Next, they plundered [the district lying] between the Rivers Suck and Shannon, and also the Feadha"; and pillaged every person
to Barren,
except a few.
who was on
of Athlone.
x
friendly terms, or in league with the English, as far as the gates They afterwards proceeded eastwards*, keeping the Shannon on
w
,
the right, directly to Sliabh-Baghna-na-dTuath
crossed over to Caladh-nu-
and burned Athliag". They proceeded to burn, lay waste, plunder, and ravage every town, until they came to Westmeath. Among those was Multo the gate of Athlone, and burned that lingar, from whence they proceeded Thence they proceeded to the part of the town from the bridge outwards.
h-Anghaile
,
other side [of the Shannon], into Delvin-Mac-Coghlan, and back to 'Sil- Anmchadha and there was no chieftain of any district, from Slieve Echtge to
;
they did not induce to become their confederate of war. They destroyed the walls of the town of Athenry, and also its stone houses and its castle and they so damaged the town that it was not easy to repair it
Drobhaois,
whom
;
for a long time after them.

spite of the people of
They passed twice
into
West Connaught,
left
in de-
Galway, and of the English soldiers
there
by the
President to assist in defending the town. And they slew the captain of these soldiers at the west gate of the town. And it was also against the will of the
O'Flahertys that they went on these two occasions into the territory and they had no road to pass through, when going or returning, excepting Athz and on each occasion they committed great pluaders and depredaTire-oilein
;
upon Murrough O'Flaherty. The sons of the Earl continued from the end of spring to the middle of autumn thus injuring the merchants, and destroytions
ing whatever they were able upon the English, and upon all their English and Irish adherents. The Council of Dublin and the chiefs of the English at last
resolved to set the Earl at liberty, on terms of peace and friendliness, over his The Earl territory and lands, [on condition] that he should pacify his sons.
accordingly returned to his country in the autumn of this year, and pacified his sons, who dismissed their hired soldiers, after having paid them their stipend
and wages.
i
During these
now
enterprises, James, the son of Maurice, son of the
Athliag,
Baile-Atha-liag, the western
on the "river Girillimh, near the town of Gal-
or
'
Connaught portion of Lanesborough.

Ath-Tire-Oilein,
i.
way
supra.
See note
p
,
p.
1582,
e.
the ford of Terry land,
Rio^hachca eiReaww.
i
[1573.
ap Diaipnfib a lompmpeac 16 halbancaib Do bpfic laip ngeapalcacaib, Do jejijjuapaccaib oeapbaiD bib coDalca ppuaip an Semup pin DO jjaibcib q 6 jaoioealaib Da cuicaD ap bfg mbuiDne 6 jallaib ap uachab pluaij
-|
-\
-\
-|
mu man an
bliaDain
pi.
DpepiDenr Da coicciD murhan Do puiDe le hajjhaiD caiplem na mainge

ipm pampaD DO ponnpab,
~\
ploij
Da
coicciD muriian ecip jallaib
-\
jaoibeal-
aib, 1 bailcib mopaib, co na nopoanap, co na bpuDap, -| co na luaiDe. 6dccap cpa cionol pleacca eoâin moip uile ipm ppoplongpopc pin. 6af ann
mac
muipip ciappaige
.1.
comap mac emainn, baccap ann Dna bappaij
-|
poipDij, baof an cpocpaioe pin uile pe hf6 paice hi ppopbaip imon mbaile, po jabaD leo he po DeoiD Do Die bib, -| nip bo DeapbaiD copanca icip,-] ba ap
)
Daij poipicne albanac DO bpTic gup an mbaile baf Semup an lapla amail pemebeprmap.
hi
ppocaip cloinne
TT1oprl6 mop ap baoimb
-\
ap cCcpaib an bliabain
pi.
QO1S CR1O3U,
1573.
cpf.
Qoip Cpiopr, mfle, cuicc ceD, Seccmojac, a
Oomnac
inicce,
in
.1.
1 Deapgabail
pel bpijDe pop aon lo an bliaDain pi, Sanaip lap ccdipcc eappac, q ba TTlacrnaD mop la cdc inn pin.
~\
TTlac ailin
giolla eppcoip
mac
^lolla eppcoip an
raon mac gaoiDil ap
luja DO bole
ncilbam Decc.
TTlag cpaic uilliam

i
mac aenjaip ollam Dal

Decc.
ui
ccaip le Can paof puaDamail
nealabam,
ceallaig Do ecc. lapla pajeanac Do ceacc op cfnD coicciD ulaD hi ppojmap na bliabna .1. mplaop epe^r a corhamm, -| a Dol DO comnaibe 50 cappaicc peapgupa, i po
"
mbpujacup DonnchaD piabac mac caiDcc

~]
hi
Caislen-na-Mainge,
i.
e.
Castlemaine, on the
River Maine, or Mang, in the county of Kerry. b Race ofEoghan Mor, i. e. the race of Eoghan
O'Donohoes, &c. &c. c The festival of St. Bridget,

February.
d
i.
e.
the 1st day of
Mor, the eldest son of Oilioll Olum, King of Munster in the second century. The chief of
these were the
Mac
Allen,
i.
e.
who
e
is still
called
Mac Allen More by
the head of the Campbells, the High-
Mac Carthys,
O'Sullivans, O'Cal-
landers,
laghans,
O'Keeffes,
O'Mahonys,
O'Donovans,
The Earl of Essex.
He was Walter Devereux
1573.]
1663
Earl [of Desmond], was along with the sons of the Earl of Clanrickard, awaiting to bring the Scots with him into the territory of the Geraldines and it is
;
impossible to relate all the perils

sleep,
which
this
and great dangers, for want of food and James encountered (he having but few troops and forces),
from the English and Irish of the two provinces of Munster in this year. The President of the two provinces of Munster laid siege to Caislen-naof this year> having with him the forces of the two provinces of Munster, both English and Irish, and of the large towns, with their powder and lead, fn this encampment were the muster of all the race of
a
Mainge
in the
summer
Eoghan-Mor", also Mac Maurice of Kerry, i. e. Thomas, the son of Edmond also the Barrys and the Eoches. This whole army continued besieging the
castle for the space of three
"
provisions, not at all
months, and finally took it',' through the want of for want of defence and it was for the purpose of bring;
James was along with the sons of the Earl [of Clanrickard], as we have before stated. There was a great mortality of men and cattle in this year.
ing Scottish auxiliaries to relieve the
that
town
THE AGE OF CHRIST,
1573.
seventy-three.
The Age of Christ, one thousand Jive hundred
Shrove-Sunday and the festival of St. Brftget fell on the same day in this The day of the Annunciation occurred after Easter, and Ascension-day year.
in the spring,
which was a great wonder
to
all.
( Gilla-Easpuig, the son of Gilla-Easpuig), distinguished of the Gaels of Scotland, died.
Mac Allen"
by no means the
least
Magrath (William, the son of Aengus), Ollav of Dal-Cais in poetry, a learned man, distinguished for his knowledge of the sciences and agriculture, died.
the son of Teige O'Kelly, died. 6 the Earl of Essex by name, came [to Ireland] as President over the province of Ulster in the autumn of this year, and went to reside in
Donough Reagh,
An English Earl,
whohad been not long before madeEarl of Essex,

the 9th of July this year the queen granted " si rebelles him, submoveret," the moiety of
On
the seigniories of Clannaboy, Ferney, &c., in as unlimited a manner as if the O'Neills or Mac
Mahons had no claim
to these territories.
1664
i
QHNata Rio^hachca eiReaww.

bpian mac peilim bacaij
f
[1573.
50 cloinn ao6a buibe.

conjail,
~\
a]\
cloinn
aoba bui&e an can
pin.
na cobnac ap cjiian Cpeaca, i coinjlfca lomba Do

neill
rfccmail ecip bpian i an ciapla 50 peil paccpaicc ap ccioncc. TTIupchab mac DiapmaOa mic TTlupchaib uf bpiain DO mapbab la hmllecc
-a bupc
mac Riocaipo mic uillic na ccfno, la hua peacnapaijj DiapmaiD piabhach mac Diapmaoa mic uilliam, mic Sfain buibe,-| bd he ua peacnapaij po imip lama paip. <5P C inn r' 5 uai P e t> buain Dua peacnapaicc la Sfan
-\
.1.
a bupc a noiojail rhapbca a beapbpacap. Semup mac muipip Do bfic ace coccab
bliaDain
pi
~[
cp po
pnabmab
pi& ecip
eppium
~\
05 comjleic Ppepioenc Da
-\
ppi gallaib
an
cuicciD
muman
cdnaic DO mfpbuilib DC, Dobicin cpemaip, lapla ~\ Dfpmuman (geapoio mac Semaip mic Sfam,i a bparap .1. Sfan bdccap illaim i lonnoain le pe blia&na poime pin) DO leiccfn amac DO cfo comaiple Shaman,
pan eappac DO ponnpaD,
po conjbab po mbaile he, leicceab Sfan bpecain pdpaigh pionnmuman, piapc ipm po a arapba, na meiDe Do maip Da luce Ifnarhna. Dpiop PpepiDenc Da cuiccib muman co bol co paâib hi crop in pojmaip ap ccino mp cceccab, lap ccfnDjabail an cfpe, -] lap bpajbdil maop, comafpleac, caipcineab uaba pfm op cfno a pciupca ~\ a ppollamnaijce amail
-\
-| -| "] -| ~[
]
a ceacc
hi
ccuan aca
cliac.
T?o
jabab an ciapla lapam
po ba mian 16 a mfnmain babein. Rocaofneab an ceileabpab pin an PpepiDenr .ace boccavb 05 baincpeajicachaib, 05 aop anppanD anappacra an
-|
cfpe.
puaip lapam mpla oeapmuman elang ap elub im
peil
mapcain
mp
pin
Do nfmroil na comaiple jan piop jan aipiuccab ooib 50 painicc DO piubal cpi
noibce 6 ar cliac (50 nuachab ina pocaip) 50 glemfbon gfpalcac. Ro pdilncceab ppip an ccopcap placa cdnaic ann pin. Ctp jap uaip gup bo ceDac
conjaipeac an cf cdnaic ina uachab Don cfp an can

f
pin.
T?o hionnapbab
Trian-Chongail.
and,
This was the old name of

it
small town in
the barony of Kil tartan, and
therefore, Clannaboy, connect the two names by an agup. be no, or.

E
is
incorrect to
It should
county of Galway.
ployed here.
Who
laid
hands upon him,
i.
e.
who
ga.ve
This word is unnecessarily em" At two o'clock precisely" is cor" rect language, but precisely in the spring"
'
Precisely.
him
h
his death-blow.
borders on the ludicrous.

i.
'
Sometime
is
in the
Gort-innsi-Guaire,
e.
the holm, strath, or
spring of this year"

expressed.
is
what
intended to be
island of Guaire, a man's name,
now
Gort, a
1573.]
1665
Carrickfergus and in Clannaboy. At this time Brian, the son of Felim Baca<*h f and many plundering O'Neill, was chief of Trian-Chongail and Clannaboy
;
attacks and conflicts took place between Brian

to the festival of St. Patrick following
and the Earl [from
this time]
Murrough, the son of Dermot, son of Murrough O'Brien, was slain by Ulick Burke, the son of Rickard, who was son of Ulick-na-gCeann, and O'Shaughnessy,
i.
Dermot Reagh, the son of Dermot, who was son of Williain, son of John Boy. s John Burke deprived O'Shaughnessy was the man who laid hands on him
e.
.
O'Shaughnessy of Gort-insi-Guaire", in revenge of the killing of his kinsman. James Mac Maurice continued warring and contending with the English in
but a peace was at last confirmed between him and the President this year of the province of Munster, precisely' in the spring and it happened, through the miracles of God and the exertions of James, that the Earl of Desmond
;
1
John) and his brother, John who had been for six years, were set at liberty by consent of the in captivity in London The Earl was English Council and they arrived in the harbour of Dublin. and John was permitted to visit the taken, and put under arrest in the town
(Garrett, the son of James, son of
j
,
wilds of
fair
Munster, and to
visit his
patrimony
arid the surviving
remnant of
his followers.
The President of the two provinces -of Munster went to England in the commencement of the following autumn, after having reconciled and subdued
such superintendents, counsellors, and captains of his own people to direct and govern it, as were pleasing to his own mind. The departure of the President was lamented by the poor, the widows, the feeble,
the country, and having
left
and the unwarlike of the country. The Earl of Desmond found an opportunity of making
their
his escape
on the
festival of St. Patrick following, against the will of the Council,
and without
knowledge or notice
and he arrived, by three nights' walking (accom-
panied by a few), in the very midst of the Geraldines.
The
who had there arrived was made welcome
and
he,
who
distinguished chief had arrived in the
territory with only a few attendants, was soon surrounded by hundreds of troops.
J John, In tins year Mr. John Treraain was sent over to the Lord Deputy of Ireland, to make
what
is
intended to be done with
Desmond and
his brother John,
and how their creditors in EngSee Cox's Hib. Atiglicana.
several inquiries, and,
among
others,
"
To know
land shall be paid."
10 c
1666
laip po cfno aon
-|
i
aNNdtd Rio^hachna emeaNN.

miopa laparh buannaba,
-|
[1573.
i
bapDaba Sajcanaca bdccap co na pa;rnouincibh pfp muman uaip bd 05 an Ppepioenc noajbailcib ancoib baof caonpaije co na ccaiplenaib, baile na mapcpa, caiplen na mainge. Rojabab mopuibe co na mbapoaib lap an mpla co nap pagaib uppa ainjce aonbaile pfpainn 6 cumap cpi nuipcce co bealac conjlaip,-] 6 bealac a maop nap cuip po bpfir a buannat), conjlaip co luimneac nap cfnnpaig,
-]
-|
~\
po cfnD na haon jinopa pempaire.

oealabain,
arhail po
~\
po cuip na huipo
Dip.
,
ma
ccabap pein oeacclaip -| nionabavb pfin Do pfip t>liccea6 an papa
t?o pocaip a
ba
Coccab ecip Dal ccaip

.1.
babein.
ba
hiao bdccap Do caob Don coccab pin
Doihnall mac concobaip uf bpiain,"] rabcc mac mupchaib uf bpiain. Clann oonnchaib uf bpiain Don leic ele .1. an napla coippbealbac ace nf baof an ciapla pfin ipin cfp Don cup pin. Ro pap impfpam ecip cabcc mac concobaip,
-\
rabcc mac mupchaib baof naon pann 56 pin 05 congnamh la Domnall mac ba ppi concobaip nacchaio clomne Donnchaib 50 po pgappar ppia poile,
")
i i
-)
cabcc
mac
.1.
pacr
concobaip Do ponab poca na himpfpna,i Do coib pann a eapccaclann Donnchaib uf bpiain naghaib a oeapbpafap borhnaill mic coni
i
cobaip, i caibcc mic mupchaib,") uacraip cuabmuman. Ro cionoileab la cabcc mac concobaip (a nOiojail a biomba pop cabcc mac
mpam
Dfbeapccaij Do jallocclacaib gfpalcac cap pionamn, -] iaD DO conjnarh la cloinn Donncaib uf bpiain 50 mbaccap pocaibe lomba ina
ampa
-\
mupchaib) DO bfpc laip
bpocaip Do buicilepchaib,
DO cloinn cpuibne an cfpe pfin pliocc Domnaill mic coin meic puibne 50 pocpaioe an mpla amaille le a bfpbpacaip le coippbealbac mac Donncaib. Qp ann canjaccap an cpocpaioe pin uile hi cfnn
-\
.1.
Caenraighe, i. e. Kenry, a barony in the north of the county of Limerick. Baile-na-martra, now Castlemartyr, in the
.
return at noon and night ; which, after having kept for about a fortnight, one day he told the
Mayor
ing,
that he desired to divert himself by huntsee
county of Cork.
and that he would
him
m As was
dines
his
at night
but
right.
See the History f>f the Geralcc. 16, 17, 18.
that as soon as the Earl had got as far as Grange-
by O'Daly,
Ware
says, in
Annals of Ireland, that the Earl of Desmond,
Gorman, he changed his course, and so escaped, and retired to his own territories that he was
;
having promised upon his path to be faithful to
Her Majesty, was by the Lord Deputy put into the hands of the then Mayor of Dublin, with orders to provide him good accommodation, and
to permit
thereupon proclaimed a traitor, with a promise of one thousand pounds, sterling, and forty
pounds pension, him in alive, and
to
five
any one who should bring hundred pounds, sterling,
him
to go abroad,
upon
his parole to
and twenty pounds pension, to him that should
1573.]
1667
In the course of one month afterwards he expelled the English hirelings and warders who had been [stationed] in the fortresses and towns of the men of
Minister, for the President and his
with
its castles,
Englishmen had possession of Caenraighe", Baile-na-Martra and Caislen-na-Mainge [Castlemaine]. These

1
,
castles, with their warders, were taken by the Earl, so that by the end of the month he had not left a proprietor of a single townland, from the Meeting of the Three Waters to Bealach-Chonglais, and from Bealach-Chonglais to Lime-
rick,
whom
and stewards.
be restored
he did not subdue and bring under the control of his bonaghtmen He ordained that the Church and the men of science should
to the possession of their privileges
;
and he re-established the
[religious] orders in their
own
respective places, according to the law of the
m Pope, as was right
A war [broke
this war,
;
out]
among
the Dalcassians themselves.
On the
one
side, in
were Donnell, the son of Conor O'Brien, and Teige, the son of Murrough O'Brien on the other were the sons of Donough O'Brien, i. e. the Earl and Turlough but the Earl himself was not in the country on that occasion.
;
A contention
arose between Teige, the son of Conor, and Teige, the son of Murrough, who had been till then united in assisting Donnell, the son of Conor, and Teige, the son of against the sons of Donough, so that they separated
;
Conor,
who had
given occasion to this quarrel,
went over
to the side of his
enemies, namely, the sons of Donough O'Brien, in opposition to his own brother, Donnell, the son of Conor Teige, the son of Murrough and [the inhabitants
; ;
of] the upper part of

his
Thomond. After
this,
Teige, the son of
Conor
(to
wreak
disaffected gallowglasses of the Geraldines,
vengeance upon Teige, the son of Murrough), gathered the soldiers and and brought them with him across
the Shannon, to assist the sons of
Donough O'Brien
and these were joined by
numbers of the Butlers and of the Mac Sweenys of the territory, namely, the descendants of Donnell, the son of John Mac Sweeny, and by the forces of
the Earl, with his brother, Turlough, the son of Donough.
All these forces
bring in his head.

Geraldines,
c. 1 8,
asserts, that the
O'Daly, in his History of the Earl of Des-
that thereupon the Earl sent word to John and James, cautioning them on no terms to leave
their territories
this message,
mond, on
his arrival in the city of Dublin,
was
informed by a member of the Council, that a plot was laid for the ruin of the Geraldines, and
and that, having despatched ; he himself soon after escaped from
Dublin.
10 c 2
1C68
apoile ace
rcioghachca
apD na ccabocc
i
[1573.
a ccfio popjup ipin muiji. Ro jluaipeaoap mparh Do biojail a nanppolab pop uaccap cuabrhuman cpe oipceap 6 ccopmccab na nanppann maic, cpe in lib 6 ppfpmaic. 6a he plan pipei^frh bof 05 cup pabab peampa in jac maijin in po jabpac. Loccap mparh cpe la Dopup innpi cloc poo copab pinne, DO bocap na mac pioj, cumn, puccpac Dponj Dia noaofnib pa.bb eoala a cill injine baofr,~| m'p bo haippbe
bail
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buaba no copccaip DO oal ccaip papuccab na bar.naoime. QpeabDocuaccap laparh piap ccuaib cpe coiccpic copcampuab boipne. Ro leiccpiocc pcceimelca pccaoi'lce ap puo an cfpe uaca 56 po ceacclamab leo cpeaca an ci'pe uile pia naDhaib 50 haon rhaijin. Ro âbpac longpopc laparh, ni'p bo
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hionab curhpanca eppme la hiaccab ~| la hfijmib ban, -| baincpeabrac 05 accaoine a nrmneab a noeaohai^ a noiojbald. OD cualaib Dorhnall mac
concobaip uf bpiam,
cancc mac mupchaib an cpom pluaj pin Do cocc caippib po cfcclaimpioc an lion ap lia po peopao Do pluag po c'eooip, panjaccap a ccombdil apaile co capn mic cdil. Qciao baccap ina ppocaip ann pin
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clowns.
Ard-na-gcabog, i. e. the height or hill of the This name is not on the Ordnance Map,
River Fergus, and was bounded on the north by the territory of Kinel-Fearmaic, on the east by the
River Fergus, which divided it from Hy-Caisin and Tradry, on the south and west by East Corca-Vaskin, and on the north-west by KinelFearmaic, which
Sliabh Callain.
it
but the Editor has been informed, that it was and is still the name of a hill in the parish of
Clare- Abbey, on
the west side of the River
Fergus, where
ustuary.
it
expands
itself into
a wide
meets at the mountain of

ter-
O'Hehir, the chief of this
Forgas,
now
with the Lower
the Fergus, which mingles Shannon near the town of Clare.

is
ritory was not of the Dal-Cais, but of the race
The River Shannon

p
very wide here, which inarticle to call it the sea.

'
of Daire Cearba, the ancestor of the Hy-Figeinte, who were seated at the other side of the Shan-
duced the writer of this

Hy-Cormaic.
non, but no account has been discovered of when

or
According to the tradition in the country, this territory, which was the patrimony of the O'Hehirs, is coextensive with
the parish of Kilmaley, in the barony of Islands, and county of Clare. The name is still applied
to this parish,
by what means
q
his ancestor settled here.
Hy-Fearmaic, otherwise Kinel-Fearmaic. This was the tribe name of the O'Deas, and
also
is
it
became the name of
their territory,
which
but
it
can be proved from various
authorities, that the adjoining parish of

cliff is
Drum-
now included in the barony of Inchiquin, in the county of Clare. This territory is often called the Upper Trioeha Ced, or Cantred of
i.
also a part of
it,
and that
it
originally
comprised the entire of the barony of Islands, except the parish of Clondagad, which was a part of East Corco-Vaskin. It extended from the
Dal-Cais, and the inhabitants, Aes-iar-Forgas, e. the people west of the Fergus.
r
Coradh-Finne,
i.
e.
the weir of Finnia, a
mountain of Sliabh Callain to the estuary of the
woman's name, now Corofm, a small town in the barony of Inchiquin, and county of Clare,
1573.]

at a place called Ard-na-gcabog",
1669
met together
with the
sea.
From thence they marched,

,
to
wreak
where the Kiver Forgas mingles their vengeance upon [the
inhabitants of] the upper part of Thomond, through the eastern part of the p q territory of Hy-Cormaic and the confines of Hy-Fearmaic ; and the cries and
they plundered gave warning of their which they passed. They proceeded onwards every place through r over the stone road of Coradh Finne by the gate [of the castle] of Inchiquin,
shrieks of the unfortunate people

in
whom
,
march
and some of their people carried utensils and [and] by Bothar-na-mac-Riogh but this profanation of the spoils out of the church of Cill-inghine-Baoith'
;
;
church of that saint boded no triumph or success to the Dal-Cais. They then proceeded north-west, by the confines of Corcomroe and Burren, and dispatched
through the country marauding
parties,
who
collected to one place all the
spoils of the country before night. They afterwards pitched a camp, but it was not a place [adapted] for rest, on account of the crying and wailings of women
and widows, [who were] bewailing their wrongs, after being plundered. When Donnell, the son of Conor O'Brien, and Teige, the son of Murrough, heard of
the coming of this great army to oppose them, they immediately mustered all the forces they could, and met together at Carn-mic-Tail". These were they
seven miles to the north-west of Ennis.

5
othar-na-mac-riogh,
i.
e.
the road of the

preserved, and
of a round tower, near Corofin, in the barony of Inchiquin, and county of Clare. The patroness of this church
is still
kings' sons.
is
This name
is
still
held in great vene-
applied to the road leading
from Corofin to
ration in the counties of Clare
and Limerick,
Kilnaboy, meeting the gateway of Inchiquin about midway between them. The following reference to this road in the Caithreim Thoirdhealbhaigh, at the year
:
where there are

dedicated to her.
to
several churches and holy wells
Her name
line of
1317,
will
shew
its
Innywee was of the royal

of the Dal-Cais.
u
in the country.
is now corrupted Her father, Boeth,
Cormac Cas, the ancestor

the earn or sepulchral
exact position " Dermot O'Brien set out with his forces from Ruadhan" [Ruanej " to march into Burren,
Carn-mhic-Tail,
i.
e.
heap of Mactalius, the sou of Broc, the eleventh

in descent from Modhruadh, the progenitor of the O'Conors of Corcomroe, and their correThis is undoubtedly the great earn latives.
and he passed through Bearna-an-chaillin,
by Leacht-inghine-Ui-Lochlainn, leaving Tully O'Dea on the left, by Loch Beasgnatan, over

Caradh-mhic-Boirinn, to the opening of Botharna-mac-riogh, and over Mullach-Gaoidheal."
1
now
called Caru-Connachtach,
situated in the
Cili-Iiujhine-Baoith,
i.
e.
the church of the
townland of Ballygeely, parish of Kilshanny, It of Clare. barony of Corcomroe, and county

is
daughter of Baeth t or Boethius, now Killinaboy, or Kilnaboy, an old church at which is a part
of a
conical
shape,
measuring
one
hun-
dred paces in diameter at the base, and about
1670
dNNata nio^hachca eiReawN.
[1573.
clann emainn mic pieig 50 nglan rhogal galloccldc canaic cpihoibce piap an ran pin cap pionainn, ~| 6ccbai6 pleacca an giolla buib mic concobaip mic Donnchaib mic Domnaill na mabmann mic puibne. 6af ann uilleacc mic
TCiocaipD Sha;canaig mic uillicc mic T?iocaipo a bxipc canaic an la poime pin opioppuccab a bpdcap, Uabcc mac mupchaib ui bpiain. T?o cinnpioe ann pin
a haon comaiple an plog Do Ifnmam, i po jab oomnall mac concobaip ui calma DO benam, apbfpc ppiu, a bfgmuinap ap pe po bpiain occa ngpfpace im cualabupa la pfnaib 1 la pfncabaib ndc le Uon pluaj no pochaibe bfpap buaiD,
-|
ap pipe [ap pfop pe] carpae, Doponpacanlucc uo paipap monnpaicciD ôp ccpic noilip babfm 50 po bpicc, i iomapcpa6 poipn cpeacpac, i 50 po oipccpfc qp mumceapa. N.f puil ipin luce uo 516 lionrhap boib nf bd lainne leo caipipiom ace cumapccac ploij a hionabaib eccpamlaib,
1
ndc bpuil
bpficfrh
.1.
olodp ceiceam Diamab Deimin leo poccain a nanmann ap an maijin hi ccoinopecpam. Ro gab gpeim cpa an gpeapacc pin Do bepc Dorhnall pop a rhuin-
po cinjeallpac Do gomaD bdib bparaippi no biab aca uile naghaib a namac,"] po cinnpioc luce bpara caipccelab DO cop uara pop an ppoplongcip, i
i
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popc an oibce pin. baof cabcc mac concobaip ui bpiain, i coippbealbac mac Donnchaib i bpiain co na pocpdioe 50 peicriieac puipeacaip Id caob a longpuipc an oibce pin co polup cpac eipje DO 16 ap na bapac. T?o apccnaccap
pfmpa
Id hfipje na gpeine DO
~|
jobann,
bdccap ploij
pbab na njpoijfb, 1 Idim cle 16 bel aca an an cipe ag maillceimniuccab Id a ccaob DO ceacc-
po noccpac a mfipjeaba ficeaca eppleatpa Ifc ap Ifr, ap a aoi po cinnpioc 50 ceim Diojamn Dpeappaic cille maincin DO paijib beoil an cip joe noipeac. l?o gab cabcc mac mupchaib, i an pluaj apcfna ag gpip
rhail ppiu, i
imbfpccab Domnaill
twenty-five feet
in
bpiain ap a poo leo

It
bdccap gan lonnpaigib an

now
Anglice Slievenagry, in the pabarony of Corcoinroe, and
perpendicular height.
the horses,
was probably the place where the Chief of Corcomroe was inaugurated before Burren was separated from Corcomroe, and wh\Je the entire
diocese of Kilfenora
rish of Kilfenora,
county of Clare. There is a small bridge of two arches on the boundary between the parishes of
was under the jurisdiction
of the head of this tribe.

*
Kilmoon and Kilshanny, calledOpoicectoSleibe na njpoi jeao, from its contiguity to this mountain.
'
Stand or fly,
literally,
is
"and not more
de-
sirable to
staying than flying, if they were sure to bring their lives from the place
shall
them
el-atha-an-Ghobhann,
smith's ford.
i.
i.
e.
the
is
mouth
of
the
This place
called Baile
where we
1
meet."
i.
Eoin Gabhann,
e.
e.
the town of John the Smith,

at the year
1
Sliabh-na-ngroigheadh,
the mountain of
by the Four Masters
600.
It is
1573.]

:
16?1
who were
Shannon
the sons of Edmond Mac Sheehy, with a along with them there select body of gallowglasses, who had, three nights before, come across the
;
and
also youths of the descendants of Gilla-Duv, the son of Conor,
son of Donough, son of Donnell-na-Madhmann Mac Sweeny. There also was son of Ulick, son of Richard Burke, who Ulick, the son of Richard Saxonagh,
had come the day before tp visit his kinsman, Teige, the son of Murrough These then resolved with one accord to pursue the army [o the O'Brien. enemy] and Donnell, the son of Conor O'Brien, began to excite them to "Good people," said he, "I have heard from valour; and he spoke as follows
;
:
not by the multitude of men or forces that a victory is gained, and that no person is a judge [of the issue of] a field of battle. These people have been guilty of wrongs and excesses towards us,
the old and the historians that
it is
for they
have made an irruption into our own lawful territory, and plundered and pillaged our people. Their army [however], though numerous, is only a
medley of
stand or
different people
from
different places,
who
care not whether they
fly",
so they can but escape with their lives from the field
whereon we
its
shall meet."
effect
;
This exhortation from Donnell to his people produced
intended
and they promised that they would all unite in brotherly affection and thereupon they resolved to send out people to spy and reconnoitre the camp that night. Teige, the son of Conor O'Brien, and
against their enemies
;
Turlough, the son of Donough O'Brien, and their forces, remained all that night, until daybreak the next morning, stationed by the side of their camp,
and warily. At sunrise they marched forwards by Sliabh-na-ngroighy and the forces of the eadh*, keeping Bel-atha-an-Ghobhann on the left hand country were marching slowly along side of them, to come to an engagement
vigilantly
;
and they displayed on both sides their winged and broad-tailed standards, but marched with steady step by the Pass of Cill-Mainchin z directly towards Bel,
an-chip Teige, the son of Murrough, and the army in general, began to reproach Donnell O'Brien for the length of time they were without engaging
.
now
and
"
called Ballygowan, otherwise

is
Smithstown,
county of Clare.
"
situated in the parish of Kilshanny, ba-
Bd-an-chip
rony of Corcomroe, and county of Clare.
or trunk of a tree,
mouth now
of the ford of the stock Cnoc-a-chip, on the sea
Munchin's church, Citt-Mainchin, now Kilmanaheen, an old church giving name to a parish in the barony of Corcomroe, and
i.
e.
St.
shore, in the parish of Kilmanaheen,

to the
two miles
west of Lahinch, in the barony of Corcomroe, and county of Clare.
1672
naite uaip
jijobarm
aNNata Rio^hachca emeaNN.

bdcrap ace coirhimfeace
pin.
[1573.
50
Rdinicc eabcc
mac
naipD ppia poile 6 bcule ara an concobai'p ~\ coippbealbac ua bpiain co

ajio
i
na pocpaiOe ap mullac cnuic beoil an cip ina mnneall lornbualea ariiail po luce na eipe ajjd ccojjpaim ba lainn leo baoein. bdccap an plua^ naile nacchaib na leapgan aipoe 0550 pbe baf oia paijib arhail ap oeine conpan-|
i
Tjaeeap, i pia nool
eab Diubpaicre Do.b po jab pgeinm

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pccdr ecepoma
-\
co^ppbealbai gop âbpae aepbace, claonab, ~| coppame conpapail cai6cc Ro jabab aga naipleac, -] ajd narcuma, 050 cuca. puaccab po ceDoip
na ccpioccaib na nofipib, na ccpiapaccd plaibe na ppicc.b, aib appin co bfinn popmala. Nfp bo haon conaip po gabpac na buibne pin na coipi^re poipuaip DO gabpac an mapcplua^ lairh 6fp le paippcce piap 6eap 506 nDipeac. Qp a aof po Ifnab 50 Ian uplam gac opong bib. Ro laccpac
pleaccaD
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an mapcpluaj a napabna Dia neachaib arhail ap Deine po peopar, DO bechaib coippbealbac 6 bpiain ap Da inapcac Decc Dia luce Ifnarhna Do DO jônab copab a nfipioniail,-) DO luap a neach 50 cafa;p puip. Oo jabab
-\ -]
Dpongele Da rhuinnp. Ro gabab ann ona cabcc mac concbaip ui bpiain,-) a mac coippbealbac ua p Do anpac pibe pop an ccnoc ip;n uaip ba 0615 leo 50 ppopai^peab cdc ina ppappab. Ro gabab cpa Dpong nap paodeab Danacal opfop mumcip an mpla, po mapbab oponjja lomba ele. Ro ba glopac
~|
babba,
~|
bpaineom,
-]
eafaiDibe aep,
in
~\
paolcoin na pioobaibi pop pfcnachaib
ba pfipDe uaccap cuabrhuman paopclann po bdij imaipcc fin. Deiofb oapm, ô cfnn achaib Dia eipi an po pdccbab Do bpaiôib Deacaib, DopDariap, beop D;a ccfcpaib, Dia mnnil'b pdn aca an Id pin.
aon laof
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The
hill
of Bdl-arirchip
Now
called Cnoc-
Formaoile.
Cathair Ruis,
i.
a-chip.
c
e.
the stone fort of Eos,
Within
shot,
literally,
fyc.
within shot-distance,
now Caherush,
townland containing the ruins
Trepidation, horror,
This
is
the eloquent
of expressing that they were seized with a sudden panic at the sight of the enemy.
Irish
mode
of a castle in the west of the parish of Kilnmrry, See barony of Ibrickan, and county of Clare
the Ordnance
h
Map
Beann-Formala, now Binn-Formaoile, a mountain situated about a mile and a half to the
south-west of the
Who,
it
was
thought.
of that county, sheet 30. This intimates that
their lives
'
were spared.
birds,
Roman
Catholic chapel of
Ravenous
earaibioe oep.
p.
See note
',
Inagh, in the barony of Inchiquin, and county of Clare. It is about six miles to the southeast of
f

k
1022, supra.
Bel-an-chip,
i.
whence they
in
fled.
on that day, literally, " on account of the battle of that one day." The
Slain in the
battle
South-east,
e.
the direction of Beann
style could be easily
improved by omitting the
1573.]

army
;
1673
and the two armies had been moving opposite each other from Baile-atha-an-Ghobhann to that place. Teige, the son of Conor, and Turlouii b O'Brien arrived with their forces on the summit of the hill of
the other
Bel-an-Chip
[and formed themselves] into such array for fighting as they themselves considered proper. The other army and the inhabitants of the country were pursuing
them up the steep and rugged side of the hill on which they were but before c they could come within shot of them, the constables of Teige and Turlough
;
were seized with trepidation, horror", light-headedness, giddiness, and unsteadiness, so that they
immediately took to
flight.
The
It
others proceeded to muti-
late, hack, and slaughter them by twenties and c [in the route], from thence to Beann-Formala
.
thirties,
by twos and threes, was not in the same direcdirectly south-east'
tion these [defeated] troops passed, for the cavalry

.
moved westwards, keeping

.
the sea
parties,
on
their right,
and
their infantry passed
on
Both
however, were expertly pursued. They [and ran] with all the speed they could exert and Turlough O'Brien and twelve horsemen of his followers made their way, by force of bravery and the s Others of his people were wounded swiftness of their steeds, to Cathair-Ruis
gave loose reins to their horses,

;
and taken prisoners and among the rest were Teige, the son of Conor O'Brien, and his son, Turlough, for these had remained on the hill, expecting that the rest would remain along with them. Some of the Earl's faithful people were (also) taken prisoners, who, it was thought", would get no quarter
;
;
and many others of them were slain. Noisy were the ravens and carrion-crows, and [other] ravenous birds' of the air, and the wolves of the forest, over the k The upper part of Thobodies of the nobles slain in the battle on that day
.
'
mond was
1
the better for
some time afterwards of
all
the prisoners, horses,
armour, and ordnance, and also of the number of their

left to
own
herds and flocks,
them on
that day.
:
words poouij and aon, thus Roboap jl6paic baoBa, bpameoin earaioeaba aile aieoip, paolcoin na piobKuioi pP pfcnacaiB paop-| )
down
arises
to
Limerick (piop 5 6uitnneac). This from the belief that the land inclines
clunn po rnapbao n-imaipeacc in laoi fin. The upper part of Thomond. It should be here remarked, that upper, in the county of Clare, means northern, and, lower, southern,
i 1
from Burren and Slieve Aughty to the Lower Shannon. In Connaught and Ulster, up means
to the north,
and down to the south.
And
so
does this custom prevail in Connaught, that to go down the Shannon means to go
much
They say up
to
Burren (puap 5
&oipmn), and
!" against its current
10 D
1674
TTluipip
hi Ifijionn
QNNaca Rio^bachca emeciNN.

mac an
i
[1574.
jiollapiabaij
(.1.
6 cleipijj) uf cleipij, paof hi Sfncap,
-\
pfp poimm pocondij oecc
hi
muinap
eolaip,
i a aDnacal
ppiodnac
maijje pein
necclaip caillfn.
QOIS CR10SU,
Clofp Cpiopr, mile, cuicc ceo,
1574.
cfcaip.
Seaccmoccac, a
Conn mac an
hiapla 6u epejc
cliac.
hi
calbaij, mic TTlajnupa uf borhnaill DO gabail hi piull la
ppoplonjpopc an lapla baoein,
-|
a'
cop laparh co hoc
lapla Dfpmuman Do bfic 05 pojail, 05 injpfim a fpccapacc nfppac na bliabna po, -| bpipeab Do ap maj capcaij mop :i. Domnall, mac copbmaic laDpaij i TTlac pingin (OonnchaD mac Domnaill mic pingin) Do mapbaD la
i
)
mumcip an
lapla,
"|
po ba Damna Dobpoin,
nDfpmumain
.1.
eipi&e.
17o
mapbaD
clann DonnchaiD bacaij mic maolmuipe mic DonnchaiD mic roippDealbaij, mic eoccain, mic TTlaolmuipe, mic DonnchaiD 50 pochaibib Do DajDaofmb oile genmocdc.
leo Dna occ conpapal Duaiplib cloinne puibne
CdppaiD cpa mac mpla Dfpmuman (SCan mac Semaip) eicim njabala ap oajbaile Dainjfn Do cpian cluana meala Diap bo hainm Doipe an laip, po
-\
cuip
bdpDa
caipipi Dia
mumcip DiomcoirheD an
baile hipin.
OD
cualaiD
lupcip na hGpeann (Sip uilliam pir?uilliam) i lapla upmuman (comap mac Semaip mic piapaip RuaiD) an nf pin po acnuaDaij gabail an baile pin a
Dfpmuman, ~\ po posaippfr Dpfpaib mi&e, i bpfj, DO buirlepacaib, -| Dpine jail apcfna Dul Do DianmilleaD Iftre mo&a, -\ nf po hana& leo gup po paiDic a bpuiple -| a bpailliuin cnmceall Doipe an laip co po âbaD 6 leo po beoiD, i po DicfnDair an bapoa uile lap
pola,
)
nua
pfn pola pe cloinn lapla
ra
Fenagh
See note
*,
tinder the year 1244,
third,
and county of Wateribrd.
This castle
The original manuscript from 310, supra. which the copy of the MS. referred to in that
p.
stood on level ground, about three hundred It was a paces to the south of the River Suir.
note was made,

of the British
n
is
now
i.
preserved in the Library

1 1.
Museum, Vesp. E.
e.
Cotton,
15.
quadrangular fabric, measuring forty-eight feet from east to west, and thirty feet from north to
south, and had a round tower at each corner.
Doire-an-lair,
the middle or central oak
Of
Derrinlare, a townland containing the ruins of a very strong castle, in the parish
wood,
now
these towers three are
still
traceable,
but that
which stood
disappeared.
at the south-west corner has totally
of Killaloan, barony of Uachtar-tire, or Upper-
About one-half of the
north-east
1574.]
1675
Maurice, the son of Gilla-Eiagh O'Clery (i. e. the O'Clery), a man learned in history and literature, and a man of esteem and affluence, died in MuintirEolais,
and was interred
in
Fenagh
of Moy-Rein, in the church of
St. Caillin.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1574.
thousand jive hundred seventy-four.
Con, the son of Calvagh, son of Manus O'Donnell, was treacherously taken prisoner by the Earl of Essex, in the Earl's own camp, and sent to Dublin.
The Earl of Desmond was plundering and harassing his enemies in the He defeated Mac Carthy More (Donnell, the son of Donspring of this year. son of Cormac Ladhrach). Mac Fineen (Donough, son of Donnell, son nell, of Fineen) was slain by the Earl's people and his death was a cause of great A young constable of the gentlemen of Clann- Sweeny, grief in Desmond.
;
namely, one of the sons of Donough Bacagh, son of Mulmurry, son of Donough, son of Turlough, son of Owen, son of Mulmurry, son of Donough, and many
other distinguished persons besides, were slain by them. The son of the Earl of Desmond (John, the son of James) took by surprise a good and strong castle, called Doire-an-lair", and placed in it trustworthy
people to guard it. When the Lord Justice of Ireland (Sir William Fitzwilliam) and the Earl of Or'mond (Thomas, the son of James, son
warders of his
own
of Pierce Roe) had heard of this castle, it renewed their recent and old animoand they summoned the men of sity against the sons of the Earl of Desmond Meath and Bregia, the Butlers, and all the inhabitants of the English Pale, to
;
proceed to devastate Leath-Mhodha. [The summons was obeyed], and they marched, without halting, until they had pitched their tents and pavilions around
Doire-an-lair,
which they
finally
took
and the Lord Justice beheaded
all
the
tower remains, to the height of about sixty feet, but the south-east one only to the height of ten feet. These towers were eighteen feet in dia-
tion ascribes the erection of this fortress to the
Butlers.
See
it
mentioned, under the name of

i.
Dorenlare, in the Pacata Hibernia, vol.

in a letter from
p. 78,
meter on the inside, and their
walls,
which were
well grouted, are eleven feet in thickness.

side walls of the square are also grouted,
The
and
Tradi-
James Galdie Butler to the Lord President, in which he complains that his " eldest brother's castle of Dorenlare" had been
are eight feet four inches in thickness.
bestowed upon Richard Power.
10 D 2
1676
ciNNac,a
[1574.
a luce conganca 05 rpeccab mpla ofpmurimn an oipfc fin gup bo hi corhaiple po cinn cocc hi ccfno an lupcip, a bfic oia na mainge, Dun japbdm, caonpaije Do caboijpeip, 1 pobficcfn Do caiplen
an lupcip.
baeap a
Daoine,
-\
-\
"|
aipc DO, i maicfrii
po milleab eacoppa ap gac raob 50 pin. ap jac Sfoh cooac -\ capaopab Do coiriicfnâl eicip bpian mac peilim bacaij uf neill i lapla 6u epe;r, -| cupccnam plfioe Do benarh mpccain la bpian -\ an lupcip co tnaicib a muincipe Do cocuipeab Dia paiccib, -| pobcap pubac
nf
poimfnmnac ppf pe ceopa noibce co na Idib
ppappab
apoile.
C(n ran
bd
home
occ aofb'nfp, h) ccfnn na pee hf pin l?o gabao bpian co -) co na riinaof lap an mpla,-) po cloi6mea6 gan coiccill a muinnp na bpacaip i uile, piopa, mnd maca, -j injfna ma piabnaipi babein. Ro cuipeab bpian mpooib occ 61
rcain, a bfn, 1
a bpacaip 50 hdc cliar, i Do ponaD cfcparhna coriipomnce Dfob ann conab amlaiD pin Do cuaib cpfoc a ccuipeab Doib. T?o ba lop opoca
1
a&uaca,
an mfoiac malapra, upjpdme Depenncoib an oioheaD anabaiD, mfimbepca pin cuccab pop cijfpna cloinne aoba buibe uf neill, uaccapdri,
-\
~\
Dungarvan, tDun
dun, or fort,
5 a P''ciin
i.
e.
Garvan's
Essex, but that he soon after became disaffected,
a seaport town It is in the south of the county of Waterford. situated on a point of land formed by the estuaries of the Rivers Bricky and Calligan. There
are considerable remains of the walls of this
now Dungarvan,
and joined Turlough Luineach in the rebellion. It is but fair here to remark, that when Essex
landed, Brian thought that he had come over simply as Marshal of Ireland; but that when he
discovered that the Earl had come over to seize
town
castle,
still
remaining, as also of the principal

is
upon
all
which
situated in the centre of the
use, it
Clannaboy to his own and the Queen's was reasonable to expect that Brian
town, and
p
occupied as a military post. This is the name of a Kenry, Caoripaije in the north of the barony county of Limerick,
is still
should oppose him and the Queen also. Camden asserts that Brian usurped Clannaboy ; but this,
which
least
is
the principal castle of which

pailir-
is
now
called
true, for his ancestors
a mere fiction of the English law, is not had possession of it for at

centuries,
It Caonpaij-e, Anglice Palliskenry. stands on the left bank of the Shannon, about
two
and Brian was the true

a far
heir.
Dr. Leland,
who was
more candid
in-
nine miles west of the city of Limerick.

q
Were
seized upon.
Camden mentions
this
vestigator than either Camden or Cox, though sufficiently primed with prejudices against the
Irish, so as not to
capture of Brian O'Neill, in his Annals of the reign of Elizabeth, A. D. 1574, but makes no
allusion to the treachery, and
is
tional predilections, has the following note
be carried away by any naon
Camden
says that, as soon as
followed by Cox. Essex landed at
the proceedings of the Earl of Essex, who had obtained a grant of the seigniories of Clannaboy, Farney, &c., in order to oust the Irish,* and settle English colonies therein " The Irish manuscript annals of this reign
:
,
Carrickfergus, Brian
Mac Phelimy
waited on
him, and in the most submissive manner tendered his duty to the Queen and his service to
1574.]
1677
His people and auxiliaries were so much abandoning the Earl of Desmond, that he resolved upon repairing to the Lord Justice, and making unconditional submission to him [this he did], and he was obliged to deliver
warders.
:
Lord Justice Castlemain, Dungarvan and Kenry p and [thereupon] whatever wrongs had been committed on either side up to that time should be
up
to the
, ;
forgiven.
Peace, sociality, and friendship, were established between Brian, the son of Felim Bacagh O'Neill, and the Earl of E*sex and a feast was afterwards prepared
;
chiefs of his people were invited; by and they passed three nights and days together pleasantly and cheerfully. At the expiration of this time, however, as they were agreeably drinking and
Brian, to
which the Lord Justice and 'the
q making merry, Brian, his brother, and his wife, were seized upon by the Earl, r and all his people put unsparingly to the sword men, women, youths, and maidens, in Brian's own presence. Brian was afterwards sent to Dublin, toge,
ther with his wife and brother, where they were cut in quarters.
Such was
murder of the lord of the race of Hugh Boy

,
the end of their feast. This unexpected massacre, this wicked* and treacherous O'Neill', the head and the senior
mention a very dishonorable transaction of this lord on his return to Ulster. It is here given
in a literal translation from the Irish, with
when they
arrived at the place of conference,
they were instantly surrounded by troops, and all butchered on the spot. Such relations would
which the author was favored by Mr. O'Conor. Anno 1574 'A solemn peace and concord was
:
be more suspicious
made between the Earl of Essex and Felim

O'Nial.
if these annals in general virulence against the English expressed great and their government. But they do not appear
However,
at a feast wherein the Earl

[recte,
to differ essentially from the printed histories,
entertained that chieftain'
at
a feast
wherein the chieftain entertained that Earl], and at the end of their good cheer, O'Nial with
'
except in the minuteness with which they record the local transactions and adventures of the
Irish
;
and sometimes they expressly condemn countrymen

the sword.
his wife
were seized their friends who attended

;
their
for their rebellions against

iv. c. 2.
were put
sword before their faces. Felim, with his wife and brother, were contogether veyed to Dublin, where they were cut up in
to the
their prince."
'
Book
To
1574, states
Irish,
Camden, in his annals, A. D. that Essex slew two hundred of the

his brother,
quarters.
This execution gave universal dis-
and took Brian, Rory Oge,

wife.
content and horrour.' " In like manner these annals assure us that
and Brian's
s
Wicked, malapra.
p. 70, supra.
See note
*,
under the
a few years after the Irish chieftains of the King's and Queen's County were invited by the English to a treaty of accommodation. But
year 1186,
'
Lord of the
race of
Chief of Clannaboy.
Hugh Boy O'Neill, i. e. Camden states, in- his An-
1678
[1574.
pinnpeap plecca cen mo ca uacaD.

j
eojam mic
neill naofjiallai^
~|
jaoibeal epeann Duprhop
Clann
lajila
cloinne RiocaipD
~\
.1.
uilliam,
"|
Sfan DO bpipfo bpficpe,

~\
-|
ampa mop oalbanchaib Deipennchaib Do popDab bpairpeapa pop apoile, Do pao bpaijjDe la Sfan a bupc. puaip lapla upmuman idporh ppoce;rion 06,
-|
pe comall Don Bainpiojam ap laim an mpla. Cioc ctoicpnfcca Do ppeapcain hi callamn TTlan na bliaDna
longnac
po,
bd hejramail
fpm, uaip baoap Dponja nepinn na po maccnaib e naile 6 po cojbaic cige cpebap naile, bacap Dpon$ o po bdibic cfcpa, -\ innile. Na guipc jfrnaip po baof ap na pfolaD Dqinjne, paice no Ificblia&ain piap an can pin po pdccaib an cioc pin ma Ifpjaib loma
i
peapcam an cfca
ace amail nac cioc

]
gan IDC gan peop iao. l?o pagbaiD an cioc ceDna beop cuopoma.jac cloice Da ccuipeaD Do mioll maocûpm pop na luipgnib ppip a mbfnab.
" this Brian nals of the reign of Elizabeth, that
possessed thirty thousand cows, besides sheep and hogs." To give Essex possession of these,
II.
namely,
JOHN, who died in 1619, leaving five sons, 1, Sir Henry, who married Martha
Stafford,
and of the lands which supported them, by a prescriptive grant from the Queen, was nearly
as arbitrary as the
whom
by whom he had five daughters, of four were idiots, and Eose, who was
;
compos, and married to Randal, Marquis of
of Ireland,
Pope granting the kingdom forfeited by the heresy of Queen

1
Elizabeth, to his faithful son in Christ, Philip II. This Brian is the ancestor of the present Vis-
married Grace 2, Arthur, who O'Hara, by whom he had two sons, Cormac and John, who were both Colonels in the ser-
Antrim
vice of Charles
II.,
and 'died without issue;
3,
count O'Neill of Shanescastle, and of Mr.

O'Neill of Ballymoney, in the county of
a respectable farmer on the Marquis of
shire's estate.
Hugh
Down,
Felim Duv, the ancestor of the present Viscount O'Neill, of whom presently; 4, Hugh;
Down-
and
5,
John Oge, the ancestor of Mr. Hugh
The pedigree of this family, as printed by Burke in his Peerage, is very incorrect
;
O'Neill, of Ballymoney, a farmer.

III.
FELIM Duv.
He was
II.,
a captain in the ser-
and the Editor thinks
it his
duty
to lay
vice of Charles
and died in 1677.
He
by
before the reader, in this place, the true line of

descent, as proved from original documents, as
married Sheela O'Hara, whom he had,

IV. BRIAN.
who
died in 1690,
he was led astray, by relying on Mr. Burke's

authority, in giving
cheartach, p.
I.
He
married Eleanor Magennis,
who
it
in the Circuit
ofMuir-
died in 1705,
63
BRIAN MAC FELIM O'NEILL,
chief of Clanna-
boy, and senior of the Kinel-Owen. He married, first, a daughter of Sir Arthur Magennis,
1, John, card-maker in Paris, who succeeded to the family estates on the death of his relative,
by whom he who had two sons: commonly called French John, a
Colonel Charles O'Nell, in 1736

ob.
s.
2,
Henry,
Viscount Iveagh and secondly, Anne, daughter of Brian Carragh O'Neill and was suc; ;
p.
V. JOHN.
He had
;
ceeded by his eldest son,
without issue
three sons, Henry, who died Charles, of whom presently ;
1574.]
1679
of the race of Eoghan, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages, and of all the Gaels, a few only excepted, was a sufficient cause of hatred and disgust [of the English] to the Irish. sons of the Earl of Clanrickard, namely, William and John, violated their [pledged] word and brotherly friendship and John Burke took many
;
The
Scotch and Irish mercenaries into his service. The Earl of

;
Ormond
afterwards
obtained protection for him and he delivered up hostages into the hands of the Earl, to be kept for the Queen.
On
the calends of
May
this year a
shower of
hail
fell,
after a strange
and
wonderful manner, for some saw nothing in it but what belonged to such showers in general while there were others whose good strong houses it swept away, and whose flocks and herds it smothered. The fields of green corn, which
;
had been sown a quarter or half a year before, were left by this shower bare and barren plains, without corn or blade. The same shower left upon the shins
of those on
whom
it fell
lumps the exact
size
of one of the hail-stones.
and Clotworthy, who died without issue. VI. CHAKLES. He marrried, in 1736, Alice,
daughter of the Eight Honourable Sir John Broderic of Middleton, by whom he had two sons, John, of whom presently, and St. John,
III.
JOHN OGE, the youngest
son of John, the

s
son of Brian.
He had
one son,
sons, John, No. V.,
IV. HENRY,
who had two

is
and Donnell, of whose descendants (if he had

such) no account
preserved.
:
who
died without issue.
He
died in 1769,
V. JOHN.
He had
three sons
1,
Ambrose,
and was succeeded by his eldest son. VII. JOHN. He represented the county of Antrim for several years in Parliament, and was elevated to the Peerage of Ireland on the 30th
of November,
who had
five daughters,
the third of
Henrietta, married Daniel
whom, O'Rourke of Dro-
mahaire, in the county of Leitrim, by whom she had a son, Ambrose, who was the father
of
Daniel,
1793,
as
Baron O'Neill of
who was
2,
father
of Ambrose
the
Shanescastle, and advanced to the dignity of Viscount O'Neill on the 6th of October, 1795.
O'Eourke,
county of
Esq., J. P., of Ballybollen, in

; %
Antrim
Henry, who died
with-
He
married, on the 15th of October, 1777,
out issue ; and, 3, Daniel, No. VI. VI. DANIEL.

VII.
VIII.
Henrietta, only child of Charles (Boyle) Lord Dungarvan, and grand-daughter of Charles,
Earl of Cork and Orrery, by whom he had issue: 1, Charles Henry St. John, who was
fifth
JOHN of Ballymoney. ARTHUR.

county he survive the
IX. JOHN.
born in 1779, and was created Earl O'Neill in 1800, and died without issue in 1841 and,
;
X.
HUGH O'NEILL of Ballymoney, in the

of
Down, a farmer, who,
if
2,
John Bruce, the present Viscount

30, 1780,
O'Neill,
who was born December

is still
and who
Viscount O'Neill, will be the senior representative of Brian Mac Felirn, and of all the
unmarried.
Let us now return to
Kinel-Owen.
1680
aNNaca Rio^hachca emeaNK

Do rhapbab la
[1575.
ITIac raibcc mic caibcc uf T?uaipc
cum DO
luce Ifnamna
na bpeipne ap paicce Dpoma Da eciap.
QOIS CR1OSC,
1575.
cuicc.
Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceD, Sfccmojacc, a
ui
Ruohpaije mac Qo&a (.1. na Domnaill), mic TTlajnupa, mic Qo6a Duib Domnaill DO mapbab nfojaipe noun na nâll la Cacaoip, mac G6m, mic
i i ]
cuacail uf jallcubaip,
nocap lainD laippiumh inDpin.

i
T?obapca po cfpbaijj, ~\ eallpcoc amciopmaij pampab na bliabna po co na ppfch Co aon uaipe Do 16 no ooibce DO pleochab 6 bealcame co lujnapab. l?o pap fpldince upjjpanna i cfibm cupbpoib Don cfpbac hfpm .1. an plaij.
baof cpa an cfiDm pin co hanppoill pop Shaâncaib, -\ pop eipeanDachaib mbaile ara cliac ino nap laijfn, mbaile ara pipbiab, ipm TTluilfnn cfpp, mbaile aca buibe. Rob lomba Dna fcoppa pibe, caiplen jan coimeD, innile
i
-\
jan
uapal copp gan abnacal rpia birin an cfbma ipm. nua DO cocc Sip henpi SiDnei, ipm ppo^map Do ponnnepinn lupcip bd hamlaib baof epe pop a pab, i hi ccoicceab ulab po gab popr cecup, cioncc na hen cuinn coccaib cfnoaippce, po naibm pib, capaopab, i
aoj;aipe,
-\
i
.1.
-)
~|
-\
capcanacc enp cenel cconaill eoccain, coicceab ulab apcfna po bic bet haca cdinicc hi ccfp hi ccopac, po bfocuip an iuprfp pin co paâib an
~\ ~\ -\
ciapla 16
a nDeapnab an jabalcap pop
ulcoib,
.1.
calBaij, i pop bpian

cliar DO elub pe linn
bfic hi poicpib i hi
u
1
mac
-\
peilim bacaij
po peall pop conn mac an mpla ou epejr. Conn mac an

~\
calb'aij uf Domnaill Dna,
conn mac neill oicc uf neill bdrcap illdim in dc an lupcip Do cocc in nGpinn, Conn ua Domnaill Do pdpaijib a buicce babem gup cuip an lupcip a papDun
~\
i.
From
Bealtaine to
to the
1
Lammas,
e.
from the
&c.
st of
May
st
of August.
w Invaded
Ulster.
The Four Masters do not
SeeCamden's Annals of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and Cox's Hibernia Anglicana, A. D. 1 573. Camden's words are as follows
:
appear to have known the exact nature of this invasion, because the Earl was not a mere adventurer, but was bound by indenture to go thitherefore Michaelmas, 1573; for on the 9th of July, that year, the Queen had granted him
" In Ultonia Brianus Mac Phelimus, qui mag-
nam partem
incendit
;
regionis Clandeboioe usurpaverat,

i.
oppidum Knockfergus,
e.
Fergusii
Eupem,
tumultuari coeperunt. Contra hos Wai terusDevereux (quern Elizabetha

et alii eo tractu
the moiety of the seigniory of Clannaboy, Farney,
nuper Essexia; Comitem crearat) expeditionem
1575.]
1681
son of Teige, son of Teige O'Rourke, was slain by some of the inhabitants of Breifny, on the Green of Dromahaire.
The
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1575.
seventy-jive.
Rury, the son of JIugh (i. e. the O'Donnell), son of Manus, son of Hugh O'Donnell, was, while quelling a riot at Donegal, [unintentionally] slain by Cahir, the son of John, son of Tuathal O'Gallagher, a thing which he wished not to do.
Duv
Intense heat and extreme drought [prevailed] in the

there
summer
of this year
A
in
one hour, by night or day, .from Bealtaine to Lammas". loathsome disease and a dreadful malady arose from this heat, namely, the
for
was no rain
plague.
This malady raged virulently among the Irish and English in Dublin, Naas of Leinster, Ardee, Mullingar, and Athboy. Between those places many a castle was left without a guard, many a flock without a shepherd, and
many
a noble corpse without burial, in consequence of this distemper. In the autumn of this year a new Lord Justice arrived in Ireland, namely, He landed in Ulster, and found Ireland one scene of warSir Henry Sidney.
fare
(however) established peace, friendship, and charity between the Kinel-Connell and the Kinel-Owen, and throughout every and this Lord Justice part of Ulster, the province in which he first landed
intestine
;
and
commotion.
He
banished to England the Earl of Essex, who had invaded Ulster", and acted treacherously towards Con, the son of Calvagh [O'Donnell], and Brian, the son
About the time that this Lord Justice arrived in of Felim Bacagh [O'Neill]. son of Calvagh O'Donnell, and Con, the son of Niall Oge Ireland, Con, the
O'Neill, who, had
nell
been
in prison in Dublin,
made
their escape
and Con O'Don-
remained concealed in the
forests
and wilds of
his native territory, until
the
Lord Justice
illis
sent
him
his pardon.
In the beginning of winter the Lord

imbuerat, propositi tenax cum Eegina transigit, ut, quibusdam cautionibus pars altera Clandeboia?, si rebelles
postulat
usus consultoribus qui
eum
Ion-
gius abesse, et in pericula, specie honoris, prasQuod ilium primis votis habuerunt.
cipitare
submoveret, sibi et suis commi-
haudquaquam
qui
latuit.
Verum
vir
impiger, et
litionibus cederet:
adquam tuendam
equites cc,
animum ab
ineunte setate bellicis studiis
suis stimptibus aleret: et in belli gcditcs cccc,
10 E
1682
cuicce.
QNNata Rio^hachca
Qn
-]
eirceciNN.
[1576.
lupcip lapom DO Dul
hi
cropac an jjfimpeaD peacnon rhaije
|io pfoDhaij goill i jaoibil ctanna conaill cfpnaicch ppi aipcip CuiD mpcrain piap6fp 506 nDipeac 50 popcloaipge, co heocoill, apoile. co copcaij im noclaicc. 6d Dipfrh in po muDhai 5 Do meipleachaib, i in po Dicfno DO Dpocbaofnib ip na cfpib pin cpiap a ccubchaib 56 pin.
bpeaj
mibe, aippibe hi popruacaib Laijean, 50

"|
muman
mi6e,
-]
pfol l?oppa pailgi,
-)
-|
CoccaD eiccip piol mbpiain an bliabain pi. Clann concobaip uf bpiain ~\ clann mupohaiD uf bpiain Do ICc Don coccaD pin. Clann DonnchaiD Don Ifir 17o cpeachaD ~| po corhloipcceab (Dpojail oile .1. an ciapla i roippDealbac.
aon oiDce) cuar ua mbuilc~| cuacnapfpna eicip eicip cuair -| reaprnann uile lap an lapla.
inDilib, apbap,-|
poipgnearh
Semup mac muipip mic
Sfain mic an
mpla co na
rfinaof
-\
co na cloinn DO
Dul Dfgla gall Don ppainc ip in eappac DO ponnpaD, lap noenarh pioccana Don mpla -] Do Shfan la gallaib.
Qooh mac baocjalaij meg plannchaba

hi pili&eacr, cfnnaije
oiDe poipcfcail hi ppfineacup -\ luccha Dob olc Do bpficfmnaib cuaice in pfona ap
epinn Decc.
QO18 CRIOSr,
Qoip Cpiopr,
mile, cuicc ceo,
1576.
Seaccmogarc, ape.
Do ecc a&bap eccaofne Doipeachaib, coippi Do cpeabrachaib, ] bpoin Do bpujaDaib a Dmrce baoein, pfp Do Dfppccaij Da pinnpeap Da nap Dfppccaij a poipfp, i a aDnacal nocaplije a acap a pfnacap cij molaga, a bpacaip eojan mag capcaig Do oipDnfo ina iona6.
TTlag capcaij piabac, DonnchaD
-]
mac
Dorhnaill mic pinjin
"|
-\
Uaicne mac aoDa

na njaman.
uf
Diomapaij Do mapbaD
piull
inabaile pfm
ccluain
apparatum dccem millia librarum monetse AnglicK a Eegina, prediis in Essexia oppigrieratis, mutuo sumit."
prised the Glen of Imaile, Glendalough, and other parts of the county of Wicklow.
*
Breagh, i. e. tlie plain of Bregia, a part of East Meath containing five cantreds, or
Magh
Offaly,
a
Race of Rossa Failghe, i. e. the O'Conors of and their correlatives.

Tuath- Ua-mBuilc,
i.
e.
the territory of the
baronies, and lying principally
between Dublin
and Drogheda.
'
Ui-Builc, or O'Bolgs, a district in the barony The castle of Islands, in the county of Clare.
of Dangan-Moybuilk, corruptly
Fortuatha of Leinster.
This territory com-
Dangan Moy-
1576.]

x Magh Breagh and
1683
Justice proceeded through the Fortuatha of Leinster y ,

Irish of East
Meath, and from thence through and reconciled .with each other the English and
as also the race of
Munster and Meath,
descendants of Conall Cearnach.
He
Rossa Failghe 2 and the afterwards, about Christmas, proceeded

,
in a south-westerly direction, respectively visiting Waterford, Youghal,
and
Cork, and suppressed countless numbers of rebels, and beheaded great numbers
of bad
men
in these districts, as
he passed along.
[broke out] among the O'Briens in this year. On one side were the sons of Conor O'Brien, and the sons of Murrough O'Brien on the other were
;
A war
and Tuath-Ua-mBuilc* and Tuath-na-Fearnab including cattle, corn, and buildings, and both temporal and spiritual possessions, were burned (in one night's marauding) by the Earl. In the spring of this year James, the son of Maurice, son of John, son of the Earl, went to France, with his wife and children, through fear of the Eng; ,
the sons of Donough, namely, the Earl and Turlough
lish,
with
whom
Hugh,
the Earl [of Desmond] and John had made peace. son of Boethius Mac Clancy, Professor of the Feineachas
and of
poetry, and a purchaser of wine, by no means the least distinguished of the lay Brehons of Ireland, died.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

Mac Carthy Reagh (Donough,
to the farmers of his
1576.
seventy-six.
<
the son of Donnell, son of Fineen) died, a
cause of lamentation to the chiefs, of sadness to the husbandmen, and of sorrow
own
territory
was not excelled by father and grandfather, was inaugurated
his juniors.
at
a man who outshone his seniors, and who He was interred in the burial-place 'of his Timoleague" and his brother, Owen Mac Carthy,
; ;
as his successor.
Owny, the son
of
Hugh O'Dempsey, was

e
.
treacherously slain in his
own
residence of Cluain-na-nGamhan
liurke,
b
was in
it.
i.
Feineac/tas,
i.
e.
the Brelion law.
Tuath-na-Fearna,
e.
the district of the

well known, and barony of Islands,
Timoleague.
w See note , under the year

i.
alder trees.
is
This name
is still
*1240, p. 301, supra.

e
applied to a district in the
Clitain-na-nGamlian,
e.
the lawn, meadow,

a
or pasturage of the calves,
now Cloneygowan,
10 E 2
1684
aNNdta Rioghachca eiReaNH.

mac an
[1576.
Colla,
na mabmann,
jiolla 6uib, mic concobaip, mic DonnchaiD, mic Domnaill mic eojam, mic coin na lachaije meic puibne, pfp 50 pen
-|
cpoDa i cocaip, cije naoibeao conpapal odl ccaip Do ecc. baocgalac occ, mac baocjalaij, mic muipceapcaijj mej planncha6a ollam Dal ccaip 16 bpficfrhnap, pfp cije naoiofo coiccinn Do ecc/
-\
Uilliam occ mac an baipo,

pccol, paof
mac copbmaic ollam

i i
ui
Domnaill 16 Dan, oioe

~\
ppojlaim i nairne, pope conjbala coraijce Do ecc nDpuim mop an. 22. pebpuapi. Oaop pojlama -| ppiocnama Uoippbealbac mac cuacail bailb uf jallcubaip paof Duine oipfcca DO
Deappccaijce
hi
rhapbao la connaccaib an. 16. DO nouembep. INjfn uf baoijill, Siuban occ, injfn coippbealbaij, mic
.8.
neill DO bdrab la Sem 05 po^laim pnama ap abamn an cppaca bui&e. Goin mooapoa mac meic Suibne bojaimjj Do ecc la cdpcc macaomh occ
aoiDeaoac po ba mo Do pgel D;a cineaD pfm an can pin. Concoljap occ mac DonnchaiD meguibip, ~\ Dpong ouaiplib peap luipcc DO rhapbaD ipm rpiucha. Domnall, mac oiapmaDa, mic maofleaclainn me jopmain Decc ipm fppac
einpfp
spaDa po bpfpp
cfipc,
~\
cuapapccbdil laime
-|
emij baof
Dm
cineaD
ma
corhaimpip.
an cabdn pfm uile on caiplen mop anuap 50 habainn DO lopccaD le hinjin comaip, mic an bapuin cpe eD, nip milleaD in en baile eiDip jaoiDealaib oipfo in po millfo ipm mbaile pin.
TTlaimpcip
mop an
cabdin,-|
~\
Cpeaca mopa Do Denarh
la bpian
ua Ruaipc ipm anjaile an bliabain
pi.
Qn
lupcip perhpaice Sip henpi SiDnei, Rioipe ap

hfpin,
amm, ap uaiple ap
jniorh,
-\
ap jaipcceaD an lupcip
cocc Do im pel bpijoe 6 copcaig co luimnfc

h
small village near Portarlington, in the King's
Fir-Luirg, L
e.
the
men
or inhabitants of
County. f Druim-mor,
Lurg, a barony in the north of Fermanagh.

i.
ten places of this referred to in the text
dorsum magnum. There are name in Donegal, but the place

e.
Triucha, i. e. the barony of Trough, the country of the Mac Kennas, in the north of the
'
is
probably the townland
of Dromore, in the parish of Drumhome, and See the Ordnance Map of barony of Tirhugh
county of Monaghan. k Mac Gorman, He was seated in the barony of Ibrickan, in the west of the county of Clare.
the county of Donegal, sheet 103. 8 Srath-buidhe, L e. the yellow strath or holm,'
The
chief of this family was hereditary marshal
of O'Brien's forces
See Genealogies,
p.
Tribes,
and
now
keel,
Straboy, a townland in the parish of Inis-
Customs of Hy-Fiachrach,
'
432.
barony of Boylagh, Donegal.
The great
castle., i. e.
the castle of Tullymon-
1576.]

of
1685
Colla, son of Gilla-Duv, son of Conor, son of
Donough, son of Donnell-naa house of hospitality, and
Madhmann, sou
Owen, son
battle
of
John na Lathaighe Mac Sweeny, a man who

conflict,
had been successful in
and
who kept
who had been
Constable to the Dal-Cais, died.
Boethius Oge, the son of Boethius, son of Murtough Mac Clancy, Ollav of Dal-Cais in judicature, and a man who kept a house of general hospitality, died. William Oge Mac Ward, son of Cormac, Ollav to O'Donnell in poetry, a
president of schools, illustrious for his learning and knowledge, a patron and f supporter of the learned and the-teachers, died at Druim-mor on the 22nd of
,
February.
Turlough, the son of Tuathal Balbh O'Gallagher, an illustrious head of a clan, was slain by the Connacians, on the 16th of November.
of O'Boyle, Joan Oge, daughter of Turlough, who was son of Niall, was drowned on St. James's day, as she was learning to swim, in the river of Srath-buidhe 8
.
The daughter
John Modhardha, son of Mac Sweeny Banagh, died on Easter-Day.

was a hospitable youth, and the most regretted of his tribe at that time. Conor Oge, son of Donough Maguire, and some of the gentlemen of h Luirg were slain in Triucha
1
He
Fir-
Donnell, the son of Dermot, son of Melaghlin Mac Gorman*, died in the He was a servant of trust, who, of all his tribe in his time, bore the spring.
name and character for dexterity of hand and hospitality. The great monastery of Cavan, and [the town of] Cavan itself, from the great castle downwards to the river, were burned by the daughter of Thomas'", There was not so much destroyed in any son of the Baron, through jealousy.
best
1
one town among the Irish as had been in that town. Great depredations were committed by Brian O'Rourke
this
year in Annaly.
The Lord Justice

ness",
already named, Sir Henry Sidney, a knight by title, nobleand valour, proceeded, about the festival of St. Bridget, from Cork deed,
is
gan. The River of Cavan siderable stream.
now
a very incon-
m The She was Mary, daughter of Thomas. of Sir Thomas Nugent of Carlanstown, daughter
the second son of Richard Nugent, second Baron of Delvin. According to the Genealogy of the
compiled by the Chevalier Count O'Reilly, she was the O'Gorman, second wife of Hugh Conallagh O'Reilly, and
of O'Reilly,
for the
House
the mother of his son, Maelmora, or Myles.
The Irish appeared to have Nobleness. formed a high idea of Sidney's character. Even
D
1686
awwata Rioshachca eiReaNR

-\
[1576.
maire murhan eieip gallaib,

laip ina coirhcionol. 816
baipp DO copcc.i Do cop ap ccul laip. Do muimneachaib iapom,l puce pfol mbpiain ma caoimeeacc laip CeileabpaiD 50 gaillirh. Uangaceap uaccap connacc ina bail .1. lapla cloinne Riocaipo co na Diap mac, uillfc -| Sfan, ~\ TDac uilliam loceaip, Sfan mac oiluepaip mic
comnmfD,
-|
cficfpna.
Da buannaba buna
gaoiDealaib, i Dal ccaip Don Ifie oile Do cocc coicceaD murhan Do Dendrh 66 Don cup pin, Speic
-|
Sfain, i TTlupchaD
bfpeaig i piol gaillme, Dal ccaip Do conjmail i njioll pe comall i pe haipecc Do cabaipc uara Don luce baof occa najpa, senmoca Domnall 6 bpiain nama po coj an
na ccuacc mac caiDcc, mic-mupchaiD, mic I?uai6pi uf plaic6a he cpioc na comDala fin na cceallaig co na ccoirhaonol.
luynp
hi
pepbip Do pfm op cionn connrae an
clciip
Da cfnnpuccaD
-|
DO pijne
oomriall inDpin, ap po cpochaD mfiplij mibepaca, -| Dpoc Daofne, -| DibeapccNf pangap alfp eallac Dionnpaicne, na Dopap Do DpuiD an ccfin ai^ laip.
baof Domnall
pfo&uccaD caij peacnoin epeann neoc gup a painicc) co hac cliac, 1 puce clann mpla cloinne RiocaipD (DO laip ngioll lep rhillpfc 6 mumcip na bainpiojna 05 lapmopacc a nacap piap
i
in oipicc.
Oo com an lupcip lap
an ran
cainicc
.1.
pin.
lap nool 50 har cliar Don lupnp gup na bpaijDib pin laip
cpiDe 50 po cfDaij Do na bpaijDib pin Ifc ap Ifc piolmbpiam, i bupcaijh (oecrpomucchaD Da naiccfncoib) Dul Opioppuccab
ip
raom conDailbe ma
a ccaparr
na compocpaib, ache nama na caiDhleDip cap copamn ina ccfpib bunaiD buDein co po cfDaijfo pom Doib DopiDipi a raDall nac can naile. l?o jeallpac Do an nf pin, lap ccocc co hop a ccpice Do cloinn lapla cloinne
-|
po comaillpfc a ngeallaD, uaip DO Deacacap Dia nouchaig, acbeapacc poipfnn gup bo DO cfo a nacap cangaccap. 6a gap uaip lapom gup bo haicpeac Dia cip an cupup pin 6ip cainicc an lupcip po cfnn cuicc
RiocaipD,
nf
-|
O'Daly, in his History of the Geraldines, c. xvi., says that he was a man of consummate craft
the province of Connaught in this reign.

p
Coigny, comniheao.
See Spenser's View of
and splendid 'accomplishments. Sir Richard Cox " cursed, hated, and detested Iresays that he
land above
all
the State
q
ofIreland, Dublin, reprint of 1809, p. 52. This was a tax on every plo,ughKernetty
e.
other countries
not that he had

it
land for the maintenance of the Lord's kerne,

r
any
dislike of the country,
but that
was most
BonagM-bun,
i.
the fundamental or original
difficult to
do any service there, where a man must struggle with famine and fastnesses, inaccessible bogs,
Bonaght.
This is the tax called by Bonaght-lar. writers Bonaght-bur, which is defined English
as free quarter at discretion, or in specie.
s
and light-footed
tories."
The Dal-Cais, i. e. the O'Briens and their correlatives, whose country was made a part of
See
xii.
Harris's edition of Ware's Antiquities, chap.
1576.]

;
1087
and the chiefs of Munster, both English and Irish,- and also the went along with him in his train. On this occasion he established Dal-Cais, p peace in the two provinces of Munster, and abolished the taxes of Coigny
to
Limerick
r
,
Bonaght-bun Munstermen, and took the O'Briens along with him to Galway. Here the inhabitants of Upper Connaught came to meet him, namely, the Earl of ClanMac William lochtair (John, the rickard, with his two sons, Ulick and John
Kernetty
, ;
and Bonaght-bar'.
He
then took his leave of the
son of Oliver, son of John) Murrough of the Battle-axes, the son oLTeige, son of Murrough, son of Rory O'Flaherty; and the O'Kellys, with their retinue. The result of this meeting at Galway was, that the Dal-Cais were detained as
;
hostages for the keeping of their agreements, and making restitution to those who had sued them, except only Donnell O'Brien, whom the Lord Justice
selected for his
own
it
service, [and placed] over the

in subjection
;
purpose of keeping
county of Clare, for the and this Donnell did, for he hanged refrac-
While Donnell continued in office it tory rebels, bad men, and plunderers. was not found necessary to place watchmen over cattle, or even to close doors.
persons throughout every part of Ireland through which he had passed, proceeded to Dublin, taking the sons of the Earl of Clanrickard with him, as pledges for [the reparation of]
all
The Lord
Justice, after having established peace
among
all
the destruction they
had previously
effected
endeavouring to rescue their father. When in Dublin with these hostages, his heart was suddenly melted into kindness, so that he permitted these hostages respectively, namely, the O'Briens and Burkes,
upon the Queen's people, while the Lord Justice, however, arrived
an alleviation to their minds, to go and visit their friends in the neighbouring territories, but [upon the condition] that they should not pass over the
as
boundary into their own native territories until he should give them liberty to do so, at some future time. They promised to observe this condition', but when
the sons of the Earl of Clanrickard had reached the confines of their territory, they did not keep their promise, for they passed into their native territory
;
'
and some say that they did so by the connivance of their father. In a very short time, however, this journey was a cause of sorrow to his country, for in
p. 74.
There
is
a curious account of these taxes
No. 611,
'
p. 139.
and exactions in a manuscript at Lambeth, Carew Collection, No. 617, p. 212; and in
To
observe this condition,

this
"
literally,
they
promised him
thmg."
1688
aNNQta Rioghachca eiReanN.

ma
[1576.
nofbce
Dia nacaip .1. lapla cloinne niapmoipeacc co hac luam,-] pob eigfn uile eicip ponn -\ pfponn, cloic, caiplen RiocaipD baile loca piac,-| a Duchaij Don bampiojjain. l?ucca& DO caipbfpc Don lupcip, -[ epfm Opogpa map bpa jaiD an ciapla lap pin co hac cliar, po cuipeab hi ccapcaip curhanj oia lorn coimeo 6 bail na cluinfb compab capao na coiccele. Ro pagaiB an lupcip
-| -]
Dpong DO caipcimb
occ loc,
-\
cpeac 1 DO gaibelaib,
po gabpac pibe -| clann an rapid an cipe fcoppa co mbaof an cip uite ma ceioe 1 occ Idinrhilleab 6d Di'pim Ona in po mu&ai6f6 Do jallaib corhpuacaip Don cup pin.
hi ccloitin ftiocaipD,
-\
ppojmap, i hi coppacae cfncjapba,-] cnoccoillce corhairhpeine bd pfo cuiD cloinne an lapla Dia nouchaij an can pin. QpDpuipc oipeacaip an cfpe, i colca caobjlana
-\ ~\
Dinnilib fcoppa po malapcnaijeab Dalrhaib, DeiDib, Slebce Dpoibeoil, Oiarhpa, ngfiriipeaD na bliabna po.
-\
in
-j
cairnfmaca na cpice baoap iao joill po ba co&naij Doib. Oo oeacaiD beop emann mac uilliam a bupc 6 caiplen an bappaij hi pann cloinne an lapla,
~\
bd pf6 DO pala 66 apa lopp, an lupcip Do jabdil caipleman bappaij paip, epfm DO lonnapbaD co na mnaof, co na clojnn hi ccloincc piocaipD.
-|
-|
lapla ou epepcDococc op cfnn coicciD ulab an bliabain
pi
lap na lonnapbaD
lap an lupcip Sip henpi SiDnei an bliabam poime, I a cocc hi ccfp in dc cliar, 1 bd mapb pia ccionn coiccioipi e DO cfiom galaip obaino i po cuipeab a lene, -j a cpibe 56 a caipDib in inncomapca a oiDheaba.
Ppepioenp nua Do cocc op cfnD Da coicceaD muman an bliaDain pi Uilliam Opupi a amm, -\- cuaomuma Do Dea&ail pe coicceaD connacc"] a cup Qn Ppepioenp ceoria DO bfic ag piubal ap bailcib mopa lap an mumain.
Do olucujaD peacca i T?iajla Do milleaD mfipleac mbicbeanac, an bdpoiDeac laip, -\ Da occ conpabal uaiple uppamanca Do -] po bdpaijeab mac DO mupchaD pliocc TTlhaolmuipe mic Donnchaio mic coippDealbaij; na
-]
.1.
muman
"
Herds and flocks of cattle,
oalriiaiB,
oemiB,
note
-]
omniliB
The language
for the
is
here redundant in
also a passage
x
the original,
synonymous. mnile .1. aipneip."

these words
"
three words are nearly Bo, no 610 .1. aipndip no pppe'io;

O'Clery.
under the year 1186, p. 70, supra, and under the year 1542, p. 1471The word coonac is of Masters, coonaij
*,
The D prefixed
to
is for the preposition oe or oo, of. "Destroyed, malctpcnaijfo, i.e. maliciously destroyed by the one party to prevent the
frequent occurrence in old Irish writings in the. sense of " lord, master, or superintendent." y Castlebar. Cair-len an oappaij, i. e. Barry's
Castle
z
Sudden fit of sickness
See note*, under the year 1412. He died on the 22nd

Dr. Leland remarks
others from using
them
as food or stock.
See
of September this year.
1576.]
five
1689
nights afterwards the Lord Justice came in pursuit of them to Athlone ; and their father, the Earl of Clanrickard, was obliged to give up to him the
town of Loughrea, and all his territory, both lands and tenements, stone-houses and castles, and he himself was [arrested, and] declared the Queen's prisoner.
The Earl was then conveyed

of captains in Clanrickard,
to Dublin,
and confined
.
in a close prison,
where
he heard not the voice of friend or companion
The Lord
Justice left a
number
them] proceeded to Countless that the whole territory was one scene of pillagings and conflicts. were the numbers of both English and Irish who were slain, and of herds and
flocks of cattle" that
and these and the sons of the Earl [who opposed plunder and totally ravage the country between them, so
winter of this year. mountains, the hilly and intricate woods of their native territory, were the only at this time while the English parts of it possessed by the sons of the Earl
;
were destroyed", during their contests in the autumn and The wilds, the recesses, the rugged and rough-topped
were masters of
its
chief fortresses, and
its
,
green-sided and delightful

;
hills.
Edmond Mac William

the consequence to
y Burke, of Castlebar joined the sons of the Earl
and
him was,
that the
Lord Justice took Castlebar from him,
and banished himself, with his wife and children, into Clanrickard. The Earl of Essex, who had been expelled the year before by the Lord
Governor] over the province of Ulster this year. He landed in Dublin, but died before the end of a fortnight, of a sudden fit of sickness*. His shirt and his heart were sent to his friends, as
Justice, Sir
[to Ireland, as
Henry Sidney, came
tokens of his death.
Drury by name, was appointed over the two provinces of Munster this year and Thomond was separated from Connaught, and joined to Munster. The same President made a circuit of the great towns
President, William
;
new
of Munster, to establish laws and regulations for the extirpation of thieves and rebels, and put the Barrett" to death, and also two noble and valiant young
constables of the descendants of Mulmurry, the son of Donough, son of Tur-
lough [Mac Sweeny], namely, the son of Murrough, son of Mulmurry, and the
that vexation and disappointment soon put an life, which involved Leicester in the
hastily
iv. c. 2.
a
marrying the Countess of Essex."

i.
Book
end to his
suspicion of having caused him to be poisoned ; " a suspicion which he himself encreased by
The Ban-ott,
e.
the head of the Barretts
of the county of Cork.
10 F
1690
uioghachca emeaNN.
TTlaolmuipe, i
-]
[1577.
mac
mac Do
Dorhnall,
mac maolmuipe.
-]
Do
coiD aipiDe co
pil
luimneac,
Danuaiplib' po cpochab laip Dpong Duaiplib, oile cen mochctc. pochaiDib Semup mac muipip DO bfir ipm pppainc an bliaDain po.
mbpiain co
T?u6paije occ mac I?u6paije mic conuill uf mopDa,-] concobap mac copbmaic, mfic bpiain uf concobaip Do bfir hi ccficfpnup coilleaD ap jallaib an
can
po,
jab'ail leo. bet
an po baoi beo DO pliocc Roppa pailccij conaill ceapnaijj Do bo ceoac conjaipeac an luce hipin. T?o gap lapam jup
-|
loipcceaD 1
Dpine jail.
po teippcpiopaD leo opecca Dfpmapa Do laignb Don miDe
-]
aOlS CR1OSU,
Ctoip Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceD,
1577.
Seaccmoccar, aSecc.
-\
-]
Conn mac bpiainmiceoccam neangnam Do ecc.

