COLONEL- MALCOLM

OF POLTALLOCH

CAMPBELL COLLECTION

ANNALS
OF

THE KINGDOM OF IEELAND,

BY THE FODR MASTERS,
FBOM

THE EARLIEST PERIOD TO THE YEAR

A TRANSLATION, AND COPIOUS

1616.

EDITED FBOM MSS. IN THE LIBRAE! OF THE EOYAL IEISH ACADEMY AND OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN, WITH
NOTES,

BY JOHN O'DONOVAN,

LLD., M.E.I.A.,

BARRISTER AT LAW.

" Olim Eegibus parebant, nunc per Principes factionibus et studiis trahuntur : nee aliud adversus validissimas gentes quam quod in commune non consulunt Rarus duabus tribusve civitatibus ad propulsandnm commune periculum conventus ita dum singuli pugnant nniversi vincuntur." TACITUS, c. 12.
pro nobis utUina,
:

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SECOND EDITION.
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QO1S CflttlOSO
1172.
at)6.

Qoip Chpiopo mile ceo peachcmojac

U(X CaCllCllN comapba TTlaeo6i 5 DO ecc. ae&a ua rmn&in (t>o muincip aipi& loca con) eppcop copcaije ecc peap Ian Oo pach Oe eippibe, cuip oije a^up fgna a cumpipe.
8

t>o

O'Cahan
but
it is

O'Kane, O'Carliam.-Thisnameisanglicised in old law documents, inquisitions, &c.,

at present

of the monasteries are mentioned, as O'Farrelly,

Comharba of St. Mogue, Comharba of

St.

at

Drumlane O'Fergus,
;

north of Ireland,
families of the

made O'Kane, or Kane, in the and the form O'Kane is adopted

in Ireland, of

throughout this translation. There were several

Mogue, at Rossinver ; but when the Bishop of Ferns is meant, he is simply called Comharba of St. Mogue, without the addition
of the

name

whom

the

name

most powerful and celebrated were seated in the baronies of Keenaght, Tirkeeran, and Coleraine,
in the present county of

Giolla-Aedha,

of the place. i. e. servant of St. Aodh, or

Giolla occurs so frequently, names of men, that I shall
all,

Aldus.

The word
it

Londonderry

but

it

as the first part of the

would not appear that the ecclesiastic, whose death is here recorded, was of this sept.
b

explain

here, once for

on the authority of
ancients,
;

Colgan.

Giolla, especially

among the

Successor of Maidoc, Maodhog, or Aedhan,

anglicised

signified a youth,

now

Bishop of used in these Annals to denote Bishop of Ferns.

Mogue and Aidan, was the first Ferns, and successor of Maodhog is
signifies

and hence

it

but now generally a servant happened that families who were

call their

devoted to certain saints, took care to

The word comapba

ecclesiastical or lay,

successor, either

sons after them, prefixing the word Giolla, intimating that they were to be the servants or

these Annals.

but generally the former in There were two other ecclesias-

devotees of those saints.

tical establishments,

called

the abbots of which were Comharbas of Mogue, or Maidoc, viz. Eossinver, in the county of Leitrim, and Drumlane, in the

Shortly after the introduction of Christianity, we meet many names of men formed by prefixing the word Giolla to
the names of the celebrated saints of the
first

age

of the Irish Church, as

Giolla- Ailbhe,

Giolla-

county of Cavan ; but whenever the

to,

abbots of these places are referred

the names

Phatraig, Giolla-Chiarain, which mean servant of St. Ailbhe, servant of St. Patrick, servant of

AOTALS OF THE Km(JDOM OF IEELMD.

THE AGE OF CHKIST,
The Age of
Christ, one

1172.

thousand one hundred seventy-two.

successor of Maidoc", died.

c d Giolla Aedha O'Muidhin (of the family of Errew of Lough Con ), Bishop of 6 Cork, died. He was a man full of the grace of God, the tower of the virginity

and wisdom of
St. Kieran.

his time.
be found that there were
Jesus; Giolla-Muire, the servant of Mary. These

And it will

very few saints of celebrity, from whose names those of men were not formed by the prefixing
of Giolla, as Giolla-Ailbhe, Giolla- Aodha, Giolla-

names were

latinized

by some writers

in

modern

times, Marianus, Christianus, Patricianus, Bri-

gidianus, &c. &c.

But when an

adjective, signi-

Aodhain,

Giolla -Breanainn,

Giolla

Bhrighde,

Giolla-Chaomain, Giolla-Chainnigh, Giolla-Dachaisse,

fying a colour, or quality of the mind or body, is postfixed to Giolla, then it has its ancient signi-

Giolla -Chaoimhgin,

Giolla -Chiarainn,

Giolla-Dacholmain, Giolla-Choluim, Giolla-Cho-

main, Giolla -Chomghaill, Giolla - Domhangairt,

Giolla-Finnein, Giolla-Fionnain, Giolla-Mochua,
Giolla-Molaisse, Giolla-Moninne, Giolla-Phatruig, &c. &c.

namely, a youth, a boy, or a man in his bloom, as Giolla-dubh, i. e. the black, or blackhaired youth ; Giolla-ruadh, i. e. the red-haired
fication,

youth

Giolla -riabhach, the

swarthy youth

Giolla-buidhe, the yellow youth; Giolla-odhar, Giolla-Maol, &c. &c.

This word was not only prefixed to the names

of saints, but also to the

name

of God, Christ,

The family the Editor.

name O'Muidhin

is

unknown

to

the Trinity, the Virgin

Mary; and some were

from

named from

saints in general, as well as

d Of Errew of Lough Con, Ctipio 6oca Con, now Errew on Lough Con, in the parish of

the angels in general, as Giolla-na-naomh, i. e. the servant of the saints ; Giolla-na-naingeal,

i. e. the servant of the angels ; Giolla-De, the servant of God; and Giolla-an-Choimhdhe, i. e. the servant of the Lord ; Giolla-na-Trionoide,

Crossmolina, in the barony of Tirawley, and county of Mayo. There was an ancient church

See the year Tighernan 1413. See also Genealogy, &c., of the Hy-Fiachrach, p. 239, note '.
here, dedicated to St.

the servant of the Trinity ; Giolla-Chriost, the servant of Christ ; Giolla- losa, the servant of

The word parh, Grace of God, path oe which is now used to denote prosperity or luck,

B 2

[1172.

Cicchfpnac ua maoileom corhopba ciapdin cluaria mic noip Do ecc. Cicchfpnan ua Ruaipc acchfpna bpfipne ajup Conmaicne agup pfp curhachca moip ppi pe poca Do rhapbab (.1. rlachcja) la hujo Oe laci Domnall mac Gnnaba ui Ruaipc Dia cenel pepin boi imaille piull agup la
i
i

Ruccpac a cfnn agup a copp 50 Docpaib co an cfnn uap Dopup an ouine ina pcac beapcchach cliac. T?o coccbab cpuaj Do jaoibealaib. T?o cpochab beop an copp ppia hac cliac acuaic
ppiu.

T?o Di'cfnnab e leo.

agup a coppa pnap.

is

translate the Latin

employed throughout the Leabfiar Breac to word gratia, from which the
Tiernagh O^Malone: in the original,dcchfp-

modern word jpapa has been obviously derived.

1

Druim Tiprad See Annals of Inisfallen, at the year 547, and Ussher's Primordia, p. 956, and Lanigan's Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, vol.
ii.

pp. 62-59.
h

nach ua ITIaoileoin
or Cijeapnach, which

The name Cicchlpnach

is

Tiernan

O'Bourke,

<^c.,

Cicchfpnan ua

a lord, and

is

derived fromUijeapna, synonymous with the proper name

Dominic,

pronounced Tiernagh, and shall be so written throughout this translation. The name ITIaoileoin, is written in ancient Irish characters
is

The name Cijfpnan, or Cijjeapnan, Ruaipc. is a diminutive of Ctjeapnach, and may be inIt has been anterpreted "Little Dominic."
glicised
this is the

Tiernan throughout this translation, as form it has assumed in the surname

is still

on a tombstone at Clonmacnoise,

Mac

Tiernan, which

common

in

the

maerjohaiN
i.

eps;

county of

Eoscommon.

Dervorgilla,

in Irish

e.

Mael-Johannis, Bishop.

tDeapBpopgaill, the wife of this Tiernan, who is generally supposed to have been the immediate

'

The word maol, tnael, or moel, like giolla, has two significations, namely, a chief, and a tonsured monk. It was anciently prefixed, like
Giolla, to the

names of
as

names of men,
naill,

saints, to form proper IDaol Colaim, IDaol Seac-

by the English, the monastery of Drogheda, in the year 11 93,. in the eighty-fifth year of her age. She was, therefore, born in the year 1108, and
died
in

cause of the invasion of Ireland

saints

which mean the servant or devotee of the Columb and Secundinus but when an
;

was in her sixty-fourth year at the death of Tiernan, and in her forty-fourth year when
she eloped with Dermot, King of Leinster, in 1152, who was then in the sixty-second year of

adjective

is

post-fixed to MAOL, it has

its

ancient

signification, as
g

Maoldubh,

i.

e.

the black chief.

celebrated
Irish

Kieran,

Ciapdn.

This

saint died in the year 549. Cluain mac nois, or, as it is now anglicised, Clonmacnoise, was a

Dermot was expelled in the seventieth See Dr. O'Conor's Prolegomena year of his age ad Annales, p. 146 ; and also O'Reilly's Essay on
his age.

famous monastery near the Shannon, in the barony of Garry Castle, and King's County. The

the Brehon Laws, where he vainly attempts to clear the character of Dervorgilla from the charge
of having wilfully eloped from her husband. The family of O'TJuaipc, now usually called in English

name
if it

is

sometimes written Cluain

muc

Nois, as

of Nos.

meant the insulated meadow, or pasturage The place was more anciently called

O'Rourke, were anciently Kings of Connaught, but they were put down by the more

1172.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

f
,

Lord of Breifny and Conmaicne, a man of great slain at Tlachtgha by Hugo de power for a long time, was treacherously Annadh O'Rourke, one of his own tribe, who was Lacy and Donnell", the son of beheaded by them, and they conveyed his head and along with them. He was over the gate of the forbody ignominiously to Dublin. The head was placed tress, as a spectacle of intense pity to the Irish, and the body was gibbeted, with
,

Tiernagh O'Malone h Tiernan 0'Rourke

8 successor of Kieran of Clonmacnoise, died.

the feet upwards, at the northern side of Dublin.

powerful family of the O'Conors, and then be-

local traditions, establishes its identity

with the

came

chiefs of Breifny.

It is stated in the

Book

of Fenagh, that this Tiernan acquired dominion over the entire region extending from sea to sea,
that
is,

The identity of Tlachtgha ancient Tlachtgha. with the Hill of Ward was first proved by the
Editor in a letter

now

from the

sea, at

the borders of Ulster and

nance Survey
tion

Office,

preserved at the OrdPhoenix Park. The situa-

Connaught, to Drogheda. The territories of Breifny and Conmaicne, which comprised Tiernan's principality, would embrace, according to this passage, the counties of Leitrim, Longford,

of Tlachtgha has been already given by Mr. Hardiman in a note to the Statute of Kil-

kenny, p. 84, on the authority of a communication from the Editor.

k

and Cavan, but no part of the county of Meath

or Louth.
'

common among
Dr. Lanigan, in his Ecclesiasti-

Donnell, in the original t)orhnaU, is still the Irish, as the proper name of

Tlachtgha

cal History of Ireland (vol. iv. p. 223), says,

that Tiernan O'Ruairc was slain on a hill not

far

a man, but always anglicised Daniel. The Editor, however, has used the form Donnell throughout this translation, because it is closer to the original
Irish form,

from Dublin, by

Griffin, a

nephew of Mau-

and

is

found in the older law docu-

rice Fitz Gerald. Tlachtgha, however, is not near

Dublin, but was the

name

of a hill

much

cele-

ments, inquisitions, &c., and in the anglicised forms of names of places throughout Ireland, as
well as in the family names, O'Donnell and Donnell.
1

brated in ancient Irish history for the druidic fires lighted there annually on the 1st of No-

Mac

vember, in times of paganism, and described as

situated in that portion of Meath which originally belonged to Munster. It is the place now called

Over

the gate,

was the Danish

fortress of Dublin,

uap oopap an ouine. This which occu-

the Hill of Ward, which

vicinity of
is

lies in

the immediate

pied the greater part of the hill on which the present castle of Dublin stands.

Athboy

in the

county of Meath, as

m The
Lower

northern side of Dublin

The northern
II.

evident from the

fact, that in these annals

side of Dublin, at this time,

was near the present

and other authorities Athboy is often called 6 ui be Claccja, or Athboy of Tlachtgha, to tinguish it from other places of the name
in Ireland. This Hill of Ward
is

Or
dis-

Castle-yard.

At

the arrival of Henry

Athboy

the whole extent of Dublin was, in length, from Corn Market to the Lower Castle-yard ; and, in
breadth, from the Liffey, then covering Essexstreet, to Little Sheep-street,

crowned with a

magnificent ancient rath, consisting of three circumvallations, which, connected with the historical references to the
locality,

now
is

Ship-street,

where a part of the town wall

yet standing.

and the present

Rioghachca

[1173.

Oorhnall o peapgail coipeac Conmaicne Do rhapbab la muinncip pij

Safari.

maipe mac rtiupcaba coipeac muinncipe bipn Do rhapbab la haeb mac Qenjupa a^up la cloinn afoa DO uib eacoac ulab.
TTlaol

OiapmaiD ua cae&laiji Do

ecc.

ITlai&m pop cenel neo^ain pia pplaicbfpcac ua maoloopaib ajjup pia ccenel cconaill. Do bepcpaD ap a&bal poppa cpia naem miopbal De ajup
naerh pacpaicc ajup naerh colaim cille ipa cealla po oipccpfo inDpin. Can cuaipc coiccib Connacc an cfcpamab peace Do cabaipc la giollu

macliacc corhopba pacpaicc ajup Ppforhaib Gpenn, co hapDmacha.

caoipeac cloirine aeilabpa peccaipe chaca TTlonaij Ma plana bacap DO mapbab la Donnplebe ua neochaba pi ulab piull. fcoppa .1. maice ulab Do mapbab OuinDplebe inD.
TTlac

^M^Pf 001 ?

"

Chief of Conmaicne

That

is,

of South Con-

of Eochaidh Cobha, to distinguish

it

from Ui

maicne, or Anghaile, which in latter ages comprised the entire of the county of Longford.

Eathach Mumhan, Ui Eathach Muaidhe, and other tribes and districts called Ui Eathach, in
different parts of Ireland.
q

Birn

Mulmurry Mac Murrough, Lord of Muintir The name JTlaolniaipe or TTIuoltnuipe,

the servant of the Virgin.Mary.

signifies

The
;

maio

Dermot G'Kaelly. The Irish name t)iapis anglicised Dermot in the older law do-

name is correctly latinized Marianus, by Colgan but the Editor thinks Mulmurry a more appropriate anglicised form, as it is found in ancient
law documents, inquisitions, &c. Mac Murrougli has also been adopted throughout, as an anglicised

cuments, inquisitions, &c., relating to Ireland, and in the family name Mac Dermot. It is

now

almost invariably rendered Jeremiah, but the Editor prefers the form Dermot, as it comes nearer the original Irish. This family, who now
anglicise their

form of Ulac lTlupcha6a.

Muintir Birn,
terri-

name

Kelly, were located in the

IDumncip bipn, was the ancient name of a

south of ancient Ossory, and were chiefs of the

tory in Tyrone, bordering upon the barony of Trough, in the county of Monaghan.
P

The Clann Aodha of Ui Eathach Uladh

Ui Berchon, now Ibercon, lying the Eiver Barrow, in the county of Kilr along kenny. O'Heerin thus speaks of O'Caelluidhe,
territory of

Claim Aodha,
the tribe

i. e. the clan or race of Hugh, was name of the Magennises and it also became the name of their territory but they
;

or O'Kaelly, in his topographical

poem

aferwards extended their power over all Ui Ethach Cobha, now the baronies of Upper and

Ui 6eapchon an Bpuic b'uioe; Ri na cpiclie O' Caollaije, Clap na peaona ap cpom oo ril,
Ctn ponti op 6eapb'a bpaom-jil. " Ui Bearchon of the yellow surface King of the district is O'Kaelly,
Plain of the tribe,
;

Lower Iveagh, in the county of Down, and, as O'Dugan informs us, over all Ulidia. Ro jabpac Ulao uile, "They took all Ulidia."
Topographical Poem.

This

territory

was

called
i.

Ui Eathach
descendants

Uladh, or Ui Eathach Cobha,

e.

The land over

who heavily return, the bright-watered Barrow."

1173.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

slain

Donnell O'Farrell, chief of Conmaicne", was

of England.

by the people of the King

slain

Mulmurry Mac Murrough Lord of Muintir Birn, was of Ui Eathach Uladh". gennis and the Claim- Aodha
,

by Hugh Ma-

Dermot O'Kaelly"
r

died.
3

defeated by Flaherty O'Muldorry and the Kinel Conneir. They [the Kinel Connell] made prodigious havoc of them, through the holy miracles of God, of St. Patrick, and St. Columbkille, whose churches

The Kinel Owen were

they [the Kinel

fourth time

Owen] had plundered.

visitation" of the

The complete
of Ireland, to

by Giolla MacLiag Armagh.

province of Connaught was performed the [Gelasius], successor of St. Patrick and Primate

Giolla Epscoip", chief of Clann-Aeilabhra, legislator of Cath Monaigh*, was treacherously slain by Donslevy O'Haughy, king of Ulidia*. The chiefs of
Ulidia,
[i. e.

Mac

who were

as guarantees

between them, put Donslevy

to death for

it

for his crime].

i.

Kinel Owen, Cenel n-eojum,

e.

the race

to collect dues, or obtain donations for the erection or repairing of churches or monasteries.
*

of Eoghan, the son of Niall of the Nine Hostages. This Eoghan died in the year 465, and was

Mac

Giolla Epscoip

This name would be

buried at Uisce Chaoin, now Eskaheen, an old church in the barony of Inishowen, in the northeast of the

anglicised

Mac
is

Gillespick,

and

is

the same which

in Scotland

county of Donegal.

This tribe pos-

sessed the present counties of Tyrone

and London-

naigh

derry, and originally the baronies of Inishowen and Raphoe, but these were, in later ages, ceded
to the Kinel Connell.
5

of Cath Mosomewhere in the present county of Down, but its extent or exact situation has not
is

w Cath

now Mac Gillespie. The territory Monaigh

been discovered.
*

Ulidia,

Ulao

Uladh

was

the

original

O'Muldorry, O'lDaoloopaio.

This name no

name

of the entire province of Ulster,

until

longer exists in Tirconnell, but there are a few of the name in Dublin and in Westmeath, who
it Muldarry. Kinel Connell, Cenel cconaill, i. e. the race of Conall or Connell, who died in the year 464,

the fifth century, when it was dismembered by the Hy-Niall, and the name confined solely to

anglicise
c

the present counties of Down and Antrim, which,

after the establishment of surnames,

became the

principality of O'h-Eochadha

and who was the brother of Eoghan, or Owen, ancestor of the Kinel Owen. This tribe possessed, in later ages, the entire of the

O'Haughy), and

his correlatives.

(now anglicised The founders

county of

Tirconnell,
u

now

Donegal.

A visitation,

Cuaipc

A journey performed
by the bishop
or abbot,

of the principality of Oirghialla, or Oriel, in the fourth century, deprived the ancient Ultonians of that part of their kingdom which ex-

into particular districts

tended from Lough Neagh to the Boyne ; and the sons of Niall of the Nine Hostages, in the

Rio^hachca emeaNN.
Cpeac
pill

[1173.

ClnDuib uf ttuaipc, a 5up la Sa^anachaib ap muinncip co pujpac bu, ajup bpoiD net hQnnjaile, agup ap muinncip mejiollsan lomba. Sloijeab leo Dopibipi co hdpoachab Gppcoip TTlel gup po aipjpfc an cfp ap mebon, agup Do pocaip leo oomnall ua peapjail, caoipeac muinnla

mac

cipe hanjaile Don cup pin.

Seanab cleipeac nGpenn la coijeab connacc laechaib cleipchib occ cuaim Da judlann im Ruaibpi ua concobaip ajup im Chabla ua nDubcaij oo coipeapDaD leo. Qipoeppcop Uuama agup cpi ceampaill

aois chraioso
Qoip cpiopo mile,
cfcc,

1173.
cpf.

peachcmojac, a

niuipfbac ua cobraij eppcop Doipe, ajup 17aca bor, mac oije, leacc lojrhop, gfm glomiDe, 17eDla polupca, cipDe caipccfba na hfgna, cpaop cnuapaij na canoine, lap cciobnacal bib agup eDaij Do boccaib agup DO
aibilgneacaib,

lap

noiponeab Saccapc agup Deochon agup aepa jaca

jpaiDh, lap nacnuabujab eacclup niomba, lap ccoippeaccab cempall ajup peljeab, lap

nofnam lolap mamipDpeac ajup pecclep, agup gaca lubpa ecclupcacDa lap mbuaib ccpabaib, oilicpi ajup airpicche. T?o paoib a ppiopaD Do cum nimi nOuibpecclfp colaim cille nOoipe an 10. la Do pebpa.
i i

century, seized upon the northern and western parts of Ulster; so that the ancient inhafifth

their country, -which comprised the entire of the of Longford. According to the

present county

Clanna-Rury and Dal-Fiatachs, were shut up within the bounds of the present counties of Down and Antrim but their counbitants, viz. the
;

O'Farrells derived genealogical Irish MSS., the this tribe name from Anghaile, the great grandfather of Fearghal, from

whom they derived their

is

try,

though circumscribed,

still

retained its an-

cient appellation.

The

writers of Irish history

surname in the tenth century, z Muintir Magilligan, which

usually called

have therefore used the form Ulidia, to denote the circumscribed territory of the Clanna Eury,

Muintir Giollgain throughout these Annals, was the tribe name of the O'Quins of Annaly, who

and Ultonia, to denote

all

Ulster
c.

See O'Flap.

herty's Ogygia, Part III.

78,

372;

also

were seated in the barony of Ardagh, in the present county of Longford, as will be more distinctly

Ussher's Primordia, pp. 816, 1048 ; O'Conor's Dissertations on the History of Ireland, 2nd edit
p.

shewn
a

176
y

and Lanigan's Ecclesiastical History of

ii.

Ireland, vol.

p. 28.

under the year 1234. Mel, Bishop Mel, who was one of Bishop the disciples of St. Patrick, is still the patron sa i n t of the diocese of Ardagh, and the ruins of
in a note
his original

Annaly, or Anghaile, was the tribe name of the O'Farrells, and it also became the name of

church are

still

to

be seen in the

vil-

lage of Ardagh, in the county of Longford.

1173.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

son of

The

Annadh O'Rourke and

afterwards

the English treacherously plundered the

z
,

inhabitants of
prisoners.

y Annaly and Muintir Magilligan

They

made

carrying off many cows and another incursion into Ardagh of Bishop
O'Farrell, chief of

Mel",

and ravaged the country generally, and slew Donnell Annaly, on that occasion.

A synod of the

clergy and laity of Ireland was convened at

Tuam,

in the

and Kyley [Catholicus] O'Duffy, province of Connaught, by Roderic O'Conor Archbishop of Tuam, and three churches were consecrated by them.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1173.

thousand one hundred seventy-three.

a son of chastity, a precious a transparent gem, a brilliant star, a treasury of wisdom, and a fruitful stone, branch of the canon, after having bestowed food and raiment upon the poor

Murray O'Coffey", Bishop of Derry and Raphoe,

and the

destitute, after

ecclesiastical

having ordained priests and deacons, and men of every rank, re-built many churches, consecrated many churches and

burial-places,
fulfilled

founded many monasteries and Regles's [i. e. abbey churches], and every ecclesiastical duty and after having gained the palm for piety, pilgrimage, and repentance, resigned his spirit to heaven in the Duibhregles;

of Columbkille, in Derry, on the 10th day of February.

Murray (JCoffey, TTluipfoach ua CoKraij. The name muipeaoach, which is explained
h

A great

miracle

11

erected

1164, by Flaherty O'Brollaghan. Concerning the situation of this old church, see

in

neapna,
is

would appear
it is

by Michael O'Clery, though it be derived from muip, the sea, now obsolete as the proper name of a man, but
a lord, to

Trias T/iaum.,
d

p.

398.

preserved in the surname Murray, and has been anglicised Murray throughout this translation.

The family name O'Cobraij is anglicised Coffey in the northern half of Ireland, but sometimes barbarously, Cow/tiff, in the south. The Editor has adopted O'Coifey

This passage is thus rather loosely, but elegantly, translated by Colgan, in his Annals of Derry: "S. Muredachus O Dubhthaich" [recte O'Cobhthaigh], " Episcopus Dorensis et Robothensis, vir virginitatis, sen
miracle, fyc
castitatis intactas, lapis pretiosus,

A great

gemma

vitrea,

throughout

this

work.

sydus praofulgidum, area et custos Ecclesise sedulus, et conservator canonum Ecclesise ; postquam

The Dubh-Regles was the Duibhregles name of the ancient abbey church founded
by
St.

multos pauperes, et egenos enutrierit ; Prassbyteros, Diaconos, aliosque diuersorum ordinum,

called

Columbkille at Derry ; it was probably Dubh, or black, in contradistinction from

Deo consecrauerit postquam diuersa monasteria

;

et Ecclesias extruxerit,

et consecrauerit

post

the

new Templemore,

or

cathedral

church,

palmam

pcenitentise, peregrinationis, abstinentitu

10

[1173.

an oibce Dopca Do poillpiuleo an ba poppel Do na jab o cha lapnieipge co muichDfooil agup an Dap lonnamail caoipe compocpaibe Do'n ooman baoi pibe pop comlapaD ajup an mbaile agup a cocr poipbfp. Ro eipijpfo cac moipe ceneb Do eipgi op

Do

ponaD miopbail mop

ip in oiDche

acbar

.1.

uile,

boi ariilaiD pin le muip uaip anoap leo po ba la boi ann a$up po

anoip.

Conainj ua haenjupa cfnn candnac popa cpe Do ecc. Gccpu ua miabachdn, Gppcop cluana Do ecc ina SeanDacaiD lap nDeccbearhaib. CionaeD ua Ronain Gppcop glinne Da locha Do ecc.
TTlaoiliopu

mac an

baipD Gppcop cluana peapca bpfnainn Do ecc.

TTlaolmochca ua maoilpeacnaill abb cluana mic noip DO ecc. Cpeac mop la haeD mac aenjupa ajup la cloinn ae6a. 17o aipccpfo

& reliqua religiosissima; vitas exercitia ad Dominum migrauitinEcclesiaDorensi,-DMiAn^ nun;

" A. D. 1173. There was English translation: a great miracle shewed in the night he died,
viz.

cupata, die 10 Febr.

Miraculum solemne patradecessit :

tum

est ea nocte

qua

nam a media nocte

the night to brighten from the middest to Cockcrow, and all the world burning, and a

vsque mane tota non solum ciuitas, sed et vicinia ingenti splendore, ad instar iubaris diurni,
circumfusa resplenduit : et columna insuper ignea visa est ex ciuitate ascendere, et versus
orientalem

great flame of fire rising out of the town, and

went East and by South and every body got upp thinking it was day, and was so untill the
;

ay re was cleare."

Austrum

tendere.

Quo

prodigio

Here

it is

to be

remarked that neither

this

excitati ciues tanti spectaculi testes

vsque ad

translator nor Colgan has rendered the phrase

ortum
titere.

solis, et

venerabundi postea prascones exTrias Thaum., p. 504.

Quat. Mag."

The phrase cpaob cnuapaij na canome, " conservator canonum is translated ecclesia;" by Colgan, is more correctly rendered
which

pe muip anoip, which literally means east of the In the Annals of Kilronan, the reading is sea. 7 po boi ariilaio pin co himeal in aieoip,
to the borders of the sky." of pe tnuip anoip is, that the inhabitants of the east coast of Ulster saw the
it

" and

was thus

The meaning

"the

fruitful tree

of the Canon'.' in the old

translation of the Annals of Ulster.

The account of

this miracle is given in the

:

sky illumined over the visible portions of Scotland on the east side of the sea. For the meaning of the preposition le, pe, or pp , in such phrases as pe muip anoip, see the Editor's Irish e Grammar, p. 314, line 1, and p. 439, note , and
1

Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster as follows A. D. 1173. t)o ponao oono mipbuil mop ip in aioce aobar .1. in 06015 Do polupcugas oca
lapmeipji co jaiptn
in

coilij 7 in

ooman

uile

pop lapab 7 coep mop ceineo oeipji op in baile 7 a cocc poipbep 7 eipji DO cac uile in sap leo pob 6 in laa, 7 po boi amlaio pein pe

Cormac's Glossary, voce TTlo^ Gime, where FP muip anaip is used to express "on the east side
1

of the sea."
e

CoiMing O'Hennessy, Conainj ua haenjupa.

is

muip anoip.

It is

thus rendered in the old

The name Conaing, which

explained pij,

1173.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

11

was performed on the night of his death namely, the dark night was illumined from midnight to day-break and the people thought that the neighbouring in one blaze of light and the likeparts of the world which were visible, were
;

ness of a large globe of fire arose over the town, and

direction
light
;

moved

in a south-easterly
it

and
it

all

persons arose
also thus
e
,

from

their beds,

imagining that
sea.

was day-

and

was

on the east side of the

Conaing O'Hennessy
Ettru O'Meehan
after having spent a
f
,

head of the canons of Eoscrea,

died.

Bishop of Cluain [Clonard], died at an advanced age,

life.

good
8
,

Kenny O'Konan
Maelisa

Mac

Bishop of Glendalough, died. Ward", Bishop of Clonfert-Brendan', died.

Maelmochta O'Melaghlin*, Abbot of Clonmacnoise, died. A great plunder was made by Hugh Magennis and the Clann-Aedha. They plundered the large third of Armagh but this man was killed in three months
1 ;

after this

plundering of

Armagh.
Ballymacward, in the cantred of Sodhan, in Hy-Many See O'Flaherty Ogygia, p. 327.
'

king, in Comae's Glossary, is now obsolete as the proper name of a man, but is preserved in the family name O'Conaing, under the anglicised

form of Gunning. The family name

jjupa,

Ua

h-Cten-

is now invariably anglicised Hennesy. This family was anciently seated in the territory of Clann Colgan, in the barony of Lower

Clonfert, a bishop's see in the south-east of the county of Galway. k Maelmochta O'Melaghlin, ITlaelinocfica ua
'

maoilpeacnaill.
nifies

The name TTIaolTnochca

sig-

the servant or devoted of St. Mochta, or

Philipstown, in the King's County, and adjoining the conspicuous hill of Croghan.
1

Mocteus, first abbot and patron saint of Louth. This family is generally called O'Maoilseachlainn,
or O'Maoileachlainn, which was
anglicised O'Melaghlin,
first

O'Meehan,

Ua ITIia&achan

This name

is

correctly

most parts of Ireland. g Kenny O'Ronan, Cionaeo Ua T?onam. The name Cionaeo is anglicised Kineth by the
still

common

in

but

now

Mac Loughlin. They

are

named

incorrectly after their great

progenitor, Maelseachlainn or Malachy the Se-

Scotch

but Kenny by the

Irish, in the family

name Kenny.
as the proper

It is obsolete

name

of a

among the latter man. O'Ronan is still

in

cond, Monarch of Ireland, who was dethroned by Brian Borumha, and who died in 1022. The name Mael-Scachnaill signifies servant of
St.

common

as a family

name

many

parts of Ire-

Seachnall,

or
in

land, but the O' is never prefixed in the anglicised form, which is Eonayne, in the south of

Dunshaughlin
of this family.
1

Secundinus, the patron of Meath, and the tutelary saint

Ireland.
h

Maelisa

Mac Ward,
were seated
at

TTlaoilipu

Hlac an
poets

Large third, rpian mop. Colgan, in the Annals of Armagh (Trias. Thaum. p. 300), thus
speaks of the ancient divisions of that city " 1112. Arx Ardmachana cum templis, dun:
:

baino.

This family,

who were hereditary

to O' Kelly,

Muine Chasain and

C

12

Rioshachcct
l?o

emeaNR
F eap ipm
i

[1174.

maca. cpmn mop apoa

on opccain
pin

mapbab Dan an

ccionn cpf mfp

mpp

apDa macha. Do mapbao la mac a acap Oomnall bpfjach ua maoileclamn Rf TTliDe la muincip Caejacdm noupmai^h pem la hapc ua maoileclamn agup
i

colaim

cille.

5iollu

macbacc mac RuaiDpi corhapba pacpaicc ppfomaiD QpDa maca

Ian DO jloine cpoiDe ppi Dia ajup. ppi Daoinib ajup 6penn uile mac oije oia ceoaoin DO ecc 50 pechcnach lap pfnDacaiD coccame, 27, mapra bliabain ochrmojac a aoipi. ajup baoi pme pe ccaipcc ip in peccmaD

mp

bliabna Decc

nabDaine coluim

cille

nOoipe pia ccomapbup pacpaicc.

1174.

CIO1S

CR1OSO

Qoip cpiopD mile, ceD, peaccmojacc, aceacaip. ua connaccam eppcop pil TTluipeaDaig Do ecc. Dal apame pfp aipmiDITlaolpaccpaicc ua banain, Gppcop ConDepe Do gloine cpoiDe DO ecc co peaccnac inD neac Ian Do naime, Do cfnnpa
TTiaoilfopa
-] -|

hf colaim cille

mp SeanoacaiD cojhaiDe. ^lollu mochaiDbeo abb maimpDpeac pfccaip TTloD cpeabop caipippi Don coimbeab DO ecc an
mojac bliaDam a
plann
uile, Saoi,
(.1.

-|

p6il

31.

napDmaca, Do TTlhapca Secci

aeip.

plopenc) ua

5P malT1 aipopfp
eaccna Diaba
tioris

lecchinn
-|

eapgna eolac

ip in

apoa maca, i Gpenn DorhariDa, lap mbeic bbabain

disciplinffi

platece in

Trian Massain,

et tertiani

Trian-mar

vitse,

et

bonarum litterarum
fre-

incendio deuastantur."

gratia in
dictis

magno immero olim Hiberniam

"

Ex

hoc loco

&

aliis

colligimus ciuitatem quatuor olim partes fuisse

1092,

supra ad annum Ardmachanam in

diuisam.

quentare solebant."

See also Stuart's History of

Armagh.

Prima
:

Sil-Murray,

Rath-Ardmacha, i. Arx Ardmachana, dicebatur Secunda Trian-mor, id est tertia portio maior

progeny, race,

muipeaoai^, i. e. the or descendants of Muireadhaeh

Siol

Tertia Trian Massan, id est tertia portio Massan. Quarta, Trian saxon, id est, tertia portio Saxo-

Muilleathan, king of Connaught, who died in the year 701. The principal families among

them were O'Conor Don, O'Conor Roe, O'Finaghty of Clanconway, O'Flanagan ofClancahill, and Mageraghty. The Liber Regalis Visitationis
of 1615, places the following fourteen parishes in the deanery of Silmury, which was coexten-

num, appellata ex eo, quod vel mercatores

:

quod nomen
vel
illi

videtur,

adepta

(quod verosimilius
inhabitauerint.

est)

studiosi Anglosaxones

Nam

Monachi

et studiosi

Anglisaxones abstrac-

1174.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

13

Donnell Breaghach [the Bregian] O'Melaghlin, King of Meath, was slain by the son of his own father [step-brother], Art O'Melaghlin, and by Muintir
Laeghachain, at
Gilla

Durrow

of Columbkille.

Mac Liag

[Gelasius], the son of Rory, the successor of St. Patrick,

and Primate of Armagh, and of all Ireland, a son of chastity, filled with purity of heart towards God and man, died in righteousness, at a venerable old age,
on the 27th of March, being the Wednesday after Easter, and in the eightyseventh year of his age. He had been sixteen years in the abbacy of St. Columbkille, at Derry, before he

became successor of

St.

Patrick.
i

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1174.

thousand one hundred seventy-four.

Maelisa O'Connaghtan, Bishop of Sil-Murray [Elphin], died. Maelpatrick O'Banan", Bishop of Connor and Dalaradia a venerable man, full of sanctity, meekness, and purity of heart, died in righteousness, in Hy,

Columbkille, at a venerable old age. Gilla Mochaibeo, Abbot of the monastery of SS. Peter and Paul at Armagh, a diligent and faithful servant of the Lord, died on the 31st day of March, in
the seventieth year of his age.

Flann

[i.

e.

Florentius] O'Gorman, chief Lecturer of

Armagh, and of

all

Ireland, a learned sage,

sive

and versed in sacred and profane philosophy,

the north between
in
n
it

after

with the territory Elphin, Kilmacumshy, Shankill, Ballinakill, Kilcorkey, Baslick, Kilkivgan (Kilkeevin), Ballintober, Kilcooley, Kil:

and the River Boyle were

Moylurg O'Banan,

See Moylurg.

O 6anam

There were several

in Ireland.
It is

lukin (now Killuckin),

Ogulla,

Roscommon,

distinct families of this

name

Fuerty, Drumtemple. This, however, is not a complete list of all the parishes in Silmurry, for the parishes belonging
to monasteries,

now

anglicised

Bannah and Banon, but

incor-

rectly Banim in Kilkenny.

by the late

celebrated novel writer

and those of which the

list,

tithes

Bishop of Connor and Dalaradia,

of Connor and

i.e.

Bishop
to

belonged to laymen, are omitted. The

ever, as far
as
it

how-

Down.

Dalaradia, according to

goes, is very useful to the

the Book of Lecan, extended from

Slieve Mis

Newry

topographer, as it proves

where Moylurg and

Silmurry meet. The parishes of Shankill, Killmacumshy, and Kilcorkey, were in Sil-Murry,
while Kilcolagh, and
all

(now Slemmish, in the present county of Antrim), and from the sea to Linn
Duachaill,

now Magheralin,
Down.

in the

west of the

the parishes lying to

present county of

14

[11T4.

Saxaib ace pocchlaim, i piche bliaDan ele 05 acbae co pomrheac ip in cfcppiochnarh 1 05 pollariinacchab Scol Gpenn, caoin pia ccaipg lapp an SeaccmojjaD bliaDan a aoipi.

ap pichic

pppancaib

-\

ua Dubcaijj abb maimpcpec dca Da laapcc pop buill Do ecc. TCuaibpi ua ceapbaill cijjeapna 6le Do rimpbab ap lap innpi clocpann. Conjalac ua Coinpiacla cijeapna cfcba Do ecc.
Tffuipjfp

TTlaolpuanaib ua ciapba cijeapna caipppi Do mapbab i mebail la gallaib dca cliac, .1. la mac cupmn, ~\ la mac Ctoba uf peapjail, -\ la ceallac

ua pionballdm cijeapna Delbria moipe. Paipce lapcaip miDe Do cup le cacaip cluana mic noip Do peip cleipeac
Gpenn. Sluaicceab lap
Dia
in

lapla DinbpaD TTluriian.

hiniDfjail poppo.
in aipfp

Oc

cualacrap na

SluaicceaD ele la Ruai&pi goill T?uai6pi Do rocc ip in

mumain
p

cara

ppiu, po cocuippioc goill

dca cliar

Dm

paijiD

"|

ni

Died happily, acbac co poinmeac

Colgan

was venerated here on the

renders this phrase "pie in Domino obdormivit," in his Annals of Armagh. In the Annals of
Ulster the phrase " died peaceably."
is

"Decembr

1.

1st day of December The holy bishop Mac Cainne of

:

acbac co pcamail, i. e. The whole passage is thus

:

Ath-da-larg." learn from the Annals of Boyle and Ware, that in the middle of the 12th century, the

We

rendered in the old translation

" A. D. 1174.

Flan O' Gorman, Archlector of

Ireland
all,

a skillfull notorious

Ardmagh and man in divine

abbey of Mellifont, in Louth, sent out a swarm of monks who had settled in several localities
before

knowledge, and also Mundane, after being 21 yeares in France and England learning, and 20 yeares keeping scoole in Ireland, he died peaceably the 13 Kal. of April, on Wednesday before Easter, in the 70th yeare of his age."
q

they procured a permanent establishment on the banks of the Eiver Boyle. In August, 1 148, they settled at Grellechdinach, where Peter O'Mordha became their first abbot. He was
afterwards promoted to the see of Clonfert, and was succeeded in the abbacy by Hugh O'Maccain,

Maurice O'Duffy, ITIuipjeapuaDuBcaij.

different
rriuipip, is anglicised

who removed

the convent to Drumconaind.

The name minpjeap, which seems

from
r

Maurice throughout

this translation.

succeeded by Maurice O'Duffy, who remained there nearly three years, when he

He was

removed
(i.

Ath da laarg

e.

ac oa ab ul, vadum dua-

to Bunfinny,

now Buninna,

near Ton-

rego, in the

county of Sligo, and after having

rumfwearum, vide Trias Thaum., p. 173, n. 23), now the abbey of Boyle. There was an ancient
Irish tion

resided there for

monastery or church here before the erecof the great Cistercian one by Maurice

two years and six months, at length fixed his family at Boyle (opposite the ford of dc oa krapcc), in the year 1161, where
this
font,

O'Duffy; as we learn from the Irish Calendar of

the O'Clerys, that the holy bishop

Mac Cainne

abbey was founded as a daughter of Melliand dedicated to the Virgin Mary. See
at this year.

Annals of Boyle,

1174.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

15

and twenty having spent twenty-one years of study in France and England, p in directing and governing the schools of Ireland, died happily on other
years
the

before Easter, in the seventieth year of his age. r Maurice O'Duffy" Abbot of the monastery of Ath da laarg

Wednesday

on

the

River

Boyle, died.

Rory
1

O'Carroll,
.

Lord of Ely was

,

slain in the

middle of the island of Inish-

cloghran

Congalagh O'Coinfiacla", Lord of TefBa, died.

Mulrony O'Keary, Lord of Carbury

v
,

was treacherously

slain

by the Galls

[Ostmen] of Dublin, i. e. by Mac Turnin, assisted by the son of w O'Farrell, and Kellagh O'Finnallan, Lord of Delvin-More
.

Hugh
by

The

diocese of

Westmeath was annexed

to the

city of Clonmacnoise,

consent of the clergy of Ireland. The Earl led an army to plunder Munster another army to defend
Roderic's
it

King Roderic marched with

When the English had heard of against them. arrival in Munster, for the purpose of giving them battle, they
noise
states,

This abbey was sometimes called TTlainipcip

by Connell Macgeoghegan, the

translator

Qra

t>a

laapj,

i.

e.

ford of two forks, but gene-

rally TTlaimpcip

of the (Kiver)

laapcc, see s Ely, Bile

called

na 6uille, i. e. the monastery For the meaning of Boyle. MS. Trin. Coll., Class H. 13. p. 360.
O'Carroll's territory, generally

under the year 1076, that " Carbifey O'Kiergie was then called Bremyngham's
country."

The family name O'Ciardha

is

now

anglicised, correctly enough, Keary,

but some-

Ely O'Carroll, comprised the baronies of Clonlisk and Ballybritt, in the south of the
pre-

times incorrectly Carey, and is common in the counties of Meath and Westmeath. ITlaolpuanai6,

which

signifies the

ruddy

chief, is anglicised
;

sent King's County.

1

Inishcloghran,

imp clocpomn.

It is

an

is-

land in Lough Eee, in the Eiver Shannon. note under the year 1193.
u

See

for alMulrony throughout it is now obsolete as a Christian name, though it is preserved in the surname Mulrony. w in now the of

this

translation

Delvin-More,

barony

Delvin,

O'Coinfiacla.
Teffia,

This name

is

now

obsolete in

which

is

an extensive district in "West-

the east of the county of Westmeath. See iii. c. 82. The family of O'FinOgygia, part
nallan were soon after conquered

meath.
*

See note under the year 1207.

by Hugh de
Gilbert

Midrony O'Keary, Lord of Carbury O'Keary, maolpuanai6 ua ciapoa ci^eapna Caipbpe ua Ciapoa This territory, about the situation of which Irish writers have committed most
unaccountable blunders, is the barony of Carbury, in the north-west of the county of Kildare.
In the translation of the Annals of Clonmac-

Lacy,

who granted
;

this

territory to

Nugent, the ancestor of the present Marquis of Westmeath and the O'Finnallans have been
for

many

poverty. rony of Delvin in 1837, he did not find

this family in their original locality.

centuries in a state of obscurity and When the Editor examined the ba-

many

of

16
|io

eirceavw.

[1174.

Canaic Oorhnall ua bpiain, -\ haipipeab leo 50 pan^accap 50 ouplap. cenmoca tal ccaip, -] cac mpcaip connacc, -\ mopcac pil ITluipea&aij
an oipim fifjpluaij po paccbab lap
ecep sallaib,
-\

pi

T?ucu6pi.

TCo pijeab

cac cpoba

Oeoib cpe nfpc ^aomelaib an t>u fin, 50 po ppaoineab po becc bo jallaib ip lommbualca pop na jallaib, po mapbab peer cceo beo ap in cac pin Do in cac pin, co nac ceapna ace ciopuaippi bfcc
-\

Thurles, in Irish Duplap, a name signifying "strong fort," now a small but well-known town in the county of Tipperary. In the Bodleian copy of the

exercitus in
veniens,

eorum interim auxilium ex

edicto

cum apud Ossyriam

forte pernoctaret:

Annals of Innisfallen,

it is

called

Princeps Duuenaldus vir sua in gente non improuidus, ipsorum aduentus

ecce Limiricensium
diluexploratione certissima prsescius, summo manu armata irruens in incautos, culo cum
4. milites

Durlus Ui Fogarta, i. e. O'Fogarty's Durlus, from its situation in the territory of Elyogarty.

neapc lommbualca. From this phrase it would appear that both parties fought with stubbornness and bravery. This
''Dint offighting,

qui

aliis

praeerant

&

400. Ostman-

norum
auditis,

viros

simul

intere'mit.

His

autem

Comite Guaterfordiam

cum

confusione

entry has been abstracted by the Four Masters from the continuation of the Annals of Tighernach.

reuerso, casus istius occasione, totus Hibernia;

According to Giraldus Cambrensis, the

populus in Anglos vnanimiter insurgunt ita vt Comes tanquam obsessus, Guaterfordiensi

:

detachment sent from Dublin were slaughtered

in Ossory

nusquam ab urbe

discederet.

Eothericus vero

by

the Irish,

who

attacked them early

in the morning, while sleeping in their camp.

Connactiensis Synnenensis fluuii fluenta transcurrens in manu valida Mediam inuasit. Cunc-

sisted of

Giraldus also informs us that this party conOstmen, or Dano-Irish soldiers, and

taque eiusdem castra vacua vsque ad ipsos Dublinise

fines

igne combusta,

soloque confracta

that the

was four hundred, besides four knights by whom they were commanded. Giraldus devotes the third chapter of
oif

number cut

redegit."

Hanmer states, upon what authority the Editor has never been able to discover, that
one of the four knights who commanded these Ostmen soldiers was an Irishman, by name

the second book of his Hibernia Expugnata to the description of this event ; and as he is so
directly opposed to the Irish annalists,

and has
it is

O'Grame.

As

the English and Irish accounts

been followed by Cox, Leland, and others, but fair to lay his words before the reader " Dublinensium
Interfeclio

of this event in Irish history differ so much, the Editor thinks it necessary to give here, for the

apud Ossyriam.
maris
:

His

ita completis, familiaque tarn

quam
Rey-

use of the future Irish historian, the various notices of it in the older Irish annals. In the

terras

successibus egregie refecta

patris,

dum

Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster,

noticed in the following brief
:

it

is

mundus ob
bilis

quern audierat, obitum, novidel. viri Guilielmi Giraldida;, remenso

manner A. D. 1174. Cach t)upluip la t)omnall huu

pelago, in

Cambriam

recessisset
:

Herueius

ite-

rum se mundo

constabularium gerens vt absente Eeyaliquid agere videretur Comitem cum

:

mbpiain 7 la concobup maenrhai^e pop cip mic napepip .1. pig pqxan.

mum-

"A. D.

1174.

The

battle of Thurles

by Don-

fainilia Cassiliam duxit.

Dubliuensium autem

nell O'Brien,

and by Conor Moinmoy, against

1174.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

;
11
.

17

solicited to their assistance the Galls

delay

till

they came to Thurles

[Ostmen] of Dublin and these made no Thither came Donnell O'Brien and the Dal-

cassians, the battalion of West Connaught, the great battalion of the Sil-Murray, brave besides numerous other good troops left there by the King, Eoderic.

battle

was fought between the English and Irish dint of fighting y English were finally defeated by
.

at this place, in

which the

Seventeen hundred of the

the people of Fitz-Empress,

i.

e.

the king of

hundred.
is

The literal
:

translation of the passage

England." In the Annals of Boyle, a compilation of the

thirteenth century,
it is

as follows

entered thus:
est

"A.

D. 1174. Helium Durlas comissum

"A. D. 1174. great army was led by the Earl of Strigule to plunder Munster ; and he sent messengers to Dublin, desiring all the
Galls left there to join him ; and a battalion of knights, officers, and soldiers well armed came
to him,

cum Anglicis et Dubliniensibm a Domnallo Rege* Mumunie et Concobaro Maenmaigi cum suis, in
quo Anglici defecerunt ad mortem,
perierunt."
et

Dublinienses

and they

all

marched

to

Durlus-O'Fothere defeated

garty.

But Donell More O'Brien

In the older Annals of Innisfallen, preserved

in the Bodleian Library (Rawlinson, 503), the

the Earl and the knights, and slew four of the knights, and seven hundred of their men.

number

slain

is

said to

be about seven hundred,

not seventeen hundred, as the Continuator of

Tighernach, and from him the Four Masters have it. The entry is as follows
:

When that news came to the hearing of the people of Waterford, they killed the two hundred who were guarding the town. Then the
Earl went on an island near the town [the Little Island], and remained there for a month, and

A. D. 1174. Sluaj;eo la Jy^laib Jjlapa 50 cancacap in h-Gli, co po cinolpucap Domnall

ua 6piain
up

50 tiuplap ui poco po cuipeo each ecappu, co pomaio cupca,

7

Guaomumam
^lapa
in

then went back again to Dublin." The reader is also referred to Ware's Annals, cap. 6, regnant. Hen. II., to Cambremis Eversus,
Leland's History of Ireland, vol. i. b. 1 , p. 99, and the Abbe Mac-Geoghegan's Histoire d'lrlande, torn. ii. p. 9, where the Abbe writes
p. 89,
:

)ulla\b

each,

paulo plup cecioepunc.

i

quo Dec. uel Conpcapla puipc

in

laipji cum Ducencip alnp cecibepunc la jallaib noum fein.

was marched by the came into Ely ; and green they Donnell O'Brien and the men of Thornond
Galls
till

" A. D. 11 74.

An army

" L'armee etant restee sans chef par la retraite de Eeymond, Strongbow en donna le commande-

ment

a Hervey. Ce Capitaine voulant tenter & faire des incursions du cote de Limefortune,
rick,

flocked to

Thurles,

and a battle was fought

assembla

les

between them, and the green Galls were defeated in the battle, in quo dec. vel paulo plus
ceciderunt.

Dublin,

& marcha du

troupes de Waterford & de cote de Cashil ; mais

The Constable
others,

of Waterford, with
slain

two hundred
their

were

by the Galls of

ayant ete rencontre a Durlas Hy-Ogarta, aujourd'hui Thurles, dans le pays d'Ormond, par Koderick O'Connor le Monarque, son armee
fut entierement defaite,
resterent sur le

own

fortress."

&

dix-sept cens Anglois

In the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen also, the number slain is stated to be seven

champ

de bataille.

Wareus

donne

la gloire

de cette action a Donald O'Brien

18

aNNdta uio^hachca eiReawN.

[1175.

Caeo piDe F o mela Dia cij 50 popcla^e. on mpla. gallcnb im ua bpiain Dia cig lap ccopccup. dn cijeapna apa6 DO mapbao U maelpeclainn 6 Oonna 5

Soa, r

QO1S C171OSO

1175.
cuig.

a doip CpiopD mile, cfcc, peaccmojacc,

cille Dapa DO ecc. ceppoc ua bpiain, eppoc an clepij cuipp eppcop ulaD, DO ecc. ITlaoiliopa mac mac capmuic eppcop ulab Do ecc. ^lolla Domnaill colaim cille cuip eccna -\ emj, F ea P plaicbfpcac ua bpolcain comopba ap a eaccna Dia ccuccacop cleipij Sipfnn cacaoip.eppcoip ap a peabup Dia ccapccup comopbup me, DO ecc co peaccnac mp rcpeablaiD cojai&e maclmcc ua bpandin DO oiponeab ina colaim cille,

On

-]

-)

nouibpecclep iona& ip in abboame.

-|

jiollu

TTlaibm pop cenel nfnoa pia

neacmapcac ua ccacain,

-\

pia mall ua

njaipmleaoaij

-[

ap mop Do cop poppa.

mibi Do cpochaD la ^allaib TTlajnup ua maoilpeaclumn cicchfpna aiprip

lap ppeallab pctip in at: rpuim.
Roi de Limerick, & diminue beaucoup la perte Cet echec causa tant de chagrin des Anglois.

au Comte Strongbow, qu'il s'enferma pour quelque tema a Waterford sans voir personne."
Mr. Moore, however, without making any
allusion
to

Cox says Cox, distinctly state that they were. 27, without, however, (Hibernia Anglicana), p. this massacre was quoting any authority, that Donald [Fitzpatrick], prince of perpetrated by but he observes, that the soldiers cut
Ossory,
off

the Irish accounts of this event,

were of that sort of the

*

citizens of

Dublin

gives full

credence to Giraldus's story, and thus manufactures it for the use of posterity "
:

called Easterlings.

reinforcement from

the garrison of Dublin, which the Earl had ordered to join him at
Cashel, having rested for a night at Ossory on
their march,

the

name

which is Waterford, in Irish, pope laipje, of the city of Waterford at the present
Irish.

day in

were surprised sleeping in their

Both names seem to be of Danish latter is most probably derived origin, from a Danish chieftain, Lairge, who is menand the
tioned in these Annals at the year 95 1 a Ara. The territory of O'Donnagan,
.

quarters

by a strong party under Donald O'Brian, and the greater number of them put

and

almost unresistingly to the sword." History of He does not even inform Ireland, vol.ii. p. 273. us that the soldiers thus massacred were Ost-

afterwards of a powerful branch of the O'Briens, the chief of whom was styled Mac-I-Brien-Ara,
is is

now

called Ara,

and sometimes Duharra, and

men, though Giraldus, and even Sir Richard

a half barony in the county of Tipperary bor-

1175]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

19

of them survived with the English were slain in this battle, and only a few O'Brien returned Earl, who proceeded in sorrow to his house at Waterford*.

home

in triumph.
,

b a Melaghlin O'Donnagan, Lord of Ara was slain by 0'Cona[ing ].

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one thousand one

1175.
seventy-five.

hundred

O'Brien, Bishop of Kildare, died.

Maelisa
Giolla

Mac an Chlerigh Cuirr, Bishop of Ulidia (Down), Donnell Mac Cormac, Bishop of Ulidia, died.

died.

Flaherty O'Brollaghan, successor 'of St. Columbkille, a tower of wisdom and hospitality, a man to whom, on account of his goodness and wisdom, the
clergy of Ireland had presented a bishop's chair, and to whom the presidency of Hy [lona] had been offered, died in righteousness, after exemplary sickand Gilla Mac Liag O'Branan was ness, in the Duibhregles of Columbkille
;

appointed in his place in the

abbacy

The Kinel-Endad were

Eachmarcach 0'Kane
e
,

defeated,

and a great slaughter made of them by

after

and Niall O'Gormly. Manus O' Melaghlin, Lord of East Meath, was hanged by the English, they had acted treacherously towards him at Trim.
dering on the River Shannon.
b

O'Conaing.
is

The

last syllable of this

name

Lifford and Letterkenny.

Lough Foyle and Lough S willy, that is, between The Kinel-Enda were
descended from Enda, the youngest son of Niall of the Nine Hostages, monarch of Ireland,
e

effaced in the original,

but

it is

here restored

from the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen.

O'Conaing resided at Caislean Ui Chonaing, now
corruptly called Castleconnell, in the

county of
to

rain

Eachmarcach CFKane, Gacmapcac The name Gacmapcac, which

is

Ua Casignifies

Limerick.
c

See note
is

Peacenach

under the year 1 1 75. used in the Leabhar Breac

J,

horse-rider, egues,

the old translation

Eghmarkagh in of the Annals of Ulster. The

anglicised
is

translate the Latin pius,

and nempechcncic, imit

surname

Ua Caram,

anglicised

O'Cahan

plus.
d

O'Clery explains
i.e. just,

by the

modern word

pipenca,

upright.

throughout the same work, and in most AngloIrish records previous to the year 1700; but
the form

Kinel-Enda, Cinel 6noa, otherwise called

O'Kane

is

now

so

well established

was a territory comprising thirty quarters of land in the present county of Donegal, lying south of Inishowen, between the arms of
Tir-Enda,

in the north of Ireland,

that the Editor has

thought See p.

the best to adopt in this translation. 8 2, note

it
.

D 2

20
Oorhnall caemdmac

[1175.

mac oiapmaoa
i

T?i

laijfn Do

mapbao

la

hua poipci

cepn

~\

la

hua nualldm
ua mbpidin.

ppioll.

TTlac Oorhnaill mic

Donncaba cicchfpna opppaiji Do rhapbab

meabail

la Domnall

Uaohg mac

Do rhapbab. pfpjhail ui Ruaipc

ui

DiapmaiD mac caibg

bpiain DO ballab
(.1.

bpiain
i

-]

TTlaejamain

mac coipbealbaij

ui

ma

cij bubein

ccaiplen uf conaing) la Dorhnall ua

mbpiam
.1.

-j

TTlac ui

ui concobhaip DiapmaiD Do ecc mprcain. Ctgup mac an leicoepcc Concobaip copcmobpuab DO mapbaoh beop la Dorhnall ip in 16

ceona.
and his brother Eochy, or Enna Kinsellagh, were both illegitimate.
8

Dannett Kavanagh, t)orhnall Caorhanac.

the illegitimate son of Dermot, King of and the ancestor of the most distin-

He was

Leinster,

O'Foirtkcern

This name
;

is

probably that

guished branches of the family of Mac Murrough,

now made O'puaprum

Foran.
h

anglicised Forehan, or

now Kavanagh.
now

He was

called

Caorhanac

from having been fostered at Cill Chaoitiam,

Kilcavan, near Gorey, in the county of

O'Nolan,

O'Nuallam

He was chief of the

O'Flaherty that the

Dermot Mac Murrough's only legitimate son, Conor, was put to death by Roderic O'Conor, monarch of Ireland, to whom
Wexford.
he had been given as a hostage by Dermot. Hib. Expug., lib. i. cc. 10, 17. This Donnell,

barony of Fotharta Fea, now the barony of Forth, in the county of Carlow.
informs us (Ogygia, Part
last
iii.

c.

65),

who had hereditary possessions died not long before his own time. The here,
O'Nuallan
family are,
territory.
'

however,

still

respectable

in

the

though illegitimate, became the most powerful of the Mac Murroughs, and attempted to become king of Leinster, but his sister Eva, the wife of
the Earl Strongbow, having proved his illegitimacy, he never was able to, attain to that

The son of Donnell, son of Donough.

He was

Gillapatrick, son of Donnell, son of Donough, who was son of the Gillapatrick, from whom the

See Hibernia Expugnata, lib. dignity where Giraldus writes " Murchardides
:

i.

c. 3,

family of Mac Gillapatrick, now Fitzpatrick, derived their name and origin.
ancient Ossory was a very large territory, extending, in the time of Aengus Oisreithe, in the third century, from the River
i

autem

Ossory

The

audito eorum aduentu

(prasmisso
filio,

cum viris

quasi quingentis

tamen Duuenaldo natural! eiusdem

legitimo, in sua

et

quanquam non

tamen

Barrow

to the River Suir,

and from the Slieve

gente prreualido) adeos statim ouanter accessit." See also Pedigree of the in the

Kavanaghs

Bloom mountains to the meeting of the Three Waters but at the period of the introduction of
;

Carew

Collection of

MSS.

in the
it is

Lambeth

Li-

Christianity
it is

it

comprised no part of Munster, for

brary, No. 635, in which

stated that Eva,

referred to in all the lives of the primitive

the wife of the Earl Strongbow, to whom Dermot had bequeathed the kingdom of Leinster,

Irish saints as forming the south-western portion of Leinster, in fact, what the present diocese of

proved in England and Ireland that

this Donnell,

Ossory

is.

See Life of

St. Patrick,

quoted

1175.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

f
,

21

Donnell Kavanagh
slain

the son of Dermot,

King of

Leinster,

was treacherously was treacherously

by O'Foirtchern and O'Nolan". The son of Donnell, son of Donough' Lord of Ossory
1

j ,

slain

by Donnell O'Brien.
k
,

Teige

the son of Farrell O'Rourke, was killed.

1

Dermot, the son of Teige O'Brien, and Mahon the son of Turlough O'Brien, were deprived of sight in their own house at Castleconning", by Donand Dermot died soon after and Mac an Leithdheirg O'Conor, nell O'Brien
,

(i.

e.

the son of O'Conor

Corcomroe

),

was

also slain

by Donnell on the same

day.

by Ussher
sargy
is

in his Primordia, p. 855, where Osdescribed as " occidentalis Laginensium

being that most commonly found in old law

documents, inquisitions, and most Anglo-Irish

records.
n

of St. Cronan, published plaga." where we read: " Mater vero ejus by Fleming,
life

Also the

Castleconning,

Cairlen ui Chonamj,

i.

e.

Sochla, id est, Larga, vocabatur quse erat de occidental!

O'Conaing's, or Gunning's Castle,

now

corruptly

Laginiensium plaga, id

est

Osraigi

anglicised Castleconnell. O'Conaing

was Lord of
is

oriunda."

O'Dugan, in his topographical poem,

Aos Greine, the

situation

of which
:

thus

and Keating, in his History of Ireland, reign of Aodh Mac Ainmire, describe Ossory as extendIn the lating from Slieve Bloom to the sea.
Ossory has been understood as comprising the country of the Fitzpatricks, or the barony of Upper Ossory, in the Queen's
ter

described in O'Brien's Dictionary " Aos-Greine, the small county of Limerick,

from the

hill called

Knockgreine to Limerick,

centuries

the ancient patrimony of the O'Conuings, whose principal castle, near Limerick, was called Caislean

O'Conaing,

or

Castle

Connell

Aos-tri-

county
k

but

its

ancient extent

is

preserved in

maighe from
is

Owny to Limerick."

Castleconnell

the diocese.

now

a village situated about six miles to the

This name, which signifies a poet, and which was used in the last century as an opprobrious name for a vulgar Irishman,
Teige, Ccroj;.

east of Limerick.

like

cised

Paddy in the present century, is now angliTimothy and Thady, and sometimes latinand even Theophilus.
said

The barony of Corcomroe, Copcmoopuao. Corcumroe, in the west of the county of Clare, preserves the name of this territory, but the
was unquestionably more extensive than the barony, and comprised not only this
territory

ised Thaddceus
1

Makon,

marjammn,
is
;

by Spenser

to

barony but

also

the entire of the barony

of

signify a bear,

proper name of the form Mahon, as

sitions

now anglicised Matthew, as the a man but the Editor prefers

it is

Burrin, in the east of which the abbey of Corcumroe is situated. According to the Irish
genealogical books,
this

used in the Irish Inqui-

territory derived

its

places,

and law documents, and also in names of and in the family name Mac Mahon.

CoipoeulBach, now generally anglicised Terence; but the Editor has used the form Turlough throughout this translation, it
Turlough,

name from Core Modhruadh, the great grandson of Rury Mor, monarchof Ireland, A. M. 3845,
and the ancestor of the families of O'Loughlin Burrin, and O'Conor Corcumroe, the ancient proprietors of these two baronies.

22

[1176.
i

mumain, tto Ruampi ua cconcobaip la Rij 6peann Don ua mbpiam a cuabmurhain po mill an cfp 50 mop lonnapb Domnall
Slucocchfo la
~\

chup

fin.
-\

comopba Concobop mac Concoille abb ftecclepa poil, ] pfoaip, hi TCoimh lap nool Do accallaim comopba pfcDacpaicc mpccain Do ecc
caip.

ua maolmuaiD, ciccfpna pfp cceall Do ^lolla coluim mac concobaip meg cochlain cpe meabail.

mapbab

la Puaibpi

QO1S CR1OSO
Goip CpiopD,
pabap,
-|

1176.

mile, ceD,

peaccmojaD, ape.
-]

Ceanannup Do papujab Do jallaib DO uib bpiuin. Lughmaj Do papujab Do Sajcaib. Niall mac mec lochlamn Do rhapbab la muinncip bpandin
.

(.1.

t>dl

mbuinne).
p

Mac

Concoille

This name

is

now

obsolete,

or translated Cox, or
i

Woods.

been followed by Archdall, O'Conor, Lanigan, and all other writers on Irish topography ; nor
this etymology questioned till the locality was examined, in 1837, for the Ordnance Survey, by the Editor, who found that this is one of

This family O'Molloy, Ua maolmuaib. descends from IDaolmuaib, a name signifying noble or venerable chieftain [muao i. uapal no

was

aipmiom, Cor.

Glos.~\,

who was lord

of the terri-

those inadvertent errors into which Ussher has

fallen

tory of Feara Ceall, and was slain in the year 1019- He was descended from Fiacha, the third
son of King Niall of the Nine Hostages. The name of this territory is still preserved in that of the
small barony of Fircal, in the south-west of the King's County ; but we have the most satisfactory

with
as

from his want of intimate acquaintance The Irish name, the Irish language.
in

now pronounced

Westmeath,

is

baile

poBuip, which means the town of Fore, and not the town of Books; and Ussher was led into
this error

evidence to prove that

it

originally comprised the

by the similarity of the pronunciation of both combinations, for baile poBaip and bail'
leabaip are not very dissimilar to the ear. According to the life of St. Fechin, who founded
a monastery here in the seventh century, this
place was originally called Gleann Fobhar ; and it is probable that the term Fobhar was origi-

baronies of Fircal, Ballycowan, and Ballyboy, in the same county. The name Ua tTlaolmuaib,

was

originally anglicised

O'Mulmoy, but

it

is

now invariably written without the second m. ' Mac Coghlan See note on Dealbhna Eathra,
at the year 1178.
5

Fore, pabap, or pob'ap.

Ussher (Primorcalled
;

nally applied to the remarkable springs which flow from the hill into the mill-pond at the
village of Fore, for the
is

dia, p.

966) states that Fore

is

by the Irish
and he has

Bailie Leabhair, the

town of books

explained in

word pobap, or popup, an old Irish glossary, called

1176.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

23

Roderic O'Conor, King of Ireland, marched with an army into Munster; he expelled Donnell O'Brien from Thomond, and much wasted the country on
that expedition.

Conor Mac Concoille p Abbot of the church of SS. Peter and Paul, and
,

afterwards successor of
fer

St.

Patrick, died at
Peter.

Rome, having gone

thither to con-

with the successor of

Gillacolum 0'Molloy
q

St.
,

Lord of Fircall, was treacherously

r
.

slain

by Rory, the

son

of Conor Mac Coghlan

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1176.

thousand one hundred seventy-six.

.

u 8 Fore and Kells' were laid waste by the English, and by the Hy-Briuin T Louth was laid waste by the Saxons.

Niall, the
rn -Buinne".

son of

Mac

Loughlin, was slain by Muintir Branan,

i.

e.

the Bai-

Oeipbpiup oo'n eojna an ^ijpe, as signifyBesides ing the same as cobap, a spring. these celebrated rills which turn the mill of
St. Fechin,

proprietor.

There is another Ceancmnup in the

county of Kilkenny, which is also anglicised Kells. The castle of Kells referred to on the
next page (or rather reedification of it), stood not many years since opposite Cross-street, in the

there are in Gleann Fobhar, as

called,

it

was originally

two other wells dedicated to St. Fechin, one called cobap na Cojaine, and the other OaBach peichin. For the legend
connected with the

town of
part of

Kells, in the

county of Meath, but no

Tradition ascribes
its

it

now

remains.

and mill of Fore, see Life of St. Fechin, published by Colgan in Acta Sanctorum, 20th January. For some account
rills

de Lacy. u uiB bpuim, i.e. the descendants Hy-Briuin, of Brian, son of Eochaidh Muighmheodhain,
erection to

Hugh

of the state of Fore in 1682, see Sir

Piers's account of
first vol.

Henry

monarch of Ireland

in

the fourth
this race,

Westmeath, published in the of Vallancey's Collectanea ; and for a

There were many septs of

century. but the

description of the ancient remains there in 1837,

see a letter written

people here referred to are probably the HyBriuin-Breifne, which was the tribe name

by the Editor

at

Eathowen,

of the O'Kourkes, O'Keillys, and their correlatives.

'

dated October 13th, 1837,

preserved at the Ordnance Survey Office, Phoenix Park. 1 This name was first anKells, Ceanannup See Ussher,
signifies

now

Louth, lu^riiaj

The name

is

sometimes

glicised Kenlis.
p.

De

Primordiis,

691.

The name
and
is

the head seat, or

written luBmaj, and Colgan thinks that it signifies either the plain of Lugh, a man's name, or " the plain of herbs Lugi campus seu campus
:

residence,

now

translated Headfort, in the

herbidus."

Acta Sanctorum,

p. 731, col. 2, n. 7.

name

of the seat and title of the present noble

Dal-Buinne, t)ul m6uinne, anglicised Dal-

24
Injfn Ruaibpi ui concobaip
(.1.

[1176.
pi

Gjieann), bfn plaicbfpcai

ui

maoiloo-

paib DO rhapbab la macaib

ui caipellain.

bfnmibe injfn Donnchaba uf cfpbaill, bfn Chonrhaije pfp If Do ecc. chfpna ua rcuipcpe
-\ ~\

ui plainn,

baineic-

Dal apaibe Do rhapCumaije ua plainn cicchfpna ua cruipcpe, pfp If, la pfpaib If. ba& la commibe la a bparaip pen Do Dorhnall ua bpiain a luimneac cpia popbaipi Do Sa^ain Do lonnapbab
-\

ofnarh 66 poppa.

CaipDiall gall

56: bfnarh
(.1.

ccfnannup.
in

Ctn ciapla Sa^anach

Piocapo) Do ecc

cich

cliar Do bainne aillpi

-\

na naorh apcfna ipa po jab ap a coip Do miopbailip bpicchoe colaim cille Qc connaipc piurh peipin bpijic anDaplaip 05 a ceallu po milleab laipp.
rhapbab.
Boyne.
This tribe was
seated near

Neagh, in the present county of

their territory
district

Lough Antrim and

;

of Oriel, in an ancient Antiphonarium, formerly belonging to the cathedral church of Armagh,

was nearly coextensive with the of Killultagh, which was a part of the

and now preserved MSS. in the Library

(Class B. Tab.
1.

in

Ussher's collection of

county of
in the

Down

in the year 1662, though

now

of Trinity College, Dublin No. 1). It has been recently

literal

county of Antrim. According to the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen, at the
year 1176, this tribe of Dal-Buinne was seated in the territory of Moylinny, which extended

published, with a

Petrie's Inquiry into the Origin

English translation, in and Uses of the

Round Towers
1

of Ireland, p. 389.

Gooey O'Flynn,

cumaije ua plainn
is

The

from Lough Neagh to near Carrickfergus. For the descent of the Dal Buinne, the reader is
referred to O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part iii. c. 46. For a list of the parish churches and chapels in this territory about the year 1291, see Pope

name of this family

now

anglicised

O'Lynn in

the north of Ireland, and by some incorrectly made Lindsay. Their territory lay between the
present county of

Lower Bann, Lough Neagh, and the sea, in the Antrim but there seems to
;

Nicholas's Taxation of the Dioceses of Down and

liam Reeves,
*

Connor and Dromore, edited by the Rev. WilM. B.

Benmee, bfnmiDe, denotes woman or lady
of a
also
It was very common as the proper woman among the ancient Irish, as 6eanmurhan, meaning "woman, or

have been another branch of them in the barony of Loughinsholyn, in the south of the county of
Derry, where they gave name to Lough Inish O'Lynn, i. e. the lake of O'Lynn's island, near the village of Desartmartin, and also to Desert

of Meaih.

name
was
y

Lyn and Monaster Lynn,

bourhood.

in the

same neigh-

lady of Munster."

OfDonough 0''Carroll, t)onnchaoa ui CeaptiaiU This was O'Carroll, chief of Oriel, not
of Ely O'Carroll. There the death of this respecting
is

The pedigree of this famous family, who were the senior branch of the Clanna Rury of Uladh,
or Ulidia,
College,
is thus given in a MS. in Trinity Dublin, Class H. 1. 15. p. 266, line

entry Donough O'Carroll

a curious

28:

1176.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

of Roderic O'Conor,

25

The daughter

King of

Ireland,

and wife of Flaherty

O'Muldory, was killed by the sons of O'Carellan. Benmee*, the daughter of Donough O'CarrolP, and wife of Cooey OTlynn, lady of Hy-Tuirtre and Firlee, died.
2 a Cooey O'Flynn Lord of Hy-Tuirtre Cumee, his own brother, dnd the Firlee.
, ,

Firlee,

and Dalaradia, was

slain

by

The English were

siege to them.

driven from Limerick by Donnell O'Brien, by laying

An

English castle was in progress of erection at Kells. The English Earl (i. e. Richard") died in Dublin, of an ulcer which had

and of

broken out in his foot through the miracles of SS. Bridget and Columbkille, all the other saints whose churches had been destroyed by him. He

saw, as he thought, St. Bridget in the act of killing him.

*
1.

Rory, the son of

DonnelL,

2. 3. 4.

who was

son of

name of a

Hy-Tuirtre, Ui Cuipcpe, was the ancient territory in the county of Antrim,

Cumee, or Cu-Midhe.
i

lying to the east of Lough Neagh. The parishes of Racavan, Ramoan, Donnagorr, and Killead, the church of Dun ChilleBice,
begs, in the parish

Murtough, or Moriertagh.
Alexander.

now Downkilly-

5.
6.
7. 8. 9.

Cumee, or Cu-Midhe.
Cooley, or Cu-Uladh.

ofDrummaul, and the island of Inis Toide, now Church Island, in Lough Beg, were included in this territory, which was
the

Cumee, or Cu-Midhe.
Rory.
Foley.

name of a deanery in Colgan's time. See Trias Tkaum., p. 183. The tribe called the Firlee, and sometimes

10.
1
1
.

Mac
I

Kieran.

Fir Li of the Bann, were originally seated on the west side of that river, but at this period they

12. 13.
14.

Hugh, or Aodh.
Donnagan.
Forgartagh.

were unquestionably on the east of it. They were probably driven from their original locality

15. Flann, the progenitor,

a quo the O'Lynns

[Ui toinn],

& c & c up
.
.

by the family of O'Kane, who, at this period, had possession of all the district lying between Lough Foyle and the Bann. For the descent of
the Fir Li of the Bann, see Ogygia, part
c.
iii.

to Colla Uais,

monarch

of Ireland in the fourth century.

name Cu maighe, meaning dog, or greyhound of the plain, and Cumidhe, dog, or greyhound of Meath, were very common among this The former is anglicised Cooey, and family.
'

The

76 ; Ogygia Vindicated, Dedication, p. Ivi ; and Duald Mac Firbis's Genealogical Book,

Marquis of Drogheda's copy, pp. 95, 1 28. b The English Earl, i. e. Richard de Clare, Earl
of Strigul, commonly called Strongbow.

Matthew
1

the
tion.

latter

Cumee,

throughout

this

transla-

Paris inserts the death of this earl at the same

year

but Pembridge places

it

about the

st

of

26

aNNcitu
i

KIUIIU.UIIOVJ. eineciNN.

[1176.

Caiplfn Sldine milleaDh oipsiall

mac meclochlainn
la haipjiallaib.

mbpium i pfp -| la ciccheapna cenel neojam -| la cenel neojain buben -\ l?o mapbpac cuicc cfcc no nf ap uille Do na gallaib la
i -\

co na pluaj, ap po bap oc paibe RiocapD plemeann miDe DO opccam la TTlaoileaclainn ua

caeb ban, leanam

mbfchaiD ap in ccaipoiall. eac co na cfpna Duine Ro papaijce cpi caipcceoill im mibe ap nabapach* ap uarhan cenel neojain l?io.1. caipciall cfnannpa, caipplfn calacpoma ] caiplen Doipe paccpaic.
l?i

Don chup pin. capD plemenn pein Do mapbaD DO lo&baipc la puaiopi ua concobaip baile biacaij

Gpeann Don

coirn-

6e& i Do naoim beapac 50 bpac .1. baile cuama achaD. IciaD Slana na hojua Dubcaij aipDeppcop cuama, aipeaccac ua RoDuib, Dilpi 50 bpac. CaDla ua TTlaoilbpeanainn, Ignaiohe ua plann ua pionnachca, aoD ua ploinn, Ruapc mannacam, fyollu an coimDeD mac an leapcaip, ua hainliji, concobap mac
-|

Dia DiapmaDa, a ccopaijeacc an baile pin DO bfic 05 6 ua cconcobaip -| o pi op a lonaiD.

-|

05 beapac 50 bpac

Domnall mac coipoealbaij

nacc, opDan, Smacc maij eo na Sa^an.
-|

Concobaip cicchfpna cuaipcceipc Cona aDnacal Dfjcomaiple na njaomeaV Do ecc

ui
i -|

Oorhnall

mac coipDealbaij

ui

bpiain piojoarhna
rationis
belli

murhan Do

ecc.

May, 1177, and Giraldus Cambrensis about the 1st of June. In the Dublin copy of the Annals
of Innisfallen, Strongbow is called the greatest destroyer of the clergy and laity that came to

&

refugii

signum manebat. In vtraque

fortuna stabilis

&

constans,

nee casibus

aduersis desperatione fluctuans ; nee secundis Hibernia Expugnata, vlla leuitate discurrens."
lib.
i.

Ireland since the time of Turgesius.

racter
is

His chahis

cap. 27,

Camden. Francofurti,

M.D.CIII.

thus given by Giraldus,

:

who was

p. 774.
c

cotemporary " Comiti vero modus hie

Slane, Slaine,

now

generally called Guile

erat.

Vir subrufus,

Slaine in Irish.

It is a small village near the

lentiginosus, oculis glaucis, facie foeminea, voce

exili,

collo contracto,

per cetera fere cuncta,

Boyne, midway between Navan and Drogheda, in the county of Meath. The site of Fleming's
Castle
is

corpore precero, vir liberalis

&

lenis.

Quod

re

now

occupied by the seat of the Mar-

non
rare.

poterat,

verborum suauitate componebat.

:

Togatus & inermis parere paratior, quam impeExtra bellum plus militis, quam Duels

quess of Conyngham. 4 Besides women, children, and horses, le caeb

Ducis quam omnia suorum audens consilio

in bello vero plus

militis
:

habens

Nihil

vnquam

ex

se vel

sumens.

armis aggrediens, vel animositate praeIn proelio positus fixum suis recupe-

ban leanam 7 eac This was evidently copied by the Four Masters from the Annals of Ulster, in which the original reads as follows ou in po mapbao cec no ni ip moo oo jallaiB pe caeb ban 7 leanum 7 ec in caipceoil oo mapbao
:

1176.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

castle of Slane
,

27

which was Richard Fleming with his forces, and from which he used to ravage Oriel, Hy-Briuin, and Meath, was plundered by the KinelMelaghlin, the son of Mac Loughlin, Lord of the Kinel-Owen, by Owen themselves and the men of Oriel. They killed five hundred or more of

The

in

the English, besides

women,

children,
castle.

and

horses'

and not one individual

escaped with his

life

from the

Three

castles

were
f
.

left

desolate in

Meath on the following

day, through fear of the Kinel-Owen, viz. the castle of

Kells, the castle of Galtrim',

and the

castle of Derrypatrick

Richard Fleming

himself was slain on this occasion.

ballybetagh was granted in perpetuity by Roderic O'Conor, King of 8 The followIreland, viz. the townland of Toomaghy to God and St. Berach.
ing were the sureties of that perpetual gift Keyly [Catholicus] O'Duffy, Archbishop of Tuam Aireaghtagh O'Rodiv Flann O'Finnaghty Hugh O'Flynn
: ;

Rourke O'Mulrenin Ignatius O'Monahan Gilla-an-choimhdhe Mac-an-leastair O'Hanly and Conor Mac Dermot who were to guarantee that this townland was to remain for ever the property of God and St. Berach, from O'Conor and
; ;

his representative.

the glory, the moderator,

Donnell, the son of Turlough O'Conor, Lord of the north of Connaught, and the good adviser of the Irish people, died, and
at

was interred

Mayo

of the Saxons.

Donnell, the son of Turlough O'Brien, the heir apparent to the kingdom of Munster, died.
co nu cepna oume

mbechaio ap

in caipeel.

Thus rendered
Ulster Annals
:

in

the old translation of the

" where one hundred and more

who was knighted having killed O'Kelly and his esquire, in the See battle of Athenry, in the year 1316. q. v.
the town of Athenry, but
for

were

besides women and and the horses of the castle, soe as children, none living escaped out of the castle."
killed of the Galls,
'

Hibernia Anglicana, by Sir Richard Cox, p. 96.

Derrypatrick, a ruins of an old castle, townland containing the in a parish of the same name, in the barony of
f

Ooipe

pacpaic,

now

The
the

castle

of Caltruim

Cpo ma, Le. the castle of Gal trim.

now

Caiplen Cala Gal trim is

a moat,

Deece,

and county of Meath..

See Ordnance

name of a townland, containing

The

Map
g

of Meath, sheet 43.

in a parish of the same name, in the barony of

Toomaghy,

cuaim acao

ballybetagh

Deece, and county of Meath.

district be-

was the

thirtieth part of a triocha cead, or ba-

longing to this castle was an ancient palatinate, and gave the title of Baron to the family of whose ancestor had been a butcher in Hussey,

rony. It contained four quarters, or seisreaghs, each seisreagh containing 120 acres of the large Irish measure. The name of this ballybetagh is

E2

28

rcioshachcg emeaNN.
Oomnall ua
mailli cijeajina urhaill
1x165
-[

[1177.

Do

ecc.

Oiapmair mac copbmaic mac pfm copbmac liarhanac

la a capcaij pi Dfpmuman DO jabail a muinrip copbmac DO rhapbab hi ppiull la

bubein i Diapmaic DO jabail a cijeapnaip mpam. Oomnall mac jiollapacpaicc tijeapna oppaije DO ecc. dob mac jiollabpoiDi ui puaipc Do ecc. Oomnall mac jiolla pacpaic cijeapna caipppe ua cciapba, Do mapbab DO aiqiiojab la peapaib mioe, -j ppull Dua maoileclamn (.1. Qpr), -\ dpc Do bonnchab ua maoileclainn agup plann pije (no cicceapnup) Do cabaipc a mac Do mapbab la caipppe ua cciapba.
i

QO1S CR1OSO

1177.

a peace. Qoip CpiopD mile, cecc peaccmojac,

bfic Uiuiamip capoinal Do ceacc nGpinn. SeanaD clfipeac Gpenn Do abbaib iman ccapDinal in arh cliar an cfo Domnac Don eccip eppcopaib copsup i po cmnpfo DeirhiDe lomDa na comailceap.
i -|

coinleapcc ncchfpna cenel neojain pe heaoh la hapD^al 1 RiojDamna 6peann Do mapbab la maoileaclamn ua loclainn ~[ ua laclainn apDjal peipin Do comruicim la hua nell ap an laraip pin.

Qeb O

Nell

.1.

an

macaom

-|

Sluaicchfo la lohn DO cuipc

now
forgotten.
It

-\

lap na piDipmib
set at liberty.

noal

apame

co Dun
states, in

must have been applied

to a

Giraldus Cambrensis
ii.

large townland, since subdivided into quarters, somewhere near Kilbarry, in the north-east side

his Hibernia Expugnata, lib.

c.

17,

that this

of the county of Eoscommon, where St. Berach's But the name principal church is situated.
does not appear in any form on the
for
h

he pubLegate held a synod at Dublin, in which lished the King of England's title to Ireland, and
all that pronounced excommunication against should oppose it ; that he also gave leave to the and monasEnglish, to take out of the churches

Down Survey

Connaught, or on the Ordnance Survey. Cardinal Vivianus He was sent to Ireland

III.,

by Pope Alexander

as apostolic Legate,

According to Rogerus Hoveden, and the Chronicle of Man at this year, Vivianus was in the
Isle of

Man on Christmas-day with King Gothred.

corn and other provisions as often as they should require them, always paying the true value for the same. To which Hanmer most " He filled his bagges with impertinently adds the sinnes of the people ; the English captaines
teries
:

After Epiphany he landed at Downpatrick, and on his way to Dublin was taken prisoner by the
soldiers of

understanding of

it,

gave him in charge, either

John de Courcy, by

whom

he was

to depart the land, or to goe to the warres, and with them, and no longer to reserve for

pay

1177-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

29

Donnell O'Malley, Lord of Umallia [theOwles, in the county of Mayo], died. Dermot,the son of CormacMacCarthy, King of Desmond, was taken prisoner

by
his

his

own son, Cormac Liathanach; but Cormac was treacherously slain by own people, and Dermot then re-assumed his lordship. Donnell Mac Gillapatrick [now Fitzpatrick], Lord of Ossory, died.
Hugh, the son of
Gilla-Broidi O'Eourke, died.

Lord of Carbury O'Keary, was treacherously slain by O'Melaghlin (i. e. Art), upon which Art was deposed by the men of Meath, and his kingdom (or lordship) was given to Donough and his son Flann was slain by the inhabitants of Carbury O'Melaghlin
Donnell, son of Gillapatrick [O'Keary],
;

O'Keary.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1177.
seven.

thousand one hundred seventy and

of the clergy of Ireland, both bishops and abbots, was convened by this cardinal on the first Sunday in and they enacted many ordinances not now observed. Lent,
Toinleasc, who had been for some time Lord of the Kinel-Owen, and heir presumptive to the throne of Ireland, was slain by Melaghlin O'Loughlin and Ardgal O'Loughlin; but Ardgal himself fell on the spot by O'Neill. An army was led by John De Courcy and the knights into Dalaradia and

Cardinal Vivianus" arrived in Ireland.

A synod

Hugh

O'Neill, popularly called

an

Macaemh
1

ceive

money
fact

for

nought."

Hammer's

Chronicle,

membris neruosis

&

ossosis, staturse grandis,

&

edition of 1809, pp.

295, 296.

See also the

corpore perualido, viribus immensis,

singularis, vir fortis

audacise

same

given as true history by Sir Richard

&

bellator ab adolescentia.

Cox
1

in his Hibernia Anglicana, pp. 33, 34.

O'Loughlin

The name of

this

family,

Semper semper grauioris periculi pondus arripiens. Adeo belli cupidus & ardens,
vt militi

in acie primus,

which was the senior branch of the northern

Hy-Niall,
J

dux

pnefectus, ducali plerunque de-

is

now generally written Mac Loughlin.

Courcy.

serta constantia

Ducem

exuens, et militem in:

John

De

He

set out

from Dublin,

and in four days arrived at Downpatrick. The character and personal appearance of this extraordinary man are thus described by his cotemporary, Giraldus Cambrensis " Erat itaque lohannes vir albus & procerus,
:

duens, inter primes impetuosus & preeceps turma vacillante suorum, nimia vincendi cupiditate victoriam amississe videretur. Et quan-

& plus militis inermis tamen modestus, habens, ac sobrius, & Ecclesie Christ! debitam reuerenquam quam
in

armis immoderatus,

D uc s
i

30

[1177.

oa
apaibe.

majibpac Oorhnall mac mic carapaij cicclifjina Dal l?o hoijicceaD lay na po milleab Dun Da Ifrjlapp la lohn
l?o
~\ -\
:

tiam prsestans, diuino cultui per omnia deditus

Gratiseque superna;, quoties
ei successerat,

brensis

but Dr. Hanmer, who knew but

little

cum

gratiarum actione totum ascribens, Deoq; dans

gloriam, quoties aliquod fecerat gloriosura. Sed quoniam, vt ait Tullius, Nihil simplici in genere,

of Irish families or history, supposing that by Dunleuus (which he reads incorrectly Dunlenus)

Giraldus meant O'Donnell, he speaks throughout of the chief who contended with De Courcy,
at

omni ex parte perfectum natura expoliuit nimiae parcitatis & inconstantise nceui, niueum
:

Down,

as O'Donell

Giraldus,

who was

co-

tantse

laudis

nitorem

denigrauerant.
filia sibi

Regis

temporary with Sir John De Courcy, speaks in high terms of the valour of the King of

itaque Manniae Gotredi

legitime copu:

Down, who contended with him on

sion.

this occa-

lata, post varia belli diuturni proelia

&

graues

It appears that the Pope's Legate, Cardi-

vtrinque conflictus,
neis incastellauit.

tandem in arce

victories
locis idola-

nal Vivianus, happened to be at Downpatrick

plane constitutus, Vltoniam vndique

& nusquam

(non absque

to prevail

on De Courcy's arrival, and that he endeavoured on De Courcy to withdraw his forces

bore plurimo)
videtur

& inedia,

firmissima stabiliuit.
:

multisque periculis, pace Hoc autem mini notabile

from Down, on condition that Dunlevus should

pay tribute to the King of England.

De Courcy

quod grandes hi quatuor Hibernica;

expugnationis postes, Steplianides, Herueius, Beymundus, & Johannes de Curcy (occulto qui-

refusing to comply, Dunlevus, encouraged by the suggestions of the Legate, collected his forces, and attacked the English, we are told,

dem Dei

iudicio, sed

nunquam

iniusto) legiti-

with astonishing bravery

Giraldus's

but
he

if

we

believe

mam

ex sponsis prolem suscipere non meruerunt. Quintum autem his Meylerium adiunxerim, qui legitimam vsque hodie de sponsa prolem non suscepit. Sed hsec de lohanne sum-

statement,

that

mustered ten

Curcy

warriors, who, fighting manfully with spears and battle-axes, were defeated by three hundred English soldiers, com(viriliter)

thousand

matim,
toribus
lib. ii.

&
;

quasi sub epilogo commemorantes,

grandiaq

eiusdem

gesta, suis explicanda scrip-

manded by twenty-two knights, we must conclude that his people were either very feeble
or very unskilful warriors. the conquest of Down by
sixteenth

reliquentes."

Hibernia

Expugnata,

Giraldus describes

cap. xvii.

De Courcy

in the

Donnell, son of Cahasagk, tDomnall mac In the Dublin copy of the Annals Cacar-aij
of Ulster, and in the Annals of Kilronan, he
called
nell,
is

chapter of the second book of his Hibernia Expugnala, where he writes as follows " Videns autem Dunleuus se verbis minime
:

Domnall mac mic Carupaij,

i.

e.

Don-

profecturum,

corrogatis

vndiq;

viribus

cum

son of the son, i. e. grandson of Cahasagh. In the Dublin copy of the Annals of
Innisfallen,

10. bellatoruni millibus infra 8. dies hostes in

vrbe

viriliter

inuadit.

In hac etenim insula

the chieftain
at

who contended with De Courcy Down, on this occasion, is called Rory Mac

sicut et in
bellica

omni

natione, gens borealis magis

semper

et truculenta reperitur, &c., &c.

itaq;

Donslevy ; and it is certain that the family name was Mac Donslevy at this time, though it was originally Cfh-Eockadha (O'Haughy). The

"
Prospiciens
acriter

lohannes hostiles
:

acies

ad vrbem accedere

quanquam manu

name

is

latinized

Durdeuus by Giraldus Cam-

modica, tamen perualida, potius obuiam exire, & viribus dimicando, belli fata tentare, quam

1177-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

leathghlas; they slew Donnell, the grandson of Cathasach",

31

to

Dun da

Lord of

Dalaradia.

Dun
quod

da leathghlas was plundered and destroyed by John and the

in vrbis angulo temriter

exili municipio,

from

sea to sea,

but that he was defeated and

erexerat, diutius ab hoste claudi,

&

fame

confici

taken prisoner, and the greater part of his

slain

men

longe proeelegit.
in

Igitur atroci bello conserto,

by Eory Mac Donslevy

set

that he was after-

dine perfuso.

primo eminus sagittarum iaculorumq; granDeinde cominus lanceffi lanoeis,

:

wards

at liberty

and that the English,

securibus enses confligentes

vtrinq;

ad tartara inultos
igitur
clypeus,
ensis,

transmittunt.

Dum

acerrimo

by De Courcy and a valiant knight called Eoger Poer, again attacked the Irish and made a great slaughter
taking fresh courage, being led on
of
St.

Martis conflictu,
repeUitur vmbo
:

lam dypeo
Ense minax
qui gladii

vmbone
8f

them

and took from them the croziers of

St.

pede pes,

Finghin and

Eonan, and that then

all

cuspids

cuspis:

loannis ictus

hie

cerneret, qualiter

nunc caput ab humeris, nunc

armos a corpore, nunc brachia separabat, viri bellatoris vires digne possit commendare. Multis

the English of Dublin went to the assistance These Annals then add : of De Courcy. " O'Neill [rede Mac Loughlin], at Melaghlin the head of the Kinel-Owen, and Eory Mac

igitur in hoc conflictu se strenue gerentibus

Roger, tamen Poerius adolescens imberbis

fiauus, pulcher

&
in

Donslevy, at the head of the Ulidians, accompanied by the Archbishop of Armagh, Gilla-

&

procerus (qui

postmodum

Lechlinia?

&

Ossyrias partibus emicuit) secunobtinuit.

dam non immerito laudem

itaq; diuq;

Post

an-choimdedh O'Carran, the Bishop of Ulidia, and the clergy of the north of Ireland, repaired with their noble relics to Downpatrick, to take

graues tamine belliq; congressus, tandem loannis virtuti cessit victoria hostium multitudine magna
:

ambiguos, nimis impari cer-

from John De Courcy. fierce battle was between them, in which the Kinel-Owen fought
it

per marinam glisin, quo transfugerant, inter-

and Ulidians were defeated, with the loss of five hundred me"n, among whom were Donnell
O'Laverty, chief of Clann Hamill ; Conor O'Carellan, chief of

empta."

And

again, in his short recapitulation of the

Clann-Dermot

Gilla

Mac Liag
Choim-

battles of

De Courcy, towards

the end of the

O'Donnelly, chief of Ferdroma; Gilla-an

same chapter: " In duobus

itaque magnis prasliis Johannes

victor
enituit.

dedh Mac Tomulty, chief of Clann Mongan ; and the chiefs of Clann Cartan and Clann
Fogarty.

apud

Dunam

In primo post
lulii,

purificationem.

In secundo circa Calendas

Bishop of

The Archbishop of Armagh, the Down, and all the clergy, were taken

in natiuitate Sancti lohannis, vir de

quindecim
multitu-

virorum militibus
nuit
dine.

[al.

millibus] victoriam obti-

prisoners ; and the English got possession of the croziers of St. Comgall and St. Dachiarog, the

cum paucissimis, hostium extincta

Tertium erat apud Ferly in
is

Canoin Phatruic

[i.

e.

the

prseda? cap-

sides a bell called Ceolan

Book of Armagh], bean Tighearna. They

tione," &c.

stated in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen, a work which seems to have been
It

afterwards, however, set the bishops at liberty, and restored the Canoin Phatruic and the bell,

but they killed

all

the inferior clergy, and kept

very much interpolated, that John De Courcy on this occasion erected a strong fort of stones and clay at Down, and drew a ditch or wall

which" [remarks this "are still in the hands of the English." compiler] Dr. Hanmer, in describing this battle,
the other noble relics,

32
piDipib cainic
i

[1177.

na pocpaiDe.
-|

Oo ponab

Dona caiplen leo arm ap a

-|

mai&m po

6f

ap ulcaib

maiDm pop cenel eojam

pop aipgiallaib aipm

in

cloinne DiapmaDa -] giollumacpo Ttmpbab concobop o caipealldin coipeac TCo gonao ann beop Dorhnall ua liacc ua Donnjaile roipec pfp nopoma.

plaicbfpcaij Do poijoib jup ba

poil in

mapb

e laparh Do na gonaib pin

-\

pecclep
-[

leo cenmochaicpibe. Udmic nuib cuiprpe -| i ppfpaib lohn DO cuipr co na pocpaiDi an peace ceOna If. Ro loipcc CuTnibe ua plainn aipceap maije perhe. T?o loipccpfc Dona
picche.
i

dpDmaca lap ccaicfrh cuipp cpiopo l?o mapbab Dona maice lom&a aile

a pola, lap nonjab

aich-

cul pacain, i ceallu iom6a

oile.

Niall

ua ^aipmleabaij cicchfpna

pfp

maije hire

-|

cenel fnoa DO mapto the

by Eoderic [OConor] and O'Donnett, king of Duune ! the Monarque See his Chronicle, Dublin edition of 1809,
and Cox (Hibernia Anglicana), p. 32, gravely repeats this blunder as true history. By this expedition and battle were fulfilled, in
p.

that De Courcy was opposed

citizens that the

enemy would wade up

knees in their blood.

Stanihurst, enlarging on

300

a slight hint thrown out by Giraldus in his account of these prophecies, writes thatDe Courcy,
in his anxiety to adapt these prophecies to

him-

the opinion of both parties,

two prophecies,

which would appear to have depressed the spirit of the Ultonians, and animated De Courcy and
his superstitious followers for further conquests.

self, took every care to adapt himself to the prophecies, and with that view provided for his equipment, on his expedition to Downpatrick, a

white horse, a shield with birds painted upon it, and all the other predicted appendages of the
predestined conqueror of Ulster ; so that he sallied forth like an actor dressed to perform a

The one was

to

a prophecy among the Britons, said have been delivered by Merlin of Caermarthen, in the latter part of the fifth century, and which had declared that " a white knight, sit-

part

This, however,

is

overdrawing the pictiire

for Giraldus says that

De Courcy happened by
upon a white horse

ting on a white horse, and bearing birds on his

shield,

mere chance

(forte) to ride

would be the

first

that with force of

(" Miles

arms would enter and invade Ulster."

on this occasion, and had little birds (aviculas) painted on his shield, evidently the cognizance
of his family ; but he distinctly states, however, that De Courcy always carried about with him
a book in the Irish language, containing the prophecies of St. Columbkille, as a mirror in

albus, albo residens equo, aues in clypeo gerens, Vltoniam hostili inuasione primus intrabit.")

The other was a prophecy ascribed to Saint Columbkille, who had foreseen this battle not
long after the time of Merlin, and ten in Irish that a certain

who had

writ-

which the achievements which he himself was

predestined to perform were to be seen ; to which
Stanihurst, drawing on his imagination, impertinently adds, that he slept with this book under his pillow " Ad dormiendum proficiscens, eun!

pauper and beggar,

and fugitive from another country (" quondam pauperem & mendicum & quasi de aliis terris fugacem") would come to Down with a small army and obtain possession of the
town, and that such would be the slaughter of the

dem sub

cubicularis lecti pulvino collocaret."

The charge brought by Dr. Hanmer against Cam-

1177.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

who came
in his army.

33

knights

castle

which they defeated the Ulidians twice, slew Conor O'Carellan, chief of Clandermot
of nelly, chief

was erected by them there, out of and the Kinel-Owen and Oriels once,
1
,

Feardroma

m
;

and Gilla-Macliag O'Donand Donnell O'Flaherty [now Laverty] was so

of his
the

wounded by arrows on this occasion, that he died church of St. Paul at Armagh, after having received

wounds

in the

body and blood of Christ, and after extreme unction and penance. Many other chieftains were also slain by them besides these. During the same expedition, John [De Courcy] proceeded with his forces to Hy-Tuirtre and Firlee before his arrival, however,
;

Cumee O'Flynn had

Niall O'Gormly,
brensis, that

set

Annoy" on

fire;

but they burned Coleraine and

many

other churches on this incursion.

Lord of the men of Magh-Ithe and Kinel-Enda, was

tions,

having malevolent feelings towards De Courcy, he slightly passed over and misrepresented his actions, seems very unfounded, for Cambrensis speaks of the noble achievements of this

which never

at

any period belonged to the

O'Donnellys.
n

Armoy, Qicfpmui^e

The author of the

knight in terms of the highest admiration, saying that he would leave his grand exploits to be
blazoned by
alluding to the

Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, which was translated and published by Colgan, in his Trias

time

De Courcy's own writers, evidently monk Jocelyn, who was at the employed by De Courcy to write the Life
" Sed hasc de Johanne Curcy

"Artkermugia prcecipua civitas Dalriedinorum." It was anciently a bishop's see,

Thaum.,

calls this

and an ecclesiastical town of consequence; but in

Colgan's time it was only a small village in the It is still called by its anterritory of Eeuta.
cient

of St. Patrick.

summatim,

&

quasi sub epilogo commemorantes,

name

in Irish,

but

is

anglicised

Armoy.

grandiaq; eiusdem gesta suis explacanda scriptoribus reliquentes." Hiber. lib. ii.

It retains at present
its

no monumental evidence of

Expugnat.

c.

17.
1

cient

ancient importance except a part of an anround tower, which, however, is no small

its

The name is yet preserved in a parish in the barony of Tirkeeran, Clondermot, in the county of Derry, east of the Foyle. The O'Caireallans are still numerous in this parish,
Clandermot.

proof of
describes

ancient ecclesiastical importance.

Colgan in his Acta S. S., p. 377, col. 2, note 6,

it

as follows

"Est hodie vicus tan turn

a Dunliffsia"

exiguus in regione
circiter millibus

Reuta juxta Oceanum octo

but the name

variously anglicised Carlan, Curlaud, Carellan, Carelton, &c.

is

passuum

[Duni.

luce] "distans."

m Feardroma
tory in the
Cauldfield,

This was an ancient

terri-

county of Tyrone, containing Castleanciently

district

the plain of Ith,

Magh-Ithe and Kinel-Enda. Magh is said to have derived

Ithe,
its

e.

name
who,

Ballydonnelly, and the See note on Ballydonsurrounding at the year 1531. It is to be distinnelly,

from

Ith, the uncle of Milesius of Spain,

according to some of the Irish Shanachies, was slain by the Tuatha De Dananns, at Drumline,

guished from the townland of papopuim, or Fardrome, mentioned in the Donegal Inquisi-

near Lifford,

this plain See of Ireland, Haliday's edition, Keating's History

and buried in

34
-]

[1177-

la cloinn DiapmaDa ap lap Doipe ba6 la oonnchab ua ccaipeallain colainn cille ap po loipcceao ceac paip cfcup cfpna mall am ac app noopup an cicche lapccam. Oa pome Dona OonnchaD ua po mapb'aD
-|
-]
i

caipelldm ojpic ppi Dia ppi colaim cille -| ppi mumncip Doipe annpin cap a cfnn pen -] cap cfnn a pleacca .1. a rhamchine pen, a rhec, a ua, -| a lapmua
rpia biclie Do colaim cille
biacai
.1.
i
]

Do mumncpi
66ib.

601 pe.

ppappaD Domnaij moip

i
i

Do paD
i

T?o lobbaip Dona baile Doib beop TTlac piabac

Oo njioll cpi pichic bo. n6pinn ip in amipip pin ponaD imoppa ceac Don clfipeac nionaD an cije po loipcceaD ua&a pop ua
copn ap pfpp boi
17o hiocaD uile ppipp jac ap loipcceab imbe. Do paDpac njaipmlea&aij. clann nDiapmaoa uile lop^niom cap a ccfnn pen uacha. TTlupcaD mac Ruai&pi in Concobaip Do bpeic TThle coca co na piDipib

commain Do milleaD Connacc ap ulca ppi RuaiDpi. Ro loipccceallu an cipe ap pfo Dona Connaccaij po cfooip cuaim Do gualann cfna ap na haipipofp 501 II inncib. T?o chuippfc lapccam mai&m popp na l?o Dall RuaiDpi a mac Sallaib po Diochuippfc ap eccin ap an cip mcc. mupchaD ccionab an cupaip pin.
laip 50 T?op
-|
-]
i

p.

266, and note on

Druim

lighean, in these

Annals, at the year 1522.

of the parish

From the situation church called Domhnach more

Ithe,

parish church, near the village of Castlefin, in the barony of Raphoe and county of Donegal.
It

was

in the territory of Magh-Ithe, of

lord.

which

Muighelthe, or the great church ofMagh

O'Gormly was

From

this passage it ap-

now Donaghmore,
Ithe
is

it is quite evident that Magh the tract of level land in the barony of

pears that O'Carellan had seized

upon some of

The territory Raphoe, Lagan. of Kinel-Enda lay immediately south of Inishcalled the

now

O'Gormly's territory, after he had killed him. q The tan-coloured son This is a fanciful

name given

to the goblet.

The

adjective piaBac,

owen, and comprised the parishes of Raymoaghy aridTaughboyne. See Colgan's^cta Sanctorum,
Life of St. Baithenus.

pronounced in the south of Ireland as if written piac, and anglicised Reagh in names of men and
places, signifies tan-coloured, or greyish,

The Editor has

a copy

and

is

of the will of O'Gallagher, who was steward to the celebrated Red Hugh O'Donnell, in which it
is

translated fuscus,

by Philip O'Sullevan Beare,

See

in his

History of the Irish Catholics.

et

stated that

Kinel-Enda contained thirty quari.

pp. 123, 145,

1

passim.

ters of land.
p

Near Donaghmore, Oorhnac mop,

e.

the

great church, generally called Doirinac mop ITluije Ice, as in the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick,

This expedition. The Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen contains the following account of this excursion
:

" A. D. 1177.

great

army was

led

by the

and

in O'Donnell's Life of St. Columbkille,

p.

apud Colgan. Trias Thaum.,

390.

It is a

English of Dublin and Tullyard [near Trim] into Connaught. They proceeded first to Eos-

1177-]
slain

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

35

by Donough O'Carellan and the Clandermot in the middle of Deny The house in which he was was first set on fire, and afterwards, Columbkille.
as

he was endeavouring to
of the house.

effect his

way

Donough

escape out of it, he was killed in the doorO'Carellan then made his perfect peace with God,

St. Columbkille, and the family [i. e. clergy] of Deny, for himself and his descendants, and confirmed his own mainchine (gifts) and those of his sons,

grandsons, and descendants, for ever, to St. Columbkille and the family of He also granted to them a ballybetagh near Donaghmore p and, moreDerry.
,

over, delivered up to

them the most valuable goblet

at that time in Ireland,

which goblet was called Mac Riabhach [i. e. the tan-coloured sonq ], as a pledge for sixty cows. There was also a house erected for the cleric, in lieu of
burned over the head of O'Gormly, and reparation was made by him for all damage caused by the burning. All the Clandermot gave likewise full satisfaction on their own behalf.
that

Murrough, the son of Roderic O'Conor, brought Milo de Cogan and knights with him to Roscommon, to ravage Connaught, to annoy Roderic
father.

his
his

The Connacians immediately burned Tuam and other churches, to prevent the English from quartering in them. They afterwards defeated the
English, and forcibly drove

them out of the country

[of

Connaught]

and

Roderic put out the eyes of his son, in revenge for this expedition'.
common, where they remained for three nights, Here they were joined by Murrough, the son
of Roderic O'Conor,
battle during all this excursion,
for the

Con-

nacians had

fled,

with their cattle and other

who guided them through

at the time hap.

the province.

King Roderic

pened to be on his

-regal visitation,

and was in

moveable property, into the fastnesses of the country. On this occasion Tuam was evacuated, and the churches of Kilbannan, Kilmaine, Lackagh, Kilcahill, and Roskeen, and the castle of

lar-Connaught when the news

lish

of this irruption

into his territories reached his ear.

The Eng-

proceeded through the Plain of Connaught, burning the country as they passed along, ineluding the churches of Elphin, Fert-Geige,

three nights at

Galway, were burned. The English remained Tuam, without being able to ob-

tain provisions, or gaining

Imleagh Fordeorach, Imleagh an Bhroghadhia, and Dunamon, and making their way to Ath

any advantage ; here they were informed that the men of Connaught, and Munster were on their march to give them
battle,

Mogha and Fiodh Monach, and passing over the Togher [causeway] of Moin Coinneadha,
and through the great road of Lig Gnathaile, and the ford of Athfinn, near Dunmore, proceeded but they made no prey or directly to Tuam
;

true, for they

time to

which indeed they soon perceived to be saw that Roderic gave them no consider, for he drew up his forces for
flight,

an engagement. The English took to and escaped to Tochar mona Coinneadha.

They

were, however, hotly pursued and attacked as

F2

36

awwata Rioghachca

eircectNN.

[1178.

TTlaibm pop ua maoilDopaib -] pop cenel cconaill cenel fntia im mac ccaipealldin die in po mapbab dp

pm
ui

cconcobop ua im Seappaij
-|

maicib lomba apcheana. Oorhnall ua heaghpa ciccfpna Cuijne Do ecc.

QOIS CR1OSO,
Qoip CpiopD
mile, ceo,

1178.

peacrmojar a hocc.

bccchall column mic luijbeac DO bfic ace lomacallarh pe na cleipeac

pfm co piabnac. Oorhnall ua poccapca eppcop oppaije Do ecc. ^lollu cpiopD ua heochaib eppcop Conmaicne Do

ecc.

Concobap mac conallaij ui luinij Do gabdil coipijeacca ceneil TTioen 1 Dorhnall mac Dorhnaill ui gainmleabaij Do lonnapbab a maij iche ninip ccionn pence Do cum oormchaDa uf Duib&iopma. Cenel moien eojain
i

laparh Do cun concobaip mic conallaij a coipijeacr, i a ccfnnup Do cabaipc Do Dorhnall mac Dorhnaill ui gaijimlea&aij. ITluinncep Dorhnaill .1. mac
giollu
i

caec

uf

eDepla

-]

ui

plannajdin Do

mapbab concobaip mic

conallaij

ccoij Dorhnaill pfipin

pin.

pappab an can

Ro

meabail ap comaipce aipcinnij na hfpnaibe boi ina lonnapbpac laparh cenel TTlodin Dorhnall ua jaipmthe churches were burned by the Connacians themselves, and that the English, who were five

they were crossing the Togher, or causeway, where they would have been defeated had not
the son of Roderic assisted and guided them. .

They next proceeded

directly to Oran-O'Clabby, and passed the next night there, and on the day following went on their retreat to Athleague,

hundred and forty in number, lost only three of "Rothericum vero Conactiss printheir men
!

cipem

cum

3.

exercitibus magnis in sylua qua-

dam prope Sinnenum obuium

graui utrinq; conflictu,

habens, inito
tribus tan turn

where they were overtaken

at the ford

demum

by

they did not know their losses until were clear out of the province. they For this, and other previous offences, Murrough

a party of Connacians, attack upon them, and

who made

a vigorous

satellitibus equestribus amissis,

&

interemptis

hostium multis, Dubliniam indemnis euasit." s This is the ColColum Mac Luighdheach

O'Conor, the son of Roderic, had his eyes put out by the Sil-Murray, with the consent of his
father."

man, son of Lughaidh (of the race of Niall of the Nine Hostages), whose festival is marked in the
Irish Calendar of the O'Clerys, at the

2nd of
able to

Giraldus Cambrensis, in his account of Milo de Cogan's excursion into

February.

The Editor has not been

Connaught

(Hibernia Expugnata,

lib.

ii.

c. 1 7), asserts,

that

discover this entry in any of the older annals. ' The O'Loonys were afterwards 0''Loony

1178.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

37

O'Muldory and the Kinel-Connell were defeated by Conor O'Carellun in a and many other distinguished men of the Kinel-Enda battle, in which O' Sherry

were

slain.

Donnell O'Hara, Lord of Leyny

[in the

now

county of Sligo], died.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one thousand one
8

1178.
seventy-eight.
its cleric.

hundred

The

crozier of

Columb Mac Luighdheach openly conversed with

Donnell O'Fogarty, bishop of Ossory, died.

Gilchreest O'Hoey, bishop of Conmaicne [Ardagh], died. Conor, the son of Conallagh O'Loony', assumed the chieftainship of KinelMoeii"; and Donnell, the son of Donnell
Ithe into Inishowen, to
v

O'Gormly

was banished from

In three months

Moy
after-

Donough O'Duibhdhiorma".

wards, the Kinel-Moen deposed Conor, the son of Conallagh, and gave back the chieftainship to Donnell, the son of Donnell O'Gormly. The people of Donnell O'Gormly, namely, Gilla Caech O'Ederla, and the O'Flanagans, trea-

cherously slew O'Loony in Donnell's own house, even while he was under the protection of the Erenagh of Urney*, who was with him at the time. Upon
this the

Kinel-Moen drove Donnell O'Gormly from the chieftainship, and

w

set

driven into the wild mountainous district of

Muintir-Loony, in the north of the county of Tyrone. u Kinel-Moen The Kinel-Moen, or race, or
descendants of Moen,

The country of O'Duibhdhiorma was called Bredach, and comprised the eastern half of Inishowen. This is to be distin1

O Duibhdhivrma.

guished from the half cantred of Bredach in Tirawley, in the county of Mayo, the patrimonial inheritance of O'Toghda, who was descended

whom
now

the principal family of were the O'Gormlys, inhabited that tract

called the barony of Kaphoe, which was then a part of Tir Eoghain, or Tyrone. In after times this tribe was driven across the river

from Muireadhach, son of Fergus, son of AmhO'Duibhdhiorma was algaidh, a quo Tirawley.
of the Kinel-Owen, and his family had their tomb in the old church of Moville, near Lough

Foyle by the O'Donnells, and their original country was added to Tirconnell.
"

of Ulster, preserved in the State Papers' Office, shews the country of who was the chief of

O'Gormly.

An old map

The name is still numerous in the baFoyle. rony of Inishowen, but corruptly anglicised to
Diarmid, and sometimes, but rarely,
to

Mac

O'Gormly, originally Kinel-Moen, as extending from near Derry

Dermot, though always pronounced O'OuiB-

to

biapma by the
*

natives
i.

when speaking
e.

Irish.

Strabane.

Urney, Gpnaioe,

Oratorium.

A parish

38
i

[1178.

ccfnnup popaib. cu^pac T?uai&pi ua plaicbfpcaij leabaij a coipijeacc cenel TTlodin. OomTTleabal DO bfnam la cpib macaib ui plairbfpcaig pop
-\

nall

jaipmleabaij oo rhapbab leo, [-]] Uicchfpnan mac Rajnaill mic Domnaill occap DO mainb Cenel moain immaille ppiu. la cenel moain a ccopac Rajnall mac eacmapcaij uf cardin Do mapbab

mac

oorhnaill

ui

an cpampaib pin cona ina biojail pioe Do pocaip galac ua luinij "] TTluipmeabail pempaice ceapcac ua peacam, i ap na Diojail beop Do ponab in
pop cenel TTloain.

^aer mop

ip in

mbliabain

pi.

Ro

la piobdp, l?o cpapccaip pailje.

T?o

cpapccaip Dona pe pichic cpann i nooipe colaim cille. lohn DO cuipc co na allmupchaib Do ceacr co macaipe Chonaille, Do

ponpac oipccne ann. baoap oibce lonjpuipc

partly in the county of Tyrone, and partly in the county of Donegal, extending to the south of Lifford.
i

njlionn pije lapam.

saint

Oo

bCpc

for
tion.
a

which the

had a peculiar venerai.

Machaire Chonaille,

e.

the plain of Conaille

level

O'Flaherty,
is

in

Irish

Ua

This name

still

common
is

plairBfpcaij; in the counties of

Muirtheimhne, a territory comprising the

Donegal, Derry, and Tyrone, but, by an aspiration of the initial p,

sometimes LafFerty

anglicised Laverty, and See note on O'Flainn,

part of the present county of Louth, as appears from the ancient Lives of St. Bridget and St. Monenna, and from the Festilogy of Aengus, and

where a similar suppression of the initial p takes place in the modern anglicised form
O'Lynn.
z

other calendars, which place in this territory the churches of Faughard, Iniskeen, Kill Uinche,

and Druim Ineascluinn.

the

This district retained

name

of Machaire Chonaille in the seven-

Derry- Columbkille

This passage
:

is

given

teenth century, as

we

in the

Annals of Kilronan, as follows " A. D. 1178. 5 ao ^ ao&al DO roijecc ip in mbliaoain

Ussher, who,
St.

in his notices

learn from Archbishop of St. Bridget and

pi, co po cpapcaip bloib vhoip &o coillcib 7 o'pibbaibib, 7 oo pail^ib pa riiopa ppi I6p, 7 co cpapcaip pop pe picic palac, uel paulo

Monenna, has the following notice of this " Intra alterum autem a Dundalkia territory
:

miliarium, in Louthiano Comitatu

&

territorio

olim Conayl-Murthemni
(in
4" ipsa sanctissima

8f

Campo

Murthernene
viget, de

plup,

a nooipe

colaitti cille.

quo Conaleorum gens maxime

qua
ut

" A. D. 1178.

A great

wind occurred in

this

Monenna

procreata

est ;

year, which prostrated a great portion of the woods, forests, and great oaks, and prostrated

habet in

libri

secundi Vita?

illius initio

Conchu-

among the rest six score oaks, vel paulo plus, in Roboreto Columbce Cille."

branus) hodie Maghery-Conall dicto, posita est villa Pochard : quern locum nativitatis Brigidce
virginis

habitum

fuisse,

&

in Vita Malachia;
totivis vici-

The word puil, plur. pailge, signifies an oak tree. The oak wood of Derry-Columbkille, now Londonderry, is specially mentioned in
O'Donnell's Life of Columbkille, as an object

notavit olim Bernardus,

nise traditio

&

hodierna

Fochardam Brigid<e earn appellantis

Primordia, pp. 705,

etiam nunc confirmat."

706.

The Conaleorum gens here mentioned

1178.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

y

39

up Rory 0'Flaherty

as their chieftain

but the three sons of this

OTlaherty

acted a treacherous part towards the Kinel-Moen; they slew Donnell, the son of Donnell O'Gormly, Tiernan, the son of Randal Mac Donnell, and eight other gentlemen of the Kinel-Moen. Randal, the son of Eachmarcach O'Kane, had been slain by the Kinel-Moen in the beginning of this summer, and in re-

venge of
in

this

were

slain

revenge of this, moreover, the aforesaid act of treachery against the Kinel-Moen.

Galagh O'Loony and Murtough O'Petan; and it was was committed

A violent
of trees.

It prostrated oaks.
z
.

wind-storm occurred in this year it caused a great destruction It prostrated one hundred and twenty trees in
;

Derry-Columbkille

John De Courcy with

committed depredations

his foreigners repaired to

Machaire Conaille a
b
,

and

there.

They encamped

for a night in Glenree

where

were the descendants of Conall Cearnach, the most distinguished of the heroes of the Red Branch in Ulster, who flourished early in the first See O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part iii. century.
c.

and Kilronan, and in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, it is emphatically stated that
the English were dreadfully slaughtered here
:

Ro mebaio
poppu.
this

47.
b

pop gallaiB 7 po cutpeo oepj ap The number of the English slain on

In Glenree,

the River Righe. brief enumeration of the battles of

njlionn pige, i. e. the vale of Giraldus Cambfensis, in his

De Courcy,
book of

occasion is not stated in the Annals of Ulster or Kilronan, but it is given in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen as four

in the sixteenth chapter of the second

hundred

his Hibernia Expugnata, calls this his fifth battle,

Newry. In
it is

and says that he fought it at the bridge of this he is right as to the place; but,

added that the battle was and that O'Hanvy, chief of Newry, Omeath, and one hundred of the Irish, were killed, and that Murrough O'Carroll, King of
;

and

it is

fought at

quite evident from the older Irish Annals that he has transposed the order of the battles,

for

he was not in Ireland when De Courcy

Giraldus came
first to

first

Rory Mac Donslevy O'Haughy (O'h-eochaoa), were victors. The name Rory is, however, incorrect for, on the death of DonOriel,

and

invaded Ulster.

Ireland

in 1 183, and again in 1 185, as tutor to the Earl of Moreton, afterwards King John. The bridge of Newry well agrees with the Glenn Righe of the Irish Annals, for the river of was an-

the grandson of Cahasagh, Cu-Uladh, the son of Conor, who was son of Donslevy, son of Eochaidh, became the chief of the Dal-Fiatachs.
nell,

Newry

ciently called the Righe, and the valley through which it flows bore the appellation of Glenn

Cu-Uladh (i. e. dog of Duald Mac Firbis in his Ulidia) given by He was succeeded genealogical work, p. 510.
this
is

The pedigree of

Giraldus states Righe. the victor in this battle:

De Courcy was "Quintum apud Ponthat

by Rory Mac Donslevy, who is introduced in the interpolated Annals of Innisfallen as the
chieftain

tem luori

who opposed

in reditu

sua victor evasit."

ab Anglia, unde tamen ad But in the Annals of Ulster

Down,

in the first battle in

with that love of dull

John De Courcy at Dr. Hanmer, 177. invention which distinSir

1

40

emectNN.
-]

[1178.

fflupcaD ua cfpbaill cicchfpna Oipjiall

cu ulan
-]

mac

Duinnpleb'e

.1.

l?f

ula6 puabaipc bioDbab poppa gup po nrnpbao co leir Diob. Copcpacap ceD Do na gaoibealaib ua njeapna ua meic rnaca.

$up po bdbab
i

ceicpi ceo ppiorjuin an data im

namppec

ib Uuipcpe. Do ctnpc lap rcpioll DO opccain Dal apai6e If Deabaib Doporh Uucc Dona cumiDe ua plainn ricchfpna ua ccuipcpe pfp

<Cainic lohn

-]

-]

guished him, metamorphoses this Bory Mac Donslevy into Eoderic O'Conor, Monarch of
Ireland.

tended from this Glenree to Lough Erne, and

comprised the counties of Louth, Armagh, Monaghan, and in later ages the whole of the

The exact

situation of the valley of Glenree

had never been known to any Irish historical or topographical writer in modern times, till it was
identified

county of Fermanagh, as we learn from O'Dugan, who, in his togographical poem, places
Tooraah, the country of O'Flanagan, in the north-west of Fermanagh ; Lurg, the country of O'Muldoon, in the north of the same county ;

by the Editor

of this

work when em1

in ploy ed on the Ordnance Survey

834. Keating,

Duald MacFirbis, O'Flaherty, and all the ancient

Bardic writers of the history of Ireland, state
the territory of Oriel, deprived the Ultonians of that portion
that the three Collas,

and the entire of Maguire's country in it. That the county of Fermanagh was considered a part
sion of it,

who formed

of Oriel, at least since the Maguires got possesis further corroborated by the fact, that

kingdom extending from Gleann Eighe, and Loch n-Eathach, westwards. The general
of their

throughout these Annals Maguire is called the It is stated in a pillar and prop of the Oriels.
manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin (H. 3. 18. p. 783), that the boundary between Oriel and
Ulidia,

opinion was, that the territory of Oirghiall, or Oriel, comprised the present counties of Louth,

Armagh, and Monaghan, and that Uladli or

Ulidia, the circumscribed territory of the ancient Clanna Eury, was,

or ancient Ultonians,

or the Clann Colla and Clanna Eury, was made in the west side

when formed

into shire-

of Glenree from

ground, styled the county of Down, from Down, its principal town. This having been established,
the Editor, during his examination of the ancient

Newry upwards, and that the Clanna Eury never extended their territory beyond it. This boundary, which consists of a
fosse

topography of Ulster, was led to look for Glenree somewhere on the boundary between the counaccordingly, on the documents, he found that, on an examining ancient map of the country lying between Lough Erne and Dundalk, preserved in the
ties
;

and rampart of great extent, still remains in some places in tolerable preservation, and is
called

of

Armagh and

Down and

in English,

by the strange name of the Danes' Cast, ea " n na muice ouibe, i.e. and

Vattey of the Black Pig, in Irish.

For

minute

description of this ancient boundary the reader

is

referred to Stuart's Historical

Memoirs of the
III.,

State Papers' Office, the vale of the

is

called

"

Glenree," and the river

1

Newry Eiver " Owen itself

City of

Armagh, Appendix, No.

pp. 585,

586.
c

Glenree fiuvius.""

He

also

found that in the

Hy-Meith Macha.

Now

the barony of

Mo-

Ulster Inquisitions the remarkable place near

Newry

called

Fathom,

is

denominated Glenree

naghan, in the county of Monaghan. This was otherwise called Hy-Meith Tire, to distinguish
it

Magaffee.

Oriel,

or Oirghialla, anciently ex-

from Hy-Meith Mara, now Onieath, a moun-

1178.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

41

Murrough O'Carroll, Lord of Oriel, and Cooley Mac Donslevy, King of Ulidia, made a hostile attack upon them, and drowned and otherwise killed four hundred and fifty of them. One hundred of the Irish, together with O'Hanvy, c Lord of Hy-Meith-Macha fell in the heat of the battle. John De Courcy soon after proceeded to plunder Dalaradia and Hy-Tuirtre; and Cumee O'Flynn, Lord of Hy-Tuirtre and Firlee d gave battle to him and
,

tainous district lying between Carlingford and Newry, in the county of Louth. This is evident

Ii

may be

curious to remark here, as an ex-

ample of the

manner

in

which

Irish history has

from the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, published by Colgan, and from the Irish Calendars, which
place in
it

been manufactured by English writers, how Dr. Hanmer changes the Ferly of Cambrensis into

and Kilmore,

the churches of Tehallan, Tullycorbet, all situated in the present barony

Ferny

and attempts by the sheer force of

to

impudence
instance.

break down his evidence in this

of Monaghan ; and the former authority states that the place called Omna Benne was on the

boundary between

it

and Crich Mughdhorn, now

says that Cambrensis lightly the achievements of De Courcy, overskipped partly upon private grudge, for that Sir John

He

"

the barony of Cremourne, in the county of Monaghan. For the descent of the Hy-Meith, see

De Courcy
in Ireland,

allowed him not for Vicar-general 1 and secretary to the state ; yet that

Mac

O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part iii. c. 76 ; and Duald Firbis's Pedigrees. Harris is totally incor-

the certainty of his exploits hath been preserved,

rect in his account of the situation of the districts called

vol.
d
ii.

Hy-Meith

See his edition of Ware,

and in Latine, committed to paper by a Fryer in the North, the which booke Oneil brought to Armagh, and was translated into English by
[George] Dowdall, Primate there Anno 1551." If, however, the account which Hanmer gives
of this battle, in direct opposition to Giraldus and the Irish Annals, has been taken from this

p. 51.

Firlee, pip li, a tribe and territory situated on theBann, in the county of Antrim. Ogygia,

See note under the year 1176. part Grinldui Cambrensis writes this name Ferly,
iii.

c.

76.

and

states that

here,

De Courcy fought his third battle where he lost all his men except eleven.
:

book, it would appear to be a work compiled at a comparatively modern period, and perhaps first written in Latin on paper as he states. Hanmer
(or his author)

" Tertium erat apud Ferly in Prsedse captione, vbi ob arctam viae transitum

His words are

not knowing the situation of

sic post graues tandem congressus & anxios lohannis victa succubuit, aliis interemptis, pars
:

Ferly, found no difficulty in changing the name to Ferny, a well-known territory in Oriel, in which the Mac Mahons were noted rebels in

aliis

per nemora dispersis, vt vix lohanni 11.

Ipse vero vir-

Hanmer's time
Sir

and takes occasion to introduce

1 1

milites superstites adhsesissent.

tutis

inuicta:

cum

tantilla

suorum paucitate
multitudine con-

John De Courcy in the rebel Mac Mahon.

78, as fighting against

it is

Now

worthy of

re-

per 30. milliaria se

ab

hostili

mark here

tinue defendendo, equis amissis omnibus vsq; ad Castrum suum duobus diebus & noctibus, ieiunii, arinati

that Hanmer's cotemporary, Spenser, writes that Mac Mahou was of English descent,

and that the

first

of them, an Englishman,

named

pedites,

miro conatu mcmoriaq; digHiber. Expugnata,

1. ii.

nissimo euaserunt."

c.

16.

Fitu-Ursula, came to Ireland with his relative Robert deVere, Earl of Oxford [1385], and de-

42 co na jallaib ipuibe. pacpaic, coluim cille

[1178.

Ro meabaio
-)

poppa.

bpenamn.
i

Ocup

a nap epia rhiojibailib lohn pein ap eccin ap co eeapna

l?o cuip

cpeaccnaishce co painic co hac [cliar]. nac cliar Conprapla pij Sa^an

pocpaiDe DO cocc 50 cluain mic noip. Do pome Dia 1 cicche an eappcoip.

naiprfp mibe co na T?o aipgpfo an baile ace na cempaill

(.1.

hugo),

-|

"] ciapdn miopbaile poillpi poppa, uaip cararh no rionabpab Do Dfnarh gup po elaibpfo a cuipp ni po cumaingpfo cluana apabapac.

Qbann na gaillme Do cpacchab ppi pe laice aicfnca. Na po baiDiO umre 6 cen co na hiapcc Do cionol la luce an Dum
ccoiccmne.
generating into a wild Irishman, changed his to Mac Mahon, which is a translation of
Fitz-Ursula, or son of the bear.

huile
~\

aiDme
i

an npi

Courcy

many
is

gifts,

and made him his Goship,

name

which

a league of amitie highly esteemed in

Both

stories

Ireland.
Castles,

were evidently invented to turn them to account against the Mac Mahons of Ferny and Oriel who
were then very troublesome to the government. But it is well known that the Mac Mahons were
not chiefs of Oriel, or Uriel, in
for it appears,
all

Whereupon Courcy gave him two with their demesnes, to hold of him. Within one month after, this Mac Mahon [recte
O'Lyn], returning to his vomit, brake downe the Castles, and made them even with the
ground.
Sir John

De

Courcy's time,

De

Courcy sent unto him

from the concurrent testimony of the Irish annals, that O' Carroll was then king

to

know

the cause that

moved him

to

fall

to

this villanie: his

or chief lord of Oriel, and that the

Mac Mahons,
some

not to
it

answer was, that he promised hold stones of him, but the land, and that

who

are a collateral branch of the O'Carrolls,

as chiefs of Oriel for

were not heard of

time after
history in

De

Courcy's disappearance from Irish 1205. Hanmer manufactures the

was cpntrary to his nature to couche himself within cold stones, the woods being so nigh, where he might better warme himself, with
other slender and scornefull answers."

He

then

story as follows,

and his version of

it is

gravely

quoted as true history by Cox, Leland, Ledwich, and Stuart, who were not able to detect the forgery,
cessor

goes on to give a detailed account of a prey taken, and a battle fought, in which, of the
eleven thousand Irishmen,

but each echoing the

:

tale of his prede-

escaped with

their

lives.

only two hundred But the Doctor is

Courcy fought was in Ferny, against eleven thousand Irishmen the occasion was thus, Courcy had
:

" The third battaile that Sir John

De

obliged to confess that there was a totally different account of this battle (alluding to that

already quoted from Cambrensis), which, howhe feels inclined not to believe " There
ever,
:

builded

many
[recte

Castles throughout Vlster, and

" are," he says,

some out of the schoole of envy,

especially in

Mahon

Ferny [recte Ferly], where Mac O'Lyn] dwelled this Mac Mahon [recte O'Lyn] with solemn protestations vowed to become a true and faithful
;

grace to disgrace Courcy, that report the story otherwise, which deliver not wherein he

with

was

to

be honoured, but wherein he was

la

foiled,

subject,

gave

fortuna de

guerra

that he was driven, with

1178.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

43

and defeated them with great slaughter, through the miracles of and John himself escaped with difficulty, Patrick, Columbkille, and Brendan 6 being severely wounded, and fled to Dublin
his foreigners,
;
.

The
Hugo)

Constable of the King of England in Dublin and East Meath (namely, marched with his forces to Clonmacnoise, and plundered all the

God and Kieran wrought town, except the churches and the bishop's houses. a manifest miracle against them, for they were unable to rest or sleep, until
they had secretly absconded from Cuirr Cluana on the next day. The Kiver Galliv (Gal way) was dried up for a period of a natural day f all the articles that had been lost in it from remotest times, as well as its fish, were
;

collected
general.

by the inhabitants of the

fortress,

and by the people of the country

in

eleven persons in armes, to travaile a foote some

30. miles, for the space of
still

dayes, the enemy which they lay not downe), pursuing (the

two

Machaire Chonaille, and Cuailgne, and took a prey of a thousand cows but Murrough O'Car;

roll,

King of
;

Oriel

Mulrony O'Boylan, Chief of

all fasting

without any

relief, till

he came to an

OLD

Castle of his owne,

which savoureth not

and Gillapatrick O'Hanvy, Chief of Mugdorna [Cremourne], pursued and overtook

Dartry

altogether of truth, but forwards with the history."

p.

them

a battle ensued, in which the English

Hanmer's

Chronicle, Dubl.

edit.

1809,

309.
Dublin, or cliac

were routed, and deprived of the prey ; and John De Courcy betook himself for shelter to
the castle of Skreen-Columbkille, which he himself

The

latter part of this

;

name

autograph original but is here restored from Maurice Gorman's copy, which had been made from the autograph before
is

destroyed in the

had

built."

Hanmer gives
sion,
is

a strange version of this excur-

evidently from the Book of Howth, whicli

the edge of the paper was

to

worn away. The place

a collection of traditional stories, written

by

which De Courcy fled on this occasion is not mentioned in the Annals of Ulster or those of
Kilronan, or in the Dublin or Bodleian copy of the Annals of Innisfallen ; and it is highly pro-

an Anglo-Irish Romancer in the fifteenth or sixteenth century.

f

aicneb

Natural day, laice aiceanca. The word is used in ancient Irish writings to de-

bable that he fled to Downpatrick, not to Dublin. Under this year the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster has a brief notice of

in his

note nature, and aiceanra, natural. O'Flaherty, Account of lar-Connaught (printed for

an attack

upon John De Courcy in the territory of Cuailgne, which is not in any of the other Annuide

the Archasological Society), notices this occurrence as follows, from which it will be seen that

any other year, except the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen, in which it is entered under the year 1 1 80, as folnals,

under

this or

he had other Annals besides those of the $\>ur Masters " There is an island, where the river
:

issues

from

the lake,

now

called

Olen

na

lows

mbrahar, or the Fryars Isle, but anciently Olen na gclereagh, i. e. the Clergy's Isle for the Irish
;

"A.

D. 1180.

John De Courcy plundered

Annals mention

that,

anno 1178, from midnight

[1178.

TTlaibm pia nape ua maoilechlamn, -| pia nuib pailje, ]im n^allaib Hlhaoileachlainn mbCcc, ~\ pop Dpeim Do pfpaib belbna eacpa, pop pop
-] -|

cfchba DU

mapbab TTluipeaDhac mac an rpionnaigh. C(o6 ua plaicbfpraij cicclifpna mpuaip Connacc Do ecc
in

po

neanach

Duin.

Qmaljaib mag amalgam Do mapbab la pol nanmchaoha. TTlaelpeclainn bfcc ua maoileclainn Do gabdil cije pop Qpc ua maoiplann mac meg arhaljaib caoipeac ap, ann la TTlaelpeclainn. calpaije Do mapbab
leaclamn,
]

Qpc Do ceapnub
river

-\

to noon.
Isle to

Galway

the sea; and

much

became dry from Clergy fish, and goods long

found by the people of See note under the
This was originally a

of the territories of Leix and Ophaly, made in the reign of Philip and Mary, the original of

afore

drowned

therein,

which on vellum
tish

is

now

preserved in the Bri-

the town."

pp. 28, 29-

year 1191.
*

copies in the MS. Library of Trinity College, Dublin, and at the Ordnance

Museum, and

Offaly,

Ui police

very extensive territory in Leinster, and the Before the principality of the O'Conors Faly.
English invasion it comprised the present baronies of eastern and western Ophaly, in the County of Kildare, those of upper and lower
Philipstown, and those of Geshil, Warrenstown, and Coolestown, in the King's County, as well
as those of Portnahinch

Survey Office, Phoenix Park, Dublin. See note on Clann Maoilughra, or Clanmaliere, under the
year 1193.
h

Dealbhna Eathra,

called

Dealbhna Meg

Cochlain in these Annals, at the years 1572 and 1601. This territory comprised the entire of
the present barony of Garrycastle in the King's County, except the parish of Lusmagh, which

and Tinnahinch, in the

belonged

to Sil

Anmchadha, or O'Madden's

Queen's County.

vasion, however, wrested from O'Conor Faly and his correlatives

Shortly after the English inthe Fitzgeralds of Kildare

country, and which is still a part of the diocese of Clonfert. See Colgan's Acta Sanctorum, p. 1 32, col. 2 ; Keating, in the reign of Niall
Cailne
;

portion of his original territory of Ui Failghe comprised within the present county of
that

O'Flaherty's Ogygia,

part

iii.

c.

82

and De Burgo's Hibernia Dominicana, pp. 305,

306.
'

Kildare, and

now

called the baronies of eastern

and western Ophaly. There were then two Ophalys formed out of the ancient Ui Failghe,
namely, the English Ophaly, in the county of Kildare, giving the title of baron to a branch of
the Fitzgeralds ; and the Irish Ui Failghe, exinto the present King's and Queen's tending
Counties, as already specified, and giving the Irish title of King of Ui Failghe to O'Conor
Faly, the supposed senior representative of Rosa Failghe, the eldest son of Cathaoir Mor, monarch

Aniuidown,

Gunuch Oum, an

ancient cathe-

dral on the

margin of Lough Corrib, in the See" barony of Clare, and county of Galway f note infra, A. D. 1 179.
,

Sil- Anmchadha.

This was the tribe name

also applied to their

of the O'Maddens,

and was

country, which

ages comprised the of Longford in the county of Galway, barony and the parish of Lusmagh in the King's County,
in latter

on the east

side of the

Shannon.

See Tribes
Irish

of Ireland in the second century.

herty's Oyygia, part
iii.

See O'Fla-

ami Customs efHy-Mtmy, published by the

c.

59, and an old map

x Archaeological Society in 1843, p. 69, note .

1178.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

victory
,

45

was gained by Art O'Melaglilin, the people of Offaly g and the Delvin Eathra" and Melaghlin Beg, and a party of English, over the people of the men of Teffia; in the battle, Murray, the son of the Sinnagh (the Fox), was slain.

his

Lord of West Connaught, died at Annadown k Awley Mac Awley was killed by the Sil-Anmchadha the house of Art O'Melaghlin, who made Melaghlin Beg O'Melaghlin took of Mac Awley chief of Calry, was killed escape out of it; but Flann, the son
1

Hugh

O'Flaherty,

by Melaghlin
the chief of Calry an chala, which comprised the parish of Bally loughloe, in the county of Westmeath.
1

Mac Awley

He was

Brandon

Hill, in

Kerry, was desolated.

In the
it

Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen

is

m The Bodleian copy of the Annals of

actions of the English in Munster,

Innis-

stated, that during this war several of the Eugenian septs fled from their original territories.

fallen has the following brief notice of the trans-

which

is

omitted by the Four Masters: A. D. 1178. Copcach DO mpiuD la mac true t)orinnaill

"A. D. 1178. There was a very great war between the O'Briens and Mac Carthys, so that they desolated the entire country from Limerick
to Cork,

and from the plain of Derryrnore to

Hill,
fled to the

ua Capihaij;
TTlilio

Popbaip la 7 la jullaib jlapa. Occam 7 la Hlac Scemni Copcaij.

i

Brandon
of

Eoghan

and the greater part of the race woods of Ivahagh, south

la buoin Dib 50 h-Gcliao Da eo, 50 po Da la, 7 Da eochi innci, 7 appm 50 baoap

Gupup

of the River Lee, and others to

mond. On

this occasion the

Kerry and ThoHy-Conaill Gabhra

Copcaij; apip ooib.

lap pin Doib ap

ammup

Puipclaipje 50 po climolpacap na ^aeoil cucu illanaipoe lip mop, 50 po mapbaic ule

and the Hy-Donovane fled southwards over the Mangartan mountain."

Dr. O'Brien, in his History of the House of
O'Brien,
in the first

Cork was plundered by the of Donnell, who was the grandson of grandson Carthach and the green Galls. Cork was beD. 1178.
sieged by Milo Cogan and Fitz Stephen. party of their people made an excursion to

pene. " A.

name, Rebus Hibernicis, thus very correctly paraphrases this passage. "A. D. 1178. Donal O'Brien, at
distressed

published by Vallancey, in his own volume of the Collectanea de

the head of the entire Dal Cassian tribe, greatly and reduced all the Eugenians, laid
fire

Aghadoe, where they remained two days and two nights, and then returned again to Cork.
After this they went towards Waterford
the Irish gathered against
;

waste their country with

and sword, and

but
of

obliged the dispersed Eugenians to seek for shelter in the woods and fastnesses of Ive

Lismore, and nearly killed Under this year also the same Annals record a
desolating

them at the them all."

hill

Eachach, on the south side of the Lee.

In this

war between the

Irish inhabitants of

Thomond and Desmond, during which

the whole

expedition they routed the O'Donovans of IveFigeinte, or Cairbre Aodhbha, in the county of Limerick, and the O'Collins of Ive-Conaill Gabhra, or Lower Connallo in said county, be-

country extending from Limerick to Cork, and from the plain of Derryrnore, near Koscrea, to

yond the mountain of Mangerton, ern parts of the county of Cork

to the west:

here these

46

uiohachca
QO1S CR1OSO
Cloip Cjiiopo mile, ceo,

[1179-

1179.
naoi.

peaccmogar, a

Cuacal ua Connachcaij eppcop cfpe bpiuin caiman ua fcannlamaipcinneac cluana, giollu Dorhnaij ua popanndin aipcinneac apoa pparha,
-|

TTlaelmaipe

mac

giollu

colmain Secnap apoa ppaca DO ecc.

being powerfully
of Limerick

two exiled Eugenian

assisted

families,

by the O'Mahonys, made new settlements for themselves in the ancient properties
of the O'Donoghues, O'Learies, and O'Driscolls, to which three families the O'Mahonys were

Ui Piojeince pe paionop clap Concae luimnig aniu History of Ireland ;

:

Reign of Diarmaid Mac Ceirbheoil and Conall

Caol. in his Ogygia, pp. 380,

O'Flaherty has the following notice of it 381 "Anno 366. Crim:

always

declared enemies,

to

the

borders

of

thannus films Fidachi Heberio e semine Achaio

Lough Leane, where Auliff Mor O'Donoghue, surnamed Cuimsinach, had made some settlements before
year 1200.
this epoch."

Mogmedonio
nise

sororio

suo Temorise extremum

diem quiete claudenti substituitur Rex Hiberaunis tredecim.

See note under the

Transmarinis expeditio:

The
to

territory of Hy-Figeinte, here referred

its

nibus in Gallia, et Britannia ineinorabilis erat uxorem habuit Fidengam e regio Connactise
stemnate, sed nullam sobolem reliquit.

by Dr. O'Brien, derived

name from the

descendants of Fiacha Figeinte, son of Daire Cearb, who was the son of Oilioll Flannbeg,

" Crimthanni regis abavus Fiachus latus vertex rex Momonias duos Olillos genuit Flannmor
et

King

of Munster, in the latter part of the third

century, and comprised the barony of Coshma, and all that portion of the present county of

Flannbeg cognominibus distinctos. Olillus Flannmor rex Momoniae sobolis expers Olillum
Olillo Flannbeg Flannbeg fratrem adoptavit. Momonia: superant Achaius rex Momonia:, regi

Limerick lying to the west of the Eiver Maigue.

Its situation is thus described in the Life of St.

Darius Kearb, ex quo O'Donnowan, Lugaduis

et Eugenius.

Molua, who was

geiiite
:

descended from Fiacha Fidh-

" Et venit [Molua] ad Mumeniam, et

.i.

lustravit patriam

qua- gens est in

suam, Nepotes Fidgenti, medio Mumenie, a media planicie Mumenie usque ad medium Montis Luachra in occidente ad australem plagam fluminis Synna."
Vitce S,

" Darius Kearb prseter Fidachum Crimthanni et Mongfinnse reginaa Hibernise patrem regis, genuit Fiachum Figente, et

Achaium

Liatha-

nach, ex quo Hy-Liathan in agro Corcagiensi. Fiacho Figente nomen et originem debet Hy-

Molue, Abbatis

et

Confessoris, as in the

Codex Killkenniensis
14. F. 135.
lin,
i

in Marshe's Library, v. 3.

Figenta regio olim variis principibus Celebris in media Momonia? planicie usque ad medium

H.

3. 17. p.

In a MS. in Trinity College, Dub748, it is described thus hip

:

mentis Luachra in Kierrigia ad australem Sinanni fluminis ripam ; licet hodie hoc nomine
vix nota, sed Limericensis comitatus planities
appellata."

frp u P'o"' 7

cpich hua piogfmbce o tuachaip 6pum co & P U P'5 co 6uaip. " The country
is

of the Hy-Fidgeinnte

from Luachair Bruin to

Keating

Bruree, and from Bruree to Buais."

describes this

Nothing has yet been discovered to prove whether the O' Donovans ever returned to their
original territory of Cairbre

territory as the plain of the county

Aobhdha, in the

117!).]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

47

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age

1179.

one hundred seventy-nine. of Christ, one thousand

Tuathal O'Connaghty, Bishop of Tir-Briuin"; Colman O'Scanlan, Erenagh and Mulmurry of Cloyne Gilladowny O'Forannan, Erenagh of Ardstraw
;
;

Mac

Gillacolum, seachnab" (prior) of Ardstraw, died.

that " in the time of Malachias

after this expulpresent county of Limerick, sion. It is stated in Lewis's Topograghical Dic-

Mac Aodha,
archbishope

of of

West Connaught

extraction,

that Dermot tionary, under the article Croom, O' Donovan was possessed of the territory of

Tuam

[ab an. 1313,

ad ann. 1348], after a long

Coshma

in the reign of

King John, when he

debate for many years before and in his time, the cathedrall of Enaghdun was, anno 1321,

built the Castle of Croom on the River Maigue; but the Editor has not been able to discover

united to the see of Tuam, by the finall decision of Pope John the Twenty-second." Duald Mac
Firbis
states,

any original or trustworthy authority for this statement. It would appear, however, that all
the

in his Genealogical work, that

Clann-Donovan were not driven out of

Aodh, the son of Eochaidh Tirmcharna, was the first that granted Eanach Duin to God and St.
Brendan.
Erenagh,

Aobhdha in 1 178, as the name has been common in many parts of the county of very
Cairbre

Gipcinneac

This term

is
:

exaip-

Limerick, particularly the parish of Kilmoylan ; and in the year 1551, John Donevan, Rector of
Derrygallavan, in the diocese of Limerick, obtained a grant of denization.
(Inrolled 5

plained as follows in

Cormac's Glossary

cin&ech

.1.

apcenbach, apcop jjpece, ercelpup

lacine oicicup.
.).

Edw.

uapal-ceno

Qipcmoecli Din .1. epceno oj, comlan. " Airchindech, i. e.

erchend ogh,
e.

VI.
n

f.

r.

19.)

arcendach, archos Grece excehus Latine dicitur.

Bishop of Tir-Briuin.
as Tir

territories in Ireland called Tir

There were many Briuin and Hy-

Airchindech then,

i.

e.

i.

a noble

Briuin,

Briuin

Breifne, Ily- Briuin Seola, &c.

na Sinna, Hy-Briuin Sir James Ware

perfect head." In theLeabkarBreac, fol.76, a, b, the term is used to denote a president or super-

intendent, and

is

applied to Satan,

who

is

styled

mentions a Tuathal O'Connachtaigh, Bishop of Hua mbriuin, which he explains by Enaghdune,

as attending

"

A irchinneck

of hell and prince of death," cup-

at the Council of Kells in 1152,

cinoech ippipn 7 cafpech in baip. The first mention made of this office in these Annals occurs at the year 788.

who would appear to be the same whose death is here recorded, for Enaghdune was the capital of
the Hy-Briuin Seola, or O'Flahertys, and their correlatives. See Ussher's Primordia, p. 955.

cinoeach Cpepoib moip, oecc,

Thus t)oimreach, aip" Doimhe.

i.

theach, airchinneach of the great Trevet, died." From this period forward, however, all the annalists frequently

Roderic O'Flaherty, in his account of the territory of lar-Connaught, states that the cathedral of the seigniory of the O'Flahertys was "Enaghdun, dedicated to St. Brendan, the 16th of May,

in his Treatise

mention this office. Ussher, on Corbes, Herenachs, and Ter-

mon

Lands, published in the second

Number

of

Vallancey's Collectanea, asserts that the office of

Anno

Christi 577, there deceased, in the barony

Herenach and Archdeacon was the same

and

of Clare, on the brink of

Lough Orbsen."

But

Connell Mageoghegan, in his Translation of the

48

aNNdta Rio^hachua
Qpo maca Dolopccab
ecci|i

eirceciNN.

[1179.

cemplaib

-|

pecclfpaib ace pecclfp bpicchDe

ceampall na ppfpca namd. Cealla cipe heojam o pleb buD ofp Do polmujab cpe coccab, i com~\

ua neachoac Do ecc Do galop rpi noibci lap na puabacdn cicchfpna canoine pacpaicc Do jap poirhe. lonnapbab cpe pdpuccab Do cloinn nDiapmaDa uile Sfb DO bfham Do bonnchab ua caipealldin la hua nsaipmleabaij, amlaib mac mfnman Dfpbpacaip la cenel TTloen mnd an oonnchaib pempaice. ba hann po naibmpfo a pf6 pe apoile

puachab, cepce,

oocmacaiD.

Ua

-|

-j

pibe

na heaccailpe fpin, Dorhnaij moip ceampall apDa ppara po mionnaib na hfpname. Uainic Dona ua gaipmleaDaig .1. arhlaoib ap na rhapac Do DonncaiD ui caipeallain Ro mapbab pom cuingeab cuilleab pldna co ceac an cighe ppiabnaipi a Dfpbpeaap lap an aipeachca a noopup
]

po cfooip

rop
.1.

.1.

bfn Donncaba.

Ro mapbab
ui

beop cpiup Dia muinncfp

maille ppipp

cionafb

mac

aipc

bpacdin,

-|

mac

giollu

cpiopD mec copbmaic mec

peoDain .1. Dfpb comalca Donncaib ui caipeallain. QpDppaca Domnac mop an Gapnaibe

********

DO polmujab la pfpaib maighe hiche.

Annals of Clonmacnoise, always renders aipcmnech by archdeacon. In this, however, it is
founded the church, and called it by the name of that saint, and then gave the land to some
clerke, not being in orders,

more than probable that both Ussher and Mageoghegan are mistaken.
another term to express the

and to his heires

for

The

annalists

have

office of

archdeacon,

with this intent, that he should keep the church clean and well repaired, keep hospitality,
ever
;

and

it is

quite certain that the archdeacon was

always in holy orders, whereas the airchinnech

and give almes to the poore, for the soul's health of the founder. This man and his heires had

was always a layman, or

at least

one

who had

merely received primam tonsuram. The origin and duties of the office of Herenach are stated
as follows to

name of Erenach. The Erenach was also to make a weekly commemoration of the founder
the
in the

church

he had always

primam

tonsuram,
a voice in

John Davies, in his letter " For the Erenach the Earl of Salisbury

by

Sir

but took no other orders.

the chapter,

He had

when they

consulted about their

There are few parishes of any compass or extent where there is not an Erenach, which, being an
office

revenues, and paid a certaine yearly rent to the Bishop, besides a fine upon the marriage of every

of the Church, took beginning in this

man-

nef

lord or gentleman had a direction to build a church, he did first dedicate some
:

when any

of his daughters, which they call a Loughinipy ; he gave a subsidy to the Bishop at his first entrance into the bishoprick, the certainty of
all

good portion of land to some saint or other, whom he chose to be his patron ; then he

which duties appears in the Bishop's Register ; and these duties grew unto the Bishop, first be-

1179-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

,

49

Armagh was

q burned, as well churches as regleses excepting only Regies

Brighde and Teampull na bh-Fearta. The churches of Tyrone, from the mountain southwards, were left in consequence of war and intestine commotion, famine, and distress.

desolate,

O'Rogan, Lord of Iveagh, died of three nights' sickness, shortly after he

had been expelled for violating the Canoin-Phatruigr peace was concluded by Donough O'Carellan and
.

all

the Clandermot

with the Kinel-Moen and O'Gormly

(i.

e.

Auliffe, the son of Menman, brother-

This peace was concluded between them in-law of the aforesaid Donough). in the church of Ardstraw, upon the relics of that church and those of Donagh-

more and Urney. On the following day, O'Gormly (Auliife) repaired to the house of Donough O'Carellan to demand further guarantees, but was killed in the middle of the meeting, in the doorway of the house, in the presence of
his

own

sister,
;

along with him son of Cormac Mac Reodan, the foster-brother of

Ardstraw', Donaghmore, Urney, desolated by the men of Magh Ithe.

the wife of Donough. Three of his people were also killed namely, Kenny, son of Art O'Bracan the son of Gilchreest,
;

**************

Donough O'Carellan

5
.

were

cause the Erenach could not be created, nor the

church dedicated without the consent of the

Bishop." P Seachnab
nals,

scription of this manuscript written by the famous Antiquary Lhuyd, and published by Dr.

O'Conor

in his

Rerum Hibernicarum
Ivii, Iviii,

Scriptores,

At
is

Seachnab

the year 1089 of these Anexplained by Prior : in Cor-

vol.

i.

Epist. Nunc. pp.

with an English translation,

and reprinted, by Sir William

mac's Glossary
i.

e.

vice abbot.

explained secundus abbas, The Irish word peach has the

it is

Betham, in his Antiquarian Researches, and in

the original Latin in Petrie's Essay on the

Round

same

signification in
vice,

compound words
viceroy,

as the
vicere-

Towers of Ireland, pp. 329, 330.

This passage shews that O'CaChief of the Clandermot, had seized upon rellan,
*

English
gent, &c.
q

in vicepresident,

O'Carellan.

Regies seems to have been abbreviated from

that part of Moy-Ithe, O'Gormly's country, in

the Latin Eegidaris ecclesia, and means a church belonging to the regular, not the secular
clergy.

which Donaghmore-Moy-Itha was

c

situated.

O'Flaherty says
p. 16.
r

it is

an ecclesiastical word of no
Ogygia,

great antiquity in the Irish language.

Ardstraw, 6pt> ppara, an ancient church in Tyrone, formerly the head of a bishop's see, of which Bishop Eoghan, or Eugenius was patron,
festival was annually celebrated there on the 23rd of August, as was that of Bishop Coibhdhenach on the 26th of November. See

whose
is

Canoin-Phatruig

the old

name

of the

ancient manuscript book of the Gospels, comSee a demonly called the Book of Armagh

the Felire \denguis, and Irish Calendar of the

50

[1180.

Coicc cije ap ceo DO lopccab hi ccluain mic noip hi ppojail. Cluain pfpca bpfnainn co na cfmplaib Do lopccaD.
Locpa, apopeapra bpenainn, Caipiol, ceallmf&oin -| balla, miopiohe Do lopccaD

cuaim Da jualann, Dipfpe ceallaij,

uile.

Do ecc. TTlaelpeaclamn ua maoilmiaDaij raoipeac muinnripe heolaip na paichne Do ecc. lorhap ua cacapaigh cijeapna TTIaoileaclainn piabac o peachnapaijj cicceapna leice cenel QoDa DO mapbaD la mac DonnchaiD f carail.

QO18 CR1OSO

1180.
,

Qoip CpiopD mile, ceD, ochDmojarc.

Lopcan ua ruarail
.1.

labpap aipDeppoc

laijfn, i lejairr

na hfpeann Do

maprpaDh
nexed
1266

hi Sajeain.
of Kerry,
Tralee,

O'Clerys' at these days. It was afterwards anto the see of Clogher ; but about the year
it

about four miles to the north of

the
ruins
of several ancient

where

was separated from the see of Clogher,

churches are
y

still

to be seen.

with other churches in the territory of HyFiachrach Arda Sratha, in the gift of the Kinel-

Disert-Kelly, t)ipepc
is

Cealtai j

The name
and
is

now

corruptly anglicised Isertkelly,

Owen, and incorporated with the

donderry.

see of
p.

Lon857
;

See Ussher's Primordia,

in the applied to an ancient church and parish diocese of Kilmacduagh, situated to the south-

O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part iii. c. 76 ; and Ordnance Memoir of the Parish of Templemore.
"

west of the town of Loughrea, in the county of Galway. See Ordnance Map of the county of

Clonfert- Brendan,

Cluain pepca bpenainn.

Galway, sheet 114.

1

The church of

Clonfert, the head of an ancient

Kilmaine, Cill

meabom,

i.

e.

the middle

bishop's see, in the barony of Longford, and county of Galway.

church, a small village in a barony to which it has given name in the south of the county of

Lorha, torpa

small village in the ba-

Mayo, and not

a

far

from the boundary of the

rony of Lower Ormond, about six miles to the

north of Burrisokeane.

county of Galway.
Batta, or Bed, 6alla, a village containing the

Here are the ruins of two abbeys of considerable extent, but none of
an antiquity prior to the Anglo-Norman invasion, though St. Rodanus, the patron of the
place,

ruins of an ancient church and round tower in

a parish. of the same name, in the barony of Carra, and county of Mayo, and about eight
miles south-east of Castlebar.

in the sixth

had erected a primitive Irish abbey here For an account of Rocentury.

the reader
is

See Life of St.

danus,

referred to his Life,

as

Mochua, published by Colgan, in rum, at 30th of March.

b

Ada

Sancto-

published by the Bollandists, at 25th April.

Muintir-Eolais.

This territory, which after-

*4rdfert-rendan,vovf Ardfert, in the county

wards became the principality of Mac-Rannall,

1180.]

ANNALS
five

OF-

THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

51

One hundred and

datory incursion.

houses were burned in Clonmacnoise, during a prechurches, were burned.

Clonfert-Brendan", with
a
,

its

Lorha", Ardfert-Brendan*, Cashel,

Balla

Tuam, Disert-Kelly

y
,

Kilmaine

2
,

and

were

all

burned.

Melaghlin O'Mulvey, Chief of Muintir-Eolais, died". Ivor O'Casey, Lord of the Saithne died.
,

Melaghlin Eeagh O'Shaughnessy, Lord of half the

killed

territory of Kinelea,

was

by the son of Donough

O'Cahill".

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of Lorcan O'Toole,
land, suffered
i.

1180.
eighty.

Christ, one

thousand one hundred

e.

Lawrence, Archbishop of Leinster and Legate of

6

Ire-

martyrdom

in England.
present
alienuerat, terrain videlic. Ocathesi

comprised the southern

half of the

&

alias

quam

county of Leitrim. It extended from Slieve-inierin and Lough Allen to Slieve Carbry, and
to the west of Ballinamuck, in the county of

plures ad
d

Regiam mensam cum omni

sollicitu-

dine reuocauit."
CPCahitt,

ua carail.

O'Shaughnessy shortly

Longford, and contained the castles of Rinn,

afterwards became lord of

Lough-skur, and Leitrim, and the monasteries of Fiodhnacha Muighe Eein, now Fenagh, Maothail,

all the territory of Kinelea, and the O'Cahills sunk into compara-

now Mohill, and Cluain Conmaicne^ now Cloone. The mountains of Slieve-in-ierin are
placed in this territory by the ancient writers. c Saithne, an ancient territory in EastMeath, the
ancient inheritance of the O'Caseys.

This territory comprised the southern half of the diocese of Kilmacduagh, in

tive insignificance.

the south-west of the county of Galway, and contained the churches of Kilmacduagh, Beagh,

The Saithne,

and Kilbecanty, and the dane, and Ardmulduane.

e

castles

of Gort, Fe-

or O'Caseys, are descended from Glasradh, the second son of Cormac Gaileng, who was of the

Suffered martyrdom

This
stated

is

a mistake of the
this year in

Four

Masters, for it

is

under

Munster

race,

and

settled here

under King CorSee O'Fla-

mac Mac Art,

in the third century.

iii. c.

the Bodleian and Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen, as well as in the Annals of Boyle,

herty's Ogygia, part

Irish Pedigrees.

69

and Mac Firbis's

states, in

Giraldus Cambrensis
ii.

and in Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, that he died [a natural death ?]
in France.

his Hiber. Expugnata, lib.

c.

24, that Philippus

The

fact

is

that St. Laurence O'Toole

Wigorniensis seized

on the lands of O'Cathesie, to the king's use, though Hugh de Lacy had " Inter formerly sold them. ipsa igitur operum

died in the monastery of

Augum, now Eu,

in

suorum

initialia,

terras,

quas

Hugo de Lacy

Normandy, but an attempt had been made by a maniac to murder him at Canterbury in 1175, and this is the martyrdom alluded to by the Four 2

[1180.

TTlacpaic ua oaijpe aipcinneach ooijie [oo ecc]. Rajnall ua caiyieallam Do rhayibab la cenel TTloain
cille

neneac colaim

pop lap

t>oipe

coknm

pabfin.
zelo siue gentis, utferebatur, impetrata,

Masters.
tice

Ussher has the following curious noof this distinguished prelate in his Veterum

Anglorum

Epislolarum Hibernicarum Sylloge, note to the Brief of Pope Alexander III., Epist. xlviii. Anno
Christi 1179
:

Regi suspectum fuisse, libro 2. Expugnat. Hibern. cap. 23. narrat Giraldus Cambrensis. Eo
tempore, Dubliniensi suss Metropoli prsesens hoc impetratum est ab eo privilegium, ex antiquo
Dubliniensis Archiepiscopi Eegesto, quad Crede mild appellant, a nobis exscriptum. Obiit apud

"Est hie LaurentiusO'Tolus; cujus Vitam ab Augiensis Collegii monacho descriptam tomo 6.
Vit. Sanctor.

Novemb.

14. inseruit

Laurentius

Patrem habuit, ut author ille indicat, Muriartach sive Mauricium O'Tuohail, ad quern
Surius.

Augiense Normannia? castrum (cujus Comes Eichardus Strongbous fuerat, qui Dubliniam & Lageniam, Laurentii sedem metropoliticam &
provinciam, ipso vivente

nan

modtea pars

Hibernice, quce Lagenia dicitur,

&

vidente subjugavit:)

iure Itcereditario pertinebat :

(ita

matrem IngenYbruin
Vita3, quse ego habeo,

quum

patrise ab Anglis vastatse calamitatem de-

enim legunt duo hujus

plorasset, miserabiliter lingua

materna dicens

Manuscripta exemplaria) idest,JiliamPrincipis, ex Birnorum, ni fallor, familia. Annos natus

decem, Dermitio regi (qui alius ab
chardi
filio fuit,

illo

Mur-

imipiens ; quid jam facturus Quis sanabit aversiones tuas ? Quis miserebitur tui? 'Atque ita, xvm. Calendas Decemstulte 8f

Heu papule
es ?

a quo Angli in Hiberniam sunt introducti) a patre obses datus, durissime ab eo

bris,

cum

sextce ferice

terminus advenisset, in

habitus est

tus, et Ecclesiaa ministerio

post biennium vero patri restituab eo dicatus, sub

confinio Sabbati subsequentis spiritum sancti viri requies (sterna suscepit ; inquit vita eius scriptor.

Annum, quem
feriam
secutus
incidit.

ille tacet,

Annales nostri

assig-

magisterio Glindelacensis Episcopi vixit.

Cum
sive

nant 1180. quo et

14. dies

Novembris

in sextam

annorum

esset xxv. Ecclesise

S.

Comgeni
et

Keivini de Glindelach Abbas, Clero

postulantibus, constitutus est
:

populo id

Csar

Eogerus Hovedenus, & eum Baronius in Annalibus suis ad

ac

demum

Gre-

gorio Dubliniensi Archiepiscopo defuncto,

ad

sequentem annum male referunt. Nam ut ipse Rogerus postea confirmat, anno 1181. Henricus

Dubliniensem cathedram evectus, anno Domini

Gelasio totius Hibernice Primate, in ipsa Dubliniensi Ecclesid, multis Episcopis prcesen-

Rex

Anglice, filius
clerico suo,

Imperatricis,

dedit loanni

1162,

<z

Cumin

in Hibernid, viu.

Archiepiscopatum Divelimce Jdus Septembris apud Eues-

tibus,
est.

gratias agente populo, solemniter consecratus

Anno

1179.

una cum

Catholico

Tuamensi

ham. (ideoque Novembris dies 14. qui electionem hanc antecesserat, ad annum 1180, necessario
retrahendus
est.) et

Archiepiscopo et quinque vel sex Hibernite Episcopis Rornam ad Lateranense concilium profec-

anno 1182.

Lucius Papa
III.

III. ordinavit

loannem Cumin in sacerdotem

:

ubi omnes pro per Angliam transiit licentia transeundi iuraverunt, quod neque Regi,
turus,
:

Idus Martij apud Velletre

deinde consecravit

eum

in Archiepiscopum Divelinice xn. Calend.

neque regno eius rnodum in anni

damnum
illius

qucererent

quemadEogerus

Aprilis,

Dominica

in

ramis Palmarum, apud

historia refert

Hovedenus.

Laurentium tamen,

ob privilegia

in Lateranensi Concilia contra Regice dignitatis,

Calendar!) quoque ratio sufFragatur ; anno 1182. Dominicam Paschalem 28. .die quse In sanctorum Martij celebratam ftiisse docet.

Velletre, cui

1180.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

St.

53

Macraith O'Deery, Erenagh of Derry [died]. Randal O'Carellan was killed by the Kinel-Moen, in defence of
kille, in

Columb-

the middle of Derry-Columbkille.

relatus est Laurentius ab

vero

numerum

Hono-

Co

h-Qlriiam an ceoil coclaij,

rio III.

anno 1225. cujus canonizationis Bulla, data Reate, III. Id. Decembr. anno Pontificatus 10. habetur in Laertij Cherubini Bullario ;

dn peoip bappjlom bpaoncopcaij. " Pass across the Barrow, of the cattle abounding border,

tomo

pag. 49. edit.

Rom. anno 1617." For more

information about this distinguished prelate, the

reader
is

From the land rich in corn and honey, From Dinnree to the pleasant Maisdin (Mullamast),

referred to his Life, as published

in his Florilegium,

by

Messingham
siastical

and to De Burgo's
iv. p.

My journey is

repaid

by

their nobility.

Hibernia Dominicana. Dr. Lanigan in his Eccle-

O'Toole of the festive fortress,

Is over the vigorous

History of Ireland, vol.

174,

and
ii.

Hy-Muireadhaigh,

Mr. Moore, in his History of Ireland,

p.

vol.

308, state that Muirchertach, the father of

As far Of the
The

as

Almhuin of melodious music,

grassy, irriguous surface."

fair,

St. Laurence,

was prince of Imaile

but

this is

ancient Irish topographical

work

called

as great a mistake as that of the

author of St.
a son of the

Laurence's Life,

who makes him

Dinnsencfius, places in the territory of Ui Muiredhafgh, the old fort of Roeireann, which was

King

of

all

Leinster, for O'Toole

was

at this

situated on the top of the remarkable hill of

and territory of Hyperiod Lord of the tribe Muireadhaigh, called Omurethi by Giraldus,
comprising about the southern half of the present county of Kildare, to wit, the baronies of

Mullach Roeireann, now Mullagh-Reelion, about

five miles to the south-east of Athy, in the

county

of Kildare.

of this territory is preserved even to the present day in that of the

The name

Kilkea and Moone, Narragh and Rheban, and

a part of the barony of Connell. It was bounded on the north by the celebrated hill of Allen, on

deanery of Omurthie, which, according to the Regal Visitation Book of 1615, comprises the
following parishes, in the county of Kildare,
viz.,

the north-west by Offaly, which it met at the Curragh of Kildare, and on the west byLaoighis or Leix, from which it was divided by the River

Athy, Castlereban, Kilberry, Dollardstown, Nicholastown, Tankardstown, Kilkea, Grange- Rosnolvan, Belin, Castledermott, Grange, Moone,

Barrow. According to O'Heerin's topographical O'Teige was the ancient chief of Imaile (which was a very small district), but 'O'Toole was Lord of Hy-Muireadhaigh, which extended
poem,
along the Barrow northwards as far as the hill of Almhuin, now Allen
:

Timoling, Narraghmore, Kilcullen, Usk. And " this authority adds Adjacent to the deanery of Omurthie is the parish church of Damenoge
:

[now Dunamanoge], and the parish church of

Fontstown."
land, second Edition,

See Ledwich's Antiquities of Irewhere the author p. 294,

I

Cpiall cap 6eapba an Buipb ealaij,

O'n

cip locluiiaip uiprhealai j,

TTIaipoin mip,

ignorantly assumes that Omurethi was 0' Moore Soon after the death of St. Laurence the
O'Tooles, or O'Tuathails, were driven from this
beautiful and fertile district of

Dmopi^ co

Oo

6iol m'uipcip o

a n-uaiple.

Omurethi by

O'Cuarail un rhuip meaoaij, Qp Uib meapba ITIuipeaoaij,

the Baron Walter de Riddlesford, or Gualterus

de Ridenesfordia, who, according to Giraldus

54
i

[1180.

Oonncab ua caipeallain Do mapbab la cenel cconaill nofogal a rheabla heneac po papaijj. ap ua ngaipmleabaijj cpe miopbailib na nafrh ipa Ginbilfp ua Dochapcaij bo ecc nboipe colaim cille.
i

Concobop mafnrhaije mac TCuaibpi ui Chonco^aip rcopcaip Concobop ua 1 Concobap ua ceallaij (.1. cijeapna ua maine) bu a mac, a bfpbpacaip biapmaib, i TTlaoilpeachlainn mac ceallai, caoj mac caibj in Concobaip (.1. caoj). biapmaba ui ceallaij, TTluipjhfp ua hebhin cijjfpna ua bpiacpach aibne t>o mapbab la pfpaib

Car na

cconcobop

.7.

-|

TTluman.

Cappjamam ua

^lolla ulcccin
i

raoipeac TTluinncipe TTlaoil rpionna Do

rhapbab la hae& TTlac cappjamna

mmp

enoairh pop moploch.

Oomnall mac cai&j

ui

chinneibij cijeapna
torians

upmuman Do

ec.

(Hibernia Expugnata, lib. iL c. xxi.), had his castle at Tristerdermot [Disert Diarmada, now Cas-

and topographical writers, who have each other without consulting any but copied
printed authorities.
f

In tledennot], in the territory of Omurethi. the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen it
is stated,

Violated.

It is
chief,

worthy of remark

here, that

under the year 1178, that the English of Wexford set out on a predatory excursion
into Hy-Muireadhaigh,

whenever a
death

who had

offered insult to a
killed, his

church or sanctuary, happened to be

is

and slewDowlingO'Tuathail of that territory, and lost [O'Toole], king their own leader, Robert Poer. But though the
O'Tuathails were driven from their original territory about this period, they were still regarded

invariably atributed to the miraculous interposition of the patron saint.

g

Hy-Many.

The following

parishes,

or

coarbships, were in Hy-Many, according to a

by the Irish as the second highest family in Leinster, and the Annals of Clomnacnoise, as translated

Book of Lecan, treating of the manners and customs of the O'Kellys, viz. Clonfert,
tract in the
:

by Mageoghegan, record under the year 1214, the death of Lorcan O'Twahall, "young Prince of Leinster, and next in superiority of that province." After their expulsion from the rich
plains of Omurethi, the O'Tuohills, or O'Tooles,

Kilmeen, Kiltullagh, Kilcommon, Gamma (where the Hy-Manians were baptized), Cloontuskert (where the O'Kelly was inaugurated), andCloonkeen Cairill. The following families were located

took shelter in the mountain fastnesses of Wicklow,

Hy-Many, and tributary to O'Kelly, viz., Mac Egan, Chief of the tribe of Clandermot Mac Gillenan, Chief of Clann Flaitheamhla and
in
;

where in course of time they dispossessed the O'Teiges of Imaile, and other minor families. It has been the object of the Editor in this
note to collect together such evidences as will prove that the father of St. Laurence O'Toole,

Muintir kenny
Breasail
;

O'Donnellan, Chief of Clann O'Doogan, Chief of Muintir-Doogan ;

;

O'Gowran, Chief of Dal-Druithne

lain,

O'Docomh-

Chief of Rinn-na-hEignidi

O'Donoghoe,
;

Chief of Hy-Cormaic, in
territory in

Moinmoy and O'MaoilFor further particulars

though not King of more important

which

all

Leinster,

was chief of a

brighde, Chief of Bredach, which was the best

territory than Imaile, a fact has hitherto escaped our modern his-

Hy-Many.

concerning the families and districts of Hy-

1180.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

killed

55

by the Kinel-Connell, in revenge of his treacherous conduct towards O'Gormly, and by the miracles of the saints whose f guarantee he had violated
.

Donough O'Carellan was

Aindileas O'Doherty died at Derry-Columbkille. battle, called the battle of the Conors, was fought between Connor Moin-

moy, the son of Roderic O'Conor, and Connor O'Kelly, Lord of Hy-Many in which were slain Conor O'Kelly, his son Teige, his brother Dermot, Melaghlin,
,

the son of

Dermot O'Kelly, and Teige, the son of Teige O'Conor". Maurice O'Heyne, Lord of Hy-Fiachrach-Aidhne', was killed by the men

of Munster.

Carroon O'Gilla-Ultain, Chief of Muintir Maoil-t-Sionna, was killed by Mac Carroon", on Inis Endaimh in Mor-loch.
1 ,

Hugh

Donnell, the son of Teige O'Kennedy, Lord of

Many, the reader
is

Ormondm
is

died.
called Inchenagh,

referred to Tribes

and Cus-

Inis

Endaimh,

now

and

toms of Hy- Many, printed for the Irish Archaeological Society in 1843.
h

lies in

It is

Lough Ree, not far from Lanesborough. curious that Lough Eee is here called mop

O'Conor

It is

added in the Annals of

loc, or the great lake.

Kilronan, that this battle was fought at Magh Sruibhegealain, at the head or extremity of

Daire na g-capall.
'

Now the baronies of Ormond, Upmumain and Lower Ormond, in the county of Upper The territory of Uprhumam was Tipperary.
anciently very extensive, but it has been for many centuries limited to the baronies now
its name. O'Kennedy, who descended from Donnchuan, the brother of Brian Borumha,

A territory in

Hy-Fiachrach-Aidhne,\\\ piachpach Gione. the south-west of the county of

Galway, which, as we learn from the Life of St.

bearing

Colman Mac Duach, published by Colgan, was

originally coextensive with the diocese of Kil-

was originally seated

in

Glenomra, in the east

macduagh.
k
is

Mac Carroon, mac cappjamna.

iii. c.

This name

of the county of Clare, whence they were driven out, at an early period, by the O'Briens and

anglicised

part

Caron by O'Flaherty, in his Ogygia, 85, and Mac Carrhon by Connell Mathe tribe well.

Mac Namaras.
phical

O'Heerin thus notices the

ori-

ginal situation of

O'Kennedy

in his topogra-

geoghegan,
is

who knew now anglicised Mac

them

The name
lo-

poem

Carroon.

O'Flaherty

cates

in the territory of Cuircnia,

now

the

Cinneioij copcpap ja, ap JJhleann pc"Pr |n 5,

barony of Kilkenny West, in the county of Westmeath. Their ancestor was called ITIael Sionna,
i.

peio Ompa, Sliocc ap nOuinocuam, cpe cpooucc, na

pumn

e.

Chief of the Shannon, from the situation of

puaip jan lapmopacc. "

his territory

on the east

side of that river.

They

are to be distinguished from the O'Caharnys, Sionnachs, or Foxes of whose tribe

O'Kennedy, who purples the javelin, rules over the extensive, smooth Glenomra,
race of our Donnchuan, who, through valour, obtained the lands

Kilcoursey,

Of the

name was Muintir- Tadhgain.

without competition."

56
TTIaolTYiuipe

[1181.

mbochr ppimhpfnoip Gpeann Do ecc. dob ua caicmab, cijeapna loppaip Do mapbab la hua cceallacham

mac

cuinn na

hi

ppiull hi ccill domain.

Qmhlaib ua co^oa raoipeac na bpeoca, Do mapbab la hua njaibcecdm

caoipeac rhaije helfg. TTlupchab ua laccna caoipeac an Da bac DO babaDh illoch con.

QO1S CR1OSO,

1181.

Qoip CpiopD mile, ceD, ochcmojacc, a hafn.

Ounjal ua

caellaiji eppoc Ifichglinne

Do ecc.

maolmuipe ua Dunain abb

cnuic na Sfngan hi

lujmaj Do

ecc.

TTlaolciapain ua piobabpa comapba ciapain Do ecc. Cachpafnfb pia pplaichbfpcac ua maeloopaib ncchfpna cenel cconaill pop macaib pij Connacc Sacapn cincciDipi Du in po mapbab pe meic Decc

DO clannuib cicchfpnab ~[ roipeac Connacc la cenel cconaill co pocaibip oile DO pofpclannaib Ro Dofpclannaib immaille ppiu cennnochdiDpioe. chuippfcc Connaccaij po Daoipe boib ppi pe imcen mppan car pin. Cac
-|

cpice coipppe ainm in caca pin.

11

Mac

Con-na-mbocht,
poor,

i.

e.

the descendant of

Conn of the

was the name of the Erenaghs

This name
is

of Clonmacnoise.

barony of Tirawley, and county of Mayo. The monastery of Errew, on Lough Conn, is in this district, and the family of O'Flynn, a branch of

O'Caithniadh
in Erris,

now

obsolete

whom

were hereditary Erenaghs of

this

monas-

an extensive and remarkably wild barony in the north-west of the county of Mayo, unless it has been changed to O'Cahan, or O'Kane.
p

tery, are still

numerous
till

in the parish of Crosslately in possession of

molina.

They were

the celebrated reliquary called Mias Tighernain,

OfBredagh, na bjiebca.

This

is

the

name of

which

is

now

at

Kappa

Castle.

These O'Flynns

a district in the

barony of Tirawley, comprising the parish of Moygawnagh, and part of that of Kilfian. It is to be distinguished from Bredagh
in Inishowen, in the north-east of the

are mentioned

by

Giolla losa

Mor Mac

Firbis,

the compiler of the Book of Lecan, as the BrughSee Geneaaidhs, or farmers, or Maghheleag
logies,

county of which was the inheritance of O'DuibhDonegal,

dhionna, of the race of Eoghan, son of Niall of
the Nine Hostages.
o

Tribes

and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach,

printed for the Irish Archaeological Society in k 1844, p. 113, note , and p. 239, note '.

Moy-heleag,

maj

helfj

This

is

also called

Da-Bhac, now generally called the Two Backs a territory in the south of the barony
r
;

tna

heleoj

it

was the ancient name of the

level part of the parish of Crossmolina, in the

of Tirawley, in the county of Mayo, lying between Lough Conn and the River Moy See

1181.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

,

57

n Mulmurry Mac Con-na-mbocht chief senior of Ireland, died. c Hugh 0'Caithniadh Lord of Erris, was treacherously slain by O'Callaghan
,

at

Kilcommon.
Auliffe O'Toghda, Chief of Bredagh",
q

was
r

killed

by O'Gaughan, Chief of
in

Moy-heleag

Murrough O'Laghtna, Chief of Da Bhac was drowned

,

Lough Conn.

THE AGE OF CHKIST,

The Age of
Christ, one thousand one

1181.
eighty-one.

hundred

Dungal O'Kaelly, Bishop of Leighlin, died. Mulmurry O'Dunan, Abbot of Cnoc-na-Seangan* (Louth), Mulkieran O'Fiavra, successor of Kieran, died.
5

died.

Flaherty O'Muldory, Lord of Tirconnell, defeated the sons of the King of Connaught on the Saturday before Whitsuntide. Sixteen of the sons of the
lords and chieftains of

many

others,

Connaught were both of the nobles and the

slain

by the Kinel Connell,

as well as

plebeians".

They held

the Connacians

under subjection for a long time after this battle, which was known by the name of Cath Criche Coirpre* [i. e. the Battle of the Territory of Carbury].
The name O'Toghdha, which would be pronounced O'Toffey in this district, is now obsolete. Under
Tribes of Hy-Fiachrach, pp. 11, 165,228.
this year the
nisfallen,

called in English,

Pismire Hill.

It

contains

the ruins of a church, but no part of the great

Dublin copy of the Annals of Inrecord that John De Courcy fled from

abbey is now traceable on it. This abbey was founded and endowed for Augustinian Canons,

Downpatrick, and went to Ath Glaisne [Ardglass?] where he built a castle which he made
his residence for

by Donough O'Carroll, Prince of Oriel, and Edan O'Kaelly, or O'Caollaidhe, Bishop of

Clogher.

See Trias T/iaum.,

p.

305

Ware's

According Annals of Cloninacnoise he returned to and repaired his house there.