Mac
Maurice,
i.
pfp pob occ naoipi,
po ba poippe
neineac,
*
"
e.
Fitz Maurice.
i. e.,
Race of Rossa Failghe,
the O'Conors
Queen Elizabeth, as appears from the following indenture, enrolled on the record branch of the
Office of
Faly, and their correlatives. d Conall Cearnach. He vf&St the most distin-
Paymaster of Civil Services th " This Indenture, made the 8 day of Marche,
:
guished of the heroes of the Red Branch in

Ulster, in the beginning of the first century, and the ancestor of the O'Mores, and the seven
septs of Leix, in the Queen's County.
e
1576, betwyxte Sir Henry Sidney, Knt. lorde Deputy of Ireland, for and in the behalfe of the Queenes most excellent Ma' u , of
Anno Domini
thone parte ; and Sir William O'Kerroll of Lemyvanan, in the countrie called Elye O Kerroll, and now to be made parcell of the King's
fingall, pmejall,
foreigners.
i.
e.
the tribe of the
This
is
now
the
name
of a district
extending about fifteen miles northwards from the city of Dublin. Keating and even the Four
Masters employ this term to express the Eng-
Countie
Nicholl
M<
;
Gilfoil
Owen
c
Gilfoil
William
O Dowyn
e
Eory
Rory
dane
;
M
;
but it is evident from Stanihurst, and other Anglo-Irish writers, that at this period the territory called Fingall was not coextensive
lish Pale,
Callogh O'Kerroll ; c Dermott Gillanenewe
Oney O'Kerroll Gaven O'Rewr;
Donogh
Teig O'Kerroll
William O'Banane
;
Teige
;
Shane
Dermott
;
O Towgher
Cusell
Callough M<
with the English Pale.

foreign tribe,
ritory,
The Fine who gave name to this
Ghall, or
Donogh O'Kerroll
nogh
nogh
small ter-
were evidently the Danes of Dublin, for the name seems older than the period of the
Knglish Invasion.
M M
;
c c
Shane Oge; DoHugh Donoghy O'Dolloghane DoCorcrane ; Shane O'Langane ; Teige

; ; ;
Donell
gane Gilleruew
Teige liaghe;
Donogh O Trehie Teige O'HegMc Heggane Tirlogh M Rorie

;
On
the 8th of
Chief of
March thir year, O'Carroll, Ely O'Cavrol!, made his submission to
M'
Korii;
Donough OgeO'Dowlye; Donogh Shane M" Donogh Teige O'Conell

;
1577-]

From
thence
[i.
1691
from Barrett's country] he proceeded to Limerick, where he hanged several of the gentlemen and common people of the O'Briens, and many others besides these.
son of Donough, son of Turlough.
e.
5 James Mac Maurice was
in
France
this year.
time Rury Oge, the son of Kury, son of Connell O'More, and Conor, the son of Cormac, son of Brian O'Conor, opposed the English with their wood-
At this
kerns
and they were joined by all that were living of the race of Rossa Shortly afterwards these people formed Failghe and of Conall Cearnach". troops of many hundreds. They burned and desolated large portions of Lein;
,
ster,
Meath, and Fingall
6
.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1577.
thousand Jive hundred seventy-seven.
f Con, the son of Brien, son of Owen [O'Rourke], a
man young
in years, but
perfect in hospitality
William
and prowess,'
died.
Teige
;
Rory
Redmond
;
Gilpatrike
M M
c
c
Greamon
Teige
son of said Sir William, and theires males of his
Morogh
Caher
Donell M" Redmond ; Shane M" O'Langane Donell; Shane O'Scolle; Tirloghe O Doyne; in
the said countrie, freeholders, of the other part Witnesseth, that the said Sir William, and the
:
bodi lawfully begotten and to be begotten ; and for lacke of such issue to Calloghe O'Kerroll, a third base son of said Sir William, and theires
males of his bodi, lawfullie begotten and to be begotten ; and for lacke of such issue to Donoghe
O'Kerroll, a further base son of said Sir William,
rest
above named, do covenant, agree, and con-
descend to and with the said lorde Deputy, to surrender and give up in the Queenes most
and the heires males of his bodie, lawfullie begotten and to be begotten and for want of
;
Honorable Courte of Chauncerie of Ireland, all such manors, castells, lands, tenements, rents,
called
such issue to Donoghe Reoghe O'Kerroll, brother to said Sir William, and the heires males
of his bodie, lawfullie begotten and to be beTo have and to hold the said countrie
gotten.
Elye O'Karrell.
And
the said lorde
called Elyie O'Karrell,

chiefe.
Deputy doe promise and graunte that the same shall be by letters pattents, given back to the
said Sir William,
And
by two knights' fees in the said Sir William, and the rest
and theires males of and to be begotten
his bodi,
;
above named, to be wholie discharged from the Bonaght accustomed to be payed out of the said
country, and all other cesses and ymposicons, other than the rents hereafter specified.
lawfullie begotten
and
for
lacke of suche issue to
John O'Kerroll,
his eldest
base son, and the heires males of his bodie lawfullie
"
1
begotten or to be begotten ; and for lacke of such issue to Teige O Kerroll, another base
[Signed], S William O'Karrell."
Son of Owen.
Charles O'Conor adds that
10
F2
1692
aNNdf-a rcioshachca eiReaNR
[1577-
mic Ruaibpi an cacain Do bacaD ipn mbanna .1. aibne mac conmuie ina lonaD. mic DonncliaiD DO oipDneaD puca i RuaiDpi mac TTlajnupa, eoam TTleabb mjfn aoba puaiD uf Domnaill, bfn baof 6 cup 05 TTlac pile
ndlbain,
-\
bfn puaip an paojal 05 Dorhnall clepeac 6 cacdin ap a haicle,
amm -] fpofpcup clu emij, -\ pipbep, 50 pona penamail poconaij,-] poba mop caic aimpip potm 05 Denam cpabaiD nDun na ngall co bpuaip bap mp 1 po Sfcc mbliaDan ap cficpe picnb. ccaoinjniorhaib ccfnD mac neill oicc mic Suibne Do cloinn cSuibne cfpe bojaine Qn oubalcac
i i
00 mapbaD occ an mba&un maol la Dorhnall occ mac TTlaolmuipe peap oineac an Dubalcac fpin. oeappgaigre Deij6elb6a po ba maic lam 1 Oorhnall mac Somaiple buioe mic alajranoaip, mic coin cacanaij mic
mec Domnaill Do mapbaD la hua neill. Onopa mjfn rpemaip mic muipip, mic comaip, mic an mpla, mecc piapaip DO ecc. buicilep mac Semaip mic emainn
TTlac bpiain cappai5 mic copbmaic DO
bfn piapaip
mapbaD
la pluaj uf
neill.
Coippbealbac mac an abaiD mop ina Duchaij pfm DO ecc.

TTTaj
uf DuibiDip
pfp cpeiDeac cuiccpeac, peel
gopmdm comctp
occ
mac comaip mic
maoflfcloinn Duib DO ecc,
~\
bpacaip Seoinfn DoiponeaD ina lonaD. Qlapcpann, mac an calbaicc, mic coipp&ealbaij, mic coin cappaij, Do mapbaD hi ccompac la mac ceaboicc buibe meg Seoinin noopap na jaillme,
i
1 nip bo hiomba
mac
jallojiais
nepinn
in
can
pin
po ba mo pagalcap,
~|
po
ba cioDlaiccije coipbfpcaije map.

this
Owen was
Aibhne,
son of Tiernan,
who was
son of
It is
Teige, son of Tiernan

8
11
More O'Rourke.
Quintin.
text.
most probably the place referred to in the There is a place called 6a6un, Anglice
in the parish of Kilcar, in Tir-Boghaine,
'
now Anglice Evenew. Cumhaighe, now Anglice Cooey, or Mac Cfitta-Eoain, now Mac Lean.
Bawan,
or barony of Banagh, in the west of the county of Donegal, but this does not appear to be the
place referred to.
Dubhaltach, variously anglicised Dwaltagh,

a ruined castle of
Duald, Dudley, &c. Badhun-mael. There

1
m
is
Of good
hand,
i.
e.
expert at arms.
this
name
in the townland of Carrowbricken,
The son of Brian Carragh. He was John Boy, the son of Brian Carragh, son of Cormac,
son of John Duv, son of Donnell Don,
parish of Skreen, and county of Sligo, where dwelt a family of that sept of the Mac Sweenys
called
who was
Mac Sweeny Connaughtagh, who were of
the progenitor of that sept of the O'Neills called the Clann- Donnell Don of the Bann.
Great lamentation, peel
the same race as the family of Tir-Boghaine.
mop
This phrase
1577-]

,
1693
O'Kane (Aibhne8 the son of Cumhaighe", son of Rory of the Route) was drowned in the Bann and Rory, son of Manus, son of Donough, was inaugu;
rated in his place. Meave, the daughter of

ried to
1
Hugh Roe
O'Donnell, a
woman who was
first
mar-
Mac Gilla-Eoain' of Scotland, and afterwards to Donnell Cleireach O'Kane a woman who had spent her life happily, prosperously, and affluently who had obtained a great name, renown, and character, for her hospitality and demeanour and who had passed a long time in piety at Donegal, died there
; ; ;
in the eighty-seventh year of her age, after
Dubhaltach", the son of Niall
Oge Mac Sweeny,

1 ,
having performed many good actions. one of the Clann-Sweeny
of Tir-Boghaine, was slain at the Badhun-mael by Donnell Oge, the son of Mulmurry. This Dubhaltach was a distinguished comely man, of good hand
and
hospitality.
Donnell, the son of Sorley Boy, son of Alexander, son of John Cahanagh
Mac
Donnell, was slain by O'Neill. Honora, daughter of James, the son of Maurice, son of Thomas, son of the
Earl [of Desmond], and wife of Pierce Butler, the son of James, son of Edmond, son of Pierce, died.
The
son of Brian Carragh", son of Cormac [O'Neill], was slain by the
army
of O'Neill.
and
Turlough, son of the Abbot O'Dwyer, a virtuous and intelligent man, died; (his death) was the cause of great lamentation in his own territory
11
Mac Gorman" (Thomas

died
;
Oge, the son of Thomas, son of Melaghlin
Duv)
and
his kinsman, Seoinin,
was
Alexander, son of Calvagh, son of Turlough, son of John Carragh [Mac r Donnell], was slain in a combat by Theobald Boy Mac Seoinin in the gateway of Galway; and there were not many sons of gallowglasses in Ireland at that time
,
who were more wealthy

is still
5
,
or
who were more
bountiful and munificent than he.
in
common
"
use,
and
is
literally,
great story," but
supposed to mean it is eyidently a

penile,
:
the barony of Kilnamannagh, in the west of the county of Tipperary.

'
corruption of the old
word
which
.1.
is
explained by O'Clery, thus
"pity," " Sceile
Mac Gorman.
He was Chief of Ibrickan, in

now
Anglice Jennings, the son of Mac Donnell
the county of Clare.

*
cpuaije.
6a mop
territory,
i.
pceile
.1.
ba mop an
Mac
Seoinin,
cpuuije." * His own
Wealthy.
e.
He was
in the
Coill-na-manach,
now
of Tinnakill,
parish of Coolbanagher,
1694
TYlupchaib, mic coippbealbaij, cen 50 po paoReab a ecc pe habapc arhlaib pin ap
ouilge, 1
i
[1577uf bpiam DO ecc a mence baoi nDeabraib beobacc mbeapnabaib baojail geappao ap jaipcceab, bficip ap
Cabcc mac
mic caibcc
-|
ap lonnjaipcce an laoicmilib
Uilliam mac oonnchaib
pin.
i
ui ceallaij Do ecc piabaig mic caibcc buib

-]
ndc
cliac hi ccaoimceacc caipcin TTlaulbi,
ni cainic
ccfp maine po ba mo DO
pccel map.
O
ecc
-|
ceallacdm
.1.
Oonnchab mac caibcc puaib mic uaicne mic cacaoip DO

-|
jaipm DO ceallacdn mac concobaip mic Donnchaib. TTIibe ap an Do benarh Id gallaib laijean peall upjpanna abuacmap Do laoijip. mTiD baof ina pann pfm, po an pop a monchaib Do uib pailje
o ceallacdm Do
-\ -)
bd hamlaib Do ponab
an
lion
inopin.
l?o
cojaipmeab iao uile Dia ccaipbenab jup

leo 50 pair rhoip mullaij
ap ba no caorhpaoaofp Do cabaipr
pin,
maipcean
nuipcim-
1 lap
poccain Doib gup an maijin
Ro
hiaoab
cficpi
ppfca
ma
near the Great Heath of Maryborough, in the Queen's County. See note i, under th.e year
1570, supra.
chief of a territory called Pobul-Ui-Cheallachain, in the county of
0' Callaghan.
'
ronis de
Omergi
successor,
de sua familia post confederationem suam

interfectus fuit
cum 40 hominibus cum
He was
sides of the Eiver Blackwater.
Cork, extending from Mallow westwards on both See O'Brien's

Irish Dictionary, in voce,
Eory O'Moardha, et super quadam protectione, apud Molaghmastyn in Comitatu Kildarie, ad eundem locum ob id propositum per Magistrum Cosby, et Eobertum Harpoll, suit
umbra
excused
servitii accersitus
it
Pobul I Cheallachain ;
that
collusorie. Harpoll Moris had geven villanous wordes
and Inquisition taken at Mallow on the 25th of October, 1594; and Harris's edition of Ware's
Antiquities,
u
c. xi. p.
to tlie I/reach
of his protection."
This
is
the true account of this massacre,
69-
Muttach-Maistean,
now Mullamast,
a con-
The English written by a learned ecclesiastic. words printed in Italics are not Bowling's, but
were interpolated by a later writer, who, as appears from various remarks of his throughout Bowling's Annals, was a zealous Protestant,
and most loyal to the English government. Br. Curry quotes, or seems to quote, Fynes
Moryson, as recording this massacre, but the
following words, seemingly a part of the quotation, are'Br. Curry's own, not Moryson's " Yet, in that same year, an horrible massacre
:
spicuous hill in the parish of Naraghmore, about five miles to the east of the town of Athy, in
the county of Kildare.
called
The
fort
on
this hill,
Eathmore
in the text, is about
two hun-
dred feet in internal diameter. The exact nature

of this massacre has been very
much
disguised
by modern
in
writers.
The
oldest Irish authority
which
it is
recorded are the Annals of Ireland,
by Thady Dowling, Chancellor of Leighlin, who was living at the time. His words are " Moris mac Lasy mic Conyll" [O'More] "dominus de Merggi (ut ille asseruit) et b:
was committed by the English at Mullaghmastan, on some hundreds of the most peaceable of
the Irish gentry, invited thither pn the public
1577.]
1695
son of Teige O'Brien, died, Teige, the son of Murrough, son of Turlough, though it was not supposed that he would have died in his bed, on account of
battles and perilous passes in which he had been. This a champion in valour, and a bear in vigour and fierceness. heroic soldier was William, the son of Donough Reagh, son of Teige Duv O'Kelly, died in
the
many dangerous
company with Captain Maulby Many any one who was more lamented.
Dublin, while in
;
and there came not into Hy-
O'Callaghan' (Donough, the son of Teige Roe, who was son of Owny, son of Cahir) died and Callaghan, the son of Conor, son of Donough, was styled
O'Callaghan.
A horrible and abominable

of Leinster and
act of treachery
was committed by the English
Meath upon
that part of the people of Offally and Leix that
remained in confederacy with them, and under their protection. It was effected thus they were all summoned to shew themselves, with the greatest number
:
they could be able to bring with them, at the great rath of Mullach-Maistean"
i'aith,
and under the protection of government."
1792, from the Rev. James O'Neill, P. P. of
Civil
Wars,
c. 3.
Maryborough, who had,
at the sale of the
books
The next Irish writer in order of antiquity who mentions this massacre is Philip O'Sullevan
Beare,
of the Rev. John Whelan, P.P. of Portarlington, who died a very old man in 1775, found the
original loose sheet of manuscript in one of the
'
who
gives the following account of
it
in
his History of the Irish Catholics, foL
86
Pacatis motibus tyrannis semper crescebat. Franciscus Cosbius Lisise prffifectus, et ejus
films Alexander in
"
volumes, and preserved " An account of the
it
murder
at Mullamast.
immane bacchantur.
omne genus Catholicorum Is provinciales ad Maisum
In the year 1705 there was an old gentleman of the name of Cullen, in the county of Kildare,
who
often discoursed with one
castrum causa conventuum habendorum deque rerum administratione agendi convocat. Convocatos Cohortibus armatis improvise circumvenit, et ex Omorne familia centum bctaginta
viros inopinantes et nihil adversi timentes
Bowling, actually living at

this horrid
Dwyer and one Mullamast when
uno
murder was committed, which was about the sixteenth year" [recte, nineteenth] " of Queen Elizabeth's reign, and the account he gives of it is, that those who were chiefly
concerned in this horrid murder were the Deathe Grehams, the Cosbys, the Piggotts, the Bowens, the Hartpoles, the Hovendons, the
vils,
momenta temporis jugulat." The following traditional account

sacre
is
of this mas-
printed, verbatim,
from a copy made by
the late Lawrence
Byrne of Fallybeg, near Lugacurren, in the Queen's County, and in a small

quarto parchment book. He stated that he made it from an old manuscript sheet of paper which he had borrowed for that purpose in
Dempsys, and the Fitzgeralds.
The
five last of
:
them were,
at that time,
Roman
Catholics
by
the poor people murdered at Mullamast were chieny invited there, in pretence that said
whom
people should enter into an alliance offensive
1696
[1577.
ceall
ma ccuaijic Do
paigoiuipiDib
-j
paccab gan biceall, occa mubuccab Dfob. anja, na elaiceac app a mbfchaio Sfan mac Semaip, mic Sfain, mic an mpla DO gabail lap an Ppepmenp a cop co har cliar Dia coirheo aipm a mbaof uilliam Dpupi hi ccopcaij, nf po haipneibeao cpeo po ba coip Riocapo a bupc lapla cloirme Riocaipb, cloinne RiocaipD Do bfic pfobac pe gallaib, 66. Clann an mpla pin eippiob-\ .1.
DO mapcpluaj, -\ po jabab occci nDiubocca mop mapbab co na cepna pceol-
-|
-|
-]
ach pe cuabmumhain.
coin Ppepibenp pempaice Do rocc ccuabrhumain coiccibip pia ppeil a bfic occ la 50 pocpaioe rhoip Do jallaib, ~| 50 maicib Da coicceaD murhan, -j DO Dal ccaip oul po cfop Da lap na pfimDeab ninip occ conjrhail cuipce, T?o paccaib mapapccal co bpfoain meapoa .mioruiccpij occa mfnppionnpa,
i
Qn
and defensive with them.
But
their reception
hill of
Mullamast
is
was to put them all to death, except one O'More, who was the only person" [that] " escaped. Notwithstanding what is said that one O'More only had escaped the massacre, yet
the
also incontrovertible that
beyond dispute, but it is the most powerful

in this
district
families
on both sides were Roman Catholics.
The O'Dempseys were deeply implicated

massacre, and the inhabitants of the
common
tradition of the country
is,
that
now
believe that a curse has followed this great
many more had escaped through the means of

one Harry Lalor, who, remarking that none of those returned who had entered the fort before
him, desired his companions to make off as fast as they could in case they did not see him come
back.
Irish family ever since, the last great
man
of the
name being Cahir na g-Capull, or Charles the

Horse-stealer,
who was
;
this noble family
and at
the last gentleman of this day the Dempseys
Said Lalor, as he was entering the fort,
most plebeian and illiterate of all the families of the Milesian race.
of Clanmalier are the
saw the carcasses of his slaughtered companions; then drew his sword, and fought his way back
to
Fitzgeralds,
pools,
it
Tradition does not attach any blame to the much less to the Pigotts or Haras they were of English descent, but brands the O'Dempseys with infamy. The
those that survived,
along with
whom
he
made
his escape to Dysart,
without seeing the
Barrow.
Those murdered at Mullamast were
eccentric
Irish
historian,
Taaife,
refers
this
septs of Leix, and some gentlemen of the Keatings. The seven septs of
are, the O'Mores, the O'Kellys, the O'Lathe Devoys, the Macaboys, the O'Dorans, and the O'Dowlings."
lors,
some of the seven

Leix
massacre to the reign of Queen Mary, his object having been to shew that religion had
nothing to do with it (in which he was right) ; but he is entirely unworthy of serious notice. Dr. Curry, in his History of the Civil Wars of
Ireland, gives, in his
Every syllable of the foregoing account is worthy of being preserved, as it throws such a curious light on the nature of the massacre in
illustration of
Appendix, a memorial,
is
addressed to Queen Elizabeth, which
printed
ii.
in the Desiderata Curiosa Hibernica, vol.
p.
91,
Bowling's account of
in
it.
That
by Captain Thomas Lee, an
officer
under the
is
massacre took place
the great rath on the
Government, in the year 1594.
This tract
1577.]

arrival at that place they
1697
and on their
lines of soldiers
out"
were surrounded on every side by four and cavalry, who proceeded to shoot and slaughter them with-
mercy, so that not a single individual escaped, by flight* or force. John, the son of James, son of John, son of the Earl [of Desmond], was taken prisoner at Cork by the President, William Drury, and sent to Dublin to
[also imprisoned]. his
be imprisoned, where Eichard Burke, Earl of Clanrickard, was
What
were
crime was never was stated.
The
strife
sons of the Earl of Clanrickard
at peace
with the English, but at

before
with Thomond.
a fortnight before the
festi-
The President
named went
to
Thomond
val of St. John, with a great multitude of the English, and the chiefs of the two provinces of Munster and he held a court for eight days at Ennis. The.
;
Dal-Cais having refused to become tributary to their sovereign, he

"
left
a mar-
entitled,
Brief Declaration of the Govern-
ment of
Ireland, opening
many
corruptions in
this occasion,
some light upon the presence of the Cosbys on who appear to have been there as
the same, discovering the discontentments of the

Irishry, and the causes moving those expected In this tract Captain Lee mentions, troubles."
.
garrison soldiers:
among
and
other acts of oppression, cruelty, rapine, injustice, the massacre at Mullamast in the
:
" Where Robert Fay lately had the leading of of the Kerne in Ireland, with the pay of twenty d 12 d sterling, a day, for himself, and 3 sterling
a day, for each of the Kerne And Brien c Caier M" Connor had the leading of 6 other Kerne, at
:
following words " They have drawn unto them by protection three or four hundred of those country people,
under colour to do your Majesty
service,
and
a day for himself, & 3 each Kerne And Edmond O'Dempsey six more at the same pay. The stipend of which 3 captains amounting to
16
brought them to a place of meeting, where your garrison soldiers were appointed to be, who have
there most dishonourably put
3"
8a
&
the said Kerne, in
number
32, at said
wages, was appointed by the L. D. Sussex to
them
all
to the
Francis Cosby, Gent.,

all
&
for the better service
hath been by the consent and practise of the Lord Deputy for the time being. If this be a good course to draw these savage
sword
and
this
of the Crown, constituted
him
to be General of
the Kerne retained in pay in Ireland, in which he was confirmed by patent, under the
people to the state, to do your Majesty's service, and not rather to enforce them to stand upon
their guard, I
name
of General of all the

life,
Kerne
in Ireland,
3'
during
with the aforesaid Fee of

d
th
8 d a day,
humbly
leave to your Majesty."
& &
the said 32 Kerne at 3
each, for his better
having taken place here is, therefore, not to be doubted. -It should be here remarked that the O'Dempseys had not
fact of a massacre
The
maintenance.
Ph.
&
1558. Sept* 10 Mar. 1" p. f. R. 12."

is
Eot. Pat. 5
The above
fifth
extracted from the Patent Roll,

Rolls'
and that they were, in all probability, on the best terms with the government. The following document may throw
forfeited their property,
and sixth years of Philip and Mary,

Dublin.
Office,
"Flight,
pceolanja
This word, which isoften
10 G
1698
lugab.
QNNaca Rioshachca eiReaNN.
[1577.
Do jab ag Soaip an Ppepioenp cap a aip co luimneac lapom, -| Do luimneac. T?o ba oicfnoab uppab 1 eapuppab na ccfnocap ccompoccup
mic oonnchaib, mic Dibpibe TTlupchaD mac Uluipcfpcaij, mic macjarhna, ainm -| uaiple ooijpebaib caippge bpiain Duib ui bpiain, aoinpeap ba peapp
6 ccomnell
~\
fcaplac.
lQT?la cuabmurhan (Concobap mac Donchaib, mic' concobaip ui bpiain) Do bul Til Sa;raib Deccaofne a imnij a anppoplamn ppip an mbampfojain, ap a bailcib, ap bfchaibib upmoip cuaDpuaip paicenc ap a buchaijj,
-\ -| -| ~|
beop papOun coiccfnD Dia baofmb,-| cicc lapom cap aip im noclaicc 50 nonoip i co naipmiDin moip Dpajbail ona ppionnpa, "\ anDaplfip peinpuaip a buchaij paop ap ambpfchib oippicceac o pin amac. Qp a aoi po la
muman,
an mapupccal Daofpe Dicumaing poppaporh pe piu cdinic an ciapla 5up bo hfigfn Doib Dul pa pinginn Don ppionnpa .1. Deic bponnca ip in mbqpuncacc,
1
bd hipm ceD pinsmn clomne caip.
CoccaD eiccip lapla ofprnuman (jeapoio mac Semaip mic
Sfain)
-\
TTlac
muipip ciappaije .1. comap mac emainn mic comaip, baile mic an cairn DO Qn cabb occ 6 ocopna DO Dul i pann jabdil la pan lapla pop TTlac muipip. an iapla,-] a mapbab i noopup leice pndma Dupcap pileip lap nDul Don lapla
imon mbaile,i muna Deapncaoi Dulc fcoppa, ace oiDeaD an abbaib fpin po baD lop a meo DeapbaiD. 17o mapbaD Dna, ~\ po baicheaD pochaiDe DO muincip mic muipip ipm 16 ceDna. bdcap achaib arhlaiD pin hi ccoccao ppi apoile
'
written pciulanj,
is
used in the best Irish manu-
" scripts in the sense of fugitive, or deserter." x " inconMerciless, mioruiccp 15, literally,
siderate."
brien,
demesne of Tervoe, in the barony of Pobbleand county of Limerick but the present
;
ruins are so shattered that
it is difficult
to ascerIt
The word cuijpeanac iaused
at the
tain the original plan of the building.
was
" considerate." present day to denote

Carraig 0-gCoinnell, i. e. the rock of the O'Coinnells ; but this family is to be distinguised
y
taken and blown up in 1691, by order of General De Ginkle, who was then besieging Limerick.
'
Eatharlach,
now Aherlagh,
a beautiful glen,
from the O'Conghails of Kerry, now O'Connells, and from the O'Conaings of Castleconaing, or
Castleconnell,
now Gunnings. The name
is
now
and the Galty mountains, in the barony of Clanwilliam and b county of Tipperary. See note , under the
situated between Slievenamuck
usually anglicised Carrigogunnell. This castle, which was once a great fortress of a respectable
year 1471, p. 1070, supra, a The first tribute, literally, the "
i.
first
penny,"
Before
branch of the O'Briens, is situated on the summit of a lofty rock rising boldly from a plain
e.
the
first
tribute ever paid by them.
which reaches to the Shannon, and near the
the English invasion they were by law free from tribute, and they had resisted the payment of
1577-]
shal,
1699
with a vigorous and merciless" body of soldiers, to reduce them. The President then returned to Limerick, and proceeded to behead the chieftains
and rebels of the
districts adjacent to
Limerick.
Among
these
was Murrough,
the son of Murtough, son of Mahon, son of Ponough, son of Brian Duv O'Brien, the most renowned and noble of the heirs of Carraig gCoinnelP and Eather-
lach
z
.
The
went
to
Earl of
Thomond
(Conor, the son of Donough, son of Conor O'Brien)

;
England, to complain to the Queen of his distresses and oppression and he obtained a charter of his territory and towns, and nearly all the [Church] for his people and he returned livings of Thomond, and also a general pardon
;
about Christmas, after having received great honour and respect from his soveand he thought that thenceforward his territory would be free from reign the unjust jurisdiction of officers. But before theârrival of the Earl, the mar;
had imposed a severe burden on his people, so that they were obliged to become tributary to the sovereign, namely, [to pay] ten pounds for every barony.
shal
This was the
first
tribute paid
by the
Dalcassians.
A war broke
;
son of John) and
Thomas) young Abbot of Odorney" went over

the shot of a ball in the
Desmond (Garrett, the son of James, Maurice" of Kerry (Thomas, the son of Edmond, son of and the Earl took Baile<mhic-an-Chaimc from Mac Maurice. The
out between the Earl of
Mac
by doorway of [the castle of] Lixnaw, which the Earl had besieged. Had no more mischief been done between them than the killing of this abbot, it would have been great enough but, besides him, numbers of Mac Maurice's people were killed and drowned' on the same day. They continued for some time thus at war with each other, until at last they made peaae
;
;
to the side of the Earl,
and was
slain
pennies to the English up to this year. b Mac Maurice, anglice Fitzmaurice.

c
mfcip 6 b-C6pna,
Curvi,
i.
e.
the monastery of the
Baile-mhic-an-Chaim, i.e. Villa
filii
O'Dorneys, or Torneys, now Abbey-Odoiney, in the barony of Clanmaurice, and county of Kerry.
now Ballymacqueem,
a townland in the parish
The ruins
of Killahan, barony of Iraghticonor, and county of Kerry. There was a castle of considerable
in tolerable preservation,
of the church of this abbey are still but the other build-
strength here,
of which the north and west
See this abbey ings are nearly all destroyed mentioned at the year 1582. again
e
walls still remain in good preservation, but the others are nearly destroyed.
A
Odorney.
This
is
more usually called
and drowned. An English writer " were cut off say, by the sword, or by menor by field and flood." drowning, 10 G 2
Killed
would
1700
aHNQta Rio^hachca
-|
eiraeaNN.
[1578.
co nDeapnpac pfb po beoib,

~\
po haipcceab baile mic an cairn, ~\ a bpaijjoe DO mac muipip, nuirmp ofpime DO bo caincib jpoijib. Gob 6cc mac Qoba mic Sfam buibe meg macâmna DO 6ol ap piubal ITlag macjarhna pfin Do bpfir paip .1. Qpc ap rhuincip TTlheg marsamna, mac bpiain na muiceipje, mic Remainn, mic jlaipne Gob Do rhapbab la la a muincip, 1 ap puaill ma po baof DO clanoaib na TTldg margamna,
]
-\
-]
-\
a commop DO ecc ap a inme pfin nfp bo cuopoma a a iompa6, ainm an cf lap a ccopcaip. ainm Rella longndr Do aprpujab noipbfp ipm ceiomi DO jfirhpeab, cpom no poillpijfb a Dealpab pcua5 upcpom lonboja eipre amqil paijnen polupca,
ccollab
"|
ma
pfirhfp
-|
~|
an calam
pella hfpm
inne
i.
ma
in
huipcimceall, ~\ an pipmamenr ecipbuap, occup arcfp an jac iona6 niapcap eoppa gup po lonjancaijpfc cac hi ccoicci
Semup mac muipip DO
bfir
ipm pppamc beop an bliabam
pi.
aois CRIOST:,
Qoip Cpiopc,
1573.
mile, cuicc cecc, Sfchcrhoccac, ahocc.
Ulac
ui
neill
.1.
enpi
mac roippbealbaij
hi
luinij mic neill conallaij,
mic
aipc mic cumn DO bul pluacch
crfp conaill ap
mac
in'
jallcubaip
.1.
TTlaol-
caba mac caraofp mic rcoipbealbhaij 615. lap nimcfccr Da place naba Do DO apccain an baile Do pala mac HI jallcubaip alia cpuinniuccab cpeac, Don baile an ran pin,-) po tonnpaij an rocc macaem lap na pajbail in imuij
-]
uarhab pluaj,
-|
ni
capo anacal noo, acr a cloibmeabgan

6ct pfpp
.1.
coiccill,
"|
aip-
leac ap an lacaip
pin. Deojanchaib na ciajDaofp an cupup pin. -TTlacc plannchaib Dapcpaije Decc caral Dub mac pfpaDhaij, a mac cacal occ Dp jabail a lonaioh.
-|
*
8
Not
to be
compared,
i.
e.
he was superior in
fame and renown to his

James,
the
slayer.
son of Maurice, i.e. James the
Madcava. This name is more usually written Maelcobha __ The O'Gallaghers, who are the senior and most royal family of theKinelConnell,
h
son of Maurice
Duv
Fitzgerald, of
Desmond,
had
this
For a
fuller
account of his proceedings on the

is
et
cobha,
name from their great ancestor, MaelMonarch of Ireland. Galchobhar, the
Continent the reader

Initium, Incrementum
Exitm
referred to O'Daly's Familice Giraldi-
ancestor from
whom they have derived their surname, was the son of Ruarcan, who was son
of Ruaidhri, son of Donnchadh, son of Domhnall,
norum,
cc. 19,
20, 21, 22.
1578.]

to
1701
and Baile-mhic-an-Chaim was restored

tages,
Mac
Maurice, as were also his hoshorses.
and a countless number of herds of kine and
Oge, the son of Hugh, son of John Boy Mac Mahon, made a predaof Mac Mahon and Mac Mahon (Art, son of tory aggression upon the people Brian na Moicheirghe, son of Redmond, son of Glasny) overtook him and
Hugh
by Mac Mahon and his people. Scarcely was there another of the race of the Collas who was so great a cause of lamentation on account of f his own wealth and his name and renown were not to be compared with those of the man by whom he was slain. A wonderful star appeared in the south-east in the first month of winter
Hugh was
slain
it had a curved bow-like tail, resembling bright lightning, the brilliancy of which illuminated the earth around, and the firmament above. This star was
seen in every part of the west of Europe, and

sally.
it
was wondered
at
by
all
univer-
8 James, the son of Maurice , remained in France this year
also.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
e.
1578.
thousand Jive hundred seventy -eight.
Henry, son of Turlough Luineach, son of Niall Conallagh, son of Art, son of Con, marched an army into Tirconnell against
of O'Neill,
i.
The son
the son of O' Gallagher (Maelcava", son of Cahir, son of Turlough Oge). After his forces had gone forth to collect spoils, and to plunder the town [land], the
son of O'Gallagher, happening at that time to be outside the town, attacked that youth, after being left with only a few of his forces, and did not spare him, but put him to the sword without mercy, and slaughtered him on the spot. It
would have been better

expedition.
for the
Kinel-Owen that they had not gone on
this
,
Mac Clancy
of Dartry (Cathal Duv, the son of Feradhach) died
and his
son, Cathal Oge, assumed his place.

son of Ceallach,
who was Monarch
of Ireland
572
to 599,
who was
568
son of Ainmire, Monarch

to 571, the fourth in de-
from 642 to 654, who was son of Maelcabha, or Maelcobha, Monarch of Ireland from 61 2 to 615,
of Ireland from
scent from Niall of the

Battle of
Nine Hostages
See
who was
son of Aedh, Monarch of Ireland from
Magh
Rath, p. 336.
1702
[1578.
O
'
bpoin (Uaocc occ) oecc lap pfnoacaio,^ o bpoin DO

ui bpoin.
jaijitm
DO buntang
mac emcnnn
Teige Oge.
According to the pedigree of the O'Byrnes, given by Duald Mac Firbis, this Teige Oge had eight sons, namely, Brian, Do-
he was
and
also called
also of Milltown,
Walter Boy of Garrygolan, and was, most probably, if
nough Carragh, Gerald Ower, Murrough, Edmond, Dunlang, Calvagh, and Cahir. The Leabhar Branach, preserved in the Library of
Trinity College, Dublin, continues the pedigree for three generations longer, through Donough
the chief
not certainly, the eldest descendant of Teige Oge, who died in 1578, and obviously his
great grandson. distinguished branch of this elder sept of the O'Byrnes was seated at Coill
t-Siomoin, anglice Kiltimon, where the ruins of
their castle still
remain and of this line a family

;
Carragh, the' second of these sons, who son, John, the father of Donough Oge, who had
had a
were seated at Killoughter, in the immediate neighbourhood of Newragh, who retained to our
times a respectable property, which has recently devolved to Henry Thompson Redmond,
Esq., and Matthew Esmond White, Esq., who married the co-heiresses of the last proprietor.
two sons, Murrough and Gerald Ower, who must have lived down to the wars of the Revolution.
own
From
this period
forward this branch of the
O'Byrnes was eclipsed by the superior power, fame, and importancee, of the head of the GavalRannall of Ballinacor; but they
still
In 1641 this family was represented by Edmond, son of Loughlin Byrne, and in 1688, by Red-
retained
mond Byrne, whose

the service of James
vice,
son, Charles,
II.,
an
officer in
considerable power and possessions in their

territory,
own
which comprised the entire of the
went into foreign serand was outlawed by King William the

of this elder sept of the O'Byrnes
barony of Newcastle, with that portion of the barony of Arklow lying north of Inbher Daoile,
or Ennareilly, which tract was usually called " O'Byrne's country" in Anglo-Irish records,
Third's government;.
A branch
was
also seated at
Kilnamanagh, the most
dis-
and " Crioch Branach'/ in Irish documents, a name which is corruptly printed Orywrymaghe
[for
tinguished member of which, in 1641, was Brian Byrne, who was a colonel of the confederate
Catholics.
Crywrannaghe] in the second volume of the
In
690, a leading branch of this senior sept

at Ballygannon,
State Papers of the reign of Henry VIII. p. 2. This senior sept of the O'Byrnes also possessed
Cois-abha, which was bounded on the north by the River Ow, and its continuation, the River Aughrim, which divided it from the country of the Gaval-Rannall,
anglice Ranela'gh.
was seated
sented
by Thady Byrne,
French
Esq.,
and was then reprewhose son, John, and attained the
the district of Cosha,
went
into the
service,
rank of major.
From
this John, according to
tradition, the estate of
Ballygannon passed, by a bill of discovery, into the family of Scott, in which it still remains. The Rev. John Byrne, P. P.
of Newbridge,
is
During the
civil
minent members of
wars of 1641, the most prothis senior branch of the
a descendant of that Major
O'Byrnes were: Teige Oge Byrne of Ballinvally, Esq. ; Walter Boy Byrne of Newragh, now
Newrath, or Newry, which was the name of the seat of the head O'Byrne for several centuries,
called, in Irish,
Byrne. In Burke's Dictionary of the Landed Gentry, " the descent of the Lord de Tabley, and of the
Byrnes of Cabinteely; is deduced from Charles, or Cahir Oge, asserted there to have been the
head of the family in the time of Cromwell, a
an lubpac,
i.
e.
the yew-land;
1578.]

;
1703
Edmond
O'Byrne (Teige Oge') died at an advanced age O'Byrne, was styled O'Byrne.
and Dunlang, the son of
statement which does not seem quite accordant with the pedigrees in the Leabhar Branach, and
is
quired by him to marry his daughter, and that
in
some degree
at variance also
with the re-
he would not only forgive him the debt, but redeem his Estate from all other incumbrances,
spectable tradition preserved in the manuscript of Garrett Byrne of Fallybeg, who was born in
Whitney
his blood
said
he could not think of smothering
1716,
who must have known

and whose statement
is
the
father of Daniel the merchant, his

lative,
name of the own near re-
by marrying a Taylor's daughter; whereupon Mr. Byrne told him he had better think of paying him his money, as he wanted it
to fortune her
;
singularly corro-
but,
not being able to raise
borated by fragmentary evidences among the public legal records. After giving a long account of O'Kelly of Luggacurren, and of his
estate of
also of the Fitzgeralds,
Timogue, in the Queen's County, and who usurped it, he states

finally
money by any other means than selling his Estate, he came and told Byrne he had thought better of the matter, and that he was now willing to accept of the proposal he had made him.
^
that
it
was
purchased by Daniel Byrne,
Mr. Byrne said, if he could find a young squire buying an Estate, it is with him he would be
a merchant tailor, of whose descent and history he gives the following curious account
:,
"
Having given the best account
have heard
of the Fitzgeralds, since the Earl of Kildare's first coming to visit O'Kelly, I now return to give the same of Daniel Byrne,
match his daughter; but where he found such selling his, he could not think of so he compelled Squire giving her to him to sell the Estate, and himself became Whitney
willing to
;
who purchased
the purchaser, and left Squire Whitney living in the Castle of Shean. Soon after Whitney
invited
O'Kelly's estate from his lordship. " This Daniel was second son" [the writer's
ancestor being the first son] " of a gentleman of
fortune,
Byrne
to dine with
him
there,
and con-
whose
estate
was [situated] by the sea

near Redcross,
Byrne got neither knife nor fork, and being entreated by him (being master of the feast) to help himself, said he had plenty of
meat, but nothing to cut
it.
trived that
side, at a place called Ballintlea,
in the
heir,
county of Wicklow, and, not being the was bred up to the business of a clothier,
ney answered scissars and clip

:
'
Why
doijt
'
Whereupon Whityou draw out your
it,
Sir.'
and afterwards carried on the trade of a tailor, and kept forty men constantly working at that
business.
to clip the Lordship of

side, Sir.'
And
for
I drew it time enough Shean from your backthis affront he ordered him
He
used to buy
all
the white cloth
to quit the Castle
next morning, and so turned

IJyrne being
and clothe forty thousand men with the same for General Cromwell, and never call for money untill all was
in Dublin, get it coloured red,
him
out.
Besides
deemed a wise
man, he was both jocund and plesant, and very ready in his answers, and bore with the slurs
and then received drafts from Cromwell on the Treasury, where he got cash, for which he purchased estates. He bought, besides this
finished,
thrown on his trade very
well, as
may
be
known
by
his repartees.
A predecessor to the now Earl
of O'Kelly's, another estate at the Great Heath of Maryborough, known by the name of the
of Portarlington, then Squire Dawson, and of the posterity of millers, said to Mr. Byrne, in
pressing
Lordship of Shean, from a young Squire Whitney, who, being greatly indebted to him, and re-
hunt
full.'
'
:
him to a dram of a morning going to Take it off, Daniel, it is but a thimbleimmediately drank
it,
He
and jovially
1704
[1578.
t>uibj;fnnnin cille
ponain (oolb
mac oubfaij)
ollarh
ua noilealla yaof
p fncham
Decc, i a
answered
pfp cije aoibfo coiccirm congaipije, pfp puilbip, poinjre poajjallrha
mac maolmuipe DO
'
abail a ionai6.
was a
Yes, Willy, I would take it if it if there hopperfull,' to let him know,

:
England when nursed, and remained mostly

there after.
The
Heir, Sir John,
was a fault in being a Taylor, there was the same in being a Miller. " He gave his son, Gregory, Temple education, and bought the title of Baronet of England for him and his male Heirs for ever, the
creation whereof bears date in the year of our
to Ireland in the year 1740, and
made a visit made John
Bowen
is
not yet expired.
a lease of Fallybeg, for three lives, which He could make but a short
stay, as he receiyed intelligence that his lady (the only child of one Leicester, by whom he had two sons) was then sick of a fever, and was
Lord 1 660, and the
like of Ireland, the creation
dead before he got home

fever,
he then took the
bearing date the 17th day of May, 1671.
And
in some time after, being walking together in ' Dublin, Sir Gregory said: Father, you ought to walk to the left of me, I being a Knight,
and died shortly after, and was succeeded in title and Estates by his eldest son, Sir Peter
Byrne, then a minor, being born in December, Old Leicester, the father-in-law to Sir 1732.
John, soon after dicing, made a will, and be-
and you but a Mechanic.' He answered " No, you puppy, I have the precedency in three ways
:
first,
because
am an
older
man;
secondly, be-
queathed his entire fortune, Estates, Plate, and an immense sum of money to his grandchild,
Sir Peter, on condition that he would change
cause I
I
am your
father;
and thirdly, because

Gregory
the son of a Gentleman, and you are but the son of a poor, 1 s y taylor.' Sir
married, in March, 1669, an English lady
am
name from Byrne and afterwards to sell

his
to Leicester immediately,
all his
Estates in Ireland,
named
Margeret Copley, by
Daniel, the heir ;
whom
he had
issue, Sir
and make purchases for them in England before he would be twenty-five years of age, otherwise
all
Lady
O'Neill ; and Mrs. Fitz-
of said fortune was to support the College of

;
then, on this lady dieand being buried at St. Audeon's on the ing,
Gerald of Morett.
And
Oxford but the conditions were complyed with, and the minor was called Sir Peter Leicester
for the future, yet
untill the
23rd July, 1685, he marriet Margeret Flemming, daughter to Baron Slane, by whom he had many
children. in the
oldest,
very
last
he forbore selling the Estates year of his limitation, which
He bought
the Lordship of Kilmacar,
was
County
who was
of Kilkenny, for Charles, married to a daughter of
the
Dudly
in the year 1 756. " The Lordship of Timogue, commonly called O'Kelly's ground, being then all out of Lease,
Colclough of Mucurry, in the County of

ford.
Wex-
Sir Daniel, the son and heir to Sir Gre-
gory, was married to of Edward Warren,
Anna
Esq
re
,
Dorothea, daughter of 'Pointon, in the
except Fally-beg, by reason of Sir John dieing long before, and Sir Peter not being of age to make leases, so as there was no proper Eental,
it was requisite for both purchaser and seller to have the ground valued accordingly. Sir Peter treating with the Earl of Shelburn in England, they agreed to send Valuators to view the Es-
County of Chester, and Kingdom of England.
He gave her liberty of having all the children baptized by a Minister, and bred up in the Prodistant religion
and she nursed them herself and sent the two boys, John and Daniel, to
;
tates,
and were sold to him for one hundred and
twenty-two thousand pounds of English money.
1578.]

who kept
affable
1705
O'Duigennan of Kilronan (Dolbh, son of Duffy), Ollav of Tirerrill, a learned

historian,
a thronged' house of general hospitality

1
a cheerful, elo-
quent",
and
man, died
and
his son,
Mulmurry, took
his place.
" This Shelburn never let an acre to the

tenant in being, nor to a Leinsterman, except
He had
Tully, to parson Hunt, but all to Munstermen. a great leaning to them, his mother
said war by twenty-one stabs of a pike, of which he was afterwards cured; but as, after a subsequent battle, he lay weak amongst the slain, a
woman, who was plundering the dead, gave him

a stroke of a reaping-hook in the ear, which came to a mortification, of which he died. His children
Timogue he let to Counsellor Ballinteskin Spring Ballycoolin, to Moore and Cuileen to Wall Logacurren and Coor;
;
being a County Fitz Maurice.
Kerry woman
of the
name of
were
also killed in the war, except Garrett
and
glass,
to
Henry Hunt
and Raheenabowl,
Hugh. Garrett was married to Catharine, daughter to William Lalor, son to Daniel, nicknamed
Ballaugh, the son of Denis, and Grandson of
Knockaconna, and Coolrush, to his brother, John Hunt, the Attorney, so that the whole Estate of O'Kelly's ground was disposed of to
Munstermen, except Tully and Fallybeg, and has remained in their hands ever since. " Lands were greatly risen in those days ; the
an highest price never exceeded six shilling I took forty acres about acre before this time. the mantion house of Logacurren, where I was
born, from Sir
Henry Lalor, who made his escape from" [the massacre at] " Mullamast. Denis was the last Heir of the Lalors possessed of the Estate of
near Maryborough, in the Queen's County. This Garrett Byrne died in Logacurren, on the 10th of March, 1722, at the age
Dysart,
of ninety-six years, and had eight sons, to wit,
Gerald, Laurence, Hugh, Daniel, John, Edmond, William, and Andrew. Gerald was parish priest
John Byrne,
lease,
in the year 1740,
but not having a

after Sir
John Byrne's
the agent (Thady Dunne) death, soon found means
of Stradbally, Timahoe, Ballyadams, Doonane, and the districts belonging to them, for fifteen
years,
me of it. " The Mangans held Logacurren, Courglass, and Fallybeg, from Sir Daniel Byrne, for
to deprive
and died in Logacurren on the 24th day
of July, 1724, at the age of 57 years. He served as a dragoon under King James, and fought in
all
twenty-two pence an
has part of
it
acre, tho'
Henry Hunt
the memorable battles against
King William,
first
now
let for
forty-two shillings
until discharged at Limerick,
and was the
and six pence by the acre." Garrett Byrne then gives his own pedigree from TTlaoileaclainn t)ub O'&poin of 6aile an
c-fW\Be (who appears from the public records to have been loyal to his sovereign), as follows " From Denis Byrne, son to Loughlin, nicknamed Black, the Heir that possessed the Estate
:
priest ordained in Ireland after the conditions

thereof.
William was
also a priest,
and died in
;
Paris about the age of thirty years
none havto
ing issue but Laurence,
who was married
Catharine, daughter to Walter Byrne of Timogue, and died in Logacurren on the sixth day
of February,
1
744, aged 73 years.

;
He
had three
and Castle of
Ballintlea, near Eedcross, in the
sons, viz. Garrett, the oldest
William, born the
County ofWicklow, was descended Gerald Byrne, who was married to a woman surnarned Kilmartin.
4th of July, 1718, who was parish priest of the parishes of Stradbally and Timahoe for nineteen
years,
He fought in King Charles the First's army,

wounded
in
and died in Timogue on the
1 1
th of Fe-
against General Cromwell, and was
bruary, 1775.
Daniel, the youngest, was born
10
1706
awNata Rioghachca eiReanw.

caofc, mic conaill uf
[1579.
Rubpaije 6cc mac Rubpaije

bpian 65
mopba Do cuirim
la
mac
bpiain meic jiollapacrpaicc.
6d he an jiu&paije
]
pin cfno
nip bo mfnmapc la neac aen pfirhfp, poglab, i ofbfpccac pfp cfnn arhaib Dia eipi. epcop oo caicfrh naccaib na copona 50
i
nGpeann ma
Piapupbuicilep mac Semaip maicib gall muman eipibe.
micmamn
mecpiapaip Decc. baDoreann-
abainn moip .1. ceallacdn mac concobaip, mic Donnchaib mic caibcc puaib, -| ba oainim a Daice po imng piapiu po caich bliabam lomlctn i naipeacap a acap6a ecip bap a pfnacap ~\ a barab pfm TTlac an Ppiopa uf ceallacam ooiponeao ma iona6 .1. concobap na caippcce,
ceallacam DO bachab
in
mac Diapmaca mic caibcc

caca an aonaijoecc.
puaib, mic uaicne mic cacaofp.
bpiam bfn pibe bpiam mic oonnchaib bacaij, mic mupchaib caofc mic bpiam mec marâmna, bfn DO caic a haimpip gan imoeapccab 50
Sldine injean coippbealbaij, mic caibcc, mic coippbealbaij, mic
bpuaip bap lap pfnoacaib. Siooa mac rheccon, mic Sfooa, mic meccon, mic Sfooa, ranaipce an caoibe
coip
DO cloinn
hfibin
cuilein
Do mapbab ap pbab eaccje ace copaijecc ap puaoan

mic concobaip, mic ploinn DO ecc, nfngnama 6 cuipoin 56 a cogaipm, ITIac a beapbparap Gojan manncac mac Gmainn.
ploinn,
cpeice ap cfiripn cloinne l?iocaipo.
O
pfp cb
Ruaibpi an ooipe mac

neinij
-\
mbucHb
Doiponeab
ma
lonab
.1.
ffiaoi'lip
mac
maige eo Do
uareip, mic Sfain, mic maoilip a bupc, Sippiam connrae mapbab i ccaiplen na helle ap lonDpaijib aibce le na bpacaip
1780; and she died at Hatli Lodge on the 1st of February, 1801, aged eighty-eight. Their issue,
Laurence, born Thursday, the nineteenth day of December, 175 1 old style, in the mansion-house
,
in the year 1722, and died on the 26th of De-
cember,
1780, at Clondoula, on the, lands of

;
Ballycoolin
he was
first
married to Elenor
Han bury, in the year 175 1, and, after her death, to Honor Brenan, and had many children by
both.
of Fallybeg
who married Anne, daughter
to
Garrett Byrne, oldest son to the aforesaid Laurence, was born in Logacurren on the
James Byrne of Bolybeg, on the 24th day of

June, 1793."
28th day of December, 1716 ; married Mary, daughter to Daniel Duigan of Ballinagale, near Arless, on the 13th day of February, 1751."
This Laurence was a

learning,
man
last
of considerable native of
and was the
Magh
Druchtain that read and spoke the Irish lan-
The following words have been added by Laurence Byrne, the son of the aforesaid Garrett: " He died in of June, Fossey on the 18th
day
guage fluently. He died in January, 1840, aged He had several sons who are still living, 89.
and who, though reduced
to
poor farmers,
are,
1579-]

of
1707
Rury Caech, son of Connell O'More, fell by the hand Mac Gillapatrick. This Rury was the head of the in his time and for. a long plunderers and insurgents of the men of Ireland
Rury Oge, the son
of Brian Oge, son of Brian
;
time after his death no one was desirous to discharge one shot against the
[soldiers of the]
Crown.
Pierce Butler, son of James, son of
Edmond, son of
Pierce, died.
He was
one of the powerful chiefs of the English of Munster. O'Callaghan, i. e. Callaghan, the son of Conor, son of Donough, son of Teige and it was from a blemish of his Roe, was drowned in the River Avonmore
1
revenge that he departed, before he had passed an entire year in the enjoyment of his patrimony, between the death of his grandfather and his [own death by]
drowning. The son of the Prior O'Callaghan, i.e. Conor of the Rock, the son of Dermot, son of Teige Roe, son of Owny, son of Cahir, was installed in his place.
Slaine, the daughter of Turlough, son of Teige, son of Turlough, son of Brian Chatha-an-Aenaigh, and the wife of Brian, son of Donough Bacagh, son of Murrough Caech, son of Brian Mac Mahon, died. She was a woman who
had spent her
life
without blemish until she died, at an advanced age.
Sida, the son of Maccon, son of Sida, son of Maccon, Tanist of the eastern part of Clann-Coilen, was slain on [the mountain of] Sliabh Echtghe, as he was
pursuing a prey which the kerns of Clanrickard were carrying off. O'Heyne (Rory of the Derry, son of Flan, son of Conor, son of Flan) died. From the beginning of his career until his death' he was a man distinguished
for hospitality
and prowess. His brother's
son,
Owen
Mantagh, son of Edmond,
Was
Meyler, the son of Walter, son of John, son of Meyler Burke, sheriff of the m county of Mayo, was slain at Caislen-na h-Elle in a nocturnal aggression, by
,
if
be due to tradition so respectable, See Irish P. the senior branch of this family.
any
faith
Avonmore, abcunn mop,
i.e.
the great river,
now
the TJlackwater, which rises in Pobble-
Journal,
'
June
19th, 1841, p. 405.
Thronyed, conjuipije denotes " a company," and conjaipeac, " having companies, troops, or followers.
* This word is sometimes Eloquent, pomgre. used as an adjective to denote " eloquent," and sometimes, as a noun substantive, to denote a
The word conjaip
O'Keeffe, in the north-west of the county of Cork, and flows through O'Callaghan's Country,
in the barony of Duhallow. and, after a long and circuitous course, discharges itself into the
sea at
Youghal. According to the Life of St. Carthach of Lismore, this river was anciently
called
Nemh
Brehon, or judge.
Caislen-na h-Elle,
See Ussher's Primordia, p. 943. now the Neale, a small
10 H 2
17 os
.1.
cmNam
raioshachea eiReatw.
[1579-
hemann, mac comdip an macaipe, mic maoilip cpe lompopmac pocail an la piap an aohaib pin. oipeaccaip DO pala fcoppa DO jabdil le caipcm Saânac DO jhuincip LiacDpuim mumcipe heolaip na bliabna po, -\ opuim Da eriap Do niculaip maulbi ap ua puaipc neappac mic eojain. LiarDpuim mpom bpipeab la him puaipc, bpian, mac'bpiain, an baile ceona DO jabdil clomn caibcc ui puaipc, Dpdccbdil la gallaib 05 la hua mp pin Do cfo jail-] Do nfimcfr cloinne caiDj.
le
i
~\
puaipc gap.bfcc
Sionei DO bol 50 Sajcoib .1. po pamQpoiuprip na hGpeann .1. Sip hanpn uilliam Dpupne ma ionaD .1. an Ppepiain, i caipnn maulbi Do Dol laip, Denc baof op cfno Da cofcceaD muman. T?ucc rpd an lupnp mpla cloinne
-|
Riocaipcc laip
cille
.1.
Riocapo mac
uillicc,
mic Riocaipo mic

Sap:an.
uillicc,
-|
a mac
uilliam bupc Dia ccabaipc ap
pe Dapa, jjeapoio, lapla in epinn po noolaicc mop. DO bliaonaib poime pin po pepc) DO cfcc
.1.
cumap comaiple mac geapom (baf
hi pajcoib ppi
aoo no a cpf
Comap, mac parrpaicc, mic oiliueip ploingceD cijeapna luccmaigh Do mapbaD la TTiag macj;arhna la hapc mac bpiain na moiceipje mic Remainn,
mic glaipne.
-
Semeapccal na conncae piabca ap nDenarh coinne ceilcce le piacha mac QoDa, mic Remainn, mic Sfain, o jlfnn maoilujpa. Ro pfp la piacha
and demesne, with an old dilapidated residence of the Lords Kilmaine, in the barony of Kilmaine, and county of Mayo, and about
village
day, are curious, as shewing the greatness of this chief of the Gavel-Rannall, or O'Byrnes of
of Ranelagh, at this period
three miles south from the

n
town of Ballinrobe.
" the day before
The day
before, literally,
is
" But touching your demand of this Feaghe's unto that countrey which he claimes, or right
the seigniory therein,
gant.
it is
that day,"
p
which
redundant.
most vaine and arro-
Coiitae Riabhach, i.e. the
county of Wexford.
Spenser, after
Fiagh,
the
son of Hugh.
guessing that the O'Byrnes
and O'Tooles were
Welsh
who was
shew that this Fiagh, a very powerful chieftain in his time, was " a base varlet growne out of the dunghill,"
families, goes to
you cannot be ignorant, that it was part of that which was given in inheritance by Dermot Mac Murrough, King of Leinster, unto Strongbowe with his daughter, and which
this
For
Strongbowe gave over unto the King, and his

heires, so as the right is absolutely
now
*;
in her
who had no
right to his lands, because they had
Majesty, and
in this Feagh,
cient
if it
were
not, yet could it not be
been granted by Dermot
Mac Murrough
to
but in O'Brin, which

;
the an-
Strongbow, and by him to the Crown of England, and thus in the course of law descended
Lord of all that countrey for he and his ancestours were but followers unto O'Brin and his
;
His words, which are fashioned to the barbaric law fictions of his
to
Queen Elizabeth.
grandfather, Shane Mac Terlagh" [recte, Shane Mac Redmond], " was a man of meanest regard
1579-]
his

Thomas
1709
kinsman, Edmond, the son of
sequence of an angry word

before".
of the Plain, son of Meyler, in conwhich occurred between them at a meeting the day
In the spring of this year Leitrim of Muintir-Eolais was taken from O'Rourke by an English captain, [one] of the people of Nicholas Malby and O'Eourke Leitrim was (Brian, the son of Brian, son of Owen) demolished Dromahaire.
;
afterwards
left to the sons of Teige O'Rourke by the English but in a short time afterwards the same town was taken by O'Rourke, with the permission of the English, but against the will of the sons of Teige.
;
The Chief
Justice of Ireland, Sir
Henry Sidney, went
to
England about
Allhallowtide, accompanied by Captain Malby; and William Drury, the President of the two provinces of Munster, took his place. The Lord Justice took
with him the Earl of Clanrickard (Rickard, the son of Ulick, son of Rickard, son of Ulick) and his son, William Burke, that he might deliver them up to
the English Council.
The
England
Earl of Kildare, Garrett, son of Garrett

for
(who had been under
arrest in
two or three years before), returned
to Ireland at Christmas.
Thomas, the son of Patrick, son of Oliver Plunkett, Lord of Louth, was
slain by Mac Mahon, namely, Art, son of Brian-na-Moicheirghe, son of Redmond, son of Glasny. The Seneschal of the Contae Riabhach invited Fiagh", the son of Hugh,
son of Redmond, son of John q [O'Byrne] of Glenmalure r
to a treacherous
amongst them, neither having wealth nor power,
nion of his greatness, insomuch that
now he
is
But
his son,
Hugh Mac
Shane, the father of

'
become
a dangerous
enemy
to deale withall."
began to lift up his head, and through the strength and great fastnes of Glan Malor, which adjoyneth unto his house of Balthis Feagh, first
linecor,
View of the State of Ireland, Dublin, reprint of 1809, pp. 185, 186. See note ', under the year
1579, p. 1712, infra. q Hugh, son of Bedmond, son of John. This should be " Hugh, son of John, son of Red-
lawes,
drew unto him many theeves and outwhich fled unto the succour of that
glynne, as to a sanctuary, and brought unto him part of the spoyle of all the countrey, through which he grew strong, and in short
space got unto himselfe a great name thereby amongst the Irishe, in whose footing this his
mond," according to Duald Mac Firbis and the Leabhar Branach. See the pedigree given correctly
1579,
by the Four Masters under the year where they' record the death of this
Hugh.
'
sonne continueing, hath, through
many unhappy
and the opiis
Glenmalure,
now pronounced Glenmalur.
It
occasions, increased his said name,
a romantic valley,
situated to the south of
a Rio^hachca emeaNN.
imoppo gup ab Do cum celcce po
innill
[1579.
an Semfpccal an coinne fpin, -\ po innill purii celcc ele ma upcomaip pium 50 po mapbab ceo DO jillib occa -] Don cup pin cenmoca oaopccap Duppabaib na connrae piabca la piacha
pluacch.
mic aipc, mic Diapmacra lairiiDepcc Do bpian mac cacaofp caomdnaicch,

ecc.
ofpmuman
an can
Sfan mac oorhnaill, mic comaip, mic caibcc mecc plannchaba ollam lapla Nf baof Dna mac bpfiffman cuaice i nepinn le bpficfmnup oecc.
-\
pn pob pfpp cpeabaipe cijfoap map. IQRla clomoe RiocaipD illaim beop illonoamD.
QO1S C171OSU,
1579.
anao'i.
Qofp Cpiopc, mile, cuicc cecc, Sechcmoâcc,
Oomnall mac concobaip mic coippDealbaij, mic caibcc, mic roippDealbaij, mic bpiain
caca an aonaij
uf bpiain
Decc lap ccaicfm coicc mbliaDan
pfpccacr Dia aofp lap pfpccacc Dia aofp lap peipccliji pooa, lap nairpije a a&nacal co nonoip i co naiplonmolca, lap mbuaib 6 Dorhan -] 6 Daofnib,
"|
mioin
maimpcip mnpi Dpopairrhfc a bdip acpubpaoh

i
~\
a mac coippbealbac Dooiponeao ina iona6. Corab
Hide cuicc ceD ciallDa an poaip, peace noeic, occ mbliaDna, ip bliabam
bap Domnaill nap Dam locc, jup roipling mac De noaonnachc.
6
i
Glendalough, in the barony of Ballinacor, and

county, of Wicklow.
of the three septes of Clandonills, her Ma" said three galloglas, for every of them and theire
septes, of the other partie.
'
On the 8th of May this year, the following indenture was made between the Lord Deputy and the captains of the three septs of the Clann5
Witnesseth, that
wheare her
Ma""'" pleasure is to convert into a
certaine and yearlie revenue unto her Ma"", her

heirs and successors, the Bonaghtes
Donnell of Leinster, for a further account of
and Sorrens
whom
see note
i,
under the year 1570
made betwyxte the Right Honourable Sir Henry Sydney, Knt., Lord Deputie of Irelande, &c., of the one partie; and Mullmurry Mac Edmond, Hugh boy Mac Callogh, and Tirlagh oge Mac Alexander, cheefe captaines
" This Indenture,
which upon the Irishe Captaynes and Countres were heretofore due, to and for the Enterteyn-
ment of her Ma"
And in resaid Galloglas. spect of the auncient and contynuall fydelytie, loyalty, arid true service of the Captaynes, gent,
e 8
'
and septs of the sad Clandouilles, alwayes borne
1579-]

;
1711
but Fiagh having received intelligence that the Seneschal had he laid another snare for appointed this conference for a treacherous purpose, him, and slew one hundred of the youths and chieftains of the Contae Riabhach
conference
on that occasion, besides several of the common
sort of people.
Brian, the son of Cahir Kavanagh, son of Art, son of Dermot Lavderg, died.
John, son of Donnell, son of Thomas, son of Teige Mac Clancy, Chief Brehon There was no son of a lay brehon in Ireland to the Earl of Desmond, died.
in his time
who had
better tillage or a better house than he.

still
The Earl of Clanrickard
continued in custody in London
8
.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,
1579.
seventy-nine.
Donnell, the son of Conor, son of Turlough, son of Teige, son of Turlough, son of Brian Chatha-an- Aenaigh O'Brien, died, in the sixty-fifth year of his age,
consumption, after laudable penance, and after having gained the victory over the world and men, and was interred with honour and reverence in the monastery of Ennis and his son, Turlough, was installed in his
after a lingering
;
place.
In commemoration of his death these lines were composed
One thousand
Seven times
five
hundred, accurate the account,
ten, eight years
and one,
From the death of Donnell, free from fault, To [the time] that the Son of God assumed humanity.
and done towards her Ma" e and her most worthy progenitors, and hencforth to be contynued, doth covenaunt and graunte that there shalbe
henceforth payd yerely out of her Ma""'' Exchequer, a yearly pencone of three hundredth
to receive.
Provyded that henceforthe none of
the said Captaynes, gent, nor officers of the said three septes, in any warlike jorney, or feat of
warr, shall use Armor or weapon in servinge of any other then the Queene's Ma' ', her heires or successours provided also that henceforth,
1 :
pounds, unto thandes of the said three chiefe

captaynes, viz., unto everie of them a third porcon of the same for hym and the rest of his
septe, the
same to be receyved and enjoyed dur-
auncyent use and custome hath bene due, the said captaines, officers, and gallowglas, shalf supply, execute, and doe, as well
as heretofore of
ing the good pleasure of her
Ma"% her
heires
and successours, in lieu and recompense of all dead payes, blackemen (mail?), and such other
like advantage as they or
and for the marche of her Ma"e army, and approches, and assaltes, and prepuracones of
in
'*
Approches and
all
assaltes of castells
and
ffortresses,
'
any of them were wont
such
officers
and sapires as by her Ma" e s gal-
1712
aNNCK,a Rio^hachca eiReaww.
[1579-
Onopa
vn;
mic concobaip, mic roippbealbaij, mic raibcc injfn Donnchatb,

Sccel
bpiam oecc.
Sip
mop
illfir
moja
ipbe.
eDuapo phirun Rolonc uprap mac comaip, mic Ripofipo oecc. mic oomnaill jlaip Gob, mac Sfain, mic Remamn, mic Sfain, mic aoba,
cpepenep oecc.
oecc.
6a hepbe pinnpeap
-]
gaible Rajnaill,
-|
cigeapna jlinnemaoflujpa
cojroip
cpeacroip a comappan gall,
1 jaoibel.
O Sfcnapaig oiapmaicc piabac, mac oiapmacca, mic mlliam, mic Sfain mic Diapmara oo buibe i TTlac a oeapbpacap, uilliam, mac an jiolla ouib,
comcuicim pe poile
hi
i
cceilcc to ponab la
hua peacnapaij pop cionn uilliam
pocaip uilliam po ceooip. 6 peacnapaij po cpeccnaicceab epbe, -] po ecc gap naip lap pn. DO gaipm lapom DO Sfan mac an jiolla buib.
ccompocpaib dpoa maoloubain.
Oo
5 l6
peacnapaij
mic Donnchaib,mic coippCoippbealbac na coipî cpomn, mac maolmuipe, la bpiari ballac, mac maolmuipe, bealbaij, mic Ruaibpi mec puibne, Do cuinm
mic oonnchaib, mic bpiain mec pjibne npopap copcaije. nepinn maille le noblaicnb Caprin malbf no roibeacc
i i
mopa
on
bppionnpa. bpian na mbappocc, mac maolmuipe, mic oonnchaib mec pjibne Deapbparaip Don coippbealbac pempdice Decc.
Semup, mac muipip Duib, mic Sfain, mic comaip, mic an lapla Do ceacc af in pppainc, aobepcf a focc loinjfp ba Uonrhaipe ma map cdinic. 6a hann
-|
lowglas ought to be supplied, executed, and In Wittnes whereof, unto three of these done.
celebrated Fiagh
O'Byrne of Glanmalur,
cele-
Indentures quadripartit, rem" severall with every of the said three Captaynes, the said Lord
tie 8 Deputy, and the rest of her Ma privie Counhave signed and sealed for and sell, aforesaid,
'
brated by Spenser, who says that he was of mean to origin, and of Welsh descent, and, strange has received the assent say, this silly conjecture
who was
and corroboration of the honest Sir James Ware, neither a poet nor a fabricator; but
the fancies and fictions of the Divine Spenser can no longer stand, the test of historical truth, for we know that the O'Byrnes and their neigh-
on her Ma""'' behaulfe
and unto the
iiii"
of
these Indentures quadripartit, remaining with
the said Lord Deputie and Counsell, the said three Captaines, for them and their septe aforesaid,
have putt theire seales and sfgnes manuell. Dated the vii th of May, 1578."
Inrolled in the
bours theO'Tooles, whose names he derives from Welsh words signifying " woody" and " hilly,"
are not so derived, and that the
two families, who
Record branch of the
Office
were two of the most noble in Leinster, were

before the English Invasion, situated, not in the mountains of Wicklow, but in the most level
of the Paymaster of Civil Services, Dublin.

1
Warlike opponent
He was
the father of the
1579-]
1713
Honora, the daughter of Donough, son of Conor, son of Turlough, son of She was much lamented in Leath Mhogha. Teige O'Brien, died.
Sir
Edward
Phitun, the Treasurer, died.
'Roland Eustace, the son of Thomas, son of Richard, died.
Hugh, the son of John, son of Redmond, son of John, son of Hugh, son of Donnell Glas [O'Byrne], died. He was the senior of Gaval-Ranall, and lord of Glenmalure, the warlike opponent' and plunderer of his English and Irish neighbours. O'Shaughnessy (Dermot Reagh, the son of Dermot, son of William, son of
u John Boy) and his brother's son, William, the son of Gilla-Duv son of Dermot, were slain by each other on a certain occasion, when O'Shaughnessy had w laid a snare for William in the neighbourhood of Ard-Maeldubhain William
,
.
was
first slain
wounded
that he died in less than an
and O'Shaughnessy, though he survived him, was so severely hour afterwards. John, the son of Gillathe
Duv, was then styled O'Shaughnessy. Turlough

of.
Turlough, son Mulmurry, son

city of] Cork.
Wooden Leg, son of Mulmurry, son of Donough, son of of Rory Mac Sweeny, was- slain by Brian Ballagh, the son of of Donough, son of Brian Mac Sweeny, in the gateway of [the
Captain Malby returned to Ireland with great presents from the sovereign. Brian-na-mBarrog, the son of Mulmurry, son of Donough Mac Sweeny, and brother of the aforenamed Turlough, died.
James, the son of Maurice Duv, son of John, son of Thomas, son of the Earl 1 and it was rumoured that he had come [of Desmond], returned from France
;
plains in all Ireland,

Liffey,
the O'Byrnes, in
Moyin-
nearly as far as the Eiver Shannon.

u GiUa-Duv, i. e. juvenis niger. His real name was Roger, and he was usually called Sir Roger. "Ard-Maeldubhain, i. e. Maeldubhain's height or hill, still so called in Irish, but anglicised
and the O'Tooles in Moy-Alvy, both
The clude,d in the present county of. Kildare. Editor is, therefore, led to hope that no grave writer will ever again mention these Spenserian
fictions as history.
There
is
a curious
poem
describing the triumphs and martial achievements of this chieftain of Gaval-Ranall, pre-
Ardmealuane, a townland containing the ruins of a castle, in the barony of Kiltartan, and
county of Galway.
toms
See
map
to Tribes
and Cue-
served in the Leabhar Branach, or Book of the Byrnes, in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin,
ofHy-Many, on which the position of this castle is shewn. See also Genealogies, Tribes,
and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, p. 377. x Returned from France. It is curious to observe that neither Camden, the Four Masters,
H.
1. 14,
from which
it
appears that he as-
saulted and plundered the castles of the county of Kildare, and devastated the whole country,
10
17 i4
awwaca Rioghachca
i
i
eiRectNN.
[1579-
po gab pope
ofpmuman
-|
noilen in 6ip la raob oaingin cuip i cciappaige. 6ai mpla ace cionnpccnacc caiplein oo ppoplongpopc i ccuillfnn 6 ccuanac
DO coio po cuapnpccbdil an coblaij pin t>o cualaib Oo cocc i cciappOenam, ccomoail an coblaig ceona apo mapupccdl Da coicceab aije. <Cdmicc beop muman, Qpcup capcep a corhainni,-] maijipcip oduio, a mbaof Do muincip na banpiojna uile ipin murhain. Uangacap ann ona bpaicpe an lapla ofpmuman .1. od rhac occa Shemuip, mic Sfain, mic comdip .1. Sfan, -] Semup
i
-]
mic muipip, cuccpar po baf CUID DoibpiDe a rcappaing Shemaip DauiD po crpaijli, lonnpaicchib oioce ap an mapupccdl, 1 ap riiaijipcip
6cc,
-|
-]
-|
oicfnnaicc leo lacr ap a ccoilcib cooalra,i ap a Ifpcoib lije. Cuccpar lapoin na claonglaipi, -| na coilleao ccfp i oo cooap Oiblfnib po coillnb
Semup
moipe.
Luio Semup pop a ceo eacrpa lap cceacc
rcfp ap na coillcib pin
cloinn uilliam, 50 Ifon a rhapcac-] a cpoijreac oupldp 6 cconaill gabpa,-] rpe a pangaccap. T?o gabpac an rip po jabpacc ace opccain gac lonaio gup Udinic ann ceoup clann ace cfcclamaoh, i ace cioriol ma niaprhoipeacc.
-]
Cepoicc cruaic aepa jpeine od poccpa oo mac

.1.
uilliam bupc, mic emainn
~\
uillecc,
ui
po cuip cepoicr ceacca bpiain apa, ceacc oo ropano an

i
~\
nor Ware, had any knowledge of the agreement
between James Fitz Maurice, and Stukely. O'Daly, who was better acquainted with the
ecclesiastical negotiations
gives a full account of Stukely's proceedings See his from the Letters of Sir Henry Sidney
History/
y
of Ireland, book
iv. c. 2.
of those times than
any of those writers,
says, in his History of the
Geraldines, cc, 20, 21, that James, in his last
This language is not correct. The report was that he had arrived with a certain number of ships, and that numreally the case
Than was
interview with Pope Gregory XIII., besought his Holiness to appoint a certain Englishman,
ber was afterwards found to have been exaggerated.
named Stukely,
to the
command
of the vessels
According to Camden's and Ware's Annals he had only three ships, which is evidently
the truth.
z
destined to convey mep and arms to Ireland; but that Stukely shaped his course for Portugal,
Daingean- IJi-Chuis,
i.
e.
the fortress or fast-
and
sailed into the
harbour of Lisbon at the
yery moment that King Sebastian was preparing an expedition against the Moors in Africa ; that
ness of O'Cuis, the ancient Irish proprietor of the place before the English invasion, not of the
Stukely
joined this expedition in violation of
his promise to the Pope,
and the oath he had
Husseys, as asserted by Dr. Smith and others ; now anglice Dingle- 1- Couch, or Dingle., a town in the barony of Corcaguiny, in the west of the
sworn to James Fitz-Maurice, and that, shortly after they had landed in Africa, a terrible battle
county of Kerry.
of great importance.
This was formerly a town
was fought,
were
in
bastian ; his ally,

slain, as
which three Kings, namely, SeMahomet and Muley Moloc,

;
*Cuitteann-0'gCuanach,
which
originally, as its
now Cullen, a village name indicates, belonged

county of
was
also Stukely.
Dr. Leland
to the territory of Coonagh, in the
1579-]

.
1715
y with a greater number of ships than was really the case
He
landed at OilenEarl of
an-Oir, contiguous to Daingean-Ui-Chuis
2
,
in Kerry.
a
,
At
this time the
Cuilleann-O'gCuanach where he had begun to erect a castle and, having heard of the arrival of the fleet in Kerry, he went chief marshal of the two provinces of Munster, Arthur Carter The to see it.
Desmond was encamped

;
at
by
nanie,
Master David", and

fleet,
the same
the Queen's people in Munster, set out to meet as did also the kinsmen of the Earl of Desmond, namely, the two
all
young sons of James, son of John, son of Thomas, namely, John and James Oge. These were in confederacy with James", son of Maurice; and they made an attack by night upon the Marshal and Master David, at Tralee, where they beheaded
them c while asleep in their beds and couches. They then brought James on shore, e James went and both repaired to the woods of Claenglaise" and Coill-mhor woods on his first expedition after landing, with all his cavalry forth from these
.
and
infantry,
f through the middle of Hy-Connell-Gaura and Claan- William
The [inhaplunder the country as they passed along bitants of the] country began to assemble to oppose them and, first of all, the son of Edmond, namely, Theobald and Ulick and sons of William Burke,
and they proceeded
to
.
Theobald
dispatched messengers to Tuath-Aesa-Greine
h
,
summoning Mac-I-
Limerick, but
is
now
in the
barony of Clan-
kerry.
fol.
william, in the county of Tipperary.
The name
Cuilleana denotes holly, or a place abounding

in holly; but this place
its
is
it
O'Sullivan calls it ''/acinus dignum," 95 and Camden asserts that Sanders lauded " suave Deo as Dr. Smith, in sacrificium /"
;
fabled to have taken
his History of the County of Kerry, p. 163, says
name from
Cuilleann,
the son of Morna,

in
who was
b
slain here
by Finn Mac Cumhaill,
that " the pretence was Henry Danvers holding session of gaol delivery in Desmond palatinate."
d
the third century.
Claenghlaise,
now
e.
Clonlish, in the south-west
Master David.
Davells.
His real name was Henry O'Sullevan Beare calls him Philip
see his Hist. Cathol.
fol.
of the county of Limerick.