1

some time.

to the

Antiquities, cap.
u

26

and

also his Bishops of

Down

Louth and Clogher,

at the

name Edan.

in 1181,

>SS., p.

Mulmurry, maelmuipe. Colgan says, Ada 737, that this was the celebrated Ma-

Both of the nobles and the plebeians. In the Annals of Kilronan this phrase is given in Latin " et alii nobiles et cum eis."
:

ignobiles

rianus,

the author of the Irish Martyrology, so often quoted by him and other ecclesiastical
writers.
1

Cath Criche Cuirpre. According to the Annals of Kilronan the persons slain in this battle

Cnoc-na-Seangan,
place,

i.

e.

Hill of the ants. This

were the following, viz. Brian Luighnech and Manus O'Couor ; Melaghlin, Murray, and Mur:

which

is

situated about thirty perches to

is

the east of the town of Louth,

now

generally

tough, three sons of Turlough O'Conor ; also Hugh, son of Hugh, son of Eory (O'Flaherty) t

58

[1181.

mfic pioj copcpacup la plaicbfpcac ip in lap napaile liubap iciacc na * * cac pempdice, bpian ~\ TTlajnup Da mac coippbealbaij moip, Oo pocaip beop Qo6 mac concobaip. TTlaolpuanaij, Da mac ele Ctooa
'<

-|

concobaip

mac megoipeaccaij ui Ro&uib.Gachmapcac ua muipfoaij, Donnchab mac bpiain luignij ui Concobaip, cucuallacca mac ao6 huf maoilbpenainn, Da mac jpollabuiDe, TTluipcfpcaijuf Concobaip, cpi
ui cellaijj,
-|

giollacpfpc

-|

mac mic aoba mic

I?uai6pi,

"|

Sloicchfo la Domnall

mac

pocaiDe ele DO pafpclannaib. af&a mec lachlainn, -| la cenel neojain celca

If 65 i nulroip. 17o rheabpacr pop ulcoip, pop uib rcuipcpe, ~\ pop pfpaib im RuaiDpi mac Duinnplebe -| im coinmi&e ua plainn. Sluacch la pfpaib maije hirhe im ua ccacain Gacmapcac, -| im cenel

mbinij glinne co pansaDap cap cuaim.

uile

T?o aipccpfo pip

If,

ua ccuipcpe
Cuaipr

Ruccpar Uomalcac ua Concobaip Do oiponeab

ilmile

DO buaib.

ccomopbup pacpaicc.
~\

cenel eojain Do cabaipc laipp, Do bfpc a pfip uaiDib

King of West Connaught
of Brian O'Fallon,
el alii

po paccaib bfnnaccain.
in the

and Donough, son

el ignobiles it

seated in the valley of Glenconkeine,

multi nobiles

cum

eis.

The same

annals also state that

was

Donough, the son of Donnell Midheach O' Conor,

that brought Flaherty O'Muldory to assist him in asserting the chieftainship of the territory of

south of the county of Derry. a This is called peappar Toome, Cuaim Cuama, i. e. the trajectus, or ferry of Tuaim, in
the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick.

The

place

is

now called Toome-Bridge, and is

situated between

Carbury for himself. They also add, that this was called the Battle of Magh Diughbha, and
that the bodies of the chieftains were carried
to Clonmacnoise,

and there interred

in the

tombs

Lough Neagh and Lough Beg, and on the boundary between the counties of Antrim and Derry. " Fearsait Tuama hodie vulgo vocatur Tuaim est vadum vel trajectus ubi Banna fluvius ex
lacuEchach."
b

of their ancestors.

w 0' Connor
ter

According to the Annals of Uls-

Firlee,

F'P M-

Trias Tkaum., p. 183. The Tripartite Life of St.

of

and of Kilronan, three of the sons of Hugh, son Turlough O'Conor, were slain in this battle,

Patrick, as translated by Colgan, in Trias Thaum.,

pp.
127, 146,
calls

this territory

"Leaeorum

namely, Melaghlin, Murray, and Murtough. x In 1585 the O'Murray, O'lDuipeaoaij head of this family was seated at Ballymurry,
in the parish of Kilrnaine,

side of the River Bann. " Venit (Patricias) in Leseorum fines Bannse flumini ad orientalem ejus ripam
fines,"

and

states that it

was on the east

barony of Athlone,

adjacentes."

But though the Firli were unques-

and county of Roscommon.

i

tionably seated on the east side of the River

bpSnamn,
*

O'Mulrenins, pronounced in Irish O'lTlaoil Mul-vrenin.

Bann, since the twelfth century, it would appear, from the Annotations of Tirechan on the
Life of St. Patrick, that they were on the west side of this river in the time of the Irish apos-

It would apKinel-Binny, Cenel 6mnij pear from several authorities that this tribe was

1181.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

59

According to another book, the sons of kings who were slain by Flaherty in the last mentioned battle were the following, viz. Brian and Manus, two sons of Turlough More and Mulrony and * * * two sons of Hugh O'Connor. In that battle also fell Hugh, the son of Conor O'Kelly, and Gilchreest,
;

the son of Mageraghty O'Rodiv Eachmarcach O'Murray* Donough, the son of Brian Luighneach O'Conor Cucuallachta, the son of Murtough O'Conor
; ; ;
;

three of the 0'Mulrenins y

who was
made an

Gillaboys son of Roderic, together with many others of the nobility. Donnell, the son of Hugh Mac Loughlin, and the Kinel-Owen of Tullaghoge,
; ;

the two

Mac

and Hugh, son of Hugh,

incursion into Ulidia, and defeated the Ulidians, the Hy-Tuirtre, and

Rory Mac Donslevy, and Cumee O'Flynn. The men of Moy-Ithe, together with O'Kane (Eachmarcach), and the 2 Kinel-Binny of the Valley, mustered an army, and crossed Toome". They
the Fiiiee, together with
b plundered all the territories of Firlee and Hy-Tuirtre, and carried thousands of cows.

off

many

Tomaltagh O'Conor was consecrated successor of St. Patrick.

his blessing. &

He performed
them

the visitation of the Kinel-Owen, received his dues from them, and left

tie.

The Barm

(i.

e.

the

Lower Bann), accord-

among the

inhabitants of the plain of Eilne,

;

ing to the oldest accounts of that river, flowed

between the plains of Li and Eilne, and we learn from Tirechan that the plain of Eilne was on the east side of the river, and consequently
the plain of Li, or Lee, was on the west side of " Et exiit it [Patricius] in Ardd Eolergg et
:

prepared an entertainment for St. Columba and Colgan, in a note on this passage, conjeetures that the plain of Eilne was west of the

River Bann, and that which was then called " an But that Mkachaire," i. e. the plain.

Magh

Li was west of the Bann

is

put be-

Ailgi, et

Band,

Lee Bendrigi, et perrexit trans flumen et benedixit locum in quo est cellola

yond dispute by the fact that the church of Achadh Dulihthaigh, now Aghadowey, on the
west side of the river Bann,
ancient authorities, as in
Li,
is

Guile Raithin [Coleraine], in Eilniu, in

quo

fuit

described in

Episcopus, et

fecit alias cellas

multas in Eilniu.

Magh
;

Li, or

Campus

Et per Buas flumen" [Bush River] " foramen

et in Dun Sebuirgi" [Dunseverick] "sedit super petram, &c. &c. Et reversus est in canipum Eilni et fecit multas ecclesias quas
pertulit,

on the margin of the Lower Bann See ColActa Sanctorum, p. 223 the Irish Calengan's dar of the O'Clerys, at 9th and 22nd of January ; and Sampson's Memoir of his Chart and Survey of Londonderry, p. 222. But on the
increasing

Condiri [the clergy of Connor diocese] habent."

Adamnan,
c.

in his Life of Columba,

says, lib.

i.

power of the O'Kanes, the

Firli

were
See

50,

that Conallus, Bishop of Cuil Raithin

[Coleraine],

having

collected

many

presents

unquestionably driven across the Bann note under the year 1 1 78.

i2

60

aNNdta Rio^bachra eineawR

QO1S CR1OSO,
Qoip Cpiopo
1182.

[1183.

mile, ceo, ocTicrhogarc, aDo.

dob ua

caellaiji eppoc aipjiall,

-\

cfnD candnach

Gpeann Do
i

ecc.

Oomnall ua huallachain aipoeppoc muman Do ecc. bo Sluaicchfb la oomnall mac afoa ui lachlainn 50 Dun

cac bo jallaib ip in Du pin l?o mapbab ann ona Rajnall ua bpfiflen, giolla maille ppiu, T?uccpar Soipcela mapcain leo Don cup pin. oile ui bpiain Do rhapbaD la Ragnall mac bpian mac coipp&ealbaij;

Oo pao pom
i

nodil piaba. eabaib pop cenel neojain cpiopD 6 cacdin co pocaibip

Commapa

bice rpe meabail.

QoD mac cappsamna raoipeac muinnnpe jiolla ulrdin mac cappgarhna.

ITIupchab
TTlaolpuanaib.
Ctrhlaib

maoilcpionna DO mapbab la
la TTlaoilpeachlainn ua

mac

caichlij uf DubhDa, DO

mapbab

ua pfpjail Dojabailcaipijecca na hangaile

Qob Do

innapbab.

QO18 C171OSD,
Qoiy CpiopD
mile, ceD,

1183.
acpi.

ochcmojacc,

lopeph ua haoba Gppcop ua cceinnpelaij [DO ecc]. 6ec ua hfjpa ciccfpna lui^ne Connacc Do mapbab la concobap ua Diapmaca mic Ruaibpi, ap loc mic pfpabaij ina rij pfin cpe meabail.
This is a mistake of the Dunbo,inDalRiada but not of the Four Masters, as it is annalists,
f

found in the older Annals of Ulster and of Kilronan.

it is

dred-Owen, and Kanall O'Bryslan was killed there, and Gilli Christ O'Cahan, arid many more; and the Galls carried Martin's Gospel with
them."

Dunbo was not in Dalriada at any period, for west of the Eiver Bann, in a territory called an Mhachaire, the Plain, in Colgan's time. Dalriadanever extended westwards beyond theBann.

From

a notice in a manuscript in the

Bodleian Library, Laud. 615, p. 81, it would was appear that this copy of the Gospels, which
believed to have belonged to St. Martin of Tours, St. Patrick, and that to Ireland was

This passage is rendered in the old translation of the Ulster Annals in the Bri" An tish as follows Donell
St.

Martin

brought

by

it

Museum,

army by

was preserved at Derry in the time of the writer. There was a cemetery and holy well
at

O'Loghlin to Dunbo in Dalriada, and the Galla gave battle to them there, and vanquished Kin-

Derry dedicated to this St. Martin. In the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, and in the

1183.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

6l

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1182.

thousand one hundred eighty two.

O'Kaelly, Bishop of Oriel, and head of the Canons of Ireland, died. Donnell O'Huallaghan, Archbishop of Munster, died.

Hugh

Hugh O'Loughlin, marched with an army to Dunbo, and there gave battle to the English. The Kinel-Owen were defeated, and Randal O'Breslen, Gilchreest O'Kane, and many others, were
Donnell, the son of
,

in

Dal Riada

killed.

On

this occasion

they carried off with them the Gospel of

St.

Martin".

Brian, the son of

Turlough O'Brien, was treacherously

slain

by Randal

Macnamara Beg.
Ultain

Hugh Mac Carroon, Chief Mac Carroon.

son

of Muintir Maoil-t-Sionna, was killed

by

Gilla-

Murrough, the
O'Mulrony.
Auliffe O'Farrell

of Taichleach O'Dowda,

was

killed

by Melaghlin
expelled'.

assumed the lordship of Annaly, and

Hugh was

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1183.
eighty-three.

thousand one hundred

Joseph O'Hea, Bishop of Hy-Kinsellagh (died).

Bee O'Hara, Lord of Leyny in Connaught, was treacherously slain by Conor, the grandson of Dermot, who was son of Roderic, in his own house, on Lough

Mac

Farry.
Imokilly, in the county of Cork. The Irish annado notfurnish us with any further particulars;

Annals of Kilronan, the portion of the passage relating to theGospel reads: 7 popcela mapcain oo Bpec DO gallc-io leo.
e

lists

Under

this year the

Annals of Kilronan, of

but Giraldus Cambrensis, in his Hibernia Expug"a nata, lib. ii. c. 1 8, calls Mac Tyrus a betrayer
:

Clonmacnoise, and of Ulster, record the death of Milo de Cogan, the destroyer of all Ireland, both

proditore Machtyro qui eos ea noctehospitdridebuerat,

Church and State

also of Reymond

de

la Gross,

cum aliis quinque militibus improuisis a tergo securium ictibus sunt interempti." Sir Richard
Cox, in his Hibernia Anglicana, p. 37, magnifies Tyrus into an awful specimen of

Cenn Cuillinn [Kantitunensis?], and the two sons of Fitz-Stephen. The Annals of Kilronan and of
Clonmacnoise add, that Milo was killed by Mac Tire, Prince of Ui Mac Caille, now the barony of

this act of Mac

Irish treachery,

and adds, that Milo had been

to lodge at his house that

invited

by Mac Tyrus

eiReaww.

[1184.

Do

ua plairhbfjicaij, an jiollu piabac, pala Deabaib eccep ua plaicbfpcaij

ip in

-]

TTlac ui
-|

jaipmleabaij. Ro mapbab mop DO cenel TTloain.

mmaipeacc

pin

Dpong

pfpjal mac drhlaib

puaipc.

ui

puaipc, Do

mapbab

la loclainn

mac

Dorhnaill ui

<5iollaulrdm ba6 la macaib

mac cappjamna raoipeac muinnpe maoilcpionna Do mapui

-]

bpaoin ele a maille ccuicceap

la

macaibh an cpionnaijh

ui

cacapnaigh 50

CtOlS C171OSD, 1184.

Qoip Cpiopo
loya ua maoilm

mile, ceD,

ochcmogacc, a cfchaip.

Gppcop

eipi&e Do ecc.

bpian bpeipnec mac roipp&elbaig ui concobaip Do ecc. THaoiliopu ua cfpbaill Do oiponeD ccomopbup pacpaic lep na paccb'dil Do comalcac ua concobaip.
i

Qpc ua maoileaclamn ncchfpna mpraip mioe DO mapbab meabail la mac coippbelbaij cpia popconjpa jail, TTIaoilDiapmair ua mbpiain
i

.1.

-\

peaclamn beacc Dojabdil a lonaiD, i mai&m Do ppaomeaD laip a ccionn cpf la poppan Diapmaic ceona Du in po mapbaic lie im mac marjamna i bpiain. Caiplen Do curhDac la gallaib call dip. Caiplen oile Do opccain la TTlaoilpeaclainn -] la Concobop mafninaije ua cconcobaip. Po mapbab Dpong mop Do ^allaib ann.
i

Dec

ccicche pichfc Do poijnib cumDaijri apoa

macha Do

opjain la jal-

laib mi6e.
TTlainipcip

ciccfpna cinel cconaill Do Dia

night.

eapa puaiDh Do eDhbaipr la plaichbfpcach Ua TTlaolDopaio Do naoim bfpnapD Do paich a anma.

]

The same

is

History of Ireland, vol.

repeated by Moore, in his ii. p. 31 1, without quot-

Annals Beapcctij). In the old translation of the of Ulster preserved in the British Museum, the

ing any authority, which is very unfair, as it turns out that the prejudiced Giraldus is the

name

of this Tyronian family, cai j, is anglicised O'Lathvertay,

only authority.

This was not O'Flaherty of OTlaherty lar Connaught, but of Tyrone, where the name is

enough to the form it times. The above passage

this translation
:

phlaicbepwhich is close has assumed in modern

is

Ua

"A. D.I 183.

thus Englished in skirmish be-

now changed

to

Laverty, or Lafferty (O'phlaic-

tween Gilla Revagh O'Lathvertay and O'Garm-

1184.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

63

was fought between OTlaherty f (Gillarevagh) and the son of O'Gormly, in which O'Flaherty and a great number of the Kinel-Moen were
slain.

A battle

Farrell, son of Auliffe

O'Kourke, was slain by Loughlin, son of Donnell

O'Rourke.
Gilla Ultain

Mac

Carroon, Chief of Muintir Maoil-t-Sionna, and five others,

were

slain

by

the sons of the Sinnach (the

Fox) 0'Caharny
1184.

s
.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

thousand one hundred

eighty-four.

Gilla Isa O'Moylin, a bishop, died.

Brian Breifneach, son of Turlough O'Conor, died. Maelisa O'Carroll was consecrated successor of St. Patrick, after Tomaltach O'Conor

had resigned

that dignity.

Art O'Melaghlin, Lord of Westmeath, was treacherously

O'Brien
(i.

the son of Turlough), at the instigation Melaghlin Beg assumed his place, and in three days afterwards defeated the same Dermot in a conflict, in which many persons were slam, among whom
e.

by Dermot of the English, and

slain

was the son of Mahon O'Brien. A castle was erected by the English at Killare h Another castle was plundered by Melaghlin and Conor Moinmoy O'Conor, in which many of the English were slain.
.

Thirty of the best houses in Meath.

Armagh were plundered by

the English of

of Assaroe' was granted to God and St. Bernard by Flaherty Lord of Kinel-Connell, for the good of his soul. O'Muldory,
leaye's son
;

The monastery

and O'Lathvertay and some of Kinkilled."

this year the

regione Medise quse

Hugh
;

asuil appellatur

in

dred
8

Muan were

qua sunt
Dublin copy of the An-

tres ecclesise

una

parochialis

viro

Under

nals of Innisfallen record the erection of a

mo-

sancto (Aido) dicata; alia qusetemplum Sanctas Brigidas, et tertia qua; aula Sanctaa Brigidee appellatur
:

nastery at Duleek,
h

by

Sir

Hugh De

Lacy.

et tres etiam fontes

quorum

aquis in

parish in the barony of Rathconrath, and county of Meath. Colgan describes it as follows: " Killaria vicus est in
Killare, Cillaip.

unum

confluentibus vicinum non sine miraculo

agitur et velociter

mouetur molendinum."note 31.

Acta SS.,

p.

423,

col. 2,

64

Rio^hachca eirceawN.

[1185.

cuama gpene DO ecc. Cfhopaolao ua jpaDa comopba cponam Niall mac an cponoaij ui carapnaig Do ecc. Clmlaib mac pfp&ail ui puaipc ciccfpna bpeipne Do mapbab a ppiull la
TTlaj pajnaill.

Oorhnall ua plannaccdin caoi^eac cloinne carail Do ecc hi cconja

peicfn.

pfpjal ua pajallaij DO rhapbao

hi ppiull la TTlaeileclainn

ua puaipc.

GDIS CR1OSO,

1185.
cuig.

Qoip CpiopD mile ceo ochcmojjab a

TTlaoiliopu

ua muipeaoaij pfp leccinn Doipe colaim

in

cille

Do ecc lap

Sfnoacaij chojaiDe. Pilib Unpeppa co n^allaib uime Do bfir cona noiocib i mf&on copjaip Do fonnpaD.
cpiopD

apDmaca co

cfnn pe laire

mac cacmaoil apo raoipeac

'

cenel peapaDaij

~\

na cclann

There are no ruins of the Castle of Killare now

visible
;

Philip Unserra

He is called Philip Worcester

Annals of Ulster, in
See

but there are considerable remains of

in the old translation of the

the churches mentioned by Colgan. ' The remains of this Assaroe, cap puao.

the British

Museum, and by his cotemporary GiHibernice, dist. 2, c.

raldus Cambrensis, Philippus Wigorniensis

abbey now
shannon ;

stand about one mile west of Ballyone of the side walls and a part of the

Topographia
is

50, where there

western gable of the abbey are yet standing,

a strange story told about his conduct at Armagh. Hanmer repeats the same ; and Sir Richard

The

architecture

is

very good; but there are

Cox,

who was always anxious to hide

the faults of

at present

no windows or architectural features

worthy of notice remaining.

Tomgraney, ^neine. nastery dedicated to St. Cronan, in the barony of Upper Tullagh, in the county of Clare. It is now a small village.
k
j

the English and villify the Irish, has condescended to tell the story in the following strain
:

Cuaim

An ancient mo-

Hibernia Anglicanq, p. 38, ad ann. 1184 "Philip of Worcester, Lord Justice or Governour of Ire:

land,

came over with a smart party of Horse and

;

Foot

Under

this year the

Annals of Kilronan

Man

of

he also brought with him Hugh Tirrel, a ill Report He was not long in the Go:

record the falling of the great church of Tuam, both its roof and stone work ; also the burning

vernment, before he seized on the Lands of O'Catkesie to the King's Use, though Lacy had
formerly sold them : He also went a Circuit, to visit the Garrisons, and in March came to Ar-

by lightning of the fortress of the Clann Mulrony, called the Rock of Lough Key, in which
six or seven score of persons of distinction, with fifteen persons of royal descent, were

destroyed.

magh, where he exacted from the Clergy a great Sum of Mony thence he went to Down, and
;

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Kenfaela O'Grady, successor of Cronan of Tomgraney Niall, son of the Sinnagh (the Fox) O'Caharny, died.
Auliffe, the son of Farrell
slain
j
,

65

died.

O'Rourke, Lord of Breifny, was treacherously

at

by Mac Rannall.
Conga-Feichin [Cong].

Donnell O'Flanagan, Lord of Clann-Cahill, died

Farrell O'Reilly

was treacherously

slain

by Melaghlin O'Rourke".

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1185.
eighty-five.

thousand one hundred

Maelisa O'Murray, Lector of Derry-Columbkille, died at a venerable old age. Philip Unserra (of Worcester) remained at Armagh with his Englishmen
1

during six days and nights in the middle of Lent. Gilchreest Mac Cawell, Chief of Kinel-Farry" and of the Clans,
1

viz.

Clann-

so to Dublin, loaden both with Curses

torsions.

and Ex-

Kinel-Farry,

cinel

peanaouij,

and the

Brewing- Pan from the poor Priests at Armagh, and carried it to Down, hut the House where he lay was burnt, and so were also the Horses in the Stable, so that he
Tirrel took a

Clans.

The

the paterritory of Kinel-Farry,

trimonial inheritance of the

Mac Cawells

(the

descendants of Fergal, son of Muireadhach, son of Eoghan, son of Niall of the Nine Hostages)
the barony of nearly coextensive with which Clogher, in the county of Tyrone ; in

was

fain to leave the Pan, for want of Carriage; and Philip had a severe fit of the Gripes, like to cost him his life both which Punishments (they say) were miraculously inflicted
;

was

barony
Colla,

all

the clans here mentioned were

lo-

upon

cated, except the

Hy-Kennoda

and the Clann

them

for their sacrilege."

Cox, however, should

who were

seated in Fermanagh.

The

have here stated, on the authority of Giraldus,

that Tyrell restored the pan to the poor priests,
for Giraldus writes.:

Hy-Kennoda gave name to the barony of Tirkennedy, which is situated in the east of Fermanagh, adjoining the barony of Clogher in See it mentioned at the years 1427, Tyrone.
1

"Sed eadem

nocte, igne,

proprio eiusdem hospitio accenso, equi duo qui cacabum extraxerant, cuin aliis rebus non
paucis, statim combusti sunt.

468, and

Pars etiam

villas

name

The family of Mac Cathmhaoil, generally anglicised Mac Cawell and lati1

5 1 8.

maxima eadem

Quo

viso,

occasione igne est consumpta. Hugo Tyrellus mane cacabum inue-

niens prorsus illffisum, pecunia ductus, Arthmaciam eum remisit." It looks very strange that the Irish annalists should have passed over this
transaction in silence,
it

who supplied several bishops to the see of Clogher, are still numerous in this their ancient territory, and the name is also
nized Cavellus,

found

in

other counties,

variously anglicised

being just the sort of

subject they generally

comment upon.

Camphill, Cambell, Caulfield, and even Howell ; but the natives, when speaking the Irish language, always pronounce the name IDac Carrhaoil.

66
.1.

[1185.

dance aenjupa, ctann ouibinnpeacc

-\

clann pogapcais,

ui

cfnnpooa,

~\

clann

collu DO peapaib manac cfnn comaiple euaipcipc Gpeann Do mapbao la hua a cfnn DO bpfic leo 50 pppic uara ccionn neccmj i la mumnap caomdin,
i

miopa lapccam.

mac mmpceapcaijj ui laclamn DO rhapbab la jallaib. alban apo caoipeac copcapaibe ua odlaij ollarh epeann, TTlaoibopa ccluain ap uaiple Do ecc copcaoam, Saoi oip&epc ap Dan, ap eneac,
TTIaoilpfclainn
-j
i
]

lopaipD oca oilicpe.

TTiac pf
picic long

Sajcan

.1.

Seon mac an oapa ftenpi Do ceacc

T?o

nGpinn luce rpf

caipDiall
T?o bpip

DO jabdil a pie.
-\

gab arcbar,

-\

laigin.

Oo pome

oc
11

noppair paccna,
Corcaree,

occ apD pfonain.

T?o aipj
opinion that

murha epDib.

cpa

now
It is

Westmeath.
north-east

a barony in the county of bounded on the north and

anglice

by Loch Dairbhreach,

Lough

it is identical with the barony of Magheradernon, in the county of Westmeath. At this year, 1185, we find that O'Daly had

Derryvara ; on the west by Lough Iron ; and on the south and south-east by an irregular line of hills, which divide it from the barony of
Moyashel.
of the

possession of Corca- Ree, in addition to his

original territory of

own
not

Corca-Adain

and

it is

unreasonable to conclude that the two territories

This territory

is

mentioned by our
as the inheritance

genealogists and historians

descendants of Fiacha Eaoidhe, the grandson of the monarch Felimy Reachtmhar, or the Lawgiver. See O'Flaherty's Ogygia,
part
iii.

Here it is necessary to remark, that, according to O'Dugan's topographical poem, CorcaAdain was in Teffia, or Tir-Maine, and that Corcaadjoined.

cap.

69

and Duald Mac Firbis's Pedi-

that O'Daly was descended from ; and the original inhabitants of CorcaMaine, Ree were not. It may therefore be lawfully

Ree was not

grees, p. 106.

This was originally the lordship of O'Hionradhain, and not of O'Daly, as we

learn

assumed, that about this period O'Daly got a

grant of Corca-Ree, which adjoined his original territory of Corca-Adain, from the O'Melagh-

from O'Dugan

O't)onncha6a na noa^-ap, Ri Cealaij mm mooapam;

O'Mionpa6am, paoipe
"

pin,

some great service which that noble had rendered them by his sword or pen. poet That Corca-Ree was not in Teffia may be clearly
lins,

for

Ri Chopca Raoije poj loin."

O'Donaghoe, of good tillage, King of the smooth Tealach Modharain
O'Hionradhain, nobler he,

inferred from Tirechan's annotations on the Life

of St. Patrick, in the

in
;

Book of Armagh.
:

TBus,

King of

fairest

Corca Eee."

Patrick's travels through describing " And he Meath, that writer says (Patrick) built another church (Lecain) in the country of
St.

Roide, at Caput Art, in

altar,

which he erected a stone

into the

Corca-Adain, sometimes called Corca- Adaim This was the original lordship of the O'Dalys but unfortunately its situation is not to a cer
tainty

and another at Cuil-Corre, and he came

across the River

Teffias."
It

Ethne \Inny)

two

known.

The Editor has been long o

is, therefore, highly probable that the portion of the country lying between the

1185.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

67

Aengus, Clann-Duibhinreacht, Clann-Fogarty, Hy-Kennoda, and Clann-Colla in Fermanagh, and who was the chief adviser of all the north of Ireland, was
slain

ever,

by O'Hegny and Muintir-Keevan, who carried away was recovered from them in a month afterwards.

his head, which,

how-

Melaghlin, the son of Murtough O'Loughlin, was slain by the English. Maelisa O'Daly, ollave (chief poet) of Ireland, and Scotland, Lord of Corcaree"

and Corca-Adain
of the

man

illustrious for his poetry, hospitality,

and

nobility, died while

on a pilgrimage

at Clonard.

The son
dom.

King of England,

that

is,

John, the son of Henry

II.,

came

to Ireland with a fleet of sixty ships, to

assume the government of the king-

took possession of Dublin and Leinster, and erected castles at Tip q but his praid Fachtna and Ardfinan out of which he plundered Munster were defeated with great slaughter by Donnell O'Brien. The son of people
,
;

He

River Brosnagh (which connects Lough Owel and Lough Ennell) and the baronies of Delvin and Farbil, was anciently called Feara asail, or

Ardfinnan,
Iffa

Gpo
hill.

pionnam,

i.

e.

St. Fin-

nan's height, or

It is situated in the ba-

rony of
rary.

and

Offa,

in the county of Tippestill

Magh

asail,

and that the

tract lying

between the

The

ruins of this castle are

to be seen

same river and the barony of Eathconrath, was called Corca-Adain. Mr. Owen Daly of Moningtown, in the barony of Corcaree, is supposed to be the present head of the O'Dalys of Westnieath.
p

on a rock overlooking the River Suir.

states (Hib.

Giraldus

Expugnata,

lib.

ii.

c.

34) that John

the

erected three castles, the

first at Tibractia,

second at Archphinan, and the third at Lismore. The Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen
also state, that

Tibraghny, cippair paccna, L

e.

St. Fachna's

well, is a

old castle,

townland containing the ruins of an situated in a parish of the same name,

Henry, King of England, year, accompanied by four

John Earl of Moreton, son of came to Ireland this

on the north side of the River Suir, in the barony of Iverk, in the south-west of the county of See the Feilire Aenguis, at the 13th Kilkenny
of February and 18th of May, and Irish Calendar of the O'Clerys at the same days, from

hundred knights, and built the castles of Lismore, Ardfinan, and Tiobraid [Tiobraid Fachtna]. For the character of the English servants and counsellors who were in Ireland about the King's

be seen that this place was in the west of the ancient Ossory. See also the Ordnance Map of the county of Kilkenny, sheets 38 and 39- Sir Richard Cox, in his Hibernia Anit

which

will

son at this period, the reader is referred to Giraldus Cambrensis' Hibernia Expugnata, lib, ii. c. 35, where he describes the Normans as " Ver-

glicana,

p.

Tipperary ; Moore, have taken Cox's guess as true See history. Leland's History of Ireland, vol. i. p. 146 ; and
Moore's, vol.
ii.

conjectures that this place and Dr. Leland, and even Mr.
40,

is

enormium iuramentorum auAliorum ex superbia contemptores," &c. and also to Hanmer's Chronicle, and Campion's
bosi,

iactatores,

thores,

Historie of Irelande, in which the

Normans are

p. 320.

described as "great quaffers, lourdens, proud, belly swaines, fed with extortion and bribery." Dublin Edition of 1809, p. 97-

K2

Rio^hachca eiReawN.

[1186.

oomnall ua bpiain TTlaiDm ap jallaib mic T?ij Sa^an Ro cuip a nap. Oo DeachaiD ona mac pig Sajcan caipip inunn mpccain Do copaoio hugo Delacn ba poplarhaij a hucc pfj Sajcan apa cionn in pe a acaip uaip ape hugo 6 Gpmn, -j nip leicc cfop na bpaigoe cuigepium pijpaiD Gpeann. cconnaccaib eDip na piojDarhnaib Coriicoccbail coccab Do pap ernp
i

.1.

ua concobaip concobap ua concobap maenmaije, mac Ruaibpi, Diapmaoa, Cacal cappac mac concobaip maonmaije, cacal cpoiboeapg mac Oo pome TCuaibpi a mac pi'6 roippbealbaij, po mapbaD pocaiDe froppa.
T?uai6pi
~\ ~\ -]
~[

lap na huaiplib ele lapccam.

lapcap connacc Do lopccab caijib, rfmplaib la Domhnall ua mbpiain,

la ^allaib.

~\

Cacal cappac mac concobaip maonmaije mic T?uai6pi Do lopccaD cille Dalua caijib, cemplaib cap a neipi, cucc a peocca i a maoine leip. UuaD-

muma

beop Do

rhilleaD,

la sallaib.

Na

goill

Dopccam la concobap maonmaije mac RuaiDpi, mac Ruaibpi peiyne Do ceacc leip co popp commain,
~| -| ~\ i

DO cabaipc cpi mile Do buaib Doib ccuapapcal. Qrhlaoib ua muipfbaij eppcop apDamaca, cenel pfpabaigh locpann no poillpiccheaD cuac i ecclap Decc, polupca pojapcac ua ceapballdin Do
~\
-|

oipDnfb

ma

lonaD.

OiapmaiD mag capcaij cijeapna Dfpmurhan Do mapbaD la ^allaib

caije.

cop-

^Domnall mac

jiolla

paccpaicc cijeapna oppaije Do ecc.

QO1S CR1O3D,
Ctoip CpiopD, mile, ceo,

1186.

occmogaD, ape.

TTlaolcallann

mac aDaim mic

uf

cleipcein

eppcop cluana peapca bpenainn

i

DO

ecc.

laclamn Do cop a plairfp, beapcaij DoipDneaD la Dpuing Do cenel eojain cealca

r

Oomnall mac ao6a

RuaiDpi ua plaich-

occ.

The death of

this bishop is

thus noticed in
1185. Qriilaim

the Annals of Ulster:

"A. D.

nt)un cuaic 7 eclaiy, in Chpipco quieuic a cabaipc co h-onopac co t)aipi Cpuenai, 7

i

h-ua TTIuipe&aij, epiycopup Qpomaca 7 cenmil Gpaoaij, locpann polupca no poillpijeo

Coluim Gille, 7 a aonucal po copaib a acap, .1. an coeB in cemeppuic h-ui Cob'caij, .1.
i

1186.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

69

King of England then returned to England, to complain to his father of Hugo de Lacy, who was the King of England's Deputy in Ireland on his (John's) arrival, and who had prevented the Irish kings from sending him
the

(John) either tribute or hostages. general war broke out in Connaught among the Roydamnas [princes], viz. Roderic O'Conor, and Conor Moinmoy, the son of Roderic; Conor O'Diar-

mada
and

Cathal Carragh, the son of Conor Moinmoy and Cathal Crovderg, the son of Turlough. In the contests between them many were slain. Roderic
;

his son afterwards

made peace with

the other chiefs.

The West
nell

of Connaught was burned, as well churches as houses, by Donand the English. O'Brien Cathal Carragh, the son of Conor Moinmoy, who was the son of Roderic,
Killaloe, as well

burned

churches as houses, and carried off

all

the jewels and

riches of the inhabitants.

Thomond was

also destroyed

Moinmoy,
wages.

the son of Roderic,

Roscommon with

the son of Roderic,

and by the English. who gave them three thousand cows

and pillaged by Conor The English came as far as

as

Auliffe O'Murray, Bishop of Armagh and Kinel-Farry, a brilliant lamp that had enlightened clergy and laity, died r and Fogartagh O'Carellan was conse;

crated in his place.

Dermot Mac Carthy, Lord of Desmond, was slain by the English of Cork. Donnell Mac Gillapatrick, Lord of Ossory, died.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Maelcallann, son of
Christ, one

1186.
eighty-six.

thousand one hundred

Adam Mac

Clerken, Bishop of Clonfert-Brendau, died.

Donnell, the son of Hugh O'Loughlin, died; and Rory O'Flaherty [O'Laverty] was elected by some of the Kinel-Owen of Tullaghoge.
^
paill bic.

Thus rendered

in the old transla:

Museum " A. D. Auliv O'Mureay, Bishop of Ardmach (Tirone) and Kindred-Feray, a bright taper that
tion preserved in the British
1 1

Cruthny, and [was] brought nonourably to Dyry-Columkilly, and was buried at

quievit in

Dun

85.

his father's feete, the Bishop O'Coffy, in the side

lightneth spiritually and temporally, in

CArista

of the church." It looks very odd that a Bishop O'Murray should be the son of a Bishop O'Coffey!

70

[1186.

caoipeac panac) cainoeal einij, -| jaipcceD cuaipla mac mic laclainn, -| la Dpeim Do cenel eojain, i cipc Gpeann Do mapbab cion Doib ann. imp eojam Dopccain po a bicin jion 50 paibe ua mbpandin Do mapbab paccpaicc mac an jiolla cuipp coipeac

Conn ua

bpfiplein

(.1.

T^iolla

Id Domnall

ua laclainn cpe epail muincipe bpandm po oein. murhain la concobap maonmaije Ruaibpi ua concobaip DO lonnapbab cuccaD e Dia la a mac buoein. Connaccaij Do milleao fcoppa Diblinib,
i
]

rip DO
DO.

pibipi

cpe comaiple

pil

muipeDaij,

-j

DO paDacc cpioca ceo Dpfpann

ceall niomDa cicchpfna jail

llugo Delacn TTlalapcac

TTlibe. bpfipne, i aipjiall.

~\

Dipcaoilceac

Do Dna DO bfipci cfop Connacc. Ctp pe po 176 ba Ian mi'6e uile 6 Shionainn 50 paippgi j;ab fprhop 6ipfnn Do jallaib. DO caiplenaib jail lepp. lap ccaipccpin lapam caiplen Dfprhai je 66 cdimc

Qp

a territory in the north of Tiror the county of Donegal, extending Connell, from Lough Swilly to Mulroy Lough, and from

Fanad was

Hugo

de Lacy.

The character and

descrip-

tion of the

personal form and appearance of

the sea to Rathmeltan.

In the old translation

de Lacy, is thus given by his contempoGiraldus Cambrensis rary,

Hugo

of the Annals of Ulster this passage is rendered as follows: "A. D. 1186. Con O'Brislen, the candle of liberality and courage of the North of Ireland, killed by some of Kindred-Owen, and
all Inis

" Si

viri colorem,

si
:

vultum

qua:ris,

niger,

nigris ocellis

&

defossis

naribus simis, facie a

dextris igne casuali, mento tenus turpiter adusta. Collo contracto, corpore piloso, pariter et neruoso.
Si staturam qusris, exiguus.

Owen spoyled and preyed through that, innocent of it" [L e. of the crime, cm co though paiBe cm ooib ann].

Si factustabilis,

ram, defonnis.

Si mores

firmus ac

&

Gallica sobrietate temperatus.

liaribus

Negotiis fami-

Mac Lougklin. There were some monarchs of Ireland of this family, but they w.ere at this time only Lords of the Kinel-Owen.
1

plurimum

intentus.

Commisso quoque

regimini, rebusque gerendis in commune vigilantissimus. Et quanquam militaribus negotiis

Cpioca c^o

signifies a cantred, or

barony,

plurimum

instructus, crebris

tamen expeditio:

containing 120 quarters of land. plained by Giraldus Cambrensis

It is thus ex:

num

iacturis,

Ducis

officio

non fortunatus

post

" Dicitur auBritannica

vxoris

mortem

vir vxorius,

& non vnius tantum,

:

tem cantaredus
tanta

tarn Hibernica

quam

sed plurimarum libidini datus

vir auri cupi-

teme

portio quanta 100. villas continere

dus

solet"

Hibernia Expugnata, lib. ii. c. 18 See also O'Flaherty's Ogygia, pp. 24, 25 ; and
O'Brien's Irish Dictionary, at the word Cpioca. It is translated, " Cantaredus seu Centivillaria
regio"
n. 51.

auarus, propriique honoris & excellentia, trans modes tiam ambitiosus." Hibernia Expugnata, lib. iL cap. 20.

&

by Colgan,

in Trias Thaitm., p. 19, col. 2,

This word is used in Profaner, malapcac. the best Irish manuscripts, in the sense of profaner or defiler, and the verb malapcuijim means,
I defile,

profane, curse.

The following

1186.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

s
,

71

Con O'Breslen, Chief of Fanad

the

lamp of the

hospitality

and yalour of the

north of Ireland, was slain by the son of Mac Loughlin' and a party of the KinelOwen in consequence of which Inishowen was unjustly ravaged.
;

Gillapatrick

Mac

Gillacorr, Chief of the Hy-Branain,

was

slain at the insti-

gation of the Hy-Branain themselves.

Roderic O'Conor was banished into Munster by his own son, Conor Moinmoy. By the contests between both the Connacians were destroyed. Roderic,
however, by the advice of the Sil-Murray, was again recalled, and a triochached" of land was given to him.

Hugo de
;

Lacy,

the profaner* and destroyer of

;

many churches Lord of the

;

English of Meath, Breifny, and Oriel he to whom the tribute of Connaught was paid he who had conquered the greater part of Ireland for the English, and of whose English castles" all Meath, from the Shannon to the sea, was
full
;

after

2 having finished the castle of Durrow

set out,

accompanied by

examples of it in the Leabkar Breac,

will prove its true

fail.

19,

b, b,

the county of Carlow ; one on the Barrow, near

meaning

Uuip

ip

menic

Leighlin

and one

at Kilkea,

and another at

elmjchep 7 malapcaigchep in pobul uili cpia imapbup aenbmne conio aipe pi ip coip po ceooip a malaipcpium nap ob juapochc DO
;

Narragh, in the present county of Kildare. See also Han-trier's Chronicle, Dublin Edition,
pp. 321, 322.
*

pochaioe he
it is

na caecpac cpia pochamo. "For often that all the people are corrupted and
7
;

Oaipmach, now Durrow,

situated in the

through the crime of one man whereexcommunicate him, that he may not be dangerous to the multitude, and that they may not fall through him." Also at fol.
defiled

north of the King's County, and close to the boundary of the county of Westmeath, where
St.

fore it is proper to

about the year 550.

cal

Columbkille erected a famous monastery See Lanigan's Ecclesiastivol. iL p. 118.

History of Ireland,

At

the

ol pe, a beich malapca, bichu. " And I say, quoth he, epcoicchenb cpia
4, b, b,

Ocup acbepim,

period of the erection of this monastery, Durrow was in the territory of Teffia, and the site

let
y

me

be accursed, excommunicated for ever."

was granted to

For a curious account of the English castles castles erected by Sir Hugh de Lacy, the reader is referred to Hibernia Giraldus Expugnata,

St. Columbkille by Brendan, Chief of Teffia, the ancestor of the Irish chieftain,

by

Hugh

Fox, or O'Caharny, at whose instigation Sir de Lacy was murdered. Adamnan, in

Meath

Cambrensis, cap. 19, 21, and 22. Besides his castles he erected one at New Leighlin,

his Life of

Columba, thus speaks of the founda-

tion of a monastery in this place

kille
:

by

St.

Columb-

in Idrone, called the Black Castle ; one at

Tach;

" Vir beatus in mediterranea Hibernia;

meho now Timahoe,

one at Tristerdermot,
territory of

in the territory of Leix

now

Castledermot, in the

parte Monasterium, quod Scotice dicitur Darmaig, divino fundavit nutu," See his Life of

Hy-Muiredhaigh, O'Toole's original

country

one at Tulachfelmeth,

now Tullow,

in

lib.

Columba, published by Colgan in Trias Thaum., i. cap. 31, lib. ii. c. 2, and lib. iii. c. 19.

72

aNNata Rio^hacnca emeawN.

[lisa

an cai^len. Uainic Din jail ina coirhiOeacc DO Dechpain 6 TTliabaij Do pfpaib reachba Dia foijib -] aon occlac jiolla gan lonacap

amac 50 cqiian

Venerable Bede has the following notice of

the erection of this monastery (Histor.
c.

nevertheless, that the

in the

Darmaig of Adamnan

is

lib. iii.

4):

"Fecerat, (Columba) priusquam Britanniam veniret monasterium nobile in Hibernia, quod a

Durrow, county of Kilkenny; but he offers no proof, and is manifestly in error. See his little work entitled the Life and Prophecies
of St. ColumbkiUe.
a

hoc copia Koborum Dearmach lingua Scotorum, est, Campus Eoborum, cognominatur." Camden and Mercator thought that by Dearmodi in this passage, Bede meant Armagh, and
the former, in pp. 764, 765, of his Hibernia, states, that a celebrated monastery was founded
at

G'Meyey.
this

There are several families of

name

in the county of

Westmeath, and in

the parish of Magheross, in the county of

Mo-

naghan.

Mr. Moore, in
a

his History oft Ireland, vol.

ii.

p. 321, states that

De Lacy

" met his death from

Armagh by Columba, about the year 610 but Ussher, who knew Irish topography far better
;

hand

so obscure, that not even a

name remains
:

than either of these writers, proves that Dear-

mach was the present Durrow

in the King's

in a note " Several names have been to the perassigned petrator of this act, but all differing so much

associated with the deed."

And adds,

County. " Columba? vero Dearmach eadem ipsa est quam Giraldus Cambrensis (Hibern. Expugnat.
lib.
ii. c.

from each other, as to shew that the real name was unknown. Geoffry Keating, with that love
of dull invention which distinguished him, describes the assassin as a

34) non

Dernach, ut habet liber editus,

vel

sed ut

MSS. Dervach

Dermach

(literam

guise."

young gentlemen in disKeating's account of this murder referred

is
:

aspiratam et v consonam eadem pene sono Hiberni efferunt:) ubi Midis ilium debel-

enim

to

latorem

Hugonem de Lacy, a
dolo

securiltus

male

se-

thus given in Dr. Lynch's translation of Keating's History of Ireland " Hugo de Lacy Midiae ab Henrico prapositus

by Mr. Moore,

curum,

fuisse narrat.

Hibernensium suorum interemptum In regio comitatu ea est, Burrogf)

:

tan to illico in indigenas seviendi libidine cor-

reptus

est,

ut nobilem imprimis in eo tractu

deleverit,

vulgo appellata

qua? monasterium habuit S.

Colmanorum gentem funditus pene

Columba? nomine insigne; inter cujus Kn^^ia,

aliisque regionis illius proceribus insidias dolose

Euangeliorum Codex vetustissimus asservabatur, quern ipsius Columba? fuisse monachi dictitabant.
ex quo, et non minoris antiquitatis altero, eidem Columba; assignato (quern in urbe 3XclIcs sive
ISenlis

instruxerit, et laqueis quas tetenderat irretitos

vita fortunis spoliaverit.
bilitatis flore

Quidem

aiitem e no-

animosusjuvenis indignissimam hanc

dicta Midenses

sacrum habent)

diligent!

cum

editione vulgata Latina collatione facta, in

suorum ceedem, fortunarumque jacturam iniquissimo ferens animo, audax sane facinus aggressus est. Cum enim Hugo condendo castello Durmagiae in

tiostros

usus variantium lectionum binos libellos

Midia teneretur implicitus, operarios quos-

concinnavimus."

and

Primordia, pp. 690, 691 ; Britannicarum Ecdesimum Antiquitates,

cumque idonea mercede conducens, quibus ita familiariter usus est, ut consortio eorum operisbilis

London, 1687, p. 361. The Rev. Denis Taaffe,

who was

well ac-

que, quandoque se immiscuerit ; juvenis itte nooperarii speciem cultu prae se ferens operam
locavit, confus fore,

quainted with the foregoing passage, asserts,

suam ad hoc opus

ut facul-

1186.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

it.

73

of Teffia, a youth named Gillagan-inathar O'Meyey", approached him, and drawing out an axe, which he had
three Englishmen, to view

One

of the

men

tatem aliquando
tanti

nancisceretur

animam

illam

descendant of the honourable man, for miao

suorum sanguinis profusione cruentatam hauriendi nee sua spe frustratus est quadam enim vice Hugonem graviter in opus incumbentem conspicatus, bipennem alte sublatum in ter; ;

means honour,

respect,

and miaoac, an honourIn the record of the

in the

able or estimable man.

murder of Hugo De Lacy, preserved

nals of Kilronan,
it is

An-

stated that this

O'Meyey
:

gum

ejus adegit, egit, ac extrusit."

animam que

domicilio suo ex-

was the fosterson of the Fox, Chief of Teffia. The

passage " A. D.
cille,
is
1

That

this story

Keating, will the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, which

was not invented by the honest appear from the following entry in

186.

very curious and runs as follows Uga oe 6aci oo tDupmaj Colaim

inoci, 7
ip

oo oenam caiplem
laip
;

pluaij oiaip-

mioe oo jallaib
7 6pepni,
7

uaip
ip

pe

pa

pij Pflibe

was transcribed long before he was born. A. D. 1186. Uja oe 6aci .1. malapcnc oipcailcec neimeo 7 cell Gpenri, a mapbao

Gipjiall, 7

7
i

n-emech coluitn

cille ic

oenum
O'

caipceoil

.1.

po gap Gpmn Ro po Ian Ono Dlioi o Smamn co paipci oo [recte o'a] caiplenaip, 7 oo jallaib. lap craipc-

Cotmacc,

bo bo bepca cip uile oo gallaib.

a ntJepmai^; oo mapbao Cecba.

" A. D. 1186.
faner

ITIiaOaij oo

pin

Hugo

de Lacy,

i.

e.

the pro-

oo in rpaocuip pin .1. caiplen t)upmaije Oo oenaim, camic atnacli bo pecham an caipCamic Ono lein, 7 rpiap bo jallaib laip.

and destroyer of the sanctuaries and churches of Ireland, was killed in revenge of
Columbkille, while making a castle at he was killed by O'Meyey of Teffia."

en occlac oo pepuip mioe oa inbpaije, 7 a pa na coim .1. jilla jan machup o miabaij, balca an cSmnaio peippm, 7 cue 6n puille bo, jup ben a cenn oe, 7 gup cuic
cuajli
eicip

Durrow

This entry
lation of the

is

thus rendered in the old trans-

ceno

colamo a clobh an

caiplen."

Annals of Ulster in the British

Mu-

seum

" A. D. 1186.

Hugh

de Lacy killed by a
Ireland, killed

workman.

Hugh

and privileges" [neimeb]

de Lacy, spoyler of churches " of

by

one of Brewny, by the Fox O'Catharny, in revenge of Colum Kill, building a castle in Dorow
(his

Durrow to make a castle there, having a countless number of the English with him for he was King of Meath, Breifny, and Oriel, and it was to him the tribute of Connaught was paid, and he it was that won

" A. D. 11 86.

Hugo

de Lacy went to

all

Abby, Anno 640 [540 ?j ex quo fundata

It will

est

Shannon
this

Ireland for the English. Meath, from the to the sea, was full of his castles, and

Dariajicclesia)."

be seen that in this pas-

English [followers].

After the completion of

well acquainted with the English accounts of the murder of De "a workman" \ Lacy, renders O'

sage the translator,

who was

work by him, i. e. the erection of the castle of Durrow, he came out to look at the castle,
having three Englishmen along with him. There came then one youth of the men of Meath up to
him, having his battle-axe concealed, namely, Gilla-gan-inathur O'Meyey, the fosterson of the

thus

Hugh de Lacy killed by a workman of Tathva" (DO mapbao O' O miaoaij oo Cecba).
:

"

miabaij, by

But this

is

so manifest a blunder that

it is

unneit
;

cessary to descend to particulars to refute

for

decidedly a family name, not meaning descendant of the labouring man, but
is

O' miaoui^

Fox himself, and he gave him one blow,

he cut
off his head,

so that

and he

fell,

both head and

body, into the ditch of the castle."

74

[1186.

ruaj po a coimm
cuic ercip cfnn
-j

laipy.

Oo
i

colainn

bfn a cfmT Oe gup bfpc builte DO llugo gup colaim cille. Qjup cclaD an caiflen i neneac
-|

Do cuam jiolla jan lonacap Do copa6 a peaca apy, 6 jallaib

o jaoiDealaib

Now

it is

quite clear, from these authorities,

is

while each

man was
some

busie to try his cunning ;

plaistering,

that Mr.Moore

wrong
a

in charging

Keating with

some

lading,

some heaving,

dull invention for having written that the

mur-

some carving; the Generall

also himselfe digg-

derer of
guise.

De Lacy was

young gentleman

in dis-

He should have remembered that Keating

ing with a pykeaxe, a desperate villain of them, he whose toole the Generall used, espying both
his hands occupied

had many documents which he (Mr. Moore) could not understand, and which are probably now lost.

As

to calling

O'Meyey a gentleman, we must

ac-

and his body, with all force inclining to the blow, watched his stoope, and clove his head with an axe, little esteeming the

knowledge that the term could then be properly enough applied to a youth who had been fostered

by an

Irish chief of vast territorial pos-

torments that ensued" [no torments ensued, for the murderer, who was as thin as a greyhound, " This baffled all pursuit Lacy was conED.]

he had been deprived of them by The scheme of O'Meyey could have been known to the Irish only. The English
sessions, till

De

Lacy.

querour of Meth, his body the two Archbishops, John of Divelin and Mathew of Cashell, buryed in
the monastery of Becktye, his head in S. Thomas abbey at Divelin." Historie of Ireland, Dublin
Edition, pp. 99, 100. See also
cle,

might have taken

to

it

for granted that

he was a
seems

labourer at the castle.

But

after all there

Hanmer's Chroni-

be no original English authority which calls the murderer of De Lacy a labouring man, nor

Dublin Edition, pp. 322, 323, where Hanmer observes of the tragical end of De Lacy
:

any authority whatever

shed.

Campion, who

than Holingwrote in 1571, gives the

for it older

" Whose death

(I

was not sorry

of,

read in Holinshed) the king for he was always jealous of

following description of the occurrence, in his Historic of Ireland., which savqurs really of " dull invention the rather for these

his greatnesse."

The only cotemporaneous English account of

this event are the following brief

Lacy whisperings, did erect and

:

words of Gi-

edifie a

number

of

raldus Cambrensis, in the 34th chapter of the

Castles,

well and substantially,

places,

provided in

Derwath, where diverse Irish prayed to be set on worke, for

convenient

one

at

second book of his Hibernia Expugnata, which is headed Brevis gestorum recapitulatio : "De Hugonis de Lacy a securibus male securi dolo Hi-

hire.

Sundry times came Lacy to quicken his labourers, full glad to see them fall in ure
with any such exercise, wherein, might they once be grounded & taste the sweetness of a
true man's
life,

berniensium suorum apud Dernach

the
of

[recte

Der-

uach] decapitatione." Giraldus would cdH both

his fosterson O'Meyey the people Lacy, inasmuch as they were inhabitants of Meath, of which he was the chief lord, and

Fox and

De

he thought

it

no small token of

reformation to be hoped, for which cause he

visited

of which,

them

often,

and merrily would command

in

it would appear from William of Newburg, he intended to style himself king. The

his

Gentlemen to give the labourers example

Abbe Mac Geoghegan,

torn.
ii.

in his Histoire d'Irlande,

taking paines, to take their instruments in hand, and to worke a season, the poore soules looking

on and

resting.

But

this

game ended

Tragically,

De Lacy a young Irish lord disguised as a labouring man, ("un jeune seigneur Irlandois deguise en ouvp. 36,

calls

the murderer of

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ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

;

75

kept concealed, he, with one blow of it, severed his head from his body and both head and trunk fell into the ditch of the castle. This was in revenge of Columbkille. Gilla-gan-inathar fled, and, by his fleetness of foot, made his
rier"),

in

which he

is

borne out by Keating,

;

Ulster.

It also appears

from the Irish annals,

and not contradicted by the Irish annals but he had no authority for stating that Symmachus

that

De Lacy

had,

by the daughter of King

Eoderic O'Conor, a son called William

Gorm

O'Cahargy (for so he ignorantly calls an Sinnach OC'aharny, or the Fox, Chief of Teffia),

from whom, according to Duald Mac Firbis, the celebrated rebel, Pierce Oge Lacy of Bruree

who had an armed force concealed in a neighbouring wood, rushed upon, and put to the sword the followers of De Lacy ; or that the Irish
of his body. The fact would appear to be, that his own people buried De Lacy's body in the cemetery of Durrow,

and Bruff, in the county of Limerick, who

flourished
in

was the eighteenth

also

the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in descent ; and from whom

obtained possession

the Lynches of

Galway have descended.

(See Vita Kirovani, p. 9, and O'Flaherty's Account of lar-Connaught, printed for the Irish
Archaeological
Society,
p.

where

it

remained

till

the year 1195, when, as

36.)

The

race of

we

learn from Grace's Annals and other autho-

rities,

removed

the Archbishops of Cashel and Dublin it from the Irish territory ("ex Hy-

Walter and Hugh, who were evidently the sons of Hugh I., by his first wife, became extinct in the

male

line.

Walter

left

two daugh-

bernica plaga"), and buried the body in the Abbey of Bective in Meath, and the head in St.
It appears, moreover, that a controversy arose between the canons of St. Thomas's and the monks of Bective, concerning the right to his body, which contro-

ters, namely, Margaret, who married the Lord Theobald Verdon, and Matilda, who married

Thomas's church in Dublin.

Geoffry Genevile.

Hugh had

one daughter,
in

Maude, who married Walter De Burgo, who,

her right, became Earl of Ulster. See Hanmer's Chronicle, Dublin Edition, pp. 387, 388,
392.

versy was decided, in the year 1205, in favour of the former, who obtained the body, and interred
it, along with the head, in the tomb of his first wife, Rosa de Munemene See Harris's

For the

different accounts of the death of

is

Hugh
mus
c.

de Lacy the reader

referred to Guliel1.

Neubrigensis, or William of Newburg,

3,

Ware,

vol.

i.

p. 141,

and the Abbe Mac Geo-

9 ; Holingshed's Chronicle ; Camden's Britannia, p. 151 ; Ware's Annals, A. D. 1186;

Lacy's second wife was Roderic 0' Conor, whom King he married in the year 1180, contrary (says

ghegan (ubi supra).

Rose, daughter of

De

Cox's Hibernia Anglicana,

p.

40

Leland's His-

Holingshed) to the wishes of King Henry II See Dublin Copy of the Annals of Innisfallen,

tory of Ireland, vol. i. pp. 147, 148; Littleton's Life of Henry II., book 5 ; and Moore's History of Ireland, vol. ii. pp. 321, 322.
It

may not,
that, in

A. D. 1180, and Hanmer's Chronicle, Dublin It is stated in Grace's Annals Edition, p. 318.
of Ireland, that this Sir

mark,

perhaps, be out of place here to reour own time, a somewhat similar

disaster occurred at

Durrow;

for its proprietor,

Hugh left two sons (but by what mother we are not informed), Walter and Hugh, of whom, according to the Dublin
copy of the Annals of Innisfallen, the former became King of Meath, and the latter Earl of

the Earl of Norbury, was assassinated by a hand still unknown, after he had completed a castle

on the

site of that erected by De Lacy, and, as some would think, after having insulted St. Columbkille by preventing the families under

[1187.

po coill an cldip.

TCainicc laparh

ccfnn an cpionnaij q ui bpaoin, uaip

appiaD po pupdil aip an ciapla Do mapbao. ui ceallai^h cijfpna ua mdine Do mapbaD la TTlupcha6 mac cai&j
concobap maonmaije.
hi ccenel cconaill Do bpfiplem raoipeac pdnac laclamn.

mapbaD

ta

mac mic

CIO1S

CR1OSO,

1187.

Qoip CpiopD

mile, ceo,

ochcmojhac, a peachc.
-\

ITluipcfpcac ua maoiluibip eppoc cluana peapca, Decc. TTlaoiliopa ua cfpbaill eppucc aipjiall

cluana mic noip Decc.

RuaiDpi ua plaichbfpcaij cicchfpna cenel co-jam Do mapbaD ap cpec

ccip Conaill la

plaicbfpcach. locha ce Do lopccaD Do rene Doaic. T?o baibfo ~] po loipceab Cappacc mjfn ui eibin (.1. Duibeapa) bfn concobaip mic Diapmaca (ci^fpna maije luipcc) 50 peacr cceoaib (no cfcpaca ap ceo), no ni ap uille eiccip pfpaib
1

hua maoloopaij

.1.

mnaib

ppi

pe naon uaipe innre.

^lolla lopa
]

mac

ailella ui bpaoin

pecnap ua maine pfnchame pccpibm^e,

peap Dana

D'ecc.

his

tutelage from burying their dead in the ancient cemetery of Durrow.

This place, which Kilclare, Coill a' cldip was originally covered with wood, retains its name to the present day. It is a townland in
the parish of Kilbride, in the barony of Kil-

The district is generally anglicised Moylurg. now locally called the " Plains of Boyle." This territory was bounded on the north by the River
on the east partly by the Shannon and na Sionna ; partly by the territory of Tir Briuin on the south by Magh Naoi, or Machaire ChonBoyle
;

See Ordnance Map coursy and King's County of the King's County, sheet 8. c Maelisa 0' Carroll. He was elected Arch-

nacht,

which

it

by

the River Bridoge, which divided

met near Elphin ; and on the west it from the

district of Airteach.

Moylurg extended from

Armagh, and died on his journey towards Rome See Harris's Ware, vol. i. p.
bishop of
180.

Lough O'Gara toCarrick-on-Shannon; from the Curlieu Mountains to near Elphin; and from

Lough Key paic loca ce,

island in

Lough Key
The Rock of Lough Key, capis the name of a castle on an
in the county
It is still
i.

to the northern

boundary of the pa-

rish of

Kilmacumshy.

Mac Dermot was Chief

Lough Key, near Boyle,

kept in
e.

of Moylurg, Airteach, and Tir Tuathail ; and at the time of dividing the county of Roscommon
into baronies, these three territories
into one,

of

Roscommon.
e

good

repair.

were joined
Lat-

Magh Luirg,

the

plain of the track, or road,

and

called the

barony of Boyle.

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ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

.

77

b He afterwards escape from the English and Irish to the wood of Kilclare went to the Sinnagh (the Fox) and O'Breen, at whose instigation he had

killed the Earl.

Murrough, the son of Teige O'Kelly, Lord of Hy-Many, was Conor Moinmoy [O'Conor].
O'Breslen, Chief of Fanat in Tirconnell, was slain

slain

by

by the son of Mac

Loughlin.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1187.

thousand one hundred eighty-seven.

died.

Murtough O'Maeluire, Bishop of Clonfert and Clonmacnoise,

Maelisa O'Carroll
,

Bishop of Oriel (Clogher), died. Rory O'Flaherty [O'Laverty], Lord of Kinel-Owen, was slain, while on a predatory excursion into Tirconnell, by O'Muldory (Flaherty,).
d Lough Key was burned by lightning. Duvesa, daughter of e O'Heyne, and wife of Conor Mac Dermot, Lord of Moylurg with seven hunf dred (or seven score ) others, or more, both men and women, were drowned

The rock

of

or burned in

it

in the course of

one hour.

Gilla-Isa [Gelasius], the son of Oilioll O'Breen,

Sech-Abb

[Prior] of

Hy-

Many,

a historian, scribe,

and

poet, died.
of Taghboyne, or Tibohine."
(

terly, however, by a Grand Jury arrangement, the south-west part of the barony of Boyle has been called the barony of French-Park, from the
little

Seven score

is

interlined in the original

town of that name

at the years

See other references

the compilers could not determine which was the true number, and so gave the two readings,
is

to

Moylurg

1446 and 1595.

The

following parishes are placed in the deanery of Moylurg by the Liber Regalis Visitationis of

In the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, it stated that the number destroyed on this occa-

1615; but
lurg
is

must be understood that by Moythere meant all Mac Dermot's lordship,

it

which comprised Moylurg (now the plains of Boyle), TirTuathail andAirteach; viz. Kilnamanagh; Ardcarne; Killumod; Assylin, now Boyle parish; Taghboin, now Tibohine; Killcoulagh;
Killewekin,
cin

moo," and in the old translation, the number 700 is written in Arabic figures. Thus " A. D. 1187. The Carrick of Lough Ce burnt at noone, where the daughter of O'Heiyn was burnt and drowned. Coner
sion
ni ip
:

was "un. cec, no

Mac Dermot, King of Moyloyrg, and 700 or more, men and women, were burnt and drowned
within an hower."

now Kulluckin,

in Irish Cill GiBi-

Kilrudan, Clonard, and Killicknan, be; longing then (as they now also do) to the parish

The burning of this fortress is recorded Annals of Kilronan, at the years 1 185 and

in the
1

187;

78

[1187-

Do rhupaD pop jallaib la concobap uaca jan mafnmaije -] la maelpechlamn mbecc cona cepna p^eolanja muDhucchaDh. Cuccpac a bpoibb, a naipm, apceic, alluipeacha,
Caiplen
cille

dip

DO lopccaD

~\

mapbaD, a neocha leo, po mapbaicc ofp Do piDepibh leo. Oonnchaoh ua puaipc Do mapbaoh la muincip eolaip
-\ -] -\

hi ppiull.

ui puaipc Do njeapna Opuimcliabh Do opccain Do mac TTlaelpeachlainn Do mac cacail hui puaipc, ua mbpiuin goill miDe aniaille conmaicne,
-] -|

-|

po mapbaD mac maelechlainn ui puaipc pia ccionn coicoipi lap pin hi cconmaicmbh, po DallaD mac carail huf puaipc la hua maoloopaib .1. plaicbfprach in enech
ppiu.

Do

poine Dia,

~\

coluim cille piopr

ampa

innpin, uaip

-]

mapbaD Dna pe pichic Dafp jpdoa mfic Hlaoilpechlamn coluim cille. caipppe Dpoma cliabh cpe miopbail De, ap puD conmaicne, TTlac Diapmacra, TTIuip^fp mac raiDcc, cigfpna muije luipcc Decc ina
colaim
cille.

l?o

-\

-|

cigh

pfm ap claonloch

hi

ccloinn cuain.
ecc.

Rajnall mag cochlain ciccfpna Dealbna Do

QoD mac

maoileachlainn

ui

puaipc

njeapna bpeipne Do mapbaD la

ecc.

macaib cuinn meg paghnaill.

Qipeaccach mac amalgaiD caoipeac calpaije Do

at the former year the

number stated to have been

destroyed is six or seven score, but at the latter the number destroyed is not stated. In the Annals of Boyle the burning of Carraic Locha Ce
recorded under the year 1186, but the ber destroyed is not mentioned.
is 8

132-137 but it must be acknowledged that Columbkille was held in peculiar veneration at this place, and was regarded as its patron
pp.
St.
;

See Irish Calendar of the O'Clerys at 9th of June.

1

num-

Son of Mdagklin.
to the'

Hugh, according
nals of Ulster.
J

His name was Aedh, or Dublin copy of the Ani

Muintir-Eolaii,

i. e.

the

Mac Eannals and

their correlatives,

who were

seated in the south-

ern or level part of the present county of Leitrim. Their country was otherwise called Magh

cille.

In revenge of Columbkille, rieneac colaim This phrase, which occurs so frequently

Rein

and they were

as often called

Conmaicne

" in throughout the Irish annals, is rendered revenge of Columkill" in the old translation of
the Annals of Ulster, preserved in the British
in

Maighe Rein,
11

as Muintir-Eolais.

small village in the barony of Carbury, and county of Sligo, remarkable for the remains of an ancient round

Drumdiff,

Dpuim

cliaB

Museum,

as follows:

which the above passage is rendered "A. D. 1187- Drumcliew spoyled

by mac Moyleghlin O'Royrck, King of O'Briuin

and Conmacue, and by Cathal O'Royrck's son, and the Galls of Meath with them but God
;

tower.
kille,

O'Donnell, in his Life of St. Columbstates that a

saint.

by that

monastery was founded here This is doubted by Dr. Lanigan,

vol.
ii.

shewed a miracle

in his Ecclesiastical History of Ireland,

Columkill there, for Moylaghlin's son was killed two weeks after, and
for

1187-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

castle of Killare,

79

The

which was

in possession of the English^

was burned
:

and demolished by Conor Moinrnoy [O'Conor] and Mclaghlin Beg and not one of the English escaped, but were all suffocated, or otherwise killed They carried away their accoutrements, arms, shields, coats of mail, and horses,
;

and slew two knights. s Donough O'Kourke was treacherously slain by the Muintir-Eolais DrumclifP was plundered by the son' of Melaghlin O'Rourke, Lord of HyBriuin and Conmaicne, and by the son of Cathal O'Rourke, accompanied by
.

But God and St. Columbkille wrought a remarkable the English of Meath. miracle in this instance; for the son of Melaghlin' O'Rourke was killed in Conmaicne a fortnight afterwards, and the eyes of the son of Cathal O'Roiirke
were put out by O'Muldory (Flaherty) in revenge of Columbkille'. One hundred and twenty of the son of Melaghlin's retainers were also killed throughout Conmaicne and Carbury of Drumcliff, through the miracles of God and St.
Columbkille.

Mac Dermot

(Maurice, son of Teige), Lord of Moylurg, died in his

own

mansion on Claenlough, in Clann-Chuain". Randal Mac Coghlan, Lord of Delvin, died.

Hugh, the son of Melaghlin O'Rourke, Lord of Breifny, was

sons of

slain

by the

Con Mag Rannal. Aireaghtagh Mac Awley, Chief of

was blinded, with

Calry, died

1
.

Cathel's son

whom

the

army

came,

O'Moyldory's house, in revenge of Columkill, and a hundred and twenty of the

in

him, and placed himself under the protection of Mac Dermot, Chief of Moylurg See Tribes and Customs of Hy-Fiachrack, printed in 1844,
for the

"of the sons of Moylaghlin were killed in Conmacne and Carbry of Drumklew, through the miracles of Columkill."
chief'est" [followers]

Irish

Archaeological Society,
is

pp. 163,

204, 205.
ten ;
it

The name Claonloch

Clann-Chuain, Clonn Chuam, called also Fir Thire and Fir Siuire ; their territory comprised the northern part of the barony of Carra,
in the

lake of Castlebar, for

was probably the ancient we learn from the Book

now forgotname of the

of Lecan that the Clann Chuain were seated on

the River Siuir, which flows through the town of Castlebar.

county of Mayo, and was originally a portion of the country of O'Dowda, under whom it was held by O'Quin of Carra; but about
the year 1150, O'Quin, in consequence of the barbarous conduct of Rory Mear O'Dowda, who
violated his daughter while on a visit at his

Chie/of Calry, raoipeac calpaije, that is, of Calry-an-chala, which, according to the tradition in the country, and as can be proved
'

from various written authorities, comprised the

entire of the parish of Ballyloughloe,
in the

(O'Quin's) house, renounced his allegiance to

county of Westmeath.

80
'

Rio^hachca eiraeaNN.

[1188.

QO1S CR1OSO,

1188.

a hochr. doip CpiopD mile, ceD, ochcmojac,

TTlaptain ua bpolaijh aipoeccnaiD jaoi&eal
-|

pfp Ifiginn CtpDa

mocha

Do

ecc.

QeDh ua bechan eppcop

coccai&e.
T?uai6pi

innpi

cacaij Do ecc.
hi

Clmlaoib ua Daijpe Oo cocc co

Dia oilicpe,

-]

a ecc ann
hf6, i

lap naicpighe

ua canannain cijfpna
t>o

Gpeann bfop

mapbaD

pioghDarhna la plaicbfpcac ua maoloopaiD cpe mebail ace

cinel cconaill ppi

na bpeccaD Do lap opomacliabh amach, -\ bparaip Dpoichfc Sliccighe lap ele DO Do mapbaD amaille ppip, -[ Dpfm Dia riiumncip. Tnagnap ua gaipb Do mapbab la muinnroipeac pfp nopoma (po imbip larh ap ua ccanannain)
Dochapcaij nDiojail uf canannam. Oorhnall ua canamidin Do Ifopab a coipi Dia ruaij pfin i nDoipe ace a ecc De cpia eapccaine pamca colaim cille. bfin apcclamje connaiDh,

np eachmapcaij

ui

-\

Dpong Do uib eachDach ulaD Do cocc ap cpeich rcip eo^ain 50 ccopachcacap 50 Ifim mic neill, T?o jabpac bu annpin. Do DeachaiD Doriinall ua laclainn cona cfcclac ina nDeaDhaiD, puce oppa
^oill caipceoil
i

riiaije

coba,

~\

CPBroly,

O6polaij

This name

still

exists

pp. 2-7- It continued to be the seat of a bishop

till

in Derry, anglicised

passage

is

given in

Brawly and Broly. This the Dublin copy of the An:

about this period (1188), when

it

seems to

have been united to the see of Limerick. Ussher,

however,

nals of Ulster, as follows

A. D. 1188. Hlapcam
uile,
7 apt>

who thought

that

it

owed

its origin

hua bpolaij apoecnaib joeibel

pep

to St. Patrick, informs us that its possessions

And thus renleiftinn aipb maca DO ec. dered in the old English translation in the British Museum "A. D. 1188. Martan O'Brolay,
:

were divided between the

laloe,

sees of Limerick, Kil-

and Ardfert

"
:

Atq; hie notandum, Patri-

cium

archlearned of the Irish

all,

and archlector of

in metropoli Armachana successore relicto ad alias Ecclesias constituendas animum adjecisse

:

Armagh,
n

died."

in quibus sedes ilia Episcopalis fuit in

catti

Inis- Cathy,

Imp Carai
is

Now

called Scat-

Sinei (Sljanan) fluminis alveo, Inis

& eodem

tery Island.

It is situated in the

the town of Kilrush, and

Shannon, near remarkable for the

sensu

in

Provinciali
Is

appellata.

remains of several churches, and a round tower

of great church was founded here antiquity. See 540 by St. Senan, a bishop, about the

Laonensem
Primordia,

&
p.

Cathay Episcopatus inter Limiricensem, Ardfertensem hodie divisus."

Romano

Insula

873.

year

Sincere penitence, iap naicpijhe roccaibe,

literally,

Lanigan's Ecclesiastical History of Ireland,

vol.ii.

after choice penance.

This phrase

is

1188.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

81

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one thousand one

1188.
eighty-eight.

hundred

Martin O'Broly, chief Sage of the

Irish,
n
,

and Lector
died.

at

Armagh,

died.

Hugh

O'Beaghan, Bishop of Inis-Cathy

Auliffe O'Deery- performed a pilgrimage to

Hy

[lona],

where he died

after

sincere penitence

Rory O'Canannan, sometime Lord of Tirconnell, and heir presumptive to the crown of Ireland, was treacherously slain by Flaherty O'Muldory on the
bridge of Sligo, the latter having first artfully prevailed on him to come forth from the middle of Drumcliff. The brother and some of the people of O'Canannan were also killed by him. Manus O'Garve, Chief of Fir-Droma (who

had

hands on O'Canannan), was afterwards slain by the people of Eachmarcach O'Doherty, in revenge of O'Canannan's death.
laid violent

Donnell O'Canannan wounded his foot with his

own axe

at Derry, as

he

was cutting a piece of wood, and died of the wound, in consequence of the
curse of the family [clergy] of Columbkille p The English of the castle of Moy-Covaq and a party from Iveagh, in Ulidia, set out upon a predatory exciirsion into Tyrone, and arrived at Leim-mhic. ,

Neill

r
,

where they seized on some cows; Donnell O'Loughlin pursued them

" while cutting," and this
1
is,

very frequently given in Latin in the Annals " in bona of Ulster thus penitentia quievit," or " in bona mortuus est." penitentia
:

in the opinion of

the Editor, the true reading.

In the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster this passage reads as follows A. D.
Columbkille
:

rony of

coba, a plain in the baUpper Iveagh, in the county of Down. Its situation appears from the position of the

Moy-Cova,

maj

188.

t)omnall hua canannan oo lecpao a coipi

church of Domhnach Mor Muighe Cobha, now

Dip cuaij
naio, 7

pem

n&aipe

juic apclainne con;

a ec be cpia mipbail coluim cille and thus translated in the old work already referred to: "A. D. 1188. DonellO'Cananancuthis foote by his oune hatchet
tree for fewell,
kille's miracles."
i

Donaghmore, a parish lying nearly midway beSee Feilire tween Loughbrickland and Newry
Aenguis, at 16th November, T Leim-mhic-Neill, i. e. the leap of the son of Niall. This was the name of a place near Dun-

in

Dyry" [when stealing]

it is

"a

and died thereof through Colum-

Here

to
it

^uir

is left

untranslated;

be remarked that means "

stealing,"

gannon, in Tyrone, called after Donnagan, the son of Niall, who was son of Maelduin, the son

or "while stealing." In the Annals of Kilronan, the reading is aj buam, i. e. "cutting," or

Aedh Oirdnighe, monarch of Ireland, who died in the year 819See Duald Mac Firbis's of the Kinel-Owen, p. 126. Pedigrees
of

82
hi

aNNdta Riojjhachca eiReawN.

t>o

[iiss.

ccaban na ccpann apt), jallaib, po cuipfo a nap.

aenap,
-|

copchaip innpin

paccpac lomaipecc Dm poile, po Tncut>h pop Oo paOaD eirh pa&aoh Do jallja pop Dorhnall a hi ppioqjuin cijfpna Qilijn, Dorhnall mac aoDa hui
-\ -|

laclainn, piojbarhna

la pin pfin
laparii.

Gpeann ap cpur, ap ceill, ap cpebaipe. RuccaD an co naipmibin moip 50 hapDmaca. 17o haDnaicfb co nonoip,
ui

6oaom mjfn
iap mbpfirh

cuinn

bainnjepna murhan bai aja hoilicpe

-|

nDoipe oecc

buaba

6 Dorhan

o Dfrhan.
hi

Sluaicceab la lohn Do cuipc i la jallaib Gpeann

cconnaccaib amaille

CionoiliD pf connacc .1. concobap maonle concobap ua noiapmacca. maije maice connacc uile. Uainic Dorhnall ua bpiain co nDpuing Do pfpaib TTlurhan pochpairce pijh connacc. Loipcic na 501 II apaill DO ceallaib na
i

cipe pfmpa.

Ni po Ificcic pccaoileaD Doib co pan^accap eapDapa.

ccip conaill on, uaip na po Ificcpiocc connaccaij

ba

Do ceacc
ccfp iaD.

map

pia Dia

lap bpiop pccel Do ua maoloopaiD Do plaicbepcac, ceajlomaiD OD cualaDap na joill pin piDe cenel conaill na ccoinne co Dpuim cliabh. po loipccpfo eapDapa co Ifip. SoaiD cap a naipp. CiajaiD ip in coippOo beapcpaD connaccaij pip murhan arnrnup poppa. TDapbaiD pliab.
~\

pochaiDe beacc Don chup

i

rhoip Dib.
pin.

pdccbaiD na

goill

an cip ap eccin,

"|

nf

po rhillpfo a

Cavannaff-crannard,CaKan na ccpann apo,

i.

the hollow of the high trees. This name does not now exist in Tyrone, nor does it occur
e.

Leabhar Breac, fol. 52, Editor has translated

heat of the conflict,"
u

b,

and 104, a; but the

"

the throughout by or "thick of the battle."

it is

in the Ulster Inquisitions,

Survey. There are two townlands called Cavan-O'Neill

or

Down

Spear.

5 a ^' 5 cn
/

rendered a pike in the

:

old translation of the Annals of Ulster, thus

in the county of Tyrone, one in the parish of

Kildress, near Cookstown,

"

and another in the

Dr. Stuart,

all,

thrust of a Pike was given the King among and fell there unhappily, viz. Donell mac

parish of Aghaloo, near Caledon.

in his Historical
p. 163,

Hugh

O'Loghlin, King of Ulster [Aileach] and

Memoirs of the City of Armagh,

is

thinks that this

the place

now
is far

called

heire of Ireland for personage, witt, liberality and housekeeping, and was caried the same day
to

Cavanacaw, magh on the

1

situated within

two miles of Arfrom

Armagh and was honerably

'

buried."

Newry

road; but this

OfO'Quin, Ui Cliuinn

This was O'Quin,

being certain.

Chief of Muintir-Iffernan in Thomond,

conflict, hi

now

re-

Heat of the

ppiorsutn.

The word

pniocjuin, which occurs so frequently in these Annals, literally means, the retort, or return of

The situpresented by the Earl of Dunraven. ation of the territory of O'Quin, from whom
Inchiquin derives its name, is thus given in O'Heerin's topographical poem :

the assault, or onset, or the exchange of blows

1188.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

5
,

83

with his retainers, and overtook them at Cavan na g-crann ard where an engagement took place between them; and the English were defeated with great But Donnell, the son of Hugh O'Loughlin, Lord of Aileach, and slaughter.

presumptive heir to the throne of Ireland, on account of his personal symmetry, intelligence, and wisdom, alone received a thrust from an English spear', and fell in the heat of the conflict". His body was carried to Armagh on the

same day, and there interred with great honour and solemnity. v Edwina, daughter of 0'Quin and Queen of Munster, died on her mage at Derry, victorious over the world and the devil.
,

pilgri-

John de Courcy and the English of Ireland made an incursion into Connaught, accompanied by Conor O'Dermot; upon which Conor Moinmoy, King of Connaught, assembled all the chieftains of Connaught, who were joined by Donnell O'Brien, at the head of some of the men of Munster. The English set
fire to

some of the churches of the country

as they passed along,

but made no

( Bally sadare), with the intention of passing into Tirconnell, because the Connacians would not suffer them to tarry any

delay until they reached Eas-dara

longer in their country. As soon as O'Muldory (Flaherty) had received intelligence of assembled the Kinel-Conell, and marched to DrumclifF to oppose them.

this,

he

When

the English heard of this movement, they burned the entire of Ballysadare, and returned back, passing by the Curlieu mountains, where were attacked
the Connacians

who

they by of the English were slain, and those survived retreated with difficulty from the country, without effecting much

and Momonians.

Many

destruction" on this incursion.

t)'

O'Chumn an cpome neamnaip

paippm^ Ipepnam;

ITIuincip

Don cup pin. " And the English left the country without doing much damage on this occasion."
In the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster
reads: pacbaic
it

dp

copam an jille jlom pa copa pmne plea&oi^.

extensive Muintir-Ifernan

" To O'Quin of the good heart belongs

na jaill in cip ap eicin cen a becc D0 & leu6 which is rather incorrectly ren'

The The
Is at

dered "
'

And

left

the Countl7 b 7 foroe without

fertile district of this splendid

man

the festive Corafin."

destruction, 7 ni

much fi Sht'" tish Museum.

It
is

in the old translation in th e Bri-

po millpeo a beacc. In the Annals of Kilronan the reading is 7

:

added in the Annals of Kilronan, that

Much

o na guill in cip cen a bee bo milleo

Murrough, the son of Farrell O'Mulrony, and O'Madden, and many others [alii midti eis], were slain at the Curlieus on this occasion.

mm

84

cn-wata Rio^hachca eireeaNN.

Cpeach la
-|

[1189-

co pujupcoip oorhnall mac gallaib ulaD pop cenel neojhain al ' aoDa uf lachloinn njeapna cenel neojhain poppu, -] po chuippfc dp pop 5
laib,

arpochaip Domnall

ppiocshum an chacha

pin.

QO1S CR1OSO,
Qoip Cpiopo,
mile, ceo,

1189.

ocrmojao, anaoi.
-|

Do bachaD eccip dipt) TTlaolcamnij ua pfpcomaip pep leccinn Doipe

imp eojain.

Qpomaca Do GpDmaca DO
1 cpian,
"]

ina pochaip. opccain la hiohn Do cuipc -] la jallaib Gpeann lopccaD o cpoppaib bpijDe co pecclfp bpiccDi eccip pair,

ream pall. TTlupcha ua cfpbaill cijepna

oipjiall

Do ecc

ip in mainipDip

moip

mp

naicpicci rojaibi.

Domnall mac TTluipceapcaij mec loclainn Do mapbaD la jallaib Dal apaibe aca pfm. Gchmilib mac mec cana, ponap pobapcan cipe heoccham uile Do ecc. TTIac nahoibce ua TTlaolpuanaiD cijeapna pfp manac DO cop ap a cijeap-\

nap,

-|

6 DO 6ol Do

cum
-|

ui cfpbaill.

Cainicc pluaj jail Don cip mpccain,

Doib.

~\

DO paD ua cfpbaill
baill,
-]

ua maolpuanaiD racap

TTlaiDiD pop

ua

ccfp-

1
*

mapbcap ua maolpuanaiD. Concobap maonmaije (.1. mac TCuaiDpi) aipD pi connacc eiccip gallaib la Dia oipecr jaoiDealaib Do mapbaD la Dpuinj Dia rhuincip pfm
.1.
-\

Aird

is
;

now
it is

called Ardmagilligan

and Tarn-

laght-ard

a parish, situated in the north-

This passage is rendered as follows year 1 165. in the old translation of the Annals of Ulster
:

west extremity of the county of Londonderry, and is separated from luishowen by the straits
of Loughfoyle.

"A.
after
*

D. 1189.

Murogh

O'Carroll,

Archking of
of Meliibnt

Argiall, died in the greate

Abbey

That part of this parish which on Lough Foyle is low and level but verges the high mountain of 6eann Poibne, now Ben;

good repentance." Egkmily, Gciinilio. This name, which

is

an-

glicised

Eghmily

in the old translation of the

eveny,
i

is

situated in the southern part of it, from

Annals of Ulster, and Acholy, in the Ulster Inquisitions, is

whsBCe

it

has got the

name
i.

The Great Monastery,

e.

of Ard, or height. the Abbey of Melli-

compounded of ech, Lat.

miles,
is

equus, a

horse,

and mrlio, Lat.

a soldier.

The

font, iu the

county of Louth which was erected by Donough O'Carroll, Chief of Oriel, in the

country of

Mac Cann

shewn on an old map

preserved in the State Papers' Office, London,

1189.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

;

85

of Ulidia took a prey from the Kinel-Owen but they were overtaken and slaughtered by Donnell, the son of Hugh O'Loughlin, Lord of

The English
Kinel-Owen

the

but Donnell himself fell fighting in the heat of the

battle.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1189.

thousand one hundred eighty-nine.

x Mulkenny O'Fearcomais, Lector of Derry, was drowned between Aird

(Ardmagilligan) and Inishowen.

Armagh was plundered by John De Courcy and the English of Ireland. Armagh was burned from St. Bridget's Crosses to St. Bridget's Church,
including the Rath, the Trian, and the churches. Murrough O'Carroll, Lord of Oriel, died a sincere penitent in the Great
y

Monastery

Donnell, the son of Murtough Mac Loughlin, was slain by the English of Dalaradia while he was [staying'] amongst them.

Eghmily*, the son of

died.

Mac Cann,

the happiness and prosperity of

all

Tyrone,

Mac-na-h-Oidhche [son of the night] O'Mulrony", Lord of Fermanagh, was driven from his lordship, and fled to O'Carroll. Shortly afterwards an English

army arrived

in that country, to

whom

O'Carroll and O'Mulrony gave battle;

but O'Carroll was defeated, and O'Mulrony killed. Conor Moinmoy (the son of Roderic), Bang of all Connaught, both English and Irish, was killed by a party of his own people and tribe b ; i. e. by Manus,
county of Armagh, which borders on Lough Neagh, and through which the River Bann flows on its way
as the north-eastern angle of the
b

His own

tribe

This passage reads as follows

:

in the Annals of Ulster

mac Ruampi,
Gpenn
uile,

into that lake.

*

ConcoBup maenmaiji, Connacc, 7 pioamnu oo tnapbao oa luce jpaoa pein

aipopi
:

O'Mulrony, O'TTIaotpuancnb.

There were

many distinct families of this name in Ireland, The O'Mulrony here mentioned, was of the same race as Maguire, by whom the former, as well as O'Hegny, who was by far more illustrious,

cpia epail a Bparap; and is thus rendered in " Coner the old translation Moynmoy mac

Koary, archking of Connaught, and to be king

of Ireland, was killed
brother's advice.''

by

his minions,

by

his

was soon

after subdued.

86

[1189-

TTlajnup

mac

an cpopac Donn), ploinn ui pinacca (oia njoipci

-\

la haoDh

mac

mic coippDelbaij ui concobaip, -j la TTluipcepcac mac bpiain bpeipnij cacail mic Diapmaca mic caiDg, -] la giolla na naom mac giollacomam, mic
muipfoaij bain
ui

maoil

TTlicil

Dona cuacaib.

TTlaips oipeacc po cogaip

Ifice mojha a a&bap aipo pigh Gpeann DO rhapbaD, uaip cuccpac upmop ua bpiain Dia cij 50 ccfnnup Do pia piu po mapbaD, Ooij cairncc Oomnall cue cpf picic bo jaca cpioca ceD hi Dun leooa, boi pfccmam ina pappaD, ni cconnaccaib Do, puce ua bpiain Dib pin uile, ace copn .p. peoiD 50 nop,
]

-\

-j

-|

bpiain a pfnarap Diapmaca ula6 ina cij, ~\ Do bai Domnall

ui

pfin, i

Do baf RuaiDpi
ci jeapna

mac Dinnnplebe
Dfpmuman
hi

pi
-|

mag
.1.

cdpcaij

ina

1:155

DO paD pom cuapupcal mop DO caib. bai TTlaelpeaclainn bfg

Ifip,

cuicc eich

jaca cpiocaic cec

cigh,
-|

cconnac-

pi

cfmpa ina

puce cuapupcal mop

i bai

ua puaipc

ina cij, i puce

cuapupcal mop

Ifip.

cfnD lap mapbab Concobaip maonmaiji canjup 6 piol muipeaDaij ap a mic, ~| 6 pdnaic T7uai6pi ui Choncobaip pi Gpeann Do cabaipc pije Do mp necc
Croisach Dorm, Cpopac t)onn. The word cpopac means streaked, seamed, or marked with crosses, and was probably applied to O'Finaghty,
c

et decanatu de
it is

Tuatha."

From these

authorities

clear that the territory called the Tuatha, or

from having had the cicatrices, or seams of wounds

intersecting

Three Tuathas, comprised that part of the county of Eoscommon extending from the northern

each other on

his

face.

Shane
flou-

O'Mullan, a celebrated highwayman,

who

rished in the county of Londonderry about one hundred years since, was, according to tradition,
called

Shane Crosach, from having his vered with scars of this description.
d

face co-

Lough Eee to Jamestown, on the Shannon, from Jamestown to near Elphin, and thence bounded on the east again to Lough Kee. It was by the River Shannon on the north by the Shannon and the territory of Moylurg on the west
point of
; ;

The Tuathas
i.

rha,

e.

Generally called Ceopa Cuathe three districts. These were Tir

by Sil-Murray, or the Plain of Connaught and on the south by the modern Hy-Many.
See

Map

Briuin na Sinna, Kinel Dofa, and Corachlann.

Hy-Many, published
chasological Society.
nals,

prefixed to the Tribes and Customs of in 1843, by the Irish Ar-

The

tripartite territory called the

Teora Tuatha

According to these an-

formed a deanery in the diocese of Elphin, comprising the ten parishes following, viz.,

Aughrim,

O'Dugan's topographical poem, the O'Monahans were originally the chiefs of Tir-

and

to

Kilmore, Clooncraff, Kiltrustan, Kilglass,

lin,

Bum-

Kilgefin,

Termonbarry, Cloonfinlough, Lissonuffy, and Cloontuskert. See Liber Regalis

Briuin na Sinna (but were subdued by tluO'Beirnes); the Mac Branans and O'Mulvihils
of Corcachlann or Corca Sheachlann ; and the

and Colgan's Trias Thaum., p.524, where, speaking of the church of Kilgefin, he points out its situation thus " Killgeuian
Visitationis of 1615,
:

O'Hanlys of Kinel-Dofa. e To his house. This

is

the Irish annalists to denote

the phrase used by " he submitted, or

ecclesia parochialis Dircccsis Alfinensis in regione

made

his submission."

On

such occasions the

1189.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

87

c the son of Flann O'Finaghty (usually called an Crossach Donn ); Hugh, son of Brian Breifneach, the son of Turlough O'Conor; Murtough, son of Cathal, son

of Dermot, the son of Teige; and Gilla-na-naev, the son of Gilla-Coman, who was the son of Murray Bane [the Fair] O'Mulvihil of the Tuathas d Alas for the party who plotted this conspiracy against the life of the heir
.

presumptive to the throne of Ireland! To him the greater part of Leth-Mho6 f gha had submitted as king. Donnell O'Brien had gone to his house at Dunlo
,

where he was entertained

of every cantred in Connaught,

the property of King of Ulidia,

week; and O'Conor gave him sixty cows out and ten articles ornamented with gold; but O'Brien did not accept of any of these, save one goblet, which had once been
for a

Dermot O'Brien, his own grandfather. Rory Mac Donslevy, had gone to his house. Mac Carthy, King of Desmond, was in his house, and O'Conor gave him a great stipend, namely, five horses out of every cantred in Connaught. Melaghlin Beg, King of Tara, was in his house, and took away a large stipend; and O'Rourke had gone to his house, and also carried with him a great stipend. After Conor Moinmoy had been slain, the Sil-Murray sent messengers to
Roderic O'Conor, son and to give
,

the

former King of Ireland, to

tell

[offer]

him the kingdom

and

as

him of the death of his soon as Roderic came to

all

Moy

Naei", he took the hostages of the Sil-Murray,

and of

Connaught

for

king to
torn

whom

sented those submitting with gifts.

obeisance was made, always preOf this cus-

of Ballinasloe

we have

a remarkable instance

on record in

lying to the west of the River in the county of Galway. Dunlo-street, Suck, in Ballinasloe, still preserves the name,
e

the Irish
or

work

called Caithreim Toirdhealbhaigh,

His

son.

This passage

is

so

confusedly

of Turlough O'Brien, in which it is stated that at a national assembly held by the Irish at Gaol Uisce, near Ballyshannon, O'Neill sent Teige O'Brien one hundred horses
as

Wars

given in the original that the translator has

it necessary to transpose the order of the language in the translation, but the original is printed exactly as in the autograph,

thought

wages of subsidy, and

as

an earnest of the

Moy

Naei,

maj

naoi.

This

is

otherwise

subordination and obedience due to him from

O'Brien but O'Brien, rejecting the subsidy and denying the superiority of O'Neill, sent him two hundred horses, to be received in
;

The inhabitants of the town of Eoscommon and its vicinity, when

called

Machaire Chonnacht.

speaking of the country generally, call the district lying between them and Athlone, the Barony, and

acknowledgment
O'Brien.
f

of

O'Neill's

submission

to

Dunk, Dun leooa

It is

the

name of

them and Elphin, the Maghery ; but that you are not in the Maghery till you they say are two miles and a half to the north of the town
that between
of

townland, which contains that part of the town

Roscommon.

The following

are the bounds

Rioshachca eiraecmN.
T?uampi 50

[1190.

naof po jab sialla pil muipfoaig i Connacc, ap ap ann po loc piB an can pin. bacap geill Concobaip maonmuije ninip clocpann pop ua cijeapna cenel cconaill cona coicep cal DO

maj

plaicbeapcac

maolDopaiD
-\

bfic illonspopc ip in ccopann,

connaccaij uile einp gall

-\

jaoibeal

ma

naghaiD Don leic

aile.

la cacal cappac mac concobaip Concobap ua Diapmaca DO mapbaD maonmaije a nDiojail a acup. Qn ceo Ripofpti Do pfojab op Sa^aib .6. lultj. la hua TTlaoilDopain (plaicbfpcac) Do jabail ppi connachcaib

SluaijeaD

^up po jab longpopr

ip in

Copann.

Uangacap connaccaij

uile eicip jal-

laib i jaoibealaib ina ajaiD,

ap a aoi

po curiiainjpfc

ni

66,

-|

po fcap-

pcappac

ppi apoile

Don chup

pin.

QOIS CR1OSO,

1190.

Ctoip CpiopD, mile, ceD, nochac.

Diapmaic ua pabapcaij abb Dfpmaije Do ecc. TTlaelpeaclainn ua neaccam ^lollabeapaij ua SluajaDaij Do niapban
-\

la coippbealbac

mac PuaiDpi

ui

concobaip.
-]

TTlop injean coippDealbaijui Concobaip,

Duibfppa mjfn Diapmaca mic

caibg DO ecc. Coinne eicip Cacal cpoib'Deapcc -] Cacal cappac hi ccluain peapca bpenamn Do Denarii pioDa fcoppa. Cfccaic piol muipeabaij uile ip in ccoinne

ceDna im comapba pdcpaicc, im Concobap mac Diapmaca, ~] im aipeaccach ua poDuib, -\ nf po peaDab a piooucchaD pe poile Don chup pin.
~|

of the Maghery, according to the general tradition of the people in the of Eoscommon. county
It

extends northwards as far as Lismacooil, in the parish of Kilmacumshy ; eastwards, to Falsk, in the parish of Killuckin; westwards, from
the bridge of Cloonfree, near Strokestown, as fur as the bridge of Castlereagh ; and southwards, to a hill lying two miles and a half north
of the

Drishaghan, in that parish, the navel or centre of the Machaire or plain of Connaught, which conveys a distinct idea of the position of this
plain.
'

Mac

Teige

It is

added in the Annals of

Kilronan, that she was the wife of Cosnamhach

O'Dowda.
Cathal Crovderg, Cccal cpoibbeapj, The Cathal, or Cahill, the Eed-handed.
Cathal,
k
i.

e.

town of Roscommon.

The

natives of the

name

parish of Baslick call a hill in the townland of

which means warlike, and appears to be

1190.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

up
to

89
Inish-

the hostages that had been delivered

cloghran, an island in

Conor Moinmoy were on

Lough Eee, at that time. Flaherty O'Muldory, Lord of Tirconnell, encamped with
and
all

his forces in Cor-

ran;

the Connaciaus, both English and Irish, were against

him on the

other side.

Conor, grandson of Dermot, was slain by Cathal Carragh, the son of Conor Moinmoy, in revenge of the death of his father.

Richard

was crowned King of England on the 6th of July. O'Muldory (Flaherty) marched with his forces against the Connacians, and
I.

All the Connacians, both English and Irish, came to oppose him; however, they were not able to injure him, and both departed without coming to an engagement on that occasion.
pitched his

camp

in Corran.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one thousand one

1190.

hundred

ninety.

Dermot

O'Rafferty,

Abbot

of Durrow, died.

Melaghlin O'Naghtan and Gilla-Barry O'Slowey were slain by Turlough, the son of Roderic O'Conor.

More, daughter of Turlough O'Conor, and Duvesa, daughter of Dermot

Mac Teige

1 ,

died.

meeting was held at Clonfert-Brendan, to conclude a peace between Cathal Crovderg" and Cathal Carragh. All the Sil-Murray repaired to this meeting, together with the successor of St. Patrick Conor Mac Dermot, and
1

Aireaghtagh O'Rodiv; but they could not be reconciled to each other on this
occasion.

synonymous with the Welsh

Cadell, is

nerally anglicised Charles, as the Christian

now gename

Archseological Society in 1845.

'

See also note

of a man, but Cahill as a surname, which is in Irish O'Cathail. Dr. O'Conor, in treating of this

under the year 1224. The successor of St. Patrick, Coriiapba pa-

king

in his suppressed work,

Memoirs of

the

Life and Writings of Charles

ffare, translates his

O'Conor of BelanaO'Flaherty See his ac-

He cpuic, i. e. the Archbishop of Armagh. was Thomas, or Tomaltach, O'Conor, who was related to the rival princes, and "a noble and
worthy man," who was anxious to restore
native province
to his

name "Charles the Red-

handed."
translates

See
it

p.

32 of that work.

tranquillity

See Harris's

"Cathald Red-fist."

Ware,

vol.

i.

p. 62.

count of Hiar Connaught, printed for the Irish

90

awNQf-a Rio^hachca eiraecmN.

[1191.

Uanaicc ua concobaip i piol muipebaij 50 cluam mic noip in abaij pin, an coblac 50 tnoc apa bapach, cangacap pompa ap puo na ]io eipig T?o eipig anpab anbail Doib ap an loch Sionna 50 pangacap 50 loc pib. po cuaipcc an canpab an cfrap 50 po pccaoilpioc a napqiaige 6 apoile
-j -] -]
i

ba ip in mbof 6 concobaip conap larhab a luariiaipeacc la meo an anpaib, Cacal cpoibDepcc, bai Gipeachcach ua mbof ua Concobaip apcpach
-]
i

.1.

cenmord peipeap ceapna im Charal cpoiboeapg. l?o baibeab Qrhlaib Da Concobap mac carail, Concobap Qipeaccac ua pot>uib, mac Qo&a meg oipechcaij, ua TTlaoilbpenamn, 1 mac ui mannacam co
i

poouib, 1 mboi innre

concobap mac

cacail.

Oo

coiDh an cfcap po uipcce 50 po baibfb

"]

~\

pocaibe ele.

QO1S CR1OSD,
Qoip Cpiopo,
T?uai6pi
mile, ceo,

1191.

nochac a hafn.

ua Concobaip Do paccbail Connacc

ui

-\

a Dol

co- rip

Conaill Do

paighioh plaicbfpraij

maoilDopaiD,

~]

rrfp neojain lap pin DiappaiD

~\

m pocpaicce ap cuaipceapr nGpeann Do jabail T?fje Connachr DO piDipi, Do 6 connaccaib, Do COID poirhe Do po pafmpac ullca peaponn Dpajail na mi&e, Do cafo ap pin ip in nf po fipjfccup piDhe leip, paijib gall
~\
-]
]

mumain, coniD eipci pin cuccpac piol muipfbaij pCpann pach, i cenel aoba na heccge.
Ctillfnn

Do,

.1.

cip

piach-

mjfn Riaccam

ui

mailpuanaib, bfn aipeacraij

ui

pobuibh DO

ecc.

m
n

It foundered,

literally,

oo coioh an cfrap po uipce, " the vessel went under water."

i.

i.e.

the race of Aodh, or Hugh, of Slieve Echtghe,

Slieve Aughtee.
.

now

This was the tribe name

Conor, son of Cathal,

e.

Conor, Cathal

Crovderg's

own

son.

The

translator has been

of the O'Shaughnessys and their correlatives, which became also that of their country, for the

obliged to transpose a part of this sentence,

custom of ancient Ireland was, "not to take names

and creations from places and countries, as it is with other nations, but to give the name of the
family to the seigniory by them occupied."

which

is

not properly arranged in the original,

is

but the Irish text

autograph. Tir Fiachrach,

printed exactly as in the

Tir Fiachrach Aidhne

See

i.

e.

The country

of the

O'Heynes in the south-west

O'Flaherty's Ogygia Vindicated, p. 170, and Colgan's Acta Sanctorum, p. 354, note 8. O'Shaughnessy's country of Kinelea comprised the south-

of the county of Galway. P Kinelea ofEdttghe, cenel

aooa na hechcje,

eastern half of the diocese of Kilmacduagh, in

1191.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

91

O'Conor and the Sil-Murray went to Clonmacnoise on that night, and early next morning embarked in their fleet, and sailed up the Shannon until they came to Lough Ree. violent storm arose on the lake, by which their vessels

were separated from each other; and the storm so agitated the ves'sel in which O'Conor was, that it could not be piloted. Such was the fury of the storm, it foundered, and all the crew perished, except O'Conor himself and six others. In this vessel with O'Conor (Cathal Crovderg) were Areaghtagh O'Eodiv and
Conor, son of Cathal",
the two sons of

who were both drowned,

as

were

also

Conor and

Auliffe,

Hugh Mageraghty;

O'Mulrenin, and the son of O'Monahan,

and many

others.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1191.

thousand one hundred ninety-one.

Roderic O'Conor set out from Connaught, and went to Flaherty O'Muldory
in Tirconnell,

north of Ireland,

and afterwards passed into Tyrone, to request forces from the to enable him to recover his kingdom of Connaught but the Ultonians not consenting to aid in procuring lands for him from the Connacians, he repaired to the English of Meath, and these having also refused to go
;

with him, he passed into Munster, whither the Sil-Murray sent for him, and gave him lands, viz. Tir Fiachrach qpd Kinelea of Echtge".
Ailleann, daughter of
died.
the county of Galway
Tribes

Regan O'Mulrony, and wife of Aireachtagh O'Rodiv,

See

map

prefixed to
for the
list

on cuipp 50 cele
ouipn
7 cpi

61, 7

ppic plej innce 7 cpi

and Customs ofHy-Many, printed

O'Shaughnessy's country in the year 1543, see Tribes and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, printed for the same Society in
1844, pp. 375, 376. Under this year the Annals of Kilronan record the erection of the castle
of Rath Cuanartaighe, but without giving the name of the builder, or the situation of the castie.

Irish Archaeological Society in 1843. of townlands in Sir Dermot

For a

pn,

meoip illeireo plenna na pleije lam o'n njjualumn a pat>."

" A. D. 1191.
year,

The River

Galliv dried

up
it,

this

and there was a hatchet found in

mea-

suring a hand from one point to the other, and there was a spear found in it measuring three

hands and three fingers in breadth, and a hand from the shoulder in length."
See O'Flaherty's Account of lar-Connaught, published by the Irish Archaeological Society,
p.

They

also contain the following entry

un-

der this year, respecting the drying up of the River Galway A. D. 1 191. In ^mllim bo epcijhao an ol.aoa.n p, 7 pp.r cuuo innce, 7 lam
:

29,

where we read
bus, ad

and Ware's Antiq. Hibernicce, c. xii., " In Annalibus Roscomanensi:

annum MCXC,

fit

mentio capitis Haste, ad

N2

92

[1192.

QOIS CR1OSO,

1192.

Goip CpiopD, mile, ceD, nochac, aOo.

Oopup ppomncicce an Dmbpecclfpa colaim cille hua ccacam na cpaibe, la hinjhin ui Innfipje.
-\

nDoipe Do bfnamh la

Caichleac ua ouboa cicchfpna ua namalgaDa

~\

ua ppiacpac muaibi Do

mapbab

la

Da mac a mec

pen.

Cfeb ua plainn coipeac pil TTlaoilepuain Do ecc. TTlaiDm ace capaiD 6achapa6 ap jallaiB la muinncip maoilcpionna.

Caiplen acha an upcaip

~\

caiplen ciUe bipgi Do bfiiarh ip in

the

mbliabam

pi.

turn desiccate."
q

longitudinem uniuscubiti, repertiinfluvioGaliva: See note under the year 1178.

name

of their territory, which comprised the

Of Creeve, na

cpaoiBe.

The

district near

Coleraine, west of the River Bann.

The

cataract,

and part of the parish of Kilkeevin, in the present county of Roscommon. The present head of this sept
entire of the parish of Kiltullagh,

now

called the Cutt's Fishery,

was anciently

called

Eas Craoibhe

Domestica, cap. 3, of the River Bann, he writes

See O'Flaherty's' Ogygia, where, describing the course

:

of the O'Flynns told the Editor in 1837, that it was the constant tradition in. the family, that

" Banna

inter

scaturiens per

Learn et Elliam prater Clanbresail regionem Neachum lacum traasiens ^Endro-

O'Flynn's country extended southwards as far as the bridge of Glinske, in the county of Galway, but the Editor has not found any authority for
it beyond the limits of the present of Roscomrnon. It comprised the encounty tire of the mountainous district of Sliabh Ui

extending

niensem agrum et Fircriviam (F'P na CpaoiBe) Scriniamque in Londinodorensi agro intersecat,

et tertio e Culrania, et Cataracta Eascribe lapide se in

Fhloinn,
tains

oceanum transfundit, salmonibus

ffficundissimus."

totius

Europe longe
r

O'Flynn's mountain, which contownlands, and lies partly in the twenty parish of Kiltullagh, and partly in that of Kili.

e.

0''Inneirghe,

now

anglicised

Henery

This

keevin.

The

lake called Lough

Ui Fhloinn,

i.

e.

family descends from Brian, grandson of Niall of the Nine Hostages, Monarch of Ireland in 406. There are several of this name in the parish of Ballynascreen, in the

Lough Glynn by Mr. Weld, in his Statistical Account of the county of Roscommon), also lies in this
O'Flynn's
territory, as does

lake (incorrectly anglicised

county of London-

derry, of whom Dr. Henery, of Maghera, in the same county, is at present the most respectable.

called in Irish

the village of Ballinlough, baile locha Ui Phloinn, i. e.

See Duald

Mac
p.

Firbis's Irish Pedigrees,

Lord

the town of O'Flynn's lake. O'Flynn's castle, of which the foundations only are now traceable,

Roden's copy,
s

178, with which the copy in the

Royal Irish Academy corresponds.

village
e.

stood on the top of the hill between the and the lake.

Hy-Awky andHy-Fiaclirach,
Sil-Maelruain

i.

the inhabiis

The present head

tants of the baronies of Tirawley

1

and Tireragh.
it

Edmond

of this sept of the O'Flynns O'Flynn, Esq., of Newborough (the

This was the tribe name of

also

the O'Flynns of Connaught, and

became

son of Kelly, son of Edmond, son of Colla), who possesses but a few townlands of the territory.

1192.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

93

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1192.

thousand one hundred ninety-two.

of the refectory of Duv-regles-Columbkille was made by r of Creeve q and the daughter of 0'Henery O'Kane, Taichleach O'Dowda, Lord of Hy-Awley and Hy-Fiachrach' of the Moy,
, .

The doorway

was

Hugh

grandsons. O'Flynn, Chief of Sil-Maelruain, died'. The English were defeated at jthe weir of Aughera", by Muintir Maoil-t-Sinna. The castle of Ath-an-Urchairw and the castle of Kilbixy* were erected in

slain

by

his

own two

this year.
Dr. O'Brien, in his Irish Dictionary, printed Edmond O'Flin, of
others, both Irish and English, were slain. w Jlth-anUrchair, now called in Irish baile aca upchuip, and in English Horseleap: it lies

many

at Paris in 1768, states that

Ballinlagh, Esq. (the grandfather of the present Edmond), was then the chief of this ancient fa-

"the Eight Hon. Lady mily. Ellen O'Flin, Countess de la Hues of LahnesCastle, in Normandy, was of the same direct branch of the O'Flins, her ladyship being daughalso states that

He

in the barony of Moycashel, in the south of the county of Westmeath. Sir Henry Piers of Tris-

ter to

of

Timothy O'Flin, of Clydagh, in the Co. Roscommon, Esq." The Connaught O'Flynns are of a different race from O'Flynns of Arda,
in

ternagh, who wrote in 1682, says, that Sir Hugh De Lacy was murdered here by a mere villain or common labourer, and a native, as he was stooping down to give some directions to the workmen but this cannot be true, as it ap;

Munster, and from the O'Flynns, now O'Lynns, of Hy-Tuirtre and Firlee, the warlike
opponents of Sir John De Courcy. u The weir of Aughera, capaio 6acapao This place is called Acharudh Lobran at the year 1 63. The only place near the country of the
1

pears, from the old Irish annals, that Sir Hugh was murdered in 1186 by O'Meyey, the foster-

son of the Fox, prince of Teffia,

fore this castle

i.

was

erected.

e. six years beSee note under

the year 1186.

from Sir

Piers says that this place was called Horseleap, Hugh de Lacy having leaped on horsecastle

Muintir Maoil-tsionna, or

Aughera,

is

Mac Carroons, called the parish of Augher, in the barony

back over the drawbridge of the

See

of Deece, in the county of East Meath. The Mac Carroons were seated in Cuircne in Teffia,

He Vallancey's Collectanea, vol. i. pp. 84, 85. describes this castle as a stately structure, and
such no doubt
ruins of
it it

was, but there are no distinct

which was the western part of the county of "Westmeath. According to the Annals of Kilronan the Mac Carroons were defeated this
year
at

at present, except the

;

two

piers of the

drawbridge

masses of the walls are seen scathill,

tered over the

but the ground-plan of the

Rath Aodha (Rathhugh, near Kilbeggan), by the English, on which occasion the two sons of Mac Carroon, the two sons of Teige Mac
Ualgairg
[Magoalric], O'Hart, Branan

See building could not now be determined other references to this place at the years 1207

and 1470.
x

Mac Branan, and

Kilbixy, Cill

6^51,

recte

Cill 6i5fi je,

i.

e.

94

[1193.

Cpeach mop Do oenarh

la jallaib laijfn ap Domnall

ua mbpiain, 50
-|

oalua piap 50 majh ua croippnealbaij, puccpangacrap rpe clap cille Oo ponpac ^oill Diobh. parc Dal ccaip oppa 50 po mapbpac pochaiDe Don chup pin. caiplen cnuic TCapponn caiplen cille piacal, maibm mop pia noomnall ua mbpiain pop jallaib opppaije 50 po
-]

cuipeaD a nap.

CIO1S

CR1OSD,

1193.
acpf.

Qoip CpiopD mile, ceo, nochac,

Gochaib ua baoijill Do rhapbaD la huib piachpac apoa ppara. TTlaolpacrpaicc ua cobcaij Do ecc.

Cacal mac gaichene DO

ecc.
Cill Piacla, now Kilfeakle, an old church, of Clangiving name to a parish, in the barony and county of Tipperary, and about william,
z

This place is dethe church of St. Bigseach scribed in the Gloss to the Feilire or Festilogy of Aengus at 4th October, as in the territory of

Ui Mac Uais (Moygoish), in Meath. It afterwards became an English town of some importance, according to Sir

four miles and a half to the east of the town of

Henry

Piers,

who wrote

in 1682

Kilkixy, of old a town of great note, as tradition telleth us, twelve Burgesses having, in their scarlet gowns, a Mayor or Sovereign
:

"

Tipperary. In the Book of Lismore, fol. 47, b, b, this church is described as in the territory of Muscraighe Breogain, which was the ancient

name

of the barony of Clanwilliam.

See also

Annals of
and 1205
;

Innisfallen, at the years 1192, 1196,

with other
&c."

officers suitable to so

great a port,

Life Colgan's edition of the Tripartite

lib. iii. c.

The Editor

visited this place in 1837,

this ancient town.

of St. Patrick,
clesiastical
a

32 ; and Lanigan's Eci.

and found but few traces of

History of Ireland, vol.

p.

290.
hill

They were mere ruin ;

as follows
2.

1.

The Leperhouse,
;

Knockgraffon,

Cnoc Rappon,

i, e.

the

of

The

site
its

of the castle, but no

walls
3.

Raffon, who, according to Keating

writers,

and the older

It is

remains whatever of

A moat sur-

was the nurse of Fiacha Mulleathan,

rounded by one circular fosse ; 4. Site of the There is a holy well near the church gallows.
still

King

of Munster, in the third century.

bearing the name Cobap je, i. e. the well of St. Bigseach, a virgin, whose memory was venerated here, according to the Irish Ca-

&ip

a townland in a parish of the same name, in the of Middlethird, and county of Tipperary,

barony and about two miles to the north of the town of

Cahir.

O'Brien has the following notice of this

lendars, on the 28th of

June and 4th of Octo-

place in his Irish Dictionary, voce

GRAKANN

ber

See other references to Kilbixy at the

"

years 1430 and 1450.

y Magh-Ua-Toirdltealbkaigh, a plain near the .Shannon, hi the parish of Killaloe, in the east of the county of Clare.

GRAPANN, Knockgraffan, of county of Tipperary, one of the regal houses

the kings of Munster in ancient times, where Fiacha Muilleathan, and other Momonian kings,

or Eaffan,

in the

had their courts

it

was

to

that seat Fiacha

1193.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

95

The English of Leinster committed great depredations against Donnell O'Brien. They passed over the plain of Killaloe, and directed their course
y westwards, until they had reached Magh-Ua-Toirdhealbhaigh where they were opposed by the Dalcassians, who slew great numbers of them. On this expe2 dition the English erected the castles of Kilfeakle and Knockgraffon".
,

Donnell O'Brien defeated the English of Ossory, and made a great slaughter
of them.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1193.
ninety-three.

thousand one hundred

Eochy O'Boyle was

Cathal

slain

by the Hy-Fiachrach of Ardstraw".

Mulpatrick O'Coffey died.

Mac Gaithen

died.
castle only

brought Cormac Mac Airt, King of Leath-Coinn, prisoner. In after ages it was the estate, together
with
its annexes, of the O'Sullivans. very remarkable moat yet remains there to be seen to

one small tower

now

remains, but the

outlines of

some of the walls are traceable to a

See Cormac's GlosIre-

very considerable extent.

sary, voce

Qna

and Keating's History of

this day."

Again, under the word RAFFAN, he

land, reign of

Cormac Mac Art.

Innisfallen

" ; KAFPAN, Cnoc-Raffan, a beautiful hill near the River Suire, the centre of the primitive estate of the O'Sullivans, descended from Finin,
writes
elder brother of Failbhe Flann, ancestor of the

The Dublin copy of the Annals of

records the erection of the castles of Kilkenny and Kilfeakle, by the English, in this year.
*

visited Knockgraffon iu the year and found the ancient ruins to consist of 1840, a large moat surrounded by a rath of ample di-

Mac Cartys." The Editor

\ para,
straw.

Hy-Fiachrach ofArdstraie, ut piacpac apoa i. e. the descendants of Fiachra of Ard-

Their territory was situated along the River Derg, in the north-west of the county of Tyrone, and comprised the parish of Ardstraw

mensions.

The moat

is

about

fifty-five feet in

and some
(Primardia,
straw, and

adjoi/iing
p. 857),

parishes.

Ussher states

perpendicular height, and sixty

at top.

feet in

diameter

that the church of

Ard-

At

the foot of the -moat on the west

side is a curious platea measuring seventy paces from north to south, and fifty-seven paces from east to west. This place remained in the possession of the descendants of Fiacha Muillea-

other churches of Opheathrach, were taken from the see of Clogher, and incor-

many

This tribe of porated with the see of Derry. the Hy-Fiachrach are to be distinguished from those of Connaught, being descended from
Fiachra,

than, the O'Sullivans, until the year

192,

when

the son of Ere,

who was

the eldest

the English drove them from their rich plains into the mountains of Cork and and

son of Colla Uais, monarch of Ireland in the

fourth century

Kerry, within their Rath of Knockgraffon, a strong castle to secure their conquests. Of this
erected,

See O'Flaherty's Ogygia, P.

iii.

c.76.

[1193.

Ofppopjaill(.i.bfnci gepnain uil?uaipc) ingfn mupcaba uiTTIaoileachlainn Do ecc i mainipDip Dpoicir arha ip in cuiccfo bliaban ochcmojau a haoipi.

Oiapmaio mac Conbpo^oa ui biomupaij; caoipeac cloinne maoilupa, ncchfpna ua pailje ppi pe pooa Do ecc. Cached obap mac mej capraij Do rhapbaoh la Dorhnall mag capcaijjh. THuipcfpcac mac mupcaba TTlec mupca&a cicchfpna ua ccennpelaij Deg.
]

GoDh ua maoilbpenamn caoipeac

laibh
c

cloinne concob'aip Do mapb'ao la jal-

acha

cliach.
territory of Clanmaliere extended to the

DeapBpopjaill. She was, thereborn in the year 1 108, was forty-four years fore, of age when she eloped with Dermot Mac MurDervorgilla,

margin

of the Great Heath of Maryborough, and comprised the barony of Portnahinch in the Queen's

rough, King of Leinster, who was then in the sixty-second year of his age, a remarkable instance of a green old age.

Dermot was expelled

O'Conor

County, on the south side of the River Barrow, and the barony of Upper Philipstown, in the King's County, on the north side of that river.
This Dermot O'Dempsy was the only man of his name that obtained the chieftainship of all
Offaly.

in eight years afterwards, but, as Dr.

observes, not for the seduction of this woman.

See O'Conor's Prolegomena ad Annales, part ii. p. 146. O'Reilly, in his Essay on the Brehon

He

founded, on the site of an ancient

St. Evin,

church dedicated to

about the year

Laws,

attempts to defend the character of this

it

1178, the great Cistercian abbey of Rosglas,

woman; but

cannot be defended, as

we have

now Monasterevin
he richly endowed.

(ITIainipcip Giriifn),

which

the authority of these Annals, and of the older Annals of Clonmacnoise, to prove that she not

See his Charter of Foun-

only consented to go
also carried

home with Dermot, but

dation published in the Monasticon A nylicanum, For the extent of Ui Failghe vol. ii. p. 1031.
before the English invasion, see note under the

with her, her dowry and cattle

See Mageoghegan's Translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, and note under the year 1 172,
p. 4.
d

year 1178.

Monastery of Drogheda, TTlamir-np Opoicic

ofMurrongh Mac Murroitgh. was Murtougli na maor (i. e. of the StewHe ards), son of Murrough na nGaedhal (of the
f

Murtouffk, son

Gra.

of Drogheda,
Mellifont,

Colgan observes that, by the Monastery the Four Masters mean that of

Irish),

who was

the brother of Dermot

na nGall

which

is

near that town.

See Trias

Thaum., p. Sanctorum, p. 655, 776; see also Lanigan's Ecclesiastical History

of Ireland, vol.
'

309, and

Ada

brought the English (of the English), to the Book of Leinster, to Ireland). According a very important fragment of a MS. preserved
first

who

iv. p.

167, note 22.

clann maoilujpa. Clanmalier, This, which was the territory of the O'Dempsys, extended on both sides of the River Barrow, in the
King's and Queen's Counties. It appears from an old map of the countries of Leix and Ophaley, made in the reign of Philip and Mary, that the

Dublin (H. na nGaedhal was the ancestor 2, 18), Murrough of the celebrated family of Mac Davy More, or Mac Damore, said by Sir George Carew to be a
in the Library of Trinity College,

branch of the Barrys, and also of Mac Vaddock, whose country was situated round Gorey, in the
north-east of the county of "Wexford, supposed
also,

but without any proof whatever, except

1193.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM, OF IRELAND.

97

c of Murrough Dervorgilla (i. e. the wife of Tiernan O'Kourke), daughter d O'Melaghlin, died in the monastery of Drogheda [Mellifont], in the eighty-fifth

year of her age. Dermot, son of Cubroghda O'Dempsey, Chief of Clanmalier', and for a long time Lord of Offaly, died.

Cathal Odhar, the son of

Carthy, was slain by Donnell Mac Ca^thy. f 8 Murtough, the son of Murrough Mac Murrough Lord of Hy-Kinsellagh
,

Mac

died.

HughO'Mulrenin", Chief of Clann-Conor, was

mere conjecture,
to

slain

by the English

of Dublin.

be

of

English descent.

a lady of the Barrys,

From Donnell Kavanagh, the illegitimate son of Dermot na nGatt Mac Murrough, are descended all the Kavanaghs, including the Mac
Dermots Lav-derg
illegitimate
;

David and Redmond into

and thus brought the names this branch of the

Mac Murrough

family, as the

Kavanaghs have

that of Gerald, Maurice, Walter, &c., from in-

and from Enna, another

son of the same Dermot, are de-

families.

termarriages with other English or Anglo-Irish The pedigrees of the above septs of

scended the
so

numerous

in Leinster.

family of the Kinsellaghs, The country of

now Mac

the

Mac Murroughs

are also given in

Duald
and in

Mac
8

Firbis's Genealogical Book, p. 473,

p. 82.

or Mac Damore, was in the barony of Ballyghkeen, comprising the lands of In the State Papers' Office, Glascarrick, &c.

Davy More,

Peregrine O'Clery's,

The people called Hy-KinHy-Kinsellagh sellagh, were the descendants of Eochy Kinsellagh,

London,

is

preserved a petition, dated 1611, of

King of

Leinster, about the year of Christ

Art Mac Dermott Kavanagh, Chief of the Kinsellaghs,

and Redmond Mac Davimore, Richard Mac Vaddock, and Donnell Kavanagh Spaniagh,

358.4 Their country originally comprised more than the present diocese of Ferns, for we learn

from the oldest

lives of St. Patrick,

that Do-

and other gentlemen and freeholders of the countries of Mac Dermott, Mac Davimore, and

naghmore, near Sletty, in the present county of Carlow, was in it. In an ancient Tripartite Life
of St. Patrick, quoted by Ussher (Primordia, p. 863), it is called the larger and more power" Ordinavit S. Patricias ful part of Leinster.

Mac Vaddock, through

and another

their agent,

Henry Walsh;

petition, dated
gent.,

mond Mac Damore,

May, 1616, of RedChief of Mac Damore's

country, in the county of Wexford, to the English Privy Council, regarding the new Plantation

de gente Laginensium alium episcopum nomine

Fyacha virum reliyiosissimum

lissimi Patricii
vertit et baptizavit ;

quijussione bea-

In this petition Mac Damore that he holds his lands by descent and not states
in Wexfordshire.

gentem Ceanselach ad fidem conquce gens major atque poten-

by

tanistry.

This, however,

is

not enough to

tior

prove his descent from the Barrys, in opposition to the Book of Leinster, a vellum manuscript,
at least five, centuries old,

eat." The country of HyFelmeadha, north, which was the ancient name

pars Laginensium

which

traces his pedi-

of the district around Tullow-Ofelimy, in the present county of Carlow, was also in the territory of Hy-Kinsellagh.
h

gree to

Murrough na nGaedhal, the brother of Uermot na nGatt. It is highly probable, nowthat Murrough na nGaedhal, had married ever,

O Mulrenin,
1

Omuoilbpenumn

The exact

limits of the cantred of Clann-Conor, the terri-

98

[1194.

Ua
cup,
-]

la jallaibh, cfpbaill ciccfpna aipjpall DO jabail

la

~\

a Dallab leo

a cpochaoh lapccain. Imp clochpann DO 07150111 la macaib oipoealb,

-\

macaib concobaip

TTlaonmaije.

QO1S CR1OSO,

1194.

Goip CpiopD, mile, ceD, nochac, acfrhaip.

Conpcancin ua bpain [ua bpiain?] eppoc Oomnall mac roipp&ealbaij ui bpiain
piooa i coccab T?eDla abanra
~\

cille
T?i

Dalua DO

ecc.

emj
1

~|

muman, lochpann polupoa Ifice mo&a fnjnarha na muimneac,

-\

muipcfpcach a mac Do jabail a lonamh. apchfna Do ecc, a ccop ap eccin DO chiachcain ap imp] ua ppionncain, ^oill CumiDe ua plainn Do mapbaD la gallaib.
-\

Di.

Sloicchfo la jillebepr mac joipoealbaij co heapp puaio, ap pi&en gan nach capba Dia Sloijfo imp.
tory of O'Mulrenin, cannot
as this family

~\

a iompu6

now be determined,
under

sunk

at an early period

is

O'Flanagan and O'Conor Roe ; but its whereabouts may be ascertained from O'Diigan's topographical poem, which makes the Clann-

These churches, to one of which sent occupier. attached a very old square belfry, called in Irish Clojap, are said to have been erected by
St.

were

Conor

subsection of the Clanncahill, whose

Dermot in the sixth century but some of them re-edified. The famous Meave of Croghan, Queen of Connaught, was killed on this island by
;

territory comprised the parishes of

Kilmacum-

and Shankill, and parts of the parishes of Creeve and Elphin, in the county of Roscommon. ITIael Bpenamn, the name of the
shy, Kilcorkey,

the champion Forby, her own nephew, and the spot on which she perished is still pointed out,

and

called lonao

mapbra

VTleiDbe, the place of

progenitor of this family, signifies the servant, or devoted of St. Brendan.

Iniahdoghran, Imp Clocpann, i. e. the island of Clothra. This Clothra is said to have
'

the killing of Meave. There is also on the highest point of the island the remains of a fort called

Grianan Meidhbhe

See Ordnance

Map

of the

Island; and Petrie's Inquiry into the Origin and Uses of the Round Towers of Ireland, p. 358.
k

been the

sister of

the famous Meadhbh, or Meave,

Queen

of Connaught.

The
is

island lies in

Lough
called,

loes

The Sons of Osdealv, i. e. the Mac CostelAccording to the Annals of Kilronan, the

Rue, near St. John's, and

now sometimes

island of Inis Clothrann

was plundered

this year

by the people of the counties of Longford and Roscommon, dwelling in its vicinity, the Seven Church Island, from the ruins of seven old
churches
still

by Gilbert Mac Gosdealv, and

viz.,

his English fol-

lowers, and the sons of Gilchreest

Gilla Croichefraich and Auliffe,

Mac Carroon, who had

to be seen

on

it

and sometimes

the tribe of Muintir Maeltsinna with them.

Quaker's Island, from Mr. Fail-brother, the pre-

According to the Dublin copy of the Annals of

1194.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

4

99
put out his

O'Carroll,

Lord of
1

Oriel,

was taken by the English, who

k
,

first

him. eyes, and afterwards hanged

sons of Osdealv Inishcloghran' was plundered by the

and the sons of

Conor Moinmoy.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1194.

thousand one hundred ninety -four.

Constantine O'Brain [O'Brien?], Bishop of Killaloe, died. Donnell, son of Turlough O'Brien, King of Munster, a beaming lamp in peace and war, and the brilliant star of the hospitality and valour of the Momonians,

Leth-Mogha, died; and Murtough, his son, assumed his place. The English landed upon [the island of] Inis-Ua-bh-Fionntain but were

and of

all

forcibly driven

from

it.

Cumee 0'Flynnm was slain by the English. Gilbert Mac Costello marched, with an army,

to Assaroe",

but was com-

pelled to return without being able to gain any advantage

by

his expedition.

Innisfallen,

it

Nangle

and

this is correct, for

was plundered by Gilbert de De Nangle was

of the Costelloes.

after

whom

several places in Ireland are named,

but from a family of the name O'Fintan.

the original

name

m Cumee CfFlynn.
re-

This
1

is

the celebrated

Under
maighen,
give the
also,

this year the

Annals of Kilronan

chieftain,

who, in the year

eleven.

178, defeated

De

cord the erection of the Castle of

Domhnach

Courcy
his

in the territory of Firlee,

and cut

off all

now Donaghmoyne,
name
of the builder.

in the barony of

men except

The name

of the person

Farney, and county of Monaghan, but do not

by whom Cumee

was

slain is not given in the

Under

this year,

the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen record the erection, by the English, of the
Castle of Briginis, in Thomond, with the consent of Donnell More O'Brien, who, it was believed, permitted its erection for the

Annals of Ulster, Kilronan, or Innisfallen. Do thapBab bo jjullaiB is the phrase used by them
all,

and the old translator of the Annals of

:

" Cumie Offlin Ulster renders the passage killed by the Galls." The term Galls is at this
period always applied to the English, though in the previous century it means the Danes, or
Scandinavians.
n

purpose of
chronicle

distressing
also enters

Mac

Oarthy.

The same

this year the death of the of Godfred, King of the Isle of Mann, daughter and wife of John de Courcy.
1

under

Assaroe,

the

name

is

eap puab, i. e. the Red Cataract, but more correctly Gap Oobu puaio, i. e.
here in the year of the world

Inis-Ua-bk-Fionntain,

i.

e.

insula O'Fintais

the cataract of Aodh Ruadh, the son of Badharn,

norum.

The

situation of this island

It is

unknown

who was drowned

to the Editor.

not called from St. Fintan,

4518, according to the chronology of these an-

o2

loo

awwaca Rio^hachca eiReawN.

TTlaolpeachlamn mac Dorhnaill
ui

[1195.

jpollapacpaicc ciccfpna oppaije DO

ui

ecc.

Concobap mac TTlajnapa mic Duinnpleibe

nanriluam
i

eochaba Do mapbab la

hUa

meabail.

mac coippbealbaij ui concobaip Do ecc. ui pinoacea raoipeac cloinne mupchaba Do 65. Sicpiucc mac ploinn Oonnchab mac TTluipcfpcaij mic coippbealbai j Do mapbab la TTluipcfpeach mac Dorhnaill ui bpiain. TTlupchab mac Qmlaoib ui cinoeioij DO mapbab la lochlainn mac micpair
QeDh
Dall
ui

chinneircij

pionjail.

QO13 CR1O8O,
Qoip Cpiopo,

1195.

mile, ceD, nocharc,

cuicc.

Domnall ua Conaing eppcop cille Dalua Do ecc. plopenc mac Rfaccam ui maoilpuanaib eppcop oile pint) Do Domnall ua pino comapba cluana pfpra bpenaino Decc. Gacmapcach ua cacdpi Do ecc pecclep poll.
i
i

ecc.

Concobap mag paccna Do ecc pecclep ooipe. Sirpiucc ua jaipmlebaij DO rhapbab Do mac Dupm Slebe. la mac hujo De laci DO jabdil Sluaijeab la lohn DO cuipci,
-\

nfipc

ap

jallaib laijfn,

~\

murhan.

Sluaiccheb la Cacal ccpoibofpcc ua cconcobaip, la mac joipoelbaij 50 nopeim DO jallaib, -\ Do jaoiohealaib na mibe imaille ppip ip in murhain 50 panjaccap imleach lubaip, -\ caipiol 50 po loipcceab cerpe mopcaiplem leo
1 apaile

Do mioncaiplenaibh.
i

cconnachcaib ap in murhain, -j ba copjpach in gach maijin cpiapa cubchaib 50 painig coloch mfpg, i co hinip Pobba, i po jabaic lonja cachail cpoihoeipg uile laip, pu laip lac co
~\

Cachal mac DiapmaDa DO rochr

nals,

but

in the

herty's corrected Irish Chronology

year 3603, according to O'FlaSee Ogygia,

called the Erne, in the

town of Ballyshannon.

(FFinnaghty
this

There were two families of

part

iii.

c.

36.

This

name

is is

now pronounced

name

in

Connaught, of

whom

one was Chief

Assaroe, but the

cataract

known by
It is

the appellation

more generally of the Salmon Leap.

of Clann-Murrough, and the other was Chief of Clann-Conway, and had his residence at Duna-

on the River Samhaoir,

now more

usually

mon, near the River Suck. These families were

1195.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

who was
the grandson of Gillapatrick,

101

Melaghlin, the son of Donnell,

of Ossory, died. Conor, son of Manus,

Lord

who was

son of Donslevy O'Haughey, was treacher-

ously slain by O'Hanlon. Hugh Dall (the Blind), the son of Turlough O'Conor, died. Chief of Clann-Murrough, died. Sitric, the son of Flann O'Finnaghty
,

Donough, son of Murtough, who was son of Turlough, was slain by Murtough, the son of Donnell O'Brien.
Murrough, the son of Auliffe O'Kennedy, was
the son of Magrath O'Kennedy.
slain

wfingail' by Loughlin,

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1195.
ninety-Jive.

thousand one hundred

Donnell O'Conaing [Gunning], Bishop of Killaloe, died.

Florence, the son of

Regan O'Mulrony, Bishop of Elphin, Donnell O'Finn, Coarb of Clonfert-Brendan, died. Eachmarcach O'Kane died in St. Paul's church Conor Mag Fachtna died in the abbey church of Derry.
Sitric

died.

O'Gormly was slain by Mac Donslevy. John De Courcy and the son of Hugo De Lacy marched with an army

to

conquer the English of Leinster and Munster. Cathal Crovderg O'Conor and Mac Costelloe, with some of the English and Irish of Meath, marched into Munster, and arrived at Imleach lubhair (Emly) and Cashel. They burned four large castles and some small ones.
Cathal

Mac Dermot marched from Munster

into Connaught,

and passed
Inishrobe",

victoriously through the province.

On arriving
[i.

at

Lough Mask and

he seized upon

all

the vessels

e.

boats] of Cathal Crovderg O'Conor, and

eluded patricide, matricide, fratricide, and the

supplanted by that sept of the Burkes called

Mac David, who had

the county of Galway year 1225.
vFingail.

their

chief castle

at

murder of any
1

relation.

Glinsk, on the west side of the River Suck, in

Inis/irobe,

imp pooba,

i.

e.

the island of the

See note under the

River Robe.

small island in

Lough Mask,

Thecrimeof pion^ail was counted

Irish.

opposite the mouth of the River Robe, not far from the town of Ballinrobe, in the county of

worse than simple murder by the

It in-

Mayo.

102

aNNdta Rioshactiea eiRecwN.

[1196.

ulca lomba ap ap gach leic De co caiplen na caillije co noeapna cachal cpoiboeapg co nopeim DO jallaib -| Do cloinn maoilpuana, -\ DO ponab mac oiapmaoa gep uo mop na huilc DO pome 50 pin. 66016
pib po

pe

CIO1S
Qoip Cpiopo,
l?ecclep p6il
-[

CR1OSD,

1196.

mile, ceo, nochac, ape.

pecaip

in

GpDmacha cona

cfmplaib,

-\

50 mbloib

rhofp

Don Raic DO lopccab.

TTluipcfpcach mac muipcfpcaij ui laclamn cijeapna cenel eojain TJiojbarhna Gpeann cuip jaipcceb, ~| eanjnama leice cuinn, ofopgaoilcib cacpac,
caiplen gall, cupgbalaib ceall, ~| caoimneirheab, Do mapbab la Oonnchab mac blopgaib ui cacdin cpe comaiple cenel neojain lap ccabaipc na cceopa Rugab a copp laporh 50 ooipe pcpine, 1 cdnoine pacpaig boib im Dilpi 66.
-]

po habnacc hipuibe 50 nonoip, -\ cdcaib. mac ouinnplebe co njallaib, i 50 macaib coipec connacc Do poighib cenel neojain, na naipcep, Uangaccap cna cenel
colaim
cille,
-|

Sloijeao la Rudibpi

eojain celca occ,

~\

piopu aipcip co macaipe

dpDamaca
~]

paopac cac boib 50 paoimeab pop mac oumnplebe

r

ina najaib, ~\ Do po lab Dfpgdp a rhuinThis passage

is

Caulen na-Caillighe.
:

Now called

the Hag's

w Honour and
lated

respect.

trans-

Castle in English

it is

situated in

Lough Mask,

by

Colgan as follows, in his

filius

Annals of

and
5

a round enclosure of great extent. The rath, or fort, that surrounded the catheis

Derry, Trias Tkai/m., p. Murchertachus Hua Lachlainn,

504: " A. D. 1196.

Murcher-

extended, according to tradition, as far south as the present market house.

dral of

Armagh

tachi, Hiberniro regis, Princeps de Kinel-eoguin, & expectatione multorum Rex Hibernian futurus,

Churches and fair nemeds. Cupjoalaibe oeall 7 caoitTineirrieab is translated by Colgan " Multarum Basilicarum et Sanctuariorum funI

turris

fortitudinis

&

defensionis

Aquilonaris

Anglicarum Ciuitatum & fortalitiorum expugnator, & multarum BasiliHibernise, victoriosus

dator."
II

Vide Trias Thaum.,

p.

504,

col. 2.
is

carum & Sanctuariorum fundator, de

consilio

Blosky O'Kane.

That

this

Blosky

the anClos-

cestor of the

numerous

clans of the

Mac

quorundam procerum de Kinel-eoguin qui per tria Scrinia, & Canones S. Patricij iuramentum
fidelitatis

keys, in the

county of Londonderry, can scarcely

be doubted.
hi>

The Erenagh Mac Closkey signed name Blosganus in the reign of James I.,
at once affords a clue to the true original of this family.

chadi

ante ipsi prsestiterant ; maim Bloscadii O Cathain dolose filij

:

Duniriter-

which

remptus occubuit eiusque corpus Doriam delatum ibi cum funebri pompa & honore septilturn
cst."

name

And

thus,

very carelessly in the

1196.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

r

103

brought them away to Caislen na-Caillighe [the Hag's Castle], where he proceeded to commit great ravages in all directions, until Cathal Crovderg, accompanied by a party of the English and of the Sil-Maelruana, arrived and made peace with him (Mac Dermot), although he (Cathal) had thitherto committed
great injuries.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1196.
ninety-six.

thousand one hundred

at

The Abbey of SS. Peter and Paul

part of the Rath
s
,

Armagh, with

its

churches, and a great

were burned.

Murtough, the son of Murtough O'Loughlin, Lord of Kinel-Owen, presumptive heir to the throne of Ireland, tower of the valour and achievements of
Leth-Chuinn, destroyer of the cities and castles of the English, and founder of churches and fair nemeds' (sanctuaries), was killed by Donough, the son of

Blosky O'Kane",
loyalty to

at the instigation of the

Kinel-Owen,

who had pledged

their

him before the Three Shrines and the Canoin-Phatruig [i.e. the Book of Armagh]. His body was carried to Derry, and there interred with honour
and
respect".

Rory Mac Donslevy, with the English, and the sons of the chieftains of Connaught, marched an army against the Kinel-Owen and Oriors*. The
Kinel-Owen of Tulloghoge and the men of Orior proceeded to the plain of Armagh to oppose them, and there gave them battle. Mac Donslevy was
old translation of the Annals of Ulster
:

" A. D.

Orior, i.e. of
east

1195. Murtagh mac Murtagh O'Loghlin, King of Kindred Owen, and that should be King
of all Ireland, the supporting Post of Leth-

of the county of

Upper and Lower Orior, in the The word Armagh.

Eastern
;

cnpcep

signifies Oriental, or

and the

ci6 7

quinforfeatesof Armes and courage [cuip enjnoma leici cuinn], Banisher

J5

a T"

from their territory and people were so called in the east of Oriel ; and the name of situation
the inhabitants
is

\_recte

accordingly latinized Artheri

destroyer] of Galls and Castles, Eearer of churches and holiness" [neimeo], "killed by Donogh mac

and
'

Orientates, by Probus, Colgan, O'Flaherty, and other writers. Probus calls this territory

Blosgy O'Cathan, in counsel of

all

Kindred
and

Regio Orientalium.
Patrick, published

See the second Life of St.

Owen,
of

after bringing the three schrines

canons of Patrick with

him into the south church

Ussher's Primordia, pp. 857,

Ogygia, part
iii. c.

by Colgan, in Trias Thaum.; 1 047 O'Flaherty's

;

Armagh, and he was carry ed to Dyry Columkille, and he was buried honorably."
x

76;

Mac

Firbis's Genealogical

Book (Marquis of Drogheda's copy),

130
;

pp. 107,

Orion, aipcep,

i.

e.

the

inhabitants of

and Dublin P. Journal,

vol.

i.

p. 103.

104
cipe.

QNHaca Rio^hachca

eiraeaNN.
-\

[1196.

Uopcpacap ann Dna aoo becc DO macaib placa,

6a Diet imaille ppiu. S o pochaibib oile DO bofpcuppluaj mac maoiliopa ui concobaip a connaccaib, via plaicbepcaij,
baip pailge,
-j

coipeac Connacc maicib bpian bume

mac

ui

conco-

mac

ui

paolain na nDeipe.
-|

luimnij

po mapbab cepmainn Dabeocc, a muincipe pia ccinD miopa cpia piopcaib De, i Dabeog. e pen 50 nDfpjap Oomnall mac Diapmaoa mecc capcaij Do bpipeab coca ap jallaib po po cuip a nDeapg ap, 1 po Diocuip a luimneac, 1 murhan,
-| -|

TTlac blopccaib ui cuipin Do apjain

bpip 6d
cip na

mamm pin. maibm oile mac DiapmaDa cijeapna maije luipj Do Dol Concubap
poppa cen mocd an
buille,
-)

hi

nupD
i

mainip-

po jjab

romalcach cijeapnup Dia

epi.

QOD ua
TTlaice

DO mapbab peapjail njeapna muincipe hanjaile

ui cuinn.

meabail la

macaib Sicpioja

hi meabail, muinnpe heolaip DO mapbab la mac carail ui Ruaipc an jiolla puaD cnoipeac muincipe heolaip TTluipfbac mdcc Rajnaill
.1.

DO mapbab la mac majnupa ui Concobaip cpe pupdil mic carail lap po mapbab na maire pempaice.

ui

Rudipc

machjamhain mac Concobaip maonmaije piojDamr.a Connacc Do mapi At this period the territory Desies, Oeipe. of Desies extended from Lismore to Credan-

and Lanigan's Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, vol. i. p. 368. The stone chair of St. Daveog, or
Daibheog,

head, in the county of Waterford. The last chief of the Desies, of the family of O'Faelan, was Melaghlin, or Malachy, who was deprived of his
principality shortly after the English invasion,

shewn

in a

the patron of this Termon, is yet townland of Seeavoc, which verges

side.

on Lough Derg on the south

lands of
a

The church
called Ter-

Termon Daveog

are

now

when

it

was granted

to

Eobert Le Poer, whose

mon-Magrath.
Limerick

descendants (now called Powers) for ages after See Cambrensis' Hipossessed the territory

The Dublin copy

of the Annals

of Innisfallen state, under this year, that

nell

Don-

berniaExpugnala,
Ogygia, P.
*

lib.

i.

c.

16; and O'Flaherty's

e.

iii. c.

69-

More na Curra Mac Carthy destroyed the castle of Kilfeakle, and slew many of the English
there,

Termon- Daveog,

Ceapmann oubeoj,

j.

and took two of their

chiefs prisoners;

The church of this the sanctuary of St.Daveog Termoa was situated on an island in Lough
of

that he also plundered the territory of'Imokilly, where he destroyed another castle and slew many
of the English ; that he and his Eugenian forces

Derg, in the county of Donegal, but not a trace it now remains. For some account of this cele-

brated island in

Lough Derg, commonly

called

the island of St. Patrick's Purgatory, see Dean Richardson's work entitled Folly of Pilgrimages,

and joined Cathal Crovderg O'Conor andO'Brien, marched to Cork, then in the possession of the English, to destroy it ; but that he did not suffer the

town

to be burned,

on condition that the

1196.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

105

defeated with dreadful slaughter; and twelve of the sons of the lords and chieftains of Connaught, with many of an inferior grade, were slain. Among the
chieftains slain

were Brian Boy O'Flaherty; the son of Maelisa O'Conor, of Connaught; the son of O'Conor Faly and the son of O'Faelain (Phelan), of
;
.

the Desies y

of Blosky O'Currin plundered Termon-Daveog* but in a month afterwards he himself was slain, and his people were dreadfully slaughtered, through the miracles of God and St. Daveog.
;

The son

Dermot Mac Carthy, defeated the English of Limerick" and drove them from LimeHe also defeated them in two other battles in this year. rick. Conor Mac Dermot, Lord of Moylurg, embraced Orders" in the monastery
Donnell, the son of

and Munster

in a battle, with dreadful slaughter,

of Boyle; and Tomaltagh assumed the lordship in his stead Hugh O'Farrell, Lord of Muintir-Annaly, was treacherously slain sons of Si trie O'Quin.
.

by the

The

chiefs of Muintir-Eolais

were treacherously

slain

by the son of Cathal

O'Rourke.

Murray Mac Rannall, surnamed the Gillaroe", Chief of Muintir-Eolais, was slain by the son of Manus O'Conor, at the instigation of the son of Cathal O'Rourke, who had procured the deaths of the above-mentioned chiefs.
Mahon, the son of Conor Moinmoy, Roydamna' of Connaught, was slain O'More (Donnell) and the men of Leix f who attempted to prevent him by
,

English should quit it. The same chronicle records an excursion made by the English this year
to Fordruim, where they slew O'Kedfy, and the two sons of Buadhach or Victor O'Sullivan, namely,

this chief, state, that

he died i nouici monaij, " in the of a monk." noviceship c In his stead, oia 6pi: literally, " after him."
d

The

Gillaroe,

an ^'O^

puab, i.e. red or

materies of a

Murtough and Gillycuddy (JJiolla ITlocuoa).

red-haired youth.
e

In the margin of this work is the following note, which was probably taken from Dr. O'Brien's " Vide Wacopy of the Annals of Innisfallen
:

Roydamna, pto^oariina,
term applied

i.

e.

king, a
f

to the sons of a king, like

prince, in the

rseum ad hunc annum, ubi actiones hie descriptas in sensum a reipsa alienum et Anglis favorabilem, uti in suis passim annalibus, detorquet."
b

Leix,

modern acceptation of the word, This territory, which was the laoijip.

Embraced

Orders, Do bol hi nupo,

i.

e.

took

patrimonial inheritance of the family of O'More, comprised a considerable part of the Queen's If we take from that county the ba-

County.

the habit of a

monk

The Annals

of Kilronan,

ronies

of Portnahinch

under the year 1197, in recording the death of

belonged to the families of O'Dunn

and Tinahinch, which and O'Demp-

106
-\

[1197-

la laijipp cc copnarii na heDala DO bfpc o ba6 la him m6pt>a Domnall, cac1ial cappac Do mapbab ui mopDa ina Dioghail. jallaibh ppipp, 1 Da en. Ruaipc DO mapbaD la luijnib ap pbab Conjalach mac pfpgail ecc. loDname ua mannachain cijfpna ud mbpiuin na Sionna Do
'

Cachal mac afoha

miDij.

ui

plaichbfpcaig Do

mapbaD

la macaib muipcfpcaij

CIOIS C171OSO, 1197.

a peace. Goip CpiopD, mile, ceD, nocacc,

Do ponulaD co hfppccpaibe, SluaijeaD la lohn Do Cuipc co njallaib 176 pdpaijeaD -| po. polrhaigeD cpioca ceD pacc caiplen cille Sanccdin, cianacca leo. T?o pd^aib Roicpel pirun co pocpaioe moip immaille ppip
-\

and were a portion of the territory of Ui Failghe, and the barony of Upper Ossory, which
sey,

nals of Kilronan state that Mali on

was

slain

by

was a part of the ancient Osraighe, and belonged to the Mac Gillapatricks, or FitzpaSeeUssher's tricks,. the remainder will be Leix.

an archer of Donnell O'More's people, and that Donnell O'More fell on the same day by the hand
of Cathal Carragh, in revenge of his brother. The entry is thus given in the Annals of Kilronan
at the year

Primordia, pp. 818, 943, and Map of Leix and Ophaley, in the British Museum. The territory
of Laoighis, or Leix, was originally divided into seven parts, the boundaries of which met at a
stone, called

1196 rhac^arhain mac concobaip maonmaije DO mapbao le peppenach .1. Con:

5oban,oo rhumcip DomnaillUi mopoa.

nall

Dom-

Leac Eiada, on the plain of

Magh

ceona DO

Kiada,
all

now

Morett, which originally comprised

the Great Heath of Maryborough. These seven districts were under the government of seven

uaip carait cappai^. And thus in the Annals of Boyle, but under the year 1197: "A. D. 1197- IDacjamain mac Concubaip
lairh

ua rnopoa pern oo cuicim

ip in

maenmargi

occisus ab aliquo sagittario

petty chiefs, of one arch chief, called Righ Eiada,

nerally resided at

who were

all

under the jurisdiction

milia t)otnnaill ui

mopba,
cecidit

et

in

de faeadem hora
cacail

who

ge-

<3omnalL ua mopDa
cappaij."
h

de mantt

Dun Mask, now Dunamase

un-

See Duald

Mac

Firbis's Genealogical Book,

Congalach,

der the head LAOIGHIS LAIGHEAN.

For the

obsolete, as the Christian

This name is now Con^alac name of a man, but is

bardic account of the original acquisition of this

territory by Laoighseach Ceannmhor, the ancestor of the O'Mores, the reader is referred to

preserved in the surname of Conolly, in Irish

O'Conjalaij.
'

Slieve-da-en, pliab

oa

6n, L

e.

the mountain

Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, reign of Felym Eeaghtwar ; and to Keating's History of Ireland, reign
g

of the two birds.

this

This mountain, which retains

In revenge of him,

ma

ofCormacMac Art. The AnGiojcul

name to the present day, lies principally in the parish of Kilross, barony of Tirrerill, and county of Sligo, and extends from near Lough

1197.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

v

107

from bearing

which he had taken from the English; but O'More was killed by Cathal Carrach [O'Conor], in revenge of him s [Mahon]. the son of Farrell O'Rourke, was slain the men of Leyny, on Congalach", by
off the spoil

Slieve-da-en'.

lodnaidhe O'Monahan, Lord of Hy-Briuin na-Sinna".

Cathal, the son of

Hugh

O'Flaherty, was slain

by the son of Murtough

Midheach

[Miderisis].

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age
of.

1197.

Christ, one

thousand one hundred ninety-seven.

John De Courcy and the English of Ulidia marched, with an army, to Easm Creeva and erected the castle of Kilsanctan", and wasted and desolated the
,

territory of

Kienaghta
It is

He

left

Rotsel Pitun, together with a large body of

possession of his castles and lands.

Gill to Colooney.

worthy of remark, that

a lough on the north side of this mountain called Loch da ghedh, i. e. the lake of the
there
is

mon

Eas-Creeva, fpp cpaibe, now called the SalLeap, or the Cutt's Fishery, is a cataract on

two geese

See

Map

prefixed to the Tribes

and

the River Bann, to the south of Coleraine, in the

Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, printed in 1844. ^Hy-Briuin na-Sin na, now locally called Tir uaBiuin.
It is a beautiful territory lying

county of Londonderry.
n

Kilsanctan,

Cill
is

Scmccam

In the

AnSan-

between

nals of Kilronan it
cail,

called caiplen cille

Elphin and Jamestown, in the county of Roscommon, and comprising the parishes of Cill mor na

and in the old translation of the Annals of " the Castle of Killsandle." It was siUlster,
tuated on the east side of the River Bann, not
far

now Kilmore, Eachdhruim mac n-Aodha, nowAughrim, and Cluain creamha, now Cloncraff.
Sinna,

from Coleraine.

There

is still

a remarkable

According nahan lived

seat of

to the tradition of the district, at Lissadorn, near Elphin,

O'Mothe
a well

mound

near the Salmon Leap on the Bann, called

now
is

Mountsandall
derry, sheet
7.

See Ordnance

Map

of London-

John

Balf, Esq.,
;

where there
and the

called

Monahan's well

last

of the

Kienaghta,

Cianacca, now the barony of

O'Monahans, who was chief of this territory, was killed here by O'Beirne with a blow of his fist,
unde nomen, Lissadorn,
1

Keenaght, in the north-west of the

county of
i.

Londonderry.

The

tribe called Cianacca,

e.

i.

e.

the fort

of the fist.

was

Murtough Midheach, i. e. the Meathian. He so called from having been fostered in Meath.
this year the

the race or progeny of Cian, were descended from Cian, the son of Oilioll Olum, King of Munster
in the third century.

After the establishment

Under

Dublin copy of the An-

nals of Innisfallen state, that Gilbert de

Nangle was expelled from Meath by the King's Deputy,

of surnames the principal family of the Cianachta of this territory took the surname of O'Conor,

and

Hamon

de Valentiis [De Valoignes]

who took

distinguished in the Irish Annals by the appellation of O'Conor of Glenn Geimhin.

is

108

aNNQ^a nio^hachca eiraeaNR

-\

[1197-

ipin ccaipciall hipin,

occ apgain cuac -| ceall ap. po jjabpac 05 mbpab, ~\ cluain f, Uainij laporh Roicpel phicun ap cpeic co pope ooipe, -| po aipg ua maoiloopaib cijeapna conaill eanac,-] t>fp5bpuach,1?u5 bna plaicbeapcac neill an cuaipcipc poppa, l?o pijeb lomaipfg 1 eojain co nuafab t>o clanoaib a nap im mac apbjail eacappa pop cpaig na huacon^bdla, -] po cuipeab mec loclainn cpia rhiopb'ail colaim cille, cainoij, -] bpeacain ipa cealla po

aipccpeacc.
P

The

territories

and

the

churches,

ruar

ceall.

By

this phrase the annalists often

mean

197. Camic ono Roicpel picun co co poaipc cluami 7 enach 7 oepcpoprtDaipe,

ster
:

A. D.

loip ruar 7 cill means " both laity and clergy." generally q Cluain-I, Enagh, and Dergbruagh, cluam i,

lay and ecclesiastical property,

bpuac.
tish

And

thus rendered in the old transla-

tion of the Ulster Annals, preserved in the Bri-

Museum, MSS.

add. 4795.

" This Rochel

eanac

ofpjbpuach.

The Editor has been

attention, to identify

able after

much study and

hie and

Pitun came to Port Dyry, and spoyled Cluain Anagh and Dergbruagh."

these three churches, though Colgan, a native of

this part of Ireland,

had done much

to

confound

them.

Cluam i is the present townland of Clooney, containing the ruins of an old church, in the parish of Clondermot, not far from the
city of

Colgan, who thought that he understood the passage correctly, concluded that only two churches are mentioned, and took for granted
that Cluain
i

Eanagh was the name of one

Londonderry

6unuc

is

the old church

church, and this he evidently took to be the one now in ruins between the two lakes Enagh
already mentioned.

of Enagh, situated between the two loughs of the same name, in the north of the parish of

Thus

in the note on his

is

Clondermot; andlDfpgbpuach, i.e. iheredbrink, the townland of Gransha, in the same parish.
Colgan, in Trias Thaum., p. 505, gives an incorrect translation of the following part of the

wrongly made name of Cluain an Eanach, he " Est writes Capella Difficesis Dorensis, juxta
:

Eanach arcem

nobilissirnse familise

O'Cathano-

rum

a qua et Cluain Enaich appellatur."

p.

Trias Thaum,,

450, n. 51.

And

again,

in
:

this passage, viz.

Camij

lapaiti

Roicpel picun

ap cpeic 50 pope ooipe 7 po aipjj nach 7 ofpsbpuach. " Eotsellus Pitun venit
i,

cluam

ea-

church of Eanach, he writes " Ecclesia vulgo Eanach dicta (juxta quern est arx nobilissimaj familiae O'Cathanorum) tertio
his notice of the
civitate Dorensi."

ad portum Dorensem, Ciuitatem ipsam, Ecclesiis de Cluain an Eanach, & Dearg-bhruach spoliatis,
invasurus."

tan turn milliari versus aquilonem distat ab ipsa Trias Thaum., p. 377, col. 2.

The
i

Editor,

who

took for granted that Col-

Here he reads Cluam

Eanack,'
' 1 1

as if

I, Ganach, were an abbreviation of the

" Cluain an
ar-

gan's knowledge of the topography of this part of Ireland was next to perfect, as he was a native of Inishowen,

ticle in or

an

but in

this

he

is

undoubtedly
older
Irish

was very much puzzled by

mistaken, for

we

learn from the

these notes

Annals of Ulster and of Kilronan, that three churches are distinctly mentioned in the passage,
viz.,

but on examining the parish of ; Clondermot in 1 834, he found that Cluain i and
distinct townlands, containing

Eanack were two

and Ganach, and OeapjBpuac. The passage runs as follows in the Annals of Uli,

Cluain

each the ruins of an old church.

O'Donnell, in

his Life of Columbkille, distinctly points out

1197-]
forces, in the

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

castle,

109

out of which they proceeded to plunder and ravage Rotsel Piton afterwards came on a prethe territories and the churches'".

datory excursion to the harbour of Derry, and plundered the churches of q But Flaherty O'Muldory, Lord of KinelCluain-I, Enagh, and Dergbruagh
.

Owen and Kinel-Conell, with a small party of the northern Hy-Niall, overtook him and a battle was fought between them on the strand of Faughanvale s in
; ,

which the English and the son of Ardgal Mac Loughlin were slaughtered, through the miracles of SS. Columbkille, Canice', and Brecan, whose churches
they had plundered.
the situation of Cluain
i,

which he
words
:

calls

simply

Cluain, in the following

Krivy, and made the castle of Killsandle, and wasted the Trichaced of Kyanaght" [out] " of that
castle.

" In loco

quodam quern Cluain

distanti

vocant, a

Do-

In that castle was Eochel Pitun

to him.

left

with

rensi oppido ad

adversam Feabhalii lacus margi-

number

This Rochel Pitun came to

nem non procul

(Columba).

templum

excitavit."

O'Donnell then goes on to state, that Nicholas Boston [Weston], an English Bishop, had, not long before his own time (1520),
pulled down this church and commenced erecting a palace with the materials obtained from its
ruins, at a place called Bunseantuinne, not far

Port Dyry, and spoyled Cluain hie and Anagh and Dergbruagh. Flaithvertagh O'Moildory,

King of Kindred Owen overtooke him with a few of Conels and Owens, and broke of them
uppon the shore of Vochongvail, that most of them were killed through the miracles of
Columkill,

from Derry.

" Faucis retro ab hinc annis, Episcopus Anglicus, Nicholaus Boston dictus, prsefatum templum demolitus, ex ejus ruderibus palatium molitus potuit vindicante
p.
est,

spoyled
dered]."

[i.

Cainegh, and Brekan, whom they e. whose churches they had plun-

sed

consummare non
Trias

There is no reference to Ardgal Mac Loughlin in this translation, but his name is inserted in a more modern hand in the Dublin copy
of the Annals of Ulster.

Deo." &c

Thaum.,

The son

of Ardgal

Mac

399,

col. 1.

by the annathe " Grange of Dirgebroe," in an taken at Derry, in the inquisition year 1609, and is now, beyond dispute, the townland of
lists is called

The

place called Deargbruagh

Loughlin seems to have joined the English on this occasion, as heis stated to have been slain through
the miracles of the patron saints of the district.
*Faucr/ianvale. Colgan writes \iNuachongbail. There are several other places of this name in

but
r

Gransha, or Grange, in the parish of Clondermot, its church has been See totally destroyed.

Ireland

in the county of

one near the foot of Croaghpatrick, Mayo a second in the county

;

Ordnance

Map of Londonderry, sheets

13 and 14.
is

small party, uacao.

This word

used

throughout these annals to denote " a few, or a small party." See O'Brien's Dictionary, in voce. In the old translation of the Annals of Ulster the passage is rendered thus, under the
1196
[recte

of Westmeath, on the borders of the county of Longford ; a third on the Eiver Boyne, to the

west of Drogheda
of Clare.

and a fourth in the county

is

The name

translated

Nova

habitatio

by Colgan.
1

See Acta Sanctorum,

p. 141,

note

8.

year

Canice,

camoech

He

is

the patron saint

1197]:

"An

1196.

An army by
to Eas-

John de Coursy with the Galls of Vlster

of the territory of Kienaghta, in which he was born in the year 516 See Colgan, Trias

no

aNNdta Rioshachca
cfirpe cuipn

eiraectNN.

[1197.

TTlac ecij Do cianaccaib Do plac alcopa ceampaill moip Doipe colaim

cille, i

baD peapp po baoi

ui
"]

in

Gpino Do bpeic eipce,

uf

.1.

mac

maoiloopaiD, cammcopainD copn bocapcai j, a loppa Dib. popic [ppir] Do all a nionnrhappa, imoppa an cf po goiD, na peoiD ip in cpfp 16 lap nd ngoio, po cpochab la imoppa plairbeapcac 05 cpoipp na piaj neneac column cille ipa halcoip po papaij.
l?iabac,

mac

polap, copn
-\

T?o bpipicc

-|

-\

~|

aipjiall plaicbfpcac ua maoiloopaiD njeapna cenel cconaill, eojain, uile Conall ap laoc&acc epibe, pio^Darhna Gpeann copnamac cfmpa,
-] "]
;

Cuculamn ap jaipcceab,

ua 'pe ap eneac, TTlac lu^ac ap occlacup Decc (an <5

i

Dapa la pebpuapi) lap ccpeablaiD cojaiDe, ninip Saimep ipin cpiocacmab bliabain a plaiciupa, ipin norhaD bliabain ap caogacc a aoipe. Ggup po habnacc nopuim ruama co nonoip amail po baD Dfop. ^abaip eacmapcac ua Docapcai (.1. an giolla pponrhaol) cfnnup cenel
-\ i

lohn Do cuipc co pocpaice rhoip imaille ppip cap ruaim hi ccfp eogain, aippiDe co hapoppaca lappm cimceall 50 Doipe colaim cille. Qipipic coicc haiDce ann. CiajaiD mparh co cnoc napcain Dia momapcap caipip. Ueccaic Dna cenel conaill im ecmapcconaill po ceDoip,
-|
i

ccionn coicciDipi

mpom raimj

cac ua nDocapcaij Dia paigiD, peprap car fcoppa, ropcpacop pocliai&e mop aDiu anall. ^16 iaD cenel conaill ann po Diclnjic ifccpibe uaip cop-\ -]

Thaum.,
vol.

p.

182

and

Ada

Sanctorum,

p.

190

z
;

Guaire in

hospitality.

He

is

here compared

also Lanigan's Ecclesiastical History

ii.

of Ireland,

to

pp. 200, 202.

Etigh.
is

Guaire Aidhne, King of Connaught, who was so distinguished for hospitality and bounty that

Mac

In the Annals of Ulster and

he became

the

personification

of generosity

Kilronan he

called

Mac

Gilla Edich.
7

w Their

jewels.

nionmapa

a loppa

among the Irish bards. Guaire was King of Connaught for thirteen years, and died in the year
See Tribes and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, printed for the Irish Archaeological Society in
662.

In the Annals of Ulster the reading is : 7 rail a ninnmapa 7 a lapa bib ; which in the old
translation is rendered,
silver off
*

"broke

their gilt

and
This
i.

1844, p. 391.

them."

Defender of Tara, copnarhac

also

cfmna

might
y

be translated contender for Tara,

..

e.

Mac Liighach in feats of arms He was the best spearsman among the Fiana Eireann, or Irish Militia, in the third century. He was the
a

for the sovereignty of Ireland.

Connell.

Cuchullin.

These were two of the

son of Daire Derg, and grandson of Finn Mac Cumhaill, the Fingal of Mac Pherson's Ossian,

most distinguished of the Red Branch heroes, who flourished in Ulster under Concovar Mac
Nessa in the
first

and was
Lugha.

called

Mac Lughach, from

fol.

his

mother
b,

See Book of Lismore,

204,

where

century.

St. Patrick is

introduced as asking the senior

11970

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Ill

Mac Mac

Deny, and carried

Solas,

Etigh", one of the Kienaghts, robbed the altar of the great church of off the four best goblets in Ireland, viz. Mac Riabhach,

the goblet of O'Muldory, and the goblet of O'Doherty, called

Cam-Corainn.

These he broke, and took

off their jewels"

and

brilliant

gems.

On the third day after this robbery, these jewels and the thief were discovered. He was hanged by Flaherty [O'Muldory] at Cros-na-riagh (i. e. the Cross of
Executions), in revenge of Columbkille, whose altar he had profaned. Flaherty O'Muldory, Lord of Kinel-Connell, Kinel-Owen, and Oriel, defender of Tara
x
,

heir presumptive to the sovereignty of

2

all

Ireland, a Connell in

heroism, a Cuchullin* in valour, a Guaire in hospitality, and a Mac Lughach in b feats of arms", died on Inis Saimer on the second day of February, after long
,

and patient suffering, in the thirtieth year of his reign, and age, and was interred at Drumhome with due honour.

fifty-ninth of his

Eachmarcach O'Doherty

(i.

e.

Gilla Sron-mael) immediately after

assumed

the chieftainship of Kinel-Connell. fortnight afterwards John De Courcy, with a numerous army, crossed Toome into .Tyrone, thence proceeded to

Ardstraw, and afterwards marched round to Derry-Columbkille, where he and his troops remained five nights. They then set out for the hill of CnocNascaind to be conveyed across it but the Kinel-Connell, under the conduct
, ;

of Eachmarcach O'Doherty, came to oppose them, and a battle was fought between them, in which many fell on both sides. The Kinel-Conell were much

_Caoilti

thus
&ic

Mac Ronain, who this Mac Lughach was, Cia oap mac ITIac luj-ach, po piappaijep a peip, a Cailci, ap pacpaic. TTIac DO
:

side of the river, about one mile to the west of

the town of Ballyshannon.

c

Drumhome, opuim cuama, a church and

Oaipe Oepj mac Pmn, ap Cailci. " Whose son was Mac Lughach, I asked of thee last He was the son night, O Cailti,. said Patrick.
of Daire Derg, the son of Finn, replied Cailti." " Inis Saimer, an island in the River Erne, im-

parish in the barony of Tirhugh, and county of Donegal. This church is referred to under

name ofDorsum Tommce by Adamnan in his Vita Cdumbce, lib. iii. c. 23. It is also mentioned in O'Donnell's Life of Columba,
the Latinized
lib. iii. c.

mediatelyundertheCataracto'fEasAodhaRuaidh,
at Ballyshannon.

61

in Ussher's Primordia, p.

969; and

For the origin of the name

p.
2.

also in the Irish Calendar of the O'Clerys, at

Imp Saimep,
Ogyyia, part

see Keating's History of Ireland,

Haliday's Edition,
iii. c.

164; and O'FIaherty's O'Muldory had a house

of Eas

23rd September, where it is stated that one of St. Adamnan's churches.

<*

it is

Cnoc Nascain, was the ancient name of

a hill

un this

island.
is

The monastery

Aodha

Uuadh

not on this island, but on the north

Lough Swilly, in the barony but the name is now obsolete.

near

of Inishowen,

112

dNNata Rioghachca

eircecmN.

[iigs.

im 6onncha6 ua caipceipc coipeac. cpacap Da ceo Diob im eacmapcac peppm, cloinne Sneojile cong einij, comaiple cenel cconaill eanjnama, ceille, im rhag noubam, im mhag p-fpjail, uile mi jiolla mbpijoe ua nDocapcaijj,
"]

-|

-]

im rhacaib ua mbaoijill, leo epce, 1 DO beapcpacc bopairhe mop Concobap ua cacdin Do ecc.
-\

im paopclanoaib
-]

oite,

-|

po aipccpfo imp eojain.

pin.

lompoiDicc laip

maij6 aof, cuip opDain, Concobap mac caiDg cijeapna maije Imps connacc uile Decc lap naicpije cojaibe maimpcomaipce aipecaip, einij, aca Dalaapg. cip TTlaolpuanaiD ua caiTTIacpair ua laicbepcaij canaipi cfpe heojain
~|
i

-|

"|

pelldin cofpec cloir,ne

Diapmaoa Do rhapbaD. Oomnall mac Rajnaill mec l?ajnaill Do rhapbaD Do macaib mec DuibDapa piull. T?uai6pi ua plaicbfpcaij ci^eapna mpcaip connacc Do jabail la cacal
i

cpoibDeapg la pij connacc.

QO1S C171O3D,
Qoip CpiopD,

1198.

mile, ceD, nocacc,

a hocc.
-]

^lolla macliacc ua bpandin Do accup a comapbaip uaDa, jiollacpipc ua cfpnai^ Do oipDneaD ina iona6 in abbDaine colaim cille Do pfip coja
laoc
~\

cleipeac cuaipcipc Gpeann

ccoiccinne.
~\

PuaiDpi ua concobaip Ri'Conracc

e

Gpeann
p.

uile eiccip jallaib

~|

jaoi&e-

Tower,

cuip

-- The
But

word cuip properly

as

295

but Rubpai^e

is

found among the Irish

at the earliest peId.,

means

a prop, pillar,

support, or fulcrum, and

as the

proper name

of a

man

cop means a tower.

Colgan has translated cuip throughout his works by the Latin

turris,

riod

of their history.

pp.

26, 59, 293.

but
f

it

the translator has adopted the word tower, should be understood in the sense of sup}

name Ruaiopi Throughout is anglicised Rory, except in the name of this last monarch of Ireland, which is made Roderic
this translation the

port, or prop, throughout.

Ruaiopi ua ConcoBaip. The nameTJuaiopi, which is to be distinguished from Rubpai^e, seems to be of Danish origin in
Roderic
'Conor,

During ten years unfortunate prince reigned over Connaught only, for the eighteen following he was acknowledged by the greater part of the
of his
life this

for the sake of distinction.

Ireland.

It first occurs in the Irish

Annals

at

Irish chieftains as
finally,

the year 780.

first

See O'Conor's edition of the

monarch of all Ireland upon the unnatural revolt of his

but
sons,

part of the Annals of the

Four Masters,

he

retired, according to the

Annals ofKilronan,

1198.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

two hundred of them were
slain,

113

slaughtered, for

besides Eachmarcach himself

and Donough O'Tairchirt, Chief of Clann-Snedhgile [Clann-Snelly], the prop of the hospitality, valour, wisdom, and counsel of all the Kinel-Conell; and also the sons of O'Boyle, and Gilla-Brighde O'Doherty, Mag-Duane, Mag-Fergail,

many

other nobles.

The English then plundered Inishowen, and

carried off

a great

gransplendour, hospitality, and protection of all Connaught, died after exemplary penance in the monastery of Ath-da-laarg (Boyle).
deur,

number of cows from thence, and then returned. Conor O'Kane died. e Conor, the son of Teige, Lord of Moylurg and Moynai, tower of the

Magrath

Laverty, Tanist of Tyrone, and Mulrony O'Carellan, Chief of

Clann-Dermot, were slain. Donnell, son of Randal

Mac

Ranall,

was treacherously

slain

by the sons of

Mac

Duvdara.

Rory O'Flaherty, Lord of West Connaught, was taken prisoner by Cathal

Crovderg, King of Connaught.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1198.

thousand one hundred ninety-eight.

Gillamacliag O'Branan resigned his abbacy; and Gilchreest O'Kearney was elected coarb of St. Columbkille by the universal suffrages of the clergy and laity of the north of Ireland.

Roderic 0'Conor f King of Connaught and of

,

all

Ireland, both the Irish

and

in 1183,

into the abbey of Cong, which had been founded and endowed by himself, where he

spent the last thirteen years of his life. late Dr. O'Conor, in his suppressed work,

The Me-

without any alloy from temerity, revenge, But Mr. Moore, who has 28. p. his character without any bias from faweighed
lustre,

and despair,"

moirs of the Life and Writings of Charles O'Conor of Belanagare, has endeavoured to invest the
life

mily pride, has come to the conclusion, that "the only feeling his name awakens is that of

and character of

this

weak monarch with

which at such a pity for the doomed country crisis of its fortunes, when honour, safety, independence, national existence, were all at stake, was cursed, for the crowning of its evil destiny,

heroic dignity and interest, asserting that " in his adversity his fortitude was not of that ig-

noble species, which flows from resentment ;" but that " his constancy shone forth in all its

with a ruler and leader so utterly unworthy of

his

high calling."

History of Ireland, vol.

ii.

114
laib Decc hi ccanancaib
i

[1198.

6 Dorhan, i o Dearhan,

-|

lap mbpfir buaba ccunja lap naicpije rojjaibe, a copp co cluain mic noip, -\ po habnaiceab puccab
-]

Don caob cuaib balcoip cfmpaill moip cluana mic noip. TTlac bpiain bpeipnij mic coippbealbaij; uf concob'aip bo mapbab la cacal

cappac mac concob'aip maonmaije. Caralan ua maolpabaill cijeapna caippge bpacaije Do mapbab bua ua Depain peipin Do mapbab ina Diojail po ceboip. oepdin,
~]

Sludicceab la lohn De cuipc hi ccfp eojain ap puD na cceall, ~\ po haipcceab, "| po milleab Gpbppaca, ~\ pacboc laip, Rainic mporh Doipe colaim cille, -| baoi ainnpiDe Di omce pop peaccmam agmilleao inpi heogam
ineallifia muna coippeao aoD 6 nell * * * i luce coicc lonj co cill larapnaib, i po loipc nf Don baile, "| po rhapb occ ppip Decc Do jallaib, l?o cionoilpfc joill maiji line, "| Dail apai&e cpi

an cipe apcfna, i

ni

pajaD app inp

ceo Do pocrain aoba,

p.

~\

ni

po pachaij ao6 nac

nf

co po Doipcpfc ina
but the name
is

cfiin

05

340.

The only remark which the Editor

in existence

anglicised

Mul-

deems necessary to add here on the history of this unfortunate monarch is, that it is stated in
the Historia Families

faal, and sometimes, incorrectly, Mac Paul. h John De Courcy. This passage is also given

De

Burgo, preserved in

in the Annals of Ulster

the Library of Trinity College, Dublin, that Rickard More, the son of William Fitz Adelm

word
ters,

for

word

as in the text of the

and of Kilronan, nearly Four Mas-

De Burgo,

in the

battle

of Leithridh,

near

except that they add that some of the English of Moylinny and Dalaradia were dressed
in iron mail.
It is

Dublin, deprived him of his arm and kingdom with one stroke of his sword ! a fact which, if
true, has been concealed
Irish history.

rendered as follows in the

old translation of the Annals of Ulster.

Irish phrases in brackets are

The

by

all

other writers on

from the Dublin

1

The descendants of Roderic have

line
;

copy of the Ulster Annals.

" A. D.

198

[recte

been long extinct in Ireland, in the male

but, if

we

believe the author of Vita Kirovani,

1199]. army, by John de Courcy, into Tirowen among the churches [ap puc na ceall],
viz.,

An

and O'Flaherty, the Lynches of Galway descend from him in the female line. See Account of

untill

Ardsraha and Rathboth spoyled by him, he came to Dyry, and was there nine

West Connaught, printed

logical Society,
p.

for the Irish Archaeo-

nights, spoyling of Inis

Owen and

the country

36:

According

to

Duald

Mac

Lacys of the county of Limerick have sprung from William, the son of Sir

Firbis, the

about, and [would not have] went [gone] from thence for a long tyme [7 ni pajab ap ppi pe poca], untill [unless] with five ships HughO'Neale went [had gone] to Killaharna and burnt part of the town, and killed forty wanting two. There were the Galls of Moyline and Dalnaray, three hundred before them in iron plate and without
iron,

Hugh De
O'Conor.
g

Lacy, by the daughter of Roderic

Carrick-Braghy, cappaic bpacaioe, a terri-

tory comprising the, north- western part of Inishowen, where the family of O'Maelfabhaill is still

and wist nothing

untill they

rushed upon

1198-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

115

the English, died among the canons at Cong, after exemplary penance, victorious over the world and the devil. His body was conveyed to Clonmacnoise, and interred at the north side of the altar of the great church. of Brian Breifneagh, who was the son of Turlough O'Conor, was slain by Cathal the son of Conor Moinmoy. Carragh, Cathalan O'Mulfavil, Lord of Carrick-Braghy s was slain O'Dearan, who
,

The son

by

was himself

slain

immediately afterwards in revenge of him.

led
;

by John De Courcy" into Tyrone, among the churches and Ardstraw and Raphoe were plundered and destroyed by him. He afterwards went to Derry, where he remained a week and two days, destroying army was
Inishowen and the country generally. And he would not have withdrawn all * * * his forces from thence had not Hugh O'Neill sailed with five ships to Kill'
1

An

in Latharna,

burned a part of the town, and killed eighteen of the English. The English of Moylinny" and Dalaradia mustered three hundred men, and marched against Hugh, who had no intimation of their approach until they
them, burning the town.

Then they fought

in

Kilroot

but anciently Kilroegh and Kilreugh

this district

the midest of the towne [ap lap in baile] untill the Galls were put to flight, and gave them five

which was certainly in

See the Ca-

overthrows after untill they went to their ships, and killed but five of O'Neal's men. Then went

This lendar of the O'Clerys, at 16th October. church, whose patron saint was a Bishop Colman,
son of Cathbhadh,
is

described as situated on

John away [from Dyry] hearing of this." Kill in Lame, cill * * lacapna
'

In
cill,

the brink of Loch Laoigh in Dalaradia, in Ulster. See also the Feilire, or Festilogy of Aengus, at the same day, where this church
i

the Annals of Ulster this

name

is

written

is

described, as

the latter part of the name, exactly as in the text of the Four Masters ; but in the Annals of Kilronan it is' written cill a
left for

with a blank

" pop bpu locha laij n-UllcaiB, on the brink of Loch Laigh in Uladh." For the descent of
the tribe originally seated in the regiuncula of Latharna, the reader is referred to Duald Mac
Firbis's Genealogical

a church in the territory of Laand in the old translation of the Annals tharna;

larapna,

i.

e.

work, Marquis of DroghThis name

is still

of Ulster

it

is

made

Killaharna.
is

Latharna

is

now

called Larne,

and

the

name
;

of a village

eda's copy, p. 248. * Moylinny,.Tf\cr$ line.

pre-

in the east of the corfnty of Antrim

but

it

was

originally a tuath, cinament, or regiuncula, near Trias Lough Laoigh in Ulster See

served as that of a townland in the parish of Antrim, in the county of Antrim. But Moylinny,
before the present arrangement of the baronies in the county of Antrim, was a territory which

Colgan's

little
is

Thaum., p. doubt that the

here
left

188, and 5th Index.

cill,

There can be

or church, whose

name
is

imperfect by

the annalists,

the

extended from Lough Neagh to Carrickfergus See note *, p. 23, on Dal Bmnne. For its boundaries in 1609, see note

celebrated church of Cill

Ruao, now

anglicised

under the year 1503.

116

aNNom

Rio^hachca eiReaww.

[1199.

lopccab an baile. 17o pfpab lomaipeacc eacoppa laporii, -] po muib pop jjallaib, i cuccab coicc ma&manna poppa 6 cd pin co nDeacpac ma longaib, q po mapbab to mumcip aoba ace coijeap namd. lap cclop na pccel pin DO lohn po pagaib an baile paibe .1. Doipe colaim cille. cenel conaill Do coimcfnjal la Coccab eicip cenel conaill i eojain,
ni
i

-]

hua neccnij in acchaib cenel eojain, po boi coinne fcoppa Do naibm a hi ccepmann Dabeocc. Uainic cpd ao6 ua neill 50 ccenel eojain ccapaopab imme DO coipmeapcc na coinne, po lonnpaij ua heiccmj, ~\ po iheabam paip co bpapccaib bpaiccDe la hua neill.
-| ~\

Oo Deachaib ao6 50 ccenel eojain ip in 16 cfona, co nDepnpac cpeic pop cenel conaill hi macaipe TTlaije hfoca, -j rucpac bopairiie Dipime mp mapbab leo uf buibDiopma pop pceirhleab mapcpluai j.
Sluaijeab la haob ua nell -] la cenel neojain Dopibipi 50 macaipe TTlaije hfora Do cabaipr caca Do cenel cconaill, i po pdjaibpfc cenel cconaill a longpopc leo, -\ Do ponab blobab pire -| caDac fcoppa Don cup pin.

Carol cpoibDeapg ua concobaip DO

concobaip maonmaije,
-\

Denarii pioba ppi

cip,
]

a cabaipr Don

cacal cappac peapann DO cabaipc DO.

mac

CIO1S

CR1OSO,

1199.

Qoip CpiopD,
TTlaolfopa

mile, ceo, nochacc, anaoi.

coriiapba

abbap pacpaic Sanccup TTlaupiciup ua baoccdin Decc in hi colaimm cille. Do ponpac goill ulab cpf ploij mopa hi cfp neojam, -| an cpep ploijj DO ponpac, po jabpac lonjpopc 05 Dorhnac mop maije lomclaip, Do cuippfc
nialldin,
-\

mac

giolla epdin, aipcmoeac cille moipe Decc.

ua

-\

O'Hegny.lle was

at this period the Chief

Fermanagh, the Maguires not having as yet acquired any power over that territory
See
"

of all

observed, was the level part of the barony of Eaphoe, now called the Lagan,

Kilmare-OneiUand, cill

mop ua medium.

O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part

iii.

c.

76.

Now

skirmish, pceirhleab tnapcpluai^, a skir-

mish of In the old translation of the cavalry. Annals of Ulster, it is rendered " Nell O'Duivdirma was
"

the parish of Kilmore, in the barony of Oneilland, and county of Armagh, about three

miles east of the city of

p

Armagh.

killed

uppon

a skirmish."

Donaghmore-Moy-Imclare, t>omnac mop muije imclaip. Now Donaghmore, a church

and parish in the barony of Dungannon, and

The plain of

Moy

Itha

This,

as

already

1199.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

11?

poured round him, while he was burning the town. were defeated. fought between them, in which the English

battle

was then

The English were

;

routed five successive times before they retreated to their ships and there were only five of Hugh's people slain. As soon as John [De Courcy] had

heard of

this,

he

left

the place where he was

[determined upon making con-

quests], that

is,

Derry-Columbkille.
1

war broke out between the Kinel-Connell and the Kinel-Oweri. The Kinel-Connell joined O'Hegny against the Kinel-Owen; and they had a meeting at

Termon Daveog,
O'Neill,

for the purpose of forming a league of amity with him.

Hugh

however, repaired thither to prevent the meeting, and attacked

and defeated O'Hegny, who delivered him hostages. On the same day Hugh and the Kinel-Owen went to the plain of Magh
Ithe,

andjalundered the Kinel-Connell.

From

this place
1

they drove off a vast

number
of

of cows, after killing O'Duvdirma in a skirmish " between the cavalry. Hugh O'Neill and the Kinel-Owen made a second incursion into the plain
Itha
n
,

Moy

to give battle to the Kinel-Connell

but the Kinel-Connell

left

their

camp

to them,
parties.

upon which terms of peace and friendship were agreed on

between the

Cathal Crovderg O'Conor

made peace with Cathal Carragh,

into his territory,

the son of

Conor Moinmoy, brought him

and gave him

1199.

lands.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

Tlie

Age

of Christ, one thousand one hundred ninety-nine.

Maelisa, son of Gilla-Ernain,

Erenagh of Kilmore-Oneilland

and intended

successor of

St.

Patrick, died.

Sanctus Mauritius O'Baedain died in Hy-Columbkille. The English of Ulidia made three great incursions into Tyrone, and on the
third incursion they pitched their

camp

at

Donaghmore-Moy-Imclare
we

and sent

three miles west of the town of Dungannon. This

before St. Patrick's time, as

learn from the

:

church was founded by St. Patrick, who placed there a St. Columba, called in Irish Colum Ruis
Glarida.

Festilogy of Aengus, at the 6th September .1. j;lcin T?opy jlanoa aintn in baile ppiup

The

place

where

this

church stands

was

called

Ros Glanda, from a well named Glan,

cnnm na cibpao pil ann, 7 oomnach mop amm moiu " Ross Glanda leas the name of the place
;

118
-|

[1199-

Do cpeachaD an cipe. Camic Dna aob Dpong mop Dia muincip DO riiilleao Do na gallaib, no la a 6 neill mD oipfp an cploij coma comnamic 66, uaba po elaibpfc pan aibce jan nac caipfpeam co noeaan Do
-| -]

nap, i

fpna cuaim. carap rap SluaicceaD la Puaibpi ua nDumnplebe co nf Do jallaib miDe, -[ po aipccinnce ace aon bo. pec mainipnp phoil, ~\ peaccaip co nap pdccaibpfr

Oomnall ua Docapcaij njeapna cenel nenDa apDa miooaip Decc. OonnchaD uaicneac mac RuaiDpi ui Concobaip Do rhapbao la Sajcaib
-|

luimnij.

l?ooub
in

mac

poeDig coipec cenel aongupa Do

mapbaD

la gallaib ap cpec

ua neapca cein. Cacal cpoibDeapj ua concobaip DO ionnapba6 a cappac Do jabail a lonaiD.

Sluaicceao la haoD ua neill
hfoca, i
i

pijje

Connacr,

~\

caral

poipicm carail cpoibDeip^sobpfpaibmaije co naipjiallaib ju pangaccap rfj baoian aipcij. Soipfr lapom 50
i.

(baile) first,

e.

well which

is

there

from Glan, the name of the and Domnach mor is its

;

name

See also the Irish Calendar at this day." of the O'Clerys at the same day, where it is added that Domhnach mor Moighe lomchlair is
in Tir Eoghain,

rapair ap oiapmioe poppo, 7 po elaoup pan aioce co noecaoap cap Uuaim. It is rendered " A. D. 1 as follows in the old translation 199"
:

\_recte

1200].

"The

Galls ofVlster this yeare

prayed" [preyed]
third

" thrice in Tyrowen, and the

at

was the ancient

now Tyrone. Magh Imchlair name of the plain in which the

It is explained
ali-

tyme they camped

church of Donaghmore stands.

sent forth a great army. to prevent them, and fought with the Galls and

Donnaghmore, and Neale came Hugh

by Colgan

as follows
,i.

"
:

Imchlair, qua? et

quando Maghdair,

campus planus,

sive pla-

nities legitur vocata

est ager regionis Tironise,

et in ecclesia

broke of them, and slaughtered a great number of them, and they stole away by night, untill they went beyond Toame."
r

non procul a Dungenainn,

regionis

eiusdem

O'Donslevy,
rectly

ua oumnpleibe

more cor-

Domnach mor
6.

dicta colitur S.

Columba
p.

Prsabyter
c.

Septemb."

Trias T/iaum.,

184,

1.

This passage is given as follows in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster A. D.
Toome.
:

tDuinnplebe, in the Dublin copy of It is thus rendered in the Annals of Ulster. " A. D. 1199. An the old translation army by " some of the Eory Mac Dunleve to" [with] Galls of Meath, and spoyled the Abbey of Paul
:

mac

1200.

t)o ponpac jaill ulab cpi cpecha

7 in

cip

neoj^am,

lonjpopr ic DO cuippec cpech

rpfp cpech oo ponpac oo jabpac oomnacli mop muiji imclaiji,

irnach.

and Peter, so as they left but one cowe." s Kinel-Enda Kinel-Enda and Ard-Mire

was the ancient name of the

district situated

mop Cainij aeo ua neill in aipcip na cpeice co po compac DO 7 na jaill 7 co po maio ap jallaib, 7 co

between the Rivers Foyle and Swilly, in the ArdSee p. 19, note d county of Donegal
.

mire, or

Ard

Miodhair, was the name of a

ter-

1199-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

body of
their troops to destroy

119

and plunder the country. Hugh O'Neill set out to oppose this host; and they came to an engagement, in which the English were slaughtered, and such as escaped from him fled secretly by q night, tarrying nowhere until they had passed Toome
forth a large
.

Eory O'Donslevy and some of the English of Meath, mustered a body of troops, and plundered the Monastery of SS. Peter and Paul (at Armagh), and
,

left

only one

cow

there.
,

s Donnell O'Doherty, Lord of Kinel-Enda and Ard-Mire died. Donough Uaithneach, the son of Roderick O'Conor, was slain by the Eng-

lish of

Limerick.
slain

Roduv Mac Roedig, Chief of Kinel-Aengusa, was

a predatory incursion, in Hy-Earca-Cein'.

by the English, on

Cathal Crovderg O'Conor was banished from the kingdom of Connaught and Cathal Carrach assumed his place.

Hugh

O'Neill, with the

men

of Moy-Itha and the

men

of Oriel, marched to

Tibohine-Artagh", to relieve Cathal Crovderg O'Conor.

ritory lying westwards of Kinel-Enda, in the direction of Lough Finn. It is to be distin-

They returned

again,

See his Genealogical Book (Lord Roden's copy), Da mac ITIaoilcoba .1. blarmac, a p. 568
:

guished from Ceann Maghair, near Fanaid. The O'Dohertys were afterwards settled in the ter-

quo piojpaio ula6,

u

aongup, a quo cmel

i.

n-aonjupa: ap bib piojpaio leice carail.

Tibohine-Artagh,

now the barony of Inishowen, which had been previously possessed by families of the
ritory,

Ceac 6aoirm

aipcij,

e.

the house, or church of St. Baoithin, of the territory of Airteach. It is now the name of a parish church in the diocese of Elphin. See the
Feilire

Kinel-Owen
to

race,

who were

all
;

tributary either
after the set-

Loughlin, or O'Neill tlement of the

Mac

but

O'Dohertys, who were of the Kinel-ConneU race, the inhabitants of Inishtribute to O'Donnell.
'

Aenguis at 19th of February, where church is described as lying to the west of this
Croghan, in Connaught "ppi cpuacham Connachc aniap ;" and the Irish Calendar of the O'Clerys at the same day, where the saint is
:

owen generally paid

Hy-Earca-Cein

This was the ancient name

of a tribe situated in a valley in the present barony and county of Antrim. See Colgan's Trias Thaum., p. 183, col. 2, note 221.

called "

of Airteach."
p.

The Kinel-Aengusa were a tribe of the Clanna Kury, in the same neighbourhood. They descend, according to Duald Mac Firbis, from
Aengus, the second son of Maelcobha, and the Chiefs of Leath Cathail, now the barony of Lecale, in the county of Down, were of them

Bishop Baoithin, the son of Cuanach, See also Colgan's Trias Thaum., col. 1, notes 17, 18, 19 ; and^eta Sanc370,

torum, pp. 369, 370 ; also Erck's Ecclesiastical Eegister ; Beaufort's Ecclesiastical Map of Ire-

land

The

and Archdall's Monasticon (at Tibohin). parish called after this church is still some;

times locally called Airteach

but the territory

120

[1199-

panjaoap eapDapa,

uilbam puce oppa cacal cappac co maicib connacc, maille ppip. peacap lomaipeacc earoppa, po bupc 50 njallaib luimnij
-| -] -\

ppaomeab pop cuaipcepc Gpeann, cenmocd porn. oipjiall, i pochai&e

hi

-j

po pdjbab ann ua heccnij

la

ci<c;eapna

Sluaigheab la lohn Do Cuipc co ngallaib ula6,

~\

mac hujo De Ian

co

poipicin -cacail cpoiboeipg 50 pangaoap cill mic Duac. ngallaib mi6e Cainicc laporh cacal cappac co cconnaccaib imaille ppip, ~] po cacaijpfc Spaoinceap pop jallaib ulab ~\ mibe aipm hi pabaccap cuicc ppi apoile.

caca,

po leanaD iaD alldcaip an caca 50 pinn Duin pop loc pib, i po gabab lomcurhang pop lohn ainnpibe, ~\ po mapbab Dpong mop Do jallaib, ~\ po bdibiD apaill Diob ap nf puapaccap conaip
ni

cepna acr Oa cac

&fb,

~\

ceichib acr a noeacaib

nearpaib cap loc poip uara.

Ruapc ua
TTlupchab

TTlaoilbpenainn coipech cloinne concobaip Do ecc. Ri Sa^an lohn Do pioghaoh op Sa^ain .6. Qppil.

mac cochldm cigeapna Dealbna fchpa

t>o ecc.

was more extensive than the present of Tibohine See note under the year parish 1197. There is another parish church called
of Airteach

note
x

the Irish Archseological Society in 1842, b and map to the same work.
,

p. 71,

Teagh Baoithin, in the barony of Raphoe, but

anglicised Taughboyne, though pronounced Tiboyne by the Scotch setalways tlers, and Tibwceheen by those who speak the
Irish language.

the

name is now

Rindown, T?mn oum, i. e. the point or peninsula of the dim, or earthen fort. This peninsula extends into Lough Eee, in the parish of St.
John's, barony of Athlone, and county of Ros-

This

is

called after St. Baoithin,

common, and is about eight miles to the north See Ordnance Map of of the town of Athlone.
the county of Roscommon, sheet 46.

orBaithenus, son of Brendan, son of Fergus, the

This pe-

and companion of St. Colunibkille, and his immediate successor in the abbacy of lona. w Kilmacduagh, Cill mic t)uac, i. e. the church of Mac Duach, an ancient cathedral
relative

ninsula contains the ruins of a castle of great

and strength, and of a military wall, with gates and towers, of considerable extent and
size

church in the barony of Kiltartan, and county of Galway. This church was erected by Guaire
about the year 610, for his kinsman, Colman Mac Duach, who
Aidhne, King of Connaught,
is

magnificence, measuring five hundred and sixtyfour yards in length, and dividing the Sinn,

or point,

from the main land by extending

It
is

from water to water.

stated in the Irish

the patron saint of the Hy-Fiachrach Aidhne,

Annals that the Danish tyrant, Turgesius, built a fortress on Lough Ree, and it has been conjectured that by
fort,

a tribe

who

possessed the entire of the present

him was

erected the dun,

or

diocese of

Kilmacduagh before the English invasion See Colgan, Ada Sanctorum, p. 245 and Tribes and Customs ofHy-Many, printed for
;

from which

this point of land

was denomi-

nated Uinn oum.

See a very curious description of this place, by Mr. Petrie, in the Irish

1199-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

121

however, and on coming to Easdara (Ballysadare), were overtaken by Catlial Carragh, with the chiefs of Connaught, and William Burke, with the English of Limerick: a battle was fought between them, in which the forces of the
north of Ireland were defeated; and O'Hegny, Lord of Oriel, and beside him, were slain.

many

others

John de Courcy, with the English of Ulidia, ami the son of Hugo De Lacy, with the English of Meath, marched to Kilmacduagh" to assist Cathal Crovderg O'Conor. Cathal Carragh, accompanied by the Connacians, came, and gave
and the English of Ulidia and Meath were defeated with such and these were purslaughter that, of their five battalions, only two survived sued from the field of battle to Rindown* on Lough Ree, in which place John was completely hemmed in. Many of his English were killed, and others were
battle
: ;

them

drowned

for they

found no passage by which to escape, except by crossing

died.

the lake in boats.

Rourke O'Mulrenin, Chief of Clann-Conory John was crowned King of England on the

sixth of April.
z
.

Murrough Mac Coghlan, Lord of

Penny Journal, No.
1

Delviri Eathra, died

10, pp. 73, 74, 75.

Clann- Conor.

See note under year the

his Irish

were mett by Cahall Carragh O'Connor, with all and English forces, and were overthrown
to

1193.
*

and pursued

Royndown (now

called

Teagh

The Annals of Kilronan and of Clonmacnoise

enter these transactions under the year 1200 ; and the former contain a much fuller and more
detailed account of the battles
rivals of the

neer Loghrie). John Coursey was driven to take boate when he came to that place, and his people knew not where to

Eoyn, or John's house,

between the two

house of O'Conor in this and the

betake themselves for their safety, but only by sailing into the islands of Loghrie, where an infinite

two succeeding years. The Annals of Clonmacnoise add, that soon after this slaughter of the English at Lough Ree, Cathal Carragh was

number

of

them were

slain

and drowned.

Soone after Cahall Carragh was taken deceiptfully

De

treacherously taken prisoner by Hugh Lacy, who confined him in the Castle of

by the English of Meath, and by Hugh Delacy the younger, and was conveighed to the Castle of
the Obber, there to be safely kept, untill he had

Nobber (an Obaip), there to be kept until he should give them their The whole paspay.
sage
is

thus translated by Connell Mageoghegan

given them their pay, which he was content to give in part, and for the rest to give security, by which means he was sett at Liberty, and im-

D. 1200. Cahall Crovedearg O'Connor, accompanied with the forces of John De Coursey and

"A.

Hugh Delacie,

passed through Connought, untill

mediately went to Munster to Macarthie and William Burke. And for John Coursey, after slaying of his people, [he] returned to Ulster

they came to Tyrefiaghragh Aynie, where they

again."

122

[1200.

aois CRIOSO,

1200.

Goip CpiopD, mile, Da ceo.

ppuicib ceann cele nDe cluana Decc an

TTlaoleoin

CaDhla ua Dubcaij aipDeppcop ruama Decc lap pfnDaeam. mic uaipeipge uf neaccain uapal ppuic Do Uaipeipje mac maoilmop&a Da gac poalcm apcfna, cluana mic noip, pfp Ian Do bepepc,
-] -)

DeacmaD la DO rhapca. ua capmacdin comapba commain Decc.

-|

QOD ua neill DO aicpijaD la cenel neojain, Do ponaD cpeac laip hi ccip pijab ma iona6,
~\

concobap ua loclainn Do

nenDa, fto

mapb

Daoine,

-]

puce buap lomDha. Do beachaib cpa Gccneacan ua Domnaill cijfpna cenel conaill co loingfp cenel conaill ap muip laip, -] cona ploj ap rip, -] po jabpac longpopc ag

c an caippjfn, cangaccap clann Diapmaoa Don leic oile 50 pope Roip Do

Under
state that
this

year

the Annals

of Kilronan

land, together

Gormgal O'Quin, Dux, or Captain of Muintir Gillagan, was taken prisoner by the English, who plundered his people, and reduced

with Laurence O'Toole, ArchbiBrenshop of Dublin, andConcors, Abbot of St. Roderic O'Conor, to negotiate dan's, by King with King Henry II. and they waited on the
;

them
ment.

to great distress for

want of food and

erection

rai-

They

also record the

of the

Windsor, where a grand council was held, and a convention ratified, by which Henry

King

at

Castle of Granard under

this year,

but without

giving the copy of the Annals of Innisfallen state that

name

of the builder.

The Dublin
it

as long as granted to his liegeman Roderic, that serve him faithfully he should he continued to

was built by Richard Tuite, as a stronghold against O'Reilly in south Breiihy and this ap;

be a king under him ready to do him service as his vassal, and that he should hold his heredias he tary territories as firmly and peaceably before the coming of Henry into had held them

pears to be correct

for

Granard

is

very close to

the ancient dunchladh, boundary wall, or ditch,

Ireland.
his

Roderic was likewise to have under

between Breifny and Annally, extending from

Lough Gawna to Lough Kinclare. Under this year also the Annals of Ulster and of Kilronan record the death of Rowland Mac
Uchtry, King of the Gall-Gaels in Scotland. a Kyley O'Dvff//, caohla ua oubrui j. This
the prelate called Catholicus Tuomenensis by Giraldus Cambrensis, in his Hibernia Expugnata,
is

dominion and jurisdiction all the rest of the island, and the inhabitants, kings and princes
included, and was

bound to oblige them to pay tribute through his hands to the King of England, &c.
vol.
i.
;

and

See this treaty in Rymer's Fcedera, also as given in the original Latin in

Cox's Hibernia Anylicana, p. 29 ; and an abstract of it in Leland's History of Ireland, vol. i.

p.
p.

lib.

i.

c.

34.

He

succeeded
1 1

Edan O'Hoisin

in the

104; and in Moore's History of Ireland,

287.

vol.

ii.

year 1161. In the year

75 he was sent to Eng-

1200.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

1-23

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1200.

thousand two hundred.

at

a Kyley [Catholicus] 0'Duffy Archbishop of Tuam, died

,

an advanced age.

Uaireirghe, son of Mulmora, the son of Uaireirghe O'Naghtan, one of the noble sages of Clonmacnoise, a man full of the love of God, and of every virtue, and head of the Culdees of Clonmacnoise, died on the tenth of

March.

Malone O'Carmacan, Successor of St. Coman died. Hugh O'Neill was deposed by the Kinel-Owen, and Conor O'Loughlin was elected in his stead. The latter plundered Tir-Enda, killed many persons, and
,

drove

off

many

cows.
sailed with the fleet of Tirconhis

Egneghan O'Donnell, Lord of Tirconnell, nell [thirteen vessels] by sea, and despatched

army by land, and pitched

repaired to Port-Rois
d

his

camp
In

at Gaeth-an-Chairrgin

e
.

The Clandermot

on the

the year 1179, Cadhla, or Catholicus O'Duffy, attended the second Council of Lateran, together with Laurence O'Toole, Archbishop of Dublin Constantine, Bishop of Kil;

(Gweedore),
coast.
d

"fiaor:

6eapa (Gweebarra),
all

tuacpoip (Loughros Bay),

Port-Hois,
is

on the western

laloe

; Brictius, Bishop of Limerick ; Augustin, Bishop of Waterford; and Felix, Bishop of

This

i. e. the port or harbour of Eoss. not the Portrush in the parish of Bal-

ly willin, in the

county of Antrim, but Eosses

but on their passage through England, they were obliged to take an oath that
:

Lismore

Bay, a short distance to the north of Derry. This story is very confused in the original. It

they would not say or do anything at the council prejudicial to King Henry or his kingdom

See note under the year 1180,

p. 51.

Accord-

ing to the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen, he died in the Abbey of Cong, in the year 1201.
"

Egneghan O'Donnell, Lord of Tirconnell, despatched the ships of Tirconnell, thirteen in number, by sea, ordering their commanders to meet him at Gaeth-an:

should be told thus

"

Chairrgin.
his forces

He
by

then marched the remainder of

Successor of St. Coman,

i.

e.

abbot of Eos-

common.
Gaeth-an-Chairrgin, i. e. the inlet of CarriCarrigin is a village three miles to the

and pitched his camp at Gaeth-an-Chairrgin. As soon as the Clann-Dermot, his opponents, had heard of this division of
land,
his forces,

they marched to Port-Eois (Rosses

gin

south of the city of Londonderry, on the west side of the River Foyle. The word jaer, or ftaoc, enters into the names of three other
places in the

prevent crews of the thirteen ships attacked and defeated them. This shews how unequal they were to

of the ships, and Bay), to intercept the passage them from joining the land forces ; but the

county of Donegal, as

5^ Oop
B

compete with the combined forces of O'Donnell.

124

ctNNata Rio^hachca eiReawN.

[1200.

Oo conncaoap poipne na rcpi lonj nDecc baoi an jabail ppip an loinjfp. coblac inopin, T?o leccpfc pochaib iacc jop paoirheaD pop cloinn noiapmaDa. Uicc mace lacloinn (.1. concobap becc mac muipcfpcaij), ina bpoipirin, -| po a eac pomh DI, copcaip lapom la cenel cconaill
po cpapccpab poo, 5ona6 a pcpim po DirhisneaD pecc piarh. Qp in eneac colaim cille, a corhapba, ua cpicdin cijeapna ua ppiaccpiapan DimiaD ceona po mapbaoh TTlupcaD Leanaic muinnp eccneacam an niamm mpccain gup po cuippeac ap
-]

-\

pach.

ap cloinn noiapmaoa. ap eojanchaib SluaicceaD la ITlelfp -| la gallaib laijfn 50 cluain mic noip i ccoinne T?o bacap of oiDce cacail ccluain, -] aipcccfp leo an baile eicip
~\

cappaij.

cpo6

Do coi&peao po a cfmplaib. Cacal cpoiboeapj DO Dol ip in muriiam Do paijib mic mec capcaij
1 biat>, 1

-]

uilliam bupc.

J5eppmaiDe ua baoiselldm DO rhapbab la hua nDorhnaill

neacdn.

.1.

la hecc-

lomaipeacc eiDip ua nDomnaill

jlaippene ua Ruaipc.
")

-|

ua puaipc, ualjapcc,
-\

-\

concobap na

po cuipeaD DOpgdp a niuinocc mapbaDh, po bonchea& concobap pepin Don cup pin, cipe eiDip b66a6, leic ui rhaoiloopaiD Do ponnpaoh po pighfoh an lomapjoil pin.

Ro

rhaib pop uib bpiuin,

-\

Murrottgh O'Creaghan, TTIupcao na cpiocain. This name would be now anglicised Morgan
f

Cambrensis
nigris,

"

&

toruis,

Meylerivs vero vir fuscus, oculis vnl tuque acerrimo. Stature

Creighan, or Cregan.
Ily-Fiachrach, Hy-Fiachrach of Ardstraw. See note under the year 1193.
i.

paulo mediocri plus pusillo.

e.

pro quantitatis captu perualido.

drato,

Corpore tamen Pectore quaceterisq

;

ventreq

substricto, brachiis
.

TkeClann-Dermot,Clar\nt>\upmaoa. These were a tribe of the Kinel-Owen, who inhabited

membris

quam
Nihil

plus neruositatis habentibus, Miles animosus & eemulus. carnositatis.

ossosis,

and gave name

to the present parish of Clonder-

vnquam

abhorrens, quod aggredi quis vel

mot

(anciently Clandermot), on the east side of

the River Foyle, in the barony of Tirkeerin, and county of Londonderry.

h

Primus in prrelium vltimus conserto proelio redire consuetus in omni conflictu omnis strenuitatis opera s*eu
solus debeat vel comitatus.
ire
: :

Meyler,
of

i.

e.

King Henry

I.,

Meyler Fitz-Hcnry, natural son by Nesta, the mother ofMau-

perire paratus, seu prseire adeo impatiens & prseceps: vt vel vota statim, vel fata complere
:

rice Fitzgerald.

He was made Lord

Justice of

Ireland in the year 1199

vol.
ii.

p.

See Harris's Ware, 102; and Cox's Hibernia Anglicana,

dignum ducat. Inter mortis & Martis triumphos, nil medium ponens: adeo laudis cupidus & glorise,

quod

si

viuendo forte non valeat: vincere

p. 46.

His personal form and character are described as follows by his cotemporary, Giraldus

velit vel

moriendo.

Vir itaq;
si

fuisset

cumulata

laude dignus vterque,

ambitione posthabita,

1200.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

fleet:

125

other side, to attack the

when
1

the crews of the thirteen vessels perceived

their intentions, they attacked

and defeated the Clann-Dermot. Mac Loughlin

(Conor Beg, son of Murtough) came to their assistance; but his horse was wounded under him, and he himself was dismounted. He was afterwards slain

by the Kinel-Connell, in revenge of Columbkille, his coarb and shrine, that he had violated some time before. And it was for the same violation that Murrough O'Creaghan

Lord of Hy-Fiachrach f was killed. Egneghan's troops followed up the route, and slaughtered the Kinel-Owen and the Clann-Dermots Meyler", and the English of Leinster, marched to Clonmacnoise against
,

Cathal Carragh (O'Conor), where they remained two nights: they plundered the town of its cattle and provisions, and attacked its churches. Cathal Crovderg O'Conor went into Munster, to the son of

Mac Carthy and

William Burke

[to solicit their aid].

A battle
and

Gerrmaide O'Boylan' was slain by O'Donnell (Egneghan). was fought between O'Donnell [on the one side], and O'Rourke

(Ualgarg) and Conor na-Glaisfene O'Rourke [on the other]. The Hy-Briuin (O'Rourkes) were defeated, and their men dreadfully cut off, both by drowning
killing.

Conor himself was drowned on

this occasion.

This battle was

fought

at

Leckymuldory*.
The O'Boylans O'Boylan, ua baoi^eallam chiefs of the territory of Dartry-Coininsi, of Dartry, in the county of Monow the
'

Christ! Ecclesiam debita deuotione venerantes,

antiqua

&

autentica eiusdem iura non tan turn

were

illibata conseruassent:

Quinimo

tarn noua?, tarn-

barony

que

cruentse

conquisitionis

(plurima
;

quippe

naghan.

O'Dugan

calls

them the blue-eyed,

sanguinis effusione, Christianseq

gentis inter-

fcedatas) partem placabilem Deoq ; placentem, laudabili largitione contulissent. Ve-

emptione

white-handed, red-lipped host, the griffins of splendid horses, and the bold kings of Dartry.
k

Leckymuldory, lecrc ui riiaoiloopaio,

flag-stone,

i.e.

rumtamen quod mage stupendum est, amplioriq dolore dolendum: postremum hoc vitium toti
;

O'Muldory's

or

flat

surfaced rock,

The

Editor, after a minute examination of the

fere militise nostrse a

primo adventu, vsque in

fuisse."

hodiernum constat commune

Hibernia

topographical names in O'Muldory's country, has come to the conclusion that this is the re-

Expugnata, lib. ii. c. x. This Meyler was the founder of the abbey of Great Connell, in the

markable

flat

surfaced rock called the lecic,

at Bellice,

under the cataract

now

Belleek, on

county of Kildare, in which he was buried in the yea.r 1220. See Archdall's Monasticon, at
Great Connell, county of Kildare, where there are some curious notices of this " Tameless

the River Erne, about two miles to the east of

See it described in the notes Ballyshannon. under the years 1409, 1522. Hy-Briuin, or

tamer of the Irish

all."

Hy-Briuin Brcifne, was the tribe name of the O'Rourkes and their correlatives.

eirceciNN.

[1201.

Oonnchab uairneach mac Ruaibpi

luimmj.
TTlachjariiain

uf

Concobaip DO rhapbab la

mac

Do jiollapacpaicc uf chiappDa

mapbab

la jallaib

cluana lopaipD. Cluain lopaipD Do lopccab Dua ciap&a Do pojail pop na jallaib barap

mnce.
conaing, Cpeach la cacal cpoiboeapj TTlumain gup po loipg caiplen rue uilcfn cona mnaoi illaim laip lap caiplen uilcin, 1 mapgab luimnij, DI piDepe becc, lolap Daoine cenmochac. mapba& piacpa ua plamn raoipeac pil ITlhaoilpuain Do ecc. Carhal cappac Do jabciil Rige connacc, caral cpoibDeap^ Do lonriapi

ui

-\

-\

-j

-\

ba6 DO i nulcaib 50 pamig co ceaj ui Gignij cijeapna peapmanac, DO paijiD lohn Do cuipc gup po naiDm a cupa ppip.

-\

aipme

QO13 CR108O,
Qoip CpiopD,
mile,

1201.

Da cheD, a haon.
~\

Uomalcach ua concobaip comopba parcpaicc,

Decc.

ppfomaiD na hGpeann

Conn ua meallaij eppcop eanaij Dum, jfm jloiniDe ecclapracba Decc. lohannep De monce celion capDinal comopba peacaip Do code 6 T?oim co hepmo. SfnaD mop Do ceaglamaD ina bail co har cliac eiDip eppcopaib,
the English, opo jail pop na jalnot for the sake of destroying the laib, i.e., monastery, but to take revenge of the English ;
1

To injure

of the aiFairs of Munster, of which the Four Masters have collected no account :" A. 1). 1 200.

great

army was mustered by William De

all

or rather, he ran the risk of committing sacrilege to

Burgo, and

the English of Munster, joined

on the English. ra Besides them, cenmocar. This phrase is used throughout these Annals, very generally
his vengeance

wreak

by Murtough Finn, Conor Roe, and Donough Cairbreach, the three sons of Donnell More
to Cork.

though be left untranslated throughout. n Banished into Ulster. This

for it
is

it

has

little

or no meaning, and might

O'Brien; and they inarched through Munster They encamped for a week at KinCairbre Aodha, and

neigh,
is

a repetition,

where Aulifie More O'Donovan, King of Mac Costello were slain.

mentioned under the

this year the

last year.

Under
iials

Dublin copy of the An-

of Inuisfallen contain the following notice

Then came Mahon O'Heney, the Pope's Legate, and the bishops of Munster, and made peace between the O'Briens [on the one side] and the

1201.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

127

Donough Uaithneach,
of Limerick.

the son of Roderic O'Conor, was slain by the English

Mahon, {he son of Gilla Patrick-O'Keary, was

Clonard.

slain

by the English of
1

Clonard was burned by O'Keary, to injure the English who were in it. Cathal Crovderg O'Conor made a predatory incursion into Munster, and plundered Castleconning [Castleconnel] the market of Limerick, and Castle,

Wilkin and led Wilkin and

;

his wife

away

captives, after having killed thirteen

.

m knights, and many other persons besides them Fiachra O'Flynn, Chief of Sil-Mailruana, died.

Cathal Carragh assumed the government of Connaught, and Cathal Crovderg was banished by him into Ulster". He arrived at the house of O'Hegny, Lord of Fermanagh, and went from thence to John de Courcy, with whom he

formed a league of amity

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1201.
one.

thousand two hundred

St. Patrick,

Tomaltagh O'Conor, successor of

and Primate of Ireland,

died.

Conn

O'Melly, Bishop of

Annaghdown,

a transparently bright

gem

of the

Church, died. Johannes de Monte Celion, the Pope's Legate, came to Ireland, and convoked a great syrtod of the bishops, abbots, and every other order in the Church,
Mac Carthys, O'Donohoes, and the rest of the Eugenians" [on the other].
[Mortogh Fionn O'Brien] marched at the head of the Dal-Cassians, his brothers, Connor Euadh and Donough Cairbreach, serving as officers under him, against the Eugenians, whom he greatly harassed, and slew Auliff O'Donovan, chief of
that family, with
nobility.

In a marginal note is the following observation Latin: "O'Donovan, Rex Carbriae

relagatus erat

nam ab anno 1178

Aodha; O'Donovan ex

ditioue sua de Cairbre

Aodhbha in regione Limiricensi in occidentalem partem regionis Cor-

many

others of the Eugenian

Vid. supra ad istum annum." The substance of this passage is thus given by Dr.
cagiensis.

After which a peace was concluded between him and Donall Mor Mac Carthy, sur-

O'Brien, in his History of the House of O'Brien, published by Vullancey, in the first volume of
his Collectanea de
title

named na Curadh, King of Desmond, by the mediation of Mahon O'Heney, Archbishop of

Cashel,

who was

of

Law

Rebus Hibernicis, under the " A. of Tanistry. D. 1200. He

that time."

the Pope's Legate in Ireland at See note under the year 1254.

128

[1201.

-]

abbabaib,

ppiu.

jac 5pa6 eccailpi.i pochame DO paopclarroaib Gpeann imaille 17o opOaigpfo laporh a ccainjne uile lap na ccoip eircip ecclaip
-\ -|

cuair.

Sena6 conDacc (imnnon caipoinal ceDna) laochaib, cleipchib occ ar luain hi cint) coiccibipi lapom, po cinDpfc a ccaingne peb poba cecca.
~\

Niall ua ploinn DO rhapbab la jallaib ula6 meabail. THajnup mac Diapmaoa ui laclainn Do rhapbab la muipceapcac ua nell,
i

muipceapcac Do mapba6 ina cionaio. Concobap mac mmpjfpa ui eDin Decc. UaDg ua bpaoin njeapna luigne mioe Decc.
mic an cpionnaij ui carapnaij Decc. ITlupchao ua T71aDaDdin lee coipec pil nanmcaba Do juin
TTlui|iea6ac
neill

mac

ma

cfnn Do

poijic i a ecc cperiiic. SluaijeaD la cacal cpoiboeapj, -] la huilliam bupc cona pocpame gall -| jaoibeal hi cconnaccaib o ra lummeac 50 ruaim Da ualann, aippibe 50
p

Lune, lu) jne

This was a territory of con-

siderable extent in ancient

is still

Meath and
;

its

name

preserved as that of a barony, anglicised

by Teige mac Connor Moenmoye there ; Carragh O'Connor, King of Connaught, came in view of the said forces to a place
slain

also Cahall

Lune, and now corruptly pronounced in Irish luibne ; but the ancient territory of Ltiighne was

Gurthin Cowle Lwachra, and from thence he went to the skirmish between his forces and
called

much more extensive than the modern barony, for we learn, from the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, that Doinhnach mor Muighe Echnach, now
Donaghmore, near Navan, was situated in it. q Forces. The account of the death of Ca thai
Carragh, and of the actions of William FitzAdelm De Burgo, is given as follows in the Annals
of Clonmacnoise, as translated by Macgeoghegan "A. D. 1201. Cahall Crovedearg and William
:

them,

who

finding his people discomfited, and

put to

flight,

was

killed himself,

by the miracles

of St. Quseran, together with Kollye

mac Der-

mott O'Moylerwayne, and many " Cathal Crovdearge and William Burk, after committing these great slaughters, went with
others.

their forces to

Moynoye and Moylorge, over

Donleoy into Moynemoye, from thence to West Connought, until they came to Cowynge of St.
Ffehine, where

Burk, with

all

their forces of English

and

Irish-

men, came to Connaught, pass'd from Lirnbrick to Twayme, from thence to Owran, from thence to Alfyn, from thence to the Carrick of Loghke,

that time William Burke,

they kept their Easter. At and the sonne of

O'Flathvertye, privily consulted and conspired together to kill Cahall Crovederge O'Connor,

from

thence to

the

Abbey

of Athdalaragh,

which God prevented, for they were by great

oaths sworn to each other before, which whoso-

where the chambers* and roomes of that abbey were the lodgings of the annie. Cahall mac

ever wou'd breake was to be excommunicated

Connor O'Dermott went

to prey the lands of

Mac Dermott"

" and was \recte Hy-Diarmada],

with booke, bell, and candle. " William Burk sent his forces

to distrain for

1201.]
at Dublin, at

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

which
also

129

many

of the nobles of Ireland were present.

By

this

synod many were enacted.

proper ordinances, for the regulation of the

Church and

the State,

A fortnight afterwards the

laity of

Conuaught were established.

Niall

at

same Legate called a meeting of the clergy and Athlone, at which meeting many excellent ordinances

OTlynn [O'Lynn] was treacherously slain by the English of Ulidia. Manus, the son of Dermot O'Loughlin, was slain by Murtough O'Neill; and
Murtough was
killed in revenge of him.

Conor, the son of Maurice O'Heyne, died.

p Teige O'Breen, Lord of Lune in Meath, died. Murray, son of Niall, who was son of the Sinnagh (the Fox) O'Caharny, died. Murrough O'Madden, Chief of half Sil-Anmchadh, was wounded in the
,

head by an arrow, and died of the wound. Cathal Crovderg and William Burke, at the head of
forces'
1
,

their English

and

Irish

marched from Limerick, through Connaught,

to

Tuam, and proceeded

his pays

and wages throughout Connought, who were soone cut off, for six or seven hundred of

the extent of tha profanation that the archers of the army had women in the hospital of the

them were soone

after

slain.

William Burk

monks, in the houses of the

cloister,

and in

afterwards repaired to Limbrick, and Cahall Crovederge tooke upon him the name of King
of

every apartment throughout the whole monastery; and they left nothing in the monastery

Connought again."

The Annals

of Kilronan, which

may

be con-

sidered the chronicle of the district, contain a

without breaking or burning, except the roofs of the houses only, tmd even of these they broke and burned many. They left no part of
the monastery to the monks excepting only On the dormitory and the house of the novices.
this

much
two

fuller

account of the battles between these

rivals of the

house of O'Conor. The account

of the profanation of the abbey of Boyle, and of the death of Cathal Carragh, is given as follows, under the year 1202 " great army was led into Connaught by Cathal Crovderg, joined by Wil:

occasion William

Burke commenced the

erection of a cashel [or circular wall] around

the great house of the guests, on which he bestowed two days' work. On the third day after

liam Burke, the sons of Donnell O'Brien,

viz.,

Murtough and Conor Roe, and by Fineen Mac Carthy. They marched to the monastery of
Ath-dalarac, on the River Boyle, and took up their quarters in it ; and they remained there for
three days, during which time they profaned

the commencement of this wall, Cathal Carragh, King of Connaught, was killed by the English,
as

were

also

Dermot, who was

Dermot, son of Gilchreest, son of son of Teige O'Mulrony, and

Tomaltagh, son of Taichleach O'Dowda, and many others. They then departed from the monastery, after which William

and defiled the whole monastery; and such was

Burk dismissed

130

aNNCK.a Rioghachca eiReaww.

-j

[1201.

apiaD huapan 50 hoilpinn 50 cappaic loca ce, 50 mainipcip aca Da loops, na mainipcpe pobcap boca lonjpuipr Doib'. Oo coiD Din cacal mac cije DiapmaDa pop cpec in uib Diapmaoa. T?ucc caDj mac concoBaip maonmaije paip. T?o pijeaD eapgal earoppa,
1 copcaip cacal.

Dala

cacail cappaij pi

connachc cionolaiD piDe a pocpaiDe,

-]

cainic

piacc guipcin cuil luacpa hi ccompocpaib Don mainipcip. bacap parhlaiD ucc pe hucc co cfnn peccrhame, q DeabaiD jac Hi popcfnn na pee hipin Do Deachaib cacal cappac Do Deccpin laoi fcoppa. na Deabca. Spainceap ppucrhaiDm Dia rhuincip ma cfnn, ~| caipceap epfm

Do poijpD an cploij 50

po mapbaD e, ba cpia piopcaib De ciapdin inDpn. an collaio mac DiapmaDa uf maoilpuanaiD Don DeabaiD mapbaD beop maille pe pochai&ib ele. CuiD cacal cpoibDeapg uilliam bupc cona pin plojaib ap a haicle muij luipcc, muij naoi, aippiDe co hiapcap connacc.
)

ma ccpecommapcc,
l?o
i

-|

Rangaccap conga

peicin,

~\

ap mnce DO ponpac an
-|

caipcc.

Ci6 cpa, ace po

la clomn Puaiopi uf plaicbfpcaij peall Do cogpab la huilliam bupc, Denam pop cacal cpoibDeapj, po paop Dia 6 Don cup pin cpia pldnaD na
-]

the sons of O'Brien and

forces.

Mac Carthy and

their

dred, vel amplius.

When

William Burke had

The

resolution to which Cathal Crov-

derg and William Burke then came, was to

despatch their archers throughout
to distrain for their wages,

heard of the killing of his people he sent for O'Conor. forewarning of his intention reach-

Connaught and William Burke

ing O'Conor, he shunned the place where William was. William then set out for Munster, having
lost the greater part of his people."
r

and his attendants, and Cathal Crovderg, reThen a miraculous report was paired to Cong.
bruited abroad, and
it is

Oran, uapdn,

now

Oran.

well-known

not

known whether

it

place, containing the ruins of a

church and round

proceeded from a man, or from the spirit of God in the shape of a man, namely, that William

tower, in the barony of Ballymoe, and county of Eoscommon See Trias Thaum., p. 136, where

Burke was
in

There was not a way or road Connaught through which this report had not passed. On hearing this news a resolution was adopted by the tribes of Connaught, as unakilled!

the

name

is

thus explained

"Huaran enim

sive

fuaran idem Hibernis sonat quod fons vivus,

sive viva vel frigida

aqua e terra scaturiens."

nimcusly as if they had all met in council for the purpose, and this was, that each person should kill his guest e. the soldier billeted on [i. him].
This was done: each tribe killed the number
billeted

See also the year 1556, at which mention is made ofGillacolumb O'Clabby, Coarb of St. Patrick, at
this place.

The place is still called Uupan Ui Chlabai j, and " Patrons" are yet held there

among them, and their

loss,

according

annually on St. Patrick's day (17th March), and on the last Sunday in July, called Garland

to the report of their

own

people,

was nine hun-

Sunday.

Not many years ago the

senior of the

1201.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

,

131

from thence successively to Oran r to Elphin, to the Rock of Lough Key, and to and the houses of the monastery the monastery of Ath-da-Loarg (Boyle)
;

served them as military quarters. At this time Cathal Mac Dermot went on a predatory excursion into HyDiarmada5 Teige, the son of Conor Moinmoy, overtook him, and a battle was
:

fought between them, in which Cathal [Mac Dermot] was slain. As to Cathal Carragh, King of Connaught, he assembled his forces, and

marched against

this

of the monastery. which daily skirmishes took place between them. At the end of this time Cathal Carragh went forth to view a contest but a body of his people being violently driven towards him, he became involved in the crowd, and was killed.
;

army, and arrived at Guirtin Cuil luachra in the vicinity They remained confronting each other for a week, during
,

This happened through the miracles of God and St. Kieran. Ancolly, the son of Dermot O'Mulrony, and many others, were also killed in this battle.
After this Cathal Crovderg and William Burke passed with their forces through Moylurg and Moy-Nai, and thence through West Connaught, and
arrived at Cong, where they spent the Easter. William Burke and the sons of Rory OTlaherty, however, conspired to deal treacherously by Cathal Crovderg, but

protected him on this occasion from their designs, through the guarantee of the ecclesiastical witnesses to their league of mutual fidelity.

God

O'Clabbys used to appear at the Patrons, and point out to the people the extent of the Termon lands possessed by his ancestors, on which occasion the people were accustomed to make a collection for his support.

which the pilgrims kneel.

Traces of the foun-

dations of other buildings are also observable in the field adjoining the church, which shew the

The O'Clabbys, now

ancient importance of the place. This was the tribe Hy-Diarmada

in

name of

Clabbys, axe numerous in the county, but have retained no property in this Termon.

the family of O'Concannon, Galway. The chief of the name had his seat, in
1585, at Kiltullagh, in the county of Galway. See Tribes and Customs o/Hy-Many, printed for

the county of

Colgan

calls this

church nobilissima ecdesia

of
its

de Huaran, but

little

magnificence, how-

ever, remains at present, there being at the place

but a mere fragment of the ruins of the church, and the base of its dogas, or round tower, measuring about fifteen feet in height. The uaran, or spring, from which the place derives its

the Irish Archaeological Society in 1843, p. 19. The Hy-Diarmada are to be distinguished from the Clann-Diarmada,

who were

at

Dun

Doighre,

now Duniry,
<

in the barony of Leitrim, in the

name, accounted a holy well, and frequented by pilgrims. It has a small stone cross over it before
is still

county of Galway.
Guirtin Cuil luachra,
i.

e.

the

little field

of

the rushy corner or angle.

This name is

now ob-

S2

132

aNNata Rio^hachca

eircecmN.

[1202.

im bflpi ppi apoile. Tieaccailpe baoi eacoppa

Can^aDap mumcip
-[

uilliam

a ccuapapoail pop connaccaib, linjic connacraij bupc mpDcain Do cobac Dib. jabair Soaip uilliam co luimneac lap pin poppapom, i mapbaic 700. cacal cpoiboeaps pije 661516 connacc. ccenel cconaill, ap pochla hualjapcc ua Ruaipc Do 6ul
i

-| Sloijheab bu -\ jabala. Rug ua Domnaill eccreaclian cain Doib ipm ccpfch Ru^pac poppa occ leic ui maoilDopam. peachap pcainoeap fcoppa 50 paeimer> laab a noeapjap eicip rhapbab -\ babab. pop uib bpnnn cona pocpaite, -| po

na jjlaippene. cup pin po baibeab concobap ccenel conuill ipm 16 cfcr,a. Cenel neojain Do rochc pop cpeich naile t)o pala fcappa -] ua Domnaill jup po ppaoineab pop cenel neo^ham po chenel neo^hain mapbab geappmami ua baoijeallain co pochaibib aile Do

ba Don

-|

maille ppip.
la mag piacCijfpnan mac Domnaill mic carail ui Ruaipc Do mapbab an pac i la cloinn chachail, -\ an reojanac mag piacpac DO mapbab ap

laraip

pin.

QO1S CR1OSO,

1202.

Qoip CpiopD, mile, Da ceD, ao6.

capmacam eppcop cluana pfpru bpenainn Do ecc. ua bponain aipcinbeac copaije Decc. TTlaolcolaimm Oorhnall ua bpolcdin ppioip i uapal peanoip, Saof oeappcaijce ap ceill, ap cpuc, ap belb, ap mine, ap mopbacc, ap cpabab, 1 ap eagna 065 lap noeijbfchaib an peaccmab la picfc Qppil.
TTluipcfpcac ua
solete, for

the oldest
it.

men

in the parish of Boyle

of,

or devoted

to, St.

Columba.

This name

is

never heard of
u

made Malcolm

in Scotland.

CPCarmacan,

O Capmacam, now anglicised

seated
in the north-

Of

Tory, Copaije,
i.

and sometimes

called
It is

Gormican.

The family of this name were

Abbey- Gormican,

Coip-imp,

e.

the island of the tower.

an

in the parish of

west of the barony of Longford, in the county of Galway, which parish derived its name from
a monastery founded by a chief of this tribe. The name is written O'Gormagan in the Galway
Inquisitions.

island off the north coast of the county of Donegal, where St. Columbkille is said to have erected

a monastery and doifftheach, or round tower See O'Donnell's belfry, in the sixth century
Life of Columba,
lib.
i.

c.

73,

lib.

ii.

c.

20,

and

Maekolum, TTlaolcolaimm,

i.

e.

the servant

Calendar of the O'Clerys, at 9th June. For the early history of this island the reader is referred

x202.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

of William Burke afterwards went to
;

133

demand their wages from rushed upon them, and killed seven hunthe Connacians but the Connacians dred of them. William then returned to Limerick, and Cathal Crovderg assway of Connaught. Ualgarg O'Rourke mustered an army, and marched into Tirconnell. On their arrival in the country, they seized upon a number of cows and other proregal

The people

sumed the

O'Donnell (Egneghan) overtook them at Leck-I-Muldory, where a battle was fought between them, in which the Hy-Briuin (O'Rourkes) and their army were defeated and cut off with terrible havoc, both by killing and drownperty.
ing.
It

was on

this occasion that

Conor

na-Glais-fene (O'Rourke)

was drowned.

On

the same day the

Kinel-Owen made another predatory incursion into

Tirconnell; and a conflict took place between them and O'Donnell, in which the Kinel-Owen were defeated, and Gearrmaidi O'Boylan and many others of
the

Kinel-Owen were

slain

along with him.

Tiernan, the son of Donnell,

slain

who was

the son of Cathal O'Rourke, was

;

by Mag-Fiachrach and the Clann-Cahill but Mag-Fiachrach, surnamed Eoganach [i. e. the Tyronian] was killed on the same spot.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1202.

thousand two hundred two.

Murtough O'Carmacan", Bishop of Clonfert-Brendan, died. Maelcolum" O'Bronan, Erenagh of Tory* (island), died.
Donnell O'Brollaghan, a prior, a noble senior, a sage illustrious for his
telligence, personal form,
in-

and comeliness, and

for his mildness, magnanimity,

piety,

and wisdom,

after

having spent a good

life',

died on the twenty-seventh

of April.
to Keating's History of Ireland, Haliday's Edition, pp. 122, 180,

the most distinguished saint of this island next

after St. Columbkille.
1

182; and O'Flaherty's Ogygia,

part

iii.

c.

7.

See also Battle of

x

Magh

Rath,

good

life.

printed for the Irish

1

Archasological Society in

the Annals of Ulster:

Prior, $c. #c., post

Thus expressed in " Domnall h Ua

Latin, in

Brolchain,
et

St. Ernan, son of Col842, p. 1 06, note . man, son of Maen, son of Muireadhach, who was son of Eoghan, ancestor of the Kinel-Owen, was

magnam

tribulationem

optimum
uitam

penitenciam in quinta Kalendas

Maij

finiuit."

134

awMaca Rio^hachca eiReawH.

ITIaolpinnem
065.

[1203.

mac colmain peanoip cojaioe

(.1.

-]

conn cpaibDec ua planna-

Oorhnall cappac ua Docapcaijj

pio

raoipeac apDa miobaip) Do rhap-

baD la muincip baoijpll lap nap^ain ceall -| cuac niom&a. Concobap puab mac Domnaill uf bpiain Do rhapbab la a Deapbpacaip pfm
muipcfpcac mac Dorhnaill mic coippbealbaij uf bpiain. Uoippbealbac mac TJuaibpi uf concobaip Do elub a jeimeal, i caral cpoiboeapg 60 benam pio&a ppif "| pepann Do cabaipr Do. Uoipp6ealbac
1 la
,

laporh Do lonnapbab la cacal

njall.

~\

p(6 Do Denorh pip po ceDoip rpia impibe na

mac muipcfpcaij uf maoileachlainn Do ecc. Diapmaicc mac aipc uf maoileachloinn DO mapbaD la mac lochlamn
Oorhnall
concobaip.

uf

CIO1S

CR1OSD,
Da

1203.
ceD, arpf.

Ctoip Cpiopo, mile,

reppcop mac jiolla ceallaij puaiDin eppcop cille mic Duach DO ecc. Ooipe colaim cille Do lopccab o ra pelecc TTlapcain co noppaic a&ami

Qn

nam.

Do Denam la ceallac ap lap cpoi la j;an nach Dlijeb cap papuccab muincipi la po&ein, po mill an baile co mop. Cleipij an cuaipcipc DO cionol co haofn iona6 Do bul 50 hi plopenc ua cfpballan eppcop npe heojain, TTlaoliopa ua Dopij eppcop cfpe conaill, abb pecclepa poil
TTIainiprip
"|
.1.

-|

1 peaDaip apDmaca, amaljaib ua pepjail abb pecclepa Doipe, ainmipe ua cobcaij, Do muincip Doipe, Do cleipcib an Dpong mop pochaibe
in
~\ -] -]

cuaipcipc jenmofaicpf&e.
'

CiagaiD laporh co

hf,

-]

pcaoilceap leo anrhaimp-

O'Boyles, muincip BaoijiU According to O'Dugan's topographical poem, the O'Boyles were chiefs of Cloch Chinnfhaolaidh, now Clo-

1284 and 1343.

a

At

once,

po cdooip

.1.

po ceo uaip __ This

ghineely, in the north-west of the barony of Kilmacrennan, and of Tir Ainniire, now the ba-

adverbial expression, which occurs so frequently throughout these Annals, signifies at once, without delay, sine mora.

rony of Boylagh, and Tir Boghaine, now Bannagh barony, in the west of Tirconnell, now the

county of Donegal

See notes under the years

This name, which has Awley, ariial^aio. been anglicised Awley throughout this translation, existed among the Irish from a remote pe-

1203.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Mac Column,
a venerable senior, and

135
(the

Maelfinen

Conn Craibhdheach

Pious) O'Flanagan, died.

Donnell Carragh O'Doherty, Royal Chieftain of Ardmire, was slain by the z and territories. O'Boyles after he had plundered many churches
,

Conor Roe, the son of Donnell O'Brien, was slain by his own brother, Murtough, son of Donnell, who was son of Turlough O'Brien.
;

i.

e.

and Turlough, the son of Roderic O'Conor, escaped from confinement He afterwards Cathal Crovderg made peace with him, and gave him land. a the English, made peace with him at once expelled him, but, at the intercession of Donnell, the son of Murtough O'Melaghlin, died. Dermot, the son of Art O'Melaghlin, was slain by the son of Loughlin
.

O'Conor.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1203.
three.

thousand two hundred

The son
well of
St.

Derry-Columbkille

of Gillakelly O'Ruaidhin, Bishop of Kilmacduagh, died. was burned, from the cemetery of St. Martin to the

Adamnan. monastery was erected by Kellagh without any legal

right,

and in despite

of the family of lona, in the middle of lona, and did considerable damage to the town. The clergy of the north of Ireland assembled together to pass over into lona, namely, Florence O'Carolan, Bishop of Tyrone [i. e. of Derry]
;

Maelisa O'Deery, Bishop of Tirconnell [Raphoe], and Abbot of the church of SS. Peter and Paul at Armagh; Awley" O'Fergahail, Abbot of the regies of Derry;

Ainmire O'Coffey; with many of the family [clergy] of Derry, besides numbers
of the clergy of the north of Ireland. They passed over into lona; and, in accordance with the law of the Church, they pulled down the aforesaid monasriod of their history.
It is to

be distinguished

written

pipj^il.

It

was the name of the

from Griilaoib, which they derived from their connexion with the Danes, and which has been
anglicised Aulifie in this translation.
ter is identical

hereditary Erenaghs of Kilmacrenan, by whom It is now the O'Donnells were inaugurated.

This

lat-

pronounced

as if written O'ppi^il,

by a meta-

with the Danish Arnlaff, Anlaff, and Ole. The surname O'Ferghail was, and Olaf,
very

thesis or transposition of letters, not unusual in many words in the modern Irish, and always

is still,

common

in Tirconnell,

but usually

anglicised Freel, without the prefix O'.

136
cip

[1203.

pemepepcmap Do
in

peip blijeb na heccailpi,

]

-j

po hoiponeb an carhalgaib

pempaice

abbaine la rpia coja gall jaoibeal. mac muipcepcaij uf loclamn co nDpuing Do jallaib Do bul Oiapmaicc pugpac opeam po aipgpfc Scpin colaim cille, ap cpec hi ccfp neojain, cenel eojain oppa, ~| ppaoinrep leo pop biapmaicc co na jallaib, -j po mapDO
-\ ~\

na Scpine. Sloijeab la mac hu^o DC laci co nDpuing Do jallaib mibe nulraib co po Dfocuipfb lohn Do cuipc a hulcoib iap ccop caca fcuppa nDun Da Ifcglap,

ba6 Diapmaio

pfipin cpia miopbailib

in

po mapbhaoh pochaibe.

TTluipcepcac rerbac Do mapbab la Diapmaio

mac concobaip maonrhaije mic TJuaibpi uf concobaip mac Ruaibpi la haob mac Ruaibpi Da Deapbpd")
.1.
-]

caip a acap pen ap pairhce cille mic Duach. TTlaibm pia nDomnall mac meg capraij

pia nofprhumain pop jallaib

Du

ap uille. paolan mac paolain njfpna ua ppaolam Do ecc maimpcip Congalaij.

i

hi

ccopcpacop peapccacr ap ceo no

ni

Galls,

i.

e.

the northmen or inhabitants of

clearly

Scotland
d

who were not of the Gaelic or Sco tic race.

shews in Trias Thaum., p. 494, col. 2 : " Hie locus est Dioecesis Dorensis jacens in valle
alio

lows:

This passage is translated by Colgari as fol"A. D.I 203. Kellachus extruxit Monas-

de Gleann Conncadhain, unde diversus ab

cognomine loco ejusdem Diocesis."

The

valley

terium in Insula Hiensi, contra ius

renitentibus loci senioribus.

&

Quo

aaquitatem facto audito

of Gleann Concadhain here mentioned

by Col-

gan

still

retains its name,

which

is

correctly an-

Clerus Aquilonaris Hiberniso indicit publicum conuentum ; ad quern Florentius O'Kervallan-

Episcopus Tironise, Moelia O'Dorigh Episcopus Tirconallise, & Abbas Monastery SS. Petri & Pauli

glicised Glenconkeyne and other Anglo-Irish official documents. It is a wide and beautiful valley in the west of the

in the Ulster Inquisitions,

Amalgadius Hua Fergail, Abbas Dorensis, Anmirius O Cobhthaich, & multi alij de Clero convenerunt. Et postea omnes profecti sunt ad Insulam Hiensem, & Monasterium jam Ardmacha?
;

barony of Loughinsholin, and county of Londonderry, bounded on the south by the remarkable

mountain of Sliabh
lion,

Callain, Anglice Slieve Galand on the north by the Dungiven and

memoratum
erunt:

a Kellacho ibi extructum, destrux-

tion of the country,

Banagher mountains. According to the tradiwhich is corroborated by

&

suffragiis electum, Hiensi

prsedictum Amalgadium, communibus Monasterio prsefici-

written documents, this district, which was the

patrimonial inheritance of O'Henery, comprised the parishes of Ballynascreen, Kilcronsghan, and Desertmartin.

unt."
e

Trias Thaum., p. 501. Screen- Columbkille, Scpin

is

Colaim

cille

This

not the shrine of Columbkille in

Ardma-

assumed by Archdall and Sampson, but the present old church of Ballynascreen, in
gilligan, as

There is a remarkable esker, or long hill, to the south of the old church of Ballynascreen, in
the west of this district, called Eisgir Mhic Lochlainn, which tradition points out as the site of a

the

barony of Loughinsholin.

This Colgan

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ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

137

and the aforesaid Awley was elected Abbot of lona by the suffrages of c the Galls and Gaels".
tery
;

into Tyrone,

Dermot, the son of Murtough O'Loughlin, went on a predatory excursion He was encountered, and plundered the Screen-Columbkille e
.

however, by a party of the Kinel-Owen, who defeated Dermot and his English; and Dermot himself was killed through the miracles of the Shrine.

An army was led by the son of Hugo de Lacy and a party of the English Meath into Ulidia and they banished John de Courcy from thence, after they had defeated him in a battle fought at Dundaleathglas (Downpatrick), in
of
;

which many had been

slain.

Murtough the Teffian, son of Conor Moinmoy, who was the son of Roderic O'Conor, was slain by Dermot, the son of Roderic, and Hugh, the son of Roderic, namely, by his own two paternal uncles, on the green of Kilmacduagh.

A victory was gained by Donnell, the

Desmond, over the English more, were slain.
Faelan
;

Carthy, and the people of in the conflict one hundred and sixty persons, or

son of

Mac

Mac

Faelan

f
,

h Lord of Hy-Faelaing died in the monastery of Connell

,

great battle fought between the two rival chiefs. O'Neill and Mac Loughlin, in which the latter

naire,

now Cloncurry and

;

Fiodhchuillinn,

now

was defeated and

if

slain,

and there can be

little,

any, doubt that this tradition alludes to this

Feighcullen. Shortly after the English invasion, however, the Hy-Faelain, or O'Byrnes, were driven from their original level territory, and
forced to take refuge in

Dermot O'Loughlin
f

See note at 1526.

is

the mountain fast-

Mac Faelan
to
vol.
ii.

He

called

Mackelan

in the

nesses

work attributed
Ware,
6

Maurice Regan

See Harris's

where they dispossessed other minor families, and became very powerof Wicklow,

pp. 192, 193.

ful

Hy-Faelain.1\i.\s, was the name of the tribe and territory of the O'Byrnes. Before the Engtheir country comprised the present baronies of Clane and Salt, and the greater and portion, if not the entire, of those of
lish invasion,

See the Feilire or Festilogy of Aengus, and Calendar of the O'Clerys, at 18th May, 8th June, 8th August, 2nd and 16th September,

and 27th

October.

See

also

note

on Hy-

Ikeathy Oughteranny, in the present county of Kildare, as appears from the Irish calendars, and other

Muireadhaigh, under the year 1180. It is quite clear, from the authorities here referred to,
that,

previous to

the English invasion,

the

documents, which place in this territory the town of Naas, and the churches of Claenadh,

O'Tooleand O'Byrne, with their correlatives and followers, were in possession of the entire of the present county of Kildare, with the
families of

now

Clane;

Laithreach Briuin,
;

brine, near

Maynooth

now LaraghDomhnach Mor Moighe

parish
;

exception, perhaps, of a very small portion adjoining the present county of Carlo w.
h

Luadhat,

now Donaghmore

Cluain Co-

Connell,

Conjalaij.

Now

the abbey

of

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CfnanOup Qch cpuim an Dpoichfcr nua DO lopccab. TTlame Do ecc. Sicpicc ceabchac ua ceallaij
-]

QO18 CR1OSO,

1204.

Goip CpiopD, mile, Da cheD, a ceacaip.

cfnn ua TTluprele ua Spuichen aipchinDeac na congbala, coipeac clomne 8ne6jile aji rorachc Decc lap noeij pfnoainn, i a abnacal Sicpiucc
.1.
-]

ip in

cfmpall Do ponaD leip pein. lohn De Cuipc inopfoac ceall,

~\

cuac Do lonnapbab la mac

liujo

De

laci

Great Connell, in the county of Kildare.

cording to

Ac-

abbey was founded, under the invocation of the B. V. Mary and St. David,
this

Ware

macnoise, but entered under the year 1202, and it is added, that it was broken down the

by Myler Fitz-Henry, Lord Justice of Ireland, in the year 1202 See Harris, Ware, vol. ii.
It looks strange that the chief of Hyp. 262. Faelain should die in this monastery the year

same year by the King of Connaught. k Sitric CfSruithen. His death is entered in
the Annals of Ulster as follows, under the year
1205. " A. D. 1205.

after its erection.

It

is

probable that, after

na congBala

.1.

Sicpmc huappuiren oipcinnec cenn hua muptele, 7 coipec

est

being subdued, he consented to become a monk in the great abbey erected in his territory by
the English conqueror. See Archdall's MonasThe ruins of this abbey, which was one ticon. of great extent and magnificence, are now almost

clainne r-neiojile ap cocucc, post optimam penitentiam feliciter finiuil vitam, et sepultus
in

templo quodfactum
1

est

apud ipsum."
This
i.

Conwal, Conjbail.

is

Conjbail

lnne Suili e,

e.

generally called Conwall of the

and nothing remains to attract the notice of the antiquary, but the figure
totally destroyed,

vale of the River Swilly ; it is an ancient parish church, now in ruins, near the River Suileach
(Swilly),
in the

of a bishop and an old Latin inscription in the Gothic character, which has been often published.

barony of Kilmacrenan, and

Under this year the Annals of Kilronan contain the following curious passage, which is
'

See the Feilire Aengiis, and county of Donegal the Irish Calendar of the O'Clerys, at 8th of

February, and Colgan's Acta Sanct.,

ruins

p.

406

altogether omitted by the Four Masters: "A. D. 1203. William Burke marched with

also Erck's Ecclesiastical Register, p. 44.

The

of this church are to be seen on the

the English of Munster and

Meath

into

Con-

naught, and erected a castle at Meelick in Sil-

Anmchadha, and where he erected it was around the great church of the town, which was filled
all

you go from Letterkenny to about two miles from the former. Dunglow, m Clann-Snedhgile, Clnnn Snebjile, were a
right of the road as
tribe of the Kinel-Connell, seated in Glenswilly,

round with stones and clay to the tops of the gables ; and they destroyed West Connaught, both churches and territories." The erection
of this castle
is

to the west of Letterkenny.

They descend from

Snedhgil, son of Airnealach, son of Maelduin, son of Kinfaela, son of Garbh, son of Ronan, son
of Lughaidh, son of Sedna, son of Fergus Kin-

also given in the

Annals of Clon-

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ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Trim, and Droichead

139

Kells,

Nua (Newbridge) were

Hy-Maine, died
1

burned.

Sitric (the Teffian) O'Kelly, of

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Sitric O'Sruithen", Christ, one

1204.

thousand two hundred four.

1 ,

Erenagh of Conwal
m

i.

e.

head of the Hy-Murtele, and

the Clann-Snedhgile for his worth, died, after exemplary penance, and was interred in the church which he had himself founded.
chief
all

man

of

John de
fada,

Cour.cy", the plunderer of churches

ter,

and

territories,

was driven by

who was
John de

son of Conall Gulban, ancestor of

the Kinel-ConnelL
n

Hugh
This
is

overthrown at Downdalethglass [Down] by de Lacy, and himself banished into Eng-

Courcy.

the last noIt is en-

tice of

De Courcy

in these Annals.

land ; but under the next year the same Annals would seem to contradict this entry, or, if not,
to give us to understand that

tered in the Annals of Ulster under the year 1205. At the year 1204 the Annals of Kilro-

De Courcy

re:

nan

was fought between de Lacy, with the English of Meath, and Hugo John de Courcy, with the English of Ulidia, in
state

that a battle

turned from England. The passage is as follows "A. D. 1204. John de Courcy and the Englishmen of Meath fell to great contentions, strife, and debate among themselves, to the utter ruin

which John de Courcy was taken prisoner, but afterwards set at liberty, lap na cpoppao 06 mil co lapupulem, having been prohibited from
ing to Jerusalem.

and destruction of Ulster.

John was gone

to

the country of Tyreowne, and

Hugh

Delacie

go-

went

Under the year 1 205 the same Annals record, that John de Courcy brought a fleet from the Innsi Gall, or the Hebrides, to contest Ulidia with the sons of Hugh de Lacy and the English of Meath, but that he effected
nothing by this expedition except the plundering of the country ; that he was compelled to go

England." The Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen,

to

in noticing the doings of King John in Ireland, state that he summoned the sons of Hugh de
to appear before him to answer for the death of the valiant knight John de Courcy, who was treacherously killed by them. Mr.

Lacy

away without making any conquest, and that

after this

Moore thinks (History of Ireland, vol. iii. p. 3) that this was the great Sir John de Courcy,
conqueror of Ulster; but this is not the fact, for the Sir John de Courcy killed by the De Lacys

entered into a league of amity with O'Neill and the Kinel-Owen. In the interpolated

he

Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen it is stated, that John de Courcy gained a great victory at Carrickfergus in 1207; but this must be a mistake. In the Annals of Clonmacnoise,
as
stated,

was Lord of Eathenny and Kilbarrock, in the See Grace's Annals of Irecounty of Dublin
land at the year 1210, and Campion's Historic of Ireland, Edition of 1 809, p. 109. Ware supposes that this Lord of Kilbarrock and Eathenny was the natural son of the great Sir John de

by Connell Mageoghegan, it is under the year 1203, that Sir John de encounCourcy and his forcea were, in a
long

translated

Courcy, but this does not appear probable, for

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[1204.

eojain ap comaipce cenel neojain 50 painicc 50 cappaicc pfpjupa, t>ia rhuincip. po mapbpac joill ulaD pochaioe
(Strongbow) had to Vivian de Cursun and his granted Kathenny heirs, as fully as Gilcolm before held them and
find that the Earl Eichard
:

-]

we

next proclaimed De Courcy as a rebel, and offered a large reward to any who should seize

him and

deliver

him

it is

most likely that the Sir John de Courcy, Lord of Eathenny, was the son of this Vivian. The great Sir John de Courcy had a brother,

proved ineffectual, and followers of De Courcy, and held out great rewards to them for betraying him. To this
the following they agreed, and gave De Lacy that De Courcy was a man of such information
:

into his hands. This having he next bribed the servants

Jordanus de Courcy, who was killed by his own people in the year 1197, as appears from the

Dublin copy of the Annals of Iimisfallen, and who was possibly the ancestor of the Mac Patricks of Kingsale

so well armed in gigantic strength, and always that no one man durst lay public and private,

and Eingrone.
to

The truth seems

be that the conqueror of

hands upon him. However, that upon Good but remains Friday yearly he wears no arms,
of Down alone, doing penance, in the church-yard
;

The archives Ulster went to England in 1205. of the Tower of London furnish us with the
mandate of King John to the Ulster knights, who had become sureties for their chief, directing them to cause
his service

that

if

De Lacy would have

Down,

readiness near

a troop of horse in he could, by their (the

him
to

by

term
;

Justice of Ireland
safe

to appear and perform be assigned by his Lord together with the King's

their master. betrayers') directions, apprehend De Courcy followed. These directions were

Courcy, and the names of the delivered on his part See Eotuli Lihostages terarum Patentium in Turri Londiiwnsi asser-

conduct to

De

was attacked unarmed seeing no other weapon at hand he ran to a wooden cross that stood in the churchyard, and, tearing its shaft from the
:

he dealt such powerful blows of it upon his enemies, that he killed thirteen of them upon
socket,

vati, an.

1201 ad. 1216, vol.

i.,

part

i.,

London,

the spot.
fettered,

He

was, however, finally overpowered,

1835.

Here we lose sight of Sir John de Courcy, conqueror of Ulster, as he is called, for we have no trustworthy records to prove what was his
ultimate
served

and delivered a prisoner into the hands of De Lacy, who conveyed him to London, where he was confined in the tower and condemned to

The Book of Howth, now prethe manuscripts in the Lambeth Library, P. 628, contains a detailed account, professing to be authentic, of his subsequent hisfate.

For this service King perpetual imprisonment. the Earldom of Ulster upon De John conferred
the betrayers Lacy, who, instead of rewarding caused them to be hanged. of De Courcy, In this condition would De Courcy have

among

tory, of

which the Editor

is

tempted to give

here a brief outline.

had it not been passed the remainder of his life, for some difference that arose between John,

Immediately after his defeat at Down,

offered the

De

Courcy Hugh de Lacy, which this cowardly lord refused, alleging that as he was the representative of the king in Ireto
land, it

combat

King of England, and Philip, King of France, about the right to some fort in Normandy, who,
to avoid the shedding of Christian blood, agreed

would be beneath

his dignity to enter

to put it to single combat. King Philip had in readiness a French knight of so great prowess

the

lists

with a rebellious subject.

De Lacy

and renown, that King John found no subject

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ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Hugo de Lacy

141

the son of

into Tyrone, to seek the protection of the Kinel-

Owen. He arrived at Carrickfergus, and the English of Ulidia slew great numbers of his people.
At of his realm willing to encounter him. he was informed by one of his officers, length
was a mighty champion confined in the Tower of London, who would prove more than a match for the French knight. King John,
that there

The two

kings, disappointed in their antici-

pated pleasure of seeing a combat between mighty

De Courcy to give them some proof of his bodily strength. Complying with their request, he ordered a strong stake to
champions, intreated

right glad to hear this, sent to De Courcy, calling upon him to support the honour of England;

be driven firmly into the ground, on which were He then placed a coat of mail and a helmet.

and who,
vailed
for his

after repeated denials, is at last pre-

upon

to accept the challenge. to Ireland,

He

sends

own sword

which was a

drew his sword, and looking with a frowning and threatening aspect upon the kings, he cleft the helmet and coat of mail, and sent the weaso deeply into the wood, that no one but himself could draw it out. Then the kings

ponderous weapon, of exceeding good temper, and which he had often imbrued in the blood
of the

pon

men

of Ulster.

The rigours of

his im-

prisonment were softened, and his strength restored by proper nourishment and exercise.
appointed, the list provided, the scaffolds set up, the princes with
the place
is

asked him what he meant by looking so sternly at them, and he answered in a sullen tone, that

had he missed

his blow,

he would have cut

off

The day came,

their nobility

both their heads. His words were taken in good part, on account of the services he had performed.
as great gifts,

on each

side,

with thousands in

expectation. Forth comes the French champion, De gave a turn and rests him in his tent.

King John gave him his and restored him

liberty, as well

to his posses-

sions in Ulster.

He then
sea,

Courcy

is

sent for,

who

all this

while was truss-

coming

to Westchester,

England, and committed himself to

sailed to

ing of himself with strong points, and answered the messengers, that if any of them were invited to such a banquet they would make no great
haste.

the mercy of the

at his

by contrary winds, which

embarkation.

but was put back again rose upon a sudden

This he did for fifteen

Forth, at length, he comes, gave a turn,

and went into

his tent. When the trumpets sounded to battle the combatants came forth and viewed each other. De Courcy looked his

days successively, and upon every repulse he was admonished at night in a vision, that all his
for that
set foot

attempts to cross the sea to Ireland were vain, it was preordained that he should never

antagonist in the face with a wonderful stern

upon

Irish ground, because he

had grie-

countenance, and passed by. not liking his grim look,

The Frenchman,
sym-

gigantic size, and

metric proportions, stalked still along, and when the trumpets sounded the last De

drew out

charge, his ponderous sword, and the

Courcy French

by pulling and setting up the servant. collected that he had formerly translated tincathedral church of Down, which had been
ter

vously offended there

down the masDe Courcy re-

knight, being seized with a sudden panic, ran away, and fled into Spain ; whereupon the English

black

dedicated to the Holy Trinity, into an abbey of monks brought thither from Chester, and
that he had consecrated the same in honour of
St. Patrick. On being driven back the fifteenth time his visions had so powerfully wrought upon

sounded victory, clapped their hands, and

cast

up

their caps.

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-|

cuaic

-]

|io

Diojhail Dia

na naoirh inDpn paip uaip po 65 Do galup longndr Do baD abnap Daipneir. TTluipcfpcach ua plaichbfpcaij cijeapna mpchaip connacc Do ecc.
his imagination, that he submitted to the decrees of heaven, passed sentence upon himself, returned to France, and there died about the year

truth by their additions, but were not entirely

inventors."

There can be
story about Sir

little

doubt, however, that this

1210.

John de Courcy was not invented

It is

b.

Dr. Leland observes (History of Ireland, v. i. L c. 6, p. 180), that those who reject the su-

by any
any

Irish bard, for it has not been found in

Irish manuscript in prose or verse.

perstitious addition, have yet adopted the ro-

mantic part of the narrative without scruple, though both evidently stand upon the same original authority. It
it
is

evidently a story got up in the fifteenth or sixteenth century, on the slender basis of an AngloIrish tradition,
ting,

and was

first

committed to wri-

quite certain, however, that

with other stories of a similar character, in

le-

stands upon no original authority, but is a mere story invented in the fifteenth or sixteenth
flatter the vanity of the Howth family, whose ancestor, Sir Armoric Tristeram, or St. Laurence, married De Courcy's sister,

that repertory of Anglo-Irish traditions and gends, the Book of Howth.

century to

A similar
districts of

story

is

told in the

mountainous

Kerry and Beare, and Bantry, about

and followed

his fortunes into Ireland.

Leland

much

Donnell O'Sullivan Beare, who fought with as valour and desperation in the reign of
Elizabeth, as Sir

adds, that this romantic part of the history of Sir John De Courcy was invented by Irish

John de Courcy did

in the

bards and romancers, and writes as follows " But it would not be worth while to detain the
:

reign of Henry II., and who was, perhaps, as But great a hero as Ireland ever produced. stories of this description are poetical inventions
of later ages, when tradition, through the want of written records, had fallen into that degree

reader by this romantic tale, merely for the sake of refuting it, if we did not conceive it to be a

specimen not unworthy of regard of the narrative of Irish bards and romancers, and the liberthey assumed of enlarging and embellishing the real incidents of their times. They who
ties

of obscurity which

left

romantic writers at full

liberty to raise as bright a fabric of fable as they pleased, on the slender basis of true history.

They

often,

no doubt, owe their origin

to vivid

lived in earlier, times are not so easily detected. But we see with what caution we are to receive

traditional reminiscences of the valour of noble

warriors, whose real characters, if described

by

their narratives,

when, in times

less

obscure,

writers

who could keep within

up

the bounds of

and when confronted by other evidence, this order of men have hazarded such bold fictions,
and with such ease and such success have obtruded the marvellous and the affecting upon
their unrefined hearers for real But as history. we find in these instances that the tales of the
Irish bards

nature and of truth, would afford abundance of

shining virtues to be held of posterity.
for the admiration

We
mate

sis states

have already seen that Giraldus Cambrenthat Sir John de Courcy had no legiti-

son.

According
Innisfallen,

to the

were founded upon

facts,

we may

Annals of

Dublin copy of the he was married in the

reasonably conclude that their predecessors took the same course : that they sophisticated the

year 1180 to [Affrica] the daughter of Godfred, King of the Isle of Man ; and she died in the year

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ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

;

143

William Burke plundered Connaught, as well churches as territories but God and the saints took vengeance on him for that for he died of a singular
;

disease, too shameful to

be described.
died.

Murtough O'Flaherty, Lord of West Connaught,

1

193, having borne

1 1

no children up

to the

middle

of the year

86,

when

Giraldus's historical no-

Campion, who compiled his Historie of Ireland in 1571, asserts, that " Courcye dying without heires of his body, the Earldome of Vlster was entirely bestowed
tices of the Irish invaders end.

have alleged, in regaining his place in the royal favour, may be taken for granted from the fact that, though he left a son to inherit his possessions,

both the

title

and property of the earldom

of Ulster were, on his decease'' [qr. before his decease ?] " transferred to his rival, Hugh de

upon Hugh de Lacye, for his good service." See Dublin edition of 1809, p-100. But Dr. Smith, in his Natural and Civil History of Cork, states that,
notwithstanding what Giraldus Cambrensis asserts, in the second book of his History,
that

Lacy."

The

History of Ireland, vol. iii. p. 4. Patent Roll referred to by Dr. Smith men-

tions a Milo de Curcy, juvenis, son of

John de

"

Curcy, Junior, but contains not a word to shew who this John de Curcy, Jun., was, or about the

John de Courcey, Earl of

(Rot.
Pat. 6

Ulster,

had no
of

combat with the French champion.

On

the

issue, there is a record extant in the

Tower

London

Johan. M. Dors.), that

strength of the traditional story, however, the heads of the Mac Patricks, or De Courcy s of Cork,

Milo de Courcey, son of John de Courcey, was an hostage for his father upon his enlargement from the Tower to fight the French champion."
Vol.
is
ii.

have claimed and exercised the privilege of appearing covered in the royal presence. It may not be impertinent to remark, however, that no mention
is

pp. 228, 229, of the third edition.

It

made of

this privilege in the

works of
states

also stated in a Pedigree of the

Mac

Carthys,
in

Hanmer
that

or Campion.

The former merely

of

Loch Luigheach, now Corraun Lough,

Kerry,

now
Irish

Royal

preserved in the Library of the Academy, that this branch of the

King John gave De Coury, Earl of Ulster, " great gifts, and restored him to his former possessions in Ireland."
p.

Dublin edition of 1809,

Mac Carthys

descend from a daughter of Sir

fully into the question of the

368.

And

the latter writes in 1571,

"Lord

John de Courcy. Lodge enters

pp. 30-32,

legitimacy of the issue of

De Courcy

in vol. iv.

Coureye, a poore man, not very Irish, the ancient descent of the Courcyes planted in Ireland with the Conquest." Historie of Ireland, Dublin edition, 1809, p. 10.

edition of 1754,

and thinks that

wearing the hat in the royal presence is conclusive as to lawful issue but the antiquity of
;

Mr. Burke states, in his Peerage, but upon what

authority the Editor knows not, that Almericus, the twenty- third Lord Kingsale, in observance
of the ancient privilege of his house, appeared
in the presence of

the privilege has not been proved by documentary evidence sufficient to establish it to the satisfaction

of the historian.

Mr. Moore seems

legitimate son,

King William

III.

covered,

satisfied that

De Courcy had one

and explained to that monarch, when his Majesty expressed surprise at the circumstance, the

Milo, but agrees with Leland in doubting the story of Hanmer, and his legendary authority, the Book of Howth. He writes, " that he" [Sir John De Courcy] " did not succeed, as some

reason thus:

"Sire, my name is Courcy; I am Lord of Kingsale, in your Majesty's kingdom of Ireland and the reason of my appearing covered
;

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aois crcioso,
Cloip CpiopD, mile,

1205.

Da

ceD,
i

cuicc.

Ctn caipoeappoc

ua

leienni [ileinni]

Do 6ol

maincini,

-|

a ecc po ceDoip.

Oonair ua bfcDa eppcop ua namalgaba Do

in

ecc.

your Majesty's presence

is,

to assert the an-

of Ireland, but are said to have lost their prece-

cient privilege of

my

family, granted to Sir

John

de Courcy, Earl ofUlster, and his heirs, by JOHN, " The King King of England." Burke adds the privilege, and giving the Baron acknowledged
:

James lord Kinsale, having dency anno 1489. missed being at a solemn procession at Greenwich, King Henry VII. gave the title of Premier
to the lords of Athenry, who but this have ever since enjoyed the same It may be here remarked, fact is disputed."

Baron of Ireland

his

hand

to kiss, his Lordship paid his obeisance,

and continued covered."

The

oldest authority

the Editor has been able to find for this privilege is Smith's Natural and Civil History of Cork,
first

that as the

Barony of Athenry

is

now
late

extinct,

the
the

title

of Premier Baron of Ireland reverts to

by Smith

published in 1750, in which it is added, himself, but without citing any autho-

De

Courcys,

and that the

John de

Courcy, twenty-sixth Baron of Kinsale, exercised the ancient privilege of his ancestors on

rity whatever, to

Hanmer's account of Sir John

de Courcy's enlargement from prison to fight the He also adds " The priviFrench champion. of being covered in the royal presence is enlege
:

George the Fourth's William Burke

noise, as translated

visit to Ireland in

1821.

The Annals

of Clonmac-

by Connell, the son of Niall

the year 1627,
record the

joyed to this
John.

day by

his lordship, being granted

Mageoghegan,

in

to his great ancestor, the Earl of Ulster,

by King

death of William Burke at an. 1204, in the

On

the 13th of June, 1720, the late

his

Lord Gerald de Courcy was by

Grace the

Duke

of Grafton,
I.,

King George
kiss his hand,
lege.

His Majesty presented when he had the honour to

to
privi-

" William Burke took the following words of all the churches of Connaught, viz. spoyles of Clonvicknose, Clonfert, Milick, Killbyan, the
:
:

and to assert his ancient

churches of O'Fiaghragh, Twayme, Kill-Beneoine, Killmeoyne. Mayo of the English, Cownga

of St. Fechin,the abbey of Athedalaragh, Ailfynu, Uaran, Roscommon, with many other churches.

22nd of June, 1727, he was presented by the Lord Carteret to His Majesty George II., by whom he was graciously received, had the honour of kissing his hand,
and of being also covered in his presence." He " In then adds May, 1627, Sir Dominick
:

And

that on the

God and

the Patrons of these churches shewed

their miracles

upon him, that

his entrails

and

fundament

Sarsfield

was created Lord Viscount Kinsale, to the great prejudice of this ancient and noble
set

from his privie place, and it trailed after him even to the very earth, whereof he died impenitently without Shrive or Extream
fell

family, and

up

his

arms

in the town.

But,

Unction, or good buryall in any church in the kingdom, but in a waste town." Mageoghegan then adds the following remarks by
notation,

upon a

hearing before the Earl Marshal of he was obliged to renounce the title England,
fair

way

of an-

though he incorporates them with tho

of Kinsale, and take that of Kilmallock.

lords of Kinsale

The
barons

were formerly the

first

text: " These and

many

other reproachable words

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ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

145

THE AGE OF CHKIST,

The Age of
Christ, one thousand

1205.

two hundred jive.

The Archbishop 0'Heney p

after.

retired into a monastery,

where he died soon

Donat O'Beacdha, Bishop of Tyrawley,

died.

my
I

was loath to

author layeth down in the old book, which translate, because they were ut-

debellator, rebellium blanditor

Indomitis dosuauissimus,

mitus,

domitis indomitus,
:

hosti
illi

worthy and noble a man as William Burke was, and left out other his reproachfull words, which he (as I
ter'd
for the disgrace of so

by him

subdito grauissimus
isti fidelis.

nee

formidabilis, nee

Vir dolosus, blandus, meticulosus,

curialiter ambitiosus

vir vino Veneriq; datus.

conceive) rather declear'd of an Evill will he did

cupidus,

&

Et quanquam auri non minus

:

bear towards the said William then" " any other just cause."

[i.

e.

than]

tamen curiam
Expugnata,

diligens quam curam."

ii.

Hibernia

lib.

cap. xvi.

This

is

the famous William Fitz

is

Adelm de

Duald Mac

Firbis, in his account of the

Eng-

Burgo, who

generally called the Conqueror of

Connaught.
effect

opposition to all the Irish authorities, is to

;

Mageoghegan's defence of him, in no

to reject

the pediof the Earl of Clanrickard, to defend the gree character of Fitz Adelm, by stating that Giraldus

lish families of Ireland, attempts, in

and should any one be inclined

the testimony of the Irish writers altogether, the following character given of him by his own

was prejudiced against him ; and it must be admitted, on comparing the character which
Giraldus gives of William Fitz Adelm with that
of Fitz Stephen, the uncle of Cambrensis, that there was more or less of prejudice in the way
:

countryman and contemporary, Giraldus Cambrensis, must have some weight in corroborating
their

veracity corpulentus, tarn staturse

" Erat autem Aldelmi

filius vir

but

still,

when
as

it is

considered that

De Burgo's

quam

facturse, inter

character,

drawn by Cambrensis, does not

it is

parum mediocribus maiores

dapsilis

satis

idonese

vir

much
nals

differ

from that given of him in the Anclearly unfair to

&

curialis.

Sed quicquid honoris cui-

quam
dolo,

impendit, semper in insidiis, semper in semper propinans sub melle venenum,

of Clonmacnoise, conclude that both are

false,

though

it

may be

allowed that both are overdrawn, as Giraldus

semper latens anguis in herba.

liberalis

Vir in

facie

&

lenis,

intus vero plus aloes

quam

was undoubtedly prejudiced, and as the Irish ecclesiastic, who compiled the Annals of Clonmacnoise, could not be expected to give an impartial account of an invader and conqueror,

mellis habens.

Semper

" Pelliculam veterem retinens, vir fronte politus,

Astutam vapido portans sub pectore vulpem. Semper

who had plundered

and
p

the church of Clonmacnoise

all

the most sacred churches, of Connaught.

Impia sub
'_'

dulci melle venena ferens.

The Archbishop O'Heney.

In the Annals of

Innisfallen,

at the year 1192,

to

he

is

called the

Molliti sermones eius super

sunt iacula.

sed ipsi Cuius hodie venerator, eras eius:

oleum

dem

spoliator existens, vel delator.

Imbcllium

of According he died in the Abbey Mary's Abbey, Dublin, of Ilolycross, in the county of Tipperary See

Pope's Legate.

the Annals

146

dNNata Rioghachca

einectNN.
-\

[1205.

Saoipbpecac ua DoipeD oipcinneac Domnaij moip,

oecc.

parpaicc ua mojpom,

pep na cpaoibe, cuip jaipa ecc lapom. cce6, 1 beobacca an cuaipapc Do juin Do poijic, -j TTlac ^uillbealaij uf cepbaill cijepna ele Do mapbaD la jallaib. Concobap ua bpaoin bpeajmame Do ecc ma ailicpe ccluain mic noip.
TTlajnup ua caccnn

mac cijepna

cianacca,

-|

Rajnall mac Diapmaca ciccfpna ctomne Diapmaca Do ecc. Oomnall mac concoiccpice caoipec muincipe Sepcacain Do Oomnall ua paolain njeapna na nDfipi murhan Do ecc.

ecc.

Ca&cc mac cacail cpoiboepcc Do ecc DO jalap en

noip.

oioce

ccluain mic

TTlaelip

mac

TTlaelip

Do Dul ap eccin ap luimneach,

pp. 469, a church
latter settled in

-|

cojab mop

Dfipji

Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops,

Magh

Elne, where they cer-

470.
q

tainly

were seated in the time of Sir John de

;

Donaghmore, t)othnac mop,

is

Courcy

for
1

it

near Castlefin,

in the county of Donegal,

of

the year

177, that

appears from these Annals, at Cumee O'Flynn was then in

which the O'Deerys were Erenaghs, according

to the Ulster Inquisitions.

possession of the ecclesiastical town of Annoy, called Airther Maighe, i. e. the eastern part of

Kianaghta, Cianacca, is the present barony of Keenaght, in the north-west of the county of

the plain, because

Eilne, into

it

was in the

east of

Magh

which the Firlee had been driven by

Londonderry.
tribe

It derives

its

name from the

the O'Kanes.
c

name of the family

of the O'Conors of

Toieer, cuip

The word cuip properly means

This passage
is

Glengevin, who descend from Cian (son of Olioll Olum, King of Munster), and who were chiefs
of
it,
s

prop or support.

rendered as

follows in the old translation of the Annals of

previous to the O'Kanes.

pip na cpaoiGe, i. e. the men of the bush or branch latinized Fircrivia by

Firnacreeva,
;

Ulster: "A. D. 1205. Manus O'Cahan, son to the King of Kienaght and men of Krive, the upholder of martiall feats, and stoutnes of the

This was the name of a tribe of O'Flaherty. the O'Kanes seated on the west side of the Bann. " fluvius inter Learn

North of Ireland, was slayne with the shot of

an arrow."

Bann,

et

Elliam"

[recte

Elniam] "prseter Clanbreasail regiouem scaturiens per

et

of O'Carroll, given

Neachum lacum Oendromensem agrum FIRCRIVIAM Scriniamque in comitatu DerriCulrania et cataracta

The son of Guill-bkealach In the pedigree by Duald Mac Firbis, he is called Finn mac Goill an bhealaigh, and is

made the twenty-fourth

in

descent from Eile

ensi, intersecat, et tertio a

Eascrive [eap cpaoiBe] lapide in oceanum transfundit."

This tribe of Ogygia, part iii. c. 3. the O'Kanes had some time previously driven the Firlee eastwards across the Bann ; and the

Eigdhearg, from whom O'CarrolPs country, in the now King's County, was called Eile, or See note under the year 1174, p. 15. Ely
*

now

'Brawney, bpeajvhame, an ancient territory, a barony in the county of Westmeath, ad-

1205.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

147

Saerbrehagh [Justin] O'Deery, Erenagh of Donaghmore", and Patrick O'Muron, died. Manus O'Kane, son of the Lord of Kianaghtar and Firnacreeva tower' of the valour and vigour of the North, was wounded by an arrow, and died of
5
,

the wound.

The

Conor O'Breen, of Brawney", died on his pilgrimage Randal Mac Dermot, Lord of Clandermot, died.
Donnell

son of Guill-bhealach" O'Carroll, Lord of Ely, was slain by the English. to Clonmacnoise.

Mac

Concogry, Chief of Muintir Searcachan, died.

Donnell O'Faelain (Phelan), Lord of the Desies of Munster*, died. Teige, the son of Cathal Crovderg, died of one night's sickness at Clonmacnoise.
y Meyler, the son of Meyler took possession of Limerick by force
, ;

on

ac-

joining Athlone and the Shannon.

*

Deisi

See Ussher's Primordia, pp. 782, 866,

O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part
iii.

Desies of Munster,
is still

Oeip

TTIutiian.

This

867

c.

69

and

name

preserved in the two baronies of

Desies, in the present county of Waterford,

but

Lanigan's Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, vol. i. p. 282. -The Deisi were originally seated near
Tara, in Meath, and their country there
called t)eir-e
is still

the ancient territory was much more extensive than the present baronies. Keating informs us

Geampac,

Anglice Deece barony.

(Reign of Cormac Mac Art) that the country of the southern Deisi extended from Lismore to

In O'Heerin's topographical poem it is stated that O'Bric and O'Faelain were the ancient
kings or head chiefs of the Desies, and that their
sub-chiefs were
as

Ceann Criadain, now Credan head, at the eastern extremity of the county of Waterford, and from the River Suir southwards to the sea ; and
that of the northern Deisi from the Suir to the

follows
;

O'Meara of Hy-

Fatha (now Offa barony) O'Neill of Hy-Owen Finn, O'Flanagan of Uachter Tire, Anglice Upperthird ; O'Breslen of Hy-Athele, as far as the sea to the south-east ; O'Keane of Hy-Foley,

southern boundary of Corca Eathrach, or the Plain of Cashel, comprising the present baronies
of Middlethird and Iffa and Offa East, in the south of the county of Tippcrary. The country of the northern Deisi was otherwise called Magh
Feinihin, which comprised, according to Keating, the baronies of Clonmel-third and Middle- third.

along the River Moghan O'Bric of Hy-Feathach, from Leac Logha (doc labpair ?) to Liathdruim, now Leitrim, on the boundary of the counties of Cork and Waterford.
;
1

Meyler

This passage

is

formed the see of St. Declan of Ardmore, which became united to that of Lismore, and is now comprised under its name.
districts

The two

Mageoghegan's

translation

given as follows in of the Annals of

These united

dioceses

extend northwards to

Clonmacnoise: "A. D.I 205. Meyler the younger, son of Meyler Bremyngham, besieged Limbrick, and at the last tooke the same per force, for

about midway between Cashel and Clonmel, and there also ended the country of the northern

which there arose great dissention between the English of Meath. In which dissention Cowley

u 2

JL*iO

dNNaca Rioxnacnuu eiuedrW.

*-*

[1206.
uf

eicip jallaib

na

TTliDe

-|

joill TTlaoilip cpiD pin,

pil

-]

cuulab rhac conmfoha

laeghacham caoipeach
piachach mic
neill.

Ronain Do rhapbaD ap an ccoccaD pn

la cenel

QO1S CR1OSO,
Qoip CpiopD,
Ooriinall
Trifle,

1206.
cTiecc,

Da

pe.

ua rnuipfohaij aipDpfpleijinn Doipe Do ecc. TTlaolpfccaip ua calmain corhapba cainDij cuip cpdbaiD

-|

eccna cuaip-

cipc

Gpeann Do

ecc.

Duine sfirhin, -] jiollapacpaicc ua plaicbfpcac ua plaicbfpcaij ppioip Do ecc. palaccaij aipchinDeac Duin cpuicne Do Denarii cpeac -| mapbca ccfp eo^am. Giccnfchdn ua oomnaill ccfnD Righ Sa^an Do cumjiD pochaip ceall, pacpaicc Do 6ol
i

Comapba

1 Do copaoiD

ap jallaibh Gpeann.
killed

Mac Convey O'Leygaghan was

of Kynaleaghe ; many other hurts done
themselves."
*
'

by those

he was Chief of Sileronan, with

Clonmacnoise, at the year 1207. But in later ages the name Kinel Fhiacha, or Kiueleaghe,

among the Englishmen

0' Laeghaghan.

This family was other-

was applied to Mageoghegan's country only, which comprised the present barony of MoyIt should be here remarked that the cashel.
country of Kinel-Fhiacha was never accounted a portion of Teffia, as asserted by some of our

wise called

Mac Conmeadha, now Mac Namee.

makes
O'Eonain
Chief of Cairbre
;

O'Dugan

Gabhra, which was in North Teffia

but whe-

modern

writers.

The men

of Teffia were the de-

ther O'Eonain and O'Laeghachain of Sil Eonain were the same, or of the same tribe, the Editor

scendants of Maine, the fourth son of King Niall

of the Nine Hostages, and their country was sometimes called Tir Maine. The families of Teffia

has not been able to determine, for the tribe

name of one family may agree with the surname

of another, and yet be very different. Nothing will determine those points but positive evidence of their localities, and of their exact pedigrees.
a

were the Foxes, orO'Caharny,who were originally

lords of all Teffia, but

were in latter ages seated in the barony of Kilcoursy (in the north-west of the present King's County), which bore their
tribe

name

of Muintir-Tagan

the Magawleys

Race ofFiacka, cmel piaca mic

neill,

i.

e.

This Fiagha the race of Fiagha, son of Niall. was the third son of Niall of the Nine Hostages,

of Calry an chala, comprising the parish of Balof lyloughloe in Westmeath ; the O'Breens

monarch of Ireland
century.

in the beginning of the fifth

Brawney the Mac Carghamhnas (anglicised Caron by O'Flaherty, and Mac Carrhon by
;

His descendants were the Mageogheand O'Molloys, whose country extended gaus from Birr to Killare, as we learn from an entry in Mageoghegaa's translation of the Annals of

Connell Mageoghegan,

but now always Mac

Maoiltsinna,

placed by O'Flaherty near the Shannon, in the territory of Cuircnia, now the barony of Kilkenny "West ;

Carroon)

of Muintir

1206.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

149

count of which a great war broke out between the English of Meath and the z English of Meyler, during which Cooley, the son of Cumee 0'Laeghaghan w-as
,

slain

by

the race of Fiacha", the son of Niall

[i.

e.

the Mageoghegans, &c.]

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

1206.
six.

The Age of Christ, one thousand two hundred

Donnell O'Murray, Chief Lector at Deny, died". c Mulpeter O'Calman, Coarb of St. Canice and tower of the piety and wisdom of the north of Ireland* died.
, 1
,

Flaherty O'Flaherty, Prior of Dungiven', and Gillapatrick O'Falaghty, Eref nagh of Dun-crun died.
,

Egneghan O'Donnell took a

The

successor of
,

St.

churches of Irelandg

prey, and killed some persons in Tyrone. Patrick went to the King of England on behalf of the and to complain of the English of Ireland.
e

the O'Dalys of Corca Adam ; the O'Quins of Muintir Gilligan, in the present county of Longford
;

Dungiven, t)un

jjeirhin,

a village

in

the

and a few

others,

who

all

sunk into

insig-

barony of Keenaght, in the county of Londont)un geimin signifies the fortress of derry.
Geimhin. a man's name, but no historical account of his tribe or period has been discovered

nificance

and obscurity shortly after the English invasion See note under the year 1207.
b This passage is thus translated by Colgan " Domnaldus O'Muireduich Archiscolasticus seu
:

by the Editor.
f Dun-crun, Oun cpuirne, translated arx Cruthcenorum by Colgan in Trias Thaum., p. 181,

supremus
c

professor S. Theologies Dorensis

Ec-

Trias Thattm., p. 504. the patron saint of the barony of Keenaght, in the county of Londonderry, in
clesise obiit."

col. 2.

The name
is

St.

Canice

is

Duncroon, and

is now sometimes anglicised a townland in the parish of

which the chief church seems

Drumachose.
d

to

be that of

Ardmagilligan, in the county of Londonderry. There was a church erected here by St. Patrick,

and a shrine finished

for St.

Columbkille by the

North of Ireland. The coarb of St. Canice, in the north of Ireland, was the abbot of Tennon-

celebrated brazier, Conla

St. Patrick, lib.
ii. c.

See Tripartite Life of

;

125
i.

and O'Donnell's Life

99.

kenny,

in the territory of Kienaghta,

now

the

of St. Columbkille,
son's

lib.

c.

See also Samp-

barony of Keenaght, in the county of Londonderry, of which territory St. Canice was a native

Map of Londonderry, p. 487, and the note given above under the year 1203.
8 On behalf of the churches of Ireland, pocup cenll n-6pean The Primate went to England

Memoir

of a

and the principal patron. The Annals of Ulster give a quotation from an ancient poem on the
high character of this
uian.
ecclesiastic,

and the old

to request that the

King would compel the Engrestore their lands and

It

translator anglicises his

name Mael-Peter O'Cal-

lish chiefs in Ireland to

other liberties to the Irish churches.

appears

150

[1206.

Comalcac, mac concobaip, mic biapmara roic caibj njeapna rhaije cloinne maolpuanaib Do ecc. luipcc i aipcigh, 1 na haicibecra en bpanan Cpeac la heccnecdn ua nbomnaill in uib papannain, hi cclomn oiap-|

mara.

Ro abhpac bu
uf popanndin
-\ -\

lomDa,
uf

-]

po mapbhpacc

Daoine.

Ruccpac

uf Diap-

macca,
cap.

pocaibe fcoppa,
TJuaibpi ua

gaipmlfohaij oppa. Ro mapbab, -] po bdibfb puccpac cenel cconaill an ccpeich po bfoib lap moppaoecc.
-\

ga&pa ciccepna Slebe tuja Do

uf ceatlaij

QoDh mac mupchaba

ciccfpna ua maine,

cairnmb ua cairla peapaib

nia6 cijeapna loppaip Do ecc. Cto6 ua joipmjiallaij ciccfpna papcpaije cfpa Do

cfpa.

mapbab

ua cojDa caoipeac na bpeocha la hua narhaljaib Do ecc. lorhap mac mupchaib cdc Dfob Do mapbab ^illibepc ua plannaccdin,
T?uai6pi
-]

apoile ip pop comdin.

from charters in the Book of Kells, now in the
Library of Trinity College, Dublin, that the

name

of

Mac Dermot's Rock, which

it

retains to

this day.

See Memoirs of the Life and Writings

'Conor of Belanagare, p. 305.
4"c

word pocup means advantage,

benefit,

or freedom.

of Charles
'

It is in this sense the opposite of oocap.

Moylurg, Airtech,

Mac Dermot,

or,

as

In Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops (under Eugene Mac Gillivider, p. 64), he gives the fol-

the family were more anciently called, O'Mulrony, was Chief of Moylurg, Airteach, and Tirtuathail, all included in the old
k

lowing translation of this passage from what he calls anonymous Annals " The comarb of
:

Patrick (Eghdon Mac Gilluys), went to the King of England's house, for the good of the

barony of Boyle. Clann-Dermot, clann tDiapmaOa, i. e. the O'Carellans. These, as well as the O'Forannans

churches of Ireland, and to complain of the GALLS (i. e. the English) of Ireland." Harris
took this extract from the old English translation of the Annals of Ulster, preserved in the
British
tation,

and O'Gormlys, were of the Kinel-Owen race, and were at this period seated on both sides of
the Eiver Mourne, and of the arm, or narrow The O'Donnells afterpart, of Lough Foyle.

Museum, which contains the above quoword for word See note under the year
In the Annals of

wards drove them out of the plain of Magh Ithe, and established families of the Kinel-Connell in
their place.
1

1216.

Slialh Lugha.

The name

of this territory

caippjje, i. e. of the Charles O'Conor of Belanagare states in one of his manuscripts, that he built the castle
rock.

Tumaltagh, comalcac Kilronan he is styled na

is still

its

well known in the county of Mayo, and limits pointed out. It comprises the parishes

of Kilkelly, Kilmovee, Killeagh, Kilcolman, and Castlemore-Costello, in the south-east of the

and chief
of

seat of the family

on one of the islands

county of Mayo, that

Lough Key, and that this seat obtained the

is, that part of the barony of Costello included in the diocese of Achonry.

1206.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

151

Tomaltagh", the son of Conor, son of Dennot, who was the son of Teige, Lord of Moylurg, Airtech, and Aicidheacht' and chief hero of the Clann1

Mulrony, died.

Egneghan O'Donnell plundered Hy-Farannan and Clann-Dermot he took many cows, and killed persons. He was overtaken by the Hy-Dermot, the
;

O'Farannans, and the O'Gormleys; and a struggle ensued, in which many were killed and drowned on both sides but the Kinel-Connell ultimately bore off
;

the prey, after

much

labour.
1 ,

Rory O'Gara, Lord of Sliabh Lugha died. Hugh, the son of Murrough O'Kelly, Lord of Hy-Many, and Caithniadh m O'Caithniadh, Lord of Erris died. Hugh O'Goirmghialla, Lord of Partry" in Carra, was slain by the men of
,

Carra.

Rory O'Toghda, Chief of Bredagh in Hy-Awley [Tirawley], died Gilbert O'Flanagan and Ivor Mac Murrough slew each other at Roscom-

According to Downing, in his brief, but curious and valuable account of the county of Mayo, the
country of the Galengi,
i.

in which there

is

a range of mountains

still

called Slieve Partry;

but

it

would appear, from

e.

the O'Haras and

O'Garas, comprised the entire of the diocese of Achonry. The O'Garas were afterwards driven

the writings of the Mac Firbises of Lecan, that the territory of Partraighe extended originally See into the present parish of Ballintober
Tribes, Genealogies,

out of Sliabh Lugha by the family of Costello, and in later ages were possessed of the territory
of Coolavin only, in which they had their chief castle at Moy-O'Gara, near the margin of Lough

and Customs ofthe Hy-Fiachp. 189,

is

rach, printed for the Irish Archaeological Society note'. The in note k and

1844, p. 152,

family name, O'Goirmghialla,

Irish

now

called in

In an inquisition taken at Castlemore, on the 14th of July, 1607, this name is anglicised
Gara.

O'^opmpuil, which is anglicised Gormilly, Gormly, and even Gorman, which latter is an
unpardonable corruption. See Tribes,
b
.

Slewlowe.
Erris, loppup, an extensive and remarkably wild barony in the north-west of the county of

Sfc.

of

Hy-Fiachrach, pp. 47, 187, 202, note

Of Bredagh, na bpeocha.
which contained

^This territory

Mayo.
extinct,
n

The family of O'Caithniadh are now or the name changed, in this barony.

fifteen ballys, or sixty quarters

This name is still well Partry, papcpcuje known in the county of Mayo, as a territory forming the western portion of the barony of
Ceara, and

of land, of the large old Irish measure, comprised the parish of Moygawnagh, in the west of the a part of the adjoining parish of Kilfian.
Genealogies,
Tribes,

barony of Tirawley, in the county of Mayo, and See

now

believed to be coextensive with

and Customs of Hy-Fiach-

the parish

which

is

of Ballyovey, or Odhbha Ceara, locally called the parish of Partry, and

rach, pp. 10, 11, 165, 228.

P

^
Comani,

TJop chomctm,

i.

e.

Bosciis Sancti

152

aNNCtta Rioghachca

eiraectNN.

[1207.

TTluipcfpcac mac cappjamna eaoipec muincipe maoilcpionna SloiccheaD la mac huso t>e laci co ngallaib mi6e -\ laijean
nocc.

Do
i

ecc.

rcelac
fiDipfba

l?o loipcceD cealla,

uf neill

-]

apb'anna laip,

-\

ni

puce geill

ndm

aoohae

Don chup pin. Sloiccheao lap an luce cceDna

uile,
~]

cciannacraib.

T?o loipccpfcr cealla

ciannacca

puccpac buap oipfmhe.

QO1S CR1OSD,
Ctoip CpiopD, mile,

1207.

Da ceD, a peachc.

bu.

Cpeach la heiccnfchan ua noomnaill a bpfpaibh manach 50 po jabhpac Ruccpac pip manach poiplion poppa, i po mapbpac Ua t>omnaill cij]

eapna ripe Conaill, cuip fnsnarha, eimj an CUICCID ina pfirhfp, copcpaccap Iciac na huaiple Do pocpacrap mailli ppippoponj DO paopclannaib ele
~\
i

ann, an jiolla piabac mac ceallaij

uf baoijill,

DonnchaD conallac mac

-\

TTlacjamain mac Domnaill miDij ui concobaip laochpaio lomoa cenmocar. Dorhnall mac pfpjail uf puaipc ciccfpna upmoip bpeipne Do ecc. Qrhlaib ua pepjail raoipec TTluipfDhac mac Ruaiopi uf Concobaip,
concobaip maonmaiji,
"]
-]

muincipe hQnjaile Do ecc.

Oiapmair ua maoajdm cijeapna pfl nanmclia&a Do ecc. Uaippi Ruai&pi ui concobaip Rf Connacc Do cabaipc a calmain,
ccup
now
hi

-|

pccpfn cloice.
noise record the death of the abbot Cahal
lone, a

the

to the county.

town of Roscorumon, which gives name St. Coman's well, called OaBac
is still

O'Ma-

man

of great riches

and learning.

They

Cliomam,

in existence, in

and

lies in

a field

also contain the following passage relative to the

to the east of the town,

the townland of

Ballypheasant.
q

town of Ballyloughloe, near Athlone, in the county of Westnieath, of which town the Four
" A. I). Masters have collected no early notice. 1206. The sons of Art O'Melaghlyu preyed the

translation of the

These two passages are rendered, in the old Annals of Ulster, as follows
:

"A. D.

1206.

An army

by Hugh de Lacy

to

town of

Balleloghloe,

and burnt part thereof?

Tule Og, and burned Churches and Corne, but caried neither pledg nor hostage with them for

were overtaken by Melaghlyn Begg O'Melaghlyn, Sile Crowherf'rey Mac Carrhon, and certain

An army by de Lacy in Kyanaght, burnt many churches, and tooke many cowes." r Under this year the Annals of Clonmacthat tyme.

English forces, where in pursuite that rowte of Meathmen were discomfitted and putt
killed Mortagh, or

to flight,

Morrogh, son of

1207-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

153

Murtough Mac Carroon, Chief of Muintir Maoil-t-Sionna, died. An army was led by the son of Hugo de Lacy, and the English of Meath and Leinster, into Tullaghoge (in Tyrone), and burned churches and corn, but
obtained neither hostages nor pledges of submission from
occasion.

Hugh

O'Neill on this

The same people

led another

army

into Kienaghta,

and burned

all
r
.

the

churches of that territory, besides driving off a countless number of cows

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one thousand

1207.

two hundred seven.

Egneghan O'Donnell set out upon a predatory excursion into Fermanagh, and seized upon cows but a considerable muster of the men of Fermanagh pursued him, and slew O'Donnell, Lord of Tirconnell, tower of the warlike
;

prowess and hospitality of the province in his time and some others of his The following were the nobles who fell nobility were slain along with him.
;

on

this occasion:

the son of

Gillareagh, the son of Kellagh O'Boyle; Donough Conallagh, Conor Moinmoy ; and Mahon, the son of Donnell Midheach (i. e.

the Meathian) O'Conor.

Many

other heroes

fell

besides these

8
.

Donnell, the son of Farrell O'Rourke,

died.

Lord of the

greater part of Breifny,

Murray, the son of Roderic O'Conor, and Auliffe O'Farrell, Chief of Annaly,
died.

Dermot O'Madden, Lord of Sfl-Anmchadha, died. The remains of Roderic O'Conor, King of Connaught, were
deposited in a stone shrine.
Melaghlyn Begg, Mortagli mac Donnagh Koyle, and also Morrogh mac Morrogh O'Kelly was
taken."

disinterred,

and

O'Donnell in Fermanagh ; but the men of Fermanagh overtook him with a more numerous
host than he had, and slew O'Donnell, King of Tirconnell, till then the tower of valour, hospitality,

They

also record the death of Eobert, son of

Hugh
s

Delacie,

under the same

year.

and bravery of the north of Ireland.

fell, viz.,

This passage is better given in the Annals of Kilronan. The literal translation
is

Besides these

Some

of his chieftains also

Gillareagh,

as follows

son of Kellagh O'Boyle ; Mahon, son of Donnell, the Meathian O'Conor; Donough Conallagh, the
son of Conor

"A.

D. 1207-

A prey was taken by Egneghan

Moinmoy O'Conor,

et alii

multi

154

[1207.

Carol cpoibbfpcc 6 Concobaip Rf Connacc Do lonnapbab Qo&a uf plaica cpioch Do cabaipc Dia mac pfm oCXob mac cacail. beapcaijj Coccab mop eicop gallaib laijjean pfin eicnp TTlaoilip Sepppaij;
~\

.1.

-\

mapep,

-\

Uilliam mapupccal gup milleab laigm,

~\

pip

muman

froppa.

Coccab mop popeicnp hugo De Ian

TTlhaoilip.

maoilip, 50 po milleab uile muineip

Cpfch mo]i la cacal cappac mac biapmaca mic raiDj, ap copbmac mac comalcaij mic biapmara, ap ua pploinn Gappa, co puccpac Dpem Do Con-|

naccaibh paip

.1.

Diapmaic mac TTlajnupa mic TTluipcfpcaij

o hfjpa

uf concobaip,
-|

~|

copbmac mac comalcaij, Concobap 500

ua Duboa cijeapna ua namalja&a, ai& 50 po muioh pop cacal cappac,
po mapbab muipjfp a mac,
ele.
-|
~\

njTpna

luighne,

Donnchab

-j

ua ppiachpac 50 po 50 po jabaD e pfin,

uf

cliuippioc cliach~\

TTlac

Chonjpanna

50 po Dallab, ~\ plannaccam co pocaiDib

Cpeach mop
nobiles, et ignobiles,

la TTIaoilip occ,

-\

la TTluipcfpcac

ua mbpiain,

-\

la coipp-

of

Mac
c

Malion, the

cum eis occisi sunt. The son men of Fermanagh, and the
and William Maresckal
called Geffry de Marisco,

strife between Meyler and Hugh Delacie, that between the said partys the land of Foharties

Oriels victores fuerunt."

Geoffrey, Mares,

was wasted, preyed, and destroyed." v Cathal. This passage is given more
as follows:

fully in
1

The former is generally

or

the Annals of Kilronan, but under the year

208,

De

Mariscis,

by English

writers.

See Han-

"A.

D. 1208. Cathal, son of Der-

mer's Chronicle, Dublin Edit, of 1809, pp. 382He was made Gustos or Governor of Ire385.

mot, son of Teige O'Mulrony, King of Moylurg, was taken prisoner by Cathal Crovderg in violation of the guarantee of the bishops
securities

land in 1216, and Lord Justice in 1226.

Harris's Ware, vol.
ii.

See

who were

p. 103.

William Mares-

chal, or Marshal, was Earl of Pembroke, and

between them, namely, Ardgal O'ConHe nor, Murray O'Duffy, Clement O'Sneyey.
was, however, set at liberty, through the guarantee of those bishops, without giving a hostage or After this he went out of the country pledge.

Prince of Leinster in Ireland, in right of his wife, the granddaughter of Dermot Mac Mur-

rough
u

See Hanmer's Chronicle, Dublin Edit,

et

of 1809, p. 343,

sequen.

These passages are thus given in the Annals

and took a great prey, which he drove on as week afterwards he as Lough Macnean.

far

set

of Clonmacnoise, as translated

by Mageoghegan

"A. D.

1207. There arose great warrs in Lynster between the Englishmen there, viz', between

out on a predatory excursion into Tir-Oiliolla into the Cur[Tirerrill], and drove off a prey
lieus,

Meyler and GefFry March, and also William Mareschall, which soone brought all Lynster and

great force overtook

and over the Curlieus into Moylurg. A him here, namely, Dermot,

Munster to utter destruction.

" There arose also the like contention and

son of Manus, son of Turlough O'Conor; Manus, son of Murtough, son of Turlough O'Conor ;

Cormac, son of Tomaltagh of the Rock

Murray,

1207..]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Hugh

155
O'Flaherty,

Cathal Crovderg O'Conor, King of Connaught, expelled and gave his territory to his own son, Hugh O'Conor.

A great war broke out among the English of Leinster;

Geoffrey, Mares, and William Mareschal verely from them.
1
.

i. e. between Meyler, Leinster and Munster suffered se-

Another great war broke out between Hugo de Lacy and Meyler result was, that nearly all Meyler' s people were ruined".

and the

CathaF Carragh, son of Dermot, who was son of Teige [O'Mulrony], took a great prey from Cormac, son of Tomaltagh Mac Dermot, and O'Flynn of the Cataract", but was overtaken by some of the Connacians, namely, Dermot, son

who was son of Murtough* O'Conor; Cormac, son of Tomaltagh; Conor God O'Hara, Lord of Leyny; and Donough O'Dowda, Lord of Tirawley and Tireragh and a battle ensued, in which Cathal Carragh was defeated.
of Manus,
;

He was

taken prisoner, and blinded

and

his son, Maurice,

with the son of

Cugranna O'Flanagan, and many others, were killed (in the battle). Meyler Oge, Murtough O'Brien, and Turlough, the son of Roderic O'Conor,
son of Tomaltagh of the Eock ; Donslevy, son of O'Gara, Lord of Sliabh Lugha; Flaherty Eory O'Flanagan, Chief of Clann Cahill ; and Gilla.This was the name of a small cataract, now nearly removed by the wearing down of the

sylyn

na-nech
Sinna.

O'Monahan, King of Hy-Briuin na When his Breifnian archers perceived

rock, on the Eiver Boyle, about one mile to the west of the town of Boyle. There was an ancient

church on the north side of the

this cataract, originally called
i.e. St.
i.e.

river, opposite

that they were overtaken by this great force, fled as soon as had crossed Lee Dathey they

Dachonna's cataract,

Gap tDachonna, and Gap mic n-eipc,

;

mhaighe, and Mac Dermot, being

left

accompanied

the cataract of the son of Ere, that being the

by his own followers only, he was rushed upon, and his son Maurice, and many others of his
slain, and he was himself at length taken prisoner, and his people routed. When this great force had dispersed, the counsel which the sons of Tomaltagh of the Eock adopted was, to put out Mac Dermot's eyes, and this was ac-

saint's

patronymic name, from his father Ere

later ages,

but in

Gap Ui phlomn,

O'Flynn's

people,

were

cataract, from the family of O'Flynn, who were the hereditary Erenaghs, or wardens, of the church, and the comharbas of St. Dachonna

See note under the year 1209-

cordingly done."

Dermot, son of Manus, who was son of MurThis Murtough O'Conor was the celetough
brated Muircheartach Muimhneach, or the Mo-

Under

this year the

Annals of Ulster and

of Kilronan record a battle between the son of

monian, the eleventh son of Turlough More

O'Conor, monarch of Ireland, and the ancestor
of that

Eandal Mac Sorley and the men of Skye [Sciadh], in which a countless multitude were slaughtered. w Of the Cataract, i. e. of Gap ui plainn, or As-

warlike clan of the O'Conors, called

Clann-Mu ircheartaigh.

x2

156

[1208.
uf

Dealbac mac Ruampi

cuicc baile Decc.

Concobaip

cci'p

piacpac aiDne co po aipccpioc

uf

Cacal mac
ecc.

T?uai6pi

mac an cpormaij

carapnaij njeapra rfcba Do

SluaiccheaD la macaib Tlugo De taci, 1 ta gallaib mibe 50 caiplen ara an upcaip 50 pabarcup peccmain pop mip ace popbaip paip 50 po paccbab

an caiplen

leo,

-\

cpioca ceo pfpcceall,

-]

50 hionnapbab Hlaoilip ap
1208.

in rfp.

QO18 CttlOSO,
Cloip CpiopO, mite,

Da ceo a hochc.

OauiO bpfcnac eppcop puipc Laip^e Do mapbaoh la hUa bpaolam Dona

Deipibh.
Fifteen baMys, cuicc baile o^cc. bally this period, the thirtieth part of a triocha ced, or barony.
y

was at
z

whose descendants

of Meath, and among quently, called Tir-Maine it was afterwards subdivided

into petty territories, the lords of

which were

Teffia,

ceacba

This was anciently a large

territory, comprising, according to several ancient

tributary to the archchief, as the representative of

who was

looked upon Maine, though not

and Anglo-Irish authorities, about the western half of the present county of Westmeath. It appears from various ancient authoIrish
rities that it
1.

always of the senior branch of his descendants.

North

Teffia

the River Eithne,

was divided from South Teffia by now the Inny, and was granted

comprised the following baronies

;

in the fourth century to Carbry, the brother of

The barony of Rathconrath

2.

That part of

the barony of Magheradernon, lying to the west of the River Brosnagh, and of the lakes of Lough

This territory is frequently called Cairbre Gabhra in the old Irish authorities, but for
Maine.

many
North
rells,

Oul and Lough Ennell ;

3.

now Kilkenny West

5.

4.

The barony of Cuircne, The barony of Brawney

centuries before the English invasion, Teffia was the principality of the O'Farit

who gave
Teffia

their tribe

name

of Anghaile,

Clonlonan (into which the O'Melaghlins were afterwards driven), with that part of it which

or South Conmaicne.

South

was subdivided into the follow:

was added to the King's County, by the procurement of the celebrated Terence Coghlan and 6.
;

1. Breaghing lordships or chieftainries, viz. mhaine, now Brawney, the lordship of O'Breen ;

The barony of Kilcoursey

in the King's County. See O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part iii. c. 85, where it is stated that the lands assigned to the Tuites, and Daltons were in Teffia. Petits,

Machaire Chuircne, which was originally the lordship of O'Tolairg, but was in the possession of the Dillons from the period of the Anglo-Nor2.

man

invasion

till

the seventeenth century;

3.

In the fourth century the southern half of this territory of Teffia was granted by the Mo-

Calry-an-chala, and sometimes Calry-Teaffa, the lordship of Magawly, now the parish of Bally-

narch Niall of the Nine Hostages, to his son Maine, from whom it is sometimes, but not fre-

loughloe; Muintir Tadhgain, the lordship of the Fox, or O'Caharny, now the barony of Kil-

1208.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

a predatory incursion into Tir-Fachrach Aidhne,
y

157
fifteen

made
ballys

and plundered

(townlands). Cathal, son of Kory,

Teffia
z
,

who was

son of the Sinnagh (the Fox) O'Caharny,

the English of

Lord of

died.

The

sons of

Hugo de Lacy and

Meath inarched

to the castle

of Athnurcher [now Ardnurcher], and continued to besiege it for five weeks, when it was surrendered to them, as was also the territory of Fircal"; and Meyler
5 was banished from the country
.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1208.

thousand two hundred

eight.

David Breathnach (Walsh), Bishop of Waterford

the Desies.

was

slain

by O'Faelan of

coursey, in the King's County; 5. Corca Adaim, or Corca Adam, now in all probability the barony of Magheradernon.
Fircal, peapa Ceall, was, as already shewn, a territory in the south of ancient Meath, comprising the present baronies of Ballycowen, Bala

O'Connor of Connought" [who] "slewe many of the inhabitants, and after taking away all the cowes, sheep, harnesses, and other things therein,
they burnt the town. " The Castle of Kinnetty, the Castle of Byrre, and the Castle of Lothra, were broken downe

lyboy, and Fircall, or

Eglish, in

the

King's

and

quite

destroyed

by the

said

Mortagh

County.
b

O'Bryen."
this year the

Under

Annals of Clonmacnoise

Under

this year, also, the

Dublin copy of the

the churches of

have the following entries, altogether omitted by the Pour Masters:

Annals of Innisfallen

state, that

"A.

D. 1207.

The English

of

Meath and

[Tedavnet], Kilmurrigan, and Clones" [in Ulster], " were burned by Hugo de
Lacy.

Tigh Damhnad

Lynster, with their forces, went to Killaloe to

build a castle, near the

Borowe [6eal 6opuma],

and were frustrated of their purpose, did neither castle nor other thing worthy of memory, but lost some men and horses in their journey, and
so returned to their houses back again.

Port Lairge is Waterford, Pope Icnrije. the present Irish name of the city of Waterford. * See note under the year 1174, p. 18. Neither

Ware nor

as a bishop

Harris has any notice of this David See Harris's edition of Ware's

"Moriertagh mac Bryen an Tleyve besieged

the castle of Byrre, and at last burnt the whole

town.
"

of Bedford, Bishops, under O'Heda, and Robert His name does not occur in any 551, 552. pp. of the Irish annals known to the Editor, except

The

castle of

Athroynny,

in Lease [Bally-

Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, in which his death

lows: "
is

County], was spoyled altogether by the said Mortagh and the sons of
roane,

in the Queen's

noticed as fol-

A.D. 1207. David Breathnagh, Bushopp

158

ctNNata rcioshactiea emeaNN.

/

[1208.

Rucc ua bomnaill Cpeachploiccheab la hdobh Ua neill ninip Gojain. bomnall mop cona pocpairce paip, Ro cuipfb cainojijail fcoppa in po mac mapbab ap bfpimhe ap jach lee. Uopcaip ip in maibm pin bomnall mupchaba, ap abbal bo cenel Gojain imaille ppipp. Uopcpacrap pppiocan rhabma Cacbapp o bomnaill, pfpjal ua baoijill.Copbmac Ua bomi

.1.

-]

juin

naill,

bauib ua bocapcaij, i bpfm bo rhaicib cenel cconaill cenmocdce. T?o ppaomeab po bfoib cpe nfpc lommbualca pop cenel neojhain. Sluaiccheab la hUa nborhnaill (Ooriinall mop) pop cenel neojain, pop
-]

Qob ua
eicnp
i

neill

Ua

bpaijbib an cipe gup pnabmab p'bh 50 puce pop cpfcaib Ua neill, po naibmpoc a ccapacrpabli ppiapoile nborhnaill
-]
)

"]

nacchaib gall

-\

gaoibeal no cuippeab ina naghaib.

Duibmnpi mag afnjupa ciccfpna clomnehQoba ua neachbac bo mapb'ab la mac buinnp^eibe ui Gochaba. pmjin mac biapmaca mic copbmaic rhej cdpcaij bo mapbab la a
bpaicpib pfipin.

Ualjapcc ua puaipc bo cop a ngfpnap pfp mbpeipne, naill mic pepjail bo jabail a lonaib a hucc gall.
lohannep epipcopup nopbup bo cop bo Rij Sa^an
-\
i

-\

Qpc mac

borh-

nGpinn bia bfic ina lupcip innre, Sa^oin bfpcoiccionnucchab la comapba pfccaip pobaij an eppcoip bo cop cum coccab i nepinn, 50 mbdcrap Sa^ain jan aipppionn jan baiprrfb jan ongab, jan abnacal inacecca ppi pe cpf mbliabhan.
of Waterford, was killed
Desies."

by O'Foylan of the
is

gennis of only a portion of

it

called

Claim

Ereathnach, as a family name,

now

Aedha.
E

always anglicised Walsh. Waterford was made an episcopal see in 1096, and united to the see of

common

This name, which is very Fineen, pm^in in the family of Mac Carthy, signifies

Lismore in 1363.

533
d

See Harris's Ware, vol. i. p. and Lanigan's Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, voL iv. pp. 15, 16, 45.
;

the fair offspring. It is Latinized Florentius by O'Sullevan Beare, throughout his History of the Irish Catholics, and now always anglicised Florence.

David CPDoherty

He
now

is

the ancestor of the

The name Finnen

is

translated Albinus
p.

family of
c

Mac

Devitt,

so

numerous

in the

by Colgan.
note
3.
h

See his Acta Sanctorum,

353,

barony of Inishowen.
Duvinnsi, ouibmnp.

This name

signifies

the black, or black-haired man, of the island.

r

This name, which was Ualgarg, ualjapcc common among the family of O'Kourke, very
is

Iveagk,

Ui Gacoach

The name

of

two

baronies in the county of Down. At this time O'Haughey was Chief of all Iveagh, and Ma-

now obsolete, name of a man

as the Christian or baptismal

;

but

is

preserved in the

fa-

mily of Magoalric, a collateral branch of the

1208.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

159

prey was taken by Hugh O'Neill in Inishowen. O'Donnell (Donnell More) overtook him with his forces and a battle was fought between them, in which countless numbers were slaughtered on both sides. In this battle
;

fell

number of the Kinel-Owen with him. In the heat of this conflict fell also Caffar O'Donnell, Farrell O'Boyle, Cormac The O'Donnell, David O'Doherty", and other chiefs of the Kinel-Connell.
Donnell
a great

Mac Murrough, and

Kinel-Connell were at length routed by dint of fighting.

An

army was led by O'Donnell (Donnell More)

against

Hugh

O'Neill and

the Kinel-Owen; and he seized

A peace,
who

upon the spoils and hostages of the country. was afterwards concluded between O'Neill and O'Donnell, however,

entered into an alliance to assist each other against such of the English or Irish as should oppose them.

Duvinnsi Magennis, Lord of Clann-Aodha, in Iveagh f was

,

slain

by the son by
his

of Donslevy O'Haughy. Fineen s son of Dermot, son of

,

Cormac Mac Carthy, was

slain

own

brothers.

Ualgarg" O'Rourke was deprived of the lordship of Breifny and Art, son of Donnell, who was son of Farrell, assumed his place through the influence of
;

the English.

John, Bishop of Norwich', was sent by the King of England into Ireland as Lord Justice; and the English were excommunicated by the successor of
Peter for sending the Bishop to carry on war in Ireland; so that the English were without mass, baptism, extreme unction, or lawful interment, for a period of three years.
St.

O'Rourkes,
of Leitrim.

now very numerous

It
is

in the

county

wrote him a sharp

letter,

derived from ucnll, pride, and

his unjust proceedings,

upbraiding him with which caused His Holiin-

5 a r5>
1

fierce.

ness to lay the whole

terdict.

kingdom under an
stated
as

John, Bishop of Norwich, Johannes Episcopus Norbus. His name was John de Gray. He was

This event

is

follows

in

Mageoghegan's

translation

of the Annals
:

of

chosen by King John's recommendation to the archbishopric of Canterbury in 1205; but Pope
refused to confirm his election, and procured the election of Cardinal Stephen
III.

Clonmacnoise, under the year 1207 lish Bushop was sent over into this

"An Eng-

Innocent

Langton, an Englishman then at Rome, in his place, and consecrated him with his own hands,

land, by the King of England, to govern the land as Deputie thereof: he was Bushop of Norway [Norwich], and was Excommunicated by the Pope, together

The King, enraged

at this conduct of the Pope,

with all Englishmen in England, which Excommunication hung over them for the space of two

160
TTluipcfpcac

[1209.

mac oomnaill

ui

bpiain riccfpna

cuaDrhuman Do jabdil la

Donnchaib caipbpijj jallaib luimmgh cop papuccao cpi neppcop c|ie popdil

a Dfpbparap

pfin.

Do ecc. Oiapmaicc ua caomctm caoipec o cuaim Da bobap 50 jleoip Qmlaib ua Pocldin caoipec calpaije cuile cfpnacan Do mapbat) la hua
Tftopdin.

aois cr?ioso,
Qoip CpiopD,
mfle,

1209.
ceD, a naoi.

Da

Cele ua Dubcaigh eppcop TTlaije eo na Safari, jiollacpipc ua ceapnaij plaicbfpcach ua plainn corhapba Daconna eapa mic comopba conDepe,
-|

neipc DO

ecc.
p.

or three years, in so much that their churches did not use the Sacraments dureing the said space."

242, note

and map prefixed

to the

same

Hanmer

says that this

;

excommunication ex-

work. According to a tradition in the county of Sligo, Gleoir was the ancient name of the river

tended to Ireland also

but he should have

said,

now

called the Culleen or

its rise to

Leafony

river,

which

to the English in Ireland,

k

See his Chronicle,

Dublin Edition of 1809, pp. 373, 377.

This passage
is

the south of Tawnalaghta townin the parish of Kilglass, and barony of land,

takes

rendered as follows in Ma-

geoghegan's translation of the

Annals of Clon-

itself into

macnoise

"A. D.

1207. Mortagh

mac Donnell

and running northwards, empties the sea at Pollacheeny, in Cabrakeel townland. From the position of this river, and
Tireragh,

O'Bryen, prince of Thomond, was taken by the Englishmen of Lymbrick against the wills of
three Bushopps,

the old church of Toomore, or Toomour,

quite clear that the
least

it is

O'Caomhains possessed, or

at

by own brother Donnagh Carbreagh mac Donnell

O'Bryen."
1

the procurement of his

were the head

chiefs of all the territory of

CPKeevan,

ua caoriiam, now sometimes

Coolcarney, and the western portion of the barony of Tireragh, verging on the River Moy, near its mouth, and that their territory comprised the parishes of Toomore, Attymass, and Kilgarvan, in the county of Mayo, and the parish of Kilglass,
in the

anglicised Kavanagh, but totally different from the Kavanaghs of Leinster. The Connaught

Kavanaghs are yet numerous in the district here mentioned, but they have all dwindled
into peasants, or small farmers

county of

Sligo.

See

Map

prefixed to Tribes, Genealogies,

and Cus-

See Tribes,

Sfc.

ofHy-Fiachrach, pp. 109, 167, 248, 350.

m From Toomore
dhar
is

toms of Hy-Fiachrach, printed for the Irish Archreological.Society in 1844.

D O'RotUain, now pronounced by the Irish in the county of Sligo as if written O'Roithleain,

to

Gleoir.

Tuaim-da-bhoIt
is

now

anglicised Toomore.

the

name

of an old church and parish near the River Moy, in the barony of Gallen and county of Mayo See Tribes, $c. of Hy-Fiachrach,

and incorrectly anglicised Rowley.

more

analogically anglicised Rollin,

better.

It might be which would

sound

For the extent of the territory

printed for the Archaeological Society in 1844,

of this tribe of the Calry, see note under Cool-

1209.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

161

Murtough, the son of Donnell O'Brien, Lord of Thomond, was taken

pri-

soner by the English of Limerick, in violation of the guarantee of three bishops, and by order of his own brother, Donough Can-breach".

Dermot O'Keevan Lord of

1 ,

that tract of country

extending from Toomore

to Gleoir

m
,

died.

Auliffe O'Kothlain", Chief of Calry of Coolcarney,

was

slain

by O'Moran

THE AGE OF CHEIST,

The Age of
,

1209.
nine.

Christ, one

thousand two hundred

Kele 0'Duffy p Bishop of Mayo q of the Saxons; Gilchreest O'Kearney, Coarb 5 (Bishop) of Connor"; and Flaherty O'Flynn, Coarb of Dachonna of Eas-mic
n-Eirc [Assylyn], died.
carney, at the year 1225

See also Tribes, $c.,

of Mayo was annexed to

Tuam

in 1559,
last

and that

of Hy-Fiaehrach, printed for the Irish Archseological Society in 1844, pp. 167, 423.

Eugenius Mac Brehoan was the

Mayo.

Bishop of
c. 1 ;

See also O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part i.

;

O'Moran

He had

his seat at Ardnarea,

on

Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops, p. 602

and

the east side of the Eiver Moy, at Ballina-Tirawley, and his territory extended thence to

Lanigan's Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, voL

iii.

p. 79-

Toomore
P

See Tribes, Genealogies, and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, pp. 167, 245.

Kele

O'DuJfy.He

is

called Celestin,

or

Connor, conneipe, now a small town in the barony and county of Antrim. Until the year 1442 it was the head of a bishop's see, founded

Cele O'Dubhai, in Harris's edition of Ware's

Bishops, p. 602.
q

by Mac

Mayo, maj eo, translated by Colgan, campus quercuum, the plain of the oaks, though it more probably means plain of the yews. This which contained a monastery and a cathedral, was founded by St. Colman, an Irishplace,

See Nise, who died in the year 507 Colgan's Acta Sanctorum, p. 190 ; and Harris's Ware, vol. i. p. 218. It was united to the see

of

Down in the year 1442. In the old Irish Annals, and other documents, the Bishop of
Down
is

often called the Bishop of Uladh, or Dal

man, who had been bishop of Lindisfarne, in the north of England, and who, returning to his native country in the year 664, purchased from a chieftain part of an estate on which he erected the monastery of Maigeo, in which he placed about thirty English monks, whom he had taken with him from Lindisfarne, and

Araidhe, while the Bishop of Connor, is always called after his cathedral church. Immediately
before the English invasion, the territory of Dal Araidhe, comprising the diocese of Down, was

possessed
Firlee,

by Mac Donslevy, and Hy-Tuirtre and comprising the diocese of Connor, by O'Lynn See note , under the year 1174,
s

p. 13.

whom

he had

first

established on Inis

Bo Finne.

Dachonna.

In the Irish Calendar of the

Ussher states (Primordia,

p. 964) that the see

O'Clurys,

at the

8th of March, he

is

styled

162

[1209.

mic pfp&ail ui Puaipc njjeapna bpeipne Do mapBab la copbmac mac aipe uf maoilfcnlamn, -| la copbmac mac aipc uf puaipc, ual^apcc ua Ruaipc bo gab'ail ciccfpnaip ina biaibh. Oonnchab ua pfpjail ciccfpna na hanjaile Do ecc. T?i Sa^an Do cecc nepinn peace cceb long. Ip ann po abpac in ach-

Qpc mac

tioriinaill

-]

cliac.

baoi aehaib amnpein ace lejjab pccipi na

mapa be

lap

ccoppachcam
is

Mochonna Mao Eire, Abbot of Eas-mic nEirc, in the county of Eescommon ; and in the Feilire
Aenguis, at the same day, the place is distinctly called cap mic nGipc, i. e. the cataract of the
n6ipc, now Gap ui phlom, an old church about one mile to the west of the town of Boyle. Colgan,
sou of Eire,
i.

of the Annals of Ulster, the entry

as follows,

given briefly

ships

without mentioning the number of " A. D. 1209. The King of England came

to Ireland with a great navy." In the

Annals of

e.

of Dachonna.

6ap mic

Clonmacnoise,

as translated

the account of the acts

is

by Mageoghegan, of King John in Ireland

him Lanigan, confounds this with the great Abbey of Boyle. The Editor has adduced various evidences to shew that Eas mic n-Eirc
and
after

entered as follows under the year 1209"A. D. 1209. The King of England, with a

great

Company

of

men and

ships,

came into

Ireland,

and landed at Dublin, came from thence

Ardbreackan, in Meath,

not the great Abbey of Boyle, in a letter, describing the localities in the neighbourhood of Lough Key, written at Boyle, July 23, 1837,
is

to Tibreydultan, called

and now preserved at the Ordnance Survey In this he has proved Office, Phoenix Park. that 6ap tnic n6ipc was the ancient name of
the present Assylyn, and Qc DO laupj that of the great Abbey of Boyle, and that Gap mic

where Cahall Crovederg O'Connor came to the King's house, banished Walter Delacie out of Meath into England, whereupon the King and
to Carrickfergus,

O'Connor, with his Fleett, departed, and went and banished Hugh Delacie

nBipc was also often called Gup Dachonna, from St. Dachonna, otherwise Dlochonna mac
nGipc, the patron saint of the place. under the year 1463.
c

from out of Ulster into England. " O'Neal came then to the King of England's house and departed from him again, without

See note

O'Connor return'd to hostages or securitie his own house from thence [and] the King of
:

England lay
long.
pelled the

siege to Carrickffergus,
to leave the same,

and comand did

Seven hundred

ships,

peace

ccb

Warde

The Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster has " A. D. 1210. Ri the same number Sovran bo raioecc n-Gpmn co lonjaip oiapmioe .1. occ.
:
i

and put a strong ward of his own came to Rathwry, or from thence the King Rathgwayrie, [where] O'Connor came again
in the same,

long. The King of England came to Ireland with a great fleet, i. e. seven hundred ships." The exact number of ships brought by King John to Ireland is not stated in any other of

to the King's house and yealded

tages,

him four hos-

viz 1 . in

Lawyne

Connor God O'Hara, prince of Connought, Dermott mac Connor

O'Moyleronie, Ffyn O'Carmackan, chieftaine of

the Irish Annals.

his fleet
is

In the Annals of Kilronan

" a styled lomjjepp aobctl, prodifleet," at the year 1209 ; and coblac mop, gious

Klyn Kelly, and Torvean mac Gollgoyle. The King of England went soon after for England,
and conveighed his [these] hostages with him." It is given in the Annals of Kilronan as fol-

"a great

fleet," at

1210.

In the old translation

1209.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

who was

163

son of Farrell O'Rourke, Lord of Breifny, was slain by Cormac, the son of Art O'Melaghlin, and Corraac, the son of Art O'Rourke; and Ualgarg O'Rourke assumed the lordship as his successor.
Art, son of Donnell,

Donough OTarrell, Lord of Annaly, died. The King of England came to Ireland with seven hundred ships', and landed
at Dublin,

where he remained

until

he had recruited himself

after the fatigues

lows, under the year 1210, which seems the true Connaught account of the event.

servant of trust to O'Conor

and Torbert, son

of England

of the King of the Gall-Gaels, one of O'Conor's

" A. D. 1210. Johannes, the son of FitzErapress,

lawgivers (peaccaipib).

The King

King of England, came to Ireland

fleet this

then returned, and brought these chieftains with

with a great

year.

levied a great

army

of the

On men

his arrival

he

of Ireland, to

march them
or banish
fergus.

to Ulster, to take

Hugh De

Lacy,

him into England. He left the chief government of Ireland to the English bishop, and told him to build three castles in Connaught. The
English bishop soon after raised an army in

him from

Hugh

Ireland, and to take Carrickdeparted from Ireland, and those

Meath and

Leinster,

and marched

to Athlone,

who were guarding

of his

Carrickfergus

left it

and

came to the King, and the King

left a garrison afterwards dispatched a fleet of his people to the Isle of Mann, who plundered the island, and killed many of its in-

and there erected a bridge across the ford, and a castle on the site of O'Conor's castle."
In the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen, a somewhat different account of King John's actions in Ireland is entered under the
year 1211, which the Editor is tempted to insert here ; for, although he has some suspicions of its authenticity, he thinks that the compiler had
original
least,

own

there.

He

habitants.

Cathal Crovderg O'Conor, King of

his

Connaught, and
this expedition.

Connacian

forces,

were on

On

their arrival in the north,

King of England had naught to return to him

the
fortnight,

told the

King of Con-

documents which are now

lost,

or, at

at the expiration of a

not preserved in Ireland.

\recte

do

so,

and the latter promised that he would and bring his son Hugh O'Conor with
be delivered up as a hostage.
This,

"A. D. 1211"
army,
ford.

1210].
fleet

"John, King
at

of England, with a large

set sail for Ireland,

and a numerous

him

to

and landed

Water-

however, the King did not require ; but he ' said, Bring him, that he may receive a charter
for the third part of Connaught.'

Thither Donough Cairbreach, the son of Donnell More O'Brien, repaired, to make his
submission to him, and received a charter for
Carrigogonnell, and the lordship thereunto be-

But when

O'Conor returned home, the advice which he and his wife and people adopted was, the worst
that could be,

King.

not to bring his son to the However, O'Conor repaired to the King

of England, and as he did not bring his own son, the king obtained the following persons in his stead, viz., Dermot, son of Conor Mac

was to pay a yearly rent of sixty marks. " Cathal Crovderg, the son of Turlough More O'Conor, King of Connaught, repaired with a
longing, for which he

great body of troops to

make

his obeisance

unto

Dermot, King of Moylurg

of

Leyny

in

Connaught

Conor O'Hara, King Finn O'Carmacan, a

him. "

King John proceeded from Waterford to Dublin, with the intention of banishing from

164
DO, i canaic o arhcliac 50
i

[1209.

cpoibDfpcc 6 Concobaip

ma

miohe. Do comh Cacal cioppaice ullrain cfch. T?o hionnapbab ualcpa De Ian ap in
~\

50 cappaic De laci a hullcaib hi Sapram. Qooh 6 neill Do pfpupa co po biocuip hugo a ceacc pop cculaib $an giallaDh. Qn Rij Do bol po cojaipm an T?ij bfic bpopbaipi pop an ccappaicc co po paccbaoh Do i, ~\ cucc a muincip Dia nj bub Dfin. pfm innce. Canaicc 6 concobaip mporh Do comh lapom Ri Sa^an 50 paich nguaipe, canaicc ua concobaip an T?i "ace iappai6 a rheic ap ua cconcobaip Dopmipi Oia poi^hm, 1 po bai Ni ccipo ua concobaip a rhac uaba, ace Do paD corhall Do. DO

mibe

hi

Sajcam.

Do com

laparh an TCi

na maire bai

ma pappab

-|

-|

jiall ppi

cfcpap Dia rhuincip Dia cionn,

.1.

Concobap 500 6 hfjpa cijeapna

luijne,

-)

Diapmair mac

concobaip uf TTlaoilpuanaiD

njeapna

rhuiji luipcc,

pionn ua

capmacdm,
DO com an

-\

coipbeanD mac
50 Sa^ain,
-\

T?i

pij sallgaoiDel Do afp jpaba puce na bpaijDe pin lai]-.

uf concobaip, i

Ireland Walter de Lacy

into France). into Meath,

(who afterwards passed The King marched from Dublin

fleet

him, he marched from Drogheda to Carlingford, where he made a bridge of his ships, across the
harbour,

and dispatched a large

the sons of

north-

by which he landed some

side,

wards

to a fortress of the English called Carling-

on the other
rickfergus,

of his troops thence to Carand proceeded

ford, to
viz.,

de Lacy, Walter, Lord of Meath, and Hugh, Earl of

command

Hugh

partly by sea and partly by land, laid siege to the castle, which he took." and

Ulster, and then

Lord Deputy of

Ireland,

to

According to the Itinerary of King John, by

the accurate and trustworthy T. D. Hardy, Esq., the King was at Crook, near Waterford, on the

appear before him to answer for the death of the valiant knight, John de Courcy" [Lord of Ra-

thenny and Kilbarrock

treacherously slain

"
Grace],

who was

by them, and to answer to such questions as should be asked of them, for their apparent ill conduct. When Hugh de
Lacy had discovered that the King was going to the north, he burned his own castles in Machaire Conaille,

20th of June, 1210, and was on his return, at Fishguard, on the 26th of August, the same For an account of his movements in Ireyear.
land at this period, the reader is referred to the Rev. Mr. Butler's curious work on the History
of the Castle of Trim.

King's eyes,
erected
Oriel,

and in Cuailgne, before the and also the castles which had been

by

the Earl of Ulster and the

men

of

Hanmer, Cox, and Leland, assert that O'Neill submitted to King John on this occasion but, if we believe the Irish accounts, he refused to
;

fled to Carrickfergus, leavthe chiefs of his people burning, levelling, ing and destroying the castles of the country, and, dreading the fury of the King, he himself went

and he himself

give
u

him

hostages.
i.

Tiopraid Villain,

e.

St. Ulltan's

wellin

There was a place

so called in

Westmeath

over the

sea.

See his Acta Sanctorum, p. 242, Colgan's time note 25 ; and Lanigan's Ecclesiastical History of
Ireland, vol.
iii.

"When

the King saw this disrespect offered

p. 52.

There

is

a holy well

1209.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

u

165

of his voyage, and then set out for Tioprait Ulltain in Meath, where Cathal Crovderg O'Conor came into his house [i. e. made his submission to him']. He

banished Walter de Lacy to England, and then proceeded, with his nobles, to Hugh Carrickfergus, whence he also banished Hugo de Lacy to England.
O'Neill repaired hither at the King's summons, but returned

home without

giving

him

hostages.

The King besieged Carrick

it.

until

it

surrendered, and. he

placed his

Eathguaire, whither O'Conor repaired again to meet him; and the King requested O'Conor to deliver him up his son, O'Conor did not give him his son, but delivered up to be kept as a hostage.
to

own The King of England then went

people in

O'Conor then returned home.

four of his people instead, namely, Conor God O'Hara, Lord of Leyny; Dennot, son of Conor O'Mulrony, Lord of Moylurg Finn O'Carmacan and Torvenn,
;

son of the King of the Gall-Gaels*, one of O'Conor's servants of trust. King then returned to England, bringing these hostages with him.
called

The

Tobar Dlltain

in the

naskea, near the old church

townland of Ballyof Rathcore in

;

first

place of note that presents itself to our

view, and that at a distance, if you

come from

Meath
and there

See Ordnance
is

Map

of Meath, sheet 48

also a

townland called Tobar Ulltain

the east, situate in the barony of Farbill, on a high rising ground, built as of design not
to overlook,

in the parish of Killinkere, in the barony of

but to awe the whole country

of the
this
first

Castlerahen, and county of Cavan, and not far from the boundary of the county of Meath.

founded

(as tradition goes)

by Sir Hugh deLacy,

who was one

and fixed in
reign of

This townland contains a holy well dedicated to

St. Ulltan,

English conquerors, country in or very near the

It seems,

grims

but

which was formerly visited by pilit is more than probable that Maright in

Henry the Second.

by what

to this day remains of the ruins, to have been a

geoghegan
visited

making the Tobar Ulltain, John on this occasion, another by King

is

strong, well-built fort, for the

manner of build-

ing at that time capacious

and of good receipt ;

name
w

for Ardbraccan.,

See

p. 162, supra.

now

Rathguaire is so called by those who speak Irish at the present day, but anglicised Rathwire.
It lies in the parish of Killucan, in the

and heaps of rubbish."

Hibernicis, p. 61.
at the year 1450,
this

only remain some portions of the outwalls Collectanea de Rebus

See also a notice of this place where it is mentioned that

east of the

county of Westmeath, and about

three miles north north-west of Kinnegad.

town was plundered and burned by Mageoghegan. There is scarcely a vestige of it now
remaining.

See Circuit of Ireland by Muircheartach

Neill,

Mac

published by the Irish Archffiological SoThe castle of ciety in 1841, p. 49, note 151. Kathwire is thus described by Sir Henry Piers
in 1682, in his

Of this people O'Flaherty GaU-Gaeh writes as follows : " Gallgaidelios vero existimo Gaidelios insulas Britanniae adjacentes turn incolentes,

Chorographical Description of " the County of Westmeath Rathwire is the

:

Nam Donaldum
Christi
1

filium Thada?i

O Brian,

quern

Anno

075 Manniee, ac Insularum

166

aNNata rcioshachna
QO1S C171OSO,
Goip CpiopD,
mile,

eiraectNN.

[1210.

1210.
Deich.

Da ceo, a
6 neill,

Do ceacc co caoluipcce. cionol cuca 50 po mapbaic leo na

nionnrhupa,
-]

Qo6
goill

-|

Domnall ua Dorhnaill Do

im henpi mbecc.

Ro
i

poinnpioc

a neDala pop na plojaibh.

Uoippoelbach mac l?uaiopi ui concobaip Do Denarii cpece muij luipcc, LuiD Qo6 mac 1 puce Ifip if in Sejaip f Do paijhiD Diapmaca a bpacap. carail ma oeaohaiD co nDeachaiD coippDelbac ip in cuaipceapc ap ceicheo
poimhe.

bpaijhoe Connachc Do coiDecc

luishne, i
1

nepinn,
ui

concobap JOD o hfjpa cijeapna

Diapmaic mac concobaip

maoilpuanaiD, pionD ua capmacain,

aipeaccach mac Donnchai6.

muimhnech mac roippDealbaij moip Do ecc. T?i bpfcan, ceacca Do cocr Coccab mop Do eipje eicip Rij Sa^an maire jail nepeann imon nsaillRigh Sa^an ap cfno an jailleappuicc,
ffluipcfpcach
-| ~\
i

eppcop DO
jupcip

po cojaipm T?igh Sapcan, "| T?iocapD DiuiD Do paccbail ma nepinn, ~\ an lupcip Do code co hdc luain ap Dai^h 50 ccuippeao a
'ool
place, called

proceres regni sui f>rotectorem acceperunt, Inse

Gall,

&

reperio.

Gallgaedelu regem Hibernice dictum Hebrides vero sunt, quas nostri InseOgygia,
i.

Henry the younger." In the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innishave been built by

fallen this castle is said to

gall dixerunt."
y

c.

75, p. 360.

Cael-uisge,

e. is

narrow water,

now

called

Henry, the King of England's son, upon an island [recte caol?] of Lough Erne, and that he
passage is copied incarecorrectly by the Four Masters, from mere lessness : indeed they have left many entries imperfect throughout their compilation.
It stands

that part of Lough Erne near Castle Caldwell, where the lake becomes

Caol-na-h-Eirne,

-was slain a

by O'Neill and Mac Mahon.

Mac Donough__ This

narrow.
visible ;

No

remains of the castle are

it

now

nor does

appear that

it

was left stand-

ing for any considerable period.

given as follows in Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise

Henry Beg.
:

This passage

is

more

correctly in the Annals of Kilronan, as

:

follows

"A. D.
i

1211. 6pai^oe
.1.

Connacr oo coi^eacc

"A. D. 1210. The Castle of Keyleuskie was made by Gilbert Mac Cosdealvie" [now Costello], " O'Neale came with his forces to the place, caused them to desist from building thereof,
killed the builders

Oiapmaio mac Concutiaip mic Diapmuoa pij mui^e luipc, j Concuoap O heajpa pi luijni 7 pino O Capmacan, 7 coipQipeacrac mac beapo mac 5 a ^5 oet)1 ^n

Gpmn

with the constable of the

t)uinncaraig occifup epc.

1210.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

16"

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
y
.

1210.
ten.

thousand two hundred

The English came

assembling their forces,
z

to Cael-uisge

Hugh

O'Neill

and Donnell O'Donnell,

Henry Beg

thither, and slew the English, together with and distributed their goods and property among their troops.

marched

Turlough, the son of Roderic O'Conor, took a prey in Moylurg, and carried it with him to Seghais [the Curlieus], to his brother Dermot. Hugh, the son of Cathal, pursued him but Turlough 'fled before him to the North.
;

The hostages of Connaught arrived in Ireland, viz. Conor God O'Hara, Lord of Leyny Dermot, son of Conor O'Mulrony Finn O'Cormacan and
;
; ;

Aireachtach

Mac Donough".

Murtough Muimhneach", son of Turlough More [O'Conor], died. A great war broke out between the King of England and the King of Wales and ambassadors came from the King of England into Ireland for the English bishop and the chiefs of the English of Ireland repaired, with the English bishop, to attend the summons of the King of England and Richard
: ;
:

Tuite was

left in

Ireland as

Lord Chief
ar-

Justice.

" A. D. 1211.
rived in Ireland,

The hostages of Connaught

viz.,

death

is

entered as follows:

"A. D.

1210. Mor-

Dermot, son of Conor Mac Dermot, King of Moylurg; Conor O'Hara, King of Leyny; Finn O'Carmacan, and Torbert, son
of the Gall-Gael.
occisu-s est."

tagh Moyneagh mac Terlagh, Tanist, or next successor of the kingdom of Connought, died."

This Murtough Muimhneach had four sons,

namely, Manus, Conor Roe, Donough Reagh, and Conor Gearr, who raised great disturbances in

Aireaghtagh Mae Doncahy Here it is to be observed that the

death of Aireaghtagh is a distinct entry, and has nothing to do with the account of the re-

Connaught
Lecan,
fol.

in
72,

their time.
et

See the Book of

sequen.,

and Duald Mac Firp.

turning of the hostages.

given correctly under the last year.
tages
b
is

The

list

of these hos-

bis's Genealogical

Book, Lord Roden's copy,

This
is

by
i.

the Four Masters

219c

Richard Tuite.
for

a mistake of the

so called because he

Murtough Muimhneach, was fostered in Munster.

e.

the Momonian,

Four Masters,
in the list

Richard Tuite was not Lord His name does not appear

Justice of Ireland.

He was
like

the son

of Turlough

More O'Conor,

published in Harris's edition of Ware's

ii.,

Monarch of Ireland and the ancestor of the warand restless clan of the O'Conors called

works,
nals.

vol.

This entry

or in any of the older Irish anis given as follows in Ma-

Clann Muircheartaigh. In the Annals of Clonnmcnoise, as trauslated by Mageoghegan, his

geoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, which is more correct than the ac-

168
-|

[1210.

co loc japman i co mbiaoh pfin in bpatchpe co luimnech, 50 pojic laipje, in Qc luain. Oo pala Do gup po cuicpfc cloca caiplen aca tuain Qchcliar, ma cfnn gup bo mapb jan anmam Riocapo DIUID cona pacapc, co nopfim
-\ -|

t>ia

rhumcip immaille ppipp cpia rhiopbailib De, naoimh pfoaip,

-]

naoimh

ciapain.

Clann RuaiDpi

uf concobaip,
ip
i

cap SionainD anaip

caDj mac concobaip TTlaonrhuije Go cocc na cuaraib, Dpfm Do mumcip anjaile imaille ppm
-|
~]

1 puccpac cpeich leo

noicpeibh cfineoil Dobca.

annals
:

Oo

cafo

GOD mac

carail,

count of the transaction manufactured by the Four Masters: "A. D. 1210. The English

" Previous to his being called to England, this Lord Justice (John de Gray) went to

Bushopp that was Deputie and Richard Tuite founded a stone castle in Athlone, wherein there
was a Tower of stone
fell

Athlone to erect a castle

there, that

he might send

his brothers [or relations] to Limerick,

ford,

Water-

built,

which soon

after

and killed the said Richard Tuite, with eight

and Wexford, and that he himself might make Dublin and Athlone his principal quarters. For this purpose he raised forces in Leinster and Meath (where Richard Tuite had been the most powerful Englishman since the flight of the De Lacys to France), and marched to Athlone, where he erected a bridge across the Shannon, and a castle on the site of the one which had
been built

Englishmen more.
befell

by
was

My author sayeth that this the miracles of St. Quaeran, of St.

upon whose Land the
it is

Peter, and St. Paule, Castle

built."

said

After this

stated that

the English bishop went to England. The Annals of Kilronan also state that the bridge of Athlone was erected by the English bishop this
year,

by Turlough More O'Conor,

in

and

also its castle,

on the

site of

O'Conor's

castle,

namely, on the site of one erected in 1 1 29 by Turlough More O'Conor, then King of Con-

the year 1129. But it happened, through the effects of the anathema pronounced against this warlike bishop by the Coarb of St. Peter,

naught.

The

fact

is,

that the

Four Masters have

dis-

and the miraculous interposition of St. Peter and St. Kieran, into whose sanctuaries he was
extending the outworks of the castle, that he lost, on this occasion, Richard Tuite, the most distin-

arranged this passage, as appears by the original

Irish of

given in the margin of Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise. It

it

is

Caiplen cloice t>o benarii ajj ac luain la gallaiB .1. lap an njailleppoj, 7 la
as follows:

guished of his barons, as also Tuite's chaplain, and seven other Englishmen, for one of the towers
of the castle
ruins."
fell,

and overwhelmed them in the

Riocupb t)eUioe.
caiplen,

Cop cloice

do oeanarii ipan

yucuicim copomapBRiocapb 7occap

Fpip-i. cpia

This Richard Tuite received large grants of

land in TefEa in Westmeath,

jallmuille

peupcaib ciapain, poll 7 peabaip pa peapann ap a noeapna6 an caiplen pin. In the Annals of Kilronan, and in Grace's
Annals, it is stated that Richard Tuite was killed by the fall of a stone at Athlone, in the year 1211. The Four Masters should have arranged
the passage as follows, as
is

and was made

baron of Moyashell.

His pedigree is traced by Mac Firbis to Charlemagne, but upon what authority the Editor has not been able to discover. Thus, the pedigree of Andrew Boy Tuite, of the
castle of

evident from the older

lows : "

Money lea, near Mullingar, runs as folAndrew Boy, son of Walter, son of An-

1210.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Justice

169

with the intention of sending his brothers to Limerick, Waterford, and Wexford, that he himself might reside in Dublin
to Athlone,

The

went

and Athlone (alternately) but it happened, through the miracles of God, St. Peter, and St. Kieran, that some of the stones of the castle of Athlone fell
;

upon

his head,

and killed on the spot Richard Tuite, with

his priest

and some

of his people, along with him. The sons of Eoderic O'Conor and Teige, the son of Conor Moinmoy, accompanied by some of the people of Annaly, came across the Shannon, from
the east side, into the Tuathas d and carried a prey with them into the wilderness e of Kinel-Dofa Hugh, the son of Cathal Crovderg, pursued them; and a battle
, .

drew, son of Edmond, son of Andrew, son of

Geoffry,

commonly

called

an

Gitta

Gorm, son of

Thomas, son of James, son of Thomas, son of

John, son of Richard, son of Rickard, surnamed, of the Castles, son of Thomas, son of Maurice, son
of Rickard More, son of

and Turlough, the son of Cathal Crovderg, and the sons of other distinguished men of Connaught, were given into the hands of the English bishop."
d Into the

Tuathas,

ip

were three
side of the

territories of this

na cuaraib. There name on the west

John

Tuite, son of the

Shannon. The sentence would be more

King of Denmark, son

of Drobard, son of Richard,

correct thus,

"oo rocc cap Sionamo aniap

i.

ip

son of Luibincus, or Laniard, son of Arcobal, son of Rolandus, son of Oliver, son of Carolus

na cuaraiB,"

e.

came across the Shannon westFor the situation and

wards into the Tuathas.

Magnus, King of France. In the Annals of Kilronan

curious

is

account of the

affairs

at this period:

"A. D.
forces,

1210.

the following of Connaught Donough Cair-

exact extent of the territory called the Tuathas, in the county of Roscommon, the reader is referred to Tribes

and Customs ofHy-Many, printed

for the Irish Archaeological Society in 1843, p.

breach O'Brien with his

forces,

and Geoffry

90, note

Mares with his

of Munster, and

composed of the English

Hugh, son ofRoderic O'Conor, the son of joined by O'Flaherty, marched into Connaught as far as Tuam, and proceeding thence
Loch na n- Airneadh in Ciarraighe, they seized upon great preys, and remained a fortnight, or
to

and the map prefixed to the same. , celebrated mountain anciently called SliuB bapna na o-Cuar, now Slieve Baune, extends

The

through the Tuathas from north to south, nearly The word cuaca is parallel with the Shannon.
the plural of cuar, a territory or district, and the districts or Tuathas here referred to were
three in number, namely, Tir Briuin na Sinna, Corca Eachlann, and Kinel-Dofa. See the next
note.
'

nearly twenty nights, in Ciarraighe, the Connacians opposing them. After this O'Conor

and his people came on terms of peace with Donough Cairbreach and .Geoffry Mares, and
the conditions were these, that they should be permitted to pass to Athlone to the English
bishop, and that O'Brien and

Kinel-Dofa,

cenel ooBra

This was in
its chief,

latter ages called

Doohy-Hanly, from

Geoffry

Mares

It O'Hanly, the senior of the Kinel-Dofa. was the ancient name of a territory in the

should

make peace between O'Conor and the

This was accordingly done,

English bishop.

present county of Roscommon, extending along the Shannon from Caradh na-dtuath (now

170

aNNCtta Rioshachca eircecwN.

[1211.

Do beaprpac DeabaiD Oia poile -] po rheabaiD ap cpoibDfipcc ina nOiaiD, -\ rhacaibh RuaiDpi gup po cuipeaD Dap Sionamn paip DopiDipi iarn lap ppaccbail t>aoine
-[

each.

QO1S CR1OSO,

1211.

Goip CpiopD, mile, Da cheD, a haon noecc.

Sicpiocc

ua

laijjendin coriiapba corhgaill

DO

ecc.
-|

an ngailleppoc, Caiplen cluana heoaip Do Denarh la jallaib ~\ lay QoD 6 neill Do bpeic oppa, cpfchpluaiccheab Do Denarh leo ccfp eojain.
i -|

-\

po cuip a nap im TTlaoilip mac RobfpD. po ppaoineab perhe pop jallaib, Uomap mac uccpaijh 50 macaib TCajnaill mic Somaiplich Do cecc co Do an baile Do opgain ooipe coluim cille poipfnn pe long peaccmojac, ~\
-|

milleaD leo.

LoDap appiDe co himp eojam, i po millpfc

Drumdaff, in the
rish of

in inpi uile.
the

called Caranadoe Bridge) to

Bumlin, now called North Yard

as aforesaid).

southern extremity of the parish of Kilgefin. It was divided from Carcachlann, or Corca Sheaclilann, the country of

east half of the parish of Lissonuffy (as divided

by the ridge of Slieve Baune,

The

the ridge of the mountain called Slieve Baune, the western face of which belonged to

Mac Brannan, by

desert or wilderness of Kinel-Dofa (in which St. Berach, or Barry, founded his church of Cluain

Mac Brannan,

and the eastern to O'Hanly; and tradition says that there were standing stones and crosses on
the ridge of the mountain which marked the According to the boundary between them.

Coirpthe), is thus described by the Kev. John Keogh, of Strokestown, author of the Irish

Herbal, who wrote in 1682: " The woods, the chiefest in the county of Eoscommon, are lodged about the saide mountaine (Slieve Bawn), situate most upon the northeast side of it, and beyond the north part thereof,

most intelligent of the natives, the following are the townlands of this mountain, which were in
Corcachlann,
(in
viz. Aghadangan, Corrowhawnagh Bumlin parish) Cloonycarron, Carry ward,
:

Montaugh (moinceac),

is

an aggregate of many

and great bogs several miles long, and in some

parts thereof two miles in breadth, intercepted betwixt the said mountain and the River Shan-

Ballymore, Ballybeg (in Lissonuffy parish) ; Leckan, Aghalahard, Eeagh, Killultagh,

(in Cloonfinlough parish).

Aghaclogher

All the other town-

lands of the mountain lying east of these belonged to Kinel-Dofa. Treanacreeva at Scra-

non, interspersed here and there with some little islands of profitable land, interrupted one from

moge Bridge was

both
territories.

also

on the boundary between

another by interpositions of the said bogs." O'Dugan speaks of O'Hanly's country as

lows:

fol-

Kinel-Dofa, or O'Hanly's country, comprised the following parishes, viz., the entire of the parishes of Kilglass and Termonbarry, Cloontuskert and Kilgefin
;

tDuraio oo'n pecroam aipmjep, Cenel ooBca nolur airhpeb;

6! coiriipeapc um cptoe dp oipeacc 6 n-ainlije.

one townland of the pa-

1211.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

in

171
defeated,

was fought between them,

which the sons of Roderic were

and

again driven eastwards across the Shannon, leaving some of their horses behind.

men and

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Sitric
f
,

1211.
eleven.

Christ, one

thousand two hundred

O'Laighenain Coarb of St. Comgall [of Bangor], died. The castle of Clones was erected by the English and the English bishop, and they made a predatory incursion into Tyrone; but Hugh O'Neill overtook
them, and routed and slaughtered them, and slew, among others, Meyler, the son of Robert.

Thomas Mac Uchtry and

with a
fleet

the sons of Randal

Mac

Sorley

came

to

Deny

of seventy-six ships, and plundered and destroyed the town. They passed thence into Inishowen, and ravaged the entire island [recte peninsula].
" The
Is

country of the tribe of sharp weapons Kinel-Dofa fast and uneven;

affection in

Morough, or Murchadh.
Teige, or Tadhg.

There dwells

my heart

For the people of O'Hanly."

Donnell.
Teige.

The following pedigree, as given by Duald Mac Firbis, will shew how O'Hanly descends
from Dofa:
Loughlin, son of

Murtough, or Muircheartach.
Anly, or Ainlighe, a quo O'Hanly.

Hurly, or Urthuile.

Hugh, or Aedh, who was the son of

Conor, or Conchobhar.
Donnell, or Domhnall.
Ivor, or Imhar.
I

Muldoon, or Maelduin.
Cluthechar.
Funis.
Dofa, or Dobhtha, the progenitor of the KinelDofa, and from whom St. Berach, or Barry,

Donnell.

Amlaff, or Amhlaoibh.
i

the patron saint of the district, was the

in descent.

fifth

Ivor mor.

Aengus.

Murtough, or Muircheartach, who found the white steed which Teige O'Conor had, and from which he was styled an eic jil, or of
the

Ere the Bed.

I

Brian.

White

Steed.

Eochy Muighmheodhain, Monarch of Ireland

in the fourth century.
f

Raghnall, who fought at the battle of Clontarf in 1014.

i

0' Laighenain,

'

Mac

Sorley,

now anglicised Lynam. mac Sariiaiple, anglicised Mac

z2

172

aNNCK-a Rioghachca eineawN.

[1212.

Sloicceab la connaccaib rpia rojaijim an jailleappuic -| jillibeipr mic baift co hfpppuaib, i Do ponpac caiplen occ caol uipcce.
Ruaibpi,

mac puaibpi, mic

coippoealbaij;

ui

concobaip, Do

mapbab

la luij-

mb Connacc.
Copbmac mac Qipr uf maoileacloinn Do buain Delbna Do na gallaib, TTlaoileachlainn mac aipc Do rabaipc mabma ap na jjallaib Do bai ag coirh-\

ecc oealbna,

-]

a cconprabla RobeapD buncomaip DO mapbab.

ecc.
ui

Cujaela ua heiDhin Do
T?ajnailr
)

Caillec De Df injin T?uai6pi

Concobaip DO

ecc.

QO1S CR1OSO,
Qoip CpiopD,
mile,

1212.

Da

ceb,

a DoDecc.

Dpuimcaoin cona cfmpall bo loy>ccab la cenel neojain gan cfo Dua

neill.

pfpjal ua cacain cijeapna ciannacca

jallaib.

-]

pfp na cpaoibe Do

mapbab
-|

la

^illibepc

mac

joipDelbaij Do

mapbab

ccaiplen caoiluipcce,

an

caiplen pfippin Do lopccab la hua neiccnigh. Caiplen cluana heoaip DO lopccab la hGob ua
epenn.

neill,

la cuaipceapr

Donnchab ua hfi&m DO ballab la hQob mac cacail cpoibDeipj gan cfo Dua concobaip.
TTlaibm caille na ccpann DO rabaipc la
Sawairle in the old translation of the Annals of
Ulster.

copbmac mac Qipc

:

ui

maoilfc-

Clonmacnoise

name

Samhairle, anglicised Sorley, was a very common among the Mac Donnells of

"A. D.

1211.

Cormack mac Art O'Melaghlin

Scotland.

Thomas Mac Uchtry was Earl

of

expelled the Englishmen out of Delvyn, and gave a great overthrow to a company of Eng-

Athol in Scotland, and the son of Alan de Gallaway.

ti

lishmen that were

in

left to

defend that contrey,

Cael-uisge,
is

now

called Caol

caol uip^e, i. e. narrow water, na h-Eirne, and is that narrow

which discomfiture Robertt Dongomer, their constable and chief head, was slain, together
with Gillernew
vyn's son."
k A woman's name, corresponding Baghnailt. with the man's name Raghnall, or Randall.
'

Mac

Coghlan, the Prince of Del-

part of

Lough Erne near Castle Caldwell.

No

remains of the castle are

1

now

visible.
is

Duncomar

This passage

given as follows

in

Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of

Caittech

De,

i.

e.

the

Nun

of God.

It

would

1212.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

army was led by the Connacians,
Costello, to Assaroe
;

173

An

at the

summons

of the English bishop

and Gilbert Mac

and they erected a castle at Cael-uisge". Roderic, the son of Roderic, who was son of Turlough O'Conor, was slain

by the inhabitants of Leyny, in Connaught. Cormac, the son of Art O'Melaghlin, wrested Delvin from the English; and Melaghlin, the son of Art, defeated the English, who were maintaining possession of that territory,

and killed
l

their constable,

Robert of Duncomar

1
.

Cugaela O'Heyne died. k Raghnailt and Caillech

De two
,

daughters of Roderic O'Conor, died.

1212.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

Christ, one
its

The Age of

thousand two hundred twelve.

Drumquin, with
consent" of O'Neill.
Farrell O'Kane,
lish.

churches, was burned by the Kinel-Owen, without the

slain

Lord of Kienaghta and Firnacreeva, was

was

by the Engcastle

Gilbert
itself

Mac

Costello

slain in the castle of Cael-uisge

and the

was burned by O'Hegny. The castle of Clones was burned by Hugh O'Neill and the [men of the]

north of Ireland.

Donough O'Heyne was deprived of sight by the son of Cathal Crovderg, without the consent of the O'Conor.

The

p victory of Caill-na-gcrann

was gained by Cormac, the son of Art

dered in the old translation of the Annals of
Ulster:

is

appear to be the feminine form of Cele De, which Latinized Deicola by Giraldus Cambrensis,

"A. D.

1212.

Drumkyn with its churche

li-

and Anglicised Culdee.

burnt by Kindred Owen, without O'Neil's

This
is

Drumquin, opuim caoin

the

name

cence."
in the county round tower and large stone A of Monaghan. cross, with antique ornaments, and now or
Clones.
lately used as the

of a townland and village in the barony of Omagh, in the county of Tyrone, and about six miles to the west of the

well-known town

town of Omagh

See Ordnance

Map
n

of Tyrone, sheet 33.

market

cross, point

out the

consent, jan c6ao oua neill, " O'Nello invito." 5an ceab Co is an idiomatic

Without

the

antiquity of this town.

'
'

" in expression, generally denoting despite of," or " in defiance of." This passage is thus ren-

no ccpann,

coill CaiU-na-gcran, ccnll na ccpann, written in the Annals of Kilronan, i. e. the

trees

wood of the [great]

This place

is

now

called

174
lainn
-\

awwaca Kio^hachca eiReaww.

la

1212.

hdob mac Concobaip maonmaije ap

-]

jallaib Du in po lab a nap

im piapup TTlapan

im macaib Sleirhne.

Oonnchab mac cana roipec cenel Qonjupa t>o ecc. Oomnall 6 Dairhfn Do riiapbab la macaib meg laclainn
a Doipe.

nDopup peclep

Cpfch lap

in

ngiolla piaclach

ua mbaoijill co nDpuinj Do cenel cconaill

a maille ppip pop apaill Do cenel eogain baoi pop comaipce ui raipcfipr, .1. cloinne pinjin. TCucc imoppoo an jiolla piabach roipeac cloinne Snfibjile mapbcap 6 bub ofipin ag coppfpaib Deabaib ppiu caipcfipc poppa, namh a einigh.
-]
-] -]

Ceach Do gabdil

la Diapmaic

mac

17uaibpi ui Concobaip pop

hi

Gob mac

TTlajnupa uf Concobaip hi ccill colmain pinn cuicc pip becc ap picir ann.
TTlaiDm Do cabaipc DO bomnall

ccopann gup po loipccic

i

mac Domnaill bpfjaij maoilfchlainn pop copbmac Ua maoileachlamn Du in po mapbab jiolla cpiopD mac coljan
co pocaibe ele amaille ppip. Oomnall mac Domnaill ui maoileaclainn Do
TTlaoilip.

mapbab ap

cpfic la muincip

Sluaicceab la gallaib TTluman 50 Ropcpe 50 nDeapnpac caiplen ann.

Kilmore, or Great Wood, and
is

situated in the

parish of Killoughy, barony of Bally boy, and See Ordnance Map of that counKing's County.
ty, sheet 24.

translated, in the year 1627, by Connell Mageoghegan of Lismoyny, who knew this place well:

and were thus

long obsolete,
to prove its

The name Coill na g-orann has been but we have the clearest evidence situation and modern name. Thus,

"A. D.

1211.

The English Bushop came over

and was Deputie
thereof,

into this land again,

and went, with

all

the English forces, of Ireland

the writer of the old Irish story called the Battie of Moylena (Cath Maighe Lena), in describing
the rout

to Cloneis, in the north,

where he built a

castle,

oftheMunster

forces
is

battle field of Moylena,

to

which

coming to the about two miles

they

the north of Tullamore,

states that

The English Bushop sent certain of the army to Magmahon's Land to take the preys of the Land; they were overtaken and mett by Magmahon, [who] slew divers of them about Myler mac
Eobert, and Myler himself, and divers of the Englishmen of Lynster, took and caused them
to leave the prey

marched by Coill na g-crann, which was then, he says, called Coill Mhor (or Great Wood).
But,
if

we had no

other evidence, the following

and horses, and gave them

passage in the Annals of Clonmacnoise

sufficient to

would be

many

shew the situation and modern name

In these annals the above passages fully than by the Four Masters,

of this place.

are given

more

by night as by day from thence forward. " The said Deputie came from thence to Lynster, and sent for the forces of Munster, who
fierce onsetts as well

1212.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

175

O'Melaghlin, and Hugh, the son of Conor Moinmoy, over the English, in which the latter, together with Pierce Mason and the sons of Sleviny, were slaughtered. q Donough Mac Canii, Chief of Kinel-Aengusa died.
,

Donnell O'Devine was

the abbey-church of Derry.

slain

by the sons of Mac Loughlin

in the

doorway of

O'Boyle, accompanied by a party of the Kinel-Connell, from some of the Kinel-Owen, who were under the protection
of O'Taircheirt (Gillareagh), Chief of Clann-Sneidhghile and Clann-Fineen. O'Taircheirt overtook them (the plunderers), and gave them battle, but was
killed while defending his guarantee'.

A prey was taken by Gillafiaclagh

the son of Manus O'Conor, at Kilcolman-Finn s in Corran. Thirty-five burned in the house on this occasion.
,

Dermot, the son of Koderic O'Conor, forcibly took the house of Hugh, men were

Donnell, the son of Donnell Breaghagh [the Bregian] O'Melaghlin, defeated Cormac O'Melaghlin in a battle, in which Gilchreest Mac Colgan and many
others were slain.

Donnell, the son of Donnell O'Melaghlin, was excursion, by the people of Meyler.

slain,

while on a predatory

An

army was led by the English of Munster

honic

to Roscrea,

where they erected

very frequently This passage is

came accordingly, with Donnogh Carbreagh O'Bryen, and marched with all their forces to
Killnegrann in Ffercall,

legal

phrase,

occurs

throughout the Irish annals.

now

called

Kilmore,

where they were met by Cormac mac Art O'M,elaghlyn, who discomfitted them, where
t.hey left all their

rendered as follows in the old translation of the Annals of Ulster: " A. D. 1212. An

army by

Gillafiaglagh O'Boyle,
nell,

and some of Kindred Con-

cowes, horses, gold, silver,

and pther things

11

to the said

Cormack."

This is anglicised Kindred Kind-Aengusa Eneas in the old translation of the Annals of Ulster. It was the tribe name of the Mac Canns

vppon Tirowen, being in protection with the Conells and especially of O'Tirchirt" [7 par ap emec ceneoil conaill uile 7 hui raipcepe co j-onpaoacj. " O'Tirchert came uppon them,
fought with them, where Gillariavagh O'Tirchert was slayne, King of Snedgaile and Clanfynin, in saving his credit."

and their

correlatives,

who were

seated in the

present county of Armagh, where the Upper Bann enters Lough Neagh. There were several other tribes of this name in the province of Ulster, as well as in other parts of Ireland.

Kikdman-Finn,
is

cill

Colmdm

F'nn

This

While defending his guarantee, a co nam S r a emij, while defending those whom he had
guaranteed to protect
This,

certainly the present Kilcolman, an old church near Ballaghaderreen, in the barony of Costello,

which

is

a Bre-

and county of Mayo ; but it is at least nine miles from the nearest boundary of the present barony of Corran, in the county of Sligo. The festival

176

[1213.

cona ploij 50 dppaiDe 50 cill achaiD 50 puce TTluipcfpcac mac bpiain oppa ccapo oeabaiO ooib. 17o loireaoh TTlaoileachlainn mac carail cappaijj gup
bo mapb tna jonaib.

QO1S CR1OSD,
Goip Cpiopb,
fillet

1213.

mile,

Da cecc, a cpi Decc.

na nafrh ua RuaDan eppcop luijjne, -| TTluipiccen ua muipeccein eppcop cluana mic noip DO ecc. Ginmipe ua cobraigh abb Peclepa t>oipe coluim cilte uapail clepec
cojaiDe ap cpabao, ap cfnnpa, ap bfipc, ap eccna,
[DO ecc].
~\

ap gac maic apcfna

Comap mac
coluim
cilli
-|

mac Rajnaill DO opccain ooipe DO bpeich peoD rhumcipe Doipe, ruaipcipc 6peann apcfna a
uchrpaigh
-j

Puaiopi

-\

lap cfmpaill an T?ecclepa,

of St. Colman Finn,
or

-|

a mbpfic leo 50
Fair, is

cuil paicin.

Column the

found them entered in different forms and under

different years in the compilations of more ancient

marked
c

in the Irish Calendar of the O'Clerys at

the 4th of April.

Killeigh,

writers.

The present entry

is

given somewhat

cill acaio,

anciently called cill

differently in Mageoghegan's translation of the

acaio

opoma
It
is

F ODa i and referred to in the

at

Feilire Aenguis,

25th of June, as in Ui

Failghe.

a fair-town in the barony of Geshil,

in the King's County, about four miles to the

south of Tullamore.

Here are

still

some remains

Annals of Clonmacnoise, as follows " A. D. 1212. The Englishmen of Ireland made a voyadge" [an expedition] " to Roscre, where they built a castle. " The Englishmen of Meath with their great:

of a great abbey, and also a holy well dedicated to the two St. Sinchells. This place is to be from Killoughy in the barony of distinguished

est forces took their

journey to Killnegrann in

Ffercall, where they were mett by Cormack mac Art O'Melaghlyn, and were quite over-

Ballyboy,

in

the same neighbourhood.