'
Coill-mhor,
i.
the great wood.
This wood
"
Daversius,"
95,
and O'Daly styles him Danversius. c Beheaded them O'Daly says, in his History of the Geraldines, c. 22, that this fact has been
often stigmatised,
to the
was situated in the north of the barony of Coillmor, now Kilmore, in the north of the county of
Cork.
f
Hy-Connell Gaura and Clann- William,
now
and described
as derogatory
;
the baronies of Conillo and Clannwilliam, in the
honour of [Sir] John of Desmond
yet,
county of Limerick.
they proceeded to plunder every place to which they came."
h
i
he thought, unjustly, as John killed an avowed enemy, who not only sought to crush the cause
of liberty,
As
they passed along, literally,
"
John himself
but who had done signal injury to in the house of the Lord of Mus-
Tuath-Aesa-Greine, a district in the county
10
I7i(j
awwata Rio^hachca eiReaww.

cf{i,i
[1579.
bpiam buibfn âllocclac,-) ji'omanac 50 "Ro Ifnpac lapam lopcc na laocbuibne conup cdppaccap Semup lap cfpoicc. ccoill choraip oiamaip. 17o pijfo lomuimbfic na comnaibe pop a ccionn
cpecupa ap an
po cuip
mac
uf
hinoell oipeac peacc ecip na cumapcc buibnib Tpm, po haimpfb pemup 50 t>u p cop DO peilep hi ppoppolarh a cleib i a compaip gup bo oarhna oibeaba a aof po ppaofneab laip ap cpiacbuibnib na copaijeacca. Oo 66.
-|
Qp
ponab ecc mop ann
pin uaip
po mapbab cepoicr abupc,
baoi paic
mpla
ooibpe pan oiccmiltb pin, ap cpobacc, ap cfnoap pfbna ap pojlaim bepla Nf cian on caclacaip oo cuaib Semap mac muipip an cpac 1 bepccna.
raimcc anppamne ecca t>a lonnpaijib, i DO pome a riomna le bfgan bpiarap, na pajbaiccip a eapccaipoe le a 1 po aicm Dia painmuincip a DfcfnDab ap
aicne, no pe
a oipleac e. bd hann baof apoiupnp na hGpeann
Sip uilliam
ccopcaij moip murhan. lapla cille Oapa, -| Uucpac fibe ajhaib ap conncae luimnicch co po paice ma pappab ann pin.
lonbaiD pin Sip niculap maulbi co na poc-
Dpupge
in
abpac longpopc
ma
ccfnn annpin,
-]
ccompocpaib cille mo ceallocc. Canaic lapla ofpmurhan baof acca cop hi cceill co na baof cuiD Do pein a ccapp-\
amcc Semaip mic muipip, na beop a mi^nfom Da noeapnpacc a bpaicpe, Do le comall Do paD a aon mac oibpeacca Don lupcip a njioll le caipipeacc l?o cinjellab Don mpla gan a rip Do milleab nf bab mo, copoin rpaân.
~) -|
?;e
po geallab
po comaillfb, oip Do Diolairpiccheab a baofne a apbap -\ a poipccnfrh. loipcceab

nf
that
-)
innile.
land.
of Linierick, comprising Castleconnell and SingDr. O'Brien asserts, in his Irish Die-
James Fitz Maurice,

in the breast
after being mortally

ball,
wounded
with a
dashed into
lionary, that
Aos-Greine
is
the barony called
the midst of his enemies, like another Achilles,
the Small County of Limerick ; but this cannot be true, as we know from O'Heerin, that Castleconnell and Singland were in it, and that the
foremost in battle front, striking about

for himself to
him
with sword and lance, until he made a lane
where Theobald Burke
stood,
barony called the Small County comprised the

territory of Deis Beag.
1
and with a single blow cleft his scull in twain, and with another stroke killed his brother,
William.
Mac-I-Brien-Ar'a
His territory bordered

See the Queen's letter
printed, under the year
He makes no
allusion to his having
on Tuath-Aesa-Greirie.
-in
his favour above

p.
requested that his head should be cut off after his death ; but he states that his kinsman,
1569,
k
1634, supra.
skill,
Military
literally,
captainship, gene-
ralship or skill in leading a military force. 1 To cut off his head. O'Daly says, c.
Maurice Fitz John, ordered his head to be cut off, and that, as he could not give his body such honourable sepulture as it was entitled to, he
left it
22,
concealed under an aged tree, where, not
1579-]
1717
Brien Ara', to come and banish the traitor from the country. Mac-I-Brien sent a body of gallowglasses and soldiers to Theobald. These then went in pursuit
of those heroic bands, and overtook James,
tary
who had
halted in a dense and
soli-
was fought between both forces, hollow of the chest, which [afterin which James was shot with a ball in the
to await their approach.
wood
A battle
wards] caused his death. Notwithstanding this, however, he defeated his lordly In this conflict a lamentable death took place, namely, that of Theopursuers.
bald Burke, a young warrior, who was a worthy heir to an earldom for his valour and military skill", and his knowledge of the English language and the law. James, the son of Maurice, had not passed far from the scene of this
battle
when the languor of death came over him; upon which, in a few words, he made his will, and ordered his trusty friends to, cut off his head [after his
1
death], in order that his enemies might not discover him, so as to recognise or
mangle him. The Lord Justice of Ireland, Sir William Drury, was at this time at Cork, in Munster and the Earl of Kildare and Sir Nicholas Malby were there along with him. These set out towards the county of Limerick, and pitched their
;
neighbourhood of Kilmallock. Hither the Earl of Desmond came to meet them and he endeavoured to impress it on their minds that he himself
camp
in the
had no part
in bringing over his relatives

;
James, the son of Maurice, or
in
any of the crimes

Justice his only
committed by son and heir,
and he delivered up
to
the Lord
as a hostage, to ensure his loyalty
and
fidelity to the
crown of
England. promise was thereupon given to the Earl that his territory should not be plundered in future but, although this promise was given, it was not
;
kept, for his people
and
cattle
were destroyed, and

it
his corn
and
edifices burned.
long after,
being found by a hunter,
was
plerisque
suorum
cecidit.
Cadaveri caput amdissecturn

:
brought to Kilmallock, fixed upon the gallows tree, and shattered by the musket fire of the
heretics.
putatum, corpus membratim
mem-
Camden, however, seems
to
have un-
bra palis suffiguntur ad portas Kilmaloci, ubi prius fidem Principi in Ecclesia curam Perotto,
derstood that his head was cut off by his enemies " Pugnatum est aliquamdiu. Theobaldus, et
:
ut
diximus,
magnis
obtestationibus
astrix-
erat."
Ware says, that
Sir William Burke, the father
alter e fratribus
cum
nonnullis
suorum occu-
of Theobald and William, was created Baron of

Castleconnell, and had an annual pension of a
buerunt, simulque Fitz-Moris ipse hasta transfixus, et
caput plumbea glande transfossus,
cum
hundred marks
and Camden remarks that he
1718
QNNaca Rio^hachca eiReaNN.

capcfnib
[1579.
cfcaip
17o paofb laporh an lupcip on ccampa fin ciUe mo ceallocc, a cpf no a co ccficpib ceoaitj DO paijjbiuipib jalloa -\ gaoi&elca Do bo
coillib
-\
cuapcuccab na
00
pala fcoppa
-]
moipe bup an ppuigbiccip bponj eiccin oia fpccaipbibh. clann occ mpla bfpmuman .1. Sfan Semup occ, 05 gopc
-\
na ciobpacc, po pijfb lopjal ainccpeannba fcoppa co po ppaofneab pop co po mapbab cpiup bia ccaipcfmb capcm hoipibfpc, muincip an lupcip, 50 ccpfb cebaibh amaille ppiu, cepnaccap capcfn pppip upcap,
.1.
-|
capcin
-|
-]
an lupcip a campa lapam 50 bel pcceolanga uaca gup an ccampa. l?ucc aca na noeipe i ccfipcmfbon cliu mail mic ugaine, ~\ po jaB galap a ecca an iupcip,i po pdccaib capcin maulbi le haccaib coccaib jeapalcac, -| puccab an
ba he lupcif bo rhuincip na bampfojna cainic anoip ipm cpeaccmain pin pein Sip uilliam pellham bo coimeb pine gall ap clanbaib nell ap jaoibealaib Ifice cuinn, cpice bpfj i mibe 1 laijfn an ccfin no biab an lupcip pin po ecc,i capcfn maulbi ace mmiuccab
lupcip
i
coccab ina lonac
ccappacc co popclaipge co ppuaip bap ann ccuipc aca cliac buine uapal tio
i
pin,
-\
.1.
-\
-]
muimneac.
'Canaic cpa mpla upmuman mbfic cpf bliabna coip piap an can pin.
nGpmn ipm cpeccmain
cebna,
mp
lomcupa capcin maulbi, canicc co linmneac mp necc an lupcip bacnuabuccab a apmala, bpajail bib bia buannabhaib, i bo coib apibe 50 ba he an lai'pin canjaccap clann occ mpla beapmuman biaphfpgebcene,
-\ -|
cconncae luimnij, i capla mcc -| an capcfn cul ccul a lomgabail. T?o pijeab ocambfp cpoba fcoppa. 56 po pebpac a peacna, Ro ppfpclab, a lomjabail. l?o pijeab pcambfp cpoba fcoppa. l?o ppfpcpaib gona no gabala
i i
-\
-]
"unde senex inopino gaudio perfusus baud multo post expiravit." m Coill-mhor, i. e. the great wood, in the basoon after died of joy
:
Lord Muskerry, in the parish of Killagholehane, in the south of the county of Limerick;
Captain Spris __ His real
name was
Price,
rony of Coill-mor, or Kilmore, in the county of Cork, and adjoining the county of Limerick. See note e p. 1715, supra.
,
11
according to Camden and Ware, who make no mention of Captain Eustace, who was probably an Irishman :
Gort-na-tiobrad,
i.
translated ager fontis
field of the spring, P. O'Sullevan, in his by

e.
"loannes Desmotiius Comitis frater qui in Fitz-Moris locum inter rebelles suffectus, ex
insidiis
History of the Irish Catholics,

generally but the natives
fol.
97.
It is
now
Herbert et Prisium Anglos
cum
cohor-
known by
the
name
it
of Springfield,
always called
Gort-na-tiobrad,
tibus quas duxerunt intercepit, et occidit, ipse in facie sauciatus. Numeros vero sexcenti milites
when speakmg Irish. It is a townland containing the rums of a square castle and the seat of
e Devonia supplerunt, Perottusque cum sex bellicis navibus ad oram tuendam ex Anglia
1579-]

Justice afterwards set out from the
1719
The Lord
camp
of Kilmallock, accom-
panied by three or four captains and four hundred English and Irish soldiers, m to search [trie wood of]-Coill-mhor and try whether they could discover any of their enemies. fell in with the They young sons of the Earl of Desmond,
,
namely, John and James Oge, at Gort-na-Tiobrad"; and here a furious engagement was fought between them, in which the people of the Lord Justice were
defeated,
and three of their captains

,
slain,
namely, Captain Herbert, Captain
Eustace, and Captain Spris together with three hundred of their men. Several
made their escape to the camp by flight. The Lord Justice then removed his camp
death-sickness.
self
to Bel-atha-na n-Deise p
q
,
which
is
situated in the very centre of Clui-Mail-mhic-Ughaine
and here he took

;
his
He
left
Captain Malby
to
oppose the Geraldines

;
and he him-
Waterford, where he died and the Lord Justice selected by the Council' of Dublin was Sir William Pelham, a gentleman of the Queen's people, who had come from England that very week to protect
was conveyed
in a chariot to
the territory of Bregia, Meath, and Fingal, against the Hy-Niall and the Irish of Leath-Chuinn and Leinster, while the Lord Justice who died and Captain
Malby should be engaged

Earl of
in reducing the
Munstermen.
In the same week the
Ormond
As
to
for Captain
returned to Ireland, having been three years in England. Malby, he, after the death of the Lord Justice, proceeded
;
Limerick to recruit his army, and to procure provisions for his soldiers and from thence he marched to Askeaton and it was on the same day that
;
young sons of the Earl of Desmond came to look for fight or prey in the county of Limerick, when they and the Captain met face to face, although they
the
could have shunned and avoided him.

missus."
"
A battle
was bravely fought between
Camden, A. D. 1579i.
Bel-atha-na n-Deise,
e.
ford of Deis,
now Athneasy,
mouth of the ford on the Mornthe
and was sworn on the

Church, Dublin
of Elizabeth,
Ireland,
s
Council in Dublin, "donee prorex crearetur," 1 1th of October in Christ's

See the annals of the reign
ing-star river, in the parish of Ath-na-n-Deiseach, now anglice Athneasy, barony of Coshlea, and county of Limerick, and about four miles
to the east of Kilmallock.
by Camden, and Ware's Annals of
A. D. 1579-
The Earl of Ormond. Ware adds, that the Irish Council, on the same day that they chose
Sir William
Cliu-Mail-mhic-Uyhaine, a district in the barony of Coshlea. See note ', under 1570.
r
patent to
Pelham Lord Justice, ordered a make the Earl of Ormond Governor
Council,
literally,
" court."
Sir William
of Munster, and Sir
Warham
St.
Leger Provost
Pelham was
elected
Lord Justice by the Privy
Marshal thereof.
1720
dNNata Rio^hachca eiueaNN.

an plua
[1579.
lab, 1 po ppiocoileab
gaoibealac la mumcip an capcin 50 po ppaoinea6 poppa po beoib 50 po mapbabh comap, mac Sfain oicc, mic Sfam, mic comaip, mic an lapla, i eoccan mac emainn oicc mic emainn, mic coippbealbaij mec piaj 50 nopuing moip DO conpaplaib cloinne pici j, co pocaibe Do muinnp cloinne an mpla a maille ppiu. 17o paccbab ebala aibble aipm,
]
eoeab 05 muincip an capcm Don cup pin. 6d ace an aonac mbfcc po piccfb an lopjOjl fpin. baof an capcin laparh a ngap bo peaccmain in cap gebcine, 1 jeapalcaij ap jac lae 05 êallab buailce Do cabaipc DO, i nf po corhaillpioc inbpin.
l?o bpipeab mainipcip an baile lap
an ccapcin,
~\
cfib
ap
pin
co hac oapa, i baof annpai&e ace cfnnpuccab na

)
lupcip nua uilliampellham,-] lapla cille bapa, cconallcoib. Nf cdinicc lapla 1 po gabpac uile lonjpopr
i
ccomappan co cnanaic an lapla upmuman Dia nfpcab,
bfpmuman
ina
pin, uaip po Oianmilleab a buchaij, -\ po hdbbailpccpiopab a haiccpeaba lap net anjeallab bo peme pin gan a milleab ibip. O bo beacaib an ciapla mbaib a bpdiupeac api comaiple po cinnpioc goill a mbapbaba
i
ccfncc Don cup
par mop, Caiplen muipipin, Qr bapa, Do bol bia cnjib laporh. Qp a aof pin rpa nip ceallocc, pfin bo poinmeac Don cip uile o cdluacaip beabhaib co piuip,-] o cfnb peabpacc co pionainn, uaip 506 pope, 506 baile, jac aiciuccab jup a panapbap jac
Dpagbdil
bailcib
-|
ma
.1.
loc jaip an
-|
cill
mo
mcc
'/mAanny,anplua55aoi6ealac. This should

be an flua^ seapulcac, or the Geraldine army,
Mannisteranena, a magnificent abbey in ruins, in a parish of the same name, in the barony of Pobblebrien, and county of Limerick, and about five miles to the northwest of Bruff. Ware, Cox, and Leland, call
Aenach-beag,
this place
u
the English and Irish accounts of this battle

before him, gives the following account of
it,
as
now
have been the truth, in his History of Ireland, book iv. c. 2 " The army (for so it was called) consisted of
to to
:
what appeared
him
nine hundred foot and
fifty horse.
Of
these
three hundred infantry and fifty horse were left

in garrison at Kilmallock
:
Monaster-Neva, but this is a mere misprint for Monaster-Nena. O'Daly, in his

c.
received that Sir
John Desmond
and on intelligence lay a few miles
History of the Geraldines,
23, asserts that the
English were defeated at Enaghbeg on this occasion, and that their great guns and standards
fell
distant from Limerick, with a considerable body, Malby marched to attack him with the residue
into
John of Desmond's hands
but Cam-
den,
assert that Sir
and from him Ware, Cox, and Leland, John of Desmond was defeated
loss of
of his forces. In a plain adjoining to an old abbey, called Monaster-Neva" [recte, Monaster" he found the rebels in Nena], array, to the
with the
two hundred and sixty of his army, together with the famous Dr. Allen, who was left dead on the field. Leland, who had all
.number of about two thousand, and prepared to The Papal standard was disgive him battle.
played
;
and Allen, the Irish Jesuit, went busily
through the ranks, distributing his benedictions,
1579-]

1
1721
them, in which the Irish army were so resolutely encountered and pressed by the Captain's forces, that they were finally routed, with the loss of Thomas, the
son of John Oge, son of John, son of Thomas, son of the Earl [of Desmond] and Owen, the son of Edmond Oge, son of Edmoud, son of Turlough Mac Sheehy and a great number of the constables of the Clann-Sheehy, with a
;
of the people of the sons of the Earl. Great spoils, consisting of weapons and military attire, *were left on this occasion to the Captain's people.
great
many
This battle was fought

nearly a
at
Aenach-beag
The Captain
after this
remained
Askeaton, the Geraldines threatening every day to give him The Captain destroyed the monastery of battle, though they did not do so.
at
week
that town,
and then proceeded
to Adare,
where he remained, subjugating the
'people of that neighbourhood, until the new Lord Justice, William Pellham, the Earl of Kildare, and the Earl of Ormond, came to join him"; and they all en-
camped together in Hy-Conillo. The Earl of Desmond did not come to meet them on this occasion, because his territory had been ravaged and his people
destroyed, although it had been promised to him that these should not be molested. When the Earl had joined his relatives, the resolution which the
English adopted was, to station their warders in his castles, viz. in Loch Gair Rath-mor", Caislen Muirisin", Adare, and Kilmallock, and depart themselves for their homes. However, the whole country from Luachair-Deaghaidh" to the
,
Suir,
and from Ceann-Feabhrad b
to the
Shannon, was in a
state of disturbance.
p
,
and assuring them of victory. Their dispositions were made, by direction of the Spanish officers, with an address and regularity unusual to the Irish, and their attack was so vigorous, and so obstinately maintained, that the fortune of the day seemed doubtful. The valour of the
English at length prevailed ; the rebels were routed, and pursued, with considerable slaugh-
the county of Limerick.

y
See note
under the
year 1516, p. 1335, supra.

Rath-mor,
now
anglice
Ramore, or Rathmore,
a very lofty castle, in ruins, in the parish of Mannisteranena, barony of Small County, and
county of Limerick, and about four miles to the north of the town of Bruff.
*
Caislen-Muirisin,
now
Castleinorrison,
in
was found the body of Allen, who, not content with exhortation, had drawn the sword in the cause of Rome."
ter
;
and among the
slain
the barony of Conillo, and county of Limerick. " Luachair-Beaghaidh, now Sliabh Luachra,
anglice Slievelogher, a
mountainous
district near
O'Daly mentions the loss of Thomas Geraldine, John's son, and Thomas Brown, Knight, but has not a word about Allen.
*
Castleisland, in the
barony of Troughanacrny,
This
is

b
Ceann-Feabhrad.
the part of the
To join him, literally, " to strengthen him." Loch Gair, now Lough Gur, near Bruff, in
mountain of Slieve-Reagh, lying to tke left of the road as you go from Kilmallock to Cork
10 K
1722
awNQta Rioshachca eiReaNN.

pin
[1579-
jaccap clann an lapla fcoppa

nb6b,"i
po jabpac 50 mblobabh 50 mbpipfb, 50
Dia naicpebaib, 506 cfj, gac cf^baip, 50 nbianlopccab ap uarhan gall DO pabpae an mibiac cetma poppa 5ac piocc goc pcaca gup a pangabap goill an cfp fcoppa De p6e ina haon clap R6 pdccbab ap ulca le jeapalcacoib. Do caoo lapam lapla t>rpmurhan co na coimpfib, gan loc, jan poipccnfm. an lion ap lia po peopac DO cpeaclopccabRoipceac -| bappac bpaicpib, i $up in ufb maccaille. T?o puibiocheab lonjpopc Leo le hacchaib in uib liacdin,
-|
Gocoille co po gabab an baile leo po beoib.
Rob lomba cpa ebala i

)
lolriiaofne
an baile fpn. l?ocpoicheabld jeapalcachaib ina ppuaippioc bo riiairfp ann bia naipgfb ênmocd an po cuippioc cfnoai^ce i buipjfipij an baile bia nop Pob lomba bocr binnirii bfpoil bo in aprpaijib uaca pm njabdil an baile.
Oo pababh mup cap paibbpfp la hebdilan baile fpn. porhaoin -\ jpian an baile Id geapalcacaib, i po bpipic a cuipce, -] a caipceoil, a curhbaijce cloc -] cldpab, co nap bo hionaiccpeaba e 50 cfnb pee mp'pin. 6d
coibh
i i
im noblaicc mop bo ponnpab bo ponab inopo. Sluaicceab cfnbaip pibna Id hiapla upmuriiari ipm cpeaccmam cebria njeapalcacaib, ~\ pdinicc ûp an ccaiplen nua co puce laip jac nf ap a puce
i
binnilib i baipneif
an cfpe, poaip capa aipjan cpoib jan cacap, uaip baof an ciapla co na bpairpib cciappaije an can pin. Conall buibe mac jiollapaccpaicc mic piapaip uf mopba oo mapbaoh
~\
i i
mbioppa nbuchai j bo beacaib.

i
ele, i
bob pepbe a mapbab, uaip ap bopccain an baile
See the Tripartite Life
oftit.
Patrick,
lib.
iii. o.
48 ;
the Book of Lecan, fol. 133, a, b, andfol. 237, a, a ; and Book ofLismore, p. 207, where the teatures of this mountain are described.
c
firmed to William de Barry, the son aud heir of this Philip, " the three cantreds of Olethan,
of Hy-Liathaiu
Irish
Muscherie, Donegan, and Killede." The extent appears from various ancient
Hy-Liathain.
This was the
name
of a tribe
and Anglo-Irish authorities, for the pre-
and territory in the county of Cork. It derived its name from Eochaidh Liathanach, the second
son of Daire Cearba
sent village of Castle- Lyons, or Caislean-UiLiathain, and the island of Oilean-Mor-Arda-
See Ogygia, part iii. c. 81. After the establishment of surnames, O'Liathain and O'h- Anmchadha were the chief families of
this tribe,
Neimhedh, now the Great Island, near Cork, are mentioned as in it. Harris asserts, in his edition of
Ware's Antiquities,
is
p. 50,
that
Hy-
and shortly after the English in vasion their territory was granted to Robert Fitz
Stephen,
Liathain
a territory in the south of the county of Waterford, in the barony of Decies, on the
sea coast, opposite
false,
who granted
it
to Philip de Barry, as
Youghal
but this
is totally
appears from the confirmation charter of King
for
we know from
the best authorities
John, who, in the eighth year of his reign, con-
that Hy-Liathain did not extend beyond the
1579-J
1723
sons of the' Earl proceeded to destroy, demolish, burn, and completely consume fortress, town, eorn-field, and habitation between those places
The
every
which they came, lest the English might [get possession of them, and] dwell in them and [on the other hand], the English consigned to a like destruction rick and stack of corn, to which they every house and habitation, and every
to
;
came, to injure the Geraldines, so that between them the country was left one The Earl of Desmond then, accompalevelled plain, without corn or edifices.
nied by his relatives and the greatest number offerees they were able to muster, proceeded to plunder and burn the [possessions of the] Roches and Barry,
They encamped before Hy-Liathain and Hy-Macaille Toughal, and finally took that town, which at that time was full of riches and The Geraldines seized upon all the riches they found in this town, goods.
in the territories of
.
1 excepting such gold and silver as the merchants and burgesses had sent away
in ships before the
town was
taken.
and
affluent
by the
it
spoils of this
its
Many a poor, indigent person became rich town. The Geraldines levelled the wall of the
its
town, and broke
down
courts and castles, and

for
buildings of stone and
wood, so that
at Christmas.
was not habitable
some time afterwards.

in the
This was done
A chieftain's first expedition

,
was made
same week by the Earl of
Ormond, into the territory of the Geraldines, and proceeded as far as the Newf castle whence he carried off all the flocks and herds of the country that he could seize upon and he returned back without [receiving] battfe or conflict,
;
because at that time the Earl [of Desmond] and his relatives were in Kerry. Connell Boy, the son of Gilla-Patrick, son of Pierce O'More, was slain at
8 Ely and it was better that he was to plunder the town that he had come.
Birr, in the territory of
killed, for it
was
River Blackwater; and Harris,

to
who had
access
Hy-Macaitte,
now
the barony of Imokilly,
the Anglo-Irish authorities, should have known that Olethan, which belonged first, after
in the county of Cork.
English invasion, to Fitz Stephen, and passed from him to Barry, was not on the east
the
side of the river of
It could
The construction is here faulty. Excepting be corrected by omitting ma ppuaippoc and ann, when it would read as follows :
" The Geraldines seized upon
all
'
Youghal, but on the west; for in the Charter of Henry II. to Robert Fitz
the riches of
this town, except, &c."

'
Stephen and Milo de Cogan, he grants them the lands " as far as the water near Lismore, which
runs between Lismore and Cork."
Newcastle, a well-known
town
in the
barony
This
of Upper Connello, and county of Limerick,

* It
was
better,
oob pfpoe a mapBao.
10 K 2
1724
QNNaca Rio^hachca
eiraectNN.
[1580.
na ppiacal Oiluepup puab, mac Sfain na bfinne mic Sfain puaib, mic Sfain
oecc.
lapla cloinne T?iocaipo Beop
hi SajcoiB
an bliabainpi.
GDIS CT71OSU,
1580.
Qoip Cpiopr, mile, cuicc ceo, occmogacc.

ConcoBap, mac oonnchaib, mic concobaip, mic roippbealbaij uf bpiam, iapla cuabmuman pob eipibe ceo mac oo piol copbmaic caip oo puib nciic oo a arap op cuio pleacra luijbec mino oon mumain, popap oo cappaing,
i ~\
pecca rpeopaij oplarhup a arapba a lamaib pinnpeap oo peip piajla oo ecc in inmf&on a aoipi mp ccairfm IficBliaOna, opoaijce Ppionnp Saân,
-|
-)
1 coicc
mbba&an cfcpacarc
6
-|
a
hi
jfin
50 a ecc, Oa Blia&am ap picic 50
Ifir
oiBpibe in aipocfnoup a pine
ccobnacup a clannmaicne amail oeapbap
an pann
pice bliabam oo bf po
ip cuicc Ifir
bliaona lana
ma
iapla ap ponn
aoap
concobap.
innpi,-)
jpianja
map conn
mamipnp
Qn
ma
concobap
fpin
Oa&nacal
a mac OonnchaO Ooiponeab
10 nab.
mac oiluepaip, mic Sfam, pfp coipbfprac cpom an ppeapp pfc ma pococcab,-] no conccnab Oo piac condijldp lap an bppionnpa oo ecc -|Ripoeapoan lapainn, mac emamn, mic uillicc Oia oiponeab pfin jan cenrr oon Ppionnpa in lonao Sfam.
TTlac uilliam bupc Sfam,
TTTasnupa, mic aoba ouib, mic aoba puaib canaipi cenel cconaill, paof oeaplaicceac ouaprhop Oeijeinij, fnoan oeopab,
1
TTlac ui borhnaill cacbapp,
mac
a bad phrase, and the Four, Masters would have sustained their dignity better if they had written it thus Conall, & c . DO mapbao i
is
:
"
Son ofTurlough
Charles O'Conor of Bela-
" the son nagare adds, that this Turlough was of Teige, son of Turlough, son of Brian Chatha
an Aenaigh." 'Descendants of Luyhaidh Meann, Cais. See O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part
k
i.
m6ioppu
^niorii,
i.
noucaij Gile, amail puill a 6poicuaip ip o'opsam an baile DO cdini^,

i
e.
Dal82.
e.
Connell, &c.
was
killed at Birr, in the terit
iii. c.
ntory of Ely, as his evil deed deserved, for was to plunder the town he came.
Junior.
He was
a junior according to the
Irish
law of tanistic succession.
1580.]

who was
1725
Oliver Roe, the son of John na Beinne, son of John Roe,
son of
John-na-bhfiacal [Burke] died. The Earl of Clanrickard remained in England this year also.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,
1580.
eighty.
Conor, son of Donough, son of Conor, son of Turlough" O'Brien, Earl of Thomond, the first man of the descendants of Cormac Cas who had sat in his
over that portion of Munster possessed by the descendants of Lughaidh Meann', a junior" branch [of his family], who had wrested the government of his principality from the hands of his seniors, according to the laws,
father's place
regulations,
of his
life,
and ordinances of the sovereign of England, died in the very prime having spent forty-five and a half years from [the time of his] birth
:
to his death,
and twenty-two and a half of these in [the enjoyment of] the chieftainship of his tribe and the command of his people, as this verse proves
Twenty
years was he
And
five half years
complete
Earl over the land of
Adhar
1 ,
Conor, like Conn, the sunbright.
This Conor was interred in the monastery of Ennis
and his
son,
Donough,
was
installed
in his place.
Mac William Burke very affluent man, who
(John, son of Oliver, son of John), a munificent and
preferred peace to the most successful war, and who aided the sovereign, died and Richard-an-Iarainn, the son of Ulick, always installed himself in John's place, without the permission of the sovereign.
;
The son
Hugh
1
of O'Donnell (Caifar, the son of Manus, son of Hugh Duv, son of Roe), Tanist of Tirconnell, (a man) of a bounteous, munificent, and truly
hospitable character, and the favourite of the distressed and the learned of the
The land of Adhar, i. e. of Magh Adhar, is here put for Thomond by a poetical license, as the mound on which the O'Briens
Mac
Neitt, p. 47.
installed,
which
m Was
incorrect,
This word is ooiponecro because 'his son succeeded without
were inaugurated
is
situated in the plain of

Circuit
any inaugural ceremony according to the law of

England.
Magh
Adhair.
See
of Muircheartach
17 26
dNNata Rio^hachca eiReawH

.1.
i
[1580.
-|
oecc ina baile pfm Dampccol cuaipceipc Gpeann a abnacal noun na ngall. 1 5 Doccobe.p, i
an pâpbh polap an
bepn ca&cc 6cc, lfiincc Ian oipbeapc a

TTlac
mac
ciuil
raibcc, mic caipppi, mic maoileaclamn,

i
-]
mac
-|
ccanoin Do ecc,-] a a&nacal

lonaib.
noilpmn,
a Deapbpacaip caipppe DO jabail
mec oonnchaib
piabaijje puileac popbpaoileac,

ecc.
mic eojain cfpe hoilella .i.TTlaolpuanaib, mac cacail, niaca le namaic, connalbaij 16 capaic DO
t~abcc piabac,
mac
eogain, mic concobaip, mic caibcc uf

ui bpiain Decc,
-|
ouboa Do
i
ecc.
Domnall, mac caibcc, mic concobaip,

ipcip innpi.
a aDnacal
main-
6ojan mac cuacail

la DO mi occobep.
ITlac
bailb uf jallciibaip Dfccanac
pdca boc Do ecc
an. 22.
meg eocaccain 17oppa, mac conla, mic concobaip, mic laijne Do la bpian. Rob lonjnaD laijfcc mapbabgo mfojaolrhap la a Deapbpacaip ceneoil piachacb Dpinfcap, i note paib'e Roppa ace na uapal, upmop pfp
.1.
~|
nGpeann accd eccaome. Ro gabab Dna acaip na cloinne pin lap an lupnp po Daij acbfipri co mbaof cuirr Doporh ipin ppingail pin a cloinne. Semup occ, mac Semaip, mic Sfam, mic romaip mpla bo bol DO t>puim a
Dibfipcce Diappaib cpfice i mupccpaije, i copbmac, mac caibcc, mic copbmaic oicc mic copbmaic, mic caibcc meg capcaij (cijeapna an cipe) DO bfic
co lion a pocpaioe
r.aon
maijin ap a cionn an aohaib
pin.
Do pibe Semup DO bol caipip ipin cip. epbalca in po ba 0615 laip Semup Dia
Sgarbhsholas, now Scarriffhollis, on the south bank of the River Swilly, and about two miles to the west of the town of Letterkenny, in the
n
Do
coib
"]
mpam
haipnfibeab copbmac in lonab
Ro
paijib,
po jeib Semup co cpeic
respect
boasted, on returning
by the Duke, that he is said to have " among his sept, that he
had given peace to the King's Lieutenant."

See Leland's History of Ireland, vol. ii. p. 35. Campion, however, who wrote in 1571, informs " but a meane us, that Mageoghegan was then
Captaine, yeelding his winnings to the stronger."
Historie
p. 148.
county of Donegal.
in
This place
in
is
well
known
the
modern
Irish history, in consequence of a
battle
Irish
fought
here
1650,
oif
in which
were defeated, and cut

small.
with dreadful
slaughter.
of Ireland, Dublin reprint of 1809,

the son
Mageoghegan was so powerful in the year 1449, that when he was summoned by Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, to make his submission, he was treated with so much
How
was then
This Cormac, who county of Cork, proved. so loyal to the English cause that he was
Cormac,
ofTeige
sheriff of the
1580.]

I
1727
north of Ireland, died in his
own mansion
seat of Sgarbhsholas",
on the loth
of October, and was buried at Donegal. O'Beirne (Teige Oge, the son of Teige, son of Carbry, son of Melaghlin), a learned student, very celebrated for his knowledge of the civil and the canon
law, died, and
took his place. The son of Mac Donough of Tirerrill (Mulrony, the son of Cathal, son of Owen), a sanguine and convivia] huntsman, fierce to an enemy, [and] kind to
at
was buried
Elphin
and
his brother, Carbry,
a friend, died.
Teige Reagh, the son of Owen, son of Conor, son of Teige O'Dowda, died. Donnell, the son of Teige, son of Conor O'Brien, died, and was buried in
the monastery of Ennis.
the
Owen, the sou of Tuathal Balbh O'Gallagher, Deacon of Raphoe, died on 22nd of October.
of Mageoghegau (Rossa, the son of Conla, son of' Conor, son of Laighne) was unfraternally killed by his brother Brian. It was wonderful how small the inheritance of the Kinel-Fiagha was at this time, for Rossa was only
a [private] gentleman
The son
of the
men
he was, nevertheless, lamented by the greater number of Ireland. The father of these sons was taken prisoner by the
;
Lord
Justice, because it was reported that he had participated in this fratricide. James Oge, the son of James, sen of John, son of Thomas the Earl [of Desmond], set out in rebellion to seek a prey in Muskerry but Cormac, the son of Teige p son of Cormac Oge, son of Cormac, son of Teige Mac Carthy, Lord of the country, had all his forces assembled to oppose him. Cormac,
;
being informed that James had passed by him, proceeded to a certain place, through which he knew James would pass and he soon perceived James
;
who. was
knighted by the Lord Deputy, Sir Henry Sidney, so well pleased with him that, in a
letter of his sent to
royam regiunculam Cormaci Mac Teg (quern

Justiciarius ea lege dimiserat, ut de patria contra rebelles bene mereretur) de prsedatus incidit
in
England, he stated that, " for his loyalty and civil disposition, Sir Cormack Mac Teige, of Muscry was the rarest man
that ever was born of the Irishry." Camden says, in his Annals of the reign of Elizabeth,
that
it
pluribus
lethali
Donellum Cormaci fratrem, qui praidam, ca;sis, recuperavit, Jacobum vulnere

sauciatum
cepit,
Warhamoque
8.
Legero
was Daniel Mac Teige, the brother of
Marescallo Moinonise, et Waltero Ralegho (qui nunc primum ordines duxit) Illi in judicium
vocarunt, et Majestatis
Cormac, that defeated and took James of DesHis words are as follows .inond.
:
reum peractum
usitato
proditorum supplicio affecerunt, capite Corcagii

portse in
" Jacobus Desmonius Comitis frater Muske-
spectaculum prefixo."
17 28
aNNCtta Rioshachca eiraeciNR

-]
[1580.
cuicce
-|
po ionnpai
6 co po
mapbab
-]
co po mubai jeab
upriifSp
rhuincipe,
illaim 50 copcaij. po gabab Semup bubein,-] po cuipeab ullmuccab bdip 500 aen la pip an pe pin aicce aja mi ipn mbaile pn, -\ benam aip pem,i e 05 benam airpije ma peaccoib,-] ace mppaib maicme ina on ccornaiple ccfnb na pee pn on li^cif mijmoThaib. Taimcc pccpibfnb an mepa an paep oiacaem bo 6 ac cliar co copcaij bia popcongpa pop benarh be, a pobail molpaiprib. cfrpariina corhpoinnce bo
i
]
6af a ngap DO
riialaprnuccab,-]
-]
Do
ponab
mpom
inbpm.
oicc,
TJIIC
Semup, mac Sfam
Sfain,
mic romaip lapla bo mapbab fan

.1.
ccoccab ccebna la cijfpna popail bpiain,-) caippcce 6 ccoinnell bpian bub mac macjjamna mic bonnchaib, mic bpiain buib ui bpiain, po baof bfol a
-\
arapba boibpe ipn Semup pn. Semup, mac muipip, mic geapoicc, mic comaip lapla bo mapbab ap an ccoccab ccebna bepcop bo peilep nbopup Gocaille. Gmann, mac maolmuipe, mic bonnchaib, mic coippbealbai^, mec puibne a cuacaibh copaije bo bol bo benam cpeice pop bpuing bo na bfbfpccacaib
i
50 glfnb
mac beapbparap bon emann pin jopppaib mac bonnchaib bacaij bobpficpop emann,-] a mapbab co mipccneac cappac mfojaolmap,-) nf baof n6pinn an abhaib pin aon mac gallocclaig ap mo bo cfnbaij bpfon, beiccpi ma an remann fin. T?olonc, mac Remainn, mic uillicc cnuicc ruaj eppcop cluana pfpca becc,
plfipcci.
.1.
~\
i
O bonnchaba
-\
pob abbap eccaome ina cip pfipin bir an bfijpip pin. O Suillebam mop becc .1. bomnall mac bomnaill, a mac (eoccan) boipbnegb ina lonab. Oonnchab, mac maofleaclamn mec gopmain mic maoileaclainn buib bo
-] -j
ecc.
Qn
lupcip Sip uilliam
pellham bo cop pccpibeann

-\
moip na bliabna po biappaib an Qmbpael pulancc loin -] opbanaip moip bo cop co hGpinn po baij gabala ina mbaof bcc mbailcib pfin 05 jfpalcacoib. baccap mec pibe eapgeibcine, baile uf jeileaThe mayor. This should be Warham St. Leger, Marshal of Munster, to whom a cornmis11
paôib lap noblaicc coblaij na bainpfoân 50 n'omi
Pobble-Brien,
now
brien,
in the county of Limerick,
the bar.ony of Pobblethe chief
sion of martial
law had been sent on the llth
castle of
*
which was Carrigogunnell.

i.
of February, 1579.
Tuatha Toraighe,
e.
the districts opposite
1580.]
1?29
coming towards him with a prey, and he attacked him, and slew and destroyed the greater number of his people. James himself was taken, and sent to Cork He was [confined] nearly a month in this town, daily preto be imprisoned.
and asking forgiveness for paring himseirfor death, doing penance for his sins, At the end of that time a writ arrived from Dublin from the his misdeeds.
Lord Justice and the Council, ordering the mayor" to put that noble youth to This was accordingly done. death, and cut him in quarters and little pieces. son of John, son of Thomas the Earl [of DesJames, the son of John Oge, r mond], was slain in the course of the same war by the Lord of Pobble-Brien
and Carigogunnell, namely, by Brian Duv, the son of Mahon, son of Doriough, son of Brian Duv O'Brien. This James was worthy to have inherited the principality of his ancestors.
James, the son of Maurice, son of Garrett, son of Thomas the Earl, was
killed in the
same war by the shot of a

8
ball in the
gateway of Youghal.
Edmond, the son of Mulmurry, son of Donough, son of Turlough Mac Sweeny, of Tuatha Toraighe went to Glenflesk' to take a prey from some of
,
the insurgents
himself, namely, overtook Edmond, and killed Donough Bacagh, him, spitefully and unbecomingly and there was not at that time in Ireland any son of a gallowglass [chieftain] "who had purchased more wine or poetry
;
[but] O'Donohoe and a brother's son of Edmond
Godfrey Carragh, the son of
than this Edmond.

Roland, the son of Redmond, son of Ulick [Burke] of Knocktua, Bishop of and the loss of this good man was the cause of great lamentaClonfert, died
;
tion in his
own
country.
i.
O'Sullivan More,
e.
Donnell, son of Donnell, died
and his son, Owen,
was
Donough, the son of Melaghlin, son of Melaghlin Duv Mac Gorman, died. The Lord Justice, Sir William Pellham, wrote to England after Christmas
in 'this year, requesting that
an admiral and the Queen's fleet, with a sufficient quantity of provisions and a great ordnance, should go to Ireland, for the purThese pose of taking from the Geraldines all the towns in their possession.
Tory
'
Island, in the
barony of Kilmacrenan, and

the vale of the River Flesk,
in the
county of
Donegal
i.
barony of Magunihy, and county of Kerry, See note b under the year 1524, p. 1374,
,
Glenflesk,
e.
supra.
10 L
1730
dNNCK-a Rioshachea emeaNN.

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[1580.
cam,
-|
cappacc an
puill.
l?o cionoilfb
moppluaicceab pfp mibe, pine
jail,
laijfn,i beop ina
mbaof
po oliccheab 6 boinn co
i
comap
rpi nuipcce lap an
lupcip,~l la
6d
ni
hiapla upmurhan DO bol ngfpalcacoib im p-eil bpigOe Do ponnpab. habbal an rpocpaicce ploij ranaic lapla upmuman ipin coicfpeal pin, -|
co copcaij. Luib an lupcip co lion a cionoil po haipipeab laipibe co painic co luimneac jep bo pfon abuaip, fppcaibe ann an ran pin, nf po aipip cenbib oia paijoiuipib ipin mocct aoin cpeacemam ace acnuabuccab ainnala
-\ -\
maijpn
pin.
Luio appibe piap Deap Don ofip bice,

i
jab longpopr
cconallcoib.
Don mctij maijpij 50 po T?o leicc pcceiriielrca pccaoilce uaba gup an

-\
-]
co opoibelaib Delcce. Ni po oechaib Nip bo maccab ac cpocaipe Do cpen no DO cpuaj gup n pangup ann pin. aon ba inecca Do mapbab, ace po mapbab anD Ooill, i Daofne Dfpoile, Ro
ccoill riioip 50 coillcib claonjlaipi,
mapbab ann mna,

cab a ccpob
i
meic, Scceo injfna aop galaip, eccumn,i aop appaib. Rue-
a ccpfca gup an ccampa Do paicchib an lupcip. T?o pdccbab oponga Deapmapa Do Shaâncoibh la lucr na ccpeac pin ma niaprhoipecc. Qpeab po cinn an lupnp Dol cciappaije, po apccna co cfrhaip luacpa,
i
-\
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hub
DO muincin plebe' mip injme muipfba mic caipfba. 6 copcaij co Canaic mpla upmuriian ccombail an lupcip. ba ciappaije
laporh co cpaijlf,
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i
Baile-Ui-Gheileachain,
i.
e.
O'Geilaghan's
in the
county of Limerick.
See note
d
,
under
town.
Camden
calls this castle
Ballyloghum,

*
and Cox, Ballyloghane.
It is the place
now
The salmon-full Maigue
The Eiver Maigue,

barony of
called Ballinloughane, situated in the parish of
called in Irish
an
ITIhai j, rises in the
Dunmoylan, barony of Shanid (anciently Lower Connello), and county of Limerick, and about
three miles from Askeaton.
Upper
Connello, in the
county of Limerick, and,
flowing through Bruree, Groom, and .Adare, pays its tribute to the Shannon nearly opposite
Carraic-an-phuiU,
i. e.
the rook of the hole,
Bunratty in the county of Clare, and about

nine miles to the west of the city of Limerick, This river was the boundary between AraCliach and Hy-Figeinte, and traverses the richest
plain in all Ireland. It
i.
now
anglice Carrigafoyle,
an island in the Shan-
non, about two miles to the west of Ballylongford, in the barony of Iraghticonor, and county of Kerry.
Near the shore are some remains of

the
chief stronghold
of
is
called
an
IDliaij mall,
Carrigafoyle Ca'stle,
O'Conor Kerry, who was chief of Iraghticonor, but at this period subject to the Earl of Desmond,
x
the sluggish Maigue, by O'Heerin, and TTlai j na mapc, i. e. the Maigue of the beeves,
e.
Meeting of the Three Waters.

p.
See note
k
,
by John O'Tuama, the local bard of the last century. The epithet tnaijpeac, i.e. "abounding in salmon,"
is

y
1561, supra.
also applicable to
it.
Deis-leay, a territory lying
round the
hill
*Coitt-mhor,
now Kilmore,
in the north of the

anglice
of Knockany, and containing the
town of
Bruff,
baron^ of Orbhraighe and Coill-mhor,
1580.]

,
1731
u were Askeaton, Baile-Ui-Gheileachain and Carraic-an phuill". A great muster was made of the men of Meath, Fingal, and Leinster, and of all those who were from the Boyne to the Meeting of the Three subject to the laws [of England], Waters", by the Lord Justice and the Earl of Ormond, about the festival of
St.
Bridget, for the purpose of marching into the territory of the Geraldines.
He made'ho joined this muster with an immense host. on to Cork. The Lord Justice proceeded with all his forces delay, but marched and although it was at that time cold Spring weather, he delayed to Limerick
The
Earl of
Ormond
town only a week, to furnish his soldiers with arms and provisions there. Thence he proceeded south-west, by Deis-beag y and along the salmon-full 2 Maigue and pitched his camp in Hy-Connello. He sent forth loose marauding parties into Coill-mor into the woods of Claenglaise, and into the wilds of
in that
,
These, wheresoever they passed, shewed mercy neither to the strong Delge". nor the weak. It was not wonderful that they should kill men fit for action,
but they killed blind and feeble men, women, boys, and girls, sick persons, idiots, and old people. They carried their cattle and other property to the
Lord
dered
Justice's
parties,
camp
who
but great numbers of the English were slain by the plunfollowed in pursuit of the preys. The Lord Justice then
; ;
,
resolved upon passing into Kerry and he proceeded to Teamhair-Luachrac thence to Tralee, and along the base of the mountain of Mis d the daughter of
,
Muireadha, the son of Caireadh.
The
Earl of
Ormond
[also]
marched from
Cork
to Kerry, to join the
Lord
Justice.
On
this occasion
far
they lost a countless

dis-
of Cork.
Orrery and Kilmore, in the north of the county The Down Survey shews a large wood
See note under
was originally
trict
more extensive than the
now
called Sliabh Luachra, for
we have
in the north of this barony
the year 1582.
the authority of the Life of St. Ida, published by Colgan, at 15th January, that the church of
now Delliga, in the parish of Kilbolane, of Orrery and Kilmore, in the county barony of Cork, adjoining Limerick.
Delge,
c.
now Killeedy, in the barony of Upper Connello, in the south of the county of Limerick,
Gill-Ida,
was
at the foot of Sliabh Luachra.
It also ap-
Teamhair- Luachra.
This
name
is
now
ob-
solete,
but
its situation is still
pointed out by
pears from several old maps of Ireland in the State Papers' Office, London, that Slewlogher extended
Beal-Atha-na-Teamhrach, a ford in the parish

of Dysart, near the little in the county of Kerry.
town of
Castle-Island,
This whole district
Kerry and Limerick, The mountain of Mis, now Slievemish, a mountain in the barony of Troughanacmy, and
into the counties of
d
was originally called Sliabh Luachra and Luachair Deaghaidh but it should be remarked,
;
county of Kerry.
tice
Cox
says that the Lord Jus-
that Luachair Deaghaidh,
or Sliabh Luachra,
having marched as far as Slewemiss, beyond Traley, and not being able to pass farther,
"
10 L 2
1732
ofpitnh
dNHCtta Rioshachca eiReaNN.

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[1580.
Do Daoinib gan puiliuccaD, gan popDfpccab an po pdccba6 Deacaib, a nimcecra, la rfipce bi'6 Don cup pin. la meo a napcaip -\ 6d he fin lonam cangacrap coblac na bainpiogna ap copcabaib na
-]
cocuan pionna ppiobgloine,-] po po gabparc pop go pangaccap an aiccen po upcorhaip caippce an puill 506 Ificcpfcc a nangcaipe atnac pop Udnaic an mpcip i mpla upmurhan pop cip Do paighib an baile noipeac. ceona co po puibigfo Da campa Do muip ~\ Do cfp ma cimcell. Oo 6616 Din
hepeann,
i nf
Do Sha;rancoib ccuabmurham po Daig na leiccpeao anppoplann mapa no rfpe DO an bailcfb jeapalcac. Dala paijib an lupcip an ccfm no biao 16 haghaiD 5! an lupcip po popconâip pi&e an copoanap mop pin cainicc cuicce oo capcoicciD connacc, i co nDpuing ofpime Sip niclap malbi co maicil)
i
tia caicearii po puiDijfb coicc gonna mopa po corhaip na caipge gan coiccill. Qcbfipa gup bo Ifccanom an gonna ba lucca Dibh. T?o gabpace ace DiubpaccaD an baile laporii. Nf bai cpa 6 capn bpfippi mic ealacan
pamj
rcip
-j
niaprap Dfipceipu coicciD clomne Deipcccine, 50 cnoc mfopiuil cconnaccaib, Diamaip, na Dpoibel, pan, na poinpgleanc nac clop puaim,
mic nfio
i
-\
porpam an opDanaip anaicniD longnaic pin. T?o ICccaD Dna po DeoiD an Ifc piap DO cappaicc an puill 6 lap 50 Ian mullac, i po ba corhmbpub i comcuicim Don bapoa Don baile na ccfno poppa. T?o gabao an baile lap an lupcip,
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1 po an ppi pe coicc nO;6ce ipm ccappaicc lap na gabail. Qpeao Do Deacham a ccionn na pee pin go hfpgebcine. Oc cualaccap bapoa baile f geilfcain,
resolved to besiege Carrigifoyle, wliich mond's chief strength."
e
was Des-
then garrisoned with nineteen Spaniards and fifty Irish, under one Julio, an Italian engineer.
Two camps. This language is not correct, because a camp of ships is a solecism. It should be also remarked, that none of the English or
Anglo-Irish writers
jesty's fleet
Cox
view
adds, that the

it,
Lord
had
;
like to
Justice, coming to have been killed with a
musket-shot
make mention
having put into storm the Castle of Carrigafoyle, on this occasion.
Her Mathe Shannon to

of
in his resolution,
that he nevertheless persevered and caused the castle to be
battered with three cannon, a culverin, and a

demi-culverin,
till
a breach
was made,
at
which
castle,
Winter, Vice- Admiral of England, came about this period to cruise about the coast, and
prevent the Spaniards from landing if they should come. He put into the harbour of
_
Captain Mackworth entered and took the putting fifty to the sword, and taking six
whom
he executed in the camp. " Julio was
He
also adds, that
Ventry, but, growing impatient, he returned to England about the 21st of September. See
Captain preserved two or three " then, days for certain considerations," and that not complying with the Lord Justice's expectations,
f
Camden's Aunals, A. D. 1580. According to Ware's Annals, the castle of Carrigafoyle was
The Rock
he was hanged." This was a name given to the
1580.]
1733
the length of
number of men and horses, withbut bloodshed or slaughter, by their march and journey, and a scarcity of provisions.
It
was
at this time that the
Queen's
fleet
reached the coast of Ireland
and
Jus-
they made no and cast anchor in the

tice an,d the
delay until they entered the
harbour of the glassy-waved Shannon,
sea, directly opposite Carraig-an-Phuill.
The Lord
Earl of
6
,
Ormond marched
to the
same
castle
by
land, so that they
Sir Nicholas Malby, with the pitched two camps by sea and land, around it. of Connaught, and a countless number of Englishmen, chiefs of the province
then set out for Thomond, that they might prevent any attack, either by sea or land, which it might be in contemplation to make on the Lord Justice, while
storming the towns of the Geraldines. As for the Lord Justice, he ordered the and he placed five great guns oppogreat ordnance sent to him to be landed f It was said that the least of to play upon it without mercy. site the Rock
;
,
these guns
was a demi-cannon8
He then began
to
storm the castle
and there
was not a
solitude or wilderness, a declivity or woody vale, from the Carn of the son of Ealathan, son of Neid, in the south-west of the province of Breas",
Clann-Deirgthine', to Cnoc-Meadha-Siuil in Connaught, in which the sound and roar of these unknown and wonderful cannon were not heard. The western
1
side of Carraic-an-phuill
was
at length
to
broken
froni the top to the foundations;
and the warders were crushed

the castle, and remained in
death by
its fall.
The Lord
it
Justice then took

;
it five
days after
he had taken
and
at the
end
of that time he went to Askeaton.

castle itself
When the
warders of Baile-Ui-Gheileachain
Tuam.
It isJaelieved
from
its
firmness, not of any natural

hole,
miles to the sout-west of
rock near
poill,
it.
The rock of the
Cappaij a
from a
means the
castle near the hole,

it.
by the peasantry of this part of Connaught, that this hill is the principal residence of the
fairies of
deep hole in the Shannon near

"
Demi-cannon.
est size is
demi-cannon of the greata gun six inches and six-eighth parts
chief called Finvarra
Connaught, who are commanded by a See O'Flaherty's Ogygia,
part
iii.
c. 1,
where
it is
stated that a earn on
diameter in the bore, twelve feet long. It carries a ball of six inches five-eighths diameter,
this hill is stated to
be the Carn Ceasrach of the
ancient Irish writers,

'
and thirty-six pounds weight. b Carn of Ureas, i. e. Carn-Ui-Neid

note under the year 1569.
1
.
Unknown, unuirnio,
i.
e.
hitherto
unknown
See
Tlie province
of Clann-Deirgthine,
i.
e.
Des-
This hyperbolical description of the storming of Carrigafoyle shews that the writer had but little acquaintance with the laws
of sound. It looks very strange that any man, be his imagination ever so wild, that had ever heard the tremendous peals of the artillery of
to the Irish.
mond.
*
Cnoc-Meadha-Siuil,
now Knockmaa, barony
of Clare, and county of Galway, and about five
Rioghachca eiraeaNN.
]
[1580.
fppaêibcine all goca
abuarmapa an opoanaip anaicniD nac

a
mbailcfb, ~\ parimil piam 56 pin, po jabpac pop bpipfb baile i jeileacain,-] nf po cumaingpioc fppgeibcine Do bpipfb 1 6 nap peopac obela oplaicce po upcomaip Do nf DO DQippi'an baile opaccbdil
clop leo a pamicc leo bpipfb
a mbicDilpi Don bainpfojain. Oo coib poccpab an baile pin baof Da picfc la annpaibe ace cup a co luimneac, laporh an lupcip lap pin a eich pop coinnmfb pfcnon cuaba mfipcin be, bdccap a gille
an
lupcip.
appfb
ponpar
Oo
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pccfpi, 1
~[
muman in apfcc pin. Soaip capa aip co hfpgebcene im cmccibip ap ccino co mbaile pin, -) nf anab DO jpep, ace ace po caic peal Don cpampab ipin
Do ingpfim i 05 abbalpccpiop jeapalrac
16,
-\
Doibce.
ba Don cup
pin po
Duna maoilin .1. uillfcc, mac uillicc, nnc uilbcc mac bapaiccfb laip pdlcac nail pibe 6 a gfin 50 a bap an can pin. Ro mapb'ab laip beop Supelac cille mocua .1. Sfan, 1 nip bo hionmapbca pibe iDip ge po baoi cuilleab ap ceo
bliabam Daoip. imo poile poile
ba DO aipnfip an po loicpeac goill jfpalcaig Oo coib an lupcip co na pluaj cciappaije, ip an can pa. nf po aipip co painlcc Dainjfn cuip. 17o lomab 1 po Ifip pccpiopab laip blab 15 appaibe piapcappna mop DO jeapalcachaib -] Do ciappaije Don cup pin. a aip co hfpjeibcme, -| co luimneac. baccap na ccpfoc 50 copcai j, cap
ba
Dfpim,
-)
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-\
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maice muimneac (cen
bappac mop, bfn
~|
mo car jeapalcaij) mac meg capcaij moip,

~\
ngiallnup occa Don cup pin .1. an Diap mac mfic muipip ciappaije,
i
Suilleabam beippe, TTIac Donnchaba,
mac meg capcaij

i
piabaij.
cuippioc corhaiple Shaman lupcip nua nepinn ipin ccfio mi Dpojmap .1. Donoip ina Sip uilliam lopo span (.1. apcup). 17o ba mo eippibe Dainm a aoi nf cainic nepinn piam ap oipfc aimpipe ppip aon mac Pellham, ap
~\
i
Oo
heaven in Donegal or Kerry, should have been so lost in amazement at the report of a demiculverin.
were the next day taken and possessed by the

English.
n
Property.
6ieOilp
is
the ancient Irish
word
m Not
able to destroy.
Ware
says, in his
An-
for
what English lawyers

"
Quartered, or billeted,
called " fee-simple."
A. D. 1580, that the garrison of Askeaton, fearing to be used as those of Carnals of Ireland, rigafoyle were,
It signifies
constant property."
saved the army a labour, for that, taking advantage of the darkness of the night following, they stole out of the castle,
leaving a train of gunpowder, which, taking fire, burned some buildings in the castle, but
Faltach of Dun- Maoilin,, i. e. Wall, of Dunmoylan, in the county of Limerick, about six miles north-west of the town of Newcastle, " blind from * Blind his
p
from
birth,
literally,
his birth to his death."

r
without injuring the principal towers, which
Cill-Mochua,
now Kilmacow,
in the parish of
1580.]
1735
and Askeaton heard the tremendous and terror-waking roars of those unknown heard before, they proceeded to demoguns, the like of which they had never and succeeded in destroying Baile-Ui-Gheileachain but as for the they were not able to destroy Askeaton, they left its gates wide open Lord Justice upon which the castle was proclaimed the Queen's property".
lish their castles,
; ;
The Lord
to recover
Justice then proceeded to Limerick,
where he remained
;
forty days,
from
his fatigues
and recruit himself
and
his servants
and horses
were during
the
this time quartered
tide following
he returned to
throughout Thomond. About the WhitsunAskeaton, and he spent a considerable part of
and he never ceased by day or night from persecuIt was on this occasion that he put to ting and extirpating the Geraldines. death Faltach of Dun-Maoilin p i. e. Ulick, the son of Ulick, son of Ulick, a man
in that
; ,
summer
town
who had been blind from his birth q He also killed Supple of Cill-Mochua e. John, a man whom it was not becoming to have killed, for he was upwards
r
. ,
i.
of one hundred years of age. Countless and indescribable were the injuries done upon each other by the English and the Geraldines during this mutually
time.
The Lord
Justice proceeded with his

s
until 'he arrived at
Daingean-Ui-Chuis
army to Kerry, making no delay, on which occasion he devastated and
ravaged a great part of the territory of the Geraldines and of Kerry.
He
then
passed by a transverse course, through the intervening territories, to Cork, and back to Askeaton and to Limerick. He had [in his custody] the chiefs of Munster (the Geraldines only excepted), as hostages on this occasion, namely,
Barry More, the wife and son of

rice of Kerry, 0' Sullivan Beare,
Mac Carthy More, the two sons of Mac MauMac Donough and the son of Mac Carthy
1
,
Reagh.
The Council
of England, in the
first
month of autumn,
sent a
new Lord
Justice to Ireland, namely, Arthur
Lord Gray. He was of a higher title" and honours than Sir William Pellham, though there had never come to Ireland an
Ballingarry, barony of Upper Connello, and county of Limerick.
5
of Wilton, Knight of the Garter, and Lord Deputy of Ireland. He landed in Dublin on the
Sir William Pelham,
now
'
Daingean-Ui-Chuis, the town of Dingle.
i.
e.
Dingle- I-Couch,
12th of August, 1580, while the Lord Justice, was at Limerick. On the
Mac
thy, Chief of
u
i. e. Mac Donough Mac CarDuhayow, in the county of Cork. Arthur Lord Grey was Baron Higher title
Donough,
6th of September, the Lord Justice came to Dublin, and surrendered the sword to the Lord
Deputy, and then set
sail for
Ensrlnnd.
1736
QHHaca Rioghachca
eiraeawN.
-\
[1580.
ap mo lep Saânaij ba luaimnije lain aipccpiê,.-] ba huaiple aicfpaige, Do cuaib pibe 50 hoc cliac po eipij DO pen pfpbipi ina an Sip uilliam pin cuaipim an mpcip pin cainicc a Sa;roib, cucc an cloibfrh pop a cumap, po
-]
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imcij; pfm poip lap mbpfir buaba Dia biobbabaib. Semup tipcap, mac Rolonc, mic comaipoo bpipeab a bailceaD ap njjdbail ap noiulcab Da Ppionnpa, co po eipij coccaD laip an ccpficcfm ccacolica,
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1 cfnoaippci le linn
an mpcip (Gpchup lopo span) DO react;

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i
nepinn.
Can-
gaccap caomanai j,
cfnnpelaij, bpanaij, -] cuaralaij, jabal pajnaill -] an ccommbaib mfio nd po ofobaic Diappma 6 ppailge, -) Do laoijip ccobaip ~| bo haen clap impfpna -] fpaonra 6 Shldine co pionamn, Shemaip lupcap, jup
i
comap cpi nupcce. Do poriaDh poplonjpopc lap na pojla&aib pemebepcmap in lompocpaib an cplebe pnaib jlinne maoilujpa. Sluaicceab lap an lupnp la capnn maulbi DO &ol DO pccaoileao
"]
6 boinn co
~]
-]
-]
pin. cualaccap na Dibfpccai j Dail a nanppoplainn Did nionnpaicchiD, po pccaoilpioc ap a nDainsnijcib po juaillib gapb coppa jlinne maoil ujpa. T?o ro^ an lupcip an Dpong ap mionca po
nfippfi6f6 na ppojlaD ppoipmacca
Oo
Do cuip leo a hocc, no anaof pecchab po ppomab Do caipcfmb an cploij, DO banoaofb paijoiuipiOe DO cup Do caipcelab jlinne maoilugpa. PUOpaccap a pppfccpa gan puipeac la poipnib pop coimecca an Alcanna, co nac
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]
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mop cfpna cap a na-p Don pfoain pin, jan muDuccaD, gan mopaipleac lap an ngappam ngaoiDelac. l?o mapbab an cappunac piocup cappun,
.1. -\
More nobly triumphant. This character of Sir William Pelham does not exactly accord with his deeds, as described by the Four Masters themselves,
the panegyrics of the Irish bards.
Lord Jitstice. Lord Gray was appointed Lord Deputy, but the Four Masters did not
such as his having slain the
know
them
'
blind, the infirm, the feeble, the
women,
chil-
all
those nice distinctions, for they designate by the term lupcip, or peap lonao pig.
a branch of the
the wilds of Claenglais, idiots, &c., Coill-mor, and Delliga, and his having put to death two old gentlemen of ancient respectabidren,
lity,
in
Gaval-Eannall.They were
O'Byrnes, who were
seated in the district called
namely, Wall, of Dunmoylan,
who was
the Kanelagh, in the now county of Wicklow. This is unquestionably the Slieve'Slieveroe.
rue, near Blessington, in the west of the county of Wicklow, not the range of the county of
blind from his birth, and Supple, of Kilmacow, who was upwards of a hundred years of age. The praises betowed on cruelty by the Four
Masters, even in their enemies, shews a low state of moral
tion,
when
successful,
Dublin hills, which was by the ancient Irish.

a
also called Sliabh
Euadh
feeling or cultiva-
Most
Peter
trustworthy,
literally,
" the oftenest
and proves that they wished to natter the powers that were, which is the crying sin of all
tried."
b
Carew.He
was the elder brother of
1580.]
1737
Englishman who, during the time he remained, was more energetic in his expeditions, more nobly triumphant", or who had been more successful in his services,,
William Pellham] went to meet the new Lord and Justice, who had arrived from England, and gave up the sword to him he then set sail for England, having been victorious over his enemies.
than this William.
[Sir
;
He
James Eustace, the son of Roland, son of .Thomas, broke down his castles, so that after having embraced the Catholic faith and renounced his sovereign
;
war and disturbance arose on the
arrival of
Arthur Dord Gray
in Ireland as
Lord
Justice*.
The Kavanaghs,
;
Kinsellaghs, Byrnes, Tooles, Gaval-RannalF,
and the surviving part of the inhabitants of Offaly and Leix, flocked to the assistance of James Eustace so that [the entire extent of country] from the
Shannon, and from the Boyne to the meeting of the Three Waters, Slany became one scene of strife and dissension. These plunderers pitched a camp
to the
on the confines of Slieveroe z and Glenmalure.
A hosting was
disperse
Lord Justice and Captain Malby, to scatter and these warlike plunderers. When the insurgents had heard of the
the
made by
approach of such an overwhelming force, they retreated into their fastnesses in the rough and rugged recesses of Glenmalure. The Lord Justice then selected
the most trustworthy 1 and best tried captains of his army, and despatched them, at the head of eight or nine companies of soldiers, to search and explore Glen-
they'were responded to without delay by the parties that guarded the valley, so that very few of these returned without being cut off and dreadthe Irish party. On this occasion were slain Peter Carew", fully slaughtered by
;
malure
but
Sir George Carew,
who remained with

set
the Lord
Deputy on the mountain.

ward
Cork.
III.
In the reign of Ed-
Thomas de Carew, asserting that he and his ancestors were heirs to Fitzthat the claim of
Thomas de Carew
up
a claim, as
heir to Fitz-Stephen, to all his ancient estates in
Stephen, could not be true, because the said Fitz-Stephen was a Bastard, and died without
heir of his body."
before Sir
But by an Inquisition taken at Cork, Anthony Lucy, Lord Justice of IreAugust,

in the fifth year of
land, on the 31st of
the reign of Edward III., it was foufid that " Robert Fitz-Stephen died seized of the moiety of the estate granted by Henry II. to him and
Notwithstanding this Inquisition, the title was again set up in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, A. D. 1568, by Sir Peter Carew, who,
" inveniens rotulam evidentiarum," brought his cause before the Lords of the Council, and came
to Ireland fully resolved to prosecute the reco-
was
Milo de Cogan, and that the said Fitz-Stephen a Bastard" [not legitimated by Act of Par" and died without issue of his body; liament],
very of this ancient
estate.
Sir Peter laid claim
to the barony of Idrone, in the county of Carlow,
10
1738
TTlai sipcip
[1580.
muap
.1.
Seon,
-\
TTlaigiprip ppanp.
l?o
mapbab ann ono
oponj;
Do oaoinib uaiple eainic unoip ungapoa an mpcip pin. "Ro paccaiB an lupcip a poplongpopc mp pocrain na pccel pin oia paijib. Udnaic coblac eaoailleac DO mmncip an papa mi mfooin an pogriiaip
i
i
ba mo a nainm na a ccocacc uaip baoi Dia naipofipce ccopcaig napraip co ppuicceccup oiamab illuimneach n6i njaillirii, no obela oplaicce pop a ccionn. 6a hann po gabpac pibe na hapob'ailce pin pope occ an oilen po cionnpccam Semup mac muipip DO curhoac an bliaDain
caappaije.
T?o
i
poirhe
.1.
oun an
oip.
ba
pfo poDeapa Don coblac

and
pin
code
nepinn Do conj-
then in possession of the Kavanaghs, and to one-half of the kingdom of Cork [a kingdom that
fifteen others in
England,
whom he appoints
of the
in remainder.
But the unceasing energy
never existed], which, according to a forged roll which was received as evidence, contained
the following
territories,
Kavanaghs of Idrone, and the untainted loyalty and efficient services of Sir Cormac Mac Carthy,
namely
Imokilly,
who fought
KiTyrbarry, Muskerry, Tyrcourcy, Carbery, Sonnelmeaky, Collympre, Collybeg, Ivahagh,
vigorously against the rival race of the Fitzgeralds of Desmond, as well as the ridiculous nature of the claim of the Carew family
nagh O'Donovan
[Castle- Donovan],
Bantry,
(who were a
suit to
collateral
branch claiming to be
Beare, Muntervary, Clandonough, Cloighboigh,
heirs to a bastard), caused the prosecution of the
Iveragh, Kerricurrihy, Clanmorris, Iraghticonor, Duhallow, and Coshbride ; and the corrupt go-
Anglicana,
end in nothing. See Cox's Hibernia A. D. 1575 ; Smith's Natural and

of Cork, vol.
i.
vernment of the day allowed this ludicrous claim, with a view to frighten the Earl of Des-
Civil History
p.
p. 51,
and
vol.
ii.
mond and
claim
his followers.
The allowance
of this
and the Annals of Ireland by Thady Dowling, A. D. 1366, 1575.

45
;
by
the Irish Council so alarmed the acute
and accomplished Sir Cormac Mac Teige Mac Carthy, Lord of Muskerry, who was High Sheriff of Cork, and other Irish and Anglo-Irish
chieftains, that they offered to
There are very curious documents connected with Sir Peter Carew's claim, preserved in the
Library at Lambeth Palace (Sir George Carew's Collection, No. 606), and, among others, the
Carew
live
a reasonable annual rent, if
pay Sir Peter he would
answer of Morogh Mac Gerald Kavanagh to Sir Peter Carew's petition, which is an interesting
among them; upon which Sir Peter's agent, Hooker (the well-known writer of a History of
Ireland from 1546 to 1586), took for
and valuable d'ocument.

Master Moor.
d
He was
Colonel John Moor.
him But
Master Frans
Cosby.
This should be Master Franto Ireland in the reign of
house at Cork and another at Kinsale.
Sir
cis
He came
1558,
Peter died at Newross, in the county of Wexford, on the 27th of November, 1575, appointing
as his
Queen Mary, and was by patent, dated 10th

September,
appointed
General of the
who
next heir by his will, P_eter Carew, junior, is the person mentioned in the text as slain
Kerne of Leix, then recently made into shireground under the name of the Queen's County,
where he obtained a grant of the possessions of the suppressed abbey of Stradbally, and many
other lands.
Irish ; and in default of issue in him, he mentions as his next heir George Carew (afterwards Sir George Carew, President of Munster),
by the
Master Francis was upwards of
1580.]

,
1739
d e Master Moor (John), and Master Frans with many other gentlemen who had come from England in the retinue of the Lord Justice. When this news
reached the Lord Justice, he
left his
camp
An
Italian fleet of the Pope's people
this year.
landed in Kerry in the September of Their name was greater than their importance, for their fame was
at first so great that,
towns would have been
had they come to Limerick, Galway, or Cork, these great The place where they landed left wide open to them.
fortify the
was an
island
year before,
which James, the son of Maurice, had attempted to f This fleet was induced to come namely, Dun-an-oir
.
to Ireland
seventy years of age
when he was
slain
on the
learn
whom
he had a
son, William,
who
occasion mentioned in the text,
as
we
when Richard succeeded

Irish Minstrelsy,
e
to the estate,
died young, and be-
from Camden, in his Annals of the reign of Elizabeth, where he writes

:
came leader of the kernes

vob
ii.
See Hardiman's
p. 164.
"Cosbeius Hibernicorum peditum expedito-
Left his
camp
Ware
says that
oik, the
rum
(quos Kernes vocant) Ductor, qui penitus
remained with the horse
Lord Grey mountain; but
loca novit, monuit reliquos quanti periculi esset vallem illam insidiis opportunam ingredi ; au-
he does say that he had constructed a camp.
The Four Masters,

tion,
dendum tamen virili animo
suadet, ipseque sep-
'to complete their descripshould have stated that the Lord Gray
tuagenari9 major preeit, cseteri subsequuntur. Simul ac in vallem descendisset, ex arbustis,
had pitched a camp on the mountain before he

dispatched the foot soldiers into the valley. f Dun-an-oir, i. e. the fort of the gold, called
.
glandium quasi grandine a rebellibus circum-
quaque
dispositis,
obruuntur.
quos ne viderunt quidem, Pars longe maxima cecidit, cseteri
Fort del or by the Spaniards. This fort, which is situated on an island connected with the
per crepidines impeditissimis viis cluctati, ajgre ad Proregem eVaserunt, eventum in colle expec-
south shore of Smerwick harbour,
is
of a cir-
cular form, and measures about two chains in

diameter.
tantem
feldio
cum Comite
Kildariae,
Jacobo Wing-
The
island,
which
is
a solid rock,
machinarum
prasfecto, qui
non ignarus
about
periculi,
Georgium Carew alterum nepotem

ad majores honores
Desiderati fuerunt Petrus Carew
apud
se detinuit invitum,
has perpendicular sides, and is surrounded by the sea, except in one narrow neck or passage, which connects it
fifty feet
in height,
reservatum.
with the main land.
On the margin
of the shore,
junior, Georgius Morus, Audleius, et ipse Cosbeius viri militari laude florentes."
in the south-east corner of Smerwick townland,

is
This Francis
in
left
three sons, Henry,
who
died
hill of
a green round hill called Cnoc-na-gceann, i. e. the heads, whereon, according to tradi-
for having killed the

nell
England; Arnold, who was executed in 1590, Lord Bourke of Castlecon-
tion,
the English w.ere encamped when they stormed this fort. Philip O'Sullevan Beare thus
:
and Alexander, who succeeded his father. ; This Alexander married Dorcas Sidney, a rela-
describes the situation of Dun-an-oir
tion of Sir
Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy
of Ire-
" Est in eo portu (Arnacantum, qui Anglis Smeruic vocatur juxta Danguinam oppidum)
scopulus (Aureum Munimentum vocant accote) natura satis munitus, partim marinis fluctibus
land, and had by her Francis and Richard. Francis married Helena Harpole of Shrule, by
10
1740
narii
[1580.
la seapalcachaibiap
nd clumpin Ooib a mbfic nficcfn

i
cmtiail
ace copnarii
an cpeiDim cacolicae. Oo ponab recclamab ploi la hiapla vipmuriian .1. comap mac Semaip, mic piapaip puaib ap a baij pfm, ap 6015 a ppionnpa nf po hanab laip co painicc DO 6ol DO paijm Dinn an oip, ~\ na nfoailleac, co baccap glan f lua 5 geapalcac pop a cionn ann pin, nf capo
]
-]
ciappaije.
-|
aoi cfna po Ificceab an conaip Don cfccapnae aca amup pop apoile. Qpa an ccnoc op cfnn an Oum, po Dec uaba na paca po mpla co noeachaib pop ccimceall ooimne, i na ounclaib Dirojlaiji po coccaibpiocc na hfccdillij;
-| i
an oilem,i po pgpuo ina Tnfnmam nap bo capba 66 cocap ppiu ipm lomcurnanj .mbdcap. Soaip ina ppinng pppicpec na conaipe ceDna,"] po jeib an lupnp
i
ma'coinne
in
uib conuill gabpa,
-|
nf
po gab coipmfpcc on mpla gan ool
uiofoaib itnreacca Do cloinn riiuipip -\ oip. DO ciappaije co pdinic ccorhpoccup an oilem. Ctp a aoi nf puce a campa ina joipe, no cfi^fo Dponjbuibfn Dfjpluaij gac laof Dpecain an oilein ua&oib.
opecain Duin an
LuiD
neiriie
ma
T?o claeclaiofb aicipcc

ppiu.
anall lomba froppa a Diu po geallab caipipeacc ariiail baofp pioohaijj ppip. Canârcap a-ccaipnni hi ccfno an mpcip
~\ ~|
allutus,
partim rupibus
altis prasscissus,
cum
continents sublicio ponte conjunctus."

8
cum lustris latitare nescirent, per teiiebras ad munimentum repedarunt, juxtaque eastrametatus est Ormondius. Sed a machinis, et cseteris
.
The passage was
left
open.
There
is
a defect
in the narrative of the
Four Masters here, which

:
ad oppugnationem necessariis, destitutus, Proregis
Camden admirably
"
del
Illi
supplies as follows
adventum expectat.
et aliis
Ille
brevi advenit
locum munitionibus firmant, et Fort Or nominant. Sed simul ac Ormondium

pra?fectuni accedere nuntiatum, Hi-
comitatus Zouchseo, Ralegho, Denio, Mac-Wortho,
Achino
Momonis
bernicorum suasu, munimentum reliquerunt,

et in Glannigelliam" [recte, "Gleann-na-ngealt,
que tempore Winterus Anglia non inculpatus
militum ductoribus, eodemcum bellicis navibus ex

redierat.
" Prorex tubiciuem ad
munimentum
quid
misit
vallem stultorum seu cerritorum] " vallem pra;ruptis montibus et sylvis conclusam se recei.
e.
percunctatum quiuam
essent,
rei illis in
Hibernia, quis miserat,
cur
munimentum
in
Nomvullos Prsefectus intercepit, qui interrogati de numero et suscepto consilio, fassi

perunt.
Elizabeths regno possuerant? simulque imperaret, ut quam primum abscederent. Illi responderunt, alios a sanctissimo Patre P. Romano,
alios
sunt septingentos advenisse,
arma vero qu
([uinque rnillibus sufScerent attulisse, pluresque et Hispania indies expectari ; Pontificem et His-
ab Hispano Rege Catholico missos
esse, cui
Pontifex
Romanus Hiberniam
donaverat, quan-
pauum
statuisse Anglos ex Hibernia exturbare: ad earn rem grandem pecuniam misisse, quam Sandero Poutificis Nuntip, Comiti Desmonise, et
doquidem jure in Hiberniam Elizabetha ob resim juste exciderat. Itaque se velle parta tueri,
necnon plura
si
hde
potuerint quterere.
Cum
Joanni ejus'fratri in manus tradiderant. nocte Itali et Hispani, quo se verterent
Eadem
ignari
ratione Obsidionis inter
Proregem
et
Winterum
consulatum esset
classiarii
Colubriua qusedam
1580.]

when they had heard that
Catholic
1741
to assist the Geraldines
the Geraldines were reduced

faith.
to great extremities in defending the
The
Earl of Ormond,
i. e. Thomas, the son of James, son of Pierce Roe, mustered an army in behalf of himself and of his sovereign, to proceed to Dun-an-oir against the Italians
;
he arrived in Kerry. The fine army of the Geraldiues were there to meet him, but neither party made any attack upon the other s however, the passage was left open for the Earl until he arrived on the hill
and he did not halt
until
from which, having reconnoitred the deep trenches and impregnable ramparts which the Italians had constructed around the island", he conover the
fort,
sidered in his
mind
that
it
would be
useless for
him
to offer
them
battle in their
present fortified position. He, therefore, returned by the same route, and in Hy-Connell-Gaura met the Lord Justice, who would not be dissuaded by the
Earl from proceeding to see Dun-an-oir.
He
proceeded by regular marches
through Clanmaurice and Kerry, until he arrived in the vicinity of the island. He did not, however, bring his camp near it. Chosen parties of his army went
communications' mutually took place on both sides and a promise of protection was made to them. The Italian captains" came to the Lord Justice as if they would be at peace with him
daily to reconnoitre the island.
;
Many
a navibus uoote silente educunt, aggereque juxta

littus perfosso
English kept up a continual
fire
on the fort for
compendio nunt. Milites itidem ex altera parte muralia tormenta librant, simulque infesta pulsatione in
pertrahuut, et dispo-
four days, but O'Daly extends the time to forty days The former says that on the fifth day* the
!
Spaniards and Italians, being terrified by the

furious fire from the English batteries, sought a parley, Candida sublato vexillo; but that this was
nmnimentum quatuor
iiant.
continuis diebus effulmi-
Hispani semel atque iterum suo damno erumpuut, ex Anglis vero ne unus quidem periit, prater Joanuem Checum juvenem speciesum et animosum Joaunis Checi Equitis erudi-
denied them.
The
were the
truce to
first
latter says that the English to send the Spaniards a flag of
demand
a parley, and that, this being
tissimj filium."
h
Around
the island.
The
Italians
may have
granted, they were received with the greatest blandness and courtesy by Grey, who promised
fortified
the island itself and the main land opposite it, but they could not have sunk, any deep trenches around it, because it is nearly sur-
the Spanish commandant the most honourable terms, if he would surrender the fortress
!
rounded by the
sea.
O'Daly
c.
says, in his In-
crementum, &c., Giraldinorum,
23, that in the
These were Stephen captains. San Josepho, Hercules Pisano, and the Duke of Biscay. Camden calls San Josepho "homo
The Italian
opinion of every one this fort was impregnable.

1
imbellis."
of
The accounts given Many these communications by Camden and O'Daly

communications.
the same effect

call
Muratori applies to him words to and O'Daly gee's so far as to

;
him
a traitor.
And
it
are very conflicting.
Carndeu says that the
that Hercules Pisano and the
looks very likely Duke of Biscay
1742
cmNd6a Rio^hachca eiReaww.