The

Murtough, son of Brian, who opposed the English here, was son of Brian Breifneach O'Connor,

chiefest

thrown by Cormack, with a slaughter of the and principallest Englishmen in Meath, as Ferrus Mersey, the two sons of Leyvnie
Wanie, and William Howard, and many others of them; that they left all their cattle, both
horses and cowes, gold and silver, and shirts of mail ; and pursued them to the abbey of Kil-

who

died in

1 1

84.

be suspected that this entry refers to the same event as that already given under the
It is to

year 1211, namely, the victory of Coill na gcrann, for we find the different compilers of the annals
of Ireland, whose works have been amalgamated (frequently without much skill) by the Four Masters, often repeat the same events, as having

beggan, and the place called Bealagh-monie-neSirrhyde. Melaghlyn mac Cahall Carragh O'Con-

nor was killed by Geffray March of that journey." According to the Annals of Kilronan the per-

1213.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

From

177

thence they proceeded to Killeigh', where they were overtaken who gave them by Murtough, the son of Brian [O'Conor], and his army, battle in which Melaghlin, the son of Cathal Carragh [O'Conor] received
a castle.
;

wounds of which he

died".

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

Gilla-na-naev O'Rowan, Bishop of Leyny,

1213.
thirteen.

The Age of Christ, one thousand two hundred

and Muirigen O'Muirigen, Bishop

of Clomnacnoise, died.

Ainmire O'Coffey, Abbot of the Church of Derry-Columbkille, a noble ecclesiastic, distinguished for his piety, meekness, charity, wisdom, and every
other good quality [died]".

Thomas Mac Uchtry and Rory Mac Randal plundered Derry-Columbkille, and carried off, from the middle of the church of Deny, all the precious articles
of the people of Derry, and of the north of Ireland, which they brought to
Coleraine*.
sons slain were Ferris Messat and Walter Dunel.
rensis, vir sapientia, religione,

mansuetudine,

et

Under this year the Annals of Clonmacnoise record the death of William Petitt, and contain
the two entries following, which the Four Masters have very much shortened
:

eleemosynis selectissimus, obiit."

p.

TriasT/iaum.,

In the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, the character of this Ainmire O'Coffey " noble ecclesiastic, distinis thus given
505.
:

" A. D. 1212. Mortagh O'Bryen, Donnell mac Donnell O'Melaghlyn, Cowlen O'Dempsie, and
Donnell Clannagh Mac Gillepatrick, gave an overthrow to Cormack mac Art O'Melaughlyn,

guished for his piety, descent, meekness, majesty,

mildness, charity,
post
*

and every other goodness,

est

optimum penitentiam ingressus

Coluim
Coleraine, cuil jiuirin,

mam

uni-

verse carnis in Dubrecles

Cille."

where were

killed Gillechrist

mac Murrough

now

locally

but cor-

Macoghlan, and Donslevey mac Connor O'Melaghlyn, with many others. " Donnell mac Donnell Bregagh O'Melaghlyn, next in succession of Meath and Irish of Ireland,
ler,

ruptly called in Irish ctip-parain,

rectly anglicised Coleraine.

but more coris

This name

trans-

lated " Secessus jilicis," in the Tripartite Life of

St. Patrick, lib.
ii. c.

36, published
its

by Colgan in
is

made a journey to take was overtaken by Meyler

a prey from
himself,

Mey-

his Trias

Thaum., where

situation

distinctly

and great

forces of both English

the said Donnell with

and Irishmen, who killed many others with him, at

" in aquilonari Banncei fluminis pointed out as i. e. on the north (eastern) side of the margined

the River of Rahan in Ffercall."

w Died.
Colgan
:

This passage is thus translated by " Anmirus O'Cobhthaich, Abbas Do-

River Bann. Colgan, who was well acquainted with the situation of places in the north of Ireland, shews that Cuilraithin is the place now " civitas Dcdriedm seu called Coleraine:
Reuta,

178

aNNatct Rio^hachca emecmN.

[1213.

DO reacr 50 Doipe Do gabail cighe ap caram, pip na qiaoibe macaibh meg lachlainn. l?o mapbab celloip mop Recclepa Doipe fcoppa

Ua

-|

occa nfcrapjoipe. Oo pome Dia -] coluim cille miopbail innpin uaip po mapbab an pfp cionoil coichfprail bai leo, .1. TTIacgamaiTi mag aicne
i

-]

neneach columi

noopup in Duibpecclepa. la gallaib mac ucrpaij Caiplen cuite Rarain Do benarii la romap uile Do cum an caiplein ulab, 1 po pccaoileab pelcce, cuphoaijjce an baile cenmoca an cfmpall. pin Qo6 ua neill Do cabaipr ma&ma ap jallaib po la a nofpccap, po
cille
i -|

~\

-\

-\

loipcceab beop laip an capplongpopc ipm

inDibbh.

16

ceccna eicnp Daoimbh,

i

-\

pdnarc Do mapbab Da Thuinnp pfin meabail. pionD ua bpolcdin maop bomnaill (.1. Domnall mop) Do bol cconnaccaib DO cuinjib cfopa f bomnaill. Ctppeab Do coib cecnup co caipppe

Donn

6 bpfiplem caoipeac
i

Dpoma

cliab.

Po

cabaill pibe cona caoirhreccoibh Do

"\

n^h an

pilib TTluipf-

ohaij Ifpa an Doill ua [ui] Dalaij, po jab pop miocopcab mop ppipp an bpilib ap ba haifeach porn a liucc cpfoin (gion gup bo he a ciccfpna po corhaipleicc DO). T?o lonnaijeab an pfp Dana ppip, ~\ pon gab biail mbicgeip ma
lairh

co ccapacr bfim nDo 50 ppapccaib mapb gan anmain. Uficc pfipin uf bomnaill hi ccloinn na piop pin oLla lappin ap lomjabail lap 17iocaipo.
Dorhnaill DO

ponab leipcionol ploij laip

Trias Thaum., p. 183,

ma

Deaohaib,

~|

nf

po aipip co painicc

col. 2,
i

Culraine vulgo dicta." note 127.

nor vicar."
This passage is thus rendered in Castle the old translation of the Ulster Annals " A. D. 1213. The castle of Cailrathan, built
:

O'Karw

In the old translation of the An-

nals of Ulster this passage is rendered thus:

" O'Kathan and the

to take house

men of Kriv came to Dyry

vppon the Maglaghlans, and killed between them the great Caller of the Church of
Dyry.
miracle,

by Thomas Mac Ugh try and Galls of Vlster, and" [they] "broke down all the stones, pavements, and fences, of all the town for that work, the
church only excepted." The Irish text is thus given in the Dublin copy of the same annals:

God and Columkille shewed a great viz., the gatherer and bringer, Mahon

Magaithne, [was] killed at Columkill his prayer justly in the church doore."
1

Caipcel cula pacain DO oenutn le

Comaf

Prior, celloip in the original.

It is

thus

mac

uccpai

-j

le jallaib

Ulao

po pcaileo

" explained in O'Brien's Dictionary. Cealloir, the of a cell or ex., ni cealloip superior

monastery;
;

peilce 7 clacana 7 cumoaici in baile uile cenmora in cempall amain cuice pem.
''

na rub-ceulloip cu

you are neither superior

Carlongphart,

now

Carlingford,

a decayed

1213.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

179

O'Kane" and the [sept of] Firnacreeva, came to Derry to take the house The great prior 2 of the abbey church of Derry, of the son of Mac Loughlin. who interposed to make peace between them, was killed. God and St.
Columbkille wrought a miracle on this occasion for Mahon Magaithne, the the army, was killed in the doorway person who had gathered and mustered of the church of Duvregles, in revenge of Columbkille.
;

of Coleraine was erected by Thomas Mac Uchtry, and the English of Ulidia; and all the cemeteries and buildings of the town were thrown down excepting only the church to supply materials for erecting this castle.

The

castle

Hugh

O'Neill defeated and dreadfully slaughtered the English, and, on the

same day, burned Carlongphorf (Carlingford) both people and cattle. Donn O'Breslen, Chief of Fanad, Avas treacherously killed by his own people. Finn O'Brollaghan, steward of O'Donnell (Donnell More) went to Connaught to collect O'Donnell's tribute. He first went to Carbury of Drumcliff, where, with his attendants, he visited the house of the poet Murray O'Daly of
and, being a plebeian representative of a hero, he began to wrangle with the poet very much (although his lord had given him no instructions to
Lissadill
;

do

so).

The

poet, being

enraged

at his conduct, seized a

dealt

him a blow which

killed

him on the

spot,

very sharp axe, and and then, to avoid O'Donnell,

he

O'Donnell received intelligence of this, he d collected a large body of his forces, and pursued him to Derrydonnell in
fled into Clanrickard.
in the barony of Lower Dundalk, and county of Louth. This passage is rendered as follows in the old translation of the Annals of

When

town

the Annals of Ulster, or in the Annals of Kilronan.

c

Lissadill,

liap
;

a
it

ooill,
is

i.

e.

the Lit, or fort

Ulster

of the blindman

situated in the south-

" A. D. 1213.

Hugh O'Neile broke of the Galls,

and had a great slaughter of them, and burnt the Cairlongfort the same day, both men and cattle."
gives the following entry immediately after the foregoing: " John, King of England, gave England and

west of the barony of Carbury, near the Bay of Sligo. On an old map of the coast of the counties
of Mayo, Sligo, and Donegal, made in the reign of Elizabeth or James I., preserved in the State

The same work

Papers' Office, London, Lissadill

castle.
d

is

marked

as a

Ireland into the Pope's hands, and the

rendered them to himself againe,

to him,
land,

Pope surand 1000 marks

Derrydonnell, Doipe ui borhnaill,

i.

e.

Robo-

return Odonnelli.

and

after every yeare

700 out of EngDublin copy of

and 300 out of Ireland."

this passage is not in the

ruins 9? a castle about three miles to the east of Oranmore, in

townland containing the in the parish of Athenry, and

But

the county of Galway.

The

territory of Clan-

183

awwata raioshachca eiRecmw.

i

[1213.

cona6 ua6 po jab ammniuccab, ap a b'eic aDhaib longpoipc ann. l?o jab pop cpeaclopccab an cfpe gup bo piapac co po biocuip Tlluipfbhac Dia comaipje TTlac uilliam Do po bfoib,
Doipe
Dorhnaill
i

ccloinn Riocaipo,

-|

rcuabrhurham.

Oo raeo ua

Dorhnaill

ma

biuib,

-\

geibib pop inopab,

op-

ccam na cpiche ipin copop accuip oonnchab caipbpec ua bpiain TTluipfohac ua6a nucc mumcipe Immnij. Ro Ifn ua Dorhnaill e co Dopup luimni j, baf ppopbaippi i hi bpoplonjpopc ag mom ui borhnaill conab ua6 ainnimjhi

-j

biocuippioc lucr luimnij TTluipfDhac ua&aib pop popcongpa ui norhnaill co nach ppuaip a im6it>fn ace a caipbipc 6 laim Do laith 50 piacr
cfp.

Ro

ach cliach

Duiblinne.

Soaip 6 Dorhnaill Don chup pin lap pipfoh, q lap ccop cuapra connachr uile 50 hiomlan. Do ponao Sloicceab ele laip Dopibipe ^an lompuipeac gan popuccab ip in mbbabain ceccna bfop co hdchcliac jup ba hficcfn DO luce

Gcha

cliac TTluipfDhac Do cop uabaib 50 halbain,

-\

bai annpaibe co nofpna

cfopa Dpecra abmolca DO cumjioh piooha, -j maichme nanacail qp Ua ba he an cpeap Dan Dibh pmhe, bomhnaill Deablarh po noorhnaill,
-\

pich, naill
laip.

[c. gabaib O Dorhpich Dopomh ap a abmolcaibh, ma rhuincfpap e mporh, i DO paD popba, i pfpann DO peib po ba oaca
=

Do paoaoh

-|

Cpeach

la

Copbmac ua maoileachlamn pop

caiplen chinn claip 50 po

rickard comprised six baronies in the county of

Galway, namely, Leitrim, Loughreagh, DunkelSee Tribes lin, Killartan, Clare, andAthenry

ploring his protection. It begins, cpeao ajaib 001615 a ^cem? i. e. "What brings a guest In this poem (of which to you from afar?"
there
is

and Customs of Hy-Many, printed

for the Irish

a good copy on paper in the Library of

Archaeological Society in 1843, pp. 17, 18; and Map to the same, on which boipe ui oorhnaill is

the Royal Irish Academy), the poet calls himself O'Daly of Meath (see note n , under the year
1185, pp. 66, 67), and states that he was wont
to frequent the courts of the English,

shewn due

east of the

town of Galway, and on

the boundary between the territories of Clann

Fergaile and Hy-Many ; see also Ordnance Survey of the county of Galway, sheet 95.
e

and to

drink wine from the hands of kings and knights, of bishops and abbots; that, not wishing to re-

Mac

William.

This was Richard de Burgo,

main

to

be trampled under the feet of the Race

the son of William Fitz-Adelm, and the great Lord to whom King Henry III. granted the
province of Connaught in the year 1225. this occasion O'Daly addressed a poem to

of Conn, he fled to one who, with his mail-clad

warriors,

was able

to protect

him

against the

On
De
irn-

King of Derry and Assaroe, who had threatened him with his vengeance, though
fury of the

Burgo, stating the cause of his flight, and

indeed the cause of his enmity was but

trifling,

1213.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

a place

181

Clanrickard,
for a night
;

which was named from him, because he encamped there and he proceeded to plunder and burn the country, until at last
6

submitted to him, having previously sent Murray to seek for O'Donnell pursued him, and proceeded to plunder and refuge in Thomond. ravage that country also, until Donough Cairbreach O'Brien sent Murray

Mac William

away

to the people of Limerick.

at

rick, and, pitching his

siege to that town-,

camp upon which the people

O'Donnell followed him to the gate of LimeMonydonnell (which is named from him), laid
of Limerick, at O'Donnell's com-

mand, expelled Murray, who found no asylum anywhere, but was sent from hand to hand, until he arrived in Dublin.
O'Donnell returned home on
this

occasion,

completed the visitation of all Connaught.

He
;

having first traversed and mustered another army without

much

delay in the same year, and, marching to Dublin, compelled the people, of Dublin to banish Murray into Scotland and here he remained until he

composed

three

poems

ness from him.

The

third of these

in praise of O'Donnell, imploring peace "

poems

is

the one beginning,

and forgiveOh! Donnell,

kind hand for [granting] peace," &c. He obtained peace for his panegyrics, and O'Donnell afterwards received him into his friendship, and gave him lands and possessions, as was pleasing to him.

Cormac O'Melaghlin plundered

for that the fugitive

the castle of Kinclare

his

f
,

burned the bawn,

calls

his people

who had

had only killed a plebeian of the audacity to affront him !

house and

its

inmates,

him the

chief

Bpala pip an Bpeap, baclac oo b'eir oom cameao, jni DO rhuptiab an riioa6; a 6e an doBap anpolao ?
becij ap
1

of the English, the lord of Leinster, the King of Connaught, the proprietor of the forts of Croghan, of Tara, of Mac Coisi's wall of stone,

Ui Chonaing,
then

and of Mur mic an Duinn, then called Caislen and hints that he might yet invite

" Small

A
O

our difference with the man, shepherd was abusing me,

is

He the poets of the five provinces to his house. ._. , , i , ., c i tells Rickard that whatever deeds of valour

,,,,..

And

I killed

that clown

(rod!

is this

a cause for enmity?

any one may have achieved, he cannot be truly reT nowned without protecting the venerable or the f feeble; and that he now has an opportunity ot
,

He calls upon the puissant knight Rickard, the son of AVilliam, to respect the order of the poets, who are never treated with harshness by
chieftains,

making himself illustrious by protecting O'Daly of Meath, a poet, whose verses demand attention,
and who throws himself on his generosity.

He

strong.

and to protect the weak against the He next bestows some verses of panedescribes the splendour of

concludes by reminding him of his duties as King of the famous province of Connaught.
f

gyric

upon him,

OfKindare, chmn clcnp.

This

name is now

182

[1213.

an babbDun, lomba uacha.

loipcc

-|

50 paoirhib po]i na sallaib co rcuccab eic

-]

eirce

TDoppluaijeab la gallaib Gpeann bionnpaicchib Copbmaic mic Qipr gup po riieabaib compaicpior ace bpoichfc cine, peachap lomaipfcc fcoppa, Do pocaip l?uaibpi ua ciapba ip in beabaib pin, -\ po pop rhac aipr,
-] ~\

ofocuipeab mac Qipn a oealbna,

50111.50

-|

po haipccfoh a rhuinnp.

Do

coibpioc na

hoc

luain,

-\

to ponab caiplen leo ann.

-\

Do

ponpar bfop caiplen

caiplen bnpmaije. la copbmac mac Ctipc i nbealbna co po aipcc TTlaoilpeachlainn Cpeach bfcc -\ 50 po lonnapb ap an cfp. l?o mapb once uilliam TTluilinn, q po jab
cinneicij, caiplen bioppae,

pfm cigfpnap bealbhna.

obsolete,

but the situation of the place

is dis-

forces that

owed
all

service to the

King

of England

tinctly pointed out in Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, in which it is

throughout

the provinces and parts of Ire-

land, assembled,

was originally called Claire Athand situated to the west of Lismoyny moynie, (which was the name of Mageoghegan's own
stated that it

and mett together at the bridge of Tynnie to assault the said Cormack mac Art
O'Melaghlyn, whom they did also meet at a place then called Clare Athmoynie, now called Killclare
['c], adjoining to Lissmoyne and weast, fought

house), and

is still

that of a townland in the pa-

rish of Ardnurcher, orHorseleap, in the

barony

of Moycashel, county of Westmeath See Ordnance Map of that county, sheet 37. The transactions of the O'Melaghlins in this year are

couragiously withall, where four principall men of the said Cormack's army were slain, as Eowrie

O'Kiergy, and others.

The English army came

given in the Annals of Clonmacnoise as follows: "A. D. 1213. Cormack mac Art

from thence to Delvyn Mac Coghlan, and so to Clonvicknose, where they built a Castle; also
they finished and aided the Castles of Dorrowe,
Byrre, and Kynnety of that voyage [expedition]."

O'Melaghlyn

took a great prey from the town of Ardinurcher, and the next morrow after took the of
spoyles the Castle of Ardinurcher, and markett of the same; he tooke many other small preys and
booties.

" Cormack

mac Art O'Melaghlyn wentto Ath" and there devised a strata-

boye" [Ballyboy]
to

" The said Cormack mac Art tooke a prey from the Castle of Kyimclare, together with
the spoiles of the

make the Ward come out of the Castle, gem and killed ten of them immediately, and took all
theirs
after

and spoyles of the towne with him. Soone

Bawne and Markett

of the

he departed the contrey, and came after a

said town, and also killed many of the Englishmen, that they left him twenty-eight horses, with eight other harnished horses, and shirts of

long space into the contrey again, tooke all the spoyles of Melaughlyn Begg O'Melaghlyn, and
killed

some of

his people,

and among the

rest,

Mail, and burnt

returned to his

many men in the said town, [and] own house without loss. All the
Lynall

killed the knight called

William Moylyn, and

forces of the English of Ulster, Munster,

ster,

and Meath, together with

the Irish

took the possession of the country again against them. " Cormack mac Art tooke the spoyles of the

1213.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

183

and defeated the English, and carried away from them many horses and
accoutrements.
of Ireland led a great army against Cormac, the son of Art him at the bridge of Tine s where a battle was fought [O'Melaghlin]. They met between them, in which the son of Art was defeated, and Rory O'Keary was

The English

The son of Art was then banished from Delvin, and his people were The English then went to Athlone, where they erected a castle. plundered.
killed.

They also Durrow k

.

erected the castle of Kinnity

h
,

the castle of Birr

and the

castle of

Cormac, the son of Art, went on a predatory excursion into Delvin, and plundered Melaghlin Beg, whom he banished from that country he also
:

slew William of the Mill, and assumed the lordship of Delvin himself

1
.

Castle of Smerhie, together with

all

the cowes,

'

Birr,

bioppa.

Now

generally called Par-

horses, and other cattle in the towne, was overtaken and fought withall by the English of the towne, where the English forces were over-

sonstown, from the family name of the present noble and distinguished proprietor, Lord Ross. as " a This name is

thrown, three of their knights slain, with their Constable and Cheif man, and Cormack broght himself, men, and prey home salfe and sound."

explained by O'Clery watery plain," thus: 6ioppae .1. maj uipje: lonann pop pae 7 oip ap lonann bip 7 uir^e ma. " Biorra, i. e. a plain of water for bir
: :

This name Bridge of Tine, opoichec Cine. would be anglicised Drehidtinny. It must have been the name of some old wooden bridge on the
g

means water

and

me

means a

plain."

A mo-

nastery was founded here, according

to the Irish

Brosna or on the Silver Kiver

but there

is

no

Calendar of the O'Clerys, by St. Brendan, the son of Neman, who died on the 29th of November,
k

bridge or place at present bearing the name in the King's County, or in the county of West-

A. D. 572.
Durroie,

oupmcn j.

A
Sir

castle

had been

meath. The name Tinnycross, a townland in the parish of Kilbride, barony of Ballycowan, and
King's County, would seem to retain a portion
viz., Tinny ; but as Tinnycross is but an anglicised form of cij net cpoipe, i. e. house of the cross, it cannot be considered as

finished at this place

of this name,

Hugh de Lacy, the by In the Annals so early as the year 1186. elder, of Clonmacnoise, as translated by Connell Mageoghegan, it is stated, more correctly, that the " finished and aided the English on this occasion
Castles of Dorrowe, Byrre, and Kynnety." 1 Under this year the Annals of Clonmacnoise
state,

bearing any
h

analogy to

opoichec Cine.
i.

Kinnity, cenn eicij,

called,

e.

the head of Etech,

the Feilire

that Finn O'Dempsey, and his brother

so

according

to

a note in

Aenguis, at the Yth

of April, from Etech, an

Donough, were most deceitfully taken by Geffrey March [De Marisco], who conveyed Finn
to Dublin,

ancient Irish heroine, whose head was interred

where he was bound

all

to a horse's tail,

here

of a townland and parish in thu of Bally brit, in the King's County. barony
It is the

name

and so dragged through wards hanged.

the streets, and after-

184

QNNaca Rio^hachca
aois crcioso,

eircectNN.

[1215.

1214.

Goip Cpiopo, mile, Da ceo, a ceachaip Decc.

ceppcop 6 ceatlaij .1. eappcop 6 ppiacpach Do ecc. Qpojap ua concobaip eppcop pfl TTluipfDaij Do ecc.
6fnmi6e injfn eccnigh bfn ao&a
nDfijbfchaib.
uf neill

Qn

bamcijeapna

oilij;

Decc lap

Cpeach to Denamh la hGoD mac TTlaoilpeachlainn ui laclamn pop comopba column cille, i Qo6 buDfipm DO rhapbaD la gallaib pia canr>
bliaDhna rpia piopcaibh De
-\

coluim

cille.

Cacal mac Diapmacca mic caiDj

Connachc DO
DO ecc.
ecc.
f

ciccfpna TTluije luipcc, cuip

opDam

bpian mac T?uai6pi

plairbfpraig

mac

ciccfpna lapraip Connachc

Cpeach cpiche caipppe Do Denam la hualgapcc ua puaipc ap

joipoelbaij co puce bu lomba laip.

pi lip

mac

Q018 CR10SO,
Qoip CpiopD,
mile,

1215.

Da

ceD,

a cuicc Decc.

Diompiup ua longapjdin aipoeppoc caipil Decc hi Roirh. Concobap ua henne eppcop cille Dalua Do ecc ap plijioh occ cionncub
Do lappan ccfcparhab comaiple jenepailce bai
Bishop of Hy-Fiachrack, eaypoj ua ppiacHe was Bishop of the Hy-Fiachrach pach in

ecclaip lacepanenpip.

" 6rnmioe injen hi Gicnic .1. bfn Oeoa hi neill, .1. pi Oilij, in bona penitentia quieuit."

Aidhne, whose country was co-extensive with

the diocese of KilmacduagTi. He could not have been bishop of the northern Hy-Fiachrach,
or Killala, as Corrnac O'Tarpaidh

This was one of the four Elagh, oileach of Ireland, and its ruins are royal palaces
situated on a hill about
six

miles north of
it

was bishop of

Derry.

Colgan thus
p. 181, col.
1,

that see from 1207 to 1226

tion of
n

See Harris's Edi-

Thaum.,

speaks of note 169

in

Trias
priscis

"
:

Ware's Bishops, pp. 649, 650.

ejnij.

scriptoribus Ailech Neid,

appellatur.
sedes, et post

0/TO] Hegny,

The Four Masters

Fuit perantiqua

hodie vulgo Ailech Begum Hibernia;

have omitted the ui by mere oversight. In the Annals of Ulster the reading is, bfnmioe injen
hui
Gijnij,
Sec.,

tempora fidei per easdem derelicta, Temoria denuo repetita et restaurata. Jacetin
Peninsula Borealis Ultoniffi Inis Eoghuin dicta

aud in those of Kilronan

1-215.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

185

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1214.

thousand two hundred fourteen.

,

m died. O'Kelly, Bishop of Hy-Fiachrach Ardgar O'Conor, Bishop of Sil- Murray [Elphin], died.

Behmee, daughter of
Aileach
,

[0']

Hegny", and wife of

life.

Hugh

O'Neill;

Queen of

died, after

having spent a virtuous

the son of Melaghlin O'Loughlin, on the coarb of Columbkille but Hugh himself was killed before the expiration of a year afterwards, through the miracles of God and Columbkille.
;

A depredation was committed by Hugh,

Cathal
p

Mac Dermot,

the son of Teige,

Lord of Moylurg, and tower of the

glory

of Connaught, died. Brian, the son of RoryO' Flaherty, the son of the

Lord of West Connaught,

died.

The

territory of

Carbury [Co.

Sligo], the possession of Philip

Mac Costello,
.

was preyed by Ualgarg O'Rourke,

who

carried off a

number of cows q

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
C/irist,

1215.

one thousand two hundred fifteen.

Dionysius O'Lonargan, Archbishop of Cashel, died at Rome. Conar (Cornelius) O'Heney, Bishop of Killaloe, died on his return from
the fourth General Council of Lateran.
tertio lapide a civitate Dorensi."
P

nobleness, or dignity, in a paper

oc-

Glory,

opban

The word opban, which

is

College, Dublin, H.
lates cuip

1,

MS. in Trinity 946. Colgan trans15, p.

curs so frequently in these Annals,

explained jjldip, no uipechap, glory, nobility, in the Gloss to Fiach's Hymn, in the Liber Hymnorum ; uap ul
noble grade or dignity, in a MS. in Tfin. Col. Dublin, H. 3, 18, p. 550; it is glossed apb
e.
i.

opoain 7 oipeachaip lapcaip Domain, supremum caput ordinum & procerum occidenTrias Thaum.,
p.

tis." q

298.

jpu6,i.

Under

this year (1214) the

Annals of Kil-

uinm,

e.

high name or fame, in the

Amhra
fol.

ronan record the erection, by the English, of the castles of Clonmacnoise and Durrow; and they

Shenain, preserved in the Leabkar Breac,

121, a;

add

that,

5pu6 no uaiple, dignity or

nobility,

castle of Clonmacnoise,

shortly after the completion of the Cormac, the son of Art

by Michael O'Clery, in his Glossary of ancient Irish words; and apo uuiple, no uipeacap, high

O'Melaghlin,

who had been

expelled from Del-

vin, returned into that territory,

and plundered

2 B

186

[1215.

Qnnub ua muipfohaij eppcop Conmaicne,

Do ecc. ppioip buine jfirhin

-\

TTlaolpoil

ua muipfohaij

cenel pfpjupa cona bpaicpib, q co nDpuing maoilpabaill coipec la TTluipeabac mac mopmaip Ifmna. moip ele immaille ppiu Do mapbaD OonnchaD ua Duibbiopma coipeac na mbpeoca DO ecc, nDuibpecclep

CpaD ua

Doipe.

Qongup ua
pib pen.

cloinne caipelldin coipeac

Diapmaca Do mapbab la a bpair-

Do ecc. coipec ceneoil pfpaDhai j Do mapbab la a bpaicpibh. TTlag cana coipec cenel afnjupa
TTlupchab

mac cacmaoil

DO ecc. Ruaibpi ua ploinn ciccfpna Dfplaip Decc. cuicpijh mac cappjamna caoipec mumcipe maoilcpionna caoimgin ua ceallaij bpfj Do jabdil la jallaib maimpcip pfci

caip ace achluam,

;

a cpochab leo

in

achcpuim.

mac

eicigein caoipeac cloinne

its cattle,

Diapmaca Do

ecc.

the castle of Clonmacnoise of

feated the

and deit.

English who were

defending

Under

this year, also, the

Annals of Ulster
Breiffe, or the was styled the

and of Kilronan

mention the appearance of

The diocese of Ardagh, however, was extended beyond the country of these tribes at the synod of Kath Breasail, about the year 1118, was defined thus " the discese of Arversed.

when

it

a certain character, called

false,

Aedh

or pretended, Hugh, who Cobhartach, the Aider, Liberator, or Deliverer.

and from dagh, from Ardcana to Slieve-an-ierin, Ceis Coran to Urchoilten."

5

O'Mulfavitt,
is

Ua maolpabaiU
is still

This name,

He was
make
it

evidently some person who wished to appear that he came to fulfil some Irish
failed to

which

Anglicised Moylfavill in the old transla-

tion of the Annals of Ulster,

common'in

prophecy, but
pression.
1

make

the intended im-

Inishowen, but Anglicised Mulfaal, and someThe same name is Anglicised times Mac Paul.
Lavelle in Connaught, though pronounced in The territory of the KinelIrish O'Mullaville.

Bishop of Conmaicne.

That

is,

bishop of the

Ardagh, which comprises the country of the eastern Conmaicne ; that is, Annaly, the tersee of

ritory of O'Farrell, in the county of Longford ; and Muintir Eolais, that of Mac Eannall, in the

Fergus, of whom O'Mulfaal was chief, was called Carraic Bhrachaidhe, and comprised the north-

county of Leitrim.

These two families descend

from Cormac, the illegitimate son of Fergus, the dethroned King of Ulster, by Meave, Queen of
Connaught, in the
herty's Oyygia, part
first
iii.

west part of Inishowen. c The Great Steward of Lennox, mopmaop leariina See O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part iii. c. 8 1
Cearhain,

now

the Leven,

is

a river flowing out

century.

See O'Fla-

c.

46, where,

by

mere

of Loch Lomond, and uniting with the Clyde at the town of Dumbarton. It gave name to a district coextensive

oversight in the construction of a Latin sentence, the situation of these territories is re-

with the present Dumbarton-

shire in Scotland. O'Flaherty thinks that the great

1215.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

r

187

Annudh O'Murray, Bishop of Conmaicne [Ardagh], and MaelpoilO'Murray,

Prior of Dungiven, died. 8 Trad O'Mulfavill Chief of Kinel-Fergusa, with his brothers, and a great number of people who were with them, were slain by Murray, the son of the
,

Great Steward of Lennox'.

Donough O'Duvdirma", Chief of Bredagh, died in the Duvregles of Derry. Aengus O'Carellan, Chief of the Clann-Dermot", was slain by his own
kinsmen.

Murrough Mac Cawell, Chief of Kinel-Farry, died. Mac Cann, Chief of Kinel-Aengusa, was slain by his kinsmen. x Eory OTlynn [O'Lynn], Lord of Derlas died. Gillacutry Mac Carroon,
,

Chief of Muintir Maoil-t-sionna, died.

Gillakevin O'Kelly of Bregia, was taken prisoner in the monastery of St. Peter at Athlone, by the English, and afterwards hanged by them at Trim.

Teige

Mac

y Etigen, Chief of Clann-Dermot, died

Stewarts of Leamhain, or Lennox, were descended from Maine Leamhna, the son of Core, King
of Munster,

the seat of O'Lyn, Chief of Hy-Tuirtre.

This

name, which

by Mongfinna, the daughter of Fe-

many

signifies a strong fort, was applied to other places in Ireland, and is sometimes

radhach, King of the Picts.

In the year 1014 Muireadhach (a name which the Scotch write Murdoch), the mormaer of Leamhain, assisted

Anglicised Thurles. The Editor has met several forts of this name in Ireland, but none in Hy-

Brian Borumha in the battle of Clontarf against the Danes, which the Irish writers urge as an
evidence of his Munster descent ; and some have

Tuirtre in the county of Antrim. The most remarkable fort of the name remaining in Ireland
is

situated in the parish of Kilruane, in the

thought that they discovered a strong resemblance between the pronunciation of the dialect
of the Gaelic which
is

barony of Lower Ormond, in the county of Tipperary it consists of three great circular embankments and two deep trenches:
:

spoken in this territory,

is

Under

this year the

Dublin copy of the An-

and that spoken in Munster. u CPDuvdirma This name

Inishowen,

nals of Innisfallen record, that a great

war broke

yet common in but sometimes corrupted to Mac

out between Dermot of Dundronan, the son of

Dermot.
Inishowen.

Bredach was the north-east part of

Donnell More na Curra Mac Carthy, and his brother Cormac Finn; that the English were assisting on both sides ; and that during this

tribe

Clann-Dermot, clann oiapmaoa, was the name of the Mac Egans, situated in the

war the English acquired great possessions, and made great conquests of lands, on which they
and strong forts for themselves, to defend them against the Irish. The following were the castles erected on this occasion
built castles
:

lying round Duniry, in the south of the present county of Galway.

district

Derlas, oeplap, called ouplapin the Annals of Ulster and of Kilronan. It was the name of

The

castle of

Muintir Bhaire,

in Kilcrohane

2 B 2

188

[1216.

QO1S CR1OSO,
Ctoip CpiopD, mile,

1216.

Da cecr, a pe oecc.

cloinne oorhnaill DO ecc. TTlacjamain ua laicbfpcais cijeapna ollarh Gpenn mbpeicfrhnup Do ecc. ^lolla apndin ua mapcain Uomalcac mac aoDa mic aipeaccaij ui jioDuib Do mapbaD la Domhnall mac afoha mic Diapmacra. each6onn mac gilliuiohip comapba pacpaicc, -| ppiomaiD na hGpeann Do
i

ecc

hi

Roimh

lap nofiglibfchaio.

TTlaoilpeaclainn
TWiaoilip.

mac Diapmaca Do rhapbaD Dpeapaib

ceall,

~\

Do mumcip

TTlupchaD
parish, erected

mac

ecc. T?uaibpi uf Concobaip DO

See Ordnance
land, in the parish of Creagh, in the east divi-

by Mac Cuddihy

Map

of the County of Cork, sheet 129. The castles of Dun na mbarc [Dunnamarc]

sion of the barony of West Carbery ; and the ruins of the castle of Baltimore, which was an-

and Ard Tuilighthe, by Carew.

See Ordnance

Map

The

of the county of Cork, sheet 118. castles of Dun Ciarain [Dunkerron] and

na peoo, are ciently called Dun at Baltimore village. same sheet,

shewn on the
harbour

The

castle of Traigh-bhaile, near the

Ceapa na Coise [Cappanacusha], near the Kenmare River, in Kerry, by Carew. See Ordnance

Map of Kerry,
The

sheet 92.

ofCuanDor [Glandore], was erected by Barrett. This castle was afterwards called Cloghatradand belonged to Donell na Carton O'Dobally,

Dunloe, in Kerry, by Maurice, son of Thomas Fitzgerald. See Ordnance Map

of Kerry, sheet 65. The castle of Killforgla [Killorglin], and the castle of the Mang [Castlemaine], in Kerry,

castle of

novan, Chief of Clann-Loughlin,

the 10th of
grandson.

who

died on

May, 1580, and to his son and It was situated in the townland of
of

by

KilfaughnaAghatubridmore, in the parish called Glandore Castle. beg, and is now generally
See Ordnance

the same Maurice.

sheets 47, 56.

See Ordnance

Map of Kerry,

Map

of Cork, sheet 142.

The
of Gala na feirse

castles of Timoleague and

Dundeady were

The

castles of Moylahiff,

[Callanafersy], of Cluain Maolain [Cloonmealane], and of Curreens [now Currans], by the

For their erected by Nicholas Boy de Barry. Ordnance Map of the County of situation see
Cork, sheets 123, 144.
1

son of Maurice Fitzgerald See Ordnance of Kerry, sheets 46, 47, 48, 56.

Map

Clann-Donnell,

clcmn oorhnaill.

These

of Dunnagall and Dun na sead The ruins of the for[Baltimore], by Sleviny. mer are marked on the Ordnance Map of the
castles

The The

castle of Arlioch,

by Roche.

were a distinguished sept of the Kinel-Moen, of Raoriginally seated in the present barony but afterwards driven across the Foyle phoe,

by the O'Donnells. See the year 1178, where it is stated that Rory O'Laverty was elected
chief of
all

County of Cork, sheet 150, on Ringarogy

Is-

Kinel-Moen, in place of Donnell

1216.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

.18!)

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1216.
sixteen.

thousand two hundred

Mahon
Giolla

O'Laverty, Chief of the Clann-Donnel?, died.

O'Martan, Chief Ollave (professor) of law in Ireland, died. Tomaltagh, the son of Hugh, who was the son of Oireaghtagh O'Rodiv, was slain by Donnell, the son of Hugh Mac Dermot.

Amain

Eachdonn Mac
at

Gilluire

a
,

Coarb of

St.

Patrick and Primate of Ireland, died

Rome,

after a well-spent

life.

Melaghlin, the son of

Dermotb was
,

slain

by the men of

Fircall

and the

people of Meyler. Murrough, the son of Roderic O'Conor, died.

O'Gormly, who was deposed. This is sufficient evidence to shew that O'Laverty was of the
race of the Kinel-Moen.
a

gain,

or Fox's country, and Kinel-Fiacha, or

Mageoghegan's country, both which it joined near Kilbeggan on the west by Delvin Eathra,
;

Eghdonn Mac

Gilla- Uidhir.

He

is

called

Eugene Mac

Gillivider in Harris's edition of

Ware's Bishops, p. 62. His death is entered in "A. D. 1216. the Annals of Ulster, as follows
:

Coghlan's country on the east by OfO'Conor Faly's country on the south-east faly, by Hy-Regan, or Duthaidh Riagain, O'Dunne's
or
; ;

Mac

Gchoonrv

mac 5'^ e

uibip,

comapba

parpaic,

country and on the south by Ely O'Carroll, from which it was separated by the Abhainn
;

7 ppimaic Gpenn pope jenepale conyiliutn iacepanenpe Rome pelicicep oboopmmic." Thus rendered in the old translation " A. D.
:

Chara, which

falls

into the Little Brosna, near

the town of Birr

See Feilire Aenguis, preserved in the Leabhar Breac of the Mac Egans,
fol. 9,

1216.

Eghdon Mac

Gilluir,

Coarb of Patrick
See

and Primate of Ireland, post generate Consilium

Lateranense Romce feliciter obdormiuit." note under the year 1206.
b

Melagftlinn, the son

ofDermot.

His surname

in which Kinnity (church) is placed on " the frontiers of Ely and Feara Ceall pman cam Cino ecij ccoicpich hell 7 pep cell." " Finan Cam of Kinnity, on the frontiers of Ely and Feara Ceall." The following places are men: i

was O'Dempsey, according to Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise.

c

tioned
viz.
:

by the old Irish writers

;

as in this territory,
;

Eathain(now Rahen) Durrow Magh-leana,

Fircatt,

The

territory of Feara-Ceall, as

now

already observed, comprised the baronies of Bal-

the parish of Moylena, alias Kilbride, containing the town of Tullamore ; Lann Elo (now

lycowan, Ballyboy, and Fircal, alias Eglish, in the King's County. It was the most southern
territory of ancient Meath, and the hereditary principality of the O'Molloys, descended from

Lynally)

Coill-na-gcrann (now called Kilmore and Greatwood, and situated in the parish of
;

Killoughy); Pallis ; Ath-buidhe (now Bally boy); O'Dugan Eglish; Baile-an-duna ; Drumcullen.

Fiacha, the son of Niall of the Nine Hostages. It was bounded on the north by Muintir-Thadh-

honours the peapa ceall with the following

quatrain
:

190

[1217.
cille

Caiplen

Dalua DO Denam la Seappaij mapep,

19.

-\

an jailleappoc

pop DO benamh cighe innre ap eiccin. On cpfp ilenpg Do pioghaDh op Sa^ain

Occobep.

aois crcioso,

1217.

Qoip CpiopD, mile, Da ceD, a pechc Decc.

5iolla cijeapnaijh mac jiolla Ronam eppcop Qipjiall, Gpeann Do ecc lap bpCnnainn, -\ lap nairhpicche.
-\

cfnn cananac

Oiapmair mac concobaip mic Diapmaca njeapna muiji luipcc Do bomnaill bfn carail cpoibbfipcc Do ecc. TTlop mjfn uf bpiain, Oomnall ua ga&pa Do ecc.
.1.

ecc.

Niall

mac mic

lochlainn

ui

Concobaip Do ecc.

Donnchab ua maoilbpenainn caoipeac cloinne concobaip Do ecc. ua pfpjail Do mapbaD la TTlupchaD cappac ua ppfpjail.
c

mac aca&ain caoipeac

pean

cloinne pfpmaije Do ecc.

T3i

bpeap ceall na

j-clotoearii

Ware's Works,
e

vol.

i.

pp. 521-593.

O'TTlaoilriiuaiD,

paop an plomoeao,
;

Under the year 1216 the Annals of Kilroentries,

l?o

paomao 506 lann leipean

na aonap aijepean.

nan contain the following

which the

T?arf

Four Masters have omitted:

"

King of Feara
Is O'Molloy,

"A. D.
Ceall of ancient swords

1216.

world at
noble the surname,
centius,
;

Rome

at Lateran, after this

synod of the clergy of the with the Pope Innosynod (council), Pope

Every sword was vanquished by him

and soon

He
d

has a division to himself alone."

T/te castle ofKittaloe

This passage

is

given

Innocentius quieuit in Christo. "John, King of England, was deposed by the English this year, and died of a fit. (In the

in the

Annals of Clonmacnoise,

as translated

by

Annals of Clonmacnoise,
geoghegan,
it is

as translated

by Ma-

Connell Mageoghegan, as follows: " A. D. 1216. " founded a Geffrey Marche" [De Marisco] Castle at Killaloe, and forced the inhabitants
to receive
this bishop

stated that he died in the

Ab-

" bey of Swynshead, being poyson'd by drinking of a cup of ale wherein there was a toad pricked

an English Bushop." was Eobert Travers.

The name of

He was

after-

wards deprived (in 1221), and the see continued to be filled almost exclusively by Irishmen till
the Eeformation,
there having been but one Englishman, namely, Eobert de Mulfield, who

with a broach.") "The son of the King of France assumed the government of England, and obtained her hostages."
" Gilla Croichefraich

Mac Carroon and

the

priest O'Celli died, both having been crossed

and

succeeded in

1409

See

Harris's

edition

of

ordered to go to the Eiver [Jordan]. " The abbot O'Lotan, a learned and pious

1217-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

castle of Killaloe
d

191

The

was erected by Geoffrey Mares. The English Bishop

force.

also built a

house there by

Henry

III.

was crowned

in

6 England on the 19th of October

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1217.
seventeen.

thousand two hundred

Gillatierny Mac Gillaronan, Bishop of Oriel (Clogher), and head of the canons of Ireland, died, after penance and repentance*. Dermot, the son of Conor Mac Dermot, Lord of Moylurg, died.

More, daughter of O'Brien (Donnell), and wife of Cathal Crovderg

[O'Conor], died.

Donnell O'Gara died.

Niall, the

grandson of Loughlin O'Conor, died. Donough O'Mulrenin, Chief of the Clann-Conor, died.
Teige O'Farrell was
Gillapatrick
slain

by Murrough Carragh

O'Farrell.
,

Mac Acadhain, Chief of Clann-Fearmaighe 8

Gregory, son of Gilla-nain the county of Leitrim

died.

man, in pace

quieuit.

naingel, abbot of the

quieuit, in the East,

monks of Ireland,

in pace

being expelled by the of Drogheda, through envy and jealousy.

monks

; Muintir-Kenny lying between Lough Allen and the bounprincipally dary of the county of Eoscommon, and Clann-

" The Archbishop O'Eooney was cruelly and violently taken prisoner by Maelisa O'Conor,

Fermaigh, comprising

all

the valley of Glanfarne.

and the Connacians, who cast him in chains, a thing of which we never heard a parallel, i. e.
the fettering of an archbishop. " Patriciua, Bishop of Knockmoy, quieuit."

The following chiefs are placed in the district of West Breifny, and tributary to O'Eourke, in O'Dugan's topographical poem, viz. Mac Tier:

nan of Tealach Dunchadha, now the barony of Tullyhunco, in the county of Cavan Magauran,
;

Chief of Tealach Eachdhach,

Repentance, iap bpfnamo 7 naichpicche In the Annals of Ulster at 1218, andofKilro-

Tullyhaw, in the

now the barony of same county Mac Consnamha,

;

nan in 1217,

this phrase is given in Latin thus:

"5'U-a

cisfpncuj- tnac

aipgiall 7 cfnn
tentia quieuit."

fylla Ronain er-puc cananac Sperm in bona peni-

(and sometimes ridiculously anglicised Fordc), Chief of Muintir-Kenny, and Mac Cagadhain, Chief of Clann-Fermaighe, both
in the present

now Mac Kinnaw

barony of Dromahaire, in the

*Clann-Fearmaighe. The natives still remember the name of this territory, and that of the
adjoining one of Muintir Kenny, both which are contained in the present barony of Dromahaire,

county of Leitrim ; Mac Darcey, Chief of KinelLuachain, a territory which comprised the present parish of Oughteragh, at the foot of Slievean-ierin
;

in Dartry

and Mac Clancy, and his correlatives and Calry, territories nearly all in-

192

Riohachra
Domnall mac TTlupchab
rheg cocldin cigeajina uprhoip
tiiacaib TTlaoileaclamn

[1218.

oealbna Do rhap-

bab DO

meag

coclin

meabail

liarDpuim.

Cacal

pionn 6 lacrna caoipeac an

i

Da bac Do mapbaD la hua pploinn

maighe Vieleocc

ppiull

iria

njh

pfin.

Copbmac mac Uomalcaij ooipDneDh.

QOIS CR1OSO,
Qoip CpiopD,
mile,

1218.

Da checc, a hochc Decc.

Cletnenp eppcop luijhne Do ecc. na naom ua sopmjaile Saccapc pctca liipaij Do ecc ina oilichpe.
eluded in the present barony of Kossclogher, in the north of the county of Leitrim. h Liathdruim. There is no place in the territory of Delvin Mac Coghlan, now called Liathdruim, unless we may suppose Leitra, in the parish of Clonmacnoise, to be a corruption of it. See

son of Tomaltagh of the Eock, the son of Conor. Under this year the Annals of Kilronan contain the

altogether omitted

following entries, which have been by the Four Masters ;

" A. D. 1217. Oisin, Abbot of Abbeyderg [in

the county of Longford], died. " The fishermen of all Ireland, from Waterford and

Ordnance

Map

o'f

the King's County, sheet 13.

There is a place called Liathdruim, Anglice Leitrim, in the parish of Monasteroris, in the same See Ordnance Map, sheet 1 1 county.
. '

Wexford

in

the south, to DerryIsle of

Columbkille in the north, went to the

Mann

to fish,

where they committed aggressions,

Moy-h

JSleoff,

tnaj heleog.

A level district
in the

but were

all killed in

Mann

in retaliation for

in the parish of Crossmolina,

Tirawley, in the county of Mayo. under the year 1 1 80. The territory of the Two Backs lies principally bet\veen Lough Conn and
the Kiver
k

barony of See note

their violence.

" The Abbots of

all

Ireland went to England,

to the general chapter held there this year ;

but

Moy.

their attendants were dispersed, and the most of them were slain in England; and the Abbot of

This entry should be made a part of the second paragraph under this year, relating to
it is

Drogheda was deprived of

chapter."

his

abbacy

at this

Dermot mac Dermot, Lord of Moylurg, for so given in the more ancient and more correct
Annals of Ulster and of Kilronan.
thus in the Annals of Ulster
:

"

Every

fruit tree

produced abundance of fruit

this year."

It stands

" The English of Ulidia mustered a plundering army, with which they proceeded to Armagh, and plundered it. O'Fotuelan was the
totally

A. D. 1218. tDiapmaio

mac ConchuBaip

mic Oiapma&a pi ITluije luipj mopcuup epc. Copmac DO jabcnl pii oa ip.
In the Annals of Kilronan, which
nicle of the district, this
is

person who guided them, for he had promised the people of Armagh that the English would
not plunder them so long as he should be with them (the English). In a week after, O'Neill

the Chrocalled the

Cormac

is

1218.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Mac Mac

193

Donnell, the son of Murrough

Delvin, was treacherously
slain

Coghlan, Lord of the greater part of

Coghlan, at

by the sons of Melaghlin

Liathdruim".

Cathal Finn O'Laghtna, Chief of the Two Bacs, was treacherously slain in his own house by O'Flynn of Moy-h-Eleog'.

Cormac, the son of Tomaltagh [Mac Derniot], was inaugurated

11 .

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1218.

thousand two hundred eighteen.

Clemens, Bishop of Leyny [Achonry], died.

Gilla-na-naev O'Gormally, priest of Rathloury
1 ,

died on his pilgrimage.

Roe and Mac Mahon came and took a great prey from the English, namely, one thousand two The English and O'Fotuelan hundred cows.
pursued them, but the Kinel-Owen turned upon them, and killed fourteen men who were clad in
coats of mail, besides the Constable of

p.

See Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops, 286, under Flathberty G'Brokain, where it is stated that "the episcopal see was translated
Harris.
to

from Ardsrath
to St. Luroch,

whose

Maghere, which was dedicated festival is celebrated on the

Dundalk

and O'Fotuelan was killed in revenge of

Patrick."
1

St.

17th of February." In a Latin epitaph on a tombstone in the cemetery of the Roman Catholic chapel
of Maghera, the late Dr. Makeever, P. P. of
is

Rathloury,
fort.

lupaij, i. e. St. Lurach's This church, about the situation of which

Rac

ghera,
saint

called ParochusRatUurensis.
locally called St.

is

now

Loury.

MaThe patron The cathe-

our topographical writers 'have committed so

dral church of the

many
is

strange blunders, is still well known; it the head of a deanery in the county of Londonis

Ardstraw, in

Kinel-Owen was originally at the north-west of Tyrone, whence it

town of Maghera, called Machaire Eatha Luraigh, where anciently the church, grave, and holy well of St. Lurach
derry, and
situated in the

to Rath Luraigh, in the present town of Maghera, in the county of Londonderry. In course of time the ancient bishopric of Ardstraw became a part of the see of

was afterwards translated

are

still

to be seen,

and where his

festival

was

See Cacelebrated on the 17th of February The situalendar of the O'Clerys at this day.
tion of this church,
to be the

Clogher; but on the elevation of Derry into a bishop's see in the year 1 158, the bishopric of

same

as

which some have supposed Ardstraw, was well known to

Rath Luraigh was made a part of its diocese and finally, by the power of German O'Cer;

vallan,

and

his tribe of the Kinel

Owen, the

See his Primordia, pp. 856, 857, where he says that the bishopric of Ardstraw, together with that of llathlurig, then a deanery called

Ussher

bishopric of Ardstraw was separated from the diocese of Clogher, and annexed to that of Derry,

about the year 1266

1179.

See note under the year

Its Rathloury, was annexed to the see of Derry. situation was also well known to Ware and even to

2 c

194
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[1218.

ua Oai^pe ai]iclnnneach Doipe column cille Do ecc an roccrhaD lap nDenam la Do becembep lap mbfic cfcpacar bbaDain ma aipchinDeac, ccuaic. Do gniorh hi call jaca maicfpa pop caorhnaccaip Ufmpall mainipcpe na buille Do coippeaccaD. ua ccuipcpe Do mapbab la gallaib, TTluipcfpnac ua ploinn ciccfpna fil ccacapaicch uile, cuip Conjalach ua cuinn raoipeac TTlaije lujaD, DO mapbab la gallaib beop einijjh, oipoeapcaiy cuai^cipc Gpeann
-]
i

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-]

jaipcceb, ceDna. ip in 16

~\

Da Ruaibpi, i TTIaoilpeaclainn
bfccain.

riiac

meg

coclain Do ecc

maimpcip

cille

Cochlamn ua Concobaip Do ecc

m Maelisa
lated

-|

mainipcip cnuic tnuai&e.

but
its site is pointed out about one hundred perches to the south of the town. Its burial ground still remains, but the site of the monas-

O^Deery
:

by Colgan chidnechus Dorensis in hospitalitatiis, aliisque

This passage is thus trans" Moelisa Hua Doighre Ar-

bonis operibus prsedicabilis, postquam munus Archidnechi quadraginta annis exercuerat ; obiit

tery
p

is

now

a green field.
:

Louffftlin

'Conor.

He was the
6, col. 4.
i.

tenth son of

Doria 8 Decembris."
not the archdeacon, as
quaries have supposed.
n

The aipcinneach was

Turlough More O' Conor, Monarch of Ireland

See Book of Lecan, foL 72,

many

respectable anti-

iRmockmoy, Cnoc mucuoe,

e.

Collis

Muadice.

Hoy-Lughad, mag lujao. This is called Magh Lughach in the Annals of Kilronan.
There were several
trict in

Now the Abbey

of

Knockmoy,

in the

barony

districts

in Ireland of this
is

of Tiaquin, in the county of Galway, and about This is six miles to the south-east of Tuam.

name, but the one here mentioned

a level dis-

the

Hy-Tuirtre, in the present county of Antrim, which is mentioned in these Annals at

Four Masters.

A. M. 2859, and in Keating's History of Ireland (Haliday's edition, p. 178), as cleared of wood in the time of Neimhidh, the leader of the second
This passage is rendered colony into Ireland. in the old translation of the Annals of Ulster as
follows:

this monastery by the According to Grace's Annals of Ireland, the Abbey of Knockmoy, which was otherwise called de Cotte Victoria;, was founded
first

mention made of

by Cathal Crovderg, King of Connaught, in the year 1 1 89 but the Dublin copy of the Amials
;

of Innisfallen,

and Ware's Antiquities at Galits

way, and also his annals, place

the year 1190.
It
is

foundation in

"A. D.

of Turtry,

1218. Murtagh O'Flyn, King was killed by the Galls, Congalach

the general opinion of Irish historians that Cathal Crovderg founded

this

O'Cuin, the Candle of feats and courage of the North of Ireland, Prince [nij coipech] of Moye " Luga and Kindred Cathasay, all" [both] killed
the same day."
Kilbeggan,
cill beccain.

abbey

for Cistercian

monks,

in

commemo-

ration of a victory, which he had gained at the hill of Knockmoy, and hence called it de
Colle Victoria;.

Now

a town in

century,

now

at the

In a compilation of the sixteenth Convent of Esker, near

the south of the county of Westmeath. There is not a vestige of the monastery now remaining,

Athenry, it is stated that the Abbey of crioc buao, i. e. monasterium de Colle Victories, was

1218.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

,

195

Erenagh of Deny, died on the 18th of December having been Erenagh of Deny for forty years, and having done all the good in his power, both in Church and State.
.

Maelisa 0'Deery m

of the monastery of Boyle was consecrated. Murtough O'Flynn, Lord of Hy-Tuirtre, was slain by the English and Congalagh O'Quin, Chief of Magh Lugad", and of all Sil-Cathasaigh, and tower
;

The church

of the valour, hospitality, and renown of the north of Ireland, was also slain by the English on the same day.

Rory and Melaghlin, two sons of Mac Coghlan, died

Kilbeggan
.

in the monastery of

q p Loughlin O'Conor died in the monastery of Knockmoy

founded by Carolus O'Conor about the year 1220; but this is totally wrong in the name

tory without being corroborated by some cotemporaneous English or Irish authority. Dr. Led-

name

and date of the foundation, for the original Irish is not cnoc buaio, the hill of the victory, but

wich says, that the battle in commemoration of which the Abbey of Knockmoy was built, was
" In the fought in Ulster! height of the battle," writes the doctor, " O'Conor vowed to build an

ofMuaidh, a woman's name, denoting good, or noble (maic no uapal) and this name is unquestionably older than the
hill
;

cuoc imiaioe, the

time of Cathal Crovderg, for the plain adjoining the hill of Knockmoy was called Magh Muaidhe
at a

abbey in his own country, if he was crowned with success, and he erected Knockmoy, in Irish, Cnocmugha, the
ters styled
hill
'

of slaughter, and in monkish wri-

very early period. covered no contemporaneous or trustworthy account of the battle said to have been fought and

The Editor has

dis-

Monasterium de Colle Victoria,' to perpetuate the remembrance of O'Conor's victory."

p.

Antiquities of Ireland,

second edition,

won by

Cathal Crovderg at this place, and is inclined to think that Cottis Victories is but a fanciful translation of the ancient Irish
hill, as if it

520.

Dr. Leland, however, with that display of

philosophic
inference from
his

were cnoc rnbtiaib.

name Of such

of the
fanci-

which renders
rity, treats as

work worthless

legendary events, as an autho-

ful

translations

we have

several instances

in

true history the account of this

other parts of Ireland, as de Rosea Vatte, for Rop ^lap; de Viridi ligno, for Newry, or luBap

supposed battle contained in the Book of Howth, which he quotes (but without knowing that it

Cinn cpajja; de

Voile salutis, for tnamirrip

an
it

was the Book of Howth),

as a

MS.

in the

Lam-

BeuUnj, &c. Hanmer, in

The Book

of

Howth, and from

his Chronicle

(Dublin edition of

beth Library, P. No. 628, and draws the following conclusion, which shews that a man may

1809, pp. 338-341), give an account, but without mentioning the place, of a "bloody battaile"

be a sound logician, though a bad judge of the After authenticity of historical monuments.
describing the fictitious battle,
lie

between O'Conor and Sir Armoric

in

St.

Lawrence,

writes: "

An

which Sir Armoric and

all

his small

band of

were annihilated; but it is a mere romance, and should not be received as hissteel-clad warriors

advantage gained with such difficulty and so little honour, was yet sufficient for the levity

and vanity of Cathal.

He founded

an abbey

2 c 2

196

[1219.

Cpeac DO

Denarii la gallaib
-\

ap uib bpium na Sionna, Dpeam Do connachcaibh t>o bpeic poppa 50 paimiD popp na jallaib 50 ccopba&ab Oiob. Do pochaip mac uf cpacap cuilleaD ap ceo eiccip mapbaD, a maille ppip. Concobaip pppiofguin na pjainnpe 50 nopuing Dia muincip
-| "|
i

la muipcfprac cappac ua ppfpjail mme, mac coippbealbaij mic maoileaclamn, Diapmaic

-|

aois CRIOSO,
Qoip CpiopD,
mile,

1219.

Da ceD, a naoi Decc.

maoileoin eppcop cluana mic noip to bacao. ponachcan ua bpondin comopba coluim cille DO ecc,

Goo ua

-|

plann ua bpol-

chain oo oiponeaD

ma

iona6 ip

in

corhopbup.
t>o

TTlaelfpclamn

mac Concobaip maonmaije

mapbab la TTlajnup mac

i

coipp&ealbaij i Concobaip lap ngabail cije paip i ccluain cuaipcipc. SluaiccheaD la hUa noomnaill .1. oomnall mop ngaipbcpian connacr Da
lordship of O'Beirne.

upon the field of action called de Colle Victories; and by this weak and inconsiderate mark of
triumph, raised a trophy to the romantic valour
of his enemies."

To

this

circumstance
:

O'Dugan

refers in the following lines

TTIuincip Beipn,

cpo&a an carpal,

Mr. Moore

Qp
in opposition to all writers,

riiacaiB O'lTlannuchdn;

says,

that this battle was fought on the site of the abbey, between two rivals of the house of

Cpe

dp

jleo, cpe Bpi j, cpe Bagap, leo cip a o-canjaoap.

O'Conor, but he quotes no authority, and we must therefore conclude that he drew his account
of the event
facts.

" The O'Beirnes, a brave battalion,

Are over the

race of

O'Monahan

by inference from other collateral The truth would seem to be that there is
to

By
s

fighting,

by

vigour,

The

district into

by which they came

threatning,
is

their's."

no evidence
fought, and
that the

prove that such a battle was ever

therefore,

it is,

but

fair to

assume

Under this year the Annals of Ulster and of Kilronan record the death of Gilla-Ernan O'Martan, chief

name de

Colle Victories is

but a fanciful

Brehon of
;

Ireland,

who had

retired

Latinized translation of cnoc ITIuaiDe, orKnock-

into a monastery

and the

latter annals record

moy.

Hy-Briuin of the Shannon, otherwise called Tir Briuin na Sionna, now Tir ui Bhriuin. -A
1

the death of the poet O'Maelrioc, the most distinguished of the poets of Ireland, next after the

O'Dalys

also the death of O'Nioc,

;

Abbot of

beautiful district in the county of lloscommon,

lying between Elphin and Jamestown, of which O'Manachain, now Monahan, was chief up to the

and they also record the burning of that part of the town of Athlone belonging to Meath.
Kilbeggan
E

year 1249, but after that period

it

became the

In

his place.

This passage

is

thus rendered,

12190

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

197

depredation was committed by the English of Meath, and by Murtcmgh Carragh O'Farrell on the Hy-Briuin of the Shannon'. Dermot, the son of

Turlough, who was the son of Melaghlin, and some of the Connacians, overtook them, and defeated the English, of whom upwards of one hundred

The son of O'Conor and some of his persons were either slain or drowned. people fell fighting, in the heat of the conflict*.
4

THE AGE OF CHKIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1219.
nineteen.

thousand two hundred

O'Malone, Bishop of Clonmacnoise, was drowned. Fonaghtan O'Bronan, Coarb of St. Columbkille, died and Flann O'Brol-

Hugh

laghan was appointed in his place'. Melaghlin, the son of Conor Moinmoy, was slain by Manus", the son of Turlough O'Conor, who had taken his house (by force) at Cloontuskert".

An
word
for

army was

led

by O'Donnell (Donnell More)

into the

Eough Third

of

word, in the old translation of the Annals " A. D. of Ulster 1219. Fonaghtan O'Bronan,
:

him and Godfrey O'Deery, the Erenagh, about the professorship, when the matter was referred to
the Coarb of St. Patrick,

Coarb of Colum-kill,
put

died.

Flan O'Brolcan was

who

settled their dif-

in his place in the coarbship ;"

:

Colgan, in Trias T/taum., p. 506

and thus by " Fanactanus

ferences, and decided, by consent of all the parties, that John Mac Infhir leighinn should be ap-

O'Broin, Abbas Dorensis, obiit; et in ejus locum Flannius O'Brolchain suffactus est."

pointed to the professorship.

u

Manm,

mctjnur-.

He was

the tenth son of

is

In the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster it stated, that on the death of O'Bronan, a dis-

pute arose between the people of Derry and the Kinel-Owen, about the election of a successor ;
that the people of Derry elected Mac Cawell, and that Hugh O'Neill and the Kinel-Owen
elected

Turlough More O'Conor, Monarch of Ireland See Book of Lecan, fol. 72, b, col. 4. w Cloontuskert, cluctin There are
ruaipcipc
in

two

places of this

name
is

Connaught, but the

one here referred to

unquestionably that situated near the River Suck, about five miles
south of Ballinasloe, in the county of Galway, where are the ruins of an extensive monastery Conor Moinmoy O'Conor, erected by O'Kelly. the father of Melaghlin O'Conor, who had his

Flann O'Brollaghan, and established him

;

in the coarbship

that soon after a dispute arose

between the people of Derry and O'Brollaghan, when the latter was expelled; that after this
the people of Derry and the Kinel-Owen elected Murtough O'Milligan, the Lector of Derry, who

enjoyed his professorship and the abbacy for a

year, vel pauloplus,

house here, made great efforts to wrest the terfrom the O'Kellys of Hyritory of Moinmoy and erected a castle at Ballinasloe, in the Many,
very heart of their country.

when a dispute

arose between

Rio^hachna eiReawN.
-] -\

[1220.

cara aoba pinn uite urhla uf puaipc, i ui ftai^illij, bpuaip bpai^De, gabail Do mp fin cpe pfpaib manach 50 |io milleab laip gac conaip cpep a cuaic ooneoc bai pppfpabhpa ppipp. ccuDlicaiD ecip all,
-[
i

~\

Ualcjia oe lacg, 1

mac

uilliam biipc Do ceacc

Sajcoibh.
i

Ouboapa mac

TTluipfoaij ui maille Do

mapbab

n^fimeal la carol

cpoibhbfpcc ina longpopn pfm cpe na

rhijniorhaibh.

Gnoa

ijac t>anaip

ui

rhaoilciapdm Do ecc.

QO1S CR1O3O,
Qoip CpiopD,
i

1220.
pice.

mile,

Da ceo, a

lacobup Do rocc nGpinn ina lejaiDec on bpapa Do pfiDiuccaD, Dal ecclapracoa na hGpeann, ~\ a ool pop cculaibh Dopioipi. DopoucchaD

-\

Concobaip Do mapba6 la comap mac uccpaij ag cecc a hinnpibh gall, ap ccionol coblaij Do Diapmaic 05 cecc Do jabail pije connachr. UlaolpuanaiD ua Duboa Do bacaD ap an ccoblac cceDna.
TCuaiDpi
(.1.

Oiapmaic mac

mac coippDealbaig

rhoip)

ITlaolpeachlainn,

Diapmaic mac
rheabail.

maoilpeclainn bice Do bachab ap loc pib. bpiain Daill Do mapbab Do mac marjarhna ui bpiain cpe
la gallaib mi&e 50 liach liacc 50 nDfpnBrian, the brother of the

mac

SluaijeaD la ualcpa De lacg,

x

-)

Rough Third of Connaught, jaipBcpiun Connacc Connell Mageoghegan, in his translation

of the Annals of Clonniacnoise, states that the

Monarch

Niall, of the
dis-

Nine Hostages, and ancestor of the most

tinguished families of
*

Connnught.

rough third of Connaught comprised the counties of Leitrim, Longford, and Cavan. " A. D. 765. The
Kules of St. Quasran and St. Aidan were preached in the three thirds of Counaught, whereof the

The O'Malleys were CPMattey, ua maille. chiefs of Umhall, a territory comprising the baronies of Murrisk and Burrishoole, in the west
of the county of Mayo.
parts, called
It

was divided into two

two Brenyes and Annally, counties of Leytrym, Longford, and Cavan were one third part called
the
y

Upper and Lower Umhall, the former comprising the barony of Murrisk, and the
latter that of Burrishoole.

Rough Third Part of Connaught." Race of Aedh Finn, car ae6a pinn,

These divisions are

See

i.

e.

the

called the

Owles by English writers

map

O'Rourkes, O'Reillys, and their correlatives, descended from Aedh Finn, son of Feargna, the son
of Fergus, son of Muireadhach, son of

prefixed to Genealogies, Tribes,

and Customs of

Hy-Fiac/irac/t, printed for the Irish ArcliEeological Society in 1844.

a

Sriabh, son of

Eoghan Duach Galach, who was son of

Under

this year

the Annals of Kilronan

1220.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

199

Connaught", and obtained hostages and submission from O'Rourke and O'Reilly, He afterwards passed through Fermaand from all the race of Aedh Finn y
.

nagh, and destroyed every place through which he passed, both lay and ecclesiastical property, wherein there was any opposition to him. Walter de Lacy and the son of William Burke returned from England.

Duvdara, the son of Murray* O'Malley, was put to death for his crimes by Cathal Crovderg O'Conor, while in fetters in O'Conor's fortress.
Enda, the son of Danar O'Mulkieran,
died".

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1220.

thousand two hundred twenty.

Jacobus came to Ireland as the Pope's Legate, to regulate and constitute b the ecclesiastical discipline of Ireland, and then returned home
.

Dermot, the son of Roderic (who was son of Turlough More O'Conor), was slain by Thomas Mac Uchtry, as he was coming from the Insi Gall (Hebrides),
after

having there collected a

fleet,

for the purpose of acquiring the

kingdom

of Connaught.

Melaghlin, Ree.

Mulrony O'Dowda was drowned on the same expedition. the son of Melaghlin Beg [O'Melaghlin], was drowned in Lough
slain

Dermot, the son of Brian Dall, was treacherously

O'Brien.

by the son of'Mahon

to

An

army was led by Walter de Lacy and the English of Meath

Salvation."

contain the following entries, of which the Four Masters have collected no account: "A.D. 1219-

But

in the

The Coarb of Feichin

its

of Fore

mortuus

est."

1221, this entry is given differently, thus: 1221. lacop penciail DO rfcc

Annals ofKilronan, under the year A. D.

"Cluain Coirbthe [Kilbarry] was burned, both houses and church, in this year, and Drogheda was carried away by the flood.
b

map legdm

Roim bo pebujao
na n-ec

Returned home.

In the Annals of Clonmac-

7 eipeaju DO eimrujuo 66 o cleipcib 6penn cpe Simoncacc, 7 imceacc DO a

6al ejlapDacoa,

D'dp, 7 o'aipjeo

noise, as translated
is

by Mageoghegan,

this passage

h-6pmn
Rome,

if in

mbliaoum ceona.
to Ireland as a

"A. D. 1221.
Legate from and he

given as follows :
" A. D.
1

Jacob Penciail came

220, Jacob, the Pope's Legate,

came

to settle the ecclesiastical affairs,

to Ireland this year,

went about

all

the King-

collected horse-loads of gold

and

silver

from the

dome

for the

Reformation of the Inhabitants,

for their

and constituted many wholesome rules

clergy of Ireland by simony, and he departed from Ireland the same year."

200

cmwaccmwac-a Kio^hachca eireeaNR

[1221.

cacal cpoibofpcc cap Sionamn ann. Sluaijeab ele la r ac upmop caifUm ab eccla na 5 oill 50 noeapnpac pic le hua cconcobhr oip ip in ccalab, gup 5
aip, i

co po pccaoilpioc connaccaigh an caiplea DO Qn caipneach piabach ma 5 Flanncha6a, -[ pfpjal a 5 pampaDam mac oomnaill mic peapjail, -\ la cloinn .1. mapbao la hdooh ua puaipc
pfprnaighe.

aois cr?ioso,
Qoip
Sancc Dominic [DO
Cpiopt), mfle,
ecc].

1221.

Da

ceo, pice

h-doin.

Copbmac ab comaip Do rhapbaD. TTlac hujo De laa Do fechc i nGpinn Do Oo coiDpioD ap aon mbaib aoDa uf nell.
c

nfriiroil
i

camij Do najaiD jail Gpeann,

Rig

Sajcan,

-|

-|

baj, now called baile aca liaj and Anglicised Ballyleague. The name ac liaj was
originally applied to the ford

Qr

whereupon, Cahall Crovederg, King of Connought, with his forces, went to the west" [recte
east]

on the Shannon at

" of the river of Synen, and the English-

Lanesborough. Ballyleague

is

now

the

name

of

that part of the village of Lanesborough, on the west side of the Shannon, in the province of Cpn-

men, seeing them encamped at Calace, were strocken with fear, and came to an attonement
of Truce ; the Englishmen returned to their

own

See Tribes and Customs of Hy-Many, naught. for the Irish Archa;ological Society, in printed 1843, and the map prefixed to the same work.

houses, and Cahall Crovederg broke down the

said Castle."

The passage

is

better given in the

Annals of Kilronan, but under the year 1221,

as follows:

The Athliag on the Shannon is called Alhliag Finn in the work called Dinnsenchus, where
it

ford of Finn's [Mac Cumexplained stones. There is another place on the haill's]
is
tlie

A. D. 1221. Cairlen Ctra liaj bo puabaipc Do oenurh oo Ualopa Oelaci, 7 DO fluaj; na

iriibe ule.

River Suck, called anciently Athliag Maenacain, i. e. St. Maenacan's Stony- ford, now Anglicised
Athleague.
d

cualaoap imoppu Connacca pm cancooap caipip miap co pancoDap rpi lap ITluincipe h Qnjoile, 7 a maj mbpeamui6e jup loipceDop Dumjjfn hi Chumn, 7 co noea-

Oo

Caladlt

This territory

is still

well

known

caoap cpetnic pap

ooib
in

ip in

Cala6, cup pacba&

cpe coip pira.

in the country,
cline,

and contains the parish of Eathin the west of the county of Longford.

caiplen ap
1221.

eicin, 7

This passage is given as follows, in Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise.

"A. D. 1220. Walter Delacie and the English of Meath, with their forces, went to Athliag, where
they founded a
castle,

The Castle of Ath liag was atto be made by Walter De Lacy and the tempted forces of all Meath. But when the Connacians heard of this, they came across [the Shannon]
from the West, and proceeded through the middle of Muintir-Annaly, and Magh Breagh-

"A. D.

which they finished almost;

1221.]
c

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

,

201

where they erected the greater part of a castle. Another army was led by Cathal Crovderg, eastwards across the Shannon, into the territory d and the English, being stricken with fear, made peace with him of Caladh
Athliag
, ;

and the Connacians destroyed the castle. The Cairneach Biabhach" Mac Clancy f and Farrell Magauran s were killed by Hugh, the son of Donnell, who was son of Farrell O'Rourke, and by the
, ,

Clann-Fermaighe

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
St.

1221.

Christ, one

thousand two hundred twenty-one.

Dominic

[died].

Cormac, Abbot of Comar', was killed. The son of Hugo de Lacy came to Ireland, without.the consent
of England, and joined

of

the

King

Hugh

O'Neill.

Both

set out to

oppose the English of

mhuidhe, and burned O'Quin's fortress, and passing through it westwards into the territory of
Caladh na h-Anghaile], they compelled the castle to be left to them, on conditions
e. [i.

great priest of Taghshinny" [in the county of

Longford],

"a senior distinguished by his piety,

on his

Caladh

charity, wisdom, learning, and writings,

pilgrimage in the sanctuary of Jniscloghran" [in

of peace."
'

Lough
i.

llee].

The Cairneach Riabhach,

e.

sacerdos fuscus,

They
all

also record the

the swarthy or tan-coloured priest. O'Clery explains the word cuipneuc by receipt, a
priest.
It

treuille [Netterville] into Ireland, as

coming of Lucas de LePrimate of

first

Ireland,

and remark that he was the

this Primate's
i.

was the name of a celebrated

saint,

who nou-

Englishman that became Primate of Ireland. For more of

ris's
'

rished in the sixth century, and had his principal church at Dulane, near Kells in Meath. See Battle of
f

history,

see

Har-

Ware,

vol.

pp. 64, 65.

is

Magh

Eath. pp. 20, 146.

Comar

This place

called

Domhnach Comupon which

Mac

Clancy,

mag

plunnchaoa, was chief of

buir, in the sixth life of St. Patrick,

the barony of Eossclogher, in the north of the county of Leitrim.

l)artry,

now

Colgan writes the following note in Trias Thaum.,

p.

" 114, col. 2, note 142:

Domnach commuir

Magauran, mac rampaoain. This name is sometimes Anglicised Magovern and Magowran.
8

hodie sine addito vocatur Comar, estque nobile coenobium Diocesis Dunensis et Connerensis."
It is

The head of the family was

of Tealach Eachdhach,
h

chief of the territory

now

a village on the north-west branch of

the barony of Tullyhaw, in the north-west of the county of Cavan.

now

Lough Cuan, or the Lake of Strangford, in the

barony of Castlereagh, and county Down. k Wit/tout the consent of, DO nfrhcoil In the
is

See note under the year 1217. Under this year the Annals of Kilronan record the death of Gilchreest Magorman, the

Clann-Fermaighe.

Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster the phrase bu innoeoin, which would mean " in despite

202

[1222.

po pcaoilpioc a caiplen. toccup laparh i niiDe, -| laijmb gup po millpior lie Don cup pom. Cionolaio rpa goill Uainicc aob 6 neill -| mac hugo Gpeann cfcpe cara picfc 50 Dealccam. co cruccpac goill annpinn a bpfr pfin Dua cerpe cara commopa ma nagam

beacarcap cecup 50 ciilpacam,

i

~\

nell.

QO1S CR1OSO,
Qoip Cpiopo,
mfle,

1222.

Da ceo, pice aoo.

^elain eppcop cille Dapa t>ecc. Qilbm ua maolmuaiD eppcop pfpna Decc. TTlaoilipa ua ploinn ppioip eapa mic nepc oecc.

Gn reppcop mag

Ua6g ua
~\

baoijill ponup i

cacca6 cuaipcipr Gpeann, noonaicreac peD,

l?o Diojail Dia

maoine oaop jaca Dana Decc. Niall 6 nell Do papucchao ooipe im injin uf cacdin. colurn cille innpin uaip nfp bo cian a paojal pom Dia ep.
of."

-|

The whole passage

is

thus rendered in the

:

old translation of the Ulster Annals

Fabhair" [Aghagower, in the county of Mayo]. m Albin O^Mnlhi/. He was raised to this dignity in the year

"A. D. 1221. Hugo de Lacy

into Ireland against the

his son,

came

King

of England's will,

of Giraldus
ric of

He wns the great rival Cambrensis, to whom the bishop1

186.

and came to

O'Neale, and- they on both sides went against the Galls of Ireland, and

Hugh

much in Meath, Leinster, and Vlster, and broke down the castle of Culrathan. And
spoyled
the Galls of Ireland gathered 24 Battles" [battalions]

Ferns had been oifered by John Earl of Moreton, afterwards King John; but Giraldus refusing to accept of it, Albin O'Molloy, then
elected bishop.
It is

Abbot of Baltinglass, was

stated in the
fallen, that this

" to Delgain, and

Dublin copy of the Annals of Innis"

Hugh

O'Neale and

Hugh de Lacye's son came against them 4 Battles" [battalions] " where the Galls gave O'Neale
his

righteous philosopher preached an excellent sermon at a synod in Dublin, iu the year 1185, on the chastity of the clergy, and

own

will" [co

cuc|xjc juill bpec

a beoil
re-

pein D'
1

proved satisfactorily before the archbishop, John

Neill].
this ygar the

Under

Annals of Kilronan

Cumin, and the whole convocation, that the Welsh and English clergy, by their vicious livo
and bad examples, had corrupted the chaste and unspotted clergy of Ireland, a thing which gave
great offence to Giraldus,
brensis."

cord the death of DermotO'Culeachain, "a learned

historian

man who had more books and knowledge than any one of his time, he who
and scribe
;

who was

called

Cam-

had transcribed the Mass Book of Knock, and a

befitting Office

Book

for

Dermot Magcraghty,

his

For more particulars of the history of

markable prelate, the reader
ris's
is

this re-

tutor,
ther,

and

for Gillapatrick, his

own

foster-bro-

referred to Har-

who were

successively coarbs of

Achadh

Ware,

vol.

i.

pp. 439, 440;

and Lanigan's

1222.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

and
first

203

Ireland,

went

afterwards went into

where they demolished the castle. They Meath and Leinster, and destroyed a great number of
to Coleraine,

persons on that occasion.

lions at

The English

Dundalk, whither Hugh to oppose them with four great battalions.

of Ireland mustered twenty-four battaO'Neill, and the son of Hugo de Lacy, came

The English upon

this occasion

gave his

own demands

to O'Neill

1
.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1222.

thousand two hundred twenty-two.

Mag-Gelain, Bishop of Kildare, died. Albin 0'Mulloym Bishop of Ferns, died.

,

Maelisa O'Flynn, Prior of Eas-mac-neirc died. Teige O'Boyle, the Prosperity and Support of the North of Ireland, and
,

bestower of jewels and riches upon men of every profession, died. Niall O'Neill violated" Derry with the daughter of O'Kane, but God and St. Columbkille were avenged for that deed, for he did not live long after it.
Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, vol. iv. p. 277nell, in his Life

of Columbkille,

lib.

i.

c.

104, dis-

Gap ui pliloinri, from the family of O'Flynn, who were the heWare thought reditary Erenaghs of the place.
Eas-mac-neirc,
called

now

tinctly points out the situation of Eas mic Eire, as follows:

" Inde ultra Senannum versus occidentem

progressus pervenit [Columba] ad
aracta

(Antiq.

c.

26, at Roscominon), that this place

eum locum

might have been the same as Inchmacnerin, an island in Lough Key but this notion cannot be
;

cui praeterlabentis Buellii fluininis vicina cath-

reconciled
writers,

with the statements of the older

speak of it as an island, and near the River 6uiU (Boyle).
it

sacravit."

nomen fecit Eas-mic-Eirc, eumque Deo The place is now called Assylyn,
i

who never
it

agree in placing

which is but an anglicised form of Gap u plilomn, and is situated on the north bank of the River
Boyle, about a mile west of the town. of the church still remain, and, in the

Colgan thought that

which,

was the very monastery

fell

The ruins

many

centuries later,

into the posses-

memory of

sion of the Cistercian order, and

became so

fa;

mous under the name of the Abbey of Boyle " Eas mac wire Monasterium ad ripam Buellii
fluvii in Conacia.

the old inhabitants, a part of a round tower was to be seen adjoining it.
Violated.

In the old translation of the An:

Hodie vocatur Monasterium

ordinis
Cisterciensis." Act.
little

nals of Ulster this passage

Buellense

etque

is rendered as follows " A. D. 1222. Neal O'Neal forcibly took away

SS.

p.

494.

But Colgan, who knew but

O'Cathan
kill

of the localities about

Lough Key,

is

unques-

his daughter, and God and ColumbThe miraculously shortened his days."

tionably wrong, for the great Cistercian Abbey of Boyle was that called Ath-da-Laarc. O'Don-

word papujab
or violate.

in

We

this sense means to profane cannot understand from this

n2

204

1223.

ua cacail cijeapna ceneoil aooa roip q riap Do na naomli uf Sfchnapaigh mp na bpac Da mapbab la Sfcnapac mac jiolla
police mochoinni
muipcip pen.
TTlop injean
ui

uf beollain Decc. baoijill bfn Qrhlaib

QO1S CR1OSO,
Qoip CpiopD,
TTlailiopa

1223.

mile,

Da

ceo, pice,

cpf.

mac

mfooin Decc. roippDealbaij uf Choncobaip ppioip innpi

Oubcach ua Dubcai^h abb conga Decc. Sloiccheab ta hua noomnaill (Domnall mop) co cpuacham connachc,
sentence what Niall O'Neill did to the daughter of O'Kane ; it merely states that he profaned

was the ancient palace of the Kings of Connaught,

so celebrated in the Bardic histories of Ireland

Derry by some misconduct towards the daughThe papujao -would be comter of O'Kane. mitted by taking her a prisoner from the sanctuary, in order to detain her as a hostage
lating her person, without carrying her
;

having been erected in the first century by Eochaidh Feidhleach, monarch of Ireland, the father of the celebrated Meave, Queen of Conas

by vio-

away; or

have naught. As the remains at Rathcroghan of our never been minutely described by any
the Editor is tempted topographical writers, here to give a list of the forts and other ancient It may be remains still visible at the place.
described as

by

forcing her
her.

away

in abduction,

with a view of

marrying

See note under 1223, on bacall

mop
p

col main cille

mic Duac.

son of Turlough 0''Conor. According to the Book of Lecan, fol. 72, b, col. 4,

Maelisa,

t/ie

the

ruins of a

town of

raths,

this Maelisa

was the eldest of the three sons of

having the large rath called Rathcroghan, placed This great rath is at present in the centre.

Turlough More O'Couor, monarch of Ireland, by It appears that he embraced his married wife.
a religious
life in his youth, and left his younger brothers to contend with each other for the

much

effaced

by

cultivation
it

all its

circumval-

lations (for such

originally had) are destroyed,

and nothing remains of it but a flat, green moat, said to be hollow in the centre, and to contain a
large,

sovereignty of Connaught, and crown of Ireland. q Inishmaine, Imp mfooin, i. e. the middle
island. It is situated in the east side of

round chamber with a conical

roof.

The

natives of the district believe that there were

Lough

apertures
light

all

round the moat which admitted

only by Queen

Mask, in the county of Mayo, between the islands called Inis Cumhang and Inis Eoghain. It contains the ruins of a small
'

and

air to this internal

now inhabited
tendant

chamber, which is Mab and her atare the present

but beautiful abbey.

fairies.

The following
it.

Croghan,

Cpuacam, now
It is

Rathcroghan

generally called situated in the parish of

names of the raths and other

which stand around
clearly

artificial features

Many

of

them

are

Kilcorkey, nearly midway between Belanagare and Elphin, in the county of Roscominon. This

modern, though the features to which

they are applied are ancient.

1223.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Mochoiimi O'Cahill, Lord of Kinelea East and West, was
slain

205

Gilla

by

Shaughnessy, the son of Gilla-na-naev O'Shaughnessy, after having been betrayed by his

own

people.

More, daughter of O'Boyle, and wife of Auliffe O'Beollain [Boland], died.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Maelisa, the son of
Christ, one

1223.

thousand two hundred twenty-three.

, ,

q p Turlough O'Conor Prior of Inishmaine

died.

Duffagh O'Duffy, Abbot An army was led by O'Donnell (Donnell More) to Croghan r in Connaught,
of Cong, died.
,

1.

Rath

Screig, to the north, in the

townland

is

of a circular form,

is

surrounded with a stone

of Toberrory ; 2. Cuirt mhaol, near Rath Screig, in the same townland ; 3. Rath Carrain, a fort containing a cave, in the same townland ; 4. Rathbeg, in the townland of Rathcroghan, lying to the north-west of the great central rath ; 5.

wall

now

greatly defaced,

and

it

measures one
It ex-

hundred and sixteen paces in diameter.

hibits several small tumuli,

now much

effaced

by

time.

One
it

of the late Mr. O'Conor, of

Rathmore, lying about

i.

five
;

hundred paces to the

Knockaun-Stanly,

found that

was opened by the uncle Mount Druid, who. contained a small square chamber
of these

north-west of Rathbeg
e.

6.

of stone-work, without cement, in which were

Stanly's Hillock, a fort lying a quarter of a mile to the north-west of Rathcroghan ; 7. Rath-

some decayed bones.

Close to the north of Roilig-na-Riogh is a small hillock, called Cnocan na gcorp, i. e. the

na-dtarbh,

i.

e.

Fort of the Bulls, due west of

Rathcroghan ; 8. Rath-na-ndealg, i. e. Fort of the Thorns, which gives name to a townland. lies
a short distance to the west of Rath-na-dtarbh
9.
;

Hillock of the Corpses, whereon,

bodies of the kings were the graves were being

it is said,

the

wont

to be laid while

dug or opened.

About

Rath fuadach,

lies

to the south-west of Rath-

two hundred paces

to the north of the circular

croghan, in the parish of Baslick, and gives to the townland in which it is situated
Caisiol
lies to

name
;

10.

enclosure called Roilig-na-Riogh is to be seen a small circular enclosure, with a tumulus in the

Mhanannain,

i.

e.

Manannan's stone fort,

the south-west, about a quarter of a mile from Rathcroghan, in the townland of Glenbally-

on the top of which is a very remarkable red pillar-stone which marks the grave of Dathi, the last pagan monarch of Ireland, and the ancentre,

thomas.
of stone,
is

This

caisiol or circular

cyclopean fort

cestor of the

O'Dowdas of Tir Fiachrach.

This

with the ground, but its outline can yet be traced 11. Roilig na Riogh,
level
;

now

stone stood perpendicularly when seen by the Editor in the year 1837, and measured seven feet in
height, and four feet six inches in width at its
base,

the Cemetery of the Kings, lies a quarter of a mile to the south of Rathcroghan. This was
i.

e.

and three

feet near the top.

It

gradually
top.

the royal cemetery of Connaught in pagan times, and has been much celebrated by the bards. It

tapered,

and was nearly round at the

It is

called the caipre oeari^, or red pillar-stone,

by

206

[1224.
In

ITlupcTiaD Speippi ap Got)

gup cpfchloipcc cap Suca piap ^np mill a nurhla. co ppuaip a mbpaioe jach cip gup a paimcc uf peachnupaij Do rhapbab DO cloinn Seachnupach mac jiolla na naom Cholmdin cille mic Duach uime. cuilein, i papucchaD na bacMa moipe cappac ua pfpjail Do mapbab Daon upcop paijDe, 05 Denarh

appame

ccuacaib connachc,

-)

-\

mac Qmlaoibh

uf pfpjuil.

QO1S CR1O3D,
Cloip CpiopD, mile,
i

1224.

Da ceo, a cfchaip.

Do nonnpcnab la cacal cpoiboeapg ua TTlamipcip. 8. ppompiaip nacluain cconcobaip la pij connacc in eppuccoioeacc cluana mic noip ap bpu na
pionna allanoip.
Duald Mac
Tribes
Firbis, in his account of the

monarch
See
for

the Ordnance

Map

of the county of Roscominon,

Dathi, in the pedigree of the O'Dowdas.

sheets 21 and 22.

8

and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, printed

1
.

Clann-Cuilen

Until the year 1318 the

the Irish Archasological Society in m 25, note

12.

844, pp. 24,

territory of the Clann Cuileain,

to the

which belonged

Mac Namaras

of

Thomond, was a small

River Fergus in

Cathairna Babhaloide, the caher or stone

district lying eastwards of the

Fort of the feasting Party, lies about three quarters of a mile to the east of Rathcroghan ; 13.

the county of Clare,' and containing the follow-

ing parishes,

viz.,

Carn

Ceit, lies
;

one mile to the south-west of Eath-

Kilraghtis, Kiltalagh,

Quin, Tulla, Cloney, Dowry, now included in the parish

croghan it is a tumulus raised over the celebrated Ceat Mac Magach, a Connacian champion who flourished in the first century, and was con-

of Inchacronan, Templemaley, Inchacronan, and Kilmurry-na-Gall. But after the year 1318, in

which the Hy-Bloid were defeated by the descendants of Turlough O'Brien, aided by the Mac Namaras, the latter got possession of nearly the entire country lying between the River Fergus

temporary with the heroes of the Red Branch in

Ulster.

There are two large stones lying

flat

on the

ground, about one hundred paces to the northwest of Rathcroghan, the one a large square rock
called Milleen Meva, the other, measuring nine
feet in length,

and the Shannon.

'

Backal

lic is

two

feet in breadth,

and about

It is

This retnor, i. e. the great crozier yet extant, but in very bad preservation. in the cabinet of George Petrie, Esq., Au-

two

feet in thickness, is called

Misgan Meva.

There are
this

also

some curious natural caves near

thor of the Essay on the Round Towers, and ancient Ecclesiastical Architecture of Ireland.

fort of

Rathcroghan, in connexion with

which there are some wild legends told in the neighbourhood, and there are also some written
ones in ancient Irish manuscripts. The reader will find all the above forts accurately shewn on

Colman Mac Duach, i. e. Colman the son of Duach, who founded the church called Kilmacduagh, situated in the barony of Kiltartan, in the county of Galway, about the year 620. He

was of the

illustrious

tribe of

Hy-Fiachrach

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ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

207

thence into the Tuathas of Connaught, and westwards across the Suck, and plundered and burned every territory which he entered, until he had received
their hostages

and submissions.

Shaughnessy, the son of Gilla-na-naev O'Shaughnessy, was slain by the 5 Clann-Cuilen a deed by which the Bachal mor' of St. Colman", son of Duacli,
,

was profaned*.
in

Murrough Carragh O'Farrell was slain [at Granard, An. a battle against Hugh, the son of AulifFe O'Farrell".

Ult.]

by an arrow,

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1224.
*

thousand two hundred twenty-four.

The Monastery of St. Francis at Athlone, was commenced by Cathal Crovderg O'Conor, King of Connaught, in the diocese of Clonmacnoise, on the eastern bank of the Shannon.
Aidhne,
in the

south of the province of Con-

naught, and nearly related to Guaire Aidhne, King of that province, so famed in Irish history
for

passaper Kernachamimjiliwn Dulgeni ; qui guendam Captiuum eo refugij causa effuffientem, ex

Ecclesia sacrilego ausu extraxit, et in lacu de Loch

unbounded

hospitality.

See Colgan's Jlcta

SS., p. 248.

Kirr vrbi versus occidentem adiacenti, suffbcauit, sed Kernac/iamts iustam tanii sacrilegij poenam,

Was profaned, oo papu jab had sworn on a crozier or any

"

When
relic to

parties

observe

certain conditions, such as to offer protection to a man in case he made his appearance, and that

max luit, per Niettum filium Aidi Regem Aquiloet postea totius Hibernire in eodt-m naris partis lacu suffocatus." Trias Thaum. p. 296 ; see also
:

note on

Termon Caelainne under

this year the

the year 1225.

such an oath was afterwards violated, the crozier or relic, in the language of these Annals, was

w Under

Annals of Kilronan have

be profaned. The true application of the word papu^ab will appear from the following
said to

the following entries, which have been omitted by the Four Masters
:

"A.
cles.

D. 1223.

Clonmacnoise was burned,

in-

passage in these Annals at the year 907 A. D. 907. Sapuccab Gpomacha ta Cfpn:

cluding two churches, and many valuable "

arti-

achan mac Ouiljen .1. cimbib DO bpeic ap in cill, 7 a odbab hi loch Cuip ppi h-apomacha aniap. Cfpnachan DO Bab"b la Niall mac

A great storm occurred the day after the fesMatthew, which destroyed
all the'

tival of St.

oats throughout Ireland that remained unreaped

in the fields.

Goba, pij; in tuaipcipc ip ccionn papai^re paopaicc.

:

in

loc ceona

hi

It is translated by Colgan as follows in his Annals of Armagh " 907. Basilica slrdmathana sacrileqam vim 7

" Finn O'Carmacan, a steward to the King of Connaught, and who held much laud, died. " feet were added to the church of

Twenty-six Tigh .Sinche [Taghshinny,

in

the county of

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[1224.

cenel ao6a Do ecc. niaolmuipe 6 connmaic eppoc ua bpiacpac Gppoc Conmaicne, .1. an jailleppoc Decc. aon ba Deappcnaijci Do TTluipjiup cananac mac Ruaibpi uf concobaip aoibelaib illegionn, ccannraipeacr, -\ a noenarh ueppa Decc, ~| a abnacal
-|
i i

ccunga.
TTlaolcaoi 17151 n ua Scingin

aipanneac apDa capna Decc. ua TTlaoibpu mac an eppuic uf rhaoilpajmaip peappun ua bpiacpac namalsaba, abbap eppuic ap eccna, DO mapbab Do mac Donnchaba uf buboa map nap t>u 66 uaip nocap mapb neac Dufb Duboa piarh cleipeac 56
-|
]

pin.

Cioc aobal abuarmap Opeapcam ccuiD Do connaccaib, ccip maine Sooam, i m uib oiapmaca ]c. Diap pap ce6m, jalap aibbpec DO cfcpaib
i

.1.

~|

Longford], by the priest of the town, namely,

of Coill

Ua

bh-Fiachrach and Kinel Aodha na

Mael-Magorman. " William de Lacy came to Ireland andmade the

Crannog [wooden house] of Inis Laeghachain ; but the Connacians came upon the island by force,
and
let

h-Echtghe, which would express and distinguish the two districts of which the diocese consisted,
namely, the countries of O'Heyne and O'Shaughnessy but the fact is, that the Four Masters
:

out the people

who were on it, on

parole."

This latter entry is given in Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise under
the year 1222, as follows "A. D. 1222. William Delacie and the English of Meath, with their
:

who compiled this work from various sources, have left many entries imperfectly arranged.
i

Conmaicne,

i. e.

of the people and district so

called,

on the east side of the Shannon.

The

principal families

among

the eastern Conmaicne

forces,

founded a castle at Loghloygeaghan ; the Connoghtinen of the other side came with their " the ward of forces to Loghloygeachan" [and] the said castle came forth to the principalls of Connoght, and as soone as they were out of the
Castle the

were the O'Farrells and Mac Eannalls, whose territories are comprised in the diocese of Ardagh.
his

The name of

this

bishop was Eobert, but

surname no where appears. He was an Englishman, and had been the eleventh abbot of St.

Connoughtmen broke the same, and

so departed.''

Mary's Abbey, Dublin, before he was elevated See Ware's Bishops by to the see of Ardagh
Harris, p. 250.
z

The Bishop of Hy-Fiachrach and Kittelea, eappoc ua ppacpac 7 cinel aooa. By this
the Annalists

Maurice.

The

natives of

Cong

still

point

mean the Bishop of Kilmacduagh:

out his tomb in the Abbey, but some suppose

it is

but they have expressed it incorrectly, for the Kinel- Aodha were Hy-Fiachrach, as much as the
inhabitants of the rest of the diocese of Kilmac-

the tomb of his father Roderic.

Poetical compositions,

duagh.

They should have

called

O'Conmaic

a noenarii ueppa, li" in In the Annals of verses." terally making of Kilronan, the term employed is ueppofnmuibeacc,
b
i. e. in verse-making. In the Lowland Scotch a maker signifies, " a poet."

Bishop of Hy-Fiachrach Aidhne, which would

express the diocese of Kilmacduach without adding another word ; or have called him Bishop

Ardcarne,

Qpb

capna.

vicarage in the

1224.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

x

209

Mulmurry O'Conmaic, Bishop

died.

of Hy-Fiachrach and Kinelea [Kilmacduagh]

The Bishop
Maurice
2
,

of Conmaicne y [Ardagh], i.e. the English bishop, died. the Canon, son of Roderic O'Conor, the most illustrious of the

Irish for learning, psalm-singing,

and poetical compositions*,

died.

died,

and was

in-

terred at Cong.
5 Mulkevin O'Scingin, Erenagh of Ardcarne
,

Maelisa, son of the Bishop O'Mulfover, parson of Hy-Fiachrach and HyAwley, and materies of a bishop for his wisdom, was killed by the son of Do-

nough O'Dowda, a deed strange

before killed an ecclesiastic.

in him, for

none of the O'Dowda's had ever

A heavy
Many
d
,

and awful shower'

e
,

Sodan

in

on a part of Connaught, namely, on HyHy-Diarmada and other districts, from which arose a murfell
f
,

situated in the barony of and county of Roscommon, and about four Boyle This miles to the east of the town of Boyle.
diocese of Elphin,

nected with the death of Cathal Crovderg, of which the Four Masters represent it as an omi-

church was founded by St. Beo-Aedh, a bishop who died on the 8th of March, 524 and it conti;

nous presage. The lows: "A. D. 1224.

literal translation is as fol-

shower

fell

in parts of

nued
see.

for

be the head of a bishop's For some account of the patron saint of

to

some time

this church,

Ada

the reader is referred to Colgan's Sanctorum, at 8th of March ; the Feilire

Tirmany, Hy-Diarmada, and in Clann-Teige, of which there grew a great murrain among the cows, after having eaten of the grass and herbage ; and
flesh, d

Connaught,

namely, in

in Soghan, in

Aenguis, and Irish Calendar of the O'Clerys, at the same day ; and also toLanigan's Ecclesiastical

the people, after having taken of their milk and contracted many diseases."

Hy-Many,

ui

maine.

History of Ireland, vol. i. p. 462. Archdall places Ardcharn in the county of Westmeath, which
is

originally extending

from Athenry

O'Kelly's country, to the Shan-

non, and from the borders of Thomond to Lanes-

a very strange blunder, as Colgan, his autho-

rity,

had described

it

as in

Maghluirg, in Con-

borough, on the Shannon. " Sodan This was the

naught. Considerable ruins of the church of Ardcarne

are
still

country of the O'Mannins, and, as appears from various authorities, was included in the present barony of
Tiaquin, in the county of Galway. For a list of the townlands in the occupation of different persons of the name of O'Mannin in this territory, in the year 1617, the reader is referred to

to

be seen; and in the

field

lying be-

tween the church and the high road are shewn slight remains of the walls of an abbey, and the
foundations of some of the houses which constituted the ancient village of Ardcarne.

Tribes

heavy and awful shower, cior aoBal aouarihap. This shower is also mentioned in
the Annals of Kilronan, but not in any

and Customs of Hy-Many, printed

for the

Irish Archaeological Society in 1843, p. 164. ' Hy-Diarmada, ui Oiapmaoa. This was the

way

con-

tribe

name

of the O'Concannons, which also be-

2 E

210
net

[1224.

do pliuch an aoc pa 66ib. Do ccpfoc pempairi lap ccaicfrh an peoip inmeoDonca 50 hepcarhail Do na jnioD beop lace na ninnileb pn galpaign

oaomib Do coimleb

Decbip na Deapbaipbi p Do cecc i cconnaccaib ir in mbliaoain pi uatp ba mop an cole, i an nmneb Do pala Doib innre,. .1. cacal cpoiboeaps mac coippbealbaijj moip uf concobaip, T?f Connacc, aon ap
e.

6a

came that of their country. The head of the O'Concannons was seated at a place called Kiltullagh, in the county of

Galway, in 1585, and

holder, mighty and puissant, of the country; keeper of peace, rich and excellent. For in his time was tieth payd and established in Ireland
first legally.

his country

was then considered a part of Hyp.

Threshold,
;

meek and

honest, of

Many.
19, note
8

See Tribes and Customs of Hy- Many,

'.

belief

and Christianity corrector of transgres" sors and thieves ; the banisher of [the] "wicked and robbers" [mujaijceoip na meiplec 7 na " malapcac] ; the defender of the right Law, conning and couragious ; to whom God gave great and everlasting" [life] " in heaven, dying in a Munck's habit, overcoming the world and the Devill."

Cathal Crovderg,

Cathal, or Charles of theRedHand.

Carol cpoiboeapj, i.e. The obituary

of Cathal Crovderg is thus given in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, with which those
of Kilronan agree. "A.D. 1224. Carol cpoiBoepj
pi
i

honour

in this

life,

connacc, 7

pi jjaioel

hua concobuip, Gpenn ap tocuccaobac

mainipcip cnuic tnuaioe

u. Kul.
;

lunn,

in

caen jaioel

ip pepp camij o bpian bopoma anuap ap uaipli, 7 ap onoip cojbalach rpepajmup cocuccacna cuar; pobapcanacpaiobip

Cathal Crovderg was the son of Turlough More O'Conor, Monarch of Ireland, and the brother of Roderic O'Conor, the last of the Irish monarchs.

According

to

the

traditional

story

fuairnij pomennail na pircana,

peiriiep
i

0615 ip p6 DO jabao oecmaio co olijcech ap cup

neighbourhood of Ballintober, in the county of Mayo, he was the illegitimate son of King Turlough by Gearrog NyMoran of the territory of Umhall. The traditional story,
to

told about

him

in the

n-iar

Gpenn

columain connail cpatobec

;

ceprbpiarpac cpemrhi "j cpipcaibecca cepcaijreoip na cincac, 7 na coiboenach ; mujaijceoip na meiplec 7 na malapcac; coimecai jcoiccenn cacbuaoac in pecca poo blepcai^,
o'd cue t)ia be^onoip

which is very vivid, and believed be true, runs as follows

:

"

Shortly before the English invasion of Ire-

culrham, 7 in plaiciup netnoa call ap nej in aibic rhanaic DO, lap mbpeic buaoa 6 ooman 7 o oeman."
i

King of Connaught, who was of the family of O'Conor, having no issue by his lawful queen, took to his bed a beautiful girl, out of
land, the

the territory of Umhall,

by name Gearrog Ny-

Thus rendered

in the old translation of the

Moran, who soon exhibited Symptoms of fertility.

Annals of Ulster, in which it is incorrectly placed under the year 1223.

" A. D. 1223. Cathal Crovderg O'Coner, King of Connaught, and King of the Irish of Ireland,
died at the

When
like

monstration of her

the Queen of Connaught heard of this deown barrenness, she became,

old, jealous in the highest degree,

Sarah of

and used every means

the King's concubine.
to witches,

in her

Abbey Knock-moy, 5 Kal. Junij. The best Irishman that was from the time of
Brien Boroma, for gentility and honor ; the up-

of

power to persecute She even had recourse

in the proat last, shortly

who were then numerous

vince, but without success, until

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ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

211

and dreadful distemper among the cattle of the aforesaid territories, after and the milk of these they had eaten of the grass moistened by this shower,
rain
It was produced a variety of inward maladies in the people who used it. no wonder that these ominous signs should appear this year in Connaught, for

cattle

in this year, viz., the death great was the evil and affliction which they suffered of Cathal Crovderg*, son of Turlough More O'Conor, King of Connaught, a man

before Gearrog was about to be delivered, a ce-

all sorts

of execrations on the head of the old

lebrated witch, more skilful than the rest,

who

sorceress,

who had

so

much

deceived her.

No

lived in the neighbourhood of Bally toberpatrick,

county of Mayo, presented the Queen with a magical string, with three intricate knots, telling her, that as long as she kept it in her posin the

sooner had the last knot of the string been destroyed by the action of the fire, than the King's
son,

who had been so long kept spell-bound by

its

influence,

session Gearrog

Ny-Moran, against

whom

its

was ushered upon the theatre of his future greatness; but his crov, or that part of

magical properties were directed, could never be delivered of a child. Before, however, the string

the hand, from the wrist out, which he had

thrust into the world before the magical string was perfected, was as red as blood, from which

had been fully indued with the intended charm, the King's child thrust his right hand into the
external world, but farther he could not move;
for, as

he received the cognomen of Cnoib-beapj, or

'

itie

soon as the last word of the incantation

fixed, spell-bound,

"The Queen

Red-handed'' Crov-derg. of Connaught,

who was of a most

had been pronounced, he was

in his

awkward

position.

He

continued thus for

several days

and nights, and though his mother

powerful family, continued to persecute the red-handed child and his mother, with all the perseverance of a jealous barren woman; but
the child,

wished for death she could not

die. At length a certain good man, who had heard of the magical string, and of the pitiable condition of O'Mo-

who had

all

the appearance of royalty

in his countenance,

ran's daughter', called one

day at the palace, with

was sheltered by the clergy of the province ; and when the Queen discovered that he was lurking in one monastery, he was

a view to destroy the properties of the string, and the Queen, who held him in high esteem,

away to another. In this manner was he sheltered for three years in the monastesecretly sent
ries of

having no suspicion of his design, bade him welcome and asked him the news. He answered, with some expression of annoyance on his countenance, that the principal

Connaught.

At

last

the Queen's fury

rose to such a height against the clergy, that they gave up all hopes of being able to protect

news

in the

west of

the child any longer.

His mother then

where,
for

fled

Connaught, was, that Gearrog Ny-Moran had brought forth a son for the King of Connaught.

with

him

into

Leinster,

many

years, disguised, she supported

him by labour-

When the Queen heard this from the lips of one on whom she placed the utmost reliance, she
took the magical string, which she was persuaded to believe would for ever prevent O'Moran's

the boy grew up, although ing work. he was constantly told of the royalty of his

When

daughter from giving birth to a roydamna, and

cast it into the fire in his presence, calling

and of the respectability of the O'Morans, still, having no hopes of being able to return to his native province as long as the Queen
birth,
lived,

down
2

he was obliged

to

apply himself to

common

E2

212

[1224.

mo DO muoaij Do ine]ilechaib, oeapccaipDib Gpenn pe haimpip imcfin, aon ap mo po pap Do clepcib, boccaib, aibelgneachaib, aon ap uille map ooipc-\ ~\

eapoaip Dia jac mair, ~\ gac mop puailce Da ccdimc ouaiplib Gpeann a ccompoccup Dia perhfp, oip ap e po congaib e pen ap aon mnaoi popoa gan co a bap. Qp pe a linn beop ap cpuatlleD a jfnmnaiDeacca cap a heip
po gabao DeacmaD 50 Dlijceac cecup i nGpinn. Qn Rf pfpen poipccliDi an caicmileb conDail cpaibcec ceipcbpfcac D'CCC an coccmab la picfc pi, -] DO pampab (Dia luain Do painnpiub) i naibi'o manaij lee maimpnp cnuic

mo

labouring work for subsistence; and it was observed by the clowns of Leinster, that he exhibited no appearance of industry, or taste for
agricultural pursuits, but was constantly telling
stories

known by his right hand, which is as red as blood from the wrist out. " The heart of Cathal bounded with joy at the news, and he stood on the ridge for some miat once

about Kings, wars, and predatory ex-

nutes in a reverie.

His comrades told him to

cursions.

" Time rolled on, and the poor boy with the red hand was necessitated to pass his time in misery,
in the society of Leinster clowns

get on with his work, that he was always last, and that there never was a good workman from
his province.

Hereupon, Cathal pulled

off the

and buddaghs,

whom
lic

he held in the highest contempt. At length a Connaught Bollscaire, or bearer of pubnews, passing through Leinster, happened to come into the very field in which Crovderg

mitten, with which he constantly kept the red hand concealed, and exhibited it to the Bolls-

and his eye beamed, and his countenance glowed with all the majesty of his father's, when he first mounted the throne of Connaught.
caire ;

was employed, with

several others, reaping rye.

his dress that

They immediately recognized by

he was a Bollscaire, and,

therefore,

inquired

The Bollscaire recognizing him at once by his resemblance to his father, fell prostrate at his feet. Cathal cast the sickle on the ridge, saying:

what proclamation he was publishing. He replied in the set words of his commission, that
the King of Connaught was dead, and that the
people, assembled in council,

'Slan leur, a coppam, anoif oo'n

e.
'

cloi-

6eam,' i.

Farewell, sickle,

now

for the sword.'

And to
i.

this day,

Slan charail paoi an cpeajal,

had declared that

his son

they would have no king but Cathal Crovderg he added, I, and many others, have ; and,
diffe-

Cathal's farewell to the rye, meaning a farewell never to return, has been a common proverb
e.

been for several weeks in search of him in

among the Sil-Murray and their " He returned home without

followers.
delay,

and was

rent parts of Ireland, but without success ; some, who wish to support the claim of rivals to the

solemnly inaugurated King of Connaught on Carnfree, near Tulsk, in the presence of the twelve
chieftains and twelve coarbs of Sil-Murray
;

throne of Connaught, have reported that the

and

Queen, his step-mother, had him secretly assassinated, but others are of opinion, that he lurks
disguised in humble garb, and that he will return home as soon as
in place,

though he found many before him, he put them

rior

rivals
all

in

the province
his supe-

down by

some obscure

wisdom and

valour.

When he had restored

he did not

his native province to tranquillity

he

will hear of this proclamation.

He

will

be

forget his old friends the friars,

who had made

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ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

213

who, of all others, had destroyed most of the rebels and enemies of Ireland, he who had most relieved the wants of the clergy, the poor, and the destitute, he who, of all the Irish nobility that existed in or near his time, had received from
goodness, and greatest virtues, for he kept himself content with one married wife, and did not defile his chastity after her death until his own death,

God most

in

whose time most

tithes

right king, this discreet,

were lawfully received in Ireland this just and uppious, and justly-judging hero, died on the 28th day of
;

the

summer (on Monday), in the habit of a Grey Friar, in the monastery of Knockmoy ( which monastery, together with its site and lands, he himself had
11

such

efforts to save

Queen.

He

erected several monasteries for

scale,

him from the fury of the them

and in magnificent
style,

question for another work.

Ledwich,

in his Antiquities of Ireland,

is

second

on an extensive

edition, p. 520, says, that there

monument

namely, the monastery of Ballintober in Mayo,

which was three years in building, and which was roofed and shingled with oak timber the
;

to Cathal Crovderg in the Abbey of Knockmoy ; but the monument in that abbey to which he

monastery of Athlone, on the Shannon; and

also that of Knockmoy, in the

county of Galway." Notwithstanding the evidence of this vivid tradition, we must conclude from the Book of
Lecan,
fol.

but which he evidently never saw, is that of Malachy O'Kelly, who died in 1401, and of his wife Finola, the daughter of O'Conor, who
alludes,

died in 1402.
fresco paintings

Ledwich was of opinion that the

on the north wall of the choir
in the seventeenth

72,

b,

O'Conor, King his married wife, namely, Maelisa, Coarb of St. Comau, who was his eldest son and heir, Aedh
L)all,

that Turlough More of Ireland, had three sons by

col.

4,

of this abbey,

were executed

" " the confederate when," he says, century, Catholics possessed themselves of the abbeys of
Ireland,
in

which they everywhere repaired, and,

instances, adorned with elegant sculp-

and Tadhg Aluinn.

many

Dr. O'Conor, in his suppressed work. Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Charles O'Conor of
Belanagare, who was his own grandfather, alludes to the traditions preserved in the country about the valour of " Charles the Red-handed,"

tures;" but

it is quite clear, from the style of these paintings, and from the legible portion of

the inscriptions, among which may be clearly read, in the black letter, otittt pro aninu jTOalarfjiar,
that they belong to the period of the aforesaid Malachy O'Kelly, by whom the abbey of Knockmoy seems to have been repaired if not in great part
re-edified; for it is quite obvious,

but makes no allusion whatever to the story above given, which, though in great part fabulous,
is

generally believed to be true

by the

from the

style

story-tellers

and farmers

in

the counties of

of the abbey of Ballintober,

which unquestion-

Mayo and Galway.

But

to enter

upon the

proofs of the legitimacy or illegitimacy of Cathal Crovderg would swell this note to a length which would interfere with the elucidation of

of the latter part ably exhibits the architecture there is no part of of the twelfth century, that
that of

Knockmoy

as old as the period of Cathal

Crovderg.
h

other entries in those Annals, and the Editor

Knockmoy

According to the Annals of

translated

must, therefore, reserve the discussion of the

Clonmacnoise, as

by Mageoghegan,

214

[1224.

muaibe lap na he&baipr Do bu&en Do t)ia, i Do na manchaib poime pin juna a aDnacal innce co huapal onopac. Q bpupr loca ponn peaponn, rriepcaDo geneab cacal cpoibDeapcc, i a oilfmam in uib Diapmaca ajraocc ua coinceanamn. Qo6 6 concobaip a mac Do gabdil piji Connacc rap a ep
~\
~|

jan cdipDe uaip bdoap bpaijDe Connacc ap a lairii pe necc a acap. Qp pe hucc gabala pije Don aob pa cucc po Deapa mac ui mannacdin Do &alla& a copa Do ben Do neoc oile lap cpe eccfn mnd Do cabaipc, i a Idrha
~\

nDeriarh

meple
Do.

Do.

t)o coimeD

pmacca placa

innpin.
-j

Qo6 mac Concobaip

lopDanen

maonrhoiji Decc 05 coibecc 6 lepupalem,

ppur

DonDcacaij mac aipfccaij uf Rabuib cofpec cloinne comalcaij Decc ma oilicpi ace copup paccpaicc. TTlaoilpeaclainn mac raiDg ui cealtaij cijeapna 6 maine Do ecc. ^lolla na naomh cpom 6 Seacnupaij ci^eapna lece laprapaijje cenel
aooa na heccgi Decc.
Dorhnall 6 ceallaij cijeapna 6 maine Decc. Cucfnann ua comcfnainn Decc.
TTIac^arhain Decc.

mac

cerfpnaijui cepin njeapnaciappaije toca na naipnea6

Cathal Crovderg died at Broyeoll in Connoght. Bruigheol, or Briola, is in Clann-Uadagh, near the River Suck, in the county of Eoscommon.

common

The entry "A. D.

is

as follows

it means a wet meadow, or a strath or holm on the margin of a lake or river. k This pasrobbery, iap noenarii m6ple is given more satisfactorily in the Ansage

1223. Cahall Crovederge O'Connor,

Irish of Ire-

nals of Kilronan, as follows:

his

','

Hugh

O' Conor,

King of Connoght, and King of the

land, one that used reverence

the Church,

and both

ritch,

and bounty towards fortunate, and

assumed the government of Connaught after him, and right worthy of the dignity he was, for he had been a king for his effison,

own

happy, died in Broyeoll in Connought, and

Hugh

ciency, might,
life-time,

and puissance,

in

his

father's

mac
>

Cahall,

his

son,

was constituted King of

and he had the hostages of Connaught

Connoght in his place." Harbour of Lough Mask, popclocha meapca. This place is now called Caladh Locha Measca, and Ballincalla, and is a parish in the barony of Kilmaine, and county of Mayo, verging on

in his hands.
for such
evils

And God

permitted his succession,

that no
in
at his ac-

was the

strictness of his law,

were committed

Connaught

cession,

but one act of plunder on the road to

Lough Mask.

Cula6, in

this part of Ireland,

Croagh-patrick, for which the perpetrator had his hands and feet cut off; and one woman was
violated

signifies a landing place for boats,

and

is

synony-

mous with pope; though

in the county of Eos-

by the son of O'Monahan, was deprived of sight."

for

which he

1224.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

215

granted to God and the monks), and was interred therein nobly and honourably. Cathal Crovderg was born at the Harbour of Lough Mask', and fostered in

Hy-Diarmada by Teige O'Concannon. The government of Connaught was assumed without delay by Hugh O'Conor, his son, for the hostages of Connaught were in his (Hugh's) hands at the time of his father's death. Hugh, upon
his accession to the government,

commanded

the son of

O'Monahan should be

deprived of sight as a punishment for his having violated a female, and ordered the hands and feet of another person to be cut off for having committed a robbery".

This was done to maintain the authority of a prince. Hugh, the son of Conor Moinmoy [O'Conor], died on his return from Jeru-

salem and the River Jordan.

Donncahy, the son of Aireaghtagh O'Rodiv, Chief of Clann-Tomalty

on his pilgrimage, at Toberpatrick"
1
.

1 ,

died

Melaghlin, the son of Teige O'Kelly, Lord of Hy-Many, died. Gilla na-naev Crom [the Stooped] O'Shaughnessy, Lord of the Western
half of Kinelea of Echtge, died.

Donnell O'Kelly, Lord of Hy-Many, died.

Cucannon O'Concannon
died.
1

died.
,

n Mahon, the son of Kehernagh O'Kerrin, Lord of Kerry ofLough-na-narney

Clann-Tomalty,
tribe

clann comalcai j. This was situated in the plains of Roscommon,

rony of Costello, in the south-east of the county of Mayo. Colgan, and after him O'Flaherty, have supposed, that the territory of Kierrigia de Loch nairne was co- extensive with the barony
of Belathamhnais, otherwise called Costello, in

not far from Rathcroghan, but they sunk into obscurity, and were deprived of property at so
early a period, that the extent, or even exact
position, of their cantred, cannot

now be -deteri.

mined m

Toberpatrick,

copap pacpuic,
is

e.

St.

Paof

the county of Mayo. See Trias Thaum., p. 137 ; and Ogygia, part iii. c. 46, p. 276. But this, which is put as a mere conjecture by Colgan, is
certainly incorrect ; for the mountainous district

trick's well

This

certainly the

Abbey

Ballintober, in the county of Mayo. There are countless other places in Connaught so called.
n

of Sliabh Lugha, which belonged to the Galengse, and of which the Kierrigii never possessed any
portion, formed the greater part of that barony.

naipneao.
Irish

Kerry ofLough-na-narney, ciappaije loca na This territory is now simply called

it,

The boundary
as to divide

of the diocese of

ciuppaije by the natives of

who

speak the

across the barony of Costello, in such a

Achonry runs manner

language remarkably well. It comprises the parishes of Annagh, Bekan, and Aghamore, which form about the southern half of the ba-

it into two almost equal parts. That part of the barony to the north of this boundary is, even at this very day, called Sliabh Lugha,

216

emeciNN.

[1224.

Qn capbap
an coccaib,
~]

gan buain 50 peil bpijoe, na DominDe.

-j

an cpeabao aga Denarh Do bpij

TTlainiprip Do cojbdil la TTluipip

mac

gfpailc (6
in

Dapa, i jeapalcaij ofpmuriian) in eochaill TTIurhain Do bpaifpib 8. ppoinpiaip.

and was O'Gara's original country; and the part
of the barony lying to the south of the said

rrdcc jfpalcaij eappcoboicceachr cluana

where they

cille

ip in

-iEneas into Italy,

settled in

Tus-

boundary
lake of loc

is

Kerry of Lough-na-narney. na n-dipnea6, i. e. Lake of the

this territory took its

The
Sloes,
is si-

cany, or Etruria, from whence some of the family passed into Normandy, thence into England, and, in process of time, into Ireland.

But

from which

name,

tuated ou the boundary between the parishes of Bekan and Aghamore, in the barony of Costello, and is now more generally called Mannin Lough. the

of opinion that there is no authentic monument of the history of this family earlier
is

the Editor

than the time of William the Conqueror, with whom they seem to have come into England,

Downing, who wrote about the year 1682, when name of this lake was well remembered, puts

though Mr. Burke, in his pedigree of the of Leinster, asserts that his ancestor Otho

Duke
was a

the situation of this

lake beyond dispute by stating that the castle of Mannin is in Lough

Baron of England
the Confessor.

in the 16th year of

Edward

Arny.

" There

is

" a small likewise," he says,

lough in the barony, called Lough Arny in former times. In the west end thereof stands an
antient ruin of a castle called Mannin."

The character of Maurice Fitzgerald, the first of this family that came to Ireland, and who was one of the principal heroes of the English Conquest,
is given as follows by his contemporary, Giraldus Cambrensis
:

See

Map to the Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs ofHyFiachrach, printed for the Irish Archaeological Society in 1 844, on which this lake and its castle
are shewn, as well as the true boundary line between Kerry of Lough-na-narney and Sliabh

"Erat autem Mauritius vir venerabilis

cundus
:
:

& vere-

vultu colorato, decentique mediocri quodam modicitate, tarn mediocribus minor quam
modicis maior.
modificato
:

Vir

tarn

animo quam corpore

nee hoc dilatato: Incura pro-

Lugha, or O'Gara's country. Maurice Fitzgerald. He was the grandson of Maurice Fitzgerald who came to Ireland with the
the Earl Strongbow, and

nee

illo elato,

nata vir bonitate bonus

pensiore bonus
ricio
fieri,

& tamen longe

quam

videri malens.

Mau:

who died on

the 1st of

modus, in omnibus seruare

modum

vt

September, 1177. For the origin of the family of

Fitzgerald the reader
is

credi possit suaruin partium, suique temporis

tarn censura morum,

the Earls of Desmond,

referred to the History of by the celebrated Daniel

quam

facetiarum exemplum.

title

O'Daly, published at Lisbon in 1655, under the of " Initium Incrementum et Exitus Familice
Giraldinorum, Desmonice. Comitum Palatinorum

Virbreuiloquus et sermone perpauco sed ornato: puta, plus pectoris habens quam oris, plus rationis

quam orationis plus sapientia [sapientiffi ?J quam eloquentia. Et tamen cum sermonem res
:

Kyerria in Hibernia, ac persecutionis Hcereticorum

Descriptto, ex nonnullisfragmentis collecia, ac
tinitate

exigebat

ad sententiam dicendam, sicut serus,

La-

sic scientissimus.

Rebus quoque

in Martiis, vir

In this work O'Daly deduces the pedigree of the Fitzgeralds from Troy, and
donata."
places their ancestors

animosus

et nulli fere strenuitate secundus.

Ad
:

capessenda tamen pericula, nee impetuosus nee

prseceps
:

among the

followers of

sed sicut prouidus in aggrediendis

1224.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

217

The corn remained unreaped until bruary], when the ploughing was going
inclement weather.

the Festival of St. Bridget [1st Feon, in

consequence of the war and

3

monastery was erected by Maurice Fitzgerald from whom the Fitzgeralds of Kildare and Desmond are descended, at Youghal", in the diocese of

q Cloyne, in Munster for Franciscan friars

,

r
.

sic

pertinax erat in aggressis.

:

Vir sobrius, moatque fidelis. crimine tamen

destus, et castus

stabilis, firmus,
:

Vir quidem non expers criminis

omni

notabili carens et enormi."

lib.
i.

Hibernia Ex-

the Sale Catalogue of the books and MSS. of the late Lord Kingsborough, in which it is stated as follows " But let us pass from the rough seas to the smooth plains, whereof we
:

pugnata,
It is

c.

42.

shall find few

till

we

pass Clancahill, a territory

stated

that

this

by some popular Irish writers first Maurice Fitzgerald was ap-

belonging to the Donovans, a family of Royall Extraction amongst the Irish. They came hither

pointed Chief Governor of Ireland

II.

by Henry

seems to be an error, as no original authority has yet been found for it, and his name does not appear in the list of
in
this

1173; but

from Coshma, in the county of Limerick, and" " built there the famous Castle of Crome, which
afterwards falling to the Earle of Kildare, gave him his motto of CROME-A-BOO, still used in his
scutcheon."

Chief Governors of Ireland given in Harris's Ware, vol. iL c. 15, p. 102, nor in any other trust-

Dr. Smith,

mation in

this

who has used the inforMS. throughout his Natural and

same passage,

worthy authority that the Editor has ever seen ; but his grandson, the Maurice mentioned in the
text,

Civil History of Cork, repeats the

vol.
i.

was Lord Justice of Ireland

in the

year 1229,

and again in 1232. This Maurice is said to have been the first who brought the orders of Friars Minors and Preachers into Ireland. By a mandatory letter of Henry III., dated 26th November, 1216, he was put into possession of Maynooth,

but quotes no authority whatever. This Maurice died on the 20th of May, 1257, in the habit of St. Francis, and was succeeded
p. 25,

by

his son

Maurice Fitz-Maurice Fitzgerald,

appointed Lord Justice of Ireland on See Lodge's Peerage, the 23rd of June, 1272. and a curious pedigree of the Fitzgeralds, in
the handwriting of Peregrine O'Clery, in the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, and another
in the

who was

and

all

the other lands of which his father died

;

seised in Ireland

and was put also into posses-

sion of the castle of

Crome

in the

county of Lithe

merick.

According among O'Donovans, as stated in the Pedigree of the late General O'Donovan, by John Collins, he was the first that drove the head of that family

to the tradition

copy from the Autograph of Duald Mac Firbis, in the same Library.
'

Toughed,

Gocmll,

well-known town

in

the county of Cork, situated on the River Blackwater, about twenty miles east of Cork.
q InMunster, if in muriiain, i. e. if in, in the, and murhain Munster ; the article an or in being

from the

castle of

Crome, or Groom, in the

county of Limerick; but the Editor has not been able to find any cotemporaneous authority
for this statement,

sometimes prefixed to names of territories and

countries in the Irish language. ' Under this year the Annals of Kilronan contain the following entry relative to the son of

nor any authority whatever

older than a manuscript, entitled Carbrice

titia,

No-

written in 1686, which formed No. 591 of

2 F

218

aNNa?,a Rioghachca eircecmN.

[1225.

aois crcioso,
QOIJ" Cpiopo, mfle,

1225.

Da

ceo, pice

cuig.

Qrhlaoib ua beolldin aipcinneac t>jioma cliab, Saoi eccna,

coircfnn Decc.

~]

biaccac

ITlaoilbpenainn ab leicceab 66.

Ua

maimprpe na

buille Decc Do bicin cuiplinne

DO

TTlaolbpigOe

Gplep
1

]\o

ua maiccin ab copaip paDpaicc, mac oije nonnpcnab ceampal cobaip parpaic,-] po popbaiD
"|

~\

eccnaibe Oecc.

jjona Shanccaip,
i
~\

TTluipe, coin, cpopaib lap mop paocap a nonoip pacpaic, 5'o^ct an coirhDeD mac giolla cappai^ uapal paccapc

na nappcal.

peappun cije

apDa capna Decc. a a&nacal cconga pecin. (5iollacoippre ua mujpoin Decc, Coimepje mop pluaig Do Denam la hua nell cconnaccaib Do congnam le cloinn T?uaiDpi ui concobaip, roippDealbac i aoD rpe popcongpa Duinn 615 mecc oipeaccaij pfojcaofpeac Sil TTluipeDhaij a nDiojail a peapainn oo ben De ouu concobaip (.1. ao6). Qcc cfna 6 po lompaiD mace
"]
i i

baoicin Dej. Dionip 6 maoilciapain aipcinneac

.1.

Hugh
came

to Ireland, despite of the

de Lacy: "A. D. 1224. The son of Hugo King of England,

English were challenged to approach them in

those places. However, when the English of Ireland perceived that they occupied such strong
positions, they

and a great war and contention arose between him and the English of Ireland, all of whom rose

came

to the resolution of

making

up against him and banished him

King of Aileach.
of Ireland

to O'Neill,

Thither the English and Irish pursued them, with their forces,

peace with the sons of Hugo, and to leave the conditions to the award of the King of England. The English of Ireland then dispersed without
obtaining tribute or reward from
s

namely, Hugh, the son of Cathal Crovderg, King of Connaught; Donough Cairbreach O'Brien,

Hugh O'Neill."
Sir

BiatdffA,

biacach, a public victualler.

King
thy,

of Munster ;

King of

Dermot Cluasach Mac CarDesmond and all the other chiefs

;

Richard Cox thought that this term was the same as Buddagh, a clown or villain but the
;

of Ireland, except the Kinel-Connell

and Kinel-

two words are

plication

essentially different in their ap-

Owen.

They marched

to

Muirtheimhne and

and derivation, biacach being derived

Dundalk, where they demanded hostages of the sons of Hugo and of O'Neill. Then came O'Neill
with his English and Irish forces, and distributed them on the passes of Sliabh Fuaid and the Gates
of Emania, and the woods of Conaille; and the

from bia&, food, and booac, which is a name of contempt, from a different radix. The Biatagh was

endowed with a quantity of laud called a baile biacai, or ballybetagh, which was the thirtieth
part of a triocha ced, or barony, and contained

1225.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

219

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1225.
twenty-jive.

thousand two hundred

Auliffe O'Beollan (Boland)

Erenagh of Drumcliff, a wise and learned man,

and

a general Biatagh

5
,

died.

O'Mulrenin, abbot of the monastery of Boyle, died in consequence of

having been blooded.

Maelbrighde O'Maigin, Abbot of Toberpatrick', a son of chastity and wisdom, died. By him the church, of Toberpatrick, together with its sancin honour tuary and crosses, had been, with great exertions, begun and finished, of St. Patrick, the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. John, and the Apostles. Gilla-an-Choimhdhe Mac Gillacarry, a noble priest, and parson of Teach

Baoithin, died.

Dionysius O'Mulkieran", Erenagh of Ardcarne, died. Gilla-Coirpthe O'Muron, died, and was buried at Conga-Fechin (Cong). O'Neill mustered a great force at the request of Donn Oge Mageraghty,
royal Chieftain of Sil-Murray, w

be revenged of O'Conor (i. e. Hugh ), for having deprived him (Mageraghty) of his lands, and marched into Connaught to assist the sons of Rdderic, viz., Turlough and Hugh. But
to
four quarters or seisreaghs, each containing one

who wanted

hundred and twenty acres of land. The ancient Irish had two kinds of farmers, the one called
BiataghsandtheotherBrughaidhs(Brooees),who seem to have held their lands of the chief under
different tenures
;

was bound by law to keep one hundred labourers, and one hundred of each kind of domestic animals.

For a curious dissertation on the tenure

of the Irish Biataghs, the reader is referred to Harris's Ware, vol. ii. c. 10, pp. 157, 158; and
Statute

the former,

who were com-

of Kilkenny, edited by Mr. Hardiman

NowBallintober, in the county

paratively few in number, would appear to have held their lands free of rent, but were

for the Irish Archseological Society, pp. 4, 5.

l

Toberpatrick.

obliged to entertain travellers, and the chief's

soldiers,

when on
latter

their

march

in his direction;

of Mayo, where the ruins of a great abbey and of a small church, dedicated to St. Patrick, may be
seen.
u
is

and the
ject to

would appear to have been suba stipulated rent and service. Ac-

O Hulkieran, O
1

maoilcictpam.

This name

cording to the Leabhar Buidlie, or the Yellow Book of the Mac Firbises of Lecan, preserved
in the

still

common

in the vicinity of Boyle

and

Manuscript Library of Trinity College,

3,

Ardcarne. w
Crovderg,

Hugh, GOD,

i.

e.

Hugh, the son of Cathal

Dublin, H.

18,

p.

921,

it

appears that the

who

succeeded his father as King of

Brughaidh, or farmer, called bpugaib ceoac,

Connaught.

2 F 2

'220

[1225.

in

05016 0060 Oo ponpan Sfol muipfohaig plairbfpcaij njeapna mpcaip Connace,

coimepjp ina 05016
uf nell nfp

-\

-]

lapcap connachc im ao6 ua gaoi&il an cuiccm oopmop

Ocila

ace mac Diapmara,

t>d

.1.

copbmac mac comalraij.

haipippeab lep 50 paini^ lap

pfl

muipeaohaij. Gipibe 50 peaoha

50 capn ppaich. T?iojaob ua nell cona mumcip oia

ara

luain,

50 mbaof

ofoce 05 TTiuilleann juanac jup lomaipccfpcup loc

nen 50 puce peoio uf concobaip op.

Ueccam
~|

aipi'6e

rap roippoealbac mac

31

T?uai6pi annpm,

cet>

woods of AtMone.

Foes of AtMone, peaoa aca luain, i. e. the This was the name of O'Nagh-

not overtaken O'Neile, they followed Roary's son until they dog'd him to O'Neile againe.

tan's country, containing thirty quarters of land

Mounster

and county of Eoscommon. See Inquisition taken at Athlone, on the 26th of October, 1587, and another taken
in the barony of Athlone,

journey killed Eghmarkagh Chief of Corkaghlyn at Kill-Kelly, O'Branan, after banishing Roary's son out of Connaght,
in that

Hugh mac
naght
after

Roscommon, on the 23rd of October, 1 604 ; also Tribes and Customs ofHy-Many, printed for
at

him."

Cathall Crovderg reigned in ConThe account of the coming

of O'Neill into

Connaught on

this occasion is also

the Irish Archzeological Society in 1843, pp. 1 75, 1 76, and the map prefixed to the same.
y

given in Mageoghegan's translation of the

nals of Clonmacnoise,

An-

Muitteann

Guanach

In the Annals of

Ulster and of Kilronan this

name

is

written

but incorrectly entered under the year 1224, as follows: " A. D. 1224. Hugh O'Neale and Tyreowen" [recte the Kinel" with their forces, accompanied with O'Conor and his brothers, the sonns Terlagh of Rowrie O'Connor, with their forces also,

muillib ucinac, and muilliB uainioe, in the

Owen],

Annals of Connaught. The Editor has not been able to find this name in any form in
the Faes, or in any part of the county of Ros-

common. The whole passage is given somewhat more intelligibly in the Annals of Ulster, and
thus Englished in the old translation " A. D. 1224. great army by Hugh O'Neale into Connought with the sons of Rory O'Coner,
:

wasted and destroyed all Moyntyrr Arteagh, and the most part of the countrey of Moynoye.

Donn Mac Oyreaghty made

a retraite

upon Hugh O'Connor returned O'Neale.

O'Connor, and afterwards went to

to the Deputie,

and consent of all Sylmurea, only Mac Dermot, viz., Cormac mac Tumultach, that he went along

Geffrey March his house in Athlone; whereupon the said Geffrey March sent his letters
to
all

parts

of Ireland,

and assembled

to-

Conought southerly into the woods of Athlone, that they were two nights at the Mills of Vonagh, and prayed Loghnen, and brought O'Conner's Juells and goods out of it. He came after
to Carnefrich

gether his forces of the five Provinces,

which

being so assembled and gathered together, the Deputie and O'Connor, with their great forces,

and prayed"
there,

[recte

inaugurated]

sought to banish O'Neal and the sons of Rowrie " O'Connor, from out of Connought," [and] pur-

"
Tirlagh

mac Roary

and went in haste

sued them.

O'Neale returned to his own house,

home, hearing" [that] "a great army of Galls and JNIounsternion about Donogh Kerbregh O'Brian

and

left

the sons of Rowrie O'Connor in Con-

nought, between

whom
all

and the forces of the De-

and Geffry Mares, with

Hugh O'Coner and Mac

;

putie and O'Connor

Counought was wasted.

Dermot coming uppon him and" [these] "having

Upon

the Deputies and O'Connor's going to

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ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

221

when Mageraghty turned against Hugh, the Sil-Murray also, and the inhabitants of West Connaught, with Hugh O'Flaherty, Lord of West Connaught, as well as all the Irish of the province, with the exception of Mac Dermot (Cormac, the son of Tomaltagh), conjointly rose out against him. As to O'Neill he made no delay until lie arrived in the very centre of Sil-Murray,
and he remained two nights at z Muilleann Guanach and totally plundered Lough Nen from whence he cara ried off O'Conor's jewels. Thence he proceeded to Carnfree where Turlough,

whence he marched

to the

Faes of Athlone*

the son of Roderic,

returned

home

was inaugurated; and then O'Neill, with his people, for all their own people were faithful to the sons of Roderic,
in so

Twayme, from Esroe to Clonvicknose,

that there was not in
all

much

those Contreys, the door of a church unburnt, with great slaughters of

both partys. Eachmarkagh taine of Corckaghlan, was

Mac Brannan,
killed.

Chief-

never before pointed out by any of our topoOne of the legends given in graphical writers. the Dinnseanchus points out its situation very conwords " in
the following They the body of Fraech to Cnoc na Dala (Hill veyed of the Meeting) to the SOUTH-EAST of Cruachain,
distinctly
:

Mories

Mac

Murrogh, with his brothers, Mahon Mac Connor Menmoye, Neal O'Teig, Teig mac Gilleroe
O'Connor, Flann O'Ffallawyn, and others, were
all killed.

and interred him there ; so that unde dicitur the earn is named
:

it is

from him
Fraeich,
fol.

Cam

The

sons of Rowrie O'Connor left

i.

e.

the earn of Fraech."

a, col. a.

Book of Lecan, and

Connought.

Hugh O'Connor took hostages of all

243, p.

the Provence, and Geffrey March the Deputie, with the most part of the English, returned to
their houses."
z

It is a small earn of stones

earth, situated

to the south of the village of Tulsk,

and about

Lough Nen, loc

ne"n

This

is

the place

three miles to the south-east of Rathcroghan, in the townland of Cams, to which this earn and a small green mound, or tumulus, situated to the east of the earn, give name. This earn, though
small,
is

now
and

called Loch-na-n-ean, or lake of the birds.

It lies to the west of the castle of

is

Eoscommon,
;

said to have been originally a deep lake

it is

but at present

generally dried up in summer, in consequence of drains which were sunk

to carry off the

of Croghan

a very conspicuous object in the plain and a good view of it, as well as of ;

Rathcroghan,
Elphin.
field, is

may
far

be had from the street of

this earn, in the

water

but

in winter the drains

Not

from

same

are not sufficient for this purpose, and the land becomes inundated.

na

This earn, which was called after the son of Fiodhach of the Red Hair, Fraech,
Carnfree.

a long standing stone, called cloc F QDa gcapn, which was probably erected here as a

boundary. The Editor visited this place on the 10th of August, 1837, and made every search for
the inauguration stone of theO'Conors,but could
find
is

was the one on which the O'Conor was inaugurated. It

in
is

situated in the townland of Cams,

the parish of Ogulla, in the barony and county of Roscommon. The situation of this
earn, so often

probable that

no such stone, nor tradition respecting it. It it was either destroyed or carried
several centuries since.
is

away

The green moat

to

mentioned in Irish history, was

the east of Carufree

the

Dumha

Kealga, so

222
ccijhib.

ciNNacci Rio^hachca eirceciNN.

(o

[1225.

poba raipipi Id cloinn RuaiDpi a naipecca buDen) ace ma6 aop mac oiapmaoa, Dauic ua ploinn, ^fc. gpaoa ao6a namd, cinneao annpin le mac carail cpoibDeips, Dul Clpf corhaiple ap ap cceann gall co cuipc ara luain, oip Do pala 50 po&dnac Doparh maire gall Gpeann Do beir comcpuinn amnpiDe an ionbai& pin, i bdrcap capaiD a
.1.
-]
i

bd cuapupclac ciobnupmop Doparh alop a arap, i ap apon pepin uaip laicrec mD apaon Doib. piaohaibiD goill poirhe pim 50 lurjdipec q congbaio Uuccparh an uipcip map lop laip fcoppa e 50 16m jpa&ac achaiD lap pin. Do rhainb gall ap cfna ina commbaiD annpin, oonnchab caipbpec ua bpiain, 1 ua maoilpeclainn gona pocpaiDib.
-]

lap cclop an, comcpuinnijci

pin

Do luce moigi

haf,

-\

Do cuacaib

ccpic luijne, ~\ i ccfp namalsaib jona po cecpioD pompa mbuap i inmleaba, ~\ po paccaibpioD meic 17uai&pi in uaca6 pocpaiDi. UeccaiD clann T?uaiopi uf concobaip pompa lapom an lion bdccup co cill

Connacr,

mbo a mbuaip. Imcupa aoba 50 ngallaib uime cuipiD uara Dapccain aopa jpdib cloinne Ruai&pi, i congbaio piopra piublaca cpom a ploij ina rnmcel pe hionnpaijiD Do rabaipc oppa bu&en. UeD ao6 mac Ruai&pi rmc TTluipceapcaig, Dorhnall ua plairbfpcaij, cijeapndn mac
ceallaij ap cul a
-|

carail miccdpain,
5pai&. UeccaiD

mac roippbealbaij mic RuaiDpi Danacul coDa Da naop cnmceal coippgoill im ao6 mac carail cpoib&eipg lappin
]

celebrated in the Dinnseanchus and Lives of St.

Patrick.

been willing to acknowledge the King's right make such a grant.

c

to

them wages, $c., uaip rlac, cioolaicreac lao apaon doib

Had paid

ba ruapupThe cuap-

Troops.

All this

is

much

better told in the

upcul was the stipend or wages paid by the suIt never means tribute, perior to his assistant. or even rent, but a stipend or salary for work

Annals of Kilronan, in which it is stated that the sons of Eoderic were left with a few Koydamnas, chieftains, horse-boys, and servants 7
:

or service done.

The Annalists here look upon

po pa^buic meic Ruaiopi jan cinol aipecca, ni paib'e na Bpappao acr uacao pioamnaD

7
7

the English as hireling soldiers, who were employed in the service of the King of Connaught.

caoipec, 7 jille ech, 7 jplle ppireolriia. d of St. Kllkelly, cill ceallaij, i. e. the church
Ceallach
rish of the

They do not appear to have been aware of the mandate, dated 12th June, 1225, issued by King

An

old church in a village

and pa-

Henry

III.,

directing

William Earl Marshall,

same name, in the barony of Costello, and county of Mayo. See it marked on the

the Lord Justice, to seize on the whole country of Connaught, stated to have been forfeited by

map

prefixed to Genealogies,

1'ribes,

and Customs

O'Conor, and to deliver

or, if

it

to Richard de
it,

Burgo;

of Hy-Fiachrach, printed for the Irish Archasological Society in 1844, and noted in the explanatory Index to the same Map,
p.

they were aware of

they

may

not have

484.

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ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Mac Dermot, David

223
O'Flynn,

excepting only the supporters of Hugh, namely,

&c.

The

to the English to the

resolution then adopted by the son of Cathal Crovderg, was to repair Court of Athlone ; for it happened, fortunately for him,

very time assembled there, and the greater part of them were friendly to him, on his father's account b as well as on his own, for both had paid them wages [for military services], and
that the chiefs of the English of Ireland
at that

were

had been bountiful towards them. The English received him with joy, and kept him among them with much affection for some time afterwards. He then
of the chiefs of the English of Ireland as he considered necessary, together with Donough Cairbreach O'Brien, and O'Melaghlin, with their forces.

engaged in

his cause the

Lord

Justice,

and

as

many

Moynai and of the Tuathas of Connaught had heard of this muster, they fled into the territory of Leyny and Tirawley, with their cows and other cattle, and left the sons of Eoderic attended by only a few
the inhabitants of

When

The sons of Roderic O'Conor afterwards proceeded to Kilkelly" with troops all the troops they had, and placed themselves in defence of their cows and
.

nocks.

As

for

Hugh

[O'Conor], and the English

who accompanied

him, they

of despatched light marauding parties to plunder the retainers of the sons Roderic, but detained the main body of their army about them for the purpose of making an attack upon sons of Roderic] themselves. Hugh, the son of
[the

Roderic, Donnell O'Flaherty, Tiernan, the son of Cathal Miccarain and the f son of Turlough, son of Roderic, went to protect some of their Aes graidh
,
.

Catlial

Hiccarain

He

is

called

Cathal

" servants of trust." It

is

stated in the

Annals of

Miogharan by Duald Mac Firbis, in his Pedigree of the O'Conors, in Lord Eoden's copy of his Genealogical Book, p. 219. He was the fifteenth
son of Turlough More O'Conor, Monarch of Ireland.
col. 4.

Kilronan that they went on this occasion to protect the cows and people of Farrell O'Teige, who

had taken an oath

he was the
first

to

be faithful to them, but that

of the Connacians that violated

;

See also the Book of Lecan, fol. 72, b, This Cathal, who was one of the illegiti-

his oath to the sons of Eoderic

and that he
of Cathal

brought

in their stead

Hugh, the son

mate sons of King Turlough, left one son, Conor, of whose descendants no account is preserved.
To protect some of their Aes gradha, oanacul cooa &a naop gpaio, i. e. to protect their stewards and chief servants of trust.
f

Crovderg, and the English, to protect his cows and people ; that it was on this occasion the

English came in collision with Turlough, the son of Eoderic, who, perceiving the treachery
of O'Teige, made a judicious and clever retreat by the help of Donn Oge Mageraghty, Flaherty

Qop

5pcii6

is

used throughout these Annals in the sense of

224

QHHata Kjoshacua eipeaNN.

lap na aipiuccaD pin Doparh cuipip a jlapldic
i

[1225.

pemeup poime, ua plannagain, mag oipeacraij jona anpabaib, plaiebeapcac uaeab Darhpaib eojanac baoi ina pocaip, opoaijip iaD Dia nimDiDfri ina
bealbaij. Oonn occ
-\

nDeoib 50 eeeapnaDap parhlaiD ona mbiobbabaib gan aon no euicim Diob.

pala an la pin Dpong to piopcaib aoba ui concobaip ccfnn eacmapcaij mic bpandin 50 nDeachaib Do copnarh a b'oicpece oppa 50 ecopcaip eacmapcac Don anbpoplann galccao baoi na 05016. Leanaip ao6 6 concobaip 50
i

Oo

ngallaib uime

mac

puai&pi an oibce pin 50 mflecc 50 mbaoi eeopa hoibce

mppin 05 apjain luijne Do gac lee. 6d hionDoconaij Do pala Do eajpa Sir Do Denarii lap na apgain cap cenn an ciopuaippi Do pdccbab Da annpin.
hinnilib illuijmu.

ann bdccap meic T?uai6pi mun ampa a ccorhjap Do loc mic peapnjlfnD na mocapc. Comaiplijip ao& pe na jallaib annpin na abaij

Qp

cuaca DionnpaijiD Dia napgain, Siol TTluipeaDhaij, clann comalcaij DinnpaD map an ceDna 6 Do bdccap ap ccec(Y> poirhe. lap ccinneaD na corhaiple pi loccap pompa plijiD nac pmuainpeaD gall co bpctc Dul hi bpio6 ngaclaij 50 cpempe piaccpac dc cfje in meppaij jup aipccpioD
-|
i

.1.

cuil

cepna6a lap noiljfnn a Daoine

Doib.

^ac ap gab
'

50 Dubconga Do luce

soldiers,
8

O'Flanagan, and some of the Tyronian route of who covered their retreat.

to the ratification of the peace.

Tyronian

soldiers.

These were some of the

to assist Turlough, the
set

soldiers left

by O'Neill

Lough Macfarry, loc mic pepaoaig, called loc rntc Gpaocnj, in the Annals of Connaught, and loc mic Gipecroaij, in those of Kilronan.
This name
thinks that
is it

son of Eoderic,

whom

he had

up

as

King of
e.

now

Connaught.

In the Annals of Kilronan these

forgotten ; but the Editor was the old name of the Lake of

are called becigan oon

Rue Go janac,

i.

some

of the Eugenian, or Kinel-Owenian, route, turma, or company of soldiers.

h

Templehouse, in the county of Sligo. This is better told ^Inhabitants of the Tuathas
in the Annals of Kilronan, thus
:

" The resolution

Him

In the Annals

of Kilronan

it

is

stated that

Mac Brannan
too

displayed great valour

in defending himself,

but that he was overof might.

which the son of Cathal Crovderg then adopted, was to go with the English in pursuit of the cows of the Tuathas, of the Sil- Murray, and of the
Clann- Tomalty, by a way which no Englishman had ever passed before, that is, by Fidh Gadlaigh,
until they arrived at Attymas,

whelmed by
1

many men

Meelick,

ITlilmc.

church,

near which

are the ruins of one of the ancient

in a parish of the
k

Round Towers,
barony of
the

and they received

same name,

in the

neither javelin nor arrow on that rout.

They

Gallen, and county of

Then

left,

Mayo. Do paccbub That

is,

num-

plundered Coolcarney, where they seized upon the cows and destroyed the people. Some at-

ber not seized upon by the plunderers previously

tempted to escape from them into the Backs

1225.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Hugh, the son of Cathal Crovderg, then

225
set out to sur-

The

English, with
;

round Turlough but the latter, on perceiving this, ordered his recruits in the van, and Donn Oge Mageraghty, with his Calones, Flaherty O'Flanagan,

and a few Tyronian soldiers 5 who were with him in the rear, to cover the retreat, by which means they escaped from the enemy without the loss of a man. On the same day some of Hugh O'Conor's marauding parties
,

encountered Eachmarcach
against

Mac
him
11

Branan,
fell

who had gone

to protect his

cows

them;

and Eachmarcach
.

warriors

fought against the sons of Eoderic that night to Meelick', and for three nights afterwards continued plundering Leyny in all directions. This was unfortunate to

who

by the overwhelming force of the Hugh O'Conor, and the English, pursued

O'Hara,
able

who had to make peace with them, in consideration of the inconsidernumber of its cattle then leftk in Leyny. The sons of Eoderic were at this time stationed near Lough Macfarry in
1 , ,

Hugh then proposed to the English that they should and plunder the inhabitants of the Tuathas m the Sil-Murray, and pursue
him [with their cattle] and this Clann-Tomalty, being agreed upon, they set out, taking a road which the English alone would never have thought of taking", viz. they passed through Fiodh Gatlaigh, and marched until they reached Attymas and they plundered Coolcarney p after
as they

Gleann-na-Mochart.

had

fled before

but such of these as were not drowned in the

attempt were killed
pitiful!

or plundered.
as proceeded to

It

was

A parish Attymas, CMC cijje an rheppai^. about the southern half of the territory forming
of Coolcarney, in the barony of Gallen, and See Map to Genealogies, Tribes, county of Mayo

Such of them

Dubh-

chonga were drowned, and the fishing weirs with their baskets, were found full of drowned children.

Such of the

flitting

Clann-Tomalty

as

and Cwtoms of Hy-Fiachrach, printed in the year 1844, and Explanatory Index to the same,
p.

escaped the English and the drowning, fled to Tirawley, where they were attacked by

477.
P

Coolcarney,

Cuil Ceapna&a

This territory
It
is

O'Dowda, and left without a single cow." n Would never have thought of taking, nac

retains its

name

to the present day.

si-

pmuainpeao jail co bpac t>ul rpeimpe, that is, Hugh, who was intimately acquainted with the
passes and population of the country, conducted the English by a rout which themselves

tuated in the barony of Gallen, and county of Mayo, and comprises the parishes of Kilgarvan
of Sligo

and Attymas, which are divided from the county by a stream called Sruthan geal. Ac-

they

would never have thought of. The Annals of Connaught and of Kilronan describe these transactions more fully than those of the Four Masters.

cording to the Book of Hy-Fiachrach, Cuil Cearnadha extended from Beul atha na nidheadh,
six miles

from Ballina, to the road or pass of

is

Breachmhuighe (Breaghwy), which

the

name

2 G

226

QNNaca Rioghachca eiReaww.

[1225.

an cecrhe po bdi&ic a nopmop. Gp arhlaib Do gebn na cfpcanna nap a ^ac a cceapna Don coipc ccaippib lomldn Do leanbaib lap na mbdchaD.
pin Dfob 6 jallaib,

05 loc mic pea6 apoile Doib 50 pgepDip pocpaioe jail pe hao6. Donn mag pa6ai pgaoileaD oipeccaij, i apoile Dm maieib Do cop DO paijib uf plaicbaepeaij a ppip commuipceapraij uf concobaip, njeapnan mac cacail a minnceap, Sic Do Denarii Doib cap a ccfnn 50 Do Dul ap cul a mbo bpdgbaiDip 501 II mac cacail cpoiboeipj. Qp ann baoi ao6 mun am pom moij
luiji i corhcooaij.

noeacam 6 ouboa UlaD 100 clann RuaiDpi rpa

on lombdeaD pempdice loDap pura jondp pdccaib aon bo aca.

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ccip

namatjam 50

api comaiple Do ponpae

TTleic
-\

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neo,

ciajaiD meic muipceapcaij muminij ma cfnn ap Shlanaib"] comaipcib. TTlaD an caob ceap Do connaccaib Dana nip bo cunn Doib Don Dul pom,
]

muipceapcac ua bpiain, goill Dfp gup mapbpac a noaoine beop, Sippiam copcaije a mbailce. ba jup lonnpaDap a mbpuij Doneoc^p a pucpac Diob, hole cpa la hao6 mac cacail cpoibbeipj a ccoccporh Don cupup pin uaip ni he po cocuip iaD, ache cnuc, popmac Da njabail pen pe gac maicfp Da Don lupDip jjona jallaib cconnaccaib an can pom. Qp ccualaDap Dpdjail Don puacap po Do mapbaiD cecpe meic mec mupchaiD ap en lacaip.
uaip canjaDap goill laijfn
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muman

inn

muman

ma ccpecomnpc

-|

-|

"|

6d cpuacch cpa an
i

nGpinn an lonbaiD
"]

pi,

nerhpen Do beonaij Dfa Don cuicceD Do bpfpp baoi uaip ni coiccleaD an mac occlaoic apoile ace 50
)

apccain pona curhanj. Do cuipiD beop mnd, poDaome Dpuacc -| jopca Don coccaD pin.

cpeachaD

lenirii,

painn, i

of a townland in the parish of Castleconor, lying to the east of Ardnarea.

q

a oaoine

After having destroyed its people, lapnoiljenn The word bil^erm or oi^eann ooiB.

in the parish of Attymas, in the barony of Gallen, and county of Mayo See Ordnance of the county of Mayo, sheet 40; and also Map

Lough,

signifies destruction, or depopulation. O'Clery writes it biljionn, according to the modern Irish

and Customs of Hy-Fiachand map to the same, rack, pp. 242, 243, s The baskets of the fishing weirs, na cepcanna
Genealogies, Tribes,

orthography, and explains

it

p jpiop, no oiolair-

piujaoh.
total

The compound uile-biljenn means

extirpation, or annihilation,

a ccaippiB In the Annals of Kilronan the na cappanna co na ceapcanoaib; reading is,

uar-

destruction,

See Annals of Tighernach at the year 995. r Duvconga. This place is now called beal

and in the Annals of Connaught, na caipp co na ceppacliaib, i. e. the weirs and baskets. The
children that had been carried

away by the

floods

aca conja

in Irish,

and Anglicised Bellacong

near Ballymore

were found entangled

in the baskets,

which were

and Ballycong.

It is situated

placed for nets in the carrys or fishing weirs.

1225.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

its

227
r

having nearly destroyed

people".
;

Some of them

fled to

Duvconga but the

,

baskets of the fishing weirs were greater part of these were drowned and the found full of drowned children. Such, of them as on this occasion escaped

from the English, and the drowning aforesaid, passed into Tirawley, where they were attacked by O'Dowda, who left them not a single cow. As to the sons of Roderic, the resolution they adopted, at Lough Macfarry,

was
to

to

separate

from each

other, until

the

English should leave

Hugh;
their

send Donn Mageraghty, and

others of their chieftains, to O'Flaherty,

sworn friend and partisan; and the sons of Murtough O'Conor, and Tiernan, the son of Cathal', to take charge of their people and cows, and to

obtain peace on their behalf, until the English should leave (Hugh) the son of Cathal Crovderg. Hugh was at this time at Mayo, and the sons of Mur-

tough Muimhneach [O'Conor] went to him under protection and guarantee". As to the inhabitants of the southern side of Connaught, they were not in
a state of tranquillity at this period, for the English of Leinster and Munster, with Murtough O'Brien, the English of Desmond, and the sheriff of Cork, had

made an

upon them, and slew all the people that they caught, and burned their dwellings and villages. Hugh, the son of Cathal Crovderg, was displeased at their coming on this expedition for it was not he that sent for them, but were themselves excited by envy and rapacity, as soon as they had
irruption
;

heard what good things the Lord Justice and his English followers had obtained
in

Connaught at that time. During rough were slain on the same spot.

this incursion the four sons of

Mac Murpro-

Woeful was the misfortune, which God permitted

to fall

upon the best

vince in Ireland at that time! for the young warriors did not spare each other, but preyed and plundered each other to the utmost of their power. Women

and children, the

this
1

feeble,

and the lowly poor", perished by cold and famine

in

war

Tiernan, the son of Cathal.

of Cathal O'Conor,

He was the son who was one of the sons of

Kilronan it is stated that the sons of Murtough " went into his house make their submis[to
sion] under sureties and guarantees." w The The Annals of Kilronan poor.

Turlough More O'Conor, Monarch of Ireland. u Under protection and guarantee, ap planaiB 7 comaipciB, that is, they had persons to guarantee their safety on their arrival in his presence,
to

state,

that during this

lords,

war women,

children,

young

make

their

mock

peace.

In the Annals of

and mighty men, as well as feeble men, Oo cuipic mnu perished of cold and famine.

2o2

228

QNMaca Rio^hachca eiReawN.

[1225.

Do lacaip aoba ui conlap nDul cpa Do macaib muijicfprai^ muimnij Do pdibfmap, Do cuaiD ap ndbapac 50 cill mf66in. cobaip DO peip map Compaicic rpf ploi na njall arm pin pe poile, -| ap bfg nap bo Ian an cpioca
Uainicc aoD 6 ceD ina mbaccap Ifr ap Ifc eDip gallaib jaoiDealaib. ap pldnaib maire jail, Donnchaba caipbpij ui plaicbeapcaicc ap copaib an mpDip co noeapna ccfnn ao&a in concobaip, bpiain a caipDfpa cpiopD hi
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pip, ap macaib Ruainpi Oaccop uaio. Imcijip pic cap ao& tap pin, a joill irnaille pip co cuaim Da jualann, leiccip goill laijean, lompaiDip pen ap ccula Do com uf plaicbfpcaij 1 Drpmurhari uaio annpin. bo caipipe laip epiDe, uaip bacrap meic RuaiDpi poime pin allaniap oip ni'op

cfnn a buaip,
~\

~[

a Daoine

-]

DO loc aicce,

mas oipeacraij apaon piu. mac magnupa pe cloinn RuaiDpi jup Qnnpin po pcap
~\

Donn 6cc

mnpaij; hi ccfp

a mumcipe 50 bpuaip mcr 50 poDanac gan bo, e lap cpeachaD gan apccain. T?ucc leip iao lapam po Dioean ui l?uaipc,
namalgaiD ap cfnn a
-\
-\

ccpeachao pilip meic goipDelbai^.

Dana Do cuip piDe Dpong Dia muincip poime 50 neoalaib aiDblib. lap na piop pin DaoD mac RuaiDpi Deojan 6 eibin uaraD DfjDaoine gup muioeaD pop muimnecaib, jop beanaD a loDup pompa neoala Diob, gup conjbab bpaijDe Da mainb uaca. lap na clop pin Do
bpiain
~\ ~\

OonnchaD caipppeac ua

DonnchaD caipbpeac ncc Do lacaip aoba nuc RuaiDpi 50 nDeapna pfr bdicce cointel pip, i gup jab Do laim jan coi&eacc na aghaiD Dopibipi Dia lecceaD
7

lemb
7

7 oijci^eipn 7

cpeom

eccpeom pe
This

aijje, 7

puacc
*

pe jopca oon cogao

pin.

pp )u .

"

a cliamam pem .1. t)ortn Oj maille He then came to another resolution,

Of his gossip, a caipoeupu Cpfopo

is

term

used in the modern language to denote a gossip, or one who is a sponsor for a child at

namely, to return back to O'Flaherty, for he did not like how he left him ; for he had on
the west side of the lake the sons of Roderic,

See O'Brien's Dictionary in voce. baptism. See also Harris's Ware, vol. ii. p. 72, for Gossipred.

an d his

own

son-in-law, that

is,

Donn Oge

along

with
* foi.
i

them." According to the Book of Lecan,

co l. 4, he was the ninth son of Tur-

Hanmer

says,

that

it

was a league of
See note
d

Manus.
72, 4,

amity highly esteemed in Ireland under the year 1178, p. 42, supra.

Donn
herty's
aili

Oge.

It is

stated in the Annals of

ough More O'Conor, monarch of Ireland. His descendants took the surname of Mac Manus,
and we re seated in Tir Tuathail, in the northeast o fthe barony of Boyle, in the county of

Kilronan that

Donn Oge Mageraghty was O'Flason-in-law: Do pome pirn comuipli

ann pin .1. impoo bo cum 1 Plaicbepcai^ up cula, uaip nip caipipi leip map Do puguib e, uaip oo buoap meic Ruuibpi alia amap DO loc

Roscommon.
That
After having first plundered, mp ccpeachao. is, on his passage through the present

1225.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

sons of

229

Murtough Muimhneach [O'Conor] having come before Hugh O'Conor, as we have stated, he went on the next day to Kilmaine, where the three English armies met; and nearly the whole of the triocha ched (cantred)

The

was

filled

with people, both English and

Irish.

Hugh

OTlaherty, under the

protection and guarantee of the

chiefs of the English,

and of

his gossip

1
,

Donough Cairbreach O'Brien, came to Hugh O'Conor and the Lord Justice, and made peace with O'Conor, on behalf of his people and cows, on condition
that he should expel the sons of Roderic.

After

this,

Hugh and

his English
;

went
after

to

Tuam, where he dismissed the English of Leinster and Desmond

to

(watch) OTlaherty, for he did not confide in as OTlaherty had, some time before, the sons of Roderic at the west side him, of the lake, together with Donn Oge y Mageraghty.

which he returned back

The son

of

Manusz then parted from

the sons of Roderic, and set out

for Tirawley, in quest of his

there, without having been plundered or molested.

cows and people, and fortunately found them He then took them with
.

him, under the protection of O'Rourke, after having

first

plundered" Philip

Mac

Costello.

Donough Cairbreach O'Brien sent a detachment of his people before him, with immense spoils; but Hugh, the son of Roderic, and Owen O'Heyne, having heard of this movement, went before them with a few select men, defeated the
Momonians, deprived them of
as hostages.

their spoils,

and detained some of

their nobles

When Donough
made

son of Roderic, and

a solemn peace" with him, and

Cairbreach heard of this, he came to Hugh, the bound himself never

and people, and found them in good condition, without having been plundered or molested, and they took them with them to O'Eourke, and on
Philip
b

barony of Costello, which lay on? his way to O'Rourke, he plundered Mac Costello. In the Annals of Kilronan, the language of this
pas-

sage

is

much

better than that written

:

Four Masters. It runs thus Ip .oeilij meic nflajnupa pe macaiB Ruai&pi, 7 no cuacap a ccip nariialjaio ap cenn a mbo 7 a mumceap, 7 puapaoap lao 50 po&anac can mpao can apjum, 7 pugpac leo lac a nucc 1 Ruaipc, 7 oo ponpar cpeic tnoip ap
Philip

by the ann pin po

their

way they took

Costello."

a great prey from

Mac

solemn peace, plr bairce combel,

i.

e.

a peace of the extinguishing of candles, i. e. a peace so solemn, that he who should violate it

would incur excommunication, of which

cere-

mony

the extinguishing of the candles formed

mac ^oipoealbh.

"Then

the sons of

Manus separated from the

sons of Eoderic, and

the last and most terror-striking part. Ma"a so solemn that expresses it, geoghegan peace

they went to Tirawley in quest of their cows

whoever would break

it

was

to

be excommuni-

230

[1225.

a c o 5ill t> mac Ruaibpi cainicc ap an ceD pluaijeao ma (lap bpajail a rhuincipe 66 uam) uaip ajjaiD la hao& mac cacail cpoibDeipg. an mpDip gona jallaib mppm 50 cala6 innpi cpfma jup Ceo ao6 oilen na cipce 50 napcpaijib anloca beccin Do plaicbeapcaicch imp cpfrha, a aop jpaiD cuije.

5 lDeaDn

comaM P orn

~[

~\

DO cabaipr ap laim aoba. Upiallaip an lupofp lap pin t)ia nj. Ueo aob 6 concobaip Dia io6laca6 uioe cian Da pb'jiD gup pajaib an lupofp uacaD DO
rhainb a
caipipi
illairii

mumnpe

aicce imaille pe hiomao penneo,

laip connacraij

acrmab

bfcc.

peapojlaoc oip nfop bo Uuccporh annpin maire a oipeacca

-]

plairbeapcac 6 plannaccain, pfpgal ua caibg, i apoile Do mainb connacr, i ap Doib pen DO beccin a bpuap.1.

gall a njioll pe a ccuapaprlaib,

laccaD.

ua plaicbeapcai^, meicc muipceapraij, na liuaiple apcfna ap 006 mac cacail cpoibDeipj lap nimcecr cpoimcionoil na ngall uaib, po gabpac le macaib RuaiDpi. Cuipip ao6 o concobaip

Qp

a haicle

pin lompaiDip

~\

~\

pjpibne Do paijiD an luprfp Dia poillpiujaD pin Do, i DiappaiD puilleaD pocpaioi.. Nip bo haicepc po lap Dopam pin, uaip Do ppeccpaannpin cecca
i
cated with book, bell, and candle."

See note

of

under the year 1200. c Lord Justice He was Geoffry de Marisco, or De Mariscis, or Geffry March, as he is called

Iniscreawa, or Wildgarlick near Cargin, in the barony of Clare ; a small island, where the walls and high ditch of
it

as follows

"

Isle, is

by Mageoghegan,
nals
.of

in his translation of the

An-

a well fortified place are still extant, and encompass almost the whole island. Of this isle,

Clonmacnoise, at the years 1225, 1226. He was succeeded by Richard de Burgo, the great
list

Macamh
cian, as

Insicreawa, a memorable ancient magi-

Lord of Connaught, on the 10th of March, 1227.

See
of the Chief Governors of Ireland given
in Harris's

they say, had his denomination." See Territory of Hiar Connaught, by Roderic O'Fla-

Ware,

vol.

ii.

p. 103,

where

it is in-

herty, printed for the Irish Archaeological SoThe walls here referred ciety in 1845, p. 25.
to

Hubert de Burgh, afterwards Earl of Kent, was appointed Lord Justice of Ireland, on the 10th of March, 1227, and
correctly stated that

by O'Flaherty

still

clopean character. was the castle of Orbsen,

remain, and are of a cyThe natives assert that this

from

whom Loch
its

Richard de Burgo appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland, on the same day and year.
d

Orbsen,

now Lough
to

Corrib, took

name.

See

Map
is

Inis

Creamha
Corrib,

This

is

a small island in
of Cargins,

printed in
island

and Customs of Hy-Many, 1843, on which the position of this

Tribes
is

Lough
county

near the Castle

shewn.
thus

and belonging to the barony of Clare, in the

of Galway.

The
stated

transaction narrated in the text

The name

is

translated

Wildgarlick Isle by Roderic O'Flaherty, in his Account of West Connaught, where he speaks

West by O'Flaherty, in his Account Connaught: "Anno 1225. The Lord Justice of
of

Ireland coming to the port of Iniscreawa, caused

1225.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

231

again to oppose him, on condition that Hugh would restore him his Acs graidh. But he did not adhere to this his covenant with the son of Roderic; for,

from him, he came in the first army that Hugh, the son of Cathal Crovderg, marched against him. After this, Hugh [the son of Cathal Crovderg O'Conor], and the Lord Justice with his English, set out for the port of Inis Creamha" and O'Flaherty was compelled to surrender the island of Inis Creamha, and Oilen na Circe', and
after obtaining his people
,
;

all

the vessels [boats] on the lake, into the hands of

Hugh.

The Lord

Justice

then returned home, and was escorted a great part of the way by Hugh O'Conor, with whom he left a few of the chiefs of his people, together with f many soldiers and warriors; for the Connacians were not faithful to him, except very few.
as hostages for the

English the chiefs of his people, of their wages8 as Flaherty, O'Flanagan, Farrell payment O'Teige", and others of the chiefs of Connaught, who were subsequently obliged
,

After this

Hugh gave up to the

to

ransom themselves.

After the departure of the main army of the English from Hugh, the sons of Cathal Crovderg, the son of Murtough and all the other nobles, O'Flaherty, revolted against him, and joined the sons of Roderic. Hugh O'Conor then
1 ,

despatched messengers and letters to the Lord Justice, to inform him of the
circumstance, and request additional" forces.

His request was by no means

Odo O'Flaherty, Lord of West Connaught,

liver that island,

to de-

Kirke Island, and the boats of Lough Orbsen, into the hands of Odo O'Connor,

the reward or wages to be paid them by the King of Connaught for their services in war.

King of Connaught (Cathald Redfist's son), for assurance of his fidelity." p. 25.
e

This had nothing to do with the tribute to be paid to the King of England in accordance with
the Treaty of Windsor.
CfTeige is now anglicised Teige, and sometimes Tighe. The name is common in the neighbourhood of Castlereagh, in the county of Rosh

Oilen

na

Circe,

now

Castlekirk island, in

the north-west part of Lough Corrib, containing the ruins of a very ancient castle See Hiar

Connaught, by Roderic O'Flaherty, pp. 22, 24. f Soldiers, penneo According to the Annals of Kilronan, the

common.
i

The son of Murtough,

or

Lord Justice

left

with

i.e.

mac ITluipchepcaij, the sons of the celebrated Muirchertach

Murtough
the

Hugh, the son of Cathal Crovderg, on this occasion, a few [ua^ao] of the chiefs of the English
and many archers [peipreonuij; imoa]." g In the Annals of Wages, cuaparcluib. Kilronan, the reading is, a n 5 .U pe ccuapupoal, i e in pledge for their
.

Muimhneach,

O'Conor, who, according to the

of Ireland.

Momonian Book of Lecan,

was the eleventh son of Turlough More, monarch

Additional. FuiUe6 is the old form of the modern word cuilleao, more. In the Annals of
*

pay or stipend,

i.

e.

232

[122o.
e.

Dap

goill

50 pomnirh paipepccaib
61

Gcc

cfna ba cuillmeac Doibpiom an

rupup

ba bfcc a nimpeap^na. Cuipceap 501 II laijean cuijipiorh annpin im uilliam ccpap, im macaib gpippfn. lap mbper na pocpaiOi pin aippiom lonnpaijib meic T?uai6pi rap cocap piap, gabaip a ccuala meic Ruampi Do beir jan lion pocpolitic in uib Diapmaca map
pin
p

pa mop a

net>ala,

-\

-\

-|

cuipip peblipangacrap a luce combd6a iao mun am pom, mi& a bpacaip, apoile Do maicib a rhuincipe, i pocpaiOe mop DO jlapldraib

paiDe, uaip nf

~\

"|

gall DionnpaD eojain uf

e&m

in

uib bpiacpac aibne co

mbdoap abaij

long-

puipc
ccionn.

in

apD pacain pa comaip na rfpe Dapccam a muca na mamne ap

Do macaib muipceapraij (baDap DO 6ul Do cpeachaD a bpip comluicce,
]
i

Poillpijceap Dua plairbeapraij,

05 lonnpaijib mac T?uai6pi) goill a mbec an apD pacain, nip paillicceab pin piuporh oip Gojan 6 hei&in, Do Ifnpac mcc Denroil Denaoncaib 50 pangaoap ccompoccup Doib. Oo
)

~|

comaple pe poile annpin,

Kilronan,
the reading
is,

.1.

ruacal mac muipceapcaij,

n

~\

caiclec ua
This cause-

biappaib

cuillenb

The

toffker,

i.

e.

the causeway.

focpume.
1

Struggle trifling,

ba becc a nimpfpjna.
is
:

way, which was called cocap mono comea&a, is still well known, and its situation pointed

In the Annals of Kilronan the reading

^etBci]'

DO

out by the natives, though the country

is

very

erala

cam,

i. e.

pa^oai y gac na himeapap" They used to obtain the spoils, but

7 ni

much

did not expose themselves to the danger of the conflict." The word itnpepjna, which is

situated in the parish of Templetogher, in the barony of Ballimoe, and county of Galway. Hugh O'Conor, who had

improved.

It

is

his residence in the plain of Croghan,

marched
and

used by the Four Masters,

.1.

thus explained in imO'Clery's Glossary of ancient Irish Words

is
:

on

this occasion across the ford at Ballimoe,

directing
this

his

course

south-westwards crossed

.1. Imbpuijean. on every side, i. e. conseargna, striking flict." Both forms of the word are correctly

peapjtjna,

imeapopjam,

"

causeway, and proceeded into Hy-Diarmada,

i.

e.

or O'Concannon's country, where he had heard his rival was staying See note r under the
,

explained in the Irish Dictionaries of O'Brien and O'Reilly, both having taken them from
O'Clery.

year

1 1

77, pp. 34, 35, 36.

Also note under the

e. raw recruits, i. The Annals of Kili.

year 1255.
Recruits, jjlar-taaraib,

m William Grace, Uilliam Ccpap.

Annals of Kilronan he
i.

In the

or soldiers lately enlisted.

is

called

IMliam Cpap,
was the

ronan

call

them juillpeipreancaiB,

e.

Eng-

e.

Gulielmus Crassus.

Cras, or Gras,
le

lish archers.
p

soubriquet of

Raymond

Gras, and afterwards

is

Ardrahin, apt) parain, a fair-town in the

became a family name, which

incorrectly written Grace.

now always
from

It is derived

barony of Dunkellin, and county of Galway, and a vicarage in the diocese of Kilmacduagh.

the French Gras, or Gros.

Here

is still

to be seen a small portion of the

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ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

call cheerfully

233

an ineffectual one, for the English responded to his

tiously;
1

and well was their promptness rewarded, for their spoil their struggle trifling The English of Leinster, under the conduct of William
.

and expediwas great, and

Grace" and the sons of

forces,

Griffin,

were sent to aid him.

On

the arrival of these

Hugh

the sons of Roderic, and advanced to Hy-Diarmada,

proceeded westwards, across the Togher" [the Causeway], against where he had heard they

were

stationed, without
;

any considerable

forces, for their allies

had not

as yet

joined them
people, and
to plunder

and he sent

his brother Felim,

and others of the

for one night at

chiefs of his

a great

number of the English

recruits into

Owen O'Heyne. These encamped

Hy-Fiachrach Aidhne, Ardrahen p with

,

a view to plunder the country early in the morning following. O'Flaherty and the sons of Murtough [O'Conor], who were then on their

way
had
at

O'Heyne, Ardrahen, did not abandon their friend, but, with one mind and accord, followed the English until they came very close to them. They then held a council", and came to the resolution of sending Tuathal, the son of
r

to join the sons of Roderic, having received intelligence that the English and were stationed gone to plunder their sworn partisan, Owen

Murtough

ruins of an ancient cloigtheach, or Round Tower. 1 They then held a council, Do gniac comaiple

O'Flaherty, and the other son of Murtough, was to remain outside the town. The Irishman

pe poile ann pin

at

Ardrahen

is

much

This attack on the English better described in the An-

nals of Kilronan,

of persons,

particularly in giving the names which are so confusedly given by

It

the Four Masters.

runs as follows

" O'Fla-

accompany Tuathal O'Conor, was Hugh O'Dowda and they entered the town with great cotirage and boldness, and the English fled out of the town, one
Taichleach, the son of
;

selected to.

herty and the sons of Murtough [O'Conor], as they were coming to join the sons of Eoderic,

party of them passing eastwards and another westwards. They were pursued eastwards. The
party who fled to the west came in collision with the Irish who were at the back of the town, and
routed them, though there were not living among the Irish any people more vigorous than they; but fortune did not favour them. The party who fled eastwards were pursued by Tuathal [O'Conor] and Taichleach O'Dowda. Tuathal
first
fell

heard of the English having set out to plunder their sworn ally O'Heine, and of their being at Ardrahen and they adopted the resolution of
;

going to Ardrahen, attacking the English early in the morning, and burning the town over

They travelled all night, and morning arrived on the green of the town. The resolution they then came to was, to sent first into the town Tuathal, the son of Murtough, and whomsoever of the Irish chiefearly in the
tains

their

heads.

wounded the constable of the English, who by the hand of Taichleach. It was indeed

fortunate for the sons of Eoderic that they were

not in this conflict," &c.

Tuathal, the son of Murtough

he would wish to accompany him, while

From

the

2H

234

dNNata Rio^hachca emeaNN.

piu

[1225.

DO cup DO poigiD an baile cecup ua plaicbeapmac muipceapcaijj iman mbaile peccaip guna pocpaiDib. LuiD raij cuanal, -| caicleac gona bpianldc 50 mfnmnac meapDana ecpecommupc in mbaile 50 rcucpac eiuj puabaipc bio6bai& oppo. gall ip TTlaiDreap pop

Duboa 50 noipim amaille

-]

jallaib poip i piap ap a hairle.

Lfnaicpiom aop na

ma&ma

poip.

Loicip

cuaral conpcapla na ngall Da ceD pupgarh. Qcjonaiy caicleac e gup pajba6 an conpDapla gan anmain DC pf&e. Odla na ngall ap ap mui6ea6 ap an mbaile Don raoib apaill po eipij ua plairbeapcaij, mac muipceapcaij Doib.
~\

5'6ea6 capla Dampen oaibpibe jup bpipearcap joill oppa po ceDoip. Qp Don coipc pin Do mapbaD macjamain mac aoba mic concobaip maonmaije, Clcr cfna jiolla cpiopD mac Diapmaoa, mall mac peapjail ua cai&g, ^jc. an peap po rhapb mall 6 caiDj, .1. bpacaip colen uf biomupaij. po mapbaD

Oala mac Ruai&pi coniDpecaiD ap abapac pe hua pplaicbeapcaij, pip an ccuiD oile Da naop comra 50 rcangacap pompa a nDeap 50 Dpmm cfnannam. CuiD 006 mac cacail cpoibDeipj jona jallaib ma nDiaiD. Comaip-]

li^reap 05 aipeaccaib cloinne Ruaibpi annpin jac aon Diob Do paijiD a mfnnaca pepin, -] Do gnfar pamlaiD ace Donn occ mag oipecraij namd.

CiD cpa ace iap ppajbdil na puipeac, .1. cloinne Ruaiopi uf concobaip Donn mag oipeacannpin in uacaD pocpaiDe looap Do paijiD ao6a uf nell,
-\

caij imaille

pifi.

carail cpoibDeipj ua plaicbeapraij annpin 50 ccuc Uainic poime lapam 50 cill meaDom, -\ 50 jell, i eoipeaDa uam. moij neo i nDiaiD mic muipceapcaij, -] cijfpndm mic carail miccapain 50

lonnpaijip aoD

mac

noeapnpar pic rap cfnn a mbuaip

manner

-]

a muinnpe,

50 noeacpac Do lacaip
a ; Book of Bal-

in which this name is given by the Four Masters, one would suppose that this Tuathal was one of the O'Dowda family ; but the more

See Book of Lecan,

lymote,
fol.

fol.

75,

b,

23, p.

b,

col. a, line

29

and Duald

Mac
c

Firbis's Genealogical Book, p. 575.

ancient annals shew that he was Tuathal, the son of the celebrated Muircheartach Muimh-

find

Druim Ceanannain __ The Editor could not any place of this name in the county of

neach
5

O'Conor,
-

and the brother

of

Maims

^ onor

In the Annals They joined, comopecaiD ofKilronan the reading is, po compuiceaoap,
i.

There is a Liscananaun in the parish of Lackagh, in the barony of Clare, and county of Galway.
Galway.
"Residence __ )Tlfnnao,
in his

they met. The word comopecam is often used to translate the Latin word conveniunt
e.

Vocabulary, at the
.1.

"

ITluipeaohac

is explained by O'Clery, word muipeaoac, thus: n^eapna. muipeaoac 506

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ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

235

with numerous forces, into the town, while [O'Conor], and Taichleach O'Dowda, to remain with their forces OTlaherty and the [other] son of Murtough were
outside.

Tuathal and Taichleach, with a strong body of their soldiers, marched into the town, and made a powerful attack upon the spiritedly and boldly routed east and west. They pursued those who fled English there, who were Tuathal wounded the constable of the English with his first shot eastwards. and Taichleach, by another shot, gave him so deep a wound, that he was left
;

lifeless.

routed westwards from the town, they were met by O'Flaherty and the [other] son of Murtough but it happened, through their evil destiny, that the English routed them immediately. On this

As

to the English

who were

occasion Mahon, the son of Hugh,

Mac man who

himself

son of Conor Moinmoy; Gilchreest Dermot; Niall, the son. of Farrell O'Teige, and others, were slain; but the

who was

slew Niall O'Teige,

i.

e.

the brother of Colen O'Dempsey, was slain

also.