~\
an uipcip catppib Don oilen, po jabpac pop mapbaD, co na ceapna elaiceac DO na peace cceo 1 pop mubuccab na nfoailleac eodilleac ân aipleac ap an lacaip pin. Udppaib eirh an lupcip lomacc oip,
gac fpnaile ete baof lap na heaoailleacaib. Ro mupab,-| po na bob cappacc cocmopclaibeab an coilen mp pin lap an lupcip po 6015 nf bub pi'pi. mf nouembep Do aitre,i na bu6 inneoin popaip DO bibfpccac e
1 lonnmaip,
-\
Do cooap mumcip
ponab mopin. Soaip an lupcip cap a aip co luimneac -\ appibe hi ppinegall. O puaipc bpian, mac bpiain, mic eoccain DO bfic fpumal Do gallaib a pluaicceab Do beriarh la Sip niclap maulbi cap ppojmap na bliabna po,
~\
ua puaipc a mna, q a riiuinceapa cap pionainn poip Do bol ua puaipc. Cuipip mumcinn plebe an laipn, po bpip liacopuim ap cionn Sip niclaup. T?o hac
-\
cutnoaijeab an baile Dopibipi la Sip niclaup, po cuip biaoh i bapDa mo ap a haicle, 1 pillip pfm cap a aip gan cpeic gan ecc ba lonaipme Do benarh DO. F?o jab ua puaipc ace lompuibe imon mbaile co nap leicc aofn neac Don
~\
bapDa cap Doippib an baile amac ma ipecac gup bo hficcfn DO Ship niclaup cfcc Dia ppoipibm 50 puce laip mcc. Sluaicceab la hua puaipc a mi nouembep ecip Suca -] Sionann co po
gave this character of him on his return home but what his final fate was the Editor has not
;
to found a specious
argument in defence of his master, Lord Grey, whose character was, at this
branded with infamy all over Europe. See View of the State of Ireland, Dub. reprint of 1809, p. 171. Spenser, however, is not a sufficient witness on this subject, inasmuch as Queen
period,
been able to learn, Proceeded to Ml and

1
destroy.
Muratori, in
his
Annul d' Italia, says that the commander of
this garrison shamelessly surrendered this strong-
hold, and all the Catholic Irish write.rs assert
that seven hundred

blood, after
lives
men were butchered
in cold
Elizabeth was not satisfied that the Lord Deputy had acted honourably " in this useful act of severity," for she
and
liberties.
secretary to
Lord Grey had guaranteed their Spenser, however, who was the Lord Grey, and, as he himself
knew
well that
San Josepho had

the
a commission from her bitterest enemies,
assures us, near the scene of this horrid action,
Pope and the King of Spain, who had furnished him with money, arms, and ammunition, for five
thousand men.-SeeCamden's Annals of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, where the author writes " Brevi tempore iiiterjecto, appulerunt ad Smerwicum in Kerria sub huperio San Joseph!
:
any promises or hopes any conditions granted to them, He asserts that the Deputy, who was a most just, sincere, godly, and right noble man, told
were given,
ôr
positively denies that
them plainly that they were to expect no advantage from the laws of war or the laws of
nations, as they could sion either from the
Itali
Pontifice
missi,
septengenti plus minus, Itali et Hispani a Romano et" [rege] " Hispano subspecie
But
this is a
shew no regular commisKing of Spain or the Pope, mere fiction of Spenser's, on which
Romanse
religionis
restituendse,
revera ut Elizabetha vires diducerent, et ani-
mum
a rebus Belgicis retraherent."
1580.]

Lord Justice went over
Italians
all
;
1743
[but] the people of the

to kill
to the island,
and proceeded
one
and destroy the

1
so that of the seven
hundred
Italians, not
were slaughtered on the spot. The Lord Justice also seized upon much gold, wealth, and other things, which the Italians had along with them and he destroyed the fortifications of the island, in order that
individual escaped, but
;
should not be a supporting rock or a strong retreat for any insurgent any This was done in the month of November. The Lord Justice longer.
it
returned to Limerick, and thence to Fingal. O'Rourke (Brian, the son of Brian, son of
;
Owen) was
disobedient to the
English in the autumn of this year and Sir Nicholas Malby mustered an army, and proceeded across the Shannon to oppose him. O'Rourke sent his women and people away over the summit of Sliabh-an-Iarainn, and demolished Leitrim,
before the arrival qf Sir Nicholas.
The
castle
it,
was
rebuilt
by
Sir Nicholas,
who,
having placed provisions and warders in
returned without committing any
O'Rourke laid siege depredation, or performing any exploit worthy of note. to the castle, and did not suffer one of the warders to in or out go by the gates; so that Sir Nicholas was obliged to come to their relief, and take them away.
An
district
incursion was
made by O'Rourke, in the month of November, into the between the Rivers Suck and Shannon and he burned and plundered
;
Cox,
who abominated
the Papists, asserts that
against traitors,
this garrison yielded at
mercy, which was too
and disdained to grant any terms to them, or to their abettors. Several
sparingly extended to them, every one being put to death except the commanders, which Dr. Leland has very much displeased the Qiteen.
attempts were made to gain any conditions, not

totally desperate.
Grey was inexorable, and
been carried away by the solemn assertion of Spenser, that San Josepho could shew no commission from any sovereign ; but the Queen of England did not believe this, no more than did the partisans of Rome, ture of the commission.
the garrison, in their distress and terror, fatally surrendered at discretion.
" That mercy for which they sued was rigidly denied them. Wingfield was commissioned to
disarm them, and when this service was performed, an English company was sent into the
fort.
who knew
the exact na-
Leland, however, feels

as
The
Irish rebels
found they were reserved
ashamed of the whole transaction, and writes

lollows:
" The
by martial law. The Italian General and some of the officers were made prifor execution
Commander of the fort, an

terrified
;
Italian called
soners of
war
and, in a few days, contrary to the opinion of his officers, deter-
San Josepo, was
in cold blood
nor
but the garrison was butchered is it without pain that we
find a service so horrid
and detestable corn-
mined
to capitulate.
But Grey now
replied,
with haughtiness and austerity, that he served
mitted to Sir Walter Raleigh." It should be added that Mr. Moore states in
1741
ciNNata Rioshachca
]io
-\
eircectNN.
[i58(j.
blab mop Dufb maine. Sluaijeao haipccfb laip na pfba, co po leppccpiopab an cfp co einlaip oopibipi in uib maine a mi oecembep neapnac laip, i co po mapbab Ifc banoa paijjoeoipibe laip Do rhiiinnp Sip
loipcceab i co
niclaip maulbi ace liop
uf
Da
Ion.
Dpong DO
-|
pfol cconcobaip
Do bfir
ppocaip
puaipc ip.n
ccommbaib
pin.
Clann lapla clomne Riocaipo (Uillfcc

1 iaD apaon piobac ppi gallaib.
ai|U>
i
Sfan) Oobfi
eippiobac pe apoile
pioc-
bacrap
Dponjj
Do Dfjbaofnib clomne
mbpaijofnup oocpac noplaim conpcdbla baile loca piach maigipcip a ammpiDe, pfp pin acca mbaoi oplarhap bapoacca an baile o jabail peonp an mpla jup an can pin. 6a jalap mop mfnman la Sfan a bupc a baile i
i
a bpaijoe DO 6ol pubpacup illaim gall, 50 po cinn ma mfnmain amup oioce DO cabaipc ap baile loca piac. Do ponab laippium inDpm. l?o gabab an haile laip, i po mapbab jac aen pob inecca Dia mbaof ann cenmord an coni
pcdpla Dia ccapopam mairfm nanacail, po pccaofl .Dia bpaijDib laparii 1Q17 na benam pin la Sfan po cuip a ollarhain, a aep caipipi oaccallaimh
-\
-|
a bparap uillfcc Dia cuinjib paip goill DO rpeccean,
-\
co nDionjnabpom a
oi^peip amail po ba Dip Do popap ofjpfip a pinnpip DO oenamh -] po cinjeall DO a mac baof illaimh aicce Do leccab Dia paijib. T?o jeall Do ppippin liar17o opuim, oilen baile an loca,i baile loca piac a ccorhapba pmnpipeacca.
a bparaip Daon aonca in âb uilleacc na hapccaba pin. Oo coib pfm acchaib gall, ba he ceo nf DO ponpar caiplem coirhjeala clomne piocaipD Do pebab, 1 DO pobpipfb. l?o bpipfb leo cecup baile loca piac apopopr
-|
-]
oipfcaip an ripe,-)
i
ap puaill ma po paccbab
noipreap 6
leo, baile
cill
pfpca bpenainn cenel aoba na heaccge, -\ 6 uapdn co cluain Da bam. Do coib cpa oonnmac mupchaib, mic coippbealbaij, mic caibcc uf bpiain,-) TTlacgamain, chab,
i
nanmchaba co
jan bpipfb 6 cluain meic Duaic ccuaipcepc
the text of his History of Ireland, vol. that the garrison were all
iv. p.
93,
inhumanly
put to the
English
country, in the barony of Athlone, in the See note , under the county of Koscommon
sword; but in a note he,
or, perhaps, his
year 1536,
n
p.
1435, supra.
i.
assistant, indicates a belief, that
no reliance can
Lis-da-lon,
e.
the fort of the two black
be placed on the truth of this fact, a scepticism, whether real or affected, not to be wondered at in a historian who over the
passes
birds, a townland in the parish of Killinvoy, barony of Athlone, and county of Roscommon.
This was
chief of
tire
seat of in
Hugh
O'Kelly, the last
massacre of Mullaghmast in silence.
Hy-Many
1585
See Tribes and Cus-
The Feadha, i.e. Les Faes, O'Nagh tan's
tons of Hy-Many, pp. 112, 187.
L580.]

m
,
1?45
the Feadha
Hy-Many in
.
and a great part of Hy-Many. He made another incursion into the month of December, and expeditiously devastated the country;
and he slew half a company of the soldiers of the people of Sir Nicholas Malby at n Lis-da-lon On this expedition O'Rourke was assisted by a party of theO'Conors.
sons of the Earl of Clanrickard (Ulick and John) were at strife with each other; and both were at peace with the English. party of the respecta-
The
ble inhabitants of Clanrickard were placed in severe confinement by the constuble of Loughrea, Master Jones by name, who had had the command of the
warders of the town since the capture of the Earl

sickness of
till
that time.
It
was
a great
town and hostages should remain thus long in the hands of the English and he resolved in his mind to make a nocThis he did, and took the town, turnal attack upon the town of Loughrea.
mind
to
John Burke
that his
;
killing every
one able to bear arms within

;
gave pardon and protection had accomplished this, he sent his Ollavs and faithful people to confer with his
brother, Ulick, and to request
that he himself
except the constable, to whom he and he then released the prisoners. After John
it,
him
to
abandon the English cause, and
[to state]
;
would be obedient to him, as a junior should be to a senior and he promised that he would permit his [Ulick' s] son, whom he had in his and he also promised to give up to him, as an custody, to go home to him p acknowledgment of seniority, Leitrim the Island of Baile-an-locha and the town of Loughrea. Ulick accepted of these grants and he and his brother
;
with one accord rose out against the English. The first thing they did was to the white castles of Clanrickard. destroy They first demolished the castle of
Loughrea, the principal fortress of the territory; and they scarcely left a castle from Clonfert-Brendan, in the east of the territory of Sil-Anmchadha, to Kilr q macduagh, in the north of Cinel-Aedha-na-hEchtge and from Uaran to Cluainda-dainh which they did not demolish. Donough, the son of Murrough, son
,
Leitrim.
This was the name of the castle
Kiltartan, and county of Galway.

r
from which the barony of Leitrim, in the south of the county of Galway, has taken its name.
p
Uaran,
i.
e.
Oran, near Ballintober, in the

the lawn or pasturage
county of
*
Eoscommon.
i. e.
Eaile-an-locha,
i.
e.
the town of the lake,
Cluain-da-damh,
now
Ballinlough, in the parish of Ballynakill, barony of Leitrim, and county of
Galway.
anglice Cloondagaw, a townland containing the ruins of a castle, in
of the
two oxen, now
^Cind-Aedha-na-hEchtge.
This was the name
of O'Shaughnessy's country, in the barony of
the parish of Ballynakill, barony of Leitrim, and county of Galway.
ION
1746
raioghachca emeaNN.
coippDealbaijj, mic
i
[1580.
ccorhbdm macsamna, mic an fppuicc uf bpiain bd he macsamain po ba cupcca Do eipijj ip in coccaiD cloinne an lapla, ccoccaD ipm, ap eipibe no cojaipm aep ofbfipcce na ccpioc ccorhpoccup,
mac
-]
-|
-|
Do leppccpiop. Cfcc cfna po Do loc po jeall 6 boipincc 50 luimneac ccoicceao connacc uile ipm ccoccaD pin cenmora eipjfccap upmop mboi mic Donnchaib, roippbealbac iapla cuaomuman .1. DonnchaD mac concobaip, mac oomnaill, mic concobaip uf bpiain, bd hepibe bai na Shippiam cconn-|
i i
~|
-\
cae an claip an lonbaiD pin. O 6pom oecc Dunking mac emamn.

.1.
1
baccap a
cinfb
a nDibfipcc
-]
Dunlang,
the
son
o/Edmond.
This Dunlang,
who was the
last
inaugurated O'Byrne, was pro-
long to the right of St. Peter, and the Church of Eome," he granted the island of Hibernia, forfeited by her, to his faithful and loyal son in Christ,
bably the nephew of Teige Oge, the O'Byrne who died in 1578. After the death of Dunlang, the last inaugurated O'Byrne, Fiagh, the
Philip
II.,
King
of Spain.
had no claim
centuries?
to these lands,
Îf Fiagh O'Byrne why were his an-
son of
Hugh O'Byrne
of Ballinacor,
became the
cestors permitted to enjoy
them
for so
many
principal leader of this clan, and one of the most formidable of the Irish chieftains to Queen
The answer
is
obvious: either be-
Elizabeth's government in Ireland,
which drew
cause the government had not the power to remove them, or considered that they were the
rightful heirs.
from the poet, Spenser, the most bitter reflections on the meanness of his pedigree but Spen;
Dermot Mac Murrough was

and even
if
de-
ser's
animadversions are mere political slander,
as will appear
from the
fact that Fiagh's father,
not, posed by it was not in his power to transfer the lands of Leinster to his daughter, or to her husband
his subjects,
he were
more powerful than the O'Byrne (Teige Oge), and possessed

died in 1579, was far that vast tract of territory now called Ranelagh. Spenser, however, argues that he had no right
to these lands, because all Leinster
Hugh, who
Strongbow, by any form of conveyance. But without alluding to the fiction about Gurmundus, it may be remarked, that a higher claim had been set up before the Eeformation, namely, that Ireland had been granted to Henry II. by Pope
had been
granted by Dermot
Mac Murrough
to the Earl
Adrian IV.
and
this
was a
sufficient title, as
Strongbow, from
whom
it
descended to the
is
long as the Irish believed that the

to
Crown
of England.
fiction,
This, however,
mere
English law
inasmuch
as the ancestors
of Fiagh had possession of this tract of country time beyond the memory of man, which was a
sufficient title.
power and his adherents, had every reason to believe that this title was forfeited by Elizabeth, as soon as she was excommunicated by what they
considered the highest authority then in the world. But as the Pope and the King of Spain
make
this grant.
Pope had the But Fiagh O'Byrne,
the
By a similar kind of argument Pope proved that Queen Elizabeth forfeited the kingdom of Ireland. He found her guilty of that kind of high treason called and thereheresy, " fore, as Ireland, and all other islands where
Christ
ceived,
is
were defeated by the Protestant Queen Elizabeth, the
Crown
of England
won
Ireland
by the
sword
sisted
and
this is the title that
should be in-
known, and the Christian religion redo most undoubtedly appertain and be-
upon, ,and not law fictions of any kind.
As
to Fiagh O'Byrne, he enjoyed his lands as a
1580.]

;
1747
and Mahon, the son of Turlough, son of of Turlough, son of Teige O'Brien Mahon, son of the Bishop O'Brien, joined in this war of the sons of the Earl and it was Mahon that first rose up in this war, and that assembled all the insur;
gents of the neighbouring territories, and proceeded to harass and devastate [the country] from Burren to Limerick. In short, the greater part of the people of Connaught joined in this war, excepting the Earl of Thomond (Donough,
the son of Conor, son of Donough), and Turlough, the son of Donnell, son of
Conor O'Brien, who was

O'Byrne
died,
i.
e.
time sheriff of the county of Clare. Dunlang, the son of Edmond'. His tribe were in insurat this
1.
descendant of Cahir More, Monarch of Ireland,
Bran.
having head O'Byrne, or
as
much
title to his
own
territory as the
to their's
;
2. 3. 4.
Donough, of the yellow hound.

Donnell, of the shields.
Mac Murrough, had
and to
call
him an upstart
that rose from the
dunghill is vile political slander, unworthy of the divine Spenser. According to the Irish genealogists, the O'Broins, or O'Byrns, are descended from Bran, the son of Maelmora, son of
6.
Donough More.
Dunlang of Duvchiain.
6. Oilioll, of
5.
Ugaire.
the wood.
of
Murrough, son of Faelan, son of Muireadhach, King of Leinster, who was slain in 970; son of Finn, Lord of Airther-Liffey, and presumptive
heir to the throne of Leinster,
si.
7. Teige, of the ravens. 7-
Murrough More,
Dun-Kevoge.
8.
Dunlang Finn.
Donough.
8.
Donough.
Eannall, a quo GavalEannall.
921
son of
9.
9-
Maelmora, Lord of Airther-Liffey, si. 9%5 ; son of Muirigen, Lord of Naas and Airther-Liffey,
si.
10. Gerald.
10. Philip.
d.
d.
61 ; .son of Dermot, Lord of Airther-Liffey, 830; son of Kuadhrach, King of Leinster, 780 son of Faelan, from whom the O'Byrns
;
11.
Murrough.
11. Lorcan.
12. Eannall, of the battle-
12. Philip.
axe.
13. 14.
15.
and their correlatives bore the tribe-name of Hy-Faelain, who was the son of Murchadh,
BranKoe.
Donough.
Teige More,
of
13.
14.
Conor.
Dounell Glas.
King of
Leinster, d. 721
;
King
of Leinster, d. 687
;
son of Bran Mut, son of Conall ; son of

;
15.
Hugh.
John.
642 son of Colman son of Cairbre Duv; son of Cormac; son of Oilioll; son of
Faelan, d.
;
Newragh.
16. Gerald. 16. 17.
Dunlang, King of Leinster, A. D. 241; son of Enna Nia; son of Bresal Belach; son of Fiacha
Baiceadh, youngest and most celebrated of the sons of Cahir More, Monarch of Ireland in the
17.
TeigeOge,d.l578,
the
Eedmond.
second
last
O'Byrne.
18.
Donough Caragh.
John.
l
18. 19.
John.
second century. The relationship between Fiagh O'Byrne and the representative of Teige Oge, the second last O'Byrne, who died in 1578, will
19.
Hugh,
i
d.
1579.
20.
Donough Oge.
20. Fiagh.
appear from the following genealogical table
Spenser concludes, that as the word Brin, in the British language, signifieth woody, and
10
N2
1748
cmNata Kioshachca eiRecww.

pojjail
-]
[1580.
ace
pop jallaib, neac ina lonao. lioipDnfb

Sfan
a rcfp
-]
a nDuehaij 05 jallaib beop co na po
pa 1
mac mpla Dfpmurhan DO mac jep bo hoipoeapc Sfan

ap aof a ccoccab
~\
na po^laib aipccpeac fppabal an can cuinn f neill, Semifp, mac muipip, mic an
bfic
-]
mpla
pan Sfan po an can

coillcib fraplac
pin.
a ccorhpuachab ppi pa;coib po baof a nDi'ol Doibpe Qon to 16 Dia noeachaib an Sfan perhpaice pop
i
Do ponnpab-i nuachab pochaibe leip nap 6olca nirticfin uaip pobab luja ma ceo pcciac comaipfm a cpoijceac,-] cpf mapcaij becc. Ctppfo DO luib Deoblaoi lairh 16 pionamn ppiobhjloin, peac rhaij ailbe, DO pome cpeic nouib pec ua luij&eac ip in maDain muic ap na mapac, -j
a mf
lul
-]
luiD co na cpeic laip poip jach nofpeac DO copca ceneab,
~|
co huib caipni.
Ro
.1.
cionoilpioc coicfpDal ân cfpe jac
aipm
in
po âb a ccopaijeacc paip
Dpoma, popail puippelac. T?o bao na hoipeaccaib pin gup bo condc mop ooib Sfan Dpagbdil in uachab 0615 lap Qcc cfna po ploij amlaib pin, ~\ po lonnpaijpioc 6 co Dana Dapaccac. ppaofneab pop luce na copaijeacca co po mapbab occ ppip Decc Dia nuaiplib
ete uf pogapcaij, ul luijbec, popail
DO cfnDaib popail i bailee

coillcib cliocaip
Puce Sfan a cpec laip ap Dala lap mbiiaib i copccap. Diampaib bealaij moip maije
ip in
mbpfipim
pin.
Toole, hilly, the O'Byrnes of
and O'Tooles were
the real uaiues and history of those
two
families,
Welsh origin, and derived their names from the woods and hills of the present county of Wicklow. But this conjecture is not even inbecause Irish family names are not and even supposing ;
and that his assertion with respect

ness of Fiagh's pedigree
der.
is
to the
mean-
mere
political slaii-
His words are
genious,
"
Eudoxm.
Surely I can recommend him,
derived from localities
that, being of himself of so
meane
condition,
they were,
instances
would not hold good in the two under consideration, because the
it
hath, through hardiness, lifted himself to the height that he dare now front princes, up
his
owne
seated
O'Byrnes and O'Tooles were not originally among the woods and hills of the now
and make tearmes with great potentates

which, as it is to
to to
him honourable,
so
it
is
county of Wicklow, but in the plains of the now county of Kildare; and their real names
are not Brin
them most
disgracefull to
be bearded of such a
and Toole, as Spenser thought,

properly O'Brain,
i.e.
base varlet, that being but of late growne out of the dunghill, beginneth now to overcrow so
but the one
is
descendant
"a of Bran, a man's name, raven," signifying and the other O'Tuathail, i.e. descendant of " Tuathal, a man's name, signifying princely or Hence it is quite evident that this lordly."
ittymological conjecture arose
high rnountaines, and make himself great prolector of all outlawes and rebells that will
repaire unto him."
u
p. 187.
Their country
The country
of this senior
from ignorance of
branch of the O'Byrnes extended along the sea, in the present county of Wicklow. See note ',
1580.]

;
1749
rection, plundering the English
and their country" and inheritance wen; in of the English, so that no person was installed in his place. the possession John, the son of the Earl of Desmond, was. at this time a roving and wanthe son of Con O'Neill, and James, the dering plunderer and though John,
;
son of Maurice, son of the Earl [of Desmond], were illustrious for their wars and conflicts with the English, this John was at this time a worthy heir [to
either of] them.
One day
in the
month of July,
this
John went
to the
woods
of Aharlagh*, attended by so small a body of troops as it was imprudent to go forth on a long journey, for the number of his foot soldiers was less than one
and he had only thirteen horsemen. He marched in the evening by the limpid- waved Shannon, and by Magh- Ailbhe" and early next z morning he seized on a prey in Duibh Feth Ua-Luighdheach and proceeded a with his prey directly eastwards, through Corca-Thene and Ikerrin. The forces
hundred
shields,
of each territory through which he passed assembled to pursue him, namely, of c b of Hy-Luighdheach, of Pobal-Droma Eile-Ui-Fhogartaigh [and] of Pobal, ,
thinking it very fortunate for them to find John a few troops, attacked him boldly and fiercely but the thus attended by only pursuers were defeated, and eighteen of their gentlemen, heads of tribes and
Puirsealach
.
These
tribes,
towns, were slain in the conflict
prey in triumph to the

x
fast
and
[and] John, after his victory, carried off his e solitary woods of Bealach-mor-Muighe-dala
.
p.
1702, supra.
part
*
iii. c.
81
and D. Mac
Firbis's Genealogical
p.
generally called Aharlow, a in the barony of Clanwilliam, romantic valley about four miles to the south of the town of
Aharlagk,
now
Work
(Marquis of Drogheda's copy),
307.
Corca-Thene,
now
the parish of Templemore,
Tipperary.
in the county of Tipperary, as appears from an inquisition taken in the reign of Charles I., in
Magh-Ailbhe, now Moyaliif, a parish in the barony of Kilnamanagh, and county of Tipperary.
Duibh-Feth- Ua-Luighdheach, now Dovea, a townlandin the parish of Inch, barony of Ileagh,
z
which this parish

b
is
called
Corckehenny.
Ette-Ui-Fhogartaigh, now the barony of Eliogarty, in the county of Tipperary.

c
Pobal-Droma, now the parish of Drum, in

Pobal-Puirsealach,
and county of Tipperary. The barony of Ileagh,

or Ui-Luighdheach,
is
the barony of Eliogarty.

d
now
considered a part of
anglice
Pobblepuiv.ull.
the barony of Eliogarty,

Beaufort's Ecclesiastical
distinct barony,
but
it
is
shewn on
the
Map
of Ireland as a
is
This territory is now included in the parishes of East and West Loughma, in the said barony
of Eliogarty. The ruins of Purcell's magnificent mansion are to be seen close to the village of
of
which Borrisoleigh
head town or village.
The memory of
St.
Culan
of Glenkeen, in this territory, is still held in great veneration there. See O'Flaherty's Ogygia,
Loughma.
e
Bealach-mor-Muighe-dala,
i.
e.
the great road.
1750
aNNdta Rio^hachca
cfnn
eiraeccNN.
cfpbaill co Diblinib co
-|
rnac ui annpm clann mec jiollapaeepaicc, Ro apccnaceap aibmillce, nopuing moip oaop benma uilc
Uaimcc ma
-|
-|
-|
Do Udnaic bia paigib annpin an pob lonaipriie buib pailge an 10nna r FPr mbaoi Sfan mac Semaip Sfcnom an ba hinpip p-ola laijip. rplebe pin, uaip nf coblab, ace pop cf|icaillib cloc no cpiab, hi ibfb ace puaip ppeba piopjlana a blfibfbaib bap no bpocc. Robbap lace a aijm upjnama
pliab blabma.
plaea paba na piobb'aibi ace lompuine peolmaij a eappccapacc. ace buaibpeab butlcepac, ace apccain oppaipje ap an mfnnacc
-|
Ro jab
pin.
Do
po lonrtaipcc mamjpcip laijipi ap mac lapla upmuman .1. piapup, mac Semaip, mic piapaip puaib. T?o haipcceab laip beop popr laoijppi lap mapbab Dpuinge DO luce lomcoimeoa an Baile. Rucc
coib lapccain illaijip po loipcc
-\
paibb, eioeab, eac, aipm,^ lotmaofnib uara.
Cib
pil
ann cpa ace Do haipcceab
lapom on ccpic 50 a cele 50 jlfno TTlaoflujpa aipm mbaof Semup upeap, clann aoDa mic Sfam. Ro piabaijheab pom 6 na peapaib fpin. Uangaerap ma bocom ann pin
illaoi jip laip ip in
pin.
peace mbaile
aen 16
i
T?o apccnd
~\
Caorhanaij cennpealaij, bpanaij, euacalai j, luce pojla na cpice accoieRo bab eirhile a aipnfip an po millpioe, an po loicpioc im jallaib cinne.
"] ~|
laijfn i mibe. Oo coib Sfan i Semup upcap im peil mfcil lap pin po euaipim na nfeailleac canaic bia eip Dapa epe uaip ba 0615 laip co ecaippeab cobaip
1
compupcace uaea,-] nip bo hamlaib bo pala boib ace a mapbab, a mubucchab lap an lupcip ap enlaeaip (amail pemebepcmap) piapiu paimc piurh
-]
bia paicchib.
of the plain of the meeting. This was the name of the ancient road leading from Tara to the
Ormond."
e
Port-Laoighise,
i.
e.
Port-Leix,
the Irish
i.
e.
the fort
for the
south-west of Ireland; and Keating informs us that it was otherwise called Bealach-mor-
of Leix.
This
is
still
name
See Keating's History of Ireland, Haliday's edition, p. 304, and the unpublished part in the reign of Cormac Mac Art. The place
Osraighe
town of Maryborough throughout Leinster. h 'He was the son of Koland, James Eustace
son of Thomas, and was Viscount Baltinglass, a fact with which the Four Masters do not ap-
is
called Ballaghmore, and is a townland containing the ruins of a castle, close to which the present high road from Mountrath to Roscrea
still
pear to have been acquainted.

supra.
See
p. 1737,
He
wrote
this year a letter to the Earl
of
Ormond, of which Cox gives the following

367:
passes.
f
account in his Ilibernia Anglicana, edition of

TWis use of the preposition upon
is
Upon
1689,
p.
according to the idiom of the Irish.

:
An English
" He writer would say plundered Abbey-Leix, then in the possession of the son of the Earl of
" the [July, 1580], Lord Baltinglass wrote an answer to the Earl of Ormond, assuring his Lordship that he had but
About the same time"
1580.]
1?51
There he was joined by the sons of Mac Gillapatrick, the son of O'Carroll, and and they all set out for Slieve a great number of evil-doers and plunderers
;
Bloom, and thither
all
the
came
to join them.
The
of Offaly and Leix, who were able to bear arms, manner in which John, the son of James, lived on this
men
mountain, was worthy of a true plunderer for he slept but upon couches of he drank but of the pure, cold streams, [and that] from the stone or earth
;
palms of his hands or his shoes
and his only cooking utensils were the long of the forest, for dressing the flesh-meat carried away from his enemies. twigs From this abode [Slieve Bloom] he proceeded to plunder the Butlers and
;
He afterwards went to Leix, and burned and plundered Abbey-Leix, Ossory. f upon the son of the Earl of Ormond, namely, upon Pierce, the son of James,
s plundered Port-Laoighise after having slain some of the guards of the town. He carried away from them accoutrements, armour, In short, he plundered seven castles in horses, weapons, and various wealth.
son of Pierce Roe.
He
also
then proceeded from one territory to another, until he reached Glenmalure, where James Eustace and the sons of Hugh, son of John [O'Byrne], were [stationed], where he was welcomed by
Leix
in [the course of] that day.
He
and here the Kavanaghs, Kinsellaghs, Byrnes, and Tooles, and the It would be tedious to plunderers of the country in general, came to join him. mention all [the property] they destroyed and injured upon the English of
these
;
men
Leinster andMeath.
[son of the Earl of Desmond], and James Eustace", set out about Michaelmas in the expectation of meeting the Italians, who had
John
arrived in his [John's] country, for he expected to obtain relief and assistance from them. But it did not so happen' to them, for they had all been cut oif
and destroyed by the Lord Justice upon the one k related, before he could reach them
.
spot, as
we have
already
two Councellors, one that

that
said
Fear
not those
Viscount Baltinglass.
'
body only, &c., us obey the higher power, for he that resisteth it, resisteth God ; Seeing then the highest power
can
kill the
and the other bids
It did not so happen,
i.
e.
they were not able
to afford the relief or assistance they intended,

k
Before he could reach them
Leland says
upon earth
to fight
commands us
to take the sword,
and
and defend ourselves against Traytors
that one of the strongest excuses made by Grey for putting the Spaniards and Italians to the
and Eebells, which do seek only the murdering of our souls, he is no Christian that will not
obey."
in
sword
in cold blood, at Dun-an-oir, was, that
the Irish were approaching in a body of one
The Parliament, which was convened

this
thousand
five
hundred men
iv. c. 2.
See his History of
Dublin in 1585, passed an Act to attaint
Ireland, book
1752
aNNCttci Rio^hachca eiReawn.
[1581.
Q01S CR1OSC,
Qoip Cpiopc,
TTlile,
1581.
cuicc ceo, ocemojjac, a Vtaon.
mic concobaip, nnc coippbealbaij;, mic Uoippbealbac mac Dormchaib, caibcc uf bpiain baoi cuilleab ap bliabain illairh 05 gallaib DO cpochab an. 26. DO mi man. cloinne piocaipD .1. uilliam bupc, mac piocaipD pa;ranai mic mac
mpla
bapccab
njaillim oia oapDaoin an epfp la lap ccpocab coippbealbaij coippbealbac uilliam Dia pacaipn. Gp amlaib Do pala builliam a bfie i ccombdij coccaib 1 la a bpaicpib an can po bpippioc a mbailce amail pemebepcmap, bci haichi ccfnn jail 50 jaillim an mi pia na peac laif inDpin, -\ Do com ap ppore-c oolbab y^ccel eiccin cuicce co po gabaD -] co po cpochab. 17o
uillicc
i
na ccfnc, mic piocaipD, mic
uillicc cnuic
ui bpiain
cuaj DO cpochab
.1.
po
noeachaib Dia luce Ifnamna ap an bppocejcion fin. Da picfc DO cpochab nac cliac ccoipcib cpecupacca. Cuiccfp Ctn bappac mop, Semuy mac RipoeipD, mic comaip, mic emamn bai illairh nac cliac Do ecc. Opip ppeim jfinealaij bappac puab Don cpemup pin, pfp DO pulainj mop nimmb -| nanaoibe ap a copac, -| 05 na baof a puil no a paoicpocab beoy
i
i
ma
-|
leaccain pip an ainm ap (Ruab pTm) Da poccain. Qcc apa aof po Oeaplaic Dia pfm Dopom cfnDup bappac maol -| puab Diblmib, -] nf hCb amain ace po
hoiponfbop cfno bappac mop lap noflgfno na nofjbaoine Dap bual an ouccap DO bauib pin Dpollamnuccab co pin. Qn b'appac DO jaipm Da mac lap pin (.1.
Do bappa) la hiapla Dfpmuman, ap bappachaib puaba.
-)
mac
ele Do Dobfic po bliccfb na cijeapna
TTlac jiolla paccpaicc, bpian occ
mac
ap a
"
bpiain,
pinjm, mic pingin, mic Domnaill baoi illaim

ecc, nfc eippibe
1
mac
-)
mic Sfain, mic pinjm, mic cliac map an cceDna DO

baof pojlamra
i.
i
cuccab puap
Saproib
oicce,
ccaiDpeab
He was
He was a younger Turlough, son o/Donoiigh. son of Donough, second Earl of Thomond, and the brother of Conor, the third Earl.
ra
Harry Mael,
e.
Barry the Bald.
seated near Barry Eoe, in the district of Ibawn, in the south of the county of Cork.
Barry Roe,
i.
e.
of that sept of the Barrys
Barry the Red, i. e. the chief who were seated in
Barry Mores,
i.
e.
sept of the Barrys gave
the great Barrys. This name to the barony of
and gave name to the barony of Barryroe, in the county of Cork See Smith's Natural and
Civil History
of Cork, book
ii.
c. 3.
Barrymore, in the county of Cork. See Smith's Natural and Civil History of Cork, book ii. c. 2. P Whose This hereditary right it was, &c.
1581.]
17.53
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1
1581.
eighty-one.

,
son of Conor, son of Turlough, son of Teige O'Brien, who had been kept in prison by the English for more than a year, was hanged on the 26th of May.
Turlough, the son of Donough
William Burke, son of Eickard Saxonagh, son of Ulick-na-gCeann, son of Rickard, son of Ulickof Cnoc-Tuagh, was hanged at Galway, the third day after the execution of Turlough O'Brien It hapthat is, Turlough was hanged on Thursday, and William on Saturday.
The son
of the Earl of Clanrickard,
i.
e.
pened that William was joined with his relatives in the war when they demolished their castles, as we have already mentioned*; that he grew sorry for
this,
and went
;
to
his execution
Galway, under the protection of the English, the month before [but] some tale was fabricated against him, for which he was
taken and hanged.

also hanged.
Such of
his followers as
went
in
under
this protection
were
were hanged in Dublin for crimes of treason. the son of Richard, son of Thomas, son of Edmond), who was in captivity in Dublin, died. This James was of the true stock of the Barry Roes. He was a man who had suffered much affliction and misfortune
Forty-five persons
Barry More (James,
and who had [at first] no hope or expectation of obtaining,even the title of Barry Roe m But, however, God bestowed upon him the chieftainship both of Barry MaeP and Barry Roe and this was not after the extinction of those all, but he was elected chief over the Barry Mores
in the beginning [of his career],
. ;
,
chieftains
period.
whose hereditary right it was" to rule over that seigniory till that His son, David Barry, was afterwards called the Barry by the Earl of
;
Desmond and his second son was by law q lord over the Barry Roes. Mac Gillapatrick (Brian Oge, the son of Brian, son of John, son of Fineen, son of Fineen, son of Fineen, son of Donnell), who was likewise imprisoned in died. He was a man who had been Dublin, brought up in England in his youth,
could be expressed better, in fewer words, thus " Nay more, he was elected chief over the sept
:
By
law
When
the
first
son was raised to
of Barry More, the true heirs of that chieftainship having become extinct."
the dignity of Barry More, the second son was niade Barry Roe, not in accordance with the law
of England, but with the customs which time
10 o
1754
1
i
QNNata raioshachca
eiraecwN.
[1581.
i
uile a conjmail a oeapbpacaip pinjin ooiponeab ma lonaD, uaip nf baof njfimel 50 po ecc, clann aiccepium acctnab aon injfn. Oiap Deapbpacap Don bpian occ pin .1. Da mac occa injine uf concobaip pailge (le mac giollapacpaicc 16 bjiian
ccomaonea na cuipee gup bo hionjnab la heipfnDcoib

~\
.1.
mac
pein.
Sfain) DO rhapbab la
Domnall, mac cepoicc
uf
maoflmnaib ap a loncaib
uilliam obap mac pipganamm mic maolpuanaib, mic Sfain, baof beop illairh mar cliar DO pfibiuccab le gallaib,"] leip an iupcip,~| cpiall DO cap aip Dia acapoa. Oo pala Do pop an cconaip Dpong Doccbaib
cfpbaill
.1.
pleacra
uf concobaip pailje.
Ro cappac
-j
pioe a cloiDineaD gan coiccill,-] po puacli-
aijpioc a puapcclab
po cpobaib piac,
pdpaij mac
-\
a anacal ace a mapbab 50 po paccaibpioc a copp O cfpbaill Do jaipm oia mac .1. DO Shfan an paolcon.
na
uilliam uibip.
rhoip
Uiccfpna ofipeac Semnp, mac geapailc, mic Sfain, mic geapoicc riDfipi mic Semaip, mic jeapoicc mpla Decc.
TTlag Donnchaib eogan
mac Donnchaib an
bocaip, mic Donnchaib
meg
Donncaib Decc
mbpaijDfnap 05 gallaib. Domnall na conncae mac caibj, mic copbmaic oicc, mic copmaic, mic caibcc mecc capraij canaipre mupccpaije, a ccuaipccmb caca Decc.
i i
luimneac
-|
ccoimfpaonca ppi apoile, co na baof aon oibce no caipDine aen mfopa fcoppa 6 oppab copaq a ccoccaib gup an can po, nf poic pfom, dipfm, no aipnfip ma noeapnpac Dulcaib pe poile. Sluaicceab la Sfan, mac Semaip, mic Sfain a mi mag cap piuip poip co bailee oipip na piuipe laip po leppcpiopab QpD mdille, -| maimpcip ara an cuipil, i DO coib cap co Ifon ccpeac piuip piap njabala, pug coip
ô'll
1
geapalcaij
hi
ccoccab
"]
-|
.1.
-\
-|
had confirmed among the Anglo-Irish in MunWilliam Odhar, Pale. This epithet
r
of Duhallow, and county of Cork.

u
i.
e.
Willian the
anglicised
Wan
or
of the road.
Donovgh-an-Bhothair, i.e. Donough or Denis This personage is much celebrated
is
Ower,
Our,
in the traditions of the
and Ure.
s
and j n
^ e neighbouring districts.
barony of Duhallow,
ness.
John-an-Fhasaigh, i. e. John of the WilderHe was the eldest bastard son of Sir Wil-
Donnell of the county.

of Sir
He was
the brother
liamO'Carroll
See the Indenture above printed under the year 1576, p. 1690. Mac Donough He was chief of a sept of
the
Mac Carthy, who was CormacJVIac Teige Sheriff of the county of Cork. He was High very loyal to the English government, and the
powerful opposer and exterminator of the rival
family of the Fitzgeralds.
Mac
Carthys,
who were
seated in the barony
1.581.]
1755
and who was acquainted with the manners and customs of the Court, so that it was a wonder to the Irish that he should have been detained in bondage until
his death.
issue,
His brother, Fineen, was elected in his place, for he had left no Two brothers of this Brian Oge, namely, the excepting one daughter.
two young sons of the daughter of O'Conor F*aly by Fitzpatrick, i. e. by Brian, the son of John, were slain by Donnell, the son of Theobald O'Molloy, [while they were] under his own protection.
r William Odhar the son of Ferganainm, son of Mulrony, son of John, who was likewise confined in Dublin, was set at liberty by the English and the Lord Justice and he set out for his native territory. But on his way
O'Carroll,
i.
e.
he was met by some of the young men of the descendants of O'Conor Faly and they were rejoiced (to be able) to put him unsparingly to the sword, and detested (the thought of) shewing him quarter or mercy. They slew him, and
;
body under the talons of ravens and the claws of wolves. 5 John-an-Fhasaigh was then styled O'Carroll.
left his
,
His
son,
The Lord of Desies, James, the son of Gerald, son of John, son of Garrett More of Desies, son of James, son of Garrett the Earl [of Desmond], died.
Mac Donough Owen, the son of Donough-an-Bhothairu son of Donough Mac Donough, died in Limerick, where he had been imprisoned by the English.
1
, ,
Donnell of the County", the son of Teige, son of Co'rmac Oge, son of Cormac, son of Teige Mac Carthy, Tanist of Muskerry, and its leader in battle, died.
The English and
the Geraldines were at
war and
strife
with each other
nor was there a truce of one night, or a friendship of one month, between them,
from the commencement of the war

description of the injuries done
to this time.
No
account, enumeration, or
between them can be attempted.
A hosting
Desmond],
in
was made by John, son of James, son of John [Fitzgerald of and he totally the month of May, eastwards across the Suir
;
destroyed [some of the] towns lying on the brink* of the Suir, namely, Ard Maile y and the monastery of AthasseP. And he proceeded westwards across
*
On
the brink, literally,
"in the
district of
this abbey,
which was erected by William Fitzyear 1200,

are
the Suir."
Adelm de Burgo, about the

i.
Malley's height, now Ardmayle, a village near the River Suir, about three miles and a half to the north of Cashel.
*
Ard Maile,
e.
situated on the west side of the Eiver Suir, a
stream from which was

h
,
artificially carried
round
See
the building for the purpose of defence.
'
Athassd,
ac
ruipil
The extensive ruins
of
note
p.
331, supra.
10 o 2
aHNQta raioshachca emecmN.
[1581.
an aippio, Ro jab pom aja niomcop 50 cpom, 1 lomapcpab anppoplamn ap no puiD ppiu ap a haicle, -j po ba rieimpniomac an ccfm popcaomnacaip, i mo ina cpi ceo an po mapbao in po bamfo laip Diob. Rucc Sfan an ccpeic na popbaipib pfba ina ccleaccab cumpana6 ap an laip mp ccopccap gup ap an ccoill moip. cclaonjlaip
-] -\
ap mag capcaij mop, baof no a cpi 05 cpeachab ~\ 05 cuapcuccaD na cpice 6 mupccpaije ppi pe Da la, co neoalaib iom6a 50 ma 5 co naipcccib 50 huib pdcac, cicc cap a aip a ppaipccpiona nac ppacacap an oipfc pin tto ccoincinne. QcbepDip luce
SluaicceaD ele la Sfan
i
mac Semaip
mi
liin
-|
~\
-\
cpob cpeac piam an aon maijin. in achab Da eo,^ ba ipin can pin lapla ofprnuman Dobfiri ppoplongpopc DO hopoaicchfo capcin papanac (.1. capcin Siuicpe) on mbainpfojain, i on
ofprnumani ciappaige Dia momcoimeD. T?o jluaip an capcin biDce) co mbuiDin mapcpluaj amaille ppip Do rabaipc pin (DO piubal laoi amaip ap poplongpopc lapla Dfpmuman i ba hann paimc laip Dol pon ppoplupcip op cfno
-|
longpopc ap maDain Dia Oorhnaij. baof an ciapla gup an lion DO pala ina lap pocaip an can pin ina ccoipcim puam ~\ pfop cooalca lap ppaiccfp
-\
ppopcoimeD na hoiDce 56 pin. Qppfo Do pome an capcin ma ppuaip na DO mapbaD gan Diceall, i nf pfparh ap na ppdioib Do juin 50 jpoDuplam, co painicc caiplen na mamje. 6a Don po aipip ppi Inomaipeacc na Deabaib
~\
opuing Do paopclanDaib copcaip lap an ccapcin .1. en mac comaip mic muipip ouib mic an lapla
in
.1.
achaD Da eo an la
pin
comap mac DonnchaiD bacaij mic maolmuipe mic DonnchaiD mec mac Diapmaca mic copbmaic 6 maij laicirh.
SluaicceaD la hiapla Dfpmuman
i i
6cc, TTlaolmuipe
puibne,
~\
ca&cc
moipcimceall caipilmuman, Da gac maicfp, eiccip urha,-] lapann, eoac, upaD, cpo&,i cfcpa 50 po inDippfc na cfpe pin co leip. Rucc oppa im na hoipccnib pin opong buiDne Deapmapa a cpian cluana meala ap an cpian mfbonac. Ruccpac oppa ona
-|
-j
nDeipeaD mfp Sepcembep gup na maijib 50 caipeal pfipin. Ruccpac na ploij pin lie
~\
Iveragh, a barony in the south-west of the county of Kerry, anciently
Ui-Rathach,
now
Achadh-da-eo,
i.
e.
the field of the two yews,
now Aghadoe, an
two miles
*
old church, near which are
belonging to the family of O'Shea. h Magh-gCoinchinne, now the barony of Magunihy, in the county of Kerry. See note under the year 1495, p. 1220, supra.
b
,
the remains of a round tower, situated about

to the north
of Killarney, in the
county of Kerry.
Captain Siuitse.
This
is
an attempt at writ-
1581.]

;
1757
but though this hero was overtaken by the Suir with great preys and spoils a very strong and overwhelming body of forces, he continued boldly carrying
long as he was able but [at last] he came to an engagement, in which more than three hundred of them were drowned and slain. John
off the spoils as
;
[then] carried off the prey in triumph to his
encampments
in the
woods of
Claenglaise and Coill-Mor, where he was wont to abide. Another hosting was made by John, the son of James, in the month of June, and he remained two or three days plundering and against Mac Carthy More
;
from Muskerry to Ui-Rathach"; and he (then) returned with preys and spoils to Magh-gCoinchinne b Those who beheld them declared that they had never before seen such a great prey of cattle in one place.
traversing his territory,
.
The Earl
Lord Justice
of
Desmond was encamped
at
Achadh-da-eo
c
;
and
at that time an
English captain, namely, Captain Siuitse", was appointed by the Queen and the This captain marched day to preside over Desmond and Kerry.
and night with a party of cavalry to make an attack on the camp of the Earl of Desmond and it was on a Sunday morning that he arrived at the camp. The Earl and all those who were with him were at this time buried in deep sleep
;
and profound slumber, for they had remained vigilant and on the watch all the The captain immediately and alertly attacked all night, [and] until that time.
he found standing in the streets, and slew them without mercy nor did he wait for battle or engagement, [but proceeded directly] till he reached
those
;
whom
following were amongst the freeborn persons slain by the captain at Achadh-da-eo on that day, i. e. Thomas Oge, the only son of Thomas; the son of Maurice Duv, son of the Earl Mulmurry, the son of Donough BaCastlemain.
;
The
cagh, son of Mulmurry, son of Donough Mac e Dermot, son of Cormac of Magh-Laithimh
.
Sweeny
and Teige, the son of
was made by the Earl of Desmond, at the end of the month of September, into the plains, lying far and wide around Cashel, in Munster, and into Cashel itself. His forces seized upon great quantities of all sorts of property, such as copper, iron, clothing, apparel,
A hosting
that they plundered all those territories.

iug, in Irish letters, Captain Zouch.
and great and small cattle so As they were carrying off these spoils
;
See Cox's
'
Hibernia Anglicana, A. D. 1580, 1581, edition

ot'
Molahiff,
Magh-Laithimh, i. e. LahifPs plain, now a townland in which stood a castle
1689, pp. 367, 368,
et
sequent.
Jaelonging to a respectable sept of the
Mac
Car-
1758
aNNdta Rioshachca emecwN.

-j
[1581.
ploicch a compocpaib p luipe,
6 6iin
aip an ciapla foapnaij inclfice

~\
mpccaij 50 maijj Qilbe. 17o popcongDO pdgbail pop an cconaip noipall na nocc
i
bdccap ina niapmoipeace, po pill pein ppiu lap poccain Don coip cap an occd naipleac Da gac lee peampa cceilcc. T?o gabab mporh occa noibeaD ina nDiuib gup bo moo oleedcc cficpe ceD a nfpbaiD on lomapgail pin. Cicc
-]
-]
lapla Deapmurhan
mp mbuaiD
ccopccaip,
~\
ccommaoibme co neachaib,
-\
co
neoalaib lomoaib laip rap a aip in fcaplac. peace an cangaccap Dponjbmbfn Dana Diconipcil Do poijoiuipib ara noo .1. opong ap ppuc Dpong ap cfp DO cuapcuccaD Dapa lap na poinn
i ~|
caob TTIdije DiappaiD jona no gabala pop Dpeim eiccin DO na 1QR nool Don Da opoing pin ccfnD apoile monipocpaib baile pojla&aib. ui cacldin, ap an Do pala cuca DauiD occ, mac Dauib an loca, mic comaip,
caonpaije
-|
la
mic Sfain, mic comaip, mic pilip, mic an pioipe co na pocpaiDe Dia paijiD, ~\ DO coioh pucaib co po gab 0501 ccpfgoao ~\ acca ccimceallaD, co ppapccaib lace ina mfiDfbaib maoi'lofpcca ~\ ina ccarhnaib caoib^fppca, conac mop
ceapna gan aipleac ap an lacaip pin la Daum co na minncip. lap poccain na pccel pin co hac Dapa, cuipip capcin aca Dapa cionol ap paijoiuipib cille Do DeachaiD 50 ppf&ain mfp&a mfocuicpicch Do cop cuapca moceallocc,
~\
i
ccaonpaije, Dup an ppuijbeab Duine, no Daofne ap a noijelab ap mapbaD Da mumcip. Rdinicc co baile uf cacldin, baile pibe Do bailcib an puippelai^ bai 05 congnarh piam lap an ccopoin 6 ceD coccaD gall -\ jfpalcac gup an
ran
pin.
lfnbaib,i
Oo mapbaD lap an ccapcin Dficnebap peace picic Do mndib, Do Da gac poipinn Da ppuaip ipcij, i amuij ipm rabaile pin. Qn OciuiD
-\
thys, situated near the village of Castlemaine,
woman's name, now
Moyaliff, about five miles
in
the barony of Magunihy,

'
and county of
Clonmel- third,
Kerry.
west of Thurles, in the barony of Kilnamanagh. See note ', under the year 1580, p. 1749, sup.
'
Trian-CMuana-meala,
i.
e.
Baile- Ui-Chaihlain,
i.
e.
O'Cathlain's town,
now
B
the barony of Iffa and Offa East, in the south-east of the county of Tipperary.
so called in Irish at the present, but anglicised

It is the name of a townland Ballycalhane. the ruins of a castle, in the parish of containing Kildimo, barony of Kenry, and county of Limerick.
k all
Dun-Iasgaigh.
This
is
more usually
called
in Irish, Cathair-Duna-Iasgaigh,
is
and the name
anglicised simply Cahir, which is that of a well-known town on the Eiver Suir, in the
now
Son of the Knight

Firbis.
He was
the ancestor of
barony of Iffa and Offa West

"
See note p , under
the families of the Purcells.
See pedigree by
Duald Mac
'
Magh-Ailbhe,
i.
e.
the plain of Ailbhe, a
So
that not
many
The
style is here very
1581.]

,
1759
of troops from Trian-Chluana-rnealaf and they were overtaken by a strong body from Middlethird and also by a force from the borders of the Suir, and of the
;
g The Earl ordered that region extending from Dun-Iasgaigh to Magbf Ailbhe". an ambuscade should be formed on the pass for the forces who were in pursuit
but the pursuers having escaped the ambush, the Earl himself turned round upon them. They [the Earl's army] then proceeded to kill and slaughter
;
of them
them on every side, in the van and in the rear so that their loss was upwards The Earl of Desmond returned to of four hundred men in that engagement.
;
Eatharlach in triumph and exultation, with many steeds and other spoils. Upon one occasion a bold and merciless body of the soldiers of Adare,
having been divided into two parties, went forth, one by water, the other by land, to traverse Kenry and [the lands lying] along the side of the Mangue, to seek for fight or booty from some of the plunderers. These two parties, having
met together in the neighbourhood of Baile-Ui Chathlain', were encountered by David Oge, the son of David of the Lake, son of Thomas^ son of John, son
of Thomas, son of Philip, son of the Knight
k
,
and
his forces,
who charged
1
them,
and proceeded
to pierce
and surround them, so that he

;
of] bloody trunks and mangled carcasses
so that
them [but a heap not many of them escaped

left
without being slaughtered on that spot by David and his people. When the news of this reached Adare, the captain of that townm assembled the soldiers of
head of a vigorous and merciless body [of troops] to traverse Kenry, in order to see whether he could find man or men upon
Kilrnallock,
set out at the
and
vengeance for the slaughter of his people. He arrived at Baile-Ui-Chathlain, one of the castles of Purcell, who had assisted the Crown from the very commencement of the war between the English and the Geraldines to that time. The captain slew one hundred and fifty women and children, and of every sort of persons that he met with inside and outside of that castle.
to
whom
wreak
his
The David
lame.
It
already named,
who had
slain the captain's people,
was a man
could be very easily improved by

:
transposing some words, as follows

"
left them but a heap of bloody trunks, and hacked and mutilated carcasses. A few, how-
These two parties met together near the Ballycahlane. They were encountered by David Oge Purcell and his people, who fell upon them with such fury, and surrounded and
castle of
ever, escaped
by
flight,
who
carried the
news
of the slaughter of their companions to Adare,"

&c.
m The
captain
of
that town.
According to
charged them with such bravery, that he soon
War,e's-Annals his
name was Achin.
QNNaca
Ric-sliachca eiRecmN.
-\
an capcin, pfp epibe DO pulainj Duab pempaiee lap po mapbab muincip luib pibe mi becembep oocap ccoccab jeapalcac ap jallaib. peace oiap ccoice caol cumanj 50 po imippfc co re pfpaib Decc 6 ciompaib caonpaije
i i i
Ro jab aipipfm 05 imp caraij, cpe cuan pionn piapcuaib jach nofpeac. la coippbealbac mac caibcc, mic aoham pin. O po clop paofbip innce an mic raibcc puaib, mic coippoelbaicc (TTlac rhec niacgarhna a epic mupchaib, Dauib Do 6ol caipip, po cuip aprpac (in upcopac copca baipcniD aipreapaij) DO 6616 ann gup an Ifon capla ina pappab, oibce) ap an pionainn ppiubuaine, co painicc imp caraij co ipo gab pope ppeopamn na pinmnnpi 1 nf po aipip Udnaic mporii jup an rfj rnbaof DauiD, "] po cuippioc cene ip in cfj oia Uicc oauib Dipccip Diaipm co na riiuincip amac ap lopccaD 50 lanuplarii.
] -\
i
gabaD e co na muincip laip po ceooip. Oo co na bpaijDib co baile mec colmdin rap a aip an raoD mac mec macjjarhna aohaib pin. Oocpochab muincip Dauib ppip na cpannoib bd compoicpi ooib
loncaib meic mic macjamna,-] po
.ap
Do cuipeab an laoc nd mapac, oibeab jan puipeac.

-|
rinlib
50 luimneac aipm ina ppuaip a
Ceall piacal Do jabail Id pfan mac an mpla an cTcpamab Id Don noolaig, 1 gac a ppuaip ina hmmfbon Duma,-] Diapann, Deoac, Dionnmap,-] Dapbap Do bpipip an baile laporh. cop eipce 50 hfcaplaij ppi pe od Id,
~|
T?epibep gfpalcac
paijDiuipib
.1.
niclaup,
mac
uilliam, mic
niclaip
DO rhapbab la
aca oapa.
Qn
n
Doccuip I'ariDuip Decc ap coillcib na claori^laipi, pope con^mala Don

This
is
North-westerly.
incorrect, for the
Shannon runs rather south-west from the borders of
Kenry
to
Inis-Cathaigh,
called.
or Scattery
is
Baile-mldc-Colmain, now Colmanstown, a townland containing the ruins of a castle, in the parish of Killofinn, barony of Clonderalaw, and
q
Island, as it is
now
By Cuan-Sionna
now
county of Clare.
'
See the Ordnance Survey of
meant the lower or wide portion of the Shannon,

East Corca-Bhaiscinn,
p
that county, sheet 68.
the barony of
or peoi-
Clonderalaw, in the county of Clare.
note
*
'
The strand.
is
The word peopamn,
pmn,
still
in use in the west of Ireland to

is
See town of Tipperary under the year 1 1 92, p. 94, supra. The Receiver, i. e. the agent or treasurer, The death of Dr. Saunders Dr. Saunders
Kilfeakle, near the
',
denote a smooth sandy shore. The features of this island, and the ruins existing thereon in
1839, are carefully described ina letter written by theEditoron the 9th of December that year, and at present preserved at the Ordnance Survey
Office,
Ware's Annals of Ireland, under the year 1582, and in Camden's Annals of the reign of Elizabeth under 1583; but
mentioned
in
Rishton states that he died in 1581, which ap-
Phconix Park.
Camden draws his pears to be the true date. character in the blackest colours ; and Cox, who
1581.]

toil
1761
who had gone through much

the English.
and trouble in the war of the Geraldines with
On
one occasion he set out with sixteen men in the month of
of Kenry, in a small, narrow cot. They rowed in a north-westerly" direction through the Shannon Harbour, and put in at InisWhen Turlough, the son of Cathaigh, where they stopped for that night.
December from .the borders
son of Teige Roe, son of Turlough (the son of Mac Teige, son of Murrough, Mahon, from East Corca-Bhaiscinn"), heard that David had passed by him, he launched a boat upon the blue-streamed Shannon in the early part of the night,
and entering it with the number of men he had along with him, he made no and landed on the strand" of the fair delay until he reached Inis-Cathaigh, island. They then went to the house in which David was, and immediately
David, with his people, quickly came out, unarmed, casting himself on the mercy of the son of Mac Mahon, who instantly took him and his
set fire to
it.
people prisoners.
q
,
The son
of
Mac Mahon
Colmain taking his prisoners with him. were hanged on the nearest trees they met
sent to Limerick,
returned on that night to Baile-mhicOn the following day David's people

;
and the heroic

to death.
soldier himself
was
where he was immediately put
Kilfeakle
day
all
after
was taken by John, son of the Earl [of Desmond], on the fourth Christmas and he removed in the course of two days to Eatharlach
;
the copper, iron, clothes, treasure, and corn, that he found within
castle.
it,
and
then demolished the
Receiver' of the Geraldines, namely, Nicholas, son of William, son of Nicholas, was slain by the soldiers of Adare.
The
Doctor Saunders' died in the woods of Claenglaise.

held the
that
He was
the supporting
Eoman
Catholics in abomination, says
"Saunders died miserably of a flux and famine in the woods of Clenlish, whereby the
ings of authors whose minds are jaundiced with national and religious prejudices. Mageoghe-
gan speaks of him thus in

"
his Hist. cPIrlande
kingdom was
rid of a malicious, cunning,
and
On
rapporte a ce temps la mort
du Docteur
indefatigable traytor."
also states that
Hist.
P.
O'Sullevan Beare
he died of dysentery
fol.
See his
Sanders autrement Sanderus, Anglois de nation et Legat Apostolique en Irlande ; c'etoit un
Cathol. Iber.,
100.
The Abbe Ma-
homme
d'une vie exemplaire et tres zele pour
geoghegan, who appears to have carefully read the works of Camden and Cox, has drawn the
character of Dr. Saunders in different colours
II est peint sous d'autres couleurs par les Auteurs Protestants, qui le ce saint qualifient de traitre et d'archi-febelle
la cause catholique.
from those used by Camden, which shews how

difficult it is to elicit
homme, epuise par

de voir triompher
la fatigue et
par
la
chagrin
the truth from the writ-
1'inipiete,
mourut d'un flux
10 P
1762
cpfiDfrh coroila,-] cfno
i
[1581.
dccomaipc jjeapalcac ipm ccoccaD mbarap epi&e. Nip bo macrna& on ap ap la pemup, mac muipip ramie nepinn. TTlac uf Suilleabdin beippe (oomnall, mac oomnaill, mic Diapmaca, mic
i
Domnaill mic Domnaill mic oiapmaca bailb) DO cabaipc bpipce ap caipbpeacaib a mi oecembep DO ponnpa&. 6a harhlaiD Do ponab innpm, Capcvn Siuirpi DO 6ol o copcaij cpe caipbpeacoib co mainipcip bfnnrpaige. T?o cuip clann
mic DonnchaiD mec puibne,-] mac uf Donnab'am coipp&ealbai nnc maolmuipe, cfnoaib popal -\ DO Daofnib uaiple caipbpeac ua&a Do Denam 1 opong Do
cpeac ap mac uf puillebdin, puaippior na pf&naca po cuip an capcin ua&a cpeaca amble i lomao eoala. Rob a&nap la Domnall a oipccne Do leccab
po ionnpaij an âppaD jaoi&elac rapla cnmcell na ccpeac, -] DO oeapbh an la pin note le Ifon pluaij bpipceap car uaip copcpaccap le Dorhnall a ppoccup DO cpf ceD DO caipbpeacaib, i ap bfg le
ua&a
i 6 pfin ina bfrhai&,
"|
Ific
cecr pfp pf&ma baofpiom DO pocpaiDe ace cabaipr an cocmp

un
bois,
pin.
de sang dans
ou
il
manquoit de tout
qui lui fat
of the mountains of Carbery under the appellation of
secours, excepte
le spirituel
admi-
t)omnall na jCpoiceann,
i.
e.
Daniel
nistre par Corneille

le
quitta qu'a la
Eveque Killalow, qui ne mort." Tom. iii. p. 448.
pellium. P. O'Sullevan Beare says (Hist. Cathol, c. 16), that the son of O'Donovan, who was slain
Dr. Saunders was for some time professor of
law at Oxford, but, after the death of Queen Mary, he was obliged to quit Oxford, and go
on this occasion, was named Dermysius. " Daniel Osullevanus adolescens, qui postea
Bearrse princeps factus pro
Hispanorum
salute
Rome, where he received the order of priesthood, and the degree of doctor of divinity, about
to
cum
Anglis bellum gessit ad Beantrise monasterium Anglorum cohortem lapidibus obrutam

:
the year 1560. He afterwards taught divinity In 1571 he published his work, at Louvain.
entitled,
delevit, et
Dermysium Odonnobhanum Anglo-
rum
De
visibili
monarchia
Ecclesioe.^
He
jussu Bearram deprsedantem ad Bounj (Lathach na ndaibh) occidit"
Lutum
was soon
he wrote
the
after appointed
his History of the Rise
Nuncio in Spain, where and Progress of
John
late
General
Collins of Myross, in his pedigree of the O'Donovan, supposes that this
English Reformation ; but

it,
when he was about
to publish
he was ordered by Pope Gregory
XIII. to proceed to Ireland, to instruct the Irish

Catholics.
chief of the O'Donovans, and ashe was the grandfather of Domhnall na g-Croiceann [who died in 1584!]; and the
Dermot was
serts that
same absurd opinion

This
is
an attempt at writHe was ing Captain Zouch, in Irish letters. appointed governor-general and general at arms
Captain Siuitsi.
in
torical fact
is gravely repeated as a histhe late Timothy O'Donovan, of by O' Donovan's Cove, Esq., in a letter to the Editor,
Munster by the Lord Deputy Grey this year. * The son of 0' Donovan The O'Donovan
is still
4, 1841, in which he writes " Dermot O'Donovan, of Castle Donovan, though set down by Mr. Powell as fifth son of
dated August
at this time
who
vividly
was Donnell mac Teige mac Dermot, remembered in the traditions
Daniel of 1629, was chief of Castle Donovan, and
made an inroad into Berehaven,
to bear
away
cat-
1581.]
1763
pillar of the Catholic faith,
the war.
It
and the chief counsellor of the Geraldines during was not wonderful, for it was with James, the son of Maurice, he
had come
to Ireland.
The son of O'Sullivan Beare (Donnell, the son of Donnell, son of Dermot, son of Donnell, son of Donnell, son of Dermot Balbh) gave a defeat to the
It was thus effected people of Carbery in the month of December. Captain Siuitsi" set out from Cork, through Carbery, for the monastery of Bantry. He sent the sons of Turlough, son of Mulmurry, son of Donough Mac Sweeny,
:
[Dermot], son of O'Donovan [Donnell, the son ofTeige, son of Dermot], and some others of the heads of tribes and gentlemen of Carbery, to plunder the son of O'Sullivan. These parties sent by the Captain seized great preys and
much booty.
Donnell thought it shameful to suffer his property to be carried he himself being alive" and he attacked the Irish bands around the booty, away, and proved on that day that it is not by the numbers of men that a battle is
;
gained, for Donnell slew nearly three
own forces
tie,
in
hundred of the Carbery-men, though his that engagement scarcely exceeded fifty men able to bear arms.
years in 1592.
where he was overtaken with his plunder by Donal O'Sullevan Coum, defeated, and hanged from an oak, the root of which is still to be seen,
and goes by the name 'Daroc-adran-Dermody.'" This, however, is a great error, for we know from a Chancery record, dated 12th February,
1592, that Donell
But
it is
distinctly stated that
Donell mac Teige had other sons, elder than Donnell, the chieftain, by the said Ellen Ny-Leary,
but born before their marriage.

is
therefore inevitable, that this
The conclusion Dermot men-
tioned
levan,
mac Teige mac Dermot O'Do-
by O'Sullevan, as slain by Donnell O'Sulwas one of these elder sons of Donnell mac
is
novan was chief of Clancahill in 1581, and till the year 1584, when he died, and was succeeded
Teige. According to the tradition in the country,
which
referred to the
by his eldest legitimate son, Donell. From this document it also appears to a certainty that the
by
Collins, this
wrong person and period Dermot mac Donnell na g-croiClann-LawBeare,
ceann was
rence
.
slain in the territory of
Dermot
slain
this occasion,
by Donnell O'Sullevan Beare on was not chief of Castle Donovan,
by Donnell Cam O'Sullevan
who
buried his body under an oak tree, which has ever

since borne the appellation of DapojTDiapmaDa,
or,
but (according to the laws of England) a Bastard Eigne of Donnellmac Teige O'Donovan ; for
it
was proved in Dublin, before the Lord Chan-
according to Collins, Dairiheen-Diarmada, and of which the roots still femain, from which anurnstill shooting forth. It is situated in the townland of Eosmacoan, parish of
cellor,
Adam
Loftus, in February, 1592, that
ber of young stems are
mac Teige O'Donovan had but two legitimate sons by his wife, Ellen Ny-Leary, namely, Donnell, who was nominated chief of his name by
Donell
his father-in-law, Sir in
barony of Beare, and county of Cork

alogies, Tribes,
fyc.,
Kilconenagh, adjoining that of Kilcaskin, in the See Gene-
1584
Owen Mac Carthy Reagh, and Teige, who was under twenty-one
w He himself
of Hy-Fiachrach, p. 447, note The Four Masters being dive
k.
10
P2
1764
aNNdta Rio^hachca emecmN.
[1531.
mec muipip ciappaije (.1. comap mac emamn, parpiccfn-j emann od mac mic romdip, mic emamn) DO elub a cuipc an pf a luimneach lap na cinnfb Don comaiple a ccop Do cum bdip. dec cfna nf bai an coim&e ipm ccorhaiple bdtcap cpd an clann pin pealap coillcib cloinne cuilein acca ccaomna,
pin.
-|
DO apccnaccap lap pin 50 cloinn ITluipip, -| bd gap uaip gup bo ceoac cainicc in uachab buibne ap ppiopun luimnij cficfpnac an cuiDeacca pin Qcr po cairpioc ina mbaof pfmpa Don bliabain pin ppi pojail ppi ofbeipjj.
-|
an calbac mac piacaip, mic Siacapa mec cardin. Comapba Sfan occ Conn, Da mac Sfain, mic cumn bacaij, mic cuinn, mic enpi, mic mbpeipne uf paijillij. Ro lomaD po lepeojain uf neill Do Dol pluaj
pfnain oecc
.1.
~\
i
~|
aipccfo leo 506 lonao in po

.1.
jabpac Don bpeipne.
l?ucc
-|
mnc
nf
paijillig
cupcorhpac rpoman cfpe ccopaijeacc im na haipjab pin oppa. Nip bo pfipoe eojanai^ ploig co cfno ilbliaDan amap an aenlaoi pin, uaip puccpac pajallaij a ccpeic a
pilip
i
mac QoDa
conallaij, mic maolrhopDa, mic Sfain
-j
an can nap Dam Sfan ccopccap. a oi6f6 co na laocbuiDnib puaip a aipleac ân aipipiom, occ a jabdil lap heccobpaiD. bd ooilij an oiac pin cuccaD ap an oeiccpfp 6ip nf baof aofn
TCo
jabab
leo conn
mac
Sfain nf neill,
CID
-\
pfp
ooiDpe ipm cpfan ipm. SluaicceaD Id hua neill coippbealbac luineac Do code Do Diojail an pnarap Ifran apmac Id hua neill pin ap Rajailleacaib. Ro ponab poplongpopc laocba
fiDipmfbon bpeipne uf paijilbj, "] po jab acca moipmilleab ecip innilib, apbap i diciuccab. Oo pome lapom o Raijilli^ pib ppip, ~| po leicceab conn
Do macaib mileaD nd baof a
Di'ol
in
amac gan puaplaccab,
~\
bpficfrhnap
oua
neill
a mapbab Sfain
~\
a muincipe.
6apaonca anbpoill Do eipje ecip ua noomnaill (Qob mac majnupa mic aoba oicc mic aoba puaib) mac a.Deapbparap Conn mac an calbaij, mic
~\
majnupa, mic aoba
oicc,
-|
conn Do Dol
pano
neill
coippoealbac luineac
could have improved this observation by adding: " and able to recover it, or take revenge of the
plunders."
*
*
tain that a family of the O'Cahans, or O'Kanes,
descended from Cumhaighe na nGall O'Kane, Chief of Keenaght and Firnacreeva, settled in
Padraigin,
i.
e.
i.
Little Patrick.
e.
Clann- Cuilein,
Mac Namara's country, in
the county of Clare.

'
Thomond at an early period, it does -not appear that the coarbs of St. Senan were of that family, In the description of the County of Clare preserved in the Library of Trinity College, this Calvagh Mac Cahan is called Charles Cahane,
of the Castle oflnishkathy, and
it
Clann-Maurice, in the county of Kerry. Mac Cohan. This name is to be distinit
guished from O'Cahan; for although
be cer-
adds: "This
1581.]
x
1765
Padraigin and Edmond, the two sons of Mac Maurice of Kerry (Thomas, the son of Edmond, son of Thomas, son of Edmond), made their escape from
the King's Court in Limerick, the Council having resolved to put them to death. God, however, was not at that Council. These sons were for some time sheltering themselves in the
ceeded to
woods of Clann-Cuilein y and from thence they proand those two, who had come oul of the prison of Clann-Maurice
,
Limerick with but a small company, soon found themselves supported by hundreds of kerns. They spent the remainder of the year in acts of pillage and
insurrection.
The Coarb of St. Senan, e. Calvagh, the son of Siacus, son of Siacus Mac Cahana died. John Oge and Con, two sons of John, son of Con Bacagh, son of Con, son
i.
,
of Henry, son of Owen O'Neill, proceeded with an army into Breifny O'Reilly, and plundered and totally devastated every part of Breifny through which they
son of O'Reilly, i. e. Philip, the son of Hugh Conallagh, son of Maelmora, son of John, and a large muster of the forces of the country, who had come in pursuit of the spoils, overtook them. The Kinel-Owen were not
passed.
The
the better of that day's attack for many years, for the Reillys recovered the and defeated them. Con, the son of John O'Neill, was taken prisoner booty, and, as John Oge would not yield himself a prisoner to the heroic bands, he
;
was speedily slaughtered, and unsparingly slain. The. fate of this good man was afflicting, for there was not one man of the race of Milesius to whom this
John was not worthy to have succeeded as heir. A hosting was made by O'Neill (Turlough Luineach),
on the Reillys for
this battle.
to take
vengeance
He
pitched a warlike, extensive, well-fortified
camp
in the very centre of Breifny O'Reilly,

cattle, corn,
and then proceeded

O'Reilly then
to destroy the
country, including
and mansions.
made peace with
without a ransom, and agreed to settle by adjudication the reparation to be made for the death of John and his people. Great dissensions arose between O'Donnell (Hugh, the son of Manus, son
at liberty
15
him, and set
Con
Oge, son of Hugh Roe) and the son of his brother (Con, the son of Calvagh, son of Manus, son of Hugh Oge), upon which Con went over to the
of
Hugh
man by
relative,
inheritance
is
called a Courboe."
is
His
.
prietor of Ballykette, in
b
West Corca-Vaskin.
These dissensions be-
James Cahane,
set
down
as the pro-
Great dissensions
1766
QNNaca Rioghachca
neill conallaij,
eiraeaNfri.
[1581.
mac
DO pome lonDlac mic aipc, Do coccao a]i a bpacaip, naill ecip cenel cconaill -| eoccain 50 fDapcopaoio na p fngom Do pala pfcc DO code pop ua nDomnaill po popcongaip pop ua neill cionol ploij Idnmoip
-| -|
baof conn pe picic mapcac co rrpib coipijnb gallocclac DO pliocc T?uaibpi Do cloinn epuibne pdnac un roippDealbac mac mupchaib mic coin puaib, im mall, mac eimip, i im bpian mac eimip mec puibne, co
00 conjnarh
laip.
-|
nalbancoib lombaib,
ap i popcaemnaccaip, po an luce ipm 50 po gabpac po^longpopr. oc cill cuarail la caob haipipfo lap Qbarhnan lapam. O po para boc .1, baile eipibe in po bfnoai^ colaim cille clop la hua nDomnaill innpin po nonoil piDe cceccoip in po caemnaccaip DO
-\
ua
neill
gup an
lion
lia
nf
~\
baoi 50 hanppuipijce pôcpaioe ge po
ameplam uaip
baf pi&e
pomamaijre DO
bampiojain cpapcan,
poboap caipDi a [n-]eccpaicre ppipp 56 pin co na baof hi Qp a aoi bd poppdn laip plua^ eacraippoimDin coccab, no compuachab. ceneoil DO cocc Dia rip gan ppirbfpc ppiu Dia maD Dfimin laip a oiDeaD po
-|
ceDoip.
Conn ua Domnaill cpa baof Do meD a rhfnman, ~\ oqiptie a aiccmb pibe no bfir ua neill (coippbealbac), ~\ ua Domnaill (Qo6) Daofnlfirgo ccocaipje T?o caipmpf6 ppiu, Conab a mfin ba poplann pom ~\ ua neill Daen aonca.
ceimmj ua Domnaill co na pocpaioe Do paijib poplonjpuipc
uf neill 50 Di'ojaip
Dapaccac gan anab gan oipipiom ppi hinbell no ppi hopouccab icip. l?o gab ua neill occa mibemain pia piu pangaccap ma cfno,"] po accomaipc Don
cloinn cpuibne
1
DO coippoelbac mac Ruaibpi DO ponnpab) baof ma pappab, DO conn cia ceopab baof leo bo eicipjleob an laf fpin. Ppipcapc aon oib
(.1.
(.1.
pibe
roippDelbac
-\
nanala,
puaibpi) co noebaipr Dia crealccac an luce UD a Dia neabacc uipcce, -| Dia nDeacacc in innell, "| in opouccaD ap
mac
ofimin 50 ppaofnpic poipn Dia no bemip lion ba lia hipuibe. TTlabrb eiapac gan inneall jan oipipiom, jan aipbibab a nfocab bib pfmaopa i poinrie muibpiop.
bd imne cangarrap
la bopppab bpije,
~\
lap an mbpf j; mbicc bo pontwo
tween the race of Hugh and Calvagh burst forthwith redoubled fury in the next generation, and finally led to the conquest of Ulster.
to the Irish Calendar of the O'Clerys, these

saints, of the race of Conall
Gulban, were patrons
TuathaPs church, now Kiltole, a townland in the parish and barony of Raphoe, and county of Donegal.
CiU-Tuathail,
i.
e.
St.
of Raphoe. St. Adamnan, Abbot of lona, died at lona in 703, and his relics were translated to
Ireland,
and distributed among

in
his churches of
Raphoe and Drumhome

Skreen, in Tireragh, in the
Tirconnell,
and
St.Columbkille
and St. Adamnan.
According
now county of Sligo.
1581.]
1767
(Turlough Luineach, the son of Niall Conallagh, son of Art), to wage war against his kinsman. He complained of grievances, and reminded him of the old feuds that had existed some time before between the Kinelside of O'Neill
Connell and the Kinel-Owen, so that he prevailed upon O'Neill to muster a numerous force to come to his aid against O'Donnell. Con had one hundred
and twenty horsemen, and three companies of gallowglasses of the descendants of Rory of the Clann- Sweeny Fanad, under the conduct of Turlough, the son
of Murrough, son of
John Roe
;
of Niall, the son of
Ever
and of Brian, the
son of Ever
largest
Mac Sweeny
number
together with many Scots, and O'Neill, with the he was able to muster. These forces made no delay until they
,
c had encamped at Cill-Tuathail alongside of Raphoe, a town which St. Columbkille, and afterwards St. Adamnan", had blessed. When O'Donnell was apprized
the forces that he could, although he was ill-prepared and disorganized, for he was subject to the Queen of England, and his friends were till then at strife with him, so that he was not prepared for
of this, he immediately assembled
all
war or
could not, however, brook that an extern army should come into his territory without opposing them, even though he were certain of meeting immediate death.
hostilities.
He
The courage and

with them
;
high-spiritedness of
Con O'Dounell were

side,
such, that
if
O'Neill (Turlough) and O'Donnell
he would engage but now that he and O'Neill were on the same side, he was more
(Hugh) were on one
than a match [for O'Donnell]. O'Donnell advanced with his forces vehemently and boldly towards the camp of O'Neill, without waiting or delaying to draw up his men into any regular order or array. O'Neill proceeded to reconnoitre
them before they came up to him and he inquired of the Clann-Sweeny, who were along with him (and especially of Turlough, the son of Rory), and of
;
Con O'Donnell, what their opinion was as to [the probable result of] that day's engagement. One of them, namely, Turlough, the son of Rory, made answer,
and said
"
:
If these people
draw breath
it is
in regular order
and
array,
take time), drink water, and form certain that they will defeat us, [and would]
(i.
e.
were we even more numerous than we

and without taking time
He
is still
are; but if they
come on without
order,
to slake their thirst, thou

e
and we
them,
shall defeat them"".