As

to the sons of Roderic, they joined" O'Flaherty

and their "other

;

allies

the next morning, and proceeded southwards to Druim-Ceanannain' the son of Cathal Crovderg, with'his English, set out after them.

but Hugh,

The

tribes

who supported

the sons of Roderic

now

held a consultation, and came to the

to his
;

resolution that each of

them should return

own

residence",

which

all

accordingly did, excepting Donn Oge Mageraghty and the princes, i. e. the sons of Roderic, being thus left with only a small force, went to Hugh O'NeilF,

accompanied by Donn Mageraghty.

Hugh, the son of Cathal Crovderg, then attacked O'Flaherty, and took

He then proceeded to Kilmaine and Mayo, in hostages and pledges from him. pursuit of the sons of Murtough" and Tiernan, the son of Cathal Migaran
[O'Conor]

who came before him under

the guarantee

ofDonough
cattle,

Cairbreach,

meunnacca, .1. cijeapna ap jac lonaoh: mfnnao .1. lonao."

T

turn to his people and

of Roderic.

and leave the sons

The

sons of Eoderic then left the

Went

to

Hugh

O'Neill,

looap oo

paijjio

aooa

country, for they had no English or Irish forces

at hand,

ui neill.

The compound

preposition, or prepo-

and Donn Oge went again to O'Neill,

sitional phrase,

Do paijib, is now obsolete, and o'lonnpuijio, or DO cum, used in its place. This passage is given somewhat differently .in the
" The resolution Annals of Kilronan, thus they adopted was that each of them should re:

And

nothing resulted from this expedition, but

that the best province in Ireland was injured

and destroyed between them.

w

Murtough,

i.

e.

the celebrated Muircheartach

Muimhneach O'Conor.

n2

236

QNNata Rioshachca eiRecwN.

ui
-] i

[1225.

aoba

maire na ngall. Concabaip ap planaibeacc oonnchaba caipbpij, 6a cumpanab na lonam pin uaip ni paibe cill na cuaic cconnaccaib an can
loc
~\

pom gan

Idinmilleb.
i

Uebm
lonnca.

Diopulamj DO ceccbdil

ccpic connacc an ionbai6

61

pi,

.1.

cpeablaiD

cpom rfpaijcn gup polmaijeab mop mbailce

plann mac arhlaoib
ui

jan elaibrec bfca Dpdgbdil

paltamam coipec cloinne huaoac DO mapbaoh mac cacail cpoiboeipg Don coccab pin. ^065 ua pfnnacra peap opeblimib 5pai6 Daob mac Ruaibpi Do mapbab la muinnp mec aobasain ip in coccab
ceDna.

Qmlaoib mac peapcaip Don cenel Da mboi Do ecc.

loc oipbpion,

uf pallarhain coipec

a Duccupa pen Do bpeapp

in

TThnpeabac ua pinnacca cofpec

]

cloinni

mupchaba Decc

apcpac ap

e plan

05 Dol

inn.

Ueac Do jabdil pop concobap mac caibj

1

ui ceallaij; (cijfpna
ui

ua mame)

pop apD^al a bpacaip Id macaib caibg

ceallaij,

-j

a lopccab ann ap

aon.

Duapcdn
ui

6 hfjpa,

cabj 6 hfjpa,

-]

eDaoin injean Diapmaca mic Domnaill

ejpa Decc.
x

A ionm
is
:

necessary

curiipanab na In the Annals of Kilronan the reading

tranquillity,

Clann-Uadach, a territory in the barony of

pin, uaip ni paibe ceall na ruac jan milLeao in la pin u ConnuccuiB. lap naipgnib 7 lap mapBao bo ip

cumpanao panjjup a leap

Athlone, and county of Roscommon, comprising the entire of the parish of Gamma, and the
greater part, if not the entire, of that of Dysart. Briola, in the parish of Dysart, is referred
to in old manuscripts as in this territory See Tribes and Customs of By-Many, printed for the
Irish Archaeological Society, in 1843, p. 19; and map to the same. O'Fallon resided at Mill-

7 ap cup caic pe puacc 7 oo pap ceiom mop^alaip ip in cip pe jopra, uile .1. cenel cepca cpep a bpolriiui^ce na
in

cipe 7

a buome,

baileaoa jan ouine beo opacbail mncib. " This rest was wanting, for there was not a
church or territory in Connaught, which had not been destroyed by that day. After the
plundering and
killing of the cattle, people had

town, in the parish of Dysert, in the year 1585, as appears from a curious document among the
Inrolments tempore Elizabethce, in the Auditor General's Office, Dublin, dated 6th August,
1585,
Irish chieftains

been broken down by cold and hunger, and a violent distemper raged throughout the whole
country, i. e. a kind of burning disease, by which the towns were desolated, and left with-

and entitled "Agreement between the and inhabitants of Imany, called

Suck
'

O'Kelly's country, on both sides of the River in Connaught, and the Queen's Majesty."

out a single living being."

Clann-Murrough, Clann niupchaoa.

Ac-

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ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

237

and the chiefs of the English, and on condition that he shotild spare their This was a necessary tranquillity", for there was not a people and cattle.
church or territory in Connaught and desolated.
at that time that

had not been plundered

:

it

of Connaught at this time oppressive malady raged in the province was a heavy burning sickness, which left the large towns desolate, without

An

a single survivor. Flann, the son of Auliffe O'Fallon, Chief of

y Clann-Uadagh was slain by Felim, the son of Cathal Crovderg, in this war; and Teige O'Finaghty, one of the officers [Aes graidh] of Hugh, the son of Roderic, was slain by the people of Mac Egan during the same war.
,

Auliffe, the son of Fearcair O'Fallon, chieftain of his

own

tribe,

and the

best of them, died.

Murray O'Finaghty, Chief of Clann-Murrough died in a vessel on Lough Oirbsen (Lough Corrib), which he had gone into in good health. A house was attacked upon the son of Teige 0' Kelly (Lord of Hy-Many), and upon Ardgal his brother, by the sons of Teige O'Kelly, and both were
,

burned within

it.

Duarcan O'Hara, Teige O'Hara, and Edwina, daughter of Dermot, the son
of Donnell O'Hara, died.
cording to O'Dugan's topographical Poem, there were two chiefs of the O'Finaghtys in Conway,' and that each sept had twenty-four Both ballys, or ninety-six quarters of lahd. septs were dispossessed soon after the English
invasion

nought (516 enrhaicne ni hionann), one called Chief of Clann Murchadha, and the other Chief
of Clann Conmhaigh.

by that family of the Burkes

called

Mac

The

latter

name

is

still

Davids,

who descended from

a furious heroine,

remembered and now pronounced Clanconow,

but the former
to
is

named Nuala na meadoige, the daughter of

O'Finaghty, who was the mother of David Burke, the ancestor of Mac David, Lord of Clan-

totally forgotten.

According

Duald Mac

Firbis,

and the tradition in the

country, the O'Finaghtys were seated on both sides of the River Suck, and their territory comprised, before the English invasion, forty-

conow, and by whose treachery the O'Finaghtys, her own tribe, were dispossessed. In the year
1628, Sir Ulick Burke, only son of Edmond Burke, of Glinske, Lord of Clanconow, was
created a baronet of Ireland, and from

Some eight ballys, or large Irish townlands. think that the sept of them called Clann-Murrough were on the
in the present east side of the River Suck,

him the
See

present Sir

John Burke, of Glinsk

is

Castle, the

county of Roscommon, and that called Clannconow, or Clanconway, on the west of the same river, in the now county of Gal-

present head of this family,

Genealogies, Tribes, $c.,

descended

oflly-Fiachracft,

p. 108,

note

b
.

[1225.

Do Dul po ceapmann caolainne, ap na ngall DO cop Don caolainne. coipc pin rpe peapcaib De Qri eapbap 50 buam a haicle na pell bpfjDe.
TTluirhmg
-|

goill

-|

The Momonians,

fyc

the plundering of TearmannCaelainne,

This entry relating to is entered

1

Caelainne,
in the

is

situated in the townland of Moor,

parish,

same

and from

it

an old road led

in the Annals of Kilronan under the year

224.

across the

These annals state that when O'Neill (after having

inaugurated Turlough, the son of Eoderic, as King of Connaught) had heard that Donough

bog to the Termon, where her nunnery church stands in ruins. See Ordnance Map of the county of Eoscommon, sheets 20 and 26, whereon the ruins of her church and
nunnery, and also her holy well, called Tobercaelainne, are shewn.
This virgin was the patron saint of the tribes
called Ciarraighe or Kierrigii, of the original

and Geoffry Mares were coming into Connaught, he retreated with all Momonians and possible expedition; and that the
Cairbreach O'Brien

English not finding O'Neill in Connaught before them, pursued the sons of Koderie, and banished

settlement, of

whom

in this neigbourhood, as

them

to O'Neill a second time, &c. &c.

:

They

then add

" The English and the Momonians then attacked Tearmann Caoilfinn, but the English

well as in the present barony of Costello, in the county of Mayo, the following account is pre-

served in a vellum
lin,

MS.

in Trinity College,

Dub-

were slaughtered through the miracles of

H.

3, 17, p.

875.
Ciappaijji

Caoilfinn."
b

Cum
i.

tancatap

a Conaccaib?

Tearmann Caelainne,

e.

the Termon, or

Nm. n-aimpp Qe6a itiic Gacach Cipmcapna.

1

The sisanctuary of the virgin, St. Caelainn. tuation of this place has not been pointed out by any of our historical or topographical writers.
Duald Mac
Firbis, indeed, in his Genealogies of

Cia bib cainic ap rup? NTn. .1. Coipbpi mac Conaipe ramie a muriiam a nbeap lap na m-

bapba
co

eipci.

hGeb mac Gachach Cipmcapna.

Uainic cpa co n-a tnumcip uile 6ai m-

the Irish Saints, p. 733, states that it is in " Connaught. Thus: Caolpionn 6 Cfpmonn " CaoLfionn of Caolainne i. e.
i

jfn bfppcaicech la coipppi; po chumoij;

Qeo
i

cconachcaib,"
in

Connaught." from an Inquisition taken on the 27th of May, 1617, that Termon- Kealand belonged to the
monastery of Eoscommon.

Termon Caolainne

It appears

ap a hachuip hi. Camic pi peace aon bo rijj a harap. Ro jab a haruip pein coippi moip n-a piabnaipi. Ro piappaib in injfn oe cib
Ota mbui.
fcc

ap

pe.

Rio beic jjan pfpann pop Canjap on pi j ap cfnn na

The

Editor,

when

lap pin.

Ro

cino

unoppu an

mjm

na pajab

examining the

common
name
is
is.

of the county of Rosfor the Ordnance Survey, found that

localities

cpia Bichu co capoca pfpann maic bia haraip. Oo beappa DO ap Qeo, boneoc a ciucpa am-

this place is still well

known, and that

its

ancient

not yet forgotten, though Termonmore that more generally used. It is situated in the

cheall n-aen lo bo na poichpib pea piap, 7 bo beaprap Caelainb cpaibceach ppip na Cimceallaib pin laparh co mop an cip bilpi.
i

parish of Kilkeevin, and about one mile to the east

of the

pin

town of Castlereagh, in the county of Eoscommon, where the virgin, St. Caellain, is still
vividly remembered,

bia cig.
pin.

amail a bubpab pip 7 bo poich pa beoij 6eipib a tnumcip ip na pfpanbnib Caipijib Connacca co mop an ci Qeo ap

and curious legends told about her miracles. Her holy well, called Tobar

a mec leo bo pab b'pfpanb bo choipbpi, 7 apbeapcacap coipbpi bo mapBur. Ni pfrpaibrfp

1225.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

attacked

239
,

The Momonians" and English

St.

Tearmann Caelainne b but

the

the miracles of English were slaughtered on this occasion, through

Caelainn.

God and

The corn remained unreaped

of February
pin, ctp
6

until after the festival of St. Bridget [the 1st

].

Qe6, ap oca Caelamo a

n-oilpi ppip

Caelainn, the Pious, shall be given as guarantee

of

pern, 7 ppia pfpanb.

Qcc

cfna t>6ncap lino

lino pin,

ajaib DO, 7 cabap oeoc neriie DO aeon jup ob tnapb be. Do jnicfp lapam ariilaib pin an plfo, jup bo uplarh. Poillpijcfp lapath on coiriibi DO ChaelainD in nf pin. Ci pi6e

Coirbri afterwards went round a great extent of that country, according to the mode
it.'

directed,

and

finally

returned to his house.

He

brought

his people into these lands.

The Con-

00 paijib na

pleiji.

Ci6 Dia

pum

papaibip, a
inD.
>

nacians greatly criminated Aedh for the too great extent of land, as they deemed, which he

Sapaiopecpa cupa poo piji eDao <5 C'oi^piap DUIC mo, ap an pij. Caelamb. 6eip oo b'peic ono, ap an
pi.

Qe6? ap

an
pij.

had given, and said that Coirbri should be killed. This cannot be done,' said Aedh, for Caelainn
' '

is

guarantee for himself

let

and

for his land.

But,

6epaD, ap

pi. pi,

Qp

ip

cpta lino po

poibpip a

however,

some beer be made by you for him,

mapba6, ap
pi,
.1.

pi

a meach no eag piprmai^, ap Connacr Dia neaba linb Ciappai je co

and give him a poisonous draught in that beer, feast was, therefore, that he may die of it.'

bpar; conao oe pin na benaib ciappaije linb bo pij Connacc bo pfp. pfpann oaiii pm,

afterwards prepared. This thing was afterwards She came to revealed by the Lord to Caelainn.

Rajaio ap an pij. t)o bfprap in Ufpmano mop 01 lapam conab anD pil ceall anm. " WTien first did the Kierrigii come into Connaught ? Not difficult. In the time of Aedh, son of Eochy Tirmcharna. Which of them came Not difficult. Coirbri, son of Conairi, first? who came from the south of Munster, when he
01 in cailleac.
;

the

feast.

'

Why

hast thou violated

my

guaran-

tee,' said she to

Aedh.

'I will violate thee as

regards thy kingdom.'

in compensation for
said Caelainn.
' '

Accept thy own award,

said the King.
'

it,'

I will,'

King.
the

I will,'

Pass thy sentence, then,' said the ' said she. Because it is through

medium of beer thou hast attempted to destroy him [Coirbri], may the King of Connaught
meet decline or certain death,
of the beer of the Kierrigii.'
if

had been expelled. He came with all his people to Aedh, the son of Eochy Tirmcharna. Coirbri had a famous daughter. Aedh asked her of her
father.

ever he drink
it

Hence

happens

that the Kierrigii never

She came one time to her father's house

her father conceived great grief in her presence ; his daughter asked him from what it arose. ' My

Kings of Connaught. said the Nun. Choose

'

'

brew any beer for the Grant land to myself,'

it,'

said the King.

The

Termonmore was afterwards

church
c

given,

where her

being without land in exile,' said he. Messengers came afterwards from the King to see the
daughter, but she determined that she would not go to the King until he should give a good ' I will portion of land to her father. give him,'

is

at this day."
this year the

Under
as

Annals of Clonmac-

noise,

Aedh, as much of the wooded lands to the west, as he can pass round in one day; and
said
'

by Mageoghegan, record that Moylemorrey O'Connor of Affalie [Offaly], was killed at Eosseglassie" [now Monasterevin], " by Cowlen O'Dempsie."
translated

Under

this year also the

Dublin copy of the

aNNdta Rioshacihca emeciNR

QO1S CR1OSO,
1226.

[1226.

Qoip CpiopD mfle Da ceo pice ape.

eppcop na THiDe Do ecc. ua capppa eppoc luijne Do Connmach

Donum

Dei

ecc.

Qo6 mac
-]

Duinn uf poclacdin aipcmneac conga, Saoi canncaipe, Sccpibmj,

ceapo nejcamail epi&e Do ecc. TTIaca ua maoilmoicepje Do ecc.

Uijeapnan mac cacait miccapam mic UoippDealbaig moip Rfogoamna ba mo eneach, eangnam, ap mo Do pmne Do nficib puaicfnca poDaanacha Da cainic Da ciniD pe haimpip epiDe, Do mapbab Do Donnchab 6 Duboa
"| ~|
-\

cloinn.

Nuala mjCn 17uai6pi uf concobaip bamnjeapna ulaD Decc cconga a ha&nacal 50 honopac creampall cananac conga. pecin, i Dorhnall mac T?uaiDpi ui plaicbeapcaij Do mapbaD Do rhacaib muipcfpi i

caij uf plaicbeapraij
cpoibhDeipg.

mp

rijabail cije paip Doib pfn,

~\

DpeDlim mac cacail

peapgal ua caiDg an ceaglaij, roipec ceajlaij carail cpoibDeipg, i ao6 mac cacail Do mapbaD Id Donnptebe 6 ngaDpa. QoD mac Domnaill uf puaipc DO mapbaD Do cacal 6 pajaillig Do mac copbmaic uf maoilpuanaiD ap loc aillmne. concobap TTluipjfp mac Diapmaca Do mapbaD.
-]

Annals of Innisfallen record the erection of the

castles of
d

arts of poetry, embroidery,

and penmanship, and

This

Dublin and Trim by the English. Donum Dei He is called "Donum Dei,

every other
f

known

science.

CPMulmoghery,
is still

Plaolmoceip^e.

BushoppofMeath,"inMageoghegan'stranslation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise ; but in the Anftals

name

common

in the

county of Donegal,
signifies

but anglicised Early, because moceip^e

early rising,
the

of Multifernan he

is

called "

Deodatus

elec-

tue

Midie."

See

Harris's
it

edition
is

of Ware's

early

niaolmoceipje signifies chief of The word maol, when not rising.

Bishops, p.
e

142, where

conjectured that

he was never consecrated.

nan,

it is

learned singer In the Annals of Kilrostated that he made a kind of musical

prefixed to the name of a saint, signifies a king or chief, as in the present instance, but when prefixed to the name of a saint, it means one

instrument for himself which had never been made before, and that he was skilled in the

tonsured in honour of some saint, as we learn " from Colgan Mail, seu ut varie scribitur Hibernis maol, mael, moel, idem nunc quod do:

1226.1

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

241

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age

1226.

of Christ, one thousand two hundred twenty-six.

died.

Donum

Dei d Bishop of Meath,

,

Connmagh O'Tarpy (Torpy), Bishop of Leyny, Hugh, the son of Donn O'Sochlaghan, Erenagh scribe, and a man expert in many trades, died.
Matthew 0'Mulmoghery f
died.

died.

of Cong, a learned singer1

Tiernan, the son of Cathal Miccaruinn, who was son of Turlough More, a Roydamna [prince], the most hospitable man and most expert at arms, and whose exploits had been more various and successful than those of any of his
tribe for a long time,

was

slain

by Donough O'Dowda and

his sons.
,

K Nuala, daughter of Roderic O'Conor, and Queen of Ulidia died at Conga Fechin [Cong], and was honourably interred in the church of the Canons at

Cong.
Donnell, the son of Rory O'Flaherty, was slain by the sons of Murtough O'Flaherty, after they and Felim, the son of Cathal Crovderg, had attacked and taken the house in which he was.

surnamed an Teaghlaigh, Chief of the household of Cathal Crovderg, and Hugh, the son of Cathal, were slain by Donslevy O'Gara. Hugh, the son of Donnell O'Rourke, was slain on Lough Allen' by Cathal
Farrell O'Teige,
(

11

VReilly and Conor, the son of

Cormac O'Mulrony.

Maurice
minus
vel rex,

Mac Dermot was

Sanctorum,

slain.

idem mine quodeafows,

p. 188,

tonsus,
n. 4.

vd
See

of his son after him."

The word locc nje

is

coronatus."

Ada

also p. 386, n. 1, of the

8

same work.

anglicised Loghty, and Loghtee in some AngloIrish documents, in which the term is used to

She was the wife of Mac Queen of Ulidia who was at this period styled King Donslevy, of Uladh ; but by this is not to be understood
the entire province of Ulster, but only that part of it lying eastwards of Glenree, Lough

maintenance of the chiefs table

denote mensal lands, or lands set apart for the See Harris's
vol.
ii.

Ware,

p.

70.

There was a celebrated

Neagh, and the Lower Bann.

h

luce cije TTIej mar" the jariina, anglicised Loughty," as appears from several ancient maps of Ulster.
territory in Oriel, called
'

Of the
7

household, rea^laij
:

In the Annals

Lough

Allen, loc aillmne.

well

known

of Kilronan

Dux
na

locca cije Carail CpoiB6iai6,

i.

oeipj

riiic

e.

"Leader or chief

lake in the county of Leitrim, near the source of the Shannon,

of the household of Cathal Crovderg, and of that

242

ctNHaca Rioshachca
Caiplen
cille

eiraectNN.

[1227.

Qooh
rabaipc
i

cacal 6 Paijillij. moipe Do leaccab la mac cacail cpoibDeips Do jal'd.l QoDlia ui plaicbfpcaij,

-|

lairh jail.
_

QO1S CR1OSO,
Qoip Cpiopc, mile, Da ceo,

1227.
pice,

apeachc.

la harhpaib laijneac ]io Concobap mac Neill ui chacliapnaij Do mapbab baoi pochaip T?ij Connachc. ua maoileacloimi muipcfpcac ua maoileacloinn Do mapbab la
i

6np(

-|

jalloib.

TVIaolpeacVilaimi
paij.

ua concobaip pailje Do mapbab la cuilen ua nofomu-

ua ttlaoilmuaib DO mapbab la hua TTlopoha.

Gpearn Do comcpuinniuccab 50 hdrcliar.

5 17i

Qob mac

carail cpoib-

connacc DO cocuipeab
e

peallab paip.
j;ona yocpaiDe, i

lap noul Do Da paijib po cionnpcamUilliam mapiipccdl a peap capaDpaib Do rochc cuicce

Doib.

Da bpec Gaimbeoin gall ap lap na cuipne amac,

i

-|

loblacab bo 50 nteachaib cconnaccaib. dob mac cacail cpoibbeipg DO benarh coinne lap pin 05 laraij cafccucbil

pe huilliam mapep
k

mac Seappaib
literally,

.1.

mpcip epenn,

-]

nf

Deachaib
Hugh

piorh

cap

Demolished,

bo leaccao,

was

himselfe and his brother.

thrown down. In the Annals of Kilronan, the verb used is oo bpipeao, and in the Annals of
Ulster DO pcaileb, and in the old translation " The Castle of Kilthe passage is rendered
:

committed by
did deliver

Hugh mac

O'Flaithvertay Cathal Crovderg &

him

into the hands of the Galls."

Henry (f Melaghlin

This entry

is

given as

follows in Mageoghegau's translation of the

iials

An-

rnore
1

broken down by Cahall O'Kely."

is

The passage
:

given as follows in the An-

of Clonmacnoise, but under the year 1226, " Henry O'Melaghlyn, son of the knight O'Me-

n&ls of Ulster

A. D. 1226. p-eiolim hua Con-

cob'aip DO jabail caiji

ap Domnall hua

plaic-

-laughlyn, was killed by the Englishmen of Ardinuroher. Murtaghmac Melaghlyn Begg was also
killed
n

bepcaic gup
bparaip.

mapb

jup

loipc e p^in 7

by the English."
In the Annals of Kilis

Qeo hua

placbepcaic oo jabail la

Assembled at Dublin.

lideb

carail cpoiboeipj 7 a cobaipc illaim ngall. And thus rendered in the old " Felim translation O'Conor, taking a house uppon Doneli O'Flaithvertay, killed and burned
:

mac

ronan this passage

year 1226.

entered under the year

Cuipc oo Denarii Gpenn a nQr cliur, 7 UOD mac Carail Cpoiboeipj oo jaipm pnippe,
It begins thus:
7

bo jallaib ara cliar

1-227-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Castle of Kimlore was demolished" by Cathal O'Keilly.
prisoner,

243

The

Hugh, the son of Cathal Crovderg, took Hugh O'Flaherty delivered him up into the hands of the English
1
.

and

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1227.

thousand two hundred twenty-seven.

Conor, the son of Niall O'Caharny [Fox], was slain by the Leinster soldiers, who were along with the King of Connaught.
m Henry 0'Melaghlin and Murtough O'Melaghlin were slain by Melaghlin O'Conor Faly was slain by Cuilen O'Dempsy. the English.

Gilla-Colum O'Molloy was slain by O'More. The English of Ireland assembled at Dublin" and invited thither Hugh, the As soon as he arrived they son of Cathal Crovderg, King of Connaught.

began to deal treacherously by him but William Mareschal, his friend, coming in with his forces, rescued him, in despite of the English, from the middle of
;

the Court, and escorted

him

to

Connaught.

Hugh, the son of Cathal Crovderg, appointed a conference at Lathach CaichtubiP with William Mares (de Marisco), the son of Geoffry Lord Justice
i

e.

A Court [Council] was formed by the English

England, did
his

of Dublin and of Ireland, at Dublin, and they summoned Hugh, the son of Cathal Crovderg to
it."

assist Hugh, and by the help of sword and strength of his hand he con veighed Hugh away from them, and so departed to Con-

naught
is

in safety.

Within a week

after the

Eng-

The account of this transaction

more

fully

given in Mageoghegaa's translation of the An" A. D. 1226. nals of Clonmacnoise, as follows

:

lishmen kept court in Athlone, whereunto the Connoughtmen came, and tooke captive William

March, the Deputie's

cipal

son,

Hugh O'Connor, King of Connaught, went to the English Court of Dublin by the com;

men belonging

to him,

and tooke other prinand also killed a

good knight at his taking."

Lathach
is

pulsarie
sonii

and daughter

means of the English they tooke his as hostages, with the hos-

Caiclitubil.

now

dried up, but the .old

still

This Lathack, or slough, men living near

its

tages of all the principall men in Connought; upon examining of some criminall causes there

Athlone
extent.

point out
is

situation

and exact

The name

still

preserved in that of

objected to the said

in

Hugh, he was found guilty their censure, and being to be apprehended

a village and townland lying immediately to the west of Athlone, in the parish of St. Peter, viz.

for the same, a speciall friend of his then within,

Beal-Lathaick,

i.

e.

the

o^ mouth,

or entrance,
is

and of great favour and power with the King of

into the Lathack.

The name

of this village

i2

244

aNNdta Rioshachca

eircecmN.
.1.

[12-27.

lacaij anonn

accmab uachab Deagbaoine, copbmac mac comalcaij, ui concobaip, cab^ mac Oiapmaio mac majnupa, majnup mac muipcfpcaij Uilliam mapep Do ceacc macgamna ui cepin, TCuaibpi ua maoilbpenamn. DO cuimmj 6 concobaip an peall pempaice occap mapcac ina combail. O ccoinne na ngall, gpepip a muincip poca lonnpaijib pen uilliam epjip laD a muincip ann po ppeaccaipmapep gup jabapcaip e po ceDoip. Ciob
-j
i

gup moibpioo Slemne hugo oppa, mapbaicc Conpcapla aca tuain, gabam maijipoip mbpaiofnup rap lacaij puap. Luib Cuipip ao6 na goill pin aipDDin. a haicle gu]! aipjfpDai]! mapgab aca luain, gup poirhe jon a pocpame ap an baite 50 hiomtan. ba. jmom pocaip Oo connaccaib an loipcceapcaip
pioo gpeapacc ui Concobaip po ICiccpioO pona gallaib
-|
i

mo

-\

jniom

a mac, a injean, -| bpaijoe connacc ap ceana baclarhaibh gall Do compuapglab ap na bpaijbib pempaice genmocd Sir cap ap
po, 6ip puaippiorh

opajail Dpeapaib connacc.

Oonnplebe ojabpa ci^eapna plebe luja Do mapbab Don jiolla pua6 mac a Deapbpacap pen lap njabdil cije in omce paip, ~| an giolla pua6 Do rhap-

bab

inn lap pin

cpe imbeall aoba

ui concobaip.
"|

CtoD

mac Ruai&pi
-]

ui concobaip,

mac

uilliam bupc Do coibecc ploj Ian-

mop
cpioc

ccuaipceapc Connacc ^up loipcpioc imp mfboin gup aipccpiob an

i

ccanjaoap,

gup jabpac a bpaijDe.

Sluaigeab la peappaib
now

mapep

-\

ta coippbealbac

mac

17uaibpi ui conco-

correctly enough Anglicised Bellaugh, and sometimes, but incorrectly, Bellough, and even Bullock. The Irish, however, call it distinctly

Costello included in the diocese

of Achonry.

The remaining parishes in this barony are in the diocese of Tuam, and constitute the territory
of

bcd

ring

to the

larai, and understand it as referlacac which lay between it and

Kerry of Lough-na-uarney.
q

See note under

the year 1224.

Athlone

See

map

prefixed to the Tribes

and

By

the devise,

Tpe imoeall __ In the Annals

Customs ofHy-Many, printed for the Irish Arehseological Society in 1843, on which this name
is

of Ulster the phrase

whole entry
lation: killed

is

is written cpe imoell. The thus rendered in the old trans-

S iven
p

"A. D.

1226.

Dunleve O'Grada was

Sliabk Lug/ia,
still

i.

e.

Looee's mountain

This

territory

retains its

name, and comprises

own brother, and he was killed therefor himselfe soone by the devise
by [the son
of] his

the northern half of the barony of Costello, in the county of Mayo, viz., the parishes of Kilbeagh, Kilmovee, Ifclcolman, and Castlemoreof being the portion of the

of

Hugh
r

O'Connor."

The son of William Burke, i. e. Rickard More, the son of William Fitz-Adelm.
Geoffrey Mares.

barony

In Mageoghegan's trans-

1-227.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

245

of Ireland.

A few only of his chiefs went with him across the Lathach [slough],

namely, Cormac, the son of Tomaltagh [Mac Dermot], Dermot, the son of Manus, the son of Murtough O'Conor, Teige, the son of Mahon O'Kerrin, and Rory O'Mulrenin. William Mares set out to meet them, accompanied by

But when O'Conor recollected the treachery already mentioned, he rose up against the English and excited his people to attack them and he himself attacked William Mares, and at once took him prisoner. His people responded to O'Conor's incitement, rushed upon the English, and
eight horsemen.
;

defeated them

and Hugo
to

they killed the constable of Athlone, and took Master Slevin Arddin prisoners. Hugh sent these Englishmen across the Lathach
;

be imprisoned; and then, advancing with his troops, he plundered the market of Athlone and burned the whole town. This achievement was of
great service to the Connacians, for he [O'Conor] obtained his son and daughter, and all the other hostages of Connaught, who had been in the hands of the English, in exchange for the aforesaid prisoners peace for the men of Connaught.
,

and obtained moreover a

p Donslevy O'Gara, Lord of Sliabh Lugha was slain by Gillaroe, his own brother's son, after the latter had, on the same night, forcibly taken a house

from him

and Gillaroe himself was afterwards put

to death for this

crime by

the devise* of

Hugh O'Conor.
,

r Hugh, son of Roderic O'Conor,. and the son of William Burke marched with a great army into the North of Connaught, and they burned Inishmaine,

plundered the country into which they came, and took hostages.

An army
lation of the

was led by Geoffrey Mares [de Marisco] and Turlough, the son
Connought, returned from Tyrconnell, into which he was banished by Geffrey March,

Annals of Clonmacnoise these trans-

actions are given

somewhat more

copiously, as

follows

"A. D.

1226. Geffrey March, Deputie of Ire-

brought with him his wife, son, and his brother Felym O'Connor, and came to a place in Connoght called Gortyn Cowle Lwachra, out of which place Mac Meran, his porter, fled from
him, and betraid him to the sons of Terlagh O'Connor, who came privilie to the said Gortyn,

land, with a great

expell

Hugh O'Connor from

army, went to Connought to out of that pro-

vence, which he did accordingly, and established the two sons of Rowrie O'Connor, named Ter-

lagh and
thereof.

Hugh,

in the possession

and superiority

"

without knowledge of the said Hugh. O'Connor, knowing them to be then about the house, tooke
one of his sons, his brother Ffelym tooke the

Hugh

O'Connor, that was before King of

246
baip
i

aNNa^a Rio^hachca eiReawN.

mag
aoi go

[1228.

noeapnpac caiplen

ipTCinn Dinn,

-\

gup gabpac bpaigoi

pil

muipfohaig. Ctob mac cacail cpoibDeipg Do bul ccip conaill Docum uf borhnaill, -j a lompob bu beap DopiDipi, ~\ a bfn Do rabaipc lep. ITleic coippbealbaij Do ceccKail cuicce a ccompoccup na pfgpa, cc bfn -\ a eacpaib Do ben oe, -j
i

an bfn Do cop illaim gall. Sluaicceab oile la coippbealbac beop, i la gallaib mibe in mpcaji cornacc co noeapnpac cpeac mop ap aob mac Ruaibpi ui plaicbfpcaig. noul

ccpich ceapa, -\ bpaigoe mac muipceapcaig Do gabdil ooib, DO buaib peolmaig ap cec cpioca ceo Do coippbealbac uaca.
aipfbe
i

-]

nuimip

Cumapa

o Oomnalldin Do

mapbab

ngemil la Ruaibpi

mac bumnplebe

a nDiogail a acap.
bpian mac concobaip uf Diaptnaca DO mapbab. Caiplen aca liacc Do benam la Seppaib mapep.

QO1S CR1OSO,
Cloip Cpiopc, mile,

1228.

oa ceo, pice a hocc.

pi

Ctob

mac

cacail cpoibteipg uf concobaip

ccuipc Sepppaib mapep cpe meabail ap aplac jail

naccaib.
other son, and so departed safely, save only that the Lady Ranelt, Hugh his wife, and
of O'Fferall, was taken.

connacc Do mapbab hi mp na bfocup Do con-

daughter

he calls this castle " Rindowne," and " now called adds, Teagh Eoyn, or John his
this year,

Melaughlyn mac Hugh mac Bryen O'Connor was killed, and the said
Ranelt delivered to the Englishmen.

House, neer Loghree."

of this castle, written

See a curious account

Number
'

of the Irish

The Englishmen immediately founded a castle in Rindowne, now called Teagh Eoyn, or
John
<

"

by Mr. Petrie, in the 10th Penny Magazine, Septem-

ber 5th, 1840, pp. 73-75.

his house, neer Loghree."

The sons of Murtougk In the Annals of Kilronan they are called clann muipceapcai
muiir.nij,
i.

Moynai,
ruagh, and
'

ma^

naoi.

Now

Maghery-Cou-

e.

the sons of Murtough

Muimhneach

naught, lying between Strokestown and Castle-

O'Conor,

Roscommon and Elphin.

More
on
.See
*

of the sons of Turlough O'Conor, Monarch of Ireland.

who was one now

Rindown, Rinn
in the

oum

peninsula

Athlcague,

Lough Ree,

county of

Roscommon

Connaught part of the

on the Shannon.
It

Bally league, the western, or village of Lanesborough,

is

note under the In Mageoghegan's year 1199translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, at

in the parish of Cloon-

tuskert, and the barony of south Ballintober

12-23.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

1

247

of Roderic O'Conor, into

Moynai

erected a castle at Rindown", and took the

hostages of the Sil-Murray. Hugh, the son of Cathal Crovderg, went to Tirconnell to O'Donnell, and returned again southwards, taking his wife with him but he was met by the
;.

sons of Turlough very near Seaghais [Curlew Mountains], who took his wife and his horses from him, and his wife was given up into the hands of the
English.

Another army was led by Turlough, and the English of Meath, into the West of Connaught, and they committed a great depredation on Hugh, the son
of Rory OTlaherty. They proceeded thence into the country of Carra they took hostages from the sons of Murtough", and Turlough obtained from them
;

number of fat beeves out of every cantred in their possession. Cumara O'Donnellan was slain, while in fetters, by Rory Mac Donslevy,
Brian, the son of

in revenge of his father.

The

castle

Conor O'Diarmada, was slain. of Ath league* was erected by Geoffrey Mares [De Marisco].

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1228.

thousand two hundred twenty-eight.

trea-

Hugh, the son of Cathal Crovderg O'Conor, King of Connaught, was

the English in the court

cherously killed by [mansion] of Geoffrey Mares, at y the instigation of the English, after he had been expelled by the Connacians
.

See Ordnance

Map

of the county of Roscominon,

Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonraacnoise as follows:

sheet 37. According to the Annals of Clonmacnoise, as translated

castle

by Connell Mageogeghan, this was erected by William Delacie and the Lnglish of Meath. Under this year the same
O'Swaine (now Kahen, near Tullamore, in the

"A. D.

1227.

Hugh O'Connor came

to

an

atonement with Geffrey March, and was again

restored to his kingdome of Connoght by the said Deputie, and being afterwards in the Deputie's house

annals record the erection of the castle of llahen

was treacherously

killed

by an

King

County), by Syraon Clifford,

who gave

an annuity of four hundred [?] to the Prior and Convent of Dorrowe.

*

Englishman, for which cause the Deputie the next day hanged the Englishman that killed

him

for that fowle fact.

The cause

of killing

Connexions
is

Hugh O'Conor

The account of the murder of more satisfactorily given in

the King of Connaught was, that after the Wife of that Englishman that was so hanged by the

248

aNNQf,a rcioshactiea emecmN.

CoccuD
moji DO eijije hi cconnaccaib enji

[1228.

.1.

pctpaijeab
Niall

Da mac Ruaibpi ui concobaip, nf rucc an coippbealbac, mp mapbab an ao6a jiempaice, ap ecip ao6 mac bd po urhla Don mac ba pine ju|i millpear Connacca eacoppa po leoo eappoapa co habainn ua ppiacpac po &fp ace mab beacc hi
~|
-\

Sleib luccha,

-]

lucr aipnj nama.

-\

mac congalaij uf Ruaipc njeapna Daprpaicce, cloinne pfpmaije amlaoib. DO mapbab la Da mac aipc mic Domnaill uf T?uaipc, ape DO rhapbab hi pocpaccab la hamlaib Grhlaib gfjip mac neitl mic conjalaij mac aipc ceona. pfpgal mac picpiucca nf puaipc DO mapbaD la macaib nell mic conja.1. ~|

laij uf l?uaipc.

TTluipcfprac

mac plairbeapcaicch

uf

plannaccain Do mapbaD la macaib

raibj uf gabpa. GOD mac oonnchaiD uf peapjail Do

peapjail.

mapbaD la hao& mac amlaoib

-|

uf

DauiD ua
Decc.

ploinn caoipeac pil maoilpuain,

Puai&pi ua maoflbpenainn

mac uilliam bupc DO recc 6 l?ij Saccpan ma lupcfp in epmn. GOD mac Ruai&pi uf concobaip Do gabail pije Connacc Do pfip coccha
17iocapD

an luprfpgomaicib connacc ap belaib coippDealbaij a bpacap pa pine map.

and body with Deputie, had so washed his head sweet balls and other things, he, to gratifie her
for her service, kissed her,

toms of Hy-Fiachrach, on which the relative position of these territories is

a

shewn,

man

seeing, for

which the Englishmeer jealousie, and for none

other cause, killed O'Connor presently at un-

generally called Dartry-Mac being the territory of Mac Clancy, Clancy, It looks wild and romantic at the present day,

Dartry
as

is

awares."

Dr. Leland had this passage furnished

him by Charles O'Conor, of Belanagare, and has

given
1

and was anciently formidable in its mountains and fastnesses. It comprises the entire of the
present barony of Rossclogher, in the north of the county of Leitrim, for which it is at present

its

substance in a note in his History of

i.

Ireland, vol.

p.
is

208,
a

b. 2, c. 1.

Airteach

territory

in

the present
of

county of

Roscommon, comprising the parish

the most usual popular appellation. In this territory were situated the castles of Rossclogher

Tibohine, lately in the west of the barony of Boyle, but at present in the barony of FrenchIt adjoins Sliabh Lugha, which is the park.

(from which the barony took its name), DunCarbry, and the Crannog of Inishkeen, an island
in

Lough Melvin,

as well as all the islands of

northern part of the barony of Costello, in the See map to Tribes and Cuscounty of Mayo

that beautiful lake,

with the monasteries of

Doire Melle, Carcair Sinchill, Bealach Mith-

1228.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

war broke out
in

249

A great
O'Conor,

Connaught between the two sons of Roderic

Turlough, after the death of the Hugh above-mentioned, for the younger son did not yield submission to the elder and they destroyed Connaught between them, and desolated the region extending from Easdara
;

Hugh and

[Ballysadare], southwards, to the river of Hy-Fiachrach, excepting only a small portion of Sliabh Lugha, and the territory of the people of Airtech z
.

Lord of Dartry and Clann Fearmaighe, was slain by the two sons of Art, the son of Donnell O'Rourke^ namely, Art and Auliffe; and Auliffe Gearr, the son of Niall, who was son of Congalagh, was slain, while bathing, by Auliffe, the son of the same Art.
Niall,

the son of Congalagh O'Rourke,

Farrell, the son of Sitric

O'Rourke, was

slain

by the sons of Niall, the son

slain

of Congalagh O'Rourke.

Murtough, the son of Flaherty O'Flanagan, was

O'Gara.

by the sons of Teige

AulifFe

Hugh, the son of Donough

O'Farrell.

O'Farrell,

was

slain

by Hugh, the son of

David O'Flynn, Chief of Sil Maelruain, and Rory O'Mulrenin, died. Richard, the son of William Burke, came to Ireland, from the King of
England, as Justiciary Hugh, the son of Roderic O'Conor, assumed the kingdom of Connaught, the election of the Justiciary and the chiefs of by Connaught, in preference to his elder brother Turlough,
".
.

idhein (now Ballaghmeehin), and Rossinver.

The

the Plunderer,

who deduced his lineage from

Ith,

ancestors of the family of Mac Clancy, with their neighbours the Calry Laithim, or Calry of

the uncle of that Milesius.

Ogygia, part
iii. c.

See O'Flaherty's 67. There was another family

being descended from the

Lough

Gile, in the

county of Sligo,

barony of Carbury, in the who settled in this part of Con-

of this

name

in the county of Clare, but of a to-

tally different lineage,

naught at a very remote period, have sprung from a stock totally different from the Hy-BruinBreifne and Conmaicne, who occupied the remaining part of the county of Leitrim; but

same stock
b

as the

Mac Namaras.
This passage
is

Both now Angiven in the

glicise their

name Clancy.

Justiciary

we

have no accurate record of how they were enabled to settle here. The. Mac Clancys, and their
correlatives, in this

Annals of Kilronan under the year 1227. According to the list of the Chief Governors of
Ireland, given in Harris's

Ware,

vol.

ii.

p. 103,

neighbourhood, are not of the

race of Milesius of Spain, being, if we can depend on the Bardic pedigrees, descended from Daire,

Richard de Burgo was appointed Lord Deputy of Ireland on the 10th of March, 1227.
Elder
In-other

The

sons of Roderic O'Co-

2u

250
TTIaolpeaclainn

awNata raioshachra eiReaww.

mac coippoealbaij mic RuaiDpi
i

[1229.

uf concobaip

Do rhapbab
,

la haooh-pi Connacc.

^opca oiopulaincc cconnaccaib cpi coccao cloinne Ruai&pi. T?o haipca hollamain hi ccpfochaib ruara. Ro Diocuipic a clepij cicc cealla DO jopca. cianaib corhaijcib, i acbac cm apaill Dib Dpuacr
-\ -] ~\

OauiO ua ploinD caoipeach pi TTlhaeilpuain Do 65. Cte6 mac DonnchaiD uf pfpjail DO mapbab la haeb mac arhlaoib
ghcni.

uf pfp-

QO1S CR1OSO,
Qoip Cpiopc,
mile,

1229.

Da

ceD, pice anaof.

ITlaineiprip S. ppanpeip hi ccopcaij

DO cogbdil la mag capcaij mop,

mic nepm paoi connachc
hi

Diapmaicc.
TTluipfDac

ua japmjaile
piaic

ppioip innpi

ccpa-

ba6

i in

eccna [oecc].

Diapmaic ua
1

abb pecclepa

jillamolaipi uf

5 10 ^ a r ain

cuaim Decc,

a aDnacal
King of

in

apDcapna.
down
in the follow-

nor,

Ireland, are set

ing order, in the Book of Lecan: Aedh, Tadhg, Concobhar Maenmaighe, Muireadhach, Toirdhel-

suined by Rickard, the son of William Burke, lu c e<^ c na r 'r h-Gpenn oo jabail oo mac

uilliam bupc

.1.

bhach, Murchadh, Diarmaid."

it is

Fol. 73.

highly probable that they are set the order of their celebrity, rather than in that
of their births.
d

But down in

old translation

picapo. " The

Thus rendered

in the

Justiceship of Ireland

taken by Mac William Bourk." A. D. 1228. Under this year the Annals of

Mdaghlin, maolpeaclamn

He was

the

Kilronan contain the following passages, which have been altogether omitted by the Four Masters
:

son of Toirdhealbach,
e

who was

the fifth son of

Eoderic O'Conor, Monarch of Ireland.

Famine

Thus rendered
Annals of Ulster:

in the old trans-

lation of the

1228. Einn duin was plundered by Felim O'Conor and Conor Boy, the son of Turl u gh, and Teige, the son of Cormac, were killed,

"A. D.

"A. D.

1228.

Hugh mac Roary

tooke the

kingdome of Connaght and prayed [preyed] Church and Laity of Connaght, and their Clerks

and the justiciary came to Tearmann Caoluinne, and the town was burned, as was also the church of Imleach Urchadha. " Felim gained the victory of Cluanacha over
the sons of Roderic, and over Conor, the son of

& Learned men

trys."
f

were banished into strange coun-

Under

this year, 1228, the

Annals of Ulster

Cormac."
&

state that the justiciary ship of Ireland

was

as-

O'GormaUy, O^optnjaile.

In the Annals

1-229-]
d

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

,

251

Melaghlin

the son of Turlough,

who was

the son of Roderic O'Conor,

was war
they

slain by Hugh, King of Connaught. An intolerable dearth prevailed in Connaught, in consequence of the

of the

sons of Roderic.
its

They plundered churches and

.

territories

banished

clergy and ollaves into foreign and remote countries, and others of 6 them perished of cold and famine

David O'Flynn, Chief of Sil-Maelruain, died. Hugh, son of Donough O'Farrell, was slain by Hugh, son of Auliffe
O'Farreir.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1229.

thousand two hundred twenty -nine.

Cork, was founded by
h
,

The monastery
(Dermot).

of

St. Francis, at

Mac Carthy More

in

Murray O'Gormally
for piety

8
,

Prior of Inis-macnerin
died.

and the most renowned

Connaught Dermot O'Fiach, Abbot of the church of Gilla-Molaisse Tuaim, died, and was interred at Ardcarne
of Kilronan he
is

and wisdom,

O'Gillarain, of

called

^opropuilij ppioip

localities

pegUppa mnp mac neipin." h Inis-macnerin, Imp mac n6pm, now

rally called

1222.

__See notes under the years 1209 and That the correct name of this place is

gene-

Church

Island.

It is situated in

common.

Boyle, in the county of EosArchdall thought that this was the same as Eas-mac-neirc but it appears, from the
;
'

Lough Key, near

Imp mac nBipnin appears from the Irish Calendar of the O'Clerys ; and, that it received this name from St. Barrfionn Mac Ernin, and his
brothers,

who were the patrons of the place, and venerated there on the 22nd of September.
"

meaning of the words and from these Annals, that they were two distinct places. The island fi n 'Pl
of the sons of Erin could not be the same as the
cataract [eap] of the son of Ere.
r
,
.,

,,,

._,

Sept. 22. Barrfhionn

Mac Ermn.
of Ims-mac
in
,

_..

The Cistercian
this

n-Lirmn

_...,. m Lough Key,

,

Ihe sons of

Ernm

Connaught."

nipcip

Abbey of Boyle was that called by the Irish mmarc t>a laapc. Gap mic neipc is the preandlnipmac
n-eipin,

The family of O'Gormaly

are

still

numerous

in

sent Assylyn;

ormorepro-

neighbourhood ; but they are to be distinguished from the ui JJa'proleaoatj, or O'Gormlys of Tyrone, who are of a different lineage. This island, which now goes by the name of

perly imp mac nSipntn, is the present ChurchIsland in Lough Key. Ware, Colgan, Archdall, and Weld, have confounded these names, be-

Church

Island,

contains the ruins of a small

cause they had no accurate knowledge of the

church of great antiquity.

K2

252

aNNCtta Rio^hachca eiReawN.

Oiapmaic mac
jiollacappaiij,
~\

[1230.

aipcmneac cije baoinn, uapal pacapc na cpinoiDe lap nd buam amac 6 ceapr Do na a6laca& mainipcip Decc. bof piDe c|if hoiDce jan aolacanancaib, Do rhancaib maimprpe na buille,

~\

cab ap baoap na manaij aga popoaD ma mainipcip peipin. Dob eccnaibe po b'aoi Don opD cananac Decc. 7)ipapD ua carain cananac ecc ina caillig Duibeaya ingean 17uai6pi bean cacail mic Diapmaca Do
ouib.

OiapmaiD mag capraij cijeapna Dfpmurhan Decc. a Oionip ua mopDa eppcop ShfllTluipeDhaij DO cpecceo eppuccoioe ap Do rhapbaD la Deapbparaip a arap. Loclainn ua manncdin

6ia.

QOIS CR1OSO,
Qoip Cpiopr,
mile,

1230.

Da ceD, cpioca.

Decc plopenc ua cfpballain eppcop ripe heojain, uapal pfnoip coccame lap pe blia&noib ochcmogar a aoipi. ceceDam eppcop con^lollaiopa ua cleipi^ eppcop Luijne, lopep mac T?ool pecir eppcop na maicne, TTlac Raic TTlaj Seppaij eppcop conmaicne,

miDe Riagloip coccai&e,

comapba

peicin,

-\

jaile ppioip innpi

coimDeab ua Duilenndin ab peicclepa cananac eappaoapa, TTluipf6ac ua gopmmic nepin, ITIaolmuipe ua maoleoin comapba ciapdm
-]

miliD Cpiopc,

5 10 ^ a

giollacapcaij ua heilsiupdin cananac i anscoipe, Donnplebe ua hionmamen manac naorhca apomaijipcip paoip maimpcpe na

cluana mic

noip,

-]

buille Decc.
1

Died.

His death

is

entered in the Annals

of Ulster, but they make no mention of the contention about his body. The entry is thus " A. D. 1229. given in the old translation
:

holy a man interred in their sanctuary, ' Duvesa. In the Annals of Kilronan she
called the daughter of Koderic O'Couor
:

is

Oui-

beappa mjen Ruaiopi

hi

ConcuBaip, bean
.

Dermot Mac
and gentle

Gillcarrick,

priest,

Erhenagh of Tybohin, and best man for Almes &

Connaught, in Christo

cacuil meic t)iapmuba Do eg ma caillig ouib' m In the Annals of ClonDionysius O'More.

macnoise, as translated by Mageoghegan, he is " Denis called, O'More, Bushopp of Oilfynn."

liberality in those parts of

quieuit."
k

Had

attempted

to

retain

it,

nai j

aj u popoao,

" the literally,

baoap na mamonks were

He resigned the duties of his bishopric to apply himself more sedulously to devotion.
n Bool Petit

keeping it in their own monastery ;" that is, they wished to have the honour of having so

He

is

called

Ralph Petit in
In-

Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops, p. 142.

1230.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Gillacarry,

253
priest,
died'.

Dermot Mac

Erenagh of Tibohine, and a noble

He was buried in the monastery of the Holy Trinity, his body having been by right obtained by the canons, from the monks of the monastery of Boyle,
after
it

had remained three nights unburied, because the monks had attempted
it"

to retain

monastery. Gerard O'Kane, the wisest of the order of canons, died. Duvesa daughter of Roderic [O'Conor], and wife of Cathal
1 ,

in their

own

Mac Dermot,

died a nun.

Dermot Mac Carthy, Lord of Desmond, died. m Bishop of Sil-Murray [Elphin], resigned Dionysius 0'More
,

his bishopric

for the sake of

God.
father's brother.

Loughlin O'Monahan was killed by his

\

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1230.
thirty.

thousand two hundred

Florence O'Carolan, Bishop of Tyrone, a noble and select senior, died in

the eighty-sixth year of his age. Gilla-Isa O'Clery, Bishop of
;

Joseph Mac Techedan, Bishop of Conmaicne [Ardagh] Magrath Mac Sherry, Bishop of Conmaicne Rool Petit" (Rodolphus Petit), Bishop of Meath, a select ruler and soldier of Christ Gilla-Coimdeadh O'Duileannain, Coarb of St. Feichin, and Abbot

Leyny [Achonry]

of the church of the Canons at Easdara [Ballysadare] Prior of Inis-mac-nerin Mulmurry O'Malone, Coarb of
; ;

Murray O'Gormally,
St.

Kieran, of Clon;

and Donslevy Gilla-Carthy O'Helgiusain, a canon and anchorite a holy monk and the chief master of the carpenters of the monastery of Boyle, died.
;

macnoise

O'Hinmainen

the Annals of Kilronan his death

is

thus en-

Abbey."
his

tered under the year 1229: "Rool peicic e'pp. rvi mice, uir religiosus et caritatissimus, et Dei

In the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster death is entered thus A. D. 1230. t)onn:

famidus

in Christo quieuit."

-pleibe

hua mmuinen
in

This passage is thus correctly translated in Archdall's Monasticon "Died Donn Sleibhe
:

quieuir

Chpipco

7 maijiptep paep and thus rendered in the

naerii

old translation:

"A. D. 1230. Dunleve O'ln-

O'Hionmaine, a reverend and holy monk, and now principal master of the carpenters of this

manen, a sacred monk and free master, died." In the Annals of Kilronan, he is styled Dlanac

254

[1230.

mac pipeomD uapal paccapr buille. noinpc rhanaij maimpnp na Sloicceab la hua nDorhnaill (oomnall mop)
TTlaolpeclaimi
i

-]

maijipap

leijinn Decc ina

hi

ccmcceaD Connacc

int>

baoi hi pppicbfpc ppip co po mill aghaiD Ctoba mic Ruai&pi f Cboncobaip Don maj naof, mopdn Don rip, acr apa aof nf po jiallpac clann TCuai&pi
-]

Dnl

pin.

Sloiccheab la

mac
-|

Connaccaib

laip,

cconnaccaib jup milleao mopdn Do po mapba& Donn 65 maj oipeccaij, ~\ eiccijeapn mac an
uilliam bupc
i

naorii

aporiiai^ipbip

paop tnam^Opec na

buille.

"Monachus

sanctus, et archimagister

Duff; and Donn Oge and the sons of Manus [O'Conor], and the young soldiers of the Sil-

fabrorum Monasterii Buellensis."

The word

poop means cheap, free, noble, as an adjective, and an artificer, as a noun. It is very probable that it is a noun in this sentence, and in the
genitive
case plural,

Murray, plundered Mac Costello and Hy-Many. The son of William, however, mustered the
greater part of the English of Ireland, and many of the Irish, and marched into Connaught, ac-

governed by mai^ipoip.

But

if

we

take poop to be an adjective, and pre-

companied by Felim, the son of Cathal Crovderg,' to give him the kingdom of Connaught, and to
expel Hugh, the son of Roderic, and every Connacian who had joined him and opposed himself [the son of William]. They first advanced to the

fix it to rnamir-bpec,

thus

aporhaijjir-eip
it

paop-

rhamip opec na &uiUe, then

will

mean " chief

master of the free (or noble) monastery of Boyle; and if we make it an adjective belonging to
appriiaijipcip, the translation will be "noble or free head master (or teacher) of the monas-

Bun-Galvy" [i. e. the mouth of the River Gaillimh, which

castle of

castle

at the

flows through

tery of Boyle." P A. D. 1230.

" to attack the town of Galway], Hugh O'FlaThen Hugh, the son of Roderic, went to herty. the relief of

The Annals of Kilronan give a

longer account of the death of Donn Oge Mageraghty, and of the contentions between the

much

by

Hugh O'Flaherty, and was joined the Connacians under the conduct of the
[Muimhneach] O'Conor; and

sons of Murtough

son of William

Burke and the Connacians, but

It is as follows
:

the Connacians were on the west side of the

under the year 1229.

"A. D.

1229.

Hugh,

the son ofEoderic, and

the Contiacians in general, turned against the son of William Burke and the English, through
the solicitations of

River Galliv, and the English on the east side, and great conflicts were daily carried on between them. The English, having remained here for some time, without having obtained either peace,
hostages, or pledges from the Connacians, consulted together, and resolved upon going in

Donn Oge,

son of Donncahy

Mageraghty, and of Cormac, the son of Tomaltagh Mac Dermot of the Eock, and his retainers, for they had pledged their word that they would
not belong to any king who would bring them into the house of the English. Hugh, the son
of Roderic, and the people of West Connaught, plundered the young son of William and Adam

pursuit of the cows and the people who had fled into the mountains and fastnesses of the country

and upon the

from the
hine Goillih
Goillin]

islands,

castle of

Bungalvy

and they went that night to Droichead Ing-

e. the bridge of the daughter of [i. where the morning rose upon them.

1230.]

ANNALS OF THE 'KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

255

Melaghlin Mac Firedinn, a noble priest and a professor of literature, died in his monastic noviciate in the monastery of Boyle. An army was led by O'Donnell (Donnell More) into Connaught, against

Hugh, the son of Roderic O'Conor, who was opposed to him, and destroyed Moynai and a great part of the country [province]. The sons of Roderic, however, did not give him hostages on this occasion.
was led by the son of William Burke into Connavight, and desop lated a large portion of that country, and Donn Oge Mageraghty and EghThen the son of William
'

An army

inquired,

Is there a

Manus, the son of Murtough, came into their

pass between us and the lake, by which a party of the Connacians could come down ?' The

On the day house, and gave them hostages. following the English returned to Muine Maicin,
and remained there
for a night,

Guides answered and

'

said,

There

is.'

He

then

and on the next

arrayed a party of horse to proceed to Cong and

Kilmaine (or Inishmaine).

At

this

time

it

day they went to Magh Sine, and thence they passed through Leyny, and Ceis Corann thence
;

happened that great numbers of the Connacians were coming early in the morning from Cong, having unwisely and unwarily passed the night
before in parties of two and three, and a few of the better sort among them were slain under the

they

out for Coirshliabh [the Curlieu mountains], where though the guides missed the
set

common

pass, they crossed the whole mountain without meeting any accident. With respect to Hugh, the son of Roderic, and Cormac, the son of

conduct of the

officers

of Murtough, the son of

Manus O'Conor, namely, Dermot O'Henaghan, Loughlin Mac Classan, and Teige Mac Gilchreest O'Mulrenin. With respect to the English, they
proceeded after this fortunate occurrence to Mayo of the Saxons, and on the day following

Tomaltaghof the Rock, who was the son of Conor Mac Dermot, and Donn Oge Mageraghty, and the Sil-Murray, they were at this time in a wood,
and the resolution they proposed was this, as they had sent their cows and people into the
fastnesses of Muintir-Eolais,

and of Sliabh an

they went to Toberpatrick [the Abbey of Ballintober], where the canons and victuallers of
the town came to the son of William and begged of him, for the love of God, not to stay with

larainn, not to
lish

come in
;

on this occasion

them that

night.

This request of their's was

he would not agree to he would proceed to the west side of the English ; and he set out forthwith for Fincarn,
accompanied by his
nell

with the Engbut Donn Oge said that this resolution ; but that
collision

complied with, and the English moved onwards to Muine Maicin ; and they would not have marched from Mayo so far, were it not that
they had not obtained hostages or pledges from Manus, the son of Murtough Muimhneach. On
the next day they proceeded to Achadh Fabhuir

own

Sil-Murray, his English

brother, the youths of allies, the son of Don-

Bregach O'Melaghlin with his English, and

On his Brian, the son of Turlough O'Conor. arrival at Fincarn, Donn sent forth to battle a
body of
his troops,

who

fought well with the

[Aghagower], and encamped in the town, on

the east side of the church, that
nana, on the margin of
is,

at

Lough

Crichan.

MargeHither

English, while he himself remained on the top of the earn, earnestly looking on at the conflict.

Then the English

sent a countless

number

of

2.56

emeawN.
f

[1230.

bpficfmain

mionacain

-|

p ochaibe
TCuaibpi

oile

ndc dipimrfp,
la

-|

po hionnapbaDh (rpia
uilliam,
-]

anppoplann) do6 mac

Don cup
pin

T?i

Connacr

mac

la gallaib

mac

66 ap jallaib, i po pfojao peiblim 50 haob ua neill cpe iompu6 carail cpoibt)fipcc la mac uilbam.

Cfo6 6 neill eijeapna eipe heo^ain pfojoamna Gpeann uile, copnamcac lere cuinn pe ^allaib Gpeann, -\ pe lee moja nua&ar. pfp nd cucc geill,

na Do jaomeal, pfp Do eiefpfba, nd cfop Do jail

-\

paD maDmanna, dpa mopa mence pop jallaib. Ctipcreoip jail saoibeal. pfp po cpiall lonnpoijiD Do ace a ruicim Id Gpeann uile Decc jen jup paofleaD bap naile Dpajbdil
-]

jallaib.

Qpc mac

aipr uf puaipc Do

TTlaolpeaclainn ua

Id pa^nall ua ppinD mannacdin DO rhapbab la a bpairpib.

mapbaD

meabail.

archers and horsemen towards the earn, and

sent

its shaft

through him, after which he made

in thus cut-

had the earn they were not perceived until they and Donn Oge was thus left almost surrounded,
alone, being accompanied only by Brian, the son of Turlough O'Conor, and a few of his own relatives
;

his escape.

" The English, being fortunate

ting off

and these were but a short time

left

Donn Oge, carried away great spoils on their way to Sliabh an larainn, and they killed women and children, and stripped those they
had not
killed. They carried great booties to In consequence of this spothe English camp. liation many of the natives perished of cold and famine. On the next day the English departed,

thus together.

Donn Oge, being

left

thus un-

protected, was soon recognized, and many archers pressed upon him, and five arrows entered him ;

he was at length overtaken by one horseman, and though he had no weapon but a battle axe, he prevented the horseman from closing upon him, but the horseman drove his spear though

leaving the

kingdom of Connaught to Felim, the son of Cathal Crovderg, and banished Hugh, the son of Roderic, to Hugh O'Neill."
In the Annals of Clonmacnoise, as translated

him

at each push.

At

last the archers sur-

rounded him on every

side,

and he

fell

attempt-

ing to defend himself against

an overwhelming

number."
" With respect to Hugh, the son of Eoderic, he was stationed at the east side of the English,

by Mageoghegan, it is stated, under the year 1230, that Donn Og Mac Aireaghtie was killed by Ffelym O'Connor, and by Mac William Burke, at the mount called Slieve Seysie [the
Curlieus].
q

and he did not wish to come to an engagement, and indeed it was against his will that Donn had
done so, nor did he know that Donn had been killed
.

Hugh

O'Neill.

The

notice of the death and

is

character of this O'Neill

thus given in the

An-

nals of Clonmacnoise, as translated

by Mageoghe-

The routed

forces

were driven towards him, but

gan:

"A.

D. 1230.

Hugh O

Neale,

King of

Hugh

escaped by the strength of his hand with-

One man pressed upon him, but he turned upon that man, and gave him a shot of the javelin which he held in his hand, and
out discredit.

Aileagh, the greatest spoyler of the Churchmen and Churches of Connaught, and the only banisher and extyrper of the English, and deAnd thus in the stroyer of the Irish, died."

1230.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

257

tighern, the

were

slain.

son of the Brehon O'Minaghan, and many others not enumerated, Hugh, the son of Roderic, King of Connaught, was expelled by

and the English (by overwhelming numbers), on this occasion, to Hugh O'Neill, because he had risen up against the English and Felim, the son of Cathal Crovderg, was proclaimed King [of Connaught]
the son of William [Burke]
;

by the son of William [Burke]. q Hugh O'Neill Lord of Tyrone' and Roydamna [heir presumptive to the the defender of Leth-Chuinn against the throne] of all Ireland, English of
,

Ireland and [the people of] Leth-Mhogha Nuadhat who had never rendered hostages, pledges, or tribute, to English or Irish who had gained victories over the English, and cut them off with great and frequent slaughter; the plunderer
; ;

of the English and Irish a man who had attempted the subjugation of all 5 died [a natural death], although it was never supposed that he would Ireland, die in any other way than to fall by [the hands of] the English.
;

Art, the son of Art O'Rourke, was treacherously' slain

by Randal O'Finn.

Melaghlin O'Monahan was slain by his

old translation of the Annals of Ulster
:

relatives".

"A. D.

of Donegal.

1230.
land,

Hugh
all

Neile,
all

King

of the north of Ire-

name

The inhabitants bore the generic of Kinel-Owen, and had at this period
off into various families,

and King of

bee King of

Leithquin, and that shou'd Ireland ; a man that most killed

Galls,

branched

who were

all

and prayed" [preyed] "

and broke most

tributary to one archchief, commonly called pij; cineil eojum; and who was sometimes of the

and a man thought less to dye by the Galls." A much more patriotic character of him is given in the Annals of Kilronan under the year 1229, thus "A. D.
Castles of the Irish, died,
:

family of

Mac Loughlin, sometimes

two

of that of

O'Neill, and, in one or

instances, of that of

O'Flaherty,
Allan,

now Laverty, descended from Aedh who was one of the sixteen monarchs of

1229. Hugh O'Neill died in this year. He was King of the Kinel-Owen, and inferior to none in renown and goodness a king who had not
;

the Kinel-Owen race. These once great family names are still numerous in this region; but none bearing them at present are above the rank
of farmers, except those

man English or who had gained many victories over the English, and had slain many of them a king who was the support of all the Irish who had never been expelled or exiled a king
given hostages or pledges to any
Irish
;

who have

entered into

a king

holy orders.

The phrase used in the Died, oecc Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, is "quievit
in Christo."
1

the most hospitable and defensive that had come of the Irish for a long period."
Tyrone, rip 6050:111, comprised the present counties of Tyrone and Londonderry, and the
r

Treacherously,
lation of the

meaBcnl.

In the old transthis sentence is

Annals of Ulster,

rendered
llanall
u

" Art mac Art OEoirke killed by Fin mutherously."

baronies of Inishowen and Raphoe, in the county

Relatives, bpairpib.

The word bpacaip

in

258

aNNata Rio^hachca
QO1S CR1OSO,

eiraectNN.

[1231.

1231.

a hdon. Qoip Cpiopc, mile, Da ceo cpioca, a bfrab in oilen na mopba eppcop ailpmn Do cpiocnuccab oonnchaD ua concobaip Doiponeao an .15. DO Decembep cpmoioe ap loc ce
Oionip ua
-|

na ionaD.
Decc. plann ua connacraij eppcop ua mbpiuin bpeipne eo [oecc]. Srepan ua bpaoin aipcmnec TTlaije camca peap Depcac, cpaiboeac, eccCelecaip ua Dobailen aipcinnech
naiDe, epnaijrec [Decc].

mic Diapmara bfn muipceapcaij muimmj mic pecpoilje injfn concobaip coippDealbaij rhwp [oecc] maraippi&eTTlajnupa TnicTTluipcepcaij, concobaip
puaiD, ruarail,
ppioip pecclepa peaDaip -\ poil. nnc Diapmaca Decc mainipcip na buille. Oubcoblaijj injfn concobaip cloinne cacail meic muipfDaij plairbfprac ua plannaccdin caoipeac muillfcain Decc ina oilicpe maimprip na buille. Dubcfriipac injean uf
-]

coipp&ealbaij paccaipc,

-]

cuinn bfn an plaicbeapcaij hipin Decc.

Ual^apcc ua Ruaipc njeapna bpeipne Decc ina ailirpe ap

cppoca.

plijiD

an

^lollaiopa mac parhpaDain njeapra ceallaij ecbac, i TTIaolconaipe ollam pil muipfohaij muillfcain Decc.
ancient manuscripts signifies a brother
;

DuinDin

ua

but in

the modern Irish language bpacaip means a kinsman, and oeapBporaip is the word used
to denote a brother.

Hy-Many, that all " St. Bridget baptized here. has the baptism of the race of Maine, and although the children may not (always) be brought
of O'Kelly, and his people of

the

Hy-Many were

This is the Bishop of Hy-Briuin Breifney Bishop of Kilmore, called Florence O'Conacty
in Harris's

church to be baptized, her Coarb has the power to collect the baptismal penny from these
to her
tribes.

Ware, vol. i. p. 226. In the Annals of Ulster he is called Bishop of Breifney, and in
those of Kilronan, Bishop of Hy-Briuin.
x

This money

is

divided into three parts,

of which she herself (rectius her Coarb) has one Drum parish) the Druim Dreastan
part,

OfCamma, camca.

A parish church in the

The small
village of

second,

(now and Cluain Eamhain (now Cloonoun)

See Tribes and Customs
d
,

barony of Athlone, and county of Roscommoii,

dedicated to St. Bridget.

the other third part.''

of Hy-Many,
work.
i

printed for the Irish Archaeological

Tober Brighde,
Brideswell,
is

generally called in English in it. learn from a tract pre-

Society, p. 78, note

and map to the same

We

served in the

Book

of Lecan,

fol.

92, treating

Fethfoilge

In the Annals of Kilronau she

1231.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

259

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1231.
thirty-one.

thousand two hundred

Dionysius O'More, Bishop of Elphin, closed his days on the Island of the Blessed Trinity on Lough Key, on the 15th of December, and Donough

O'Conor was appointed

in his place.

Flann O'Connaghty, Bishop of Hy-Briuin Breifney" [Kilmore], died.

Stephen O'Breen, Erenagh of Mayo [died]. Keleher O'Devlin, Erenagh of Gamma ', a charitable, pious, wise, and
3

prayerful

man
y

[died].
,

Fethfoilge

daughter

of Conor

Mac Dermot, and

More
[died].

Muimhneach, the son of Turlough

wife of Murtough She was the mother of

Manus, Conor Roe, Tuathal, and Turlough the SS. Peter and Paul.
Duvcovlagh, daughter of Conor
Boyle.

Priest, Prior of the

Church of

Mac Dermot,

died in the monastery of

Flaherty O'Flanagan, Chief of the race of Cathal, the son of Muireadhach z Muilleathan died on his pilgrimage in the monastery of Boyle. Duvtawragh, of O'Quin, and wife of this Flaherty, died. daughter
,

Ualgarg O'Rourke, Lord of Breifney, died on his way to the River [Jordan]. Gilla-Isa Magauran, Lord of Tealach Eachdhach", and Duinnin O'Mulconry,
Ollave [chief poet] of the race of Muireadhach Muilleathan [the Sil-Murray],
died.
is

called Fethfailghe (Fefalia),

and her death

is

"A. D. 1231. Fethfailghe, the of Conor Mac Dermot, and the wife of daughter Murtough Muimhneach, the son of Turlough More O'Conor, died this year. She was the
thus noticed:
largest, the most beautiful, the most hospitable, the most chaste, and the most famous woman of

nagans, the O'Morans, and their correlatives. The extent of their territory is still remembered in the

neighbourhood of Elphin, Belanagare, and ManSee note tua, between which it principally lies
h
,

under the year 1193, pp. 97, 98. a Tealach Eachdhach, now sometimes

called

Tullaghagh, but generally Tullyhaw, a barony in

the north-west of the county of Cavan, the ancient inheritance of the family of Magauran, or

Leith Chuinn.

She was the mother of Manus,

priest,

Conor Roe, Tuathal, and Turlough the

i.

the Prior of the Regies of SS. Peter and Paul."

e.

Magovern. magauran,
called

The level part of this barony, conthe village of Ballymagovern, or Ballytaining

i.

leathan

The race of Cathal, son of Muireadhach MuilThis was the tribe name of the O'Fla-

e.

Magauran's town, was anciently

Magh

Sleacht.

2L2

260

[1232.

Concobap goer ua

lifjpa cijeapna

lmrie Decc.

SloicceaD Id oomnall ua jiDorhnaill rijeapna ripe conaill, -| la haonjup mac gillepinnein co pocpaioe peap nianac Do paijib l^ai^illij cacail. Ruccpac loir.ccfp leo pop loc uaccaip, -] po aipccpfc eo imp. Uucpac apiap
i

la caob peoD niaofne

~\

lonnmup an baile uile leo

pemlimib mac

carail cpoibDeipg Do jabail la

mac

uilliam bupc

mfliucc

cap pldnaib maice gall epeann.

QO1S CR10SO,
Qoip Cpiopc,
mile,

1232.

Da ceD, cpioca, aDo.

~\

Paccna ua hallsaic corhopba Dpoma mucaba, oipicel ua ppiacpac pfp cije aoibfD, Ifijinn, lubpa, Ifpaijce cpua^ Do ecc. cille moipe Uempall ccfp bpiuin na pionna Do coippeccao la Donrichao
-| -|
i h

nals of Ulster

Conor God, ConcoBap ^occ In the Anand of Kilronan the name is

from the year 727

this family

to 734.

For the pedigree of

Society in

see Battle

of Magh Rath, printed

1842,

written

Concobop

5-

I'^e adjective

job

is

for the Irish Archaeological

p.

used in medical Irish MSS., to translate the Latin balbus, or balbutiens.

c

335.
c

Eo-inis

An army
more

teas led.

This event

is

given some-

Inis-eo,

was an island

Archdall states that Eo-inis, or in Lough Erne ; and even

SS., p. 222, places Inis-eo, not
this passage af-

what,

satisfactorily in the

Annals of Kilro-

Colgan, in
Eo-inis, in

Ada

nan, as follows:

Lough Erne; but

It
is

army was led by Donnell O'Donnell, King of Tirconnell, and

D. 1231.
great

"A.

fords evidence to

shew that Eo-inis .was

in

Lough

Oughter.
in

at present the

name

of an island
(eci-inip,

by Aengus Mac Gilla-Finnen, against Cathal O'Reilly, and they brought a fleet [of boats and

Lough Oughter, Anglicised Eanish

them upon Lough Oughter, and plundered Eo-inis, and killed the best white steed that was in Ireland, and carried away
cots] with

with the Ultonian pronunciation), but no remains of antiquity are to be seen on it,
in accordance

except an earthen
f

fort.

Under

this year the

Annals of Kilronan

re-

Cacht, the daughter of

Mac

Fiachrach, the wife

cord, that Cormac, the son of

of O'Reilly, and the jewels and goods of the

whole town."
d

Tomaltagh [Mac Dermot], commenced the erection of a markettown at Port na Cairrge. This is the place now
called
nificent seat of
8

Mac

Gilla-Finnen,
is still

The name
the

very

now made Mac Gillinnion. common in the west of

;

Rockingham, the well known and magLord Lorton.

This entry
is

but many have county of Fermanagh changed it to Leonard. This family is of the
Kinel-Connell race, and descend from Flaherty Mac Loingsigh, who was Monarch of Ireland

Faghtna.

given

somewhat

differently

and better in the Annals of Kilro-

uan, as follows:

A. D. 1232. puccnu

llulljaic

comupba

1232.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

201

Conor Godb O'Hara, Lord of Leyny, died. An army was ledc by Donnell O'Donnell, Lord of Tirconnell, and Aengus Mac Gilla-Finnen d with the forces of Fermanagh, against O'Reilly (Cathal): e they brought boats with them upon Lough Oughter, and plundered Eo-inis
, ,

they carried away with them all the and wealth of the whole town. jewels, treasures, Felim, the son of Cathal Crovderg (O'Conor), was taken prisoner by the son of William Burke, at Meelick, in violation of the guarantee given by all
and, after obtaining their
the English chieftains in Ireland
f
.

own award,

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1232.
thirty-two.

thousand two hundred

5 Faghtna O'Hallgaith, Coarb of Drumacoo", and official of Hy-Fiachrach [Aidhne], who had kept an open house for strangers, the sick, and the indigent, and also for the instruction of the people, died.
.

The church
opomma mucaba,
peap cie aioeb,
7

of Kilmore'

1
,

in

Hy-Briuin na-Sinna, was consecrated by

under the name of opium rnocua, as in the trict of COILL UA BH-FIACHRACH, a short
far
disdis-

Oippipoel ua ppiacpac,
7 leppuijri

cipe 7 caiman in " A. D. 1232. Faghtna O'Hallgaith, Coarb of Druim Mucadha, and official of Hy-Fiachrach,
a

luBpa 7 leijinn oc anno quieuic.

tance to the south-west of Kilcolgan, and not from the margin of the Bay of Galway.
'

man who had kept

a house for the entertainsick,

Kilmore, in Hy-Briuin-na-Sinna, more, a parish church in the district

now Kilnow called

ment of strangers and of the

and

also for

the instruction and improvement of the country and the land, in hoc anno quimit."
h

Tirarune, but anciently Tir-Briuin, situated in the east of the county of Roscommon, stretching along the western bank of the Kiver Shannon, and about six miles east of Elphin. Archdall has confounded this place with Coill-mor, near
St. John's, at

parish belonging to the diocese of Kilmacduagh, in the of barony of Dunkellin, and

Of Drumacoo, Opoma rnucaoa

county

See Ordnance

Map

of the

sheet 103; and also Tribes

Galway County of Galway, and Customs of Hy-

Lough

Ree.

There

is

a curious stone inserted in the wall

for the Irish Archaeological Soin the year 1843, p. 71, note b , where it is ciety

Many, printed

of the church-yard of Kilmore, exhibiting a fragment of an inscription in Saxon characters, which runs thus:

shewn that the territoryof Hy-Fiachrach Aidhne was co-extensive with the present diocese of Kilmacduagh. See also the map prefixed to the same work, on which this church is shewn,

" A. D. M: CCC.L:

vii.

EATHEAN INGEAN MIC

BRANAN ME

FECIT."

" A. D. 1357-

EATHEAN DAUGHTER OP MAC

BRANAN, MADE ME."

2(>2

[1232.

ua concobaip eppcop ailpinn, canancng DO benam ipin mbaile cet>na la conn ua plannaccam baof na ppfoip ann. commdin paof cleipcecca, pfncupa, Uioppaicce ua bpaoin corhopba
-| -]

imp clocpann ina ailicpe. bpficfmnappa Decc Clob mac arhlaoib mic Dorhnaill uf peapjail coipeac
in
i

muincipe hangaile no Ic/pcca6 ap imp loca cuile la cloinn aoba ciabaij mic mupchaba ui mbliaban ccoipijecc na hangaile Dfip mupchaib pepjail lap ccaicfm naoi

cappaij
narha,

pepgail.

TTlajnup
-|

mac amlaib mic caibg mic maolpuanaib

cainDel einij, eang-

cpabaib Decc.
paoi ap eineac,
~\

Oonnchab mac comalcaij meic DiapmaDa lecrpoman Connacc DO ecc ip in aiciDecc.

ap fnjnam,

clanna cofpeac Concobap mac Qoba mic Ruaibpi DO elub 6 jallaib, Connacn Do rionol ina cimceall. i a nDol ip na cuacaib ap lonnpaijib. 17o giollaceallaij ua hfibm, giollamapbab cpa eipiom lap na Cuarhaib, pochaibe amaille ppiu. Qpe an cpiopr mac Donnchaba mic Diapmaoa, la pin po jealpac na cuara na pamcaca uile, an can acpubpao peap pam-|

-|

~\

caije gile Do
T?ije

mapbab meic aooha. Do cabaipc Daob mac Ruaibpi

la

mac

uilliam bupc DO pibipe,

Do.

-]

pic

DO Denarh bo pip lap njabdil pfiblim mic cacail cpoiboeipg

k

There.

This passage

is

rendered as follows

Aicidheacht; and at the year 1273, O'Quin

is

in the old translation of the

Annals of Ulster

"A.

D. 1232. The church of Kilmore sanctified,

na haicioeacca, from which styled lercoir-eac it would appear that this was another name for
the territory of the Clann Cuain, in which Mac Dermot had a house on an island in the lake called
Claenloch, (see entry under the year 1187, p. 79, note k ), and which O'Quin had placed under the protection of Mac

and canons made in the same by Con O'Flanagan."

1

CoarbofSt. Coman,
Inisclothrann

i.

e.

the

Abbot

of Koscom-

mon.

is

an island, containing the

ruins of seven churches, in

sion of the

Lough Eee, an expanShannon between the counties of

See note under the

Dermot about the year

in the

150.

The
was

Longford and lioscommon

year 1193.

word aicioeacca is used nan in such a manner as

Annals of Kilroit

will

shew that

used to denote chiefry, as in the following passage:

in

who was

He was the son of Teige, Auli/e, cimlaoiD. the son of Mulrony, the ancestor after
the

"A.D.

1225.

Cotmeipje cocra oeipje

if

whom
n

Mac Dermots

of

Moylurg were

called

pi la CoippoealBac mic Coippoealbaij, 7 le h Qeb mac

mbliaoain

Clann-Mulrony.
Aicideacht
is

7 le

mot

called

Under the year 1206 Mac DerLord of Moylurg, Airteach, and

nacc pe

hQo6 O Neill DO copnurn CUICID ConhGeo mac Cucail Cpoiobeipg cpe

popconjpab t)umn Oij mej oipeaccaij, pig-

1232.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

263

Donough O'Conor, Bishop of Elphin; and canons were appointed in the same town by Conn O'Flanagan, who was Prior there". in theology, hisTipraide O'Breen, Coarb of St. Coman who was learned
1
,

tory,

and law, died on the island of Inis-Clothran, on his pilgrimage. AnHugh, the son of Auliffe, who was son of Donnell O'Farrell, Chief of

naly,

was burned on the island of Inis Locha Guile by the sons of Hugh Ciabach, the son of Morogh O'Ferrall, having been nine years Chief of Annaly, from
the death of his predecessor,
1 ,

Morrogh Carrach

O'Ferrall.

Manus, son of Auliffe" the son of Teige

feats of arms,

Mac Mulrony, lamp

of hospitality,

and

piety, died.

Donough, son of Tomaltagh Mac Dermot, eminent

feats of arms,

for his hospitality

and

died in Aicideacht",

a great loss to Connaught.

Conor, son of Hugh, the son of Roderic, made his escape from the English, and the sons of the chiefs of Connaught assembled around him, and they made

but Conor, with Gilla-Kelly O'Heyne, and Gilchreest, the son of Donough Mac Dermot, and many others along with them, were slain by the people of the Tuathas. This was the day on which [the people
an incursion into the Tuathas
;

of] the

Tuathas whitened
that
it

all

the handles of their battle-axes, because

it

was

was by a man who carried a white handled battle-axe that the son of Hugh had been slain. The kingdom [of Connaught] was again given to Hugh, the son of Roderic,

rumoured

p by the son of William Burke who made peace with him

,

after

he had taken

Felim, son of Cathal Crovderg, prisoner.

raoipij pi rnuipeaoatj a noijuil a peapuinn war was 1 a aicioeacra oo buam oe. i. e.

who had opposed him whitened

the handle of

his battle-axe, in order that his slayer

might

kindled in this year by Turlough, the son of Roderic, who was the son of Turlough, and
in contesting the province of

not be identified, from fear of the vengeance of his father, who was then very powerful, and be-

Hugh, the son of Roderic, and by Hugh O'Neill, Connaught with

came King of Connaught immediately after, P The son of William Burke. This was the
celebrated Richard de Burgo, Great Lord of Connaught.

licitation of

Hugh, the son of Cathal Crovderg, at the soDonn Oge Mageraghty, royal chieftain of Sil-Murray, in revenge of the loss of his

who was called the

He was

the son of

lands and Aicidheacht.'"

William Fitz- Adelm de Burgo, by Isabel, natural daughter of Richard I., and widow ofLle-

Whitened, po ealpac, i. e. a spread abroad, that the person

rumour having who slew him

He is said to have wellyn, Prince of Wales. struck off the arm of King Roderic O'Conor, in
the Battle of Leithridh, near Dublin.

carried a white-handled battle axe, each of those

He was

264
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[1232

oe bupco, caiplen Duin Caiplen bona jaillme DO benam la RiocapD la haoam Soonoun. lomjjain Do cinDpcfccal ua odlaij paof pe Dan, le rfj ai6ea6 coiccfnn DO conj;^lolla na naorh bail Do rpuaccaib -\ Do rpenaib Decc. TTlaeleom bobap ua TTlaolconaipe Do jabail cluana bolcain. mac cacail cpoiboeipj DO leccab amac la jallaib.
-|

pfiblimib

Concubap mac
njaoibealaib
riaill
i

neill uf

Sloijeab la Doriinall
uf baoijill,

gaipmlfohai^ coipeac cenel Tfloain Decc. ua laclamn njeapna cfpe heojain co ngallaib,

-]

co

ccfp conaill Dia po mill

-]

mop

hi

ppanaic, i cue bpaijoe DomDia po cainic ap

uf caipceipc Ifif.
i

Sloicceab la hua noorhnaill

ccfp

eojam co piacc culac nocc

-]

mapb bu lomba
TTliDbec i

Dia po loiyc apbanna,

Dia po milleab mopan,

cinel eojain uaip

~\

cula co copccpach.
fajhinif Do

opccam la

Do poccaccap a

Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1227t and died on his passage to France in January, 1243, in proceeding to meet the King of England at Bourdeaux, attended by his barons and knights. He married Hodierna, daughter of Robert de Gernon, and grand-daughter, maternally, of Cathal

of Bonagalvie was made by the son of William Burk ;" and in the old translation of the Annals of Ulster
it is

"A. D.
[recte,

1232.

made Bun-Gallaway. Thus An army by William Burke

:

the son of William Burke] to the castle of Bun-Gallaway, and there made another cas 7
tie."

Crovderg O'Conor, King of Connaught, and had by her two sons, Walter and William, the former of whom marrying Maud, daughter and
heiress of

This castle was erected near the mouth of

the River Galway, on the east side.

There had been an

in the year
1 1

earlier castle erected here

Hugh de Lacy, Junior, became, in her Earl of Ulster on the death of his fatherright, in-law, and had by her one son, Richard, commonly called the Red Earl, who was considered the most powerful subject in Ireland. See Pedigree of the Earl of Clanrickard
Firbis,

part of these

24 by the Irish. See the earlier Annals at the years 1124, 1132, 1149; see also O'Flaherty's Account of West

by Duald Mac

Connaught, printed for the Irish Archaeological Society in 1845, p. 31 ; and Hardiman's History of Galway, p. 47, note u ; and the old map of

O'Clery, Lodge, and Burke-, and the

Galway
1

in the

same work,

at p. 30.

manuscript entitled Historia Familice

preserved in the

De JBurgo,

Dunamon, Gun lomjum

place on the

MS. Library

of Trinity College,

River Suck, on the borders of the counties of

Dublin, F.
q

4, 13.

OfBungalvy, bona
its

juillriie,

i. e.

of themouth

Roscommon and Galway. Tradition says that Dunamon was originally the residence of O'Finaghty, whose territory, consisting of forty-eight ballys, or townlands, lay on both sides of the

of the River of Gal way, from

which river the town

takes

name.

In Mageoghegan's translation of

the Annals of Clonmacnoise, this

cised Bonagalvie, thus:

name

is

Angli-

River Suck, and this tradition

"A. D.

1222. The Castle

is curiously corroborated by a notice given of this family in

1232.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

castle of

265

q Bungalvy was erected by Bickard de Burgo, and the erection r of the castle of Dunamon was commenced by Adam Staunton. Gilla-na-naev O'Daly, a learned poet, who had kept a house of hospitality

The

for the indigent

and the mighty,

[the Deaf]

died.
8
.

O'Mulconry took Cluain Bolcain Felim, the son of Cathal Crovderg, was set at liberty by the English. Conor, the son of Niall O'Gormly, Chief of Kinel-Moen, died.
Donnell O'Loughlin, Lord of Tyrone, at the head of an army composed of the English and Irish, made an incursion into Tirconnell, and did much injury in Fanat', and carried away the hostages of Donnell O'Boyle and O'Tairchirt.

Malone Bodhar

was led by O'Donnell into Tyrone, and arrived at Tullaghoge, on which occasion he killed many cows, burned the corn crops, and did much
injury,

An army

and then returned home in triumph. w Mevagh" and Aughnish were plundered by the Kinel-Owen,
Firbis's
is

fpr their ships

Mac

of which

in the possession of
it

Book of Pedigrees, the original Lord Roden, and

in the Library of the
literal

Cathal, son of Teige Oge, son of Teige, son of Cathal."

a faithful copy of Irish Academy.

is

Royal
of
it
is

The

translation

fort

Dunamon, oun lom^uin, means the dun or of lomghuin, a man's name the dun
:

as follows

yet in existence

See Ordnance
sheet 38
;

Map

of the

" Conmhach was the son of Muireadhach, and

County of
8

Roscommon,

and of Gal-

he was his eldest

inferior in

son,

and

in

consequence of this

way, sheets 8 and 20.

Fanat.

seniority, the descendants of

Conmhach (though

district in the north-east of the

power) are entitled to great privileges from the descendants of the other sons of Muireadhach, viz., to drink the first cup at every feast and banquet of a king and all the descendants of the other sons of Muireadhach must rise up be:

barony of Kilmacrenan, in the county of DoSee note s , under the year 1 186, p. 70. negal.
1

Cluain Bolcain
still,

The O'Mulconrys were,

and are

seated at Clonahee, near Strokes-

fore the representative of

Conmhach, or Chief of

town, in the county of Roscommon; but there is no place in that neighbourhood now called

Clann Conway. O'Finaghty was the royal chieftain of Clann Conway, and had forty-eight ballys
about the Suck before the English Invasion but the Burkes drove him from his patrimonial inheri;

Cluain Bolcain.
u Mevagh, mioBeac. A parish in the barony of Kilmacrenan, and county of Donegal, a part of which forms a well-known promontory called

tance, so that there livcth not of the family of this Book O'Finaghty, at the time of

Ros

Guill, extending into

writing

Atlantic

Ocean

See

Sheephaven and the Ordnance Map of the

i.

(1650), any one

more

illustrious than the blessed

and miraculous
are William and
of

priest,

James, whose brothers

County of Donegal, sheets 7 and 16. v Aughnish, Gagimr recte eac-mip,

1

e.

horse-

Redmond, sons of Cathal, son

island.

Donough, son of Hugh, son of Rory, son of

Lough Swilly, near Rathin the east of the barony of Kilmacrenan, melton,

An

island in

266
loingfp

aNNCita Rioshachca eiRecwR

-|

[1233.

Do pala Dpfm Do cenel conuill im mac neill uf Dorhnaill an Du pn, po mapbaD pom peipin hi pppiorguin. cuca, po lab dp na lomjpi laip, na nafrh 6 odlaij paoi noan Decc.
~\ i

aois cr?iosu,

1233.
arpf.

Goip Cpiopc, mile, Da ceo, cpioca,

j ua oaijpe aipcinnec Doipe colaim
TTlaoliopa

cille [oecc].

ua

TTlaonaij;

uapal paccapr no jabab a pyalcaip gac

laoi

ace

Dia Dorhnaij

namd

[DO ecc].
~\

jaca Oonncarhaij aipcinnec achaib pobaip pfp pfibijce gaca cuipi, co ncnpmiom, co nonoip Decc an .15. Do Decembep. caingne, pfp DO Deacaib Sloijeat) la peiDlimio mac cacail cpoibDeipj cconnaccaib,
-\
i

~\

copbmac mac comalcaij (ijeapna maije

luipcc
e.

luipj)

ma

Dail,

-]

Oo ponab longpopr leo occ Dpuim jpegpaije. a mac, na cpf cuaca, Da mac muipcfpcaij meic Diapmaoa, .1. concobap Do ponpac Dol Donncab, Ctpi comaiple TTluipcfprac ina pappaiD annpin.
~\
i ~\

rue lep maij baoi copbmac,

i

nDiaiD aoba (pij Connacc),

~|

cloinne 17uai6pi

ap

cfna.

noocum, po ppaofneab pop aob mac Ruai&pi po mapbab

in the

lap nool Doib ina 6 pein, ~| ao6 muirhnec

county of Donegal. The ruins of the original church of the parish of Aughnish are
still

Hugh was King

of Connaught for five years, and that he was the last of the descendants of

to

be seen on this

Map
46.
x
y

of the

See Ordnance island. County of Donegal, sheets 37 and

Roderic that was King of Connaught ; that the

Pope
if

offered Roderic,

and his

issue, for ever, the

title to

Gilla-na-naev

This

is

a repetition.

the sovereignty, and six married wives, he would thenceforward abstain from the sin

In the old translation Excepting Sunday of the Annals of Ulster this passage is rendered " A. D. as follows 1233. Moylisa O Moynig,
:

that Roderic did not accept of this offer on such conditions ; and, as he did not, of the
;

women

a gentle priest that

would repeat

his

psalter

deprived him and his race for ever of reign and sovereignty, in revenge of the sin of
that

God

every day, Sunday excepted, died." z The Three Tuathas These were three districts

concupiscence.

t)eobplair cloinni 'Ruaiopi hi

on the west side of the Shannon, in the east of the county of Roscomnion See note d under the year 1189, p. 86.
,

stated in

It is Defeated Hugh, the son of Roderic. the Annals of Kilronan, that this

ConcuBaip pi Gpenn innpn. Uaip capcaio an papa ceapc ap Gpmn oo pein 7 oa piol na oiaio 50 bpasr, 7 peipeap oo mnaib popoa, 7 r5 u P P eca no mban 6 pin amac; 7 nip ab Uuaiopi pin, 7 6 nap jab oo bean oia pije
7

plaicearhnup Da piol co ppac

noiojolcap

1233.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

at these places
;

267

but a party of the Kinel-Connell, with the son of Niall O'Donnell, came upon them, and slaughtered the crews, but the son of

touched

Niall himself

was
x

slain in the heat of the conflict.

Gilla-na-naev

O'Daly, an adept in poetry, died.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1233.
thirty-three.

thousand two hundred

Geoffry O'Deery, Erenagh of Derry-Columbkille [died]. Maelisa O'Maeny, a noble priest, who was wont to sing his psalter every
day, excepting Sunday' only [died].

man

Donncahy, Erenagh of Aghagower, settler of every dispute and covenant, of esteem and honour, died on the 15th of December.

was led by Felim, the son of Cathal Crovderg, into Connaught, and Cormac, the son of Tomaltagh (Lord of Moylurg), went to meet him and brought him with him into Moylurg. A camp was formed by them at Druim
2 Gregraighe, and Cormac, his son Conor, the people of the Three Tuathas the two sons of Murtough Mac Dermot, namely, Donough and Murtough,
,

An army

joined him there.

resolution they adopted was to go in pursuit of Hugh, King of Connaught, and the other sons of Roderic. On overtaking them they attacked and defeated Hugh, the son of Roderic", slew himself and his brother,
pecaib na tnban. Dr. Hanmer, in the speech which he has manufactured and put into the

The

but

it is

certain that Giraldus Cambrensis does

Dermot Mac Murrough, King of makes him say to the men of Leinster Leinster, and the British knights " The tyrant Eoderic

mouth

of

not make Dermot charge King Roderic with any such crimes, in the speech which he puts into his mouth. In this speech no allusion

whatever

is

made

to Roderic's

lasciviousness,
artful,

hath murdered his

own

naturall brother, he hath

but he
tious

is

called a tyrant,
:

and an

ambi-

three wives alive, he hath eleven bastards

severall

by

man

" Malleus

ille

malarum artium &

women.

villaine ! to

behold a mote

in

our eye, and cannot see a beam in his owne." Hammer's Chronicle, Dublin Edition of 1809, p.
235.

ambitionum omnium magister & author, violento dominatu cunctos opprimere cupiens ad nos
:

iterum a patria pellendos, vel etiam in ipsa

Whether Dr. Hanmer found

materials

for this speech in

any old historical collection

it is

(quod absit) delendos, ecce super, capita nobis iam imminet. De multitudine superbus elatus

among the
land, or

families of the English Pale in Ire-

ambitionem suam
multitudini

brrfchio metitur.

Sed inermi

a pure fabrication of his own, the Editor has not been able to determine ;

whether

&

inerti

plerunq

gravis esse solet

(si)

animosa paucitas

et armata.

Sed

Lageniam

268

QNNCK,a
-j

Ri

[1233.

oonnchab mop mac Diapmaoa mic Ruaibpi, 1 lie Ro mapba6 ann Dana Rajallac ua plannagdin, comdp gaill iom6a ele na hGpeann, eoan a bparaip, eoan juep, bipip conpcapla bachab comoell bacall, mp nDenarh eapccaome -\ beop lap mburnn clog DO cleipcib Connacr oppa uaip po papaig -\ po ylacc ao6 muimneac ceaj cealla lomDa ap cfna ^up po cuicpfc pein in enec na naom ipa baoinn, TCo bfnab pije, 1 cfnoup ConDace DO cloinn ftuaibpi cealla po pdpaijpfc. abaib peblmnb mac carail cpoiboeipj mic ip in 16 pin.
a Deapbparaip, oile cfnmorac.

a mac,

-\

-|

-|

-|

-]

coippbealbaij

pije

Connacr mpccain,
-\

concobaip,

na caiplefn DO ponab la neapc cloinne T?uai6pi uf mic uilliam bupc DO pgaoileaD Imp iao, caiplen bona gmllme,
-]

.1.

na caillije, -\ caiplen Duin lom^ain. caiplen na cipce, caiplen Sloicceab la huilliam mac hugo DC lari (m^fn Ruaibpi uf concobaip a in mbpeipne in Docum cacail maraip pibe), i la gallaib mi&e amaille ppip ip ui Rajallaij co noeapnpac cpeaca mopa. Ruccpac imoppo Opong Do mum-

np

ui

ccpeac

rhainb an cploij i nDeoib na ftajallaij pop uilliam De laci, -\ pop ann uilliam bpic, i Dponj Do ciiccpac cacap Dia poile, mapbcap
gall ap aon pip.
cip T?o

mainb
ap an

jonao uilliam De

laci co pocaibib oile.

-\

Soaicc

Seplup mac ceap uilliam De laci carail gaill uf concobaip, peopup pionn mac na gaill piojna, oiapmaiD beapnac ua maoilpeclamn Do na ^onaib DO paDab poppa in lomaipecc TDona

jan giall jan eiccepe.

Do

-|

quserit:

subiecta fuit:

quoniamaliciiiConnactensmm aliquando Ea ratione & nos Connactiam pe-

dropping stones into the lake.

See this castle

.

timus,

quia nostris aliquoties

cum

totius Hi-

referred to at the year 1195, p. 102, note r d William. He was the ancestor of the cele-

bernias subdita fuerat monarchia.

Nee ille more

iura solus

monarchy dominari
a patria propellere,

quserit

sed damnare, sed

brated Pierce Lacy, of the county 'of Limerick ; and also of the Lynches of Galway. See note

&

in

omnium

succedere:

& omnia
lib.
i.

solus obtinere."

Hibernia

Expugnata,
b

c. 8.

under the year 1186. In Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, this event " A. D. 1233. William is noticed as follows
:

Castle-Kirk,

now

called the Hen's Castle.

Delacie,

chiefest

Champion

in

these parts of

Its ruins are still to

be seen on a rocky island, in

the north-west part of Lough Corrib, in that arm of the lake which receives the river of Beal-

Europe, and the hardiest and strongest hand of any Englishman, from the Nicen seas to this
place, or Irishman,

was hurt

in a skirmish in

anabrack, and belongs to the parish of Cong. Caislen-na-Caillighe, now called the Hag's
Castle,

the Brenie, came to his house, and there died of

the wound. Charles O'Connor was also wounded

the same day, and died thereof. Neale Ffox, King of Teaffa-land, was likewise hurt in the
said skirmishe,

which

is

a translation of

its Irish

name,

It stands

on an

artificial island in

the east side

of

Lough Mask,

said to

have been formed by

came

to his house in like

man-

1233.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

his son,

269

Donough More, the son of Dermot, who was son There were also slain of Roderic [0' Conor], and many others besides them. on this occasion Raghallagh O'Flanagan, Thomas Biris, Constable of Ireland,

Hugh Muimhneach,

John, his relative, John Guer, and many other Englishmen; after they had been cursed and excommunicated by the clergy of Connaught, by the of candles; for Hugh ringing of bells with croziers, and the extinguishing

Muimhneach had
so that

violated

he [and his The kingdom and government of Connaught was on they had violated. After this that day taken from the sons of Roderic, the son of Turlough.

and plundered Tibohine, and many other churches, in revenge of the saints whose churches pa,rty\ fell

Felim, the son of Cathal Crovderg, assumed the government of Connaught, and demolished the castles which had been erected by the power of the sons of Roderic O'Conor, and the son of William Burke, namely, the castle of c b Bungalvy, Castle-Kirk and Castle-na-Cally and the castle of Dunamon.
,
,

was led by William d the son of Hugo de Lacy (whose mother was the daughter of Roderic O'Conor), accompanied by the English of Meath, into Breifny against Cathal O'Reilly, and committed great depredations but

An army

a party of O'Reilly's people overtook William de Lacy, and the chiefs of his army, who were behind the preys, and they gave battle to each other, in which William Britt, and a number of the chiefs of the English along with him,' were

William de Lacy, with many others, was wounded. They returned from the territory without hostage or pledge. And William de Lacy, Charles,
slain.

the son of Cathal Gall O'Conor, Feorus Finn

g

the son of the English Queen, and Dermot Bearnagh O'Melaghlin, died of the wounds they received in that battle of Moin-crann-chaoin". Niall Sinnagh O'Catharny, Lord of Teffia, was
,

ner, and, after receiving the sacraments of the

Marche
s

in

France

See Hanraer's Chronicle,

p.

altar
e

and Extream Unction, died penitently."

Dublin edition of 1809,

Bearnach.
is

353.

Catlial Gall,

Cacal

gall,

i.

e.

Cathal the Eng-

This

word,

which

signifies

lishman; he was so called by way of reproach,

for speaking the
f

gapped,
h

often applied to a person

who had

lost

English language. Feorus Finn, i. e. Pierce the Fair. He must have been half brother to Henry III., whose
inother,

his front teeth.

Maoin-crann-caoin,

i.

e.

the bog or morass

is

of the beautiful trees.

sent bearing the

Queen

Isabella,

who was

the daughter
after the

and heir of Amerie, Earl of Angolesm,

at preof Cavan, county which comprises the entire of the territory of

There

no place

name

in the

death of King John, married the Count de la

Breifny O'Reilly.

270

aNNCtca Rio^hachca eiRectNN.

[1234.

cpann caom.
in

amup

Niall pionnac ua cacapnaij cijeapna peap ceacba DO juin ip ceona, -j a ecc ina cigh lap noenam a ciomna, -| lap na ongab.

Q01S CR10SU,

1234.

Qoip Cpiopc, mile, Da ceo, cpioca, acfcaip.

ui

bpaoin aipcmneac

a a mac aipr Gonjup ua maolpojmaip eppcop ua ppiacpac, <5iH " naomh mac oamel uf jopmjaile Ropa commain, THaoliopa

Ppioip innpi
1

ua capmacdin maigipcip Ropa comain, ancoipe oilein na cpinome Decc. jiolla lopa ua gibellain manac Oomnall mac aoba f neill cijeapna cenel eojain, abbap pfj Gpeann DO

mac

nepin, TTlaolpeaDaip
-|

mapBab la mag laclamn

gabdil cijeapnaip.

.1.

Domnall

-\

la cenel eojain po&em,

-|

Domnall Do

Qonjup mac jillepmDein cijeapna loca

naill,
-]
i

hfipne Do
.1.

aip, i

a Dol ap cpeic ccfp conuill, i 6 Domnaill, a mapbab a noiojail eiccneacam.

(lap lopccab cije paip,

iompu& ap ua noomDomnall mop, DO bpfic

Ctob ua hfjpa cijeapna luijne Do rhapbaD la DonnchaD

mac Duapcdm

eagpa
-]

coipc

a nDiojail a Deapbparap, a Deapbpacaip ele DO mac Deapbparap a arap DO mapbpom,

~\

lap ccecc app),

~\

&alla& laip.

OiapmaiD ua cuinn caoipeac mumcipe jiollgain Do mapbaD. Riocapo mac uilliam mapapcal DO ool inD ajaiD 17ij pa^an
Under this year the Annals of Kilronan record the death of Donncatha, Erenagh of Ag1

hi

Muinter Pheodachain.
This territory was disHuintir-Gittagan. tributed among the baronies of Ardagh, Moyk

hagower, on the 18th of the Calends of January; a man respected in the Church and State for his

wisdom and personal form

man

the most

dow, and Shrule, in the county of Longford. The townlands of which it consisted are specified

bountiful of his cotemporaries in bestowing cattie and food; protector of the poor and the

in

an Inquisition taken at Ardagh, on the

mighty; the ornament of the country, and the guide and settler of every covenant among his own people, and all in general.
>

4th of April, in the tenth year of the reign of James I., which found that thirty-five small
cartrons

of Montergalgan

then

belonged

to

O'Farrall Bane, and seventeen one-half cartrons

of like measure to O'Farrall Boye's part of the county of Longford. The territory of Caladh

Mac

Gittafinnen,

now Mac

Gillinion.

Ma-

guire was not as yet powerful in Fermanagh, The Mac Gillinions were afterwards chiefs of

na h-Anghaile, called in

this Inquisition

" the

1234.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

in this battle,

2?1

also

wounded

and died

at his

own

house, after

making

his will

and being anointed'.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1234.

thousand two hundred thirty-four.

;

Aengus O'Mulfover, Bishop of Hy-Fiachrach [Killala] Gilla-na-naev, the son of ArtO'Breen, Erenagh of Roscommon; Maelisa, the son of Daniel O'Gormally, Prior of Inismacnerin

Mulpeter O'Carmacan, Master at Roscommon and Gilla-Isa (Gelasius) O'Gibellan, a monk and anchorite on Trinity Island,
;

died.

Lord of the Kinel-Owen, and heir presumptive to the sovereignty of Ireland, was slain by Mac Loughlin (Donnell), and the Kinel-Owen themselves, and Donnell [i. e. Mac Loughlin], assumed
Donnell, the son of

Hugh

O'Neill,

the lordship.

Aengus Mac

Gillafinnen 1

Lord of Lough Erne, turned

;

against O'Donnell,

and went into Tirconnell upon a predatory incursion but O'Donnell (Donnell More), overtook him, and killed him in revenge of [the death of] Egneghan.
O'Hara, Lord of Leyny, was killed by Donough, the son of Duarcan O'Hara (after he had burned the house over him, and after Hugh had escaped

Hugh

out of

it),

whom

revenge of his brother, and the five sons of his father's brother, he [Hugh] had slain, and of another brother who had been plundered
in
slain.

by him. Dermot O'Quin, Chief of Muintir-Gillagan k was

,

Richard, the son of William Mareschal

1 ,

having rebelled against the King

See Hanmer's

Callow,"

name

still

locally

remembered

as

Prince of Luinster, in Ireland.

that of a low district in the barony of Rathcline,

lies

Chronicle, Dublin Edition of 1 809, pp. 346, 347-

between Muintir Gillagan and the Shannon. Magh Treagha, under the year 1 255
See note on
.

The Four Masters have given this account very imperfectly. They should have written it
thus : " A. D.
1

254. Richard, the son of William

son of William Mareschal Richard, He was the second son of William Mareschal, or
tlie

'

Mareschal, having rebelled against the King of England, came over to Ireland, and took possession of Leinster.

Marshall, or, as

Hanmer will have it, Maxfield. He was Earl Marshall of England, Earl of PernNormandy, and

sembled to
namely,

The English of Leinster asoppose him on behalf of the King,

the
Justiciary,

broke, in Wales, and of Ogie, in

Maurice Fitzgerald,

272
-\

[1235.
illaijnib.

Gpearm na mac TTluipip uipcip na hGpeann, hugo oe laci mpla ulab, po ocnj pfj pa;ran, na mi&e. Uangaccap 50 cuippec lipe hillaijnib 1 ualepa t>e laci rijeapna mapbrap an mapapcal, po jaba6 gup cuippioc car ppip an mapapgal, nf paibe 05 cup an cara ace epiorh a aonap lap na Seppaij mapapcal,
cocr DO caipip anoip co po jab
.1.

Uionoilir joill

-\

-\

-]

cpejeb Oia

muinnp

bunein.

QO1S CP1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopc, mile,
t>a

1235.

ceo cpiocac, acuicc.

Ipaac ua maoilpojmaip aipcinoec cille halaib tecc. TTlacheup ppioip oilein na rpinome [oecc].
TTlaDaban ua

maoabam cijeapna

pil

Loclamn mac
Piabaij
Hugo

eiccijepri uf ceallaij 'oo

nanmchaba oecc. rhapbaD la macaib an

jiolla

uf baoijill.

de Lacy, Earl of Ulster, and Walter de Lord of Meath. They came to CurraghLacy, Liffey, in Leinster, where they had appointed to
hold a conference
quarrelled with

ally
is

narrowed

it.

The word cuippec,

and a

or, as it

now

written, cuppac, has two significations,

namely,

a shrubby moor,
it

level plain,

with the Earl.

But they

or race course ; and

him

at the conference, and took

him

prisoner, after
for,

having

first

wounded him

appears from the derivations given of the word in Cormac's Glossary, that it has this two-fold application from a very
early period.

mortally,

being deserted

by

his false friend,

Geoffry de Marisco, he was left almost alone on the field, and his stubborn valour would not

Geoffry Mareschal.

This

is

an error of name

and

him to submit tamely to his betrayers." m Mac Maurice This is a mistake, for the person who opposed Richard Mareschal was
allow

was none of the great family of the Mareschals called Geoffry, and the person
fact, for there

evidently referred to was Geoffry de Marisco, who did not stand alone fighting in the field of
battle, but, according to

Maurice, the son of Gerald Fitzgerald.

He

Mathew

Paris,

marched

might have been called Mac Maurice, patronimically, from his grandfather, but it does not
appear that he ever was.
Currech-Liffey,

away with four score of the Earl's company, had been bribed to this desertion.

who

ragh of the Liffey

is

Cuippec lipe, i. e. CurThe Curragh of Kildare

safely concluded,

The fact seems knew nothing of

to be that the Irish annalists

the insidious plot laid

by the

so

called
it

throughout these Annals, from

that the
as far

Anglo-Irish barons against Richard Mareschal, and therefore described it as a regular battle.

which

may be

The
is

best account of the plot against Mareschal

Curragh anciently extended eastwards

as the River LifFey, for the enclosures which from time intruded on the plain have gradu-

given by Matthew Paris, who bestows fourteen folio pages on the story of the last days and death of this young nobleman. See Leland's

1235.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

273

of England, in England, he came over to Ireland, and landed in Leinster. English of Leinster assembled to oppose him, on behalf of the King
:

The Mac

Lord Justice of Ireland; Hugo de Lacy, Earl of Ulster; and Walter de Lacy, Lord of Meath. They came to Cuirreach-Life in Leinster, where they engaged with Mareschal, and killed him and they made a prisoner of
Maurice"
1 , ,

Geoffry Mareschal
all his

who had

stood alone fighting on the field of battle, after

.

people had

fled

from him p

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1235.
thirty-jive.

thousand two hundred

Isaac O'Mulfover, Erenagh of Killala, died. Matheus, Prior of Trinity Island [died].

Madden O'Madden, Lord

Eeagh O'Boyle.
History of Ireland, book
ii.

of Sil-Anmchadha, died.

Loughlin, the son of Echtighern O'Kelly, was slain

by the sons of

Gilla-

c. 1,

vol.

i.

pp.

213-

Under

this year the

Annals of Clonmac-

219; and Moore's, vol. iii. pp. 16-19- Dr. Hanmer, who had read Matthew Paris, is guilty of an intentional forgery in his Chronicle, ad ann.
1233, where he says, that "Richard Marshall was mortally wounded in a battle near Kildare,

noise record, that Felim O'Conor,

King of Con-

naught, marched with his forces to Meath, and

burned Ballyloughloe, Ardnurcher, and many other towns. Under this year also the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen record the
death of Walter de Lacy, Lord of Meath, leaving no issue, except two daughters. They also record the erection of the great church of St.
Canice, at Aghaboe, by the successor of St. Kieran of Saigher. The Annals of Ulster and of Kilronan record a great snow and frost in this

uppon the great Heath

called

fighting against the O'Connors!" tion, p. 346.

the Curragh, Dublin Edi-

In Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals

of Clonmacnoise, the account of this rencounter at the Curragh of Kildare,
incorrectly
is

entered:

"A.

D.

thus briefly and 1234. William

Marshall gave battle to the rest of the Englishmen of Ireland, where William himself was slain

and Geoffry March was taken." The compiler of the Annals of Kilronan

'A. D. 1234. Snecca mop oa nobluic, 7 pic lap pin co mtnjioip oaoini 7 etc po nepea&aib ppim loca 7 aiBne Epeann. It is thus rendered in the old transyear, as follows:
icip

also,

lation of the

Annals of Ulster: " A. D. 1234.

this

who

have known nothing of the plot against the Earl, described the encounter on the Curragh as a regular battle, and adds, that the
appears to death of Richard was one of the most lamentable occurrences of these times.

Extreame snow betweene both Christmas's

yeare.

Great frost after that.

Men and

horses,

with their loads, went uppon" [the] "rivers and

lakes of Ireland."

2 N

274

[1235.

Uaicleach mac ao&a

ui

Duboa cigeapna ua namaljaba

i

-|

ua ppiacpac

oo mapbao Oaon upcap poijoe

cpoiboeipg.

nfoaipjaipe

longpopc peblimiD mic cacail

biipc.

Sluaicceab la gallaib Gpeann ap na ccionol la RiocapD mac uilliam TTlac muipip Clpiao pohoap oipoepca bdoap pop an pluaijeao pin laip

mpcfp na hGpeann, huccooe Ian lapla ula&, ualcpa T?iccabapo apo bapun eoan gojan co nsallaib murhan, T?uca6a Gpeann laijfn co ngallaib laijfn, an baile. apaon piu. Uangaccap cap acluain 50 popcomain. T?o loipccpfc co maimpcip Qppen co hoilpinn. T?o loipcpfc cfmpall mop ailpinn. dppen aca oalaapcc pop buill oiDce Domnaij na cpinoioe DO ponnpab. Do coccap
-|
-|

oponga Dia ppianlac pon maimpcip, bpipic an pcpipca,cuccpaccaili5 aippinn,

eoije, i

lonnmupa app.
ni

bet

spam mop
-]

la

maiab

gall in nf

pin,

~|

t>o

cuippioc

pop ccula 506

na ppfc. T?o po focpac Dap cfnn an nfic co cop glinne cuippfc apabdpac pipce uaoaib co cpeic, co caipfe muilcen,
ppfc Giob pin,
q

T/ie most illustrious

Qy

iao

poboap

oip-

Tristerdermot,

now

Castledermot, in the terriin

oeapca bdoap pop an pluaijjeao

pin is a

very old

and obsolete form of construction, which would

stand in the Irish of the present day thus: ip iao ba oipoeipce b'i ap an pluaijeao pin. Charles

tory of Omurethi, county of Kildare,

the south

of the

now

whence he and his followers

had expelled the O'Tooles, shortly after the EngSee note under the year 1180, lish invasion
pp. 53,

O'Conor, of Belanagare, iii the preface to his Dissertations on the History of Ireland, says that
the

54

and Genealogies,

Tribes,

and Cusa
.

Four Masters had in

their writings preserved

toms ofHy-Fiachrach, pp. 400, 401, note r ConJohn Goggan O'Flaherty, in his Hiar-

the language of the sixth century ; and though

naught, quoting this passage, calls him, "the

we cannot fully acquiesce

in this opinion,

it

must

be acknowledged that they used very ancient forms of expression, and had no scruple in bor-

Lord John Cogan." The name is still numerous in Munster, but now generally Anglicised
Goggan.

rowing phrases from the oldest specimens of combut they generally position in the language
;

The word puca, which is derived from the Norman-French word route, is Engu Routes.

abstracted the words of the older annalists, with-

lished Rotate

by Mageoghegan,

in his translation
1

out

much

regard to strength or neatness of ex-

of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, at the year

It

237-

pression, or purity of style.

r

Mac

Maurice.

This name should be Mau-

rice Fitzgerald.
s

Walter Eittabard.

He

is

called Gualterus

means a band or company of legal sene it signifies an assembly to commit an unlawful persons going forcibly In Dr. Cowel's Law Dictionary this word is act.
but in a
and Jacob, correctly explained routa, turma,cohors, in his Law Dictionary, derives it from the French "a route, and explains it, company or number." In the Annals of Kilronan, at the year 1225,

in a military sense,

de Ridenesfordia by his cotemporary, Giraldus Cumbrensis, in his Hibernia Expugnata, lib. ii.
c.

xxi;

modern

writers.

and Walter de Riddlesford by most He had his chief castle at

1235. J

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Hugh O'Dowda, Lord

275

Taichleach, the son of

was

killed

by

of Tirawley and Tireragh, one shot of an arrow during his interference [to quell a quarrel]

of Felim, the son of Cathal Crovderg. An expedition was made by the English of Ireland [this year], being assembled q by Richard, the son of William Burke. The most illustrious of those who were r with him on this expedition were Mac Maurice Lord Justice of Ireland; Hugo
in the

camp

de Lacy, Earl of Ulster; "Walter Rittabard

;

8
,

the chief Baron of Leinster,

who

commanded the English of Leinster and John Goggan', with the English of Munster, together with all the routes" of soldiers in Ireland. Crossing [the
they proceeded to Roscommon, and burned the town thence, going to Elphin, they burned the great church there, and proceeded from thence to the monastery of the Ath Dalaarg, on the [river] Boyle, on the
bridge]
at Athlone,
;

night of Trinity Sunday precisely.

tery,

Parties of their soldiers assailed the monaschalices, vestments,

broke into the

1

sacristy,

and carried away

chiefs,

and other

however, were highly disgusted at this, and sent back every thing they could find, and paid for what they could not find. Next day they sent marauding parties* to Creit, to Cairthe-muilchenn y
valuable things *.
,

The English

O'Neill's band, or

Rue Gojanac
ceiceipne
is

and, at the

company of soldiers, is called same year, pucaoa

cuipeaoup a pipre

peppe'naij a P

used to denote bands, or companies,

of kernes, or light-armed infantry.

"Chalices, vestments, $c.
to the robbing of the
follows, in

7 apucaoa ceiceipne 50 cpeic 7 co caipri " muilce, 7 up pin co rop jlinne peapna. They sent on the next day their scouts, their archers,

The passage relating

is

and their routes

Cairthi
fearna."

[cotiortes]

of kerne to Creit, to

abbey of Boyle

given as

Muilche,

and thence to Tor-Glinneis

nals of

Mageoghegan's translation of the AnClonmacnoise "A. D. 1235. The Eng:

There

Leitrim

now

called Creit, unless

no place in the county of it be Creagh,

lish of Ireland

went with came

their forces to

Con-

in Kiltogher parish.
1

noght, untill they

abbey of Boylle, where they encamped within the walls of the said abbey, tooke all the goods they cou'd finger,
as well as holy vestments, Challices, as also the

to the

Cairthe Muilchenn,

now called in Irish Gleann

a Chairthe, and in English, Glencar. It is a and adjoining valley, in the county of Leitrim,

habitts of the

Monks, and striped the fryers and

the barony of Carbury, in the county of Sligo See its position marked on the map prefixed to
Genealogies, Tribes,

Monks very

irreverently of their habbitts in the

and Customs afHy-Fiachrach,

middest of their Cloister.

Took

also a great

prey from Cormack Mac Dermott, which was then generally called the prey of preys." * In the Annals Marauding parties, pipce
of

in 1844. published by the Archaeological Society See also Ordnance Map of the County of Lei-

trim,

sheet

6,

and of the County of

Sligo,

sheet 9-

Kilronan the reading

is

as

follows

t>o

2N2

276

dNNata Rioghachca emeaNN.

-\

[1235.

peapna,

cuspac cpeaca mopa leo co hapo capna

ccoinoe an mpcip.

Oo

uf ebm Do biojail ponpac joill comaiple mcleice annpin cpia aplac eojain a cneab ap muimneacaib, -| ap bonnchab caipppec ua mbpiain, .1. fob ina hi ccfp rhaine, immaonmai^, ~\ appibe 50 cuabpppicdng if in conaip ceona

mumain gan pabab

ofpirhe leo.

gari

pacujab Do muimneachaib.

Oo

ponab cpeaca

connaipc peiblirmb mac cacail cpoiboeipg na goill DO bul uaba api comaiple po cinD Dol cona pocpaioe i mbaib muimneac, -] lap poccain Do Dia laoi. Qn la oeibeanac cpa DO coDap poijib no cuipDip Deabca cpoba jac

OD

po caraijf fc co pfpba. Qcc cfna po popramlaij poplion na njall neDijce, i an mapcfluai^ poppo po beoib, ~\ po mubui^ic fochaibe fcoppa Dfbbnib acr af mo po Diolairpijeab muirhnij; rpia cojaoff bonnchaba caipppij. UangaDap Connaccaij lapom Dia rcijib.
Connaccaij, i muimnij;
if in caclacaip,
~\

Do pome ua

bpiain

apabapac fie pe

gallaib,

~\

Do beapc bpaijoe

Doib.

Uan^aoap cpa na joill cap anaif 50 Connaccaib. Ctfeab loDap ceouf 50 haob ua plaicbfpcaij, DO pijne pibe ffrppiu Dap cfnn a bo, a muinncipe. peolimib imoppo mac cacail cpoiboeipj, aff comaiple po fjpuo forh a mbaoi DO buaib a cconmaicne mapa, a cconmaicne cuile Doneoc po 5ab a
-] -|
-|

comaiple,

-|

mac majnufa,
i

bpfic laif Do foi^ib

concobap puab mac muipceapcai^ muirhnij Do Domrall mop, an cfp uile Dpcifuccab pop borhnaill,
-| .1. -|

cmo

gall,

lap pin cpa cangaoap ^oill

50 Dun mujDopD.

Po
-)

cuipfioD cfcca

50 magnuf mac muipceapcaij muirhmj Diappaib giall paip, nf capD ma^nup l?o cuipp fc Dm goill 6 bun pic na eicepfba Doib. mujoopD plo Diaipmibe

pa macaib puaibpi jup po aipccp fc

"

eccuill,

-\

DO beapcpac cpeaca icmba

name
in Glenfarn.

Tor-Glinne-fearna,

i.

e.

the tower of Glen-

now
"

bearing the

fame, or the alder glen, a remarkable valley, in the parish of Cloonclare, near Manor-Hamilton, in the

Moinmoy,

ITIaonihujj.

level territory in

barony of Rossclogher, and county

Glenfarn Hall
is

of Leitrim.

in this valley

thecountyofGalway,comprisingMoyode,Finure, and all the champaign lands around the town of Loughrea, in the county of Gal way. It was

See Ordnance
sheet 13.

County of Leitrim, The tower here referred to would

Map

of the

bounded on the

east

by the

territory of Sil- Anm-

not appear to have been a castle or steeple, but either a Cyclopean fort, or a natural rock resembling a tower, like the rocks called tors on the
coast of Antrim and Donegal.

chadha; on the south by the mountain of Slieve Aughty; and on the west by the diocese of Kilmacduagh.
This was the original inheritance of the
O'Mullallys and O'Naghtans, who, shortly after the English Invasion, were driven from it by the

There

is

no place

1235.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

z
,

277

to Tor-Glinne-fearna

and they carried

off great spoils

from those places to the

Lord Justice
the request of

at

Ardcarne.

Here the English held

to

a private consultation, at

be revenged on the Momonians, and on Donough Cairbreach O'Brien, and they determined on going back the same way through Hy-Many and Moinmoy", and thence to Thomond, without or forewarning of their intentions. [This they giving the Momonians any notice accordingly did], and committed great depredations.
Felim, the son of Cathal Crovderg, saw that the English had departed, the resolution he came to was to proceed with his forces, to succour the Momonians. [This he did], and, on their joining them, spirited skirmishes

Owen O'Heyne, who wished

Now when

took place every day.

At

last the

Connacians and Momonians came to a

pitched battle [with the English], and fought manfully. But the English cavalry and infantry, who were clad in armour, finally overcame them. Many were
slain

on both

sides,

but the Momonians suffered most

loss,

through the im-

The Connacians then returned home", prudence of Donough Cairbreach. and on the next day O'Brien made peace with the English, and gave them The English returned into Connaught, and went first to Hugh hostages.
O'Flaherty,

who made

to Felim, the son of Cathal

peace with them in behalf of his people and cattle. As Crovderg, the resolution which he adopted was to
i.

take with

Donnell More, all the cows belonging to such of the inhabitants of Conmaicne-mara and Conmaicne-Cuile who should take
to O'Donnell,
e.

him

his advice, together with the

son of Manus, and Conor Roe, the son of Murand leaving the whole country desolate for the English. tough Muimhneach, The English soon afterwards came to Dun-Mughdordc and sent messengers to
,

Manus, the son of Murtough Muimhneach, to demand hostages from him but Manus would not give them either peace or hostages. The English then sent
;

from Dun-Mughdord a numerous force against the sons of Roderic,

Burkes, when the former settled in the barony of Dunmore, near Tuam, and the latter in the woody
district of the Faes, in the

who

plunthis

stated that the Connacians returned

battle,

from

in the barony of Athlone,

having gained great credit for their valour and skill, without having lost any man of
distinction
:

county of

Roscommon

See Tribes and

of Hy- Many, printed for the Irish Archaeological Society, p. 70, note *, and the

Teiritories

pcenh enjnuriia oo mapoao oib.

c

Cuncocap Connaccaij aipoe po 7 pomaip gan oume puacenra

castle in the

map
b

prefixed to the same work.

Dun-Mughdord, now Doon, a

Home.

In the Annals of Kilronan

it

is

parish of Aghagower, about three miles east of

[1235.

leo 50

Canaic Dana aob ua plaicbeapcaig, -| ccoinne jail. ele cimceall, -| apcpaije leo ap na ccappainj eojan ua hebin pluaj mop co Uonan cino mapa. ftangaccap na haprpaije pin cona pocpaiDe, -| an

Dpuimm

ni

lupcip

ccoinDe co Dpuimni co calab inpi aonaij. a lonja ap ppuc na hinnpi, lTla5nup,imoppo, bai piDe -|
~\

ma

~\

Deabca memce

ua6a pop jallaib, imapeac 6 jallaib paippiom. T?o pciinjic cpa gaill ppip Do ponpac a lonjpopc Do bpeic leo, a napcpaije Do cappaing pin, 1 apeaD cuca ccuil cpaja mop boi ip in maijpn pin. Opo pacaij majnup inDpin Do cuaio in imp paicm, po cuip Dpong Dia muincip ino imp aonaij. OD conncana hoilenaib hipln, po cojbaDap a Dap gaill majnup cona muincip Do 6ol pop
-]
i

-|

po cuippfc pop muip lac, -| po lionaic co naprpaije leo ap puD na cpaja, hobann Do pluaj, -j Do pipchib apmca eDi^ce, -| locup popp na hoilenaib mbaoap muincip majnupa (cenmoca imp paicm mbaoi majnup pepin), -| DeochaiD majnup i po mapbpac a ppuopaDap Do baoinib inncib. Do mbaoi Dia muincip in imp paicne ma lonjaib, -] po pajaibpfc an inpi, -\ Diambab caipipi la majnup muincip maille po cuippeaD a longa hi ccfnn
-] i i i

loinjip
Westport
d

na njall.
See Ordnance

Map

of the county

his

of Mayo, sheet 88.

Achill,

Archaeological Society

Account of Hiar-Connaught, printed for the as " Imair-anin

1845,

Gccuill, a well-known island in the

barony of Burrishoole, and county of Mayo See its most remarkable features and antiquities

Linain, antiently Linan Kinmara, a long green spot of land by the sea of Coelshaly Eo" [Killary].
h

shewn on the map prefixed to Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, published
Irish Archseological Society in 1844.
e

The sound near

the island,

In this part of Ireland priur

inlet of the sea, into

ppuc na hinpi. means a sound or

tide flows

by the

which the

with

Druimni.

There

is

no place at present
barony of Burrishoole

bearing this

name

in the

See Ordor of Murresk, in the county of Mayo nance Map of that county, sheet 87, &c.
Roderic O'Flaherty, in his Account of Hiar-Connaught, says that the
they carried.
f

the rapidity of a stream. Of this application of the word we have a striking illustration in the name fpur cinn Gacla, at Achill head ; baile

Which

an cppora, or streamstown, near Clifden, in Connamara and ppur na maoile, in the north
;

boats of

Lough Orbsen were drawn from Bonand a-half]

of Ireland, near Ballyshannon. Large strand. This strand

'

lies to

the north

bonan
s

for five miles [recte six miles

on this occasion.

of Murresk Lodge, and extends from Bartraw point to Annagh Island, near the foot of Croaghpatrick.
*

Linan Cinn-mara,

is

now

called Leenaun,

place near the Killary Harbour, in Connamara, in the north-west of the county
a well

known

Inis-raithni,

i.

e.

the Ferny Island,

It is

now

cor-

ruptly Anglicised Inishraher.

the

an island in

of Galway.

It is described

by O'Flaherty,

in

Bay

of Westport.

See Ordnance

Map

of

1235.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

d
,

279

O'Flaherty and Owen O'Heyne also came round with a great army, having vessels with them, which they carried' [by land] as far as Linan Cinn-maras These vessels, with

dered Achill

and carried

off great spoils to

Druimnic

Hugh

their forces, being

met by the Lord

Justice at Druimni,

were brought to the

Callow of Inis-Aenaigh. Manus at tliis time was with his ships on the Sound near the island", and he made frequent attacks upon the English, and they upon him in return. The
English, however, desisted for a time; they
their vessels into the

removed

their camp,

and drew

When Manus angle of a large strand' at that place. observed this, he landed on Inis-raithni", and sent a party of his people on the As soon, however, as the English perceived that Island of Inis-Aonaigh
1
.

Manus and

his people

had landed on these

islands, they

drew

their boats along

the strand, and having

sea, they quickly rous army and troops of well-armed and mail-clad soldiers and these landed m on the islands on which the people of Manus were (except Inis-Kaithin where
;
,

them on the

filled

them with a nume-

Manus himself was), and

killed all the people they

found on them.

Upon

this

Manus, and those who were with him on Inis-Raithin, took to their ships, and fled from the island. Had Manus, however, been on friendly terms with the O'Malleys, they would have sent their ships against the English fleet.
the county of Mayo, sheet 87.
logies,

See also Genea-

means

clearly besides.

According to the Annals

Tribes,
h
,

p.

303, note
1

and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, and the map prefixed to the same

i.

of Connaught and of Kilronan, from which the Four Masters seem to have abstracted their ac-

work.
Inis-Aonaigh,
e.

the island of the fair or

It

count of this transaction, the English landed on These Annals state, that the two islands.

market,
is

now

correctly anglicised Inisheany.

an island in the same bay, lying immediately to the east of Bartraw point, and nearly duesouth of Inis-Raithin. It is nearer to the
large strand alluded to in the text than Inis-

when Manus O'Conor had perceived that the English had drawn their boats ashore, and that
they could not be attacked, he sailed eastwards \recte north-eastwards], and landed on InisRathain, and some of his people landed on InisAonaigh, and took some sheep there to kill and
eat them.

"

Raithin.

Except Inis-Raitkin, cenmora Imp Rairin. In these Annals cenmoca, like the Latin prceter,
has two opposite meanings, namely, except and besides, and it is sometimes not easy to determine

When the English observed this they

rose

up actively and drew their boats along the strand with rapidity, and launching them on the
filled

sea,

them with well-armed and mailed

which of these meanings is intended. At the year 1020 it is translated prceter by Colgan in
Trias Thaum., p. 298
;

but at the year 1391

it

and archers, and, landing on the two islands [7 DO cuuoap up ap oa oilen], they killed all the people they found on them. Manu>
soldiers

280

QHwaca Rio^hachca emeaNN.

Ni baof bo ap
oilen in

[1235.

mpib mob nap cmppfc joill ap calab in aon 16, -\ no ciocpaoafp mumeeapa na mbo cona mbuap Do na hoilenaib hipin la haibble a nfocaib i a nocapaip mena bfic gabdil poppa. Ctn aoine imoppo T?o mapbaio po&aoine lomba la jallaib an oibce pin. Do cuap leo ap oilenaib cuaipcipc umaill. l?o popcongpab la coipeachaib an cploij jan Daoine Do rhapbab inD onoip cepca cpiopc. O caipnic rpa la jallaib plao cpeachab humaill einp rhuip -] cfp canjaoap pfmpu, i a mbii, ~\ a ccpeaca leo 50 lujbupDan. Do cuaDap ap

ap na

riiapac

-|

co noeapnaoap cpeic ap ua pibe ina nuibeohaib imceacca co hfppoapa noorhnaill ap tmijm lonnapbca peblimib cuicce. TTanjarcap appibe
i

calab puipc na caippcce ap loc ce Da jabail ap -\ 50 DO muincip peDlimib ui concobaip copbmaic mic comalcaij baof npuing occa coimeD. "Cuccpar imoppo gaill Gpeann, i an lupnp comaipce cfpmann DO clapup mac Rlailin DaipciDeocam oilepino, Do cananacaib oilein DO coib an lupcip pen, -\ maire na na rpinoiDe in onoip na naom cpmoiDe,
ccoipppliab na pejpa,
-\
-\
]

-\

ngall Do

becam an

lonaiD pin,

Oo

ponpar gaill

Do benarh pleccana fpnai^ce an Du pin. lapom aibme lonjnaice Damampi ealaban i innclecra
~\

~\

cpiap po jabpac Cappaj loca ce pop rhuinnp peblimib ~| copbmaic, i lap na gabdil po pdjaib an lupnp luce coirheDa puippe, ~\ an po ba lop leo DO biub, 1 lionn, ~\ po pagaibpfc gaill connacraij Don cup pin jan biab ^an eoac
and such of his people as were on Inis-Rathain, then went into their ships," &c.
n

Insi

Modh

This

is

a general

name

for a

and Customs of Hy-Fiaehrack, printed for the Irish Archaeological Society in s There is 1844, p. 153, note ,*and p. 402.
neologies, Tribes,

group of islands in Clew Bay, said to be 365 in number. See Ordnance Map of the County of Mayo, sheets 67, 76, and 87, and the
Genealogies, Tribes,
rack, already referred to;

in the

another place of the name in the parish of Boyle, county of Eoscommon ; it is a hill in Lord
in Irish,

Map

to

Lorton's demesne, and

and Territories of Hy-Fiachand

also the paper

ban
P

now pronounced lu^Bupand Lurton in English.

This name
is

on

Port^na-Carrick.

now

angli-

Inis Mochaoi, published

by

the

Down and

Con-

cised

nor and Dromore Architecture Society, in which the author, the Rev. William Reeves, corrects

county of Roscommon, near the shore of Lough Key, and

is

Rockingham.

It is situated in the

well

known

to tourists as the princely seat of

an error of Dr. O'Conor, who had stated that the Insi Modh were the Copeland Islands.
Luffertane,

Lord Lorton. The natives of the town of Boyle and its vicinity, when speaking Irish, always
call
i

lujBupodn, a townland in the

Rockingham pope no caipje.

parish of Ballintober, in the county of Mayo, containing the ruins of a castle said to have

And pray
in

there.

This passage
as

is
:

given in

the Annals

of Boyle,
tupcip
7

been erected by the family of Burke

See Ge-

imoppo

cueo maci njaU Gpenn DU

follows

Do

1235.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

single

281

There was not a

cow upon any of

the Insi
;

Modh"

islands
to

which the
these

English did not carry off to the shore in one day

and those

whom

cows had belonged would have been obliged to come off their islands, in consequence of thirst and hunger, if they had not been [killed or] taken prisoners.
of the inferior sort were slain that night by the English. On the next day, which was Friday, the English went upon the islands north or Umallia; and the chiefs of the army ordered that no people should be slain on

Many

that day, in

honour of the crucifixion of

Christ.

After the English had plundered and devastated Umallia, both by sea and thence they land, they marched on with their cows and spoils to Luffertane
;

proceeded, by regular marches, to Easdara [Ballysadare], where they took a prey from O'Donnell, because he had granted an asylum to Felim after his expulsion ; and from thence to the Curlieu Mountains, and to Caladh-Puirt

na Cairrge", on Lough Key, to take it from a party of the people of Felim O'Conor and Cormac, the son of Tomaltagh [Mac Dermot], who were guardOn this occasion the English of Ireland and the Lord Justice spared ing it.

and protected Clarus, the son of Mailin, Archdeacon of Elphin, and the Canons of Trinity Island, in honour of the Blessed Trinity; and the Lord Justice himself, and the chiefs of the English, went to see that place, and to kneel and
q pray there
.

The English
ful engines',

afterwards, with great art and ingenuity, constructed wonder-

by means of which they took [the fortress of] the Rock of Lough Key from the people of Felim and Cormac; and the Lord Justice, after taking it, left warders in it, with as much provisions and beer as they deemed sufficient.

By
in

this expedition the

English

left

the Connacians without food,

" The

rai-

muic fen 7 o'aipmcce ann DO rabaipc cabip oo jun na lldmao ouni eaponoip in nmuic pen. Which is thus most incorrectly

oecpum

translation,

which

is

as follows

and the

chiefs of the English of Ireland

Justiciary went to

see that place,

and to pray and to pay veneration to

translated

by Dr. O'Conor

" Profecti sunt vero

bernise,

et Magnates Alienigenarum Hiad expugnandam istam gentem istam, et transegerunt noctes ibi, dantes impetus in
Justitiarius,

it,sothatnoneshouldoflerdishonourtotheplace." r The Annals of Boyle Wonderful engines

contain a very curious account of the pirrels, or engines, constructed by the English for taking

earn absque vulneratione Arcis durante eo tern-

the Rock of Lough Key on this occasion

of

but Dr.

pore."

The conduct of the English was, however,

O'Conor has mistranslated almost every sentence"

it.

the very reverse, as will appear from the true

2 o

282

aNNdca Rio^hachra
-|

eirceciNN.

[1235.

jan eallac,
cup

nf

po pdjaibpeao pic nd pdirhe innce, ace

mab

plac i 05 mapbab a cele.

pin.

Qp

aoi

puccpac

goill jjiall

^aoibil pfm 05 na eicepe Don

Oo pome

peblimib pic pip

in

mpcip,

-]

cuccaic cuig cpmcha an pijh

Dopnmh jan cpob gan cfop oppa. Cappac loca ce DO jabail let copbmac mac Diapmaca ccfnn picfc aibce nDol Don conpcapla imac co nDpuinj moip Da rhumcip imme, po laporii lap
i

Do paD DO copbmac po lapccam. Po hioblaiceab na jaill ap comaipce co hoilen na cpmoioe, ap an cfp iao. Upapjapcap muprap an cappacc la copbmac cuipeab plan
lab peap oiob pfm,
.1.

6 hopcin an baile

cap a

neip,

~|

-|

-|

laporh conac jabDafp jaill Dopi&ipi.

Oorhnall
norhnall

-\

muipceapcac Da mac muipeaoaij

T

uf

rhaille
~\

mac majnupa mic muipceapcaij

cliapa,
-|

uf concobaip,

DO rhapbab la la mall puab mac

cacail mic concobaip

a nabnacal innre beop.

uf

Uuacal mac muipceapcaij

concobaip Do rhapbab la concobap mbuibe

mac

coippbealbaij
TTlilic

Caiplen
'

concobaip, -\ la concobap mac aoba muimnij. Do bpipeab la peblimib ua concobaip.

ui
'

Free of tribute.

According to the Annals of

Dr. O'Conor, in his

Kilronan, Felim was to receive rent and custom

O'Conor: "A. D. 1236. Bryen Mac Terlagh O'Connor was then established in the possession
of the five cantredes belonging to the

out of these

five cantreds.

King of

suppressed work, Memoirs of the Life and Writ-

ingsofCharlesO'ConorofBelanagare,p.41, states that Felim obtained a royal charter in the year

1257, "granting to him, and to his heirs for
ever, free

Connaught, who preyed the provence and destroyed it, without respect to either spirituall
or temporall land."
'

Taken

The Annals of Kilronan

state that

and peaceable dominion over

his ancestors."

five ba-

ronies, in as

enjoyed by

ample a manner as ever they were These five cantreds

O' Hoist remained inside the gate and closed it against the constable; and that thereupon the

English fled to Clarus

would seem to have constituted the mensal

lands of the Kings of

them protection.
in the

Mac Mailin, who afforded The same account is also given

falsified

memorial.

Connaught from time imAccording to the Annals of Clon-

Annals of Boyle, but totally

by

Dr. O'Conor.
u

" macnoise, Felim O'Conor was deprived of the five cantreds" in the year 1236, when King's

Cliara, so called at the present

day

in Irish,

but anglicised Clare Island.

island
in

It is a celebrated

they were given to Brian, the son of Terlagh O'Connor." Thus, after describing the treacherous but unsuccessful attempt of the Justiciary
to take

Clew Bay,

still

belonging to the

O'Malleys, and containing the ruins of a castle and monastery erected by that family See Map
prefixed to Genealogies, Tribes,

observation

Felim O'Conor prisoner, the following is made on the character of Brian

and Customs of
of the

Hy-Fiachrach, and Ordnance

Map

County

1235.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

cattle,

283

and the country without peace or tranquillity, the Gaels [Irish] themselves plundering and destroying one another. The English, however,
ment, or
did not obtain hostages or pledges of submission on this expedition.

Felim made peace with the Lord Justice; and they [the English] gave him 5 the King's five cantreds, free of tribute or rent. The Rock of Lough Key was taken', twenty nights afterwards, by Cormac Mac Dermot. As the constable and a great number of his people had gone
out, O'Hostin,

one of his

own

people, closed the gate of the fortress,

and

after-

wards gave

it

up

to

Cormac.

The English were conveyed

[recte fled]

to

Trinity Island, and afterwards conducted out of the country in security. [The fortress of] the Rock was afterwards razed and demolished by Cormac, in

order that the English might not take it again. Donnell and Murtough, two sons of Murray O'Malley, were slain by Donnell, son of Manus, who was son of Murtough O'Conor; and by Niall Roe, son of Cathal, son of Conor [recte O'Conor], in Cliara", and were interred there.

Murtough O'Conor, was slain by Conor Boy, the son of and by Conor, the son of Hugh Muimhneach [O'Conor]. Turlough O'Conor, The Castle of Meelick" was demolished by Felim O'Conor.
Tuathal, the son of
1

of Mayo, sheets 84, 85.

Island,

and they enter the deaths of Gilla-an-

w The Cattle ofMeelick is near the Shannon, in the barony of Longford, and county of Galway.

Choimdedh O'Cuilin, Prepositus of Insula mac

Nerin, and of the father of Clarus

Mac

Mailin,
:

Under

this year (1235) the

Dublin copy of

the Annals of Innisfallen contain the following notices of the transactions of Munster, which

Archdeacon of Elphin, in the following words " Gilla Coimdedh O'Cuilin, Prepositus de Insula

mac Nerin

et

Pater Clari Elfenensis, Archidiain

Christo quieuit ;
est
et

have been omitted by the Four Masters.

coni, feliciter

in

insola

"A.D.
Dermot

1235. Teige Duvdedagh, the son of of Dundronan, who was the son of

Sancte Trinitatis
cujus

sepidtus die Sancti Finniani,

1 ''

anima

requiescat in pace.'

The

.Editor

Donnell More na Curadh Mac Carthy, was slam by Cormac Finn and Donnell God, the two sons of Donnell More na Curadh Mac Carthy.

has not been able to determine satisfactorily of what family this celebrated ecclesiastic, Clarus

Mac

were defeated by the English at Tralee, in a conflict, in which Cormac, the son of Cormac Finn, who was the son of Donnell
Irish

" The

Mailin,

was

but

inclines to think that

;

he was a branch of the O'Mulconrys for, in Mageoghegan's Annals of Clonmacnoise, under

the year 1260, he
is called,

"Clarus Mac Moy-

More na Curadh Mac Carthy, Gasginach O'Driscoll, and Murtough, his brother, were slain." Under this year the Annals of Kilronan
record the death of Matheus, Prior of Trinity

See note under that year, the removal of the canons of Trinity respecting Island, in Lough Key, to Trinity Island, in"

lyn O Moylchonrie."

Lough Oughter,

in Breifny.

o2

284

dNNCtta Rio^hachca

eirceciNN.

[1236.

QO1S CR1OSU,
Goip Cpiopr,
Tflacpaic
mile,

1236.

Da

ceo, cpioca, ape.

Qo6

maoilfn Sagapc cille ITlic rpeana [oecc]. ua gibelldin Sagapc cille Rooain. 6a cananac e po Deoib

mac

in oilen

na cpinoiDe Decc oibce not>lac.

Qn
painne.
lupin.

lupcip,

mac muipip Do cionol gall Gpeann na coinne co hoc peoUainic pfiblim mac cacail cpoiboeipg T?f Connacc ip in coinne
.1.
~\

Ipeab ba mfnmapc leo uile peall pop peiblim ge po baoi na caipDeap ba he pin pocann a cnonoil co haon rhaijm. lap bpiop cpfopc 05 an lupcip,

paba6 Dpeiblimib po piacr ap in ccoinne uachab mapcDo cuaib in T?o leanao ap pen co opoicfc plicci je, pluaij co popcomain. 6 nac puccpar paip DO ponpac cpeaca mopa ap cabg ua ucc uf Dorhnaill, Co pangaccap nDaofpe. cconcobaip, pucpar Oeaj mna imba mbpoiD maij luipcc, uaip ap ann jup na gabalaib pin leo 50 Dpuim njpeccpaije baoi an mpnp pfm occa nupnaibe. 6a lap nDol mic inlliam hi pajcaib Do ponab an coinne hfpm.
pgeil i lap ppajbdil
-)

-|

-]

Sobaip an lupcip
ripe

na

joill lap pin Oia

cnjib,

"|

po pajaib poplarhup an

a^ bpian mac coippbealbaij. la hampaib an lupcip ap macaib Cpeaca mopa Do benam la bpian aoba mic carail cpoibbeipg, ap pocaibib oile DO muinnp peiblimib. Cpeaca eile* Do benam la macaib aoba ap jallaib ap a nfpccaipDib jaoib~|
-]

-|

ealoa co po loirfb an cip eacoppa imapeac amne. Concobap mac aoba muimnij Do mapbaoh la majnap mac muipceapcaijh uf concobhaip. TTlaolmuipe ua lacrndin DO coja
x Charles KUmactranny, Cill mic Cpeana O'Conor adds: ccip Oiliollcc; but the Editor
i

in

eppcopoiDe ruama,

a bul

west of the county of Roscommon.

Ath-feorainne, now Afeor^n, a townland on the east side of the River Suck, in the parish of
*

does not think

it

proper to give it in the text.

is a vicarage in the diocese of Elsituated in the barony of Tirerrill, in the phin, county of Sligo.

Kilmactranny

Taghboy, barony of Athlone, and county of Roscommon. See Tribes and Customs of Hy-

Many, printed

for the Irish Archsological So-

KUrodan. Cill Rooain, an old church in

ciety in 1842, p.

115,

where the situation of

the parish of Tibohine, or Airteach, in the north-

this place is distinctly pointed out in a quota-

1236.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

285

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

1236.
thirty-six.

The Age of Christ, one thousand two hundred

Magrath Mac Mailin, Priest of Kilmactranny*, died. y Hugh O'Gibellan, Priest of Kilrodan and finally canon on Trinity died on the Christmas night.
,

Island,

The Lord

Justice of Ireland,

Mac
z
,

Maurice,
at

summoned

the English of

Ireland to meet him at Ath-feorainne

which meeting Felim, the son of

Cathal Crovderg O'Conor, was present. They all yearned to act treacherously towards Felim, although he was the gossip* of the Lord Justice; and -this was
the reason that the meeting had been called. Felim having received intelliand forewarning of their design, departed from the assembly and, gence
;

attended by a few horsemen, proceeded to Roscommon. He was pursued [thither and] as far as the bridge of Sligo he fled to O'Donnell for protection.
;

As they did
O'Conor,
;

not overtake him they committed great acts of plunder upon Teige

and carried away many respectable women into captivity and bondage they then proceeded to Druim Gregruighe in Moylurg, where the Lord Justice awaited their return. The meeting above mentioned was
called immediately after the departure of [Richard], the son of William Burke, for England.

After this the Lord Justice and the English returned home, leaving the government of the country to Brian, the son of Turlough [O'Conor]^ Great depredations were committed by [this] Brian and the soldiers of the

Lord Justice on the sons of Hugh, son of Cathal Crovderg, and others of the
people of Felim.

The sons of Hugh committed other depredations among the English and their own Irish enemies; so that the country was destroyed
parties.

between both

Conor, the son of

Hugh Muimhneach, was

slain

by Manus, the son of

Murtough O'Conor.

Mulmurry O'Laghtnan was appointed

tion from a grant, in

to the bishopric of

Tuam, and went

1612, to Captain Colla

He was
children.

O'Kelly.
1

sponsor or godfather to one of his Caipoear cptopc is still the common

in Ireland to denote gossip or sponsor.

Gossip, J5e

po baoi na caipoeap cpforr

term used

286

aNNata Rio^hachca

eiraeciNN.

[123(5.

-]

jpaoa DO eabaipe paip cpia pcpibfnnaib comapba pfcaip,

a
pajcaib,
-|

-]

cpia comaonea

pfj Sa;ran. TTlac uilliam DO cuibece pfe no po eipie.

ni

pfp cecip cuce

cuDchaib pa po

cconnaccaib Dopi&ipi lap na peblimib mac caeail cpoib&eipj Do cocr cocuipeab Do Dpuing Do connaceaib .1. ua ceallaij ua plainD mec aoba mic mac aipc uf maoilpeaclainn 50 pabacap uile cfifpe carail cpoiboeipg, caea corhmopa po lonnpaijpfc mpom co pinD Duin aipm mbdoap bu an
i
-\
i

~\

cfpe uile ag bpian

Rangaoap cpa muincip peDan oilen, i po cuip jac cfiiD ploij, cap Damjean clapaij bui&ne Dib a ppolapcnaib Do na buaib peampa arhail po 1 506 caofpioc jebccfp ap a cconaip IOD ap a canD. T?o pgaoilpfc mumcip peolimiD ap na
-|

buioe

mac

mac coipp6ealbai, 05 mac soipoelb. coippbealbaij,

-\
-\

05 eojan ua

fibin, i

05 concobap

limi& cap Dunclab

heDalaib co na po aipip ina

pocaip

Dona

ceisrpib

cacaib accmab aon

cfrpap mapcac nama.

eojan ua heiDin cona pocpaiDe mumcip peblimiD 50 hfpppaofce la a neDalaib, Do eipjfoap 50 haclarh epgaib nacliab mapcpluaij ampaD lomDa Do paijib uf concobaip cona uarab
connaipc bpian
~|
~\

Oo

mac coippDealbaig

po aipij concobap buibe mac coippbealbaij ni conup capla ccfnn mac nao&a mic carail cpoiboeipj piocc a muincipe pfin, po cuicpiorii la puai&pi mac aoDa mic cacail cpoibDeipj.
muincipe, nf
i i ~]

pop j;uc pe&limiD (an aipDpij) occ popcaD 1 occ lompuipeach a muincipe 6 a neoalaib ppi hiombualaD a najaib a mbiobbab. Ro mapbab pochame iom6a Don cpluaij la peblimiD cona mumcip ip in mai&m pin ip in
oilen i alia

Ro meabaiD

mui^ Don
'

oilen

Do macaib mallacc,
sion
tee,

~|

Do luce Denma

uile

ace

b
it is

Mac

William.

In the Annals of Kilronan

they abandoned their lord, their guaran-

stated that he did not do

much good
*,

for

Ireland

by his journey to England. Rindown, pinn bum. See note

and their valour, for the spoils which they me t. They left their lord and king, attended
lions

under the

year 1199, p. 120. d The Annals of Dispersed with their spoils Kilronan, which describe this attack on Ein-

only by four horsemen out of the four battawhich he brought with him, so that the
*

king strained his voice calling them back."

Foot-soldiers, ariipaiB.

The Annals of
i.

Kil-

down more

have the following remark on the conduct of Felim's people on this occasion " Lamentable was their conduct on this occafully,
:

ronan
f

them feppenaij, He fell by him __ This

call

e.

archers.

is

very lamely ex-

pressed by the Four Masters,

who appear

to

1236.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

where he was consecrated,
after

287
letters,

to England,

having received the Pope's

by consent of the King of England. Mac William b returned from England, but whether with peace or with war was unknown.
Cathal Crovderg, returned to Connaught, having been invited thither by some of the Connacians, namely, by O'Kelly, O'Flynn, the son of Hugh, who was son of Cathal Crovderg O'Conor, and the son of Art
Felira, the son of

O'Melaghlin

Riudown

forming four equally strong battalions. They marched to where Brian, the son of Turlough, Owen O'Heyne, Conor Boy, son
;

all

the cows of the country. Felim's people passed over the ramparts and ditches of the island [recte peninsula],
Costello,
all

of Turlough, and

Mac

had

and every chief of a band and head of a troop among them drove off a proportionate number of the cows, as they found them on the way before them after
;

which they dispersed, carrying

off their booty, in different directions,

and of

the four battalions, leaving only four horsemen with Felim. When Brian, the son of Turlough, Owen O'Heyne,

and
1 ,

their forces,

observed that Felim's people were dispersed with their spoils' they set off actively and quickly with a small party of horse and many foot-soldiers' to
attack Felim and his few men.
his situation until

Conor Boy, son of Turlough, did not perceive

.

and,

mistaking him

he came up with Rory, son of Hugh, son of Cathal Crovderg, f for one of his own people, he fell by him

Felim (the King) strained his voice calling after his army, and commanding them to abandon the spoils and rally to fight their enemies. Many of the
[enemy's] forces were killed in this rencounter by Felim and his people, upon the island and outside the island; all excommunicated persons 8 and doers of
have
left

the sentence unfinished.

It is better
it

cai

ITlic

tDiapmaoa nam6."
of Clonmacnoise, as translated

told in the

Annals of Kilronan, but

would

The Annals

by

swell this

work

to too great a size to notice dif-

ferences of this kind.

Mageoghegan, describe Felim's attack on Rindown as follows " A. D. 1236. Felym O'Connor
:

Excommunicated persons, tnacaib mallacc, In the Annals of Killiterally, eons of curses.

g

with an army came to Connoght again, and marched on untill he came to John's house,
took
all

Ro mapbab pocaioe ronan, the reading is Don cpluaj ip in oilen 7 allamoig son oilen DO
:

"

thereof,

and

the spoiles of the town and islands left nothing that they cou'd take
:

oaomib tnallai^ce comniol-Buirce ip in mai6m pn, ace niuo Caoc mac copmaic tnic Comal-

or see from the door of the Castle foorth

Fe-

lym's

camp

lay at the

market! cross of the town ;

288

ctNNata Rio^hachca eiraeaNN.

mic Diapmaca nama.

[1236.

mab cabs mac copbmaic mic comalcaij

Oo

cualaib

aon Dap lompoib paip, po cpa mac uilliam an maibm pin Do cabaipc ap gac Do chuaib Dana DiapmaiD mac oia ccfnnpucchab. eipij la hua concobaip mic muipceapcaij ui lap net clumpin pin Dionnpoigib majnupa

magnupa

concobaip.

Uanig lapam mac uilliam jan pabab gan pacuccab 50 cuaim Da jualann, nf po pdjbaib cpuac na cliab apba pelic ap pibe 50 maij eo na pa^an, eo na hi pelic cfmpaill rmchil apcainjil, i cucpac cfirpi picic rhoip maije cliab ap na reamplaib pfipin. UangaDap na beaohaib co ruplac, cucpac an Diac ceDna paip. Do cuippfc Dana pluaj Do cpeachaD muincipe Diapi

-\

-|

maDa mic majnupa,

Do pala muincip concobaip puaiD, ~\ cuploca Doib, po aipjpfc na pluaij pin iaD uile hi ccpecomnpc a cele. T?o beigfn Din Do Dionnapbab ua6a. Oo chuam majnup muinnp DiapmaDa Do Dfochnp
"\
~\ -]

Do pome pic ppip, 1 puaip concobap pwab apabapac aipeac a cpece Dona buaib cpiap po haipgeaD, 1 an po acinpfc luce na cille Dia ccpuD DO paDab Doib Dopibipe. Oo beachaib beop Diapmaio mac majhi

cech mic uilliam,

"|

nupa
Cuib

hi

cceach jail cap cfnn a

uilliam co balla,
i
-]

bo,

-]

a muincipe Doneoc po pajbab occa.

mac
na

po bof oibce ann, Do chuaib aip pfbe co

cuaim Da ^ualann,
i

po pagaib coicceab connacc jan pic na paime gan biab

ccill

hi

ccuaic innce.

Cteb ua plaicbeapcaij cijeapna mpcaip Connacc Decc. OiapmaiD mac neill uf T?uaipc Do ballab la comconnacc ua Rajallaij.

Cacal piabac mac

many

jiolla

bpuDe

ui

17uaipc cijeapna ua

mbpium Do

ecc.

drownded

of the meaner sort of Felym's people were in the puddle of that town ; he left

height, in good preservation.

k

Balla, situated near the

boundary between

[behind]muchofthesmallcattleofthesaidprey." h Went over to, cuam Dionnpoijio. This

In phrase simply means to go to, or towards. the Annals of Kilronan the phrase used is, came a nucc; which means that Dermot repaired to
1

the baronies of Carra and Clanmorris, in the

county Mayo;
rage in

it

is

fair-town and a vica-

the diocese of

Tuam.

It contains the

ruins of an ancient church and round tower.

'

Within

it

This account of the desolation

Manus

for protection.

of the province of

Connaught

is

given

much
state

Turlaffh,

now

Turlagh, situated in the ba-

better in the Annals of Kilronan.

They

rony of Carra, and county of Mayo. It is a fairtown and a rectory, in the diocese of Tuam, where there is a round tower of considerable

that on this occasion the people of Brian, the son of Turlough O'Conor, burned the church of

Imlagh Brocadha over the head of O'Flynn's

1236.]
evil,

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

As soon

289

excepting" only Teige, son of Cormac,

as

Dermot.

Mac William

learned

who was son of Toraaltagh Mac how O'Conor had defeated all who

had turned against him, he joined him to reduce them. Dermot, the son of h Manus, upon hearing this, went over to Manus, the son of Murtough O'Conor. After this Mac William proceeded to Tuam da ghualann, without notice or
forewarning, and thence to Mayo of the Saxons, and left neither rick nor basket of corn in the large churchyard of Mayo, or in the yard of the

church of

St.

Michael the Archangel, and carried away eighty baskets out of

the churches themselves.

inflicted a similar

They afterwards went to Turlagh' on which they calamity. They then sent a body of men to plunder the
1

people of Dermot, the son of Manus, and these falling in with the people of Conor Eoe, and the inhabitants of Turlagh, they plundered them all indiscriminately and Manus was compelled to expel and banish Dermot's people from him. On the following day Conor Roe went into Mac William's house,
;

made peace with him, and received

had been taken from him
;

and such part of

a restoration of the prey of cows which their cattle as the people of the

church [of Turlagh] were able to recognize as their own was restored to them. Dermot, the son of Manus, also went into the house of [i. e. submitted to] the English, that they might spare such of his people and cattle as were then
remaining with him. Mac William proceeded to Balla where he stopped for one night, and went thence to Tuam da ghualann. He left the province of Connaught without peace or tranquillity, and without food in any church or
,

territory within

it

O'Flaherty, Lord of West Connaught, died. Dermot, the son of Niall O'Rourke, was deprived of sight

Hugh

by Cuconnaught
died.^

O'Reilly.

Cathal Reagh, son of Gilla-Brude O'Rourke, Lord of Hy-Briuin,

people, while it

was

full of

women,

children,

compounded,

as

Cu

Ula6, the hero of Ulster, a

of

and nuns, and had also three priests within it ; and that Tearmann Caoluinne was also burned

name translated canis Ultonice, by the compiler

the Annals of Ulster;

Cu

mi6e, the hero of

by the Lord

Justice.

Meath
Constantine.

Cu

luacpa, the hero of Luachair; cu

Cuconnaught.

Charles O'Conor, ofBelana-

tnuriian, the hero of

Munster;
;

Cu blaoma,

the

gare, anglicises this

name

Cu

co-

hero of Slieve Bloom

Cu

ccnpl, the hero of

nacc

signifies

the hero, or literally, dog of Con-

Cash el.

naught. There are several names of men similarly

290

QNHaca Rio^hachca emeaHN.

"]

[1237-

coccab Deaprhaip ip in mbliabampi. pleochab mop, Doineann, niaiDm cluana caca Do cabaipn la peblimm ua cconcobaip ap clomn mac copbmaic meic Diapmaoa. T?uai6pi, i ap concobap
^jiolla

parpaic mac giollapoio njeapna cenel aongu^a Decc. Ufpmann caelainne Do lopccab lap an lupcip.

Sloiccheab la

hUa

nDomnaill (oomnall mop)

-|

in

Ullcoib co hiubap chinn

geill
-\

choiche cap mill gac cfp gup a painicc,

ulab.

Da ppuaip

umla

o uprhop

QO1S CR1OSO,

1237.

Qoip Cpiopc, mile, Da ceD, cpiocac, apeacc.

Comap ua puabam eppcop luijne [oecc]. u mac an pcelaiji uf copmaij eppcop Conmaicne
na necc ua mannacam Decc
i

[oecc].

maimpcip na

buille.

SluaijeaD la peblimiD mac cacail cpoibDeipg cona bpairpib hi cconnachcafal mag Rajnaill caib. Cuconnacc ua TJajallaij con ufb bpiuin uile,
-|

50 cconmaicnib immaille ppip DionnpoijiD pleacra T?uaiDpi .1. bpian mac roippDealbaij, ITluipceapcac ~] Dorhnall meic DiapmaDa mic RuaiDpi, concobap mac copbmaic meic Diapmaoa. Do oeacaoap rap coipppliab na
"|

pfjpa bu6 cuaiu inoDeaohaib pleacra puaiDpi co pangaDap Dpuim paicce, Do cuippioc pliocc RuaiDp ampa an lupcip (baccap ina bpappaD) Do cabaipr
-|

Heavy rains. The Annals of Kilronan give a horrible account of the weather, wars, distresses,

county of Down, which is now called in Irish lubhar Chinn Tragha. See Battle ofMagh Rath,
printed for the Irish c 1842, p. 276, note .

and crimes of
Cat/ta,

this year.
Battlefield, a townland

Cluain

now

Arch Ecological Society in Under this year (1236)

and gentleman's seat in the barony of Corran, and county of Sligo, about four miles southwards
of Ballymote.
P

the Annals of Clonmacnoise, as translated by Mageoghegan, record the death of Hugh O'Malone,

Bishop of Clonmacnoise, in the abbey of

TearmonnCaolla,imie.
state that this act

The Annals

of Kilro-

nan Lord

Justice,

was committed by the when he went to Connaught to

'

Kilbeggan. They also record the erection of the castle of Loughreagh by Mac William Burk, and of the castle of Ardrahan by the Lord De-

assist the

tion of

son of William Burke For the situaTermonn Caelainne see note b under the
,

puty Mac Maurice ; also of the castle of Ullin Wonagh, but without mentioning by whom,
Acording
to the

year 1225, p. 238. q lubhar Chinn Choiche

ancient

Annals of Kilronan, the

castle

This

is

the more
in the

name

of the

town of Newry,

Uanach was erected by the Justiciary Mac Maurice [Fitzgerald] after Felim O'Conor
of Muille

1237-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

291

Heavy rains", harsh weather, and much war prevailed in this year. The victory of Cluain Catha was gained by Felim O'Conor, over the of Roderic, and Conor, the son of Cormac Mac Dermot. Gillapatrick Mac Gillaroid, Lord of Kinel-Acngusa, died. Tearmonn Caollainne p was burned by the Lord Justice.
:

sons

q 0'Donnell(Donnell More) marched with an army to lubhar Chinn Choiche he also in Ulidia, and destroyed every territory through which he passed submission from most of the Ulidians. obtained hostages and o

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1237.
thirty-seven.

thousand two hundred

r
,

Leyny [died]. Gilla-Isa Mac-an-Skealy O'Tormy, Bishop of Conmaicne [Ardagh], died. Gilla-na-necc' O'Monahan died in the monastery of Boyle. An army was led by Felim, the son of Cathal Crovderg [O'Conor], and his
brothers, into Connaught, being joined

Thomas O'Rowan, Bishop

of

by Cuconnaught

O'Reilly, with all the

Hy-Briuin, and by Cathal Mac Randal, with the Conmaicni', against the descendants of Roderic, namely, Brian, son of Turlough, Murtough, and Donnell, sons of Dermot, who was son of Roderic, and Conor, son of Cormac,

who was

son of Dermot.

They went northwards

across

Coirrshliabh-na-

Seaghsa", until they arrived at Drumraitte", in pursuit of the race of Roderic. The descendants of Roderic sent the soldiers of the Lord Justice, who were
had
and while the son of
the youth of the horses. Conmaicni, i. e. the Conmaicni of Moy-Rein, who possessed the southern part of the county

fled

to O'Donnell,

neach,
'

i.

e.

William Burke was in England. The Annals of Kilronan record, under this year, the killing
of Melaghlin O'Malley who was the son of

by Donnell, son of Manus Murtough Muimhneach

of Leitrim.
p. 186.
u

See note

r
,

under the year 1215,

r

O'Conor, on the island of Oilen da Chruinde, which is a small island near Rinvile, in the ba-

Coirrshliabh-na-Seaghsa.

f\ns

is

the Irish

name

of the Curlieu mountains, situated to the

rony of Ballinahinch, in the north-west of the

county of Galway.
r 8

north of Boyle, in the county of Roscommon. w Drumraitte, now Drumrat, a parish in the

Bishop of Leyny, i. e. of Achonry. In the Annals of Kilronan Gilla-na-necc.

barony of Corran, and county of Sligo, situated

to the north of the Curlieu mountains,

the

name

is

written more correctly,

5'^ a na

2p2

292

QNNaca TJioghachca emeawR

[1237.

Deabra Dpeblimib cona pocpaiDe. 17o popconjaiji peblmiio popa plojaib gan a nDiubpacab lap ace rocr Dia niombualab gan puipeac. Oo ponab ni po puilngfccap na hampa 50 cian an lomruap^am an ran po paijipiorii pin, ppaoineab poppa ccfnn a mumcipe. T?o mapbab opong mop Diob im ITIac
i

mibpicc Don cup

pin.

conncarrap plicc Ruaibpi an pcaoileab 1 an pcainOpeab cujjab pop a pocpaiDe, po lomjabpar an nonab a mbarcap gan aofnneac DO rhapbab Dib. Oo pcaoilpfc a haicle an rhabma pin cona baof aiccpeabh hi pfol

Oo

Do ponab iom6a ap concobap mac RuccupDap cpeaca a lomjjfp pop loc ce, po Diocuip De copbmac mac DiapmaDa njeapna laporii po aipcc maj luipcc uile. paccbaiD Dana, cijeapnup an maije luipg, loca 05 DonnchaD mac muipcfpraij luarpuflij. rfpe i an cnccaD cuig cpiuca an pfgh Sic Do Denarii Don lupnp pe pe&limiD,
niuipeabaij leo.
T?o haipcceab

a muincip

la pe&lirmo, copbmaic hi rnp nailealla.

nile

-\

~\

-j

~|

Doporh gan cpoD jan ciop oppa.

(Vide supra, 1230).

la Dorhnall

TTlajnup maoa mic T?uai&pi ui concobaip.

mac DiapmaDa mic majnupa Do rhapbaD

mac

Diap-

TTluipceaprac mac DiapmaDa mic Ruai&pi ui concobaip Do rhapbab la mac magnupa mic muipceapraij muiriinij. Cpeac DO Denarii la Concobaip mac copbmaic pop T?uaiopi ua njabpa,
1 bparraip T?uaibpi

Do rhapbab. bpaijDe Concobaip mic copbmaic DO rhapbab la peblimib mac cacail

candnac DO rionnpcnab la clapup mac mailin in oilen na cpmoiDe ap loc uacraip lap na corhaipleaccab bo 6 cacal ua TJajallaij.
TTIainipcip
x

Mac

Mibric __ This name

is still

extant in

Lough Key and Lough Arvagh [Lough Arrow],

on
this occasion.

the county of Mayo, but always anglicised Merrick. This family, which is of Welsh extraction,

''Free

was seated

in the valley of Glenhest, to the west

true

for

of cattle-tribute or rent. This is scarcely it appears, from an entry on a great

of Glen-Nephin, in the county of

Genealogies,
Tribes,

Mayo

See

roll of
III.,

the Pipe, of the forty-sixth year of

Henry

and Customs of Ily-FiachIrish Archaeological So-

rack, published

by the

A. D. 1262, that Ffethelmus O'Konechor owed 5000 marks and 2000 cows, for having
three cantreds of land in Connaught in feefarm,
viz.,

ciety in 1844, pp. 331, 332, 401.

The Annals of Clonmacnoise Lough Key state that Felim O'Conor took possession of

the cantreds of Machney

[cpi

[ma

naoi],

Tyrtotha

ruafu],

and Moylurg __ See

1237.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

293

along with them, to give battle to Felim and his forces. Felim, however, ordered his troops not to shoot at them at all, but to come to a close fight without delay. This was done according to his order and the soldiers did not long sustain the charge, when they were routed towards their people.
;

great

number

of them were slain, and,

among

the rest,

Mac Mibric

x
.

the descendants of Roderic saw the flight and confusion into which their forces were thrown, they retreated from their position without the loss

When

After this defeat, however, they were dispersed in such a manner All their people that they had no residence in [the territory of] Sil-Murray. were plundered by Felim, and many preys were taken from Conor, son of
of a man.

They [Felim's party] afterwards brought their fleet on and drove from thence Cormac Mac Dermot, Lord of Moylurg, Lough Key and plundered all Moylurg and the lordship of the territory and lake they
Cormac,
in Tirerrill.
y
,

gave to

Donough, the son of

Justice

Murtough Luath-Shuileach.
;

The Lord
1230.)

made peace with Felim

and the

five cantreds
z
.

of the

King were given him

[Felim], free of cattle-tribute, or rent

Vide supiw,

Manus, son of Dermot, who was son of Manus, was of Dermott, who was son of Roderic O'Conor.

slain

by Donnell, son

Murtough, son of Dermott, who was son of Roderic, was slain by the son of Mauus, son of Murtough Muimhneach [O'Conor]. prey was taken by Conor, son of Cormac, from Rory O'Gara, and Rory's brother was slain.

hostages of Conor, the son of Cormac, were put to death by Felim, son of Cathal Crovderg.

The

A monastery for canons was

Island* in
Hurdiman's History of Galway,
* is

commenced by Clarus Mac

Mailin,

on Trinity

Lough Oughter, under

p. 48,

the patronage of Cathal O'Reilly.

x
.

note

and

1 1

This island Trinity Island in Lough Oughter. in the upper or southern part of Lough Ough-

Ware
1249.
p.

this

perches, English measure. According to monastery was founded in the year

See Harris's edition of his Antiquities,

this year (1237) the

ter,

and belongs to the parish of Kilmore, in the barony of Upper Loughtee, and county of Cavan.
of this county, sheet 20, on which Trinity Abbey and grave-yard are shewn. The island contains 122 acres, 2 roods,

272.

Under

Annals of Kilro-

See Ordnance

Map

nan and of Clonmacnoise record the death of Donat O'Fidhubhra, called in the latter O'Furie,

Archbishop of Armagh.

294

ciNNCtta

Rio^hachca eircecmN.
i

[1238.

bapuin na hepeann Do cocc

Do
Denarii irince.

cconnaccaib,

-\

caiplem Do nnnpcfcal Doib

QO1S C171OSC,

1238.

Qoip Cpiopr, mile, Da cheo, cpiocac, a hochc.

ua Ruanaoa aipoeppcop cuama lap ccop a eppcoboiDe De ap 6ia lap ngabdil habice mancfppa ime hi call muipe in accliac piap an ran pin,
Peli;c
~\

Deg.

OonnchaD uaicneac mac ao&a mic TCuaiDpi uf concobaip Do mapbab la caDg mac aooa mic carail cpoibDeipg. Oonnchab mac Duapcain uf fjpa ngeapna luijne Do gabdil la ra&g mac an can pujaD Dia coimeo 6 po mapb'par a aoba mic carail cpoib'Deipg,
-\

bpairpe bubDein,

.1.

meic ao&a uf fjpa ap an plijiD a ccip bpiuin na pionna.

~] i

coipeac plairbeapcac mac Carmaoil apocaofpeac cenel pfpa&aij, 6 ccfnnpoDa cloinne Congail, ccfp manac, peije jaipccib 1 einij cfpe Do mapbaD la DonnchaD mac cacmaoil la a bpacaip pfm cpia cangheogam
~\

nacc.

mbpeipne 50 hua Pajallaij, cconnacraib, 1 P U 5 r^ ua 5 """^P ^ a T po aipccpfc mumcip cluana coippri, 1 po mapbaD pochai&e Do mainb muincipe heolaip hi ccopaijeacc na cpece pin, Dpong mop Dona cuachaib.
ip in
]

OonnchaD mac muipceapraij Do Dol

-|

~\

TTlaolpuanaiD
b

mac Donncha&a

ui

DubDa DO mapbaD la maolpeaclainn

resigned in the year 1235, he spent the remainder of his life in St. Mary's Abbey, near Dublin,

this year the Annals of Kilronan that Donough, the son of Murtough state, O'Conor, granted the lands of Drumann iarthar,

Under

where he died

and the tract extending from Lathach Cille Braoin to the lake [Lough Key], both wood,
bog, and plain, to the congregation of the Holy Trinity of Lough Key, and to Clarus Mac Mailin,

in the year 1238. It is stated in the annals of this abbey, that he covered the church and belfry of the Blessed Virgin, near

Dublin, with lead ; and that he was magnificently interred in the chancel of the church, at the
steps of the altar,
d

and that he reigned but one month after making

this grant.
:

on the

left

hand

side.

Felix

CfHooney.
p.
it

In Harris's

edition
is

of

Ware's Bishops,
Felix O'Euadan,

605, in which he
is

called

Cluain- Coirpthi __ In the Feilire Aenguis, at the 15th of February, this place is described as " in i noicpib cenel oobra i connaccaiB, i. e.

stated that he

was the

the desert or wilderness of Kinel-Dofa, in Con-

uncle of King Koderic O'Conor, and that having

naught."

For some account of

this place, see

1238.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

of Ireland went to Connaught, and

295
erecting castles

The barons
there
6
.

commenced

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Felix O'Rooney
,

1238.
thirty-eight.

Christ, one

thousand two hundred

Archbishop of Tuam, after having some time before resigned his bishopric for the sake of God, and after having assumed the
monastic habit in Kilmurry [Mary's Abbey], in Dublin, died. Donough Uaithneach, son of Hugh, who was son of Roderic O'Conor, was slain by Teige, son of Hugh, who was son of Cathal Crovderg.

Donough, son of Duarcan O'Hara, Lord of Leyny, was taken prisoner by Teige, the son of Hugh, who was son of Cathal Crovderg; and, while on his way to the place of confinement, he was killed in Hy-Briuin-na-Sinna, by his

own kinsmen, namely, the sons of Hugh O'Hara. Flaherty Mac Cawell, Chief of Kinel-Farry, and
Hy-Kennoda
and
kinsman.
hospitality,

Clann-Congail, and of in Fermanagh, the most illustrious in Tyrone for feats of arms

was treacherously

slain

by Donough Mac Cawell,

his

own

Donough, son of Murtough [Mac Dermot], went into Breifny to O'Reilly, and brought a great force with him into Connaught, and plundered the people
and many of the chiefs of Muintir-Eolais6 were slain in pursuit of the prey which had been taken in the country, as were also a great
of Cluain-Coirpthi
;

number of

[inhabitants of] the Tuathas.

slain

Mulrony, the son of Donough O'Dowda, was

Colgan's Acta Sanctorum, at the 15th February,

by Melaghlin, the son of

and the Irish Calendar of the O'Clerys, at the same day. St. Berach, or Barry, the original
founder of this church, flourished about the year 580. The situation of Cluain Coirpthe, which has

parish of Termonbarry, in O'Hanly's country, near the Shannon. The ruins of several churches
are
still

to

be seen there, and there was a round

tower standing near one of them in the memory of some old persons, with whom the Editor conversed in the year 1837, celebrated locality.
e

been mistaken by Archdall, and even by the accurate Dr. Lanigan (see his Ecclesiastical History,
vol.
ii.

when he

visited

this

p. 325), is still

well

known to the
is

natives
It

Muintir-Eolais
;

The
the

O'Ferralls were called

of Kinel-Dofa, in the county of

is

Roscommon.

Muintir Anghaile
Eolais.

Mac Ranals Muintir

now

called Kilbarry,

and

situated in the

296

QNNaca Rio^hachca

eircectNN.
la

[1239.

mac

concobaip ]iuai6 mic muipceapcaij muirhnij, cacail miccapam ui concobaip.

~\

mac

ci^eapncnn mic

Caiplena Do Denarii hi muinnp mupchaDa hi cconmaicne cuile, -[ a ccfpa lap na bapunaib perhpaice. la hujo De laci mpla Sluaiea& la mac muipip lupa'p na hepeann, Ro aiepijpfc mag laclamn hi ccenel conaill. ula6 hi ccenel eojain
]

-\

rucpac cijeapnup cenel eojjam DO mac pfm bpai^De an cuaipcipc. Cloicreac eanaij bum t>o Denam.
(.1.

Domnall)

ui neill,

-|

po gabpac

Cacal mag piabaij caoipeac peap pceone

t>ecc.

QO1S CR1O3D,
Qoip Cpiopc,
TDuipcfpcac

1239.

mile, t>a ceD, cpiocar, anaoi.

uf bpiaiam Do ecc. Do cabaipc la Domnall maj laclainn ou in po mapba6 caipn cpia&ail Domnall camnaije ua neill, maj macjamna, Somaiple ua gaipmleabaij,

mac Domnaill

Cac

caoc bfpnaip ua gaipmleaDaij,

f

-\

maire cenel moain 50 pochaibib iom6a

h

Muintir Murchadha

This was the tribe

Cloictheach

is

the Irish

of the O'Flahertys, and it became also that of the territory which they possessed, and

name

round towers of Ireland are

name by which the still known in their

respective localities, as cloijceac cille pij, in

which, before the English invasion, was nearly co-extensive with the barony of Clare, in the

county of Galway. In an Inquisition taken at Galway, on the 20th of March, 1608, before
Geffry Osbaldston, Esq., this territory is called Muinter-murroghoe, and described as forming the northern part of the barony of Clare, then a

the county Kilkenny; cloicceac cluana Uttia, Cloyne steeple. See O'Brien's Dictionary, in wee cloijceac and cuilceac. In some parts of

made cuilcceacby metathesis, and in others clojap is the form used to express O'Brien gives cloigsteeple or round tower.
Ireland the wordis
ilieach
;

and

cv.ilcea.ck

as

denoting a steeple or

The O'Flahertys seem to part of Clanrickard. have been driven from this territory in the year 1238, or very soon afterwards, when they settled
in that part of the

belfry and clogas as a belfry or steeple. O'Eeilly also gives both forms of the term. See Petrie's

Inquiry into the Origin and Uses of the Round

county of

Galway lying west

Towers of
'

Ireland, p. 390.

of

Lough Orbsen, where they became as powerful as ever they had been in their more original
territory of Muintir
8

Annadown, Sanac oum

townland, con-

Murchadha.

taining the ruins of a monastery and several churches, near the margin of Lough Corrib, in

The son of O'Neill, Charles O' Conor writes inter linens, .1. DO 6hpian, i. e. to Brian.

the barony of Clare and county of Galway.

k

MacReevy,

ma^

piabaij,

now

generally an-

1239-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

297

Conor Roe, who was son of Murtough Muimhneach, and by the son of Tiernan,

who was
Carra,

son of Cathal Miccarain Q'Conor.

f
,

Castles were erected in Muintir-Murchadha

in Conmaicne-Cuile,

and

in

by the barons aforesaid. An army was led by Mac Maurice, Lord Justice of Ireland, and Hugo de Lacy, Earl of Ulster, into Tyrone and Tirconnell. They deposed Mac Loughlin
8 (Donnell), and gave the government of Tyrone to the son of O'Neill and they themselves obtained the hostages of the north. The Cloictheach" of Annadown' was erected.
,
.

Cathal

Mac

Reevy", Lord of Feara-Scedne

1
,

died

m
.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1239.
thirty-nine.

thousand two hundred

Murtough, the son of Donnell O'Brien, died. The battle of CarnteeP was fought by Donnell Mac Loughlin, where Donnell Tamnaighe O'Neill, Mac Mahon, Sorley O'Gormly, and Caechglicised
1

Mac Creevy, or M'Greevy. Feara-Scedne. The situation of this tribe, to

there
is

no notice: "A. D. 1238. Mac Gille Morie, a good chieftaine of Ulster, was killed by some of
the people of

whom

no other reference in the Irish

Hugh

Delacie, Earle of Ulster, as

annals, has not been determined.

Firbis, in his Genealogical

Duald Mac

he was going to the Earle's house ; whereupon

the King of Ulster's" [rede or Ulidia's] " son, Melaghlyn, Prince of Uladh's,

Book (Lord Roden's

of the families of the

Mac Donnsleyve,

copy, p. 783), gives a

list

Feara Sgenne, consisting of

chief,

Mac Eiabhaigh,
;

as

and thirty-one other families but he does not inform us where they were located. O'Duggan,
in his Topographical

Kynell Owen, and all the -Chieftains of Ulster, took armes and banished the said Earle of Ulster
out of the whole provence. The Earle of Ulster assembled together all the English of Ireland, and went the second time to Ulster where he
possessed himself of
all

Poem, makes Mac

now county

Eiabhaigh the ancient Chief of Moylurg, in the of Eoscommon ; but we cannot be-

the lands again, in the

and his thirty-one families had any power in Moylurg at this period, unless as followers of the Mac Dermots, who were then its
lieve that he

three months of harvest, and banished Melagh-

O'Neale the lyn from thence into Connought. liead took the superioritie and principalitie of

chief lords.

(1238) the Annals of Clonmacnoise, as translated by Mageoghegan, contain

this year

m Under

Tyre Owen afterwards." n Carnteel, capn cpiaoail,

Siadhail, Sheil, or Sedulius
;

i.

e.

the

Cam

of

the following passage, relating to the afiairs of Ulster, of which the Four Masters have collected

a small village in a parish of the same name, in the barony of and county of Tyrone, a short disDungannon,

298

QNNaca Ric-shachca emeawM.

]

[1240.

immaille ppiu, an rhabma pin.

po jab apfp an cijjeapnup,

po bfnab 6e jan puipeac Deip

Coippbealbach mac puaibpi uf Concobaip (17i Connachc) Decc. cloinne pfpjal mac conconDacr uf pajallaij cijeapna Dapcpaije 6 pliab paip, ma6 mp leabap oile, oo rhapbab njeapna bpeipne pfpmaije, la concobap mac copbmaic ap noula 66 ap la maolpuanaib mac peapgail
.

-|

~\

Diap gab ceaj oppa, an nj amach. l?o gabab e, caimc TTnuipcfprac mac neill ap bpficip ap po mapbab po cfcoip Deip mic uf Rajallaij DO mapbaD. Cpeac DO benarh la gallaib Gpeann ap ua nDomnaill gup po aipjpfc DO beacaoap caipppi, i po baof an lupcfp pfin occ TppDapa occa nupnaibe,
-\
-]

cpec 50 mac

neill

mic conjalaij Dia po aipcc iaD,

-j

~\

a pipn 50 Dpuim

cliab.

Lapaippina mjfn carail cpoibbepj bfn huf Domnaill Do cabaipc Ifrbaile

Do coimcionol Da peaponD popca T?op bipn, DO clapup mac maoflin, candnac oilen na rpmoiDe ap loc ce in onoip na cpinoioe muipe.
.1.
-j ~\

Copbmac mac aipc

huf maofleaclainn

QO1S CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopc,
TTlameipreip Do rhogbail
.8.
i

1240.

mile,

Da

ceD, cfrpachac.

bpuprlaipje la Sip hugo puppel oo bpairpib

ecc.

ppainpeip.

na naorh ua Dpeain aipcinneach apDa capna Do

tance to the north-east of Aughnacloy, on the

which

road to Dungannon.
Caeck-Bearnais,
i.

it appears that the Mulrony and Conor here mentioned were sons of Cormac Mac Der-

e.

the blind

man of Barnis.

mot, Chief of Moylurg.

s

"Mountain.
Slieve-in-ierin.
q

The mountain

of Breifny means

Eosbirn.

The Down Survey shews

a deno-

mination of land called Rossborne, near the

See an entry under the year CongaUagh. 1228, where this Niall, the son of Congalagh, is
called

mouth

of the Ballysadare River, in the parish of

Kilmacowen, barony of Carbury, and county of

This barony belonged, at this period, to O'Donnell, who must have given this, and other lands in its vicinity, as a tinscra, or dowry, to
Sligo.

O'Rourke, and said to have been Lord of

Dartry and Clann-Fearmaighe. r The son of O'Reilly. This story, which is so briefly and imperfectly told, has been copied

his wife, according to the old Irish custom.

l

by the Four Masters from the Annals of ConSee entry under the year 1240, from naught.

Cormac

His death

is

noticed as follows in

Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of

1240.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

299

Bearnais O'Gormly, and the chiefs of Kinel Moen, with many others, were slain. Mac Loughlin reassumed the lordship after this battle, but was deprived
of
it

without delay. died. Turlough, the son of Roderic O'Conor (King of Connaught), Lord of Dartry and ClannFarrell, the son of Cuconnaught O'Reilly,
1'

the mounFermaighe, and, according to another book, Lord of Breifny, from tain eastwards, was slain by Mulrony, son of Farrell, and Conor, son of Cormac

he had gone on a predatory excursion to the son of Niall, the son of Congallagh" [O'Rourke], on which occasion he plundered them and took their house. Murtough, son of Niall, came out on parole, but was seized

[Mac Dermot],

after

immediately after the son of O'Reilly had been slain. and they prey was taken by the English of Ireland from O'Donnell, the Lord Justice himself was awaiting them at Ballyplundered Carbury and

and

killed,

sadare,

and

his scouts

went
of

as far as Drumcliff.

Cathal Crovderg O'Conor, and the wife of O'Donnell, gave a half townland of her marriage dowry, viz., Rosbirn*, to Clarus Mac Mailin, and the Canons of Trinity Island, in Lough Key, in honour
Lasarina,

daughter

of the Trinity and the Virgin Mary. Cormac', the son of Art O'Melaghlin, died.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

1240.

The Age of Christ, one thousand two hundred forty.

A monastery was founded at Waterford for Franciscan Friars by Sir Hugo

Purcell.

Gilla-na-naev O'Dreain,
Clonmacnoise

Erenagh of Ardcarne,

died.

"A. D.

1238.

Cormac mac Art

by the Four Masters:

1238. Geffrye O'Dalie, an excellent died in pilgrimage in Sruhir. poett, " Walter Delacie repaired to the King of

O'Melaghlyn, the prince that most annoyed and hinder'd the English in his own time, and next
successor of the
lived

"A. D.

Kingdome of Meath, if he had and were suffered by the English, died quietly in his bed, without fight or dissention,
in Inis

Dowgyn, upon the river of Sack." The same Annals contain the following
under
this year,

England. " The Earle of Ulster's sonn was killed by the Ulster men, and twenty-eight men in shirts
of mail with him."

pas-

sages,

which have been omitted

Q2

300

[1240.

noiojenl

mac nDiapSluaijeaD mop la comconnacc ua pajallaij pop copbmac maca co po aipcc an cip uile co hapD capna, -| po mapb oaoine lomba Donnchab mac a meic, copbmac mac romalcaij DO airpfjab,
i

-]

-]

muipcfpraij DO gabdil cijeapnupa muije luipj. Do laraip pi peblimib ua concobaip Do Dol

jaoibeal ppip, 1 puaip onoip mop CtoD mac giolla na naorh cpuimm mac aoba mic cacail cpoiboeipj, -\ la piacpa ua ploinn. Sa&b mgean uf ceinneiDij bfn DonnchaiD caipbpij uf bpiain Decc. in eppcopoiDecc puip TTlainepnp cighe TTlolaga hi ccaipppe ipin murhain Do ponnpaD Do cogbail Do bpairpib .8. Ppanpeip la TTlag capraij piabac

pa;can Do copaoiD jail -| on pij Don cup pin, -] cainig plan Dia cij. uf Seacnupaij DO mapbab la concobap

cijeapna caipppeach

a rumba pein Do Denorh hi ccopaib na mbpacap. 6 TTlacjamna caipppeac, Ctp innce pop aDnaiccfp an bappach mop,
-\ -] -|

bapun cuppach.
u

Felim

0''Conor.

In

tlie

Annals of Clonmac-

in those parts, nor suffer

uoise, as translated

by Connell Mageoghegan, the notice of Felim O'Conor's appearance before

the King of England is given as follows " A. D. 1240. Felym O'Connor went into Eng:

longer."

it to bud forth any " Ut ipsius iniquse plantationis, quani

Comes

Cantiae

Hubertus

in

illis

partibus,

dum

sua potentia debaccharet, plantavit, infructuosam sicomorum radicitus evulsam, non sinerat
pullulare."

land, because the English of Ireland refused to

See Matthew Paris at this year.

yeald him any

justice; the

King graunted him

the five cantreds, which himself had, and [he] returned in safety."

Dr. O'Conor states, in his suppressed work, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Charles
CfConor, p. 42, that Felim O'Conor obtained a royal charter for five baronies in the year 1257,

Matthew Paris

gives a curious account of the

reception of Felim O'Conor at the English court,

but he errs in giving John as the name of the De Burgo, against whom he lodged his complaints
;

and that he shortly after built the abbeys of Roscommon and Tuamoua. In the last edition
of

Rymer,

vol.

i.

p.

240, there

is

a letter from

for

it

does not appear from any trust-

worthy document, nor any authority whatever, except Matthew Paris himself, and Dr. Hanmer, a
very careless chronicler,
that there

Felim O'Conohur, King of Connaught, to Henry III., thanking him for the many favours which
he had conferred upon him, and especially for his having written in his behalf against Walter
de Burgo to his Justiciary, William Dene; but this letter, though placed under the year 1240

who merely copies him, was any powerful man named John de
So effectually did

Burgo

in Ireland at this time.

Felim plead his cause on this occasion, that King Henry III. ordered Maurice Fitzgerald, then Lord Justice of Ireland, " to pluck up by the root that fruitless sycamore, De Burgo, which the Earl of
Kent, in the insolence of his power, had planted

by Rymer,

refers to a later period, as

Dene was

not Justiciary before 1260. v This was very common as the Sabia, 8a6b. proper name of a woman, till a recent period, in
Ireland,

but

it

is

now

nearly

obsolete.

The

1240.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

great

301

army was led by Cuconnaught O'Reilly against Cormac Mac and plundered the entire country as far as Ardcarne, and slew many Dermot, Cormac, the son of Tomaltagh, was deposed, people, in revenge of his son. and Donough, the son of Murtough [Mac Dermot], assumed the lordship of
Moylurg. Felim O'Conor" went before the King of England to complain to him of the English and Irish, on which occasion he received great honour from the King
;

he then returned safe home.

Hugh, the son of Gilla-na-naev Crom O'Shaughnessy, was slain by Conor, son of Hugh, who was the son of Cathal Crovderg, and by Fiachra O'Flynn.
Sabia
died.
v
,

daughter of O'Kennedy, and wife of Donough Cairbreach O'Brien,

of Timoleague
w
,

The Monastery
Ross,

in Carbery, in Munster, in the diocese of

was founded

for Franciscan

Friars,

by Mac Carthy Reagh, Lord of

choir of the Friars.

Carbery, and his

interred*.

own tomb was

erected in the

In this

monastery also Barry More, O'Mahony of Carbery, and the Baron Courcy, are
Natural and Civil
In the will of

word
w

signifies goodness.

&c.,

were

also buried here."

i.

Timoleague, a monastery, now in ruins, in the barony of Barryroe, in the county of Cork.

History of Cork, vol.

Daniell O'Donovane,

p. 251.

made

at Rahin, in

August,

Ceac tnolaga signifies who probably erected

the house of St. Malaga, a primitive Irish mo-

preserved in the Registry of the Court of Prerogative in Ireland, he orders his

1629, and

now

nastery at this place, but of this we have no This saint was a native of Fermoy, record. and his principal monastery was at a place
in that territory called

"bodie to be buried in the

Abby ofTymolege,"
tomb

but his descendants soon

in

after placed their

Tulach min Molaga

the churchyard of Myross. Most, if not all the other families have also discontinued to bury
in this abbey.
x

See his Life given by Colgan, in his Ada SancThe year of torum, at 20th January, p. 148.
his death
is

Under

this year the

Annals of Clonmac-

not recorded, but

it

must have been

life

noise, as translated

after the year 665, as

we

learn from his

that

he survived the great pestilence which raged in

Dr. Smith, in his description of this abbey, gives the following account of its tombs "Here are several tombs of the Irish families,
that year.
:

following passages, the Four Masters:

by Mageoghegan, contain the which have been omitted by

Delacie,

"A. D. 1240. William

Lord of Meath,

the only son of Walter Delacie, and his wife, died in one week. Some say they were poysoned.

viz.,

Mac Carthy
;

choir

west of

it
;

Reaghs, in the midst of the is an old broken monument of

" There arose great dissentions

in

Ulster

the O'Cullanes

and on the right a ruined tomb

Richard against the Earle of Ulster this year. with a company of 3000 soldiers, went Tuite,
to assist

of the lords Courcy.

The O'Donovans, O'Heas,

him."

302

dNNata Rio^hachca emeawN.

QO1S CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopc
mile,

[1241.

1241.

Da

ceo, cfcpacacc

a haon.
.1.

dn

ceppcop ua plaicbeapcaij

(.1.

TTluipcfpcac),

eppcop eanaij Dum

[Do ecc].

Coipeapccab cfmpaill na mbpacap minup

cpaic.

in

acluain la

comapba PQ-

Oomnall mop mac eccneacdin

manac,
-|

hui Dorhnaill

foccaip conoacc co coipppliab, "| aibfc manaij mp mbpeic buaba 6 Dorhan, -| o 6frhan,
1

njfpna cfpe conaill, peap6 clap anuap Decc in oipjjiall

a aonacal co nonoip pojmap DO ponnpaD.
-]

maimpDip eappa puaib ip in conaill int iona6 i TTiaolpeaclainn ua oomnaill Do oipDnfo mjfpnup cfpe a acap. Ua neill, .1. bpian to ceacc cuije lap na iont>apba6 la Domnall ua Domnaill Do &ula cona pocpaiDe la bpian ua neill hi mag laclainn, cac caimeipje, cenel eo^ain, cuccpac each Do mag laclainn, po riiapb50 naipmmin
i ~\

.1.

-|

pac Domnall ua laclainD cijfpna cenel eojain, ~\ Decneabap Da Depbpine, -] Don chup caoipicch cenel eojain uile immaille ppip, ~[ po hoiponeaD bpian
pin
i

ccigfpnup cenel eojain.

einijj

OiapmaiD mac magnupa mic coippDealbaij moip ui concobaip paof eangnama Do ecc. Sicpiucc rtiag oipeaccaij caofpeac cloinne comalcaij Decc.

Ualcpa De
hi pajcaib.

laci cijfpna

miDe 6 jallaib, i cfnn comaiple gall epeann 065

mac

puai&pi uf 5aDpa Decc. ua concobaip DO apguin Dapcpaije

i cloinne pfpmaije.

'

to is

The plain, clap. The plain here referred Machaire Oirghiall, or the level part of the

believe to be that of the battle here referred

to.
a

county of Louth, which was then in the possession of the English.

1

Walter de Lacy

His obituary

is

given as

follows in

now But

There is no place of this name Caimeirge. in the ancient territory of Kinel-Owen.

tradition

Mageoghegan's Annals of Clonmacnoise

:

translation of the

points out the site of a great

rival families of O'Neill

D. 1241. "Walter Delacie, the bountifullest Englishman for horses, cloaths, money, and
goold, that ever

"A.

battle

between the

and

came before

his time into this

Mac

Loughlin, near Maghera,

in the

county

of Londonderry, which the Editor inclines to

kingdom, died in England of a Wound." His only son, William, died in 1 240

See

1241.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

303

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1241.

thousand two hundred forty-one.

Bishop O'Flaherty (i. e. Murtough), i. e. the Bishop of Annadown, died. The church of the Friars Minor in Athlone was consecrated by the successor of St. Patrick.

Donnell More, the son of Egnaghan O'Donnell, Lord of Tirconnell, Fermanagh, and Lower Connaught, as far as the Curlieu Mountains, and of Oriel,

from the plain7 northwards, died in the monastic habit, victorious over the world and the devil, and was interred with honour and respect in the monastery of Assaroe, in the harvest time.

Melaghlin O'Donnell was installed in the lordship of Tirconnell, in the O'Neill (i. e. Brian), after having been expelled by Mac place of his father.
Loughlin, came to O'Donnell, and O'Donnell, with his forces, went with Brian O'Neill into Tyrone, and they gave battle to Mac Loughlin, i. e. the battle of
2 Caimeirge in which they slew Donnell O'Loughlin, Lord of the Kinel-Owen, and ten of his family, together with all the chieftains of the Kinel-Owen.
,

And

Brian [O'Neill] was then installed in the lordship of the Kinel-Owen. Dermot, the son of Manus, son of Turlough More O'Conor, celebrated for

hospitality
Sitric

and prowess,
1

died.

Mageraghty, Chief of Clann-Tomalty, died. Walter de Lacy" Lord of the English of Meath, and head of the council"
,

of the English of Ireland, died in England. Teige, the son of RoTy O'Gara, died.

Teige O'Conor plundered Dartry and Clann-Fearmaighe

Leitrim].
note
x

[in the

county of

under that year.

This Walter

left

two

was re-united

in favour of

Roger Mortimer, who

daughters, co-heiresses, Margaret and Mabel, the elder of whom married Lord Theobald de

married Geneville's grand-daughter and heiress, Eot. Pat. 2 Hen. V. 137. See Grace's Annals

Verdon, and the second, Geoffry de Geneville. The palatinate of Meath was divided between
these two ladies,

of Ireland, edited by the Eev. Richard Butler,

for

the
c
.

Irish

Archaeological

Society,

p.

30,

Lough Seudy, now Ballymore-

note
b

Lough Seudy,

in Westmeath, being the head of Verdon's moiety, and Trim that of Geneville's. In 1330, after Verdon's forfeiture, the palatinate

Head of'the Council, ceann

accoriicupc,

means

nothing more than that he was so politic and prudent as to be always consulted by the Eng-

304

dNNCK,a rcioshachca eiReawH.

Sluaj mop bo benarh lap an lupcip,
-]

[1242.
i

mac geapailc maij nae Donnchab mac Diapmaoa, puccpac 50 po aipccpfc piacpa ua plamn, leo nap mac giolla ui concobaip poppa, uacab Do muinnp po mapbab
.1.

muipip

-|

-\

ceallaij -] pochaibe Dorhnall mag plannchaba caoipeac Dapcpaijje Do ecc.

ele.

QO1S CR1OSU,
Ctoip Cpiopr, mfle,

1242.

Da c6o, cfcpacao, aDo.

Oomnall mac aipcen Do ecc ma candnac hi ccill rhoip. la habbabaib cananach epeann Caibicil mop la Ppfmaib apDa maca, lujmab Dia po cogbab mopan Do caipib Do nonoil mocca on 176irh. Oonnchab Caipppeac ua bpiain (cijfpna oail ccaip) ruip opDain a mac roippbealbac mac Donnchaba caipbpij oipeacaip Oeipapc Gpeann,
-)
-j -\

oecc.

Concobap ua bpiain DO jabail pije cuabmuman. Cteb ua concobaip (.1. an caiccleipeac) mac aoba mic Ruaibpi uf Clioncobaip Do rhapbab la roippbealbac mac aoba mic cacail cpoibbeip^. ua namalgaba bpian mac Donnchaib uf ouboa cigeapna ua ppiacpach,
]

1 loppaip

Go mapbab ap plicchib ace Dol Da oilirpe co maimpcip na buille. la peDlimm Sluaijeab mop lap an lupnp -\ la gallaib epeann apcfna,
]

mac

cacail cpoiboeipg hi cenel cconaill in Diaib caibg uf concobaip Do coib Ro 5abpaD na ploij pin Longpopn i nopuim Dionnpoijib cenel cconaill. cuama, ~\ po rhillpfc a Ian Don cuaipc pin gen gup cpegeab cabj boib. Uabg

ua Concobaip Do jabail lapcrdin Id coinconnacc ua Rajallaij rpia popconjpa peiblimib mic cacail cpoibbeipj.
lisli

whenever they engaged in a war, or came on terms of peace with the Irish. c Nar. The Mac Gillakellys had this name
from Nar, the eldest son of Guaire Aidhne, King of Connaught, from whose son Artghal they descend See Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs
of Hy-Fiachrach, p. 69. d Primate His name was Albert of Cologn. See Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops, p. 65.

In Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, he is called a Scotchman, the

translator having mistaken
e

Qlmaineac,

a Ger-

man, for Qlbcmac, a Scotchman,

Mochta.

In an epistle attributed to him,

he

styles himself,

" Mauchteus

peccator presbyter,

Scmcti Patricii discipulus."

Briton, and
is

He was by He

nation a

generally supposed to

have been

the

first

Bishop of Louth.

died on the 19th

1242.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Justice, namely,

305

Maurice Fitzgerald, mustered a great army with which he marched into Moynai [in the county of Koscommon], and plundered Fiachra O'Flynn and Donough Mac Dermot a small party of O'Conor's c people overtook them, and slew Nar Mac Gillakelly, and many others. Donnell Mac Clancy, Chief of Dartry, died.
;

The Lord

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Donnell
Christ, one

1242.

thousand two hundred forty-two.

Mac

Airten died a Canon at Kilmore.

held by the Primate" of Armagh, and the abbots of

A great chapter was

which Mochta had
e

the Canons Regular of Ireland, at Louth, on which occasion

collected,

many

of the relics

and brought from Rome, were taken up. Donough Cairbreach O'Brien, Lord of the Dalcassians, tower of the splendour and greatness of the south of Ireland, and his son Turlough, died. Connor O'Brien assumed the lordship of Thomond.
son of Hugh, who was son of Roderic O'Conor, was slain by Turlough, son of Hugh, who was son of Cathal

Hugh O'Conor

(i.

e.

the Aithchleireach

),

Crovderg. Brian 8 son of Donough O'Dowda, Lord of Tireragh, Tirawley, and Erris, was killed on the way as he was going on a pilgrimage to. the Abbey of Boyle.
,

army was led by the Lord Justice and all the English of Ireland, with Felim, the son of Cathal Crovderg O'Conor, into Tirconnell, in pursuit of O'Conor, who had fled to Kinel-Connell. The army encamped at Teige

A great

Drumhome, and they destroyed much on

abandoned
to them.

but Teige was not Teige O'Conor was afterwards taken by Cuconnaught at the request of Felim, son of Cathal O'Reilly, Crovderg.
this expedition,
See Colgan, Acta Calendar of the
;

of August, in the year 535.

Sanctorum,
O'Clerys,
at

p.

737;

Irish

.1.

19th of August

and Lanigan's
i.

Charles O'Conor writes, inter lineas. 6pian oeapj, i. e. "Brian the Red." It does not appear from the pedigree of the O'Dowdas,

&

Brian.

Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, vol.

pp.

308-

310.
f

compiled by Duald Mac Firbis, that he left any descendants See Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, p. 115.

Aithchleireack,

i.

e.

the denounced or super-

animated clergyman.

306

dNNa&a Rioghacbca eiReaww.

QO1S CR1OSU,
Goip Cpiopc,
mile,

[1243.

1243.

Da

ceD,

ceacpacac
i

acpf.

Pecpup macpaic mp ccinneb a bfchab ccandnchaib oilen na cpmoiDe a abnacal td pele mapcain. ap loc ce Decc, pmoacca ua Iuja6a comapba beneoin [DO ecc]. TTlaoleoin ua cpecdin aipciDeochain cuama ap ccecc caipip (.1. cap
-|

muip) ina maigipcip Decc

in

dc

cliac.

Cacapac ua pnebiupa Deajanac muincipe maolpuanaib Decc in apD capna an 10. augupc. Ca&g mac aoba mic cacail cpoiboeipg Do leccab Dua T?ajallai5, a ceacc co mainipnp na buille cona focpaioe, Dul Do lapomh co ceac mic e pein, i a bfn injfn meg capraij DiapmaDa, Copbmac mac Uomalcaij,
-\

-|

(.1.

ecaoin mjfn pmjin, i bd hipi&e machaip cai&g bu&Dein) Do jabdil,

-|

cabaipc Do comconnacc ua pagallaij map mnaof ap a puapglaD pein. Uabg Do Dul DopiDipi pa peil mapcain in uachab pochame hi coinDe 50 hua Rajallaij, ca&j Do jabail DO hi pill, -] a rhuincip Do mapbab, i a
-\

beic pfm

Idirh

co peil beapaij ap ccinD.

SluaijeaD mop Do cionol Id T?ij Sa^an Do paijiD pij Ppanc, ~) cecca Do. code on pfj DiappaiD gall epeann cuige. Riocapo mac uilliam bupc Do Dul

ccuma cdich, a ecc coip ap an pluaicceab pin. Cacal mac aoba uf Concobaip Dalca mumcipe Rajallaij Do lompub oppa, cpeac DO benam bo ap muipcfpcac mac jiollapuilij muij nippe,
ann
i -| -] i -|

Coarb ofSt.Eenen,

i.e.

successor of St. Benig-

or manager, of the church lands,

k

a disciple of St. Patrick and his nus, immediate successor in the see of Armagh. The

who was

Festival of St. Bearach, that

is,

of St. Bea-

most celebrated of his monasteries were Druim

lias,

rach, or Barry, of Cluain Coirpthe, now Kilbarry, in Kinel-Dofa, or O'Hanly's country, in

in the county of Leitrim,

and Kilbannon,

near Tuam, in the county of Galway. It is not to determine of which of these the Finaghty easy
in the text
'

The the east of the 'county of Eoscommon. of this saint was celebrated annually, memory
on the 15th of February. See the Feilire Aenguis ; the Irish Calendar of the O'Clerys ; and
Colgan's Acta Sanctorum, at this day.
'

was coarb.
This term
is

Archdeacon, aipcioeochmn

to be distinguished from aipcinneach, the former meaning the archdeacon, and the latter, the

Moy-Nissi,
nepi in

maj

nipp

This

is

called

hereditary warden, prepositus, or chief farmer,

O'Dugan's topographical poem, and in the Book of Fenagh, in which neipi

maj ma^
it is

1243.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

307

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1243.

thousand two hundred forty-three.

life

Petrus Magrath, after having retired to spend his

Trinity Island, on
day.

among
St.

the canons of

Lough Key,

died,

and was interred on

Martin's festival

Finaghty O'Lughadha, Coarb of St. Benen", died. Malone O'Creghan [Crean], Archdeacon' of Tuam,
across the sea as a professor, died in Dublin.

after

having returned
the

Cahasagh O'Snedhuisa, Deacon of Muintir-Mulrony of Moylurg], died at Ardcarne on the 10th of August.
Teige, the son of
O'Reilly,
to

[i.

e.

Mac Dermots
by

Hugh, son of Cathal Crovderg, was

set at liberty

and he came with his forces to the Abbey of Boyle, and afterwards house of Mac Dermot (Cormac, son of Tomaltagh), whom he took the

prisoner,

together with his wife, the daughter of Mac Carthy (viz., Edwina, daughter of Fineen), who was Teige's own mother, and gave her as wife to Cuconnaught O'Reilly, for his own ransom.

Teige went again on the

to a meeting appointed

festival of St.

by

O'Reilly.

Martin following, with a small party, Teige was taken by treachery, and his
until the festival

people were slain, and he himself was kept in confinement k of St. Bearach ensuing.

King of England, to oppose the King of France, and he sent ambassadors to [summon] the English of Ireland to his aid. Among the rest went Richard, the son of William Burke, and died on
that expedition.

A great army was mustered by the

Cathal, son of

Hugh O'Conor, the

fosterson of the O'Reillys, turned against

them, and committed depredations on Murtough

and made a prisoner of Murtough himself,

stated that it
first

Mac Gilhooly in Moy-Nissi whom he afterwards put to death

1 ,

as

was granted to St. Caillin, the abbot of Fenagh, who was of the same race the Mac Eannalls, the head chieftains of Con-

shoot.

Moy-Nissi

-was the

name

of a level tract

of country on the east side of the Shannon, in The family the barony and county of Leitrim.

it

maicne of Moy-Rein. According to O'Dugan was the patrimonial inheritance of the O'Mul-

name Mac Gilhooly

trict,

is still

common
is

in this dis.

but the prefix Mac

r
,

usually rejected

veys, of

whom

the

Mac

Gilhoolys were an

off-

See note

p.

309, infra.

R2

308

aNNCtta Rio^hachca eiraecmN.

Cpeac

[1241.
oile

TTluipceaprac pfin DO jaBail Do, -] a rhapBaD hi cill Seppin. Denorh 66 po ceDoip ap cloinn peapmaige -] ap DapcpaijpB.

Do ua

Cpeac maije
Pajallaij.

pein la cacal,

-]

po eipij cogaD eiccip ua cconcobaip

-|

QO1S CR1OSU,

1244.

Qoip Cpiopc, mfle, Da ceo, cfcpacar a ceacaip.

OonncaD mac pmjpn mic maoilpeaclamn mic ao6a mic roippDealbaij in a aDnacal concoBaip eppcop oile pinn Decc an 23. appil nimp clorpanD,
i ~\ i

maimpcip na

buille.

Qpcioeocham cuama DO Ba6a6 ap glaiplmD cluana. nac paipeocap le Dan Oonnchab mop ua Dalai^ paof nap pdpaijeab, Do ecc, i aonacal hi mainipnp na buille. CaDg mac aoba mic cacail cpoiB6eip5 DO DallaD i Do chpochaoh la coinconnacc ua Rajallaij pel beapaij occ imp na conaipe pop loch. aillinDe lap na Bfic illairh aije 6 peil mapcain gup an lonBaiD pin. Ruai&pi
"| i

Kitt-Sessin,

now pronounced

in Irish as if

written cill rp^ipm, and Anglicised Kilteashin. It is the name of a townland in the west of the
parish of Ardcarne, where, according to tradition, the Bishop of Elphin had formerly his paSee note under the year 1258. lace.
n

Moy-Turey, who passed through it Fenagh, where they were overtaken,

interred,
out.

as far as
slain,

and

and where their graves are still pointed

P An island in Lough Eee in Inishdoghran the Shannon See note ', under the year 1193,
p. 98.

Clann Fearmaigke, was a territory in the

county of Leitrim, adjoining Dartry, which is now called the barony of Eossclogher, and Tir
Tuathail, in the county of Koscommon.

signifies green pool, or pond. no place at present bearing this name in the neighbourhood of Tuam, and there are so
i

Glaidinn
is

There

This comprised the Moy-Rein, mag p6m southern or level part of the county of Leitrim. The inhabitants were called Conmaicne Maighe
Rein, and also Muintir Eoluis, of

many

places near

it

called Cluain that

it is

im-

possible to determine to

which of them

this pool

or pond belonged

See Tribes and Cuxtomt of

whom,
far the

since

Hy-Many.f.
as at the

130,

where

Glaisl inn is referred to

terri-

the establishment of surnames in the tenth century, the

head of Magh Finn, which was a

Mac Eannalls were by

most

tory in the barony of Athloue, in the county

In the Book of Fenagh the name maj p6m is explained plain of the track, and the name is said to have been derived from
celebrated family.

Eoscommon.
r

Donough More CPDaly.

In Mageoghegan's

the flight of the Fomorians, from the battle of

translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise he is called " chief of Ireland for poetry." It is gene-

1244.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

m
.

309

at Kill-Sessin

Immediately

outrage in the territories

Leitrim].

committed another predatory of Clann-Fearmaighe and Dartry [in the county of

after
this
lie
11

In the same year Moy-Rein

was plundered by Cathal, and a war broke

out between O'Conor and O'Reilly.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1244.

thousand two hundred forty -four.

Donough (son of Fineen, the son of Melaghlin, son of Hugh, who was son of Turlough) O'Conor, Bishop of Elphin, died on the 23rd of April on Inishp cloghran and was interred in the abbey of Boyle.
,

The Archdeacon of Tuam was drowned in the Glaislinnq of Cluain. Donogh More 0'Daly a poet who never was and never will be surpassed,
r
,

abbey of Boyle. son of Cathal Crovderg, was blinded and hanged* Hugh, 1 by Cuconnaught O'Reilly, on the festival of St. Bearach, on Inis-na-Canaire [an island], in Lough Allen, having been kept in confinement by him from the
died, in the

and was interred

Teige, the son of

feast of St.

Martin to that time.

Rory,

the

son of Hugh, his brother, was

supposed that this Donough was Abbot of Boyle, but it does not appear from the Irish Annals, or any written authority, that he was
rally

Ovid, in the soft luxuriance of his poetical imagery, or daring flights of his genius. His

an

ecclesiastic.

According

to the tradition pre-

served in the north of the county of Clare, he was the head of the O'Dalys of Finnyvara, in
the north of Burrin, where they still point out the site of his house and his monument. He is the ancestor of the O'Dalys of Dunsandle, whose ancestor came from Finnyvara with Ranailt NyBrien, the wife of Teige Roe O'Kelly, of Callow, in the latter part of the fifteenth See century.
Tribes

poems are principally of a religious or moral character, and possess considerable merit, though not so much as to entitle him to the unqualified
praise bestowed

Masters.

upon his powers by the Four See O'Reilly's Irish Writers, pp. 88-

92, for a list of his poems,

s

Was

blinded

and hanged, DO oallab

bo

cpochao. Charles O'Conor writes inter lineas " DO ppocao potius ; vide infra." In the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster the reading is, t)o oallao 7 DO pbochuo, i. e. "was blinded and
emasculated."

and Customs of Hy-Many,

p. 125.

O'Reilly says that he was called the Ovid of Ireland, and such, indeed, he may be regarded, though it must be acknowledged that he could bear no comparison with the Roman

The
it,

old translator of the Ulster

Annals renders
c

"

Teige O'Conner blinded and

O'Rely."
is

maymed by Coconaght
Jnis-na-Canaire

now

called variously

Big

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awNa^a Rio^hachca emeaNN.

aot>a
i

[1244.

mac

a Dfpbparaip Do ba&a6 ap an cuippfn connaccach ag acliacc na a a6nacal maimpcip cluana cuaipcipe co pionna an 9. la Do rhapra,
-|

haiprhiDneac onopac.

Concobap mac ao&a mic cacail cpoiboeipj Do ecc

pach.

hi

ccmD

rhfopa oeap-

in mbpeipne paip 50 hua a bpacap paip, .1. caDg ua concobaip. 1?o bdoap abaij longpuipe hi piobnac maije pein, nf paibe an comapba ip in o nac paibe po baile an aiDce pin, nf paibe cinD pop ceampall piobnaca, loipcfcap Dpong Don cploijj boca i belpcaldna bacap ip in rempall hi pnj jan cfc Da nDajDaofnib. 17o muchaD Dalca De an comapba anc. Uainic an comapba peipin apabapac co bpeipcc lonnup mop po bap a Dalca.

SluaijjeaDla pe6limi6

mac

caeail cpoibDeip5 ip
(

Rajallaij Do Diojail a Dalca

-\

-|

-\

-|

Ctobepc ua concobaip co cciobpaD a bpfc pfm Do. Clpf mo bpfcpa ap an comapba an caon Duine ap peapp agaib in epaic mo Dalca De Do lopccaD lib. TTIajnup mac muipceapcaij muirhmj
epaic ap ua cconcobaip.

Ro mpp a

ap majmip ace an cf ap cfnn ap an pluaj. Nf pcepabpa pib ap an comapba co ppajjap epaic mo Dalca. Locap an Do lean an comapba iaD. Oo coiDpfc pluaj lap pin ap an baile amac, co hac na cuippe poppin ngeipccij, po baof an cuile cap bpuachaib Di, ~\
pin

ap ua concobaip.

Nf

me

icip

~\

-]

nf

caorhnacacap code caippe gup po pcaoilpfc ceac Sepel coin baipce Do

Gilhooly's
Island,

Island,
Island,

Mary

Fitzgerald's

and

lastly,

O'Eeilly's Island, from the

It lies near the southern

west of the town of Roscommon, is the Ath Hag mentioned by the Four Masters, at the year
1266.

present head landlord.

extremity of Lough Allen, not far from shambo.

u

Drum-

now

Cmrreen-Connaughtagh,Cuipp'mConnaix;acln, It is the name of locally called Curreen.

now Cloontuskert, a parish the ruins of a small abbey, near Lanesborough, in the barony of South BallintoCluain-tuaiscirt,

containing

ber,

the southern extremity of the townland of Ballydare, in the parish of Cloontuskert, near Lanes-

Map

and county of Roscommon. See Ordnance of that county, sheet 37. There is a larger

abbey of the same name in the barony of Clon-

borough. w

It is often overflooded

Ath-liag-na-Sinna,

by Lough Ree. now beal aca bag,

macnowen, in the county of Galway. See it marked on the Ordnance Map of that county,
sheet 88.
'i

Anglice Ballyleague, that part of Lanesborough lying on the Connaught side of the Shannon.

Uaj; mentioned in these Annals, underthc years 1140, 1220, 1227, and 1244, is
Ballyleague, or Lanesborough. of Athleague, on the River

The

Qc

Fenagh-Moy-Rein,
in the

now Fenagh,
trim.
Caillin,

ma'je p6m, barony and county of Leimonastery was erected here by St.
It is

F lo6na c

The

little

town

in the sixth century.

now

a pais

Buck, to the south-

rish

church in the diocese of Ardagh.

There

1244.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

in Cuirreen
u

311

drowned
ration

Connaughtagh

w at Ath-liag-na-Sinna ,

on the 9th day of

March, and was interred in the monastery of Cluain-tuaiscirt*, with great veneand honour.

Conor, son of Hugh, the first month of Spring.

who was

son of Cathal Crovderg, died at the end of

army was led by Felim, the son of Cathal Crovderg, eastwards, into Breifny, against O'Reilly, to take revenge of him for his [Felim's] fosterson and
y kinsman, Teige O'Conor. They encamped for a night at Fenagh-Moy-Rein z The Coarb was not home on that night, and there was no roof on the church
.

An

of Fenagh, and as there

their chiefs,

without the permission of burned some tents and huts which were within the church, and the
not, a party of the troops,

was

ward was there suffocated. The Coarb himself, on coming home next day, was greatly angered and incensed at the death of his ward, and he demanded his eric" from O'Conor, who answered that he would give him his own " award. My award is," said the Coarb, " that you deliver up to me the very " best man among you as eric, for your having burned my ward." That is
Coarb's
" I am not at all," Manus, the son of Murtough Muimhneach," said O'Conor. " " said Manus it is he who is head of the I will not depart from army."
;

" The army then until I obtain eric for my ward." you," said the Coarb, marched out of the town, and the Coarb followed them. They proceeded to

Ath-na-Cuirre,

on the River Geirctheach b

but the flood had then

over-

still

to

extant a curious manuscript which belonged Fenagh, and which enumerates the lands,

which nineteen
z

Irish kings

The Coarb was not

at home.

were baptized, In the Annals

privileges,

ginal

is

and dues of the monastery. The oripreserved in the British Museum, and a
in 1517,

of Connaught the language of this passage is better arranged, thus " There was no roof on
:

copy made

by Maurice, son of Paidin was lately in the possession of a O'Mulconry,

the church of Fenagh, and the Coarb was not at

home
a

Rev. Mr. Eody, who lived near Fenagh, of which the Editor made a copy in the year 1 829, which is now in the Library of the Royal Irish Aca-

that night ; and as he was not, a party of Felim's troops, &c."

Eric.

An

amercement or

fine for blood-

demy. Clog-na-riogh
is

still

exists

and

is

preserved

shed; a mulct or reparation. It was exactly similar to the were or mergild of the Saxons

in the chapel at Foxfield, near Fenagh,

where

it

regarded as a sacred relic,

and held

in great

See Harris's Ware, vol. ii. p. 7 1 b This is the river Geirctlieach

Yellow River, which
is

now called

the

veneration.
it

According

to the

Book of Fenagh,

was

called Clog-na-riogh,
it

because

was used

to

i. e. Bell of the Kings, contain the water in

formed by a junction of in Sliabh an larainn, and several streams rising

is

subject to great floods;

it

passes through the

312

awMaca rcioshachca eiReaNN.

abamn Do
ip in cij, 1

[1245.

baof inD imeal inD dca Dia cup cappan

Dol caippi Don cpluaj;.

beacaib TTlagnup mac muipceapeaij muirhmj concobap mac in bpfp baof ap mullac an copbmaic mic oiapmat>a. 17o pai6 majnup pip a ctoioeam uaDa puap, 05 pin ap pe an cije occa pccaofleab 05 pfneab

Oo

Qga pd6 pin Do po cuir pecce an raippnge congbup an maiDe gan cuicim. co nDepna bpuipij Dia cino gup bo mapb po ceooip cfje hi ccfnn magnupa po haDnaiceaD e hi nDopap ceampaill pioDnaca alia ap an laraip pin,
-\

amuij, i cucca6 cpf Ian cluij na pfj Doppail ap a anniain, ^onab arhlaiD pin puaip comapba Caillfn epaic a Dalra.

Dec nee

picfc.

Do

ponaD lecc

Do clochaib pnaicce,

-]

cpop caoinDenmac uap a cmD, i po bpipeaD la

mumcip puaipc mrc

ciob

mp
in

ccpiol.

Copbmac mac romalcaij mic

maoilpuanaib uile Decc
aibic

concobaip mic DiapmaDa

njeapna

cloinne

manaij leir hi mainipcip na buille ip in ppojrhap mp mbpfic bua&a 6 boriian i 6 Deaman, mp ccaicfrh pe mbliaDan piceac a ccijfpnup.

peapgal mac caccaoain Do mapbaD la concobap mac cijeapnam

in

pill

imp

ppaoic pop loc jile.

QO1S CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopc,
mfle,

1245.

Da ceD, ceacpacacr acuicc.

Oomnall ua planoagdin abb cunja Decc. Concobap puab mac muipceapcaij rhuirhmj mic roippoealbaij uf concobaip Do lor Dua nmmaic Da rhaop buoDem la pcfn cpia lomaccaillairh peipcci
DO cecc froppa
little

hi

pupc na
it

leicci,

-]

giollacpiopr
age whatsoever.

mac lomap
They

uf bipn

Do

town of Ballinamore, which almost inundates.

c

sometimes

killed both

men and

Fractured

it.

This passage

is

given more

beasts without any remorse. At last they came to the Corre, where there was a tymber house

briefly

and somewhat differently in the Annals

of couples into which

of Clonmacnoise, as translated
as follows:

by Mageoghegan,

"A.

D. 1244. Felym O'Connor with

to

Magnus mac Mortagh and Connor mac Cormack entered, and immediately there arose a great blast of Winde which fell
downe the house, whereof one couple
said
fell

great forces

be revenged for their sinisand the Breniemen, and made havock of all they could meet withall
ter dailings on the O'Reillys

went

on the

Magnus, and did put the topp of his head thro his brains to his very neck, and caused his
neck to sinck into his breast
;

in that country, without respect to either sex or

was strocken

1245.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

its
;

313

flowed

down

the chapel-house of

banks, and they were not able to cross the ford so they pulled St. John the Baptist, which was on the margin of the

they might place its materials across the river, that the army might Manus, the son of Murtough Muimhneach, and Conor, son of pass over it.
ford, that

Cormac Mac Dermot, went

into the house

and Manus called

to the

man who

was on the top of the house throwing it down. " There," said he, pointing up " his sword, is the nail which prevents the stick from falling ;" and while he

was thus speaking, the

fractured
it
,

rafter of the

house

fell

down on
spot.

his

own head and

buried outside

so that he died immediately

;

on the

He was
full

the door of the church of

of Clog-na-Biogh, Fenagh together with thirty horses, were given as an offering for his soul and thus it was that the Coarb of St. Caillin obtained eric for [the death of] his ward.
;

and three times the

monument of hewn stone and a beautiful cross were raised over his head, but they were broken down not long afterwards by the O'Rourkes. Cormac, son of Tomaltagh, the son of Conor Mac Dermot, Lord of all the
Clanu-Mulrony, died in Autumn, in the habit of a Grey Friar, in the abbey of Boyle, victorious over the world and the Devil, after having been in the lordship twenty-six years. Farrell Mac Tagadain was treacherously slain Inishfree", an island in Lough Gill.

by Conor Mac Tiernan on

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1245.

thousand two hundred forty-Jive.

Donnell O'Flanagan, Abbot of Cong, died. Conor Roe, the son of Murtough Muimhneach, [who was] son of Turlough O'Conor, was wounded with a knife by O'Timmaith, his own steward, in cone sequence of an angry conversation that occurred between them at Port-na-leicce
.

dead.

This

is

the end of this

man

that escaped
lost his

It lies near that extremity of Lough Gill,

it

where

narrowly from
life

many dangers

before,

receives the River

in this

manner by a

blast of

Wynde

mise-

county Leitrim.
logies, Tribes,

Buanaid (Bonet) from the See map prefixed to Genea-

rably."
d

Iniskfree,

Imp

ppaoich,

i.

e.

the

Island of the
to this day.

heath

This island retains

its

name

and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, on which the position of this island is shewn. * Port-na-leicce. This was the name of u

2 S

314
-|

[1245.

mapbaD an maofp pin, concobap T?ua6 Oo bpeic co mainipnp na buille, a ecc Don loc pin, a aDlacaD ip in mainipeip hfpin lap mbuaiDh ongra
-\

-|

~]

aicpije.

Caiplen pliccij Do Denorh la mac muipip mic geapailc, luprip na hepeann, a Denarh ap a pinjing pe piol muipfoaij uaip po popcongpaD pop peDlim cije ppicel na rpmoioe Do rappaing cuicce lap ccabpfm, -] cloca, i ael,
-| -\

aipr an lonaib ceona lap an lupcip Do clapup mac mailm

in

onoip na naorh

cpmoioe.

SloijeaD

mop

la pij pa;can

~\ gannoc, -\ po cocuip Do cuacap cpa po milleaD bpfcain leo, cacail cpoibDeipg cona pocpaiDe. -\ apa aof nf po ^abpac geill na eicepfba Don cup pin. 6d honopac

ma

mbpfcnaib, po gab longpopr oc caiplen Docum an mprfp co njallaib epeann, pe&limib mac
i

-|

6 concobaip 05 an pfj ap an ploicceaD

pin.

Caiplen dca an cip ap bpu maije mppe Do Denam Id miliD mac piacpa mac Dauio uf plainD caofpeac pil maoilepuam, Decc.

Ceapball buiDe mac caiDg mic aonjupa pinDabpac Caiplen puicfn Do Denom.
place on the Shannon, near Jamestown, in the

uf Dalaij Decc.

county of
f

Roscommon
is

but

it is

now

obsolete.

See Close be brought forward as a precedent 28 Henry III. Matthew Paris gives, in Eoll,
his Chronicle at this year, a letter, said to

a castle in Caernarvonshire, near the shore of the Conwy, called Diganwy by the

Gannoc

have

been written at the time by a nobleman in

Welsh
where
8

See Gough's Camden,

it is

p.

560,

col. 2,

related that

Henry

III.

was reduced

to great straits

under

its

He

invited to his aid,

walls in the year 1245. oo cocuip tna bo-

Henry's camp, which conveys a vivid idea of the distressed condition of the English army Its substance before the Irish had joined them.
is

as follows:

" he invited to him." The Irish literally, annalists speak as if the King had no right to summon them. It appears that at this time the

cam,

at

Gannocke
live in

with his army lyeth that strong castle, and fortifying

tents,

"The King

we

our

thereby watching, fasting,

Irish barons, among other peculiar rights, claimed

that they were not

bound

to attend the

King beto assist

We watch for praying, and freezing with cold. fear of the Welshmen, who are wont to invade and come upon us in the night-time we fast
;

yond the realm,

of England,

differing in this

from the nobles

for

want of meat,

for the halfpenny loaf

is

worth

who were bound by law

the King in his expeditions, without as well as within the kingdom. That King Henry was

five-pence; we pray to God to send us home speedily; we starve with cold, wanting our winter garments, having

no more but a thin linen

is

aware of the exemption claimed by them is evident from the writs issued by him on this occasion,

cloth between us and the wind. There

an arm

of the sea under the castle where

we lie, whereto
come up
to the

declaration that their attendance

having been accompanied by an express now should not

the tide cometh, and

many

ships

haven, which bring victuals to the

camp from

1245.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

killed

315

and Conor Roe was conveyed to the abbey of Boyle, where he died of the wound, after Extreme Unction and Penance, and he was interred in that monastery. The castle of Sligo was erected by Maurice Fitzgerald, Lord Justice of

The steward was

by Ivor O'Beirne

Ireland,
his

and by the Sil-Murray; for Felim [O'Conor] was ordered to erect it at own expense, and to convey the stones, lime, and houses of Trinity Hospital
after the

thither,

Lord Justice had granted

that place to Clarus

Mac

Mailin,

honour of the Holy Trinity. great army was led by the King of England into Wales, he pitched his f s camp at the castle of Gannoc and he invited to his aid the Lord Justice, the English of Ireland, and Felim, son of Cathal Crovderg O'Conor, and his forces,
in

to

had come they desolated all Wales, but obtained neither hostages nor pledges on this occasion. The King treated Felim O'Conor with great honour on this expedition.

come

to him.

As soon

as they

The

castle of Ath-an-chip [on the

River Shannon], on the borders of MoyCostello.

Nissi [in the county of Lei trim],

was erected by Myles

Fiachra, the son of David O'Flynn, Chief of Sil-Maelruain, died. Carroll Boy, son of Teige, the son of Aengus Finnabhrach O'Daly, died. The Castle of Suicin" was erected.
Ireland and Chester."
an. 1245;

See Matthew Paris, ad Hanmer's Chronicle, Dublin edition of 1809, p. 393; and Moore's History of Ireland,
vol.

Justice, to Ireland,

he performed a successful

" All this time," says Matthew p. 20. " the Paris, King was looking impatiently for the Irish forces, mused with himself, fretted
iii.

expedition against the Irish of Ulster, but that this was of no avail, for that the King, whose
displeasure
his office,

was inexorable, dismissed him from

with himself, the wind serving, and yet said

nothing.

and appointed Sir John, the son of de Marisco, in his place. Maurice FitzGeoffry gerald, after some contests with the Irish, and
the

At

length their

sails

were descried,

new Lord

Justice, took

upon him the habit

and Maurice Fitzgerald and the Prince of Connaught presented themselves

fore the King."
in battle array be-

of St. Francis, in the monastery of Youghal, where he died, in 1 256.

Hanmeradds:
together,

"When

all

the

forces joyned

overthrowne; the
his Castles,

Welshmen were King manned and victualled

the

The Castle of Suicin was probably near the head of the Suck, in the county of Mayo. In the townland of Cashel and parish of Kiltullagh, and county of Roscommon, near the head of the Suck, which is called Bun Suicin, there is an
ancient Irish cashel, or Cyclopean tower; but no ruins of a modern castle are now visible near

returned into England, gave the Irishmen leave to returne, winking awhile in policie at the tarriance and slow coming of Maurice Fitzgerald."

Hanmer

also

remarks

that,

on the return of Maurice Fitzgerald, the Lord

Bun

Suicin, excepting the

site

of O'Flynn's

S2

316

cmNata Rioshachca

eirceawN.

[1246.

DO rhapBab la connaccaib. TCajnall ua maoilmiabaij mac muipjiupa mic cacail mic DiapmaOa Do
TTluipcfjicac

mapBab

la

peapaiB bpeipne. Sluaicceab la

nDomnaill (Ulaoilechlainn) pop jallaiB, -\ jaoibelaiB bu -| eDala iom6a leo Don cupup pin. loccaip connachc co ccuccpac

hUa

QO1S CR1OSO,
Qoip CpiopD,
Goin ua hujpoin
i

1246.

mfle,

ba ceb, cfchpacha, ape.

oilepinn

mac corhopba mochua, eppcop ecc Raic ae&a mec bpic. loam mac mgppi Do cochc ma lupcfp in Gpmn
airpijab.

an ceoin

fpin

Do

~\

TTluipip

mac

gfpailc DO

Opuim

Ifchain Do lopccaD an bliaDampi.

TTlaoilpeaclamn mac Concobaip puaiD mic muipcfpcaig muirhmj ui Concobaip DO riiapbab la hua nDuBoa, .1. muipcfpcac. ITIuipcfpcac Do ionnapba6

cap muip Dfip an mapbra pin. Sluaijfo DO Dfnam Do TTluipip mac

castle,

jjfpailc

ccip Conaill

-|

e DO cabaipr
Colgan's

near Ballinlough. See note under Sil Maelruain, at the year 1200. Rath-Aedha-mic Brie, now Rahugh, a parish
'

Cluanense aliosque nostros annales."

Acta SS.
This

p. 423, col. 2, notes 30, 31.

St.

Aedh is still vividly remembered at the

in the

barony of Moycashel, about three miles south-east of Kilbeggan, in the county of Westmeath. The name signifies the fort of Hugh the son ofBrec, a saint who founded a monastery there, within a rath or fort, in the sixth century. " Hoec ecclesia est hodie
Parochialis Dioecesis

foot of Slieve League, in the

barony of Banagh, and county of Donegal, on which mountain his

little

The chapel is yet to be seen in ruins. Sainthimself is called in English HughyBreaky

I

He
k

is

also

remembered

at Killare, in the county

of Westmeath, but not here at Kahugh.

Midensis in regione de Kinel-fiacha et denominatione a viro sancto sumpta, vocatur Bathaodha." " Colitur in diversis ecclesiis, ut patronus, ut in Enach-Briuin, in regione Muscragia; in Mo-

John Fite-Geqffry,

i.

e.

Sir John, the son of

Geoffry de Marisco, who had been Lord Justice. Florilegus writes on the depriving of Fitzgerald as follows " Mauritium Hibernian Justiciarium eo quod ficte & tarde auxilium ab Hibernia domino Et-gi
:

monia; Sliebh-lieg in Tirconallia, ubi capella ipsi Rath-aodha in sacra, et solemnis perigrinatio
;

Kinel-Fiacha, et Killaria quas vicus est in regione Midiie qua? Magh-assuil appellatur. Obiit

duxerat periclitanti a Justitiaria deposuit." See Hanmer's Chronicle, Dublin edition of 1 809,
p.

395.

autem

S.

Aidus,

anno 588 juxta

Chronicon

John Fitz-Geoffry de Marisco was appointed

1246.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

slain

317

Randal O'Mulvey was

by the Connacians.

Murtough, son of Maurice,

who was

son of Cathal

Mac Dermot, was

slain

by the men of Breifny. An army was led by O'Donnell (Melaghlin) against the English and Irish of Lower Connaught, and he carried away many cows and other property on
that expedition.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1246.
.

thousand two hundred forty-six

John O'Hughroin, son of the Coarb of Moclnia, Bishop of Elphin, died

in Rath- A edha-mic-Bric'.
k John Fitz-Geoffry came
1
.

to Ireland as

Lord Justice, and Maurice Fitzgerald

was deprived m Drumlahan was burned in

this year.

Melaghlin, son of Conor Roe, the son of Murtough

Muimhneach O'Conor,
after the

was

slain

by O'Dowda (Murtough), who was banished over sea

:

com-

mission of that deed.

Maurice Fitzgerald marched with an army into Tirconnell

Lord Justice of Ireland on the 4th of November,
1245
;

he gave the

to annihilate or reduce to a state of abject slavery

and,

it is

quite clear that

Maurice Fitz-

performed the expedition into Ulster against O'Donnell after he was deprived of his office, notwithstanding Hanmer's assertion to
gerald

the Irish of Desmond; but they received a great check from the fierce and warlike clan of the

Mac Carthys
'

in the year 1261.

the contrary. See the year 1247. Mr. Moore seems to think that Maurice Fitzgerald retired

Deprived, aicpiogao, literally dethroned, or unkinged, that being the term used by the annalists

to express the deposing

of their

own
cor-

from the world immediately after being removed from office. See his History of Ireland,
vol.
iii.

petty kings or chieftains.

m Drumlaltan, opuim

opium I from, but more

i.

p.

21

but

it is

evident from the older

Irish

with the native

Justiciary, for

annals that he continued his struggles Irish, and even with the new

the broad ridge or hill, rectly now generally anglicised Drumlane, a townland and parish, remarkable for the ruins of a church
Iftan,
e.

some years before he retired into the monastery of Youghal. After his removal the Geraldines for some time kept the state of
an independent
their their
sept, supporting themselves by own power, and making war and peace by own authority. They marie mighty efforts

and round

to-.ver, in

the barony of Lough tee and

county of Cavan, and about three miles from the town of Belturbet. St. Mogue, or Maidoc, of
Ferns, is the reputed patron saint and founder of this church, which was monastic ; but Dr. La-

nigan thinks that a monastery had existed here

318
Ifiche

Rioshachca emeawN.
dupe
Conaill Do copbmac

[1247.
uf

mac oiapmaDa mic RuaiDpi

tfic oile.

Concobaip,-]
i

an bpaigoe uf Dorhnaill Do jabail ap

ccaiplen fliccije.

Y\a bpaijDe Do paccbail

maice cenel cconaill Do reace laSamna Do lopccaD boib." Ni po pfopae Dol pop an 50 Slicceac. 6a6un an baile a mbpaijDi ma ppiabnaipi mp na po chpochpac luce an caiplen ccaiplen, 6 TTlmndin oiDe uf Domnaill i a chomDO mullac an chaiplen, leccab

Ua

ooriinaill, .i.TTlaoilpeaclamn

-]

-|

piop

.1.

alca.

Do TTlupchaD ua hanluain ncchfpna na naipffp

bpiain uf nell.

mapbao ap popconjpa

a apgain. afoa uf Concobaip DO gabail Do elub a cpanoij locha Uoippoealbac mac af6a uf Concobaip

Qe6 mac

-[

Ifipi

ip

in pojmap. copbmac ua muipDo gabail Do pi&ipi ap comaipce eabaij i Da ua ainmipeac. Uoippbealbac mp na cabaipc illaim jail a chup ccaiplen acha luain. eppcoip cluana na hunQlbepr almameach aipDeppuc QpDamacha DacpuccaD Docum

Qn

luce coimfoa bof aip Do bdbab Do,

.1.

-|

5 api.

QO13 CR1OSO,

1247.

Qoip CpiopD, mile, Da ceo, cfchpacha apeacc.

Concobop uaTTluipea&ai j eppcop ua ppiacpach ai&ne Do ecc Qeb mac concaillfo abb cluana heoaipp Do ecc.
heojain
pfprnanac Do
-\

mbpipcuma.

TTlaoilpeachlainTi 6 Domnaill cicchfpna chipe Conaill, cenel TTIodin, inpi

~\

pop caomnaccaip pi&e.

before St. Maidoc was born
tical

la TTluipipp mac gfpailc. 6a harhlam po Sluai^fb mop Do cionol la TTluipipp mac gfpailc i

mapbaD

See his Ecclesiasii.

suggestion.

In the old translation of the An-

History of Ireland,
Oriors,

vol.

p.

336, note 122.

n
i.

Lord of the

e.

ciccheapna na naipceap, dominus Orientaliiim, i. e. of the two baro-

passage is rendered thus: " A. D. 1246. O'Hanlon, King of Oirthir, killed, through the persuasion of Brien O'Neal."
nals of Ulster this
P

nies of Orior, in the east of the

magh.
so called

The

county of Arinhabitants of these baronies were

Lough

Leisi.

This name

is

now

obsolete.

from their situation in the east of the

See note under the year 1452, where it is shewn that Lough Leisi was the ancient name of Muc-

territory of Oriel.

kenagh Lough, near the old church of

of

Kilglass,

This word signifies Command, popconjpa order or command, and sometimes request or

in O'Hanly's country, in the east of the

county

Eoscommon.

124?.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

who was

319

half of Tirconnell toCormac, son of Dermot,

son of Eoderic O'Conor,

and obtained hostages from O'Donnell

left in

for the other half.

These hostages he

the castle of Sligo.

O'Donnell (Melaghlin), and the chiefs of the Kinel-Connell, came on AllSaints' day to Sligo, and burned the bawn, but were not able to make their

upon which the people of the castle hanged the hostages in their presence, having suspended them from the top of the castle, i. e. O'Mianain, the tutor of O'Donnell, and [another who was] his foster-brother.

way

into the castle

Murrough O'Hanlon, Lord of

of Brian O'Neill.

the Oriors",

was put

to death

by command"

Hugh, son of Hugh O'Conor, was taken prisoner and plundered.

Turlough, the son of

Hugh
p

O'Conor, made his escape from the Crannog

[wooden house] of Lough Leisi in Autumn, having drowned his keepers, namely, Cormac O'Murray, and the two O'Ainmireachs. He was again taken while
under the protection of the Bishop of Cluain [Clonfert], and, being given up into the hands of the English, was confined in the castle of Athlone.
Albert, the German", Archbishop of Armagh,

was

translated to Hungary'.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1247.

thousand two hundred forty-seven.

at

Conor O'Murray, Bishop of Hy-Fiachrach Aidhne [Kilmacduagh], died

Bristol.

Abbot of Clones, died. Lord of Tirconnell, Kinel-Moen, Inishowen, and Melaghlin O'Donnell, Fermanagh, was slain by Maurice Fitzgerald. He was enabled to accomplish this in the following manner A great army was led by Maurice Fitzgerald,
Conchaille
,

Hugh Mac

Albert,

the

German,

albepc almameach.

See note under the year 1242, and also Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops, p. 66, where it
is

Rath Luraigh [Maghera], was elected to the archbishopric of Armagh.

*

Mac

Conchaille.

This name

is

still

extant

stated that Albert of Cologne resigned his see in 1 247, and died beyond seas.

in the neighbourhood of Clones, in the county of Monaghan, and in the county of Fermanagh,

Under this year (1246) the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster record, that the Bishop of

but anglicised by some

to

Cox, because

it

is

Woods, and by others assumed that Caille, or

to

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la gallaib apcfna 50 piachcatjap Sligeac

[1247-

ap cup, aippme co hfpp ae&a puam

uf

mic babaipn.

Oo beachaib copbrpac mac DiapmaOa nncRuai&pi

t>a
]

Concobaip

ma

ipm cfcaoine lap ppel pfccaip poll inDpin. T?o chionoil ua Dorhnaill cenel Conaill eojam ap a ccinD conap leccpfc jail na gaoibeal
chionol.
~\

peaccmaine on cpar 50 apoile Conib e aipeacc appamicc leo copbmac ua concobaip 50 poclipaibe moip mapcpluaij opaoibfb cpiapan maj piap lompub ap puD an maije pimp ppi bopo an DO neac co painic bel ara culuain pop fipne. Nf moincij poip gan aipiujaD
>if6
-\

rap ach Sfnaij annnn pe

po aipgpfc cenel cconaill nf conup pacacap an mapcpluaig Do Ifir a ccuil cuca Don caob Dia pabacap Don abainn. Soaic laparh ppiu. OD conncacap
cenel Conaill pop an tnapcpluaij canjaDap Do chuca, uaip Do bob Lfpbh leo na caorhpacaoip pppfpoal
goill aipe
i

Ific

a nDpumann

Dib'linib,

Ro

ling-

Coille, the latter part of the

name, may signify

nf a wood, or of a cock. 1 The cataract ofAedh BuadJi, the son o/Badharn. This was the ancient name of the cataract
called the

" untill they saw the great troop of horse on the side of the river where they were. And as they noted the Horse on their backs, the Galls came
over the Ford, so that
killing as

Salmon Leap,

at Ballyshannon, in the

aforesaid."

Mac Maurice had their The meaning of this

which
is

county of Donegal. The name is now pronounced as if written eapa puao, and in English Assaroe,
See note n , under the year
u
1

passage, the language of

so lamely con-

194, p. 99.

structed by the follows. " When

Four Masters, is evidently as it was perceived by Fitzgerald's

Bethought them. Qipeacc means a sudden thought or impulse of the mind. This passage,

party, that they had no chance of being able to cross the ford at Ballyshannon, while the forces of O'Donnell were defending it, they had recourse to the following stratagem, which was

the language of which

is

so rudely constructed

by the Four Masters, is much more clearly, though more briefly, given in the Annals of
Ulster,

and thus rudely Englished in the old

:

suggested by Cormac, the grandson of King Eoderic O'Conor, who had been appointed as chief
of half the territory of Tir-Connell, a short time

translation of these annals " A. D. 1247. Melaghlin O'Donnell,

King of

before,
at the

by Maurice Fitzgerald. Cormac proceeded

head of a strong body of horse
first

and Gilla Munelagh O'Boyl, and Mao Sowerly" [were] " killed by Mac Morris in Belasena. Kindred Conell defended the ford
Tirconnell,
for a

west-

wards, along the plain of Moy-Ketne, so as to make the Kinel-Connell believe that he was re-

neither English nor Irish, untill

whole weeke, that there could not pass Cormac O'Con-

ner used craft at last ; for he carried with

a

him

He then turned uptreating into Connaught. wards, that is, southwards, and proceeded in the direction of Connaught, till he was so far from
those who were defending the ford, that they could

number

of horse along the fields westwards,

and turned again upwards nere the bogs by Easterly, until he came to the ford of Cuil uone

no longer see him, when, wheeling round, he

di-

rected his course eastwards along the margin of the bog, until he arrived, unperceived by the enemy, at the ford of Belacooloon, on the River Erne, u

upon the Erne.

And Kindred

Conell

wot

nothing" [ni po aipi^r-ec Cenel Conuill ni]

1247.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

1

321

and the other English chiefs, first to Sligo, and thence to the Cataract of Aedh Roe, the son of Badharn Cormac, the son of Dermot, who was son of Roderic O'Conor, joined his muster. This was on the Wednesday after the festival of
.

SS. Peter and Paul.

O'Donnell assembled the Kinel-Connell and Kinel-Owen

against them, so that they did not allow a single man, either English or Irish, to cross the ford of Ath-Seanaigh for a whole week. The English then be-

thought them" of sending Cormac O'Conor with a large body of cavalry westwards along the plain, who was to turn southwards through the plain, and
then eastwards along the borders of the bog, unperceived by any one, until he should arrive at Bel-atha-Culuain [a ford] on the Erne. [This was accordand the Kinel-Connell knew nothing of the movement until they ingly done],

saw the body of cavalry advancing on their rear, on their side of the river; they then turned round to them. When the English saw that the attention* of
the Kinel-Connell was directed towards the cavalry who had advanced on their rear", they rushed across the ford against them, being confident that they [the
short distance to the west of Belleek, which

ford he crossed, and being then on the north side of the river, he proceeded towards Ballyshannon, and advanced on the rear of O'Donnell's forces,

Grace's Annals of Ireland this sentence in Latin : " Occurrit O'Donell cum

is

thus

given

suis

ex
eos

tota Kineoil Conaill ad

vadum Athshani,

The

latter,

who were still defending the ford. who had expected no such ma-

cum preterire minime andirent ibidem 7 dies definuit, missus igitur Cormacus cum equitum parte clam ad vadum Cuiluanise, Erne fluminis,
terga hostium aggreditur, qui statim in conversi sunt, &c."

being alarmed at the approach of a large body of fierce cavalry, suddenly turned their faces towards them, to sustain their onset,
noeuvre,

fugam

When Maurice leaving the ford unprotected. that the defenders of the Fitzgerald perceived
ford had turned their faces towards O'Conor's
cavalry, he immediately ordered his troops to cross the ford, and to attack the rear of the

Grace places these events under the year 1242, and Dr. Hanmer under 1245, but both are
evidently wrong.
x

That

the attention,

fyc.

When

the Kinel-

Connell had wheeled round to sustain the onset

enemy, thinking that the forces of O'Donnell would not be able to sustain the attack on both
sides.

of the cavalry, their backs were turned towards Fitzgerald's forces, who were on the south side
of the ford.

In this he was not mistaken ;

for,

although

the Kinel-Connell, on observing his intention,

had sent a party to prevent him from crossing, still he succeeded, and joined O'Conor's cavalry,

upon their rear, an DO leir a nopumann mapcpluaj ranjaoap chuca, i. e, equitatu* qui venerunt a tergo in eos. Here the nominative case to the verb canjcti

Who had

advanced

and both
&c. &c." w On

united

routed the

Kinel-Connell,

oap

is

the relative a, understood, for in ancient

Irish compositions,
their rear,

which the Four Masters

af-

DO letr a ccuil cuca

In

fected to imitate, the verb has a plural termina-

322

ctNNata Rioghachua eirceaNR

[1247.

cconatll in eoipmfoon a mbiobbab lap pfcc an car puppo 50 mbaoap cenel niabab 6oib lompo Da gac Ific. dec cfna po mapbab ua Domnaill ap an

lacaip

an cammuinelac ua baoijill ppiomcaoipeac na ccpf ccuac, maici cenel Conaill apcfna. Ro TTiac porhaiple ncchfpna aipfpjaoi&eal DO plojaib mic jfpailc annpin. I?o baibiD baibic po mapbaiD t>ponj mop
pin,
] )

Dana apaill Dib ap an ppinn bub chuaic pocnaibi oile Don nploij cfccna ccfpmonn Dabeocc ccopai^eacc na ccpeac po cecpfc pfnrtpu im uilliam im T?iDipe occ oile ba Deapb'pacaip DopiDe. Po bpic Sippiam Connacc
)

~]

InnDpeab
cconaill

po haipccfb an cfp leo mppin. T?o paccaibpfo cfnnup cenel 05 RuaiDpi ua cananndin Don cup pin. Gacmapcac 6 cacam cicchfpna ciariacra pfp na cpaoibe po rhapban
~\
]

la

majnup ua ccacain ap nDol Do ap cpec ma

cfp

50 haipchfp rhaije

noailpiaDa.

UoippDealbac mac aoDa uf Concobaip Do elub a hdc luain. TTlilib mac goipDelb Do gabail pfoa Conmaicne caral mag l?anaill Do Diochup epDib luce a gabala DO cpannocc clafnlocha DO jabail Do,
]

~\

-|

coipp&ealbac Da mac af6a ui ConcoDo Diochup meic goipoelb a pmConmaicne. baip DocoimfipjelamajRajnaill l?o gabpaD an cpannocc an loch, T?o Scaoilpfcc caiplen lecce Deip^e
-\
-] i

pdgbail Do innce ua&a pen.

Cacal

parapn oorhnai j

cinci&ipi,

uaip Do chuaiD coipp&ealbac co hoilen na cpinoioe

ap cfnn clapupa mic moilfn an aipcmmj ap ni po pafmpac na goill cocc ap an caipplen amac muna ccfopbaofp ap comaipce an aipcmmj Dm nioohlacab

cap Sionainn anaip co cuam mnd. UanjaDap le clapup lapom, chuipeaD clann goipoelb ap in cfp amac uile.
tion to agree with the relative

~]

po

DIO-

when

its

antece-

Gaels

This
is

is

the

dent

is

number
111.
'

noun of multitude, or of the plural See the Editor's Irish Grammar, part
Coipeac na

Scotland

always called

name by which Argyle in by the Irish writers,

and not Ard-na-Ngaodhal, as O'Flaherty very

erroneously states in Ogygia Vindicated, DedicaSee Colgan's Trias T/iaum., p. 1 15. tion, p. li
b

c. i.

pp. 359, 360.

Chieftain of ike Three Tuathas,

ccpi

ccuac

These were three

territories in the

QfCanannan
it

There

is

not one of this

name

north-west of the county of Donegal. They passed afterwards into the possession of a branch of the Mac who received from them

at present in Tirconnell,

though they were the

Sweenys,

the appellation of
*

Mac Suibhne na
i.

dtuath.

preceding the O'Donnells. An ancient eccleArmoy, aipreap mai^e siastical town in the barony of Carey, in the
ancient chiefs of
c

Argyle, aipep jaoioeal,

e. the district

of the

north of the county of Antrim

See note

",

un-

1247.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

323

Kinel-Connell] would not be able to attend to the attacks of both. The KinelConnell were now in the very centre of their enemies, who had surrounded them on every side. O'Donnell was slain on the spot, as well as the Cammhuinealach [Wry-necked] O'Boyle, the head Chieftain of the Three Tuathas Mac a and other chiefs of the Kinel-Connell. great Sorley, Lord of Argyle number of Fitzgerald's forces were slain and drowned here others of them
,
,

were drowned northwards in the River Finn, and many others at Termon Daveog, in pursuit of preys that fled before them and among the rest William
;

The country Britt, sheriff of Connaught, and his brother, a young knight. was then plundered and desolated by them [the English], and they left the chieftainship of the Kinel-Connell to Rory O'Canannan" on this occasion. Eachmarcach O'Kane, Lord of Kienaghta and Firnacreeva, was slain by
Manus O'Kane,
as far as
after
c

Armoy

having gone on a predatory excursion into his country d in Dal-Riada

.

Turlough, the son of Hugh 0' Conor, made his escape from Athlone. 6 Miles Mac Costello took possession of Feadha Conmaicne and expelled
,

Cathal

Mac

Rannall from thence

left

the

for him,

and he

those

who had

taken

Crann6g of Claenlough was also taken it to guard it for him. Hereupon Cathal

and Turlough, two sons of Hugh O'Conor, rose up to assist Mac Rannall in expelling Mac Costello from Feadha-Conmaicne. They retook the Crann6g and
of Leckderg on the Saturday before Whit-Sunday and Turlough went to Trinity Island, to Clarus Mac Mailin, the Erenagh, for the English were not willing to come out of the castle, except on
the Lake,
castle
;

and demolished the

the condition that the Erenagh would protect and escort them westwards across the Shannon to Tuaim-mnag Soon afterwards they went away with
.

Clarus, and the Clann-Costello were

all

expelled from that country.

bearing this name in the county of Leitrim, but the Down Survey shews " Clean logli" in the
parish of Killarga, in the barony of Dromahaire,

der the year

d

177, p. 33.

Dal-Riada

territory

which compre-

hended that part of the county of Antrim north of Slemmish. SeeUssher's Primordia, p. 1029.
e

Feadha Conmaicne,

i.

e.

the woods of Con-

having the Duff, now Diffagher River, running from it to Lough Allen. This Lough is now
called Belhavel

maicne.

A district,

near the River Shannon, in

the south of the county

Lough, and

is

shewn under

this

Mac Rannall's country, in

of Leitrim.
f

name on
g

the Ordnance Survey of the county of sheet 15. Leitrim,

Claetilovgh

There

is

no lough at present

Tuaim-mna, now Tumna, a parish

in the

2 T 2

324

aNNdta Rio^hachca eiRecmN.

-|

[1247.

Cocca6 mop la coippoealbac mac afoa uf Concobaip la Donnchab mac nnmchaba mic Donnchaba uf jiollapaepaicc Do opppai^ib pop jallaib Connacc. l?o cionoil coippbealbac clanna ciccfpnab Connacc 50 piachcaoap
muinnip pachaib. T?o mapbpae Oaofne lomba. PangaDap appibe 50 caiplen bora gaillme. l?o loipccpfec an baile -| an caiplen. T?o mubaijie Daoine leo im mac Gljec Senepcal Connacc po mapbab la oonnchab mac anmcaba. Leanaib goill iaD lapceam Uuccpace oeabaib
pib ua

noiapmaDa

-)

po mapbab Dponj Oo jallaib, Cooap uaca Da)m6e6m co pangaDop l?o chionoil cpa Siupcan De^fcpa, Clann aoaim, ~[ ^oill cfpa 50 cfpa. coippbealbac poppdccaib coippoealbac an cfp boib 6 na bof coimlion ppiu.
6oib, t)U in

buipjep cinncpachca Do lopccab la ca6g mac concobaip puaiD, -\ la ca&j mac cuacail mic muipcfpraij muimnij, ace cfna nf pnapaDap joill Connacc ppi pe imcen poime pin pamail coccaD na piojoamnab poppa Don cup
pin.

Cona

bof

cuac no cpiocha cfcc DO cpich ^all

Connaccaib jan cpech

jan apccain uabaib.

apD capna DO lopcab la gallaib. pionnjuala injfn RuaiDpi ui Concobaip Do ecc ccunja peclifn. Dua baoi jill Do apccain caipppi, Lomgfpp DO ceacc Do ua Duboa luce luinje Dib Do baDaD occ mpi cuac papp pa ma^nup ua
-j
i

T?opp commain

-\

-\

barony of Boyle, and county of Roscommoii, adArchdall does not joining the River Shannon.
mention
this monastery.

The

castle
i-

ai '^"le >

e-

of Bungalvy, Caiplen bona the castle at the mouth of the

O'Flaherty, in combating the to the tribes enumeof this river
:

In the Irish Calendar

River Gal way.

assertions of

of the O'Clerys, the patron saint of this church is called Etaoin, at the 5th of Thus July. " Gcaom o Cuaimna a le caob maj luipj
:

Ptolemy as

rated

by him, thus speaks

in

"Flu-

vius

occidental!

Connacta; e lacu

Orbsen

ubann 6uiUe, i. e. Etaoin of Tumna, in MoyThis lurg, at the bank of the River Boyle."
virgin
is still

(Lacus Curb) dilabens

nunquam Ausoba aut

vividly

remembered

at this church,

Ausona, nomine innotuit, sed Gaillimh, a quo urbs Celebris, Connact decus, in ostio nomen

and her grave is shewn in the churchyard note under the year 1249.
h

See

Galviam mutuavit."
'

Ogygia, pp. 16, 17.

calls

Mac

Elget.

Mageoghegan

him Mao

O* Gittapatrick.

In Mageoghegan's transla-

tion of the

Annals of Clomnacnoise he
called

correctly

is more mac Anmchie mac Donnogh

Eligott. family of this name, and probably the descendants of this seneschal, settled at

Donnogh Mac
1

Gillepatrick.
i.

Fiodh- Ua-n-Diarmada,

e.

the

wood of the

Bally-Mac-Elligott, near Tralee, in the county of Kerry, where they were highly respectable till the close of the seventeenth century.

territory of Hy-Diarmada, or O'Concannon's country, in the county of Galway.

Buirges Chinntrachta, i. e. the borough at the head of the strand __ That this place was in

124?.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

325

[was kindled] by Turlough, the son of Hugh O'Conor, and Donough, the son of Anmchadh O'Gillapatrick" of Ossory, against the English of Connaught. Turlough assembled the sons of the lords of Connaught, with

A great war

whom

he proceeded to Fiodh-Ua-n-Diarmada' and Muintir-Fahy, where they k slew many persons. From thence they marched to the castle of Bungalvy

[Gal way], and burned the town and the castle. Many persons were destroyed by them, with Mac Elget', Seneschal of Connaught, who was killed by [the afore-

Donough, the son of Anmchadh. The English afterwards pursued them, and gave them battle, in which a number of the English were slain; and the Irish retreated in despite of them into Carra, where Jordan de Exeter, the
said]

Clann-Adam, and the English of Carra, assembled against Turlough. Turlough left the country to them, as he had not forces equal to their's. m son of Connor Roe, and Buirges Chinntrachta was burned by Teige,

The Engson of Murtough Muimhneach. Teige, son of Tuathal, who was lish of Connaught had not for a long time before experienced such a war as
was waged with them by the Roydamnas [the royal heirs presumptive] on this occasion; for there was not a district or cantred of the possessions of the devastate. English in Connaught which they did not plunder" and

Roscommon and Ardcarne were burned by

Finola
,

the English.

daughter of Roderic O'Conor, died at Conga-Fechin [Cong].

;

of

O'Dowda and O'Boyle brought a fleet to plunder Carbury and the crew one ship, under the command of Manus O'Boyle, were drowned at Inis-

Tuathrass".
Connaught, and not lubhar Chinntrachta, now Ulster, no doubt can be entertained,
all probability the ancient name of Burriscarra, which is situated at the north-east

Newry, in It was in

shoulders, was
in Ireland,

Finola, pionnjualu, signifying of the fair common as the name of a woman

till

the latter end of the seventeenth

is

century ; but
P

it

now
i.

entirely obsolete,

extremity of Lough Carra, in the barony of

Carra, and county of Mayo, and where the
lish fortified

Inis-Tuathrass,

e.

the island of the district

Eng-

of the Roses.

There

is

no island

off the coast

themselves in the year 1238. See Tribes, aiut Customs oflly-Fiachrach, Genealogies, pp. 202, 203.
they did not plunder, literally, there was not a tuagh or cantred of the territory of
n

of Sligo, or Donegal, now bearing this name. It was probably the ancient name of Cruit Island,
off the coast of Tuathrass,

now

the district of the

Which

Rosses, in the northwest of the barony of

lagh, in the county of Donegal.

Boylost

The ship of
have been

the English in Connaught, without being preyed and plundered by them."

Manus O'Boyle would seem

to

before she had cleared the coast of Tirconnell.

QNNata Rio^hachca
Uabg mac Concobaip

eireeaHN.
-]

[1248.

puaib Do lopccab mpi moipe claenlocha ochcaji Do lopccab innce. ap pichic Do jallaib TTlamepnp Do ofnorii njaitlirh in aipDepppocoicecc cuama td huilliam
i

bupc njeapna cloinne PiocaipD Do bpairpib .8. ppampeip. Oo ponaDh cuamba&a lomDa la opuing moip DO mairib an baile ip in mamepcip pin. rruabriiurham in epppocoicecr cille Da Lua Do Denarii TTlainipcip Inpe la hua mbpiain conab innre biop abnacal pil mbpiain.
i

Slot jeaD

mop

la TTlac TTluipip

mec geapailc

pa&a
pin

uf Dorhnaill

50 hepp T?uaiD.
-|

Do

la gallaib ap cappaing gopchaoc RuaiDpi 6 canannam 50 ccenel

]

cconaill ina najaib,

po chumainjpfc

nf

Do

ma

Dul peacha pin Don chup

aois crcioso,

1248.

Qoip CpiopD, mile, Da ceD, cfchpaca, a hochc.

DiapmaiD ua cuana Saccapr mop

rhoip.

oile pinn

DO ecc

-\

a aDnacal

ccill

ua cfpbaill DO ecc. Do mapba6.Do giollamocoinne ua cacail. Opichm 5uep Coimfipje DO Dfnarh Do riiac majnupa -] Do mac Concobaip puaib iompu6 Doib pop jallaib. Caiplen meic enpg, .1. piapup pufp DO lopccao Doib i a conpcapla Do jabail, Cpeaca cuaipcipc umaill Do bpfir leo ap
TTlaijipDip gillbepc
-|

inpib mo6, T?o chionoil Siupcan De^ecpa, Seon buicilep,

Pobbfn laiglep
reap.

-|

Daoine imDa immaille ppiu

j;o

Uanjaoap 50

baile copaip paccpaicc aippibe

-]

hachab pabaip.
Claenlough

T?o aipccpioo

umall ap nabapach chuaic

rally,
'

This cannot be the Lough Cleane

they were not able to do aught to him.

in the parish of Killarga, in the

county of Lei,

trim above mentioned in note

because that

Or to proceedfurther, oul peaca pm, literally, " to go beyond that," i. e. beyond Assaroe, at
Ballyshannon.
u

lough contains no island. There is another lake which anciently bore this name near Castlebar, in the county of Mayo.
r

0''Cuana __ This

name

is

now

Anglicised

Cooney.

Race of Brian, pol mbpiain,

i.

e.

of the

Kilmore,

i.

e.

the church

of Kilmore na

race of Brian

Borumha, Monarch of Ireland. These are the O'Briens of Thomond, and all the branches that shot off from them. s Were unable, ni po cumain 5r ft "i GO, lite-

Sinna, to the north-east of the

x

Inse Modka,,

town of Elphin. named from Modha, one of the

a clus-

Clann

Hua Mor,

a tribe of the Firbolgs,

ter of islands in

Clew Bay, between the baronies

1248.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

327

Teige, the son of Conor Roe, burned Inishmore in Claenlough", on which occasion twenty-eight of the English were also burned. monastery was founded in Galway, in the archdiocese of Tuam, by

William Burke, Lord of Clanrickard, for Franciscan

were erected in
this

friars.

Many tombs

monastery by the chief families of the town. The monastery of Ennis, in Thomond, in the diocese of Killaloe, was founded by O'Brien, and in this monastery is the burial-place of the race of Brian'. great army was led by the son of Maurice Fitzgerald and the English to

Ballyshannon], at the desire of Godfrey O'Donnell. Rory O'Canannan, with the Kinel-Connell, came against them, and the English were unable*

Assaroe

[at

to

do him any

injury, or to

proceed furthur' on that occasion.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1248.

thousand two hundred forty -eight.

Dermot O'Cuana",
Kilmore".

the great priest of Elphin, died, and

was buried

at

Master Gilbert O'Carroll died.

Guer was slain by Gilla-Mochoinne O'Cahill. The son of Manus and the son of Conor Roe rose up together against the The castle of Mac Henry, i. e. of Piers Poer, was burned by them, English. and its constable was taken prisoner. They carried the spoils of the north of Umallia along with them to [the islands called] Inse Modha*. Jordan de Exeter, John Butler, Robin Lawless, and many others, assembled, and marched
(

)pichin

to Bally toberpatrick",

and from thence

to

Aghagower*

and, on the next day,

The author of the

of Murrisk and Erris, in the county of Mayo.

y

St. Patrick's rick or stack.

Battytoberpatrick, 6aile Copaip pacrpuicc,

Tripartite Life of St. Patrick thus speaks of

this place

now

called Ballintober.

village in the ba-

"
:

rony of Carra, in the county of Mayo, where the ruins of an abbey founded in the year 1189 or
1190, by Cathal Crovderg, King of Connaught, are still to be seen in good preservation.
'

que in Umalliam quse

dentalis ConnacisB.

Progressus Patricius pervenit usest regio maritima occiIbi extructse Ecclesise

de

Achadh fobhair prasfecit, et iu Episcopum consecravit S. Senachum virum vita? innocentia &
animi submissione longe celebrem." Lib. ii. c. And again " His peractis descendit de 62.
:

Aghagower,
in the

Qcab paBaip, a parish church of Murrisk, county Mayo, east of barony

Cpuacphaopaij,
or

the famous mountain called

monte (Cruach Patraic)

Patricius, ac in ecclesia

328

QNNaca Rio^hachca emeaNR

in

[1248.

Gnpf Dana mop pluaieab

aiccpeabab.

urhall (Dia rip bubfn) uaip

ap mnce

boi

majnupa. DO cum Dula ap a bpaicpib.

poijne Din piapup puep mac 6npf Sic pe Dorhnall mac T?o jeall Dana Dorhnall 50 cciobpab pocpaiDe -] apcpaiji DO

Oo

mac na ^cullp ^ 6 1 Seon mac an gall pacaipc. 17o mapba6 beop la DiapmaiD mac majnupa ap an ccoimfpji pin Sfnoicc guep Dpong Dia muincip amaille pip. Rob e pin an caicfp jan aichfp uaip po mapbaD an cuingiD calma i an caippiD lopgaile Diapmaio mac majnupa ip in maijin pin. UaDcc mace Concobaip puaiD DO mapbaD la jallaib. 6a mop cpa abuac
-|

Concobaip imoppo Do baoop ap inpib moD, Do poillpicchfb boib p ocpaiDe DO 6ul o mac Gnpi a ccoinne apcpaijfo Do cum oomnaill. lap na piop fin Da cloinn uf Concobaip looap T?ompo jup mapbab leo o huain
uf

Oala mac

.1.

an caiDj pin pop gallaib 61 ob 50 ppudip a aioheaD.

1 imeacclu

gaomealaib Doneoc Do biob na aghaib

i

SluaijeaD la TTluipip aipccrie DO Dfnam laip.

-\

mac

gfpoilc

ccip conaill.

Cpeaca

ai&ble, upcha,
i

Gojain
ui

RuaiDpi ua cananndin Do lonnapbaD bo ccenel cicchfpnup cenel cconaill Do paccbail 05 goppaib mac DomnaiU

Domnaill.

Sluaiccheab Do bfnarh la cenel neojain

Dopibipi 50
~|

canannain

ccugpao cac Do joppaib Ruaibpi i lomaD ina pocaip Don coipc pin. Sluaicchfb oile la lupcip na hfpeann ccenel neojain 50 hua nell. Ctppi comaipli DO ponpaD cenel eojain annpin bpaijoe Do cabaipc uaca o DO
.1.
i

hua ccananndm cap Conaill Do cenel cconuill jup mapbab ua

-\

la

buf nfpc gall pop jaoibealaib Gpfnn,

-\

pic DO

ofnam
-|

piu

cap cfnn a ccfpe.

Qp

Don cup pin Do ponpac goill Dpoichfc na banna

a

caiplen

Dpoma

caip-

picch.
de Achadh-fobhair reliquam paschaj celebravit solemnitatem." Colgan has the following note
Umallia, north

and

south

North Umallia

is

on

its

col. b,

situation, in Trias Thamn., p. 178, note 118: " Ecclesia de Achadhfobhair

the present barony of Burrishoole, and south Umallia is the barony of Murrisk. The former
is

called

est Diocesis

Tuamensis

nensis

in

Connacia.

Comitatus MageoEt licet hodie sit tanet

and the

Umhall iochtrach, or lower Umhall, latter, Umhall Uachtrach, or upper

Irish,

Umhall, by the

and both " the Owles"

turn parrochialis, & caput ruralis Decanatus, iuit olim sedes See Genealogies, Episcopalis."
Tribes,

by
b

English writers.

Lord

Justice

According to the Dublin

and Customs of Hy-Fiac/track, printed

for
h
.

the Irish Archaeological Society, p. 150, note

copy of the Annals of Innisfallen, this expedition against O'Neill was performed by Theobald

1248.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

1

329

they plundered Umallia north and south'

into Umallia (his

Henry came with

was

numerous army
Pierce Poer,

peace with Donnell, son of Manus, and Donnell promised that he would give him men and vessels to attack his kinsmen.
the son

own of Henry, made

country), for his residence

there.

who were on the [islands of] Inse Modh, they received information that a body of men had gone from the son of Henry to Donnell, for the purpose of bringing his ships and O'Conor's sons, [Poer] on learning this, went forth and killed O'Huain, son of the Englishwoman,
to the sons of O'Conor,
;

As

and John, the son of the English priest. In the affray, Sinnott Guer, and a of his people, were also slain by Dermot, the son of Manus but this was a victory without triumph, for Dermot himself, the son of Manus, that

number

and stay in battle, was killed on the spot. Teige, son of Conor Roe, was killed by the English. This Teige had been the dread and terror of such of the English and Irish as were opposed to him up to his death. An army was led by Maurice Fitzgerald into Tirconnell, where he engaged in conflicts and committed He banished great depredations and plunders.
valiant hero

Rory O'Canannan

into Tyrone,

and

left

the lordship of Kinel-Connell to God-

frey, the son of Donnell O'Donnell.

body of forces and marched into Tirconnell, and gave battle to Godfrey and the Kinel-Connell, on which expedition Rory O'Canannan and many others were slain. Another army was led by the Lord Justice 6 of Ireland into Tyrone, against
a
O'Neill.

The Kinel-Owen and O'Canannan mustered

The Kinel-Owen held

a council, in

which they agreed

that, as the

English of Ireland had, at this time, the ascendancy over the Irish, it would be advisable to give them hostages, and to make peace with them for the sake of
their country.
It

was on

this expedition that the

English erected the bridge

of the
Butler,
e

Bann, and the

who was
is

castle of

Druim

Tairsigh".
" A. D. 1248.
land
to

then the Lord Justice.

An army by

the Galls of Ire-

The bridge of the Bann, bpoicfc na banna.

not the bridge
at Coleraine.

This

now

called Banbridge,

Culraghan, and [they erected] the bridge of the Banna, and the castle of Drom-

in the county of

Down, but

Lower Bann

a bridge on the In the old translation

is

of the Annals of Ulster this passage follows

:

given as

and a dwelling at Drom." In the Dublin copy of the Tairsigh Annals of Ulster, the passage is given thus:
tarsy,
d

Druim

A. D. 1248. lupoir- no henenn bo oul rluaj

330

Rioghachca emecwN.

[1248.

ua nell ciccheapna chipe heojain 6 loch Qpcpaiji Do cabaipc la bpian Da beocc 50 pamicc loc neipne 50 noepna peabail maj nice cap cfpmann
i

jup bpipp caiplen ann. Cortmaicne mapa uile Dapccain Do jallaib. "fiaill DO bul pop pluai^eab pochai&e Do DO com ui plaichbepcaij. mai&m Do cabaipc Do poppa

cpeaca Dioaipme

-|

mapbao

61 ob.

an caiccleipeac (.1. cijeapna 6 all Dapbile co ITluipceapcac ua oubDa .1. la mac pe&limiD uf concobaip. cpaij) DO mapbaD Uilliam bupc DO ecc papraib. copp DO cabaipc co heipinn -| a aonai

cal in ac ipeal.

ppanc DO 6ul co hiepupalem DO copnarh na cpiopDaiDeachoa. loan cpnal DO mapbaD la jiollu na naerh ua bpfp^ail. na pomanac Do canpeblimiD mac cacail cpoibDeipg DO cabaipc paca
T?)

dnchaib
1
.p.

cille

moipe cpe popconjpa cai&j

ui

mannacdin an onoip naem muipe

aujupcfn.

Qmlaoib mac cacail piabaij uf puaipc DO mapbaD la concobop cappac mac DonnchaiD cpe cangnachc. pacchapcac ua oobailen ciccheapna an copainn Do ecc.
RaighneD aipDeppcop apoa macha Do cecc on poim lap ccabaipc pallium laip, i aipppionn DO paba Do leip a bpeil peoaip, i poll in apornacha.
50 cul pacain,
7 caiplen 7 opoiceao DO oenum 66iB ag opuim raippic, L e. " The Justiciary of Ireland went to Coleraine with an army, and a

repaired.
e

Vessels

These were

cots,

or small boats,

bridge and a castle were built by them at Druim

thairsich."

which were carried by land on the shoulders of men, to be launched on lakes for plundering
islands.

no place on the River Bann now called Druim Tairsigh, or Drumtarsy but there

There

is

of the Annals of Ulster, but

This passage is not in the Dublin copy it is thus given in

the old translation:

can be no doubt that

it

was on the western side

According to 1291), there was

"A. D. 1348. Shipping Brian O'Nell, Archking of all the brought by

North of Ireland, from Lochfevail
over Termon Daveog to
to
to Moynitha,
till

of that river, opposite Coleraine.

Pope Nicholas's Taxation

(in a parish of Drumtarsi, in the diocese of Derry, which must be somewhere about Killowen, as it
is

Logh Derge,

he came

Lough Erne, until he made a great prey and

broke a castle .there."

called

mentioned between Camus and Dunbo.

In

the year 1347, Donald O'Kenalar was parson of Drumtarsny, in the diocese of Derry ; and, in
1

Termon-Daveog is now Termon Magrath, and its church was situated on an island in Lough Derg, near Pettigoe, in the

county of Donegal.

382, the castle of Druntarcy was ordered to be

1248

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

6

331

Brien O'Neill, Lord of Tyrone, brought vessels [small boats], from Lough f he reached Lough Foyle into Magh-Ithe and across Termon Daveog, until
,

Erne, where he committed great depredations, and demolished a castle. The entire of Conmaicne-mara [Conamara] was plundered by the English. The English went upon an expedition against O'Flaherty, who defeated them,

and

killed

numbers of them.
that
is,

Murtough O'Dowda,

the Aithchleireach,

country extending from Kildarvilla* to Felim O'Conor.

Lord of the tract of the Strand, was killed by the son of

William Burke died in England.

His body was brought over to Ireland,

and buried

at Athassel".

The King
John

of France went to Jerusalem in defence of Christianity. Tyrrell was slain by Gilla-na-naev O'Farrell.

na-Romhanach'

Felim, son of Cathal Crovderg, gave, by order of Teige O'Monahan, Rathto the canons of Kilmore, in the honour of the Blessed Virgin
St.

Mary and
Carrach

Augustine.

AulifFe, son of Cathal

Reagh O'Rourke, was treacherously

slain

by Cathal

Mac Donough.

Faghartach 0' Devlin, Lord of Corran [in the county of Sligo], died. Raighned*, Archbishop of Armagh, came from Rome, bringing with him a pallium, in which he said Mass at Armagh on the festival of SS. Peter and
Paul.
f

Lough Foyle

Irish gave the

extent of
Lifford.
lies to

into Moy-Ithe The ancient name of Lough Foyle to the whole water from the mouth of the lake to

Tireragh, in the counties of

h

Mayo and

Sligo.

Athassel,

ac

ipeal,

i.

e. the

low ford.

A vil-

They had no River

is

Foyle.

Magh Ithe

lage situated in the barony of Clanwilliam, in the county of Tipperary, on the west side of

the west of what

now

called the River

the River Suir, where William Fitz-Adelm de

Foyle.
s

Burgo founded
i.

KildarvUla, cill oaipbile,

e. the

church of

a very ancient church in south of the parish of Kilmore, in the bathe

St. Dervilla,
is

This

a priory for canons regular of the order of St. Augustine. See Ware and Archdall.
'

Rath-na-Romhanach

is

the

name

of a town-

rony

of Erris,

and

county of Mayo.
is

The

strand here alluded to

Traigh Eothaile, Tiear Tanrego, in the county of Sligo, which formed

the eastern boundary of O'Dowda's country at this period. This O'Dowda was chief of the entire of the

land in the parish of Kilmore in the territory of Tir-Briuin na Sinna, of which O'Monahan was
chief at this period.
It is now called in English See Ordnance Survey of the

Rathnarovanagh.

baronies

of Erris,

Tirawley, and

county of Roscommon, sheet 17k His real name was Reiner. Raighned.

For

u2

332

cnwata Rioshachcci emeaNR

aois crcioso,
1249.
naof.

[1249.

Qoip CpiopD, mile, Da ceo, cearpacac a

TTlaolmuipe ua lachrnam aipDeppcop ruama,
ecc
ip in
-]

maijipDip a ccanom DO

ngeimpeaD gap beacc pia noDlaicc.

gilla gep

Gnopiap mac
TTlaolciapain

comopba pecin

Decc.

ua lenacain uapal paccapc ruama mna, peap cije aoi6ea6 ruair to ecc ap plicchiD 05 Oul 50 hapocapna coiccinn iDip eacclaip in aome pe lucchnapaD a a&nacql 50 huapal onoDeipDeacc penmopa ip pac in oilen na cpmoioe pop loch ce. Conn ua plannacain ppioip cille moipe na pionna Do ecc. TTiop injfn DonncaiD uf DubDa bfn an jiollu muinelaij ui baoijill DO ecc. UaDg ua mannacain ciccheapna ua mbpium na pionna Do ecc an pepeaDh la Do mf luin i a a&nacal ccill moip na pionna.
-\

~|

CoccaD mop
Deapmurhan.

-|

uilc

iom6a DO

Denarii

Do

pmm

mag capcaij ap

gallaib

Piapup puep mac Gnpi, oabic

DO coiDeachc le mac peopaip
i

pocaiDe DO jillib occa amaille piu cconnaccaib co caiplen pliccij. Qocuap DO

rpiu,
-\

mac peolimiD

concobaip innpin 50 rcucc aippcip oppa. peacaip oeabam airjep fcoppa 50 ccopcaip piapup puep -\ Dabic cpiu amaille le Dpuing Dona jillib occa pempaice "] puccab a ccuipp co hfpp oapa Da naDnacal.
ui

Imrupa mac peolimiD

lappin

ramie poime 50 cip piacpac

i

chpiche mic peopaip gup lomaipcc

6 rhuaiD co cpaicch neoruile

ap puD an rpaoip.
-]

account of this archbishop, whose surname

or country has not yet been

was built by the family of Lenaghan.

The

determined, see

name

Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops, p. 66. returned from Rome in the year 1247.
1

He

extant in the parish. Gitta- Muinelack Boyle, i. e. the wife of Gilla

is still

A proficient
By

Cammhuinelach, or the wry-necked, O'Boyle,

in the canon law, maijipcip a

who was
1247.
p

slain at

Ballyshannon,

in

the year

ccanom
">

this is

meant that he was an emiabbot of Cong, in the

g

nent canonist. Coarb of Fee/tin, county of Mayo.

n
i.

e.

war. This passage could not rendered into English. The reader literally may form an idea of the construction by the

Made a great

be

See note , ad an. 1248, p. 323. a tradition in the neighbourhood of Carrick-on-Shannon, that the chapel of Toomna

Tuam-mna.
is

" Bellum following Latin version:

magnum

et

There

mala multa facta sunt per Florentium Mac Carthy in Anglos Desmonije."

1249-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

333

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1249.

thousand two hundred forty-nine.

proficient in the

Mulmurry O'Laghtnan, Archbishop ofTuam, a

died in winter, a short time before Christmas. Andreas Mac Gillager, Coarb of Fechin m died.
,

canon law

1 ,

Mulkieran O'Lenaghan, a noble priest of Tuam-mnan who kept a house of hospitality for the clergy and the laity, died on the way as he was going to Ardcarne, to hear a sermon, on the Friday before Lammas, and was interred with pomp and honour on Trinity Island, in Lough Key.
,

Conn O'Flanagan, Prior of Kilmore of the Shannon, died. More, daughter of Donough O'Dowda, and wife of Gilla-Muinelach
O'Boyle
,

died.

Teige O'Monahan, Lord of Hy-Briuin-na-Sinna, died on the 6th day of June, and was buried at Kilmore-na-Sinna.

Fineen
inflicted

Mac Carthy made a many evils upon them.

great

war p on the English of Desmond, and

Pierce Poer, the son of Henry, David Trew, and a number of young men, The went, along with Mac Feorais", into Connaught, to the castle of Sligo.

son of Felim O'Conor marched to meet them, and a fierce battle was fought, in which Pierce Poer, David Trew r and many of the youths aforesaid, were
,

slain

and their bodies were, carried

to the son of Felim,

to Ballysadare for interment.

As

he proceeded after this to Tireragh, and through

Mac

Feorais's country,
q

which he entirely plundered from the

Harbour

Moy

to Traigh Eothuile-

Mac Feorais, now pronounced Mac Keorish, the initial p being aspirated. This was the Irish surname assumed by the Berminghams from
ham,
p.
r

See his Ethnography of the Celtic Race, O'Flaherty thus speaks of this river, Ogygia, p. 165: "MuadusAdamsect. xii. par. 2.

Feorus, or Piarus, the son of Myler Bermingtheir ancestor. See Harris's Ware, vol. ii.
59-

nano Moda, Moadus Giraldo Cambrensi, Calgano Muadius, Moy Anglis, unde Moyus Waraeo
e

Lugnia

districtus

Sligoensis

in

Galengam
ingrediens

Mageoghegan writes the name David Drew, in his translation of the Annals of
Clonmacnoise.

David Trew

Mayonensem dimanat, utrumque comitatum disterminat,

goensi,

& oceanum

Tirficria Sli-

&

Tiramalgad Mayoensi ultra citraque

Tliaum., p. 374, col.

The Moy, This river is the Moda of Adamnan, which Dr. Prichard takes to be Wexford

positis."

Thus Colgan, Trias

334

eiraeciNR
gejioicin

[1249.

mac peopaip iao co pu$ ap DonncaD mac majjnupa gup nci juin i bepceap e 50 Dun concpeacpfccnaijeaD e laip. ^aBcap beop lap cam. Leanaipp mac pet>limi6 iaD lapom 50 crucc mac magnupa leip lap
Leanaipp

mapbab gepoiccm.

TTlac

manupa

Do ecc lapom DO bicin an tuic

i

pin

-|

ba

moipeapbaib epibe. TTlac muipip DO cionol pocpaioe 50 ccainicc ineo ap a puce Dona cpeachaib Do mac peDlimib.

cconnaccaib gup ben an OD cuala peolimiD mac

cacail cpoiboeipj cionol na ngall Do beic ina compoccup cap ep na

mop

olc

DO poijne a mac oppa app

in mbpeipni, pionainn poip ip

comaiple DO pinne a imipceacha Do cop cap

i
i

goill

piol

ccuaipceapc eipeann. 'CionoilipDinan lupcfp mibe i laijfn 50 ccaimcc pluaj mop poirhe cap achluam, aippiDe mac muipip Don leic apaill, joill connacc i muman muipeaDaij
-| ~\

mapaon
pil

Cangaoap na pluaispi DO jach caoib 50 hoilpinn mp milleab muipeaoaij pompo 50 pin, i cuccpac cuca coippbealbac mac aoba mic
pip.
:

note 35

" Moda fluvius est Connacise

Celebris,

there

vulgo Muaidh & nobis Latine Moadus

sive

Mua-

is no plural noun in the previous part of This is the sentence to which it could refer.

dus appellatus." c oruile an cpaoip, C|iaij

Eothuile the
artifex,

to be attributed to the carelessness or

i.

want of

e.

the

strand of

anciently called cpaij an caipnand cpaijl?uipaip5i&. very large strand

the writers, perhaps to both, not to any imperfection in the language, for nothing could
skill in

be easier than to set the sentence right by introducing pocpaioe instead of iao.
x

in the

county of Sligo, near Ballysadare. It is thus described by O'Plaherty, Ogygia, p. 174,

note 3 " Traigh an chairn, hodieTraighe eothuile in Sligoensi agro, littus marinutn, ubi congeries
:

Dun

Contreathain,

now

Donaghintraine,

lapidum (unde Traigh- an-chairn dictum videtur) etiamnum conspicitur in medio littore semper
fluctibus niirabiliter eminens." This earn
called Cairgin mor,
is

townland in the parish of Templeboy, in the barony of Tireragh, and county of Sligo. See and Ordnance Map of that county, sheet 12
;

Genealogies,
rach, p. 283.

Tribes,

and Customs of Hy-Fiach-

now
it is

and

it is

believed that

never covered by the

u

tide.
i.

As much of the preys, that is, as much as he could catch of those preys which the son of Fe3

Gereoitin

Mac

Feorais,

e.

little

Garrett

Bermingham.

Mageoghegan

calls

him Gerdin

lim had driven away from Tireragh, then in the possession of the Berminghams.
z

Bremyngham,

in his translation of the Annals

The Lord

Justice.

This passage

is

well

of Clonmacnoise, under this year. w Them, iao. The most- remark able imperfection in the style of these Annals is in the manage-

translated as follows in Mageoghegan's Annals

of Clonmacnoise under this year. " The Deputie of Ireland assembled together
all

ment of the personal pronouns. The leading nomiis the son o/Felim, and yet the writer suddenly introduces iuo, them, though

the English of

Meath" [and] " Lynster, and

native in this sentence

with them came to Athlone, from thenee to Silemoreye. Mac Morishe was of the other side, with

1249.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Gereoitin

335

an-tsaoir.
forces],

Mac

Feorais" pursued them"

[i.

e.

the sonofFelim and his

overtook Donough, the son of Manus, and wounded him; he was also taken, after being wounded, and led captive to Dun Contreathain*. The son of Felim afterwards followed them, killed Gereoitin, and rescued and carried with

him the son of Manus, who afterwards died of his wounds.

He was

a great loss.

[Fitzgerald] mustered an army, and, proceeding into Contook from the son of Felim as much of the preys" as he could overtake. naught, When Felim, the son of Cathal Crovderg, heard that an English muster was in his neighbourhood, and reflected on the great injuries which his son had

Mac Maurice

he adopted the resolution of sending his moveable proeastwards across the Shannon into Breifny, and into the north of Ireland. perty The Lord Justice z then assembled the English of Meath and Leinster, who

done

to the English,

marched

a great

army

Murray; and Mac

across [the bridge of] Athlone, and thence into SilMaurice [Fitzgerald], on the other side, had with him the

English of Connaught and Munster.

all

Both these armies, having

first

plundered

the forces of the English of Connought and Both armies mett at Alfyn, destroying and spoyleing all Silmorey to that place,

before them, the Sheriff and Englishmen desired

Munster.

them, in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose day then was, to forbear with them that
day, which the said Irish Nobility refused to give any respect, either in honour of the Blessed Virgin or holie roode ; they assaiilted the towne

from whence they came to Terlagh Mac Hugh Mac Cahall Crovederg, who being come, was by

them made King of Connought instead of Felym

Mac

Cahall Crovederg.

and spoyled the lands of Brenie, and

They afterwards preyed also made

many

great hurts in that contrey, and conveighed their preys along with them; remained twenty nights at Silemorey, ruining and de-

which Jorand Englishmen seeing, they rushed forthe to meet with the said Irishmen, where the Virgin Mary wrought midan de Exetra, the
Sheriff,

against the will of the said Terlagh,

raculouslie

against the said Nobility.

When

stroying that Contrey, they took with them the spoyles of Loghke, Carrick, and their
Islands. The Deputy returned to Meath, Mac Morish to Sligoe, and Terlagh O'Connor was left then in Connought, to ward and defend

the Irish Nobility saw the Englishmen, well apoynted with harness, armes, and shirts of
mail,

make towards them, they were daunted

and presently
dis-

and

affirigted at their sight

comfitted.
killed in

Silemorey.

Hugh mac Hugh O'Connor was that pressence, Dermott roe Mac Cor-

"The
rie,

Nobility of Connought went to Athento prey and spoyle that towne, on the day of

our Lady the Blessed Virgin Mary, in the middest of harvest. There were there a great army, with
Terlagh mac Hugh,
with

mac O'Melaghlyn, the two sons of O'Kellie, Bryen-an-Dery Mac Manus, Carridc an Tivall mac Neal O'Connor, Boythgalagh mac Keigaii,
the son of Dermott Bacagh O'Connor, the two sonns of Loghlyn O'Connor, Donell mac Cor-

many

the Sheriff of Connoght, Englishmen, were in the said towne

mack mac Dermodda, Finnanagh mac Brannan,

336

CINNCK,CI

reioshachca eiraeaNN.

[1249.

l?o aipcccacail cpoibDeips jup piogpaD 6 an iona6 peobmiD mic carail. uilc lomba innce Da jjac aipo. 'Cuccpfcc cpioc bpepni laparii. Do ponpac laib piol muipea&aig paD cpeaca Dipimi eipDi. 6aDap piche omche jona an cappac immaille piii. Do loc ce gona oilenaib 50 milleaDjupaipccpioD cuam cpa an uipcip ipm miDi mppm i mac muipip 50 plicceac. paccbam coippoealbac 05 coirheO pil muipeabai^. Sluaiccheab la piojbarhnaib connacc, coippbealbac aeo Da rhac aeba mic carail cpoiboeipg 50 hac na piog Da lopccab i Da lomapccain im pel in baile ap a ccionn, joill muipe nne&on pojrhaip. baoi pippiam connacc ip na joill caipDi an laoi pin ap cloinn pij connacr lom&a ma pocaip. lappaiD an onoip naerh tnuipe pa pel bof ann. Nocan puaippfc pin uacha. 5 lOea ^
i

-|

.1.

-\

-|

bof coippbealbac

nocap Dampac ga croipmeapc im an mbaile DionnpaijiD, an cpluaij gan a paijiD Da airiibeoin. Oo connaipc piupcdn 50 uaiple amac ccoinne an cploij, iaD apmca njallaib pin cangaoap ap ip mbaile uiprheacachc occbaiD an cpluai^ apaill ga cpa eacclu
-\
i

-j

eoijce.

^abaip

-]

meabpao pompo cpe miopbaibb mop muipe pa pel map DiulcpaD an caipDe DO hiappaD oppa. 17o mapbaD Da maicib ipuiDe aeD mac ae&a ui concobaip, DiapmaiD puaD mac copbmaic ui maoilpeaclainn, Da mac ui ceallaij, bpian an Doipe mac
hpaicpin parhlaiD

ma

ccoipijcib cara lonnup gup

majnupa, cappac in piubail mac nell ui concobaip, baor^alac mac ae6accam, Da mac lochlamn ui concobaip. Oorhnall mac copbmaic meic Diapmaoa, an pionnanac mac bpandin, cumurhan mac cappaplaij;, i apaill
immaille
piu.
.1.

mac anmcaoa mic DonncaiD Dopppaijib OonncaD ua jiollapaccpaicc DO mapbaD la sallaib. 17o blijhpioD joill innpm, uaip ba mop po mapb, po
Cowmowan mac
"

Cassurley, with

many more,

macnoise.

were killed in that place." Twenty nights days, piche oioche 50 na " IdiB, literally, twenty nights with their days."
b

"

Donnogh mac Anmchy mac Dormogh mac

companie thatever

and

Gillepatrick, the besthead of a

The rock

Mac Dermot's

castle in

Lough

descended of Ossei^e, of the race of Colman mac Brickne high" [recte 6icne caoic], " or Scanlan

Key, in the barony of Boyle, and county of Eos-

common.
c

mac Kynfoyle down, for manhood, vallour, and bounty, was killed by the Englishmen of Forgip,
as

Truce, caipoe, literally, respite.

Donough CPGillpatrick. This passage is given as follows in Mageoghegan's Annals of Clon-

for

he deserved of the English divers times before, he killed, preyed, and burnt many anEnglish-

man before that day. Donnogh was the third Irish-

1249.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

337

Sil-Murray on their route, proceeded to Elphin, and, having sent for Torlough, son of Hugh, who was son of Cathal Crovderg. they elected him King in the
of Cathal. They afterwards plundered Breifny, and place of Felim, the son committed many injuries there in every direction, and carried away from thence

innumerable
ing
it,

spoils.

so that

They were twenty nights* and days in Sil-Murray rav$gb they plundered Lough Key, with its islands, and also the Rock
.

Sligo, leaving of Sil-Murray. charge Torlough An army was led by the Roydamnas [heirs presumptive] of Connaught, namely, Turlough and Hugh, two sons of Hugh, the son of Cathal Crovderg,
in

The Lord Justice then went

to

Meath, and the son of Maurice to

on Lady Day in mid-autumn, to burn and plunder it. The sheriff of Connaught was in the town before them, with a great number of the English.
to Athenry,

The English demanded

Connaught, in

a truce for that day from the sons of the

King of
;

honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary, it being her festival day but this they did not obtain from them and although Turlough forbade his troops to assault the town, the chiefs of the army would not consent, but
;

determined to make the attack, in spite of him. When Jordan and the Engsaw this, they marched out of the town, armed and clad in mail, against the Irish army. The youths of the latter army, on seeing them drawn up in
lish

battle array,
this

were seized with fear and dismay, so that they were routed and was through the miracles of the Blessed Virgin Mary, on whose festival
;

Of their chiefs they had refused to grant the truce demanded from them. were here killed Hugh, son of Hugh O'Conor Dermot Roe, son of Cormac
;

O'Melaghlin, the two sons of O'Kelly Brian an Doire, the son of Manus Carragh Inshiubhail, son of Niall O'Conor Boethius Mac Egan the two sons
; ;

of Loughlin O'Conor

Donnell, son of Cormac

d

Mac Dermot Finnanach Mac

;

Branan

Cumumhan Mac

Cassarly, and others besides.

,

Donough
the English
;

0'Gillapatrick

i.

e.

the son of

Anmchadh, son of Donough, one

of the Ossorians, was killed

for,

up

to that

by the English. This was a retaliation due to time, he had killed, burned, and destroyed many
son of

man

that [most] war'd against the Englishmen,

Anmchy

in his

own

person, did use to

after the first footing in this land, viz.,

Connor

Ian,

O'Melaghlyn, Connor of the Castles Mac Coghand this Donnogh mac Aimichy; for the

goe to take view of the Englishmen's towns and forts, in the habbitt of a poor man, carpenter,
turner, or other tradesman."

338

avwata Rioshacea eiReaNN.

.1.

[1250.

loipcc i po lepionnaip biob 50 pin.

bahe an Donncab pa an cpeapp jaoi&eal

bub mo Dpojlab oppa,

mac

cochlain

~\

TTlac

Concobap ua maoilpeaclainn, Concobap naccaiplen anmchabha an bonncab pa. Oip ap e cejeab Do bpac
.1.
i

ccpuc bume boicc, no paofp no ropnopa, no ealabna, no,oo bfnarh cepoe cfnnaiji, amail po pai&fo.
na mbailceab mapccab 616 na Shaep, bib na copnoip, 616 mo laoj na leabpoip
616 05 pec pfona ip cpoicionn,

map a
Oun

bpaicfnn pe pfpmoin.

,mop Do lopccab to cloinn pij Connacr. Sluaiccheab la hua noomnaill, .1. goppaio in loccap

1 gup lomaipcceab laip 6 coipppbab co muaib co ccamicc plan lap copccap oon cup pin co neoalaib ~\ co mbpaijoibh lomDaib.

Connaccjnp milleab mop

QO13 CR1O3O,
Ctoip CpiopD, mile,

1250.

Da

ceo, caocca.
ecc.

"Comap ua meaUaij eppucc Ganaij Duin Do Gppcop imlij lubaip Do ecc.

Congalac mac ciDneoil eppcop na bpfipne Do ecc. Uoippbealbac mac muipcfpcaij muirhnij uf Concobaip ppioip pecclepa pfccaip i poll DO ecc. peblimiD ua concobaip Do coibeachc ap an cuaipcceapr 50 pocpaiDe moip
laip

QippiDe ip na cuaraib ~| Concobap mac ciccfpnam mapaon pipp. QippiDe rcfp maine gup Diocnuippfo Ciocoijipoealbac aConnaccaib amac 50 noeachaiD in uchc jail Dopibipi.
bpfipne.
i

a cenel neojain Do paii& na

noilm pe&lim imipceaca Connacc laip cap pliab pejpa pfop gup cuippioD
e

He

is,

bio

teral,

word

translation is strictly lifor word, except that bib is in the

This

of Tuam, in the county of Galway. short distance to the west of the town are the ruins of
a castle in tolerable preservation,
originally erected

consuetudinal present tense in Irish, which has

no corresponding tense in English.

f

which was by Hosty Mac Mebric, or Merfell

Dun

mor,

i.

e.

the great fort,

now

the

little

rick,but which afterwards

of the Berminghams.

into the possession

town of Dunmore, about eight miles to the north

1250.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

This Donough was, of the
:

339

of them.

Irish, the third greatest

plunderer of the

English the three plunderers were Conor O'Melaghlin, Conor Mac Coghlan, [surnamed] of the Castles, and the son of Anmchadh, viz., this Donough
[Fitzpatrick].

He was

in the habit of going about to reconnoitre their

market

towns, in the guise of a pauper, or a carpenter, or a turner, or poet, or of one carrying on the trade of a merchant, as was said [in the following quatrain]
:

He

is

My
He

a carpenter, he is a turner, nursling is a bookman,

selling

is

wine and hides,

Where he
Dunmore f was burned by

sees a gathering.

King of Connaught. An army was led by O'Donnell (Godfrey), into Lower Connaught, and he destroyed and ravaged [that tract of country reaching] from the Curlieu Mountains to the Moy, and returned safe and in triumph, carrying with him
great spoils and

the sons of the

many

hostages.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

1250.

The Age of Christ, one thousand two hundred fifty.

Thomas O'Meallaigh, Bishop of Annadown, died. The Bishop of Imleach lubhair [Emly] died.
Congalagh Mac KidneF, Bishop of Breifny [Kilmore],
Turlough, son of Mortough SS. Peter and Paul, died.
died.

Muimhneach O'Conor, Prior of the church of

Felim O'Conor came from the north, with a numerous force, out of Tyrone he marched into Breifny, and thence into the Tuathas, accompanied by Conor,
;

son of Tiernan [O'Conor] thence into Hy-Many, and they expelled Turlough out of Connaught, who again went over to the English. He [Felim] then col;

lected

the moveable property of Connaught, and proceeded with it down across Sliabh Seaghsa [the Curlieu Mountains], but the English sent messenall

Mac Kidnel. He is called Congalach MacEneol in Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops,

g

p. 226,

where he

is

given as Bishop of Kilmore.

2x2

340
5oill

aNNaca Rioghachca emeaNN.

ceachca na 6eoi6 50 nDfpnao pic fcoppa,
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[1251.

piji

Daipeacc 66 pen

O0plt)lpl.

DO jallaib. bpaijoe Connachc Do batlao in arh luain Cpeac mop Do 6fnarh la peDlimiD pop cacal ua Concobaip
connaccaib.
i

~|

a accop a

Caipbpe ua maoilpeaclainn Do mapbab ppell la Dauic Roicpi. OiapmaiD ua hfjpa ncchfpna luijne Do ecc bppiopun 05 mag geapailc. Sluaicchf 6 mop la muipip mac geapailc, cacal ua pajallaij, cuconnachc
i

ua pa^allaij,

-|

maice ua mbpiuin

uile immaille ppiu

pabaoap cfopa hoi&ce i cculaij occ. puaippioD mop na eDipeaoa 6 uib nell Don cup pin. lap cceachc pine. Nochap jabpac jell Doib cap a naipp ccenel Conaill muipip mac jepailc Do jabail uf canannain cicchfpna cenel cconaill ap comaipce an eappuicc uf cfpballdm. Q mapbab
i

ccenel eojain 50 Dulc -| DimneaD ainni

boib mppin

e 05 cpiall ap eccin uara. Pmjfin mag capchaijh Do mapbaD la gallaib Dfpmurhan.

-|

QO1S C171OSO,
Qoip CpiopD,
T?ai jneo

1251.

mile,

Da ceD, caoccae a haen.

oilicpe.

aipDeppcop apDamaca Do Dul Do Roim Dia

plopinc mac ploinn DoipDneaD la not>lac in aipDeppcopoiDeacc cuama a eolaipp. ap meD a eccna TTlainepcip hi call na mullach in eppcopoiccecc copcaighe Dochumoach lapan mbappach ~\ cojha aDnaicce na mbappac pin innce.
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^lollumocoinne

mac

giollamocoinne uf cachail DO

mapbaD

la Concobop

mac afoha mic

h

cacail
lin

Were blinded, oo ballao __ This would appear to have been done, not by putting out the See eyes, but by thrusting needles into them.
Genealogies,
'

slain

copy of the Annals of Innisfallen, he was by his own uncle, Donnell God MacCarthy,

fyc.., of Hy-Fiachrach, p. 337. He was German, or GillaBishop O'Carolan.

who was assisted by the head of the Goggans, or De Cogans, though they were at peace with him.
This Fineen was the son of Dermot of Dundroban,

Coimdedh O'Carolan, who was Bishop of Derry from the year 1230 till his death in 1279 __ See
Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops, p. 288.
k

who was
Carthy.

the son of Donnell

More na Curra
as

Mac
*

Raighned.

His real name was Reiner,

Fineen

Mac Carthy

According

to the

Dub-

appears from the public records.

He

obtained

1251.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

\

Ml
kingdom was

gers after him, and, a peace being concluded between them, his again restored to him.

The

A
latter

hostages of Connaught were blinded" by the English at Athlone. great depredation was committed by Felim on Cathal O'Conor, and the
slain

was driven out of Connaught. Carbry O'Melaghlin was treacherously

Dermot O'Hara, Lord of Leyny, died

fined

in prison,

by David Roche. where he had been con-

by

Fitzgerald.

army was led by Maurice Fitzgerald, Cathal O'Reilly, Cuconnaught O'Reilly, and all the other chiefs of Hy-Briuin, into Tyrone, and remained three nights at Tullaghoge, where they sustained much injury and
great

hardship,

but obtained no pledges or hostages from the O'Neills on this On their return into Tirconnell Maurice Fitzgerald took O'Canexpedition.
annan,

Lord of the Kinel-Connell, prisoner, under protection of Bishop O'Carolan'. He was afterwards killed as he was trying to make his escape
Fineen [Florence]

from them.

Mac

Carthy" was slain by the English of Desmond.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
1

1251.

Christ, one

thousand two hundred fifty-one.

Archbishop of Armagh, went on a pilgrimage to Rome. Florentius Mac Flynn was, on Christmas Day, consecrated Archbishop of Tuam, for his wisdom and learning.

Raighned

ra in the diocese of Cork, by monastery was founded at Kilnamullagh who chose a burial place for his family in it. Barry, Gilla Mochoinne, son of Gilla Mochoinne O'Cahill, was slain by Conor, son
,

of

Hugh, the son of Cathal Crovderg.

the hills or

the King's license for five months on the llth

of June, 1253, to repair to Koine, in order to
settle

summits

It is

now

called Buttevant,

and

is

some

affairs relating to his

church,
in

ite

county

situated in the barony of Orrery, in the See O'Sullivan Beare's Hisof Cork

never returned, but died at

01

Rome

1256

See

Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops, p. 66.

where he tory of the Irish Catholics, p. 159, " Ecclesia tumulorum." translates this name

Kilnamuttagh, oil

net

mullach, church of

342

QNNaca Rioshachca emeawN.

Ua6j mac
ruarail mic muipcfpraij muirhnijj
ui

[1251.
t>o

Concobaip

mapbab

DO gallaib.
t)a

mac

ftuaibpi ui nell 60

mapbab

call moip ua nialldin.

-]

Clpbgal ua lairhbfpcaij coinbeal ^aipccib

ecc.

emj

cuaipccipc

Gpeannbo

^lollucpiopb ua bpeiplen roipeac panab ~] a bpacaip DO mapba6 la ceallac mbalbh ua mbuigill. Oonncab mac cacmaoil roipeac cenel ppfpabaij bo mapbab
laib.

lomap mac mababam coipeac cloinne puabpac bo mapbab. Concobop mac copbmaic mic comalcaijj meic biapmaba, Saf emj
narha bo ecc.

-\

plaicbfpcac ua cfpbaitl coipeac calpaije bo mapbab la hope

ui

mac

aipc

Ruaipc.
TTluipeabac ua caibj bo ecc. Cior mop bpeapcain la pell poll

-|

pebaip
-|

abbal cimceal baile

cille

moipe na Sionna,

bpium 50 pnarhab eacop 50 melpeab muilfnn ap an ppuc

in uib

bof on pbuaij 50 har na paichce i bpiobnac ppi pe ceileabapca eappapca. plann 6 lachcnain caef peach an bd bac bo ecc.
n

Kilmore-Oneittand, cill

mop ua

nialtam,

e. the

now

great church of the territory ofHy-Niallain, the church ofKilmore, in the barony of

part of the county of Leitrim, for Druim da eitkiar, now Dromahaire, in the county of Leitrim, is mentioned as in the territory of Calrigia.

Oneilland, and county of Armagh, and about three miles to the east of the city of Armagh.

rishes of

Fanad.

territory in the north-east of

Hy-Briuin-na-SimM comprehends the paAughrim, Kilmore, and Clooncraff, in It was the east of the county of Eoscommon.
divided from Kinel-Dofa, or O'Hanly's country, by a chain of lakes now called Muckinagh, and
separating the parish of Kilglass from those of Kilmore and Clooncraff; and from the territory
of Corcachlann,

the barony of Kilmacrenan, in the county of See note s , under the year 1 1 86, p. 76. Donegal.
f

in the

Kinel-Farry, cinel pfpaDcnj; territory barony of Clogher, in the county of Ty-

rone.
q

by the Kiver Uar,

or Owenoor.

Calry, caljiai^e,

and Latinized Calrigia

the

A territory in the north-east of Connaught,

name
of

Coradh na dtuath, the weir or dam of the Tuathas, now a bridge on an arm of the Shannon, and on the road from Eooskey to Drumsna, divided Tir Briuin from Kinel Dofa, and the

preserved in the parish of Calry, in the barony of Carbury, and county of

is still

which

Sligo; but it is quite clear from a passage in the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, lib. ii. c. 103,

that this territory originally comprised

some

now spanned by a bridge on the road from Strokestown to Drumsna, is the point at which the three Tuathas met
ford of Bellanagrange,

1251.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

who was

343

was

Teige, son of Tuathal, slain by the English.

son of Murtough Muimhneach O'Conor,

n Rory O'Neill were slain in Kilmore-0'Neilland Ardgal O'Laverty, the lamp of the valour and hospitality of the north of

The two

sons of

Ireland, died.

Gilchreest O'Breslen,

Chief of Fanad

and his brother, were

slain

by

Kellagh Balbh [the Stammering] O'Boyle. p Donough Mac Cawell, Chief of Kinel-Farry was slain by the men of Oriel. Ivor Mac Madden, Chief of Clann-Ruadhrach, was slain.
,

Conor, son of Cormac,

for hospitality

who was

son of Tomaltagh
slain

Mac Dermot,

illustrious

and prowess, died. Flaherty O'Carroll, Chief of Calry", was

by Art, son of Art O'Rourke.

Murray O'Teige

died.

the festival of SS. Peter and Paul, a great shower of rain fell in Hyr Briuin-na-Sinna so that a large boat might have sailed round the town of
,

On

Kilmore-na-Sinna
hill

and a mill might grind on the stream which ran from the
during the time that

down

to the ford of Ath-na-faithche, at Fenagh,

vespers-

were being chaunted. Flann O'Laghtnan, Chief of the

Two

Bacs, died'.

See entries at the years 1398 and 1451, where the churches of Aughrim and Clooncraff are

contain

the Annals of Clonmacnoise and of Connaught the following notice of the death of

mentioned as in
5

this territory.

Two
is

Bacs,

an oa bac

retains its ancient

name

territory to the present day,

This

Clarus Mac Mailin, Aichdeacon of Elphin : " Clarus Archidiaconus Olfyn, vir providus
discretus,

&

qui Carnem suam

jeinniis et orationiet

and

Catholic parish, which comprises the ancient parishes of Bally-

applied to a

Roman

bus macerabat, qui patientiam

Coronam obpropter

servabat, qui persecutionem a multis

nahaglish and Kilbelfad, in the barony of Tirawley and county of Mayo. But it appears from the Book of Hy-Fiachrach, as transcribed

justitiam patiebatur, venerabilis fundator Loco-

rum fraternitatisSanctse Trim tatis, per totamHiberniam

ibidem
specialiter fundator

Monastery Sanctas

by Duald Mac Firbis, that Ardagh, KilmoreMoy, and Eosserk, were originally comprised in
this territory.
It

Trinitatis

apud

elegit,

Loghke, yir Locum Sepulture et in Christo quievit Sabatho

in Coelo, cui ipse servivit in

was bounded on the east by

Cullin and

Penthecostes dominicse, cuius anima: propitietur

the River Moy, and on the west, to a considerable extent,

Deus omnipotens
seculo, in cuius

by Lough
p.

See Genealogies, Tribes,

Fiachrach,

Lough Conn, and Customs of Hyr

honore ecclesiam de Ryndoyne,

et

monasterium Sanctse Trinitatis apud Ath-

232,

note k , and note

under
year

moye, Ecclesiam Sanctse Trinitatis apud Killruisse ajdificavit."

the year 1180,

p. 56, eupra.

Under

this

344

ctNNata TJio^hachca eiraeaNN.

[1252.

QO1S CR1OSO,
Ctoip Cpiopo, mile,

1252.

od ceo, caocca, aoo.

in

ITlaolmae&occ ua beolldin corhopba colaim cille

Dpinm
~\

cliab, pfp

ba

mop caoup
laib
-]

~\

conac, ba hoip&fpca oineac, ba huille onoip

aipmiDin 6 jal-

6 jaoibealaib pe

linn

Do

ecc.

Caipplen caoiluipcce Do Dfnam la

riiuiji

mac muipip meic

gfpailc

-|

caiplen

coba.
-]

Concobop ua Dochapcaijj coipeac apDa miooaip, cuip omij

cuaipcceipc Deg.

fngnama an

Concobop mac cacmaoil coipeac cenel ppfpabaij i lolcuac apcfna. SIODaighe Conaille, 6ojain, oip^iall Do mapbao la muincip bpiain ui nell 05 ui copnam a comaipci ppiu, lap mbeic Do pop planaib ui gaipmleaDaij
-|

-]

cachdin.

Cuconnacc mac Conpnama coipeac muincipe cinaic Do ecc. J5iollu ipu ua cfpbaill coipeac calpoiji Dpoma cliab Do ecc.
gaipbec Do ecc. lupofpna hfpfnn Do cheachc co hapDmaca immaille pe pluaij lanmop, eipDipi&e co huib eacDac, aippi&e cap a naipp co cluain piachna. bpian 6 nell Da noijpeip annpin, i a Dfpbpacaip, Puai&pi 6 nell Do cabaipc Do
TTlaghnup
jiollu Duib coipeac ceallaij
1

mac

Cael-uisce,
its

i.

e.

Narrow-water

This place

County of Down,
u

p. 294.

retains

ancient

name

to the present

day

Moy-Cova,

maj

coBa,

i.

e.

the plain of

among

those

who

called in English

speak Irish, Narrow-water.

but

is

always

It is situated

between Warren's Point and Newry, in the barony of Upper Iveagh, and county of Down.

Eochy-Cova, Ui Eathach Cobha, located in the present baronies of Upper and Lower Iveagh, in the
county of Down
iii. c.

the ancestor of the tribe called

See O'Flaherty's Ogygia, part

Masters, and from

The name was

originally applied to the

narrow

78.

The Four

them

part of the river, near the head of Carlingford See the Irish Calendar of the O'Clerys, Lough
at the

Colgan and others, have erred in placing this plain in Tyrone and, Dr. Lanigan has been set
;

2nd of April, where the church of Cluain

astray
astical

by them, where he
History of Ireland,

Dallain,

now

Clonallon,
i.

is

described as near
is

vol. iv. p. 11,

conjectures (Eeclesinote 26),

Snamh Each,

e.

the harbour which

near the

that
lage

Cael in Iveagh, in Ulidia. " Conall rnuc Good 6 cluain ball6m a Bpail r-narha eac .1. an cuan
lairii pir-

Magh Cobha was probably where the vilnow called Coagh is situated but the situ:

in

caol

nllib

eacac Ulao."

See

also

Dubourdieu's Statistical Survey

of the

ation of the plain of Magh Cobha is fixed by the older writers who place it inUibh Eathach, now Iveagh, and who place in it the church of

1252.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

345

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1252.

thousand two hundred fifty-two.

Maelinaedhog O'Beollain, Coarb of Columbkille, at Dnimcliff, a man of great esteem and wealth, the most illustrious for hospitality, and the most

honoured and venerated by the English and Irish in his time, died. The castle of Caol-Uisce* was erected by Maurice Fitzgerald, as was also
the castle of Moy-Cova".

Conor O'Doherty, Chief of Ardmire [in the county of Donegal], tower of the hospitality and feats of arms of the north, died. Conor Mac Cawell, Chief of Kinel-Farry [in Tyrone], and many other territories, and peace-maker of Tirconnell, Tyrone, and Oriel, was slain by the
people of Brian O'Neill, while defending his protegees against them, he himself being under the protection" of O'Gormly and O'Kane.
x Cuconnaught Mac Consnava, Chief of Muintir-Kenny
,

died.

Gilla-Isa O'Carroll, Chief of Calry of Drumcliffe, died.

a very numerous army, and proceeded thence to Iveagh, from which he marched back to Cluain2 Fiachna Brian O'Neill and his brother made submission to him, and Rory
.

Manus Mac Gilduff, Chief of Tullygarvey y died. The Lord Justice of Ireland came to Armagh with
,

Domhnach more Muighe Cobha, which

is

un-

Kindred Feragh and many other

places, also

questionably the present Donaghmore, in the barony of Upper Iveagh, nearly midway between Newry and Loughbrickland See Feilire

the upholder of liberality and fortitude of the North of Ireland ; the peace-maker of Connells

Aenguis, at 16th

November; and Haliday's

and Owens, and Airgialls also, killed by the Rutes" [cokortes] " of Brien O'Neal, defending
his comrick

edition of Keating's History of Ireland, p. 318,

where the plain of Magh Cobha, which is said to have been cleared of wood in the reign of
Irial

&

from them, being upon O'Garmely O'Cahan's word himself."

Muintir- Kenny, muincip cinctir

The name

Faidh,

is

said to

be situated in Aoibh
See note
q
,

Eachach, anglide Iveagh

the year 1188, p. 81, supra.

under

of a tribe and territory in the barony of DrcrtnaThe name is haire, in the county of Leitrim.
still

This passage is not in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, but it is given in English as follows, in the old trans" A. D. lation in the British Museum
the protection

w Under

locally

known and

applied to the district

lying between Lough Allen

and

the

River

Arigna.
?

Teattach Gairbheth,

now
\.

preserved

garvey, in the north-east of the

z

the barony of Tullycounty of Cavan.

St.

1252. Conner

Mac Cathmoyl, kingly

chief of

Cltiain

Fiachna,

e.

Fiachna's lawn,

346

ctNNata Rio^hachca

eireectNN.

[1253.

bpajaio Doibh. Qp ap an pluaigheab po raplu impeapain lonjpuipc eoip pfpaib mibe ~\ rhuimneacaib noun Dflgan co ccopcpDap pochaibe Do pfpaib
i

murhan.

Ueapbac mop

-\

riopmac

ppiorhaibhnib Gpeann.

pampab 50 ccejcf copaib riopmaib rap Gpbanna Gpeann beop 50 mbuain piche laice pia

ip in

lujnapab. Na cpoinn jd ccorhlopccab le rfpp njpene. TTlonab nuti Dopou^ab DO pij Sa^an DO Denarii in eipinn i an caipccear
boi innce pia pin

DO rpecceaD.

TTlupcao ua pallarhain apoconprapla Connacr DO

mapbab Dpeapaib

bpeipne

maigh

pen.

CpeacTipluaijeab la goppaiDh ua TiDorhnaill hi cip neoghain Dia ccapTCucc bpian ua neill paip 05 pdjbdil an cfpe. Ro paib bu i bpaighoe lie. piccheab lomaipeag arhnup fcoppa aoiu "] anall 50 pairiiib pop cenel neoghain co ppapgaibpfc

ap cfnn im Dpuing

riioip

Dia nDaghoaoinib.

QO13 CR1OSD,
Ctoip CpiopD, mile,

1253.

Da

ceo, caocca,

cpf.

Qlinn ua Suilleabdin eppucc leapa moip Do ecc. Oauic mac ceallaij uf siollupaccpaicc eppcop cluana mic noip
1

t>o ecc,

comap ua

cuinn bpacaip mionup Doiponeab ip in l?oirii na lonab. Seon ua laioij ^lollaceallaij ua TCuaibfn eppuc ua ppiachpac Do ecc.
.8.

bparaip DopD

Dominic Doiponeab ina lonab

i

5]iaba eppuic Do rabaipr paip niaimpDip Do benarii Do bpaicpib

alaD ua ppiachpac, ccuaim an Dapa Dorhnac Don geariicopjup.

i

ccill

-]

.8.

Oomimc
b

Slicceach.

meadow, or bog-island. It is mentioned at the ye*s 1003 and 1069 as a monastery; but its exact situation, or modern name, lias not been
determined.
a

Thomas

0' Quin

He was

a Francisca'n friar,
III.,

and was confirmed by King Henry 20th of February, 1252, English

on the
See

style.

Discontinued,

abandoned.

oo cpfcceub, literally, teas In modern times this entry would

Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops, p. 171. c See Harris's ediGilla-Ketty WRuaidliin

tion of

be thus expressed: New coin was issued in Ireland by order of the King of England, and the
old coin was called
in.

Ware's Bishops, p. 650, where the Ediunder JOHN O'MAILFAGAMAIR, who died in 1234 " I do not find who was his next
tor writes,
:

successor.

But

it is

certain the see

was vacant

1253.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

347

was given up to him as a hostage. It was on this expedition a riot took place between the men of Meath and the men of Munster, in the [English] camp at Dundalk, and many of the men of Munster were killed.
O'Neill

Great heat and drought prevailed in

this

Summer,

so that people crossed

the [beds of the] principal rivers of Ireland with dry feet.

corn crops of Ireland was going on twenty days before August], and the trees were scorched by the heat of the sun.

The reaping Lammas [the

of the
1st of

ordered by the King of England to be made [coined] in and the money previously in use was discontinued Ireland, Murrough O'Fallon, High Constable of Connaught, was slain in Moy-Kein
11
.

New money was

by the men of Breifny.

Godfrey O'Donnell made a predatory incursion into Tyrone, and took many cows and prisoners, but was overtaken as he was leaving the country by Brian
O'Neill,

and a

fierce battle

was fought between them,

left

in

which the Kinel-

Owen were

defeated,
[i'

and

behind many heads, with a great number of

their chieftains

e.

as prisoners].

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1253.

thousand two hundred fifty-three.

Alinn O' Sullivan, Bishop of Lismore, died.

David, the son of Kellagh O'Gillapatrick, Bishop of Clonmacnoise, died and Thomas O'Quinb a friar minor, was consecrated at Rome as his successor. c Gilla-Kelly 0'Ruaidhin Bishop of Hy-Fiachrach [Killala], died, and John
,

O'Laidig, a friar of the order of St. Dominic, was elected to succeed him at Killala in Hy-Fiachrach, and the degree of Bishop conferred on him at Tuam,

on the second Sunday in Lent. monastery for Dominican Friars was founded at

Sligo.

on the 22nd of June, 1253, on which day King

granted a licence to proceed to the Henry election of a Bishop of Killala, as appears in the
III.

mair, or

who

intervened; but there

is

mention

made

in the Records,

of a Bishop of Kittala

Records of the Tower of London."

remarks, under O'LAIDIG
:

He

then

"I do not know

2

(whose name is not told) who went to England with Florence Mac Flin, Archbishop of Tuam, A. D. 1255, to complain of grievances."

whether he immediately succeeded (P Mailfaga-

Y2

348
TTlainipoip

aNNCttcr Riohacl-)ca eiReanw.

Do copainn Dona bpairpib cena 05 ar lechan
i

[1253.

Cuipc DO benarh la comalcac ua cconcobaip eppcop oilipinn call cepin. Do ecc. Gojjan ua hebin cicchfpna ua ppiachpac a habnacal bfn milib rrnc goipoealbaij Do ecc Injfn an mpla uleoig
~\
i

mainipoip na buille. Sluaiccheab mop la jallaib eipeann im TTlac TTlmpipgo noeachaib

ecip

neogham Do paijpb uf nell ~| nochap gabpac jell na eDipeaba innce, uaip cuccab ap abbal mop Don oul pin oppa.
ua nell plaic cenel neojain pop gallaib, a caiplen leipp immaille le mop DO 1 Dul Do 50 moij coba gup rpapccpaD Coipcccfp an Spaobaile leipp i polmai^ip macaipe ulab. caiplenaib oile. SluaiccheaD Do Denarii Do Domnall uaRajallaij Don caec uaRajallaij

Coccab mop Do

Denarii la bpian

-j

DO jiollu na naerii 6 peapgail DO cacal ua concobaip muincip eolaipp cacail mecc 17ajnaill gup aipccpfcc an np uile. baDap Da Dionnpaighib oibce longpuipc 05 culaig dlainn, i an cpfpp oibce ag eanac buib. Oeiljip
i

~\

giollu

ua pfpgail ppiu annpin. CeaccaiD muincipRajallaiji carol OD 6 concobaip 50 cluam conmaicne co mbaDap abaij longpuipc innce.
na
naerii
d

Ath Leathan,

i.

e.

the

broad ford,

now

Bally-

this passage is rather carelessly constructed

by

lalian, in the north of the parish of Templemore,

in the barony of Gallen,

and county of Mayo.

The literal translation is as the Four Masters. follows " great hosting by the Galls of Ire:

See Ordnance
sheet 61.

Map of the county of Mayo, The Four Masters are wrong in

placing this in the territory of Leyny, for it is certainly in the ancient territory of Gailenga,

Maurice, so that they went into Tyrone against O'Neill, and they did not take hostages or pledges, for a prodigious great
land about

Mac

O'Gara's original country.

e

Killtesin,

now Kilteashin, the name of a town-

on that occasion, brought on thus Englished in the old translation of the Annals of Ulster: " A. D. 1253. A
slaughter was,

them."

It is

laud in the west of the parish of Ardcarne, in the barony of Boyle, and county of Eoscomnion.

great

army by Mac Morris,

[i.

and tooke" might

there.

e.

went to Tyrone, " neither force nor obtained]

&c.,

There are at present no ruins of this palace to be seen here, but there is a mound called Suidhe
an Easbuig,
i.

e.

the Bishop's seat, near which,

tradition says, the Bishop of El phin had formerly a palace. See entries under the years 1 243 and

the Galls lost a great navy" that journey." \recte army] by e Chief of Kind- Owen. In the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster he is called pi j ripe

And

"

heoj^am,

i.

e.

King of Tyrone, and

is

in the old

1258.

It is

sometimes called

Cill Seisin

by the

translation of these Annals he

styled Arch-

annalists,

but now always cill cSeipn, or Kil-

teashin,
f

by the natives. But far from obtaining

king of the North of Ireland. "A. D. 1253. An army

Thus:

by Brien O'Neal,

The language of

Archking of the North of

Ireland, to Moycova.

1253.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

for the

349
at

Another monastery Leathan d in Leyny.

same order of

friars

was founded

Ath-

palace
6
.

was erected by Tomaltagh O'Conor, Bishop of Elphin,

at

Killtesin

of Hy-Fiachrach [Aidhne], died. of the Earl of Ulster, wife of Miles Mac Costello, died, and was interred in the Abbey of Boyle.

Owen O'Heyne, Lord

The daughter

by the English of Ireland, under the command of Mac Maurice (Fitzgerald), and they marched into Tyrone against O'Neill but, far
great hosting
;

from obtainingf either hostages or pledges from him, they were cut very great slaughter on that occasion.

off

with

A great war was waged with

Owen
g
.

the English

by Brian

O'Neill, Chief of Kinel-

He marched
.

to

Moy-Cova, the

castle of which,

with a great number

of other castles, he demolished.

He

also

burned Sradbhaile", and desolated

the

Machaire-Uladh'

An

incursion was

made by Donnell O'Reilly and

Caech [Monoculus]

Cathal O'Conor, and Gilla-na-naev O'Farrell, into Muintir-Eolais, against Cathal Mac Rannall, and they plundered the entire country. They
O'Reilly,

remained two nights encamped at Tulach-alainn", and stopped the third night at Annaghduff where Gilla-na-naev separated from the others. The O'Reillys and Cathal O'Conor then marched to Cluain-Conmaicnem where remained
1

they

broke down the

in

castle,

and many

castles

more
that

Ulster,
'

&"

[killed]

"many men
This

in

which simply means " street-town." Machaire Uladh, i. e. the plain ofUlidia
'

journey.
11

This was an ancient name for the level part of

i.

Sradlhaile,

e.

Street-town

is

still

the county of
called
k

the local

name

for the

town of Dundalk,

in the

Down, which was Uladh by the Irish.

at this period

county of Louth; but sometimes the natives of its immediate vicinity call it simply an cppcno, i. e. "t/te street," without adding baile; in like

Tidach-aluinn.

The

ancient

name of a

hill

at the village of Carrigallcn, in the

county of

Leitrim.

-manner

Drogheda \_Pontana civitas] simply an bpoiceao, i. e. "the bridge," with-

as they call

out adding arn,

i. e. of the ford. The strand near Dundalk was anciently called Traigh Bhaile mhic Buain, i. e. the strand of Baile, the son of

Annaghduff, eanac ouilj. A parish near Drumsna, in the county of Leitrim. m Cluain Conmaicne Now the village of
'

Cloone, in the barony of Mohill, and county of Leitrim. There was a monastery erected here
in the sixth

Buan, but this has no connexion whatever with

its

more modern

appellation

of SpaoBaile,

but there

is

century by St. Cruimther Fraech, See not a vestige of it at present

350

aNNata Rioshachca eineaNN.

mac

[1254.

cuala ae6

a muinrep. tenaipp peblimib pin cionoilip co einneapnac Dia poile gup moibib pop mumcip laopom 50 cluam Uuccpac cpfpp a^apb oonnchaoh mac jiollu lopu mic Donncaib uf 17ajalrjajallai j, mapbrap ann coeoocc ua biobpaij, q pochaibe oile imaille piu. mac
laij,

jiollu

TTlamepcip
pai^e.

.8.

Ppanpeip

in

apDpeapca Do oenom la

ITlac TTluipip ciap-

QO1S CR1OSO,
Qoip Cpiopo,
mile,

1254.

Da

ceD, caocca,

a cearaip.

TDaolpinnen ua beollain comopba Dpoma cliab DO ecc. ITlupcaD ua maoilpeaclamn DO rhapbaD la mac an cpionnaij
naij.

ui

cacap-

ua

hinnfpji cuip

enjnama chuaipccipr epeann Do

ecc.

ppamiprep cicchfpna conmaicne Dum moip Do ecc. uile. TTlainipDip bparap .8. Oominic in ac leachan Do lopccab
Piapup 17iprubaprr cicchfpna pil maoilpuain, bapun eppibe, a mapbab ap loch pib la mupcao ua maoilpeaclainn. Sicpeacc mag peanlaoij Do 5abail DpeblimiD mac carail cpoibDeipj, q an peanpuileac mac peanlaoich Do DallaD laipp a lopp airhlfpa, oip DO

pameab pip co mbaoap 05 peallaD paip. DonnchaD mac Donncham mic comalraij,
mapbaD la Connachcaib
in'
i

amlaoib ua biobpaij Do

ccluain Conmaicne.

TTlajnup ua gabpa DO
concobaip.

mapbab cpe anpocham Do muincip mic pebbmib

('olgan's Acta Sanctorum, p. 346,

and Lanigan's
ii.

Londonderry.
lin

Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, vol.

p. 324.

The name of this

Cruffer Ree.
n
is

saint

is

now

locally

pronounced

This passage is not in the Dubof the Annals of Ulster; but it is found copy thus Englished in the old translation: "A. D.
1254. Anyles Hinerge, the threshold of manhood [eangnutiia], in the North of Ireland,
died."
i>

a village in the Ardfert barony of Clanmaurice, and county of Kerry, about four miles to the north-west of Tralee.

The extensive

Conmaicne of Dunmor'e.

This territory

is

ruins of this monastery are still to be seen a short distance to the east of the village.

comprised in the barony of

Dunmore,

in the

north of the county of Gahvay, which at this

period belonged to the family of Bermingham, or Bramingham, of which name Pramistcr, in

G'Henery

The O'Henerys were

seated in

the valley of Glenconkeine, in the county of

1254.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

for a night.

351
this,

encamped
battle, in

When Hugh,

the son of Felira, heard

assembled his forces, and followed them to Cluain.

Isa, the son of

he quickly They gave each a fierce

Gilla-

which the Muintir-Reilly were defeated, and Donough, son of

Donough

O'Reilly, the son of Gilla-Toedog O'Biobhsaigh, and

slain. many others, The Franciscan monastery

were

of Ardfert" was founded by Fitzmaurice of

Kerry.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

1254.

The Age of Christ, one thousand two hundred fifty-four.

Maelfinnen O'Beollain, Coarb of Drumcliff, died.

Murrough O'Melaghlin was

slain

by the son of the Sinnagh (the Fox)

O'Caharny. Aindiles O'Henery tower of the valour of the north of Ireland, died. Pierce Pramister, Lord of Conmaicne, of Dunmore p died.
, ,

The Dominican monastery Mayo] was totally destroyed by

Pierce Ristubart",

of Ath-leathan [Ballylahan, in the county of

fire.

Lord of Sil-Mailruain r and a baron, was

,

slain

on Lough

Ree, by Murrough O'Melaghlin. Sitric Mac Shanly was taken prisoner by Felim, the son of Cathal Crovderg, who also caused Sean-Shuileach Mac Shanly to be blinded, for he had been
told that they

were forming treacherous plots against him. who was son of Tomaltagh [Mac Dermot], and Auliffe O'Biobhsaigh, were slain by the Connacians, at Cluain-Conmaicne.

Donough, son of Donough,

Manus O'Gara was

the text,
i

unjustly slain

by the people of the son of Felim O'Conor.

Mailruain,
r

is obviously a corruption. Pierce Ristubard. At the year 1235 the

Baro

ille,

occisus est super

Lacum

Righe per Murchadum

Sil-Maelruain.

Four Masters
ford

call

the Baron Walter de Riddles-

O'Melaghlin." This was the tribe name

by the strange name of 6alcaip Riccabapo, and the probability is, that Ristubard is here an attempt at writing the same surname. If not,
the

of the O'Flynns of Ballinlough, in the west of the county of Roscommon, who appear to have

name intended may be Rochfort.

is

This sen-

been for a time subdued by this baron ; but they recovered their possessions soon after his
death.

tence

rather carelessly constructed by the

Four Masters.

The

literal translation is as fol-

lows: " Piarus Ristubardus, dominus

de

Sil-

Cpe anpocam means per nefas Unjustly pocain means cause; an-pocam, wrong cause.

352
T?i

awwaca Rioghachca

eirceavw.

[1255.

ppanc Do coiDeachc o icpupalem lap nDenarh pio6a ceopa mbliaDan eoip na cpiopoaijib ~\ na pioppaipomib. Tflaineprip jlap cille Dapa Do Denarii la hiapla cille Dapa, ~| aca cumba
onopach aca
i

pepel muipe ip

in

rhainepcip cercna.

QO1S CR1OSD,
Qoip CpiopD,
mile,

1255.
cuij.

Da ceD, caocca, a
~\

Oonnplebe 6 ploinn abb pecclepa peDaip poll pacrpaicc ua muipeabaij ppioip an cije ceDna Do 6ame.

in

Qpomaca Do

ecc,

~\

roa

Do cum na hab-

Uomap mac Diapmaoa

aipcinneac oilepinn Do ecc.

peappun maijhi

luipj aipci^, i cloinne cuain eipi&e.

Ua laioig aipcinneac QeD mac peolimio ui

eanaij

Dum DO

ecc.

concobaip Do Dull crfp eojain i pir Do Denamh 66

-\

a paite Do connaccaib ap eppir eoip a araip pen i ruaipccfpc Gpeann ipm cuaipccfpc DO rabaipc lepp acuaic rpe lap a bfpgnamao cona nimepnocha lamDaoip upcoio Do Denarii ?;ib, .1. mec RuaiDpi ui concobaip goill,
-]

-|

DoiH an narhaiD

pin,

.1.

mec RuaiDpi

~\

na

joill pfmpaice.

mac

cfpbaill DO jabail aipoeppucoiDeacca caipil murhan. plopenp mac ploinn aipoeppucc ruama DO Dul rap muip Dajallairh pig
c

Under

this year the

nals of Inhisfallen,

Dublin copy of the Anand a fragment of a Munster

in the county Cork], about the fight of

Cow-

boys, by the people of O'Mahony."

copy of the same, contain the following notice of a local feud in Munster:

all

The Crom here mentioned is the ancestor of the septs of the O'Donovan family in the ba-

_"A. D. 1254. F ln 5'" Reanna pom, mac Oomnaill ^uio, 7 O OonnaBuin DO liiapBao Oiaptnaoa uimar^amna, an-eipic anChpuim
hui

ronies of Carbery, in the county of Cork, and of

several others in Leinster.

Gleann a Chruim,
i

i.

e.

He gave name to Crom's Glen, a district

Dhonnaodm Do mapbuo np Innpe an B^il, cimceall qiooa buacaillioe bo, le muincip hUi miicirjamna.
'

n the county of Cork, comprising that portion of the parish of Fanlobus lying southwards of the River Bandon. According to the pedigree
of O'Donovan, given by Duald Mac Firbis, this Crom had three sons, namely, Cathal, Aneslis,

A. D. 1254. FineenReanna Roin [of Ring-

rone], the son of Donnell

God [Mac Carthy], and O'Donovnn, killed Dermot O'Mahony, in revenge of Crom O'Donovan, who had been
slain at

and Loughlin, who were the founders of three

distinct septs, called Clann-Cahill, Sliocht-AnesUs,

Inis an bheil [Phale,

near Inishkeen,

and Clann-Loughlin, which became the names

1255.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

353

of France returned from Jerusalem, after having concluded a three years' peace between the Christians and the Saracens. The Green Monastery at Kildare was founded by the Earl of Kildare; and

The King

they [his family] have a superb

in this monastery'.

tomb in the chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

1255.

The Age of C/irist, one thousand two hundred fifty-five.

Donslevy O'Flynn, Abbot of the Church of SS. Peter and Paul at Armagh, died, and Patrick O'Murray, Prior of the same house, was elected to the abbacy. Thomas Mac Dermot, Erenagh" of Elphin, died; he was parson of Moylurg,
Airteach, and Clann-Cuain.

Annadown, died. Hugh, son of Felim O'Conor, went to Tyrone, and made peace between his own father and the people of the North of Ireland and he brought with him
;

O'Laidig, Erenagh of

from the north

all

the Connacians

who were

there in a state of disturbance

he brought them, with their moveables, through the midst of his bitterest enemies, viz. the sons of Roderic O'Conor and the English, who did not dare
to molest them.

Mac

Carroll assumed the archbishopric of Cashel, in Munster. Florence Mac Flynn, Archbishop of Tuam, crossed the sea to converse with

of three districts in the county of Cork, which are well defined in the public records. Cathal, the eldest son of Crom, had two sons, namely, Teige, the ancestor of the subsequent chiefs of

parish of Myross, and that his magical ship is seen once every seventh year, with all her courses
set

and colours

flying, majestically floating

on

the surface of that lake.

ross,

John

Collins, of

My-

Clann-Cahill, and Ivor, otherwise called Gillareagh, who is said to have built Castle- Ivor, in the parish of Myross, in the year 1251 [1351?],

intimately acquainted with the traditions and legends of these districts, writes,

who was

in his pedigree of the

O'Donovans

"I have

which remained in the possession of his descendants

till

seen one person in particular testify by oath that

This Ivor

is still

the middle of the sixteenth century, remembered in the wild tradi-

he had seen this extraordinary phenomenon in

the year 1778."

tions of the district as a celebrated navigator

and

necromancer, and it is firmly believed that he is enchanted in a lake called Lough Cluhir, near
his castle, in the

Mageoghegan calls Erenagh, aipcmneac him Archdean, but we have shewn elsewhere
that this
is

a mistake

See note

under the

townland of Listarkin, in the

year 1179,

p. 47.

2 z

354
pa;can 1 gac nf

aNNdta Rio^hachca eroeaNN.

o onoip an Dap pipeapoaip choip Dpacchail Do
pi&ipi.

[12.56.

piojj

-|

coi&eachc anoip DO
6

piu

mannacdin Do mapbaD ag buimlinn. TTlacjarhain maici mumcipe ^lollccain immaille OiapmaiD 6 cuinn attilaoib a mac Do 05 papabdn moije cpeaja la giollu na nafrh ua ppfpjail
~\

mapbab

-|

a napccam laparh. Coinne mop eDip 6 cconcobaip, .1. peblimiD, mona comneaba. Sic Do bfriarii Doib annpin
Do leccab lepp.
luliana ingfn

-\

-|

uilliam bupc 05 cocop Dal ina paibe peblimio jac

mac

comopba

caillin i jiollu

na nafm a Dfpbpachaip DO

ecc.

Ragnailc ingfn

uf pfpgail

DO ecc

nDabaij pocpaicce.

QO1S CR1OSU,

1256.

Qoip Cpiopc mfle, Da ceD, caocca ape.

plann mac ploinn aipoeppcop cuama Do ecc mbpipcuma. QipDeppoc acha cliach Do ecc. ecc. ^iollu an coimDeaD ua cinnpaelai6 abb Ganaij Duin Do
i

jiollapam abb eaccailpi na rpmoiDe cruaim Do ecc. Oponj DO muintnp Pajallaig Do mapbaD la haf6 mac peDlimiD, .1. cacal ua pajallaij cicchfpna muincipe maoilrhopDa -] cara afba pinn, a Da mac oorhnall pua& imaille pip Niall, a Dfpbpacaip cuconnacr, cpi meic
i .1. -\

Ua

carail Duib uf pajallaijh

naill uf

annaD mac Doman Niall pajallaij DO mapbaD la Concobap mac cicchfpnam.

.1.

joppaiD, pfpgal, i Domnall,

-|

.1.

jBuimlinn,

now Bumlin,

vicarage near

Strokestown, in the diocese of Elphin, in the ba-

taken at Ardagh on the 10th of April, in the tenth year of the reign of James I., from which
its

ronyand county of Roscommon.

the sister of St. Berach,
is

St. Midabaria,

exact extent
x

the patron of this parish __ See Colgan's Acta Sanctorum, p. 344. w Faradhan Moiglie Treagha, i. e. the meeting
place of Magh Treagha, which is a territory in the barony and county of Longford, containing

Toe/tar

may still be determined. Mona Coinneadha, e. the togher

i.

or

causeway of the bog of Coinneadh. tion of this causeway is still well known.

The

situaIt
is

in the parish of Templetogher, between Ballimoe and Dunmore, in the north-east of the county

the parish of Clongesh.

territory,

The townlands
Moytra

of this

which

is

called

in Anglo-Irish

of Galway, and the ruins of a church and castle n under the are to be seen near it __ See note
,

documents, are enumerated in an Inquisition

year 1225.

1256.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

355

King of England; and all that he requested was obtained by him from the king's honour; and he returned home again. v Mahon O'Monahan was slain at Buimlinn
the
.

Dermot O'Quin,
gan, were slain at

Auliffe, his son, together with the chiefs of Muintir Gilla-

Faradhan Moighe Treagha", by Gilla-na-naev O'Farrell, who

afterwards pillaged their territory. great meeting took place at Tochar

Mona Coinneadha* between O'Conor

and

(Felim) and
all his

Mac William Burke.

A peace was concluded between them,

Caillin
y
,

conditions were conceded to Felim.

Juliana, daughter of the

died.

Coarb of St.

and Gilla-na-naev,

his brother,

Ranailt, daughter of O'Farrell, died in a bath.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Flann
Christ, one

1256.
N

thousand two hundred fifty-six.

Mac Flynn

died in Bristol.
of Dublin
z

The Archbishop
O'Gillaran,

died.

Gilla-an-Choimhdheadh O'Kinnfaela, Abbot of Annadown, died.

Abbot of

Trinity Church at

Tuam,

died.

party of the O'Reilly family were slain by Hugh, the son of Felim a [O'Conor], namely, Cathal O'Reilly, Lord of Muintir-Maelmora and of all the
,

race of

sons, namely, Donnell Roe and Niall; his brother, Hugh Cuconnaught; the three sons of Cathal Duff O'Reilly, namely, Godfrey, Farrell, and Donnell; Annadh, son of Donnell O'Reilly, who was slain by Conor Mac

Finn"; his

two

Coarb of St. Caittin

He was O'Rody,

the

Muintir-Maelmora was the tribe name of the

hereditary warden and chief farmer of the lands of the church of Fenagh, in the county of
Leitrim.

O'Reillys,
tor

Maelmordha, the

which they derived from their ancesfifteenth in descent from

The Archbishop of Dublin "We learn from the Annals of Mary's Abbey that his name was
Luke, but his surname no where appears. He had been Dean of St. Martin's, London, and Treasurer of the King's Wardrobe See Harris's

Duach Galach, King of Connaught. b Hugh Finn was the fifth in descent from Duach Galach, King of Connaught, and the ancestor of the O'Rourkes, O'Reillys,

and of

all

the tribes called Hy-Briuin Breifne. From this passage it would appear that O'Reilly was chief
of the two Breifnys at this period.

edition of Ware's Bishops, pp. 320, 321.

2 z 2

356

aNNdta Rioghachca

eiraeciNN.

[1256.

caec ua yia^allaij cijeapnan mag bpaccai j, jiollu michil mac caichlic, Donncab ua biobpaijj, TTlajjnup mac giollu buib ~\ cuilleab ap cpi pichic bo maicib a muincipe immaille piu. Car rhoije plecr ap bpu aca Dfipj 05 air

na hellce uap bealac na bechije ainm an cacapa. Ciob iaD muincfp Rajallaij cpa copcpaDop Dpong DO maiab an cpluai boi na najaib leo,

.1.

biapmaib 6 plannagain, plann mace oipeachcaijj, TTIupcab pionn 6 pfpjjail po bpipeaoop po chpf an glapplaic pop 1 Sochai&e 5en mo chaircpioe, an cpluaij apaill no 50 puce anppoplann oppa po beom. Ctg Sailcfn copac
~\

na ngapdn puj coppac an rpluaijpi pop muinop Rajallaij cfoup iaD co hair cicche mec cuippin aippibe co lacaip an mop caca.

po Ifnpao

Dafo lupcip t>o rhocc in fipinn o pij Sa^ran. Coinne DO Dfnarh Do pen ua Concobaip 05 pinn Duin. Sic Do cfnjjal Doib pfpoile annpin ap connpab gan lajDujab cpiche na pfpainn Connacc ap ua cconcobaip an ccen buD
~\

lupcfp epiom. T?uai&pi 6

cuipin.

ja&pa cijfpna Slebe luga Do mapbab la DabiD mac RiocaipD

Cteb

mac

pe&limiD uf Concobaip Do apccain pfpainn mic RicaipD

a nDiojail ui gaDpa Do mapbaD Doporh. Leaccaip a caiplen, TTlapbaiD a mbof Do Daoimb ann gabaip oilein locha rechfcr uile.
cuipin
-|

Jtfac Tiernan

In the Dublin copy of the

is

Ballymagauran

is

in

it.

It is

bounded on the

Annals of Ulster he

called

conchubap mac
fa-

cijepnam hui T?uaipc, "Conor, the son of

Tiernan O'Rourke." There are two distinct
milies of
trict of

west by Magh Eein, the plain in which Fenagh, in the county of Leitrim, is situated.
e

Alt-na-/ieittte,

i.

e.

the precipice of the doe.

Mac

Tiernans; one located in the dis-

Tir Tuathail, in the north-east of the

county of Eoscommon, and also atLanesborough ; and the other in the barony of Tealach Dun-

the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, under the year 1257, that it is situated " Qllc na at the extremity of Slieve an-Ierin. heillci op bealach na beici^e cinn pleibe in
It is stated in
i

now Tullyhunco, in the county of Cavan, who are of the same race as the O'Rourkes, and who Anglicise their name Mac Kiernan, and
chadha,

lapamo."

Magh

Slecht, as already stated,

was

the level part of the barony of Tullyhaw, in which the village of Ballymagauran is situated,
f

sometimes incorrectly Kiernan, without the prefix Mac.

"

Bealach-na-beithe,

i.

e.

road

of the birch

trees

There

is

a townland of this name,

now

Moy-Slec/it.

It appears

from a manuscript
Sleacht,
so cele-

Life of St. Maidoc, that

Magh

brated in the lives of St. Patrick, as the plain on which stood the idol Crom Cruach, was the level
part of the barony of Tullyhaw, in the northwest of the county of Cavan. The village of

Anglicised Ballaghnabehy, in the parish of Cloonclare, barony of Dromahaire, and county of Leitrim; but it cannot be the same as that referred
to in the text,

which was

in the plain of

Slecht, at the extremity of Slieve an-Ierin.

Magh By

extremity of Slieve an-Ierin must be here under-

1256.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

c
;

357
;

Tiernan

Niall,

i.

e.

the Caech [Monoculus] O'Reilly

Tiernan
;

Gilla-Michael
Gilduff
;

Mac

Taichligh;

Donough O'Biobhsaigh

Mac Brady Manus, son of Mac

and upwards of sixty others of the chiefs of their people were slain This engagement is called the Battle of along with them. Moy Slecht", and was fought on the margin of Athderg, at Alt-na-heilltee over Bealach-na-beithe f
,
.

The

O'Reillys, however, slew a number of the chiefs of the opposite forces,

namely, Dermot O'Flanagan, Flann Mageraghty, Murrough Finn, O'Farrell, and many others besides their glaslaiths [recruits] even forced the van of the
:

adverse army to give way three times, but they were at length overpowered by the main body. It was at Sailtean-na-nGasan s that the van of that army first came up with the O'Reillys, from which place they pursued them to Ait-TigheMec-Cuirrin, and from thence to the field of the great battle.

A Justiciary" arrived in Ireland from the King of England. He and Hugh O'Conor held a conference at Rinn Duin, where a peace was ratified between them, on condition that so long as he should be Justiciary, the territory or lands
of O'Conor in Connaught should not be circumscribed. Rory O'Gara, Lord of Sliabh Lugha [in the County Mayo], was slain by David, son of Richard Cuisin'. Hugh, the son of Felim O'Conor, plundered
the territory of the son of Richard Cuisin, in revenge of O'Gara; he demolished his castle, and killed all the people that were in it, and seized on all the islands

of

k Lough Techet

stood that portion of the mountain now called Bartonny, near the village of Ballinamore, in

ris's

Ware, Alan de

la

Zouch, formerly Chief

the county of Leitrim, which borders on the The whole range of plain of Magh Slecht. these mountains was originally called Sliab an

Justice of the King's Bench in England, was Lord Justice of Ireland from the year 1 255 to

1259, so that he
to in the text.
'

is

the Justiciary above referred

is now now Lough

lapamn,
8

i.

e.

the mountain of the iron.

Cuisin.

This name
Techet,

written Cushen.
Gara, in which

Sailtean-na-nGasan.

There are several

Lough

places in the county of Leitrim called Sailtean,

Anglice Seltan ; but the Sailtean alluded to in the text is evidently the townland now called
Seltannahunshin, in the parish of Oughteragh,
in the barony of Carrigallen,
is

the River Boyle, in the county of Eoscommon, has its source. The following story in the Life of St. Patrick, will at once Tripartite

which townland
Slecht, on

shew the identity of Loch Techet with Lough Gara: "St. Patrick (when in the regions of
visit Moylurg, Bearnas Hua Noililla [the gap passed through at Coloony], and moved onwards towards the

very near the plain of

Magh

which

Connaught) having resolved to

the parties came to the general engagement.^ h Justiciary According to the list of the

Chief Governors, &c., of Ireland, given in Har-

River Buill [Boyle], which takes

its

rise

in

358

[1257-

mac bpandin acchfpna copcachlann Do ecc. Cpeacpluaigeab la mac uilliam bupc pop l?uaibpi ua
Rajjnall
-] -] i

plaicbfpraij gopo
uile.

gno beacc po ^abapoaip locli oipbpion aipccfpraip jno mop Oonncachab mac pfnlaic DO ecc mamipDip na buille. Coccab mop ofipje eDip aob 6 cconcobaip ~\ conn o l?uaipc

(.1.
i

mac

cig-

eapnam) gep ba6 gpabach im apoile 50 pin. Ua T?uaipc Do Oul ccfnn gall lapam. Sir Do pna&mab piu Do pen cona muincip gan cfo Dpeblimib na Da
mac.

deb ua

concobaip DO

noolaic.

Do

jniao Sfc pfpoile

cpeachab vri l?uaipc lappin an cfoaofn pia ap a hairle.

luain i Dun boi jpe DO lopccab in fn 16. Sloiccheab la hua nDomnaill, .1. aiD n1 FF^paib

Qc

5FFP

comra,

-]

bpaijDe.

Ufic appibe

mbpeipne

ui

puaipc.

manach Da ppuaip Do paopac pibe a

oijpfip bo.

QO13 CR1O8D,
Ctoip CpiopD, mile,
fllac T?obiap

1257.

Da

ceD, caocca apeacc.

abb cluana heoaipp Do ecc. TTluipeabac mac maoilbpi jDe ui paipceallaij comopba mafbocc Do TTlaolparrpaicc mac cele aipcmneac cille halab Do mapb'ab.
Locli Techet ; but on crossing this river his chariot was upset in a certain ford on it, and himself thrown into the waters, which ford is for that reason called Ath Carbuid, or the ford of

ecc.

See references to Cluain Seancha, under the

year 1410; also Colgan's Trias Thaum., p. 134, and the note to Kinel-Dofa, under the year
1210, p. 169, supra. Mac Brannan, the chief of this territory, was descended from the noble Druid Ona, who presented Imleach-Ona, now Elphin, to St. Patrick.

the chariot, and

lies

near the waterfall of Eas

of this ford
is

mac n-Eirc."

The name

now foris

gotten in the country, but Eas mic n-Eirc known, being that now called Assylin.
1

well

Corcachlann, a territory in the east of the county of Roscommon, comprising the parishes of

The present representative of the family is HuBert Brannan, of Bellmount, near Strokestown,

who

still

Bumlin, Kiltrustan, Cloonfinlough, and the western half of the parish of Lissonuify, which half was An Inquisition anciently called Templereagh. taken on the 1st of June, 34 Eliz., finds that

six acres in Corcachlann, one of the

enjoys a small property of about fiftymost ancient

" the rectory of Corcaghlan extended into all the townlands of the parishes of Bumlin, Kiltrustan, Cloonfenlovighe,

hereditary estates in the world. m Mac William. This was Walter de Burgo, the son of Eichard More, and grandson of Williftn

Fitz-Adelm.

He became

Earl of Ulster in

and Tamplereoghe."

the year 1264, in right of his wife Maud, daughr ter of Hugo de Lacy the j ounger.

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ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

1 ,

359

Randal Mac Brannan, Lord of Corcachlann died. Mac William Burke set out on a predatory expedition against Rory n O'Flaherty. He plundered Gno-More and Gno-Beg and took possession of all
,

Lough Oirbsion [Lough Corrib]. Donncahy Mac Shanly died in the

A great war broke out

other.

Abbey of Boyle. between Hugh O'Conor and Con O'Rourke

[i.

e.

the

son of Tiernan], though they had been till then upon amicable terms with each O'Rourke afterwards went to the English, and formed a league of peace

with them for himself and his people, without the permission so to do by Felim or his son. Hugh O'Conor [the son of Felim] afterwards, to wit, on the

Wednesday before Christmas Day, plundered O'Rourke. made peace with each other.

They

afterwards

Athlone and Dun-doighre were burned on the one day. O'Donnell, i. e. Godfrey, marched with an army into Fermanagh, by which he obtained property and hostages. From thence he proceeded to BreifnyO'Rourke, where they gave him his

own demand.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1257.

thousand two hundred fifty-seven.

died.

Mac

Robias,

Abbot of Clones,

Murray, son of Maelbrighde O'Faircheallaigh", Coarb of Maidoc, died, q Maelpatrick Mac Kele Erenagh of Killala, was slain.
,

Gno-More and Gno-Beg.

These two

terri-

Hy-Many, printed
fixed to the same;

in

1843 for the Irish Aralso the

comprised in the present barony of " GnoMoycullen, in the county of Gal way.

tories are

chaeological Society, p. 169,

and

and the map preOrdnance Map

is

begg was meared and bounded from Srawan

Icarwan, or Srwan Igravan north, to Galway south, saving the liberties, and so along the River of Alley, or Donkelly west, to Galway
east."

of the County of Gal way, sheet 116.

p

O'Faircheallaigh

This name

now

angli-

very common in the neighbourhood of the church of Drumlahan, or Drumcised Farrelly,

and

is

See History of Galway,

p. 40.

lane, in the

Dun-doighre, now Duniry, a townland and parish in the barony of Leitrim, and county of

hereditary Erenaghs. year 1172.

q

county of Cavan, of which they were See note b under the

,

Galway, where the family of Mac Egan had a celebrated school See Tribes and Customs of

Mac

Kele,

mac

cele

This
Hale.

is

probably the

name now

anglicised

Mac

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dNNata Rioghachca eiraecwR

Comap ua maoilciapam
fflainipDip
i

[1257.

Saof Gpfnn

in

eaccna Do

ecc.

muipe poppcommam Do coippeacaD lap an eppucc comalcac ua concobaip DO bpaichpib .8. Donnmc. Conn mac cicchfpnam ui Ruaipc (.1. cieapna bpepne) Do Dul rceaj a mec DO DainjniucchaDa pioDa piu a mbpfic pfm Dpfpui Concobaip onn na bpfipne DO cabaipc Doibh immaille le cloich inpi na ccopc ap loc
i

~|

Luce coimfoa Do cop innce DoeD mac peblimiD. af6 mac concobaip Cacal caipceac mac afoa mic cacail cpoibDeipg mic afba mec cacail cpoiboeipg DO DallaD Daf6 mac peDlimiD mic cacail popmao cap papujab laoc, clfipeac, i mionn cconcpoibDeipg cpe cnuch
pionnmoije.
-\
~\

nacc.

cacail uf paijillij caoipeac mumcipe maoilmopDa Decc. Cloch mnpi na ccopc pop loch pionnmaije DO lopccab Dua Ruaipc, luce a coimhecca Do leccaD epce.

Cono mac

-|

Sicpeacc mac ualjaipcc ui puaipc Do cop i cciccfpnup Ddo6 ua concobaip hi ccfnD concobaip meic ciccfpnam uf puaipc, ~\ Domnall mac concobaip Do mapbaDh Sicpecca ap a lop.

Coinne DO Denarii DpeiDlimiD ua concobaip in dch luain pe lupcip na hGpeann pe TTlac uilliam bupc, -| pe maichibh gall apcfna 50 nDeapnpac
-]

pich pe poile.

Cpeach mop Do benamh oCtoD ua concobaip im cdipcc ap ua puaipc. Cach cp66a Do cabaipc la goppaiD ua nooriinaill cijfpna cfpe conaill pop lupcip na hGpeann TTluipip mac jfpailc, i pop jallaib Connacc apcfna
05 Cpfopan
cille hi

pop ceDe

hi

ccpich coipppe ppi Slicceach a cuaiD 05

copnani a cipe ppiu.

cioppbaic cuipp,
r

T?o pigfoh iopjal ainiapba

amDpfnnoa fccoppa.
cfopaba cfccapnae

Ro
Dibh.

Ro
i.

Ifonaic laoich, T?o buaiDpic

the stone fortress of
fortress are still

Clock- inse-na-dtorc,

e.

Hog
to

Island.
seen.

The ruins of this

which has received the new name of Cherry Island, contains the ruins of an old castle, in

be

Garadice Lough, lying to the east

which the United Irishmen took shelter

year 1798. s Cathal Cairceach __ He
i.

in the

of Ballinamore, in the barony of Carrigallen, and " county of Leitrim, is called L. Fenvoy" on the

is

called Cathal Caech,

engraved
island,

map from
is

the

Down Survey and this

;

which

in the east side of the lake, is

the blind or purblind, in the Annals of Connaught. The word cuipce, from which the ade.

shewn, by a mistake of the engraver, under the name of "madark" [for I. nadork]. This island,

jective

caipceac

is

derived,

is

glossed in a

MS.

in Trinity College, Dublin, H. 3.

18. p. 210,

1257.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

3G1

Thomas O'Mulkieran, the most eminent man in Ireland for wisdom, died. The monastery of the Virgin Mary, at Roscommon, was consecrated by
Bishop Tomaltagh O'Conor, for Dominican friars. Con, son of Tiernan O'Rourke, went into the house of O'Conor and his son, and ratified a treaty of peace with them, and gave them as much of the
land of Breifuy as they desired to have, together with the fortress of Clochr inse-na-dtorc in Lough Finvoy, in which Hugh, son of Felim, placed guards.
,

Cathal Cairceach', son of Hugh, who was son of Cathal Crovderg, and son of Conor, son of Hugh, who was son of Cathal Hugh, Crovderg, were blinded by Hugh, son of Felim, the son of Cathal Crovderg and this was
;

done through envy and rancour, and in violation of the guarantees of the clergy, and relics of Connaught.
Con, son of Cathal O'Reilly, Chief of Muintir-Maelmora, died.
Cloch-inse-na-dtorc, in

laity,

who guarded
Sitric,

it'

being

first

Lough Finvoy, was burned by O'Rourke, permitted to come out of it.

those

son of Ualgarg O'Rourke, was elected chief of his tribe, by

Hugh

O'Conor, in preference to Conor, son of

Tiernan O'Rourke, in consequence of

at

which Donnell, son of Conor, killed Sitric. A conference was held by Felim O'Conor
of Ireland, with

Athlone, with the Lord Justice

Mac William Burke and

another.

the other English chiefs, and they

made peace with one

Easter.

A great depredation was committed by Hugh

O'Conor on O'Rourke about

brave battle was fought by Godfrey O'Donnell, Lord of Tirconnell, in defence of his country, with the Lord Justice of Ireland, Maurice Fitzgerald, and the other English nobles of Connaught, at Creadran-Cille in Ros-cede u in
,

the territory of Carbury, to the north of Sligo. desperate and furious battle was fought between them bodies were mangled, heroes were disabled, and
:

the senses were stunned on both sides.

The

field

was vigorously maintained

by the modern word

eye,
1

pinna,

i.

e.

a film on the

Those who guarded

it,

i.e.

O'Conor's warders,

barony of Carand county of Sligo. An arm of the sea bury, runs up to Drumcliff, which divides the Bosses
in the parish of DrurnclifF, in the

who were
u

in the castle.

from the plain of Machaire Eabha.

Ros-cede,

now

the Rosses

Two

townlands

362

ctNNata Rio^hachca eiReawN.

-j

[1257.