" before thee
remembered and venerated at Raphoe under the strange name of St. Eunan.
Shall defeat
literally,
and before us the Tout
shall be."
Rio^hachca emeawH.
[1581.
la cenel cconnill copnam a ccopa ppiu in pac Do cenel eojain ap ba spepac oo pala Doib an can pom jap poccain 5ac aipm ccoimpeccaip 56 pin. 6a pfb Doib ccfno a poile 50 po pijfb Tpjail arhnup ainiapmapcac fcoppa a Diu Don cup pa (.1. beo&a jac email, po Deapbab an oeapbapupcc aipDeapc ua nooriinaill co na pocpaioe, po bpacaip ppi apoile). T?o ppaofneab pop mapbab opong mop Dia mumcip. l?o bob Dibpibe TTlac puibne bajaineac TDupchab, coippoealbac mdpcceacli, TTlaolTnuipe mac ao&a co na cloinn
i i
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mall mooapba mac
neill oicc,
mec
puibne.
Qcrcfna copcpacap
cuicc pip
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6ecc DO cloinn cpuibne cipe bojame, ~\ Dpong riiop DO na cuacaib Dpanaicc, DO baoijellcoib. Oponj mop beop Do muincip jallcubaip im pfpjjal mac
gabab Dna mac puibne panacc ipm ccaicgleo fpn. l?o baD cpia eapccame an eppcoip uf pipjil po ppaofneab an maiDm pin uaip po pdpai^pioc Dpong Do cenel cconaill cill mic nenain an la piap an maibm po juib an ceppcop Doib co a ccupap iccip. Ctn 4 Do mi lul Do ppaofneab an maibm nap bo pommeach
roipp6ealbai
mic cuacail bailb,
co nDpuing cen
mo
rotcr.
T?o
-\
pin.
calbac mac Domnaill, mic caibcc, mic carail oicc, mic Domnaill, mic eojain, mic Domnaill, mec muipcfpcaij uf concobaip, aon mac uf concobaip
pliccij Decc.
Qn
ap na cipib nac paibe ace an lanamain poicfineoil op pfolaij an paop caman puil na paofleaccain le haofn fin cloinne Dpajbail Dia eipi. 6aof 6 rhaij ccfione co cfip copainn, 6 rhuaib
l?o
bob cpomaiDe a
coippi
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co ropamn bpeipne lap necc a acap.
056: lobnaibe
pium Daon oibpe
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Daen corhapba Da mapab
TTlaolmopba mac maolmuipe, mic eoccain pfpjanfsla a bpacaip 50 nopuinj moip Do maicib na cfpe mapaon pu Do cuicim nfoccap connacc la halbanchaib Do pala oc imrecc an cfpe a hucc Sip nioclap TTlaulbi, ap e po bob conpabal Do na
caibcc, mic cacail oiccui concobaip,
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)
Cacal 6cc mac
~\
halbanchaib,
'
Qlapcpann mac Domnaill
ballaij, mic
g
mec
borhnaill,
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nf
baoi
There is no mention of this Bishop CP Fred. bishop in Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops,
from which
nail
it would appear that Donat Magowas Bishop of Raphoe in this year, and till it is probable that the 1589, when he died,
Magh
gCeidne, a plain situated between the
Rivers Erne and Drowes, in the south-west ex-
tremity of the county of Donegal,

h
Ceis-Corainn,
now
Keshcorran,, a rernark-
able and celebrated
hill in
the barony of Corran,
O'Freel mentioned in the text was only coarb or abbot of Kilmacrenan.
and county of
this period O'Conor over O'Dowda, the two Sligo claimed chiefry
Sligo.
At
1581.]

had been accustomed
1769
They now came on with

little
boisterous vigour, regarding the Kinel-Owen as of

to defend their
account
for the Kinel-Connell
rights [successfully] against
them in every place they contended until then. But it happened that, when they met together on this occasion, a furious and and the celebrated proverb was desperate battle was fought between them
;
verified
on
this
occasion,
i.
e.
lively
is
each kinsman [when fighting] against
the other.
O'Donnell and his forces were at length defeated, and a great many
of his people were slain. Among these were Mac Sweeny Banagh (Mulmurry, the son of Hugh), with his sons, namely, Murrough and Turlough Meirgeach
and Niall Modardha, the son of Niall
Oge Mac Sweeny
in short, fifteen of the
Mac Sweenys
of Tir-Boghaine were slain, and a great number of the people of Fanad, and of the O'Boyles also a great number of the O'Gallaghers, under the conduct of Farrell, son of Turlough, son of Tuathal Balbh, and many others
;
taken prisoner in this battle. It was f in consequence of the curse of Bishop 0'Freel that they suffered this defeat for a party of the Kinel-Connell had plundered Kilmacrenan the day before
besides these.
;
Mac Sweeny Fanad was
the battle, and the Bishop had prayed that their expedition might not be successful. This defeat was given on the 4th of July.
Calvagh, the son of Donnell, son of Teige, son of Cathal Oge, son of Donnell, son of Owen, son of Donnell, son of Murtough O'Conor, the only son of O'Conor He was the more lamented in the territories, because the noble Sligo, died.
couple from whom this free-born shoot sprang had no hope or expectation of g any other child after him. That tract of territory from Magh gCeidne to Ceish Corainn and from the [Kiver] Moy to the boundary of Breifny, was awaiting
,
him
only inheritor and coarb', if he should survive his father. Cathal Oge, the son of Teige, son of Cathal Oge O'Conor Maelmora, the
as
its
; ;
son of Mulmurry, son of Owen" and Fearganeagla^ his kinsman, with a great number of the chief men of the territory, were slain in Lower Connaught by some Scots who happened to be traversing the country, at the instance of Nicholas
Malby.
And
the constable of these Scots
was Alexander, the son of DonCharles O'Conor interpolates

correct.
O'Haras,
1
and O'Gara, while he himself was

e.
Son of Owen.
i.
subject to O'Donnell.
ITlec SuiBne,
Coarb,
i.
heir.
Here the word coarb
is
Mac Sweeny, which is " man without : fear, Fearganeagla

e.
or fear-
applied to a lay, not ecclesiastical heir.
less
man."
10 Q
1770
i
QNNaca Rioshachca eineaNH.

hi
[1532.
nepinn jan poccain
poinme ooib oiap po ba oppoeapca ainm Duine uapail
17o gabaoh mac uf concobaip conpabcnl ina caral occ i TTlaolmopDa. Duinn beop an la pin Id halbanchaib .1. aob mac oiapmaca mic caipppe, -| po eimijpfc a cabaipc Don caipcin, i Do coiDpfc laip mpom pann uf Ruaipc.
1
i
Oo
pfioeao Dna 6
Ruaipc Goo 6 na halbanachaib 50 mbuf ua

haicle.
po,
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l?uaipc,-|
GOD
i
oaon pann ap a
Qn calapcpann pempaice
Dpajbail uf puaipc
~\
a 6ol Do pai ji& Sip mclaup, po jabpiDe cmcce he co ppailce moip co mbaof pop coinnmfo po parhain DO ponnpaD peacnoin ua ppiacpac muaioe. lap ppiop pccel Dua cconcobaip pliccij Domnall, mac raiDcc, mic cacail oicc, DO muincip Sip mclaup co mbaccap amlaib pin po lonnpaijpioc ion pop a leapcoib luije,-) pop a nDepjaDaib cooalca co po
ppojmap na blia&na
.1.
-\
mapbaD Qlapcpann co nopuing Di'pime Dia muinnp amaille ppip po Dli ua concobaip an mapbaD fpin in Diojail mapbtra a oeapbpacap cacail oicc. Clann lapla clomne piocaipo Do pio6ucca6 16 Saâncoib pampaD na
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i
ccpocaD a mbpacap, ba hamlaiD po pioDaijpiocc jan ppfir, gan gfppaD, gan Daofppi, jan DolaD Do cop ap a nDuchaij, no ap a pann coccaib an ccfin Do bfiofp pfoDach, acr cfop na bampio^na Do Dfol pa &6 pan mblia&am. TTlacjarhain 6 bpiain Do bfic ap piD
blia&na po lap mbpipf& a mbailcfD,
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lap
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clomne an mpla.
a$ capcfn
Diping
banna DO paijDiuipib Do bfic ap opoa 6 Shamuin 50 peil pdccpaicc.
Oa
ccuabmumain
QO1S CR10SC,
1582.
Do.
Uoip Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceo, occmojac, a

TTlaipjpej injfn
aoDa Duib, mic aoba puaiD, mic neill gaipb, mic coippan piona uf Domnaill, bfn uf Delbaij paijillij (ITlaolmop&a mac Sfam, mic oecc nfppac na bliaDna cacail) po, ap pig ma po baof beo nepmn an can
i
-j
k
is
The son of
G Conor Z>on._ Charles

1
O'Conor
written the following observations in the

'the autograph:
N.
le,p
Urn buno6ii r
r6il
po, 1 cao.
an ciompab po pfcpanac
e.
And the people of Sir Nicholas. There must be some error here, as Alexander and his people were in the service of Sir Nicholas Malby on
'
this occasion.
It
map
cicfp
bampa,
i.
" I do not see the origin

is
should evidently be
"
:
iap
FF .o r
the narrative
ory,ând
inaccurate, in
pcc^l oua cconcoba.p f licc.j, &c., mu.ntip Sip N.claup oo Be.raihla.o r ,n, i. e. when
O'Conor Sligo had received intelligence that the
1.582.]

Donnell
;
1771
nell Ballagh, the son of Mac
and there were no two
in Ireland
[among
those] that had
not attained to their estates,
who were more renowned in name,
the one as gentleman and the other as a constable, than Cathal Oge and Maelmora. The son of O'Conor Don", i. e. Hugh, the son of Dermot, son of Carbry, was taken prisoner by the Scots on that day and they refused to give him up
;
him to join O'Rourke and O'Kourke ransomed Hugh from the Scots, so that O'Rourke and Hugh afterwards became confederated on the one side. The Alexander already mentioned left O'Rourke in the autumn of this year, and went to Sir Nicholas [Malby], who received
to the captain, but proceeded with
;
him with great welcome
and he was billeted [with
his followers], about All-
Moy. When O'Conor Sligo (Donnell, the son of Teige, son of Cathal Oge) and the people of Sir Nicholas had received intelligence that they were thus situated, they attacked them while
hallowtide, throughout Hy-Fiachrach of the
1 ,
sleeping in their beds and couches, and slew Alexander, and a great
his people along with him.
number of
1
O'Conor committed
this slaughter in just revenge"
of the death of his brother, Cathal Oge.
The sons of the Earl of Clanrickard were reconciled to the English in the summer of this year, after the demolition of their towns and the execution of
their kinsmen.
They agreed
to this peace
on condition that there should be
no
taxes, fines, bondage, or other impression
their allies in war, so long as
Queen's rent twice in the year.

the sons of the Earl.
imposed on their country, or on they remained peaceable, they paying only the Mahon O'Brien was included in the peace of
companies of soldiers were billeted in Thomond by Captain Diring [Deering], from Allhallowtide to the festival of St. Patrick.
Two
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1582.
thousand five hundred eighty-two.
Margaret, daughter of Hugh Duv, son of Hugh Roe, ,son of Niall Garv, son of Turlough of the Wine O'Donnell, and wife of O'Reilly (Maelmora, the son of John, son of Cathal), died in the of this year. There was spring
people of Sir Nicholas were thus situated, &c. m In " This was
just revenge, literally,
scarcely
due
to O'Conor, in revenge of the killing of his
killing
brother, Cathal Oge."
10 Q 2
1772
ctNNata raioshachca eii?eaNN.

jaoibil jlaip aofn bfn
[1532.
pm Oo bampliocc
pin.
ap mo po bfplaic ina an maipgpeg
mac uillicc na ccfnb, mic T?iolapla cloinne ftiocaipb, l?iocapb Saânac mic uillicc mfbonaig, mic uillicc an piona an cf caipb, mic uillicccnuic euaj, DO jab'ab lap an lupcip Sip hanpn Sibnen an bliabam baoip cpiope 1576,1
jup
baof bliabain illdim lap na gabail ndc cliae,"] an peal ele illairh illonnbam an mbliabam pi. l?o gab peipcclije piopjalaip e pampab na bliabna
i i
Gcbepcpac a pipigfoa -\ a Ifja gomab boca a bul Oecc ma repnub on po. cfibm pin, i Dia mbfic in ai^neab 66 a plaince Opajbail 50 mab 6 pe5a& a T?o leicceab an ciapla o pejab aeoip a cipe no jebab. nepinn arapba,
~\ i
po birin a eaplaince bo cfb an ppionnpa paijib a cloinne, i maicfrh ap ap rhillpfr.
appibe 66 mpoiri co harluam, na poppdilm puaip ipin mbaile fpin.

cliac,
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na comaiple, cucc papbun t>o 6a hann pojab pope cecupi nar co baile na gaillrhe. T?ob abbal meb
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6ai ann 05 cup a pccfp a riifpcin be, a caipbe a coriipuibbe, a pannca gall gaoibeal bia pioppuc1 cangabap Qn can pob ail laip bol mfpcc a riiuinnpe, a cpice, a cloinne, ap cab. ann bo popcpomaij a cpeablaib, a eaplaince paip co po ecc po beoib mf
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augupc bo ponnpab. l?o pfpab a cluice caofnceac la caipbib cfnbaijib ip in mbaile pin, puccab a copp bia abnacal co honopac mbaile loca piac. Oala a cloinbe pobbap pfobaij pe apoile 56 pin. Oo cobappibe bo ppeap-|
i
ccfnb Sip niclap maulbi bat ma jobepnoip i ccoiêab connacc. Oo cobap biblinib co Tide cliac hi ccionn na hapbcomaiple 50 po pfobaijheab fcoppa bon cup pin arhlaib po .1. uillfcc ina cijeapna ina mpla in lonab a acap, bapuncacc liacbpoma bo cabaipc bo Shfan. T?o
abpa
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bo cop
najaib apoile
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pannab fcoppa 6
Uabcc, mac
an aonaij
n
pom amac a ppfpamn, a

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mbailce,
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a mbfcaigce ecclaipi
50 mbdccap piobac op aipb,

uf bpiain
eippfobac 6 mfnmain.
concobaip, mic coippbealbaij, mic caibcc, mic bpiain caca becc i mi aujupc map an ccebna in aofn cpeaccmain pip
"
settlement as follows, under the year 1581 " About this time a contention arose between
:
and if it were Breathing the air Literally, in his intention to get his health, that it should
be from seeing his fatherland, and from seeing
the air of his territory, he would get it." The barony of Leitrim, i. e. the barony of
Leitrim, in the south-east of the
Sir Eichard
the
Mac an
Earlas, Ulick
the death of their father, but
and John Burk, on it was refer'd to
way.
Cox
county of Galthe account of this gives
Commissioners, who ordered that Ulick should have Loghrea and the Earldom of Clanrickard, and that John should have Leitrim and that
;
1582.]
1773
another of the female descendants of Gaedhal Glas then living in Ireland gave away more presents than this Margaret.
who
of Clanrickard (Rickard Saxonagh, the son of Ulick-na-gCeann, son of Rickard, son of Ulick of Knocktua, son of Ulick Meadhonach, son of
The Earl
Ulick of the Wine), he
who had been
taken prisoner by the Lord Justice, Sir
Henry Sidney,
this year in
in the year of the age of Christ 1576,
and who,
after
being taken,
had been imprisoned
for a year in Dublin,
and
for all the rest of the time to
London, fell into a lingering consumption in the summer of this His physicians and doctors said that it was more probable that he would year. die than recover from this disease, and that, if he wished to recover his health,
he could recover
the air"
only by visiting his patrimonial inheritance, and breathing In consideration of his ill health the Earl was of his native country.
it
;
permitted to proceed to Ireland, the Sovereign and the Council consenting and he brought his sons a pardon and forgiveness for all the injuries they had done. He landed first at Dublin, from whence he set out for Athlone, and from
thence he went to the town of Galway, and in that town he was received with enthusiastic welcome. There he remained to rest and recruit himself after the
fatigues of his voyage;
and he was
English and Irish
allies.
When
by his friends and relatives, and by [however] he was desirous to go home to

visited
his his
people, territory, and children, his sickness and disease increased, so that at last he died, in the month of August. His funeral ceremony was performed in that
town by
his
merchant friends
and
town of Loughrea. with each other peace [but now] they repaired to impugn and oppose each other before Sir Nicholas Malby, who was Governor of the province of Connaught. Both went to Dublin to the Chief Council and peace was established
interred in the
;
;
body was conveyed to be honourably As to his sons, they had been till then at
his
on that occasion between them, on these conditions, to wit, Ulick to be Lord and Earl, in the place of his father, and the barony of Leitrim to be given to
John. Their other lands, towns, and church livings, were accordingly divided
between them, so that they were publicly
at peace,
but privately
at strife.
Teige, the son of Conor, son of Turlough, son of Teige, son of Brian Chathaan-Aenaigh O'Brien, also died in the month of August, in the same week with
the Commissioners should intercede to have him
created Baron of Leitrim
;
and both of them
agreed, that if either proved a Traytor to the Queen, the other should have all."
1774
QHNata Rioghachca emeaNN.
[1582.
an mpla. Cupab ap calmacr, mileab ap milfcacc an cf cfpDa annpin. baoi aon la a oeappibe achaib ccanaipceacc cuabrhuman 56 po hionnapba6 ap Don ppdinn, Don ppainc, eipcib pibe bpacaip la Domnall. Do coib mporh
i
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i
Saroib 50 ppuaip a papoun, ~\ a cuio cipe, ace cdnaipceacc nanid co po ecc in lomldme a aoipi, -\ po habnaicfb i mainipcip innpi.
Donncha6, mac mupchaib, mic coippbealbaij, mic caibcc, mic coippbealan aonaij 111 Bpiain DO bdpuccab Doibfo anuapail .1. a baij, mic bpiain caca
la capcin mopcanc bai ina rhapapccal ipn cfp, -j lap cpochab ccuaDrhurhain an Sipiam Sip Seoipp mac comaip ciuriifocc, lap nDol Do an bliabain poirhe cloinne lapla cloinne piocaipo, po pill cap a aip maille le pin ccapaopaD
i i
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uipeapbaib ap an bppohairpeacap ap ppocepcion, puapccap piDe elang co po cpochab amail pemepepcmap an rejrion co po gabab Donnchab leo, T?uccab a copp co 29 Sepcembep nDopup luimnig Dia haofne DO ponnpab.
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a Dorhgnap Durcapa 50 po habnaicfb e mm p. Donnchab mac coippbealbaij, mic muipceapraig

i
mac
mfic uf bpiain apa
(lap mbfic Daimpfip
a acap
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le
hachaib paoa,
-\
piapac 16 hiapla Dfpmuman)
Do reacc ap ppocepon,
a beapbpacaip pfm .1. coippbealbac cappac Dia lonnpaiccib 50 hfpccaipoeamail 50 po mapbab Donnchab laip. O cfpbaill Sfan an bealaij mac uilliam uibip, mic pipânainm, mic maolpuanaib mic Sfam Do mapbab ppioll abuarmaip eccapbaib la TTlaolpuanaib, mac caibcc caofc, mic pipganainm,-] nfp bo cianpaojlac DO cuaib an mapbab
i
DO TTlaolpuanaib uaip copcaip pfm po cfnn pdice lap pin DoibCb piongaile an calbac pfipin Doiponeab in lonaib a lap an ccalbac mac uilliam uibip,
pin
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beapbparap.
Cfcpap mac an Roipcij.i. clann DauiD, mic muipip, mic DauiD, mic muipip Do mapbab la cpeacuipib mi appil,-] cib aofn Dpfm po cuip a ccopccap, nf in aon 16 po hfpbaijic, uaip copcaip Pemann, cfpoicc, Dpong mop DO rhaicib a mumcipe, Da ccfnoaib conpapal ccopaijeacc cpeice (an cmn Don cfp le jiollapacina ccdplaccap ap cpeacuipib) le penepcal hua maccaille,
i
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p Turlough This Turlough Mac-I-Brien Ara was a faithful subject of the Queen of England;
Calvagh
He was
the third of the
illegiti-
mate sons
of Sir William O' Carroll, chief of
see the Queen's letter in his favour printed above,

cheartach, or Maurice,
p- 1634.
His son Muir-
Seethe Ely O' Carroll, in the King's County Indenture made between this Sir William and
Sir
was appointed Bishop of
Henry Sidney, above printed under the year

it
Killaloeby Queen Elizabeth.
1576, pp. 1690, 1691, from which
will ap-
1582.]

The deceased was
1775
the Earl [of Clanrickard].

in valour.
a hero in prowess, and a soldier
been for some time Tanist of Thomond, [and continued Donnell. He aftersuch] until he was expelled, together with his brother, by wards went to Spain, and to France, and thence to England, where he obtained
his pardon,
He had
and
his entire share of the territory, except the tanistry alone.
He
died at a good old age, and was interred in the monastery of Ennis. Donough, the son of Murrough, son of Turlough, son of Teige, son of Turlough, who was son of Brian Chatha-an-Aenaigh O'Brien, was put to death in
an ignoble manner, that is, he was hanged in Thomond by Captain Mortant, who was Marshal in the country, and by the Sheriff, Sir George, the son of Thorrias
Cusack.
before he had formed a league with the sons of the Earl of The Clanrickard, but, having repented, he returned back under protection.
The year
others detected a flaw and a defect in [the form of] the protection, so that they seized on Donough, and hanged him, as we have before stated, in the gateway
of Limerick, on the 29th of September, which fell on Friday. conveyed to his native -territory, and interred at Ennis.
His body was

,
Donough, the son of Turlough", son of Murtough, son of Mac-I-Brien of Ara, having been a long time disobedient to his father, and obedient to the Earl of
Desmond, came
fully
under protection; but followed him, and slew him.

in
his
own
brother, Turlough, revenge-
O'Carroll (John-an-Bhealaigh, the son of William Odhar, son of Ferganainm, son of Mulrony, son of John), was slain by abominable and unprofitable treachery,
by Mulrony, the son of Teige Caech, son of Ferganainm
and
this
murder
did not turn out to prolong the life of Mulrony, for he himself was slain by his kinsman, Calvagh", the son of William Odhar, upon which Calvagh was ap-
pointed in his brother's place. The four sons of Roche, namely, the sons of David, son of Maurice, son of
David, son of Maurice, were slain by traitors, in the month of April but although they were cut off by the one party, it was not on the one day that they were killed for Redmo'nd and Theobald, with a great number of the chiefs of
;
;
their people
spoils
and of their chief constables, were slain, while in pursuit of the of that part of the country where they had met those traitors, by the
according to the English law, as
legitimate.
if
pear that Sir William O'Carroll's bastard sons are allowed by the Government to succeed him,
they were
1776
ctNNdta Rio^hachca eirceaNN.
[1582.
epaicc connDun. Qp i bd bfn DO efpoie an can pin .1. gpainne injfn coippbealBaij, mic muijiceapraij, infn mfic fbpiam ana i an can ao connaipc a
pfp ina coccoib cnarhnoinnce,
-]
ina aigfbaib
hi
hampfpcc aiceap 50 po ecc

pecc po habnaicic.
in
aohaiD pin
oia paijib, no lace co ppocaip a pip cele comb i naofn-
ancomfa
DauiD ap an mac bd pine 05 6pipea6 cpooa DO caliaipc lap an mbappac an Roippceac TDuipip, ITluipip DO ceapnu6 on cpoio pin lap mbuain eac oaoine lomba Oe. -]
.1. .1.
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Ctn Sfinepccal pempaice,~| pacpiccin conoun Do cece im parhain ap ccinD
Do epic Roipcij. Da mac occa an poipcij .1. Sfan, uilleacc, 1 an cfp uile Deipge po na heijmib,"] an ceo cumapcc Do clob ap na cpecuipib. T?o gabaD pop a piplfnmain cap copainn na cfpe amac a ppoccup Dia nDainjip inccfnD ciap
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m^cib pCba, coillfD, po pill na pojlaiDe ap Da mac an Poipcij co po mapbab iao pfm, i a ccdpla ma ccimceall, 56 ndc gndc dp gan eloiDceac nf mop reapna Da ccdimcc ipin copaijeacc, uaip po mapbaD ai peace, -| aicpeabaij,
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T?o mapbab ann beop conpaDecc Do maip le hiomcap aipm Do cfirpi pip luce an cipe lapp an cacap pin gup bo haiccpeabaij eaccaip ceneoil baof an l?6ipceac mmpip DO cappaing Daiciuccab na cipe Dia eip.
cinn popal, i
aep pojnarha
-\
pf&ma an
cfpe.
pail cloinne puibne co nac
mo ina
-]
The Seneschal oflmokilly.
He was
the head
of a branch of the Fitzgeralds, descended from James Earl of Desmond, who was constituted
present barony of Fermoy, in the north of the county of Cork.

"
Traitors
It
Seneschal oflmokilly, in the county of Cork, in 1420. He held his residence at Ballymartyr. It
looks very extraordinary that the
Four Masters should

for
appears strange enough that the style these men traitors ;
P. O'Sullevan Beare and O'Daly regard

as patriots, fighting against traitors
Four Masters
them
and
should have called this personage a traitor ! Cox says that he surprised, in 1582, Youghall, and entered one end of the town, but that he was so
heretics for the cause of their country and reliIt should be here remarked that if the gion.
warmly received by Lieutenant
Calverleigh, and forty shot he had with him, that he was forced to retreat and leave fifty of his men dead behind
nent, the term traitor
Four Masters had been writing on the Contiwould have been applied
to
by them
Eoche and
his people,
who were on
Popt and
the side of the excommunicated Queen, and not

to the Fitzgeralds,
him.
who fought
for the
very odd that the horses should be mentioned before the men. The
It looks
Horses.
his beloved son in Christ, the
King of Spain,
for Farrell
But
these Annals were compiled
loss of
little
c
human beings was accounted moment at this period.

This
is
as of
very
O'Gara,
who was
loyal to his Protestant sove-
Roche's country
comprised in the
reign, Charles L; and it is quite evident that the Four Masters adopted their language to his,
1582.]

r
1777
The wife of Theobald at Seneschal of Imokilly and Gilla-Patrick Condon. this time was Grainne, daughter of Turlough, the son of Murtough, i. e. the
and when she saw her husband, mangled and mutilated, and disfigured, carried towards her, she shrieked extremely and dreadfully, so that she died on that night, alongside the body of her husband
daughter of Mac-I-Brien Ara
; ;
and both were buried together.
The
flict
;
Barry,
i.
e.
David, defeated Maurice, the eldest son of Roche, in a confight, after
and Maurice escaped from the
having
lost
many
horses and
men.
before mentioned and Padraigin Condon came, about the The two ensuing Allhallowtide, into the western part of Roche's country'. and all [the inhabitants of] the young sons of Roche, namely, John and Ulick,
The Seneschal
country, rose
up
at their shouts,
and gained the
first battle
over the
traitors".
They proceeded
the
to pursue them,
vicinity of their fastnesses in
beyond the boundary of the territory, into the the woods and forests but the plunderers turned
;
two sons of Roche, and slew them, and all those who were about upon them and though a slaughter does not usually take place without some person escaping*, a very small number only of those who had come in this pursuit
;
escaped, for [whole] tribes, families, heads of districts, servitors, and soldiers of the territory, were slain. The constables of the Clann-Sweeny were also slain
:
in short, not
more than fourteen men of the people of the territory who bore arms outlived this engagement so that Roche and Maurice had afterwards to
;
bring strangers from other

/
territories to inhabit the territory.
not to their
*
own notions on this subject. The proverb " ni jjnar ap Escaping.

is
this success, that they
pursued the enemy out-
j;an
not happily cited here, because what immediately follows does not afford a coneloioreac,"
tradiction to the proverb
boundary of Roche's country, and to the very verge of the woods and forests where the plunderers had their haunts ; but the
side the
which the writer
in-
tended.
duced
at
The proverb should not be introThe language should be thus all.
plunderers, observing that they were likely to be followed into their fastnesses, and there
slaughtered, took fresh courage, wheeled round upon their pursuers, and fought with such bravery and desperation that they killed the two
shaped: " The two young sons of Roche, John and and all the inhabitants of the territory, Ulick,
rose
up
at their shouts,
traitors
all
which the
Roches and
and a battle ensued, in were routed. The young

were so animated
at
young leaders, and nearly exterminated the inhabitants of Roche's country ; for after this engagement there were found but fourteen men
fit
their people
to bear
arms iu the whole territory," &c.
10 E
1778
ctNNata Rio^hachra eipeaNN.

.1.
[1582.
po ba lujame a oi6ea6 50 po rionnpccam pe Dol ap belaib a acap, i a po heccaoineab e pfin Do puibe ina lonab. lonnapbab, mic comaip lapla TTlac mpla Dfpmurhan .1. Sfan, mac Sfmaip, mic Sfain, arimil Dopala 66, Sfan ooeuiriminaipcciDlaaeapccaipoib, i apeab poa pip DO bol cfcpap mapcac DO coillcibh fcaplac oaccallaim an b'appaij moip baf mmmfbon taof Do ca T a ^ ainn m ^r ba bfp ccombdib pogla FFTco na coipijnbh cul crul 6obapba buibeiac. Oo pala pom capan piuicpi aen aca ace iappai6 apoile. T?o gonab po gabab 1 ajhaib in aghaib,-! gan Sfan ap an lacaip fin, -] ni 6eachai6 ea6 aen mile opeapann an ran po ecc po a eoc e ap pibe co ceooip, 1 po baD paofnbel pocappna po hiomcpab ap Do Don baile Do ponab cftparhna coriipoinnce De. T?o copcaij, i ap poccam muna bfir jupab naghcuipeab a cfno a ccomapba copccaip 50 hdccliac, 016 copona Sa^can baoi po ba6 ooilij Dfcan Deijpip pin ap a bucca ppi coipap a angbaiêacc in iona6 pfbma. Semup mac bepc SeoD, i lolmaoimb, Sfain, mic gfpoic mic romdip mpla Do jabail in aofnpfcc le Sfan mac an mpla, a eipi,-| a 6a mac Do cpochaD ap aon pip. 1 a cpochao peal bfj cap Caicilm, injfn caiDg, mic Domnaill, mic copbmaic laDpaij meg Jcaprai j, bean mec muipip ciappaije Decc,q ap ann canjacap a ciujlaire ap loc lein f lin piaclaij, 0501 hiomloccaD on oilen co poile ap uaman na ppo^lao, -] a
TTlac uf rhaoflrhuaib
oomnall mac repoio DO mapbab,
-]
"|
^^
-\
-]
-]
-\
habnacaD
bliaDain
w
*
maimpcip aipbealaij.
pippleochaiD, Spaibcine pion, Diab in Diaoh.
Zouch.
~\
âor mop
pi
Deapcan Deapmaip ipm Da
Siuitsi,
i.
e.
ward
off the blow, for that the latter
was deadds,
In search of the other This does not appear to have been the case. O'Daly, who tells the much fuller and better, asserts that a story
traitor
sirous to seize the Geraldine alive.
He
;
that his head was then cut off and sent to Dublin,
named John conveyed information to Zouch and Hooker and Cox state confidently
;
and spiked in the front of the castle and that his body was conveyed to Cork, and hung in chains at one of the city gates, where it remained
nearly three years, till on a tempestuous night See also P. O'Sulit was blown into the sea
levan Beare, Hist. Cathol. Iber.,
z
that Captain
Zouch having received information from an Irish spy where Sir John of Desmond was, went out in search of him.
y
fol.
99-
Wounded.
O'Daly
asserts, c. 23, that
vil-
named Thomas Fleming, who is said to have been once a servant to Sir John of Desmond,
lain
This was written The Crown of England for Farrell O'Gara, and the loyalists of the reign
of Charles
*
I.
plunged a spear into his throat ere Zouch could
Along
with.
O'Daly says that he was sub-
1582.]
1779
His of O'Molloy, i. e. Donnell, the son of Theobald, was slain. he had commenced to depose his father, death was the less lamented because
The son
and
to expel him,
and
to set himself
up
i.
in his place.
e.
The son of the son of Thomas the
Earl of Desmond,
Earl, fell
John, the son of James, son of John,
by
in
his enemies, unrevenged.
The
following
is
the
true account of the
manner
which he came by
his death.
John
set out,
accompanied by four horsemen, for the woods of Eatharlach, to hold a conference with Barry More, with whom he had entered into a plundering confedeproceeded southwards across the River Avonmore, in the middle of a dark and misty day, and happened to be met, front to front and face to face,
racy.
He
by Captain
the other
x
.
Siuitsi",
with his forces, though neither of them was in search of John was [mortally] wounded* on the spot, and had not advanced
beyond that place when he died. He was carried crosswise on his own steed, with his face downwards, from thence to Cork and when brought to that town he was cut in quarters, and his head was sent to Dublin
the space of a mile
;
as a token of victory.
land
2
,
the loss of this
Were it not that he was opposed to the crown of Enggood man would have been lamentable, on account of his
liberality in
bestowing jewels and riches, and his valour in the field of conflict. James, the son of John, son of Garrett, son of Thomas the Earl, was taken, along with* John, son of the Earl, and hanged a short time afterwards, together
with his two sons.

Catherine, the daughter of Teige, son of Donnell, son of Cormac Ladhrach Mac Carthy, and wife of Mac Maurice" of Kerry, died. She passed her last
days upon the lake of Lean Linfhiaclaigh moving from one island to another, through fear of the plunderers and she was interred in the monastery of
,
Airbheallach".
Great wind, constant
rain, lightning',
and much tempestuous weather, pre-
vailed successively in these
two
years.
of the white Teeth, the artificer of Sidh Bugha,
sequently taken prisoner, sent to Cork, and, as some had asserted, put to death.
|J
who had
d
his forge at this lake.
Maurice, anglice Fitzmaurice. Lake of Lean Linfhiaclaigh, i.e. of Lean of
Mac
Airbheallach, otherwise called the
of Oirbhealach, and
r
,
now Muckruss
-
monastery See notes
the white Teeth. This was the

of Killarney, which
is
name of the
lake
s
,
u
',
,
derived, according to the
Lightning,
under the year 1340, p. 566, supra. rpaibcme r' on According to
Dinnsenchus (Lib.
Lee., fol. 239, a. a.),
from Lean
the Irish work called Coir Anmann, as pre-
10 E 2
1780
ctNNata Rio^hachca eirceaNR

ipin
[1582.
Cnoimfp mop
banDa
bfic
i
paijDiuip, -] napo pfpca 6 cup pojjmaip na bliabna

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mbliabam pi beop. Ifc banna mapcpluaij po muincip capcm

56 po baof lomacc bfb
~\ ~\
piuicpi
DO
peacmaca 50 mi mfboin pojjmaip

~\
na bliabna ppeacnaipce, pcopuip aca on bpponnpa ace cnam, ag caicfm na cipe ina ccimceall, pob eiccfn nip anpac qcc mac jac cinn popail Da paibe ipin cip DO cop illaim cuca.
i
TTIheic muipipDfinlfirlegeapalcachaib Pacpicin, emann,i TJobfpD, clann ccoccab 6 Do pdigbaccap bpaijDfnup luimnij 50 pin. Qon Doiocibh Dia
pfpca,-]
noeacpac 50 hapo
l?o eipigh
1 nf
po jlacpac cpeaca an baile apa bapac ap maoain.

Dia paijiD
.1.
capcin hairpim, puaip a ppeaccpa 50 po ullarh, i cup Dia Ro pillpfc clann TTlec coip Don ceo cumapcc, i a clpiDmeao jan coiccill. muipip co na ccpeic 50 po gabpac poplongpopc imon mbaile pop na paijoiuipib.
po puipij la
capnn an mapcpluaij 50 hobann

a paijDiuipib,
)
.1.
Dmne-uapal Do cloinn cpfchij baof ppocaip clomne TTleic muipip an can po TTluipcfpcac mac emainn, mic majnupa, mic emain, mec pfchi j DO rhapbaD
i
ccopna la cloinn an eappuicc ciappaiji bai 05 congnam la muiricip na bampfojna Don cup pom. TTlac muipip pfm, upriiop a buicce DO bfic po Dlicceab 56 pin. Qn can acconnaipc pibe a cfp ajd cpomloc,
i
nDopap maimpcpe
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OD cualaib an capcfn Do mapbab la a cloinn po bpip-po ceooip Ifc pnarha, baile an buinDenaij. Do coib ccfnD a clomne laporh. liop cuacail, biaille,
i
-)
Nf beacaib
laiji
laip ipin mfimipc pin luce baile
mec an
cairn,
na baile
ui
cao-\
coccaib TTlac muipip a clann on mbaile, DO coibpioc Dfblfnib pop culaib a ccoillcib, 1 nf mo na imceacc Do puacc leo an
na clann piapaip.
Oo
served in the
Book of Lecan,
fol.
221, the
word
maurice,
'

pi.
See note
d
,
ppaiBcine signifies
Thus, in explaining fpaiBnne, the cognomen of Fiacha

Sraiblitine,
" a thunder-storm."

Bishop of Kerry,
e.
1680, supra. of Ardfert. This was
Monarch
of Ireland, it states that

i
he was so called "DO na ppapa ceneo ciccfp na p6, from the showers of fire which occurred
in his reign."
James Fitzmaurice, Bishop of Ardfert. In Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops, p. 523, it is stated that James Fitzmaurice was bishop of this see
in 1551
the
f
The word oeaptan is glossed in Book of Lecan, fol. 164, by anpao, a storm.
Into their hands, i.e. to be delivered
as hostages.
i.
and 1576, but no account

consecrated or
is
given of
when he was
k
when
he^died.
up
to
them
e
Leacsnamha, now Lixnaw. See it already mentioned under the years 1568 and 1577.
'
Patrickin,
e.
Little Patrick.
Lis-Tuathail,
i.
e.
Tuathal's
in the
fort,
now
Lis-
The monastery of Odorney, now Abbeydorney, or Abbey-Odorney, in the barony of Clan-
barony of Clanand county of Kerry, in which are the maurice,
towel, a well-known
town
1582.]
1781
There was a great abundance of nuts also in this year. A company of [foot] soldiers, and half a company of cavalry, of the people of Captain Siuitsi, were [quartered] at Ardfert [in Kerry] from the beginning
of the autumn of the past year to the September of the present year and though they had received a great quantity of provisions and stores from the Sovereign, they never ceased consuming and spending the country around them
;
;
and they compelled the son of every head of a
tribe in the country to be deli-
vered up into their hands'. Patrickin g Edmond, and Robert, the sons of Mac Maurice, had sided with the Geraldines in the war from the time of their escape from Limerick till then.
,
night they went to Ardfert, and on the next morning they seized upon The captain of the cavalry, i. e. Captain Hatsim, rose the spoils of the town.
One
up suddenly
to
responded to, of Mac Maurice [then] returned with their prey, and [afterwards] encamped around the town, to besiege the soldiers. gentleman of the Clann-Sheehy, i. e. Murtough, the son of Edmond, son of Manus, son of Edmond Mac Sheehy,
meet them, without waiting for his soldiers but he was actively dismounted, and put to. the sword in the first onset. The sons
;
along with the sons of Mac Maurice at this time, was slain in the doorway of the monastery of Odorney", by the sons of the Bishop of Kerry',
who was
who were
Mac Maurice himself, aiding the Queen's people on that occasion. and the greater number in his country, had been hitherto obedient to the law
;
but when he saw his territory plundered, and when he heard that the captain had been slain by -his sons, he at once destroyed Leacsnamha", Lis-Tuathail
1
afterwards went to join his sons. G He was not joined in this evil career by the inhabitants of Baile-mhic-an-Chaim p or the Clann-Pierce. Mac Maurice took his sons or of Baile-Ui-Chaeluighe
Biaille
,
and Baile-an-Bhuinneanaigh".
He
away from the town [of Ardfert], and they

ruins of a celebrated castle built by Fitzmaurice.
all
went back
to the
woods
and
from the cross-roads of

of Iraghticonor.
Lisseltin, in the
barony
Biaille,
now
Beale, a ruined castle lying on
the Kerry side of the Shannon, about four miles to the west of Bally longford, in the barony of
Iraghticonor, and county of Kerry.
n
Baile-mhic-an-Chaim,
See note
f
now Ballymacqueem. under the year 1577, p. 1689, sup. aile- Ui-Chaduighe, nowBallykealy, a townc
,
Baile-an-Bhuinneanaigh,
i,
e.
Bunnion's, or
a
land, containing the ruins of a castle, in the
Bunyan's town,
bathing
village,
now Ballybunnion,
small
parish of Kilmoyly, barony of Clanmaurice, and
about four miles and a half
county of Kerry.
1782
ciNNU6a Rioghachca
eiraeciNN.
[1532.
can cainicc capcin piuicpi oon cfp po capcc rnapbea capcimhacpim,-) Dpupecimceall an baile po cpochab o na puce poppapom cacc a muincipe, baoi ap lairh a muincipe on cip. Uucc cuaipc ap na laip bpaijoe baoie Ifnb
i
-]
coillcib DiappaiD meic muipip -| a cloinne, puaip aipccne, eoala, -| tnapbra lomba pe a noenarh. l?o cuipeaD laip a Duecapaig pein (baf ppocaip an
i
caipcm ap an eapaonca pin) illfic bebionn lap na paccbail polarh Do mac Uaippnjip mac muipip mpla oeapmuman Don cfp TTluipip 1 Da riiuincip. ccionn aimpipe lap pin,-] cuccpace cpoiec DO mumcip apDa pfpca,-] DO mapi
bob leo a ccapcin, a leucenane a ppfp bpacaiê, Opong mop ele a maille T?o bfn a CUID Don coccaD pin le mac TTluipip peac cac, 6ip Do Diotppsu.
-\
aicpicceab a Daofne Do milleab a
a poipjnfm, i a aiccpeaba. Nip Dion Dia caipcceabaib, cuapa cpann, na cappacc, na cuinigce caiman, na ppema pib ace amail ba mcc a nfpccaipoe no puicpeab ip na hionacaib ep&alca pin me.
loc,
mi augupc na bliabna po i capcin ele Dpaccbail DO ina jobepnoip op cfnD muimneac, -) an capcin pin Do bpfic na nifiDe po rhaip Do paijbiuipib apDa peapca le a coipso copcaij. Nf baof on no Ifc bannDa Do paijDiuipib ace piubal a uaip pin banoa, ccipe, no 05 cum-
Capcin
piuicpi
Do 6ol
hi Sapcoib
juccab ap jeapalcacaib 50 cpiocnuccaD na bliaDna po. Capcin piuicpi Do mapbab ccompac hi Saâib puil painic laip ceacc a aip nepinn. cap lapla Dfpmuman Do bfic o mi mfooin pojmaip na bliaDna pfmainn 50 DepeaD na bliaDna po ecip Dpuim pinjin, eacaplac, -| coill an cuiecib gan
i
i
)
DO buain, no Do bpanap ap a uf6 no ap aipe ace a bfic 05 buam builcepac DO 16, i DoiDce noiojail ma noeapna lapla upmuman 56 pin ap geapalcacoib.
i
Leac-Beibhionn,
now Lackbevune,
in
the
lost
an able
officer,
and the Irish were
rid of
an
north-west of the barony of Iraghticonor, and in the county of Kerry. This castle, as well as all the others in the barony of Iraghticonor, belonged
indefatigable enemy."
Druim-Finghin, i.e. Fineen's ridge. This name, which is locally pronounced Droumfineen,
applied to a long ridge of high ground, extending from near Castle-Lyons, in the
is
(
'
by right
to
seized upon,
O'Conor Kerry, but had been all with the exception of Carrigafoyle.
county
by Fitzmaurice, during the rebellion of Desmond, r His treasures, a caipceaoa, i. e. his money,
plate, cups,
s
of Cork, to Kingoguanagh, on the south side of the bay of Dungarvan, in the county of Waterford
and other valuable property.

to say
:
Before he could return
would be apt
An English writer " And thus the Queen
Drom.
See O'Brien's Irish Dictionary, in voce This Drum, dorsum, or ridge, divides
the barony of Decies within
Drum
from that of
1582.]
1783
they were scarcely gone when Captain Siuitsi came into the country, on report of the killing of Captain Hatsim, and to relieve his people and as he had not overtaken them [the Mac Maurices] about the town, he hanged the hostages of
;
many preys and and slew many persons. 'He reinstated its lawful inhabitants, who were spoils, along with hip during this disturbance, in Leac-Beibhionn", it having been left desolate by Mac Maurice and his people. Shortly afterwards Mac Maurice
prevailed on the Earl of Desmond to come into the country and they both gave battle to the people of Ardfert, and slew their captain, their lieutenant, their ensign, and a great number of others Mac Maurice along with them.
;
the
the country, mere children, who were in the custody of his people. woods in search of Mac Maurice and his sons, and took
He
traversed
experienced the effects of this war beyond all others, for his people were cut off, his corn was destroyed, and his mansions and edifices were demolished.
His treasures' were not secured [though he secreted them] in the hollows of trees or of rocks, or in subterranean caverns, or under the roots of trees, but
[he lost
places
them
all]
just as
though they had been deposited
in these respective
by
his enemies.
Captain Siuitsi went to England in the month of August in this year, after having left another captain as governor over the Munstermen. This captain took all the surviving soldiers of Ardfert with him to Cork, so that there was
not at that time, or until the end of this year, a company or half a company of soldiers to be seen traversing the country of the Geraldines, or encroaching
upon
their territory.
5
Captain Siuitsi was slain in a conflict in England, before he could return

to Ireland.
*
The Earl
of
Desmond remained from
the middle
month of the autumn of
the preceding year to the end of this year between Druim-Finghin', Eatharlach", w and Coill-an-Choigidh heeding or caring for neither tillage nor reaping, excepting the reaping [i. e. cutting down] of the Butlers by day and jaight, in
,
revenge of the injuries which the Earl of Ormond had up to that time committed
f
Decies without
u
Drum,
in the latter county.
w
Coiil-an-Chotgidh,
vince.
i.
e.
the wood -of the pro-
Eatharlach,
now Aharlagh,
or Aharlow,
of the town of Tipperary.

this incorrectly
remarkable glen, about four miles to the south Ware and Cox call Harlow.
This wood is shewn on old maps of " Munster, as Kilquegg," a short distance to the south of Kilmallock, in the county of Limerick.
1784
ctNNata Rioshachca emeaNN.

i
[1582.
DO baojluuccab mpla upmuman no bfic paccpoib an bliabam pi 50 po bfn a opoc lapmaipc Don ouchaij oip ni mop nac paccbab na hen cuinn piacaile PP C knpcce co lorpa, q o cnamcoiU co paf ai S maccnab gep bo papac na puinn pin ap a rhfince conncae alle cainni^. Ni'p bo
l?ob,upaiDe buicilepai
-)
DO aipcc an ciapla an Da upmuriiain, Durhaig apa, uf caipin, ele bfipcepc, co na popcuacaib, an rpian mfbonac, ap 506 caoib Do cpian cluana meala, a innipin, no a aipnfip Ifc no cpian Ni hfioip piuip 50 Dopap pinprlaipcce.
-\ -]
ap lomcaippioc geapalcaijoo beabcaib Doilgib Do comjlfcaib cpuaiDe, Dionnbet ipin aimpip pin aDbfpcaoi nac mop paijcib eccuailngeacaib an ran pin, co mbaof gfim bo no jur oipfrhan o Duncaofn co caipiol muman.
-\
-|
lQl?la Dfpmuman Do ool

lap cap buicilepac.
mpla upmuman
.1.
puaib, mic Sftnaip, bd hiao po paccaib an ciapla op cfno na cpice baoi an can pin .1. comap, Da coimeD ace Dol Do pfm hi Saôib. Tapla ina ccimceall pom ip in mbaile an can pin mfp jappaD mapcac coipijce glan cojca gallocclac,-) jfomanac.
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Capla emann an calan, eouapo, clann cpemaip nuc piapaip mic emainn, Da Deapbpacaip laopibe Don lapla upmuman
i
in
pampaD na bliabna po pa oipreap muman pa can pin ppiobapo ap a cioncc Da mac occa
~\
-\
eipjfccap pibe po na hfimjib 50 hupmaipneac co noeacaccap ap aon gopc pip an lapta. bacap ace coimec ppp a cele jan cfccap aca Dionnpaiccib
apoile 6 piobapD 50 cnoc gpapann,
Ro
dp
annpin po pill an ciapla ap na haip-
pfbaib, 1 Do bpip pop buicilepeacaib.
Ro pdccbaccap
a ccoipijce uile po locc a nCpccapacc, -| bo bpeac 6 coppaib Daofne an culac pop ap cacpaccap 6 jeapalcacaib ip in Do ponab ecc mop ip in maijm pin .1. apOconpapal buicilepac njliaib pin.
pluaj,
)
Dpong mop Dia rhapcpo bpfic a mbiobbab gup
DO rhapbab
*
.1.
Colla mac maolmuipe mic oomnaill oicc mec puibne.

a small village in the
b
Nfp
Lothra,
now Lorha,
barony of Lower
y
See note w , under the year

Cnamhchoill,
Onnond, county of Tipperary.

1
179, p. 50, supra,
Fidh-ard, i. e. high wood, now Fethard, a well-known town, in the barony of Middlethird; and county of Tipperary. This town is of considerable antiquity, as appears from the
now Cneamhchoill, near

See note
',
the
Au-
town of Tipperary
Irresistible.
under the year

.1.
1560, p. 1578, supra.
"
gustinian monastery founded there shortly after the English invasion, and from the grant made
to the corporation
eccualamj
biopulainj
by Edward
III.,
to enclose
no ftopulamj."
a
O'Clery.
the town with a wall.

the most west-
Dun-Caoin,
now Dunqueen,
See note
',
there
still
Of the fortifications remain some of the town wall and

In 1650 this town
after a
ern part of Kerry
under the year
three of the gateway towers.
1558, p. 1561, supra.
was besieged by Cromwell, to whom,
1582.]

It
1785
against the Geraldines.
was the easier
to oppress the Butlers, because the

;
Earl of
ill
Ormond was
x
,
this year in
England
and
his territory experienced the
effects of it [his absence], for
almost the whole tract of country from Waterto the
ford to Lothra
and from CnamhchoilF
to remain one surface of
weeds and waste.
county of Kilkenny, was suffered Nor was it wonderful that these
lands should be left thus waste, on account of the
many
times the Earl had
plundered the two Ormorids, Duharra, Ikerrin, South-Ely, and the Fortuathas, Middle-third and Clonmel-third, and [the districts lying] on both sides of the
Suir, as far as the gate of Waterford.
The
rate battles, the

at this time,
hard
conflicts,
and the
irresistible
one-half or one-third of the despe2 irruptions of the Geraldines,
period it was commonly said, that the lowing of a cow, or the voice of the ploughman, could a scarcely be heard from Dun-Caoin to Cashel in Munster.
this
cannot be enumerated or described.
At
In the summer of this year the Earl of Desmond proceeded to the east of Munster, and the western part of the country of the Butlers. He was met on
this occasion at
Edmond
Fidh-ard b by the two young sons of the Earl of Ormond, namely, an-Chaladh and Edward the two sons of James, son .of Pierce Roe,
;
Edmond, and brothers of the Earl of Ormond that then and these were they whom the Earl had left over was, namely, of Thomas 'the country, to protect his country, on his departure for England. They had
son of James, son of
;
with them in that town (Fethard) a vigorous body of cavalry, and select bodies
Those courageously rose up at of gallowglasses and Giomanachs [horseboys]. the shouts', and entered the same field with the Earl. They marched on frorrf
Fethard
Knockgraffon, being on their guard of each other, and without coming to any engagement. At the latter place (however) the Earl turned round upon these warriors, and defeated the Butlers, who left a great part of their cavalry, and
to
mercy of their enemies, and the discretion of their foes, so that the hill on which they fought was speckled with the bodies of men In this battle was slain [on the slain by the Geraldines in that engagement. side of 'the Butlers] one whose death- was the cause of great lamentation, namely,
all
their foot soldiers, at the
Colla, the son of
of the Butlers.
spirited resistance,
Mulmurry, son of Donnell Oge Mac Sweeny, chief constable There was slain on the other side only Gerald, the son of John
capitulated on honourable
c
it
Ease up
at the shouts.
c.
See O'Daly's Initium,
terms.
<$<:.,
Giraldinorum,
24.
10
1786
awwaca rcioshachca eiraeaNR
[1582.
Sfain,
Sfam oicc, mic mapbaD Don raoib nap ace maD jeapalr mac baoein. comaip mpla pob abbap eccaofne epi&e ina cip
~\ i
i i
mic
na blia&na Cuaipr Da noeachaib lapla'Dfpmuman cciappaije ppojriiap cloinne muipip. ppoplonjpopc mbaipp ppoccup Do peaccrhain po, i baoi Do jlacaD cpeice popal uf caofm. Uiajaic rpoijrij an mpla on maijm pin Rucc oppa 6 caofrh, i na compocpaib baccap compoiccpi ooib. 6accap pe hf6 an laof pin rpe leapccaib luacpa oeaohaiD ace Ifnmain na pfbna co panOD cualam an ciapla caip5acrap ccompoccup Dpoplonjpopc an mpla. a nopoanaip, Ro eipij co hobann co po mfpca na ccficipn, pojapcopann ua ccaofrh,l nf mop canaicc pan copaieacc ppaofneaD ipin plijiD cceDna pop na ropcpaccap uile. Ro jabaD ann 6 caofm pfin Qpc mac Dorhnaill mic
i
i
.1.
aipr.
.1.
l?o
CtoD.
Qpr occ Do mapbaD mac ele Dia cloinn gabaD beop a mac Ro jabab ann mac an biocapa uf pccolaije, Do cpochab e ap a
.1.
-\
-\
airle.
DauiD an corhpaic mac pfam oicc.mic
Sfain ci jeapna na coille moipe Decc.

.1.
Semup
DfipD DO
jfpalc, clann an eappuicc ciappaije rhapbab le cloinn emainn mec pichij

)
clann rpemuip mic
17ip.1.
nDioâil a nofpbpafap
mapbpar clann ann eappuicc pfcc piarh. Sfan occ clann cpfam mic emainn, mic comaip on Uomap, geapalr, Deccaib naoupca an bliabain pi. claonglaip Dimceacc Do*pinn
TTluipcfpcac po
-| "|
Pobal-Ui-Chaoimh,
now
Pobble-O'Keeffe,
built thereon, under the
name of Williamstown,
situated on the confines of the counties of Cork,
and the lands
let to
farmers directly under the
Limerick, and Kerry, about ten miles distant from Castle-Island on the west, and from New-
Crown.
in
Market and Kanturk on the
east.
This tract
of land extends about seven miles in length from north to south, parallel with the Black-
Luachair-Deaghaidh, now Sliabh Luachra, the county of Kerry, adjoining PobbleSee note ", O'Keeffe, in the county of Cork.
e

f
p-
water (by which it is in a great part bounded on the west), and about two miles and a quarter
in breadth
is
Almost
all,
literally,
1721, supra. " not

all slain."
e.
many came
in
the pursuit
8
who were not

i.
from west
to east,
on which side
it
David-an-Chomhraic,
David of the
corn-
bounded by the Ownaglyn, a mountain stream

This territory,
II.,
bat, or duel.
He was
who
flowing into the Blackwater.
Fitzgibbons,
the head of a sept of the possessed the half barony of
which lay waste since the time of James
when the
into the
last O'Keeffe, a boy of sixteen, went French service at the head of his father's
Coill-mor, anglice Kilmore, near Charleville, in See Smith's the north of the county of Cork
Natural and Civil History of Cork, book
ii. c.
6.
company of foot, was appropriated

in the reign of William III.,
Crown, and a small town
to the
According to a pedigree of the Fitzgeralds in an interpolated manuscript copy of Keating's
1582.]

own
1787
Oge, son of John, son of Thomas the Earl, whose death was a cause of lamentation in his
country.
this
In the autumn of
year the Earl of
Desmond made an
in the
spoils
incursion into
Kerry, and remained nearly a week encamped Maurice. His foot-soldiers went forth to collect
upper part of Clannd in Pobal-Ui-Chaoimh

.
O'Keeffe and the neighbours of that vicinity pursued them, and continued during the course of the day to follow them through the sloping fields of Luachair-
Deaghaidh', until they had
come near the
Earl's camp.
When
the Earl heard
the bustling of the kerns, and the report of their ordnance, he rose
up suddenly,
rushed upon O'Keeffe, and routed him back the same passage by which he had come and almost all f the pursuers were slain. O'Keeffe himself, i. e. Art, the son of Donnell, son of Art, and his son, Art Oge, were taken prisoners and
; ;
Hugh, another of his sons, was slain. The son of the Vicar O'Scoly was also taken prisoner on this occasion, and was afterwards hanged.
David-an-Chomhraic g the son of John Oge, son of John [Fitz-Gibbon] Lord
, ,
of Coill-mor, died.
James and Gerald, the sons of the Bishop of Kerry, i. e. the sons of James, son of Richard [Fitzmaurice], were slain by the sons of Edmond Mac Sheehy,
in revenge of their brother,
Murtough,
whom
the sons of the Bishop had slain
some time
before.
Thomas, Gerald, and John Oge, the sons of John, son of Edmond, son of
Thomas
death.
[Fitzgerald] of Claenglais, died this year,
by the sword" or by a natural
History of Ireland, in the possession of the Editor, the Lord of Coill-mor descended from Gibbon,
Maurice,
sainne,
son of Gerald, son of John na Surson of John of Callan),

in
natural
who
the natural son of the celebrated John of Callan

Fitzgerald,
went
to
France
November, 1691.
It
should
by the wife of O'Coinnin

is
and the
the ancestor of the Eidire Fionn, or White Knight, Chief of Clann-Gibbon, as well
as of Fitz-Gibbon of Ard-sciath.
same Gibbon
be here remarked, that the Down Survey shews a large wood in the north of this half barony
of Coill-mhor (Kilmore), and that this is the Coill-mhor mentioned in these Annals, in con-
From John Mor
na Sursainne, i.e. of the girdle, another illegitimate son of John of Callan, by the wife of O'Coilleain,
was descended the Lord of
Claenglais,
nexion with Delge, at the year 1580. h By the eword, DO pinn, i. e. by the point or edge of any weapon. The language is very unsatisfactory in the original.
It should be " In this died Thomas, Gerald, and John year
:
(mentioned in the next entry), in the county of Limerick, the last chief of which family was
Sir
John Fitzgerald
(the son of
Edmond, son of
Oge, the sons of John

of Claenglais.
Thomas, son of Maurice, son of Thomas, son of
fitz Edmond fitz Thomas Thomas and Gerald having been
10
s 2
1788
aNNdta rcioshachca
i
eiraeciNR
[1582.
mec puibne Sojan mac maolmuipe, mic Donncham, mic coippDealbaij; noipeaccap, oup oanconpapal Dfpmuman, pfp ciuin cfnopaij;ci noilcij Do ecc. apba Docoipcc noeabaiD i nionaD pfoma mic maolmuipe, mic Donnchaio, mic Coipp&ealbac occ mac coippDealbaij, oecc. Nfp an a comaopa Dia cmfo in aon aimpip coipp&ealbaijj mec puibne nDume map. ppip ap ap lucca epa aon
i
-\
maulbi Sip niclap

njjfiriipeab
Do 6ol
paôib
-|
in
blia6am
pi,
-|
a rilleaD cap a aip

i
na bliaDna ap ccinD, capcin bpabupcun ngoibfpnopacc coiccib connacc an aipfc pin, 1 an capcin pin Do 6ol ccfp amaljjaiD nfppac na Do leippccpiop Do on cuil 50 a cele, uaip uile DO loc blmDna po. Qn cfp
i i
~\
.baof ace piubal on poplonjpopc 56 apoile fcoppo. Nip Dfon ap an ccapcin pin, na pop a mumcip, nfimfo naoim na pilfo, pioD, na poicipjlfnD, na baile, na
bab&un no gup cojlaD an cfp uile laip. niac puibne bajamec, ITlaolmuipe
neill,
6c,
mac maolmuipe, mic ao&a, mic

T?uai6pi moip, mic Domnaill mi lun ap bpu loca peabail,
i
mec
puibne, i Domnall
mac mupchaiD, mic
na maDmann, mec puibne Do rhapbaD an 4 la Do nofb coinne ecip 6 nell ~\ 6 Domnaill bdccap 1 mo ace lomluaD aicipcc 6a hamlaiD Do ponaD na Ifcnaib Uonrhapaib imon loc. poplongpopcaib
~\
Dponj Dalbancoib anaicfnca Do rocc a poplonjpopr uf neill Do paofleaD napcpac baof le hacchaiD lomloccaD ap caol loca pebail, im upcopac in gup ab la coipcc eiccin ele Do oeacacap 50 po jabpacc cpacc
moipecca pin
.1.
~\
apcpa.j mbaccap na conpapail poicenelca nuacliaD buiDne co hanpuipijce ace lompuipeac le cpiocnucchao a ccoinne co po clai&miDpioc mec jan coiccill, i co nofcpacc pfin ap jan puiliujaD gan poipDeapccab poppa.
i
O Docapcaig Sfan mac peilim, mic concobaip cappaij cijeapna mnpi

ain Decc, 26
heoj-
man
~\
po ba6 bpaije
jill
ap a ppui^bice eic
~\
aip^fba (oia
ma&
slain in battle,
death, or
Thomas having
and John having died a natural fallen in battle, and
his hospitality, not his courage, as
might be
Gerald and John having died a natural death." The meeting. TheOipeaccap, ara^z'ce Iroghts,
1
The phrase peap nup epa neac um supposed. " a man who never refused ni, any one any is always used to express "a man of thing,"
unbounded bounty and
'
was a meeting, or conference, held by the Irish on hills for the purpose of deliberating about their public affairs, and which frequently ended
in a fight.
"
hospitality."
Sanctuary,
into the Origin
nfimfb
See Petrie's Inquiry
Ireland, p.
aud Uses of the Hound Towers of 59, where this passage is quoted.
literally,
Less refused, ap lucca epa
This refers to
"*
Noble,
picenelca,
" of good tribe
1582.]
1789
Owen, the son of Mulmurry, son of Donough, son of Turlough Mac Sweeny, Constable of Desmond, a sedate and tranquil man in the drinking-house and at the meeting' but obstinate, furious, and irresistible in battle and in the field
1
of contest, died.
Turlough Oge, the son of Turlough, son of Mulmurry, son of Donough, son There had not been of his tribe, of his years, of Turlough Mac Sweeny, died.
in his time,
any
who had
less refused
11
any man than
he.
Sir Nicholas Malby went to England this year, and returned in the winter of the year following and Captain Brabazon had the government of Connaught This captain went to Tirawley in the spring of this year, during this period.
;
and plundered and devastated the whole territory, from one extremity to the other, for he [continually] moved from one camp to another among them. Neither the sanctuary of the saint nor the poet, the wood nor the forest-valley,
1
the tower nor the bawn, was a shelter from this captain and his people, until the whole territory was destroyed by him.
Mac Sweeny Banagh (Mulmurry Oge, the son of Mulmurry, son of Hugh, son of Niall Mac Sweeny) and Donnell, the son of Murrough, son of RoryMore, son of Donnell-na-Madhmann Mac Sweeny, were slain on the fourth day of the
month of June, on the margin of Lough Foyle, whither they had gone to attend a meeting and conference between O'Neill and O'Donnell, who had two extensive and populous camps on the borders of the lake. These lamentable deaths
happened thus boat which was
and
it
:
a party of strange Scots from O'Neill's

used, for ferrying [passengers] across the
camp went into the straits of Lough Foyle;

1
being supposed that they had come on some other embassy, they were " permitted to land near the prow of the boat, where those noble constables
were, attended only by a small party, and unprepared" [for hostilities], awaiting the termination of the conference. They [the Scots] unsparingly put them to the sword, and then escaped themselves, without receiving a wound, or losing
a single drop of blood.
O'Doherty (John, the son of Felim, son of Conor Carragh), Lord of Inishowen, died on the 26th of May. He was a person for whose ransom (if he
or family."
have been mentioned whether the Scots had been

i.
Unprepared, anecdote is very unsatisfactorily
e. nihil
adveni
timeni.es.
This
in O'Neill's service, or
whether they had received
told.
It
should
instructions from
him
to attack the Mac Sweenys.
I7<jo
[i582.
puapcclab no bfic paip) an cf cfpoa ann pin,"] a rhac Sfan 6cc DoipDneab ma lonab an belaib Chacaoip ui bocapcaij. Uainic Depibe an cip Do cpomloc,
ecip lor, apbap, diciucchab, ~] inDilib. bfn cpomaiple buibe TTlaipe injfn cuinn f neill,
mec
Oorhnaill Decc.
cuinn, mic an calbaij Do mapbab an. 5. Sepcembep. TTlag plannchaib Daprpaije (.1. cacal 6cc) Do mapbab la a bpacaip pfin cabcc occ.
Neaccain mac
Clann uaceip paoa, mic Dauib, mic emamn, mice uillicc a bupc cfpoirc, crip amaljjaio a hucc mfic uilliam DfpTTlaoilip t>o Dol DiappaiD gabala PipofpD an mpainn 50 po jabpac bu. 17icapD a bupc bparaip a narap
.1.
i
-]
.1.
mac emainn, mic

pop na buibnib,
RiocaipD
i
an bappaij Deipje po na hfljmib co puce i po pfppac jliam geap amnaip pe apoile co po mapbab popccla a ccapla ina cimceall pa cpoiD pin. Ruccpac clann
uillicc 6 caiplen
~\
uaceip paoa a ccpeich,
a ccopccap.
TDac mec uilliam bupc .1. RiocapD puab mac Sfain mic oiluepaip mic Sfain DO mapbab njjfimpeab na bliabna po la comap uuioeop Duine uapal DO na bainpiojna, muincip acbfipfb cdc nap bo maic ppic an mapbab pm.
i
)
Dfccanac 6 ^pdoa Decc .1. Donnchab occ mac Donnchaib mic oonnchaib mic nicoil, pfp cumacca moip ccill ~\ ccuaic eipjbe.
i
Qn
TTlac bpuaiofba ollam ui bpiain 16 pfncap .1. TTlaoilin mac concobaip mic mic Sfain Decc, i a bpacaip jiolla bpijoe DoipDneab ina iona6. Diapmacca,
Diapmaicc ullcac mac Sfain Decc. TTla Conmibe bpian Dopca Decc, 13 lunn.
The
issue of the conference should also
have
been mentioned.
Both, literally,
lings,
F
" between crops, corn, dwel-
that that killing was not well procured," that is, that it was accomplished by unfair or trea-
cherous means,
s
'
and
cattle."
the barony of Eossclogher, in Dartry, the county of Leitrim, where the Mac Clancys,
01-
now
Ultach, i. e. Mac Donlevy. Mic C'onmidhe, now Mac Namee. Under this year Cox has the following
no-
Maglanchys,
as
they are locally called, are
still
or cottiers
p.
very numerous, but all reduced to farmers See note ', under the year 1228,
i.
removal of the Lord Deputy Grey, of which the Four Masters have no notice:
tice of the
" But
this
good Deputy, by the contrivance
218, supra.
q
Walter Fada,
tall.
e.
Walterus longus, Walter " and
of the rebels, was represented at the court of England as a bloody man, that regarded not the
lives of the subjects
the long or
'
Fairly slain, literally,
all
used to say
any more than the lives of but has tyrannized with that barbarity dogs,
1.582.]
1791
many horses and herds would have been given. His was elected in his place, in preference to Cahir O'Doherty in son, John Oge, consequence of which the country was ravaged, both crops, corn, dwellings, and cattle.
could have been ransomed)
;
Mary, the daughter of Con O'Neill, and wife of Sorley Boy

died.
Mac
Donnell,
Naghtan, son of Con,
who was
son of Calvagh [O'Donnell], was slain on
the 5th of September. Mac Clancy of Dartry" (Cathal
Oge) was
slain
by
his
own kinsman, Teige
Oga
The
sons of Walter Fadaq son of David, son of Edmond, son of Ulick Burke,
,
namely, Theobald and Meyler, went

stance of
to
Tirawley in search of booty,

i.
at the in;
Mac William,
their father's brother,
e.
Richard-an-Iarainn
and they
Eickard Burke, son. of Edmond, son of Ulick of Castlebar, seized some cows. rose up at the shouts, and overtook them and they fought a sharp and fierce battle, in which Bickard and the greater number of those around him were
;
prey in triumph. Rickard Roe, the son of John, son Burke, namely, of Oliver, son of John Oge, was slain in the winter of this year by Thomas Wideos, a gentleman of the Queen's people and all said that he was not fairly
slain.
The The son
sons of Walter
Fada carried
off the
of
Mac William
slain
r
.
The Dean O'Grady,

son of Nicholas, a
i.
e.
Donough Oge, son
of Donough, son of Donough,
of great power in Church and State, died. Mac Brody (Maoilin, the son of Conor, son of Dermot, son of John), Ollav to O'Brien in history, died and his kinsman, Gilla-Brighde, was elected in his
;
man
place.
Dermot
Ultach*, son of John, died.

(Brian, the son of
Mac Conmidhe'
Donough) died on
the 13th of June".

Lord Chancellor,
that there was little left for the
Queen
to reign
Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin, Sir
over but carcasses and ashes.
And
this false
story being believed in England, a general pardon was sent over to such of the rebels as would
Henry Wallop, Treasurer at Wars, Lords Justices, two men very unfit to be yoak'd together, the difference
accept thereof, and the Lord Deputy, in the midst of his victories, was recalled. So that in
in their
minds and
affections than it
between them being no less was in their

Hib. Angliccma, vol.
i.
August he
left
Ireland to the care of
Adam
bodies and professions." A. D. 1582.
1792
[1583.
QO1S CR1OSU,
Ctoip Cpiopr, mite, cuicc cecc,
1583.
occmojacr, a
rpf.
Cono mac an
uf bomnaill DO ecc,
calbaicch, mic TTlagnupa, mic aoba ouib, mic aoba puaiDh Saoi bfppccaijce, Deijemij, pfp poicim 13. DO mapca.
poagallma, pope congmala DO cliapaib, -\ Do cfireapnaib, pfp cfnDaijre Duan, a lolmaoinib pfipin, pfp ap lucca pob olc clu ~\ cecpaib 1 opecc abmolca ap DO clanoaib neill naofjiallaig gup bo pamail DO cpuic gan cfip, DO luinj gan
luamaipe,i DO jopc caob le collaipbe amail po baccap cenel [gconaill] Don cup pin lap necc cumD.
lapla
jôbepnoip
upmuman
comap mac Semaip, mic piapaip puai6 DO bfich na ap Da coicceab murhan an bliabain pi,-| mpla ofprnuman 05 Daing.1.
ma cpecuipeacc, ina Difceipcc, co ]io gab pop aiDmilleab na cfpe ma compocpaib ngeimpeab neappac na bliabna po pfrhainn, ap a aof
niuccaD
~\
i
i
"]
baoi Dabuac,
~|
Duipeaccla accd Daofnibh piap an Dliccheab,
-|
pia bppionnpa
Saân 50 po jabpac 05 Devliuccab ppip ecip mnaof popca, cloinn, ~\ caipDib, co na baof ace aon cfcpap nama [Dia peip, C. O'C.] on ccuap caippcce,no cpoinn 56 apoile peacnon Da coicceab muman pampab ppojmap na bliabna po.
i
~\
i,
lap mbpfic DO
-]
cet)
copac an jeirhpib
eappuppaba, mfiplij an coccaib jup Bo michib la Dia pccup cpfoc -\ poipcfno DO cup pop coccab jfpalcac, i ba hamlaib po popcaorhnaccaip .1. Dpong Duib muipcfpcaij buipD
i
muman moab
Don oibce p.aDa paip po cpiallpacc ina uipcimceall, i aDub Do cop ccoiccill
~|
TTIhainge Do pliocc
*
aoba bfnodin oo pajbdil foapbaojail ap mpla ofprnuman

c^ccnE
the
ceis
Kinett Connell. The word jjConaill, which was omitted by the original scribe, is supplied by Charles O'Conor of Belanagare. Tir-Connell would be more appropriately used here.
inci
"a name
in the harp, is
for the heavy string, or what supports the leith-
rinn and the strings."

x
Without
shelter
The word collaipbe
is
ex-
w The This phrase has been harp without ceis borrowed by the Four Masters from the Amhra
plained barrenness, nakedness, exposure, want

of clothing, cover, or shelter, by Peter Connell,
in his Irish Dictionary,
Choluim
Cille.
The glossographers, however, do
MS.
in the British
Mu-
by no means agree on the exact meaning of ceis; but the Four Masters seem to have taken it for
the base string.
seum, Egerton 84, 85. r This was written for Farrell Treason.
"
glossed:
ip
amm
in
in
cpuic
In Leabhar na h-Uidhri it is bon cpom ce"o, no ip in c6ip nf conôap in leiqiino co na

(
O'Gara and the
loyalists of the reign of Charles
I.
O'Daly would have pronounced the Four Masters rank heretics had he known that they had
1583.]
1793
THE AGE OF CHRIST,
1583.
eighty-three.
The Age of Christ, one thousand Jive hundred
Con, the son of Calvagh, son of Manus, son of Hugh Duy, son of Hugh Roe He was an accomplished and truly O'Donnell, died on the 13th of March.
the supporting pillar of the literati hospitable man, a sedate and affable man, and the kerns ; a man who had spent much of his wealth in the purchase of
poems and panegyrics
man by no means
the least illustrious in

;
name and
so that after his character of the descendants of Niall of the Nine Hostages death Kinel-Connel* might have been likened to a harp without the Cei$", to a
ship without a pilot, or to a field without shelter". The Earl of Ormond, i. e. Thomas, the son of James, son of Pierce Roe, was
and he proceeded to ravage the country in his neighbourhood during the winter, and the spring of His people, however, were so much in dread and awe of the following year. the law and the Sovereign of England that they began to separate from him,
;
Governor of the two provinces of Munster in this yeaj mond became confirmed in his treason' and insurrection
and the Earl of Des-
even his own married wife, children, and friends, so that he had but four persons to accompany him [in his movements] from one cavern of a rock or hollow
,
of a tree to another, throughout the
two provinces of Munster,
in the
summer
and autumn of
this year.
long nights had set in, about him, and prepared to rekindle the torch of war. But God thought it time to suppress, close, and finish this war of the Geraldines, which was done
in the following way: a party of the O'Moriartys of the Mang's side, [a family] z took an advantage* of the Earl of Desmond, of the race of Aedh-Beannan
,
[however] the beginning of winter and the the insurgents and robbers of Munster began to collect
When
written of his favourite hero in this strain.

1
Aedh Beannan.
He was King
of Munster,
Masters, though the tradition in the country ascribe^ the murder of the last Earl of Desmond
to Kelly O'Moriarty.
and
died, according to the
Annals of Innisfallen,
a son, Maelduin,
This tradition
is
written
in the year 619.
He had
who
in a manuscript in the Library of the Irish
Eoyal
fought at the battle of

637,
Magh Eath
in the year
who had a son, Congal, King of Desmond, who was slain in 639, from whom the O'Moriartys are descended.
*
Academy, appended to a poem addressed to the Earl of Desmond by Donnell Mac Brody. But the subject has not been fairly examined; for,
though the O'Moriartys were certainly the party
Advantage
This
is
not fair of the Four
who pursued
the Earl, the person
who
laid vio-
10 T
1794
lap mbfic 66
i
[1583.
ccuap caippgi ngbnn an smncij. baccap cimceallab na cejDaipi mbaof an ciapla an Dponj ipm 05 caipccelab,-] 05 6 upcopac oibce co haDhmaDam, co po lingpioc an puapboc paip ccpepupppianboic polaccqe
i
i i i
ap aoi laice peccmuine, la pele rnapcam Do ponopab. l?o gonab po gabab an napla leo, uaip nf baof luce rpocca no cacaip ma pappab ace aon bfn, oiap buacall, nfp bo cian on coill DO beaeaccap an can po bfcfnDpacr an ciapla gan pmpeac, muna bfic pibe pop pop Dibfipcc (ariiail po baf) pobab Do moippgelaib epeann Don lapla pojail,
cal na maiDne rhuice
~] ~\ -\
~]
Dm maipe
ofpmuriian pin
lent hands on
.1.
geapoiD
mac Semaip, mic
Sfain,
mic comaip Dpoicic ara, mic
him was a
soldier of the garrison
who
ter,
of Castlemaine,
tive
lish.
named Kelly, or O'Kelly, a naIrishman, who had been bred by the Eng-
and that
the party were that had plundered his sisit is very likely that the soldier
O'Daly, the historian of the Geraldines, though he calls Owen Mac Daniel an inhuman
villain,
still
Kollie, Kelly, or O'Kelly, had the Earl killed before O'Moriarty discovered who was in the hut. Cox states that Kolly struck the old Earl
his sword, not knowing who he was, and almost cut off his arm ; that the old man then
seems to think that the Earl's
with
party had acted barbarously.

it
He
writes that
unfortunately happened that those who were by the Earl to seize the prey, barbarously robbed a noble matron, whom they left naked
sent
in the field
;
Desmond, and that Kolly would have spared him, were it not that he bled so fast that he could not live
;
cried out that he was the Earl of
that
when
this fact
came
to the
that, therefore, he
immediately cut
off his head,
knowledge of her kindred, they collected a party of men, and, led by a foster-brother of the Earl" [Owen O'Moriarty], " approached his
hiding place ; that a soldier, whose name was Daniel O'Kelly, smashed the Earl's right arm with a stroke of his sword, and by a second
which was afterwards sent
to England,
and
placed on a pole on London Bridge ; and he " for this adds, that exploit the family of the Moriartas are in disgrace amongst the Irish to
this day."
P. O'Sullevan Beare does not mention the
blow cut
then dragged him out, and, being apprehensive lest any one might come to the rescue, brutally separated the head
off
one of his
ears,
name
der,
of O'Moriarty in connexion with this murbut he seems to think that the person who
led the soldiers to the place did not
know
that
it
from the body."

rum,
c.
Incrementum,
fyc.,
Giraldino-
was the Earl of Desmond that was there.

slew the Earl was the brother of Owen.
He
24.
See also Hooker ; and Cox's Hiber-
nia Anglicana, A. D. 1583, where it is stated that Owen O'Moriarta, who was otherwise
called Droghbearla
[i.
seems to think, however, that the Daniel who His
e.
an opoicKâpla, of the
words are " Inde Giraldus

:
bad
Englis/i], had obtained seven musketeers and twelve kerne from the Governor of Castle-
sylvam densissimam suse ditionis qua? Sylva Cunei vocatur petit, cum quatuor aut quinque comitibus in qua latitans
circumventus capite truncatur.
In
rei
maine before he went in pursuit of the prey taken from his sister, whom he calls " a poor woman
of the Moriartas."
that
it is
memo-
It
may be
here remarked,
riam locus qui tune ejus sanguine perfusus adhuc sanguineo colore fertur esse affectus. Inveniendi
not certain that Owen O'Moriarty knew
eum
duces fuerint duo fratres sui
1583.]

:
1795
whom
he was concealed in a hut, in they found in an unprotected position b This party remained on the the cavern of a rock, in Gleann-an-Ghinntigh watch around this habitation of the Earl from the beginning of the night to the
.
dawning of day and then, in the morning twilight, they rushed into the cold hut. This was on Tuesday, which was St. Martin's festival. They wounded the Earl, and took him prisoner, for he had not along with him any people able to
;
make
fight or battle, excepting
not proceeded far from the it not that he was given to plunder and insurrection, as he [really] was, this fate of the Earl of Desmond' would have been one of the mournful stories of
Ireland, namely, Garrett, the son of James, son of John, son of
"
woman and. two men servants. wood when they suddenly beheaded the
one
They had Earl. Were
Thomas
of
familiares et in quos soepe beneficia dicitur contulisse,
Eugenius
et Daniel,
qui aliud forsan
quaerentes in eum inciderunt reginse ministris comitati, sed tamen misere obierunt suspensi
long struggle of her people for freedom has raised into eminence, the Earl
Ireland
Among those whom the
champions of the cause of
of Desmond,
Anglia nescio quod ob crimen, alter in Ibernia a Mac Morise Lacsnaa? Barone ob foedialter in
although in many respects the most showy and popular, must, in all that lends dignity or moral strength to so high a vocation,
take rank on the very lowest level. It was, however, far more in weakness of understanding and violence of temper, than in any natural depravity, that the reckless excesses and headlong
tatem
b
sceleris hujus in bello maximo quod forms sum scripturus."
in-
Gleann-an-Ghimtiigh,
now Glanageenty,
townland situated in the east of the parish of Ballymacelligot, barony of Trough anacmy, and
county of Kerry, and about
east of Tralee.
killed
is still
five miles to the
arrogance of this lordly demagogue had their source ; and a great statesman of that period,
The
spot where the Earl was
one whose opportunities of studying the character of this lord were
pointed out by the natives by the name of Bothar-an-Iarla, and the trunk of an
old tree, under
many and
searching,
which
also
remains.
They
his body was thrown, still shew what they call his
on record his opinion, that Desmond's ' light and loose dealings proceeded rather from imperfection of judgment than from malicious
has
left
grave, but this
where the body was

it
must have been only the place for some time concealed, as seems certain that bis body was finally in-
intent.'
To the same
sense,
cause,
fairly
a helpless
want of
of his
common
of the
may
be attributed most
anomalies
and
inconsistencies
terred in a small chapel at Kilnamanagh, near

Castle-Island.
c
strange career.
to a
it that, though born" rank almost princely, he herded chiefly
Hence was
The Earl of Desmond.
Mr. Moore, in the
with his lowest dependants
fourth volume of his History of Ireland, which he has suffered to issue from the press in a
; inheriting estates that spread through nearly four counties, he was yet distressed for the means of daily sub-
wofully imperfect state, ventures to draw the following character of this Earl of Desmond, in
despite of all O'Daly's
and though circled wherever he went crowds of followers, could not boast one by
sistence
;
encomiums
single friend."
Vol.
iv. p.
95.
10
1796
[1583.
Semaip, mic jeapoio an Dana, mic muipip (.1. an cfio lapla Dfpmuman) mic comaip na napab, mic Seon caille, mic comaip (agd ccompaicic geajialcaij cilte oapa, -\ Dfpmuman pe apoile) mic muipip (.1. an bpacaip minun) mic
jeapailc, mic muipip, mic jeapailr.
Nip bionjnao Dioalcap De DO Diljfnn jeapalcac po 6015 copa
bppionnpa Dia ccapcacap Dia pnnpeapaib

cciappaije 50 comap cpi nuipcce, co luimneac.
d
~\
map
najhaib a cfp Duccupa 6 Dun caofn

i
i
6 oilen moip
apoa neimiD
nufB liacain,
Thomas ofDrogheda
See note
under the
mentioned under the years 1558 and 1582.

'
year 1468, p. 1051, supra. e This is a mistake for John of John Caille
Callainn.
p.
island of
Great Island of Ard-Nemidh, i.e. the great Nemhidh's hill, now the Great Island
See note
u
,
near the city of Cork
See Keating's History of
382, supra.
'
The Friar Minor
He died in the monastery

,
Ireland, Haliday's edition, p. 178, where it is stated that this island is called after Neimhidh,
of Youghal, in the habit of St. Francis, on the under the year 20th of May, 1257. See note
the leader of the second colony into Ireland after the flood, and that it is situated Jjcpic
i
1224, p. 217, supra.

g The What a pity it is vengeance of God. that O'Daly had not seen this observation of the Four Masters, that he might brand them, and
liaram, in the territory of Ui-Liathain, and otherwise called Oilean mop an 6happai j, i. e.
Barry's
Great Island.
iii. c.
See also O'Flaherty's
their Trinity-College-educated patron, Farrell
Ogygia, part evident that
From these bounds it is the Earl of Desmond claimed all

6.
O'Gara, with eternal infamy I 'This historian of

the Geraldines, in his strictures on Dr. O'Meara,
him impious for his lavish encomium on the Earl of Ormond ! After quoting a few lines
calls
Munster, except the portions of that province belonging to the Earls of Ormond and Thomond. In 1583 a special Act of Attainder was
passed against Gerald Earl of Desmond, and
his confederates in the rebellion, and
it
of O'Meara's
overcoloured verse in praise of Ormond, O'Daly asks " Now, is not this a glaring proof of O'Meara's impiety? He, forsooth, in every other respect
:
was
found that 574,628 acres were forfeited to the Crown but the territory over which the Earl of
;
Desmond claimed
jurisdiction comprised
acres.
more
a Catholic,
dares to call the Geraldines,
who
than double this number of
See Cox's
were the strenuous supporters of their religion and country, the destroyers of both Here is
!
Hibernia Anglicana, edition of 1689, p. 384. For an account of the individuals settled on
these lands under the
the
man who
does not hesitate to extol the
name
of undertakers and
by whose supineness this land of Ireland was trodden down by England. Aye, truly
Butlers,
planters, the reader is referred to
Fynes Moryi.
son's History of Ireland, edition of 1735, vol.
ruined by Ormond ; for had he leagued himself with his uncle Desmond, for altars and
was
it
pp. 9, 10
Smith's Histories of the Counties of
for hearths, this land
would never have

c.
fallen
Kerry and Cork ; and Fitzgerald's Limerick, c. There is still extant a poem addressed to this
Earl by Donnell Mac Brody, in which he introduces St. Fachtna of Ros-Ailither, as prophesying to St. Finchu that a famous Grecian family
by fraud or
''
force of arms."
24.
Dun-caoin,
now Dunqueen,
the most western
point of the county of Kerry.
See this already
1583.]
d

,
1797
Drogheda
first
son of James, son of Garrett of the Poetry, son of Maurice (the c Earl of Desmond), son of Thomas of the Apes, son of John of Caille son
,
of
Thomas
(in
whom
the Fitzgeralds of Kildare and those of

(i.
Desmond meet
each other), son of Maurice Maurice Fitzgerald.