T?o cocaigeab an caclaraip co corhnapc la cenel cconaill,

Do beprpar

ngleo 50 po ppaofneab poppa po a aoi cpa Do cpomgonab gopppam pfippin ip Qp in caicgleo pin, ap capla pibe enech in loncaib ppip TTluipip mac jjeapailc ip in 6a cpia agh an chaca pin ngliaioh fpin 50 po gonpacap apoile gan Dicell.
bpfipim Clip banapoa pop
bfoib 50 po laoh

allaibh ip

in

a nap.

gfpalcaij a hioccap Connacc. ^alicap bfop ITlac spipin .1. T?ioepe epoepc la mumcip f Dornnaill ip in 16 ceona. Loipccceap ~\ lomaipcccfp Slicceac leo apa haichle. T?o mapbab

Do Di'ocuipeab

goill

-j

Dana mac copbmaic huf bomnaill hi pppich^uin ip in each pin cpeaopam. SoaiD lapom Oia cnjib ap aba gona uf Domnaill, ap muna gaboaoip a jona 5peim 6e, Do biab maiDm poppa 50 muaiDh. Ctg pilleaD ma ppinns DO po Diopccaoileab laip caiplen caoil uipcce Do ponaD joppaiD po cpaicceaD
"|

la jallaib pecc piarh Dpopbaipi pop cenel cconaill.

TTluipip

mac 5Q 1ctl ^ c

lupcip

6peann pe hfoh Diopccaoilceach gaoiohDpelim ua concobaip ap cuicc cpiuca

eal Decc.

Caipc Do cabaipc 6
an
pi j.

TJigh Sa^ran

CoccaD mop ecip ConcoBap 6 mbpiain joill muman 50 ccuccaD dp na njall laip. Cpeacha aiDble Do Denarii Do ca&g ua bpiain oppa Bfop. Concobap mac nccfpnain uf puaipc DO rhapBaD ag ach na pailme Do ^^lla Bfpaij ua larhouib Dia rhumcip pfin Do rhuinnp Ulaca uf Raijillij
~\

-j

cpe cangnachc. Cacal ua mannachdm Decc an pepeD Do Decembep.

v

Felim 0' Conor.

Dr. O'Conor has the fol-

himself to encroach on his dominions ; hostilities

lowing notice of this fact: " In 1240 Felim went to the court of England
to complain of those English adventurers, who,

when Felim

were continued without interruption until 1255, sent the Archbishop of Tuam with
a Royal Charter, granting to

ambassadors to England, and obtained, in 1257,

headed by De Burgo, usurped part of his province he appealed to the treaty of Windsor, strongly insisted, in the Latin language, on the
;

him and

his heirs

for ever, free

baronies, in as

and peaceable dominion over five ample a manner as ever they were

justice of his cause,

and returned home so well

pleased with the reception he had met, that in 1245 he marched with a body of forces to join

enjoyed by his ancestors. " After obtaining this grant he built the magnificent

Henry

in an expedition against the Welsh.

But

abbeys of Eoscommon and Tumona, and Leland remarks, that in his redied in 1264.

all this

could not prevent the invaders of his

province,

who were

secretly instigated

by Henry

monstrance to Henry III. against the damages which he had sustained by Walter de Burgo, he

1257-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

obstinate and vigorous onsets

363

by the Kinel-Connell, who made such

upon the

Godfrey was severely wounded for he met Maurice Fitzgerald face himself, however, to face in single combat, in which they wounded each other severely. In con;

English that, in the end, they routed them with great slaughter.

sequence of the success of this battle, the English and the Geraldines were driven out of Lower Connaught.

was taken prisoner by O'Donnell's people and Sligo was afterwards burned and totally plundered by them. Donough, the son of Cormac O'Donnell, was killed in the heat of
Griffin,

On

the same day

;

Mac

an

illustrious knight,

this battle of

Creadran.

consequence of O'Donnell's

They (O'Donnell's people) then returned home in wounds but, were it not that his wounds had op;

pressed him, he would have routed his enemies to the Eiver Moy. Godfrey, on his return, prostrated and demolished the castle which had been erected by the English a short time before, at Cael-uisce, to carry on the war against the
Kinel-Connell.

Maurice Fitzgerald, for some time Lord Justice of Ireland,

[and]

the

destroyer of the Irish, died. The King of England granted Felim O'Conorv a charter to hold the five

cantreds of the King.

A great war between Conor O'Brien" and the English of Munster;

1

and the

English were slaughtered by him. Teige O'Brien also committed great depredations upon them.

Conor, son of Tiernan O'Eourke, was treacherously slain at Ath-na-failme by Gillabarry O'Lamhduibh, one of his own people, and by the people of

Matthew

O'Reilly.
.

Cathal O'Monahan died on the 6th of December 7

charges the burning of churches and the massacre of his clergy at a thousand marks."

Innisfallen, in

which his death

is

entered under

Me-

moirs of the Life and Writings of Charles 0? Conor

the year 1256, which is certainly incorrect. He was the son of Concobhar na Siudaine. See

of Belanagare, p. 41. w Conor O'Brien

note

',

under the year 1258,

this year,

p.

368.

He

is

the Conor O'Brien

Under

1257, the Annals of Clon-

usually called Conchobhair na Siudaine in the pedigrees of the O'Briens.

macnoise, as translated by Mageoghegan, record the founding and erecting of a house for friars

He is called Teige GaelTeige O'Brien. Uisce in the Dublin copy of the Annals of
3

of the Order of St. Dominic at Roscommon, by Felim O'Conor.

A2

364

dNNCtta Rioghacnca eirceaNN.

[1258.

QO1S CR1OSU,

1258.

Goip Cpiopc, mfle, Da ceo, caoccac a hocc.

Clbpaham oconallam, Cfipoeppcop Gpoamacha Dpajail pallium o cuipc na l?orha, aippiono bo paba Do Ifip in apDmaca an oapa la Do rhf lun. Deccanac mop LonnDan DO ecc Uarep De palepna aipoeppcop cuama In Sa^aib mp na coja ip na cfimionnaib pempaice la pij Sa^an an bliabain Uomalcach 6 concobaip eppcop oilepinn Do coja Docum poirhe pin.
-\

"|

aipoeppcopoiOechca ruama.
)iollacpipc o

capmacam Deccanach

oilipinn Decc.

Qn manach ua cuipnin paoi cpabaib Decc. macha mac giolla puaioh ui poouibh, an
.1.

maijipcip Decc.

Cuipr an eppcoip
concoBaip.

in

oilpinn,

-|

cuipc cille Sepin Do pgaoileaD

DQo6

Oomhnaill joppaiD Do bfich in oraiplighe a ecca pe hC6 mbliaona ap loch beachach lap ccop cara cpfopam. lap na piop pin Dua neill cionoiliD a plojha in en lonao Do cochc hi ccip Conuill, i paoi&ip (.1. bpian) cechca ua&a hi ccfno uf Domnaill DO chuingib jiall, eioipfoh umla pop
~\

bacap jan cijeapna inpfbma aca Deip ^oppaba. lap amail ap rcabaipc aicipcc Dua Domnaill Do na ceccaib loccup pop ccula,
conallcoibh, o po
-)

ofini luibpioc.

ap jach aipD cuicce, -\ Doib po cojaipm a cnccfpna lap rcapcclamab po popail poppa ona baf lor.aipcap leo an rapach ina mbepcaoi a copp po beoib Do benam bo, i a
cop ann,
-]

T?o popcongaip 6 Domhnaill pop conallcoib cionol

a lomcap
bai

in

eioipmfbon a rhuinnipe.
-\

T?o

pamh

Denam opo
*

pfm fcoppa,

gan rpfn
b

a nfpccapacr

piu calma DO Do leicfn poppa.

Great

Dean

He was Dean

of St. Paul's,

Harris states that he died in London, on his return from Rome, without ever seeing
his bishopric,

London.

Kilsesin.See note under the year 1253. place is now called Cill cSeifm in Irish, and anglicised Kilteashin. The Irish word cinpc,

The

about the middle of April, 1258. See his edition of Ware's Bishops, p. 606. The monk. In the old translation of the " A. D. Annals of Ulster, this entry is rendered
:

which seems to have been borrowed from the

English court, is now used to denote any large square house with many windows, without any
regard to the dignity or
c

title

1258.

The munck O'Cuirnyn died

in Christ."

Loch-Beathach,

i.

e.

Birch Lake

of the occupier. This lake

1258.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

365

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1258.

thousand two hundred fifty-eight.

O'Conallan, Archbishop of Armagh, received a Pallium from the Court of Rome, in which he said Mass, at Armagh, on the 2nd day of the

Abraham

month of June.
in
z Walter de Salerna, Archbishop of Tuam, and Great Dean of London, died England, having been elected to those dignities in the preceding year by

the

King of England.
Tomaltagh O'Conor, Bishop of Elphin, was elected Archbishop of Gilchreest O'Carmacan, Deacon of Elphin, died. The monk" O'Curnin, a pious sage, died.

Tuam.

Matthew, son of Gillaroe O'Rodiv, i. e. the Master [Professor], died. The Bishop's palace at Elphin, and the palace of Kilsesin b were demolished
,

by Hugh

O'Conor.

O'Donnell (Godfrey) had now, for the space of a year, after having fought the battle of Creadran, been lying on his death-bed [in an island] in Loch-

Beathach

c
.

When

O'Neill

[i.

e.

Brian] obtained intelligence of

this,

he collected

his forces together for the purpose of

sengers to

marching into Tirconnell, and sent mesO'Donnell to demand hostages, pledges, and submission, from the
as

they had no capable chieftain since [the disabling of] Godfrey. When the messengers' delivered their message to O'Donnell, they returned back with all the speed they could exert.
Kinel-Connell,

O'Donnell ordered the Kinel-Connell to assemble from

all

quarters and

summons of their lord, he ordered them, as he was not able to march with them, to make for him the d bier wherein his body would finally be borne, and to place him in it, and carry
to
;

come

him

and

after they

had assembled

at the

midst of his people. He told them to exert their bravery, as he himself was among them, and not to suffer the might of their enemies to pre-

him

in the

still

retains this name,

which

is

anglicised

Lough

Bier,

apac

The word used

is

in the

Beagh and Lough Veagh.

It is situated near

language to denote bier

cpocap.

modern The word

the village of Church-Hill, in the parish of Gartan, barony of Kilmacrenan, and county of

apac

is thus explained by O'Clery, in his Glosof ancient Irish words: " Gpac .1. cpoc hap. sary

Donegal.

1m

t'ipach

.1.

pa cpochap."

3G(j

aNNCtta Rioshachca eiraecmN.

pin

[1258.

popcongpa a ccijfpna hi ccoinne ploigh f neill co ccapla an Da pluaij ogham in aghaib imon aBainn T?o lonnpaighpioc a cele gan coiccill Do caipofp no Dianib ainm Suileach.

Rangaccup pompa an cucc

ma

pfirnim la

DO coirhpiallup gup meaBaib pop an pluaj nfoganach cap anaip, gup pacceDala aibble. Qcc cioncuDh Don cpluag conalbaccap Daoine lom&a, eic,
~\

mbof 6 Dorhnaill ap ppaiDplige na na congbdla gonaoh ann Do beachaib a ainim ap Do gaib cpo na ngon, bo bap ap mioblacup an Do paDab paip hi ccach cpfopam, nip ccpechc ace mp mbpfich buaba gach can pop a biobtiabaibh. bap hipin
lach on
Ificceab an capach
i

maibm po

~]

~\

Dorhnaill po cuip cecca DopiDipi hi po clop cpa la hua neill ecc urhla poppa, ccfnO conallach Do cuingiDh giall bdccap cenel cconuill a
i ~\

Do jenoaip ppip pm, no cia cofpeac Dib pfm ccorhaiple a^a pccpuDab Da cciubpaccaip urhla, no aiDioe uaip na bai cijfpna epDalca oca opo ecc Oia mbarcap pop na hiompaicib pin ac conncaccap Oorhnall occ goppaib.
ci6

mac

Dorhnaill moip i Dorhnaill cuca a halbain ina macafrh occ aiDfbach in DO paopac cenel cconaill a ccfnDup Do po a occ mbliaban nDecc, afip ceDoip. Ofichbip on ap Dob eipibe a pplaic Dilfp Diongmala bubofin, "| o po aipnfibpioc cenel cconaill an caicfpcc pin DO bfpcpac cecca f neill cuca
-|

ba paipbpigh innpin. Conab ann Do paib (oopomh) ba popail laippiunih, an cpfmbpiacap aipbipc cpia pan ngaoibilcc nalbanaigh bof occa ace a^al-j

lairh

50 mbiaoh a Dorhan pfm 05 gach pfp. 6a parhail Do cupup cuacail cfccmaip cap muip anall a halbain lap noilgenn cpaopclann 6peann la haichechruacaibh an cupup pin Dorhnaill oicc a halbain a Ific

na cceccab

.i.

Suileack,

now

the Eiver Swilly, which dis-

in the

charges itself into Lough Swilly, near the town of Letterkenny, in the county of Donegal. f Street of Congbhail, now Conwal, near Letterkenny, where there was anciently a monastery arid village ; but there are no ruins now to

lanagare, this Donnell

nell

handwriting of Charles O'Conor, of BeOge was the son of Dona daughter of Cathal

More O'Donnell, by

Crovderg O'Conor, King of Connaught. Though the Annals of Ulster and Clonmacnoise state
that all the northern chiefs submitted to O'Neill
at

be seen at the

place, except the walls of

an old

Cael-Uisce,

it

is

church of small dimensions.

There

is

a tradi-

youthful chief did not

more probable that this for though he was inau;

tion that the village was destroyed by an accidental fire first kindled by a cat, after which it

gurated about the same time, by the consent of O'Neill, it does not appear that any individual
of the Kinel-Connell race assisted O'Neill in the

was never rebuilt; but that the town of Letter-

kenny soon after supplied its place. * Donnell Oge. According to a marginal note

unfortunate battle of Down,

in

1260.

This

jealousy and emulation between the two great

1258.]
vail

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

They
then,

367

over them.
6

against O'Neill's

by order of their lord, proceeded on their march army; and the two armies met face to face, at the river called

They attacked each other, without regard to friendship or kindred, until the Tyronian army was discomfited and driven back, leaving behind them many men, horses, and a great quantity of valuable property. On the return of the Tirconnelian army from this victory, the bier on which O'Donnell f was carried was laid down in the street of Congbhail and here his soul departed, from the venom of the scars and wounds which he had received in the battle
Suileach
.

of Creadran.

had

at all

This was not death in cowardice, but the death of a hero, times triumphed over his enemies.

who

When

O'Neill heard of the death of O'Donnell, he again sent messengers

to the Kinel-Connell, to

demand

hostages and submission from them.

Here-

upon the Kinel-Connell held a council, to deliberate on what they should do, and as to which of their own (petty) chiefs they would yield submission and
Whilst they were g engaged in such speeches, they saw approaching Donnell Oge the son of Donnell More O'Donnell, a valiant youth, then eighteen years of age, who had
,

obedience, as they had no certain lord since Godfrey died.

arrived from Scotland, and the Kinel-Conell immediately conferred the chiefThis they lawfully did, as he was their own legitimate and tainship upon him.

worthy
bitant
11
.

lord.

When
was on

emissaries of O'Neill
It

him of the message which the had brought them, he deemed it extravagant and exorthe Kinel-Connell told

Albanian

Gaslic,

he repeated the celebrated proverb, in the in which he conferred with the emissaries, namely, "That every
this occasion

man should have

Similar to the coming of Tuathal Teachtinhar over the sea from Scotland, after the extirpation of the royal race of
his

own
1

world."

Ireland by the Attacots' was this coming of Donnell Oge, to consolidate the
,

races of

Owen and

Connell finally wrought the

is

destruction of the chieftains of Ulster, as

h

quite

O'Keilly's Dictionary, and used in that sense by the Four Masters at ths year 1573. What the

evident from various passages in these Annals.

Extravagant and exorbitant, ba pojiail laip7

mean is, that the young chieftain, who had been fostered and educated in Scotland,
annalists

umh

ba paipbpij mnpn.
is

The

Irish
i.

word

thought the demands of O'Neill exorbitant and

extravagant.
'

popdil

explained

"

lomapccnoh,"

e.

excess,

too much,

by O'Clery,

in his Glossary of ancient

Attacots,

Irish words,

synonymous with

and the word paipbpij is nearly it, and is explained "excess" in

tribes

airhechruucaib, i. a the plebeian These are said to have been tribes of the

Firbolgs,

who murdered

the monarch Fiacha

368
le

[1258.

hiomuaim naipopijhe,

le

carucchaD cuar,
i

e coiccpiocaibh on 16 in po hoipDneab a ppuaip a oibeab.

TTlainepcip clafna
i

a cpiche pfm ap an lairhe po Deoioh cciccfpnup gup

-\

le copnarh

Caijnib

in

eppcoboioecr cille Dapa Do cogbdil Do

la caoj ua mbpiain
hi

bpaicpib .8. ppanpeip. Sloicceab mop la haob

mac

peiblimiD,

~\

ccoinne

caoluipcce 50 ccuccpac na maice pin Ifc ap Ifch cfnnup Do bpaijDe bpian ua neill pop jaoiDelaib lap noenam pioba Doib pe poile. Qo6a uf concobaip Oopom pe comall, -] bpaijhDe muincipe paijillij -| ua mbpiuin 6 cfnanoupso Dpuim cliab oGoD mac pfiolimm map an cceona.

bpiam

uf neillgo

ITlac Sorhaiple

Do cecc

hi

loingfp

nmcell Connacc a hinpibh gall 50

meeting
is

Finola, and all the kings

and nobles of the royal

given.

In these authorities

(if,

in-

Milesian blood

in the

Queen

of Ireland,

who

The second century. was then pregnant, fled

deed, they can be so called), it is stated, that a meeting of the Irish chieftains took place at

from the general massacre into Scotland, where

she brought forth a son, named Tuathal, who afterwards returned to Ireland, conquered the
plebeians,

Cael-Uisce, at the extremity of

Lough Erne,

for

the purpose of electing a king over the Irish, to suppress the usurpation of the English; that
Teige, the son of
sent one

and restored the Milesian chieftains

Conor na Siudaine O'Brien,

to their territories; after

which he was elected

hundred horses over the river to be

monarch, and his subjects swore by the sun and moon, and all the elements, visible and invisible,
that they and their posterity would be obedient to him and his royal issue for ever.
i

presented to O'Neill as wages of subsidy, but that O'Neill rejected the offer, and sent them
back, with two hundred others, with their harnesses and with golden bits, to be presented to O'Brien as an earnest of the subordination and

Claena,

now

Clane, a fair-town in the county

of Kildare, about fifteen miles from Dublin. Gael Uisge. nals of Ulster it
this place
is

obedience due

In the Dubbin copy of the

is

An-

sent

by him to O'Neill ; that O'Brien them back again, and the result was, that

remarked, inter

linens, that

was

at

Lee Ui Mhaildoraighe, which

the meeting broke up without electing a king Dr. O'Brien receives all this or chief prince.
as authentic in his History

unquestionably the place now called Bel lice, or Belleek, on the Erne, to the east of Ballyshannon See note ', under the year 1200,
p. 125.
'

of the

House of

O'Brien, published in Vallancey's Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis, and states that Teige Gael

Brian O'NeiU.

The account

of this meetis

Uisce O'Brien died in the year 1255. But it is quite evident, from the concurrence of the older
annals, that this meeting took place in the year

ing of the Irish chieftains at Cael-Uisce

also

given in the Annals of Ulster and of Clonmacnoise, at the year

1258, and that Teige O'Brien lived

till

the year

1258; but

it is

entered in the

Caithreim Thoirdhealbhaigk, and in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen, under the

1259, under which year his death is entered in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster. It

year 1252, in which a different account of the

however, be readily believed from the older annals, that the chiefs of Connaught and Ulster
will,

1258.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

369

monarchy, to cement territories, and to defend his own country against foreignthe day of ers, from the day on which he was installed in the lordship until
his death.

The monastery

of Claena
Friars.

j
,

in Leinster,

in the

diocese of Kildare, was

founded for Franciscan

and Teige O'Brien, to meet great host was led by Hugh, son of Felim,
1

Brian O'Neill, at Cael-Uisce". The aforesaid chieftains, with one accord, conferred the sovereignty over the Irish on Brian O'Neill after having made
,

of peace with each other; for the observance of which agreement the hostages Hugh O'Conor were delivered up to him, and the hostages of Muintir-Reilly,

and of

all

the Hy-Briuin

m
,

from Kells

to Drumcliff.

Mac

Sorley" sailed with a fleet from the Insi Gall [Hebrides]

mond, who wrote the Caithreim
or

around

submitted to Brian O'Neill on this occasion, and rendered him hostages. The passage is thus
given in Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, with which the more accurate Annals of Ulster agree:

Thoirdhealbhaigli,

Triumphs of Turlough O'Brien, in the year

It is a very strange fact that neither 1459Leland nor Moore, the ablest writers of the his-

"A. D.

1258.

Hugh macFelym [O'Connor] and Teige O'Bryen had a meeting with Bryen O'Neale, at the Castle
of Koyleuske, where peace

tory of Ireland, should have noticed this attempt of the Irish chieftains to unite against the English. O'Neill fought soon after, at the head of

was concluded be-

the chiefs of the north and west of Ireland, with

all

tween them, and" [they] " agreed that Bryan O'Neal shou'd be King of the Irish of Ireland"

the valour and desperation of his royal aninferior

cestors; but, being

to his enemies in

[cucuoup na maici 6pian O Neill, Ann.

chiefest of the

pin

uile

apoceannup DO
;

Ult.~], "whereupon Hugh mac Ffelym yealded Hostages to Bryan also the

military accoutrements and discipline, he and his people were cut off with dreadful slaughter,

and none of the O'Neills ever

after acquired

any

Bryans [Hy-Briuin] and MontyrO'Connor."

thing like the monarchy of Ireland.

Kellys, from Kelles to Dromkliew, yealded hostages

to

Hugh

The Annals of

Hy-Briuin, i. e. the Hy-Briuin Breifne. These were the O'fieillys, O'Rourkes, and their
correlatives,
n

Ulster add, that Donnell O'Donnell was inau-

gurated chief of Tirconnell on this occasion, and that all the Kinel-Connell rendered him hostages.

Mac

Sorley.

This passage
translation

This being the older account of this meeting at Cael-Uisce, it may be fairly asked whether the
story about Teige Cael-Uisce O'Brien having attended a meeting here six years earlier, and the

Mageoghegan's Clonmacnoise:

is thus given in of the Annals of

"A. D.
fleet

1258. Mac Sowarle brought a great with him from the Islands of Scotland,

account of his refusing to acknowledge the superiority of O'Neill, may not have had its origin

went about Ireland of the West, where they robbed a Marchant's' shipp of all the goods Jortherein, as wine, cloath, brass, and Irons.
dan de Exetra, then Sheriff of Connought, pursued him at seas with a great Fleet of English-

and creative fancy of John, the son of Rory Magrath, chief historiographer of Thoin the wild

370

dNNata Rio^hachca
mapa gup jabupcaip
-]

eiraeawN.

[1258.

pamicc Conmaicne
lifoail eiDip pfon,

long cfnoaige

annpm 50 nDfpna a
a longa pop a nanj-

eoach, urha,

lapn.

Siupcan De;ccep Sippiam connachc

in

Do Ifnmam mic Sorhaiple gup an alien

caipibh ina ccorhpoccup.

po aipip,

-]

Peacap lomaipecc fcroppa, mapbrap Siupcan po

Dia muinncip, -| pocaibe cenmocacporh. ceooip, -| piapup accabapD Pioepe TTlac Sorhaiple gona muincip DO cilleab Dopibipi 50 haireapach eoalach 50

naimcc a rip buoein. Oomnall mac Concobaip mic cijeannain

uf
-\

puaipc baof
(.1.

mbpaijofnup
t>o

cap cfnn a

acap 05
"|

pfiblimib 6 concobaip,

ja mac

Qob)

leccean

amach

Doibh,

cijfpnup na bpeipne Do cabaipc Do a nionao a arap.

Dunchaba &o mapbab la 60iaiD connaccai, Domnall mac concobaip pip bpeipne 50 puaipc. ceallach Dunchaba a coiccionn a cijfpnup Do borhnall annpin, mapbaicc cacal mac Concobaip. Uuccab cijeapnup ua mbpiuin mppin bfpbpacaip,
TTlacpaich

mace cigeapnam coipeac

ui

cellaij

~\

~|

Do

Qpc mac

cacail piabaij uf puaipc,

.1.

o Sliab poip.

bpian mace pampa&din njeapna ceallaij eachDac Do mapBab la connaccoib.

Qrhlaoib

mac Qipc

uf puaipc

cijeapna bpeipne o pbab piap Decc.

Uomap

6 bipn Decc.

QpDjal 6 concobaip mac comapba comain Decc. Coccab mop ecip jallaib i concobap ua bpiain Dap loipcceab apDparain,
cill

colgan, apbanna,

-|

SpaDbailce lomba
~\

oile.

Coinne ecip jallaib, gaoibealaib Gpeann DO Denamh eaccoppa. pich cobaip,

"]

in

eccmaip pe&limib

uf

Con-

men.

Mac Sowarle

did land upon an Island in

with the happy success of a ritch booty, to his

the Seas, and did putt his Shipps at Anchor, and seeing the Sheriff with his people make

own Contrey."
Conmaicne-mara,
maicne,
i.

e.

the maritime Con-

towards them, Mae Sowarle gyrte himself with his armour and harness of steel, and so did all
the companie that were with him out of hand ; whereupon the Sheriff landed on the Island,

the barony of Ballynahinch, in the north-west of the county of Galway. The name
of this ancient territory shortened to Connamara.
P
is

now

yet preserved, but

anglicised Ker-

where he was well served by Mac Sowarle. The Sheriff himself was instantly killed, with Sir
Pyers Caward, a worthy knight, with
others.
loss,

Mac Tiernan, now generally

nan.

many

This family of Tealach Dunchadha, or Tullyhunco, in Breifny, are to be distinguished

The English,

after receiving this great

also returned,

returned, and

Mac Sowarle

from the Mac Tiernans of the county of Eoscommon, who are a branch of the O'Conors, and de-

1258.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

,

371

Connaught, and at length put in at Conmaicne-mara where he took a merchant ship, and plundered it of its wine, cloth, copper, and iron. Jordan de Exeter, Sheriff of Connaught, pursued Mac Sorley to the island on which he

was stopping, with his ships at anchor near it. between them, in which Jordan was at once killed,

An
as

engagement took place was also Pierce Agabard,

Mac Sorley and his people returned exultingly and a knight of his people. enriched, and reached their own country [in safety].
Donnell, son of Conor, the son of Tiernan O'Rourke,

who was

until

now

detained in prison for his father, by Felim O'Conor and his son Hugh, was set at liberty by them; and the lordship of Breifny was given to him, in the place
of his father.
p Magrath Mac Tiernan Chief of Teallach-Dunchadha, was slain by Donnell, The Connacians, and the men of Breifiiy in general, son of Conor O'Rourke.
,

upon this took the lordship from Donnell, and the inhabitants of TealachDunchadha slew his brother, Cathal, son of Conor. After this the lordship of Hy-Briuin, from the mountain eastwards', was conferred upon Art, son of
Cathal Reagh O'Rourke. r O'Brian Magauran, Chief of Tealach Eachdhach
nacians.
AulifFe,

was

slain

by the Con-

son of Art O'Rourke, Lord of Breifny, from the mountain westdied.

wards, died.

Thomas O'Beirne

Ardgal O'Conor, son of the Coarb of Coman, died.

war [broke out] between the English and Conor O'Brien, during which were burned Ardrahen", Kilcolgan', and many street-towns, and much corn.
conference took place between the English of Ireland and the Irish, in the absence of Felim O'Conor, and a peace was concluded between them.
scend from Tiernan, the son of Cathal Miogharan, son of Turlough More O'Conor, Monarch
of Ireland.
q
r

A great A

TeaUach Eackdhack,

now

the barony of Tul-

laghagh, or Tullyhaw, in the north-west of the county of Cavan, in which the Magaurans, or

Mountain eastwards.

By

" the mountain"

is

Magoverns, are

still

very numerous,

here meant the range of Slieve-an-ierin. Breifny from the mountain eastwards, means the county
of Cavan

*Ardratien, a fair- town in the barony of Dunkellin,

(

and Briefny from the mountain westwards, means the county of Leitrim.
;

and county of Galway. well-known place on the bay of Galway, in the same barony and county.
Kilcolgan, a

372

QNNaca Rioshachca
QO1S CR1OSU,

eiraeaNN.

[1259.

1259.

Qoip Cpiope, mile, Da ceD, caocca anaoi.

Copbmac ua

luimluinn eppoc cluana pfpca bpfnainn

~\

aipD eaccnai&e

na hfpfnn Deg ina naoimpfnoip cianaopDa. Uomaleac mac coippDealbaij mic maoileaclamn uf Concobaip bo coiDeacc on poirh lap na oipDneaD na aipDeppoc euama ccuipe an papa,
i

Pallium Do eabaipe laipp

Socaip rhopa Don eacclaip apchfria. Qn jiollu cam mac giollu ciapam Saof lecchionn i nDan Decc. Qe& ua ConcoBaip Do cabaipr ionai6 amlaoib mic aipr, Do ape beacc
-\
i
i

ape mac cacail piabaij uf Ruaipc Do jabail laip lap Ruaipc in lonac paiDe pin Do. ccup Qmlaoib ip GOD ua Concobaip DO Dul 50 Doipe colaim cille DO cabaipc ingfne

mac aipc

uf

-j

Dubgoill mic Somaiple.

Caral mac Conpnama roipeac muinnpe

cionaic Do DallaD la

haoD ua

Concobaip. 6paijDe Domnaill uf T7uaipc Do DallaD Do beop, .1. mall mac DonnchaiD i bpian mac nell, ~\ bpaighDe ua mbpiuin apcfna. Coinne eDip aoD ua cconcobaip i bpian 6 nell 05 Daimimp loca hfpni.

Dfnam DaoD ua cconcobaip le Domnall ua T?uaipc cicchfpnaip na bpfipne Do Domnall ap a haiele. Caichleac mac DiapmaDa Do ecc.
Sic DO
TTliliD

~|

Do rabaipc

mac joipDelbaij DO ecc. pliab ^illbepc mac goipDealbaij Do gabail la haoD ua cconcobaip Do lomapcain Do uile. ^illbepc Do cabaipc a cpiap mac mbpaiglugha Dfnup cap a cfnn buben, aoD na concobaip Da leccen pen amac ap a haiele.
-\
i -|

Ua6g ua

bpiain TCiogDamna

muman Do

ecc.

SiopaiD ua baoijill Do
u

mapbaD Da bfipbpme
is

pepin.

Great

benefits.

This passage

given as

fol:

lows in Mageoghegan's Annals of Clonmacnoise

Devenish, oairiiinip, i. e. the Ox Island, or bovis insula, as it is translated in the Life of

St.

"A. D.

1259-

Thomas mac Terlagh mac Me-

Maidoc.

It is situated in

Lough Erne, near

laghlyn O'Conor came from Kome this year, \vhere he received the orders of Bishopp, and

Enniskillen, in the county of Fermanagh. Laisrean, or Molaisse, the patron saint of this island, sixth century, having died, according to the Annals of the Four Masters, in
flourished in the

brought his Pallium, with many other to the Church."

profitts,

1259-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

373

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1259.

thousand two hundred fifty-nine.

illitstrious

Cormac O'Luimlin, Bishop of Clonfert-Brendan, and the most

man

in Ireland for

wisdom, died, a holy

senior, of great age.

Tomaltagh, son pf Turlough, who was son of Melaghlin O'Conor, returned from Rome, after having been consecrated Archbishop of Tuam at the Pope's court, bringing with him a pallium and great benefits" for the Church.
Gillacam

Mac

Gillakieran, a

man eminent

in literature

the place [seat] of Auliffe, of Art O'Rourke, and made a prisoner of Art, son of Cathal Reagh, after he had removed Auliffe from his residence.

Hugh O'Conor gave

and poetry, died. son of Art, to Art Beg, son

Hugh O'Conor went to Derry-Columbkille, to espouse the daughter of Dugald Mac Sorley [Mac Donnell]. Cathal Mac Consnamha, Chief of Muintir-Kenny [in the county of Leitrim],
was blinded by Hugh O'Conor the hostages of Donnell O'Rourke, namely, Niall, son of Donough, and Brian, son of Niall [O'Rourke], and all the other
;

hostages of the Hy-Briuin, were also blinded by him. w Hugh O'Conor and Brian O'Neill held a conference at Devenish in
,

Lough

Erne.

Hugh O'Conor made

peace with Donnell O'Rourke, and afterwards gave

died.

him the lordship of Breifny. Taichleach Mac Dermot

Miles

Mac

Costello died.
a prisoner of Gilbert

Hugh O'Conor made

Mac

Costello,

and ravaged

all

Sliabh-Lugha*. Gilbert delivered up his own three sons prisoners in the place of himself, upon which Hugh O'Conor liberated him.

Teige O'Brien, Roydamna [heir presumptive] of Munster, died. y Siry 0'Boyle was slain by his own tribe.
the year 563, but, according to the Annals of Ulster, in the year 570. The ruins of an ancient
*

Sliabh-Lugha, a mountain district in the

church and of an abbey of the fifteenth century, and a beautiful round tower in good preservation, are still to

barony of Costello, and county of Mayo note ', under the year 1206, p. 150.
r

See

be seen on this island.

In the old translation of Siry 0' Boyle the Annals of Ulster this entry is rendered

374

[1260.

O
bol
i

borhnaill (Domnall occ) Do cionol ploicch lanrhoip in aom lonao, Gob buibe 6 neill bo cecc plocch ele ina coinne. rcip Gojam.
-]

-|

Qn

cip uile DO milleab leo,

a nDol appibe
Sil

in

oipjiallaibh 50 no jiallab Doib

pppicing.

jach lonabh

map jabpacc 50 poaDh Doibh ma

peblimib ua cuachail cijeapna

Tfluipeabaij Do ecc.

CIOIS
Goip Cpiopb,

CR1OSO,
nrile,

1260.

Da

ceD, Seapccaicc.
ecc.

Cionaoc ua bipn ppioip cille moipe Do TTlaolpinnen ua michijen Do ecc.

J5paba eppuicc Do cabaipc DO corhapba pacrpaicc ap maoilpeaclainn ua Concobaip 05 Dun Dealjan. Cac Dpoma Dfipcc 05 Dun Da Ifrglapp Do cabaipc la bpian ua nell la
-]

hafb ua cconcobaip DO jallaib cuaipccipc Gpeann, Du

thus
1
:

ccopcpabap pochaibe

"

Syry O'Boyle
O'Neill,

killed

by

his

own

bro-

of Eoscommon.
pp. 51-54,

See note e , under the year 1180,

,

thers."

and note m

under the year 1174,

Hugh Boy
This
is

i.

e.

Hugh

the Yellow

the ancestor of the O'Neills of Clanna-

p. 12. b Under this

boy, or race of Hugh Boy, who shortly after this period acquired a new territory for themselves,
in the counties of

year (1259) the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen record, that the castles of

Dunnamark, Dunnagall, Dundeady, Rath-

Down and

Antrim.

Davies

and Leland seem to think that these

were not wrested from the English
after the

territories
settlers till

barry, Innisonan, and Caislen an Uabhair, were burned upon the English of Desmond, by Fineen

Reanna Roin, the son of Donnell God Mac

Carthy.
c

murder of the Earl of

Ulster, in the

year 1333. See Leland's History of Ireland, vol. L p. 296, b. 2, ch. 4.

Charles O' Conor writes, Sil-Muireadhaigh. or VM, inter lineas. The prefix Sil is here a misor Hy, as the O'Tuathails, or were always called Ui Muireadhaigh, O'Tooles, to be distinguished from the Sil-Muireadhaigh,
take for Ui,
*

Kttmore

From

the

name O'Beirne

it

is

quite evident that this was the church of Kilmore near the Shannon, for O'Beirne's country was the district lying between Elphin and

Jamestown, in the county of Roscommon. d G'Meehin. He was evidently O'Meehin of

Ballaghmeehin, in the parish of Rossinver, in the north of the county of Leitrim.

which was the tribe name of the O' Conors of

Connaught and their correlatives. The HyMuireadhaigh were originally located along the
Kiver Barrow, in the present county of Kildare, and the Sil-Muireadhaigh in the present county

He was Bishop of ElMelagklin CP Conor. See Ware's Bishops, by Harris, p. 629, phin. where he is called " Milo, or Melaghlin, MacThady O'Connor, Archdeacon of Clonmacnoise."

1260.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IEELAND.

3?5

O'Donnell (Donnell Oge) assembled a very numerous army, and marched 2 into Tyrone. Hugh Boy O'Neill came with another army to meet him, and
all

the country was burned by them.

to

They went from thence

into Oriel,

and

hostages were given up

until their return.

them

in every place through

which they passed,

.

Felim O'Tuathail, Lord of Sil-Muireadhaigha [Omurethi], diedb

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1260.
sixty.

thousand two hundred

.

Kenny O'Beirne, Prior of Kilmore, died Mael-Finnen 0'Meehind died.

The The

dignity of bishop
e
,

was conferred, by the Coarb of

f

St. Patrick,

upon

Melaghlin 0'Conor
battle of

at

Dundalk.
,

Druim-dearg near Dun-da-leath-ghlas [Downpatrick] was Brien O'Neill and Hugh O'Conor, against the English of the North fought by of Ireland. In this battle many of the Irish chieftains were slain, viz. Brian

He was
f

consecrated
battle

by Abraham O'Conallan.

O'Neill's head

was sent to England.

There

is"

of Druim dearg, i. e. of the Red Hill or Ridge-^Sir Richard Cox, in his Hibernia

The

Anglicana, p. 69, states that this battle was fought in the streets of Down. His words are: " Stephen de long Espee, Lord Justice (some call him Earl of Salisbury, and Burlace styles him

poem composed by Mac Con Midhe (Mac Namee), in lamentation of Brian O'Neill and the other chieftains who were killed in this battle. In this poem Mac Namee,
the bard of O'Neill, states, that the head of
O'Neill,

yet extant a

Gilla Brighde

King of

Tara, was sent to

London

to

Earl of Ulster ; but I think there

for either of the Titles),

is

no ground

he encountered O^Neale, and slew him and three hundred and fifty-two
Irishmen in the streets of
after the

King of England, and that the Irish fought at a great disadvantage, being dressed in satin
the
shirts only, while their English antagonists

were

Down; but not

Dr.

long

protected with shirts of mail,

Lord Justice was betrayed and mur-

dered by his
this battle

own

people."

Hanmer notices

N<3 5

U
!

6
'

under the year 1258, and Cox, Grace, and others, under 1259; but the Annals of Ulster, and those of Kilronan, Connaught, and
Clonmacnoise, notice it under the year 1260. In the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen
it
is

"
J^

puba
5

U
,

Ceaccpom DO cuaoap pa
"fcmll

cae,

entered under the year

stated that it

1258, and it is was fought on Sunday, and that

ajup jaoioil ceanipac; Ce'mce caoiriippoill ap cloinn

^oill lonnct

cuinn,

naonBpom

lapuinn.

376

[1260
.1.

6 caippe, bpian 6 nell uachcopan Gpfnn, comnall ua hinnep^e, Donnplebe DiapmaiD mace lachloinn, TTlajnup ua cacain, Cian mag cana, concobop 6 Duiboiopma a mac, aob, aob ua cacain, TTluipcfp-

DO maicib gaoibel,

.1.

-\

cac ua cacain, amlaoib ua jaipmleaDhai j, cuulab 6 hanluam, i mall 6 hanQcc chfna Do mapbab cuicc pip Decc Do maicib muinncipe cacain luain. jiollu ap an lachaip pin. "CopcpaDop Dpong Do maicib Connacc ann beop,
.1.

cpiopD mac concobaip mic copbmaic mic comalcaij cicchfpna maije luipg,

Cacal mac cicchfpnain ui Concobaip, Hlaolpuanaib mac Oonncaib, Cacal mac Donnchaib, mic muipcfpcaij, aob mac muipcfpcaij pinn, Uabg mac
cacail mic bpiain

mac caibg mic muipeabaij mic comalcaigh ui maoilpuanaib, Concobop mac giollu appaic, Cabg mac cen uf ui muipeabaij jabpa, giollu bfpaij ua cuinn, Cappolup mac an eppuicc
ui

maoilpuanaib, DiapmaiD

-]

Sochaibe mop Duaiplib

Sloicchfb la

~\

Danuaiplib gaoibeal irnmaille piu.

mac

gopo inoep an

ci'p

com peblimib ui Concobaip Do paijib poime 50 piachc l?op commam. Nochap lamapcaip Duluilliam bupc Do

peaca

pin pfop uaip boi peblimib i

a mac,

cuacaib, i ba Connacc ap a ccul ip in Da jac caoib Sic Do bfnam pfpoile.

uilliam

aob na ngall pe a nucc ip na Dichpeib conab f comaiple Do ponpac

.1.

Oo

jni'ao pamlaib.

lompaibip mac

ma

ppicens ap a haichle.
annalists, draw their date of 1260; but they must have had more authorities than this poem,

" The Galls from London thither,

The

hosts from Waterford,

in a bright green body, In gold and iron armour.

Came

as they
fell

have enumerated several chieftains who poem.

in this battle, not noticed in the

"

Unequal they entered the battle, The Galls and the Irish of Tara;
Fair satin shirts on the race of Con, The Galls in one mass of iron."

Cpi

picio

TTlile

Oeuj bliaoam Ban, jem cpiopo 50 coriiplan,

^up

gopm upjlap 6pian a long Dun-oa-leacjlaif.

ruic pan piao

He

of Brian,

lauds the hospitality, and laments the loss King of Tara, in bardic eloquence ;

" Thirteen times twenty years exact, And one thousand from the birth of Christ,

bewails the misfortunes of the Irish in losing him ; enumerates the chiefs of the Kinel-Owen

Until

fell

Brian on the rich green land

At

the fortress of Dun-da-leath-glas."

observes, in a tone of grief and

who
tions

fell

along with him,

himself.

among whom he mennext

Manus O'Kane
King

as the greatest loss

Mac Namee

after the

He

preserves the date

despondency, that all the former victories of the

from which it is probable the Four Masters, and some of the older
in the following quatrain,

Kinel-Owen were more than counterbalanced by

their defeat on this occasion.

1260.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

8
;

377

O'Neill, the Chief of Ireland

Donnell O'Cairre; Dermot

;

Mac

Loughlin; Manus
his

O'Kane

Kian O'Henery

Donslevy Mac Cann

Conor O'Duvdirraa, and

son Hugh;

Hugh O'Kane; Murtough O'Kane;

Some

and Niall O'Hanlon. of O'Kane were slain on the field. O'Hanlon

;

Auliffe O'Gormly; Cu-Uladli In a word, fifteen of the chiefs" of the family

of the chiefs of Connaught also

fell

there, namely, Gilchreest, son of Conor, son of Cormac, son of Tomaltagh [Mac Dermot], Lord ofMoylurg; Cathal, son of Tiernan O'Conor; Mulrony Mac

Donough

Cathal, son of

Donough, the son of Murtough

Hugh, son of Mur;

tough Finn-; Teige, son of Cathal, son of Brian O'Mulrony Dermot, son of Teige, son of Murray, son of Tomaltagh O'Mulrony, Conor Mac Gilla-Arraith; Teige, son of Kian O'Gara Gillabarry O'Quin Carolus, son of the Bishop'
; ;

O'Murray; and many others, both of the Irish nobility and the plebeians. An army was led by Mac William Burke against Felim O'Conor, and he plundered the country before him, until he reached Eoscommon. He dared
however, pass down beyond this, because Felim and his son Hugh na nGall were near him in the Tuathas, and the cows of Connaught were behind
not,

them k

in the wilderness'; so that they

other.

came

to a resolution,
so,

on both

sides, to

make peace with each

returned home.

Accordingly they did

and then Mac William

In Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise this battle is called the battle of and it is stated that " Brian Downe
O'Neill
Daleglass, is since called
as

h This is rendered, Fifteen of the chiefs. " fifteen of the best of the O'Cahans were slayn

at that present," in the old translation of the

Bryan Catha in Duin, Bryan of O'Kane and other

are also
called

Annals of Ulster; and "fifteen of the

chiefest

which
chiefs

is

much
fell

as to say in English,

the Battle of Downe."

Manus

of the Family of the O'Kaghans" in Mageoghegan's Annals of Clonmacnoise.

'

who

in this battle

Son of the

bishop,

mac an

epbuij, &c.

In

"Catha an Duin," Le. "of the Battle of Down,"

in the pedigree of their descendants in all the

Mageoghegan's Annals of Clonmacnoise

this is

Irish genealogical books.

rendered: " Charles, the Bushopp O'Mory's son, with many others of the Noble and Ignoble
sort."

Chief of Ireland, uaccctpdn hepeann. In Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise this is interpreted, " Bryan O'Neale,

Behind them, ap ccut This phrase genemeans under their protection, rally
'

named the King

is

of the Irish of Ireland."

He

In

the wilderness,

i.

e.

in the wilderness of

evidently so called

by the annalists, because

at the

meeting held at Gael Uisce in 1258, the

Kinel-Dofa, or O'Hanly's country, in the east of the county of Roscommon. The church of
Kilbarry, anciently called Cluain Coirpthe, was
in this wilderness.

greater part of the Irish chiefs consented to submit to him as their chief leader.

3 c

378

aNNdta Rio^hachca
Sluaicchfo la

eiraeaNN.

[1260.

mac muipip
i

joccapla ua bpiain muinnpe apa cionnpom.

~\

ccuaDmumain Do paijiD Concobaip uf bpiain, nonol ina cimceal Do mainb a ccoill bfppdin
i

-j

VTlaiDcfp pop

jallaib piu po cfooip

-]

mapbcap

oauic Ppmoepcap Rioipe pomfpcmap eppiDe, an pailgeac, peappun aipDSochaiDe nach aipirhcfp Diob. parain, Uomap bapoic,
TTlajnup
pplaichim. Lochlainn

mac aoba mecc oipeacheaij Do mapbaD mac amlaoib mic

ui

ta

Domnall ua

Do mapbab mic Congalaij

cicchfpnan a Dfpbpacaip Dao6 ua Concobaip lap na ccoipbepc Do la Domnall mac nell

aipr
ui

T?uaipc

~\

Ruaipc.

Oomnall mac Concobaip mic cicchfpndm uf Ruaipc Do mapbaD la ceallach nDunca&a meabail TTluipceapcac a Deapbpacaip Do mapbaD Daoo ua Concobaip lap pin. Qpc beacc mac aipc ui Ruaipc DO mapbaD DaoD ua
i

~|

Concobaip beop. Uabg Dub mac nell mic Congalaig Do mapbaD la maoilpeaclainn mac amlaoib mic aipn.

Cpeac mop la haoD ua cconcobaip pop ruaic paca Dap mapbaD Concobap mac bpanain coipeac cope achlann, TTluipcfpcac 6 maonaij, mac bpiain uf allamam SochaiDe apchfna. Cpeac Do Dfnarh Do mac muipip ap ua nDomnaill. Opong Do muincip uf Dorhnaill Do bpfich oppa mbeannan bpechmoije. Opfm Do lopccaD 1 Do
-| i

mapbab leo &iob. Cpeac a&bal DO

caipppe
uile.

ofnarh

Dua

Dorhnaill

ap mac muipip gup aipccfpcap

uf

Longpopc Concobaip
baip.

uf ceallaij

Do lopccaD la muincip ao6a

Conco-

m Mac Maurice
n

This was the celebrated Sir

Gerald Sugagh Fitzgerald,

Coitt-Bearain,

who

died soon after,

f toms of Hy-Fiachrach, p. 325, note , where it is shewn, that Clann an Fhailghe were a Welsh

now

Kilbarran, in the parish

tribe.

of Feakle,
Clare.

barony of

Upper

Tulla, county of

Under the year 1316, the Annals of Clonmacnoise, as translated by Mageoghegan,

:

contain the following notice of this sept

The Failgeach

He was

the head of a

Welsh

sept called Clann an Fhailghe then in Ireland, but the Editor has not been able to determine
their location.

Felym O'Connor took a prey from the sonns of Failge, killed Eichard him" and made a self" [i. e. their chieftain], great

"A. D.

1316.

See Genealogies, Tribes, and

Cm-

slaughter of his people."

1260.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

37;)

was led by Mac Maurice10 into Thomond, to attack Conor O'Brien. a and O'Brien, attended by the chiefs of his people, met him at Coill-Bearain the English were defeated at once, with the loss of David Prendergast, a most
;

An army

puissant knight; the Failgeach others not mentioned.

the parson of Ardrahin,

Thomas

Barrott; and

Manus, the son of

Hugh

Mageraghty, was
after they

slain

by Donnell O'FlahifP.
to

Loughlin, son of Auliffe, the son of Art O'Rourke, and Tiernan his brother,

were
nell,

slain

by Hugh O'Conor,

had been delivered up

him by Don-

son of Niall, the son of Congalagh O'Rourke. Donnell, son of Conor, son of Tiernan O'Rourke, was treacherously slain the inhabitants of Tealach-Dunchadha [Tullyhunco] and Murtough, his by brother, was afterwards slain by Hugh O'Conor. Art Beg, son of Art O'Rourke,
;

was

also slain

by Hugh O'Conor.

Niall, the son of Congalagh, was slain by Melaghlin, son son of Art (O'Rourke). great depredation was committed by Hugh O'Conor in Tuath-ratha" on which occasion Conor Mac Branan, Chief of Corc-Achlann, Murtough O'Maeny,

Teige Duff, son of

of Auliffe,

who was

the son of Brian O'Fallon, and

A depredation was committed by Mac Maurice

O'Donnell's

many

others,

were

slain.

on O'Donnell.

A party of
r
,

the plunderers) at Beannan Breacmhoighe and burned and killed some of them.
(i.e.

men overtook them

great depredation was committed on Fitzmaurice plundered the whole of Carbury.

by O'Donnell, who

The
p

garrison of

Conor O'Kelly was burned by the people of Hugh O'Conor.

This name
is

CPFlahiJf,

ua

plairirii.

now

Beannan

Breacrnhoighe,

i.

e.

the hill of

pronounced
cised Lahiff.

as if written O'plairim,

and angli-

Breachmhagh.
here referred to

There are several places in the

;

This family is now respectable in the neighbourhood of Gort, in the south of the county of Galway.
q

county of Donegal called Breachmhagh the place is probably the townland of

Breachmhagh, Anglice Breaghwy,

Tuath-ratha,

now
on

anglicised Tooraah, in the

north-west of the county of Fermanagh.

Hugh
plunder

in the parish of Conwal, in the barony of Eaphoe. See Ordnance Map of this county, sheet 45. There is a
hill called

O'Conor went

this

occasion

to

remarkable

Binnion in the parish of

;

All the persons mentioned as having been slain were of his own
followers.

O'Flanagan, Chief of Tooraan.

Taughboyne, in the same barony but it is the place called bemnin in these Annals at the year
1557, an d not the

becmndn here

referred to.

c2

380

awwaca Rioghachca eiReaNN.

Sicpeacc

[1261.

mac
-|

pfnlaich Do

mapBab

in

drluain DO Donncachaigh

maj oipeachraij. la hua nDomnaill pop cenel neocchain rap eip caca Cpkhpluaiccheab ouin jup haipceeab, ~\ gup loipcceab upmop cenel neocchain Ifip Don cup
oipeachcaij
pin.

Do comalcac

Qbpaham ua

conallain

comopba pacpaicc

Decc.

QO1S CR1OSD,
Goip CpiopD,
mile,

1261.

Da ceo, Seapcca, a haon.

TTlaolpacrpaicc 6 Sccanoail eppoc

Raca bor Do coja ma aipoeppoc

in

apDmaca.
Se clfipij Decc Do mairib' clfipeac cenel cconaill Do mapbaD la ConcoBap ua nell la cenel neojain nooipe colaim cille im ConcoBap ua ppipjil.
i

-\

ConcoBop ua nell Do mapBao po cfooip rpe miopbailiB De colaim cille le Donn ua mbpeplen coipeac panao. Qe6 mac maoilpeachlamn ui ConcoBaip DO mapBab Do maolpaBaill ua
-]

66in.

Cacal 6 heajpa DO mapBab DO gallaiB ap cappainj mic peopaip oile DO luijniB Do mapBab imaille pip ccempall mop pechin
i

coiccfp

in

eapp-

Dapa.
.

Coccab mop Da bpairpiB ap

Sluaicchfb

-|

uilc

lomba DO bfiiam Dpingm mac Domnaill mecc caprai^

i

jallaiB.

.1.

nofpmumain Do paijib mecc capcaij, pinjm. TTlacc capcaij oa nionnpaijjibpiom 50 ccucc maibm poppa Dap mapBab ochc mbapuin cuiccfp piDipfb im Dpfim ele DuaipliB jail ip

mop

la clomn gfpailc

-\

Under this year (1260) the Annals of Clonmacnoise contain the two passages following,
8

tory of Ffearkeall." " Clarus Mac

the

which have been altogether omitted by the Four

Masters " A. D.
:

Moylyn O'Moylechonrie brought White Cannons of the Order of Premonstra,

1260. Carbrey O'Melaghlyn, a worthy prince for manhood, bounty, and many other

neer Christmas, from Trinity Island, on Loghke, to Trinity Island on Logh Oghter, in the Brenie, and were there appointed by the Lycense of Cahall O'Reyllie,

good parts, was treacherously killed by David Koche in Athboye" [Ballyboy] " in the terri-

who granted
et

the place after this

manner

In puram

perpetuam Elimozinam in

1261.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Mac Shanly was
slain

381

Sitric

at

Athlone by Donncahy Mageraghty and

against the Kinel-Owen,

Tomaltagh Mageraghty.

A predatory

incursion was

made by O'Donnell,

after the battle of

Down; and the greater part of Kinel-Owen was plundered and burned by him on that occasion. Abraham O'Conallan, Coarb of St. Patrick (Archbishop of Armagh), died
5
.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1261.

thousand two hundred sixty-one.

Maelpatrick O'Scannal, Bishop of Raphoe, was elected to the Archbishopric

of

Armagh.
.

Sixteen of the most distinguished of the clergy of Kinel-Connell were killed 1 at Deny by Conor O'Neill and the Kinel-Owen, together with Conor O'Firgil

immediately afterwards by Donn O'Breslen, Chief of Fanad, through the miracles of God and St. Columbkille. Hugh, son of Melaghlin O'Conor, was slain by Mulfaville O'Heyrie.
slain

Conor O'Neill was

Cathal O'Hara was slain by the English, by the procurement of Mac Feorais [Bermingham] and five of the people of Leyny were also killed in the Great Church of Easdara [Ballysadare].
;

war was waged, and many injuries were inflicted, by Fineen Mac Carthy, son of Donnell Mac Carthy, and his brothers, on the English. A great army was marched by the Clann-Gerald [Geraldines] into Desmond,
to attack

A great

Mac

Carthy,

i.

e.

Fineen.

Mac Carthy

attacked and defeated them

and

in this contest

were

slain eight

barons and five knights, besides others of

'

Sancte Trinitatis,

et

idcirco

Warm

hoc fecit in

0'-P%z7.This name, which was

that of

Domino qul Monstratenses" [Permonstratenses] "gaudent consimili privilegio cum monacMo ita quodadullam aliam ordinem trawire possent." This passage must have been misplaced by
the transcriber, because the death of Clarus is entered under the year 1251. " John de Verdon came over into Ireland this

the hereditary coarbs of Kilmacrenan, is now This passage is given as folAnglicised Freel.

lows in the old translation of the Annals

Ulster:

.of

"A. D.

1261.

The

best of the clergy of

Tirconnell was killed

by Conor O'Nell and Kin-

dred Oen, in Derry-Columbkill, about Conor Conor O'Nell was killed soon after, O'Fergill.

y ear -" "

through the miracles of Columbkill, by Don

died on Easterday."
O'Brislen, Chief of Fanaght."

Robyn Lawless

382
in

[1261.

ccliacaij pin imaille pe Seon

mac comaip

~\

pip an

mbappac mop.
-]

Oio-

aiprhmi

a ccopcaip to Daopccopplua

jail ip in ccaciopgail pempaice.

ofprmi-

cicclifpnup pmgin mag capraij Do mapbaD la jallaib lap pin, man Do jabail Da Dfpbpacaip Don aicclfipeac maj capraij. mac cacail piabaij ui Ruaipc DeluD o aoD ua concobaip,

Qpc

-|

roipijj

na bpeipne,
cacail
ui

conmaicne DO rabaipc cfnnaip na bpeipne Do. Oomnall ua heajpa Do Dfnam cpece pop cloinn peopaip in Diojail mapbca
"]

peopaip, 1
cfnn

mac papaijci ceampaill pechin gup mapb Sepfn eajpa Doib an caccluicc cuccupcaip a ceampall eapaoapa ap e baoi ima
-|

05 a mapbaD. bpian pua6 ua bpiain Do lopccaD mapb a mbof DO baoinib ann.

~]

Do pcaoileaD caiplen

ui

conainj i po

Lonjpopc aoba
bpfipni.
u

ui

Concobaip (05 pnam inpeDaij) Do lopccaD Dpeapaib

Battle

This battle

is

noticed in the Annals

the

Desmond

in the end overcame and over;

of Ulster and Multifernan, under the year 1261. It was fought at Callainn Gleanna O'Kuachtain,

topped them

all

but in the beginning of these

Garboils, I find that the Carties slue of the Des-

about

five miles

eastward of Kenmare, in

the parish of Kilgarvan, in the barony of Glenarough, and county of Kerry. There is a much

monds, John Fitz-Thomas, founder of the Momastery and Convent of Trally, together with

more

satisfactory account of this battle given in

Maurice his sonne, eight Barons, fifteen Knights, besides infinite others, at a place called Callan,

the Annals of Innisfallen, under the year 1260. Dr. Hanmer has the following notice of it under

where they were buried. Mine Authors are lohn Clinne onely, and the Booke of Houth."

the same year:

"Anno

1260. William

Denne
p.

Hanmer
400.

'

Chronicle,

Dublin edition of 1809,

is

was made Lord Justice, in whose time Green Castle, Arx-Viridis, was destroyed, and the
Carties plaied the Divells in

The same account of the battle

given

in Coxe's Hibernia Anglicana, p. 69, except that

Desmond, where

the author adds, out of his

own

head, that the

they burned, spoiled, preyed, and slue many an innocent ; they became so strong, and prevailed
so mightily, that for the space (so it
is

" by ambuscade." But Dr. victory was gained Leland, who had the English and Irish accounts
of this battle before him, and

reported)

who was
any

too high-

of twelve yeeres the

plow in groun'd in

his

Desmond durst not put owne country at length,

;

minded

to distort facts or give

details with-

through the operation of Satan, a bane of discord was thrown betweene the Carties and the

it

out authority, has come to the conclusion that was a fair battle but he should have stated,
;

Mac Donoch, Mac Odriscoles, Odonovaines, Mahonna, Mac Swines, and the inhabitants of
Muscrie, in so
tion,

on the authority of the Annals of Innisfallen, and other documents, that William Denn, the Earl of Ulster, Justiciary, Walter de Burgo,

much

that

by

their cruell dissen-

they weakened themselves of all sides, that

Walter de Riddlesford, the great Baron of Leinster, and Donnell Koe, the son of Cormac Finn

126L]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

John
Fitz

383
Countless

the English nobles, as also

Thomas and Barry More.

were

numbers of the English common

battle".

soldiers

also killed in the aforesaid

Mac Carthy was afterwards killed by the English", and the lordship of Desmond was assumed by his brother, the Aithcleireach Mac Carthy.
Fineen

Reagh O'Rourke, made his escape from [the custody of] Hugh O'Conor; and the nobles of Breifny and Conmaicne gave him the lordArt, son of Cathal
ship of Breifny.

Donnell O'Hara committed a depredation upon the Clann-Feoracs [Berdesecrated the minghams], in revenge for their having slain Cathal O'Hara, and church of St. Feichinn he also killed Sefin Mac Feorais, who while being
:

killed

had upon

his

head the

bell*

which he had taken from the church of

Ballysadare.

Brian Roe O'Brien burned and demolished Caislein ui Chonaing [Castle

Connell], and killed all that were in it. The Fortress of Hugh O'Conor (at Snamh-in-redaigh y )

was burned by the

had on his head a

men

of Breifny.
all

Mac Carthy, with

his Irish followers,

as-

The

bell,

that

is,

Sefin

sisted the Geraldines against

Mac Carthy Eeagh

blessed bell, which he had taken

away from the

and such of the Irish of the Eugenian race as

espoused his cause. After this signal defeat of the English, Fineen

church of Ballysadare, thinking that O'Hara would not attempt to strike him while he had
so sacred a

helmet on his head, even though he

it

Eeanna Roin, and the Irish chieftains of South Munster, burned and levelled the castles of Dun
Mic-Toman, Duninsi, Dunnagall, Cuan Dore, Dundeady, Dunnalong, Macroom, Muirgioll, Dunnamark, Dunloe, Killorglin, and the greater
part of the
castles of

had obtained
"

by robbery.
This
is

Snamk-in-redaigh.

probably the

place
sna,

now called Druim Snamha, Anglice Drum-

the counties of Leitrim and Roscommon.

on the Shannon, on the boundary between Dr.

(in his Ecclesiastical

Hy-Conaill-Gaura, and

Lanigan supposes
Ireland, vol.
i.

History of
in Leitrim
;

killed their English warders.

p. 24), that

Drumsnave

w Killed by the English According to the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen, Fineen

might be the place anciently called Snamh da-en but we have direct authority to prove that

Reanna Roin Mac Carthy, who was the greatest hero of the Eugenian line of Desmond that appeared since the English Invasion, was killed by
Miles Cbgan and the

Snamh
of the

da-en was the ancient

name of that part

De

Courcys, at the castle of

Shannon between Clonmacnoise, in the King's County, and Clonburren, in the county of Roscommon. See Tribes and Customs of Hy-

Rinn Roin, or Ringrone, from which was derived his historical cognomen, which he never bore
till

Many,

p. 5,

note

f
;

also

MS.

in Trinity College

Dublin, H.

2, 16, p.

871.

after his death.

384

aNNatct Rioghachca
Lopcca6 cluana
puilionn,
.1.

eiraeciNN.

[1262.

lon^popr peblim ui Concobaip. Uoippbealbac occ mac aoba ui Concobaip bo cabaipc pop alcpam Dapc
6 puaipc.

Cpeac mop la haob ua Concobaip ipm mbpfipne co paimc Dpuim Ifchain. Da pluaj jup mapbab pochaibe nap 6pipf6 DO cabaipc annpin pop blaib
boippDeipc 6iob. Qo6 buibe ua nell Dionnapbab,
lonab.
~\

Niall culctnac 6 nell DoipDnea6 ina

po mappo gabab pocaibe DO rhainb cenel eojain pa mac carmaoil roipeac cenel pfpabhaij co nopuing Do maicibh ele nach aipirhcfp ponD.

Niall ua gaipmleaohaij coipeac cenel moain Do ecc. TTiai&m mop la hua noomnaill pop mall culanach 6 neill Du
i in

in

bab

QO1S C171O3U,
Qoip Cpiopc,
mile,

1262.

Da

ceo, peapccac, aDo.

TTlaolpacrpaicc 6 Sccannail QipDeppoc apDamaca Do pablia oipppinb le pallium (in occau Goin baipce) in Qpomacha.
TTlaoilpeacloinn

mac

caiocc

ui

concobaip eppuc oilepinn Do ecc.

Sluaijeab aobal mop la gallaib epeann Do poijib peblimib mic carail cpoiboeipg i a mic aob na ngall, gup cuip ua concobaip uprhop bo Connacc.i a ccip Conaill ap ceceab na ngall, i buf pen in imp Saimepa ap cul a bo
-]

muincep.

Uaimc mac

uilliam bupc cap cocap

mop
1

immailli pip 50 paimc oilpinn.

mona comneaba iniap, ploj Goan De uepDun lupbfp na hepeann

~| ~|

Cluain Suilionn,

now

Cloonsellan, a town-

affairs

of Munster, which have been omitted or

land in the parish of Kilteevan, barony of BalSee lintober south, and county of Eoscommon

but slightly noticed by the Four Masters, under

the year 1262; such as the landing of Richard de Rupella at Portnalong, in Ivahagh ; a great
battle between

Ordnance Map of this county, sheets 40 and 42. *Drumlahan. This place is now more usually It is situated near Belturbet, called Drumlane.
in the county of Cavan, and is remarkable for its round tower. Colgan states that it is situated

of Donnell

Cormac na Mangarton, the son God Mac Carthy, and the English

of Ireland, at Tuairin Chormaic, on the side of

on the boundary between the two Breifnys.

b

slain

the Mangarton mountain, where Cormac was and his people slaughtered ; and also a

Under

this year the

Dublin copy of the An-

victory gained
nell

nals of Innisfallen contain several notices of the

by Donnell Mael, the son of DonGod Mac Carthy, over the English, on

1262.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

z
,

385

Cluain Suilionn

i.

e.

the Fortress of Felim O'Conor, was burned.

to

Turlough Oge, son of Hugh O'Conor, was given in fosterage

O'Rourke.

Art

O'Conor in Breifny and he where a part of his army was defeated, and many of advanced to Drumlahan the less distinguished of them were slain.
;

A great depredation was committed by Hugh

a
,

Hugh Boy
place.

O'Neill was banished, and Niall Culanagh was elected in his

Niall O'Gormly, Chief of Kinel-Moen, died.

A great
a battle], in

victory

was gained by O'Donnell over Niall Culanagh O'Neill [in which many of the chiefs of Kinel-Owen, under the conduct of

Mac
were

Cawell, Chief of Kinel-Farry, and killed or taken prisoners'

1

many

other chiefs not mentioned here,

THE AGE OF CHKIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1262.

thousand two hundred sixty-two.

Maelpatrick O'Scannail, Archbishop of Armagh, said Mass in a pallium (in the Octave of John the Baptist), at Armagh. Melaghlin, son of Teige O'Conor, Bishop of Elphin, died.
very great army was led by the English of Ireland against Felim, son of Cathal Crovderg O'Conor, and his son Hugh na ngall upon Avhich O'Conor
;

cows of Connaught into Tirconnell, greater away from the English, and remained himself on Inis Saimer to protect his cows and people. Mac William Burke marched across Tochar Mona Coinneadhad from the west, with a great army, as far as Elphin and the
sent
off the

number

of the

which occasion he slew twelve of their knights,

and the greater part of their muster. These three brothers, the sons of Donnell God, were the most heroic of the Mac Carthy family
since the English Invasion.
c

cataract of Assaroe at Ballyshannon.

d

Tochar

Mona

Coinneadha

celebrated

causeway

in the parish of Templetogher,

and

barony of Ballymoe, in the north-east of the county of Galway. See other references to it
at the year 1177, pp.

Inis Saimer.

See O'Flaherty's Ogygia,

as

c. ii.

p. 163,

where he describes Inis Samer

It is

"Erneo
and
is

fluvio."

now

called Fish Island,

the year 1225, 1255.

p.

n under 34-36; also note 232; and note under the year
,

situated in the Kiver Erne, very close to the

3D

386

aNwaca Rio^hachca eiReawR

i

[1262.

oo cocc cap Ctcluam anoip 50 Ropcommam. LecciD piopra uaca ccenel oobca mic aongupa gup aipccpioD an meD po an cap ep uf Concobaip cconnaccaib Don coipc pin, I DD copainnpioD aic caiplein l?opcommdin. luiD in mpcap Data aooha uf concobaip cpa po cionoilpibe a pocpaioe,
i

-|

Connacc
mbailce

gup aipjiopcaip 6 TTloij eo

-|

na Sa^an,
-]

a napbanna 50 pliab luja, a coipij a ogplaca uam in uachcop Connacc gup loipccpioo, pin. Cuipip po mapbpac a ccapla Do jup aipccpioo 6 Uuaim Da gualann 50 hacluam, oaoinib inpea&ma fcoppa. CuipiD 501!! laparii cecca nara Docum ui Conco-] -|

o bhalla iniap. Loipccip a -| po mapbupcaip Daoine lonDa fcoppa

~\

baip i a mic Do caipcpin pfo&a Doib.

Uicc aob mppin ina ccoinne 50 hach

Doipe cuipc.

Oo

cap na Da cele. an oi&ce Dep na pfoDa 50 pubac poirheanmnac,

cceliobpab Dua Concobaip. Gooh buiDe ua Nell DoipOneaD
Dopibipe,

gnfaD pic ann pe poile gan bpaijhDe jan eDipeaDa 6 cech6aoi aoD ua concobaip -\ mac uilliam bupc in en leabaib
~\

imcijiD goill apabapaD lap

"|

Niall culdnac DaicpiojaD.

Cpfc mop DO Denarh la gallaib na miDe ap jiolla na naorh ua peapjail cclfic gall. cijeapna na hdngaile, i a oipeachca pdn Do &ul uaiD aicpio^aD Doib, i a cijeapnup Do cabaipc Do mac mupchaiD cappaij uf pfpi

Uilc lom&a, cpeaca, gpeappa, upca, "] aipccne, ~\ mapbca Do Denam DO jiolla na naorh pop gallaib mppin. Uijeapnup na hangoile Do copnarh
jail.

DO ap eccin,
buiDe ua

mac mupchaiD cappaij DionnapbaD Do ap an cfp amac. Oonnplebe mac cacmaoil caoipeac cenel peapaDhaij Do mapbab Dao6
~\

nell.

SluaijeaD la
e

mac

uilliam bupc

-]

la jallaib

Gpeann

nDeapmumain

The Lord Justice

He was

Sir Richard de
ii.

Rupella, or Capella p. 103.

f

See Harris's Ware, vol.

Kinel-Dofa-mic-Aengusa, i. e. O'Hanly's country, to the east of Slieve Baune, in the

e under the county of Roscommon. See note 1210, p. 169; and pedigree of O'Hanly, year
,

John de Verdun.

According to the Annals

of Clonmacnoise, as translated

he came
garet,

to Ireland in 1260.

He

by Mageoghegan, married Mar-

p. 171.

daughter of Walter de Lacy, in whose right he became Lord of Westmeath, and had his
chief residence at Ballymore, Lough Seudy See Grace's Annals, edited by the Rev. Richard

This was originally O'Gara's SliahhLugha but it now belonged to the family of country, Mac Costello. It forms the northern part of
the barony of Costello, in the county of Mayo. See note ', under the year 1206, p. 150; and also note n , under the year 1224, pp. 215, 216.

Butler, note

',

p. 30.

1262.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

387

f Lord Justice 6 of Ireland and John de Verdun came across

They who plundered all mic-Aengusa

g
,

Athlone to Roscommon.

[the bridge of] sent out marauding parties into Kinel-Dofa-

that remained after

O'Conor

in

Connaught

he assembled

and they marked out a place for a castle at Roscommon. As to Hugh O'Conor, his troops, and marched into the West of Connaught, and plundered the country from Mayo of the Saxons, and from Balla, westwards and
;

he also burned their towns and corn as

persons between them [these places].
into
e.

far as Sliabh

He

Lugha", and slew many sent his chiefs and young nobles

South] Connaught, who burned and plundered [the country] Upper [i. from Tuam da ghualann to Athlone, and killed all they met who were fit to bear arms. The English afterwards dispatched messengers to O'Conor and his

them peace; and Hugh came to a conference with them at the ford of Doire-Chuirc', where they made peace with each other, without giving After they had concluded this peace, hostages or pledges on either side.
son, to offer

Hugh O'Conor and Mac William Burke

fully

slept together in the

and happily"; and the English

left

one bed, cheerthe country on the next day, after

bidding farewell to O'Conor.

O'Neill was again elected, and Niall Culanagh deposed. great depredation was committed by the English of Meath on Gilla-nanaev O'Farrell, Lord of Annaly; and his own tribe forsook him, and went over

Hugh Boy

to the English.

the son of

deposed by them, and his lordship was bestowed on Murrough Carragh O'Farrell. After this many evils, depredations, aggressions, spoliations, and slaughters, were committed by Gilla-na-naev on
the English and he asserted, by main force, the lordship of Annaly, and banished the son of Murrough Carragh from the country. Donslevy Mac Cawell, Chief of Kinel-Farry, was slain by Hugh Boy
;

He was

O'Neill.

An army
'

was led by Mac William Burke and the English of Ireland

into

Derryquirk, ooipe cuipc, a townland in the parish of Killuckin, in the barony and county
of Eoscommon.

William Burke (Walter, son of Richard, who was son of William Fitz-Adelm), passed the
night together merrily and amicably, and even
slept together in
this

This sentence is Cheerfully and happily constructed by the Four Masters, very rudely " After the They should have written it thus
:

one bed.

Hugh O'Conor and

Mac William were

near relations, the for-

mer being

conclusion of this peace

Hugh O'Conor and Mac

3

the grandson, and the latter the great of Cathal Crovderg O'Conor." grandson

D2

388

QNNaca Riohachca

eirceciNN.

[1263.

geapalc Do bpeapp

loca len. TTlapbrap DionnpaijiD ITlej capcaig 50 panjaDap mangaprac a Dfipri jup beyiDe an cpeap bapiin poirpi annpin la TTlag capcaij, -|
in

epinn ina aimpip pfm.

uaip DO mapbaD Qchc cfna ba hfpbaoac

hdirfp 50 nandirfp Do Dfpmurhain pin copbmac mac Domnaill JUID meg capraij Don cacap po. joill -[ jjaoiDil mun marijapcai^ an ta pempdicre.

ba

Oomnall ua mannacdin Do mapbaD Do

cobaip.

cloinn RuaiDpi

~\

caiDcc uf Con-

SluaicceaD la hua nDomnaill (Domnall 6cc)

1 appiDe
i

hi

ppfpaib manach cecup,

-]

ngaipbrpian Connachc

-|

50 jpanapD cfchba 50 po piappac,

Do,
-|

50 po jiallparc gach
ccopccaip.

np

gup a paimcc

cainicc Dia

ngh mp

mbuaiD

QO13 CR1O3O,

1263.
arpf.

Qoip CpiopD, mile, Da ceD, ^epcac,

ua ceallaij
(.1.

ey> puc

cluana peapca,
buille,

-\

TTlaolciapam ua maoileoin
rnac S10

ab cluana mic noip) Deg. Oauich ua pinD ab mainipcpe na

-|

5 1o^ a P ac iaicc
]
i

"a

njuipen ppioip Ooipfin, Saof cpabaiD i emj Dej. Oonn ua bpeplen Do mapbaD la Domnall ua nDomnaill
i

ccuipc an eypuicc
ui

pair borh.

SluaijheaD la mac

uilliam

DionnpaijhiD peDlimiD
~\

concobaip

-|

a
i

mfic 50 pangaDap l?opcomdm,

ccuaipceapc Connacr,
1

-j

po ceicpioo piol muipeaDaij pompa nochan puaippioD joill cpeaca pe a noenarh Don
oon cup
pin,
i.

TTIan^apcac loca lein, now anglicised Mangarton, a lofty mountain over Lough Leane, in
the barony of Magunihy, and county of Kerry. m The Dublin Cormac, son of Donnell God.

e.

on that occasion, would be

much more

correct.

battle

copy of the Annarls of Innisfallen notices this under the year 1261, and states that it

Granard in Teffia. Now Granard, a small market town in the county of Longford, four The most remiles north of Edgeworthstown.
markable feature of antiquity now to be seen at Granard is a large moat with a considerable
part of two circumvallations
is

was fought on Tuarain Chormaic, on the side of the Mangarton mountain.

n

around

it.

It
fifty

On

that day,

an la pempdicce,
is

literally,

on

said that this

moat was opened about

the day aforesaid. This because no particular

incorrect writing, is mentioned in the day previous part of the sentence. Their usual phrase,

years ago, and that the arched vaults of a castle were found within it, built of beautiful square
stones,

which are well cemented with lime and

1263.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

1
,

389

Desmond, against Mac Carthy, and arrived at Mangartagh of Lough Leane. Here Gerald Roche, who was said to be the third best knight of his time in This was a triumph without joy to DesIreland, was slain by Mac Carthy.
mond,
slain

Cormac, son of Donnell God [the Stammering] Mac Carthy, was in this battle. Indeed, both the English and the Irish suffered great losses
for
n
.

about the Mangartagh mountain on that day Donnell O'Monahan was slain by the sons of Rory and of Teige O'Conor. An army was led by O'Donnell (Donnell Oge), first into Fermanagh, and
thence into the

Rough Third

of Connaught, and to Granard in Teffia

and

every territory through which he passed granted him his demands and gave him hostages and he returned home in triumph.
;

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age

1263.

of Christ, one thousand two hundred sixty-three.

Thomas

O'Kelly, Bishop of Clonfert, and Mulkierian O'Malone,

Abbot

of

Clonmacnoise, died.

David O'Finn, Abbot of the Monastery of Boyle, and

Gilla-na-nguisen, Prior of Doirean", a
died.

Gillapatrick, son of

man eminent

for piety

and

hospitality,

Donn

O'Breslen was slain by Donnell O'Donnell, in the bishop's court

[palace] at Raphoe.

was led by Mac William Burke q against F.elim O'Conor and his son. He reached Roscommon, and the Sil-Murray fled before him into the north of Connaught; and the English had no preys to seize upon on that occasand mortar.
5pian-apt>,
as hitt

An army

Dr. O'Conor writes this name which he translates collis solis, i. e.

is

rane, Durrane, &c.

It is situated in the district

of Fiodh Monach, a short distance to the north

of the

of the sun ; but there

first

writing the

syllable gpian.
is

no authority for In Leabhar-

town of Roscommon.-^-See Ordnance Map

na-h-Uidhre the name

written jpanapec.

of the county of Roscommon, sheet 35. According to the tradition in the country, this was a

The town of Granard has been removed from its ancient site, which see marked on the Ordnance
P

house of great importance but the Irish Annals contain very few notices of it.
;

Map

of the parish.

q
is

Mac

William Burke

He was

Walter, the

Doirean

This place

now

so called in

son of Richard More,

who was

the son of Wil-

Irish at the present day,

and anglicised Der-

liam Fitz-Adelm de Burgo.

He became

Earl of

390

aNNdta Rioshachca emeawN.

pin.

[1263.

caD a rhac an plua, Do DonnchaD ua plomcc mapbp ac ceD Diob eDip maic pair, im diem puicpel imma mac, mi cuic Soaic an pluaj riiacaib conconnacc ui concobaip imaille pe pochaibe oile.
Dul
T?o mnpai
-]
-] -| -] -|

po mela oia ccijib lap

pin.

la gallaib. ITlaolpabaill ua hebm Do mapbab mac copbmaic meic Diapmaca t>o ecc. Dianmaic clepeac ecc. QinOilep mag pionnbapp caoipeac mumcipe ^eapaDain Do Caiplen Do Denarii la mac uilliam bupc 05 ach angail ipin ccopann.
TTlachaip ua puabdin DO

mapbab

la gallaib

noopup cempaill cilb

Sepccnen.

Gcaoin injean uf plannaccam Do ecc. SluaicceaD la hua nDorhnaill (Dorimall occ) hi cconnaccoib 50 ccorhpanaicc ppi haooh ua cconcobaip ace coipppliab. Lorcap appi&e 50 cpuacam hi ccloinn piocaipD gup milleab gup lep lomappiDe cap Suca, appibe
~\

50 gaillim, concobaip 6 ua lap nDorhnaill, po apccna 6 Domnaill cap Spucaip, cap RoDba, ap puo cipe harhDo bfpc a o^piap ua&aib uile. aljaiD, 1 laporh cap muaib,
aipccfb leo 50 heccje
-| ~| ~|

niompub DQoD ua

Cpeach mop Do Denarh la haeb mac peblimiD ap gallaib plebe luja,

Ulster very soon after this period under 1264.
r

-j

See note

f
,

of

Ath Anghaile,
'

i.

e.

Annaly's, or Hennely's,

ford.

Muintir-Gearadhain

This territory,

the

Kilsescnen, Cill Sepccnen,

It is

now

anglicised

name of which is anglicised Montergeran Jaw documents, stretched along Lough Gowna,
on the west
side,

in old

Kilshesnan.

an old church in ruins, in a

in the north of the present

townland of the same name, in the parish of Killosser, barony of Gallen, and county of Mayo
See its situation shewn on the
Tribes,

county of Longford. According to an Inquisition taken at Ardagh, on the 4th of April, in

the tenth year of the reign of James I., Montergeran, in the county of Longford, was divided

map

to Genealogies,

and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, printed in

1844, for the Irish Archaeological Society. The family of Rowan are still in the neighbourhood
of this church.
u

from Clanmahon, in the county of Cavan, by

that part of

Lough Gowna called Snabeneracke. The townlands of Aghnekilly and Aghacanncjn,

nan,

River Suck

The Suck

rises

from the

hill

of Eiscir ui Mhaonacain, in the townland of Culof Annagh, barony of Costello, and county of Mayo. In a tract on the ancient
fearna, parish
state of

near

Lough Gowna, belonging to Edmond Kearwho died in 1634, were a part of this terCorran
is

ritory.
*

Hy-Many, preserved
92,
it is

in the

Book of
Suck

Ath Any/tail, in Corran.

the

name

Lecan,

fol.

stated that the River

of a barony, in the county of Sligo ; but there is no place in this barony now bearing the name

flows from a well in Sliabh Formaili,

ui

plomn.

"X^ealBna, 6 ar liaj

now Sliub co Suca map

1263.]
sion.

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Donough O'Flynn and

391

Teige, his son, attacked their army, and killed one hundred of them, noble and plebeian, with Aitin Russell and his son, the
five sons of

Cuconnaught O'Conor, and

others.

The army then returned

to

their

homes

in sorrow.

by the English. Dermot Cleireach, son of Cormac Mac Dermott,

Mulfavill
slain

O'Heyne was

died.
,

r Aindiles Mag-Fhionnbharr [Maginver], Chief of Muintir-Gearadhain died. castle was erected by Mac William Burke at Ath-angail, in Corran".

Machair O'Ruadhain [Rowan] was the church of Kilsescnen

1
.

slain

by the English

in the

doorway of

Edwina, daughter of O'Flanagan, died. An army was led by O'Donnell (Donnell Oge) into Connaught, and joined Hugh O'Conor at the Curlieu mountains. They proceeded from thence to
Croghan, thence across the River Suck", and thence into Clanrickard; and they O'Conor then sepatotally ravaged the country as far as Echtge and Galway.

and O'Donnell proceeded across the Rivers Sruthair" and Rodhba*, through Tirawley, and afterwards across the Moy, and obtained his full demands from all.
rated from O'Donnell
;

A great depredation was committed by Hugh, son

a mbpuccan ap a tobap 05 Sliab popmaili." But the River Suck does not, properly speaking,

of Felim, on the English

Shannon Bridge.
country, and inundations.
is

It flows through a very level remarkable for its sinuosity and

issue

from a mountain, nor from a

well,

Its source,

which

is

called

Bun Suicin,

is

a small

w Sruthair

This

is

the ancient

name of the

pool of dirty mountain waters, lying at the west It oozes through side of a low Esker or ridge. the Esker, and appears at the east side of it, not
as a well,
ter.

Blackriver, which flows through the village of

some
of
*

Shrule (to which it gives name), and forms, for miles, the boundary between the counties

but

in scattered tricklings of

bog wa-

From

the east side of the Esker onwards, a

Mayo and Galway. Rodhba, now the River Robe, which

flows

small mountain stream, called the Suck, runs

by a

circuitous course through the south of the

eastwards into

lough; hence
rection,

it

winds

Lough Ui Fhloinn, its way in an

at Ballin-

eastern di-

and passes under the bridge of Castleit

county of Mayo, passing through the demesne of Castlemagarret, and through the town of Ballinrobe, to which it gives name, and discharges itself into

reagh,

where

turns southwards, and, passing

Lough Mask,
which

opposite the

through Ballymoe, Dunamon, Athleague, Mount Talbot, Belafeorin, and Ballinasloe, pays its
tribute to the

island of Inis Rodhba,

also derives its

name from

it.

Shannon,

near the village of

392
cciayipaije, i po
uaibib.

[1264.

mapbab pochaibe mop DO

jallaib laip,

-]

Do par buap lomba

QO1S CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopr, mile,
t>a ceD,

1264.

pepcar, a cfcaip.

Ctongup ua clumain ep*puc luigne Oo*ecc imainipcip na buille lap ccup a eppaccoiDe De pe chian poime pin.

Coccab eoip Ctpc ua maoilpeacluinn, goill na mi6e. Ctp Do cabaipc babhab. laip oppa iman mbpopnaij eDip mapbab a muincip Do lopcab TTluipceaprac mac Doriinaill uf aipc Do mapbab,
-| -\ ~\

la Donn

maj

uibip.
-|

Cpeac mop DO Denam Do Dealbnaib ap Shiol nanmcaDa, cuic meic uf maDaDam DO mapbab Don roipc pin. im muipip Coinni eDip lupDip na hGpeann (jona jallaib im mpla ulaD, mac geapailc jona ccoimcionol Ifc ap lee) i pebbmiD ua Concobaip gon a
~]

y Sliabh

Lugha, and in Ciarraighe

These two

Mageoghegan's

translation

of the Annals of

territories are included in the present

barony of Costello, in the south-east of the county of

Clonmacnoise, this passage is rendered as follows : "A. D. 1264. Art mac Cormac mac Art

Mayo
1

See them completely defined at pp. 150,

this year the

215, 216, supra.

lish of

Under

Annals of Clonmacnoise,

O'Melaghlyn made great warrs upon the EngMeath, and made great slaughter upon them at the river of Brosnagh, where he that

as translated

by Mageoghegan, contain the following curious entry: "Ebdon, King of Denmark, died in the islands of the Orcades, was on his journey to come to Ireland."
a

was not killed of them was drowned in that

river."
c

as

he

Donn Maguire.

According to the tradition

in the country, this is the first of the

Maguire

O'Cluman.

This name, which

is still is

com-

family
spirit

who became
is

mon

in the counties of Sligo

and Mayo,

now

Chief of Fermanagh. His believed to haunt the mountain of

generally anglicised Coleman.

Cluman would

Binn Eachlabhra, near Swadlinbar, where he

forbodes the approaching death of the head of the Maguires, by throwing down a huge mass
of the rocky face of the mountain. d Delvin [Eathrd], i. e. the barony of GarrySee note h , under castle, in the King's County.

sound nearly
glicising

as well;

but

Irish families in an-

their

names are not influenced by

respectability of those faassimilate their

sound, but
milies with

by the

whose names they

own.

Brosna A river which flows through the county of Westmeath and the King's County, and pays its tribute to the Shannon, near BanaSee Colgan's Trias Thaum., p. 159. In gher
b

the year 1178, p. 44.

Sil-Anmchadha, i. e. the O'Maddens, in the barony of Longford, in the county of Gal way See note k under the year 1178, p. 44.
,

1264.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

:

393

of Sliabh Lugha, and in Ciarraighe* great numbers of the English were killed by him, and he carried off cows from them 2 many
.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
,

1264.

Christ, one

thousand two hundred sixty-four.

in the

8 Aengus O'Cluman Bishop of Leyny, died

Abbey

of Boyle, having

resigned his bishopric long before.

out between Art O'Melaghlin and the English of Meath; and he destroyed great numbers of them near the River Brosna", both by killing

A war broke

and drowning.
Murtough, son of Donnell O'Hart, was
killed;

and

his people

were burned
d

by Donn Maguire

c
.

A great depredation was committed by the inhabitants of Delvin.[Eathra

on the Sil-Anmchadha
sion.
e
;

and the

five sons of

O'Madden were

slain

on the occa-

conference was held this year at Athlone between the Lord Justice of Ireland (attended by the English, the Earl of Ulster', and Maurice Fitzgerald,
f

The Earl of Ulster

This was Walter Burke,

that married the Earle of Gloster ; 3. Johan, that

or

De Burgo,

Adelm.

the grandson of William FitzAccording to the Dublin copy of the

Innisfallen,

married Thomas, Earle of Kildare; that married the Earle of Louth ;

that married with the

4. Katherine,

Annals of

he obtained

this title in

5. Margaret, that married the Earle of Desmond ; 6. Ettinor,

the year 1264, after his marriage with [Maud] the daughter of Hugh de Lacy the younger. Dr. Hanmer has the same statement under the

Lord Mullon.

Notwith-

standing these honourble matches and amity coneluded in the outward sight of the world, there
rose deadly warres between the Geraldines

same year.

His words are

as follows:

" Anno

and

1264. Walter Bourke,

commonly

called Walterus

de Burgo, was made Earle of Vlster, hee had married the daughter and heire of Sir Hugh Delacy,

Burks, which wrought blood sheds, troubles, by partaking throughout the Kealme of Ireland at
;

the younger, and in her right enjoyed the Earledome. " The Booke of Houth down the delayeth

the same time the fury of the Giraldins was so outrageous, in so much that Morice Fitz Maurice,

selfe against the

the second Earle of Desmond, opposed himsword, and took at Tristleder-

scent, that this Walter,

by the said

heire of Vlster

mote,

now

called Castle

Dermocke, Richard de

Vlster had issue, Walter \recte Richard], and he had issue five daughters ; 1. Etten, that married
Robert
le

Capella, the Lord Justice, Theobald le Butler, and lohn, or Millis de Cogan, and committed them

Bruse, King of Scotland ; I.Elizabeth,

to the prisons in Leix

andDonamus; but

the

3 E

cn-wata Rioghachca eiReaNN.

mac
in

[1264.

Clc luain.
l?f
i

Gaccla,
~\

caoap

Connacc

anbdcao inrinne Do jabail na ngall OD conna mac 50 lionmap Ifipaonoilce 05 cocc ina ccorh&dil.
-j

5ona6
-|

comaipli ap ap cinnpeaD pic oiappaiD oppa.

Denarii,
~\

Ctoncaijip peoliimm

maice a muincipe an epic DO

po pcappac pe poile 50 pioccanca

laporh.

muipip mac Cocca6 Depgi eoip mac uilliam bupc (.1. lapla ulab), milleab upmop Gpeann fcoppa, gup gab an ciapla apaibi Do jjeapailc, gup mac jeapailc, gup loipcc a mainep, jup aipcaiplenaib cconnaccaib 05
-|
i

-]

a muincip. jjfpcaip Do ppaccQpc ua maoilpeacloinn Do lopccaD apaibe DO caiplenaib a mbpfshmaine sup Diocuipfpcaip a ngoill bailcib noealbna, a ccalpoiji, a ai r bpi5 n oe a ccoipeac ap a hairle. < uili.
-\
i

-j

epcib

5
i

lupoip na hGpeann, Seoan ^ogan,

-j

ceboio buicelep Do gabdil Do muipip

mac

gepailc

ccempal coippeccra.
-\

Caiplen loca meapcca

Qipoeppcop QpDamacha mbpacap minup 50 hCtpDmacha,

gnaccuimne) DO cionnpsam
in

mac uilliam. caiplen Qipo patain Do jabailDo na TTlaolpaccpaicc 6 Sccannaill Do cabaipc

ape mac Domnaill jjallocclac (DO peip mainepcip pin Do cojbail 6 copac.
-]

yeere following, Henry the third not pleased with these commotions and hurly burlies, by

had a meeting with Ffelym O'Connor, and with Hugh, his son, in Athlone. The EngIreland,
lish nobility, seeing the great multitutes of peo-

mature advice taken of

his Councell, pacified the

variancebetweenthem;dischargedZ>ewwy[Denn] of his Justiceship, and appointed David Barry

pie follow

with great

Ffelym and his sonn, were strocken fear; whereupon .they advised with
it

Lord Justice

in his place."

Hanmer's

Chronicle,

themselves that

were better for them to be in

Dublin edition of 1809, pp. 401, 402.

this genealogy
tic Irish

The Book of Howth is, however, wrong in for we know from more authen;

and his son, than in conpeace with Ffelym which [peace] was accepted tinual dissention,
of

by Ffelym and concluded by them,

the

first

and English authorities, that Walter, of the De Burgo family, who became

Earl of Ulster, was the father, and not the grandfather, of the ladies above enumerated; and, that
his eldest son was

" Also there arose dissention between Mac William Burk, the Earl of Ulster, and Mac Gerald this year, [so] that the most part of the

kingdome was brought

of
all

to utter ruin

by reason

named Richard, not Walter.

This and the preceding

Burned his manors.

entry are given as follows in

1264.
Ulster,

Mageoghegan^s trans:

much Mac Gerald

h

their warrs against one another, in so that the said Earle took all the castles of

lation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise

" A. D.

in Conndught into his own hands, and burnt and destroyed all his manours."

The Lord Deputy of Ireland, the Earle of Mac Gerald, and the English nobility of

Street-tovns,

i.

e.

villages consisting of one

castle.

street,

without being defended by a

1264.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

side,

395
his son

with their respective forces), on the one

and Felim O'Conor and

on the

other.

The English were

seized with fear and perplexity of

they saw the King of Connaught and his rous and complete muster of their forces, for peace. Felim and the chiefs of his people consented to

mind when son approaching them with a numeand came to the resolution of suing

make

the peace,

and they afterwards separated on amicable terms. war broke out between Mac William Burke (Earl of Ulster) and Maurice Fitzgerald, so that the greater part of Ireland was destroyed between them.

The Earl took

his

all

the castles that Fitzgerald possessed in Connaught, burned

and plundered his people. Art O'Melaghlin burned all the castles and street-towns" in Delvin, Calry, and Brawney, and drove the English out of all of them; he then took hostages
,

manors

from their

chieftains'.

The Lord

Justice of Ireland

j
,

John Goggank and Theobald

,
1
.

Butler,

were

taken prisoners by Maurice Fitzgerald in a consecrated church The castle of Lmigh Mask and the castle of Ardrahin were taken by William Burke.

Mac

The Archbishop of Armagh, Maelpatrick O'Scannal, brought the Minor to Armagh; and (according to tradition), it was Mac Donnell m glagh that commenced the erection of the monastery.
'

Friars Gallo-

From

their chieftains, that

is,

from the Irish

Cowgan, which seems more

is

correct.

The name

he placed over these territories after the expulsion of the English. These were
chieftains

whom

now usually common all over

Mac

The Coghlan, Magawley, and O'Breen. Delvin here mentioned is the present barony of
Garrycastle,

written Goggan, and is very the south of Ireland, particuin the county of Cork. larly */ a consecrated church This was the church

Mac Coghlans'

country,
all

in

the

King's County.
is still

Calry comprised

the pa-

of Castledermot, in the county of Kildare See Annals of Ireland by Camden and Grace. In

ney

Westmeath, and Brawname of a barony adjoining Athlone and the Shannon in the same county, in
rish of Ballyloughloe, in

the

the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen this passage is incorrectly given under the year

which the O'Breens are have changed the name

J

still

numerous, but
Richard de Eu-

According to Camden and Hanmer the prisoners were confined in the castles of Duna1266.

to O'Brien.

mase and Ley, then in the possession of the

Geraldines.

The Lord

Justice

He was

pella, or Capella. k John

In Mageoghegan's translation Goggan of the Annals of Clonmacnoise he is called John

Gallowglasses, or heavy-armed Irish soldiers, was chief of Clann-

m Mac Donnell GaUoglagh of the

Kelly, in Fermanagh.

8x8

396

aNNCtf-ct

Rio^hachca eirceawN.
1265.

[1265.

QOIS CR1OSU,
Cioip Cpiopr, mile,

Da

ceD, pepcac, acuicc.

oilipinn,

Uomap mac
eppuc
luigne,
-\

peapjail meic DiapmaDa eppuc

comap ua maicm

Do ecc. TTlaolbpigDe ua spuccain aipcinneac oilepinn

TTluipip

mac

Caiplen Caiplen an bfnnacca,

nell uf concobaip Do coja DO cum eppucoiDe oilepmn. ua cconcobaip, ~\ la hua noomnaill. Sticcij Do p^aoileaD la hao6
-|

caiplen

Rara

aipD cpaoibe DO lopcaD

~\

Do pcaoil-

eaD leo beop.

Do lopccaD. TTlamipcip copaip pacpaicc

UaDg mag

pionnbapp Do

mapBab Do Concobap mag

uf

pagnaill 1

Do mac

oomnaill uf peapjail.

peblimiD mac carailcpoibDeipg

1

Concobaip Ri Connacc, peap copanca

-|

a capaD pop gac caoib, peap lonnapbra meaaipgce a eapcapac, peap Ian Denec, Deanjnam, 1 Doipoepcup, peap ealaban, DfjaDbap pfj Gpeann ap uaipli, Daighce opD eccailpeac, ap cpur, ap cpo&achc, ap ceill, ap lochc, ap pipinne Do ecc lap mbuaiD
cocaigrn

a cuicciD

pfin,

-]

-|

nonjca

Ropcomdin cucc pfm maimpcip jbpacap .8. Domemc Don upD. CtoD ua Concobaip a mac pein Do pfogab uap poime pin Do Dia Connachcaib Da ep,~) a cpeac pfji Do Denam Do ap uib pailje, ] lap niompuD
-|

naicpiji

-\

Beannada, now Banada, a small village near which are the ruins of an abbey, in the barony
11

banisher of his Enemies, where he could find

them: one

of Leyny, and county of Sligo. Eath-ard- Creeva This name

solete.

is

now

ob-

full of bounty, prowess" [eanjnarii], " and magnanimity, both in England and Iredied penitently, and was buried in the land,

the great abbey of BallinToberpatrick, in the county of Mayo. tober, 1 Mag-Finnvar. He was Chief of MuintirP
i. e.
'

Fryers Preachers' (monastery) of Roscommon, which he himself before granted to the said order, in honor of God andSt Dominick. After

whose death

his

own

son,

Hugh O'Connor

(a

Geran, a territory on the west side of Lough Gowna, in the north of the county of Longford
1

vallarous and sturdy man), tooke upon him the name of King of Connought, and immediately

Felim

This passage

is

rendered as follows

made
that

his first regal prey

in

Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of

:

Affailie,

upon the countrey made great burnings and outrages

of
in

Clonmacnoise " Felyrn mac Cahall Crovedearg O'Connor, king of Connoght, defender of his own province

countrey,

and from thence returned to

Athlone, where he put out the eyes of Cahall Mac Teige O'Connor, who, soone after the losing
his eyes, died."

and Friends every where, and destroyer and

1265.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

397

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1265.
sixty-jive.

thousand two hundred

Thomas, the son of Farrell Mac Dermot, Bishop of Elphin Thomas O'Maicin, Bishop of Leyny and Maelbrighde O'Grugan, Erenagh of Elphin,
;

died.

Maurice, the son of Niall O'Conor, was elected to the bishopric of Elphin. The castle of Sligo was demolished by Hugh O'Conor and O'Donnell. The
castle of

Beannada" and the

castle of

Rath-ard-Creeva were also burned and

destroyed by them.

The monastery
nel O'Farrell.

of Toberpatrick p was burned.

slain

q Teige Mag-Finnvar was

by Conor Mac Rannal and the son of Don-

Felim r son of Cathal Crovderg O'Conor, the defender and supporter of his own province, and of his friends on every side the expeller and plunderer of
,

of hospitality, prowess and renown clerical orders and men of science; a worthy materies of a
his foes,

man

full

the exalter of the

King of Ireland

for

his nobility, personal shape, heroism,

wisdom, clemency, and

truth, died, after the

victory of [Extreme] Unction and penance, in the monastery of the Dominican Friars, at Roscommon', which he himself had granted to God and that order.

Hugh
*

O'Conor, his

successor.

was inaugurated king over the Connacians, as Hugh committed his regal depredation" in Offaly", and on
son,

own

his
his

Prowess, eanjnaiti, is used throughout these Annals in the sense of prowess or dexterity at

" Mr. Grose has given a faithful view of this The steeple of the abbey, of late unabbey.

arms

See extract from the Annals of Kilro-

nan, at the year 1235, where the phrase

eanjjnariia
is

popgeim

cure materials for building a house,

dermined by a gentleman who wished to profell about

used to express "with credit for

two years ago" [he was writing

the

prowess."

monument

of Felim

is

in 1796], "and covered with rubbish

Roscommon. Dr. O'Conor, in his suppressed work, Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Charles O'Conor of Belanagare, writes, p. 43 " Felim was interred in his own abbey of Eos'
:

and with ruins."

monument
inscription
u

in 1837,

The Editor examined this when it was very much in-

jured, but could discover no fragment of an

upon

it.

common, and his monument, of which Mr. Walker has given a drawing in his Dress of the
ancient Irish,
slty
is

Regal depredation,

a cpeac

piji

It

appears

to this day."

an object of melancholy curioAnd he adds in a note

:

that every king after his inauguration was expected to achieve some grand act of depredation. w of considerable extent in a
Offaly,

territory

398

aNNCtta Rio^hachua emeawH.

hat: luain

[1266.

Do 50

Cacal mac caibcc

uf concobaip

Do Dallab

laip,

-]

a ecc Da

bfchin.

TTluipceapcac

mac

cacail mic biapmaca mic caiDg nf maoilpuanaib

cijeapna muije luips 065. ^lolla na naom ua cuinn caoipeac mumcipe giollccdin, Cacal
pajnaill caoipeac muincipe heolaip, calpoiji Do ecc beop.
~\

mag

TTluipeabac ua ceapbaill caoipeac

Coinne Do Denarh Do 'Comalcach uaConcobaip (.1. aipDeppuc cuama) pe bauic ppinDepjap pe macaib mupchaba. TTIopdn Do muincip an aipDep-\

puic Do mapbaD an la

pin Doib

ccill

meaDoin.
uf

Oeapbpopgaill ingfn ui DubDa (macaip an aipDeppuic chomalcaij Concobaip) Decc lap mbuaiD, ^fc.

QO13 CR1OSU,
Qoip CpiopD,
mile,

1266.

Da ceD, pepcac, ape.

.8.

in

eppuicc DO cabaipc ap bpacaip DopD apD Ulaca Do cum beic i Raic bor Do.

^paba

Domenic

(.1.

ua Scopa)

maolconaipe aipciDeochain Cuama, i TTlaoilipu ua hanainn Qra liacc, Do ecc. ppioip ]?opa commain, ua miaDacam Do gabail eppocoioe luigne. Comap
~\

Uomap ua

Cojq

eppuicc Do cocc on T?6im 50 cluain pepca bpenainn, i ^pa&a

~]

eppuicc Do cabaipc Do pfm nac pia Noolaic.

Do comap 6 miaDacdin
luigne Do

in

Qc

na pfog an Dome 05 lopcab

Oomnall ua hGjpa cijeapna QipD na piaj.

Leinster.
p.

mapbaD Do

jallaib,

-\

See note
e
,

under the year 1178,

1

44
x

and note

under the year

193, p. 96.

same name, in the south of the county of Mayo, Harris, in his edition of Ware's Bishops, p. 607,
" at Kilmesays that this quarrel took place than, a manor belonging to the arclibishoprick."
z

David Prendergast The seal of this chief still exists, as would appear from an impression
of
it

in the

museum

of Mr. Petrie.
is,

It bears his

Athleague,

ar

liaj.

This

is

ar liaj maena-

arms on a
y

and the legend DE PEENDERGAST."

shield,

" S.

DAVID

cam, a

village

and parish on the Eiver Suck, in

Kilmaine, cill tneaoom, i. e. the middle church, a parish and village in a barony of the

the north-west of the barony of Athlone, in the county of Roscommon. It }S to be distinguished

from Athliag na Sinna, now Ballyleague, at

1266.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

who

399
died

return to Athlone put out the eyes of Cathal, son of Teige O'Conor,
in consequence.

Murtough, son of Cathal, the son of Dermot, son of Teige O'Mulrony, Lord
of Moylurg, died. Gilla-na-naev O'Quin, Chief of Muintir-Gillagan, Cathal of Muintir-Eolais, and

Mac Eannall, Chief

Tuam) with

Murray O'Carroll, Chief of Calry, died. conference was held by Tomaltagh O'Conor (Archbishop of
;

David Prendergast* and the Mac Murroughs and many of the Archbishop's people were slain on that day by them at Kilmaine".
Dervorgilla, daughter of

O'Dowda

(the mother of the Archbishop Tomal-

tagh O'Conor),

died, after the victory, &c.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1266.
sixty-six.

thousand two hundred

at

The
St.

dignity of bishop
e.

was conferred

Armagh on

a friar of the order of

(i. O'Scopa), and he was appointed to Eaphoe. Thomas O'Mulconry, Archdeacon of Tuam, and Maelisa O'Hanainn, Prior of Roscommon and Athleague 2 died.
,

Dominic

Thomas O'Meehana became Bishop

of Leyny.

and the dignity of bishop was conferred on him, and on Thomas O'Meehan, at Athenry, on the
to Clonfert-Brendan,

A bishop-elect"

came from Rome

Sunday before Christmas. Donnell O'Hara was killed by the English while he was c ing Ardnarea
.

in the act of burn-

Lanesborough, in the same county. a Thomas Of Median. In Harris's edition of

variety of statues of excellent workmanship," was built by him ; but there can be little doubt
that this frontispiece, or ornamented doorway, is at least two centuries older than his time.

Ware's Bishops, p. 659, he is called Dennis O'Miachan. His predecessor was Thomas. b Ware calls him John, an ItaBishop-ekct.
lian,

the Pope's nuncio

years,

and says that he

last,

sat

See Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops, p. 639c Ardnarea, i. e. the height or hill of executions,

for

many

and was at

in

296, transin

now

Anglicised Ardnaree.

It

may be

lated to the archbishopric

Italy.

of Benevento,

now

said to

Ware thought

at the west

that " the fair frontispiece end of the church, adorned with a

Ballina.
Sligo,

form the eastern part of the town of On an old map of the coasts of Mayo,

and Donegal, preserved in the State Pa-

400

awNaca Rio^hachca emeaNN.

mac
ua
cficepnaij uf cfipfn cijecqina ciappaije Do

[1266.

mapbaD

la

cuilfin

cijeapna claonglaipi Do mapbaD Da mnaoi pein

Den

builli

Do Scan cpe
ciji

eD.
"|

Caiplen
TTluaiDe.

Da coinne Do bpipeab,

Conmaicne

uile Dpdpujjhao.
i

Uoipp&ealbach mac Qo6a mic cacail cpoiboeips Decc

mainipDip cnuic

Oiapmair puao mac Concobaip mic cojibmaic meic Diapmaca, i Donn. cacaijj mac Dumn oicc meg oipechraij Do Dalla6 oao& ua Concobaip. mopdn buipjep beoil an cacaip Do lopcaD Do plann puaD ua ploinn,
~]

DO jallaib an baile Do mapbab

Do.

Cto6 ua Concobaip l?f Connacc Do Dulipin mbpepne DaicpfojaD Qipc mic carail piabaij, ~\ cijeapnup bpepne Do cabaipr Do Do concobap bui&e mac

bpaijDe caoipeac na bpepni uili Do gabciil. SluaijeaD la huilliam bupc Do poijio ui maoilpeacloinn. Tllopdn DO bdchaD Dfb in ac cpochDa, a niompuD gan nfpc jan bpaijDe Do jjabail. amlaoib mic aipc
uf puaipc,
-\
~\

Qp mop DO rabaipc Do Dpoing Do muinnp ui concobaip, Do Loclumn mac Diapmaca mic muipcfpcaij, Do mac cfirepnaij, Do mac Domnaill
.1.
~\

1 en ceann Gajpa, ap bpfrnachaib, ap luijnib Deg ap picic Do cioblacab 50 him cconcobaip Doib. Copbmac mac jiolla cpiopc meic DiapmaDa Do lor, a ecc cpfimiD. Saob injean carail cpoibDeipg, TDaoileoin boDap ua maoilconaipe ollam Sfl muipeaDhai j Seancup DO ecc.

Duib

ui

-|

in

lapcap Connacr,

~\

-]

TTlaolpacpaic 6 Scanoail Ppiomaio CtipD

nup 50 hapD maca,

laparh.

-]

maca Do cabaipc bparap miolanoomain Do Denarii laip im an eacclaip IfrainDfoj

" Monasturie, and Castle pers Office, it is called of Ardnaree."

d

territory

was at

this period

narrowed by the

CfCuikain

This name

is

now

Anglicised

Collins all over the south of Ireland".

'

encroachments of the English settlers. f Tigh da Cfioinne, now Tiaquin in the county of Galway. The Conmaicne here mentioned

Claenghlais,

now

Clonlish, a wild district

must be Conmaicne Kinel-Dubhain, now the

barony of Dunmore, in the county of Galway, and not the Conmaicne on the east side of the
Shannon.
8

in the barony of

Upper

Connello, in the south-

west of the county of Limerick, adjoining the counties of Kerry and Cork. O'Cuileain was
originally Chief of Hy-Conaill-Gaura
;

but his

Bel-an-tachair,

now

Ballintogher, a small

1266.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

[in the

401

Mahon, son of Kehernagh O'Kerrin, Lord of Ciarraighe Mayo], was slain by the English.

County of
wife with

Mahon
The

O'Cuilein

d
,

Lord of

Claenghlaisi',

was

killed

by

his

own

one stab of a

knife, given

through jealousy.
f

castle of

Tigh-da-Choinne was demolished, and

all

Conmaicne was

laid waste.

Turlough, son of Hugh, the son of Cathal Crovderg, died in the monastery
of

Knockmoy

[in the

county of Galway].

Dermot Roe, son of Conor, the son of Cormac Mac Dermot, and Donncahy, son of Donn Oge Mageraghty, were blinded by Hugh O'Conor. The borough of Bel-an-tachair* was burned by Flann Eoe O'Flynn, and many of the English of the town were slain by him. Hugh O'Conor, King of Connaught, went into Breifny to depose Art, son of Cathal Reagh and he gave the lordship of Breifny to Conor Boy, son of Auliffe, the son of Art O'Rourke, and took hostages from all the chiefs of
;

Breifny.

army was led by William Burke against O'Melaghlin; but many of his troops were drowned in Ath-Crochda", and he returned without conquest or
hostages.

An

party of O'Conor's people, namely, Loughlin, son of Dermot, who was son of Murtough [O'Conor], Mac Keherny, and the son of Donnell Duv O'Hara, made a great slaughter of the Welshmen' and the people of Leyny in West Connaught; and thirty-one of their heads were brought to O'Conor.

Cormac, son of Gilchreest Mac Dermot, received a wound, of which he

died.

Sabia, daughter of Cathal Crovderg,

and Malone Bodhar [the Deaf] O'Mul-

conry, Ollav of Sil-Murray in history, died. Maelpatrick O'Scannal, Primate of Armagh, brought the Friars Minor to Armagh, and afterwards cut a broad and deep trench around their church.

village,

trim, in the barony of Tirerill,

Sligo.
h

near the boundary of the county of Leiand county of

non, at the place

now caDed Shannon Harbour

See Tribes and Customs of Hy-Many, note *, p. 5, and map to the same work. See also note

Ath-CrocMa.
It

More usually written Ath-

Crocha.

was the name of a ford on the Shan-

under the year 1547. These were the Joyces, BarWelshmen

'

3F

402

QNNata Rio^hachua eiReawN.

QO1S CR1OSU,
Cloip CpiopD, mile,

[1268.

1267.
.

Da ceo, pepcac

apeacc.

Gppucc cluana pfpra,

TTlupcab

.1.

ftorhanac DO Dul Do poigiD an papa.

in

mac

SuiBne Do gabail
lairh

umall Do Domnall mac majnupa

ui

Concobaip, a cabaipc ap

bpian mac
cnuic muaiDe.

an mpla, -\ mic RuaiDpi coippDealbaijj

a ecc
ui

bppiopun aicce.
i

concobaip Do ecc

mainipnp

Cpeac DO
maine
-\

Denarii

Do mac uilliam ap ua cconcobaip gup aipjfpoaip cip

i

clann uaDac.
-j

Cpeac DO Denam Do gallaib lapcaip Connacc ccaipppe Dpoma cliab, Gap Dapa Dapccain Doib. DonnchaD mac RuaiDpi mic aoDa ui concobaip Do mapbab la gallaib. ^alap cpeablaioeac DO gabail Rfj Connacc 50 noeachaiD a capcc po
6pmn.
meic capp^amna Do ecc. Gooh ua muipfohaij caoipeac an lagain Do rhapbaD i ccill QlaiD la hua TTlaoilpojmaip comapba na cille Dia Domnaij lap neipceacc oippinD.
Ctlip injean

QOIS CR1O3U,
Qoip Cpiopr,
mile,

1268.

Da

ceD, pepcac, a hocc.

QoDh mac Concobaip uf plaicbfpcaij oippicel Ganaij Duin Do ecc. 'CempallmopQpoa maca Do cionnpcna6lapanbppiorhai6,5iollapacpaicc
6 Scanoail.

Concobap pua6 ua bpiam cijeapna cuaDmuman, Seoinin a mac, a

retts,

injjfn,

Merricks, Hostys, and others.

Tribes,

See Ge-

in the counties of

Eoscommon and Galway.

neologies,

and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach,

This
is

pp. 324-339.
J

Mac Sweeny
k

the

first notice

of the

O'Fallon's country, in the of Athlone, and county of Eoscommon. barony See note \ under the year 1225, p. 236.

Clann-Uadagh

family of Mac

Sweeny

occurring in these Annals.

Mac

Carroon __ According to O'Flaherty,

seated in the barony of or Kilkenny West, in the county of

The Earl, i. e. Walter Burke, or De Burgo who was made Earl of Ulster in 1264.
1

Mac Carrghamhna was

Cuircnia,

Tir-Many,

i.e.

Hy-Many, O'Kelly's country,

Westmeath.

1268.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

403

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1267.

thousand two hundred sixty-seven.

The Bishop of Clonfer who was a Roman, went over to the Pope. Murrough Mac Sweeny was taken prisoner in Umallia by Donnell, son of Manus O'Conor, who delivered him up to the Earlk in whose prison he died.
1,
J
,

Brian, son of Turlough,

who was

son of Roderic O'Conor, died in the

Knockmoy. depredation was committed by Mac William on O'Conor; and he plundered Tir-Many and Clann-Uadaghm A depredation was committed by the English of West Connaught in Car-

monastery of

bury of Drumcliff, and they plundered Easdara [Bally sadare]. Donough, son of Rory, the son of Hugh O'Conor, was slain by the English. dangerous disease attacked the King of Connaught; and the report of it

spread

all

over Ireland.

Alice, daughter of

Mac

Carroon", died.
,

O'Murray, Chief of Lagan was slain at Killala by O'Mulfover, coarb of the church, on a Sunday, after hearing mass.

Hugh

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one thousand two

1268.
sixty-eight.

hundred

Hugh, son of Conor O'Flaherty, Official of Annadown, died. The Great Church of Armagh was begun by the Primate,
O'Scannal.

Gillapatrick

Conor Roe O'Brien, Lord of Thomond,

"

Seoinin, his son, his daughter, his

See Genealogies, Tribes,

Loffan ritory are

The name and extent of

still

this ter-

Barretts and Lynotts.

remembered.

It

is

situated in

the north of the barony of Tirawley, in the county of Mayo. It originally comprised the
parishes of Kilbride and Doonfeeny, and extended eastwards to the strand of Lacken, where
it

and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, pp. 222, 223, notes * and '.

Under the year 1267, the Dublin copy of the

Annals of Innisfallen contain an account of the

adjoined the territory of Caeille Conaill. The O'Murrays were soon after dispossessed by the

Thomond against Conor na Siudaine O'Brien, of which the Four Masters have collected no account.
revolt of the tribes of

F2

404

aNNata raioshachca
injine,
~|

eiraeaNW.

[1268.

mac a

beollain,
-]

.1. mac Ruaibpi uf jpaoa, Dubloclamn ua loclainn, comap ua Socai&e oile Do mapbabla Diapmaic mac muipcfpcaijj ui bpiain

t>pian mac concobaip epfin DO mapbab inn laparh. njeapnaip euabmuman ap a hairle.

uf bpiain

Do gabail

Uoippbealbac 65 mac ao6a mic pe6limi6 mic cacail cpoiboeipg, Dalca ua mbpiuin epibe, Do ecc. Qmlaoib ua peapgail cuiji copanca conmaicneac Do mapbab la gallaib
i

bpell.

Concobap ua ceallaij cijeapna ua maine, Qomjup ua Dalaij Saoi p)p Dana cije aomheaD, TTIajnupmasoipechraijcaoipeac cloinne comalcai^, Oomnall ua jpaDDa caoipeac cenel Dunjaile, Oubjall mac RuaiDpi, njeapna innpi jail, aipip gaoioeal Do ecc. ITluipip puaD mac geapailc DO bdrhaD pop muip 50 lucr luin^i imaille
~\ ~\

~|

05 coiDechc 6 Shajcaib. Na lonnpaijiD Do cabaipr Dao& ua concobaip pop gallaib 50 har luain. joill DO cocc ma comne jup na peaDhaib, cachop DO cup eacoppa, bpipeao
pip

pop 5allaib, i Sochai&e Dib Do mapbab.

Donn mac raibj

uf mannacain,

~\

Deicneabap Da

mumnp
-|

Do mapbaD Do

cabj ua plannaccdin i Do giolla cpiopc ua bipn. peapjal ua maoilmuam raoipeac peap cceall,

TTlaoilpeaclainn

mag
a

coclam Do mapbaD ta gallaib. Qenjup ua maoilpojmaip DO mapbaD la huib TTluipea&aij

ccino pine.
*

nDiojail

Airer-Gaedheal,

i.

e.

the district or territory

say,

but the son of Maurice, who was Lord JusThis was Faes, na peaoa, i. e. the woods. name of O'Naghtan's country, in the ba-

of the Gaels.
gyle,

This

is

the

name by which Ar-

tice in 1272.
r

Argyleshire in Scotland, is always called by correct Irish and Erse writers. q Maurice Roe This passage is Fitzgerald.
given as follows in the Annals of Clonmacnoise
as translated

now

the

rony of Athlone, and county of Eoscommon. In an inquisition taken at Roscommon on the

26th of October, 1587, this territory
is

by Mageoghegan

"A. D.

1268.

called
it

Morish Roe Mac Gerald was drownded in the

sea

"Les

Ffaes, alias

O'Naghten's Cuntry;" and

coming from English to

this

kingdome, and

a shipp full of passengers, being his

were drownded too."

Sir Richard

own people, Cox says, in

Maurice

his Hibernia Anglicana, p. 70, that this

appears from another inquisition taken at the same place, on the 23rd of October, 1604, that " the territory of the Ffaes, or O'Naghten's Cuntry, contained thirty quarters of land."
s

Fitzgerald was not of Desmond, as the Annals

With

the loss

of many

This passage

is

very

12G8.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

i.

405

daughter's son,

the son of Rory O'Grady, Duvloughlin O'Loughlin, Thomas O'Beollan, and a number of others, were slain by Dermot, the son of Murtough
e.

O'Brien, for which he himself was afterwards killed

and Brian, the son of

Conor O'Brien, then assumed the lordship of Thomond. Turlough Oge, the son of Hugh, son of Felim, son of Cathal Crovderg, the
foster-son of the Hy-Briuin, died.

Auliffe O'Farrell,
slain

Tower

of Protection to the Conmaicni, was treacherously

by Conor O'Kelly, Lord of Hy-Many Aengus O'Daly, a man eminent for Manus Mageraghty, Chief of poetry, and keeper of a house of hospitality
; ;

the English.

Clann-Tomalty; Donnell O'Grady, Chief of Kinel-Dongaly and Dugald Rory, Lord of Insi-Gall, and of Airer-GaedheaP [Argyle], died.
;

Mac

Maurice Roe Fitzgerald q was drowned in the crew, while on his return from England.

sea,

together with a ship's

Hugh O'Conor
Faes
r

set out for

to oppose him;

Athlone against the English, who came to the and a battle was fought between them, in which the

English were defeated, with the loss of many*. Donn, son of Teige O'Monahan", was slain, together with ten of his people, by Teige O'Flanagan and Gilchreest O'Beirne.
Farrell O'Molloy, Chief of Fircall, the English.

and Melaghlin Mac Coghlan, were

slain

by

Aengus O'Mulfover was

slain

by the O'Murrays, in revenge of their Kennfine'.

lite-

abruptly constructed in the original. " ral translation of it is as follows

:

The

An

incur-

lying between Elphin and Jamestown, in the east of the county of Eoscommon, and had his
residence at Lissadorn, near Elphin,
after this period,
till

sion

was made by

Hugh O'Conor upon

the Eng-

shortly

Athlone. The English came against him to the Faes. battle was fought between them,
lish to

by the O'Beirnes,
l

when they were dispossessed who are still numerous and

i.

breach upon the English, and

killed.

many

of them

respectable in the territory,

were
tion

would

correct grammatical construeread as follows cue uoo ua Conco:

The

Kenfinne, ceonn pine,

e.

head of a sept or

Buip lonnpaigio 50 fiGcluam popJJaUaiB; oo cuaiD nu joill ma comne gup na peaoaiB,

generally applied to the heads of minor families. There is a very curious distribe.

This term

is

agup oo cuipeao cac eacoppa,

i

n-ap bpipeao

pop jallaiB, ajup n-ap mupBao pocaioe 6ioB. ss G'Monahan The head of this family was
chief of the beautiful district of Tir - Briuin,

pute concerning the exact meaning of it in a report of a pleading between Teige O'Doyne, chief of Oregan, and his brother, Doctor Charles

Dunne, preserved
Class No.
3.

in Marsh's Library, Dublin,

2.

Tab.

No. 26. pp. 221, 331.

406

aNNaca Rioghachua emeaNN.

QO1S CT71OSU,
Qoip Cpiopc,
mile,

[1269.

1269.

Da

ceo, Sepcac, anaof.

ecc,
~\

Oauich ua bpajain eppucc clocaip DO melipoinc uaip ba manac Da manchaib e.

a abnacul

mainipcip

nell mic muipeaDhaijj ui concobaip Do mapbao in oilpinn Docclac DO muinnp a bpacap pen, ~[ an cf Do pinne an gniorh pin Do cuicim inn.

Ua&s mac

lampeap gpaDa aoDa ui Concobaip Do cop an lomup ua bipn occlac De ap lap a cloinne a condic, Dul 50 mainipDip l?opa comdin Do, cpaojail gup caic an peal baoi poime Da paoal eoip bpairpib .8. Oomenic.
-] -| -|

bpian mac Dorhnaill Duib

ui

Gajpa Do mapbaD Do

gallaib

Slicceac.

injean coippDealbaij meic T?uai6pi,bfn maolmuipe meic Suibne, Seapppaij mac Domnaill clannaij meic giollapacpaicc cijeapna plebe blabma, ~\ CloD ua pionnacca Saof nompdnoij DO ecc.

benmme

Gchmilib macaipren Do mapbaD Dua anluain. Domnall ua peapjoil, -| ao& a mac, capaio Dejeimj Dfplaigreac Do mapbaD Do giolla na naorh ua pfpjail DO jallaib.
-j

Cpipcina injean uf neachcam bfn oiapmaDa miDij meic Diapmaca, bfn DO bpfpp eneac lonnpacup Don cineaD Da mbaof, -] ap mo Do cuip Da comaoin ap an opo liar Do ecc mp mbuaiD nairpi je.
-]

Caiplen Sliccij DO Denam la mac muipip meic geapailc lap na bpipeaD

oaoD ua Concobaip
u

-\

Dua

Dorhnaill

poime

pin.

David O'Bragan

In Harris's edition of

tics.

Ussher

calls it
p.

Mom Bladina by a
It

mistake,

Ware's Bishops, he is called David O'Brogan. See p. 182. In the Dublin copy of the Annals
of Ulster, his death
is

in

Primordia,

962, which O'Flaherty corrects

c. 3.

in Ogygia, p. 3,

was
p.

originally called
81,

entered under the year

SliabhSmoil.

" David ua 1267, thus: Bragan Eps. Clochair, uirtuose et fideliter pro defensione iusticie qui
ecclesie Clochorensis per
v

See Ogygia,
'

iii. c.

and Vita

tempus uite eius labo-

by Colgan in his ^1 eta Sanetorum, at 26th March. i Mac Artan was Chief of Kinelarty, in the
county of Down. z CPHanlon was Chief of
of
Oriel, in the

Sancti Aloliue, given

rauit obiit hoc anno, &c."

Monks, i. e. he had retired into the monastery some time before his death. w Duv, oub, i. e. Black.
OfSlieve Bloom, rieBe btaoma, a mountain on the confines of the King's and Queen's coun*

county

Armagh. a Two. Capaio means a brace, pair, or couple. b Christina The character of O'Naghtan's
is

daughter

thus given in Mageoghegan's trans-

1269.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

407

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1269.
sixty-nine.

thousand two hundred

died,
its

David O'Bragan", Bishop of Clogher, tery of Mellifont, for he had been one of

and was interred

7
.

in the

monas-

monks

Teige, son of Niall, the son of Murray O'Conor, was slain at Elphin, by a youth of his own brother's people and the person by whom the deed was per;

petrated was

killed for

it.

Ivor O'Beirne, chief servant and confidant of Hugh O'Conor, withdrew from the world, from the midst of his children and affluence, and entered the monastery of Roscommon, where he passed the rest of his life among the Dominican friars.

O'Hara, was slain by the English of Sligo. of Turlough (son of Roderic O'Conor), and wife of Benmee, daughter Mulmurry Mac Sweeny; Jeffrey, son of Donnell Clannagh Mac Gillapatrick,
Brian, son of Donnell

Duv w

Lord of

and Hugh OTinaghty, a learned minstrel, died. z Eghmily Mac Artan was slain by O'Hanlon Donnell OTarrell and Hugh, his son, two" truly hospitable and munificent
Slieve
;

Bloom 1

men, were

slain
b
,

Christina

by Gilla-na-naev O'Farrell and the English. daughter of O'Naghtan, and wife of Dermot Midheach Mac

Dermot, the most hospitable and chaste

bountiful to the order of

woman

of her tribe, and the most

The

castle of Sligo

Grey Friars, died, after the victory of penance". was rebuilt by the son of Maurice Fitzgerald, after

it

had been demolished by Hugh O'Conor and O'Donnell.

lation of the

Annals of Clonmacnoise "Christin,

:

O'Neaghtean's daughter, the wife of

Dermod

is

Her character the best hospitality and purity. stated in more correct language in the Annals
:

Myegh Mac
tiful

Derinoda, a right exceeding beau-

of Ulster, and thus rendered in the old transla-

woman, well lymmed, bountiful in bestowing, chaste of her body, and ingenious
and witty delivery of her mind, devout in her prayers, and, finally, she was inferior to none
other of her tune for any good parts requisite in a noble gentlewoman, and charitable towardsthe

Anno 1 268 (rectius 1 270). " Christina NyNeghtain, Dermot Myegh Mac Dermot's wife, a woman of best name and quality that was in her time, and that gave most to the White Order,
tion
quievit."

order of Graye moncks, died with good penance." c The most hospitable and chaste Literally, of

This word is generally Penance, cnrpije used by the Four Masters, where the Annals of
Ulster have penitentia.

408

[1270.

na hepionn, Caiplen T?opa comain Do Denarh la T?oibepc Depopc lupDip Gob ua Concobaip T?i Connacc Do her eapplan, 1 apeao po Dfpa a Denam, t>o cabaipr Do jallaib, na coiplonnup nap rualamj eacap no ceaccbail Do beic ina cceDib mfpcc Do cop ap an ccaiplen Do Denam. Connacraij cpeac (50 hepji Doparh Dopi&ipe.) po copaib gall. plaichbfpcac ua TTIaoilpfona caoipeac leiche Calpaijje TTlhaijjhe heleoj
Do mapbao Do jaibreachdin Do Ifchcaoipeach
oile.

QO1S CR1OSU,
Goip Cpiopc,
mile,

1270.

Da ceD, peachrmojac.

TTlaolpacrpaicc ua ScanDail aipDeppucc QipD maca Do oul Do lacaip Qn Rf Da glacab 50 honopac, coibechc rap a aip Do imaille T?i<ij Sapan.
]

pe mop cumaccaib.

Coccab mop eDip ua cconcobaip mpla ulaD uacep a bupc, jup a pann gaoiDeal tionoil an napla maice gall epeann im an nsiupDip,
-]

-\

Eobert de TJffwd,

Roibepc Depojic
is

In the

CPMaelfina, pronounced O'Molina, or O'Mul-

Annals of Ulster he

called

Roibepc fiuppopc.

leena,

but now generally Anglicised Mullany.

According to the list of the Chief Governors of

Ireland, given in Harris's edition of Ware's
tiquities,

The
cpop

little

town of Crossmolina,
i.

called in Irish,

An-

Robert de Ufford was Lord Justice of

In Ma-

Ireland in 1268; and Richard de Oxonia, or

mhaoilpina, name from this family. The territory of Calry of Moy-heleog was nearly co-extensive
ceived its

ui

e.

O'Molina's Cross, re-

D'Exeter, was Lord Justice in 1269macnoise, he

geoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonis incorrectly called Hobert, or Robert Sufford, or Stafford. The entry is worded as

with the parish of Crossmolina, in the barony of See Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs Tirawley.
of Hy-Fiachrach, pp. 13, 165, and the map prefixed to the same work. The family name Gaughan
is still

follows

or Stafford,

" A. D. 1269. Hobertor Robert Sufford, came over from England as Deputie

common

all

over the county of

Mayo
clearly

of this kingdome, apointed by the King of England for the reformation of the lawes, customes,

Id., pp. 13, 238. 8 A great war.

This

is

related

more

in

and statutes of this land, and made his first " with his forces to Convoyage" [expedition]
naught, and, by the help of the English forces of Ireland, he built a castle at Roscommon. The

Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of " Clonmacnoise, as follows: There arose great dissention and warrs between the King of Connaught

and Walter Burke, Earl of Ulster, in so much that all the English and Irish of the kingdome
could not separate them, or keep them from annoying each other. The Earle procured the Lord Deputy, with all the English forces of
Ireland, to

opportunity and occasion of building of the said castle was, because Hugh O'Connor, King of

Connaught, fell sick of a grievous posed to be irrecoverable."

disease,

sup-

come

to Connaught.

They came

to

1270.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

castle of

409
,

The

Roscommon was

erected by Kobert de Ufford6

it

Lord

Justice

Hugh O'Conor, King of Connaught, was ill, and was therefore unable to give the English battle or opposition, or prevent the erection of the castle. The Connacians, until his recovery, were plundered and trodden under foot by the English.
Flaherty O'Maelfina Chief of half the territory of Calry of Moy-heleog, was slain by Gaughan, Chief of the other half.
,

of Ireland.

He was

induced to erect

because

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

1270.
seventy.

The Age of Christ, one thousand two hundred

Maelpatrick O'Scannal, Archbishop of Armagh, went over to the King of England the King received him honourably and he returned home with
: ;

great privileges.

A great
Burke.
Roscommon

war* broke out between O'Conor and the Earl of Ulster, Walter The Earl assembled the chiefs of the English of Ireland, together
the
first

night, thence to Portlike,

William Oge mac William More mac William,

the Conqueror, in hostage to O'Connor, dureing the time he shou'd remain in the Earl's house

where they encamped.

The next day they

ad-

vised that the Earl of Ulster, with the most

part of the forces, should go eastwards of the Eiver Synan, to the place on the river called

concluding the said peace, which was accordingly condescended and done, as soone as William came to O'Connor's house he was taken, and also John Dolphin and his son were killed. " When tyding came to the ears of the Earle how his brother was thus taken, he took his

the Foord of Connell's weir.

" As

for

Hugh O'Connor, King of Connaught,

he was ready prepared with the five companies he had before the English at Moynishe. The Lord Deputy remained of [on] the west of the

journey

to

Athenkip, where O'Connor beheaved

River Synen, at the Furney [aca pupnai6]. After the Earle had passed to Ath-Cora-Connell
as aforesaid,

himself as a fierce and froward lyon about his

he was assaulted by a few of O'Con-

he did not suffer his enemies

or rest
all this

prey, without sleeping or taking any rest, that to take refection

time, and the next day soon in

nor's people in the

woods of Convackne, where

a few of the English armie were killed.

The

Englishmen never made any residence or stay until they came to Moynishe, which was the
place

the morning, gott upp and betook him to his arms the Englishmen, the same morning, came
:

to the

where O'Connor encamped, where the

The English did likewise encampe that night. Englishmen advised the Earle to make peace with Hugh O'Connor, and to yeald his brother,
3

same foorde, called Athenkip, where they were overtaken by Terlogh O'Bryen. The Earle returned upon him and killed the said Terlogh,

without the help of any other in that pressence.

The Connoughtmen pursued the Englishmen,

410

dNNCita Rio^hachca emeaNN.

[1270.

comdin an ceo aohaij, Oilpinn apcfna 50 Connaccaib 50 piaccaoap l?op an Dapa habaig, Qippib 50 pope lecce. 5 atktlD rF at> 1 Saoplonjpopc ann an oibce pin. Uiajaio Oaon comaiple apabapac in dc capab conaill
rap Sionamn poip. baof T?i Connacc mun am pin uaehab DO maicib a muincipe moij nipe bfccdn Don cpluaj jail allaniap Do ap cionn na njall, Do an an ^mpDip Sionamn 50 nupnaibe. lap noul Don lapla cap ae capab Conaill po epjiooap
i
)

-\

Conmaicne 50 noeapnpaD mapbab oppa. Cooap lapam 50 mag nipe gup jabpaD poplonjpopc ann in oibci pin. Oo jniaD Do comaiple pepoile amnpiDe 8fc Do Denarii

uachab Do mumeip

uf concobaip

Do na gallaib

ccoillcib

Deapbpacoip an mpla (uilliam 65 mac T?iocaipD mic uilliam concuip) DO cop ap lairii muincipe uf concobaip an ccfm Do bee pe Oo gmcfp parhlaiD. dec cfna ccij an lapla 05 pnabmaD na piooa. pen
16
l?i'j

connacc,

~\

DO gabpaD mumcip ui concobaip Deapbpacoip an lapla poceDoip, po riiapbSeaan Dolipfn 50 na mac. peapgaigceap an ciapla mp na clop pin Do. paD TCucc ap an aoaij pin 50 himpnioriiac achcuippeach. 6pccip muicoeaboil
~\ i

na maione apabapac jona gallaib jaoibealaib ceanjailce coipighce Do paijib ui concobaip 50 pangaoap ac an cip. cimceal, gluaipiD
-]

-|

ma Do

gebiD coippbealbac ua bpiain cuca ashaioh

i

ccommbdib

ui

concobaip.

Oo

bfip

e 05 cochc aghdiDh annpin, an ciapla pen a ajaiD ap coippbealbac,

in
-\

po cuirnmj a eccpaiDfp Do 50 ccopcaip coippbealbac laip poceDoip. Oala Connacc cpa pucpaD oppa Do com an aca Don Dul pin lonnup gup bpuchc1

Dead gup bpipeaoop pop a ccopac, -) 511)1 boipcpioD ina cceann Do coip cuippioD a noeipeab ap a nionac Da naimDeoin. TTlapbcap naonbap DO
-]

mairib a Rioipeab Don lappaib

pi

a ccimceal an aca imaille pe RiocapD

things were thus done, O'Connor killed William Oge, the Earl's brother, that was given him before in hostage, because the Earle killed Ter-

and made their hindermost part runn and break upon their outguard or foremost in such manner and foul discomfiture, that in that instant
nine of their chiefest

men were

killed

upon the

lagh

O'Bryen that came

to

assist

O'Connor

bogge, aboute Kichard ne Koylle and John Butler, who were killed over and above the said
knights.
It is

against the Earle. " O'Connor

immediately tooke and brake

unknown how many were

hundred

slain

down

in that conflict, save only that a

horses,

the castles of Athengalie, the castle of Sliew Louth. and the castle of Killcalman also,
:

with their saddles and other furniture, with a hundred shirts of mail, were left. After these

he burnt Roscomon, Rynndwyne, Owen, and Ullenonach."

alias

Teagh

1270.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

all his Irish faction,

411

with the Lord Justice" and

and marched into Connaught the first night they arrived at Roscommon, and the second at Elphin from thence they proceeded to Port-lecce, where they rested and encamped for that
;

night;

and on the next morning they marched, by common consent, eastwards,

across the ford of Ath-Caradh-Conaill, on the Shannon.

of Connaught, attended by a small number of the chiefs of his people, was at this time in Moy-Nise, ready to meet the English; and the Lord Justice and a small part of the English army remained on the west side of the

The King

After the Earl had crossed [the ford of] Ath-Caradh Conaill a small party of O'Conor's people attacked the English at Coillte Conmaicne, and slew some of them. After this they went to Moy-

Shannon, awaiting the Connacians.

1

Nise^ where they encamped for that night and they consulted together, and agreed to make peace with the King of Connaught, and to deliver up to his people the Earl's brother (William Oge, son of Eichard, the son of William the
;

Conqueror

),

while he himself

concluding the peace. the Earl's brother prisoner at once, and slew John Dolifin and his son.
the Earl heard of this, he

O'Conor) should be in the Earl's house This was accordingly done; but O'Conor's people took
(i.

e.

When
and
1

became enraged, and passed the night

in sadness

sorrow; and he rose next morning at daybreak, with his English and Irish arranged and arrayed about him, and marched against O'Conor to Ath-an-chip
,

where they met face

to face

Turlough O'Brien, who had come

to assist O'Conor.

The Earl himself

and slew him

faced Turlough, mindful of the old enmity between them, at once; but the Connacians came up with the Earl's troops at

down upon them, horse and foot, broke through and forcibly dislodged their rear. In this onslaught at the ford, nine of the chief English knights were slain around the ford, together with Richard
the ford, where they poured
their van,

Lord Justice According to the list of Chief Governors of Ireland, given in Harris's edition of Ware's Antiquities, Sir James Audley, or de
Aldithel,

Moy-Nise, a level district in the county of See Leitrim, on the east side of the Shannon.
i

was Lord Justice of Ireland in the

Conaill, i.e. the ford of Council's

note under the year 1 263. k William the Conqueror, that

is,

William Fitz

year 1270.
'

Adelm de Burgo, who

was the name of a ford on the Shan-

is

Ath-Caradh

writers, the Conqueror, because

usually styled by Irish it was believed

weir. This

non,

near Carrick-on-Shannon, but the

name
3

that he conquered the province of Connaught. Ath-an-chip, i. e. the ford of the stock or
'

has been long obsolete.

trunk

a ford on the Shannon, near Carrick-

o2

412

[1270.

a ccopcpaDap Dfob eoip pe Seaan buicelep, ^an dipfrh ap amac. Dfpim beop na heodla Do bfnao Dib Dapm, maic pair uaca po Deachaib, ^c. fflapbcap Deapbparaip an mpla (.1. uilliam occ) DeoeaD, hua cconcobaip a nepaic mic uf bjtiain DO mapbaD Don lapla. icnipin la caiplen cille caiman Do Caiplen acha anguili, caiplen plebi luja leaccao Dua concobaip. T?op comain, T?mn Dum -) Uillinn uanac DO lopcaD
na coilleab,
-]

-|

-]

-]

laip beop.

oppa,

aioble DO Denarh Do bpian puab ua bpiam oiompuo pop ^allaib. dipsn Da capao Do gabail Do. i caiplen cldip dca
i

Connacr ccfp noilealla Cpeaca mopa Do Denarii Don mpla, Do gallaib Do mapbaD Don Dul pin. ap muinnp CtoDha uf concobaip, 1 Dauir cuipin
-|

TTlac

mupchaiD cappaij

ui pfpsatl, bfirip

ap beooachc, oncu ap

fngnarii

DO mapbaD la gallaib.

Caname mop mac

DoipDneab
in

Duinnfn mic neDe mic conaing buibe uf maoilconaipe

-]

apDollariinachc connacc,

poipcionn DO Dul pop ollarhnachc an

Dubpuibj

maoilconaipe i Dunlaing ui maoilconaipe. Slicceach Do lopccaD la hua noorhnaill, ~| la cer.el Conaill

-]

mac bpeal-

an chaipn uf maoilbpenamn Do mapbaD Don rupup pin. Cpipnna mjfn uf Neachcain bfn DiapmaDa ITliDij meic DiapmaDa DO
on-Shannon, but the name has been long obsolete.

was
Coille,
i.

m Richard na

e.

Richard of the Wood.

The castle of Ath-Angaile Ath-Angaile in the territory of Corran, as appears from The name an entry under the year 1263.

Dublin copy, and the old According translation of the Annals of Ulster, this Richard
to the

The castle of Sliabh has been long obsolete. is the one now called Castlemore-CosLugha
tello,

was the Earl's brother [bpacctip] " And this was one of the soarest battayles that the Irish
:

situated a short distance to the south-

ever gave to the Galls in Ireland, for Eichard ne kill, the Earl's brother, and John Butler,

west of Kilcolman, in the same barony. Kilcolmau castle stood near the old church of Kilcol-

man,

and many more knights, and many English and Irish besides, and at least 100 horse, with their
saddles,
a

were

left."

Old Trans.

same name, barony of and county of Mayo. See Map to Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach, on which its true position is shewn, though
in the parish of the
Costello,

Hanmer, referring to Clinne, and the interpolated copy of the Annals of Innisfallen, state that the

John Butler.

in the explanatory index to this map, p. 484, it is inadvertently placed in the barony of Clan-

Lords Eichard and John

this occasion
;

morris.
p

Verdon were
is

slain

on

but

this

UiUin Uanagh.

The name

of this place has

obviously an error.

It has been,

however,

been

variously corrupted

perpetuated by Cox and Moore.

of the original Irish

by the transcribers Annals. The Four Masters

1270]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

and John
Butler",

413

na Coille

Immense
&c.

exclusive of others, both noble and plebeian. spoils were also taken from them, consisting of arms, armour, horses,
Earl's brother (William

The
The

O'Conor, as

an

eric for

the son of O'Brien,

Oge) was put to death after this battle by who had been slain by the Earl.

Ath-Angaile, the castle of Sliabh Lugha, and the castle of Cill Caiman, were demolished by O'Conor. Rindown and Uillin Uanagh p were also burned by him.
castle of

Brian Roe O'Brien turned against the English, and committed great depreq dations upon them; and the castle of Clar-Atha-da-charadh was taken by him.

Great depredations were committed by the Earl and the English of Con-and David Cuisin naught in Tirerrill on the people of Hugh O'Conor was killed on that occasion. [Cushen]
;

The son
in
5

of

prowess

Murrough Carragh O'Farrell, was slain by the English.

a bear in liveliness, and a leopard

TanyMore, son ofDuinnin, son ofNedhe, son of Conaing Boy O'Mulconry, was elected to the chief ollavship' of Connaught and the ollavships of Dubhshuileach O'Mulconry and Dunlang O'Mulconry were abolished.
;

was burned by O'Donnell and the Kinel-Connell and the son of Breallagh-an-Chairn O'Mulrenin was killed on that occasion. Christina", daughter of O'Naghtan, and wife of Dermot Midheach Mac
Sligo
;

write

it

Muitteann Guanach, at the year 1225,

it

name
r

of the

town of

Clare, near Ennis, in the

but the Annals of Ulster, and Kilronan make

Muillibh

county of Clare.
Leopard, oncu.

make
it is

it

while those of Connaught At the year 1236, Muittibh Uainidhe.

Uanack,

The word onncu

is

ex-

written Muillibh Uanach in the Annals of

Kilronau, and

Ullum Wonaghe

in

Mageoghe-

It was borne on plained leopard by O'Keilly. the standard of the King of Connaught, and his standard bearer was called peap lomcaip na

gan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise. From the notice of it at the year 1225, it is

honcon
s

See note under the year 1316.

ecmgnurii,

Prowess,

prowess, dexterity at

quite obvious that

lone,

it

was

in the

and that

it

was the name

barony of Athof a hill or mill

arms.
l

Chief OUavship,
office u

apoollcirhnacc,
a repetition.

i.

e.

the

townland of Onagh, in the barony of Athlone, and county of Eoscommon. The castle
in the

of chief poet.

Christina

This

is

See her

afterwards became the seat of that branch of

the O'Kellys called
q

Makeogh
p. 19,
i.

See Tribes and

note
11
.

death already entered under the last year. Her death is entered in the old translation of the

Customs of Hy-Many,

Annals of Ulster
(rectius 1270).

as

follows:

"A.

D.

1268

Clar A tha-da-charadh, plain of the ford This is probably the original of the two weirs.
e.

Christina

ny Neghtain Dermot
a

Myegh Mac Dermot's

wife,

woman

of best

414
ecc, bfn
liac.

aNNCi6a Rioghachca
po bu6 maic Deipc
-\

eiraeciNN.

[1271.

omeac,

-|

Do paD almpana lomoa Don opo

QO1S CR1OSC,

1271.

Qoip Cpiopc mfle, Da ceD, peachrmo^ac a haon.

Siomon maccpaic DeccanacTi Qptta capna DO ecc. Uacep a bupc mpla ula6, ~\ ajeapna gall Connacc Do ecc
gaillme lap mbuaiD naicpije DO jalap aichgeapp. Uomap mac muipip Do ecc mbaile loca meapcca.
i

ccaiplen na

lomap ua bipn lainpeap jpaDa ao6a ui concobaip Do ecc l?op comdin a a&nacul mnce. lap mbuaiD naicpije, ua concobaip mac comopba comam DO mapbaD Do romap buicelep Qo6
i

-\

05 muine
ccionn

mjme

cpechain.
ploinn Do

Oomnall ua

mapbab Do mac

17obfn laiglep ip in 16

ceona

uachcapac ppurpa. ITlacgariiain ua Concobaip Do mapbab Do jallaib Duin moip. Niocol mac Seaain uepDun cijeapna oipjiall Do mapbaD la Seapppam

ua bpeapjail.

Concobap mac cijeapndm ui concobaip Do mapbaD la maoilpeacluinn mac Qipr uf puaipc, la cloinn peapmuije. Caiplen nje cempla, caiplen Sliccij, caiplen aca liacc DO bpipeaD
-| -\

oao6 ua concobaip.
Ctooh

mac

neill ui

Duboa Do

ecc.
and
called

name and quality that was

that gave
quievit."

in her times,

" Thomas Mac Morish Fitzgerald."

Bal-

most to the white [grey ?] order,

lyloughmask is now called Lough Mask Castle, and is situated on the east side of Lough Mask,
in the parish of Ballinchala, barony of Kilmaine,

w Earl of Ulster. His death is thus entered in the Annals of Clonmacnoise, as translated by " A. D. 1271. Walter Burke, Mageoghegan: Earle of Ulster, and Lord of the English of Connaught, died in the castle of Gallway of one

and county of Mayo. This castle was re-edified by Sir Thomas Burke, shortly after the battle of See Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs Kinsale.
of Hy-Fiachrach, pp. 202, 478.
1

week's sickness, after good penance, and was entred [interred] in Rathcahall."

Muine-inghine-Chrechain,
is

i.

e.

the hill or

shrubbery of the daughter of Creaghan.

The

In Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise he is

Thomas Mac Maurice

name
'

now

obsolete.

Of Srutfiair, ppucpa

This was the original

1271-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

415

Dermot, died. She was a good, charitable, and hospitable woman, and had given much alms to the order of Grey Friars.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1271.

thousand two hundred seventy-one.

Simon Magrath, Deacon of Ardcarne, died. Walter Burke, Earl of Ulster", and Lord of the English of Connaught, died
of a short sickness in the castle of Galway, after the victory of penance.
1 Thomas Mac Maurice died

Ballyloughmask. Ivor O'Beirne, the head and confidential servant of

at

Hugh

O'Conor, died at

Roscommon,

after penance,

and was buried

St.

there.

Hugh

O'Conor, son of the coarb of

,

Coman, was

killed at Muine-inghine-

Chrechain y by Thomas Butler. Donnell O'Flynn was slain on the same day, by the son of Robin Lawless, z at the upper end of Sruthair
.

by the English of Dunmore". Nicholas, the son of John Verdun, Lord of Oriel, was
slain

Mahon O'Conor was

slain

by Geoffry

O'Farrell.

Conor, son of Tiernan O'Conor, was slain by Melaghlin, son of Art O'Rourke,

and by the Clann-Fearmaighe

[in the
b
,

The

castle of

Teagh Templa

County Leitrim]. the castle of Sligo, and the castle of Athliag

[Ballyleague], were demolished by Hugh O'Conor, Hugh, son of Niall O'Dowda, died.

name

of the Black River, which flows through

castle

belonged to the Knights Templars, and

See Harris's edition, vol.
271.

the village of Shrule, and forms for several miles the boundary between the counties of

was erected by the English in the thirteenth

century.
sion of
ii.

p.

Mayo and Galway.

The name was afterwards

According to an Irish manuscript in the posses-

applied to a castle built by the Burkes on the north side of this river, and also to the village

Major O'Hara, a

castle

was built here

which grew up around it, and also to the parish, a Dunmore, a village in a barony of the same name, about eight miles to the north of Tuam,
in the
b

by the O'Haras, but the date of its erection is not added. The name is now anglicised Templehouse, and
is

that of the residence of Colonel

county of Galway.

Perceval, situated in the east of the barony of See the posiLeyny, in the county of Sligo
tion of this castle

Teagh Templa.

According

to

Ware,

this

marked on the map prefixed

to

416

awNdta uiofrhachca emeciNN.

CtOlS

[1272.

CR1OSC,

1272.

Qoip Cpiopc, mile, Da ceo, pechcmo^ac, aDo.

hoicpe meDbpic Do mapbaD Do caral bmcelep cijeapna urhaill, mac Concobaip puaiD, Do cloinn muipcfpcaig ui concobaip. Caiplen l?opa comain Dobpipeab DO pij connacc, aoD ua concobaip. Ua6$ Dall mac aoDa mic cacail cpoibDeipg Do ecc, ba hepibe anbap
llenpi
~\

~[

-|

pij

DO bpfpp Da cineab no gup DallpaD muinnp Rai^illij e. lamap DoDalaij mpDip na hGpear-n Do mapbab Dua bpoin,

-|

Do Connac-

caib.

maoilpuanaiD, Saoi emj, fnjnama a cineao Do ecc illonjpopc uf Dorhnaill mupbar, -| a cabaipc 50 mamipcip na buille Da aohnacul.
TTIiiipsiop

mac Donnchaib mic comalcaij

uf

-]

Oonncha&mac
comap.

giolla

na naorh meg parhpaoam Do mapbaD Da Dfpbpafaip

T?iocapD DIUID an bapun Dobuaiple Do jallaib Decc.

Qn mi6e DO Iopcca6 50 ^panaipD DaoD ua concobaip. Qc luain Do lopccab laip beop, a DpoiceaD Do bpipeab.
-\

Domnaill (oorhnall occ) Do rionol (cap

~\

baD pop loch

eipne,

~]

na ripe ina cimcell (baccap aippiDe pop loch uachcaip. TTlairfpa, -] eoala a nopccam laip co mbaccap ap a pop innpib an locha pin) Do bfm eipoib,
"|

Genealogies,

Tribes,

and Customs of Hy-Fiach-

rach, printed for the Archaeological Society in 1844, and Explanatory Index to the same map,
states, under the year p. 497. that the castles of " Aldleek, Eoscomon, 1270, and Scheligah (perhaps Sligo), were destroyed."

Annals of Clonmacnoise, as translated by Mageoghegan, he is called Hodge Mebric, and in

the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, hoiop mac TTlepic. According to the tradition in the

Sir Richard Cox

county of Mayo,

this

Hosty gave name

to Glen-

These incorrect names he took from Hanmer, who had taken them from some incorrect copy
of Irish Annals.

hest in that county, and is the ancestor of the families of Hosty and Merrick.

In the old translation of the Annals of Ulster the entry is thus given " A, D. 1269 (al. 1271). The castle of Eoscomon, the
:

Clann-Murtough C? Conor, clann muipceapThese were the descencaij ui concoBaip.

dants of the celebrated

the son of Turlough

Ireland.
e

Murtough Muimhneach, More O'Conor, Monarch of

castle

of Sligo" [SU^i^]

Athleag, were broken by

"and the castle of Hugh Mac Felim and

meobpic
In the

Conaght."
c

calls

James Dodaly Hanmer, ad ann. 1270, him the Lord James Audley, and says he
fall

Hosty Merrick,

hoicpi

died " with the

of a horse."

Cox

says that

1272.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

417

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1272.

thousand two hundred seventy-two.

,

Henry Butler, Lord of Umallia, and Hosty Merrick were slain by Cathal, d son of Conor Roe, and by the Clann-Murtough O'Conor. The castle of Roscommon was demolished by Hugh O'Conor, King of Connaught.

He
by

Teige Dall (the Blind), son of Hugh, the son of Cathal Crovderg, died. had been the best materies of a king of all his tribe, until he was blinded
the O'Reillys.

James Dodaly", Lord Justice of

Connacians.
.

Ireland,

was

slain

f by 0'Broin and the

Maurice, son of Donough, son of Tomaltagh O'Mulrony, the most hospitable and valiant8 of his tribe, died in O'Donnell's garrison at Murvagh h and was
,

abbey of Boyle, to be interred there. conveyed Donough, son of Gilla-na-naev Magauran, was slain by his brother Thomas. Richard Tuite' the noblest of the English barons, died.
to the
1

as far as Granard", by Hugh O'Conor. Athlone was burned by him, and its bridge was broken down. also O'Donnell (Donnell Oge) collected the vessels and boats upon Lough Erne, and [proceeded] thence to Lough Oughter. The goods and valuables of the

Meath was burned,

surrounding country (which were upon the islands of that lake) were seized
he was killed in Thomond, by a horse, on the 23rd of June, 1272.
f

fall

from his

eanjnarh
h

is

used

to express a leopard in prowess,

or warlike activity.
a mistake for

(yBroin,

ua bpom

This

is

Murvagh, mupBac,
in

i.

e.

6piam. In Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise this entry is thus

given of Ireland, was killed by O'Brien, and some
:

marsh,

now Murvagh, Ordnance Map,

a sea plain, or salt sheet

99 and 107,

the barony of Tirhugh, and

"A. D.

1272. James Dowdall, Deputie

Connoughtmen."

county of Donegal, about one mile to the west of Ballyshannon. There is another place of the name about three miles south-west of the town
of Donegal.
'

The Irish 7 eanjnarh used by the Irish annalists to denote prowess, valour, and dexterity at arms. See note b , p. 277, where po pceitri enjnuriia
Valiant, paoi

emij

word eanjnam

is

Richard Tuite.

tion of the

In Mageoghegan's translaAnnals of Clonmacnoise he is called

all

the "worthiest baron in

k

Ireland."

is

used to denote laudability, or credit of prowess, and note under the year 1270, where oncu ap

Granard, a small town in the county of See note under the year 1262. Longford

3 H

418

aNNata rcioshachca eiReaNN.

-|

[1273.

cumup, Upen
cup
pin.

cpfipi

Do jabcul DO

in

gach maijm
16.

ma

ccompochpoibh Don

Ctn ceD

eouapD Do piojjaDh op Sa^aib.

Nouembep.

QOIS CR1OSU,

1273.
acpf.

Qoip Cpiopr, mile, Da ceo, peachrmogar,

plann 6 cijfpnaijj cijfpna cfpa DO mapbab Do TTluipeabaijj im chijfpnup cfpa rpia neapc aoDha mic peblimib uf concobaip.

Concobap buiDe mac Qmlaoib mic aipc uf puaipc cijeapna bpepne Do Do mapbpom an mapbab DO cloinn concobaip mic cijeapndm uf concobaip, mac DO bpeapp Dibpiom njeapndn. Sochaibe imaille pip Do GochaiD mag macgamna cijeapna oipjiall, Do cenel neojam. mapbab Dua anluain, Cpeac Do Denam Do Siupcdn De^erpa ipm ccopann. Uarab Do piojoarh-\ ~\
"]

naib connacr Do bpeir oppa, airhjliocup comaiple Do Denarii Doib ap pupailearii

coDa Da noaopccoppluaj, jup mapbab Domnall mac Donnchaib mic majnupa, TTlagnup mac aipc, aipeachcac mac aobaccam, Qob ua bipn,
-|

Sochaibe

oile.

TTIoppluaj la
1

mac muipip meic

gepailc

ccuabmurhain jup jab bpaijDi

neapr ap ua m6piam.

Copbmac mac DiapmaDa mic

1

17uaibpi Decc.
" was crowned."

t)o piojaoh literally signified to be kinged, or made king. This was the day of his father's death. He was then absent in
king.

Made

Hamner

remark under

this year (1272)

has the following " The most :

the Holy Land, and was not crowned till the 15th day of August, 1274. Among the Irish

renowned King Henry the Third, having lived 65 yeeres, and reigned 56, and 28 dayes, ended his dayes, and was buried at Westminster,
Edward, the first of that name, sonne of King Henry III., surnamed Long Shankes, of the age
of 35 yeers, began his reigne, anno 1272."

themselves DO piojao means to be inaugurated king ; but it appears from the dates given by

them

for the piojcto of the kings of England, that they merely meant their succession, which takes place the very instant their predecessors
dies.

QfTierney Tiernan, and is

"

This name
still

is

now

locally

made

common

in the

barony of

See Blackstone's Commentaries,

;

vol.

i.

Carra, in the county of Mayo,

p.

249

sec also the years

1199 and 1216, where

rendered

O Murray
1

the piojdo has been inadvertently

prefixed

now Hurrays, without the s, See Genealogies, Tribes, and Cus-

1273.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

off

419
in every place

on and carried
in the

by him; and he acquired

1

control

and sway

neighbourhood on this expedition. The first Edward was made king over the English on the 16th of November.

THE AGE OF CHEIST,

The Age of
Flann 0'Tierney
m
,

1273.

Christ, one

thousand two hundred seventy-three.

11

by the O'Murrays in a dispute of Hugh, son of Felim concerning the lordship of Carra, and through the power
slain

Lord of Carra, was

O'Conor.

Art O'Rourke, Lord of Breifny, was slain of them, by the sons of Conor, son of Tiernan O'Conor; and he killed the best

Conor Boy, son of

Auliffe, son of

namely, Tiernan.

Eochy Mac Mahon, Lord of Oriel, and many slain by O'Hanlon and the Kinel-Owen.

others along with him, were

A depredation
the

was committed by Jordan d'Exeter

;

in

Corran

A few of

young princes of Connaught overtook him but these having adopted an p imprudent plan, suggested by some of the common people it fell out that Donnell, son of Donough, Manus, son of Art [O'Conor], Aireaghtagh Mac
,

Egan,

Hugh

O'Beirne, and

A great army was led

many others, were slain. by Mac Maurice Fitzgerald

q

into

Thomond, where he

took hostages, and obtained sway over O'Brien. Cormac, son of Dermot, son of Roderic [O'Conor], died.
toms of Hy-Fiackrach,

printed for the

Irish

Archaeological Society in 1844, pp. 187, 189.

Corran, copann,
in the
P

now

the barony of Corran,

men, whereby Donell Mac Donogh Mac Manus, and Manus Mac Art, and Oreghtagh Mac Egan, and Hugh O'Birn, and many more"
[were
q

county of Sligo.
people,

killed].

In the oaofccappluaj Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, the term vised is opocoaine, i. e. bad people. The whole
passage
is

Common

Maneapc DO juBail has this passage as follows in his geoghegan translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise
Obtained sway,
:

thus rendered in the old translation:

"A.

D. 1273. Morish

Mac

Gerald, with great

(al. 1272, w/1273). A pray made Jordan de Exeter in Goran, and a few of the by nobles of Conaght came upon them, and used

"A. D. 1270

forces,

went

to

Thomond, and tooke hostages

from the O'Bryens, and subdued the whole

country."

bad

direction,

through the persuasion of idle

3 H 2

420

QNNaca Rio^hachca emeawN.

[1274.

Oomnall loppaip mac majnupa mic muipcfpcaijj muirhnij; DionnapbaD a humall i a hioppup. Ruaibpi ira plaicbfpcaijj DionnapbaD a hiapfap Connacc.
(Domnall occ) Do cop ploij lanmoip in aom lonao Do maichDo ccip neocchain, -] an cip iph Conallach, -| Do maichibh Connacc, i Dol GO milleao laip. Domnall 6 cuinn Ifch coipeac na haiciDecca t>o rhapbaD la hua noubOorhnaill
i

chaijj.

CIOIS
Qoip Cpiopc,
Clooh
~\

CR1OSU,

1274.

mile,

Da ceD, peachcmojjac, a ceacoip.

l?i

mac

pe&limiD mic cacail cpoibDeipg

~\

connacc,

T?f

po polrhaij,

jaoiDealaib biDfp na ajhaib, l?i Do po papaij Connacca ap jallaib paD maomanna mionca pop hSa^rancaib, po cpapccaip a ccuipci i a ccaiplen, po mu&aij a ccupaba i a ccaicmilib, Rf po gab bpaijDi ua mbpium i cara afba pinD, Ri ba mo gpdin oipDfpcup, peap millce copccap, eneac a ecc lap mbuaiD nairpiji Dia Dapoaoin ap aoi leapoighri Gpeann epi6e, laice, i an cpfp la Do SamhpaD epibe. Gojan mac RuaiDpi mic ao&a mic cacail cpoiboeipg Do piogab ma lonac, noca paibe ace en pdici ip in pfje
-| -\

-|

~\

an can po mapbpac a Depbpme pepin

ao6a
r

ui

concobaip

Ruaibpi ccempall bpacap Ropa comdin,

e,
.1.

mac coipp&ealbaij mic Qo& mac cacail Doill

"|

Donnett Irrais.

The Annals

of Ulster re-

cord the death of this Donnell at the year 1271 or 1274. It is thus entered in the old translation

In the old translation of the gponn 7 corccap Annals of Ulster, this is rendered, "he that

"A. D. 1271 (rectius 1274). Donell Mac Manus Mac Murtagh Muvnagh O'Coner, a tryed
:

and put down most of any." In Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise the whole passage is given in English
terrified

golden chief and perfect overseer to

in pace.'
s
1 ''

all,

quievit

as follows:

"A. D.

1274.

Hugh Mac Felym

O'Quin

This was O'Quin of Clann-Cuain,

O'Conor, King of Connaught for nine years, died the fifth of the noones of May, on Thursday, that
is

who was

at this time tributary to

Mac Dermot

to say,

upon the
This

feast
is

day of the

of Moylurg, who had a house on an island in Claenloch in Clann-Cuain See note ", under

the year 1232

see also the entry

under the

the king that wasted and destroyed Connaught upon the English ; this is he that razed and broke down their

Invention of the Cross.

year 1206, where Mac Dermot is styled Lord of Moylurg, Airteach, and Aicideacht, p. 151.
'

houses and

castles,

made them even with the

king the most successful,

fyc.,

Ri ba

mo

earth, and gave themselves many great overthrows and conflicts; this is he that took the

1274.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

r

421

Donnell

Irrais

[of Erris], son of

Manus, son of Murtough Muimhneach, was

banished from Umallia and Erris.

Roderic O'Flaherty was banished from West Connaught. O'Donnell (Donnell Oge) assembled a considerable army, composed of the nobles of Tirconnell and Connaught, with whom he marched into Tyrone, and ravaged the country. Donnell O'Quin', Semi-Chief of Aicideacht, was slain by O'Dufly.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

1274.
seventy-four.

The Age of Christ, one thousand two hundred

Hugh, son of Felim, the son of Cathal Crovderg, King of Connaught, a king who had desolated and devastated that part of Connaught possessed by his English or Irish enemies a king who had given the English frequent over;

throws, prostrated their manor-houses and castles, and cut off their heroes and warriors; a king who had obtained the hostages of the Hy-Briuin, and all the
race of Aedh Finn; a king the most successful and triumphant, the most hospitable and renowned; the destroyer and improver of Ireland, died, after gaming
1

the victory of penance, on Thursday, the third day of the Summer. Hugh, son of Rory, son of Hugh, who was son of Cathal Crovderg, was made king in his
place; but he
slain, in

was only one quarter of a year in the government, when he was the church of the Friars at Roscommon, by his kinsman, namely, Rory,

son of Turlough, the son of

Hugh

O'Conor; upon which, Hugh, son of Cathal

own kinsman
at

" and hostages of Ombryan" [Hy-Briuin], Tyreconnell ; this is he that spoyled and defended

or brother, Eowrie Mac Turlagh O'Connor, in the church of the Fryers Preachers

from others the

spoiles of the provence of

Con-

Roscommon.
" After him succeed

naught

and
[i.

finally this is

he that most was

Hugh mac

Cahall Dall

feared of

by] the English, of all the kings of Connaught that were before his time ; and was with great reverence buried with the
e.

O'Connor, as king of that province,

who

did not

reigne as long as his predecessors was short,

Hugh Mac

Cahall reigned but a fortnight,

when

moncks

abbey of Boyle. After whose mac Rowrie mac Hugh mac Cahall death Owen
in the

he was killed by one Thomas Mac Oreaghty and O'Beyrne. After him succeeded, as King of

who

Crovederge was ordained King of Connaught, reigned not long (butt one quarter of a

Connaught, Teige Mac Terlagh Mac Cahall, the same year,

year),

when he was

killed treacherously

by

his

422

aNNom

Rio^hachca eiReawN.
-]

[1275.

mic aoba mic cacail cpoibbeipg bo piojab t>o Connaccaib, nocap ppaibe a piji pibe ucuji nf paibe ace en coicbfp ince an ran bo mapbab 6 la TTlag
la hua mbipn, -] cab mac coippDealbaij mic aoba oipechcaij, comalcac, -| mic cacail cpoibbeipj; Do piojab uap Connaccaib laparh.

Oomnall mac ma^Uijeapnan mac aoba ui puaipc cijjeapna bpepne, nupa mic muipcfpcaij muimnij, Saoi enij, engnarha Gpeann uili 065. na hanjaile, ^lolla na naorh mac aoba mic amlaoib uf pfpjail cijeapna
-| -|

enjnama cloinne T?u6pai6e, peap Ian tmaipli, compup coimeDa etnj, omnclecc 50 nguaipbepcaib pop naimOib 50 ccaoinfp 16 caipDib, Do ecc lap mbuaiDh nairpije.
-|
-|

mac amlaoib mic Qipc ui Ruaipc cijeapna Dapcpaiji -| Do mapbab la Concobap mac Domnaill mic neill ui puaipc. cloinne peapmuije Cabj mac ceapbaill buibe ui Dalaij ollam aoba uf concobaip 16 ban beg.
TTlaoileaclainn

Oomnall occ mac Domnaill mic aipc

ui

T?aipc,

-]

Cacal mag planncaib

raoipeac bapcpaigi Do ecc. pfpghal 6 caichniab cijeapna loppaip Do ecc

nua mic caechdm.

QO1S
Ctoip Cpiopr, mfle,

C171OST:, 1275.

Da
-\

ceD, pechcmojac,

cuicc.

Ua

laibij eppucc cille halaib,

Caipppe ua Scuapa eppucc T?dca boc

ccfp Conaill bo ecc.

Concobaip bo jabail bua Concobaip (cabg a bparaip). Concobap ua coippbealbaij T?uaibpi belub laparh, concobap uahamliji bo hainliji Da bpficleip, Uopaigechc Do bpeic poppa,
Ruaibpi
ui

mac coippbealbaij

mac

~]

-\

mapbab Ua&5 mac

bpaicpib pfm.
u

boib.

cacail meic biapmaca

bapccam bua concobaip.

Concobap mac peapgail mic bonncaib mic muipcfpcaig bo mapbab ba

Prowess.

eanjnarii.

Dumha
name
of a
this

Caecliain, still point out the position of

Hy-Mac-Caechain. northern extremity of the baof Erris, in the rony county of Mayo. The fort called Doonkeeghan, and the sand banks called
district in the

"

This was the

territory

See

Genealogies,

Tribes,

mid

Customs of Hy- Fiacfirack, pp. 173, 280.

*

0''Scuapa.

macnoise, as translated

According totheAnnals ofClonby Mageoghegan, he was

1275.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

423

Hugh, son of Cathal Crovderg, was made king by the Connacians; and his reign was not longer, for he had been but one fortnight in the government, when he was slain by Mageraghty (Tomaltagh) and O'Beirne; and
Dall, the son of

Teige, son of Turlough, son of

Hugh, son of Cathal Crovderg, was elected

king over the Connacians. Tiernan, son of Hugh O'Rourke, Lord of Breifny, and Donnell, son of Manus, who was son of Murtough Muimhneach, most illustrious throughout
all

Ireland for hospitality and prowess", died. Gilla-na-naev, son of Hugh, the son of Auliffe O'Farrell,

Lord of Annaly,

supporter of the hospitality and prowess of the Clanna-Rury, a man full of nobleness and intellect, dangerous to his foes, and kind to his friends, died, after the victory of penance.
Melaghlin, son of Auliffe, the son of Art O'Rourke, Lord of Dartry and Clann-Fearmaighe, was slain by Conor, son of Donnell, the son of Niall

O'Rourke.
Teige, son of Carroll Boy O'Daly, chief poet of Hugh O'Conor, died. Donnell Oge, son of Donnell, son of Art O'Rourke, and Cathal Mac Clancy, Chief of Dartry, died.

Fergal O'Caithniadh, Lord of Erris, died in Hy-Mac-Caechain

^

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1275.
seventy-Jive.

thousand two hundred

O'Laidigh, Bishop of Killala, and Carbry O'Scuapa*, Bishop of Raphoe, in

Tirconnell, died.

Rory, son of Turlough O'Conor, was taken prisoner by the O'Conor (Teige, son of Turlough, his brother). Rory afterwards made his escape, and Conor

O'Hanley took him with him Conor O'Hanley was killed.

but they were pursued, and overtaken, and

Teige, son of Cathal Mac Dermot, was plundered by O'Conor. Conor, son of Farrell, son of Donough, son of Murtough [O'Conor], was
slain
first

by

his

own kinsmen.
See also
p.

a friar of the order of Preachers.

edition of Ware's

Harris's

Bishops,

271,

where it is stated, on the authority of the Annals of Lough-Kee, that he died at Kome in 1275-

424

aNNdta Rio^hachca eiReawN.

Gpc mac
i

[1276.

carail piabaij ui puaipc cijeajina bpepne Do mapbaD la TTlaj a muincipe Do cup. pionnbapp, i la gallaib ngpanapo, -] dp TTIaiDm mop pop jallaib nulcaib 50 pdimcc Da ceD eac, -\ Da ceD ceann
i

in dipfrii Dib

Uomap
1

an eccmaip ap mu&aijeaD Da TiDaopccoppluaj. mag panipabain Do mapbab la cenel luacdin.

Cenel Goccham Do cechc hi ccfp Conaill co po millpioc blob mop Don rfp, a Ifnmain 50 6 Domndill (Domnall occ) Do cionol a muincipe ina Docom,
-|

huchc plebe cpuim 50 pafirhib poppa 50 ppapccaibhpioc dp Daoine, iom6a, paiDb, aipm i eOea&a ag cer.el cconaill Don cup pin.

eic

GO1S CR1OSC,

1276.

Qoip Cpiopr, mile, Da ceD, peacrmogac ape.

^lolla an coim&e ua cfpballdm eppcop ripe heoccam Decc. Gob muimneac mac peDlimiD mic cacail cpoibDeipj Do coiDecc ap in oul lappin ccfnn ui Domnaill. mumham cconnaccaib. Domnaill
i

Do cocc laip 50 1 aoD Dpuipeac

lion
i

cionoil 50 hecfnac,

ua Domnaill oiompuD uaiD

annpin,

cconnaccaib.

Cpeac DO Denarii Do cloinn roippDealbaij ap mac pe&limiD, ~\ ap cloinn meic Diapmaca, i giolla cpiopc ua maoilbpenainn Do mapbao Doib.
y

Mac Finnbhar

He was

chief of the terri-

tory of Muintir-Geran, situated on the west side of Lough Gowna, in the county of Longford.

in the barony of Strabane, rone.

b

the south of the village of Newtown-Stewart, and county of Ty-

Under

this year the

Annals of Clonmac-

This territory comprised the entire of the parish of Oughteragh, in the

north of the barony of Carrigallen, in the county of Leitrim, adjoining the barony of Tullyhaw, Magaurau's country. of the O'Clerys at 7th July. * This name Slieve Truim.

Kinel-Luachain

noise, as

translated

by Mageoghegan, contain

the two following entries, omitted by the Four " A. D. 1275. Art Mac Cormack Masters
:

O'Melaghlyn was hurt by O'Moylloy, and by

those of Kynaleaghe, and the two sons of Mahon Magawlye were also killed by them. John de

See Irish Calendar

is

now

obsolete,

Verdon and
c

thirteen knights were poysoned to-

but

given on a map of Ulster, dated 1590, by Francis Jobson, under the anglicised form of Slevetrym. This name has been since changed
it is

gether in England.

Hugh Muimhneach,

i.

e.

Hugh

the

Momo-

nian.

by the proprietor
of Bessy Bell.
It

to the
is

unmeaning appellation

an illegitimate son of King Felim O'Conor, and was called Muimhneach, or the

He was

situated a short distance to

Momonian, from

his having

been fostered in

1276.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Reagh O'Rourke, Lord of
Breifny,

425
slain

Art, son of Cathal

y

was

by Mac

Finnvar and the English at Granard, and his people were slaughtered. great victory was gained over the English in Ulidia, so that there were

counted two hundred horses and two hundred heads, besides

their plebeians.

all

who

fell

of

Thomas Magauran was slain by the Kinel-Luachain z The Kinel-Owen came into Tirconnell, and desolated
.

a great part of the

O'Donnell (Donnell Oge) assembled his people to oppose them, and pursued them to the breast of Slieve Truim", where they were defeated and they left slaughtered men, many horses, accoutrements, arms, and armours
country.
;

behind them to the Kinel-Connell on

this expedition

1
*.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1276.
i

thousand two hundred

seventy-six.

Gilla-an-Choimhdhe O'Carolan, Bishop of Tyrone (Deny), died. Hugh Muimhneach son of Felirn, who was son of Cathal Crovderg, came
,

from Munster into Connaught, and went thence to O'Donnell. O'Donnell and all his forces went with him to Echenach", and there parted from him, Hugh
remaining in Connaught.
depredation was committed by the sons of Turlough on the son of Felim and the sons of Mac Dermot and Gilchreest O'Mulrenin was slain by
;

them.
Munster, as we learn from the Annals of Clonmacnoise,
as translated

by Mageoghegan,

in

tioned in the pedigree of the O'Conors, given in the Book of Lecan, fol. 72, 'et seguen. Thus
:

which
1276.

this entry is given as follows:

"A. D.

base

Mac

Cahall

son was presented to Pelym Crovederg O'Connor, after the

Peiolimij mac cucail cpoibbeipj, aen mac aici aeo mac peiolimij, 7 mac aili ap na
.1.

death of the said Ffelym a long space, who was called Hugh Moyneagh, because he was

nurished and brought up in Munster, and came to Connoght from thence, and as soon as he

chup chuici .1. aeo muimneic, j po job in caeo pn piji Connacc " Felim, the son of Cathal Crovderg, had one son, namely, Hugh Mac Felim, and another son was fathered upon
:

him,

namely,.

came and was known

to

be the son of Felym,

[latter]

Hugh

Hugh Muimhneach, and this assumed the government of Connow Aughanagh

;

Silemoreye and Clann-Moyleronie accepted of him, and had him in great accoumpt and reverence."

naught." d Echenach,

an

ancient

This

Aedh Muimhneach

is

also

men-

church
i

said to

have been built by

St. Patrick,

426

QNNaca reioshachca

eiraeaNN.
-]

[1277.

Cpeac DO oenam Do mac peblimib ap cloinn muipceapcaij, jiolla na a ccojiaijechc a namjjeal ua conpoi Do mapbab Do cloinn muipceapcaij
ccpeici.

Cpeac Do Denam Do Ruaibpi mac coippoealbaij ap mumcip nechrain, laopam Do cabaipc mabma paip, Do buain na cpeice be. Oomnall mac
~]

-|

nell mic congalaij ui

Ruaipc

TJuaipc Do

mapbab

ooib.

pochaibe oile Do mumcip 5 1o ^ac P lo r c ua neaccain, Do mapbab Do Ruaibpi

(.1.

giolla

an ime),

-\

mac

coippbelbaij; lappin.
jiolla

Diapmairc maj

muipe rijeapna leiche cachail DO

1277.

ecc.

QO1S CR1OSC,
Qoip Cpiopc,
mile,

Da ceD, pecrmogac apeachc.

bpaon ua maoilmoiceipji ab cfnannoip DO ecc. bpian puab ua bpiain njeapna cuabmuman DO jabail meabail DO mac Q cappaing eDip eachaib ap a haicli lap noenarh caipDip lapla claipe. Do rabaipc clocc mionn Da cele imma cpippc pe poile Doib poime pin, ccapaDpaD Do comall. ^lollacpiopc ua bipn peap jpa&a aoba ui concobaip DO mapbab Don giolla puab mac loclamn ui concobaip. 5'^ a na "aorii ua bipn Do ecc mp
i ~\
)

naicpije.

Caiplen popa comain DO leaccab Daob mac peblimib 50 cconnaccaib mime, i Do Domnall ua Domnaill.
and which gives name to a parish in the barony of Tirerrill, and county of Sligo See Genealogies, Tribes, aivl Customs of Hy-Fiachrach,
jirinted for the Irish Archaeological Society in
1 844, p. 490 ; and the map prefixed to the same work, on which this church is shewn, on the west side of Lough Arrow.

(.1.

aob muirhneac)

the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen gives an account of the

g

Under

this year,

expulsion of Brian Koe O'Brien out of Thomond, and the election of Turlough, the son of

Teige Caeluisce O'Brien, in his place, h This passage Brian Roe O'Brien
in Mageoghegan's translation of the

is

given

Annals of
1277.

Clann-Murtough
dants of

These were the descen-

Clonmacnoise as follows:

"A. D.

The

Murtough Muimhneach O'Conor, the

Earle of Clare his son, took Bryen Roe O'Bryen

prisoner, very deceitfully, after they

son of Turlough More, Monarch of Ireland. Lecale Cear Cacail, i. e. Cathal's half, now the barony of Lecale, in the county of
1

had sworn
" to be

to each other all the oaths in Munster, as bells,

relics of saints,

and bachalls"

[croziers],

true to each other for ever,

and not endamage

1277-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

427

committed by the son of Felim on the Clann-Mur tough6 and Gilla-na-n-Aingel O'Conroy was slain by Clann-Murtough, while pursuing
;

A depredation was

the prey.

depredation was committed by Rory, son of Turlough, on the O'Naghtans, but they defeated him, and deprived him of the booty. Donnell, son of Niall, son of Congalagh O'Eourke (i. e. Gilla-an-ime), and many others ,of the

by them. Gilchreest O'Naghtan and William O'Naghtan were afterwards slain by Rory, son of Turlough. Dermot Mac Gillamurry, Lord of Lecale f died5
slain
, .

O'Rourkes, were

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1277.

thousand two hundred seventy-seven.

Kells, died.

Braen O'Mulmoghery, Abbot of

Brian Roe O'Brien", Lord of Thomond, was treacherously taken by the son of the Earl of Clare, and afterwards drawn between horses, and this after both

had entered
to retain

into gossipred' with each other,

and taken vows by

bells

and

relics

mutual friendship.

GilchreesT; O'Beirne, servant of trust to Hugh O'Conor, was slain by Gillaroe, son of Loughlin O'Conor. Gilla-na-naev O'Beirne died, after penance.

The
[i.e.

castle of

Hugh
;

pulled down by Hugh, son of Felim O'Conor Muimhneach], aided by the Connacians and Donnell O'Donnell.
tains a

Roscommon was

each other
gips,

also after they became sworne gosand for confirmation of this their indis-

much more

detailed account of the cir-

bond of perpetuall friendship, they drew of the blood of each of them, which part they putt in a vessall, and mingled it together after
soluble
:

cumstances attending the murder of Brian Roe O'Brien. This murder is alluded to by the Irish
chieftains in their remonstrance to

Pope John

all

which protestations, the said Bryen was

XXII., as a striking instance of the treachery of the English and Anglo-Irish then in Ireland.

taken as aforesaid and bound to sterne steedes, and so was tortured to death by the said Earle's

They

call

the murderer of Brian Roe,

the

Duke

of Gloucester's brother.

See Memoirs
O''Conor

quoted by Mr. Moore, in a note in his History of Ireland, vol. iii. p. 33 but he does not mention what annals he quotes
son."
is
;

This passage

of the
'

Life and Writings of Charles

of

Belanagare, p. 74.
Gossipred.

lup
e.

noenaih

from.

work called Caithreim ThoirdheaWhaigh, or Wars of Turlough O'Brien, conIrish

The

pe apotle,

i.

after

caipDir- cpiopc one of them had been

sponsor to the other's child at baptism.

i2

428

aNNata Rio^hachca emeaNN.

pip.

[1278.

Cpeac mop Do Denarii Do ceallac ecbac pop cenel luacain a Duile Dap mapbpac concobap mag Dopchaibe pochaib immaille
-|

nglionn

pa

QO1S CR1OSD,
Qoip Cpiopb,
mile,

1278.

Da

ceb, peachrrhojaD, a hochrc.