It
e.
the Friar
Minor f ), son of Gerald, son of
was no wonder that the vengeance of God s should exterminate the Geraldines for their opposition to their Sovereign, whose predecessors had
granted to their ancestors as patrimonial lands [that tract of country extending] h from Dun-caoin in Kerry to the Meeting of the Three Waters, and from the
Great Island of Ard-Nemidh' in Hy-Liathain to Limerick.

would come
race of
to Ireland,
who would conquer

Oilioll
the
relate in this Deponent's hearing severall pro-
Olum], and drive the Dal-Cais across the river of Luimneach
Eoghan [the son of

;
phecyes of
Sainct of
Saincts,
St.
Patrick and of Collumkill, the
[the
race of foreigners
Lower Shannon] that afterwards another would arrive, who would
Deny, of Berricanus, another of their and of Ffeon Mack Woill, an onld Irish
:
Champion
and the Deponent saw an English
subdue the former by treachery ; but that the Fionn. Galls, and the Gaels would again recover
their power.
booke printed in the
that
Mac Brody then tells he was the person who would
the Earl
fight the
Low Countries importing another prophecy of St. Patrick (in the liandes of one of the Rebells). All which prophecies the Rebells did conceive to import the extirpaand the settling of the whole
in the Irish.
[Singland, near Limerick] this saint, because he was half predicted by Leinsterman, and the knight who was first bebattle of Saingiol
tion of the English,
kingdom
are very
And
theise prophecyes
trayed by the ^Londoners, which accorded with the prophecy ; that he was the glowing brand
commonly, confidently, antl vehemently urged and justified by their preists for undoubted verities and amongst the rest there is
:
who would
inflame the Gaels to battle; that he
Ireland, and banish the new Saxons and the Londoners from his
would become Monarch of
one prophecie to the effect Do berhar each Downaskia, curfear Balladiach er goole, nmrjie
:
kingdom.
The prophecy here
attributed to St.
Fachtna, which was evidently forged about the period of the first outbreak of this rebellion,
an Acrue; which thus in English : " Att Downeskia a fight shalbe,

lerla Thraly fear inid Rie
is
And
By
'
Dublin
-citty
shalbe ta'ne
was very famous
in
Munster and throughout
The King
Ireland in the middle of the next century, as appears from the Depositions concerning murders and robberies committed in the county of Fermanagh, preserved in the manuscript Library of Trinity College, Dublin, E. 3. 6, in which is preserved the following Deposition by Rickard
Viceroy at Acrue [uc cpu] the Erie of Traly shall be slaine.

his
shall receive, say
The Rebells speake much of a dismall and

blow which the English
fatall
which they understand to be Singland at the south gate of Limerick saying that shalbe a finall end of the
they, in a battaile at Cas-Saingel,
:
Bourke of
Bachelor in Divinity, Jfnniskillen, " Saith that who, being sworn and examined;
warr.
And
thenceforth the Irish alone shall
one of the O'Briens of Thomond did read and
enjoy the kingdome of Ireland to thend of the And that there is a prophecy amongst world.
1798
aNNCtta rcioshachca emeawN.

mac
emainn, mic majnupa,
[1583
i
TTlupcaD bacac,
gap
mp
ôppaiD
Decc napD peapca mbdp lapta Dfpmurhan,-] aobepac apoile gup ab Dia cumhaiD arbar. mic DonnchaiD, cappac, mac DonnchaiD bacaij, mic maolmuipe,
pichi
mec
mic coipp&ealbaijj mec puibne DO mapbao la cfirfpnaib mnpi caofn Do ccinaipceacc 6 ccaipppe pfccmain pia mbdp mpla Dfpmurhan, acbfipn gup bo poba6 pia mbdp Don mpla mapbao joppaoa.
~|
e illairh mic comaip mpla Decc mp ccian aoip, Do bfir ppappaD lapla Dfpmurhan. illuimneac a ccionaiD a cloinne Qn T?6ipceac .1. oauiD mac muipip, mic oauiD, mic mnipip, -| a bfn oilen
Sfan occ
mac
pfain,
-|
mjfn cpemaip, mic emainn meg piapaip Decc in aofn mi nfppac na bliaDna po, i nf bai Dpionnjallaib epeann ap cpiocac ceo DO Duraij lanamam pob
i
oipoeapca indirpibe.
cepoirr Decc. Copbmac mac cai&cc, mic copbmaic oicc
.1.
maoflmuaiD
mej capraij cijeapna mupcpaije

-\
pfp DfijDealbDa Dpeacpolaip

-|
agap
lia
poipccnfrha pionnaolca,
caiplfm
Qn cumDacrjlana, cacaoipe corhopbarp Do clannaibh eojain moip Decc. cfp DO bfic impfpnac pe apoile lap neg copbmaic. Oponj Dib aj cup le ceallacan mac caibcc po pobaip Doll peilb na cipe po oaij a pinpipecca. Opong
them
of the destruction of Kilkenny, to this
effect, that O'Callaghan's horseboy (taking the bridle off his horse in the Cathedrall place of
current
The prophecy relating to Singland is still among the peasantry in the county of
it is
Limerick, where
believed that the battle
Kilkenny),
shall
there
ask,
where was the
Kilkenny? There is another prophecy them that Ross shall be destroyed, and amongst And this left without either stick or stake.
church
of-
remains yet to be fought. A man with three thumbs will hold the general's horse, and a mill
in the neighbourhood will be turned
by the
Deponent further saith, that he credibly heard from severall, and believeth, that one of the
Kennedyes, a bloudy Kebell, and his companie, murthered at the Silver Mines, in the countie of
Tipperary, twenty-four Englishmen, were turned to mass. And afterwards he
after they
After this battle the power of the new English will be for ever suppressed, and the Gaels and ould English will be restored
blood of the
slain.
to their former
k
power and
possessions,
Godfrey.
He
is
called
Goron Mac Swiny

having taken a
by Cox,
great
who
says of
him
that,
prey in
Carbry,
three Irishmen
drowned
to
himselfj
because he was not suffered
owned some of the
cattle) followed
them
at
(who some
go on and exercise the like cruelty against the other English, as this Deponent hath also Jurat xii. Julii, 1643. credibly heard. " R. Bourke. [Signed]
distance, expecting an opportunity at night to steal back their own cattle, or an equivalent ;
"
[Signed]
John Watson.
Will. Aldrich."
and that to that end they hid themselves within musket shot of Goron's camp or lodgment; that it so happened that Goron and a servant, both
unarmed, walked that way, and came near the
1583.]
1799
Murrougli Bacagh, the son of Edmond, son of Magnus Mac Sheeny, died at Ardfert, a short time after the Earl of Desmond, and some say that it was of
grief for
him
[the Earl] he died.
Godfrey Carragh", the son of Donough Bacagh, son of Mulmurry, son of Donough, son of Turlough Mac Sweeny, was slain by the kernes of Inis-caoin',
in the tanist's portion, a
week
before the death of the Earl of
Desmond.
It
was
remarked that the death of Godfrey was an omen of that of the Earl. John Oge, the son of John, son of Thomas, the Earl, died at an advanced age in captivity in Limerick [having been confined there], because his sons
had joined the Earl of Desmond. Roche (David, the son of Maurice, son of David, son of Maurice) and
wife, Ellen, the daughter of James, son of
his
Edmond Mac Pierce, died

exist,
in the
one
month
in the
Spring of
this year.
There did not
of
all
the old English

they.
in Ireland, a couple, possessing only a barony, of
more renown than
O'Molloy (Theobald) m Cormac, the 'son of Teige son of Cormac Oge Mac Carthy, Lord of Muskerry, a comely-shaped, bright-countenanced man, who possessed most whitewashed edifices, fine-built castles, and hereditary seats" of any of the descendants
,
died.
of
Eoghan More,
died.
other after the death of

of Teige,
The [people of the] country were at strife with eacli Cormac for some of them supported Callaghan, the son
;
who sought to get possession

men were
hid
;
of the territory on account of his seniority

civil disposition
place where the three
and that
his
he was the rarest man that ever
as soon as they perceived that
Goron and
servant were unarmed, they surprised them; and cut off their heads.
1
was born of the Irishry." " Hereditary seats, caraoipe cDthopbaip. The word comopB ap often signifies succession to
a lay title or dignity. In a paper MS., formerly in the collection of Edward O'Eeilly, No. 146
of the Sale Catalogue of his manuscripts, the word coriiopBa is explained as follows
:
Inis-caoin,
now Enniskean,
or Inniskeen, a
village situated on the left
bank of the Bandon
River,
in
county of Cork.
the barony of East Carbery, and The author of Carbrice Notitia

is
asserts that this place
named from Kean Mac
"
ComopBa
Moylemo, ancestor of the O'Mahonys, which

does not accord with the spelling given in the text by the Four Masters.
ut in libra
coimcljfpna no corhoijpe Connaciae coriiopba Cuinn Ceo ca.1.
chcuj uocatur CoipoealBac Baip. Vide Ubacc TTlhopainn,

i. e.
mop
i.
Concu-
Cormac,
the son
of
Teige.
He
is
the Sir
a lord or heir, as in the
Comhorbha, Book of Connaught,

e.
Cormack Mac Teige

sheriff of the
of Muscry, who county of Cork, and of

said,
was high
in
which Turlough More O'Conor

[heir]
is
called the
whom
Sir
Comhorbha
Battles.
of
Conn of the Hundred
Henry Sidney
that " for his loyalty and
Vide Udhacht Mhorainn."
1800
ele 05 cup la
aNNata Rio^hachca eineaNN.
[1583.
copbmac mac Diapmacca mic caibcc bai 05 lappaib cfnnaip an cpfp Dpong 05 cup le cloinn oiqc an an cfpe a hucc pacenc a acap,
-\
mic caibcc meg copbmaic pin, mic caibcc, mic copbmaic oicc, miccopbmaic, Siuban mgfn piapaip na buile mic p emaip, mic capcaij, -| la na macqip emamn meg piapaip. Uap a cfno pin uile ap le copbmac mac caibcc, mic
.1.
Diapmacca Do buabaijfb. Qn ceppcop ciappaijeac oecc Semup mac pipofipD, mic Sfam poibeac Sliocc Pemainn, Ian oeccna an ceppcop pin. Oo cloinn piapaip a bunabup
.1. .1.
mic .uilliam mic jeapailc,
-]
Deapbpacaip oon muipip ca'micc ap an cceo
5abalcapo ppionnpa paân nepmnoo con^ncm la Diapmaic mac mupchaba mac jeapailc Do pctibpiom, ap t>ia pliocc (la pfj laijean) an cuilliam pin
i
-\
upmop jeapalrac cloinne

.1.
muipip.
O caoirh Qpr mac Domnaill, mic aipc, mic eojain, paoi ouine eipme DO rimpbaD, 1 a mac Qpc occ Doiponeab ina lonab. Donnchab ban, mac maoileaclamn, mic Diapmaca, TTlac mec amlaoib mac a oeapbpacap cabcc, mac concobaip, Do comcuicim mic maoileaclamn, i
.1.
.1.
pe apoile.
crpean can pa Do ceacc ipceac ap ppoceîon. Ool Do mp mbap cuipeacc jup Ni poaipipco hac Dapa, lapla Dfpmuman Diappaib puaDain ngeapalcacaib.
i
Sfan cappac
mac
uilliam, mic cfpoicc
a bupc oibpe
coipi piuipe baf
Pierce-na-Buile,
i.
e.
Pierce of the madness,
mirabili
solicitudine
nocte tota circumeundo
or
mad
p
Pierce.
Raymond.
He was
the celebrated Eaymond-
gyronagus, clamosus, errabundus excubare solebat. Felix in hoc et fortunatus, quod vel
le-Gros, or the corpulent, the ancestor of Fitz-
nunquam,
vel rarissime, cui prseerat, manus,
Maurice of Kerry.
The character of
this
Ray-
given as follows by Giraldus Cambrensis in his Hibernia Expugnata, lib. ii. c. 9 :
mond is
ant temerariis ausibus, aut per incuriam oberrauerit. Vir modestus et prouidus, nee cibo uec
veste delicatus
:
Caloris ei algorisque patientia

irae,
" Erat itaque Eeymundus vir ample quantitatis,
par
vir patiens
patiensqtie laboris.
Quibus
staturseque paulo plus

flauis,
quam
mediocris
prsesidebat, prodesse
magis quam
praeesse, poti-
capillis
et
subcrispis,
oculis
grossis,
elato,
glaucis,
et
rotundis, naso mediocriter
usque minister quam magister videri volens. Vt autem viri virtutes, mores et modos sub
breyitate concludam
:
vultu colorato, hilari ac sereno, et quanquam carnosa superfluitate ventre turgescens, natura-
vir erat liberalis et lenis,
prouidus
et prudens.
Et quanquam animosus
:
lem tamen corporis grauitatem innata cordis redimens viuacitate carnis vitium animi virtute
levabat.
plurimum,
et armis instructus
prudentia ta-
men rebus in Martiis

militis habens, plus
et prouidentia prsecellebat.
:
Super exercitus cura noctes ducebat
Vir in vtroque laudabilis
multum
quidein
insomnes, et tanquam excubiarum excubator,
quam
Duels."
1583.]
1801
others joined Cormac, the son of Dermot, son of Teige, who sought the chiefof his father's patent and a third party sided tainship of the territory by virtue sons of [the deceased] Cormac, the son of Teige, son of Cormac with the
;
young
Oge, son of Cormac, son of Teige Mac Carthy, and with their mother, Joan, c the daughter of Pierce-na-Buile the son of James, son of Edmond Mac Pierce.
,
Notwithstanding
all this
[contention], Cormac, the son of Teige, son of Dermot,
gained the victory. The Bishop of Kerry died, namely, James, the son of Eichard, son of John. This bishop was a vessel full of wisdom. He was of the stock of the ClannPierce,
i.
e.
of the race of
Kaymond
p
,
the son of William Fitzgerald.
This
at
William was brother of the Maurice', who came from the King of England,
the time of the
first
King of
Leinster,
Dermot Mac Murrough, him most of the Geraldines of Clann-Maurice are and from
invasion of Ireland, to assist
descended.
O'Keeffe (Art the son of Donnell, son of Art, son of Owen), an eminent
man, was
slain
and
his son,
Art Oge, was
The son
of
Mac
Auliffe
(Donough Bane, the son of Melaghlin, son of

his brother's son, Teige, the son of
Dermot, son of Melaghlin) and
Conor,
mutually slew each other. John Carragh, the son of William, son of Theobald Burke, heir to CoisSiuire
r
,
who had been
hitherto in treason
[i.
e.
in rebellion],
came
in
under pro-
tection.
After the death of the Earl of
Desmond he went
into the country of
Maurice,
,
i.
e.
Maurice Fitzgerald.
See
under the year 1224, p. 216, supra. According to these Annals, and other accounts writnote
ten in the Irish language, the Geraldines were of
origin, but O'Sullevan and O'Daly assert that they derived their origin from the ancient
Anglia in- Iberniam trajecisse atque posteros ejus vocari turn Garaldos turn Garaldinos, et
:
Giraldinos
ab his familias duas esse in Hiber:
nia procreatas
earum principes
institutes ab
Greek
Anglis Regibus duos comites, alterum Desmonise, vel Desise in Momoniis alterum Kil;
Trojans.
O'Sullevan's words are as follows
darise
in Lagenia et inde illos
Momonios
he's
" Iberniae Giraldini suum genus ad Hetruscos inde Troianos usque referunt. Qua de re quia
Chronicis Ibernise non memoratur, nos pro certo nihil possumus confirmare, nee ad prsesens in-
Lagenios Giraldinos nuncupari." Iber., fol. 77 ; see also fol. 87, 88.
'
Hist. Cathol.
Cois-Siuire, a district belonging to a family
stitutum compertum Maurivirum nobilem atque magnanitium Garaldum

attinet.
Satis est
of the Burkes, and lying on the west side of the River Suir, in the barony of Clanwilliam and
mum
a Dermysio Lagenia: principe accitum ex
county of Tipperary. This name is formed simiCoirlarly to Coshma, Coshbride, Coshmore,
10 u
1802
awwaca Rioghacbca
laip.
eiraeciNN.
[1583.
-j
po cionoileab buap an baile
Gipjirc bapoa an baile po na hfijmib.
Sfanco nabfcc buibin mapcac ap in mbdpDa,l po haimpfb eippibe 50 na cloccaicc ina cfncc 50 po leaccab e peoiloipeac Oupcop Do peilep cpe Dia eoc, i puccpacc a rhuincip an ccpeic, po pdccaibpioc Sfan. Ruccab
pillip
-\
mpom
co po eipibe co luimneac
TTlaj caibcc upmuman .1. jarhna Duinn ui cfinniccij; oecc, pfp peolca pfpccap,i cijfoapac jan cacaofp
epochal annpibe he le comfppieopaib luimni. concobap an cuain mac caibcc mic mic.macTTlag caiDcc
6 a cuipmfo jup an can
pin,"]
Do jaipm Do
pilip
mac Diapmaca
na popalaij ui cfinneiccij. Ulac megcocldm, jeapoicc mac

la TTlupchab
Sfain,
mic aipc, mic copbmaic TTlacaem

uf
ceopabac ap cceccgabdil jaipccib DO mapbab la mac

.1.
cOnneiccij pinn
mac
bpiain, mic Dorhnaill.

.1.
Qn
conncaoip Do poipci
aibilin
mpla cuabmuman (oonnchab mac bbabna po ccluain parhpoDa, a habnacal

i
mic Dauic Do popce bfn concobaip uf bpiain) Decc pariipab na

injean
TTIuipip,
i
~\
maimpcip
innpi.
Onopa
baf
injfn Dorhnaill, mic concobaip, mic coippbealbaij ui bpiain

.1.
an bfn
ninip cacaij. la muincip Sipmclap maulbi,-) la cloinn mpla cloinne Sluaicceablanmop numall uf rhaille, n ba Di'pim RiocaipD .1. uilleacc, -\ Sfan nioccap cfpe, i
i
aguacconcobaip ciappaije
i
concobap Decc,
i
-\
a habnacal
an po cpumnijpioc DO cpob cpeac ap an pluaicceab leppccpiopab leo cacaip na mapc Don cup pin.
TTlac
uillicc
pin.
Ro
loipcceab"] po
mpla
cloinne piocaipo- Sfan
na ccfno, mic piocaipo,
abupc mac Riocaipc pa^ranaij mic mic uillicc cnuic cuajoo mapbab 50 miojaolabupc) ap lonnpaijib
oibce. TTlonuap
map
la a Deapbpacaip (uilleacc
cpa
are
IDai je, Coif 6pijoe, Coip QBa moipe, which still names of baronies in the counties of
Countess of Thomond."
The
Irish usually call
women
w
in the
after their fathers' names.
Limerick and Water ford.

8
Inis- Cathy,
Mac
Teige.
This was a
name assumed by
now Scattery Island, situated Lower Shannon, opposite the town of

under the year 1188. the lower part of the terThis was a name for the northern part
See note
i.
,
branch of the O'Kennedys, seated in the barony of Lower Ormohd, in the north of the county
of Tipperary.
'
Kilrush
x
lochtar-Tire,
e.
ritory.
Ropalach,
now Raplagh,
a townland in the
of the barony of Carra, in the county of Mayo.
parish of Kilruane, barony of Lower Ormond. See the Ordnance Map of the county of Tipperary,
u
See
Genealogies,
p.
Tribes,
k.
and Customs of Hy-
Fiachrach,
'
205, note
'
sheets 15 and 21.
Umhall-Ui-Mhaille,
The Countess Roche
This should be: "the
country,
i. e. Umallia O'Malley's comprising the present baronies of
1583.]

made no delay
until
1803
the Geraldines in search of a prey, and
be arrived
at
Adare, where he seized on
all
the cattle of the town.
The wardens
,of the
town rose out
at the shouts and pursued him. John, with his small body of turned round upon the warders, but he was shot with a straight aim horsemen, in the head with a ball, which pierced his helmet, so that he was thrown from his horse.
He was
His people [however] carried off the prey, but left John behind. afterwards taken to Limerick, where he was hanged by the Commis8
sioners of Limerick.
Mac Teige of Onnond, e. Conor of the Harbour, the son of Teige, grandson of Mahon Don O'Kennedy, died. He was a ready, tranquil, and domestic
i.
man, without reproach from his birth. Philip, the son of Dermot O'Kennedy of Ropalach', was then styled Mac Teige.
The son ofMacCoghlan
(Garret, the son of John, son of Art, son of
Cormac), an intellectual youth, was, on his first assumption of chivalry, slain by the son of O'Kennedy Fin, namely, by Murrough, the son of Brian, son of
Donnell.
the daughter of Maurice, son of David Roche, and wife of the Earl of Thomond (Donough/ the son of Conor
The Countess Roche", namely, Eveleen,
O'Brien), died in the Monastery of Ennis.
Summer
of this year at Clonroad, and was buried in the
Honora, the daughter of Donnell, son of Conor, son of Turlough O'Brien, and wife of O'Conor Kerry (Conor), died, and was interred in Inis-Cathy. great army was led by the people of Sir Nicholas Malby, and the sons of
the Earl of Clanrickard, Ulick and John, into lochtar-Tire* and Umhall-Ui-
Mhaille y
also
and took a countless number of
cattle spoils
z
.
on that occasion, and
burned and
totally destroyed Cathair-na-Mart
The son
of the Earl of Clanrickard, namely,
John Burke, the son of
Rickard Saxonagh, son of Ulick-na-gCeann, son of Richard, son of Ulick of Cnoc-tuagh, was unfraternally slain in an assault at night, by his brother Ulick
Burrishoole and Murresk, in the county of
port.
Mayo.
z
called
i.
Cat/tair-na-Mart,
e.
the stone fort of the
The town of Westport is still always Caraip na mapc in Irish by the people ofConnaught and Munster. The stones of the
Caraip were removed some years
since,
beeves.
This was the name of an ancient stone
ancient
fort of a circular form,
and also of a
castle built
but
by O'Malley on the margin of the bay of West-
pointed out by the natives within the Marquis of Sligo's demesne.

its site is still
10 u 2
1804
[1583.
a bfpbpacap naile po ba maipib Daepbparaip DO burpaccaip Dumemapbab im compoinn cpice ap ip bic caic ap uaip an bir po. ba Doilij mop net po ndc pluacc pccpucc uillfcc ina inncinn jup bo maol juala 50:11 bpacaip, neac ina aonap. Ni hfb pin t>o bfpc Dm uiDh ace a copp t>o cnfpcollab, -\ a caob DO cpfjoab 50 bpapccaibpioc mapb gan anmain 6, -\ ap ap eiccin puaip
-\
ba lucr a lomcaip 50 baile aca an pfoj aipm in po habnaiceab an rdipyij. babein oibeab an pip hipm, ap pfpap a ceille, a cpora, cpdb cpibe la a cfp
-]
ceneoil,
einij,
a uaiple
.1.
a oipbfpcae.
TTIac uilliam
uillicc pfp
bupc
Ripofpo an mpainn, mac oaino, mic emainn, mic
cpeacac conjalac, aipopfc fppabal, no bpipfb bfipn mbaojail ap a biobbabaib, pop a mbpipcf co mime Do ecc,i pipDeapo mac oiluepaip, mic
~|
Sfain Doiponeab ina lonab.
O
t>o
Rajaillij aob conallac
mac maoflmopba, mic

1
Sfain,
mic cacail neac
a cpfimpi gan rupbpob, ] po consaib an bpfipne lamaib a comappan gall, jaoibel an ccem Do rhaip Do jan baojluccab cap ecc, i a abnacal maimpcip an cabdin, -\ a bfn ipibel bfpnaual Decc in aon
ppfpabpa,
~\ -\
i
cair a
Re gan
This ancient verb, Wished, ourpaccaip which occurs but once in these Annals, is used in the Leabhar Breac to translate the Latin
utinam; thus
"
:
recently made, and on the 1st of April, 1585, her
Majesty's Commissioners at Cavan proposed to him several queries (see note ", under 1292, p.
1191, supra), as to the limits of his territories;
t)urpacuppa, a 6^, compcip

vice mete, ^-c."
oipje
b
mo
pera, utinam adirigantur,
fol. 18, b. a.
i. e. Johannes In a pediRufus. of O'Reilly, preserved in the gree Library of the British Museum, Harleian Manuscripts, 1425,
the rents, duties, and customs due to O'Reilly in the five baronies of the Breny (Brefny);
John Hoe,
and
as to the cause of his complaints against his
relatives
and neighbours,
to
which he replied
at
some length. After defining the limits of the

he proceeds as
fol-
fol.
186,
he
is
called " Sir
Shane O'Realie."
baronies of Cavan, Tullaghgarvy, Tolloconho,

Tolloha, and Clanmahon,
Count O'Reilly, According the Chevalier O'Gorman, this John compiled by Roe was the son of Hugh Conallagh O'Reilly, by
to the pedigree of the
lows " It
:
may
please your Lordship to caule for

[i. e.
the daughter of Betagh of Moynalty. This John, finding his party too weak, repaired to England
to solicit
Mulmore Mac Prior Oreley"
Maelmora,
Queen Elizabeth's
interest,
and was
kindly received at Court, and invested with the order of knighthood; whereupon he returned
son of Philip the Prior, .son of Owen, who was " of the uncle of Sir John O'Reilly ED.] who hath threatened the tenants Clanmahon,
of the said Sir John,
which dwelled
in the
towne
home with
letters
from the Queen
to the
Lord
Deputy and Council of Ireland, instructing them to support him in his claim. It appears that he
complained of the division of the territory then
of Doweld-donell, and hath put them in such fear to lose their lives and goods, as divers of
them have departed from the

the
rest
will
said lands,
;
and
presently
depart
by meanes
1.583.]

Alas
!
1805
Burke.
woe
to that brother
who wished3
to slay his other brother
turn.
about the partition of a territory, for this world is the world of every one in It was a great pity that Ulick did not ponder within his mind that
"shoulders are bare without a brother," and that "one makes not an army"; instead of this, he perforated his body, and pierced his side, so that he left him
stretched out lifeless
;
and
it
was with
difficulty that his
body was obtained by
who carried him to Athenry, where the hero was buried. The death of this good man weighed upon the hearts of the people of his territory, on account
those
of his good sense, his personal form, his noble birth, his hospitality, his nobleness, and his renowned achievements.
Mac William
Burke,
i.
e.
Richard-an-Iarainn, the son of David, son of Ed-
mond, son of Ulick, a plundering, warlike, unquiet, and rebellious man, who had often forced the gap of danger upon his enemies, and upon whom it was frequently forced, died and Richard, the son of Oliver, son of John, was in;
stalled in his place.
O'Reilly
a
man who
Conallagh, the son of Maelmora, son of John, sou of Cathal), had passed his time without contests or trouble, and who had pre-
(Hugh
served Breifny from the invasions of his English and Irish enemies as long as he lived, died, and was buried in the monastery of Cavan. His wife, Isabella The son of this O'Reilly, namely, John Barnewall, died about the same time.
Roeb then exerted himself to acquire the

,
chieftainship of the territory, through
whereof the said lands are waste, to the greate

hinderance and disinheritance of the said Sir
tymes was twise or thrise a yeare, and every

time xlv.
lib. to his
owne
use, besides the charge
John and
his heires, if
your Lordship take not
of the cess.
by surety of feare or good avering against the said Mulmore, which it may please you to do. " The Dewties and Customs, &c.
some order
to the contrary
"
and usadge
Item, he had lykewise by the said custome all manner of chargis that either his
son or any other of his men or followers weare put into by reson of their beinge in pledge, or
attendinge by
"
Orely by auncient custom and usadge of
commandment
of the
Lord De-
the country had alwayes out of the baronies of the Cavan and Tullaghgarvy, and out of every
of the other three baronies,
puty
"
in Dublin, or otherwhere, for matter of the
said Oreley.
which he hath
lost
Item, by the said custom Oreley had

fees
all
by the" [late]
barrony xlv.
to
"
division, yearely out of every
manner of
and pensions and recompencis
libr. as often as
he had any cause

either
for
cesse
the
said
barronies,
the
given by the said Oreley to any learned counsell or other solicitor or agent; for the causes of the
contry, borne and payed by the said contry. " Item, by the said custom Oreley had yearely.
Queene's rents and dewties, or for any charge towards Onele, or other matter, which some-
1806
[1583.
.1.
i
Sfan puao Do Bfir aj fcol ITlac an uf Raijallaij pin an cfpe a JiughDappap gall ap belaib 6mainn mic maoflmopba bai ccfnoup
aimpip piy pfm.
over and beside
all
other dewties and customes,
"
Item, Sir
Hugh Oreley,
father unto the said
towards his chargis in going to Dublin, out of

d every pole, xvi Starling. " Item, by the said custom he had yearley out of every viii, pooles of lande through the whole
morgadge from divers of the gentill of Clanmahon, xlviii. pooles in pawne of 1. mylche kyne, which morgage discended upon Sir John, and he was seised of the said xlviii.
pooles untill the division, which he desireth to
Sir John, had in
fyve barronies one fatt beefe for the spendinge of his house. " Item, by the said custom, he had one horse
for himselfe, one horse for his wife,
payed the said

at
continue possession of, or els that he may be 1. milche kyne." -Carew MSS.
and one
Lambeth
palace,
the son
No. 614,
p. 162.
horse for his son and heir, with one boye attendinge uppon every horse, kept through the
Edmond,
called
Edmond
ofMaelmora. He is usually of Kilnacrott. In a pedigree of
whole fyve barronie's yearely. " Item, by the said custom

Orely to cess
spare of
O'Reilly, preserved in the State Papers' Office,

it
was lawfull
for
London,
vol. for 1,610 of the Irish
Correspon-
uppon
the
Mac
Bradies, the
Mac
dence, Paper No. Y3, this
Enroes, the Gones,

iii.
and the Jordans, by the
bastard ; but he
ther of
is set
Edmond is called a down as a legitimate bro-
man uppon
quarters of a yeare yearely, one foteevery poole which the said sirnames
had, to kepe his cattell, to repe and bynd his corne, to thrashe, hedge, and diche, and do other husbandry and mersanary work for the said
Hugh, the father of Sir Shane in the Harleian MS. above referred to. The pedigree in the State Papers' Office, which was probably
furnished
by Sir John O'Reilly,

John O'Reilly.
stands as follows
Oreley. " Item,
by the
said
custom the
said Oreley
Gayer, a bastard.
Molmore
O'Reilly,
= daughter of
O'Donnell.
had upon theBradies, theGones, theMacEnroes, and the Jordans, out of every poole of land
yearely, thre quarters of a fatt beefe, and out of
Farrel], d. s. p.
Hugh
O'Reilly,
= Jennet, daughter of
I
Edmond
,
Betagh of Moynaltie.
the Tanist, a bastard, and four others.
every two pooles one fatt porke, and also the

cessinge of strangers, their men and horses, as often as any did come in friendship to the
John. Philip. Owen. Annabel,
Rose,
Joane,
rn.
Onor,
m. Hugh m. Connor Mac Gennis. MacGuire.
Mac m. Plunkett,
of CloneO'Reyly. brene. Feroll
country.
This Edmond,
brother,
who would have succeeded
his
by the said custom the said Oreley had by dewty all manner of chardgis both for workmen, stofe, and labourers, and victualls,
Item,
for the buildinge
"
Hugh
was
set
Conallagh, in the
East Breifny,
tanistry,
set aside
according to by the government, and

in his place
;
government of the Irish law of

but Sir John
and maintaininge of his

all
castell
Sir
John
up
of the Cavan,
and
other necessary romes
having joined Tyrone in the rebellion, the authority of the English became weak in Breifny, and Edmond, the tanist, was finally elected
chief, to wit, -in 1598,
and
offices
by the
gentill
about the same, borne and payed and others of the barony of the
Cavan. " The dewties of the towne of the Cavan also
when he was
a very old
man.
So early
the
as the year
1558, he and his

O'Reilly,
by the
said custom, as rents, drink,
and other
brother,
Hugh, who was then the

following
dewties,
now taken and
not denied.
made
covenant with the Lord
1583.]

in opposition to
1807
the
power of the English,
Edmond,
the son of
Maelmora
who was
:
the senior according to the usage of the Irish.

landum,
et insuper
In consequence of
Deputy " Ordo Domini Deputati Concilii Capitaneo Domino O'Reilly apud Kilmacnois x.xv. Mali,
anno 1558.
Primo, quod ipse arbitraments et ordinationi Commissariorum per nos jam assignatorum
stabit circa restitutionem
et
trangressionis suse dabit

Reginae.
pro redemptione seu fine centum vaccas Domina?
" Item quod dictus O'Reilly obligabitur ad
"
debitam
satisfac-
respondendum pro omnibus suis filiis et aliis quibuscunque personis sub ejus jurisdictione existentibus, quatenus ipse et quilibet eorum
sese erga suas magestates
tionem per quoscunque sub ejus gubernatione fiendam in iis quse contra confines Anglicanos
commiserint, et pro complemento et observatione
bene
et fideliter ges-
serint
et
pro pace observanda versus omnes
hujus
illos
rei corporale se
juramento astringet, quod
obsides in
manus baronis de Slane Magistri
suarum magestatum subditos Anglicanos, et si aliquis ex patria sua in hoc deliquerit quod ipse delinquentem in manus Domini Deputati tradet,
aut pignus sufficiens pro restitutione damni
commissi. " Item
Mareschalli deliverabit infra octavum diem junii
proxime futurum qui juxta nostram conclusionem fuerint assignati, similiter et idem Dominus
de Slane aut Mareschallus in manus suas suscipiet eos
quod ipse sine speciali licentia Domini Deputati non conducet, nee in patria sua rema-
ex confihibus Anglicanis versus quos
nere permittet quoquomodo aliquos Scotos aut
dictus O'Reilly aliquam
hujusmodi querelam
sic
seu occasionem habet, et
penes se detinebit
secun-
quousque debita per
illos fiat restitutio
quoscunque. " Item in sua patria remanere non permittet absque licentia Domini Deputati aliquos ex
stirpe O'More sive O'Chonor, aut ullum ex eorum sequacibus, nee aliquos alios cujuscumque generis qui rebelles exstiterint contra suas magestates, quin eos omnes pro virili et posse sua,
alios extranese nationis
adjudicabitur, diesque restitionis hujusmodi hincinde certus prefigetur ac emitabi-
dum quod
tur [sic] in quandocunque constitutum terminum

preetergredi seu violare contigerit, poenam dupli
incursurum, seu
foris fracturum; quod si pars delinquens eandem poenam sin forisfractum una
quantum
ducet, et
in
illo fuerit
apprehendere conabitur
et apprehensos ad
si
cum adjudicata restitutione non persolverit infra

decem
dies proxime turn sequentes, quod tune dictus Dominus de Slane aut Mareschallus pignus
sufficiens capiet
percontingat aliquos hujusmodi male-
manus Domini Deputati
factores seu rebelles ad patriam

illo
Domini O'Reilly, ignorante, subterfugere, et habita inde nodictus
pro solutione ejusdem tarn respcense,
ticia,
Dominus Deputatus ad ilium
scrip-
titutionis
quam
quo
satisfacto
pignus
homini iterum dimmittet.
Item quod contra
pro apprehensione hujusmodi malefactorum, quod tune proefatus O'Reilly, summam diserit
hujusmodi boua quoe per filium suum Eugenium capta fuerant post ultimam ordinationem habi-
ligentiam et operam
suam
prasstabit, ut
illos
capere posset, captosque ad
Dominum Deputa-
tam apud Kenles plene in integrum restituentur, et dictus Eugenius prasterea quod more
guerino seu bellico invasit partes Anglicanas,
ipse infra
perducet, aut cuicunque ipse assignaverit, etiam quod omnes latrones et hujusmodi prajdones qui furtim aliquod seu rapinam comac
tum
decem
ad
Dominum
dies post datum prassentium Deputsrtuin accedet ad perdoriatali
misserint in partibus Anglicanis, et illud intra
patriam
tionem suarn pro
crimine humiliter postu-
illius subduxerint, apprehend! faciet et apprehensos ad vicecomitem illius comitatus
1808
[1583.
ma
pinnpfp Do pfip gnaruijce gaoiDeal,
-|
cdmicc De
an
cip, i
an cijeap-
nap DO poinn ecip pliocu rhaoilmopoa. TTlac ui concobaip fticci^ Caraoip mac caibcc DO riiapbaD ppiull la opuing Do muincip aipc.
i
oicc,
mic caiDcc, mic aeDa
sublatse, quod propinquioris transinittet, et melius poterit, restitutionem faciet. " Eadem et similis ordinatio erga ilium obrei
parte, et
Hugonem
taneum,
et
Edmundum
O'Eeilly suo nationis CapiO'Reilly, fratrem suum,
servetur,
si
in
partes
Anglicanas quidquam
fuerit ab illius jurisdictions ita
surreptum
et
tanistam patriae de Brefney ex altera parte. " Testa tur quod praedictus O'Reilly obligat se tenere et adiinplere tenorem et formam arti-
quod neque
ille
ullos exules in patriam Angli-
culorum sebsequentium, primum, promittitur

quod ad posse suum prosequetur
Cahier O'Reilly,
O'Reilly, nunc
fratres suos
canam
sua demorari, permittet, neque ullum ex patria sua Anglicana aliquem exulem in patria sua in partibus Anglicanis demorare
in patria
Owen
O'Reilly, et
Thomam
maet flamina
rebelles Serenissimaa Reginas
permittet.
gestati, et eos et secutores
eorum ferro
" Item quod dictus O'Reilly portabit omnia

onera et servitia reginse magestati debita, tarn in promovendo exercitu equitum, et turbariorum
quoties
puniet, nee patietur eos terras et tenementa sua possidere, tenere, vel arare vel colere, sed eos
omnes ut inimicos suos

per prcedictum
opes fuerit
nummo
Scoticorum
quam quemadmodum
in
solvendo solito
debet, aut
castigabit, cum fuerint Dominum Deputatum adjudicati
rebelles et inobedientes.
temporibus elapsis solvere consueverit.

" Item quod ipse per totam jurisdictionem monetam regiam debito suo valore, recepi faciat,
sicuti per partes Anglicanas
dicti
" Item promititur quod quicquid Commissarii Domini Deputati nominati vel nominandi
per ipsum
Dominum Deputatum
adjudicaverint
passim
et
ubique
currit.
pro inimicis finiendis et bonis restituendis inter Anglicanas partes et habitantes in de" [the]
"
Brefney, quod ipse O'Reilly articulas et judicia
" Et pro omni premissarum perfecta observatione suscepit corporale
juramentum, ac
solvet
:
si
deli-
querit in aliquo premisscfrum
Dominse
ac etiam Reginae mille martas [mile mapc] concordationem istam proclamari faciet in patria sua et Sigillum suum et sigilla filiorum suorum
et
perimplebit et observabit. " Item permittitur quod ubi lis est inter honorabilem virum baronem de Delvin et prsedic-
tum
et patrias suas
O'Reilly pro titulis et demandis inter ipsos quod ipse O'Reilly observabit'
et judicia quas in
liberorum, tenentium patrias su his scriptis apponi faciet, et nobis illam mittet ad
omnium
omnia decreta
futurum adju-
perpetuam
rei
memoriam."
dicabuntur per Commissaries Domini Deputati, secundum mores et observationes patriarum
On
in the
the 25th of Nov. 1567, this
Edmond and
Sheelin:
vi-
his brother
Hugh
signed the following Indenture
suarum et prescriptions temporis " Item similiter observabit et
prseteriti.
perimplebit
Lord
Justices'
camp
at
Lough
" HEBC indenture facta inter honorabilem
omnia judicia qua; infuturum commissarii pra;dicti Domini Deputati decreverint inter habitantes patria? de
rum Dominum Henericum Sydney

terii
ordinis gar-
Annaly
et patrias de
Brefuey
militem, presidentem Concilii Wallia? et

in Hibernia generalem, una cum quorum nomina subscribuntur ex una
pro finibus tarn futuris
quam
prateritis.
deputatum
concilio
"Item ubi
prasdictus. O'Reilly obligatus est
solvere honorabili viro comiti Sussexio mille et
1.583.]

the country
11
.
1809
this,
and the lordship were divided between the descendants of
Maelmora
of
The son of O'Conor
Hugh) was
Sligo (Cahir, the son of Teige Oge, son of Teige, son treacherously slain by a party of Muintir-Airt [the O'Harts].
est hac-
centum martas quorum magna pars non

tenus data ad
obsides in custodia Patricia Cusack remanebunt,

tarn pro his
finiendis.
usum
prsedicti comitis, prsedictus
quam pro omnibus

rei
aliis
articulis
O'Reilly dabit et deliverabit
numerum
prajdic-
In cujus
testimonium tarn praedicet consilium
tum vel reliquum
sive
martas non adhuc solutas
tus
Dominus Deputatus
quam praj-
ante fastum sancti Johannis Baptists proximum futurum ad manus Domini Deputati. " Item ubi filius dicti videlicet
O'Reilly,
dictus O'Reilly alternatim his indenturis scripserunt.
Johannes, accepit praedam rebellicam usque ad
numerum
trecentarum vaccarum,
prsedictus
" Datum in campo apud Loghshelen, 25 vembris anno nono Elizabeth. " O'REILLY.
d
No-
O'Reilly promittitur quod infra quindecim dies jam proximum futures dabit dicto Domino De-
EDMOND O'REILLY."
Were divided between the descendants ofMaelThe territory of Breifny O'Reilly was mora
divided
putato prasdictas trecentas martas vel suo certo attornato in villa de Kells incomitatu Mediae vel
praedictum filium
among
four principal
men
of the descen-
suum Johannem
mittet Do-
dants of Maelmora, the father of
Hugh
Conal-
mino Deputato custodiendum donee de martis

prsedictis
solutionem fecerit. " Item ubi Dominus Deputatus in manus
lagh, on this occasion, namely, 1, Sir John, the son of Hugh Conallagh, son of Maelmora 2,
;
suas ad
usum
Regize magestatis accepit castrum
Edmond, of Kilnacrott, son of Maelmora, and who was at this time tanist of
his uncle,
de Tull jvin, nuper in possessione Owen O'Reilly, et jam commisit hoc castrum Edmundo O'Reilly ad
Breifny, and became chief in 1598 ; 3, Philip O'Reilly, second son of Hugh Conallagh, who
usum
vel
Reginse, prsedictus O'Reilly observabit
et curabit
triet
quod prsedictus Edmundus non nu-
sustinebit praedictum Owenum vel alium Rebellem sive bona eorum in aliquem castra prsedicta certo vel alibi (ulterius hac lege)
was made chief of Breifny by O'Neill in 1596 4, Maelmora, the bastard son of Philip the Prior, the son of Owen, who was the fifth son of Mael;
mora, the stirpes of this head branch of the The following note on the division O'Reillys.
of East
Edmundum
in possessione patrise prsedietae.
" Item prasdictus O'Reilly promittet habitare in patriaa suae confinibus et Anglicarum ad pla-
Maelmora
Breifny between the descendants of is given in a manuscript at Lambeth,
citum Domini Deputati durante bello et rebellione fratrum suorum et Johannis O'Neil ut
inde
Carew Collection, No. 635, fol. 19: " The Breny, now called the county of Cavan,
hath bene tyme out of
jurisdiction
mynde
whollie in the
the
bonorum Anglicarum partium, protectionem suam contra rebelles praeeveniat

securitas
dictos, et pro his
omnibus
O'Reilly
articulis
Observandis
prsedicti
dabit
prnedictus
in
manus
tyme was Lord of the Countrye, but when partition of the same was made by Sir Henry Sidney, then Lord Deputie of Ireland,
of
that -for
Oreillye, that is to say,
him
Domini Deputati
intra quindecim dies
proximo
iterum
the baronies within the countie of Cavan aforesaid
sequentes obsidem quern in secreto inter ipsos
were divided amongst the principal gentleof the Oreillys, as ensueth, viz.
:
demandatum
est dari et deliberari,
et
men
10
1810
aNNQ6a Rio^hachca
.1.
eircectNN.
[1583.
Uoippbealbac mac oiapmaOa, mic caipbpe, mic eoccam caofc mic peilim 5(1^015 Do ecc. Uabcc occ mac caibcc uf puaipc DO ecc mbpaiôfnap 05 ua puaipc eoccam. bpian mac bpiain mic
TTlac uf concobaip ooinn
i
.1.
Oilen na ccuac
.1.
(.1.
Gocchan occ mac
POJIC an oilein) DO gabail la TTlac puibne ria ccuar eoccain oicc, mic eoccain, mic Domnaill aji cloinn Dorh-
clanrr Domnaill DO mapbab ano. baile ui neill (.1. coippbealbac luinec) .1. an ppac ban DO lopccaD la Vma noomnaill (QoDh mac majnaya) q Diojbala mopa DO Denarh oua neill, la raob oipccne an baile oip ba Don cup pin Do mapbaD la hUa noomnaill
naill mic oonnchaib, q
Ua
mec aooa 50 nDpuing moip ele cen mo cdc. mac an calbaig uf Domnaill Do mapbaD la cablac albanac. Oonnchab bpian mac DonnchaiD, mic conconnacc, mic conconnacr meûibip peap
coinne, q TTlac
50 nofjamm uaiple
CReaca
eimj Do ecc. mopa Do Denarii ap Shomaiple mbuibe mac mec oorhnaill la

q
i
haoD mac peilim bacaij ui neill, la TTlac uiDilin, q la Saâncoib. Somaiple buiDe co na bpaicpib Do Dol rropaijeacc na ccpeac, q bpipfoh Doib pop a mbaoi peampa, q na cpeaca Do bfm Diob, q ae& mac peilim bacaij DO mapbaD
Don cup
pin, q
banna no Do DO na Sapeancoib, q an cuiD ele Dib Dimceacc gan
cpeic jan copccap.
Uoippbealbac,
mac Domnaill
uf bpiain, q Sfan
i i
puab,
mac aoba
i
conallaij,
mic maoilmop&a uf paijillij Do Dol Saôib, q noiponeaD njpribaib piDipe naon 16 parhpab na bliabna po DO lacaip an Ppionnpa Glipabech. Oonnchab mac ui baoigill (.i.coippoealbac) DO mapbabla muinnp maille
i
mmp caofl,
"
To
Sir
John
Oreillye,
and
his heires,
tlie
longing to the parish of Clondahorky, in the
baronies of Cavan, Tollaghgarvy, Tolloghconho,
and Tolloha.
"
barony of Kilmacrenan, and county of Donegal, Mac Sweeny Doe had a castle on this island,
To Edmond
Oreillye and his heires, the ba-
which gives name

Clondahorky.
f
to a
manor
in the parish of
ronie of Castlerahin. " To Philip Oreillye,
and his
heires,
the ba-
Srath-ban,
i.
e.
the white srath,
inch, or
ronie of Inniskine"
[now Clankee]. [now Clan-
holm,
&
"
now
Strabane, a well-known town, in the

" of good name."
" To Moylemore mac an Prior, and his brothers, the
north-west of the county of Tyrone,
barony of Eathenarome,"
Renowned,
literally,
mahon].
e
Port-an-Oilen,
now
Portilan, an island be-
Turlough lough O'Brien, the ancestor of the O'Briens of
This
is
the celebrated Sir Tur-
1583.]

of O'Conor Don,
i.
1811
The son
son of
e.
Turlough, the son of Dermot, son of Carbry,
Caech, son of Felim Geangcach, died. Teige Oge, the son of Teige O'Rovfrke, died in captivity with [i. e. in the custody of] O'Rourke, i. e. Brian, the son of Brian, who was son of Owen.
Owen
was taken by Mac Sweeny-na-dTuath (Owen Oge, the son of Owen Oge, son of Owen, son of Donnell) from the sons of Donnell, the son of Donough, who were slain on the occasion.
Oilen-na-dTuath
(i.
e.
Port-an-0ilen
of O'Neill (Turlough Luineach), namely, Srath-ban f was burned by O'Donnell (Hugh, the son of Manus); and great injuries were done to for it was on this occasion that O'Neill, besides the plundering of the town
,
The town
O'Coinne, the son of

O'Donnell.
Mac Hugh, and many
others besides them, were slain by

slain
Donough, the son of Calvagh O'Donnell, was

Brian, the son of
guire, a
by a Scottish
fleet
man renowned 8
Donough, son of Cuconnaught, son of Cuconnaught Mafor nobleness and hospitality, died.
Great depredations were committed on Sorley Boy, the son of Mac Donnell, by Hugh, the son of Felim Bacagh O'Neill, by Mac Quillin, and the English.
Sorley
Boy and
his
kinsmen went
in pursuit of the preys, defeated those
who
were before them, deprived them of the preys, and slew Hugh, the son of Felim Bacagh, and a company or two of the English. The remainder went away
without prey or victory. Turlough son of Donnell O'Brien, and John Roe', the son of Hugh Conallagh, son of Maelmora O'Reilly, went to England, and were invested with the
11
order of knighthood on the one day, in the the Sovereign, Elizabeth.
summer
of this year, in presence of
Donough, the son of O'Boyle (Turlough), was

O'Malleys.
Ennistiiaon, in the west of the county of Clare, John Roe, fyc. O'Reilly See note c , supra, It was probably on this occasion that Sir John
'
slain
on Inis-Caoilk by the
,
" Sir Shane O'Realie, by order out of England, anno 1587, was made Capten of the Countrie of Breny O'Realie, now called
to this Sir John:
O'Reilly furnished the pedigree of his family, preserved in the State Papers' Office, London, Tn a pedigree of O'Reilly, preserved in the Li-
County Cavan, and

firmed Tanist."
k
his uncle,
Edmond, was conan island near
Inis-Caoil,
now
Inishkeel,
brary of the British Museum, Harleian

1425,
fol.
MSS.
the mouth
186, occurs the following note relating
Gweebara bay, belonging to the of Boylagh, and county of Donegal. barony

of
10x2
1812
aNNdta Rioghacbca
mac coippbealbaij
rhfipgi-j,
eiraeuNN.
i
[1583.
pfppfba,
tnec puibne Decc
mbaile rhecpuibrie
inopab cuala Ua
Neill coippbealbac luineac DO bfic pop an ppach mbdn co moip DO Sha;ranacaib ina pappab, ~\ bdeap occ bdij, -\ ace baccap Dul DO an eSpaea bain piap an can pin. Oc cfpe conaill nDiojail loipccce
Ua
ooriinaill
Qo6 mac majnupa an

-\
nf pin, T?o
cionoileab co einnepnac
a pocpaieee Dia
i
pope hipuibe DO paijm ujpa i lompuaccca pop mapcpluajj uf Domnaill. Nip bo peich opfa la muincip Uf Domnaill inDpin 50 mbdcap Daofne occd nDieiujab fcoppa jach laof. peace ann ranjacap an po baD Deach DO rhapcplua j uf neill 50 mbpi^,
nf po anpac na ccpf namae, co hiompocDia pfimimso panjacap cap pino, cpia pope uf Domnaill. 17opcap ainfplama mumneap uf Domnaill an can paib longpuipc a aof po jabpac a nofopma po ceooip po bngpfe poppa, p.fcaip pin, ap 1
DO coiD gan puipeac 50 opuim lijfn 50 po jab longmi lun Do ponripao. No acceab Diopma DO mapcpluaj uf neill
paijib,
50 mbopppaD 50 cccip,
-\
50 ccapcapal pop cenel ccondill,

)
-]
-\
-\
lomaipecc,
~|
lompuaccab aingiD eccpocap fcoppa ppf pe pooa.

uf neill 5011
in ppiriD
po bfoiD pop mapcpluaj occa ppoipbinje ina noiuib

caib Dionnpaijib aipm
in
l?o ppaofneab a ccubcacap, gup capp po bap occd ccacmang, occa ccimcellab co Dfcell,
-\
-\
nd caorimaccaccap paijib dra iDip gup bo hficcfn Doib an abann pop a monpo boipcpfc Dia paijib.
17o bdibic,
-\ -j
po mapbaic
im mac Uoba, pocaiDe DO muincip uf neill nn Ua ngoipmplfâij Copbmac, im TTlaolmuipe mac Diapmaca mic macjamna, mic cuarail uf cleipij, aon 1
bpdije
gill
Ui
neill
-|
cenel eoâin Don chap

pfipin,
-\
acaippium, i Dua neill
uaip pob lonann macaip Dia bd pop a cumap buf lolmaoine uf neill ap
pin,
aba a pialupa ppipn

1
nip bo po laip a cfopa cuDpoma Da jac fpnail lonnmupa

should be
" Until they crossed Port-ua-dtriand the River Finn." Port-na-dtri:
The town
of,
i.
e.
the castle or residence of

at
Mac Sweeny Banagh,

Donegal.
Bawau,
in the parish of
Kilcar, in the barony of Banagh,
and county of
namhad namhad was

uo te
tHe
name
of a castle on the Tyrone
side of the River Finn, close to Lifford

',
See
b
,
Druim-ligkean, now Drumleen, a townland in the parish of Clonleigh, barony of Raphoe,
p.
135
and note
and county of Donegal

year 1522,
p.
See note
",
under the
and
under the year 1526, p. 1384, supra. t Rushed upon it __ They had not time to look
1356, supra.
"Precisely
This word
is
redundant,
but were obliged to plunge into that part of the river to which they first arrived,
for the fords,
might be omitted in the English. The Finn and Port-na-dtri-namJiad.
This
and attempt to cross it by swimming. q The same mother __ The Editor has not been
1.583.]

Mac Sweeny,
at
1813
Fearfeadha, the son of Turlough Meirgeach

of
died in the town
Mac Sweeny Banagh
1 .
Strabane, having a great of Englishmen along with him; and they were menacing and threatening party to go to plunder Tirconnell, in revenge of the burning of Strabane some time
O'Neill (Turlough Luineach)
was stationed
O'Donnell (Hugh, the son of Manus) heard of this, he expeditiously assembled his forces to meet them, and proceeded without delay to m Druim-Lighean where he encamped, precisely" in the month of June. troop
before.
,
When
of O'Neill's cavalry occasionally
went
to offer skirmish
and
battle to O'Donnell's
cavalry
and
as O'Donnell's people
slain
would not
numbers were
between them each day.
On
refuse their challenge, great one occasion the choicest part
of O'Neill's cavalry set out with vigour, fury, contempt, and arrogance, against the Kinel-Connell, and never halted in their course until they crossed the Finn
and Port-na-dtri-namhad and advanced to the borders of O'Donnell's camp. O'Donnell's people were unprepared at that time [for an engagement] never, ;
theless,
they immediately sent out their squadron [of cavalry] to attack them.
ensued between them, which In the end the cavalry of O'Neill were routed as far as lasted for a long time. and they were hotly, and without the River Finn, over which they had come
obstinate
An
and merciless contest and
conflict
and so surrounded and environed, that they were not able to make their way to any ford, 'so that they were forced to face p On this occathe river at the point where they, torrent-like, rushed upon it
intermission, pressed in the pursuit,
.
sion
numbers of
O'Neill's people
were both drowned and
slain,
among whom
were O'Gormly (Cormac), and Mac Hugh, and Mulmurry, the son of Dermot, son of Mahon, son of Tuathal O'Clery, the only hostage of O'Neill and the KinelOwen, for his father and O'Neill himself were born of the same mother" and
;
he had O'Neill's various treasures under his control, on account of his relationand O'Neill would have given three times the ordinary quantity ship to him
;
able to discover the
name
of the mother of Tur-
till
is,
lough Luineach O'Neill. It looks very odd that he and O'Clery should have been born of the
he was fifteen years old. The probability that after the death of Dermot O'Clery, leav-
same mother,
authority for assuming that Turlough Luineach O'Neill was a bastard, like Mathew, Baron of Dunganon, who
as
we have no
ing a son, Mulmurry, Niall Conallagh O'Neill married his widow, for her beauty, and had by her Turlough Luineach. This Niall Conal-
was the reputed son of a blacksmith of Dundalk
lagh must have had at the time of his marriage very small hopes of ever attaining to the rank
1814
[1584.
DO cabaipc app, oia muinnp Uf bomnaill,

leo.
ma6 puapcclab
-|
DO.
Ro
guinfoh
-j
-j
po baibfb eipibe la
buibi
jio
ba6 plan a mfnma,
popcap
Dm
cuicim
QO13 CR1OSC,
Qoip Cpiopc,
fflac oibpeacca
1584.
mile, cuicc cecn, ocrrhoccarc,

cille
cfraip.
geapoien oecc Sacpoib. Sip mclap maulbi gobepnoip coiccib connacc Decc in ac luain pa mice, pfp
mpla
i
oapa
.1.
ccfngcoib pojlamca mbeplaib' cacbuabac peacnon epeann, alban,

i
eoppa epibe, peap cpoba na ppamgce 05 pojnam Dia ppionnpa, po bob pfipbfp co pomaoin Dopom inopin, naip puaip a Diongmala oo Dfjruapapoal on mbatnpiojain .1. Conpcablacc baile ara luain, gobepnopacr coiccib connacc ppi pe peace mblmban pia na bap, pfopuibeacc Roppa comain
-\
oilen lapcaip
~]
-|
~\
beoil
6
ara na pluaiccfb Do pfin Da oiopfohaib, ina Dfoaij ace ariimn gup ab cloinn mpla cloinne Riocaipo po ceD-polacaip pe bel ara ria pluaicceab.
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of Prince of Ulster.
his plea
and Customs of Hy-Fiachradt, p. 81. ' Under this year Hooker describes a remarkable combat in appeal of treason, fought in
Dublin before the Lords Justices, of whom Adam Loftus, Archbishop of Dublin, was one, by two Irishmen of the family of O'Conor Faly.
This combat
is also
The Challenge being acthe Appellant, all things were precepted by pared to trie the issue, and time and place
by Combat.
appointed, according to precedents drawn from the Laws of England in such cases. The weapons,
noticed
by Philip O'Sullevan
108,
being sword and target, were chosen by the Defendant, and the day following appointed for combat. The Lords Justices, the Judges,
Beare, in his Hist. Cathol. Iber., fol.
who
exclaims against this barbarous

called
mode
of trial
and Counsellors, attended in places appointed for them, every man according to his rank, and
wager of battle, which was of English introduction-; and also by Sir Eichard Cork, and Walter Harris, who gives the substance of
it
most of the military
officers, for the greater of the trial, were present. The comsolemnity batants were seated on two stools, one at each
as follows:
end of the inner court of the Castle. The Court

being called, the Appellant was led forward into the lists, stripped in his shirt, and searched by the Secretary of State, having no arms but his
"In the year 1583, Conor mac Corrnac O'Conor

appealed Teige mac
fore
Gillapatrick O'Conor bethe Lords Justices and Council, for killing
his
men under protection. Teige, the Defendant, pleaded that the Appellant's men had, since they had taken protection, jconfederated with
the Rebel Cahal O'Conor, and, therefore, were
also Rebels,
sword and
target, and, taking a corporal oath that his quarrel was just, he made his reverence to the Lords Justices, and the Court, and then
was led back
to his stool.
and that he was ready to maintain
was observed,
as to the Defendant.
The same ceremony Then the
1584.]

;
1815
of every sort of property for his ransom, if he could have been ransomed but he was first mortally wounded, and afterwards drowned by O'Donnell's people,
who were
in high spirits,
and who rejoiced
at his falling
by them
r
.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1584.
thousand jive hundred eighty-four.

i.
The son and

Sir Nicholas
heir of the Earl of Kildare,
e.
Garrett, died in England.
Mai by, Governor of the province of Connaught, died at Athlcme, about Shrovetide. He was a man learned in the languages and tongues of the
islands of the
of Europe, a brave and victorious man in battles [fought] throughout Ireland, Scotland, and France, in the service of his sovereign and 8 this was a lucrative service to him, for he received a suitable remuneration from
West
the Queen, namely, the constableship of the town of Athlone, and the governorhe enjoyed] for seven years before his ship of the province of Connaught, [which
death, and a grant in perpetuity of the towns of
for himself
Roscommon and
Ballinasloe',
but he himself had previously acquired" Ballinasloe from the sons of the Earl of Clanrickard. Captain Brabazon held the place of
and
his heirs
pleadings were openly read, and the Appellant was demanded whether he would aver his Ap-
Kilkenny, pp. 95, 96.

*
Remuneration,
"
literally,
good pay,
or
which he answering in the affirmative, the Defendant was also asked whether he would
peal ? to
confess the
wages."
BaUinaske, bel ara nu pluuijeuo, the mouth of the ford of the hosts but the true name is Bel ara Naopluaiji;, i. e. the mouth of
;
'
action
also
or
abide
the trial of the
same?
plea
He
answered that he would aver his
by the aword. The signal being then given by sound of Trumpet, they began the combat
with great resolution.
the ford of Nadsluagh, so called from Nadsluagh, the son of Feradhach, and brother of Cairbre
The Appellant
and
received
Crom, Chief of Hy-Many.
This was the name
two wounds
in his leg,
one in his thigh,
and thereupon attempted to close the Defendant, who, being two strong for hirn, he pummelled him till he loosened his murrion, and then with
his
of a ford on the River Suck, in the county of Galway, from which the town of Ballinasloe has
taken
its
name.
See
note
'fribes
b
.
own sword cut
off his head,

it
thereof presented
so his acquittal
p.
c.
and on the point to the Lords Justices, and

See Hooker,
Many, p. 165, which gave origin to this town were called Dun-Leodha by the ancient Irish See note f
,
The
and Customs of Hyfort and castle
was recorded."

u
p. 87,
supra. or
445
Harris's edition of Ware's Antiquities,
Acquired,
i.
e.
by conquest, purchase,
xix. pp. 153, 154;
and Hardiman's
Statute
of
agreement; but we are not told which.
1816
aNNac,a Rio^hachca emecwN.

capcm bpabupun 50 ceacc
coiccib connacc
rnic
i i i
[1534
lonab Sip niocldp 05
mo dpo comeppoipecc
Coippbealb'ac
mac uaicne
Sip pipoepo binjam nepmn an cparhpaib ap ccino. maoi'leaclainn uf loclamn DO jabail
mi
mn
ccopach mfp mapra na bliabna po muicinip, le coippbealbac mac oorhnaill uf bpiain, i a bapuccab lap pin la- capcm bpabupun ap Seppion an cpampaiD
ap cancc
i
ninip.
.1.
conmapa an caofbe nap Do cloinn cuilem oecc Donncab mac caibcc mic conmfba mic conmapa mic Sfain, pfp pep mo eaccla a eapccapacc monab pfbma Da mbaof DO cloinn cuilem uile epibe. Ruaibpi cappac mac maolmuipe mic oonnchaib, mic coippbealbai mec
TTlac rhec
i
puibne DO bdpuccab i ccopcaicch. Sircain comcoiccfnn Do poccpa po'epinn uile, -\ po od coicceab muman -Do ponnpab lap noicfnoab mpla ofprnuman arhail a oubpamap. Udnaicc DO
co po lingpior aiccpeabaij na ccfnnrap ccompoccup Daiciuccab conallac, ciappaige ~\ conncae luimnij. Nf baof pfp lomcaip aipm Dopliocr ITIuipip tneic geapailc in epinn Do neoc baof pop pojail no pop
bicin
pin,
na poccpa
Dibfipcc ndcrcdimcc po Dlicceab, ace mab muipip mac Sfain oicc, mic Sfam, mic comaip mpla nama, jib eppibe cdnaicc po pic ap pocal mpla upmuman, 1 po pccap pibe ppi a Daofnib lap pin uaip po ela ap cuipe cuiccip cap pion-\
mec mec Domnaill, appaibe 50 Don Spain lapom 50 bpuaip bap innce lap ccpioll. halbain, camicc lupcip nua Do ceacc in Gpmn .1. Sip lohn pappor an 21 lun
i
ainn ppiobglaip ba cuaib cpe cuabmurham, T?uca mec uibilfn ccfnn Somaiple buibe
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~\
o gac epic 56 apoile 50 pdinicc
-\
Muic-inis, i. e. tog-island, now Muckinish, in the parish of Drumcreehy, barony of Barren,
townland of Muckinish East, on the margin of Pouldoody Bay; but only one side wall of it
and county of
Clare.
There are two
castles
at this place, one called
Shan-Muckinish, or Old
The senior branch of the standing. of this place is the family of the O'Loughlins
is
now
Muckinish, alias Ballynascregga, which is in excellent preservation, and has been lately repaired and beautifully furnished by its present proprietor, Captain Kirwan. The last O'Loughlin,
Mr. Charles O'Loughlin, of Newtown Castle, Drumcreery, who was locally called " T?ij 66ipne, i. e. King ofBurren." " Western part of Clann-Cuilein. According
late in the parish of
who
lived in this castle, according to tradi-
tion,
was Uaithne Mor O'Lochlainn, who flourished about one hundred and twenty years since. The other castle is called MuckinishNoe, or
to a description of the county of Clare, preserved in the Manuscript Library of Trinity
College, Dublin, E. 2. 14, the country of the
Western Mac Namara, which was

barony of
called the
New
Muckinish, and
is
situated in the
Dangan when
this
description was
1584.]
181"
Sir Nicholas until the arrival of Sir Richard
missioner of the province of Connaught, in the
Bingham in Ireland as Chief Commonth of June the following
summer.
Turlough, the son of Owny, son of Melaghlin O'Loughlin [of Burren], was, in the beginning of the month of March in this year, taken prisoner on Muicinis
v
,
by Turlough, the son of Donnell O'Brien, and put to death
at Ennis,
by
Captain Brabazon, at the ensuing summer sessions. The son of Macnamara, of the western part of Clann-Cuileinw ,died, Donough, son of Teige, son of Cumeadha", son of Cumara, son of John a man, of all the
;
Clann-Cuilein, the most dreaded
by
his enemies
i-n
the field of battle.
Rory
Carragh, the son of Mulmurry, son of Donough, son of Turlough
Mac
Sweeny, was executed at Cork. general peace was proclaimed throughout all Ireland, and the two provinces of Munster in particular, after the decapitation of the Earl of Des-
mond, of which we have already made mention.
In consequence of this pro-
clamation, the inhabitants of the neighbouring cantreds crowded in to inhabit Hy-Connello, Kerry, and the county of Limerick. There was not a single indi-
vidual of the race of Maurice Fitzgerald able to bear arms in Ireland, even of all those who had been engaged in acts of plunder and insurrection, who did
not become obedient" to the law, excepting only Maurice, the son of John Oge, son of John, son of Thomas the Earl [of Desmond]; and even he came in under
company of five persons across the green-streamed Shannon, northwards, through Thomond, and from one territory to another, until he came to Sorley Boy, the son of Mac Donnell, in Route [the territory
of]
peace, on the word of the Earl of his people, and fled with a
Ormond
but he afterwards separated from
from whence he proceeded to Scotland, and afterwards Spain, where he died after some time.
Quillin,
Mac
to
A
viz.
:
new Lord
Justice, namely, Sir
John Perrottz arrived

,
in Ireland
on the
written (1585), contains the following parishes,
Quin,
Toomfinlough,
Kilraghtis,
BunKil-
belonged to this territory. * Cumeadha This name
is locally
anglicised
ratty,
Feenagh, Kilcorney, Kilfintanan,
Cuvey, or Covey.
*
quan, Cloney, Dowry, Templemaley, Drumline,

Clonloghan, Kilmaleery, and Killeely. whole of the ancient district of Tradry,
Obedient, literally,
" who did not come under

Sir John Perrott,
The
.law."
'
now
Sir John Perrott
who was
almost
all
included in the barony of Bunratty,
supposed to be a natural son of King Henry VIII.,
10 y
1818
[1534.
imaille pip Sip lohn nopip ina ppepioenc op cfno Dot coicceab murhan, -] Sip Ripoepo bionjam ina jobepnoip op cfno coiccib connacc. Ni po caic an
lupcip mi co hiomldn
'
appibe 50 jjaillim. mbaile pin Oia pdileiuccab,
nac cliac na corhnaibe an can cainic co hacluain, Uangaccap maice coiccib connacc ina combail gup an
i ~\
-]
Dia
aomdilmap pollamnai^ceoip
i
-|
map cobnac
i
op a ccionn on bppionnpa. lap tnbfic peal Don lupcip ngaillirh po cpiall Do bol co luimneach, 6aoi an ceo aohaib lap ppdccbdilna jaillmhe ccill rhec
Came an oapa hoibce 50 cuinnce ccloinn cuilein. baccap maife conncae an cldip ap a cionn annpin ooneoch oib nd Deachaib ina cfno 50 6af beop Sippiam na conncae .1. an cpuipeac, capla illdirh 05 an gaillim.
ouac.
i
cpippiam an can
apocpecuip,
-|
pin,
Donnchab beacc, mac*caibcc, mic Donnchaib
ui
bpiain
uaccapdn locca aibmillce coiccib connacc pia pin. Ro bfn a Opoc biac bo oip puaip a pijfb ap capp, cnaimpebeab coimmbpipce DO benamh Dia cnamaib la cul cuaije cpuime ciugpopmnaibe, po cuipeao a
-|
-\
copp Idmbpipce Ifrrhapb cfngailce ppi cablabaib cpuaib pfjnib cndibe mbaipp cloccaip cuinnce po copaib en, i fcaioe an aieoip ap bdij gomao lonncomapca ~\ eippiomldip oo luce oenma opoicjmorh a paicpm arhlaib pin.
i
caoD an lupcip ap na rhapac co luimneac, po cinn aicce opong mop DO baoinib uaiple ap 506 Ifc Do luimneac DO milleab Do rhiocopuccab co
"|
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Oo
puccpacc pccela paip TTlup coblac albanac DO cocc oon Ific ba cuaic oepinn co mbdccap 05 lonDpab po co jaipm Somaiple buibe mic mec oomnaill,
"|
"|
ace opccain na cipe ina ccimceall,"] ba pfb pocariD ima ccangaccap Somaiple buibe (ajd mbaof an puca pe pe oeic mbliaban picfc poirhe pin) oo cloipcin
gup cuip comaiple Saân Deacc -| Dpopcon^pa ap an lupcip nua pin an puca DO cabaipc Da ponOuipib Diple baoein, Somaiple oionnapbab 50 a acapba
~\
bunaib 50 halbain,
and had
~\
nf
hfb arhdm ace gan jjaBalcap eaccapcenelai^ ap bir

Parliament with her Majesty's privity; to confer all
offices, except Chancellor, Treasurer, three Chief Judges, and Masters of the Rolls ; and to collate and confer all spiritual promo-
much
of his towering spirit in him,
was sworn Lord Deputy on the 26th of June, 1584. His commission was, as usual, during
pleasure, to
offences or
make war and peace, and to punish pardon them (treason against the
tions,
all
except archbishops and bishops;
to
do
Queen's person, or counterfeiting money, only excepted), to make orders and proclamations,
to impose fines,
to exercise martial law,
things relating to justice and government that the Queen could do if present. See Cox's
and dispose of rebels' estates, and to assemble the
Hibernia Anglicana, A. D. 1584, edition of 1689,

p.
368.
1584.]

;
1819
and there came along with him Sir John Norris, as President over the two provinces of Munster, and Sir Eichard Bingham, as Governor over
21st of June
the province of Connaught. The Lord Justice had not passed an entire month" To in Dublin before he proceeded to Athlone, and from thence to Galway.
town the chiefs of the province of Connaught repaired, to meet and welcome him, and to acknowledge him as their ruler, and as the chief placed over
this
them by the Sovereign. The Lord Justice, having spent some time in Galway, set out for Limerick, and remained the first night, after leaving Galway, at
Kilmacduagh on the second night he reached Cuinche", in Clann-Cuilein, where he Avas met by those chiefs of the county of Clare who had not met him at
;
namely, Cruise, also waited on him and the sheriff had at that time in his custody Donough Beg, the son of Teige, son of Donough O'Brien, before then the arch-traitor and demagogue of the plun-
Galway.
The
sheriff of the county,
derers of the province of Connaught. His evil destiny awaited him, for he was hanged from a car, and his bones were broken and smashed with the back of a
large and heavy axe fastened with hard
and his body, [thus] mangled and half-dead, was placed, and tough hempen ropes, to the top of the Cloccas of Cuinnche', under the talons of the birds and fowls of the air", to the end that the sight of him in that state might serve as a warning and an example to evildoers.
;
Justice went the next day to Limerick, and was resolved to deand reduce a great number of gentlemen on each side of Limerick, until stroy news overtook him that a Scotch fleet arrived in the north side of Ireland, at
The Lord
the invitation of Sorley Boy, the son of Mac Donnell, and that they were plunand ravaging the country around them. The cause of their dering coming was:
the possession of the Route for thirty years before, heard that the English Council had issued an order and command to having
Sorley Boy,
who had had
the
new Lord
Justice to restore the Route to
its
rightful inheritors,
;
and to
this,
banish Sorley to his

a
own
original patrimony in
Scotknd
and not only
An
entire
month.
He was sworn on the 26th
of June, and began his progress on the 15th of See Cox's Hibernia Anglicana. July
6
Quin. The word clojap is usually applied to a round tower belfry detached from the church, but is here evidently applied to the square tower
1
Guinche,
naw Quin,
n
,
ratty
c
See note
',
in the barony of Bununder the year 1278, p. 429,

p. 775, supra.
i.
of the great abbey of

*
and note
under 1402,
Quin still remaining, and fowls of the air. This is a redundance of words in the original for the sake
The
birds
The Cloccas of Cuinnche,
e.
the Belfry of
of alliteration.
10 y 2
1820
aNNCcta Rio^hachca
i
eiraectNN.
[1584.
DO leccab
oon ppionnpa. nepinn an ccfm no biab urhal
Odla an
lupcip po
luaicpeim, ~\ pdccaib luimneac 6 b'oinn co beippe a mbfic ma coinne

riDpoiceac dca.
ma
po poccaip Da paibe Dpeapaib inpfbma

T
i
ccfnn cficpe la picfc on la pin T?o ppfccpab na poccapca pin la peapaib muman, mibe,
co Ifonmap, lepcionoilce gup an maijin pin. Uuccpac laijean, uaip conjaccap Oo cualaib Sorhaiple Dail pfp nepeann Dm uile aghaib ap ullcoib.
mpom
a caopaijeacc, a mna, -| a rhuinceapa 50 paijib po pagaib an puca, i puce no lomcoirheo ap anci'p, nabdpjleann concaban co nap paccaib aejaipeacc
oacc ap baile ip in puca, acr ap bunbp aihdir, 516 e pa Diginn oaingm Don cuicceab po gaba6 e lap an lupcip po cfno Da la co na noiDcib lap puibe ina nmceal, i po cmp bapoa na bainpfojna mo. lap mbfic Dfic Id Don mpcip ipm puca, 17o pdgaib cpi banna oecc.ap opoa nullcoib 16 hajaiD Sorhaiple ncc pein cap a aip co hac cliar, 1 po pccaoflpioc piji DO cfnnpuccao,
-\
i
"]
epeann Dia ccijibh.

niapcap connacc ecip pliocc eojain uf plairbfpcai^, 1 pliocc mupchaiD nrnc bpiain na noinpeac uf plaicbeapcaij. Rob ea aDbap mac caiDg na buile mic mupchaiD, pin Sbocc eojain .1. 6 plaicbfpcaij cabj
6appaonna Dfipse
mic eojam, -\ clann Doriinaill an coccaib mac an jiolla buib mic mupchaiD mic eoâm Do gabdil oilein baile na hmnpi ap cabcc, mac mupchaiD na ccua^ mic caibcc, mic mupchaib uf plaicbfpcaij, uaip bdccap pliocc eojain aja
paba gup bo leo pfm 6 cfpc an coilen pm,-| jup ab cap a pdpuccab baf cabcc ajd cogbdil, i 050 curhoac, cecib cpur a mbaf a pfp Do com cabcc poppa
-]
It,
i.
e.
Ireland
that
is,
not to allow any
strangers, Scottish, or English, to
come
to colo-
nise Ireland, so long as the native Irish
remained
originally applied to a territhe parishes of Ballynascreen, tory comprising Kilcronaghan, and Desertmartin, in the barony
this
But
name was
obedient to the Sovereign.
of Loughinsholin.
i.
Boyne Boyne, which falls into the sea near Drogheda,

Beare,
e.
From
the
to
from the River
Dun-Its, now Dunluce, an old castle in ruins, about two miles and a quarter west from Bushh
to Bearehaven, in the south-west of the
county
mills,
of Cork.
g
in the north of the county of Antrim, These ruins are situated on a rock which is
Gleann-Concadhain,
now
anglice Glenconsi-
separated from
the mainland by a chasm of
keine, a
name applied
to a romantic valley
about thirty feet in width, and which, on the

opposite side, rises about a hundred feet perThis castle is said pendicularly from the sea.
to
tuated between Slieve Gallion and the Banagher i noun tains, in the parish of Ballynascreen, in
See note
the south-west of the county of Londonderry d under the year 1526, p. 1384, supra,
,
have been originally erected by Mac Quillin, chief of the Route, and afterwards greatly en-
1584.]

settle in
e
1821
but not to suffer any strangers to

dient to the sovereign.
his rapid progress,
f
As
Ireland so long as it remained obefor the Lord Justice, he set out from Limerick on
all
and issued orders that
the
men
fit
for service
from the
Beare should meet him at Drogheda, at the expiration of twenty-four The men of Munster, Meath, and Leinster, obeyed this days from that day.
Boyne
to
proclamation, for they came numerously and fully-assembled to that place. They When Sorley heard of the march of the men of all then set out for Ulster. Ireland towards him, he left the Route, taking with him his creaghts, his g women, and his people, to Gleann-Concadhain and leaving neither shepherds
,
nor guards in the country, nor warders in ,any castle in the Route, except only
was the strongest fortress in the' province, it was, nevertheless, taken by the Lord Justice, after he had besieged it for two days and nights and he placed the Queen's warders in it. The Lord Justice,
Dun-lis";
and although
this
companies of soldiers billeted iu Ulster, for the purpose of reducing Sorley Boy; and he himself then returned to Dublin, and the men of Ireland dispersed for their several homes.
having tarried ten days in the Route, left thirteen
Dissentions arose in
West Connaught between

:
the descendants of
Owen
O'Flaherty and the descendants of Murrough, the son of Brian-na-nOinseach' O'Flaherty. They originated in this manner the descendants of Owen O'Flaherty, namely, Teige, the son of Teige -na-Buile, son of Murrough, son of
Owen,
and the sons of Donnell-an-Chogaidh,

of
son. of Gilladuv,
son of Murrough, son
k Owen, took the island of Baile-na-hinnse from Teige, the son of Murrough of the Battle-axes, son of Teige, son of Murrough O'Flaherty for the descen;
dants of
Owen had
been wont
to say that that island

it
was
their's
by
right,
and
that Teige
larged by the
had seized and held

Mac
Dounells.
in violation of their right.
Be
the truth as
The name
Dun-lis,
by Mr. Hardiman
Society, p.
k
for the Irish Archseological

sequent.
i.
denoting strong dun or fort, shews that the site had been occupied at a remote period by a primitive Irish dun, or fort, either of earth, or
387,
et
Baile-na-hinnse,
e.
the town or castle of

a
the island,
now
Ballinahinch,
small island
Cyclopean stone architecture, like Dun-Aengusa, on the great Island of Aran, in the bay of
towards the western side of Ballinahinch lake, in

the county of Galway
the barony of Ballinahinch, alias Cohnamara, in See Chorographical De-
Galway.
'
Brian-na-nOinseach,
a
i.e.
Brianus stultarum.
scription
For
fuller account of these dissentions the

is
island are
of lar- Connaught, pp. 106,403. On this still to be seen the ruins of a small
reader
referred to Chorographical Description
of IJr-Conruwgla, by Roderic O'Flaherty, edited
square castle, about thirty feet in length and twenty-five in breadth, which was built, accord-
1822
awNQf-a Rio^hachca eiReawN.

nDiaib
ria
[1584.
pom a
jabala co nap pdccaib mil ninmle j;up a painicc ap a ccuio Docfp gan a mapba6 no gan a ccabaipc laip. Do ponab Oioj^bala mopa leopom DO ca6cc gion gup bionann curhang baof aca. peace Da noeachaib an eabcc pin mac mupchaib luce apcpaij ap lonnuf plaicbfpcaij 50 hdpainn, paijib oibce mi lun nDeaohaib pleacea eojain l?ucc cabcc poppa ipm abmaoam co hanullam, eeip coolab "j Oupccab ap
i
gac caob DO cuipp coppaij na luinge, ba hfpccaipofrhail an caipbenab cucc pe Doib ap an cpacc pin, "] nip ppiu an coilen a nDeapnab an la pin amain ma nmceall, uaip po mapbaD annpin TTIupcliaD mac emainn oicc nnc emainri meg aeba pfp Ificpeac mealldin Do coib ccommbcno pleacca eoccain uf
~\
i
mapbaD ann Dna mac penepcdil cloinne muipip baf ina mac uf plaicbfpraij (.1. cabg) pin pfm ppocaip ap ppojail ceDna, T?o mapbab beop Dponj mop DO muinnp pleacc eojain TTlupchab palac. uf plairbfpcaij cen mo race na huaiple pin. bdccap amlaib pin ace coccab Do paoab ppi apoile co po piobaijpioc goill fcoppa fpm ppojmap ap ccinD,
plaicbfpcaij.
T?o
in
-]
.1.
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an coilen Do pliocc eojain uf plaicbfpcaij. ITIuipceapcac gapb mac bpiain mic caibcc uf bpiain Decc ipm ceDmf Dpojmap ccpaicc copcpdm. TTIacaem ceillibe compoppaib nac ppuaip cacaofp
i
na coibfim,
ail,
no acaip 6
bpfic, 56
a bap,
-]
a abnacal
maimpcip
innpi.
Ctn copnarhac
mac
concoiccpice, mic Diapmaoa, mic caibcc cairn uf clfipij

i
pfp puim pocondij co ppebup cije naoibeab peal ccuabmumain,"| peal oile hi ccfp conaill 50 po ecc ap an ppuapcopaij ccfp conaill ccopjap na bliabna po, -| a abnacal po bfcfn De, ~] San bfpnapcc occ na mancoib maii i i
nipcip
eapa
puaib.
belonging to the barony of Moycullen, in the west of the county of Galway, opposite the
ing to Eoderic O'Flaherty, of the stones of the adjoining abbey of Tombeola.
Descendants of Owen O'Flaherty These were the western O'Flahertys, who were an older branch of the family than Murrough na dTuagh,
Great Island of Aran.

Clann-Maurice.
These were not the Claim-
who was
set
up by Queen Elizabeth
See Cho-
Maurice of Brees, in the now county of Mayo, but the Clann-Maurice of Kerry, who were in
constant communication with the O'Flahertys and O'Malleys See the notice of the siege of
rographical Description of lar-Connaught, p. 362. m The island. The island about which
they
were lighting was not the island of Aranmore, but the insignificant islet of Ballinahinch, in Ballinahinch lake, in Connamara.
n
Lixnaw under the year 1568, p. 1627. p This name is now Craig-Coriyain.
cor-
Leitir-Meallain,
now
Lettermellan, an island
rupted to Cahercorcrane, which is that of a townland containing the ruins of a castle in the
1.584.]
1823
might, Teige, after their capture of it, made an irruption upon them, and left not a single head of cattle on their portion of the territory which he did not either kill or carry off with him. They, in return, committed great injuries
it
against Teige, although they had not equal power [with him]. On one occasion, in the month of June, as this Teige, the son of
Murrough, went with the crew of a boat to the island of Aran, in pursuit of the descendants of Owen O'Flaherty he overtook them at the break of day, [and found them] unprepared, in a state between waking and sleeping, at both sides of the fore1 ,
castle of their boat.
He
set
them a very
all [indeed] the island was not worth the son of Edmond Oge, son of Edmond Murrough,
example on this strand and that was done about it on that day, for
hostile
;
Mac Hugh of Leitir-Meallain",

this
who had joined

Murrough
the descendants of
,
Owen
O'Flaherty, also the son of the Senes-
chal of Clann-Maurice
who was with them on
predatory excursion, and

slain.
Salach, the son of O'Flaherty (Teige),
were
Many
of the
descendants of
Owen
did they remain at by the English in the ensuing autumn, when the island [of Baile-na-hinnsi] was given to the descendants of Owen O'Flaherty.
O'Flaherty were also war with each other,
slain, besides these gentlemen. Thus until they were mutually reconciled
Murtough Garv, the son of Brian, son of Teige O'Brian. died at CraigCorcrain" in the first month of autumn [i. e. August]. He was a sensible,
sedate youth, who never received blame or reproach, disrespect or insult, from his birth to his death. He was buried in the monastery of Ennis.
Cosnamhach, son of Cucogry, son of Dermot, son of Teige Cam O'Clery, a respectable and affluent man, who at one time had kept a house of hospitality in Thomond, and at another time in Tirconnell, died at Fuar-Chosach", in Tirconnell, in the
St.
Lent of
this year,
and was buried under the asylum of God and
Bernard, in the
monastery of Assaroe*.
of other persons mentioned therein, it is evident that this tract, which has been often quoted in
parish of Rath, barony of Inchiquin, and county of Clare, and near the old church of Rath-Blath-
maic.
In the Description of the County of Clare or Thomond, preserved in the Manuscript Li2. 14, this
the notes to these Annals, was written early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
q
brary of Trinity College, Dublin, F.

castle is set
Fuar-Chosach.
This
is
still
the
name
of a
down as belonging to Moriertagh Caragh O'Brien, who is the very individual mentioned in the text. From this, and the nam<-<
tract of land in the parish of Kilbarron,
barony
of Tirhugh, and county of Donegal. * Assaroe. The ruins of this monastery, to
1824

QOIS CR103C,
1585.
cuicc.
[15&5.
Goip Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceo, occfriiojac] a

lapla
cilti
jfpoio mac geapoio, mic gfpoiD mic bai an ciapla pin cuicc bliaDna mob pepca 050 comaip, mic Sfain cairn, congmdil 6 na rip Duchaijp co ppuaip bap an can pin. flenpn a mac ooipO-
oapa Decc
pa;raib
.1.
a leccan anoip DO paijiD a arapba. nf po hoipoITlac uilliam bupc, RipOepD mac oiluepaip mic Sfain Decc, nea6 ina iona6 ace an cab caoc (oaplaip pein) Do beic ma lonao odimbeoin
neab
lonao la corhaiple Sapan,
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ma
5all.
ôpmlaib mjfn
uf 17uaipc
.1.
mjfn
bpiain mic
eojam
bfn
DO caic a
haimpip aja Diol opeapaib popDa, bfn penamail pocpaiD nap cuill gpfopab na gnuip imDfpccaD DO caoib fcclaipe r,a ealaban, na cacaoip ele beop Do raoib a homij na a hanma Do ecc.
bpian mac cai&cc, mic bpiain mic eojain

pluaij
in
uf puaipc
DO ool ap piubal
ppfopropac mfp lanuapn,"] po pccaoflpioc a pcceimelca po Daingnib Dapcpaije Do cpuinniuccab cpeac,-] puaippioc eoala aiDble. Rug maj planncaib coip cpom Dalbancoib i Deipennchaib aip,
Dapcpaije mej; plannchaiO
po jab bpian acca niomcap j:o pangaccap aipD a ndipD

1
i
~|
bdccap 05 caicfm
"]
05 compuabaipc a cele
i
ace bfnoaib bo pan mbpeipne. OD noapcpaije po cualacap pip bpeipne, -| mumcip uf puaipc bpian Do 6ol a cionn nfnac lomcumang epDalca in po ba6 Doij leo a cpuinmjpioc pop
ppi poile
pajbail Dia paijiD. Puapaccap eippium cuca 50 maillcfimneach mopualac, ace lomcap eccualaing a eapccapacc, "| gep bo he a cobaip po ba Dleacc Da
which
are of the
is
attached an extensive burial ground,

to be seen about one mile to the west
is
here the genitive singular of a h-amm, her
still
town of Bally shannon, in the south-west of the county of Donegal See note', under the year 11 84, p. 64, supra. 5 To go westwards, i. e. to return to Ireland.
Son of Owen Charles O'Conor of Belanagare adds, that she was the daughter of Brian
Ballagh, son of
'
name. w Beanna-bo, i. e. the peaks of the cows, now Benbo, a remarkable mountain near the parish
of Drumleas, barony of Dromahaire, and county of Leitrim, extending from near Manor Hamilton, in the direction of Sligo, for about' three
miles.
Owen, son of Tiernan, son of
try this mountain
According to the tradition in the counis pregnant with gold mines,
Teige O'Rourke. u Name, i.e. her fame for goodness.
Q harima
which gave rise to the saying, " If paioBpe &eanna bo na Gipe paoi 66, i. e. Tota Hiber-
1585.]
1825
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1585.
eighty-jive.
The
Earl. of Kildare died in England, namely, Garrett, the son of Garrett,
son of Garrett, son of Thomas, son of John Cam.
This Earl had been
five
years under arrest, kept from his patrimonial inheritance, until he died at this time. Henry, his son, was appointed his successor by the English Council.
Henry was then permitted
to
go westwards', to
his patrimonial inheritance.

;
(Richard, the son of Oliver, son of John) died and no person was elected his successor but the Blind Abbot held his place, as he thought, in despite of the English,
;
Mac William Burke
Gormly, the daughter of O'Rourke, i. e. of Brian, son of Owen', a woman who had spent her life with husbands worthy of her, a prosperous and serene
woman, who had never merited blame or censure from the Church
or the
lite-
rati, or any reproach on account of her hospitality or name", died. Brian, son of Teige, son of Brian, son of Owen O'Rourke, made an incursion
into Dartry
Mac Clancy
in the
very beginning of the month of January, and
dis-
patched marauding
squadrons through the fastnesses of Dartry to collect preys;
and they obtained great spoils. Mac Clancy, with a numerous body of Scots and Irishmen, pursued and overtook him. Brian proceeded to resist them
;
and they continued fighting and skirmishing with each other w in Breifny. along, until they came face to face at Beanna-bo
,
as they
moved
When ,the men
of Breifny and O'Rourke's people heard that Brian had gone to Dartry, they assembled together, to meet him at a certain narrow pass, by which they thought*
he would come on to them.
They perceived him approaching
at a
slow pace,
and. with great haughtiness, sustaining the attacks of his enemies; and although
[they as] his

,
own
true followers" should have succoured

%
him [on such an emer-
nia bis ditior Benbo."

'
See
it
again mentioned
why
his owit followers should have acted thus
in these Annals at the years 15 83, 1585,

*
3
and!586.
This should be, "they knew." They thought His own true followers, i.e. these were his own'
but we may conjecture that they did so by order of O'Rourke, who, having submitted to the government this year, did not wish that
Brian should thus violate the law.
See Chorographical Description of lar-Connaught, edited by Mr. Hardiman, p. 346.
followers
who
posted themselves in the narrow

It looks strange
pass to intercept his retreat.
that the
Four Masters should not have
told us
10 z
Rioghachca
Do pfop luce Ifnarhna, ni harhlaib pin
eiraeciNN.
[1585.
ponpauc ace a la
bda
Do cabaipc
la
-]
a biobbabaib 50 po linjeab an laocmilib Dia DfB Ificib. l?o jdipfb poirhe ina biaib Don Dfijpfp. l?o hiabab Da 506 aen caeb ina uipamceall co nd po a 0511016. T?o mapbab oaofne lomba ina curhaing cfinn pop a culaib ma pop rimceall ipm lomaipeacc pin. l?o Diocaijeab ann copuccab jjallocclac Do
opuijell dip gallocclac ngeapalcac baccap i ppappab 05 pfic a narhpaine 6 rip Do cip lap noioclairpuiccab na bpiain an Id pin, lam pop aipibe a nionnnDajDaoi'neaD agd mbdccap peace piarii, -] nfop bo
cloinn cpfcij
omppma
)
-\
paijiD
pip
muna luijeab lion larh lomapcpaiD anppoplainn poppa. Oo bepcpar muinnp uf Ruaipc anacal Do bpian ip in mbfipn baojail pin bpeipne
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~\
l?uccpac leo he pop a nionchaib Dia lomcoimeD, -] ap corhaiple op ap cinnan rpeap laoi a rhapbaD 50 mipccneac miopunac lap mbfir Do pioc a ccionn aniocc ~| pop a neineac. Uuccab Dpoc cuic DuaPnaipc Don migniom pin.
i
pop
Gmann Dopca mac bealbac, mac emamn
Domnaill, mic mupchaib, mic Ruaibpi moip,

oicc,
-\
Uoipp-
mic emamn, mic coippbealbai^ mec
pifij;
DO
bapucchab ina nDip in dc cliac. lomacc pleachab ip in mbliabam
Oiapmaicc, mac Domnaill meg poccpa paplimenci Do rabaipr Dpfpaib Gpearm Dia popcongpa pop a maicib a bfic mbelcaine DO ponnpab nan cliac uaip baccap upmop peap
i
co po milleab upmop apba Gpeann. conjail Decc an 14 lunn.

pi
nepfnn umal Dia bppionnpa co crangacrap uile ^nuip DO ^nuip lap an ppop-
congpa
50 hac cliac. Uangaccap ann maice cenel cconaill

fpin
luineac
"
mac
neill
Ua neill Uoippbealbac eojain conallaij, mic aipc, mic cuinn, mic enpi, mic eoâin, ~|
.1.
)
Their day's support,

is
a la bajuoo cabaipc
See Battle of
share of this
This
common
Irish phrase
This Parliament asPrecisely on May-day. sembled at Dublin on the 26th of April, 1585,
according to the original record of it, preserved in the Bolls' Office, Dublin. See Appendix to
the Statute of Kilkenny,
e
Magh Rath, p. 284, line 23. * Was accused, literally, "a bad
evil
deed was ascribed to O'Rourke."
p. 139-
^Mag-Congail,
still
now anglice Magonigle, a'name

the south of the county of
Kinel-Connell.
It looks
very strange that
common
in
the Four Masters should mention Kinel-Connell

first
Donegal. c Parliament.
in order,
as
O'Donnell was not acknow-
For some curious notices of
reader
the Parliaments held in Elizabeth's reign the is referred to Hardiman's edition of the
Statute of Kilkenny, Introduction, p. xiii. etseq.
See ledged as a member of this Parliament " Lords list of the spirituall and temporal!,
summoned unto the Parly arnent holden before the right honorable Sir John
&c. &c. as were
1585.]
/

it
1827
gency],
to his
was not so that they acted, but they gave their day's support2 in battle enemies, so that the heroic soldier was attacked on both sides; he was met
;
bv shouts before and behind [and] he was he could not move backwards or forwards.
slain
so surrounded on every side, that
In this conflict
many men were
around him; and [among the rest] was cut off a company of gallowglasses of the Mac Sheehys, who were the surviving remnant and remains of the
along with Brian on. that day, and who had gone about from territory to territory, offering themselves for hire, after the extermination of the noblemen by whom they had
slaughter of the gallowglasses of the Geraldines,
who were
been employed previously and they would not have been thus cut off, had they not been attacked by too many hands, and overwhelmed by numbers.
;
The men
of Breifny and O'Rourke's people gave protection to Brian in this
perilous situation, and carried, him off under their protection, to be guarded. On the third day afterwards, [however] they came to the resolution of malevo,
lently and maliciously putting him to death, he being under their clemency and their protection. O'Rourke was accused* of participating in this unbecoming deed.
[the Dark], the son of Donnell, son of Murrough, son of and Turlough, the son of Edmond Oge, son of Edmond, son of TurEory More, lough Mac Sheehy, were both executed at Dublin.
Edmond Dorcha
There was much rain
in this year, so that the greater part of the corn of
Ireland was destroyed. Dermot, the son of Donnell

of June.
Mag CongaiP (Mac
Goingle), died on the 14th
A proclamation of Parliament'
ing their chiefs to assemble in part of the people of Ireland were at this time obedient to their sovereign accordingly, they all at that summons did meet in Dublin face to face.
was issued to the men of Ireland, commandDublin precisely on May-day", for the greater
;
and,
Thither came the chiefs of Kinel-Connelle and Kinel-Owen, namely, O'Neill f (Turlough Luineach the son of Niall Conallagh, son of Art, son of Con, son
,
Perrot, Knyght, Lord Deputie Generall of the realme of Ireland, xxvi die Aprilis, anno regni Regine nostre Elizabeth vicesimo septimo,"
attend this Parliament, but

that he took his seat, as his
official list.
it
name
does not appear is not in the
printed in the third

'
Appendix
to
Hardiman's
edition of the Statute of Kilkenny, p. 139-
Turlough Luineach
He came
to
Dublin to
It appears by patent, 20 Elizabeth, Queen intended to create him Earl of Clan O'Neill and Baron of Clogher, but the patent was never perfected. His rival, Hugh,
that the
10 z 2
1828
[1585.
dot)
mac an
pin,
an bapvin
pipoopca, mic cuinn bacaij, mic cuinn, mic enpi mic eojain .1. occ o neill oia po gaipfo mpla cipe heojain ap an bpaplii
menr
Ua
puaib mic neill
ae6 mac majnupa, mic ao6a ouib, mic aeba TTlajûmip, cuconnacc jaipb, mic coippbealbaij an piona.
oorhnaill
mac conconnacc, mic conconnacc mic bpiain, mic pilip, mic comaip, O oocapcaij Sfan occ, mac Sfam mic peilim mic concobaip cappaij, O baoijill coippbealbac mac neill mic coippbealbaig oicc, mic coippbealbaij; mnip, O gallcubaip 6om mac cuacail, mic Sfain, mic I?uai6pi mic aoba. Do com ipm coimeipje pin, TTlag macjamna T?oppa mac aipn, mic bpiain na moiceipje, mic Remainn mic gtaipne, O cardin Ruai&pi mac TTla5nupa,mic oonncham an einij, mic Sfain, mic aibne, Conn mac neill 6icc,
-]
.1.
.1.
son of Ferdoragh, is entered twice in this list, once as Lord of Dunganyne, and again as Earl of
induce them to
Tyrone.
This latter
title
was evidently
inter-
it the Deputy bestowed robes on Turlough Lynogh, and other principal men of the Irish, which they embraced like fetters."
lined after his claim
Parliament.
had been allowed by this The first title should have been
The representatives of these chieftains, Turlough

and Hugh, are now unknown
various persons of the
;
but there are

in
cancelled after the interlining of the higher title. Turlough Luineach is supposed by our historians
name Mac Baron, now
humble circumstances,
in the county of Tyrone,
have sat in this Parliament, but they have not told us in what capacity. It is stated in Perrott's Life that it was the pride of Perrott that he could prevail on the old Irish leaders,
to
who
8
claim
descent from Cormac
mac Baron,
the brother of
Hugh, Earl
of Tyrone.
Hugh Roe, the son of Manns. He became Chief of Tirconnell on the death of his elder
brother,
not only to exchange their savage state for the

of English subjects, but to appear publicly in the English garb, and to make some efforts to accommodate themselves to the man-
Calvagh, in 1566.
The
race of this
condition
have been long extinct. The O'Donnells of Castlebar in Ireland, and the more illustrious
Hugh
ners of his court
but that
it
was not without
the utmost reluctance and confusion that they thus appeared to resign their ancient manners.
from his eldest brother, Calvagh, shall shew under the year 1608.
h
O'Donnells of Austria and Spain, are descended as the Editor
Maguire
That Turlough Luineach,
in his old age,
encum-
not attend as a
The Chieftain of Fermanagh did member of this Parliament. This

c
bered with his fashionable habiliments, expressed his discontent with a good-humoured sim" let " Prithee, my Lord," said he, plicity my
:
Cuconnaught was- the ancestor of the late ConSee note stantine Maguire, Esq., of Tempo. under the year 1498, p. 1242, supra.
,
chaplain attend
shall
me
in his Irish
mantle
thus
your English rabble be diverted from

figure,
my
O'Doherty, Chief of Inishowen, did not atThere tend as a member of this Parliament.
1
uncouth
and laugh at him." Sir Richard who embraced every opportunity of traCox, " ducing the Irish, asserts, that the Irish Lords
were obliged to wear robes, and the better to
are various respectable branches of this family in Inishowen, but the eldest branch is not de-
termined.
The most distinguished man of the

is
name
in Ireland
the Honourable Chief Justice
1585.]
1829
of Henry, son of Owen), and Hugh, the son of Ferdoragh, son of Con Bacagh, son of Con, son of Henry, son of Owen, i. e. the young Baron O'Neill, who obtained the title of Earl of Tyrone at this Parliament and O'Donnell
;
(Hugh
Hugh Duv, son of Hugh Roe, son of Niall Gary, son of Turlough of the Wine); Maguire (Cuconnaught, the son of Cuconnaught, son of Brian, son of Philip, son of Thomas); O'Doherty' (John Oge,
Roe, the son of
,
Manus g son
of
to
the son of John, son of Felim, son of Conor Carragh); O'Boyle (Turlough, the son of Niall, son of Turlough Oge, son of Turlough More); and
1
O'Gallagher
(Owen, the son of Tuathal, son of John, son of Rory, son of Hugh).
To
this
assembly also repaired
Mac Mahonm
(Ross, the son of Art, son of
Brian of the Early Rising, son of Redmond, son ofGla'sny); O'Kane" (Rory, the son of Manus, son of Donough the Hospitable, son of John, son of Aibhne;
Con, the son of Niall Oge, son of Niall, son of Con, son of
Doherty and Mr. Thomas Uoherty of Muff, so remarkable for his gigantic stature, has, by ho;
Hugh Boy
O'Neill,
known.
Sir Beresford
the late Sir William

Rolls in Ireland,
is
Mac Mahon, the son of Mac Mahon, Master of the
nest industry, realized a larger property than the chieftains of Inishowen had ever enjoyed.
of a very obscure branch of
O^Boyk, Chief of Boylagh, in the west of the county of Donegal, did not attend as a member of this Parliament. This family are dwindled into petty farmers and
'
of the county of Clare, his grandfather having been a gentleman's servant,

the
Mac Mahons
and his pedigree unknown.

O'Kane, Chief of Qireacht-Ui-Chathain, did not attend as a member. The present representative of this family is unknown. The only person of the name in the county of Londonn
cottiers.
0''Gallagher, O'Donnell's marshal,
who had
a small tract of land in the barony of Tirhugh, did not attend as a member of this Parliament.
derry, whose pedigree was confidently traced to
Though the family is one of the most regal of the Milesian race, there are none of the name at present above the rank of farmers in the original
Donnell Cleireach O'Kane of Dungiven, when

the Editor examined the county of London-
country of Tirhugh, and very few in any part of Ireland. Captain Gallagher, of Kill of Grange,
near Dublin, and Henry Gallagher, Esq., Baldoyle, Raheny, form the aristocracy of this name
at present.
derry in 1834, was George O'Kane, who was gardener to Francis Bruce of Downhill. Sir
Richard Cane [O'Cathain] of the county of Waterford, and Sir Robert Kane of Dublin,
the distinguished chemist,
who
has reflected so
in the
much honour on
Chief of Oriel, did not attend
nineteenth
race,
his
name and country

are
m
this
Mac Mahon,
century,
undoubtedly of this
Parliament as a member.
the presentative of this family is Editor. The Baron Hartland of Strokestown,

in the
The present unknown to
re-
but their pedigrees are not' satisfactorily made out. There are several of the name in
Boston, and other parts of America, some of
county Roscornmon, and Sir Ross Mahon

but their pedigrees are un-
whom
who
are related to Sir Robert
Kane
of Dublin,
of Castlegar, in the county of Galway, are said

to be of this race,
are distinguished for scientific and literary attainments.
1830
[1585.
mic
mic cumn, mic aorm buibe t>o clannaib neill cloinne aeba buibe. TTlag aenjupa, ae6, mac oomnaill nice, mic oomnaill cfip. Do coibpioc ann âipb'cpiann connacc .1. l?uaipc bpian, mac bpiain,
neill,
mic eoccain ui T?uaipc,
Raijillij
.1.
Sfan puab
mac ao6a
conallaij, mic
.1.
6mann mac oeapbpacaip a acap maoilmopba mic Sfain, mic carail, mrc apaon 05 caicfrh najaib apoile im rijeapnap na ripe, maoilmopba 6 pfpgail ban uilliam mac oomnaill, mic bfop piol ppfpjail DO ofb Ififib .1. mac bpiain mic Rubpaije, mic carail. Conmaic, O pfpjail buibe pacrna Oo oeacarrap ann pfol mmpfohaij co na ppopruachaib TTlac ui con~\
i
-\
-|
.1.
mac oiapmarca, mic caipppe, mic eojain caoic mic peilim mic carail puaib, Sfngcai^, O concobaip puab, Ua6cc 6cc mac raiDg binbe oicc mic Domnaill, mic O concobaip pbcci oomnall, mac cai6cc, mic carail pfp lonaic mec Diapmacra maije eoâin, mic Domnaill mic muipcfpcai^,
cobaip ouinn Qo6,
-\
CPNeilh of Clannaboy
Con,
the son of
knights of Parliament for the county of Cavan.
Niall Oge, did not attend this Parliament as a
member; but his nephew, Shane mac Brian, the ancestor of the present Viscount O'Neill, is
marked
for the
"
The present representative of this Edmond is Myles John O'Reilly, Esq., late of the Heath See year 1 601 House, and now living in France
'
in the official list as one of the knights
O'Farrell Bane.
William O'Fferrall was
county of Antrim.
Sir
Magennis. Hugh Magennis, Chief of was elected one of the knights of ParIveagh,
liament for the county of Down this year, his colleague being Sir Nicholas Bagnell. Captain Magennis, the nephew of the late Lord Enniskillen,
represents a respectable branch of this family. He did not attend this ParliaCPRourke.
11
for the
duly elected one of the knights of Parliament county of Longford. Mr. O'Farrell of
Dublin, the tax gatherer, is the representative of this family, according to Dr. George Petrie ; but the Editor is not acquainted with the evidences which prove his descent. " O'Farrell Boy. Ffaghny O'Fferrall was
for the
ment
as a
member. There is a Prince O'Rourke

whose immediate ancestors,
as
duly elected one of the knights of Parliament county of Longford, and his name ap-
in Russia,
Counts
O'Rourke, attained high distinction in that emHe is said to be the chief of his name. pire.
know who
The editor does not pears in the official list. the present representative of this
Fachtna, or of the O'Farrell Boy, is. w 0''Conor Don. He was not a member of
Ambrose O'Rourke,
mahaire.
*
Esq., J. P., of Ballybollen,
county Antrim, descends from the house of Dro-
John Roe,
The
official list
of the
members
This family is now represented the member for Roscommon, Denis, the son by of Owen, son of Denis, son of Charles the Histhis Parliament.
torian, son of
of this Parliament gives Philip O'Reyly as the He was the brother of colleague of Edmond.
Donough
son of
is
Liath, son of Cathal,
son of Cathal,
Ballintober,
Hugh O'Conor Don
of
John Roe.
5
Edmond,
the son
nist of East Breifny,
He was TaofMaelmora and was elected one of the
the person mentioned in the text. The only other surviving members of this family are Denis O'Conor of Mountdruid, Arthur
who
1585.]
1831
as representative of the O'Neills of Clannaboy";
and Magennis p (Hugh, the son
of Donnell Oge, son of Donnell Duv). Thither came also the chiefs of the
Rough Third of Connaught; namely, O'Rourke" (Brian' the son of Brian, son of Owen); O'Reilly (John Roe the son of Hugh Conallagh, son of Maelmora, son of John, son of Cathal), and his uncle, Edmond, son of Maelmora both of whom were then at strife with each
r
,
also both the O'Farrells, viz. other concerning the lordship of their country O'Farrell Bane' (William, the son of Donnell, son of Cormajc), and O'Farrell
;
Boy" (Fachtna, the son of Brian, son of Rory, son of Cathal). Thither also repaired the Sil-Murray, with their dependents: namely, the son of 0' Conor Don" (Hugh, the son of Dermot, son of Carbry, son of Owen
O'Conor Roe* (Teige Oge, the son of Caech, son of Felim Geanncach) Teige Boy, son of Cathal Roe); O'Conor Sligo" (Donnell, the son of Teige, son of Cathal Oge, son of Donnell, son of Owen, son of Donnell, son of Mur;
O'Conor of Elphin, and Matthew O'Conor, Esqrs., sons of Matthew, son of Denis, son of Charles
where the
erected a
last
monument
female of the house of Hapsburg to him, which exhibits the

:
O'Coaor of Belanagare, the historian. x He did not attend as a memO'Conor Roe

ber of this Parliament.
for the
following inscription
D. O. M.
HIC JACET
IN EXERCITU ACSTRIACO
The knights elected Roscommon were Sir Richard Byngham and Thomas Dillon. The late Peter
county of
common, who
family.
O'Conor Roe, of Tomona, in the county of Rosleft one illegitimate son, Thomas, of Ballintober, was the last recognised head of this
There is another family of the O'Conors Roe, living in the village of Lanesborough, who
retain a small property in Slieve
Baune
and
there are others of undoubted legitimate descent living in and near the town of Roscommon, but
DANIEL O CONNER SJ.Ii;o], LOCUM TENENS GENERALIS ET ANTIQCISSIMS: APUD HIBERNOS GENT18 CAPDT QUI MOX APCD 8UOS CENTURIO, SUB JACOBO II. IK GALLIS SUB LUDOVICO XIV., DEIN SUB LEOPOLDO LOTHARINClÊ DUCK, AC PEMUM SUB INVICTA AUSTRIACORUM AV1.1LA ANNIS XL VIII. STIPENDIA EMERITUS FIDE UBKJUE, ET VIRTUTE PATRIA 8UO APUD OMNES DESIDERIO RELICTO, DECESSIT PLANE UT VIXERAT
ILLUSTHI8SIMU8
D. D.
they are reduced to utter poverty.

Sir Donald O'Conor SlyO'Conor Sligo gagh was not a member of this Parliament. The
y
CHHISTIANI MILITI8 EXEMPLUM

OBIIT BRUXELLIS VII. FEBRUAR1I MDCCI.VI jETATIS XCII.
K.
I.
knights elected for the county of Slygagh were

Sir Valantyn Browne, Ja. Crofton, and Jo. MarThe last chief of the O'Conor Sligo fabury.
P.
Some of the collateral branches of this family who remained in Ireland are still respectable
mily was Daniel O'Conner Sligoe, who was a lieutenant-general in the Austrian service he
:
but the present senior representative of the name is a struggling farmer, as the late Mat-
died at Brussels on the 7th of Februry, 1756, and was buried in the church of St. Gudule,
thew O'Conor, of Mountdruid, who knew him

intimately, often told the Editor.
1832
luipcc
.1.
[1585.
bpian
.1.
macca pfm mac caibcc mic caipppe mic maoi'leaclairm. Oo coib arm caocc mac uilliam mic caibcc tmb oomnall mac Sfain, mic bpfpail.
.1.
mac TCuaibpi, mic caibcc mic TCuaiopi oicc, Ta6cc mac eoccain ma f fnoip cianaopoa.
6ip baf
mac
oiap-
beipn caipbpe
uf ceallaij,
TTlaoaâin
ano cpa lapla cloinne T?iocaipc uillecc mac l?iocaipo nic uillicc na ccfncc, oiay mac an jiolla buib uf peacriapaij Sfan, oiapmaic. Nf beachaib ann aon bob lonaipme 6 cpian lapcapac coiccib connacc ace
Oo coib
~\
-\
mupchab na ccuaj mac caibcc mic mupchaib mic Ruaibpi uf plaicbeapcai. Do com ann cpa lapla cuabmuman Oonnchab mac concobaip mic
.1.
oonnchaib mic concobaip mic coippbealbaij mic caibcc uf bpiain,-] Sip coippbealbac mac oomnaill mic concobaip mic coippbealbai j mic caibcc uf bpiain
tap na
f
coja map pioipe paplimenci a cconncae an

His deputy did
cldip.
Mac Dermot of Moylurg.

member
not attend as a
of this Parliament. This
disguised O'Fferalll. c He did not attend as a member. 0' Madden.
family is now represented by Charles Mac Dermot of Coolavin, Esq., who ridiculously styles himself " Prince of Coolavin," a small barony
to
The present representative of this Donnell, the son of John O'Madden, is Ambrose' Madden of
Streamstown, Esq.,
son of John, son of
nell
who
is
the son of Breasal,
which his ancestors had no claim.

a
son of Ambrose, son of Breasal, son of Daniel,
O'Beirne.
He was
Chief of Tir-Briuin-na-
Anmhadh, son
text.
p. 152.
of the
Don-
Sinna, a beautiful district lying between Elphin and Jamestown, in the east of the county of
mentioned in the
See Tribes and
Customs of Hy- Many,

d
Roscommon. Mr. O'Beirne, of Dangan-I-Beirne,

in the parish of Kilnear the Shannon, in this territory, is the more, undoubted head of this family. He still posalias
Dangan Bonacuillinn,
The Earl of Clanrickard. In the list of the " Temporal Lordes" of this Parliament, printed
" by Mr. Hardiman, the Earle of Clanricard" given as the fourth in order.
is
He
is
now
repre-
sesses a small
remnant of Tir-Briuin. O'Beirne
did not attend this Parliament as a member.
sented by the Marquis of Clanricarde. e Neither of these sons of CPShaughnessy.
He was Teige, son of William, fyc. OKelly the head of the branch of the O'Kellys, seated at Mullaghmore, in the county of Galway. This
"
O'Shaughnessy was a member of
this Parlia-
ment
Teige was not chief of his name, nor did he attend this Parliament as a member. The race of
this
ofHy-Fiach378,386,388. The present head of this rach,pp. family is Mr.Bartholomew O'Shaughnessy of Galfyc.,
Teige are now extinct, but the families of Screen and Gallagh are still extant, and highly See Tribes and Customs of Hyrespectable.
nessy, R. C.
way. The very Rev. and Ven. Terence O'ShaughDean of Killaloe, Dr. Wm. O'Shaughnessy of Calcutta, F.R.S., and all the O'Shaughnessys of the county of Clare, are not of the se-
Many,
le
elected for the county of
The knights of Parliament Galway were Thomas Straunge and Frauncis Shane [who was a
p.
,121.
nior branch of this family, but descended from Roger, the third son of Lieutenant-Colonel Wil-
liam O'Shaughnessy,
who was made
free of the
1585.]

z
;
,
1833
son of Rory, tough) and a deputy from Mac Dermot of Moylurg namely, Brian, son of Teige, son of Rory Oge, for Mac Dermot himself (i. e. Teige, the son of Owen) was a very old man and O'Beirn* (Carbry, the son of Teige, son of
;
Carbry, son of Melaghlin). Thither went also Teige, the son of William, son of Teige and O'Madden (Donnell, the son of John, son of Breasal).
Thither- likewise went the Earl of Clanrickard
d
Duv
O'Kelly";
(Ulick, the son of Rickard,

6
,
son of Ulick-na-gCeann)
and the two sons of Gilla-Duv O'Shaughnessy

thither from
i.
e.
John and Dermot. None worthy of note went

tion of
Murrough
f
.
the excepof the Battle-axes, the son of Teige, son of Murrough, son of
West Connaught, with
Rory O'Flaherty
g manner, went the Earl of Thomond (Donough, the son of Conor, son of Donough, son of Conor, son of Turlough, son of Teige O'Brien); and Sir Turlough the son of Donnell, son of Conor, son of Turlough, son of
Thither, in like
11
Teige O'Brien,
Clare.
who had been
elected a Knight of Parliament for the county of
Corporation of Gal way in 1648, and who was the son of Sir Dermot II., who died in 1606,
"chief of
beth.
all
the O'Fflaherties" by Queen Elizaedited
See Genealogical Table in Chorographical
who was
the son of Sir Roger
I.,
who was
the
Description of lar- Connaught,
by Mr.
son of Sir Dermot O'Shaughnessy, who was knighted by King Henry VIII. A. D. 1533.
Hardiman, p. 362. 8 The Earl of Thomond.

printed
In the
the
order
official list
have changed their name to Sandys and Mr. Levey, the well-known musician of the Royal Dublin Theatre, who is one of
branch of
this family
by Mr. Hardiman,
is
" Earle of
Tomond"
"
given as
fifth in
among
the
Temporal Lordes." The race of
this
Donough,
the descendants of Lieutenant-Colonel William
O'Shaughnessy of 1648, has suppressed his father's name and retained that of his mother,
contrary to the
'
is extinct. The present Marquis of Thomond descends from Dermot, who was the
son of Connor,
usage of most nations.
hertie
O'Flaherty was not a

is
chieftain
Sir Murrough na doe O'Fflamember of this Parliament. This now represented by Thomas Henry
in
son of Murrough, first Earl of Thomond, from whose second son, Donough, the family of Dromoland are descended.
h Sir Turlough. He was duly elected one of the knights of Parliament for the county of Clare. According ton pedigree of the O'Briens,
O'Fflahertie of Lemonfield,
the county of
Galway, Esq.,
who is
the son of Sir John O'Ffla-
hertie, the son of Murrough, son of Brian Oge, son of Brian Oge na Samhthach, son of Teige,
preserved in a paper manuscript, in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, No. 23, p. 61, this
Sir
Turlough had a
the
son, Donnell,
who was
son of Murrough na dTuagh, or Murof the Battle-axes, who was appointed rough
Ellen, daughter knight of Glinn, by whom he had two sons,
of
who married Edmond Fitzgerald,

1,
11 A
1834
[1585.
cuaio ann coippbealbac mac caibcc mic concobaip ui bpiain, -| cijcuilein .1. TTlac conmapa Sfan mac caibcc, ea|ina an caoibe ciap Do cloinn an Oapa Rioipe 1 baocjalach mac ao&a mic baorjalaij mej plannchaba
Oo
Paplimenci ap an cconncae ceona. Oo caoc ann mac uf lochlaino boipne TTlac eaclainn mic Ru&paije mic ana.
(.1.
.1.
T?oppa
mac
uaicne, mic maoil.1.
eppocc
cille
mic caibcc.
bpiam apa TTluipceapcac mac coippbealbaij mic muipceapcai^ mic oomnaill oalua), cfpbaill .1. an calbac mac uilliam uibip mic pipjanamm mic
Sfain.
ui
maolpuanaib mic
TTlag cocldin
.1.
Sfan
mac
aipc mic
copbmaic,
ouibi6ip coille
na manac
Oo
coib ann
mac bpiam
pilip 6 ccuanac
.1.
mac
.1.
uaicne.
TTIuipceapcac
mac
The
coippbealbaij,
race of this
Teige, the grandfather of Christopher O'Brien,

extinct.
John
is
Esq. [of Ennistimon],
who was
living in 1713,
;
when
was compiled and, 2, Murwho married Slaine, daughter of John Mac Namara of Moyreask, by whom he had
this pedigree
Major Mac Namara, M.P., is descended from a junior branch of the eastern Mac Namara
family,
tough,
but his pedigree
is
not satisfactorily
a son, Donnell, usually called Ooriinall Spai-
made out. Major Daniel Mac Namara Bourchier descends by the mother's side from the senior
branch of the western Mac Namaras.
'
neac,
i.
e.
Donnell,
or Daniel the Spaniard,
who married the daughter of Major Donough Roe Mac Namara, by whom he had issue living
in
Boethius
Mac
Clancy.
" Boetius Clanchy,"
who was
1713;
does not
name
to
but the compiler of this pedigree the issue of Donnell Spaiimeach.

the tradition
in
the Brehou of Thomond, and a good was duly elected one of the two knights scholar,
to represent the county of Clare in this Parlia-
According Terence O'Brien, Esq., of Glencolumbkille, is the great grandson of a Donnell Spaineach, sou of
Colonel Murtough O'Brien; but Terence O'Brien
the country,
ment.
He was afterwards appointed High Sheriff'
of the county of Clare, an office for which he was very well qualified, and, according to the tradition in the country, murdered some Spaniards belonging to the great Armada, who were driven
himself asserts that he descends from a Donnell
who was the son of a General Murtough O'Brien, who was the son of Dermot, fifth
Spaineach,
on the coast of Clare in 1588.
m
as a
lin
CPLoughlin of Burren.
He
did not attend
Baron of Inchiquin; but the Editor has not-been

able to find any evidence to prove that Dermot, the fifth Baron of Inchiquin, had -a son Mur-
member of this Parliament. Mr. O'Loughof Newtown is the present senior represenSir
tative of this family.

n
Colman O'Loughlin
tough.
represents a junior branch.

son.
He of Teige, $c. O'Brien. did not attend as a member of this Parliament.

Turlough, the
Mac-I-Brien Ara
This bishop was the son
The Lord of Inchiquin
sat in this
Parliament
Turlough Mac-I-Brien Ara, who made his See submission to Queen Elizabeth in 1567
of
among the
"
peers,
though the Four Masters take
no notice of him.
note ', under the year 1569, p. 1634, supra. On the death of his elder brother, Donough, Murtough, or Maurice, Bishop of Killaloe, became
Mac Namara
He did not attend as a mem-
1585.]

;
1835
Thither went Turlough, son of Teige, son of Conor O'Brien'
and
k
also the
Lord of the Western part of Clann-Coilein* namely, Mac Namara (John, the son of Teige); and Boethius, the son of Hugh, son of Boethius Mac Clancy
1 ,
the second Knight of Parliament elected to represent the county of Clare. m Thither repaired the son of O'Loughlin of Burren (Eossa, the son of Owny, son of Melaghlin, son of Eury, son of Ana); Mac-I-Brien Ara", Bishop of Kil-
namely, Murtough, son of Turlough, son of Murtough, son of Donnell, son of Teige O'Carroll (Calvagh, the son of William Odhar, son of Fergap nainm, son of Mulrony, son' of John); Mac Coghlan (John, the son of Art, son
laloe,
;
of Cormac); and
O'Dwyer
of Coill-na-manach (Philip, son of

r
,
Owny).
Thither went Mac-Brien of Hy-Cuanagh

the head of this family.
namely, Murtough, the son of

See pedigree of Mac-I-Brien Ara,
Murtough O'Brien Ara was appointed Bishop of Killaloe by Queen Elizabeth, by letters patent, dated the 15th of
May, 1570, and had his writ of restitution to the temopralities the same day. He received
the profits of this see six years before his consecration ; but being at last consecrated he sat
this race.
preserved in the Library of Trinity College,
Dublin, H.
1. 7.
O'Carroll.
He
did not attend this Parliaof

it.
ment
as a
member
This Calvagh was the
third illegitimate son of Sir William O'Carroll,
about thirty- six years

last
after.
He
died on the
re-
day of April, 1613, having voluntarily
Chief of Ely- O'Carroll, comprising at this period the baronies of Clonlisk and Ballybritt, in the south of the King's County. See note e , under
the year 1577, p. 1691, supra. The present chief of this family is unknown. The grandfather of the Marchioness Wellesley,
rica,
p
See Harris's signed a year before his death. edition of Ware's Bishops, p. 595, where Harris
states, that
the Arra from whence this bishop's
who
died in
Ame-
family, for the sake of distinction,
were
called
was
its
undoubted representative.
O'Brien- Arra,
is
a barony in the county of
Mac
Coghlan.
He
did not attend this Parof

it.
Limerick.
But
this is an error of Harris,
who
liament as a
member
The
last chief of since,
ought
to
have known that Mac-I-Brien was
this family died
some forty years
with-
seated on the east side of
Lough
Derg, in the
barony of Ara, or Duharra, in the county of
and his estates passed to the Dalys and Armstrongs. General Coghlan is of an obout
issue,
The castle of Ballina, near the Tipperary. bridge of Killaloe, and the castles ofCastletown
and Knoc-an-Ein-fhinn, now Birdhill,
in this ba-
scure branch of this family. * G'Dwyer. He was not a
member
of this
rony, belonged to this family. It should be here " remarked, that the Busshopp of Killalowe"
the present baof Kilnamanagh, in the county of Tipperony rary. The present chief of this name is unknown
is
Parliament.
Coill-na-manach
appears in the list of the spiritual lords of this Parliament. The race of this bishop has be-
to the Editor.
There
is
a Colonel Dwyer, of
come extinct; but some of the

nell
line of
Don-
Ballyquirk Castle, in the parish of Lorha, barony of Lower Ormond, and county of Tipperary
r
;
Connaughtagh Mac-I-Brien Ara are still possessed of some property in the territory. Mr. O'Brien, of Kincora Lodge, Killaloe, is of
but the Editor does not know
his de-
scent.
Mac-Brian of Hy-Cnanagh,
He was
not a
11
A2
1836
[1585.
mic muipceaprai j, njeajina caippcce 6 ccoinnell, -| papaijh luimnij .1. bpian Dub, mac DonnchaiD ,rmc macjamna, mic DonnchaiD, mic bpiain Duib uf bpiain.
Concobap na moinge, mac uilliam
caofc, mic
Diapmara
uf rhaoilpiam cigfpna
uaicne ui maoilpiam rijfpna uaicne uf rhdoilpidin. po coiD Don paplimenc pin opong Do maicib pleacca eojain moip co na
ppopcuacaib.
Ia6paij,
TTlaj
TTlag capcaij
mop oomnall mac

-\
capcaij caipbpeac eojan mac

haine,
oorhnaill, mic copbmaic Domnaill mic pinjin, mic
oomnaill mic Diapmaoa an Dunaio,
mac copbmaic na
~\
pmjm
i
clann a Deipe oeapbpacap Oomnall mac oonncaiD.
Do cuaiD ann beop an oiap bai ccfnoaippci pe poile im cijeapnapbuicce ealla .1. Oiapmaic mac eoccain mic DonnchaiD an bocaip mic eojam meg
DonnchaiD,"]
Oo
naitl,
Donncaoh mac copbmaic oicc, mic copbmaic meg DonnchaiD. cuaiD ann Dna 6 puitlebam beppe, 6occan mac Diapmacca, mic oom-
mic DonnchaiD meic Diapmarca bailb, O Suilleban mop .1. eoccan O marjamna an puinn Domnaill, mic Domnaill na pccpfoaije.
Edmond O'Ryan,
mac
member
elected for the county of Limerick
The two knights were Thomas Norris and Richard Bourke. Mac Brian Cuanach
of this Parliament.
mily.
Esq., of
Bausha House,
near the town of Tipperary, and^ George Ryan, Esq., of Inch House, were considered the chief
representatives of this family in 1 840, when the Editor examined the county of Tipperary for the
was seated in the barony of Coonagh in the county of Limerick, where the ruins of his
splendid mansion are still to be seen in the townland and parish of Castletown. The present representative of this family to the Editor.
8
is
unknown
not a
Eoghan More, i. e. the son of Oilioll Olum, king of Munster, in the third century, and ancestor of the dominant families of Munster.
x
list
Ordnance Survey. w
The Lord of CarrigogunneU.

of this Parliament.
is
i.
He was
Mac
member
1
sentative of this family
The present repreunknown to the Editor.

e.
next after
He is entered in the Carthy More. " The Earle of Tomond," us
Fasagh Luimnighe,
the forest or wilder-
" The Earle of Clancare," that being an anglicised abbreviation of Clann Capraij, and not
Glencare, the vale of the River Carthach, in the
ness of Limerick.
This was a name for a part of the territory of Pobblebrien near the city of Limerick.
u
county of Kerry, as ignorantly assumed by most

Anglo-Irish writers.
extinct.
y
The
race of this Earl
is
G'Mulryan.
Chief of the two Ownys, one

as it
recently called, in the county of Limerick, and the other a barony in the county of Tipperary. He was
barony or half barony,
was
till
Mac
Carthy Cairbreach.
He was
Sir
Owen
in the
Mac Carthy Reagh,

county of Cork.
Parliament.
is
chief of Carbery,
not a
of
member
of this Parliament.
The Eyans
now
Ballymakeogh, near Newport, in Tipperary, extinct, were the senior branch of this fa-
family
He was not a member of this The present representative of this said to be the Count Mac Carthy of
France, whose pedigree has been published by
1585.]

;
1837
Turlough, son of Murtough the Lord of Carrigogunnell' and of Fasach-Luimthe son of Donough, son of Mahon, son of Donough, nighe', namely, Brian Duv,
and Conor-na-Moinge [of the Long Hair], son of William Caech, son of Dermot O'Mulryan", Lord of Uaithne-Ui-Mhaoilriain. To this Parliament repaired some of the chiefs of the descendants of Eoghan
son of Brian
Duv
O'Brien
More, with
their dependents, namely,
of Donnell, son of Donnell, son of Fineen, son of Donnell, son of Dermot-an-Duna), and the sons of his two brothers, namely, Donnell, son of Cormac-na-h Aine, and Fineen, the
Mac Carthy Morex (Donnell, the son Cormac Ladhrach); Mac Carthy Cairbreach" (Owen, son
of
son
ôf
Donough.
Thither also went the two chiefs

2
,
who were
at strife
with each other con-
cerning the lordship of Duhallow namely, Dermot, the son of Owen, son of Donough an-Bhothair, son of Owen, son of Donough and Donough, the son of
;
Cormac Oge, son of Cormac, son of Donough. a Thither likewise went O'Sullivan Beare (Owen, son of Dermot, son of b Donnell, son of Donough, son of Dermot Balbh); O'Sulliyan More (Owen, the
son of Donnell, son of Donnell, son of Donnell-na-Sgreadaighe); O'Mahony the
*
c
Monsieur Laine, who was genealogist to Chas. X. * Duhallow. Neither of these chiefs was mern-
defeat of Cullode,n:
is
One
of the Baron's brothers
married to the
b
sister of the present Sir
Roger
of
The knights elected to the county of Cork in this Parliament represent were John Norries, Lord President, William The Editor Cogan, and John Fitz Edmond. does not know the present chief of this family.
a
Ealmer, Bart.
O'Sullivan
More
He was
not a
member
this Parliament.
The two knights
elected to re-
present the county of Kerry in this Parliament were John Fitzgerald and Thomas Spring. The
representative of O'Sullivan
O'Sullivan Scare,
this Parliament.
this family
is
was not a member of The present representative of unknown. There are several re-
More
in the last
century was O'Sullivan of Tomies, near Killar-
spectable gentlemen of the race in the baronies of Beare and Bantry, but the Editor has not
Timothy O'Sullivan, Esq., of Prospect, near Kenmare, represents O'Sullivan of Cappanacush, from which house the O'Sullivan More
ney.
been able to ascertain their pedigrees. The Editor is not aware how the Baron O'Sullivan de
Grass, the present Ambassador of Belgium at the Court of Vienna, descends; the family claim
to
is
was
elected, in case of failure of issue in the
senior branch.
Mae
Gillicuddy of the Reeks,
be the representatives of the O'Sullivans. It probable that they descend either directly
whose pedigree is very well known, represents another branch of this family of O'Sullivan More and Sir Charles Sullivan,
near Killarney,
;
of
Thames Dittou, county Surrey,

c
is
said,
in
or collaterally with the O'Sullivan who was one of the faithful companions of Prince Charles
Burke's Peerage, to be of
this family,
O'Mahony,
i.
e.
O'Mahony, of Fonn lartha-
Edward,
in his perilous
wanderings after the
rach, or Ivahagh, in the south-west of Carbery,
1838
[1585.
Concobap mac concobaip

rhachjamna,
-]
pinn oicc, mic concobaip pint) mic concobaip ui
6 hfioippcceoil
mop
pinjin
mac concobaip mic

mac
pfnjin
mic
concobaip Do cuaib Din TTlac giolla paccpaicc oppaije pfnjin mic laine. TTlaj eocagdn Connla, mac Concobaip,
bpiain mic pfnjm,

.1.
maolmuai6
Conall
mac
cacaofp.
Nf hdipimreap aon oo 6ol gup an bpaplimenc pin bob lonaipme Do pliocc t>o pliocc.Roppa pailgij, mic cacaofp laoijpij IfnDmoip mic conaill cfpnaij,
moip 6 nib pailje, nd beop Do pfol Daipe bappaij mic cacaofp moip Do caorhancofb, bpanaij, Uuacalai j, ui buinn, ui biomapaij ap an ccop cceona
in the county of Cork.
He was
not a member,
" Ed. Disert," and
Nugent de Morton."
is
The
of this Parliament.
representative of this family is supposed to be O'Mahony of There is a Count Dunlow, near Killarney.
The present
John present Mageoghegans O'Neill [Mageoghegan], Esq. of BunAugustus owen Castle, in the county of Galway, the grandchief of the
O'Mahony of France, who

no doubt, descends from "
d
resides, or recently
resided, at Fribourg in Switzerland,

le
and who,
son of Eichard Geoghegan, so remarkable in Ireland for his learning and knowledge of the
fine arts. Sir
fameux Mahony,"
Chief of Colly-
of the early days of the Irish Brigade.

(y'Driscott
More.
He was
more, a territory of which Baltimore was the Sir Fineen, chief town, in the county of Cork.
or Florence, O'Driscoll
of this Parliament.
Eichard Nagle, of Jamestown and county of Westmeath, is maternally descended from the senior branch of this family, but he cannot be considered the
Donore
Castle, in the
chief of the Mageoghegans, as he
is
not of the
More was not Con O'Driscoll,
member
name by
called the
Admiral, was the
last
known chief of this family.
paternal descent. % He was chief of a territory comCfMolloy prising the baronies of Fircall, Ballycowan, and
Alexander O'Driscoll, Esq., J. P., of the county of Cork, comes from a junior branch.
e
Ballyboy, in the present King's County ; but he did not attend as a member of this Parliament.
Mac
Gillapatrick.
The Lord of Upper Os-
This Connell was the father of the illustrious

Cahir or Carolus O'Molloy, whose hospitality the Eev. P. Fr. Francis O'Molloy thus lauds, in
Parliament among the " TemThe late Earl of Ossory was porall Lordes." the chief of this name. He left one illegitimate
sory sat in this
son,
who
inherits ,his estates,
and who claims
an incidental remark in his Irish Prosody, published at Eome in the year 1677, p. 180
:
legitimacy, as his mother had been privately married to the Earl, his father, by a Eoman Catholic priest.
" Difficile quidem factu apparet hoc metri genus, verum difficilius creditu quod superius
allatum naoi cceo, &c. refert
verissimum
ta-
Mageoghegan. He was chief of Kineleaghe, a territory now included in the barony of MoyHe was cashel, in the county of Westmeath.
f
men, cuius ipse occulares vidi

fide
et audiui testes
dignissimos
nempe quod Carolus
Conalli
filius
Molloyc-rum Princeps, Avus Illustrissimi

viuentis, vastato Hibernise
ferro,
not a
member
of this
Parliament.
The two
nunc
Eegno fame,
knights elected to represent the county of Westmeath in this Parliament were " Ed. Nugent de
flamma
sub Elizabetha Eegina in summis

se
Annonse penurijs, inuitatos a
pro Christo Na-
1585.]
1839
Western, namely, Conor, the son of Conor Fin Oge, son of Conor Fin, son of Conor O'Mahony and O'Driscoll More" (Fineen, the son of Conor, son of
;
Fineen, son of Conor). Thither likewise repaired

Brian, son of Fineen)
g
;
Gillapatrick" of Ossory (Fineen, the son of f Mageoghegan (Conla, the son of Conor, son of Leyny);
Mac
and 0'Molloy (Council, the son of Cahir). None worthy of note are said to have gone to that Parliament of the race of
Laoighseach Leannmor", son of Conall Cearnach or of the race of Rossa Failghe', the son of Cahir More, from Offaly or of the descendants of Daire
; ;
Barach
talitijs
j ,
the son of Cahir
More; or of the Kavanaghs", Byrnes, Tooles

themselves 0' Gorman.
k
1 ,
per dies duodecim tractauerit, nongentos sexaginta homines in domo propria."
Kavanaghs
The family
of Borris-Idrone
There are several respectable gentlemen of

the Molloys of this race. Daniel Molloy, Esq., of Clonbela, near Birr, in the King's County, is
the present head of the family, according to the
tradition in the country
;
are the senior branch of this family. There are several highly respectable families of the name
living in the neighbourhood of Vienna.
These
but the Editor does not
are supposed to be descended from the celebrated Brian-na-Stroice of Drummin, son of Morgan,
know
h
his pedigree.
i.
son of Dowling Kavanagh of Bally leigh, in the

e.
Race of Laoighseach Leannmor, seach or Lewis of the large mantle.

large head, and Laoighseach large sword.
Laoighof the of the
He is otheri.
county of Carlow, who distinguished himself by his valour at the battles of the Boyne and
left
wise called Laoighseach Ceannmhor,
e.
i.
Lannmhor,
e.
He
is
the ancestor of the O'Mores
His son, John Baptista Kavanagh, Ireland after the capitulation of Limerick, and became Baron Gniditz in Bohemia, and died
Aughrim.
and their
correlatives, the seven septs of Leix.
in 1774.
His father, Brian na
Stroice,
who
is
The present representative of the O'Mores is unknown. R. More O'Farrell, M. P. descends from
the senior branch of them by the mother's side ; and Garrett Moore, Esq., of Cloghan Castle, calls
said to have been the largest officer in James's

service,
min
till
remained in Ireland, and lived at DrumFebruary, 1735, when he died, in the
himself the O'Moore, though he does not know his pedigree beyond the year 1611, and there is
strong evidence to shew that he is an offset of the English family of the Moors of Drogheda.
seventy-fourth year of his age, and was buried at St. Mullin's, where there is a curious monu-
ment
to his
memory
the
See Ryan's History and
County of Carlow, p. 350. From the elder brother of Briau-na-Stroice, is Maurice,

Antiquities of
Race of Rossa Failyhe, i. e. the O'Conors Faly, who had but little property in Ireland at
this period.
>
Daire Barach
The present chief is unknown. The principal family of his

was Mac Gorman,
John Kavanagh (son of Dowson of Morgan, son of Maurice, son of Morling, gan, son of Dowling of Bally leigh, son of Dermot,
lineally descended
race, extant at this period,
son of Murrough, brother of Cahir Baron of Ballyanne) of Bauck, near St. Mullins, in the
who was
thent seated in the barony of Ibrickan, and county of Clare. There are several respectable gentlemen of this
county of Carlow, who possesses a small estate

in fee.
From
Rose, the daughter of Dowling
family
who now
call
Kavanagh
of Ballyleigh,
who was married
in
1840
[1585.
dec cfna camicc gup an bpaplimenc mac Geoa, mic Sfam mic Dorhnaill
pin
pinnpeap gaible pajnaill
laip 6 jlionn rhaoilujpa.
co hac cliac, -| mp mbfic pe hachaiD lap ccionol na nuapal pin uile ann nf po cuipeaD cpioc pop an bpaplimenc an bliaOam pi, -| po pccaoflpoc
lapom Dia ccijib. Uanaicc gobepnoip coicciD connacc co nopuing GO baoinib onopca, DO DO congmail corhaiple baile aca cliac ccoicciD connacc, canjjaccap cecup Do pona6 opoaijce longjnara Seippion maimpcip innpi cconncae an cldip.
-| i
i
oeic pgillinsi oopouccaD Don bampiojain in gac aen cfcpariiain cille i cuaice Da tnbaof ipm cfp cenmo ca libepci Do aoncaijpiou pfm DO
aca ann
pin
.1.
the year 1670, to Cornelius O'Donovaii of Ballymountain, in the barony of Igrine, and county
of Kilkenny, the Editor
scent.
'
family of Fiagh
Rebellion
is
the fourth in de-
'
Tooles
The head
of this family in the last
See History of the P. O'Kelly, Esq., p. 185. by The Lord De Tabley descends from Melaghlin Duff O'Byrne of Ballintlea, in Wicklow, who was of the senior or chieftain branch of the
Mac Hugh
of 1798,
century was Laurence O'Toole, Esq., of Buxlown, alias Fairfield, in the county of Wexford.
O'Byrnes, not of the Gaval-Rannall. The Parliament was not finished.
This Par-
For some account of

under the year 1590. m OP
Dunnes,
of the O'Dunnes
is
his descendants see note
liament was prorogued on the 29th of May, having passed the two Acts following
:
'Dempseys.
The present head
1.
An
Act
to attaint
James Eustace Viscount

is
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis
Baltinglas and others, which
commonly
called
Dunne
is
of Brittas, in the Queen's County, who the son of the late General Edward Dunne,
the Statute of Baltinglass, and makes estates

treason, and provides against the fraudulent conveyances of the attainted. 2. An Act for the restitution in blood of
tail forfeitable for
son of Francis,
son
of Edward,
son of Te-
rence, son of Charles, son of Barnaby, patentee,
15 Car,
I.,
son of Brian, son of Teige, son of
Laurence Delahide, whose ancestor had been

attainted in the reign of
Teige, son of Ley ny, son of Eory, son of Donough, son of Amhalgaidh. See note under the year
1
448, p. 968, supra.
The O'Dempseys have dwin-
Henry VIII. The Lord Deputy intended to suspend Poyning's Act, that he might the more speedily pass
such laws as he thought necessary ; but some of the Anglo-Irish members, who were by no means disposed to intrust the Lord Deputy with the
to any laws which might be procured in Parliament, overthrew the bill at The second session of this the third reading.
dled in to plebeians, and Mr. Dempsey, of Liverpool, merchant, is now the most distinguished
man
n
of the name. See page 1690, supra. He was not a memFiagh, the son of Hugh ber of this Parliament, though Plowden asserts that Fiagh
sentative
power of assenting
Mac Hugh "took

for
Iris
seat" as reprelate
Glenmalure.
The
Garrett
Byrne, Esq., of Ballymanus, in the county of
Wicklow, who was expatriated in 1798, was probably the head of the race of Hugh Duv
O'Byrne, whose descendants were rivals of the
Parliament was on the 28th of April, 1586, when it passed the celebrated Act, " That all conveyances made, or pretended to be made,
by any person attainted within thirteen years

before the Act, shall be entered on record in
1585.]

m
.
1841
O'Dunnes, or 0'Dempsys
Glas of Glenmalure.
To
n
,
this Parliament,
however, went the senior of
Gaval-Rannall, namely, Fiagh
the son of
Hugh, son of John, son of Donnell
All these nobles assembled in Dublin, and remained there for some time but the business of the Parliament was not finished this year. departed for their respective homes.
They
then
of the province of Connaught, with a number of other men of distinction, and of the Council of Dublin, went to the province of Connaught, to hold, in the first place, a session in the monastery of Ennis, in the county of
The Governor
Clare. Here' they enacted unusual ordinances, namely: that ten shillings should
be paid to the Queen for every quarter of land in the country, as well ecclesiastical as lay lands, excepting the liberties" which they themselves consented
the Exchequer within a year, or be void."
Spenser's View of
the State
See
reprint of 1809, p. 41. dissolved on the 14th of May, 1586. On the 15th of July, 1585, Perrott issued a
of Ireland, Dublin This Parliament was
Gentlemen and Freeholders of the province of Connaught, to pass unto the Queen's Majestie, her Heirs and Successors, a grant of ten Shillings English, or a
commission, directed to Sir Richard Bingham, Governor of Connaught, the Earls of Thomond
marke Irish, upon every quarter of land containing 120 acres, manured or to be manured, that bears either home of
corne, in lieu and consideration to be discharged
cess, taxation or challenge, excepting the rising out of Horse and Foote, for the service of the prince and State, such as should
and Clanrickard, the Baron of Athenry, Sir
from other
Turlough O'Brien, Sir Richard Bourke Mac William Eighter, Sir Donald 0' Conor Sligo,
Sir
Brian
O'Rourke,
Sir
Murrough-na-Doe
O'Flahertie, and others: reciting,
"Where our
be particularly agreed upon, and some certaine dayes labour for building and fortifaction for
the
safety of the people and kingdome." Government of Ireland under Sir John Perrott,
province of Connaught and Thomond, through the contynuall dissention of the Lords and Chieftains, challenging authorities, cuttings,
and cess-
Knight, 4to. London, 1626, p. 80.
ings,
under pretexte of defending the people under their several rules, have run to all errors ;
The Commissioners
commenced with the
county of Clare or Thoinond.
Then followed
and understanding the good inclination of these our subjects, through the good mynysterie of our truly and well beloved Sir John Perrott, our Deputy, &c., to embrace all good wayes and
the districts comprehended within the newly " Indentures of created county of Gal way.
Composition" were entered into for these territories, which were printed for the first time in the
means that may be devised, to conserve them in our obedience, and their rights and titles reducea from the uncertaintye wherein it stood,
to continue certain for ever hereafter."
Appendix
Hardiman's edition of O'Flaherty's Chorographical Description of lar Connaught,

to
pp. 309-362.
See also Cox's Hibernia Anglicana,
A. D. 1585.
p
The following proposals were made by these " The Chieftains of commissioners countries,
:
Liberties.
Queen Elizabeth,
in her letter to
the Deputy, Sir Henry,
dated 7th
October,
11 B
1842
aNwaca Rioghachca eiReanw.

~| i
[1.586.
cuicc pcilbnji ace ciêapna cuaDcabaipc DO 6aofmb maice an cfpe, murhan lupcc ciopa na bainpiojna in 506 aen cfcpamain cuaice Dpeapann
cpaep
peapainn fjlaipi. Daop Oia mbaof ipm cfp uile, ace amain libepci 17o Deili pioc ona cpioca ceD ceneoil ppfprhaic pe cijeapna cuaDmuman, po baof ina pfpann ciopa ajd pinnpeapaib piam 50 pin, cucpac ciêapnap an
i
~\
-\
mac mupchaDa mic oiapinnpi cpiocaic cep pin maoa uf bpiain. T?o hopoaiccheaD, 1 po haonraijeaD map an cceona cfop 1 cuipc copcumpuao Do coipp&ealbac mac Domnaill mic concobaip uf bpiain ap lupcc a arap Dia ccuccab an cip pin 6 cup (a cijeapnap ruabmuman) la hiapla cuaDmuman concobap mac DonnchaiD uf bpiain. T?o Deili jpioc a
DO Bapun
f
cuinn Do niupcaD
.1.
cfop -] a uaiple pe 506 cfnD popail,-] pe 506 cijeapna rpiocaic cecc baof ipm cfp 6 pin amac cenmoca Sfan mac conmapa cijeapna an caoibe riap DO cloinn
cuilein
na po cuip a lam ap an compopipion pin Do ponpacc. Oo ponpacc an compopipion ceDna cconncae na 501 lime, cconncae poppa comain, cconcae
i i
maiê
eo,
-]
cconncae
pliccij.
QO18 CR1O8C,
1586.
8e.
Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceD, occmogac, a

Seippion DO congmdil la Sip RippepD bionjgam,
-]
la comaiple cuiccib
-]
connacc
ngaillim
mi mnuapii Seaccmogacr Do mnaibh,

Thomond pretended
Dpeapaib Do
1577, says that the Earl of
use the term with reference to the English law,

as received in
an ancient freedom in the whole barony of Ibreckan, and desired the like in the other baronies.
q
Thomond
since the creation of
See lar-Connaught,
unfree.
p.
359-
the Earldom, they must have taken peapopn paep to denote lands held in frank-tenement,
or knight's service,
Free and
It is not easy to deter-
which was esteemed the
mine what the Four Masters intend here by pfpann paep oaop, that is to say, whether they
-|
most honourable species of tenure among the English and peapann oaep, land held in pure
;
spoke in reference to English or Irish tenure, The Editor, therefore, has translated the words
literally leaving the reader to form his
villenage.
r
Kinel-Fearmaic.
In the description of the
own
county of Clare, written about this period, and
opinion.
Peapann
r-aep,
according to the Irish
now
is
preseryed in the Manuscript Library of

2. 14, this
notion, meant land held by the chief's relatives free of rent, and peaparm oaep was land held natives who had forfeited their by strangers (or
privileges
Trinity College, Dublin, E.

called
teîtory
Troghkeyd Kynel Veroge, or the baviz.

:
rony of Tullagh-I-Dea.
lowing parishes,
linaboy,
by crime or
otherwise), at high rents,

If they
It comprised the folRath, Kilnamona, Kil-
and
for services of
an ignoble nature.
Kilvedain,
Kilvilly,
Dysart,
Ruane,
1586.]

;
1843
to grant to the
rent, five
gentlemen of the country and that, over and above the Queen's shillings should be paid to the Lord of Thomond for every quarter
of land free and unfree q in the whole country, except the liberties and church r land. They took from the Earl of Thomond the district of Kinel-Fearmaic
which had been theretofore under tribute

of it to the Baron of Inchiquin
O'Brien.
It
8
,
to his ancestors,
and gave the lordship
was
also ordained
Murrough, the son of Murrough, son of Dermot and agreed that Turlough, the son of Donnell,
son of Conor O'Brien, should have the rents and court of Corcomroe [the castle of Dumhach] in succession to his father, to whom it had been first given out of the lordship of Thomond by the Earl of Thomond, namely, Conor, the son
and tribute every head or chief of a sept, and every other lord of a triocha-ched throughout the whole country (with the exception of John Mac Namara, Lord of the western part of the disof
Donough
O'Brien.
They deprived
of
title
trict
of Clann-Coilein),
who
did not subscribe his signature to this ordinance
of
their's.
They
acted a like ordinance in the counties of Galway,
Eoscommon,
Mayo, and
Sligo'.
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1586.
eighty-six.
A session was held by Sir Richard

in
Bingham and the Council of Connaught

Seventy
bability
is
Galway, in the month of January.
men and women were put

that they mistook
to
is
Kilnoe, Kilkeedy, Inishcronan. From this list it clear that the whole of the cantred of Kinelis
him
for
Turlough,
the son of Teige, son of Conor O'Brien, a per-
Ferwaic
Inchiquin,
included in the present barony of except the parish of Inishcronan ;

sufficient evidence to
sonage
who
historical existence
appears to have been called into by an error of transcription.
and we have
this parish did not originally
prove that belong to Kinel-
Charles O'Conor, of Belanagare, adds the
Fermaic, although attached to it at this period, for it was anciently a portion of Hy-Caisin, or Mac Namara's original territory, and was a part
of the deanery of Ogashin, according to the Liber
Regalis Visitationis.
5
obituary of his ancestor, Dermot, as follows " O'Concabaip t)onn, oiapmuio, IDac caip:
bpe, IDicGojain caoich,ooecc i mbatle cobaip a aobpijjicce lap jjcian aoip 16 Sepcembep,
-\
The Baron of Inchiquin.
This Murrough,
T?op Comain. O'Conor Don (Dermot, the son of Carbry, son of Owen Caech) died at Ballintober, at an adi i
nucal
noraplije a hpinpeap
who was
the fourth Baron of Inchiquin, attended the Parliament of 1585, though the
vanced age, on the 16th of September, and was

interred in the burial-place of his ancestors at
Four Masters take no notice
of him.
The pro-
Eoscommon."
Ilu2
1844
[1586.
bapuccaDap
an.peipion pin. T?o
ba6 oibpibe Dorhnall mac muipceapcaig g
mic bpiain mic rai&cc ui bpiain, -\ mac ui fjpa buibe .1. bpian mac cein mic oilealla 6 jailfngaib connacc co nopumg ouaiplib cenmorac. QTI jobepnoip ceona Sip RipoepD Do puiDe pe haghmD cluana oubain an ceO la DO mapca. &d he baoi ipm mbaile fpm TTlacjamain, mac coippbealui bpiain o nabaprap baij mic macjamna, mic coippbealbai, mic macjarhna
Sliocc
ppi
u
paccbab nuimip eccmnce DO rhumcip an gobepnopa pe cpf pfccmuine barrap ace lompuibe an baile. Ip an oapa la picfc
marjamna.
T?o
Murtough Garv.
Clare,
E.
2.
In the Description of preserved in Trinity College, Dublin, 14, he is called Moriertagh Garagh of the
Cahircorkrane and Eahe.
fortress of great strength, situated

cial island in
on an
artifi-
Lough Mask, near

See note
Ballinrobe, in
r
,
the county of Mayo.
under the
castles of
See his
year 1195, p. 102,

p.
and note
c
,
under 1233,
death entered under the year 1585, supra.
Gailenga of Connaught.
Connaught, who received
The Gailenga of their name from Cor-
268, supra: " Aboute this
tyme Sir Richard Byngham
laye at the seidge of Clan
Owen
in
mac
Gaileng, son of Tadhg, son of Cian, son of Oilioll Olum, Ring of Munster, originally possessed the whole of the diocese of Achonry, but
at the period of which
strong Pyle
jestie,
manned and kept

;
against her
Thowmond, a Maof the
by Mahowne O'Bryan,
to the state
a most dangerous
enemye
a cheiffe
champion
we
are
now treating,
their
territory
was very narrow.
O'Hara Boy pos-
Pope's, and a great practyzer with fforraigne Powers fFor the Invasion of this Realm of Ireland.
sessed about the eastern half of the barony of
At
this seidge Sir
Richard
Byngham had but
Leyny, in the county of Sligo. x Cluain-Dubhain, now Cloon-oan Castle, in the parish of Kilkeedy, about six miles to the
north-east of Corofin, in the barony of InchiSee note ', under quin, and county of Clare
one hundred English souldiers and some ffewe kearne of the countrye, by reason whereof he
was dryven to noe small payne in skyrmisheing, watchinge, and wardinge, with soe ffewe men
the year 1569, p. 1632, supra. Only one side of this castle now remains perfect. It is twenty-
neverthelesse, within seaven dayes he wanne the castell, and slew the said Mahowne O'Bryan,
nine feet in length and about sixty feet in height. All its outworks are entirely destroyed,
and the warde within, and razed the said castell, without the ffurtheraunce of any great ordynaunce.
" After that Sir Richard marched ffroni this
castell to
and no idea can be formed of their extent or

character.
It is
highly probable that this castle
Castell-ne-callye,
within the which
was
re-edified since the year 1586, as the pre-
sent walls could not have belonged to. so strong a castle as this is said to have been when
the traytors were, and enclosed themselves. Att his ffirst comeiug thether he parlyed with them,
advyceing them to remember the obedyence
stormed by Bingham.
Sir
Henry Docwra,
in
which they owed
to hir Majestie,
and to yeilde
his Relation of Services done by Sir ham in Ireland, gives the
Richard Byng-
following account of the taking of this Castle of Cluain-Dubhain, and of Castle Nacally, or Hag's Castle, a circular
themselves to hir Majestie's mercye, assureing them that in soe doeing they shoulde ffinde that
ffavoure in
all
respects, that other hir
Highnes
lesse
subjects did; but they
myndeinge nothing
1586.]

among whom were Donnell, son
;
1845
death on this occasion,
of
Mur tough Garv u
son of Brian, son of Teige O'Brien and the son of O'Hara Boy, namely, Brian, the son of Kian, son of Oilioll of the Gailenga of Connaught*; and many other
gentlemen besides. The same Governor, Sir Richard, on the
first
of March, laid siege to Cluain-
Dubhain*, then in possession of Mahon, the son of Turlough, son of Mahon, son of Turlough, son of Mahon O'Brien, from whom the Sliocht-Mahon are named.
An indefinite number of the Governor's people were left there, besieged the castle
for three weeks,
and on the twenty-second day of the same month they made

soe lost the enemyes gatt, in which and in another boate of theire owne, before Sir Richard
then to submitt themselves on any suche conditions, saide they woulde not doe any hurte,
but keep themselves there in saffetye, ffor that they were ffearffull tp trust any Englishman, alleadgeinge manye ffrivelous and impertynent
coulde retourne to chardge them with a ff'reshe supplye from his camp lyeing on the shoare,
vppon Herevppon Sir Rychard proceeded to beseige them in the said castell, which was a
cawses, moveing
them
to stande
their
they shipped themselves, and with greate sceleritye escaped into the woodes, ffearing that at
the next chardge Sir Richard would haue woime the castell. " Captain Mordante and others had the chase of them by water. Theise traytors beinge thus
guarde.
strongeroundeffortresse errected ffarr within the Loghe, vppon a smalle compasse of grounde soe
scanted by the wall that scarce a standinge place
escaped to the woodes and mountqines oute of

Castell-ne-callye, their accomplishes alsoe fledd
i
was
left
vnto
it.
The
seidge
was
all
by water
in boats, and coulde not
insoemuche
as
otherwysebee attempted, Sir Richard goinge aboute to
out of the other
castell,
both which, and one
bourne a boate or two of theires that they'had docked and layde vpp vnder the castell wall, to
the ende they might not escape awaye, and that
alsoe
stronge pyle of ffarroghe. McDonnell's, Sir Richard razed to the ground, ffor that they were not
fitt
lish,
or stood serviceable to be kept to the Engand were very daungerous to be in the pos-
he might watche and warde them with
session of the Irisherye.
Riccard Bourke,
alias
tfewe
men (haveing but
a small
companye
there,
the Pall of Ireland, a
man
all
and those alsoe score wearyied, bruised with stones, and galled with shott at the seidge of
Clanowen), was fforced by the suddayne ryseinge
of contrarye weather, which muche flavoured the enemye, to leave the attempt with the loss of one of his boats and
diers; himself
amonge his
septe,
and
of no small accompte the ill affected Irishefirst
rye, repayred to Sir
Rychard at his
comeing
to <5astell-ne-callye, beinge indeede the cheiffe of theire conffederacye.
This man, vnder cullor of
two or three of his
soul-
dutyefull subiection, intended to haue betrayed Sir Richard and all his companye (but intelli-
and others being in the
said boate
hardlye escaped by the healpe of other boates, which other boates came not in tyme to his succoure, thoroughe the negligence of such as he had put in truste with them, and appoynted to
gence herof beinge given, and manye apparaunte prooffes had of his trayterous intentions
and devyces), this Pall of Irelande was soone

executed by Martiall Lawe. This was assuredly^ the most daungerous member in all the countye
of Mayo, especiallye tfor
come and joyne with him.
The boat which he
the draweing in of
1846
awwata Rio^hachca emeaNN.
[1586.
oon mi ceDna po gabpae co ofocpa Doippfpeail 05 cup DO cum an baile DO caiblib an caiplein ace Diubpaccab cloc capjjabail. 6af ITlafjamain pop imo bun 05 cup pap, pailjfb ppip, 1 DO pala 66 50 pac pop an luce baccap po haimpfb 50 hinnelloipeac oupcop DO peilep 6 gup bo mapb jan anmain.
-] -]
Uuccpacc an bapoa an
baile 6 mullac 50
baile laporh lap
mapbaDh marjamna,
T?o Ifgao
ge
mab
Don
lainn leo anacal Dpajbail noca npuaippioc iDip.
an
Ife piap
calmam. Rob oipbfpcuccab anma 7 onopa Do Sip T?ipDepD an coipcc pin, uaip nf Baof pop cfp cipim nepinn baile bob oainjrie biongjam 1 ba Dico^laiji ina cluain Dubdin.
i
chuaiD an gobepnoip mparii pe haccaiD -caiplein na cailbji pop loc mfpcca,-) pob e an baile pin oijfnn Dainjin coicciD connachc. baccap lace baof acca bapoacc an can pin RipoepD a bupc (Dia njoipci Dfrhan an coppain)
Do
mac
TCiocaipo, mic RipoepD, mic uilliam, mic emainn, mic Riocaipcc
uf cuaippcci, i
uf cuaippcci.
ccaiplen pin. -| no a cuicc Dapcpaijib DO poijnib a paibe ap in ccampa mfoon lai Do cfraip, lonnpaijiD an baile, ~\ nfp bo copba Doib uaip po mapbaD Opong Da noaoimb,
i
mic emainn mic Riocaipcc Oo cuaccap DO peacna Seppion, DO caomna a ccopp ip in T?o jab an gobepnoip ace lompuibe an baile, Do cuip luce a
udcep,
uillicc,
-|
mac emainn, mic
Do coiDpioc an luce ele po lombacab gup an ccampa. lap nimcece$>oibpibe appfb po cinnpioo na bupcai naghaiD ppionnpa Saân. Oo coibpioc pin gan bfic le bafoacc baile ap bic luce Da aprpac co na mnaib, co na leanbaib Don Ifie ele Don loc op comaip an campa. Do bpip an gobepnoip an baile Dia nfip mpam,"] ba ipin ccampa
~\
po pasaibpioc apcpac Da naprpaijib,
"|
~[
pin
Do cpochaD leip mac mec uilliam bupc T?iocapo occ (ap a ccabapcai pal pa epinn) mac RicaipD mic Sfain an ceapmamn mp mapbab a Deapbparap
.1.
ele perhe pin
.1.
comap puab agdpaije
caiplen na nenuige ap pionnloc cfpa

a
Scotts, a thing
which Sir Richard ever doubted,

to
Deamhan-an- Chorrain,
i.e.
the
demon
of
* and which the Bourkes vndoubtedly entended."

y
the reaping-hook.
b
Was
razed
the
ground,
literally,
" the
To
west side of the town was knocked down to the

ground."
*
say,
An English writer would avoid, $c. " that they might not be obliged to attend
efforts wei-e fruitless,
the sessions."
Impregnable,
translated
:
This might be " There was not upon dry land in

oirojluiji
Their
literally,
" and
it
was not
d
profit to
them."
Ireland a castle
more
firm, or
more
difficult to
be raxed than Cluain-Dubhain."
In danger of being drowned, po icmbucao, " under literally, drowning." A storm arose
1586.]
184?
vigorous and irresistible exertions to take the castle. Mahon was on the battlements of the castle, casting down stones and rocks upon those who were at the
base applying engines and apparatuses to it to demolish it and it happened to him that he was aimed straight in the head with the shot of a bullet, which
;
killed
him on
the spot.
The
warders, on Mahon's death, surrendered the castle
but though they expected quarter, they did not at all receive it. The western side of the castle was razed to the ground*. This achievement exalted the name
and character of Sir Richard Bingham, for there was not upon dry land 2 land a stronger or more impregnable fortress than Cluain-Dubhain.
in Ire-
The Governor afterwards proceeded

Castle] in
,
to attack Caislen-ua-Caillighe [the
Hag's
Lough Mask, which was the stronghold of the province of Connaught. These were they who guarded it at the time Richard Burke, who was called
:
Deamhan-an-Chorrain
of
a
,
the son of Rickard, son of Rickard, son of
Edmond, son
and Walter, the son of Edmond, son of Edmond, Edmond, son of Ulick,son of Edmond,son of Rickard O'Cuairsci. They had gone to this castle to avoid" the session, and to protect their persons. The Governor proceeded to lay siege to the castle and he sent the crews of four or five boats,
son of Rickard OCuairsci
; ;
of the flower of the choicest of the day.

slain
;
men
in the
camp,
,
to attack the castle in the
middle
But
left
their efforts
were
fruitless
for a
number
of their
men was
behind one of their boats, and the rest returned, in danger of After their departure the Burkes resolved that being drowned", for the camp. they would not [in future] defend any castle against the Sovereign of England;
they
and they went

It
in
two
boats, with their
wives and children, to the other side of
the lake, opposite the camp.

departure.
was
in this
The Governor destroyed the castle after their camp that he hanged the son of Mac William Burke,
e
,
namely, Rickard Oge, usually styled Fal-fo-Eirinn the son of Rickard, son of John of the Termonf after his other brother had been killed, namely, Thomas
,
g Roe, the claimant of Caislen-na-nenuighe on Finnloch-Ceara in Connaught.
on
to
tl)e lake,
which rendered
castle.
it
approach the
When
to land
very dangerous the Editor exa-
Fal-fo-Eirinn,
Ireland.
f
i.
e.
Docwra calls him the

Tennon,
i.
the hedge or fence of " Pall of Irelande."
mined the ruins of

it
this castle in 1838,
he found
artificial
Of the
e.
of the
Termon
of Balla,
exceeding
difficult
on the
in
island on
which the
castle stands, in consequence
Mayo.
s
the barony of Clonmorris, and county of See Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of
.
of a brisk breeze on the lake, which raised re-
k Ihj-Fiachrach, p. 197, note
markable billows near the
castle.
Caislen-na-nenmy/te,
I.
e.
the castle of
An-
1848
aNNaca Rio^hachca eiraecwR

Rob
eiccfn an baile pin
[1586.
cconnaccaib.
pucchabRiocaipD 1 comaip,5o |io bd ipin can ceona po cpocab lap an ngobeapnoip Diap mac uaceip pin ele. paoa mic Dauib mic emainn mie uillicc a bupc, Ueboic TTlaoilip a nanmanna. a nool Opong mop DO coicceab connacc Do gabail lap na bupcacaib pin,
~|
]
Do cabaipc Don jobepnoip lap mbdbpipeab lap e arhail pobpipeab na bailre
ma
ccorhmbdib cpecuipeacca mp ppeil coin na blianna po. Robab Dibpibe clann nbomnaill gallocclac, -] Seoaij mpcaip connacc. Oo cuippioc a nimipUdnaicc gfba, a mna, ~| a muinceapa nDamgnib, -\ noicpeabaib an cfpe.
i
an gobepnoip pe a najaib 50 baile an pooba, poleicc a peace no a hocc no banDaDaib po laprap connacc noiaio na nofbfpccac,-] 6 na puaippiocc gpeini
-\
i
pop na pojlabaib po aipccpioc muincip mupchaib na ccuaj, mumcip plecca eoccain uf plaicbeapcaij po buf (an Dap leo pein) po oliccheao an can pin. T?o mapbaD Dna leo pibe mna, ~\ mionoaofne, aiccpebaij ~\ aep anppann. T?o
-|
congmala cije naoibfo. Do cpocpac ceboicc 6 cuacail pfpôjbala cpo gabab leo beop eojan, mac Dorhnaill an coccaib, mic an jiolla buib, mic mupchaib mic eogam uf plaicbfpcaij, po bapaijpioc e iap na jabail. pillicc
~\
~]
cap anaip laparh ccfnn an jobepnopa 50 ccpeacaib co neDalaib lomoaib. Coblac albanac Do ceacc ccfp mnip eoccain nouchaij uf bocapcai^ ip in eing coip cuaib Do tip conaill. Robcap me bd huaiple i bd cinn conpapal ap in ccoblac pin Da mac Shemaip mic alapcpainn, mic coin cacanaij mec
i
~]
Dorhnaill .1. Domnall 5opni,-) alapcpann, jiolla eppuicc mac Dubjaill mic Donchaib cairn mic giolla eppuicc mecailfn co nopuing ele Duaiplib cenmo cdc. 6d moa a nainm i a noipDeapcup map amailcangaccap. Oo ponab
-|
mec
nies, situated opposite Caislen-na-Caillighe,
on
nells of
Mayo, who were hereditary leaders of
Hag-island, in Finlough Carra, near Ballinrobe. There was also a small nunnery at this place,
Gallowglasses.
" was founded which, according to Downing, and given by Thomas Burke, chief of the Burkes
of Mayo, to the abbot of Cong, upon condition that, if any woman of his posterity would vow
chastity, the abbot of
These were The Joyces of West Connaught a family of Welsh descent, seated in the barony of Eoss, in the north-west of the county of Gal'
way
See
Chororjraphical
Connaught,
"
edited
Description of larMr. Hardiman, pp. 44, by
during her
sitions
life,
as
Cong should maintain her appears by the several Inquiof Cong."
248, 249, 382.
after
the dissolution
See
The descendants of Owen These Flaherty were the O'Flaherties of Connemara. See Ge1
Genealogies, Tribes,
p.
and Customs ofHy-Fiachrach,

i.
nealogical Table in the Chorographical Description
203, note
11
c
.
Clrinn-Donnell Galloglach,
e.
the
Mac Don-
of lar-Connaught, p. 362, where all the descendants of Owen O'Flaherty are given by
1586.]
1849
This [last-mentioned] castle had to be given up to the Governor after the exeand it was demolished by him, as the other cution of Rickard and Thomas
;
castles
had been.
It
was about the same time that the Governor hanged the
two sons of Walter Fada, son of David, son of Edmond, son of Ulick Burke, whose names were Theobald and Meyler. A great portion [of the people] of Connaught, about the festival of St. John this year, joined these Burkes in their treason. Among these were the Clann-Donnell Galloglach" and the Joyces of
West Connaught'. They
sent
away
their
moveables and their
women
into the
The Governor went to Ballinrobe to fastnesses and wilds of the country. oppose them, and dispatched seven or eight companies of soldiers through West
Connaught
in search of the insurgents
;
and these
[soldiers], not
having caught
the robbers, plundered the people of Murrough-na-dTuagh and the descendants
of Owen O'Flaherty", who were, as they thought themselves, under [the protection of] the law at that time. They killed women, boys, peasants, and decrepit
supporter of the destitute, and the keeper of a house of hospitality. They, moreover, took prisoner Owen, the m son of Donnell-an-Chogaidh son of Gilla-Duv, son of Murrough, son of Owen
persons.
They hanged Theobald

,
O'Toole',
jjhe
O'Flaherty, and put him to death after taking him. Governor with many preys and spoils.
They then returned
to the
A Scotch fleet landed in Inishowen, O'Doherty's country, in the north-eastern

angle of Tirconnell.
fleet
:
These were the gentlemen and chief constables of that Donnell Gorm and Alexander, the two sons of James, son of Alexander,
;
son of John Cahanagh, son of Mac Donnell and Gillespick, the son of Dowell, son of Donough Cam, son of Gillespick Mac Ailin [Campbell] with many other gentlemen besides. Their name" and fame were greater than their appearance.
;
name, and their relationship to Murrough-nadTuagh shewn.

'
of
Dermot Sugagh,
i.
e.
the Merry, son of
Dun-
Theobald O'Toole
in
He
lived in the island

his ancestor,
chuan, son of Tuathal, son of Dunlang, son of Gilla- Kevin of the Green, sonôf Walter, son of
Gilla-Kevin, son of Gilla-Comhggaill, in whom the Connamara branch meets the chieftains of
of
Omey who was
lar-Connaught, where
of the O'Tooles of Leinster, settled at
an early period. The pedigree of this Theobald, who had a son, Edmond O'Toole, of Omey or
Imagia, in Conmaicne-mara,
is
Imaile and Feara Cualan.

genealogical work, and
See
Mac
Firbis's
also Chorographical
De-
given as follows
by Duald Mac Firbis
Theobald, son of Faelan
scription of lar- Connaught, pp. 280, 281. m Donnell-an-chogaidh, i. e. Donnell of the war.
[or Felim], son of Tuathal, son of Tuathal, son of Hugh, son of Awley, son of Dermot Oge, son
Their name, $c., i. e. the forces they took with them, and their military preparations on
11 C
1850
aHNd&a Rioghachca eiReaww.

i
[1586.
ccubcaccap, i bdccap aep poplongpopca peoil lomba leo ipin rip lucr pupdilrhe peilgmom, micuioijjre maicfpa na ccpioc ccotfipopuallac,-] poccup ace cocr oia paighib an ou pin co nap pdâibpioc acmaom Dia nfip
-\
eoccam oapbap no oaipneip Do cup pin. Loccap mpom lairh le pinn 1 le TTlobaipn Do cfpmann mejcpair, DO cuair luipcc, 1 Do rhio6bulcc 50 pangaccap 50 huip imbbh eipne. Or cualaccap na bupcaij bdcap pop pan RipofpO a bupc mac ofriiam an copppojail, i popp an Di'bfipcc pempdice
i
ninip
.1.
clann ernainn abupc,*"| clancc nDomnaill gallocclac pccela na nalbanac po cuippiocr ceacca co cinneapnac Dia ccojaipm cuca, ~] po paibpioc co ppui jbiccfp eDala lomba, -) a nDionjiiiala Do Duchaij i ccoijeab connacc oia
pain,
)
cci'opab biob pfin
a copnarii ppi mumcip an ppionnpa. Corap na halbanai^ na haicfpccaib pin, pangaccap an ceona huibe ecip baib, cap eipne lap caipppe, canaicc T?ipofpDi bpobaofp co po gabpac 05 milleab Dapcpaije, clann emainn ma ccfnD annpin. Oo caeo an sobfpnoip pe a nacchaib 50 plicceac. pdccbaiD na halbanqij an coipfp pin,-) po jabpac bdofp Do bapDa cpaije, i la caob bfnna bo ipin mbpeipne bdccap ceopa hoibce nDpuim
~\
~\
"|
eaap.
Ro
apccnaccap ap
pin
Do bpaiopliab,
"\
nf
po aipipfcap co cillponam,
this occasion, did
not sustain the martial cha-
to them."
racter which fame had reported of them.
word p6i, which is explained jep, sharp, by O'Clery, and bloody, by O'Reilly, really means acer, atrox ;
The haughty robbers
The
Irish
The first march, ceona huioe cip, i.e. the first day's march.
'
.1.
an ceo aip
The Governor.
This was Sir Richard Bing-
pop uallac means, indignant, proud, or haughty, p The perpetrators of treacherous -deeds, luce
pupailriie
is
ham, whose brother, George Bingham, is the ancestor of the Lords Lucan and Clanmorris,
and of the
late
Major Bingham of
Erris, in the
Feiljmom.
In this phrase Fupailme

offer,
county of Mayo. Richard

Sir Richard
the genitive singular of pupuilearh, to

;
Bingham (afterwards Bingham) makes his first appear-
incite,
provoke peiljniorii deed of treachery.

q
.1.
jnforii peille, a
ance in Irish history as one of the bloody actors at Dun-an-oir, near Smerwick in Kerry in 1580.
The opponents of goodwss, cuiomjao menrfpa means, to help to do good; and miocui-
There
is
Titus B.
xii.
preserved in the British Museum, letter from p. 115, an original
om jno
*
mairfpa, as in the text, means the very
him
to the Earl of Leicester, dated
Smerwick
opposite.
Lower Lough Erne,

nounced Meeluck
Miodhbholg, a district on the margin of the in the barony of Lurg, and
Road, 3rd November, 1580, conveying intelligeuce of the arrival of a ship with men, pressed.
And,
p.
116, another letter, dated
1th
Novem-
1432, p. 882, supra.
5
The name
T
,
is
locally pro-
bcr, 1580,
See note
under the year
from Smerwick, same to same. His in Westminster Abbey, which begins, cenotaph
"
To their assistance, literally, " to invite
them
To the glory of the Lord of Hosts," states that he served at Smerwick in Ireland. It is curious
1.586.]
1851
pitched camps in [that part of] the country where they landed, where had much flesh meat. The haughty robbers the plunderers, the perpetrathey p and the opponents of goodness', of the neighbouring tors of treacherous deeds
They
territories, flocked to join
them there so that there was nothing of value in Inishowen, whether corn or cattle, which they did not carry off on this occasion. They afterwards passed along by the River Finn and the Mourne to Termon;
Magrath, to the territory of Lurg, and to Miodhbholg until they arrived at the borders of the Erne. When the Burkes, who were engaged in plundering and
,
insurrection, as before stated, namely, Richard Burke, the son of
Deamhan-an-
Burke, and the Clann-Donnell-Galloglagh, had heard the news of [the arrival of] these Scots, they expeditiously sent messenChorrain, the sons of
gers, inviting spoils
Edmond
them
to their assistance
5
,
and stating that they would obtain many

in the province of Connaught, should
and a
territory worthy of
them
they themselves succeed in defending it against the people of the Sovereign. The Scots, upon receipt of these messages, proceeded across the Erne by the
first
march
1
,
until they arrived [in the district lying]

;
between the Rivers Duff
and Drowis
and they proceeded to plunder Dartry and Carbury, where they were met by Richard and the sons of Edmond [Burke]. The Governor" proceeded to Sligo to oppose them, upon which the Scots departed from that district",
and passed southwards through Dartry, and by the side of Beanna-box in Breifny. They remained three nights in Dromahaire, from whence they proceeded to Braid-Shliabh y and they never halted until they arrived
;
at
Kilronan
z
,
to
remark how treacherous

Sir
all his
attacks have
Manor-Hamilton, in the county of Leitrim.

locally pronounced in and anglicised Braalieve, or Braulieve, a mountain situated about four miles to the south of the town of Dromahaire, on
J
been.
Henry Docwra, who was
himself a
Braid-shliabh,
now
fierce soldier,
draws Sir Richard's character in
Irish 6pdi6-pliab,
colours
rather agreeable.
But courage and

by the
cruelty were admired in
this age, even
Four Masters themselves.

Anglicana, A. D. 1586.
Cox
hides the exact
nature of this attack on the Scots in his Hilemia
the southern boundary of the parish of Killanummery, where the county of Leitrim adjoins
that of Roscommon.
The
lie
or direction of
its
w
District,
oipeap. written cnpeap, which occurs frequently in these Annals in the sense of territory, district,
or region
This word
is
otherwise
It ridge nearly south-east and north-west. is to be from the neighbouring distinguished

is
See the year 1558, where oupccum na n-oipeap is used in the sense of " to plunder
the districts."
x
mountain of Breic-shliabh, or Brecslieve. See Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs ofSy- Fiachrach,
pp. 480, 481.
"
Kilronan.See note
Beanna-lo,
now Benbo,
mountain
at
p.
564, supra.
11 c 2
1852
T?o
aNNCtf-ct
i
Rio^hachca
eiraectNN.
[1586.
ua noilella. ccoiccpic na bpeipne, maije luipcc, jabpacc an Du pin Udnaicc an gobennoip Don caob nap co bel an aca paoa cap oilella. bdrcap Diblfnib co cfno coicciOipi ip na hionaoaib fin jan neaccap oiob T?o gabpac na halbanaij lam pop imcecc copac oiDce oionnpaijiO apoite.
-\
i
plicce piopOoipce, i po jabpac piap cuaiO Do cip oilella DO 6ol cap opoicfc cula maofle. bdccap cpi banna Do muincip an jobepnopa 05 coirheo an opoicic in oi&ce pin. Do pala na halbanaij ma ccfnD 50 po pfpab gliaiD njaipb
fcoppa, i pob eiccfn Do na halbanchaib lomjabail an Dpoicic, -\ jabail cap an ac alia ciap De. Oo coibpioc an oiDce pin 50 pliab sarfi, -| ap na mapac 50 hapo na piaj. Oo beachaiD an jobepnop uabaib a bel an aca paoa ap na-
na biaD a aipe ppi a mapmoipeacc mp,-| baf pop puD connacc co cfnD coij la nDecc ace cionol pocpaioe amail popcaeriinacaip, baf beop uaDa ap na halbancoib in aipfcc pin. O pob eplarh laip bpac i caipcelao
riiapac arhail
-|
an lion pdimcc alfp, luiD o mamipcip bfnDpoDa luijmb connacc copac oiDce nf po aipip DO 16 no Doi&ce co pdimcc mfbon laoi ap pfop Doipce pojmaip,
i
~\
na niapac 50 hapD na pia^ ân pabao, jan pacucchaD Do na halbancoib. Ctp amne baccap piDe pop a cionn ina ccooailcijib jan paiccfp gan puipfcpup,
ace amail biD leo pfm gan ppicbeapc an cip eaccaipceneoil ina ccanjaccap. ba pe ceiD ni lep bfogaccap ap a mbuan coippcim gaip a njiollanpaiDe 050
njuin 05 muincip an jobepnopa pecnon an baile. T?o eipjeaoap na halbanaij ap a haicle co haclaiti,'] DO coibpioc nirtnell -\ noocuccaD arhail ap Deach
i i
BaMinafad, bil an aca paoa, i. e. mouth of the long ford, a small village in the barony of Tirerrill, at the base of the Curlieu hills,
The
requisite number.
William Hawkins,
and about' four miles to the north of Boyle. Cul-Maoile, now Collooney, a small but
II
King of Arms, states, in his pedigree of the Count Lally Tolendal, that Dermod O'Maollalla, second Baron of Tully-Mullally, went to Ballinrobe on this occasion to join Sir
Richard Bingham, at the head of his vassals, as O'Kelly, Bermingham, and others ; but this is
a
Esq., Ulster
well-known town
at the junction of the
Owen-
more and Owenbeg rivers, in the barony of Tirerrill, and county of Sligo.
*
mere
fabrication..
To abandon
the bridge,
lomjaBail an opoicic,
Hy-Many,
p. 180, note
i.
See Tribes and Customs of k and Cox's Hibernia ;

Sir Richard
i.
e.
to relinquish their design of crossing the
Anglicana, vol.
p.
394.
bridge in despite of the Governor's soldiers.

d
was met on
this occasion
Bingham by the Earl of Clan-
Sliabh-Gamh,
now
Slieve
Gamph, and some-
times incorrectly translated the Ox Mountains. See note d , under the year 1285, p. 442, supra,
rickard and O'Kelly, as also by Bermingham at the head of his vassals, among whom, no doubt,
was O'Mullally, the ancestor of Count Lally

Tolendal.
'
See also Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of HyFiachrach, p. 497, and the map to the same work.
Bannada, a
village in the parish of
Kilmac-
1586.]
1853
where they stopped, in the vicinity of Breifny, Moylurg, and Tirerrill. The a Governor went from the west to Ballinafad in Tirerrill and both parties
;
remained in those places without coming in contact with each other. The Scots to' move from that place in the beginning of a wet and very [at length] began dark night and they proceeded north-westwards through Tirerrill, with the
;
[but] three companies of the on that night. The Scots advanced Governor's people were guarding the bridge The Scots were to them, and a fierce conflict was fought between them.
intention of crossing the bridge of Cul-Maoile"
obliged to abandon the bridge and to cross the ford on the west side of it. After this they went on the same night as far as Sliabh-Gamh", and on the fol,
The Governor departed from Ballinafad on the following day to Ardnarea. lowing day, as though he had no intention of pursuing them and he went
;
and through Connaught days, collecting during that time he had [people employed] to spy and reconnoitre the Scots. When he had tlie requisite number6 ready, he marched from the monastery of Bannadaf in Leyny of Connaught, in the beginning of a very dark night in
for
fifteen
forces
as
he could
autumn, and stopped neither day nor night until he arrived at Ardnarea, about the noon of the day following, without giving any warning to the Scots. The 8 the Scots were on his arrival was, sleeping on their couches, without fear way
or guard, just as though that strange country into which they had
their
come was
without opposition. They were first aroused from their profound slumbers by the shrieks of their military attendants", whom the Governor's
own
'
people were slaughtering throughout the town. The Scots then arose expertly, and placed themselves as well as they were able in order and battle-array, .to
teige,
Sir
in
barony of Leyny, and county of Sligo. In Henry Docwra's Account of Services done
Sir Richard
towards Belclare, seven myles from the abbeye, in the highwaye towards the enemy. Here one
.
Connaught by
Bingham,
a very
curious description of Bingham's movements are given, but the Editor does not deem it necessary to give the entire of
it,
of the espyalls came in bringinge news that the Scots lay still encamped at Ardnarye, which
foresaid abbeye of and eight miles from the abbeye of Banneda,
was twelve myles from the

Belclare."
as it agrees in
substance with the narrative of the Four Masters.
He
:
describes the situation of the places
thus
"
''The way, up ctmne .1. ipamlaio This Irish idiom translates very awkwardly into English.
h
When
the
moone gave
light Richard Bing-
Military attendants.
The giollanpaioe of
ham" [being
at the
abbey of
Bennada]
"
arose,
and addressing himself and companye, marched
the Irish were the same, or nearly the same, as the calonet of the classical writers.
1854
QNNata Rio^hachca empaNN.
[1586.
an jobepnopa. Nip bo copba ooib innpin po peDpac Do cocap ppi mumcip an can po ppaofnuaip nf mo nd an ceona paice Dia paioib po Diubpaicpioc eab poppa 50 Oian Dapaccac Do paijib na habann capla pop a caonn .1. an
muaij maijpeac mfpjlopac. T?o pdccbaio pip ppaenlije uabaib cfm bdccap 05 ionnpaiji6 na habann, i mp poccain Doib oia paijio ni haipipiom ppi a hucc Do ponpac, ace Dol ma hiomborham $an anaDh uaip po bob pfpp leo a mbdrab map a mapbab DO muincip an gobepnopa. Qcc cfna appeab a cumaip po mapbaD a nsap DO Da rhile Dib an can pin. Ni pabaccap clann emainn
i
a bupc ipm mbpfipim pin 6ip DO coibpec co ccpib ceDaib pfp an la piap an mai6m pin DiappaiD cpeac jup na halbanchaib,") mp ccloipceacc na peel pin Doib po pcaoflpioc 6 poile, po anpac clann einainn a bupc nDamjnijcib a
i ~\
nouicce pein.
ppocaip DO cabaipc ap Dol a nullcoib, i 516 laopibe puapaccap a ccpochaD ajhaib 1 a mapbaD Dupmop in gac cfp cpep a ccubcaccap pia piu cangaoap cap Qcaip na cloinne perhpdici .1. 6mann mac uillicc mic emainn, mic 6ipne.
-)
T?o cpiallpac
ma
mbaof oulcacaib
oalbancliaib
ma
T?iocaipo ui cuaippcce Do cpochaD lap an njobepnoip mpp an maiDm pin. 6a liamlaib bof piDe, -| pe appaiD apac liach gan luc gan IdncapaD gup bo
heiccfn
a lomcap
Qo6
ndpac ajd bpeic gup an ccpoicch. mac eoccainn, mic Domnaill, mic eoccain, mic Domnaill na mabmancc
i
apoconpapal cloinne piocaipo Do an cf cfpDa annpin pin.
ecc, mflib
ap meD,
cupab ap calmacap
aiapopann mac pomaiple buibe, mic Qlapcpamn, mic eom cacdnaij mac mec Domnaill na halban Do mapbab le caipcin mepgman, 1 le hQob mac an Deccdnaij ui âllcubhaip a mi mag DO ponnpaoh. Seppion DO congmdil njaillim mf Decembep na bliabna po in po bdpaiccheab lomacc ban po bdpaijeab ann emann occ mac emainn mic pfp,
i i
~\
-\
majnupa mec
i
ochcap Diolmameac DO jeapalcachaib ma pocaip lap ppajail a peapa poppa 50 mbaccap ap aon lap na halbancoib pin po mapbab napo na piaj.
pichij,
-|
Conn mac aipc

'
oicc,
mic
neill,
mic aipc, mic cuinn, mic
enpi,
mic eojain
Salmon-full,
to
maijpeac
See the reference
maij maijpeac, i. e. the Eiver Maigue abounding in salmon, under the year 1580,
note
k
2
,
BibL Harl. No. 357, foil. 235, b.) says that this Edinond Burke, though very old, was hanged
for abetting his sons to persevere in their rebel-
p.
1730, supra.
hanged.
lious practices,
Was
Sir
Henry Doeiora (MS.
that, though Sir Kichard have executed him by martial Bingham might
and
1586.]

But
this
1855
engage the Governor's people.

scarcely discharged the
first
was of no
avail to them, for they
had
shower of darts before they were routed by the Governor's people, [and driven] towards the river which confronted them, On their way towards the river 'namely, the loud-sounding, salmon-full Moy. many were laid low and when they arrived at the river they did not stop at
1
its banks, but plunged without delay into its depths, for they chose rather to be drowned than be killed by the Governor's people. In short, near two thousand
of them were slain on this occasion.

for [present] at this onslaught,
The
sons of
Edmond Burke were
not
on the day, before that defeat they had gone

in quest of booty for the Scots
;
forth with three
hundred men,
but, hearing
the news [of this disaster of the Scots], they kept aloof from them, and remained Such of the Scots and Ulstermen as in the fastnesses of their own country.
were with them
[i.
e.
with the sons of
Edmond Burke]
all
attempted to
effect their
passage into Ulster

territories
but they were almost
hanged or
slain in the several
The they could cross the Erne. father of the sons already mentioned, namely, Edmond, the son-of Ulick, son of Edmond, son of Richard O'Cuairsci, was hanged" by the Governor after this
through which they
passed," before
a withered, grey, old man, without strength or vigour, and they were obliged to carry him to the gallows .upon a bier Hugh, the son of Owen, son of Donnell, son of Owen, son of Donnell-nadefeat.
!
He 'was
Madhmann [Mac Sweeny], Chief Constable of Clanrickard, died and son who then departed was a soldier in stature, and a hero in valour.
;
the per-
the son of Sorley Boy, son of Alexander, son of John Cahanagh, son of Mac Donnell of Scotland, was slain by Captain Merryman and Hugh, the son of the Dean O'Gallagher, in the month of May.
Alexander
session
was held
at
Galway
in the
month
;
of
December of
this year,
and
many women and men were put to death at it Edmond, son of Manus Mac Sheehy, and eight
Oge, the son of soldiers of the Geraldines along
and
Edmond
with him, were put to death, information having been given against them that they had been along with those Scots who were slain at Ardnarea.
Con,- the son of
Art Oge, son of Niall, son of Art, son of Con, son of Henry,
Alexander. Charles O'Conor of Belanagare " that he was the adds, inter linens, in Irish,
'
law, he preferred having him put on his trial by the common law that his estates might be conriscated to
Her Majesty.
kinsman of Ineenduv, the wife of O'Donnell, and
1856
QNNata Rioghachca eiReaww.

i
[1586.
00 bol ap piubal cpeice nfcurhcnj meguibip o loc (.1. loc eipne) poip. TTlac meguibip .1. aoD mac conconnacc mic conconnacc Do bpfic 50 mbuibin mbicc
mapcpluaj pop conn co po pijfb pccairtneap cpoDa fcoppa mbeol dca conn Do mapbab la mac meguiDip 50 nupriiop a nmincipe am pfbaij,
i
painaille
-\
DO pobab cap aip gup na minncfpaib 6 puccairc. pip, 1 an cpfc peilim Dub mac aipc mic cmnn ui neill Duine oeappccaijce DO buchai
pleacca aipc,
~|
a mac DO mapbab la haob mac meguibip.
bdgaineac 6pjan occ mac maolmmpe DO mapbab 18 man la mail mfipgeac mac maolmuipe mic aooha. Qimpfp pliuc, apbap eccoipceac, lomac cnoi mfpa an bliabain pi.
TTlac puibne
)
cap gac ni Da Paplimenc ara cliar Do cpiocnucchab an bliabain pi, noeapnab ano Do cfnjlab oibpeacc mpla cille Dapa 16 copoin cSa^can. an Doccuip) po ba Doccuip ap aof 6ojan ullcac (mac Donnchaib
)
.1.
-\
ppojlama an ceojan
fpin,
i
uaip po Deappccnaij pibe Do Doccuipib leijip na
liepeann ipm aimpip pin
mbaof DO
.1.
ecc.
maj conjail eojan ballac Decc la pele bpijoe Do Copbmac mac Domnaill meg conjail Decc i^ DO mapca.
copicel
1
Qn
ponnpab.
Cuicc ceo eipfnDac DO Dol a hepinn Do conjnam la bainpioâm Shaman ccoccab plonopaip, -| 56 po Diocaiîc a nupmop ipm cip pin DO beachaib a nainm -\ a noipDeapcup pon eopaip ap aof ngeipaicceacca ngaipccib.
-\
the mother of
Hugh
Roe, son of
Hugh, son of
Manus."
m At
peoaij,
tives
the entrance
i.
of a certain ford, dca fain-
lands to feoffees, in hope to have out off Her Majesty from the escheate of his lands, and this Parliament therefore passed an Act, "that all conall his
e.
ad
os vadi cujusdarn.
The
adjec-
pampebac and epoalcu, are nearly syno" nymous, and mean certain, particular." n Was finished, i. e. closed its session. The
second session of this Parliament was on the
veyances, made, or pretended to be made, by any person attainted within thirteen years before the Act, shall be entered on record in the Ex-
chequer, within a year, or be void." Sir Richard Cox remarks, that this Act did not pass the
28th of April, 1586, and

the 14th of
it
was dissolved on
May
following.
houses without great difficulty, and perhaps had not passed at all, if John Fitz Edmond Fitzgeraid, to
'
The Earl of Kildare.
This should be " The
prevent the Earl of Desmond's
forfei-
Earl of Desmond," for this Parliament had nothing whatever to decide concernig the Earldom of Kildare ; but in relation to the estates be-
had not produced a feoffment made by that Earl before he entered into rebellion, which had
ture,
longing to the Earldom of Desmond, it found that the Earl of Desmond, before his breaking
forth into open rebellion, had secretly conveyed
undertakers,
a
taken effect and baffled the expectations of the if Sir Henry Wallop had not gotten
document which proved that the Earl had en-
tered into a confederacy of rebellion with the
1586.]
,

>
1857
son of Owen, went upon a predatory excursion into Maguire's territory, east of the Lough (i. e. Lough Erne). The son of Maguire, namely, Hugh, the son of
Cuconnaught, son of Cuconnaught, with a small party of cavalry, came up with Con, and a fierce conflict was fought between them at the entrance of a certain
ford m
,
in
which Con was
slain,
The the son of Maguire. whom it had been taken.
together with the greater part of his people, by prey was restored to the respective persons from
the country of the descendants of Art,
Felim Duv, the son of Art, son of Con O'Neill, an accomplished man, from and his son, were slain by Hugh, the son
(Brian Oge, the son of Mulmurry) was slain on the
of Maguire.
Mac Sweeny Banagh

18th of May, by
Hugh [Mac Sweeny]. There was [much] wet weather and unproductive corn, but a great supply
;
Niall Meirgeach, son of Mulmurry, son of
of nuts, in this year. The Parliament of Dublin was finished" this year
and the most remarkable
Act passed
[was one by which] the inheritance of the Earl of Kildare was annexed to the Crown of England. \recte Desmond] Owen Ultach p (the son of Donough), i. e. the Doctor, died and this Owen was a doctor in regard of learning, for he excelled the medical doctors of Irein
it,
;
land in the time in which he lived.
The
St.
official
Mac
Conghail,
i.
e.
Owen
Ballagh,
died on the festival of
Bridget.
Cormac, the son of Donnell Mac Conghail, died on the 17th of March.
order to assist the Queen of Eng^ land in the Flemish war and though the greater part of them were cut off, their name and renown for heroism and bravery spread throughout Europe.
left Ireland, in
;
Five hundred' Irishmen
very persons to
whom John
Fitz
whom he conveyed the estates (of Edmond was one), two months
Owen
Ultach.
His real name was Donlevy,
or
Mac Donlevy.
before the conveyance ; but that upon the producing of the document, and the discovering of
nell.
physician to O'DonThe exact nature of the construction of
He was
the fraud and subtlety, the honest part of the house were ashamed to abet so ill a cause, and
that accordingly the the like contrivances.
p.
literal
the original Irish will appear from the following Latin version
:
Act was made
to prevent
i.
Eugenius Ultoniensis films Dionysii (i. e. Doctoris), et erat doctor quoad eruditionem hie
Eugenius,
i
"
Hibernia A nglicana, vol.
nam
prsecelluit ille Doctoribus medi-
384
and Moryson's History of Ireland, edition

i.
cinse Hibernise
tempore quo
floruit, obiit."
of 1753, vol.
pp. 8, 9.
Five hundred.
Cos. states that Sir
William
11 D
18-58
emeaNN.
CtOlS
[1587.
CR1OSC,
1587.
Qoip Cpiopr, mile, cuicc ceo, ocrmojacc, a Seacc.

aob jiuao mac ao6a mic majnupa DO jabail la gallaibh. ba harhlaiD po cecup po cionnpccnaD an epjab'ail hipin. T?o gabpac goill imon ccomaiple ap cfna mioroimDin rhoip imon lupnp Sip lohn pappoc, Don mpla ua neill aob mac an pipbopca (gep bo piapac ppiu 6) cpia lonnlac
TTlac uf Dorhnaill
"|
roippbealbac lumeac mac neill conallaij baf hi ap Dai Siobaine mjine uf oomnaill .1. ao6 mac ppicbeapr DO gpep ppip, majnupa po baD commaim DO mpla cipe heojam. Qpaill ele b'eop po Ifr
1
frcapcopaofo
uf neill
."1
Stanly and a thousand men were sent from Ire" where land into Holland in 1587, Stanly
unworthy of the towering

Perrott, the reader
is
spirit of Sir
John
the
referred to the Life of
turned Papist and Traytor."

'
Sir John Perrott, 8vo. London, 1728.

e.
At
Moreover, apaill ele,
i.
another thing
The English were anxious to secure this youth for three strong reasons ; first, because his sister was married
too, or in addition to this.
very period that Perrott was guilty of this weak stroke of policy, he was neglected in England,
and denied the support necessary for his govern-
ment
mortified
in various
instances
by
his
Hugh Earl of Tyrone, whose loyalty they suspected on account of the accusations of his and the sons of rival, Turlough Luineach,
to
relative the Queen, traduced
by the unceasing malice of his enemies, and insulted by his inferiors at the
Council board.
In Ware's
A nnah
John an-Diomais
O'Neill; secondly, because his
of Ireland, edition of 1707,
the following ac-
promising warlike characteristics had caused the people to look up to him as the t)onn oiaoa, said to have been foretold by St. Columbkille, as the great
tor
count of a scene, which would do honour to
two of the Milesian
Irish
chieftains,
which
man who would
reign
took place between him and Marshal Bagnal, at the Council board in Dublin, is printed from
the Council Book, fol. 261 " The 15th of May, very angry words passed between the Lord Deputy and Sir Nicholas
:
ten years, and liberate the Irish from the yoke of the foreigners, which was a belief
then very dangerous to the English government, as the inhabitants of Tirconnell relied as much on prophecies of this nature as upon their mountain fastnesses and, thirdly, because
;
Justice, the Master of the Rolls,
Bagnal, Marshall, in the presence of the Chief and the Secre-
tary of State,
upon occasion that one Patrick
assured that O'Donnell, his lather, who had recently bidden defiance to the English gothey
felt
Cullan (who used to go into England, in the name of O'Neal, with complaints to her Majesty
against the Lord Deputy) was ordered to be examiu'd before the Council. The Marshal re-
vernment, and absolutely refused to admit a sheriff into his territory, might be kept to his allegiance as long as they held so prized a son
of his as a hostage. For the English account of this capture of Hugh Roe O'Donnell, which
quired that the "Lord Deputy should not be present at the examination ; upon- which the Lord Deputy, taking it ill to be directed by
was
so disgraceful to the Irish council,
and so
him, told him
'
:
That though he would not be
1587.]
1859
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

t
1587.
eighty-seven.
The son
of O'Donnell
(Hugh Roe,
the. son of
Hugh, son of Manus) was taken

:
by the English. His capture was first effected thus the English, with the Justice and the Council in general, had contracted a great dislike to the Earl O'Neill, Hugh, the son of Ferdoragh (although he was obedient to them), in
consequence of the accusations and complaints of Turlough Luineach, the son and because of Niall Conallagh O'Neill, who was always in opposition to him
;
Joan, the daughter of O'Donnell, i. e. of to the Earl of Tyrone. Moreover',, the

present at
fit.'
Hugh, name and renown

to talk
the son of Manus, was married
of the above-named
it,
The Marshal
'
yet he would do what he thought ' He mistrusted reply'd

:
with you
'
for a
man would think you
are drunk.'
shal.
false
measures wou'd be used.'

:
The Deputy
What
are drunk,' replyed the Marwas the end of this discourse is

it,
You
him, or any man who shou'd think any false measure should come by him.'
said
He defyed
not known, nor the cause of

that the Marshal was a
only
tis
believed
defyed him also.' the Deputy, with the flat of his hand, Hereupon touch'd his cheek once or twice, and laying his
The Marshal
told
him
'
He
great of this will he yet .elicited from the State Papers. The truth is, that Perrott,
friend to Cullan."
The cause
' other hand on his right shoulder, said Well, well, Marshal, if you defyed a man in my place
:
notwithstanding his treacherous capture of the young O'Donnell, was one of the best friends
'
to the old Irish race that
in another country, he
would have hanged
you.'
The Marshal hereat held up his staff, as if he would have struck the Deputy but Mr. Fenton, the Secretary, and Sir Nicholas White, Master
;
was ever appointed Chief Governor of Ireland, and a great lover of fair play ; while the Marshal was a base and slanderous defamer,
who wished
to
remove Perrott,
that he himself might be enabled to ruin Tur-
of the Rolls, interposing themselves, the Marshal

fell
back, and rising

'
up
said
'
:
It will
be
lough Luineach and the Earl of Tyrone. Perrott, finding himself beset with base enemies, 'who forged letters against
proved you have done ill in this matter.' The You lye, if you say I Lord Deputy answer'd have done ill in this matter.' Said the Marshal
:
:
him
in O'Neill's
name, grew impatient to be
recalled,
and
ear-
nestly petitioned Elizabeth to relieve
him from a
'You
lye;' and,
correcting himself:
'If
you
;
were not Lord Deputy, I would say, you lye but I care not for Sir John Perrott.' The De-
burden, which the perverseness of her subjects in Ireland of the English race had rendered intolerable,
all
and
whom
he had provoked beyond
but Sir John Perrott, I puty would teach you to use me thus and if you did not dote I would commit you to prison.'
said
:
'
If I were
you do,' answer'd the Marshal, I wou'd come out whether you wou'd or no.' The Lord
'
If
'
by restraining their oppressions of the ancient Irish natives. " I can please your Majesty's Irish subjects," said he,. " better than the English, who, I fear,
will shortly
possibility of reconciliation
Deputy
said
'
:
Get you hence,
for tis
no reason
learn the Irish customs, sooner than the Jews did those of the Heathens. My
11
D2
i860
QNNaca Rioshachca
~\
eiraecmN.
[1587.
ainm
epoeapcup an macaoim perhpaice ao6 puab mac aoba po coicc coiccfbaib epeann cib pia piu pamicc co haoip pfpbaca ap aof njaoipi,-] r^liocaip, QcbepDip Ona cdc ccoircinne gup bo caippngfpcac inpaip, i oipbeapcaip.
i
iDip e, i
Dia leccri -co haoip inpfbma ceo cciocpab buaibpeab mnpi epeann uile cperinc, ~\ cpia lapla cipe heojain Diamab oaofnleic no imepo pobcap capaopab ppi apoile amail perheoaofp, i no bepoaofp a mbdipe
mob
pocaib pin po cpuibeab a ccorhaiple lap an mprip la jjallaib Duiblmne cipi haipmimbipc Do genoaip imon ni pin po orhnaijpioc, comb paip Deipib leo lon<5 co na poipinn co bpion ~\ co ccopmaim DO eplurhab
bepcmap.
Comb ap na
ar cliac omblinne, a paofbeab laim cle ppi hepinn poipcuaib, amail bib ppi cfnoaijecc Do beachab 50 po jabab calab ccuan eiccin DO oipeapRaimcc lapom an lumj la nnpfo na jaofre amap jan aib cipe conaill.
oca
in
~\
i
pfncuan puiliji po epcorhaip T?aca an mapa la mac puibne panac pecc maoldin, baile pin conpooacr pop up piam, aon eipibe DO cuaipcmb cara cijeapna occonaill 6 cfm maip. lap mbfir Don baipc pin pop a hangcuipib lompopoaij in Du pin rangarcap Dpong Don
oipipfrh
anab ân
50 po jabh popp
hi
poipinn in .fcapbdcr biucc

corhpaic,"]
ccfp meccopcc cfnoaijeab po jne pfoba
-\
caon-
gabaicc pop bpar ~\ caipccelab pop cpeic, -\ Do cuipfccap pop a ccionD, po aipnfibpioc co mbuf pion i copmaim leo ina Oo cuala mac puibne co na mumcip an nf pin po jabpac 05 cfnoac luinj.
~\
connpab ppip an cede
1 comol an piona combrap mfpcca. lap ppiop peel na luinje hfpin Do luce na cpice ina corhpoccup baccap ace cionol ap jac aipo Dia paijib. 6d hanD DO pakcDon aob puab pempaice a bfir (pop a baocpeim baoi'pi,-) pop a cuaipc
macDacra
peabpaib) ina narpoccup

f
in
lonbaib pin,
po pupailpioc an
Earl of Desmond. The
soul is a witness to
my
Saviour, Jesus, this
is
ject, fighting against the
truth which your true and faithful subject I am speaketh. weary of my place, but never
to serve Ireland,
s
Four Masters should have written the above

sentence thus
:
your Highness." A. D. 1588.
See Ware's
A muds of
This was
the English feared that if he should arrive at the age of maturity, and be elected the
chief of his race, that he and the Earl of Tyrone, whose loyalty they had strong reasons to suspect, should they unite in rebellion, a contin-
"And
As
they 'were allied to each other
evidently written after the result of the united etfbrts of Hugh Roe O'Donnell and Hugh Earl
ot
Tyrone had been witnessed
for it is quite
impossible that it could have been foreseen while Hugh Roe O'Donnell was a lad, and while subHugh Earl of Tyrone was a
loyal English
gency which appeared highly probable, from the alliance subsisting between them (as we have
already mentioned), they might shake the English government in Ireland, till it should totter
1587-]
1861
youth, Hugh Roe, the son of Hugh, had spread throughout the five provinces of Ireland, even before he had arrived at the age of manhood, for his wisdom, and the people in general were used sagacity, goodly growth, and noble deeds
;
he was really 'the prophesied one and [the English feared] that if he should be permitted to arrive at the age of maturity, that the disturbance of
to say that
;
all
the island of Ireland would result through

that,
and
should they unite in their exertions, 5 were allied to each other, as we have before mentioned.
premises, a council
him and the Earl of Tyrone they would win the goal, as they
;
To
deliberate on
was held by the Lord Justice and the English of Dublin, [and to consider] what manoeuvre they might adopt to prevent this thing which they feared and the resolution which they came to was, to prepare a ship at
;
Dublin, and send
it,
with
its
crew', laden with wine
keeping Ireland to the left, until it The vessel bours of Tirconnell, as if it had gone for the purpose of traffic. [sailed northward to Benmore in the Route and then] turned westwards, with a favourable breeze of wind, without stopping or delaying, until it
put in at the old harbour of Swilly, opposite Rathmullan, a castle erected on the margin of the sea, some time .before, by Mac Sweeny Fanad, [a family
the chief of which] had been one of the generals" of the lords of Tirconnell from a remote period. The ship being there stationed at anchor, a party
and beer, north-eastwards, should put into some harbour of the har-
of the crew came on shore in a small boat, under the guise of merchants, in the semblance of peace and friendship; and they began to spy and explore [the
country], and to sell and bargain with those
who came
to
them
them
that they
had wine and

this,
ale in their ship.
When Mac
and they told Sweeny and his

;
they began to buy the wine, and [continued] to drink of it until they were intoxicated. When the inhabitants of the neighbouring district heard the news of the arrival of this ship, they flocked to it from every
quarter.
to the
people heard of
The Hugh Roe
before mentioned happened at this time to be in the

fyc.,
very foundation, and shew to the world ea instance of Irishmen conquering in their own
cause."
'
c.
24
Pet.
;
Lombard
de Reg-no Hiber. Corn-
ment.
c.
;
24
Ware's Annals of Ireland, ad ami.

Hisloire
iii.
1588
its
and the Abbe Ma-Geoghegan's

p. 465.
i.
With
crew.
The commander of this vessel
d'Irelande, torn.
u
was a Dublin merchant, named John Bermingham, and the crew consisted of fifty armed men.
See P. O'Sullevan Beare's Hist. Cathol.
Iber.,
Generals,
e.
one of the leaders of his galoflest of
lowglasses.
This family, though an
the
great family of O'Neill of Tyrone, came first into
Rio^hachca eiReawN.
[1587
eocc 10 ou fin. bd pobaing on caop peijh popuallac baof ma pappab paip a eogaorab pom in lonbaib fin uaip nip bo corhldn a coicc bliabna oecc Do nf baoi aon oia Dfjcomaipbjib Dia oiDfbaib, na Oia ollamnaib in ran pn, ma caoimceacc t>ia peimiomeup na Do peDuccab comaiple 66. Qn can po
-|
DO cocc Don baile irnpoac pop cula ap po clof la luce an caipcelaib eipiom la mac puibne, -\ lap na maieib T?o ceDoip DO cum a luinge. piaDaijfp pom uara jup anluinj DO cuingiD piona apcfna,-] paibic oailfmain -] oeojmaipfba
Don aoiDiD Dup paimcc. Qcbepcpac na cfnDai jre na baof leo Dia ppfon nf na leiccpicnp uaDaib pop cfp DO poi jiD ba mo am olDap Diol na paipne, nac aofn, ace namct Dia cciofaD uacaD oajDaofne ma nDocum Dia luing po copmaim ina ccumang. Opo haipnfiDeaD an êbcaofp ina mbaof DO pfon
-] "|
coniD comaiple appicc laif caicfpcc DO TTlac f uibne bd haDndip laif inDpn, aob DO rocuipeab laif ifin luing, ~| lap ccinoeab pop an ccorhaiple pin Doib DO coibpior in feap bfcc baoi pop up na cpaja, impaipfc e co nDeacacap
f
-]
munn
ipin luing.
T?o pailcijeab ppiu,
~|
Dobpfca
hi
inmfbon na luinge iao gan puipeac jan fppnabab, ~\ occa pppiocailearh 9ombcap pubaij poimfnmnaaj.
ipuibe po hiabab
-\
cubacail imoccapaij in po bor occa pppfpcal ~\
Qn can bd
hainem Doib
)
comla an haipce cap aneip, po jaca a naipm poppa, an cocc mac aob puab Don cup pin. Oo beacaib pccela anjabala po jabab ccoiccinne, ~[ po cionoilpfc ap gac aipm Do f aijib an calab pin pon ccpic Nf puipc, Dup an ccaorhpaccaofp fccapbaojal eiccin pop aop na ceilcce.
i
baof bd DO pobain, ap po bdccap
an angcaipe cuca,
~i
nf
lap ppfrigcappaing ndic laoibfnja aca Dia ccojpaim nac pabaccap longa
i
mombomain an cuain
Udnaicc TTlac puibne na ccuac a ccuma cdi^ gup an Dia ccappaccam. ccalab, "] ba hoioe pbe Don dob hfpin, -j baof pibe occ fpail jiall -| aiccipe oile Dapa a eipe. Nfp bo copba oop om on ap nf baof ccoicceab ulab 5iall
i
Oala na luinge in po bob coipgiDe leo DO aicipibh an cfpe, locap Id cpfcan an cppofa 56 pangacap an muip, ppiorpopc na conaipe pemeoeocacap 50 po jabfac cuan an ac
no jebcaip apf.
-]
na poipne baf innce 6 DO bfpcpac
~\
Tircontiell
from Scotland.
Christopher Irwin,
wine, and to see a Spanish ship,

x
in his Historice Scotia
1697, states, " M'Suan
Nomendatura, Edinburgi, that their first habitation was

Knapdale, a countrey bee.
At
the circumstance,
i. e.
he
not being able to entertain his

expected.
?
ashamed at guest as he had

felt
Castle, in
longing to Argile."
Until they were jolly
and
cheerful,
it
combrap
w To go
to the place,
i.
to have a drink of
ruBuij poittifnmnaij. Here
will be observed
1587-]
1863
neighbourhood on an excursion of thoughtless recreation, and youthful play and sports and the vehement and fool-hardy people who were along with him
;
requested of him to go to the place". It was easy for them to prevail on him to do so, for at this time he was not quite fifteen years of age and there were none of his advisers, tutors, or ollavs, along with him, to direct him or give him
;
the spies heard of his arrival in the town, they immediately went back to the ship. He was welcomed by Mac Sweeny and the other chiefcounsel.
tains
;
When
-and they sent their waiters and cupbearers to the ship for wine for the
guest
who had
arrived.
The merchants
said that they
had no more wine
[remaining unsold], excepting what the crew required for their own use, and that they were unwilling to give any more of it out for any one but they added,
;
that if a small party of gentlemen
would come
to
them
into the ship, they should
When Mac- Sweeny get all the wine and ale that was in their possession. received this message, he felt ashamed at the circumstance", and accordingly
he decided upon inviting Hugh to the ship. This being agreed upon, they went into a small boat which was on the margin of the strand, and rowed it over to the ship. They were welcomed, and conducted without delay or loitering
into an apartment in the lower centre of the ship
and attentively served, until they were jolly here making merry, the door of the hatch was closed after them, and their arms were stolen from them and thus was the young son, Hugh Roe, taken. The
;
and they were waited on, and cheerful". When they were
;
rumour of
this capture
inhabitants nocked from
and the spread throughout the country in general to the harbour, to see if they could bring all quarters
;
any danger upon the machinators of the treachery. This was of no avail, for they were in the depth of the harbour, after having hauled in their anchor and
;
they [the natives] had no ships or boats to pursue or take revenge of them. Mac Sweeny-na-dTuath, who was the foster-father of that Hugh, came, among
but the rest, to the harbour, and offered hostages and other pledges for him this was of no avail to him, because there was not in the province of Ulster a
;
hostage that they would accept in his stead. As for the ship, and the crew which were in it, having secured the most desirable of the hostages of the territory,
they sailed with the current of the tide until they reached the
that the adjectives have a plural termination, which is contrary to the idiom of the modern
Irish language, in
sea,
and retraced
V
which we would
sny, j;o
puB-
uoap pabuc p oimfunmnac.
1864
cliac.
aNNata Rioshachca
eirceciNN.
[1588.
Ctr clop po ceDoip ipin ccaqiaij uile a coibecc

-\
pom pamlaib,
-\
bd
paoflib lap an lupcip,

-|
lap an ccomaiple apoccam cuca gen gup bo pop Oo paccab eiccm a pfipc iccip po popcongaippioc a cabaipc Dia paiib. ace dccomapc peel noo occd mibemam, i occa combdccap acca accallarh
~\
incpeachab DO caipccelab pop a aipbib ppi pe pooa. p6 beoib cpa po popbaof ipin ccacpaij aipm conjaippior a cop ccaipciall combaingfn clocba
i i
hi mbdccap oponga oeapmapa Do paopclanoaib mac mileab ccuimpeac cuile Doib ccimibecc, pob aipecc apaill opionnjallaib. 6a pfo pob amfp a mmmj ppi apoile, DO lo i oabai 05 eccaofne a neccualamg 05 coiri
-|
"|
~|
-|
-\
pechc ppip na hambpfcaib no himbfpra pop paopclanoaib pocenelcha epeann

ap cfna.
caofbe ciap DO cloinn cuilein .1. cumfba mac Sfam, mic caibj, mic conmfba, mic conmapa, mic Sfam oecc. 6fn an conmfoa mec piapaip Decc. pin injean emainn mic Semaip
Tllac meic
Conmapa an
QO1S CR1OSU,
1588.
Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cuicc ceD, ocrmojacc, a hocc.

TTlac puibne
neill
bajameac Niall mfipcceac mac maolmuipe, mic aoba mic
DO rhapbab la Donnchab mac maolmuipe mfipccij, mic maolmuipe, mic 6d hamlaib DO ponab inopin mp nDoipinip im pel bpijDe Oo ponpab. mapbab bpiain oicc amail pemebeprmap la mall mfipjeac, 17o hionnapbab
neill
i
cconnaccaib la mall beop, po baof peal ppappab gall, i achaib oile ap aon la hua neill, "| Do pome lonDpaijib pooa imcian pop mall mfipcceac amail na po paofl mall, uaip bd Doig laip na ciocpab Donnchab Don rfp an ccfin no mapab pom innce. lap mbfic DO bonn-
Donnchab co na luce Ifnamnra
~|
Endowments
The word aipoe

that the
signifies
in
the Castle of Dublin.
See an account of
mark, sign, token, or characteristic.

annalists say
is,
What
the
this treacherous capture of the
young Hugh Roe
Lord Deputy and
O'Donnell, in Dr. O'Conor's suppressed work,
curious to sound the .depth of the intellectual powers of a youth, whose promising
Council
felt
Memoirs of
the
Life
O'Conor of Belanayare,
ture
is
and Writings of Charles p. 105, where the writer
and aspiring abilities induced the people to believe that he was the person predi9ted by St.
Columbkille
a
draws largely on his own imagination for particulars. The most trustworthy account of this capperhaps that given by the Four Masters,
is
as their deliverer.
Stone castle
This
is
the
Bermingham Tower
which
abstracted from the Life of
Hugh Roe
1.588.]
1865
their former course
was soon heard
all
back again, until they landed in the harbour of Dublin. It over the city that he had thus arrived and the Lord Justice
;
and the Council were rejoiced at the arrival of Hugh, though indeed not for and they ordered him to be brought before them, and he was love of him
;
brought accordingly and they continued for a long time to converse with him, and to ask questions of him, to examine and criticise him, that they might exAt last, however, they ordered him to be plore his [natural] endowments".
;
put into a strong stone castle* which was in the city, where a great number of Milesian nobles were in chains and captivity, and also some of the old English.
conversation by which these beguiled the time by day and night was, lamenting to each other their sufferings and troubles, and listening to the cruel sentences passed on the highborn nobles of Ireland in general.
The only amusement and
The son of Mac Namara

Cumeadha,
son of John, died.
the son of John, son of Teige, son of
of the western part of Clann-Cuilein, namely, Cumeadha, son of Cumara,
The
wife of that Cumeadha, [who was the] daughter of

Pierce, died.
Edmond, the son of James Mac
THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
1588.
eighty-eight.
Mac' Sweeny Banagh (Niall Meirgeach, the son of Mulmurry, son of Hugh, b son of Niall) was slain on Doirinis on St. Bridget's Day, by Donough, the son
,
of
Mulmurry Meirgeach, son of Niall. That event happened thus after Brian Oge had been slain by Niall Meirgeach, as we have already stated, Donough,
:
with his followers, were, moreover, banished into Connaught by Niall, and he remained for some time with the English, and for some time after ihat along
with O'Neill.
[At
last]
he made an incursion from a
far distance against Niall,
what
Niall did not expect, for he thought that

it.
Donough would not come

Donough,
after
into
the country while he [Niall] should live in

O'Donnell, written by Cucogry or Peregrine O'Clery, of which there is a copy, in the handwriting of the late
having passed
Writers, p. 190.
t>
Doirinis,
now
Derryness, an island off the
Edward
O'Reilly, preserved
in the Library of the
Royal Irish Academy

Catalogue of Irish
coast of the parish of Inishkeel, in the barony of Boylagh, and county of Donegal. See the Ord-
See O'Reilly's
Descriptive
nance
Map of the county of Donegal,
sheet 73.
11 E
1866
aNNdta Rioshachea eiReawN.

i
cha6 ceopa hoibce mbaof mac puibne

caipcelab
paip,"|
nDpoibelaib an cfpe, puaip a piop co ccpian loccaip baoijellac, "| |io cuip luce bpaea Do
noiampaib
~\
puccpac pccela Do paiccib Donnchaib 50 cciocpab pom cap cpaij anfop ap abapac. baoi piom co Uon a cumaing eplam Do rfgmail ppip comb ann conpanjaccap ace an ecoipimp [recte nooipimp] perhpdice 50 po
pijfo pccainnfp cpo6a fcoppa 50 po mapbaD TTlac puibne annpin co nopuing moip Dia luce Ifnamna, "| Do cloinn cpuibne na muman. T?o DicfnoaD mac
puibne ona,
-j
po cuipeaD a cfno 50 hac cliar.

aoDa, mic neill oicc
ITIac puibne DO
jaipm DO
la Dpuing
DonnchaD lapom.
6om mooapba mac
mec puibne Do mapbaD

iH baoijill
DO lucr Ifnamna mec puibne oonochaD. QoD mac neill mic coippDealbaij bfpnaij
lac) Decc.
(canaipce baoijeal-
Oomnall mac
neill
puaiD mic neill ui baoi jill co na

uf baoijill
mac DO mapbaD
la
ca&cc occ caiDcc, mic coippbealbaij pan cpian loccaip ipm ppojmap DO ponpao.
mac
ap cpaij painpfbaij
Qn
calbac occ
Dpuing DO
cuinn mic' an calbaij ui Domnaill DO mapbaD la rhuincip Domnaill (.1. la TTIajnup 65 6 ppaicen), mic aeDa mic
i
mac
majnupa
Domnaill
ccoip pinne.
TTlaolmuipe mac emainn, mic maolmuipe, mic DonnchaiD mec puibne DO mapbaD la mall japb mac cuinn mic an calbaij ui Domnaill. lapla ripe heojjain, aoD mac pipDopca, mic cuinn bacaij mic cuinn Do
nonol ploij lanmoip Do cocc pop ua neill coippbealbac luineac. Ni po hanaD lap an lapla 50 piacc co na ploj cap mobaipn cap Deipcc 50 po jab aipipfm 05 an ccappaicc lee. T?o bail ua Domnaill aob mac majnupa ccombdil an
i
neill lapla a clfmna 50 lion a pocpaiDe ace cfna nf eainicc ineallma. Daon aonea in aghaib eoippbealbac baof pibe co pocpaioe moip Daon panec an lapla -| uf Domnaill. l?obcap mD baoi i ppappab uf neill .1. Qpe occ a
]
mac co mbuanDabaib lomba (.1. capcin) Uilliam muppefn mac poibfipo 50 mbanna paijDiuipibe, i Dponj Do cloinn cpuibne na muman im TTlupchab na
'Lower Third of Boylagh,
i.e. that part of
d
Certain strand, cpa'j âmpfoaij.
Seenote
"
the barony of Boylagh now called the Rosses, and situated between the north island of Aran
on ac pampeoaij, under the year 1586, p. 1856,

supra.
e
and the River Gweedore.
Lower
Third.
See
ifote
supra.
1588.]
ANNALS'OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.
1867
three nights in the wilds and recesses of the country, received intelligence that Mac Sweeny was in the Lower Third of Boylaghc and he sent spies to reconand the spies brought news to Donough that he would come up noitre him
; ;
southwards] across the strand on the day following he [Donough] was prepared with all his forces to oppose him. They met at Doirinis, before
[i. e.,
:
mentioned, where a fierce battle was fought between them, in which Mac Sweeny was slain, together with a great number of his followers, and of the
Clann-Sweeny of Munster. Mac Sweeny was beheaded, and his head was sent to Dublin. Donough was then styled Mac Sweeny. John Modardha, the son of Hugh, son of Niall Oge Mac Sweeny, was slain
by the followers of
lagh, died.
Mac Sweeny (Donough).
Hugh, the son of Niall, son of Turlough Bearnach O'Boyle, Tanist of BoyDonnell, the son of Niall Roe, son of Niall O'Boyle, and his son, were slain by Teige Oge, the son of Teige, son of Turlough O'Boyle, on a certain strand" in the Lower Third', in the autumn of this year.
Calvagh Oge, the son of Con, son of Calvagh O'Donnell, was slain near the f River Finn, by Manus Oge 0'Sraithein one of the followers of Donnell, the
,
son of Hugh, son of Manus. Mulmurry, the son of Edmond, son of Mulmurry, son of Donough Mac Sweeny, was slain by Niall Garv, the son of Con, son of Calvagh O'Donnell.
-
Earl of Tyrone (Hugh, the son of Ferdorcha, son of Con Bacagh, son of Con) mustered a very great army to march against O'Neill (Turlough Luineach). The Earl never halted until he had crossed the Mourne and the Derg,
The
and encamped
O'Donnell (Hugh, the son of Manus) came to join the Earl, his son-in-law, with a number of his forces, but, however, he did not come with all of them. O'Neill (Turlough) had [on the other hand] a great army of unanimously combined forces to oppose the Earl and O'Donnell. These were they who were with O'Neill on this occasion -Art Oge, his son,
at Carraic-liath*.
:
with a great number of Connaughtmen, [namely] Captain William Mostin, the son of Robert, with a company of soldiers a party of the Mac Sweenys of Munster,
f
O Sraithein, now anglice Strohane.

1
Carraic-liath,
now
Carricklea, or Carricklee,
Mourne, in the parish of Urney, barony of StraSee note under bane, and county of Tyrone
,
a townland situated between the rivers Finn and
the ' year 1557,
p.
1550, supra.
11
E2
1886
aNNata Rio^hachca emeaNN.
mapc mac maolmuipe mic oonnchaiD co pocaibe ele cenmocdr. Niall uf âllcubaip (Dia ngoipci an can pin GoDh mac an 1 Qo6 rhac an Dfsanaig
calbaij uf Domnaill) Do bfic 50 pliocc an calbaij
uile,
-]
co na luce Ifnamna
i
bd hann baccap piDe ccaiplen na baccap opong oia mumcip 05 aplac aoba im ionnpaii6 oibce DO pinne. cabaipc ap an mpla ucup baof an ciapta 05 cpeachaD -\ ace opccain na cipe
Daon pann,
-]
Daon aonca la hua
neill,
-]
ecip na haibnib pin
.1.
pionn,
~\
TTloDapn.
Nip bo miaD laippiom inDpin la

i
acbepc na hionnpai jpeaD lapla noopca OIDCC icip, no peappaD lomaipfg nujpa ppip. T?o ace po ba6 poillpi laof lanpolaip an ciapla ap a bapac,") po meabaiD piam, corhaillpiom inopin uaip po lonnpai j Daofne iom6a immaille pe heachaib, pe heoalaib 1 po ca5aib an ciapla
huaill 1 lonnoccbdil,
i
~\
~\
lolapDa ap cfna,
an ceo la TTlag
innpin.
TTlaj eocajdin cijeapna cenel piachac.i.Connla mac concobaip mic lai^ne mic connla nnc aoDa Decc, -| nf baof 6 cfm maip mall DO cenel piacac mic
eccaofne map, -| a mac bpian, mall mac popa Do bfic mo fpaonca ppi apoile im cijeapnap an cfpe. Gojan manncac mac emainn, mic ploinn, mic concobaip uf eDin cijeapna ua ppiacpac aiDne Decc, i a mac aoD buibe Do oiponeaD ma iona6. Canaipoe
neill pfp
po ba&
mo Dabbap
-\
an cfpe ceona Do ecc coippDealbac mac puatDpi an Doipe uf eiDin. Coblac mop occ ppiciclong Do cocc 6 pfj na ppdinne pop paippje ipm mbbaDain po, i aDbepaD a poile jup bo hf6 po ba mfnmapc leo cuan~] calaD
.1.
.
.1.
"
Murrough-na-mari,
i.
e.
Murrough, or Mor.1.
fieet,
states that this
mighty armament, which
gan, of the Beeves.
was styled " "lonnoccBail
Classis invincibilis," consisted of
^Magnanimity.
mîo mfn-
man."
k
O'Clery.
i.
sailors,
e.
130 ships, in which were 19,290 soldiers, 8,350 and 2,630 great guns. Cox has the fol-
Owen Manntagh,
Owen
the Toothless.
succeeded his uncle, Eory of the Wood, as Chief of Coill O'bh-Fiachrach, in the barony of Kiltartan, and county of Galway, in the year
1578.
He
lowing notice of this fleet, in connexion with the Deputy, Sir William Fitz William " Sir William Fitz William, Lord Deputy, was sworn on the 30th of June, 1588. He had
:
For a curious, order of the Council of

in his favour, see Genealogies,
p.
fyc.
Connaught
1
of
formerly been a very good Governour in Ireland, but being answered at Whitehall (whep he
Hy-Fiachrach,
404.
fleet is
great fleet __ This
usually referred
sought some reward for his services), that the Government of Ireland was a preferment, and
not a service, he
eve'r after
to
by historians
as the Invincible
Armada. Cam-
endeavoured to make
den, in his Annals of the reign of Elizabeth, in which he gives a most interesting account of the battles between the
his profit of that office.
Armada and
the Queen's
" It was not long after his coming before the Invincible Armado was forced to coast about
L588.]
ANNALS
h
OF-
THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.
1869
with Murrough-na-rnart [O'Flaherty], the son of Mulmurry, son ol'Donough; Niall Garv [O'Donnell], Hugh, the son of the with many others besides them.
DeanO'Gallagher (who was then usually styledHugh, the son of Calvagh O'Donnell), with all the descendants of Calvagh, and their followers, joined O'Neill
with one accord on this occasion.
These were then
in Castlefinn.
Some
of his
people were requesting of Hugh [O'Gallagher] to make a nocturnal attack upon the Earl, who was then preying and plundering the country between the Rivers Finn and Mourne but, through pride and magnanimity', he did not deem this
;
honourable, and said that he would not at all attack an Earl in the darkness of the night, but that he would give him a fierce battle in the broad light of day.
him.
This he performed, for on the following day he attacked the Earl, and defeated The Earl left behind great numbers of men, horses, and spoils, on this
occasion.
This was on the
first
of May.
Mageoghegan, Lord of Kinel-Fiachach, namely, Connla, son of Conor, son and there had not been a longof Laighne, son of Connla, son of Hugh, died time before any one of the descendants of Fiacha, the son of Niall, who was
;
more generally lamented
and
his son, Brian,
and
Niall, the son of Ross,
were
in contention with each other for the lordship of the territory. Owen Manntagh", the son of Edmond, son of Flann, son of Conor O'Heyne, Lord of Hy-Fiachrach-Aidhne, died and hie son, Hugh Boy, was elected in his
;
place.
Turlough, son of Rory-an-Doire O'Heyne, Tanist of the same territory,

consisting of eight score ships, came from the King of Spain the sea in this year. Some say that their intention was to have taken
died.
A
upon
great fleet
Scotland, so that
many
of
them became
ship-
whereupon he grew
soned Sir
wreck'd on the northern shoars of Ireland, to

the
Owen
so enraged that he impriO'Toole" [recte. Sir Eoiu or
exact
number of 17 ships and 5394 men" [the number given by Thady Dowling]. " By
John mac Toole O'Gallagher], "and O'Dogherty, who were the best affected to the state of all
the Irish
;
\his shipwreck much treasure (which belonged
and the former he kept during his
Queen by her prerogative) fell into the hands of the natives. The Deputy issued out
to the
st
time, and the other he detained two years, until he was forced to purchase his discharge." } fibernia Anglicana, vol.
It is added,
i.
Commission
to
make enquiry
after
it
but
p.
397.
that proving ineffectual, and he being desirous to have a finger in the pie, went personally to
Annals of Ireland, ad ann. 1589, that " this hard usage of two such
in "Ware's
Ulster in November, to the great charge of the Queen and countrey. but to very little purpose;
persons caused a general dissatisfaction the gentlemen in Ulster."
among
1870
aNNata Rio^hachca eirceaNR
[1588.
DO jabail hi ccpiochaib Sajcan oia ccaompacaofp fcapbao jal opobail puippe. Nip bo harhlaib oo pala ooib, uaip DO eccaim coblac na bainjiiojna ppiu pop
an ppaippje, i po jabpac cfirpi longa Dib, po pgaofl po fippfib an CUID ele Don cobtac po aipfpaib na ccpioc ccompoccup.i.Oon caob foip DO pajcaib, Don caofb ciapcuaib oeipinn. ]?o baibfb 1 Don caob coipcuaib DO Qlbain,
-]
-|
~|
Dponga mopa DO na ppamneacaib ip na hoipfpaib pin lap lainbpipfb a lonj, 1 cepna an cuio po ba luja Dib cap anaip Don ppainn, arbepac a poile naof mile Dib Don cup pin. 50 po paccbab
~\
QpD
lupcip na hepeann
i
.1.
Sip lohn
pappoc DO
6ol
Sacpoib,
-]
Sip uil-
liam pic?uuilliam Do cecc
nepinn
ma
lupcip ina lonaD.
Dea6a6 TTlanjariiam mac
loclainn, mic T?uai6pi, mic
muipeaohaij mic
macjamna binbe ciêapna ceneoil ppfpmaic Decc. Uilliam mac oomnaill (.1. an ooccuip) mic amlaoib mic DonnchaiD uf niallain Do mapbaD noopup mamipcpe innpi lacloinn uf jpfobca .1. clann cpfam
i
mic Sfain, mic caiDcc, mic loclainn. SloicceaD mop la lupcip na hepeann Sip uilliam picûuilliam, i la gobeple ppepiDenc Da coicceb munoip coiccib connacc Sip RipoeapD biongjam,
-|
rhan
.1.
Sip
comap
nopip,
-\
la popgla pfp nepeann
bol pop ua Ruaipc, ~| pop TTIac la CHID Don coblac ppamneac pin po pempaibpiom.
m On
n
the coasts, literally
cenmoca coicceab ulab Do corhaonca puibne na ccuac DO pome coDac

~\
T?o millpioc na ploij pin
Nine thousand.
;
number reported ment in the State Papers'
infinibus Anglue." This was probably the but it appears from a docuOffice,
"
the Shannon, two shipps, 600 men in Tralie, one shipp, 24 men ; in Dingle, one shipp, 500 men in Desmond, one shipp, 300 men in Irris,
; ; ;
London, signed
two
shipps,
none
lost,
because the
men were
by Geoffrey Fenton, that the total number of ships lost by the Spaniards on this occasion was eighteen, and the total number of men, 6194.
This document runs as follows " Shipps and men sunke, drowned, killed, and taken upon this coast of Ireland in the
:
taken into other vessels, but the vessels and ordenance remained in Shannan, one burnt, none
;
lost,
because the
;
men were
in
likewise
embarked
in other shipps
Gallway Haven, one shipp, which escaped and left prisoners 70 ; drowned and sunk in the N. W. sea of Scotland, as appeareth
month of September, 1588, as followeth In Lough Foyle, in Tirconnell, one shipp, 1100 men in Sligo, three great shipps, 1500 men
:
by the
confession of the Spanish pri-
soners (but in truth they were lost in Ireland),
in Tyraughlie,
Island,
one shipp, 400
men
in Clear
one shipp, called St. Mathew, 500 tonnes, men 450 ; one of Byshey of St. Sebastian's, 400
tonnes,
one shipp, 300 men; in Fynglasse, O'Male's country, one shipp, 400 men ; in O'Fflaertie's country, one shipp, 200 men in
;
men 350
"
total of shipps
18; total of
men
6194.
(Signed),
GEFF. FENTON."
1588.]
1871
harbour, and landed on the coasts of England,
if they could get an opportunity. did not happen to them, for they were met on the sea by the Queen's But this and the rest of the fleet were scattered and fleet, which captured four ships
;
dispersed along the coasts of the neighbouring countries, namely, to the east of England, to the north-east of Scotland, and the north-west of Ireland. Great
numbers of the Spaniards were drowned, and their ships were totally wrecked The smaller part of them (i. e. the remainder) returned to in those places.
and some say that nine thousand" of them were lost on this occasion. and Sir Sir John Perrott, Lord Chief Justice of Ireland, went to England William Fitzwilliam came to Ireland as Justice in his stead.
Spain
; ;
O'Dea (Mahon p the son of Loughlin, son of Rory, son of Muireadhach, son of Mahon Boy), Lord of Kinel-Fearmaic, died.
,
William, the son of Donnell

O'Neillan,
(i.e.
the Doctor), son of Auliffe, son of Donough
was
slain in the
doorway of the monastery of Ennis, by the sons of
O'Greefa
namely, the sons of John, son of John, son of Teige, son of Loughlin. great army was mustered by the Lord Justice of Ireland, Sir William
, ;
Bingham, Governor of the province of Connaught and Sir Thomas Norris, Governor of the two provinces of Munster together with the most of the men of Ireland, the people of Ulster excepted, to march
Fitzwilliam
; ;
Sir Richard
against
alliance with
O'Rourke and Mac Sweeny-na-dTuath, who had formed friendship and some of the Spanish fleet* which we have before mentioned.
Trinity College, Dublin, E. 2. 14, this Mahon mentioned as the proprietor of the castles of
give a
of Ireland, by Thady Dowling, which agrees with the foregoing, with the exception of the number drowned and sunk
list
The Annals
is
Beallnelyke and
Moghowny,
in the
barony of
in the north-west sea of Scotland, of
which
it
takes no notice; but " lost in

titis,
it
adds, that
700 men were
Gallaway Bay."
is
See the Icon Antis-
Tullag-I-Dea (now Inchiquin). q In the manuscript account of CPGreefa the county of Clare just referred to, he is called
O'Griffee,
where there
a curious account of the

cast
and
set
down
is
as the proprietor of the
shipwrecked Spaniards who were

coast of Galway.
on the
castle of Ballygriffee, in the
barony of Tullaghusually anglicised
I-Dea.
Griffin, Irish.
This name
now
Sir William Fitzwilliam,
He
Lord Chief Justice. was sworn Lord Deputy on the 30th of
though always
called
O'^plobru
in
The
Griffins of Corgrick, near
Foynes
This entry should have been inserted by the Four Masters before their account of the great Spanish fleet.
June, 1588. In the manuscript account of the of Clare, preserved in the Library of county
'
Island, in
the county of Limerick, and Dr. of Limerick, are of this family, Griffin,
Mahon.
r Some of the Spanish fleet. Philip O'Sullevan Beare informs us, in his Hist. Cathol. Her., fol. 121, that one thousand Spaniards, under
1872
<s;ac
awnaca Rioghachca emeuNN.

nf
[1588.
gup a panjaccap Da mbaof pfmpa 6 mumcip na bainpiogna oca puca

-]
50 opobaofp,
a aof nf po jabpac gpfim no Don cup pin. 6d Don cuaipc pin cpd DO Dua Ruaipc na DO mac puibne 6 Docapcaij Sfan occ mac Sfain, mic peilim, mic concobaip cappaij,-] 6
6 opobaoip co pinn, ap
cubaip Sip com
mac cuacail
bailb,
~\
DO cuaib an lupcip 50
liar cliar,
~\
po
pccaoilpioc pip epeann oia ccijib.
an ofccanaij uf allcubaip (oia njoipci aob mac an calbaij uf Domnaill) DO mapbab lap an injin ouib ingfn cpemaip rhec Domnaill bfn uf Domnaill aob mac majnupa. 6a hamlaiD po appicc le an mapbaD pin DO
^riiom.
QOD mac
QoD Do
bfic
Do gpep
pann pleacca
uf neill
pann DO jpep pe hua nDomnaill i pe a cliamam an napla 6 neill aob mac an pipDopca. Qpaill ele beop po mapbao a bpdcaip Dil Deapbcaipip alaprpanri
.1.
a mbfic
uile Daofn Ific ip
uf Domnaill, -| baof ag coccab coippDealbaig lumij

Dtlip
an calbaij
mac an ofccanaij amail pemebepcmap. Ro bacap beop pora lie eccpaicnp aice ppip cen mocar pibe. 6a jalap cpiDe bd cocpab mfnman
la 1iao6
~\
a onmiapa paip. Ro eccaofn a himneaD, i a hegan Diojail a uabaip ccualanj ppip an ampaib albanaij baof pop a ccuillme pop a ccuapupral DO jpep, i ma comairecc in 506 maijin 50 po cinjeallpac pibe ppia jomDip ellma pop a pop congpaippi Daice a neccpaircip pop a mbfobbaib cecib can DO cocpab cuca. Do pala Din Don aob hipm cocc (la bopppab bpfje la
le
~\ ~\ ~|
hionnoccbail
mbaof
pf
muincip
.1.
popaicmfc a palab no a eccpaiccip) 50 haipm maj gaiblfn. lap ccocc ooporh Don baile po aiccill pi a pamna halbanaijh, po pdib ppiu po aplaij iaD im comallab in po
cfn
i
mfnman
-\
-|
jeallpac.
Oo
~\
ponab puippepi
pin,
uaip po lonnpaijpioc an caipeccal
po gabpac 050 biubpacab Do paijDib i Do peilepaib 50 ppapccaibpioc mapb gan anmain, -\ po mapbab beop amaille ppip an po bab
caipipi laip Dia pammuincip. TTlac mec conmapa an caoibe coip
Antonio de Leva, were relieved and protected by O'Rourke and Mac Sweeny Tuethius on this
occasion,
'
mbaof aob,
DO cloinn cuilem
.1.
cabcc mac
nals of Ireland he
Sir John, the son of Tuat/tal. In Ware's Anis called Sir Owen MacToole,
is
who
saved them from the fury of the
which
" Sir
'
not very incorrect

i.
but in Cox's Hi397, he

is
Queen's
officers
and conducted them
in safety
hernia Anglicana, vol.
p.
is
called
to their ship;
but
that, unfortunately, the ship

all
Owen
O'Toole," v^hich
ridiculously in-
foundered and they were of the harbour.
drowned
in sight
correct,
Pride and arrogance
The reader
will bear
1588.]
1873
These forces spoiled every thing to which they came in their course, not belonging to the Queen's people, from the Suck to the Drowes, and from the Drowes
to the Finn
;
yet they were not able to overtake or apprehend O'Rourke or

It
Mac
Sweeny on
this occasion.
was on
this expedition that
O'Doherty (John Oge,
the son of John, son of Felim, son of Conor Carragh), and O'Gallagher ( Sir John, 8 The Lord Justice (then) the son of Tuathal Balbh), were taken prisoners.
went
to Dublin,
Hugh,
son of the
and the men of Ireland dispersed for their [respective] homes. Dean O'Gallagher (who was usually called Hugh, son of
Calvagh O'Donnell), was killed by Ineenduv, the daughter of James Mac DonIt was thus she was nell, and wife of O'Donnell (Hugh, the son of Manus).
enabled to
effect this killing
of Calvagh O'Donnell,
Hugh had constantly sided with the descendants who were all conjointly leagued with O'Neill (Turlough
:
Luineach),
who was always
at
war with O'Donnell and
his son-in-law, the Earl
O'Neill (Hugh, son of Ferdorcha). Moreover, her dearly beloved brother, Alexander, had been, as we have before stated, slain by Hugh, son of the Dean,
and besides these she had many other causes of enmity towards him and it was sickness of heart and anguish of mind to her that revenge was not taken of him for his pride and arrogance'. She complained of her troubles and inju;
ries to the Scottish auxiliaries,
who
constantly in her service and pay, and were in attendance on her in every place and they promised that they
;
who were
command, to wreak vengeance upon their enemies, whenever they should meet with them. Hugh [one time] happened to be coming
would be ready
at her
up, in pride, vigour, and high spirits (without remembering the spite or the enmity against him) towards the place where she was, at Magh-gaibhlin". When
he had come to the town, she addressed her
faithful people, i. e. the Scots and of them to fulfil their promise. This was accordingly begged and requested* done for her, for they rushed to the place where Hugh was, and proceeded to
;
shoot at him with darts and bullets, until they left him lifeless and there were also slain along with him the dearest to him of his faithful people.
;
The son
in
of
Mac Namara,
of the eastern part of Clann-Cuilein (Teige, the

senior and
mind the O'Gallaghers are the

all
most royal family of

Magh-gaibhlin,
in the parish of
the Kinel-Connell.
a townland
now Mongavlin,
Ordn. map, sheet 63. Begged and requested: literally, " and she told them, and requested of them to perform
"
and county of Donegal.
Taughboyne, barony of Kaphoe,
11 F
what they had promised." *
1874
awwata Rio^hachca eiReaHN.
[1588.
i
oomnaill piabaij mic conmfba, mic oonnchcno, nuc Ruaibpi DO cpochab

njaillim.
TTlac ui concobaip puaib
.1.
mac Caibcc
oicc mic cai6cc buibe, mic cacail
puaib DO cpochab
O
mac
ngaillirh beop. cfinneiccij pionn .1. bpian mac oomnaill mic oonnchaib Decc, uairne oonnchaiD oicc mic aoba, mic amlaofb, ~\ an giolla oub mac Diapinaoa
i
neapaoncab i nimpfpam pe poile imon ciêapnap gup ab arhtaib Do pfobai^pioc an rijeapnap DO poinn fcoppa ap bo, an cainm ap uaicne.
mic aoba mic puaibpi
ui
ceinneiDij
The manner in which ab arhlaio, i. e. so that
Irish idiom, jup was the way, is of very frequent occurrence, and it is impossible
it
"
The
from the construction of the
Irish.
:
The above
"O'Kenentry should be thus made English Finn (Brian, &c.) died ; upon which a nedy
contention arose between
to translate sentences so constructed into any-
Owny, the son
of
thing like readable English,
without deviating
DonoughOge, and Gilla-Duv, the son of Dermot,
1588.]
1875
son of Donnell Reagh, son of Cumeadha, son of Donough, son of Rory), was
hanged
at
Galway.
of O'Conor Roe,
i.
The son
e.
the son of Teige Oge, son of Teige Boy, son
of Cathal Roe, was also hanged Galway. Finn (Brian, the son of Donnell, son of O'Kennedy
at
Donough) died; [upon
Donough Oge, son of Hugh, son of Auliffe, and Gillawhich] Owny, Duv, the son of Dermot, son of Hugh, son of Rory O'Kennedy, were at strife
the son of
in which* they
and contention with each other concerning the lordship so that the manner made peace was by dividing the territory in two between them,
;
and the name was conferred on Owny.

concerning the chieftainship.
At
length,
how-
the
name
of
O'Kennedy Finn upon Owny, who

to
ever, they agreed to settle their differences
by
was adjudged
be the senior."
dividing the territory equally, and conferring
Annals of the Four masters.
Annals of the kingdom of Ireland.
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COLONEL- MALCOLMOF POLTALLOCH

THE KINGDOM OF IEELAND,

THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE YEAR

pugnant universi vincuntur."

SECOND EDITION. VOL.

DUBLIN: HODGES, SMITH, AND CO., GRAFTON.STREET,

mac Ropa mic comaip

Rubpaije mac megmarjamna,

mac Remainn DO mapbab

meg aenjupa. Coccab ecip oipjiallaib

Sbocc aooa puaio,

pop an lucr nje,

John, the son of Rosso.

the Annals of Ulster adds, that this

The Dublin copy of John was

and their caretakers.

Mac Mahon's locc

under the year 1496,

ci See Acje or household count of the Territory or Dominion of Farney,

Shirley, Esq., p. 30, note

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

the son of Rossa*, son of

Thomas Oge Maguire, who had been

Rury, the son of O'Conor Faly,

the son of Cahir, son of Con, son of

Rury, the son of Mac Mahon,

of Brian, the son of

comdp mac comdip

oicc mic an jiolla buib

limib mic roippbealbaig cappaij

Calbac caoc mac Dom-

Qibne mac Sfam

a Deapbpacaip pfippin bpian

05 cocc 6 cupup San Sem.

puapcclab mop DO bfm

mumcip imo mac.

the ford of the quarry.

mac inline lapla cille cuinn, mic enpi ui neill, an mac

The Earl's daughter, the Earl of Kildare.

cijeapna a aoipe po&em ba pfpp DO gaoioealaiB an can pin, Do mupbao e if in ^car

The language should be thus constructed

mac marjamna pop

05 conjnurh la pliocc Re-

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

many others. The son

are the chieftains

the same tribe, besides

of Turlough Carragh O'Conor,

in the heat of the

from the pilgrimage of

ransom was exacted for him, and good hostages of

his people, besides his son.

describes the situation of this mountain as fol-

name of this mountain

correctly enough anglicised Slieve Beagh

and O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part

The local and pronunciation of the name will be

QNNaca Rioghachca emeawN.

uilliam megpajnaillcaoifeac muincipe heolaip becc

la cloinn Puaibpi coippbealbaig mic peilim pinn DO rhapbab

oibe pccol epeann le ban becc lap bcocc 6