Uomdp ua

plairbfprac

cuinn eppucc cluana mic noip Do ecc. ua oairhm nccfpna pfpmanac Decc.
T?i

Caocc mac coippbealbaij mic aoba mic carail cpoiboeipg

Do rhapbaDh la cloinn cacail meic DiapmaDa.
T?uaibpi

connacr

mac
-|

coippbealbaij

mag plannchaib, mac ciccfpndin ui

Concobaip Do mapbab la giollu cpiopo an peappun piabac la Daprpaiccib ap bopD Dpoma cliab, pochaibe oile ndc aipirhcfp ponn. Concobaip,
ui
-| ~\
-\

Oonnchab, pfpgal, giollucpiopD cpi meic muipgfpa meic DonncaiD mic comalcaij Do mapbab la cabcc mac bomnaill loppaip. DO cloinn TTIaiDm cuince Do cabaipr DO Donnchab mac bpiain puaib
~\

oile

uf bpiain
-]

ap mac mpla

claipe jup loipccpfo

ceampal
-\

cuince pop a

mumcip

50 ccuccpar ap

Diaiprfie

poppa

et>ip

lopccab
pil

Uomalcac mace oipeachcaij Riojcaoipeac

lap na cuachaib.
k

mapbab. muipeabaij Do mapbhaDh

Gleann-da-duile,

valley

in

the parish

of Oughteragh, barony of Carrigallen, county of Leitrim. Kinel-Luachain, the terri-

and

planted it with his own followers ; and also the treacherous execution of Brian Roe O'Brien

by the

said

Thomas de

Clare, at the instiga-

tory of the Mac Dorcys, comprised the parish of Oughteragh, which adjoins Teallach Eachdhach, or the barony of Tullyhaw, in the north-

tion of his (de Clare's) wife and father-in-law, These events are very unsatisfactorily treated

west of the county of Cavan. 1 Under this year the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen contains an interesting
account,

Under this year also, of by the Four Masters. the Annals of Clonmacnoise, as translated by
Mageoghegan, contain the following notice of the death of Conor O'Melaghlin, which has
been omitted by the Four Masters "A.D. 1277. Connor Mac Donnell Breagagli O'Melaghlyn, he
:

Caithreim

evidently abstracted from Magrath's Tltoirdhealbkaigh, of the coming of

into

Thomas De Clare
Caeluisce.
castle of

Thomond

to assist Brian

Roe O'Brien, against Turlogh, the son of Teige

that most warred with Englishmen in his owne time, a second Gwarie for bounty, a lyon for
strength, and tyger for fierceness in time of enterprises

They

also record the erection of the

Bunratty by Thomas de

Clare,

who

and
if

dispossessed the old inhabitants of Tradry, and

of Ireland,

onsetts, and one hop'd to be king he were suffered by the English,

1278.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

429

great depredation was committed by [the people of] Eachdhach upon k the Kinel-Luachain, in Gleann-da-duile during which they slew Conor Mac Dorcy, and a host of others'.
,

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1278.

thousand two hundred seventy-eight.

Thomas O'Quin, Bishop

m
,

of Clonmacnoise, died.

Flaherty O'Davine Lord of Fermanagh, died. Teige, son of Turlough, son of Hugh, son of Cathal Crovderg, King of Connaught, was slain by the sons of Cathal Mac Dermot.

Rory, son of Turlough O'Conor, was slain by Gilchreest Mac Clancy and the inhabitants of Dartry, on the borders of Drumcliff; and the Swarthy Parson, son of Tiernan O'Conor, and many others not numbered here.
'

and Gilchreest, the three sons of Murrough, son of Donough, son of Tomaltagh, were slain by Teige, son of Donnell [O'Conor],

Donough,

Farrell,

of Erris.

was gained by Donough, son of Brian Roe, and the other sons of O'Brien, over the Earl of Clare they burned the church of Cuinche over the heads of his people, and caused an indescribable destruction
victory of Cuinche"
;

The

of them, both by burning and killing Tomaltagh Mageraghty, Royal Chieftain of Sil-Murray, was slain by the [people of the] Tuathas.
.

died penitently at Kilbeggann."

one, dedicated to St. Finghin.

This name is very (yDavine, ua oairhin. common in the counties of Londonderry and Tyrone,

The great abbey

till

of this place was not erected

or,

the year 1402,

where

it is

anglicised Devine.
as the

The family

See Harris's Ware, till 1433 edition of Ware's Antiquities, p. 280.

according to

are of the

same race

Maguires and Mac

Burning and
stated

killing,

This passage

is

thus

Mahons of Oriel. The family of Maguire had not as yet obtained the chief sway in Fermanagh, though Donn Maguire had made great exertions to put down all rivals a few years before.
barony of Bunratty, about five miles *o the east of Ennis. The church here referred to was an ancient Irish
Cuinche,
in the
n

by Mageoghegan, Annals of Clonmacnoise: "Donnough Mac Bryeu Eoe O'Bryen gave the overthrow of Coynche to

in his translation of the

Thomas de Clare

(the Earle), and burnt the

now Quin,

church of Coynche over the heads of the said Earle and his people, where infinite numbers of
people were both slain and killed therein, and

430

ctNNata Rio^hachca eiReanN.

[1279.

muirhneach mac peblimib Do gaBail Rije Connachc. lomaipeajj Do rabaipr DO bpian ua nouboa, i DO Gpc na ccapall ua nfshpa ngfpna luijne, Do cloinn peopaip, gup po ppaomeab pop cloinn
peopaip, i po
paip,
~\

Gob

mapbab Diap mac

TTlhaoilip moip,

-\

Concobap pua6 mac peo-

apoile cen morhdc.

aois CRIOSO,
Qoip Cpiopr,
mile,

1279.

Da

ceo, peachDmojjaD, a naof.

Uomalcac mac coipp&elbaij mic maoilpeachloinn

i i

eppucc mama Saoi fipfnn uile, neaccna, neolup mbuaib nairhpicche. 6 cfpbatlain epppoc rhfpe heojam Do )iolla an choimDfoh
-|
i

Concobaip aipD nDepepc DO ecc mp

ecc.

ui

Concobop mac DiapmaDa mic majnupa nf Concobaip Do mapbab. compac TTlupcab 6 neachcain Do mapbab Do Domnall 6 neacram ua neaccam ofpbpacaip mupcaib ap Domnall RoibfpD Dpoccpa DoRoibfpD
-\

~]

DO mapbab Ifipp mppin.

Oomnall mac giollucpiopc

TTlaolpeachlomn
J5iolla fopa

uf

neaccam Do mapbab
ua ppiacpac

la haob 6 ccoincfnamn.

mac mop mac

coippbelbaij DO mapbab.
pipbipij ollarh
i

pfnchup Do ecc.
minor
chieftainries.

escaped narrowly himself, which escape myne author sayeth that himself was sorry for." P Hugh Muimhneach. Dr. O'Conor does not
take any notice of this King of Connaught in his historical account of the family of O'Conor,
prefixed to the

elected, at least,

to

Dr.

Charles Dunne, in his arguments against his brother, Teige O'Doyne, Chief of Hy- Regan, in the reign of James
I.,

asserts

that for

many

hundred years
but
this

" no bastard attained to the

Memoirs of the Life and Writ-

ings of Charles O'Oonor of Belanagare. In Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clon-

County ;" amounts to an acknowledgment that bastards had attained to the chiefry in more
In a Chancery record of a lawbetween Donell O' Donovan, Chief of Clancahill, in the county" of Cork, and his brother, and the the latter states, " that
ancient times.
suit

chiefrie of Iregaine in the Queen's

macnoise, this entry is in English as follows i" A. D. 1278. Hugh Moyneagh Mac Felym was

ordained and
is

made King of Connought."

This

an instance of the inauguration of a bastard as King of Connaught, and of one who does not
appear to have been ever acknowledged by his father See note under the year 1276. It apfrom several authentic records that baspears
tards,

Teige,

by

usage

custome of the contrie of Carberie, an illegitimate, or base son, was to be secluded and put besides the chieftanrie, signorie, and inheritance,
so that

he that was lawfullie borne was ever

particularly muliers,

were

sometimes

interested

by custome

in

them and no bastard."

1279-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

O'Dowda

431

Hugh Muimhneach",
Brian

son of Felim, assumed the sovereignty of Connaught, and Art na g-Capall [of the Horses] O'Hara, Lord of Leyny,

which the Clann-Feorais gave were defeated, and the two sons of Meyler More, Conor Roe Mac Feorais, and
battle to the Clann-Feorais [Birminghams], in

others besides,

were

slain.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1279.

thousand two hundred seventy-nine.

Tomaltagh, son of Turlough, son of Melaghlin O'Conor, Archbishop of Tuam, the most illustrious man in all Ireland for wisdom, knowledge, and
charity, died, after the victory of penance.

Gilla-an-Choimhdheadh O'Carolan", Bishop of Tyrone (Derry), died. Conor, son of Dermot, son of Manus O'Conor, was killed.

Murrough O'Naghtan was slain by Donnell O'Naghtan; upon which a challenge was given to Donnell by Robert O'Naghtan, brother of Murrough and Robert also fell by (the hand of) Donnell. Donnell, son of Gilchreest O'Naghtan, was slain by Hugh O'Concannon. Melaghlin, son of Turlough [O'Conor], was slain. Gillo-Isa More Mac Firbis, Ollav of Tireragh in history, died.
;

But Donell, in his rejoinder, asserts, and his witnesses prove, that " the custome of the countrie waranteth that bastards, especiallie
muliers,

legists of the children of

Turlough More O'Co-

nor,

King of

Ireland,

number, and of

who were twenty-four in whom, according to the Book

vans."

by the civill law, might be O'DonoThe fact seems to be that bastards who

of Lecan, only three were by his married wife, and even these were thrown into the shade by
the superior valour of their illegitimate brothers.

were of a warlike character were preferred, in

those lawless times, to legitimate children of less

combative disposition, especially when they were of a higher or more powerful family by
the mother's side than by the father's. The marriage ceremony does not appear to have

Cf Cardan. His death has been already entered under the year 1276, which is the date assigned to it in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster.

In the old translation of the Ulster

:

stamped dignity on the character of the offspring, as the respectability and power of the mother's family, and their own bravery,
as

much

Annals, both dates are given thus

(a/.

"A.D. 1276

1279). Gilcomy O'Cerballan, Bishop of TiIn Harris's edition of Ware's roen, quievit."

which always commanded the admiration of the subalterns. We have a striking instance
of this fact in the account given

Bishops, p. 289, his death is assigned to the year 1279, on the authority of the Annals of

by the genea-

Lough Kee.

432

aNNata Rio^hachca
QO1S CR1OSO,

eircecmN.
1280.
ochcriiojac.

[1281.

Qoip Cpiopo, mile, Da ceo,

Seaan ua lai&ig eappocc baip abb na buille Do ecc.
cille

hala6, q ITlacha

mac majjnupa

uf

Conco-

aob muimneac mac pe6limi6 mic carhail cpoibQo& muim1 clann muipcfpcaij; muirhnij ui Concob'aip. mac magnupa Do neac Do rhapbaD Doib ccoill in Dainjin maoilpeaclainn an la cfona piu. Ua Oomnaill Da puaplacaD uaca. Cfirpi cfo bo -j gabail piche eac apfo puaippioD app.

Impfppam Do ofip5 l?i Connacc

fipge eDip

-|

Carol mac Concobaip puaiD mic muipcfpcaij muirhnij mic coippbealbaij

ConcoBaip Do pioja6 Do Connachcaib mppin. TTlaoilpeaclamn 6 jaipmleaDhaij coipeac cenel moccin, Saipmleaohaij Do cuicim le ceallac mo&apain.
moip
uf
~\

Concob'op na

QOIS CR1O3O,

1281.

Qoip Cpiopo, mile, Da ceD, ochrmojac a hoen.

^065 mac
i

carail meic

DiapmaDa ncchfpna moi je

"|

luipcc, Saoi in

eneac

nfngnam

-\

nuaiple Do ecc.

Da cpioch eDip cenel cconaill cenel eojairi. QoD buiDi mac Domnaill oicc mic aoDa mec mic aooa pip a paicci an macaomh coinleapcc Domnall 65 ua Domnaill ncchfpna joill ulaD imaille pip Don Dapa ler. cenel cconaill, pfp manac, aipgiall, Connacc upmoip jaoi&eal ulaD uile

Cac

Dipipr

-]

-|

O'Laidhigh

Annals of Ulster he

O'Loyn," and in Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops, p. 650,

In the old translation of the " John is called

bably the townland of Dangan,

now

divided

into the several portions of Danganbeg, Dangan Eighter, and Dangan Oughter, in the parish of
Killererin, in the

" Friar John O'Laidig, or O'Loyn." s The descendants of Murtough Muimhneach

this

Mortogh are henceforward

called Clann-

of Galway sheet 44.

u Teattach

barony of Tiaquin, and county See Ordnance map of that county,

Modharain.

Muircheartaigh in these Annals.

1

They became

There was a tribe of

very contentious, and are often mentioned.

this

name
n

located near Corcaree in Westmeath.

Dangan

Dainjean,

a fastness, or fortress.
this

There are several places of

naught.

name

in
is

Conpro-

But this tribe were , p. 66, supra. in Ulster, and seated near Strabane, in Tyrone,
See note

The Dangan here

referred to

Prowess, en^narii

This word

is

translated

1281.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

433

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1280.
eighty.

thousand two hundred

John O'Laidhigh', Bishop of Killala, and Matthew, son of Manus O'Conor, Abbot of Boyle, died.

A contention arose between Hugh Muimhneach, son of Felim, son of Cathal

Crovderg, King of Connaught, and the descendants of Murtough Muimhneach* O'Conor. Hugh Muimhneach was slain by these at the wood of Dangan'; and Melaghlin, son of Manus, was taken prisoner on the same day by them; but he was ransomed by O'Donnell, and they received four hundred cows and twenty
horses for him.

Conor Roe, son of Murtough Muimhneach, son of Turlough More O'Conor, was inaugurated king by the Connacians after this. Melaghlin O'Gormly, Chief of Kinel-Moen, and Conor O'Gormly, fell by
Cathal, son of

the tribe of Teallach-Modharain".

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1281.
eighty-one.

thousand two hundred

Teige, son of Cathal

tality,

Mac Dermot, Lord

of Moylurg, illustrious for hospi-

prowess", and nobility, died. The battle of Disert-da-chrioch* was fought by the Kinel-Connell and the Kinel-Owen, [that is], beween Hugh Boy, son of Donnell Oge, son of Hugh Meth, son of Hugh, who was usually called an Macaemh Toinleasc y assisted by
,

the English of Ulster, on the one side

and Donnell Oge O'Donnell, Lord of

Tirconnell, Fermanagh, Oriel, and the greater part of the Irish of Ulster, of
prowess by Mageoghegan, and feats by the old translator of the Annals of Ulster, by whom this " A.D. 1278 (al. 1281). passage is thus rendered :
chpipco." Desertcreaght, a townland and parish in the north of the barony of Dungannon, in the county of Tyrone.
x

r al neinij 7 nenjnoriia quieuir

Disert-cia-chriock,

in

now

Teg Mac Cathall Mac Diermod, King of Moilurg,

an excellent

man
Irish

in liberality
is

and

feats,

quiemt."

Macaemh
"

Toinleasc

Mageoghegan

Eng-

The original
lin

given as follows in the

:

Dub-

lishes this

copy of the Annals of Ulster

" A. D. 1278.

Hugh Boye mac Donnel Oge mac surnamed the Fatt, mac Hugh, who was Hugh,

maccacailrnicOiapmaoapimuijiluipg

called the leasy-arsed youth."

3K

434

aNNQta Rio^hachca eineaNH.

-|

[1281.

acho ma6 beacc

na bpepne

uile

Don lee apaill.

Ro rheabaib cpa an
.1.

cacpo

an cafn gaoiDeal T?o mapbaD t>oriinall ua t)orhnailt ann pop cenel cconaill. Do jaoibealaib Gpeann ip in DO bpfpp eneac, fnsnam, aipeachup -] uaiple coiccionn mpcaip Goppo uite epi&e -| a aDnacul aimpip fin. pechfm nDoipe colaim cille mp mbpfich buaba gacha maimpDip na mbpacop an luchD po bpfpp Dap mapbaD ina maichfppa Do 56 pin. Qciacc annpo
i

ua baoijill caoipeac na ccpi ccuac, Gojanmac maoilpocaip ITIaolpuanaiD mac giollubpijDe uf peaclamn mic Oomnaill moip ui Dorhnaill, Ceallac
baoijill
in

an cafn caoipeac Do bpfpp fnsnarh "| eneac Depib 1 Dollariinaib bof a mac pom, giollu cpiopD mag fnaimpip pipp, ainDilfpp 6 baoijill, Dubgall

mac jille pinnen caoipeac mumnplanncaioh caoipeac Dapcpaicche,Dorhnall Gnna 6 jaipmleaDhaig apDcaoipeac cenel modin, Copbmac cipi peoDacdin, mac an
piplejinn uf Domnaill caoipeac panaD.giollu

an comDeaD ua maolDum

Capmac mac capmaic ui Domnaill, jiollu na nocc mac Dail le Docaip, TTIaoilpeacloinn mac nell ui baoijill, amDilfp mac muipcfpcaij ui Domnaill, TTIajnup mac cuinn, jiollu na nafm ua heocaccain, muipcfpcac ua plaichbfpcaij, muipcfpcach mac anulcoij, plaichbfpcac mace buiDeacain
caoipeac luipcc,
1 Sochaioe oile

Do macaibh cicchfpnaD i caoipeac nach aipimcfp ponn. Gob mac Domnaill oicc ui Domnaill ooiponeaD i nionab a acap. Cac eDip na baipeocaib ~\ an ciompoccac jup meabaiD pop baipeDcaibh.
-\

SochaiDe imaille piu. mapbaD ann uilliam baipeD, aDam plemenD, 6aoap cpa Diap DO gaoibealaib 05 conjnarh lap an cciompoccac ip in ccach pa po DfppccnaiD ap goil jaipcceaD luc larhac Da mbaoi ann, Caicleac 6
T?o
-\ ~\

baoijill, -\ caichleac 6 Duboa laiDpi&e. QoDh TTluimneach mac coippoealbaij uf bpiain DO ecc.
z

O'Donnell.

Charles O'Conor wrote inter

aoip,
i.

his time,
after

and was buried in the church of Derie,

all

lineas,

"pan 41 bliabam oia

fyc.,

e.

in the

he had

forty-first year of his age."

a

tunately untill that

things fallen out with him forday of his death."

Hospitality, prowess,

eneac, enjnarii,

The greatest contfnander, pechem coircionn

&c

of this passage given by Mageoghegan in his Annals of Clonmacnoise, has a close agreement with the text of the Four
translation

The

mpcaip eoppa

The old

translator of the

An-

nals of Ulster renders this,

"the overseer of

the west of Europe."

c

Masters.

Thus

"Donnell O'Donnell was

slain;

Dowell,

oubaU
Gaul,
or

This name, which

foreigner,
Irish,
is

sig-

the best Irishman for bounty, prowess, worthiness,

nifies

black

generally

and many other perfections that lived in

anglicised

Dowell by the

and Dugald by

1281.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

435

Connaught, excepting a small portion, and of the entire of Breifny, on the other. In this battle the Kinel-Connell were defeated; and Donnell Oge O'Donnel?, the

most

of the Irish of his time for hospitality", prowess, splendour, and nobility, and the greatest commander b in the west of Europe, was slain and he was interred in the monastery of Derry, having obtained the palm in
illustrious
;

man

every goodness up to that time. The most distinguished of those who fell along with him were the following, namely, Mulrony O'Boyle, Chief of the Three Tuathas Owen, son of Melaghlin, son of Donnell More O'Donnell Kellagh,
;
;

son of Giolla-Brighde O'Boyle, one of the most illustrious chieftains of his time for prowess, and for munificence to learned men and ollavs Andiles
;

c O'Boyle, and Dowell

his son

Gilehreest

Mac

Clancy, Chief of Dartry

11

Don-

nell

Mac

Gillafinnen, Chief of Muintir-Feodachain

;

Enna O'Gormly, Chief

;

of Kinel-Moen

Fanad

Cormac, son of the Ferleighin [Lector] O'Donnell, Chief of Gilla-an-Choimhdheadh O'Muldoon, Chief of Lurge Cormac, son of
;

Manus Mac Quin; Gilla-na-naev O'Heoghagan; Murtough O'Flaherty; Murtough Macan-Ulty; Flaherty Mac Buidheachain and many others of the sons of lords and chieftains not enume;

Gilla-na-n-6g Andiles, son of Murtough O'Donnell; O'Boyle;

Cormac O'Donnell

Mac

Dail-re-docair

Melaghlin, son of Niall

rated here.

Hugh, son of Donnell Oge O'Donnell, was inaugurated

father.

in the place of his

battle [was fought] between the Barretts and the Cusack, in which the Barretts were defeated, and William Barrett, Adam Fleming, and many others,

were

slain.

There were

assisting the

Cusack

in this battle

two of the

Irish,

namely, Taichleach O'Boyle and Taichleach O'Dowda, who surpossed all that were there in bravery and valour, and in agility and dexterity at shootingf Hugh Muimhneach, son of Turlough O'Brien, died*.
.

the Scotch.
d

the Muldoons are

still

numerous.

Muintir Feodachain.

Mac
to

territory of the Gillinnions extended from the ArneyEiver

The

is

western extremity of Belmore mountain,

lamac This passage thus given in English in the old translation of the Annals of Ulster "A. D. 1278 (al. 1281).
f

Dexterity at shooting,

in the

barony of Magheraboy,

and county of

Fermanagh.
'

Lurff, is

now

the

name

of a barony in the

north of the county of Fermanagh, in which

between the Barets and the Cusacks, where the Barets were put to flight, and William Baret was killed," [and also] " Adam Flemin, and many more men and there were
battell
;

K2

436

[1282.

QO1S CR1OSO,

1282.

CpiopD, mile, Da ceo, ochcmojar, aDo.

TTluipcfprac

mac mupcaba Rf

laijfn,

~\

ape mac mupcaDa a bfpbpacaip

Do mapbaD la jallaib. Caichleac mac maolpuanaiD uf Duboa cicchfpna ua ppiacpac, aon Do haoam aomlonnpaicchiD Da cineab ina aimpip Do rhapbab la bpfpp eneac
~[

pocc ap rpaicch 6ochaile. uf Concobaip bfn oomnaill moip tappaippiona injfn cacail cpoibDeipg
ui

oomnaill i maraip Dorhnaill oicc, bamcfnn ban Ifice cuinn ipDe Do ecc.
-|

TDacaua Rajallaijj ncchfpna mumncipi maoilmopba, 5 10 ^ u 10 r u macc cicchfpnam Do ngoipci jiollu lopu mop caoipeac cellaij DuncaDa 065. Cacal mac jjiollu na nafrh ui pfpgail ncchfpna na hangaile DO ecc,
i

two

Irish on Cusack's side, that excelled all in

viz.,

[occisi sunt]."

The

replace here called Kilro

courage and shooting,

It is thus given

Taichlegh O'Duvda,

tains that

name

to this day,

and

is

remarkable

and Taichlegh O'BoyL"

lation of the

by Mageoghegan, in his transAnnals of Clonmacnoise " A. D.

:

for the remains of a very ancient church erected in the time of St. Patrick. Moyne abbey is

a short distance to the south-east of

Genealogies, Tribes,
rach, p. 328.
z

it

See

1281. There was a feild fought between the

Barretts of the one side, and the Cusaks of the

and Customs of Hy-FiachDublin copy of the An-

where the Barretts were vanquished. William Barrett and Adam Fflemyng, with
other,

Under

this year the

many others, were slain. There were two Irishmen of Cusack's side that surpassed the companys of both sides for prowes, manhood, dexand teritie of handling of arms, hardiness,
all

nals of Inisfallen contain very curious notices of the feuds of Thomond, which was at this pe-

riod the theatre of

war and bloodshed,

in conse-

quence of the intrigues of Thomas de Clare, who set up Donough, the son of Brian Roe
O'Brien, against Turlough, the son of Teige
Caeluisce O'Brien.
h

other parts of activitie,

named Taihleagh
a manuscript

O'Dowdie, and Taihleagh O'Boylle." According

to the Historic/, Families

De Burgo,

Mac

Murrough.

According to Grace's An-

in the Library of Trinity College, already re-

nals, these were slain at

Arklow

in 1282.

Dr.
:

ferred to, this battle

was fought

at

Moyne,

in

Hanmer
"
lost

notices their death as follows, at 1281

the barony of Tirawley, near the ancient church " Bellum of Kilroe apud Mayn de Kilro per
:

Murtough Mac Muroch, with Art,

their heads at

his brother,

Wickloe

another saith at

Adam Cymsog

ex una parte,

et

William Bareth

Artchloe, so
'

ex altera parte, ubi vulneratus et captus est idem William. Et postea de hiis vulneribus

Clyn and Dowling doe report." O'Dowda. The notice of TaichleachO'Dowof the

da's death is given as follows in

mortuus

fuit.

Adam

Fleming

et

multi

alii

translation

Mageoghegan's Annals of Clonmacnoise

:

1282.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

437

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1282.

thousand two hundred eighty-two.

Art, his brother, were slain

Murtough Mac Murrough", King of Leinster, and

by the English.
Taichleach, son of
ble

Mulrony O'Dowda', Lord of Tireragh, the most hospitaand warlike of his tribe in his time, was slain by Adam Cusack on [the

strand of] Traigh Eothaile. Lasarina, daughter of Cathal Crovderg O'Conor, the wife of Donnell More O'Donnell, and the mother of Donnell Oge, head of the women of Leth-Chuinn",
died.

Mathew

O'Reilly,

Lord of Muintir Maelmora, and

Gilla-Isa

Mac Tiernan

usually called Gilla-Isa More, Chief of Teallach-Dunchadha, died.

Cathal, son of Gilla-na-naev O'Farrell,

Lord of Annaly, died on Inis-Cuan m

D. 1282. Taithleaghe Mac Moyleronie O'Dowdie, prince of the country of Offiaghragh Moye, one of great prowes and bountie, and of
great and 'of continuall dissention with the English and all foreigners, in defence of his contrey,

" A.

nealogies, Tribes,
p. 117,
k

Strand road to Beltraw, near Tanrego See Geand Customs of Hy- Fiachrach,

and the map prefixed

to the

same work.

Leth-Chuinn, i. e. Conn's half, means the northern half of Ireland. In the old translation of the

was

at Beerhaven." killed by Adam Cusack Here he renders Traigh Eothaile by Beerhaven,

is

but this

Haliday, in his translation of Keating's History of Ireland, p. 193, falls into a similar error in supposing it to be
a great error.

Annals of Ulster, Lasarina is called " the gentlest woman in Ireland." Mac Tiernan. In the old translation of the
'

Annals of Ulster,

this

name

is

anglicised

Mac

Youghal.
scribed

The Traigh Eothaile, mentioned by Keating at the page above referred to, is deby Duald Mac
C-paiji;
i.

Kiernan, which is the present anglicised form. This family of Teallach Dunchadha, now the bato be distinguished

Firbis,
:

a native of TireT?uip aipjio

rony of Tullyhunco, in the county of Cavan, is from Mac Tiernan, of the

ragh, as in Tir Fiachrach

Cpcn
ip in

pe pdioceap po a cam,

Bocuile

dp phiacpac
Lib.
Geneal.

county of Roscommon, descended from Tiernan, the son of Cathal Migarain O'Conor.
ra

e.

" the strand of Ros Airgid,

Eothuile, in this Tir
are."

Inis-Cuain, in the river of Cluain-lis-Bece-

which

is

called Traigh

mic-Conla.

These names are now obsolete.

Fiachrach in which

we

The
in

nearest

name

to Cluain-lis,
is

now remaining
the parish of

(Marquis of Drogheda's copy), p. 8. Traigh Eothuile is now generally called Trawohelly,

the county of Longford,

;

Cloongish
tical,

and

is

a large and beautiful strand at the

mouth

as

but they cannot be considered idenCloongish is called in Irish Cluain

of the Ballysadare River, in the barony of Tire-

fteipe.

See Irish Calendar of the O'Clerys, at

ragh, and county of

Sligo.

It

extends from the

25th April.

438
ninipp

anwata Rioshachea

eiraecmN.

[1284.

cuan pop abainn cluain lip bece TYIIC connla. SeappaiD mac nafrh ui pfpjail Do jabail cicchfpnaipp na hangaile Da ep.

giollu

na

QO18 CR1OSO,
Ctoip CpiopD, mftfe,

1283.
acpf.

Da ceD, ochomogao,

Qo6

buiDe o nellcicchfpna cenel eojain, pecce enij i jaipccib gaoiDeal,

aon Roja an cuaipccipr ap ao&nacal pfcc -j maoine, pfp ba moa spam -j Do copccap t>a cenel ma aimpip. 6a pioj&arhna Diongbala Dfipinn eppibe,

mapbaD

la

mag
ui

macjariina, bpian,

-|

la haipjiallaib

-|

la jiollu lopu puao

mac Domnaill TTajallaij. mac Domnaill loppaip Ua6j

-j -\

Do loc la luighmb DO chachal 6 concobaip a ecc lappin Do bichm a luic. CXch elide ceampall cpiopD Do lopccaD.
uf concobaip

a chaipbipc

aO13 CR1OSU,
Qoip CpiopD,
TTluipip

1284.

mile,

Da

ceD, ochcmocchacc,
oile pinn Decc, i

a ceachaip.

ua concobaip eppcop
~\

Qmlaoib ua comalcaij DO

oipDneao ina iona6 a ecc laprcam. ^lolla lopa mac an liaranaij ui concobaip Qbb oilen na cpmoiDe ap loch ce (DopD pepmonpcpa) Do rosha in

epppocoiDecc
n

oile pinn lappin.

Under

this year (1282), the

Dublin copy of

the Annals of Innisfallen contain some notices of the affairs of Thomond, which have been omitted

recorded with equal brevity, but more correctly, thus: "A. D. 1283. Arsit Dublinise
event
is

pars et

Campanile Trinitatis."

For

fuller

by the Four Masters.

They would appear

to

have been abstracted by the compiler of this Chronicle from the Irish work en titled Caithreim
Thoirdhealb/iaigk, or

account of this event, see Clynn's Annals, and Hanmer's Chronicle, ad ann. Under this year the Annals of Cloumacnoise, as translated by

Wars

of Turlough O'Brien.

In Mageoghegan's translation of ONeitt. Annals of Clonmacnoise, he is called King the

of Aileagh.
P

Mageoghegan, record the death of Art O'Me" of the castles," in the follaghlin, surnamed
lowing words

"A. D. 1283. Art Mac Cormack O'Melaghlyn, surnamed Art na Gaislean, the
:

Oriel*

OipjiallaiB,
called.

Mac Mahon's

follow-

ers
1

were so

greatest warrior in Ireland in his time against the Englishmen, and he that killed most of the

Burned.

In Grace's Annals of Ireland this

English and Irish; also he that broke down

1284.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

;

439

[an island] in the river of Cluain-lis-Becc-mic-Conla

Gilla-na-naev OTarrell, assumed the lordship of

and Geoffrey, son of

after him".

Annaly
1283.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

thousand 4wo hundred

eighty-three.

Hugh Boy
of the Irish
riches, the
;

Lord of Kinel-Owen head of the liberality and valour the most distinguished in the North for bestowing jewels and
O'Neill
, ;

most formidable and victorious of

;

his tribe in his time,

and the

worthy heir to the throne of Ireland was slain by Mac Mahon (Brian) and the Oriels", and Gilla-Isa Roe, son of Donnell O'Reilly. Teige, son of Donnell of Erris O'Conor, was wounded by the people of
Leyny, and delivered up to Cathal O'Conor, and [soon] effect of his wound.
Dublin and Christ's church were burned".
after this died of the

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1284.

thousand two hundred eighty-four.

Maurice O'Conor, Bishop of Elphin, died, and Auliffe O'Tomalty was consecrated his successor; but he died soon after. Gilla-Isa, son of Liathanagh
r O'Conor, Abbot of Trinity Island in Lough Ree (of the Premonstratentian Order), was then elected to the bishopric of Elphin.

seven-and- twenty castles, both great and small, in the course of his warrs, and he that gave

noticed by the Four Masters under the year 1284. r Premostratentian ThePremostratentian, or

many great overthrows to

died with good penance
son,
;

the English and Irish,

after

White Canons, were

originally a branch of the

whose death

his

Carbry, succeeded him in his place, and was constituted King of Meath." Under this year the Dublin copy of the An-

Canons Regular, and lived according to the rule of St. Augustine. They were reformed by St.
Norbert of Lorrain about the year
1

120, at Pre-

monstre, in the diocese of Laon inPicardy.

Pope

nals of Inisfallen contains an account (abstracted

from the CaithreimThoirdhealbhaigh) of the battles

between De Clare and Turlough O'Brien, and of

t,hedeathofDonough,thesonofBrianRoeO'Brien, who assisted De Clare. This latter event is briefly

Calixtus the Second, confirmed this order, and gave them the title of Canons Regular. The habit of their order is a white cassock, with a
rochet over
it,

a long white cloak, and a cap of

the same colour.

440

aNwata Rioshachca emeaNN.

[1285.

Oonnchab ua bpiain cijeapna ruabrhurhan Do mapbab la roippbealbac

ua mbpiain.

Oubgall mac majpiupa ui baoijjill caoipeach cloiche chinnpaolab bo mapbab bo muincip ui rhaoiljaoiche.
TTlac

na hoi&che mag bopchame raofpeach ceinel luachain (no buacham)

bo ecc.

Siomanb bepcerpa bo mapbab la bpian ua pploinn, i la ba mac ui planmaoileacloinn. Coccab rajain, biapmaicr, epaonca beipje hi cconnachcraib cpep an mapbab pin. Cpeacha mopa bo bfnom bo jallaib apa
-\
)

haicle

a naipfg co hiomlan bo rhuinnp

buille.

oilen na cpinoibe, i bo

manchaib

maimpcpe na
Caiplen
connacc).

cille

colmdin bo leaccab la cachal

mac

concobaip puaib

(T?i

Oun mop bo lopccab

la piacpa

ua pplomn.
1285.
cuicc.

aois crciosu,
Ctoip Cpiopc, mile,

ba cheb, ochcrhocchac, a

Siomon 6 Ruaipc eppcop na bpeipne becc. Ruaibpi ua gabpa cijeapna Slebe luja bo mapbab la TTlac peopaip pop
loch
ui

jabpa.

ITluipip
s

maol

TTlac

^epailc bo
Irish

ecc.
is

Donovgh O'Brien

The

work
a

called

to

be seen near the small

village of Cross-

Caithreim

Thoirdhealbhaigh,

gives

detailed

roads,
u

which

is

the present capital of the terri-

account of the death of this Donough, which has been abstracted by the compiler of the Dublin

tory of Cloghineely.

Mac-na-h-Oidhche

Mac

Dorcy.

Mac-na-h-

copy of the Annals of Innisfallen.

c

Clock Chinnfaelaidh,
is

i.

e.

Kinfaela's stone,

Oidche signifies son of the night, and was rather a soubriquet, or nickname, than the baptismal

anglicised Cloghineely, and is that of a district in the north-west of the barony

The name

now

name

of a man.

It is

now

obsolete.

The

ter-

of Kilmacrenan, in the county of Donegal. This is one of the three Tuathas, or districts, which
originally belonged to O'Boyle, and,
cently, to

ritory of Kin el- Luachain, in which the Mac Dorcys are still extant, comprised the parish of Oughteragh, or Ballinamore, in the east of the

Mac Sweeny na-d-Tuath.

this district takes its

more reThe stone

county of Leitrim. w To the family,

fyc.,

that

is,

they gave up

from which

name, and of

which strange legends are told in the country,

the spoils to the heads of these monasteries, to be disposed of as they should think proper.

1285.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

O'Brien*,

441

Lord of Thomond, was slain by Turlough O'Brien. Dowell, son of Manus O'Boyle, Chief of Cloch Chinnfaeladh', was slain by

Donough

the people of O'Mulgeeha.

Mac-na-h-Oidhche

Dorcy", Chief of Kinel-Luachain, died. Simon de Exeter was slain by Brien O'Flynn and the two sons of O'Flana-

Mac

gan,

Dermot and Melaghlin

in

consequence of which war and dissensions

arose in Connaught. After this the English committed great depredations; but restored the whole of the spoils to the of Trinity Island", and the they family" monks of the abbey of Boyle.

The

castle of

Kilcolman" was thrown

down by

Cathal, son of

Conor Roe,

King of Connaught.

Dunmore z was burned by Fiachra

O'Flynn.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1285.
eighty-jive.

thousand two hundred

Simon O'Rourke, Bishop of Breifuy, died. Rory O'Gara, Lord of Sliabh-Lugha", was b ham] on Lough 0'Gara
.

slain

by Mac Feorais [Berming-

Maurice Mael [the Bald] Fitzgerald died.

x

Trinity Island

See other notices of this

the castle of Ennis, in

*

Thomond, by Turlough,
is

island at the years 1231, 1234, 1235, 1236, 1237,

the son of Teige Caeluisce O'Brien.

Sliabh- Lugha.

1239, 1243, 1247, and 1249

tion in

and see

its situa-

This name
in old

sometimes An-

Lough Key, and the ruins of the abbey shewn on the Ordnance map of the county of
Roscommon,
T

glicised

Slewlowe
'

Anglo-Irish documents,
p. 150.
i.e.

See note
b

under the year 1206,

sheet 6.

Lough O'Gara
This lake
Gara.
It
is

toe
was
its

ui

jaopa,

O'Gara's

Kilcolman, a
in the

townland

in a parish

of the

lake.

now more

usually called

same name
of Mayo.
1

barony of Costello, and county See note under the year 1 270.
This
is

Lough

anciently

Techet, and received

called Loch name from the present

Dunmore

the

Dunmore

in

the

county of Galway, eight miles to the north of Tuam, where are still to be seen the ruins of
a strong castle erected by the family of Feorais, or Bermingham.

had been family of O'Gara, who, after they driven from their original territories of Galenga and Sliabh Lugha, in the now county of
Mayo, by the Jordans and
Costelloes, settled in

Mac

Under this year (1284), the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen record the erection of

the present barony of Coolavin, in the county of Sligo, and erected a castle at Moygara, or Moy

O'Gara, near the north-east extremity of this lake.

3 L

442

[1286.

Gnpi

mac

jiolla pinDein DO ecc.

-|

Tllaibm DO chabaipr DO jallaib

I

majnup ua cconcobaip ap doom ciompocc ap lapchaip Connachc 05 6app Dapa Ou map mapbaicc Daoine iom6a
coilin ciorhpocc

map jaba&
TTlaiDlirn

uf

Dfpbpachaip Goaim. Do chabaipr Do pibb mac goipoelbaij ap rhuinnp TTIajnupa concobaip ap Sliab gam DU in po mapbao pochai&e Do mumcip TTIajnupa.

QO1S CR1OSU,

1286.

Qoip Cpiopr, mile, Da cheD, ochcrmocchacc, ape.

SloijeaD
rhainipcpib
c
-|

mop

la hiapla ulab i cconnachraib gup po milleaD mopan DO Do cheallaib peachnon Connacc laip. Ro jab neapc in 506
youth then of the age of fifteen years. " Theobald Buttler, with his forces, accompanied with the forces of O'Kelly, of Elie O'Karroll,

cised

Mac Gillaftnnen This name is now angliMac Gillinnion, and sometimes changed to
The family were
seated in the dis-

Leonard.

trict of Muintir

Feodachain, extending from the Eiver to the western extremity of BelArney

in the barony of Magheraboy, and county of Fermanagh. d Sliabh Gamh, a chain of mountains in the

"

of Ormond, of Arye, of Ohne" [Owney] O'Mulryan, of Sileamnchye, and Clann Wil-

more mountain,

liam of the Burks, came to Delvin

stroy and subvert

Mac Coghlan
and to deCar-

to take the spoyles of that Contrey,

baronies of

Leyny and Tireragh, in the county

is

by brey O'Melaghlyn, King of the

itself

their Power.

Irish of Meatli,

of Sligo.
lated

The name

now

incorrectly trans-

Ox Mountains,
i.

because the natives believe

that the true Irish form of the

6arh,
e.

name
;

is

SliaB

hearing thereof, with such few forces as he on a sudden could make up, came to defend the Contrey from them, and gave them the onset
at

mountains of the oxen

but

this is a
5arii

local error, for the

name

is

spelled Sliab

Offlathrie"

Lomclone O'Doynne, now called Lomclone [now Lumcloon, or Lumploon, near

in all the ancient

e

and modern Irish annals. Annals of Clonmacnoise,

Under

this year the

the village of Cloghau, in the barony of Garry" where there were castle, and King's County],
killed

as translated

by Mageoghegan, contain the following passages, which have been altogether omitted by the Four Masters: "A. D. 1285. Hugh mac Hugh O'Conor and Flann O'Melaghlyn, with other noble youth in their companys, took a great prey from William Crocke,

on the sudden Sir William de

la Eochelle,

many others, with Morrogh mac Cormack O'Connor, and divers of the chiefest of the said Theobald's army slain, besides many
Knight, with

mac William Burke, Knight, with

principall

Captives that were taken, as Sir Ilobert Dunn four other

where"

\_recte

but]

"

discomfitted, in so

much

they were pursued and quite that above twenty of

Englishmen with him. " Theobald Buttler died at Beerehaven.

"

them were

slain

and drownded, together with

Mac Gerald
a great

Genville

and Bremyngham

Bryan mac Donnell Brcagagh O'Melaghlyn, a

made up

army with the forces of Meath,

1286.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

443

Henry Mac Gillafinnen died. Manus O'Conor defeated Adam Cusack and the English of West Connaught at Easdara [Ballysadare], where many persons were killed, and Colin Cusack, the brother of Adam, was taken prisoner.
Philip

Mac Costello defeated the people

slain
e
.

of Manus O'Conor on Slieve Gamh",

where many of Manus's people were

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one thousand

1286.
eighty-six.

two hundred

army was led by the Earl of Ulster into Connaught and many monasteries and churches throughout the province were destroyed by him.
great
;

He

obtained sway

in every place through

which he passed, and took the hoswhen thus

applied,
signifies

and marched to the contrey of Affailie" [Of" where faly], they seized upon a great prey of
Cowes, whereupon the inhabitants of the said contrey assembled together their forces, and

neapc,

power,

In the old translation of strength, or sway. the Annals of Ulster this passage is rendered as
follows

went on the strengths and passages of the contrey to offend" [resist] "them, and said to
Carbrey O'Melaghlyn, Clyncolman, and Irishrie of Meath, to come to aid

army

great (rectius 1286). by the Earle of Ulster into Connaght,

:

" A. D. 1282

and" [he] " spoyled many churches and abbyes

and was strong" [po jab neapc] " in all places, as hee went and took the pledges of Connells and Owens, and deposed Donnell O'Nell, and

King of Meath,

them against the

said armie, their adversaries,

who came with

diers,

a well appointed

army

of Sol-

made Nell Culanagh O'Nell King."

in

It is given

and mett the Englishmen in the field; the Irishrie of Meath and Inhabitants of Affalie
striking stiffly to their head,

Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise as follows: "A. D. 1286. The

Earle of Ulster repaired with great forces to

and chief man

Carbrey O'Melaughlin made fiercely and courageously towards the battle of the English,

and gave a great overthrow to them, took Mac Gerald prisoner, and Sir Adam Pettitt Knight, and above three score knights and freehoulders, with a great slaughter of the inferiour sort.
" There was great snow this year, which from Christmas to Saint Bridgett's day continued.

Connought, committed great outrages in that and especially in the abbeys and church lands, and, notwithstanding their unruProvence,
liness,

the Earle

had the victory of

his enemies

every where in that journey, and took hostages of O'Neale and O'Donnell, deposed Donnell mac
principallity, and gave the and chief name of Ulster to government, Neale Culanagh O'Neale." The latter Annals

Bryen O'Neale of his

rule,

" Gille Issa

Mac

Tiernan,

Chief of Teallagh

Donnogha, died."
(

contain the following passages under this year (1286), which have been omitted by the Four

Obtained swat/, po job neapc

The word
3 L

Masters

444

aNNdta Rioshachca eiReanw.

-|

pass.

conaip Dap jab,

po jab bpaijhoe Connacc uile. Rug lapam Connachcaij T?o aicpij Domnall mac bpiain fojain. laip jup po jab bpaijDe Conaill uf neill, i cu5 cijeapnup DO mall culanac.
)

Pilib

mac

goipDealb'aij DO ecc.

aois cpiosr,

1237.

Goip Cpiopc, mile, Da cheD, ochccrhoccac, a peachc.

ploipenc 6 gibellain aipciDeocham oilepinn peallparh cojaiDe Do ecc. 5'olla na nocc 6 mannacham cijfpna na ccpf ccuac Do ecc.

Oiapmaicr mibeach mac DiapmaDa mic TTluipjiupa mic cachail meic ba huaiple Da DiapmaDa, cijeapna pil maoflpuain, pfp ba pfpp, ba pine,
-|

chineaD Do ecc.

TDaolpeachnaill Dealbac mac eojain

mac comalcaij meg oipeccaij Do rhapbab

ui

la coipp-

concobaip

nDiogal a arhap Do cpegeaD Don Comoluf chacain,

cac pempdice.

bean muman mgfn caofpeac cenel Dobcha Do ecc.

ciorhpocc,

QDam

-|

Oomnall 6 hamlije

Q013 CR10SC,

1288.

Qoip Cpiopc, mile, Da cheo, ochccrhoccac a hochcc.

TTlichael

Scephan aipDeappob cuama Do gualann Decc. mac an cSaoip eppcop clochaip DO ecc.
ITlaghnup

mac Concobaip puaiD

-|

Chonnaccaib, Do uib bpiuin,

Concobaip (imaille pe na bpuaip Do DO Conmaicnib) Do cache co hdc Slipean DU

uf
Mailruanaidh,
the tribe
or Clann-Mulrony,

" Finola Ny-Melaghlyn, archabbesse of Meath,

died.

which was
of

name

of the

Mac Dermots

Moy-

" Cahall

O'Madden, Prince of Silanmchie, died, " There was such scarsitie of victualls and

county of Koscommon. Sil-Mailruain was the tribe name of the O'Flynns of

lurg, in the

corn in the Spring time and

Summer
was

of this
sold for

year, that a Hoope or Cronnocke four shillings, and there was also a

Ballinlough, in the same county. In Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise,

this

great morren

of

Cowes the

said Spring."

Donnell Midheach Mac Dermot is called " Chief of the O'Mulronies, the eldest and wor-

8 Sil- Mailruain

This

is

a mistake for Clann-

thyest

man

of his

own name," which

is

more

1288.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

all

445

Connaught. lie then brought the Connacians with him, and took He deposed Donnell, the the hostages of the Kinel-Connell and Kinel-Owen. son of Brian O'Neill, and gave the lordship to Niall Culanagh.
tages of

Philip

Mac

Costello died.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1287.

thousand two hundred eighty-seven.

Florence O'Gibellan, Archdeacon of Elphin, a distinguished philosopher,

died.

Gilla-na-nog O'Monahan,
(

Lord of the Three Tuathas

[in the

county of Ros-

common], died.

Dermot Midheach
Maurice
of his tribe, died.

[i.

e.

Mac Dermot, Lord

the Meathian], son of Dermot, who was son of of Sil-Mailruain B the best, oldest, and noblest man
,

Melaghlin, son of Tomaltagh Mageraghty, was slain by Turlough, the son Owen O'Conor, to avenge the desertion of his [Turlough's] father by the aforementioned Tomaltagh.

of

Cusack, Benmumhan, daughter of O'Kane, and Donnell O'Hanly, Chief of Kenel-Dofa [in the county of Roscommon], died.

Adam

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

1288.
eighty-eight.

The Age of Christ, one thousand two hundred

Stephen, Archbishop of Tuarn", died. Michael Mac-an-t-Sair', Bishop of Clogher, died.

Manus, the son of Conor Roe O'Conor, with as many as he was able k muster of the Connacians and of the Hy-Briuin and Conmaicne proceeded
,

to

to

correct than the text of the

h

Four Masters.
His name was

Stephen, Archbishop of Tuam

of Ware's Bishops, p. 182, where it is stated that he succeeded in 1268, and died in 1285.

ceeded in 1286.

Stephen de Fulburn, or of Fulburn. He sueSee Harris's edition of Ware's

Kishops, p. 607. Michael Mac-an-t-Sair.
'

The family name lilac an cpaoip, meaning son of the carpenter, is now sometimes anglicised Mac Intire, and sometimes translated Carpenter.
k

See Harris's edition

The Hy-Briuin and Conmaicne.

These were

446
ipaibe

aNNCtta Rio^hachca emeaNN.

[1289.

a Deapbacaip(T?i Connacc) cona pocpaiDe. T^achup Do cup fcoppa Ifch a ap Ifc. Cnchal DO gabail Imp mp maibm pop mumcip, pige Connacc DO a Dfpbbpachaip DO aicpiogaD. "Ceac Do gabail ap eiccin Do rhagnup ann pin i
-\

gabail ap an ITlagnup peinpaicce Do coippbealbac mac 6ogam ui concobaip Do loc ann, -[ Niall gealbuiDe 6 concobaip DO loc ipin l?opp mop, -| TTlagnup
TCaghnall mag Ragnaill caoipeac TTlhuincipc heolaip DO mapbaD an ran pin Dofn upcup poigDe. SloigeaD la TTlajnup 6 cconcobaip ap a haicle
beop.

a mbpaighoe. SloigeaD lap an lapla puaD, TJipoepo mac uacep lapla ulab mic RiocaipD mic uilliam conquepep Dionnpaijib connacc 50 piachc 50 popp cornlap

na leijiup

Siol TTluipfDaij

gup jab a neapr,

mbaoi majnup mac Concobaip puaiD Ri Connacc, TTIac gfpailc 1 muinrfp an pij gup cionoilpfo uile apa chfnn, gpfnnaigiD aD napla pa reachc peacha pin. 5 ona ^ f corhaiple Do ponaD lap an lapla an cfp Dpaccmain

map

"]

bail, i

a pluacch Do pcaoileaD lapam.

QO18 CR1OSO,
Qoip CpiopD,
TTlilep

1289.
naof.

mile,
.1.

Da ceD, ochDmogaD, a
an ^ailleappucc
i

eppocc Conmaicne, aipcmneac oilepinn Do ecc.

Siomon ua pinnacca

the inhabitants of the present counties of Cavan and Leitrim.

1

Shannon

at the celebrated weir

ordain called
is

Caradh-na-dtuath, where there

now

good

Atk-'Slisean, or Beal-atha-Slisean,

now

Bel-

on the road between Elphin and Strokestown, in the county of Eoscommon, and within one mile of Elphin. It is on the
laslishen Bridge,
silent, sluggish stream, which flows with such lenity that one could scarcely discern which way it glides. This river rises in

See bridge in place of the old Irish caradh references to this place at the years 1309, 1342,

and 1595. m Bossmore

Eiver Uair, a

In Mageoghegan's translation of Annals of Clonmacnoise it is stated that this the

Lough Mey,
meanders
its

in

the parish
in a

of Shankill, and

house belonged to Flann O'Donollan, archpoet of Connaught. Thus: "A. D. 1288. Terlagh mac Owen mac Eowrie tooke a house upon

way

most extraordinary man-

Maims mac Connor

his head,

Eoe, burnt the house over

ner, passing under the bridges of Bellaslishen, Bellavahane, and Bellagrange, enters Cloonahee

the said

and afterwards Manus escaped against Terlagh. The house belonged to Flann

Lough near the seat of O'Mulconry, and then expands into a large lake now called Muickenagh,

O'Donollan, archpoet (for Irish poetry) of Conof Eossmore, noght.'' It is the present townland
in the parish of Ballynakill,

dividing Tir-Briun-na-Sinna from Kinelfinally glides into the embrace of the

barony of Leitrim,

Dofa, and

and county of Galway

See Ordnance

map

of

1289-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

1

447

King of Connaught, was stationed with his troops. A battle was fought between them, in which Cathal was taken prisoner, and his people were defeated. Manus then took forcible
,

Ath-Slisean

where

his brother [Cathal], the

house possession of the sovereignty of Connaught, and deposed his brother. was [forcibly] taken from the same Manus by Turlough, the son of Owen
O'Conor, at Rossmore"
1
,

where Manus and Niall Gealbhuidhe O'Conor were

was
slain

wounded.

Ranall

Mac

Ranall, Chief of Muintir-Eolais,

on

this occa-

sion by one shot of an arrow". An army was led by Manus O'Conor, after his wounds were healed, against the Sil-Murray; and he obtained sway over them,

and took their hostages. An army was led by the Red Earl

Richard, son of Walter Earl of Ulster,

, ;

son of Richard, son of William the Conqueror p against Connaught and he arrived at Roscommon, where Manus, the son of Conor Roe, King of Connaught, Fitzgerald, and the people of the king, then were, all of whom assembled together, and openly defied the Earl to pass beyond that place; so that the

Earl adopted the resolution of quitting that country, and he then dispersed his
forces.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1289.
eighty-nine.

thousand two hundred

is,

Miles, Bishop of Conmaicne", that

the English bishop, and

Simon O'Fin-

naghty, Erenagh of Elphin, died.

that county, sheet 132.

of an arrow, boen upcup poi joe. In the old translation of the Annals of Ulster, this is rendered " one shot of an arrow."

One

shot

This was William the Conqueror de Burgo, who was called the Con Adelm queror, because he was said to have conquered
p

William

Fitz

by

the province of Connaught.

q Miles, Bishop of Conmaicne, i. e. of Conmaicne Moy-Rein and Annaly. The Conmaiqne were the OTarrells and Mac Rannalls, whose

The Red Earl.

He was

the second Earl of

Ulster, and from his great possessions was esteemed the most powerful subject in Ireland,

He

his grandson, William,

died in the year 1326, and was succeeded by the third and last Earl

of Ulster of this family, who was murdered in the year 1333. See Lodge's Peerage, and also
the pedigree of

comprised in the diocese of ArThis bishop is called Milo de Dunstable dagh. by Ware, who states that he took that name
territories are

De Burgo,

as given

by Duald

from a town in Bedfordshire, where he seems See Harris's edition of to have been born. Ware's Bishops,
p.

Mac

Firbis,

and

in the Historia

Families

De

251.

Jiwrgo already referred to.

[1289.

ITlaca 6 Sccingfn aipD Shfncaib Gpfnn Do ecc. Uabcc 6 plannajdin caoipeac cloinne carail DO ecc.

Sloiccnfb la Riocapo DIUID, la jallaib na mibe

-\

la

magnup ua
i

ccon-

Connacc Do paighib uf maoilpeacloinn. O maoilpeaclainn Do rionol ma najhaib co paimcc cpoip Shliab cona mumncip ccompocpaib l?o mapbab piocapD DiuiD ann Doibpiorh. pfpcap lomaipeacc fcoppa. an bapun mop cona bpaicpib Siecup 6 ceallaij. piacpa 6 ploinn caoipeac pi I maoilpuam, pfp ba pfpp eneac fnjnarh Do a mapbab coipeachaib Connacc Do Dul Do Dfnarii clfrhnupa le jallaib
cobaip
T?i
.1.
]

-]

-|

meabail la mac piocaiD

Sloiccheao mop la
uf Concotiaip.

pir.n

bupc, la
-|

mac

uilliam

~\

la

mac peopaip

la gallaib illaijnib

mac peopaipp. Docum an calbaig

peachaD cac fcoppa. TTlaicceap pop ^allaie. ITlaoilip De^ecpa Do mapbab Don Dul pin i Sochaibe oile DO ^allaib imaille le hiomac eac eoala Do buain Diob.
T?o
r

Matthew O'Sgingin.

The family of O'Sging-

from tradition and ancient documents

that

it

appears

were originally seated at Ardcarne, in the barony of Boyle, and county of Roscommon.
in

A branch
connell,

of them afterwards passed into Tir-

O'Flanagan's country, the parishes of Kilmacumshy, Kilcomprised corkey, and Shankill, and the greater part of
the parishes of Creeve and Elphin. ing places were
in
it
:

Clann-Chathail,

where they became chroniclers to the O'Donnells. This branch became extinct about
the year
1382,

The

follow-

1st,

Scor-mor, in the

and were succeeded by the

O'Clerys
s

See Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs

to the tradition

parish of Kilmacumshy, and in the very centre of the district, now called the Lathach riabhach,

of Hy-Fiachrack, pp. 76, 77, 78.

Clann-Chathail.

According

name for O'Flanagan's country; 2nd, Loch-na-ngasan, which cannot be

the present traditional
identified

in the county of Roscommon, this territory, of which O' Flanagan was the chief, extended from

country

; 3rd, Kilnegoone, in O'Flanagan's " did belong unto the Dominican abbey

Belanagare to Elphin
resided at Mointeach,

now

and the O'Flanagan refined to Mantua.

of Elphin," Inquis. 27, Eliz. ; 4th, Caldragh, in the parish of Shankhill, Inquisition tempore
lac.
I,

This tradition agrees with the position of O'Fla" Ortelius nagan on Improved," and is corroborated by a passage in these Annals under the

finds

year 1601, in which Elphin is mentioned as on the confines of Moylurg, Tir-Briuin, Clann Cathail,

dragh is and Cloneboyoge ;" 5th, Ballroddy, said by tradition to have been one of the seats of O'Flanagan.
the maer or steward of the King of Connaught. In the fourteenth century O'Conor Roe crippled

" that Cormac O'Flenegan of Calseised of fee of the Cartrons of Caldragh

and Moy-Nai.
this territory

The Abbe Mageoghegan

extend
all

makes

the

way from

Elphin to Lough Arrow, which is a silly blunder, for Moylurg, Mac Dermot's country, lay

the power and circumscribed the territory of O'Flanagan, so that his territory was found to

be very insignificant in the reign of Queen

Elizabeth.

between them.

From

various evidences derived

1289.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

r
,

449

Matthew 0'Sgingin

chief historian of Ireland, died.

8
,

Teige O'Flanagan, Chief of Clann-Chathail died. An army was led by Richard Tuite, the English of Meath, and Mauus O'Conor, King of Connaught, against O'Melaghlin, who assembled his people
battle was oppose them, and marched to Crois-Shliabh', in their vicinity. fought between them, in which Richard Tuite, i. e. the Great Baron, with his to

kinsmen, and Siecus [Jacques] O'Kelly were slain. Fiachra O'Flynn, Chief of Sil-Maelruain, the most hospitable and expert at arms of all the chiefs of Connaught, went to form an alliance with the English

by marriage, but was treacherously slain by the son of Richard Finn Burke, Mac William, and Mac Feorais [Bermingham].

[the Fair]

by Mac Feorais [Bermingham] and the English, into Leinster, against Calvagh O'Conor"; and a battle was fought between them, in which the English were defeated, and Meyler de Exeter and many others of the

An

army was

led

English were slain

Under
this year the

they were also deprived of

many

horses and other spoils".

Annals of Clonmacnoise, by Mageoghegan, contain the two following passages, which have been omitted by the Four Masters
as translated
:

Chief of Ofialy in Leinster.

is

The name Calvagh now anglicised Charles. w The entries placed under this year in the AnFour Masters are given -under the

nals of the

"A. D.
call

1288. There were fifteen ecclesiasti-

this year

men, both Abbotts and Priours, drownded coming from Rome, upon the coasts of

year 1285, in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, which is decidedly incorrect ; but the

two dates

are given in the old translation, in

as follows
:

Ireland.

which they are rendered

" Donnell Breagagh O'Melaghlyn was killed, with the privitie of Carbrey O'Melaghlyn, by

Melaghlyn O'Melaughlyn." ' This name, which Crois-Shliabh.

cross-mountain,
is

Teig O'Flanegan, Chief of Clancathal, died. " Mathew O'Skingin, Arch-chronicler of all
Ireland, died.

"A.

D. 1285,

d. 1289.

signifies

now

obsolete in Westmeath,

"

Miles, Bishop of Conmaicne,

i.

e.

the English

and

it is

useless to conjecture
until

what mountain

it

Bishop, died.

was the name of

its

some

distinct evidence of

"

Symon O'Fynaghta, Airchinech

of Olfin,

situation be discovered.

The Annals of

quievit.

which would probably give us the exact situation and modern name of this
Clonmacnoise,
place, are defective at this period,

"

An army

by Richard Tuit, and Galls of

the

manutrans-

script having lost ten years,

i.

e.

from 1289 to

Meath, and Manus O'Conner, King of Conaght, with him, to O'Melaghlin, who gave them a great overthrow, and Richard Tuit, the great
Baron, was killed there, and his brothers, and Jaques [Secup] Kelly, the Bishop's son. " Fieghra O'Flin, chief of the Mulronies"

1299, before Connell

lated
u
it

Mageoghegan had

in 1627.

Calvagh O'Conor

He was O'Conor

Faly,

450

QNNaca Rioshachua eiReaNN.

CIOIS

[1291.

CR1OSO,
mile,

1290.

Qoip Cpiopo,

Da cerr, nochace.

Seoacdin eppucc cille mic Duaich Do ecc. an macaom bo moijijiiiorhaije Caipppi 6 maoileacloinn T?i miDe ina aimpip DO riiapbaD la maj cochlam.
SloiccfD la
ni all

in Gpinri

Domnall mac bpiain

-\

culdnac 6 nell ap eccin epDe

ccenel neojain $up chuip cicchfpnup cenel neojain Do jaoail Do

uf nell
i

pen a lop a lam.

Domnaill oicc uf Dorhnaill DairpiojaD Da Dfpbpacaip pen Coinji6ealBac ua Domnaill cpe cumaccaib cimb a marop, .1. cloinm Domnaill

Qoo mac

-\

jhallocclac lomba ele

-\

cicchfpnup Do jabdil Do pen ap eccin.

QO1S CR1OSO,

1291.

Qoip CpiopD, mile, Da ceD, nochacc, a haon.

6opu maccpar abb mainipDpeac na cpinoiDe pop loc ce DO ecc. ba mo eneac, fnjnam UoippDealbac mac Gojain ui Concobaip aoinpfp
1

copccap pe a linn

in

6 Gpinn Do mapbaD la mall njealbui&e cconcobaip.

Irishrie of

" the only man" [recte the most distinguished man] "in liberality and feats,
[Sil mailpuanai^],

Meath, was slain by David Mac

and Comrick that was in Connaght" [in caen ouine po bpepp emec 7 enjnotn 7 comaipce

Coghlan, prince of Delvin Mac Coghlan. David himself was the first that strocke him ; his brother Gille-Koewgin mac Coghlan, with sixteen others of the Familie of the Mac Coghlans, did,
in like manner, strike him, the said

marry one of the Galls, that he [was] killed by Makrickard Fin Bourk, Mac William, and Makoruis, by murther.
i

oo bi

connaccmb], "went

to

a Gossipp of the said Carbrey before

David being which ; for

"

great

army by Makoruis

to

Cellagh

they were Setra, and

lost
x

O'Conner, and the nobility of Leinster, but much discomfited, and Meiler de

cause the Earle of Ulster spoyled and destroyed the said Mac Coghlan and his Contrey, tho' O'Melaghlyn was in the wrong at first. " son of the said Carbrey, succeeded

many

other Galls, and

many

horses,

Morrogh O'Melaghlyn, him in his

this

place.''

by him."

On
This entry
is

David Mac Coghlan Mageoghegan has

:

Mac

Coghlan

given in the

Annals of Clonmacnoise, as translated by Ma" A. D. 1289. geoghegan, under the year 1289
:

the following note " This Mac

David

Coghlan
himself,

(as I take

him

to

be) was the ancestor of Sleight Donnell,

who

Carbrey mac Art O'Melaghlyn,

King of the

was son of Donnell

and father of Ffy-

1291.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

451

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1290.
ninety.

thousand two hundred

O'Sedaghan, Bishop of Kilmacduagh, died. Carbry O'Melaghlin, King of Meath, the most noble-deeded youth in
land in his time, was slain by

Ire-

Mac

Coghlan*.

was led by Donnell, the son of Brian O'Neill, into Kinel-Owen, whence he expelled Niall Culanagh O'Neill, and he himself then assumed the lordship of Kinel-Owen by force of arms.

An army

Hugh, son of Donnell Oge O'Donnell, was deposed by

his

own

brother,

Turlough O'Donnell, aided by his mother's tribe, i. e. the Clann-Donnell [Mac Donnells of Scotland], and many other gallowglasses and he himself assumed
;

the lordship by force y

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1291.

thousand two hundred ninety-one.

Edru Magrath, Abbot of

Key,
arms,
died.

the monastery of the Blessed Trinity in

Lough

Turlough, the son of

Owen O'Conor, and most victorious man of his time

the most hospitable, most expert at

in Ireland,

was

slain

by Niall Geal-

bhuidhe O'Conor.
nine and Donnough, of

whom

the two septs of

Bishops, pp. 608, 609-

Slight Ffynine and Slight

Donnough descended.

" The Bishop O'Shedagan, Bishop of Kilmac-

His brother, Gillecowgin, is the ancestor of the His other brother, Rosse, sept of Leackagh.

Duagh,

died.

" Carbre O'Melaghlin, King of Meath, the

Roiallest actor that
killed.

was the ancestor of the sept of Clondownie, and

his

was in Ireland in his tyme,

nephew, Mac Rosse, of the sept of Boynean." 1 The transactions of this year are incorrectly

"

An army by

Donnell mac Brian O'Neale

given under the year 1286, in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster. The old translation
gives both dates as follows
:

to kindred

the contry by force, and strength of armes.

Owen, and put Nel O'Nele out of made himself king by

1286, Brimingham made Archbishop." He was Archbishop of Tuam, to which dignity he succeeded in 1289,

"A. D.

(d.

1290. William

"Hugh
Tirlagh,
viz.,

O'Donel deposed by his brother,

force of his mother's kindred,

by the

Clan Donell,

and many other Gallow-

and died 1311.

See Harris's edition of Ware's

glasses."

M2

452

dNNdca Rio^tiachca
(.1.

eiraectNN.

[1291.

Concobop 6 Duboa barab ap an pionamn.

concobap conallach) cicchfpna ua ppiacpac Do

Conjalac vnacc eochaccain caoipec cenel ppiacac DO ecc. Sloicchfb la T?iocapo t>upc mpla ulab Da ngoipn an ciapla l?uab

ccfp neojam Dap aichpfj pe Dorhnall mac bpiain uf nell, ~\ mall culdnac 6 nell Doiponeab Do lap ppaccbdil na cfpe mppm Don lapla rHapbcop mall culanac la Dorhnall ua nell. J^ibeab mp poinmeac DO borhnall an gmom pin,

uaip Do hoipDneab bpian

le

mac ao&a buiDe

Goin,
i ~]

mac maipcin

"|

le

mac

a huchc an mpla ceDna po Diocuipeab epiom a rip eojain.

ui

nell

Sluaiccfb lap an lapla

o'5i

cnp
-\

conaill Do

ruair. 5 U P cnpcc an cip eDip cill nachoaib ruccpar Connachoaij mbpaijoe

i -]

chum roippbealb'aij mic Dorhnaill Raimcc mppin 50 hoil pinn ccorii

Do.
~\

Comroccbail Do bfnam DO cacal 6 Concobaip, Do mall jjelbuibe Do luce a ccommbaba eDip jallaib lomaigaoibealaib Daifpiojab majnupa.
~\

ccuil maile. Carol Do loc, mupcab mac peacc Do cabaipr Doib Dia poile Sochaibi nac aipirhcfp. ITlaibm pop majnup Dana caibj DO rhapbab e pen Do Dul [ap] po laim lap mben mopain Dia eachaib be. Cpeaca mopa DO bfnam ccaipppi DO mumncip cacail uf concobaip nell jealbuibe lap
i

~\

-\

-\

nguin cacail.

Oala majnupa uiChoncobaip rpa

-\

lap ccochcDoShiol muipeab-

aij Dia aop

Do jallaib l?opa commdm ma poipirin apabapac jpaba buben mppan maibm DO cuaib inaipcip na ccpeac 50 ccapla na ccfnn e ap ppaich an pepain mall DO ap an aonac. Na cpeaca DO buain Dfob ann pin Dul app a mope a jaipccib 1 a epiomail. Uomap mac goipoealbaij Do mapbab, a bpacaip Dauir mac joipoealbaij Do jjabail a mapbab ma bpai~\ -\
-\ ~\

IDopan oile Don rpluacch beop eDip gallaib jaoibealaib Do mapbab DO mubujab. Uochc Do mall ip in cip lappin ap pic -j a pfpann pen Do cabaipc Do. Do ponab fDapcopaoiD mop lonnlach aDbal fcoppa DO
Dfnup.
-]

-j

pibipi

50 po pobaip mall an cip Dpaccbdil.

bpian 6 ploinn cicchfpna ua ccuipcpe Do ecc.

'Cuil-Maile
In O'Flaherty's account of West

Connaught, printed for the Irish Archaeological

in the

Society in 1845, it is stated that this is Killoony, county of Sligo, by which he meant the

not far to the south of Bally sadare; and appears from several passages in these Annals that he is right. See note at the year 1598. a Between them, fcopjin, i. e. between the
erril,
it

present village of Coloony, in the barony of Tir-

parties of Cathal and

Manns O'Conor.

1291.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

(i.

453

Conor O'Dowda

e.

Conor Conallagh), Lord of Hy-Fiachrach, was

drowned

in the Shannon.

Congalagh Mageoghegan, Chief of Kinel-Fiachach, died. An army was led by Richard Burke, Earl of Ulster, usually called the Red
Kinel-Owen, where he deposed Donnell, son of Brian O'Neill, and installed Niall Culanagh O'Neill in his place but after the Earl had left the
Earl, into
;

country, Niall

Culanagh was

slain.

This deed, however, was not a fortunate

one for Donnell; for Brian, son of

influence of the said Earl,
nell]

Hugh Boy O'Neill, was inaugurated, by the Mac Martin and Mac Eoin, and the other [Donby
into Tirconnell against Turlough, son of

was banished from Tyrone. An army was led by the Earl

He

Donnell Oge, and plundered the country, as well ecclesiastical as lay property. then proceeded to Elphin in Connaught, and the Connacians rendered him

their hostages.

An

insurrection

[was raised]

by Cathal O' Conor,

Niall

Gealbhuidhe

O'Conor, and their English and Irish adherents, to dethrone Manus [O'Conor]. z They gave battle to each other at Cuil-Maile where Cathal was wounded, and
,

Murrough, son of Teige [O'Conor], and

killed.

many

others not enumerated here, were

his escape, after

Manus was

defeated,

and secretly effected

having been

deprived of many of his horses. After Cathal had been wounded, his people, and those of Niall Gealbhuidhe, committed great depredations in Carbury. As to Manus O'Conor, being aided by the Sil-Murray, his own servants of trust,

and the English of Roscommon, who came to his assistance on the day after his defeat, he went in pursuit of the preys, and came up with them at Srath-anf herain, and at Aenach, where he deprived them of the prey but Niall made
;

his escape
his

and [afterwards] killed while in captivity. Many others of the army, both English and Irish, were slain or disabled. Niall afterwards returned to the country on terms of peace, and his
Costello, taken prisoner,

by brother, David Mac

dint of valour and prowess.

Thomas Mac

Costello was

slain,

and

own lands were

restored to

him but great complaints and dissensions occurring

;

between them", Niall thought

fit

to leave the country.

b

Brian O'Flynn [O'Lyn], Lord of Hy-Tuirtre died.

This was the ancient name of Hy-Tuirtre a territory in the present county of Antrim, lyb

ing to the east of Lough Neagh. See note ivnder the year 1 176, p. 25, where the parish of Kil-

454

emeaNN.
Cpeach mop DO oenarh Do majjnup 6 concobaip ap mall QoDh 6 pollamhain DO mapbaDh no DO ecc.
jealbuibe.

[1292.

QO1S CR1OSO,
Qoip CpiopD,
mile,

1292.

Da

ceD, nochacc, aDo.

GinDilOpp 6 Dochapcaij caoipeac apDa niooaip, peap enij coiccinn

~\

oonn-

ca6 mac 6ojain ui Choncobaip Do ecc. Somaiple ua jaipmleaohaij DO rhapbaD la hua nell. Niall jealbui&e 6 Concobaip DO mapbaD Do ca&j mac amopiapa ui Concobaip i DO cuacal mac muipcfpcaij. mac peoTTlaj cochlain cicchfpna Dealbna moipe Do rhapbaD Do Shipm
paip cpe pupailfm an lapia. Conjalach 6 ceallaijh occfpna bpfgh [DO ecc].
lead

inadvertently said to be a part of this territory. It should be the church of Kill-gad, which stood on the townland now corruptly called Gilis
b

Tirlagh" [O'Donnell],
spirituall

" and preyed the contry

to Olfin,

and temporall, and came into Conaght and Conaght made him the feast of St.

gad, and situated in the parish of Connor.

The events recorded under this year by the Four Masters are given in the Dublin copy of
the Annals of Ulster under 1287, but both dates

Briget" [cucaoup connacca pelbpaijoe DO, the Connacians gave him treacherous hosi. e.
tages].

appear in the

old

translation,

the words of

O'Duvda, King drowned upon the Shannon.

"

" Conor

of

Offieghragh,

which are here

inserted, that the reader

:

may be

rising-out gathered

by Cathal O'Coner

enabled to compare the translations

"Anno 1287, al. 1291. Tirlagh mac Owen " most beautifull and O'Conner, the" [largest] best of liberality and otherwise in Ireland of
his tyme, killed

and Nel Gelvoy, and all that they could procure of Galls and Irish, to depose Magnus, and

by Nell Galvoi O'Conner.

Richard Bourk, Earle of and deposed Donnell mac

were interrupted at Cara Culin" [alias Cul " where Cathal was wounded, and MoMaile], rough mac Teige O'Conor killed, and other
men, and many horses taken from Marius his men and" [Manus himself] " was put to flight, and escaped under hand ; and great preys were

"

An army by

Ulster, into Tyrone,

Brian O'Neale, and made Nell Culanagh king ; and when the Earle left the country, Nell Culanagh

was

killed

by

Donel

O'Neale,

and

Brian, son of

Hugh Boy

O'Neale, was

made

king

after

by consent of the Earle aforesaid, by

and Donell
left the contrey. the Earle into Tirconell, upon

made by Cathal O'Conor and Nell Gelvoy" " Cathal being wounded at Carbry; and [after] Manus O'Coner, when Syl-Mureah, i. e. (SeptMureah) came to him and his own loving
with the Galls jpaoa pein], of Roscomon to assist him on the morrow after the breach, came to meete the prayes, and
frends" [a aepa

Mac Martin and Mac Eoin mac Hugh Boy

O'Neale " An
;

"

army by

1292.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

455

A great depredation
bhuidhe.

was committed by Manus O'Conor upon Niall Gealkilled (or died").

Hugh OTallon was

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

1292.
ninety-two.

The Age of Christ, one thousand two hundred

Aindiles O'Doherty, Chief of Ardmire, a Donough, son of Owen O'Conor, died.

man

of universal hospitality, and

Sorley O'Gormly was slain

Niall Gealbhuidhe

by O'Neill. O'Conor was slain by Teige, son of Andreas O'Conor,

slain,

and Tuathal

son of Murtough. Mac Coghlan, Lord of Delvin More", was Sinn Mac Feorais [Birmingham].
,

by order of the

Earl,

by

Congalagh O'Kelly', Lord of Bregia,

overlooks them at Srath in Ferain and Inagh, tooke all the prayes from them, and Nell himself escaped

died.

lapla."
tion
:

And "Anno

thus rendered in the old transla1288,

al.

1292.

Mac Coghlan,
Brimingham,

hardly"

[L

e.

with

difficulty]

King of Delvin,
e

killed

by

Seffin

"Thomas O'Gosteloy" [was] "killed there, and

his brother

at the Earle's request."

David taken and killed

in the

same

CortgcdaghO'KeUy.

Though he is here styled

captivity, and many more of that army, both English and Irish. And Neale made peace,

Lord of Bregia, it is highly probable that he retained but a small portion of his principality, as
the English were at this period firmly established in Dublin and Meath. This once great family, who descended from Hugh Slaine, son of

came

into the country, and had his own land given him. " Hugh O'Fallon quievit in Ckristo. " Congalach Mageoghegan, chief of Kindred

Dermot Mac

Kervell,

monarch of

Ireland, have

Fiegh, mortuus
c

est."
is

Tuathal.

This name, which

rally anglicised Toole, is rendered

now geneTully in the

Thus
:

been since so dispersed that they cannot now be distinguished from the O'Kellys of other
races

and

districts.

Connell Mageoghegan,

who

old translation of the Annals of Ulster.

translated the Annals of Clonmacnoise in the

"

Anno

killed

1288, al. 1292. Nell Galvoy O'Coner by Teig mac Anrias O'Coner, and by

year 1627, has the following curious remarks

upon

Tully mac Murtagh." Delvin More. This

''

is

a mistake,

it

should

this family and their territory of Bregia or " To the end that Moybrea, under the year 778 the reader may not be ignorant of Moybrea and
:

be Delvin-Eathra, or Delvin simply. The entry is thus given in the Annals of Ulster
:

the inhabitants thereof, I will, in a few words,

" A. D. 1288. ITIaj coclan pi oelbna

bub oa

ppn

DO mapmac peopaip cpe popjoll an

allotted.

shew the bounds thereof, and to whom it was Dermott mac Kervell, King of Ireland, of whom mention was made in this History, had

456

ctNNae.a

[1293.

Sloiccheao lap an lapla I?ua6 pop maghnup ua cconcobcop 50 painicc 50

Ropp

comdin,

TTlajpiiip

po imcigh gan bpaijOe gan neapc Don rupup an napla 50 TTHliuc 50 crapD a oijfpip nDo.
-]

pin,

50 po

Ifn

QO1S C1710SC,
Qoip Cpiopr,
mile,

1293.
rpi.

Da ceo, nochac, a

plopinc o cfpballdin eppocc Doipe oecc.

Uaipi parpaig, Coluim
issue

cille,

-\

bpijDe Do poillpiuccab DO Niocol mac

get.

Hugh

Slane,

Begg.

To the

race of

Colman More, and Colman Hugh was allotted this

This passage is given in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster under the year 1289,

Moyvrey, extending from Dublinn to Bealaghbrick, westerlie of Kells, and from the hill of

Houthe

to the

mount

of Sliew

Fwayde [Sliub

but in the old translation both dates are given, The bones of Pathus: ''Anno 1289 al. 1293. and Bridget, [were] revealed trick, Columbkill,
to Nichol

puuib] in Ulster.
his race as

There reigned of King Hugh monarchs of this kingdom nine kings,

I

Mac

Moilisa, coarb of Patrick, to be

in Patrick's Saval,

and [he] digged them up,

as shall

be shewed when

come

to the place

and

after they

where remembrance ought to be made of them. " There were many other princes of Moyvrey
besides the said kings, and behaved themselves
as

sayd to

were digged many miracles were be made [sic] and he did save them up

in a saving

Irish runs as follows in the

Shryne honourably." The original Dublin copy of the

:

becomed them, and because they were neerer

of the land than

Annals of Ulster
" A. D. 1289
cille

the invasions

other

Septs,

they were sooner banished and brought low than The O'Kelly of Brey was the chief others.

Cair-p pabpaic j Colum DO poillf mjao DO nicol mac i 6pi5De rnailippu, DO comapba paopaic, DO beir

name of that

though names of by-septs, which,

race,

it

hath

many

other

for brevity's sake, I

omit to particulate. They are brought so low nowa-days that the best Chronicles in the kingdom
are ignorant of their Discents, though the O' Kelly's are so common every where that it is unknown

7 lap no cojj bail pepca mopn 7 mipbuileaoa DO Denum, 7 a cup Dopun a pcpm cutnoaij co honopac."

Saoull parpaic,

a cojbail DO,

It

is

very strange that no reference has been

to this passage in

made

any of the discussions

about the

jreal place of St. Patrick's sepulture.

whether the dispersed parties in Ireland of them

be of the Family of O'Kellys of Connaught or Brey, that scarcely one of the same Family knoweth not [sic] the name of his own great grandfather, and are turned to be meer churles, and

According to Giraldus Cambrensis, in his Topographia Hibernian, Dist. iii. c. 18, the relics of these saints were found in the year in which the

Earl John (John Earl

of Morton, afterwards

King John)

first

came

to Ireland,

which was

1 1

85.

poore labouring men, parishes in the kingdom but hath some one or
other of those Kellys ;
f

so as scarse there

is

a few

In the Office of the Translation of the Relics of SS.

Patrick, Columba, and Brigida, printed at Paris
in 1620,

mean

of Brey."

The

relict

of Patrick, Columbkitte, and Brid-

and reprinted by Colgan, Messingham, and Ussher, a minute account of their discovery

1293.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

457

at

army was led b/y the Red Earl against Manus O'Conor; and he arrived Roscommon, but departed without obtaining hostages or acquiring any power
to Meelick,

An

by this expedition. Manus, however, followed the Earl him his full demands.

and gave

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1293.
ninety-three.

thousand two hundred

It

Florence O'Carolan, Bishop of Derry, died. was revealed to Nicholas Mac Maelisa (Coarb of StPatrick) that the relics f
85
is

in

1 1

by Dr. Lanigan
of
it
is

given, and which has been abstracted in his Ecclesiastical History of

Down

about nine years before, and

who had

been acquainted with Sir John de Courcy and

Ireland, vol. iv. p. 274, et sequen.

as follows
:

The substance

It being generally believed

On his arrival the relics the Bishop Malachy. were removed to a more respectable part of the
church, and deposited in the one monument, on the 9th of. June, the festival of St. Columba.
It is a very strange fact that the body of St. Patrick, the apostle of Ireland, was said to have

that the bodies of the three great patron saints of Ireland were in Down, Malachy its bishop

used to pray fervently to God that he would

vouchsafe to point out to him the particular
place in

which they were buried.

On

a certain

night, while fervently praying' in the cathedral

been pointed out by an angel at Glastonbury the year before. See Ussher's Primordia, p. 892.

church of Down, he saw a light like a sunbeam on seeing this he prayed traversing the church
:

But the most extraordinary circumstance connected with the history of the relics of the Trias

more intensely that it might move to and stop at the spot where the bodies were interred. [De
visione

Thaumaturge
is,

is,

that the Irish annalists, that

predicts Episcopus
ille

multum

exultans

such as wrote in the Irish language, do not appear to have ever heard of the discovery of

intensius orabat ne radius

discederet, quous-

them by Malachy
fair to

in 1185,

and hence

it is

but

que reliquias absconditas inveniret].

soon

The

light

moved

to the spot.

Immediately procuring

conclude that Malachy 's dream at Down was got up by the English party in order to add

the necessary implements, Malachy dug that irradiated spot and found the bones of the three
bodies,
coffins,

which he deposited in distinct boxes or and placed again under the ground.

Down, then in the possession of Sir John de Courcy. It is quite evident that the mere Irish never heard, or at least never believed
dignity to

Having communicated his discovery to John de Courcy, then Lord of Down, they determined
on sending messengers to Pope Urban
III. for

Down, in 1185; they had been deposited in a costly shrine at Down in 1185, as stated by Giraldus, it is
for, if

this story of their discovery at

the purpose of procuring the translation of these relics to a more dignified part of the church.

hard to believe that they would have been lost in the course of the next century, so as to make
another revelation necessary for their discovery
1 293, when it would appear they were under the earth at Saul, in a spot unknown to all except Nicholas Mac Maelisa, the Archbishop of Armagh,

The Pope, agreeing with

their request, sent as

in

his legate on this occasion Vivian, cardinal priest of St. Stephen in Monte Caelio, who had been at

458

ctNNata Rio^hachca eirceanR

i

[1293.

maoilipu (comapba parjiaicc) Do bfic mopa miopbaile Do Denarii Doib laparh

-]

Saball, a croccbonl laip,

pfpca

~]

a ccup

Sccpin lap na cumDac 50

honopach ap a haicle.
TTlupcaD o TTlaoileclainn TTlajnap 6 concobaip
"|

T?i

miDe Decc.

T?f

connachr, pfp cojrac conjalac ba

moa

gpdin

pun oinij Do jaoibelaib Gpeann ina aimpp Decc, lap mbfir gaipcceab, ngalap Do, i CtoD mac eojain Do pijao ina lonab cpia neapr an pdiche an oeachmab la mp na oipDneaD, po jabab eip&e la TTlac geapailc, lupcip, i
i

mapbaD .1. Dia muinnp, po cpeacab apoile Diob. Caral 6 concobaip DO mapbaD Do RuaiDpi mac DonnchaiD piabai^. Carol puaD 6 Concobaip Do jabail pighe Connachc mp n^abail Qo&a mic Gojain. Cl mapbaD a ccionn paice mppn la 17uai&pi mac DonnchaiD piabaij uf concobaip. Gob mac Gojain Do lecceab ap a bpaigDfnay laparh, i
1

po

~[

Connacc Do gabail Do cpe nfpc an lupciy mumcipe an pigb. Q jabail Do mac <5fy ai ^c meabail an ofchmaD la mp na piojab. Cpeacha mopa DO Denarii aip, caocca Da muinnp Do rhapbab.
1

piji

-\

~\

pfpjal ua Raijillij ciccfpna mumcipe maoilmopDa Decc. ITlop msfn pCiolimib ui concobaip Decc.
to

whom it was pointed

Down in 1 1 85

out in a vision.

It

seems

tlierefore quite clear that the discovery of

them

here by St. Patrick having received the appellation of paball or barn is, that it was built
after the

at

was, like the prophecy of Merlin,

already alluded to under the year 1 177, a scheme of Sir John De Courcy and his writers, and that
1 293 was a counterscheme of Nicholas Mac Maelisa, who was one of

Dichu,

St. Patrick's first convert;

form and position of the barn of but Dr. La-

their discovery at Saul in

nigan thinks that it was originally nothing else than a real barn belonging to Dichu, in which
St. Patrick celebrated divine worship,

" in the

the greatest opposers of the English that ever governed the see of Armagh. It may, however,

same manner," he adds, " time barns have been used same purpose."
land, vol.
h
i.

as even in

our own

in Ireland for the

have happened that both bishops had dreamed of bones, and that bones were found at both places,
8

Ecclesiastical History

of Ire-

pp. 212, 213.

Sabhatt,

now

Saul, a small village situated

about two miles to the east of Downpatrick, in

the county of Down. The name of this place is written in Irish Saball phtiopuij, usually which the monastic Latin writers rendered Za-

The O* Conor, King of Connaught. of this and the subsequent entries is language nearly the same in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, as in the text of the
ters,

Manus

Four Mas-

and are thus rendered in the old transla-

bulum

vel

Ilorreum Patricii,
p.

i.

e.,

Patrick's barn,

tion: "

Anno

1289,

al.

1293.

Manus O'Conor,

See Ussher's Primodia,

847-

The reason

as-

signed by these writers for the church erected

king of Conaght for the time of five years and a half, the best maker of peace and war, most

1293.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

459

of Patrick, Columbkille, and^ Bridget were at SabhalF; they were taken up by him, and great virtues and miracles were afterwards wrought by [means of] them, and, after having been honourably covered, they were deposited in a shrine.

Murrough O'Melaghlin, King of Meath, died. Manus O' Conor", King of Connaught, a warlike and
ill

valiant man, the

most

victorious, puissant, and- hospitable of the Irish of his time, died,

having been

a quarter of a year; and Hugh, son of Owen, was inaugurated his successor, after his electhrough the influence of the Lord Justice; but on the tenth day
tion he

was taken prisoner by Fitzgerald, and some of his people were

slain

slain,

and others plundered. Cathal O' Conor was

by Rory, son of Donough Reagh. Cathal Roe O'Conor, having made a prisoner of Hugh, son of Owen, assumed the kingdom of Connaught, but was killed a quarter of a year afterwards
1

afterwards by Rory, son of Donough Reagh O'Conor. Hugh, son of Owen, received his liberty, and, aided by the power of the Lord Justice and the peotook possession of the kingdom of Connaught ple of the king [of England] but on the tenth day after his election, he was taken prisoner by Fitzgerald", when great spoils were taken from him, and fifty of his people slain.
;

Farrell O'Reilly, Lord of Muintir-Maelmora, died. More, daughter of Felim O'Conor, died.
ventufrend[ly] and warlike, most liberall and rous in his time of the Irish, sick a whole quarter
of a year, died. " Cathal O'Conor
Justice,

and the King's army, and the tenth

made capday of his raigne was treacherously Mac Geralt, and 50 of his men killed, tive
by
and great prayes made uppon him. " Ferall O'Rely, King of Muinter Mulmora,
died.

[was] killed by Rory mac

Donogh Rievagh.
" Cathal Roe O'Connor taking the kingdome
of Connaght, having taken

Hugh mac Owen,

after one

" "

and the same Cathal [was] killed

quarter by Roary

Murtagh O'Flanaga-

More, daughter to Felim O'Conor, quievit. _,uef of Clann Ca

mac Donogh Rievagh O'Conor,

set at liberty

thai, quievit.

and Hugh mac Owen

and tooke the

"

killed by Tully mac Murtagh [O'Coner]

power of the Deputy. kingdome "The castle of Sligo, made by John Fitz Thomas, and [he] went over to the King of Engof Conaght by the
land's

Munter Egra." Lord Justice.

'

He was William

de Vescy

house [Cair-len Sligij DO oenum DO Seon pizcomap, 7 a oul caipif co cec pij Sqian],
"

celebrated in English-Irish history for his dissensions with John Fitz Thomas Fitz Gerald,
is

who

Baron of
k

Ofialey.

Hugh mac Owen O'Conner tooke the kingdome of Conaght through the power of the
3

Taken prisoner by Fitzgerald

This

is

ano-

ther version of the second last entry.

N2

460
TT)ui]icf|icach o

dNNata Rio^hachca
Uuacal mac
TTluipcf|)cai5 ui

eiraecwN.

[1294.

plarmaccain cijfpna, no caoipeac, cloinne cacail becc.

Concobaip DO majibab la muincip 6jpa. Seon bubDfin Do 6ol Caiplen Sliccigh Do cabaipc DO Seon piczrhomap,
~]

550

Saproibh.

QO1S CR1OSC,

1294.

Goip Cpiopc, mile, 6a ceo, nochac a cfchaip.

Cpeacha mopa DO benom la hae6 mac eojam ap ITluipcfpcach mac majnapa ui concobaip aDbap
Da
cinfo

cloinn niuipcfpcaij.

DO mapbab Do CODJ

(.1.

coiccfoaig DO bpeapp caDg ua concobaip) ~\ DO Dorhnall mac

caiDj.

TTlaoileaclainn 6

plannaccam caoipeac cloinne cacail Do mapbaD la

cacal

mac

raiDcc meic DiapmaDa ap SpdiD pliccigh.

-\

DiapmaDa ci^eapria moije luipcc Decc lap pin, cpipr meic DiapmaDa Do jabhail a lonaiD. Donnchao mac Conpnarha raoipeac muincipe

Cacal mac caiog meic TTlaolpuanaiD mac jiollacionaoir,

-\

Ouapcan mac

cijeapnam cijfpna, no caoipeac ceallaij Dunchaba, mic cacail meic- Diapmaca Decc.

Oeapbpail mjfn camg

Caiplen Sliccij Do Iecca6 la hCto6 mac Go^ain uf concobaip. Riocapo a bupc .1. an ciapla puaD Do gabail Do mac gfpailc. buampeab

Gpeann DO ceachc cpfmicpiDe.

Went to England It summoned to England on
1

is

said that

he was

a report professing to be faithful

;

is

preserved by

this occasion, to an-

swer to certain charges tendered against him by William de Vescy, Lord ot'Kildare. See Grace's

Annals at the year

294.

The feud between

estates, as

be suspected that the Holingslied into their mouths by that rude speeches put chronicler, were pure inventions of his own, or founded on very slender materials. For example,

but

it is

to

these noblemen would appear to have originated

in a dispute about their

Vescy, in

the following replication of De Vescy tleman !' quoth the Lord Justice,

"
:

'

A gen-

'

thou bald

right of his mother Agues, one of the daughters of Sibilla, Countess of Ferrers (to whom, as one
of the sisters of the Earl Marshal, the county

Baron,

I tell

thee, theVescies

fore the Giraldins

were gentlemen bewere Barons of Ophaly yea,

;

and before that Welsh bankrupt thine ancestor

" feathered his nest in Leinster!'

ofKildare was assigned), became entitled to a seventh part ofKildare. Being both admitted
to plead their cause before the

ended

in

The pleadings a combat which was offered by the Baron

and which his antagonist accepted
for the battle,
;

King, in council,

of Offaley,
il

they there showered upon each other speeches lull of vulgar abuse and recrimination, of which

but when the day approached

Vescy,

De

turning his great boast to small roast,

1294.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

'

461

Murtough O'Flanagan, Lord, or Chieftain of Clann-Cathail, died. Tuathal, son of Murtough O'Conor, was slain by the O'Haras. The castle of Sligo was given to John Fitz-Thoraas, and John himself went
to
1

England

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1294.

thousand two hundred ninety-four.

Great depredations were committed by Hugh, son of

Owen

(O'Conor);

upon the Clann-Murtough.

Murtough, the son of Manus O'Conor, the best materies of a provincial king of all his tribe, was slain by Teige (i. e. Teige O'Conor) and Donnell, the
son of Teige.

Melaghlin O'Flanagan, Chief of Clann-Cathail, was slain by Cathal, son of Teige Mac Dermot; in the street of Sligo. Cathal, son of Teige Mac Dermot,

Lord of Moylurg, died [shortly] afterwards chreest Mac Dermot, assumed his place.
,

and Mulrony, the son of

Gil-

m Donogh Mac Consnava Chief of Muintir-Kenny Duarcan Mac-Tiernan, Lord, or Chieftain, of Teallach Dunchadha and Dervilia, daughter of Teige,
;

the son of Cathal

Mac Dermot,

died.

The

castle of Sligo

Richard Burke, i. consequence of which

was razed by Hugh, son of Owen O'Conor. e. the Red Earl, was taken prisoner by Fitzgerald,
all

in

Ireland was thrown into a state of disturbance.

and county of Kildare, to wit, every thing he had or could have in Ireland, and the King directed
his Justiciary,

" began to cry creak" [craven] and secretly sailed into France." It is added that " King Edward

being advertised thereof, bestowed De Vescy's lordships of Kildare and Kathangan on the Baron of Offaley;
saying, that albeit

John Wogan,

to take possession

of them.

Rot. Cane. Antiq. 45, 46.

Kildare re-

De Vescy

mained

in the King's

hands until the 14th of

II.,

conveyed his person to France, yet he left his lands behind him in Ireland." See Cox's Hihernia Anfflicana, p. 84, and Moore's History of 1 reland, voL iii. p. 39. These stories of Holing-

May, 1316, when Edward

by Letters Patent,

declared thathe had granted to JohnFitz- Thomas " castrum et villam de Kildare, cum terris, red-

shed should not, however, be regarded as true history without being supported by contempora-

sub honore et nomine Comitis de Kildare, ipsurnque prsefecisse in comitem ejusdem loci." See Lodge's Peerage,
ditibus, et aliis pertinentiis,

neous writers, for he is by no means a trustworthy authority. In 1297, William De Vescy

surrendered to King Edward the
castle,

manor,

by Archdall KILDARE. m MacConsnava. Now anglicised Mac Kinaw, and often incorrectly Forde.

462
TTloipcpfch

QNNaca Rio^hachca

eiraeaNN.
-|

[1295.

Do mac pfopaip ap meabla to Denarh Do mac jeapailc connaccaib. dob mac Gojain Do pamluccab Dairpioghab Doib. Qn cfp Do DO nfpc uippe ace a combuaibpeab arhlaib. rhillfoh, i sibfb nocap cuippfc

Oauie mac giolla appaic Do mapbab Do rhacaib Oomnall ua hfjpa nccfpna luijne DO ecc.

Dorhnaill Duib

vri

Gajpa.

Qn napla

Do jabdil la mac jeapailc,

ecc.

-j

buai6pea6 Gpeann uite Do cecc

cpep an ngabdil pin. Oiapmaice 6 cafrhdin DO

CIOIS

CR1OSC,

1295.
cuig.

Qoip Cpiopc,

mile,

Da ceo, nochac, a

Qn

Do ciapla puab Do Ificcfn ap a bpaijDfnup

-|

mac

5 ea P a1

^c

c l' e

T1

^P C

bpaijDe maice Da cmfb pfin Do jabail app. Do Dombpian mac Qoba bui&euf neill ciccfpna cinel eojain Do mapbab nall mac bpiain uf neill, ap jaoibealaib ap mop Do cop ap jallaib
T?ij Sajcan,
~\ -|

amaille

pip.
i

coippCoimeipje coccam ccfp conaill eiDip Qo6 mac Dorhnaill oicc, bealbac a bfpbparaip imon cijfpnup gup milleab mopan Don cfp fcoppa enp aaccop a cfp conaill, ecclaip i chuaic. UoippbealbacDaicpiojab mppin,
-|
"|

ccfnn cenel eojain

~\

cloinne Domnaill.

pip

Oomnall ua ceallaij cijfpna ua maine, aon ba glioca comaiple ina aimDecc in aibfo manaij, a abnacal maimpnp cnuic muaibe. TTlac bpandin (.1. co'nn) raoipech cope achlann Decc. Uomalrac mac
i ~\

bpandin an caoipeac Do ponab ma lonaD Do mapbab la muincip conalldin. a nDfojail a nacap Do mapbab laippium peaccpiamh.
ofdisturbance. This general disturpropter capcionem Kicardi de Burgo Comitis Ultonie per Johannem filium Thome,"
state
n

bance,

"

Annals, Richard Earl of Ulster was taken prisoner " cito postfestum S. Nicolaf (Dec. 6) and
detained in the castle of Lea, "adfestum S. Gre(March 12). It is stated in Grace's

is

mentioned in an entry in Rot. Pat. 13 Ed. II. 80. See Grace's Annals of Ireland, edited by the Rev. Richard Butler, for the Irish Archaeological Society in 1842, p. 43, note

gorii Papae'"'

Annals of Ireland that the Earl of Ulster was

at liberty

set

m
.

ment

at

by the King's ParliaKilkenny, and that John Fitz-Thomas,

this occasion

on

CfCaomhain
1208, p. 160.
p

See note

'

under the year

as a penalty, lost the castle of Sligo

and

all his

possessions in the province of Connaught, and

The Red Earl

According to Pembridge's

also the castle of Kildare.

1295.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

463

treacherously committed upon the Connacians by and Mac Feorais [Birmingham]. Hugh, son of Owen, was attempted Fitzgerald to be deposed by them. The country was desolated; yet, though they thus

A great depredation was

disturbed the province, they acquired no power over it. David Mac Giolla-Arraith was slain by the sons of Donnell

Duv O'Hara. Donnell O'Hara, Lord of Leyny, died. The Earl was taken prisoner by Fitzgerald, in consequence of which capwas thrown into a
died.
state of disturbance".

ture Ireland

Dermot O'Caomhain

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1295.
ninety-Jive.

thousand two hundred

The Red Earl" was

King of England
stead.
;

out of prison by Fitzgerald, through the power of the and good hostages of his own tribe were received in his
let

Brian, the son of

Hugh Boy

O'Neill,

Donnell, the son of Brian O'Neill, and a

Lord of Kinel-Owen, was slain by great slaughter made of the English

and

Irish

[who were] along with him.

broke out in Tirconnell between Hugh, son of Donnell Oge, and

Hostilities

Turlough, his brother, concerning the lordship, so that a great part of the
country was destroyed between them, both lay and ecclesiastical property. Turlough was afterwards deposed, and banished from Tirconnell to the Kinel-

Owen and

the Clann-Donnell.

Donnell O'Kelly, Lord of Hy-Mauy, one of the most judicious men in counsel of his time, died in the habit of a monk, and was interred in the monastery of

Knockmoy.

Mac Branan (i. e. Con), Chief of Corcachlann, died; and Tomaltagh Mac q Branan, who was elected his successor, was slain by the Muintir-Conallan in revenge of their father, who had been killed by him some time before.
,

Muintir-Conallan,

i.

e.,

the family of the

O'Conallan's,

who were

located in the Plain of

from the O'Quinlans of Iveleary near Trim, in Meath, and from the O'Coinghiollains, or Connellans,
Sligo.

Connaught, to the west of the territory of Coreachlann.

who

are

now numerous

in the

county of

This family are to be distinguished

464

aNNata Rio^hachca eiraeaNR

Caiplen an bmle
nuf,
-]

[1296.

paib obpfpjail,

-]

Caiplen moighe bpecpoije Do leccaoh la. Seappcaiplen rhuige Duma DO Ifgab laip map an ccfcna.

QO1S GR1OSC,
Qoip Cpiopc,
mile,

1296.

Da

ceo, nochac, ape.

-\

ITlaolpfoaip 6 Duibjfnnam aipooeocam na bpeipne o bpuimcbab 50 cfnannup Decc. Qob macGojain uf Concobaip Dairpiojab la a oipecc pfin. ClannTTIhuip-

5'olla lopa mac an liacdnaij eappucc oilipinn

cfpcaij Do cabaipc
]

ma

lonab.

puab mac cacail, a mbjiaijoe. cpep an aichpioghab pin. TTIoppluaicceab Do nonol im Qob 6 cconcobaip Do im cepoiD a bujic 50 ccucc Don cfp jjallaib i gaoibelaib im Uilliam bupc,
-\

ccfannup DO rabaipe Doib Do concobap Gn cfp uile eicip cill-| ruair Do milleab

mcc

50 mop apccain ecip Ceccaic caoipi na cfpe ina cfnn lap pin, cpob apbap. puce Ifip iaD Do laraip an lapla Do Denarh pice piu. Oala cloinne TTluipcfpcaig cpa po
~|

50 mbacap
i

cfirpe laice cona roibcib ga milleab

-|

loipccpiocc

Do cuaibpiocc po a cfmpo millpiocc cpfoc Caipppe uile, plaib. 5 1O ^ P t>iojail Dia, TTluipe, colum cille pa cfmpail po pdpaighpiocc pin oppa 50 liarjoipicc ap a haicle. Imcupa na ccaoipeac pempdice lap njeallab Doib oijpfip Qoba Do
-| -|
-|

benam po
p

cillpiocc Dia ccijib,

L
e.

-\

ni'p

anpac a mbun a pioccdna oQob uaip Do

ruins, lies in the

Batte-nui,

Newtown

According to

townland of

Bawn and

parish

Grace's Annals of Ireland, which contain

more

copious and more authentic information respecting Leinster than the Annals of the Four Masters, this castle is in

Moydoe; it is surrounded by a fosse. There are two ruins of castles in the parish of Moydoe in this county, one called Bawn and the other
of

the county of Wicklow, and

that called Newcastle

q

M'Kynegan.

but
is

Castlereagh, each giving its name to a townland; it is not easy now to decide which of them

Magk-Breacruighe. There is no place in the county of Longford now called by this name, unless Barry be a corruption of it. Barry is a
village in the parish of

the one here referred to as demolished in the

year 1295.

Taghshinny, near Bally-

great part of Castlereagh is yet standing in tolerable preservation, s The Clann-Murtoiigh. These were the deneach, son of Turlough

niahon, where the ruins of a castle are

now

to

scendants of Murtough or Muircheartach Muimh-

be seen.
T

More O'Conor, Monarch

Roe, the son of
Breifneach,

Magh-Dumha

Now

Moydoe, or Moydow,

of Ireland.
c

the

of Longford.

name of a parish and barony in the county The castle of Moydoe, now in

Conor Roe.

He was Conor
son of

Cathal,

who was

Hugh

who

1296.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

castle of Baile-nui p

465

The

and the
;

the ground by Jeffrey O'Ferrall demolished by him.

q Magh-Breacruighe were razed to and the castle of Magh-Dumhar was also

castle of

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1296.
ninety-six.

thousand two hundred

Bishop of Elphin, and Maelpeter O'Duigennan, Archdeacon of Breifny, from Drumcliff to Kells, died. .Hugh, the son of Owen O'Conor, was deposed by his own tribe, and the
Gilla-Isa Mac-an-Liathanaigh,

Clann-Murtough were brought in his place. The chieftainship was conferred by them on Conor Roe', the son of Cathal, and their hostages were given up
to him.

In consequence of

this

dethronement,

all

astical as lay property,

was

spoiled.

A great force

the country, as well ecclesiwas mustered to aid Hugh

O'Conor, consisting of the English and Irish, among whom were William Burke and Theobald Burke these he brought into the country, and for four days and four nights they continued destroying it and plundering it of its corn
;

and

cattle.

The

chieftains of the country then

came

to

him [Hugh O'Conor],

with them.

and he led them

to the Earl, in order to conclude a peace

As

to

the Clann-Murtough, they burned and destroyed the whole territory of Carbury, and attacked its churches but God, [the Virgin] Mary, and Columbkille,
;

whose churches they had profaned, took revenge of them

wards.

for this shortly after-

had promised submission to but they did not remain long Hugh, they returned to their [respective] homes;
for the aforementioned chieftains, after they

As

was son of Cathal Roe, King of Connaught in 1279, who was son of Conor Eoe, who was son of Murtough Muimhneach, who was son of Turlough More O'Conor, Monarch of Ireland.
passage
is

deposing.

by Clan Murtagh, and [they]

of the con try
;

All Crich Carbre burnt and spoyled rifled the churches

This

given in the old translation of the " Anno Annals of Ulster as follows: 1292, al.
1296.
his

and God and Columb-Kill, and our Lady Mary, whose churches they rob'd, were revenged on them. Conor Roe mac Cathall

killed

Hugh mac Owen O'Conner

subjects,

deposed by

own

and Clan Murtagh brought

Pledges given to
all

by Mac Dermott prosecuting a pray, and Loughlin mac Conner taken. Manus mac ToThis was malti taken, and other men killed.

into the contery in his place.

the country, both Conner Roe mac Cathall, and spirituall and temporal!, spoyled through that

done at the end of Keda" [now Keadew in the barony of Boyle], "in Tyrtohall. Hugh O'Conher,

Mac Dermot,

O'Farrall, and these

men made

3 o

466

aNNac.a Rio^hachca
le cloinn muipcfpcaijj Dopi&ipi.
~|

eiraeciNN.

[1297. ip

gabpac

GOD mac eojam Do cecc

-|

na

cuacaib annpin, 6 pfpjail DO, cecca DO cop uaib DO

mace Rajnaill cona nimipcib Do cabaipc leip meic Diapmaca ui plannagdin, laopom paijipb
-]

gabdil Doib oiompob ap clomD muipcfpcaij; cap na hoipeccoib oile annpin, le hQooh. lap na clop pin Do concobap puab cucc lonnpaijib ap mac nDiap-

maca 50 nDepna

pfin

-|

a combpaifpe cpfch paip.

TDac Diapmaca Do Dol

DO copaijecc a cpeiche, pechaip lomaipfcc fccoppa, 50 rcopcaip concobap puab, 1 5p sabaD lochlamn mac Concobaip, -\ TTIajnup mac comalcaij lap mapbaD Socpaicce uaca Ifc pop Ifch, ~\ a ccabaipc DO mac biapmara laip
50 haob. Cto6 (.1. 6 concobaip), 6 pfpjail, mac Diapmaca, TTlag pajnaill, i na hoipecca pempaice Do Denam cpeice Diojla ap mumcip cloinne muipcfpcaij an la ceona. Loclamn mac concobaip Do DallaD lappin a ecc ina ochap.
]

nalbam 50 po jabh nfpc mop ap an ccpich Do baccap maiche gall 6peann apan pluaijjeaD pin, pin. Piocapo a gfpailc mac geapailc, i Seon pizchomap, bupc lapla ula6, po gabpac T?o milleab leo Dana TTlainepcip milleao alban eicip cuaic eacclaip. pop
SluaicclieaD la T?ij Sa^an
i

.1.

~|

-\

~\

bpacap baof ip

po cpapgaippfc 30 calmain conap pajaibpfc cloc. pop cloic pop a haic lap mapbao Dpuinge Dia haop gpaiD, Do mnaib, ~\ Do Daoinib nap bo hinechca icip.
in ccpich,
-j

QO13 CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopc,
ITIaoilpechlainn
ailepinn,
-)

1297.

mile,

Da ceo, nocac, a peachcc.

buille

mac

bpiain

abb na

lainn

TTlapian 6 oonnabaip oopo .8. a nDol apaon Don 17oim, "] TDaoilechlainn Decc.
upon Claim Murtagh the same
This passage
1296.
is

DO coja Do cum eppuccoiDe oonnnic Do coja pia TTIaoileach-

great prayes

stone of

it,

and killed many savenrits

the best

[sic']

and

day."
u

women.

And
viz.,

men
John

of Ireland were at

An

army

given in the old

as follows
:

that army,

Richard Bourke, Earle of Ulster,

viz.,

translation of the

Annals of Uster

[and]

Mac

Gerald,

Fitz- Thomas."

''Anno 1292,

al.

"A

forcible

army by

"Ecclesiastics,

aop

jpciio

This term, when

the King of England into Scotland, that he bare sway of all the country, and spoyled countries,

applied to laymen, denotes servants of trust, or

officers
;

but when applied to

ecclesiastics it

and destroyed subjects and churches, especially an Abby of Friers, that he left no stone upon a

means friars, priests, &c. w Not able to bear arms

Oaome

nap bo

1297.]
at

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

407

peace with him, for they [soon afterwards] again sided with the Clann-Murtough. Hugh, the son of Owen, then came into the Tuathas, bringing O'Farrell

and Mac Rannall, with their troops, along with him, and sent messengers to Mac Dermot and O'Flanagan, upon which these turned out against the ClannMurtough, in opposition to the other tribes, and sided with Hugh. When
he made an attack upon Mac Dermot, and, in conjunction with his kinsmen, committed a depredation upon him. Mac Dermot went in pursuit of the prey and a battle was fought between them, in which

Conor Roe had heard of

this,

Conor Roe was

slain,

and Loughlin,
after the

his

were taken prisoners,

O'Farrell,

loss

and Manus, son of Tomaltagh, of many on both sides. Mac Dermot

son,

brought the prisoners to Hugh.

Mac Dermot, Mac

the same day Hugh (i. e. the O'Conor), Rannall, and the abovementioned tribes, com-

On

mitted a retaliatory depredation on the people [followers] of the Clann-Murtough. Loughlin, the son of Conor, was afterwards blinded, in consequence of

which he

died.

army" was led by the king of England into Scotland, and he acquired great power in that country. The chiefs of the English of Ireland, i. e. Richard Burke, Earl of Ulster, Gerald Fitzgerald, and John Fitzthomas, were on
this

An

expedition.

They commenced ravaging

it

Scotland, both territories and

churches.

A monastery of friars
site,

in that country

was plundered by them, and

it

they prostrated another on its

besides

to the ground, so that they left not one stone of

above
v
,

and

this after they

had

killed

many

of

its

ecclesiastics

women and

persons not able to bear arms".

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Melaghlin
;

1297.

Christ, one

thousand two hundred ninety-seven.

elected to the bishopric of El-

Mac

Brian,

Abbot of Boyle, was

phin and Marian O'Donnaver, a friar of the order of St. Dominic, who had been elected [to the same see] before Melaghlin x repaired both to Rome, where
,

Melaghlin died.
h-meacca,
i.e.

persons not fitted for action;

in, in

to be done;

mpeaotna, capable of doing a manJy

This entry
is

ineacca, fitted for action;

signifies

meet,

fit,

or proper, as

compound words, moeanca, fit

action; inaipm, fitted to bear arms, &c.

x

Before Melaghlin.

better

3 o 2

468

[1297-

Gnpi mace oipechcaij eappucc Conoepe oecc, opoichic ctcha. TTlanach epiohe.
Dia bicin.

-\

a abnacal

mamipcip
a ecc

Uhlliam 6 Dubcoijh ep puce cluana peapea DO ruinm Dia eac,

-\

Concobap mac caichligh meic Diapmaca cigfpna moije luipcc

pfp poba pfpp rpoiD,
-|

-|

aipcij,
-|

rachap,

joil, i jjaipcceaD,

lonnpaijm,
-\

-[

ana6, pfon,
i

ceapmonn, pipmne cip na buille.

-|

plairfmnup

ma

comaimpip oecc,

a abnacal

maimp-

TTIajnup 6 hainliji coipeac cenel oobca oecc.

Cuula6 6 hanluam nccfpna oipnp, Qonjup mag marjamna, mopan la gallaib ouin Dealccan ace iompu6 oile to maicib a muincipe DO mapbaD
-]

Dia ccijib Doib

(.1.

DO na gallcnbh) on mpla.
"Anno 1293 (al. 1297). Henry Mac Oreght, Bishop of Aghaconair, a grey monk, quievit." In Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops, p. 659,
Henry Mac Oreghty,
a Cistertian

given in the Dublin copy of the Annals of " A. D. 1293 Ulster, thus: [1297]. ITlaelec-

lamn mac 6piam, ab na

buille, Do

coja cum

eppocoioe Oilpmn, 7 ITlanian O t)onoobup, bparaip ppecuip Do ro^a peirhe 7 a noul Don Roim in imcopnam na heppucoioe ceona 7

monk,

is

men-

tioned as Bishop of Achonry, and his death placed in the year 1297- In the same work, p. 288, mention
is made of a Henry Mac Oreghty, Bishop of Derry, commonly called Henry of Ardagh, whose death is also placed in 1297. The fact would ap-

cupup pm." [tTlaeleclainn] a eg "A. D. 1293 [1297]. Melaghlin Mac Brian, abbot of Boyle, was elected to the bishopric of ElDon
phin, and Marian O'Donnover, a Friar Preacher, who had been elected before him, went to Rome
in contention for the

only,

pear to be that he was Bishop of Derry (t)oipe) and that acao Conaipe and Comoepe
are

same bishopric, and [Me-

mere mistakes of

transcribers.

We

know

laghlin] died on that journey." This entry is not in the old translation of the

from the public records that he was really Bishop of Derry, for he received the royal assent
on the 3rd of March, 1 294 ; but there seems to be no authority for making him Bishop of

Annals of Ulster, preserved in the British Museum.

Y

Henry Mageraghty.

the Annals of Ulster, his death

In the Dublin copy of is thus entered

Achonry, except the old translation of the Annals of Ulster, which Ware and Harris seem to
have used
Airtech.
is

under the year 1293:

" Anno Domini 1293.

See note

',

infra.

henpi majoipeccais eppuc Connipe, manac mailiar, quieuic tn Chpipro, 7 a aolucuo

i

The

text of the Annals of Ulster

nifDip opochaiD ara."

"Anno Domini

1293.

Henry Mageraghty,
quievit in

very nearly the same as that of the Four Masters, but the old translator does not attempt a " Anno version of it. He shortens it thus
close
:

Bishop of Connor, a grey monk, Christo, and was buried in the monastery of Drogheda." But in the old translation of the
Ulster Annals
it is

1293 (al. 1297). Conor mac Tachly mac Dermot, king of Moilurg and Arty, the elder, and
lord of all Munter-Mulrony, a man [the most] praysable in all respects of all his own time,

entered as follows

1297-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

y
,

469
in the

Henry Mageraghty
tery of Drogheda.

Bishop of Conor, died, and was interred

a

monas-

He was

monk.
fell

William O'Duffy, Bishop of Clonfert,

sequence.

from his horse, and died

in con-

2 Conor, the son of Taichleach MacDermot, Lord of Moylurg and Airteach the best man of his time for combat and contest, valour and prowess, incursion
,

and wealth, protection and refuge, veracity and governing authority, was interred in the monastery of Boyle.

died,

and

Manus O'Hanly, Chief of Kinel-Dofa,

Cu-Uladh O'Hanlon, Lord of
1

died.

Orior,

Aengus" Mac Mahon, and many others

of the chiefs of his people, were slain by the English of Dimdalk, on their return home from the Earl [of Ulster].
quievit."

The original text is a remarkable of the alliteration and tautology of the example inflated prose style of the Irish writers of the
and sixteenth centuries.
of Airteach extends from the

the middle of the fourteenth century

1st,

the

Mac Dermot
Dermot

himself,

who was Chief

;

of

Moy-

lurg, Airteach,

and Tir-Tuathail

2nd,

Mac

fifteenth

The

territory

possessed Airteach, but was tributary to the chief Mac

3rd, Mac Dermot Eoe, who was Chief of Tir-Tuathail, and tributary generally to the Mac Dermot of Moylurg, but sometimes

Gall, or the Anglicised,

who

western extremity of the parish of Tibohine, in the county of Eoscommon, where it joins the

Dermot; and,

county of Mayo, to the bog of Belanagare, which divides it from Machaire-Chonnacht, and from
the northern boundary of Clann-Cheithearnaigh to Lough O'Gara. It comprised the parishes of

Mac Donough of Tirerrill, in the county of Sligo, who was another offshoot from the same
to

family.

Tibohine and Kilnamanagh in the west of the county of Eoscommon, and was in ancient -times
the country of Mac Dermot Gall. See notices of this territory at the years 1381, 1416, and 1415.

The family of Mac Dermot

Gall, are interred

in the church-yard of Cloonard, in the parish of

Tibohine, where they have a separate square enclosure to themselves, in which they would

A stream called Abhainn na Foraoise, rising in

the bog of Belanagare, and falling into the Breedoge Eiver, divides Airteach from Machaire

allow no one to be buried but a

Gall, not even their wives

Mac Dermot
of a different

when

family.
a

Chonnacht and the River Breedoge which

;

rises

Cu- Uladlt.

This name, which

of O'Hanlon,

is

very com-

Lough Bealaigh, in the parish of Kilcolagh, and falls into Lough O'Gara, is the boundary
in

mon

in the families
is

Mac Mahou,
by the

and others,

translated Canis Ultonice,

and Moylurg. Airteach lies between the Eivers Lung and Breedoge, and is bounded
between
it

compiler of the Annals of Ulster, and anglicised Cooley by Fynes Morrison, and other writers
nell

on the south by the parish of Kilkeevin, and on

the east

by the parish of Kilcorkey. There were three Mac Dermots in the county jf Eoscommon, two of whom sprang up about

of the reign of Elizabeth ; and Cowley by ConMageoghegan, in his translation of the Anb

nals of Clonmacnoise.
Aengits.

This name

is still

in use,

but

lati-

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dNNata Rioghachca eiReawN.

QO1S CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopc,
mile,

[1299.

1298.

Da

ceo, nochac, a hochcc.

Uomap
Saob
Decc.

6 haipeccaijh

injfn

Qooa

abb eappa puaiD Decc. buibe uf neill bfn caiDg mic amDpiapa uf concobaip
ceallaij echDach Do

bpian bpeajach
la

mac SampaDain raoipeac

mapbab

hdob mbpeipneac 6 cconcobaip, i la cloinn muipcfpraij apcfna. Oonnchab mac Domnaill uf eajpa an caonmac caoipij ba peapp omec, larh ace copnamh a cfpe Do mapbaD Da bpacaip, bpian cappac 6 hfghpa. Comap pizmuipip bapun Do jfpalcacaib ppip a nabaprai on coibpe
ecc.

cam DO

QO13 CR1O3C,
Qoip CpiopD,
Niocol
mile,

1299.
naof.

Da ceD, nocac, a

mac

maoiliopa Ctipoeppcop
in

QpDamacha an

cafn clepec po ba

Diaoha cpaibDije bai

peapjal ua p^S ^ ba mo amm Dfipce, po

1

aimpip Decc. eppu'cc l?acha borh Do ecc.

-|

6pmn ma

ba hepibe peappa

ecclaipi

Daonnacca, cpabaD,
aoin peap

~]

caofnjniom baoi
enec,
-]

ma

aim pip.

CtljeanDaip

mace Domnaill,
]

ba pfpp

engnarh Da paibe

Dia cinfoh

in albain DO mapbaD la hale^anoaip Gpinn, 1 dp Dfpime oia mumcip amaille pip.

in

mac

Dubgaill,

nised to jEneas.
gan, which tion, which
is

It is

made Enos by Mageogheits

raghty, while others of the same race

nd name,

not far from

Irish pronuncia-

is Ennees in Connaught, Ennais in Munster, and Ennoos in Ulster. c This name is to be distinCPHeraghty.

who have migrated to Leinster, have changed it to Harrington! The Mageraghtys, who are of the
same race
as the O'Conors,

were originally located

in the district of

Kings of Connaught, Muinof Eos-

guished from Mageraghty, or Geraghty, which is that of a family of royal extraction in Con-

tir-Eodjv, in the plain of Connaught, and are

now very numerous

in the counties

The O'Heraghtys, who were never a of any distinction, were located in the family present county of Donegal, where they are still
naught.

common, Galway, and Mayo, and even in Leinster, where they generally reject the Mac and

numerous

some of them are

also

on the island

of Inishrnurray, off the coast of Sligo, where they are beginning to change the name to Ge-

name to Geraghty, and even to Gearty and Gerty, which latter forms are not to be approved of. O'Heraghty is as different from Mageraghty as O'Donnell is from Mac Donshorten the

1299-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

4?1

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

1298.
ninety-eight.

The Age of Christ, one thousand two hundred

Thomas O'Heraghty Abbot of Assaroe, died. Sabia, daughter of Hugh Boy O'Neill, and wife
,

of Teige, son of Andreas

O'Conor, died. Brian Breaghach [the Bregian] Magauran, Chief of Teallach-Eachdhach [Tullyhaw], was slain by Hugh Breifneach O'Conor, and the Clann-Murtough.

Donough, the son of Donnell O'Hara, a chieftain's son, of best hospitality and hand in defence of his country, was slain by his own kinsman, Brian Carragh O'Hara.

Thomas Fitzmaurice,
Heir", died.

Baron of the Geraldines, usually called the Crooked

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Nicholas
Christ, one

1299.

thousand two hundred ninety-nine.

Mac

Maelisa, Archbishop of

Armagh, the most godly and devout

ecclesiastic of his time in Ireland, died. Farrell O'Firghil, Bishop of Raphoe, died.

He was the

most celebrated man

of his time for charity, humanity, piety, and benevolent actions. Alexander Mac Donnell, the best man of his tribe in Ireland and Scotland
for hospitality

and prowess, was

slain

e by Alexander Mac Dowell together

,

with a countless number of his people

nell,

who were

slaughtered.

or O'Neill from

Mac

Neill.

They
;

differ in

name, in descent, and in locality the pedigree and history of the former is unknown, those of
the latter are recorded with considerable mi-

" CInno Domini 1294 [1298]. Comcip DO cloinn ^epailc pip napip, bapun mop
baipcea
in

ceijpin cam, quieuir in Chpifco."

translation
:

nuteness
century,

till

about the middle of the sixteenth

And thus rendered in the old "Anno 1294, al. 1298. Thomas

Fitz

Moris,

when they sunk into comparative poverty and obscurity, though in 1585 there was a recognized chief of the name, and the Editor
is

Baron of the Fitzgeralds, that was Crooked heire, guievit."

e

called the

-Mac Dowett.

This surname

is

generally

informed that his lineal descendant

d

is

still

living near Moylough, in the county of Galway.

Crooked

heir.

This passage

is

thus given
:

This passage is thus given in the old translation of the Annals of Ulster "Anno 1295, al. 1299. Alexwritten
the Scotch.
:

Mac Dugald by

in the

Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster

anrler

Mao

Donell, one of the best of Ireland

472

aNNCtta Rioghachca eiraeaNN.

[1301.

QO1S C171O3C,
Qoip Cpiope,

1300.

mile, cpi cheer.

Conjalach ua lochlainn eppucc copcmoDpuaD, paoi enij i cpabaiD Decc. pfiolimib mag capcaij abbap cijfpna Dfpmuman Decc. Caiplen drha cliac an copainn, .i.baile an moca Do nonnpjnaDh lap an
lapla.

Seon Ppinnopecap Do mapbaD la mac piacpa uf Cepoicc buicelep po ba6 bapun oipofipc Decc. Qoam Sconoun bapun mop ele epibe Do ecc.
Seoinin 6cc

ploinn.

mac muipip Do mapbab

la Concobap ua pploirm 50 noaoimb

ele amaille ppip.

aois crciosc,
Qoip Cpiopc,
pionnjuala mjfn pfiblimiD
ui

1301.

mile,

Da

ceD, a haon.

Caipbpe mac
ui

concobaip banab cille cpaobnacc Decc. copbmaic uf maofleclainn Do mapbaD cpe aplac mic aipc

maoileachlainn a bparhap.
killed

and Scotland, was

by Alexander Mac
by

ever, this territory

Dubgall, with a great slaughter of his people."

between the
lin,

rival chiefs

was divided into two parts O'Conor and O'Lough-

The Annals

of Clonmacnoise, as translated

and the eastern

division,

which was

allotted

Mageoghegan, record the death of Sir John Delamare this year in the following words " Sir John Delamare, knight, the best, wor:

O'Loughlin, was called East Corcomroe, while the western, which fell to the share of
to

O'Conor, was called "West Corcomroe

See the

thiest, powerfullest, and bountifullest knight of all Meath, was killed by Geffrie O'Ferrall in pursuite and defence of his own preye." " The families of

Irish work, called Caithreim Thoirdheabbhaigh, at

the year 1311, where the present barony of Burren, in the north of the county of Clare, is
called East Corcomroe.

Delamares,

Ledwitches,

But

in process of time.

Frenies, and Cables, are of the remnant of the Danes that remaine in this kingdome."

East Corcomroe began to be more generally

called

Burren,
its

i.

e.

the

rocky

district,

and

Congalagh O'Loughlin of Ware's Bishops, p. 629, he is set down as Bishop of Kilfenora, which is perfectly correct,
for the original

In Harris's edition

chief, O'Loughlin, fourteenth century, had been styled Chief of Corcomroe, was called O'Loughlin Burren. The

who

previously to the

country of the people, or

tribe,

extent of the western division of Corcomroe

is

called Corcomroe,

was exactly coextensive with the diocese of Kilfenora. In after ages, how-

now

preserved while that of East Corcomroe

in

the barony of Corcomroe,

is

preserved in

1301-.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

473

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
f

1300.

Christ, one

thousand three hundred.

Congalagh 0'Loughlin and piety, died. lity,

Felim

Bishop of Corcomroe, a man of learning, hospita-

The
by

heir-apparent to the lordship of Desmond, died. castle of Ath-Cliath-an-Chorainn (i. e. of Ballymote) was commenced
,

Mac Carthy8

the Earl".

John Prendergast was

Theobald Butler, an

slain

by the son of Fiachra O'Flynn.

illustrious baron, died.

Adam

Staunton', another great baron, died.

Seoinin

Oge Mac Maurice was

slain

by Conor O'Flynn, with many others

along with him.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1301
hundred
one.

thousand

three

Abbess of Cill-Craebhnatt', died. Carbry, son of Cormac 0'Melaghlin was slain at the instigation of the son of Art O'Melaghlin, his kinsman.
Finola, daughter of Felim O'Conor,
k
,

the barony of Burren. Thus we see the reason why the great abbey of Burren is, even to this
day, called the abbey of Corcomroe. O'Loughlin retained all his division of Corcomroe

by the Eeade Earle

'

this year."

Adam

Staunton

In Mageoghegan's trans -

lation

of the Annals of Clonmacnoise he is called " Addam Stontan, Lord of Keera, died."
>

(namely Burren)

till

the time of Cromwell, but

CM

Craebhnatt,
is

Citl

Cpaobnucc

This

the entire of O'Conor's portion of it was granted to Sir Donnell O'Brien, in the reign of Queen
Elizabeth, except Ennistimon, which was left

nunnery, which

called Killcreunata

by Ware

and Archdall,

O'Conor himself; but he lost it soon after. Felim Mac Carthy In Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise he is
to
8

is now called Kilcreevanty. It is situated in the county of Galway, about three miles to the north-west of Tuam. Extensive

ruins of this nunnery still remain, but its architectural features are all destroyed, except one

called

Felym Mac Carrhie, young prince of Desmond."

h

"

window which shews

that the architecture was

The Earl.

In Mageoghegan's translation of

extremely beautiful. The situation of this nunnery was unknown to Archdall and even to Dr.
Lanigan.
O'Melaghlin. Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise contains the two
k

the Annals of Clonmacnoise, this passage is " A. D. 1 300. The castle of thus rendered
:

Athkle-an-Corran, a/t'a*Ballenmote, was founded

474

[1302.

Uilliam mace planncham coipeac Dapcpaijje DO mac Dorhnaill mic aipc nf puaipc.

mapbaD
-|

la hualjapcc

Cpeach mop DO Denarii DGo6 mac carail ui concobaip, cfpcai^h ap ca&g mac amOpiapa moij cceOne.
i

DO cloinn minp-

SluaiccheaD la Pigh Sa;can

in

Qlbain,

-]

mac

gfpailc,

-\

mac

pfopaip,

-|

maiche bapun Gpeann uile cenmoed lapla ula6 DO 6ol leip ap an pluaigeab a bfic DoiB o caicciDip pia lujnapaD 50 Sarhain in Qlbain, jan a lainpin, nfpc DO jabdil Doib in aipfcc pin.
-]

-|

CIO1S

CR1O3U,

1302.

Cloip Cpiopc, mile, cpf ceD, aDo.

Sciarhna 6 bpaccain aipDeappucc caipil [oecc].

TTlilip

eppucc luimnij, mac meic

eipiorh

Don lapla laignech,

-|

eppucc cop-

caije Decc.

6a manach epium pena

oiponeaD

ma

eppuccoioe.
iii. c.

passages following which have been omitted by the Four Masters : " Cormack Mac Cormack

O'Flaherty's Ogygia, Part

14

and Duald

Mac
n

Firbis's

genealogical work (Marquis of

p. 15.

O'Melaghlyn was killed by the son of Art O'Melaghlyn, who was his own Cossen Germain,
his father's brother's son."

Drogheda's copy),
Except
the

Earl of

Ulster,

Cenmoca

lapUi

" Gille Issie

Mac

Firvisse, chief chronicler of

Ulao. This would also bear to be translated " besides the Earl of Ulster," for the Irish cen-

Tyrefiaghragh, wonderful! well skilled in histories, poetry, computation, and many other
sciences, died.
1

mocd,
besides,

like the Latin prceter,

sometimes means

and sometimes

except.

The phrase used

in the

Teige,

the

son of Andreas

This Andreas

was the son of Brian Luighneach, the ancestor of

See pedigree of the O'Conors of Connaught in the Book of Lecan, fol. 72, et
O'Conor, Sligo
sequen,
""

Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster is, a nmjnaip lapla Ulao, i. e. " in the absence of the Earl of Ulster ;" and yet in the old translation

of these annals

the Earle of Ulster."

1301.

rendered " besides al. Thus: " Anno

it
is

1297,

ate

Moy-g- Cedne TTIaj j-ceone, a plain situbetween the rivers t)pobaoif (Drowes) and

by the King of England into and Mac Geralt and Mac Korus, and Scotland, the best of the Barons of Ireland, besides the
Earle of Ulster, with him in that journey, and were there from .a fortnight before Lammas
untill Allhallowtide,

An army

Gipue (Erne), in the county of Donegal. The name and extent of this plain are still well

known. In an Inquisition, 13 Jac. I. it is called " Moygh, alias Moygene, and described as inter
fluinina de

there."

Earne

et

Drohes [Drowes] in com'

Donigall, Letrym, et Slygoe, vel eorum altero." For very early references to this plain, see

and made noe great hand rendered in Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise as follows " A. D. 1301. The King of England, with Mac Gerald, the Lord Bremyngham, with all the
It is
:

1302.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

slain

475

William Mac Clancy, Chief of Dartry, was Donnell, son of Art O'Rourke.

by Ualgarg, the son of

A great depredation

was committed by Hugh, the son of Cathal O'Conor,

.

and the Clann Murtough, upon Teige, the son of Andreas', in Magh g-Cednem An army was led by the King of England into Scotland. Fitzgerald, Mac
Feorais [Bermingham], and all the other noble barons of Ireland, except the Earl of Ulster", accompanied him on this expedition. They remained in Scot-

land from a fortnight before

Lammas

until Allhallowtide p but

,

were not able

to effect the total conquest of the country.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1302.

thousand three hundred two.

Stephen O'Bragan, Archbishop of Cashel [died]. q Miles, Bishop of Limerick grandson of the Leinster Earl, and the Bishop r of Cork died. The latter had been a monk before he was consecrated Bishop.
, ,

forces of the English of Ireland, save onely the

Atthattowtide.
first

Sam u in,
:

ig

yet the
it is
:

name

Earle of Ulster, went

to Scotland to conquer

of the
in

of

November

explained

the said kingdome, where they continued from a fortnight before Lammas untill Hollantide,

O'Clery's glossary as follows

.1.

"Saihum
.1.

and made no

intire conquest thereof."

is

puin an cpampaio. puin pampum Samhuin q. d. Samh-fhuin, i. cpfocnujab."

q. d.

e.

The probability not on this expedition, and that he did not go to assist King Edward into Scotland until the
year 1303.
lated

that the Earl of Ulster was

the end of
q

summer

fuin,

i.

e.

end."

Miles, Bishop of Limerick.

The surname of

The Editor, therefore, has transcenmoc by except. Lammas. tu^napa, called in English Lammas, is the name by which the first of August is still known. The word is thus explained
in Cormac's Glossary lujnappab .1. nappao no aupcac loja mic Gicliono .1. oenac no pepca
:

Bishop of Limerick, is not given in of the Irish annals ; but the Annals of any Ulster and Clonmacnoise agree in calling him
this Miles,

the grandchild [i. e. son of the son] of the Earl of Leinster. The person called the Earl of
Leinster,

by the

Irish annalists,

was evidently
;

no other than the Earl William Marshall .and it is highly probable that this Miles was his

laip

im

cuioe

pojariiaip

in
ip

cec
oo

bliabain.

Cluice no oenac no aupcac

pab,
i.e.

ipamm

napa

would ap(perhaps illegitimate) grandson. He to be the Bishop of Limerick, called by pear

"

Lughnassadh,

i.e.

the games or festival

Ware

Gerald

of Lughaidh, the son of Eithliond. There was fair held by him each year in the beginning of harvest. Nassadh signifies game, fair, or festival."

(English style). Earls of Leinster, or even of Kildare,

MarescaM, who died in 1301 The Fitzgeralds were not styled

till

the

year 1316.
r

The Bishop of Cork

His name was Robert

3p

470

QMNata Rio^hachca emeaNN.

mag capraij
pil

[1303.

Oorhnall puab uibip ceD ngfpna

uf

cijfpna Dfprhuman,

ppfpaib manach, -\ eajpa aDbap cijeapna luijne Decc. Cpeach mop Do benamh oGob mac cacail ap raog
uibip
i

Donn cappach mag Puaibpi mac DomnaiU

mac

bpiain,

-\

ap

Shicpiucc

mac an

caipnijh

meg plannchaib

moigh cceiDne.

QO1S C171OSU,

1303.

Goip Cpiopc, mile, cpf ceD, acpi.

TTIaoilechloinn

cain

abb

bpiain eppucc oile pinn Decc, -] na buille Do gabail na heappuccoioe Dia eip.

mac

Oonnchab

6 plannac-

Coippbealbac mac DomnaiU oicc uf Domnaill Da ngoipri coippbealbac cnuic an mabma cigeapna cipe conaill, cuip cocccach cacach copnamac, Cuculainn cloinne Dalaij ap jaipcceab, Do mapbab la a ofpbparaip Qob

mac DomnaiU

oicc lap ccoccab imcian, lap milleab mopdin Dia ccfp fccoppa Da jach caoib, 50 nap aobal himaille pip Do cenel eojain, Do rhaicib ^all un cuaipceipc, i Do Conallcaib buben. ba Dibpibe rnuipcfpcac mag plannchaib caoipeac Dapcpaij;e. Oonnocaram cigeapna peap na cpaoibe, cian-| -|

achca, Donnchab macmfnman, Qob mac mfanman, Da mac mic an pip Ifiginn mac ui borhnaill, mail mac neill uf baoijill aobap raoipij na ccpf ccuach, hugoppa, a mac a bfpbparaip, Qoam SanDal,5oill, ~\ jjaoibil lomba ap cfna.
~|

Qob mac

Dorhnaill oicc Do bfich

ccijfpnup ripe conaill mppin 50 pobanac

poinmech an ccem Do maip.

Mac Donogh. He had been a Cistercian monk, and succeeded to this dignity in the year 1277See Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops, p. 559s The Sil- Uidhir. The Sil-Uidhir are the Maguires,
nuses,
died.

tween

Great comparisons ha.ve been made bethis Donn Magwyre and Donnell Roe

Mac Carthy (before mentioned) for their bountys and hospitalities, which Donn Magwyre, by the
judgment of a
certain learned Irish poett (which remained for a long space in the houses of the said Donn and Donnell covertly, and in the

Mac Awleys, Mac Caffrys, Mac Maand their correlatives in Fermanagh.

In Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, the following notice occurs of

this first

of the

Maguires who
:

acquired

the

habitt of a karrogh, or common gamester, to know which of them surpassed the other) was

chieftainship of Fermanagh

"A. D. 1302. Donn

all

counted to excell Donnell in

all

good parts, as
said poet,

Magwyre,

prince of

Fermanagh, the best of

by

this Irish verse,

:

made by the

you

Ireland for hospitality, liberality, and prowess,

may know

1303.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Mac
;

477

Donnell Roe
first

Carthy, Lord of Desmond Donn Carragh Maguire, the s lord of the Sil-Uidhir in Fermanagh; and Rory, the son of Donnell O'Hara,
great depredation was

heir-presumptive to the lordship of Leyny, died.

g-Ceidne, upon Teige, son of Brian, and

committed by Hugh, son of Cathal, in Magh Sitric, son of Cairneach Mac Clancy.
/

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1303.
three.

thousand three hundred

Melaghlin Mac Brian', Bishop of Elphin, died took the bishopric after him.

and Donough O'Flanagan

Turlough, the son of Donnell Oge O'Donnell, usually called Turlough of Cnoc-an-Madhmau Lord of Tirconnell, a warlike tower of protection in battle,
,

and the Cuchullin of the Clann-Daly in valour, was slain by his brother, Hugh, son of Donnell Oge, after a long war, during which much of their country

was spoiled between them in every direction; and great numbers of the KinelOwen, of the chiefs of the English of the North, and of the Kinel-Connell themselves, were slaughtered along with him. Among these were Murtough

Mac

Clancy, Chief of Dartry;

;

aghta

Donn O'Kane, Lord of Firnacreeva and KienDonough Mac Menman, and Hugh Mac Menman two grandsons of the
;
;

Ferleighin [Lector] O'Donnell Niall, son of Niall O'Boyle, heir presumptive v to the Three Tuathas Mac Hugossa, his son, and brother; Adam Sandal; and son of Donnell Oge, many others, as well English as Irish. After this,
;

Hugh,

enjoyed the lordship of Tirconnell in happiness and prosperity as long as he

lived.
"

Donn
ITI6

ma 5 uiDip mao re pin, mo Deapmumam 'na ouraio

fa bo ooldio
cio

Dumn

Accordo f Elphin with Marian O'Doimaver. to re he died at Rome about the close of ing

Wa

t j ]e

y ear 1302
hill

dec
" which
is

mo ooman Oomnaill."
to say in English, as not-

as

much

Cnoc-an-Madhma, i. e. The Editor is not aware

taining this
connell.
v

of the defeat.
place re-

that any
to be

withstanding Desmond, and the lands of Donnell Mac Carthie, be far greater than the lands
of

name

is

now

found in Tir-

Donn Magwyce, yet Donn retaineth house twice as many as Donnell doth."
1

in his

The Three Tuathas

in the

These were three

dis-

Melaghlin

Mac
in
1

Brian.

See a notice of his

barony of Kilmacrenan, in the north-west of the county of Donegal, which

tricts

going to

Rome

297, to contest the bishopric

afterwards belonged to a branch of the

Mac

'478

[1303.

Oorhnall occ

mag capcaigh

ciccfpna Dfpmurhan Decc.

-|

Oiapmaic 6 plannaccdin caoipeac cuaice para, a bd mac, pochaibe imailte piu Do mapb'ab la Dpuing DO luce cije Domnaill mic caiDg uf concombun Duibe ccopaijecc cpeice boi Do bpfic laip a moij cceiDne. baip
i i

TTla&nap mace parhpabain caoipeac ceallaij echbac, i Niall

pmnein, Decc.
171 ac

mac

jille-

^epoiD

5^P a '^

Decc.

Cpeach mop Do benarh la cloinn TTluipcfpcaijj ap rhuincip cionair, i Hluipceapcac mac Conpnarha aobap caoipj mumcipe cionair Do mapbab Don
cup
pin.
)

an ciapla, 5oill gaoibil Sluaijeab mop la T?ij Sapcan in Qlbain, lomba DO lomba DO bol coblac mop a hGpinn Do congnarh laip. Caicpeca bfin amac Doibh, i nfpc QlbaA Do jabail leo Don cup pin. Uepoicc a bupc Deapbpacaip an lapla Decc (.1. aohaij noolac) hi ccappaic pfpjupa lap
~\

ccoibecc DO Don cplua^eab

pin.

Sweenys, called from them Hlac Suibne na

o-cuar,
tricts.
i.

mouth,

and the name of the

i.

river,

as

bun

e.

Mac Sweeny

of the tuatks, or dis-

tDpoGaoipe,

e.

the mouth of the River Drowes,

q. d. Drowes-foot,

bun-na Dimple, now Bona-

w Donnell Oge Mac Carlhy. He was the son of Donnell Roe, Prince of Desmond, who died in

margy, in the county of Antrim; bun na pinne, the mouth of the River Fin.
y

who was the son of Cormac Finn, Prince who was the son of Donnell More na Curra, who was the fourth in descent from Carthach, the progenitor after whom the Mac
1302
;

of Desmond,

of

He was the eldest son Garrett Fitzgerald John Fitz-Thomas, Baron of Offaly. See
p. 87,

Cox's Hibernia Anglicana,

z

A. D. 1304.
This

MM
is

Consnava,

ITlac

Copnariia.

Carthyshave taken their surname. The silver seal of this Prince is in the possession of Mr. Petrie,

name

generally written ITlac Condriia in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster. It is

and

is

in its style very similar to that of his

now sometimes

correctly anglicised

Mac Kin-

cotemporary Felim O'Conor, which was found during the government of Lord Strafford, and
given by that nobleman to King Charles I. Donnell is represented on horseback charging

naw, and very incorrectly translated Forde. The territory of Muintir Cionaoith, which still retains its ancient name, lies in the county of

Leitrim, to the west and north-west of

Lough

with sword in hand.

naldi og
*
fili

The legend "

the

S.

Dove-

D. Eogh Mac Arthy."

i.

Allen, and. is nearly co-extensive with the barony of Dromahaire.

a

Bun

Duibhe,

e.

mouth of

the River

Into Scotland.

This passage

is

rendered as

Dubh, now Bunduff,

a village in the barony of in the county of Sligo. The names of Carbery,

villages,

follows in the old translation of the Annals of

Ulster: "

many

townlands, &c. situated at the

mouths of rivers, are compounded of bun, foot,

al. 1303. great army of England into Scotland ; many by the King cityes taken by them ; and the Earle and Eng-

Anno 1299,

1303.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Mac

479

Carthy", Lord of Desmond, died. Dermot O'Flanagan, Chief of Tuathratha, his two sons, and

Donnell Oge

many

others

along with them, were slain at Bun Duibhe", by some of the household of Donnell, son of Teige O'Conor, who had pursued them, to deprive them of a prey

which they were carrying

of

off

from Magh-g-Cedne.
in the county

Manus Magauran, Chief of Teallach Eachdhach [Tullyhaw, Cavan], and Niall Mac Gillafinnen, died.
Garrett Fitzgerald 7 died.

committed by the Clann-Murtough [O'Conor] in z Muintir-Kenny, on which occasion Murtough Mac Consnava Chief of MuintirKenny, was slain
,

A great depredation was A

8 and the army was led by the King of England into Scotland [Red] Earl and many of the Irish and English went with a large fleet from Ireland to his assistance. On this occasion they took many cities, and gained Theobald Burke the Earl's brother, died after his sway", over Scotland.

great

return from this expedition, on Christmas night, at Carrickfergus".

lish

and conquered much

and Irish went out of Ireland, a great navy, there. Tibot Bourk,

the English and Irish inhabitants. Several feuds

brother to the Earle, died after returning from that journey, at Carrigfergus, on Christmas eve."
Sir Richard

broke out with new violence, and petty wars were carried on, to the utter desolation of the
finest

and most valuable of the English

settle-

Cox has

the following remarks

ments.

The

disorder extended even to the seat

upon the Red Earl, in his Hibernia Anglicana, " A. D. 1303. Richard Burk, Earl of p. 87
:

of government; and the utmost efforts of the chief governour and the well-affected lords were
scarcely sufficient to defend the province of Leinster."
b
i.

le Poer, and a went to aid the King in Scotland; good Army, and the Earl made thirty-three knights in the

Ulster, accompanied with Eustace

Gained sway, neapr alban oo jaBail leo,

the strength, power, or sway of Scotland

castle of

Dublin before he
all

set

out

and

it is

ob-

e.

servable that in

commissions,
is

and even in
always named

was obtained by them.

nifies to
c

Neapc oo jaBail

sig-

the Parliament Rolls, this Earl

before

the Lord Justice."

See also Leland's

obtain power, or to effect a conquest. Christmas night, a&uij noolac The Irish

History of Ireland, book ii. c. 2, vol. i. p. 258, where this historian has the following remark on
the state of Ireland in the absence of these great
lords
:

word
it is

ciouij, night, is now always written oioce, and the word seems to have lost an initial n, as

evidently cognate with the Latin nox,

night.

noctis,

and the English

d

" The absence of such powerful lords produced its natural effect in Ireland, in encouraging a licentious spirit of insurrection, and giving free
course to the treachery and turbulence both of

Under

this year the

Annals of Clonmacnoise,

as translated

by Mageoghegan, record the death

of Morrishe

mac William Gallda Mageoghegan,

on the fourth of the Ides of June."

480

ctNNata Rioghachca eirceaNN.

[1305.

QOIS CR1OSC,
Qoip Cpiopc,

1304

mile, rpf ceD,

a cfchaip.

Concobap mac Qoba ui concobaip Domapbabla hoibfponapplaicbeapcaij ua pplaitbfpcaij, i hoibfpD DO cuicim lap nDenarh mebla Dopom ap DonnchaD
inn poceDoip.

concaoipbfn Riocaipo a bupc mpla ulab, a bupc oijpe an lapla cfona DO ecc.

Qn

.1.

an ciaplal?ua6,

~\

Uacep

QO1S CttlOSC,
Qoip Cpiopc,

1305.

mile, rpf ceo,

cuig.

Concobaip pailge, .1. muipcfpcac,ffiaolmopoa, a bpacaip, i an calbac 6 concobaip amaille ppi naonbap ap picic Do mainb a muinnpe Do rhqpbaD meabail ccaiplen meic peopaip. Do Ship piapup mac pfopaip cpe peill
-)
i

Caiplen nua mpi heoccain DO 6enam lap an lapla puab.

carail uf concobaip, i la cloinn mhuipcfpcaij ap cfnae ap mumncip paijillij Da ccopcaip pilip 6 Raijillij, i oijpe cloinne puibne, i mace buippche cfnn na ngallocclach imaille ppi cfcpacac apceD
ina ppappaD.
Annals of Clonmacnoise, by Mageoghegan, have the following entry, which is omitted by the Four Masters "A. D. 1304. William Oge mac William Gallda
this year the as translated
:

TTlaiDm la

hQob mac

Under

sent the massacre as having taken place in the castie of Carrickfergus, instead of Carrick-Carbury
.

According to

Grace's Annals of Ireland this

Mageoghegan died, the prides of the Ides of October this year."

f

massacre was perpetrated by Jordan Comin and his comrades, at the court of Peter Brimingham
at Carrick in Carberia.
It is referred to as

an

Mac

Feorais's oven castle

This

is

Castle^

carbury in Birmingham's country, which comprised the present barony of Carbury, in the
north-west of the county of Kildare. Extensive ruins of this castle are still to be seen.
g

instance of the treachery of the English to their Irish neighbours in the Remonstrance sent by

the Irish Chieftains to

1315.
ricius

It is stated in this

Pope John XXII. in document that Mau-

O'Conor and Peter Brumichehame were

Deceit.

This entry

is

given in the

Annals

ot'Ulster

and Clonmacnoise, as translated by Mageoghegan, in nearly the same words as in the

text of the

fellow-sponsors ; that Peter, who was called the treacherous Baron, invited Mauritius and his
brother, Calvacus, to an entertainment on the
feast

Four Masters, except

that,

by some

unaccountable mistake, the latter annals repre-

stant they stood

day of the Holy Trinity and that the inup from the table, he cruelly
;

1305.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

481

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Conor, son of
Christ, one

1304.

thousand three hundred four.

O'Conor, was slain by Hubert O'Flaherty, after he had acted treacherously towards Donough O'Flaherty. Hubert was killed in retalia-

Hugh

tion immediately after this.

The

Countess, wife of Richard Burke, Earl of Ulster,

died'.

i.

e.

the

Red

Earl,

and

Walter de Burgo, heir of the same Earl,

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of Christ, one thousand
O'Conor Faly (Murtough), Maelmora,
rais

1305.

three

hundred jive.

his kinsman,

and Calvagh O'Conor,

with twenty-nine of the chiefs of his people, were slain by Sir Pierce

Mac

Feo-

[Bermingham]
.

in

Mac

Feorais's

own

castle

f
,

by means of treachery and

Earl.

deceit8

The new

castle of Inishowen"

was erected by the Red

was gained by Hugh, son of Cathal O'Conor, and the Clannover the O'Reillys, in a contest in which Philip O'Reilly, the heir Murtough of Clann-Sweeny, and Mac Buirche, head of the Gallowglasses, together with
1 ,

A victory

one hundred and forty others, were

slain.

massacred them, with twen ty- four of their followers, and sold their heads at a dear price to
that, when he was arraigned of England, no justice could be King obtained against such a nefarious and treache-

the natives.

The magnificent

ruins of this castle

their enemies

and

sufficiently shew that it was a fortress of great strength and importance, and in every respect

before the

worthy of the princely Earl by whom it was erected in so important a situation, to subdue the
O'Neills and O'Donnells, and check the incursions
of the Scots
castle is

rous offender."

See Memoirs of

the

Life and

Writings of Charles O'Conor of Belanagare, p. 74, and also Grace's Annals of Ireland, edited for
the Irish Archaeological Society in 1842, Rev. Richard Butler, p. 58, note e
.

See note under the year 1555. This

Ireland,

shewn on Mercator's Map of

by

the

The new

castle

of Inishowen

Green

Castle,

According to Hanmer's Chronicle, and Grace's Annals of Ireland, Arx Viridis in Ultonia was thrown down
in

under the name of Newcastle.

near the western margin of Lough Foyle, in the parish of Moville, barony of Inishowen, and

1260

but the Annals of Ulster and Clonits first

macnoise agree in placing

the year 1305.
'

erection in

county of Donegal,
called

is,

even at the present day,

Caip lean nua,

i.e.

New

Castle, in Irish

by

Clann-Murtough,

Clann

3Q

482

aHwaca Rioghachca
TTlara occ 6 paijillij DO

eiraeaNN.

[1306.

mapbab DO reallac nounchaba.

Uoippbealbac mac neill puaib uf bpiain oecc. Cleoh 65 6 pfpjjail Do ecc.

CIO1S

CR1OSC,

1306.

Cloip Cpiopc, mile, cpi ceD,

pe.

Oonnchab
Decc
i

6 plaicbfpcaich eppucc cille halaib paof cpdbaib na njaofbeal nDun buinne 05 Dol 50 hach cliach Do, -| a abnacal 50 honopac ipm

muilionn cfpp i cnjh muipe. Perpup 6 ruacalam biocaipe cille eppuicc 6pom,
6
-|

-|

TTlaijipcip

Comdp
~\

ndan aipciDeocham T?dra boc, coja eappuicc na hecclaipi cfcrna Decc. ba T^oippDealbac ua bpiain ci^fpna cuabmuman, pfp ba hoipfjoa,
engnarh bof
in

pfpp cpabaib, i caoirhofipc, dj, ~\ Donnchab a mac Doiponeab ina ionaD.

Gpmn

ina aimpip Dbec,

-\

Oorhnall cuipcpec 6 neitl DO mapbab

pfpjal mag

lompairne la luchr nje uf neillpajnaill raoipeac mumnpe heolaip DO rhapbab la a bfpin

bpaicpib i la Dpuing Dia oipeachr pein.

Coccab mop ecip Qob mac eojain

pil TTIuipfbaij

uf

imaille pip,

~\

Ctob

mac

concobaip T?i Connacc 50 mairib carail uf concobaip 50 nopfim Do

"]

macaib caoipeac Connacr, i 50 ccaoipechaib oipecraib na bpeipne ina pappab. 6doop Da jach lee im an Sionamn ppi pe cfireopa mfp. Oo jnfan npem Do mumcip Ctoba meic cacail popbaipip na cuacaib 50 nofpnpar cpeThese were the descendants of Murtough Muimhneach, the son of Turlough More O'Conor, Monarch of Ireland.
k

'Poland, in the barony of Inishowen, in the county of Donegal, the original locality of the family ; but in the Island of Achill, in the west

Dunbuimie,

now Dunboyne,

a small vil-

barony of the same name, in the south of the county of Meath.

lage in a

of the county of Mayo, where some of the family settled with the O'Donnells, in the latter part of the seventeenth century, it is less correctly anglicised Thulis.
n

This is the first mention of Muttingar Mullingar in these Annals. According to tradition the place took its name from a mill which
1

Killaspugbrone, cill eappuicc 6pom, i. e. the church of Bishop Bronus ; a very ancient

stood on the River Brosna.

It

is

said that

church,

now

in ruins

and nearly covered with

barony of Car-

Kilbixy was originally the head town of Westmeath.

111

sands, in the south-west of the

0'Tuathalain.

This name

is

now anglicised

bury, in the county of Sligo. For some account of the origin of this church the reader is re-

1306.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

483

Matthew Oge O'Reilly was slain by the inhabitants of Teallach-Dunchadha. Turlough, son of Niall Roe O'Brien, died.

Hugh Oge

O'Farrell died.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1306.
six.

thousand three hundred

O'Flaherty, Bishop of Killala, the most eminent of the Irish for died at Dunbuinne", on his way to Dublin, and was interred with honour piety, at Mullingar in the house of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

Donough

Petrus O'Tuathalain, Vicar of Killaspugbrone", and Professor Thomas O'Naan, Archdeacon of Raphoe, and bishop-elect of the same church, died.

Turlough O'Brien, Lord of Thomond, a man the most illustrious, most pious, most humanely charitable, most prosperous, and most expert at arms, that was in Ireland in his time, died and his son Donough was elected in his
;

place.

Donnell Tuirtreach O'Neill was

of O'Neill.
Farrell

slain

through mistake by the household

Mac

was

slain

by

his brothers

Rannall, Chief of Muintir-Eolais [in the county of Leitrim], and a party of his own people.
out]

O'Conor, King of Connaught, assisted by the chiefs of the Sil-Murray and Hugh, son of Cathal O'Conor, joined by some of the sons of the chieftains of Connaught, and the
chieftains

A great

war [broke

between Hugh, son of

Owen

and

tribes of Breifny.
p

They

[the

two armies] were

for the space of

four months

encamped

at

both sides of the Shannon.

Some

of Hugh's people

encamped

in the Tuathas,

where they committed great depredations.

appears from various examples of
cient
its

Flann,
use in an-

ferred to the Tripartite Life of St. Patrick as

published by Colgan in his Trias Thaum., and Lanigan's Ecclesiastical History of Ireland, vol. i.
p.

and modern manuscripts,

signifies a siege,

346.
Tuirtreach,
i.

55

or encampment, as, popbaip. Opoma Oariia 'P e the encampment of Drom Damhghaire,

e.

of Hy-Tuirtre,
a

a territory

in the south of the county of

extent of which see note

p. 25. p

Antrim, for the under the year 1 176,

now Knocklong, in the county which is made the subject of an

story,

of Limerick,
ancient Irish

by which the meaning of the word

fully established.

baip

is

Encamped.

The

Irish

word popbaip,

as

3 Q 2

484

dNNata Rioghachca emeaNN.

plann mac piacpac
uf ploinn

[1307.

abbap caofpj pi mac Donnchaib piaBaij ui concobaip 50 pochaibib hi bpian maoilpuam, maille ppiu Do mapbab Do muinnp ainliji bacrap 05 copaigheacc a Gp iaD cpa ba pfpp barrap ap an ppopbaip pin Ruai&pi mac ccpeiche. cacail uf concobaip, Donnchab mac Concobaip an copam mic pfpjail abbap
~|

acha, i aipccne ipui&e.

einec gup an la pin. Ci6 cpa ache pancnjfpna moije luipcc ap aj caccap pompa na maice pin gup an mfio Do riiaip Da mumcip cona ccpeic leo 50 piacrpac lonjjpopc uf concobaip. Loipccicc pailip pij Connacu
-|

annpin.

17ucc

Qo6 mac 6ojam oppa

-[

lap lopccaD an piojbaile Doib.

bfncap

a ccpeach Dfob poceDoip,

nopuing Dia

mapbcap Oonnchao mac Concobaip an copain 50

i

mumcip ma

cimcel.

DO cloinn muipcfpcaij ccpfc caipppe. Dauic 6 caomain (.1. caoipeac o cuaim Da bobap 50 glfoip) bpuccam coiccech cpomconaic, oonnchaio mac bui&eacam, pocaiDe oile Do mapbab a cnmcel

Cpeac mop Do

Denarii

-|

na cpfiche ipm.

plannaccain Do

mapbab

la bpian ccappach 6 neaghpa.

QO18 CR1OSU,

1307.

Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cpf ceo, a peachcc.

Cuipmc

6 Laccnain

(.1.

manac

liac)

eppcop

cille

meic buaich,

-]

Oonn-

ca6 o plannaccain eppcop

i

oile pinn Decc.

li-

Palace.

Charles O'Conor writes, inter

neas,
is

"

.1.

pailip cluain ppaoic."

The
a

place

nexed to

bank, together with some broad pavements anit." The fort here described forms a
square, the side of which measures fifty paces

now

called Cloonfree,

and

is

townland

situated about one mile westwards of Strokes-

in length

but

it

town, in the county of Eoscommon. described as follows by the Eev. John

of Strokestown,
for

It

is

to Rathcroghan,

does not bear any resemblance as Keogh asserts in the above

Keogh

description.
r

Sir William
:

tended Atlas in 1683

fort (like

" Here

Petty's inis a kind of

near Foxford,

Tuaim-da-Bhodar, now Toomore, a parish in the barony of Gallen, and

ciently

Rathcroghan) four-square, which anwas the King of Connaught's palace,

but so very long ago that the very ruins of the building, if there were any considerable, are
defaced,

county of Mayo. Gleoir was the original name of the River Leafony, in the barony of Tireragh, in the county of Sligo.

'Under

this

and no remainder of it to be seen but

is

as translated

year the Annals of Clonmacuoise, by Mageoghegan, contain the fol-

the said fort, the wall whereof

only a green

lowing entries, which have been omitted by the

1307.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

485

son of Fiachra O'Flynn, heir presumptive of Sil-Maelruain, and Brian, son of Donough Reagh O'Conor, together with many others, were slain by the The most distinguished O'Hanlys, who were in pursuit of them for their prey.
of those

who made

this incursion

were Kory, son of Cathal O'Conor; Donough,

son of Conor of the Cup, the son of Farrell [Mac Dermot], heir presumptive to the lordship of Moylurg, by reason of his prosperity and hospitality up to
that day.

Howbeit, these chieftains marched on with their

spoil,

and

as

of their people as had survived, until they arrived at O'Conor's fortress. then burned the palace of the King of Connaughf. Hugh, the son of

many They
Owen,

overtook them after they had burned the royal residence, and immediately deprived them of the prey, killed Donough, son of Conor of the Cup, and

some of his people around him. A great depredation was committed by the Clann-Murtough [O'Conor] in the territory of Carbury. David O'Caomhain, Chief of that tract of country r extending from Tuaim-da-Bhodar to Gle6ir, a rich and affluent brughaidh [farmer], Donough Mac Buidheachain, and many others, were slain on this
predatory incursion.

O'Flanagan was

slain

by Brian Carragh O'Hara*.

1307.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
e.

thousand three hundred seven.

Laurence O'Laghtnair

(i.

Grey

Friar),

Bishop of Kilmacduagh, and

Donough O'Flanagan, Bishop

Four Masters, though they are
of Ulster:

of Elphin, died.
Annals
sinns
as often as

in the

he sayeth

it."

It

is

thus

"A. D. 1306. Robert Bruise was crowned King of Scotland, against the King of
England's " Sir William
will.

given in the old translation of the

Ulster

Annals of

"
:

Anno 1302

(al.

1306). Nichol

O'Du-

nacha, a

Prendergrass, a noble and wora

killed

by

young priest that was in Drumkliew, Gerran Duf of the Barretts, without

thy knight, died.

" Nicholl O'Dorchie
[recte

O'Donchie],

priest and a virgin from his birth, was killed by the Black Horse [jeappan ouB] of the Barretts,

him ; and whosoever any cause, but martirised saieth a Pater Noster for his soule, he hath 26 forgivnes of his sins as often as he sayth
dayes
'

it."

<=ayeth

without any occasion ; and whosoever one Pater Noster and Ave Maria for his
he
shall

soule.

have plenary indulgence of his

Laurence CPLaghtnan and Donougk CPFlaO'Lachtnain is now generally anglinagan oised Laughnan, and sometimes, incorrectly,

486

[1307-

bpiain mic ainopiapa mic bpiain luijnigh mic coippDealbaij moip canaipi Connacr, pfp Ian ofngnarh, -\ Denech, -\ Saof coiccfnn compojnac Do mapbaD la hCtob mbpeipnech mac cacail puaiD

Oorhnall

mac caiDg mic

uf concobaip.

Uaocc mac maoileclamn mic Donnchaib mic Domnaill mic majnapa mic roippbealbaij, paof nfmij Do mapbab la caral mac Domnaill mic caiDcc. Uprhop jail Roppa commain Do mapbaD la oonnchab muirhneac 6 ccealrropcaip pilip muinDep, laij njfpna 6 maine ace ac eapccpac cuan, ou
i

maiu Dpiu imaille pe pocamhib nach ainmmjrfp. 17o peaan mumoep, gabab ann Diapmaicc gall mac Diapmaca, copbmac mac cficepnaij, DO ponpac pir ap Sippiam Roppa comdin, ace Do Ifigofh iao lap ccpioll, an baile Do lopccab le hemann buicilep. Ctn DonnchaD po 6 ceallaij pon
~\

-\

-|

Decc

bo bap mp mioDhlachap pin ace ba hecc lap njniorhaib 501 le, jaipcciD, lap rciobnacal peD ~\ mafne. Ctilbe mjfn caiDcc ui concobaip Decc.

mppna gmomaib
~\

pi,

~|

nip

TTlaoileachlainn 6 gaipmlfohaij caoipeac cenel moctin, i oipeaccaij Decc.

Loftus.

majnup mace

The

notices of these ecclesiastics are

more

fully given in Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, and it would

free-hearted towards all men, died penitently, of 5 weeks sicknesse, the 10th of the Kallends of

June."

appear from these and various other entries that the Four Masters have not fully copied the original of these Annals. In Mageoghegan's trans" Laurence lation these entries run as follows
:

The
script

probability, however,

is,

that the

manu-

from which Mageoghegan made his translation had lost some folios from Mageoghegan's
time, 1627,
till

1636,

when

the Four Masters

O'Laghtnan, abbott of Easroe, abbott of the Boyle for a time, afterwards abbott of Cnock-

compiled their Annals.

"

Donnett, son of Teige

This Donnell

is

the

moy, and
"

at last

Bishop of Kilmacduagh, died.

ancestor of O'Conor Sligo.

According to the

Donough O'Flanagan, abbott of Boylle for the space of five years, and Bushopp of Olfyn for three years and a half ; a man famous for
hospitalitie,

pedigree of the Conors, preserved in the Book of Lecan, fol. 72-74, he (Donnell) had seven sons,
of

whom
u

Cathal,

King

of Connaught,

was the

devotion, and other good parts be-

most

illustrious.

longing to his function throughout all Europe. One that never refused any one whatsoever,
neighter for meat or cloathes
tained, protected,
:

A man
The

distinguished for hospitality, paoi

Irish

nemi.

word pao! means

a gentle-

one that main-

and made peace between the inhabitants of the province of Connaught one full of wisedome and good delivery to maintain
:

man, a worthy, generous man, and sometimes a learned man. It is the opposite of oaoi, a
clown.
v

Ath-easgrach-Cuan,

i.

e.,

the ford of St. Cua small

any thing he took in hand

one charitable and

an's esker or ridge,

now Ahascragh,

town

1308.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

487

Donnell", son of Teige, son of Brian, son of Andreas, son of Brian Luigha man neach, who was son of Turlough More [O'Conor], Tanist of

Connaught,

of great prowess and hospitality, who was universally esteemed, was slain by Hugh Breifneach, the son of Cathal Roe O'Conor. Teige, the son of Melaghlin, son of Donough, son of Donnell, son of Manus, son of Turlough [O'Conor], a man distinguished for his hospitality", was slain

by Cathal, the son of Donnell, son of Teige [O'Conor]. The greater number of the English of Roscommon were

slain by Donough Muimhneach O'Kelly, Lord of Hy-Many, at Ath-easgrach-Cuanv where Philip Muinder, John Muinder, and Main Drew, with many others whose names are not mentioned, were killed. Dermot Gall Mac Dermot, Cormac Mac Kaherny,
,

and the

sheriff of

set at liberty,

Roscommon, were taken prisoners; but they were afterwards and they made peace \recte restitution] for the burning of the

town by Edmund Butler". Donough O'Kelly, after he had performed these exploits, died; and his was not the death of one who had lived a life of cowardice, but the death of a man who had displayed prowess and bravery, and
bestowed jewels and
riches.

Alvy, daughter of Teige O'Conor, died. Melaghlin O'Gormly, Chief of Kinel-Moen, and Manus Mageraghty, died.
on the Clonbrock
name,
the
river, in a parish of the

same

in the east of the

memory

county of Galway, where of St. Cuan is still held in great

Deputie of Ireland." It is thus less correctly rendered in the old

translation

of the Annals of Ulster

veneration.

See Ordnance

Map

of the county

1303
killed

(al.

1307).

Anno The Galls of Eoscomon all

:

"

of Gal way, sheet 61.

passage, which is so given by the Four Masters, is thus very rudely

Edmond Hutler.This

rendered by Connell Mageoghegan, in his trans" A. D. lation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise

:

by Donogh O'Kelly, King of Omane, where Philip Munder, Magiu with many more, were killed and taken, Drew, Dermot Gall Mac Dermot, Cormac Mac Keat Atheskragh,

1307.
killed

The Englishmen of Roscommon were all by Donnogh Moyneagh O'Kelly, before

therny, and the sheriff of Koscomon, were taken, and were enlarged after a while, making peace for the towne."
It would appear that the town of Ahascragh had been burned by Edmond Butler (who became Lord Deputy of Ireland in 1312), and that

Athaskragh, where Phillip Montyre, John Montyre, and Mathew Drew, with 70 other
his death at

persons, were taken and killed. Also the sheriff of Roscommon, Dermott Gall Mac Dermott, and

O'Kelly had detained in captivity the sheriff of

Cormack Mac Kehernie, were by him sett at libertie, and concluded peace with him for the burning of the town by Edmond Butler, then

Roscommon, and his accomplices, Dermot Gall Mac Dermot and Cormac Mac Keherny, until they made restitution for the loss sustained

488

awwata Rio^hachca eiReawN.

Concobap mac piacpac
uf ploinn Duine 65

[1303.

ba peapp omeac
lulij.

-[

gaipcceab

baof Dia cenel DO ecc.

Gn Oapa heDuapD Go

piojaoh op

pajcaib,

~|

QO1S CR1OSC,

1308.

Ctoip Cpiopc, mile, cpi ceo, Saijjnen

a hochc.

rembcije Do cuicim

mainipcip na

mbpacop

l?op comain 50

pop bpip an mainipccip. Cpeac mop Do Denam la TTlaolpuanai&mac Diapmaca ap cloinn oorhnaill HI concobaip ccpich coipppe, cpfch oile beop DO cloinn muipcfpcaij oppa
i -\

mp nDenarh pioba piu poirhe, -\ lap erabaipc bpaijoe Doib. Ctcc po pellpacc oppa lapccam. ^luaipic clainn Dorhnaill uf concobaip mppin 50 pliab Da en,
noca puccpac leo ace a nfic, a nfiofb, ~\ a ngpoije. lap na clop Do gallaib ua ppiacpac luijne, cionoilicc cuca, i Ifnaicr iaD 50 mullach
-]
-\

plebe Da

en.

lompai&iD mfic Dorhnaill

-|

piu.

peachaip pccainfp fcoppa,

maiDm oppa 50 pangarrap Ifc eapa Dapa. inaioceap pop sallaib, Copcaip comap mac ualcaip conpcapla bum pinne, a Dfpbpacaip, pocaibe
baof
-j

imaille piu.
by O'Kelly
cragh.
in the

burning of his town of Ahasi.

Mac Dermot Gall,

e.

the Englishman,

of Gascoigne, and Lord of Ireland, died in the 35th year of his reign, and in the 66th year of
his age.

was

so called for speaking the English language,

After whose death the crown of Eng-

and joining the English against his own countrymen.

x

land, Wales, Ireland,

to

and Scotland, was given

Was made

king,

oo piojaoh,
is

literally

was

Edward, surnamed Edward of Carnarvan." i Under this year the Annals of Clonmacas translated

kinged.

applied by the Irish annalists to the inauguration of their own kings

This term

noise,

by Mageoghegan, contain

and

chieftains,

but not
is

to the

crowning of the

the following passage, which has been omitted by the Four Masters: "A. D. 1307. Carolus

kings of England, as
dates.

quite evident from the

Mac Anliahanye was

elected to the Bishoprick

styled of Caernarvon, the place of his birth, began his neign on the 7th of
II.,

Edward

of Alfyn, of the one part (and was abbott of Loghke, who received his orders at Ardmach,

July, 1307, and was crowned at Westminster on the 24th of February following. The Annals of Clonmacnoise, as translated

and enjoyed the

by Mageoghegan,

profitts of the Bishoprick for the space of three years and a half) ; William Bremyngham did ellect Molassy Magooge [Mac

contain the following notice of the death of Edward I. "A. D. 1307. Edward the Great,
:

Hugo, or Mac Aedha] of the other

side, to

be

King of England, Wales, and Scotland, Duke

Bishopp of the said place, who resided in Rome for three years, and at last came" [home], See

1308

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

489

Conor, son of Fiachra O'Flynn, the most hospitable and valiant youth of
his tribe, died.

Edward

II.

was made king* of England on

the" 7th of July".

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of Christ, one thousand
2

1308.

three

hundred

eight.

Lightning
stroyed
it.

fell

upon the monastery of the

friars of

Roscommon, and

de-

great depredation was committed by Mulrony Mac Dermot upon the sons of Donnell O'Conor, in the territory of Carbury; and another depredation

was committed upon them by the Clann-Murtough, who had concluded a peace with them, and given them hostages, but afterwards acted treacherously towards
sons of Donnell O'Conor after this proceeded to Slieve-da-en, taking nothing with them but their steeds, horses, and accoutrements. As

them.

The

soon as the English of Tireragh and Leyny had heard of this, they assembled, and pursued them to the summit of Slieve-da-en". Here the sons of Donnell

turned on them, and a battle ensued, in which the English were routed and pursued as far as Leac-Easa-dara". Thomas Mac Walter, Constable of Bunfinne
,

his brother,

and many

others,

were

slain

d
.

Ware's Bishops, p. 631. the last year in the old translation of the Annals of Ulster, preserved in the British
also Harris's edition of

Leac-Easa-dara,

i.

e.

the

flat

rock of Balrock in the

This

is

lysadare. This was applied to a

river.
c

flat

Museum.
z

The Dublin

Irish

copy extends to
is

Bunfinne
the

is

now

the year 1504.

Lightning.

name of

anglicised Buninna, which a townland in the parish of

Mageoghegan gives a
"
:

strictly

Drumard, barony of Tireragh, and county of

Sligo. It is so called

literal translation of this in his version

of the

from

its

situation at the

Annals of Clonmacnoise

thunderbolt came

mouth of a small stream

d

called the Finn.

from heaven and lighted upon the abbey of the Fryers of Roscommon, and broke down the said
abbey on
a

Many

others

were

slain.

somewhat better given

in the

This passage is Annals of Clon-

St.

Stephen's night,

in

Christmas

holy days."
Slieve-da-en

macnoise, as translated by Mageoghegan, as follows: "A. D.I 308. Moyleronie Mac Dermoda

On an

old

map

preserved in

the State Papers' Office, London, this mountain is shewn as situated a few miles south of
Sligo,

tooke a great prey from the sonns of Donnell O'Connor in the land of Kriche Carbrey, in

between Lough Gill and Colloony.

Connaught. "

Bryan O'Dowdie,

and

the

English

of

3 E

490

[1309.

oenom t>Go6 mac cachail ap a oeapbpachaip ap Puaibpi mac carhail, oia po mapbao TTIajjmip mac TTlajjnupa nopuing ele

Cpeach Oiojalca

t>o

imaille ppip.

QO1S CR1OSU,

1309.

Ctoip Cpiopc, mile, tpf ceo, anaof.

eojjam mic Ruai&pi mic aoba mic cacail cpoibofipcc, T?i Connachc, i ofjabbap aipopfj 6penn, aon jaomel ba pfpp einec ] fnjnam cainic ma pfirhfp oo mapbab la hQo6 mbpeipneac mac cacail uf concobaip
ccoill in clocain, mopan DO maiab a mumnpe imme. 6a Oibpi6e concobap mac Diapmara, oiapmaic pua6 mac cai&j ui concobaip, Oiapmaic mac cacail cappaij meic Diapmara,Qo6 mac muipcTpcaij meic caiocc mic maolpuanaib,
i

Qo6 mac

-|

Lwynie and Tyrefiaghragh, tooke another prey

from " Clann-Mortagh also tooke another prey from the said sonns of Donnell O'Connor, after that
the said parts.

soone after his coming killed O'Dempsie. The Easter of this year was in the month of March,

and there was

a great

morren of

cattle therein."

Under

this year Grace's

Annals of Ireland re-

they had agreed and delivered hostages for secuAfter all which preys rity of the. peace before.

cord the death of Peter Bermingham, the noble tamer of the Irish. He is the Piarus or Feorus

and spoyles taken the sons of Donnell aforesaid came to the Mount of Sleiw-da-ene, and took
with them thither but their horses, armor and
stood [stud]. The said Englishmen of the lands of Lwynie and Tyrefiaghragh, hearing of their

who was commonly

by
seem
f

called the treacherous

Baron

the Irish, and from

to

whom

the

Berminghams

have taken the surname of Mac Feorais.

See note under the year 1305.

It is stated in Slain by Hugh Breifneach. the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, maim recentiori inter lineas, that he was slain with a

being there, assembled their forces and followed them to the said Mounte. The sonns of Don-

and Mac Donnogh retrayted upon them, where they gave them an overthrow, and put them to flight, and pursued them to a place
nell

hatchet

tanner

"

by Dael O'Sochlachan, a clown of a 7 in tDael ua Sochlacan DO fin lath

le cuaij;
.1.

called Leack-easa-dara,

where they
brother,

killed

Tho-

mas Mac Walter, Constable of the Castle of

Bonnafinne,
others."
e

with

his

and

divers

booac puoaipe." the wood of the or ford of the stepping stones. Acclochan, cording to the Annals of Clonmacnoise, as transDO oa
8

mapKao

Coitt

an Clochain,

i.

e.

Under

this year the

Annals of Clonmac-

noise,

as translated

by Mageoghegan, contain

by Mageoghegan, this place is situated in the territory of the Brenie (i. e. Breifny). It is probably the place now called Kilclogha, situated
lated

the two passages following, which have been omitted by the Four Masters: "A. D. 1308.
Piers Gaveston, a great favourite of the

King of

Drumgoon, barony of Clankee, and county of Cavan. The whole passage is trans" A. D. lated by Mageoghegan as follows 1309.
in the parish of
:

England, came to this kingdome this year, and

Hugh mac Owen mac' Rowrie mac Hugh mac

1309.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

retaliatory depredation

491

was committed by Hugh, the son of Cathal [O'Conor], upon his brother Rory, son of Cathal, on which occasion Manus Mac Manus [O'Conor], and others, were killed6
.

THE AGE
The Age of

'OF CHRIST, 1309.

thousand
three

Christ, one

hundred

nine.

Hugh, the son of Owen, son of Rory, son of Hugh, son of Cathal Crovderg, King of Connaught, and worthy heir to the monarchy of Ireland, the most
hospitable and expert at arms of all the Irish born in his time, was slain by f Hugh Breifneach the son of Cathal O'Conor, at Coill-an-clochaing together with many of the chiefs of his people about him. Among these were Conor
, ,

Mac Dermot; Dermot Roe,

son of Teige O'Conor; Dermot, son of Cathal Carto the middest of Sile Moriegh, to maintain the
principalitie,

Cahall Crovederg O'Connor, King of Connaught, one for birth, prowes, liberality, and many other parts, worthy to be king of a [rede the]

and name of King of Connaught,

sent his messengers to all

for his

own

fosterson.

kingdom, was killed by Hugh Breffneagh mac Cahall Roe O'Connor, in Kilcloaghan, in the territory of the Brenie, with these ensuing persons that were killed at the said place with him,

"

Felym O'Connor
and
allies

his friends

of the English and Irish

that they should come to him, to assist him in that enterprize ; and William Burke, with his

Connor Mac Dermoda, Dermot Koe mac Teig mac Andryas, Dermott mac Cahall Carragh mac Dermoda, Hugh mac Mortagh mac Teig mac Moyllronie, [and] Dermott Oge O'Hblie,
viz.:

brothers and kinsmen came accordingly, and there encamped in the middest of the Provence,

with their said many

forces, fearing the inhabi-

tants should join with

aforesaid king-killer), to

Hugh

who was
keeper
;

a modest, liberal, and great houseMoyledownie the Galloweglass, Giller-

make him king

Breffnagh (the of the

Fogartagh O'Dowailgie of the household men of Tomaltagh Mac Dermott, with many others, with the loss
of a hundred more of them.

new,

chief

Brehon of Conaught,

Provence. The said Moyleronie took to himself the revenues and proffitts belonging to the King of Connaught, together with such Jewells and
principalls as belonged to the place,

and made

After which deed

the Inhabitants to take their oaths never to

Hugh Brenagh came

three Thawthies, that

to his house,
is

where the

yeald to any other but to Felym, the said Mullronie's fosterson,

to say, the three thirds

whereupon William Burke

to

re-

of the Provence [No, but the Three Tuathas in the east of the present county of Roscommon.

turned to Olfyn. "

Hugh Brenagh went

Meath

to

meet with

ED.] came to congratulate him. " In the mean time MoyleronieMac Dermoda, prince of Moylorge, with the assemblies and
forces of his allies

the Earle, and in his absence the Inhabitants of the Provence came upon the land of Oghter Tyrie, took a great prey which they consumed
in their

and friends of

all parts,

came

camp

of Oghterhirie aforesaid."

SR

492
1

QNNaca Rio^hacbca eiReawH.

i

[1309.

Diapmaic 6 helijp plaicbpuccaib DO bpfpp ma aimpip. apaill, jjiolla na naorii mac ao&accain ollam Connachc

Uopcaip Don ler

mbpficfarhnap,
-|

aom

pfp Do DfppcnaiD Do bpfirfrimaibh na haimpipe i mbaof. pajapcac Oaoine oile nac aipiriicfp. Siol muipfohai^ Do rabaipc cijfpua oobailen, naip DO RuaiDpi mac cacail ui concobaip. I?uai6pi 6 concob'aip lappin, -\
~\

6 ploinn 50 mbui&in

mapcpluaij DO cocc ap an macaipe,

~\

mac meic

pfopaip

DO mapbaD Doib. DO connaccaib (.1. Don mfiD boi ma Coinne Do Denarii Duilliam bupc pann Diob) pe l?uaiopi mac cacail im ac plipfn. 6pipf6 comne Doib pop apoile. lomaipfcc Do cup fccoppa. TTlai&fo pop T?uai6pi, Dpfm Da mumcip
~[ ~\

DO mapbaD. Uilliam bupc Do Dol 50 mamipcip na buille, -\ clann muipcfpQpbanna iom6a Do milleab Doib, toipccce Do caij DO Dol 50 np noilella. TTlac uilliam Do recc cap coipppliab anuap mppin. T?uai6pi mac benarii.
~\

Cacail DO cop ap a longpopc Do, Donnchab ua pfonnacca Do mapbaD Do meic uilliam, Daoine lomDa oile. ropach ploijh
-]
"|

Cpeach Do Denorh Do ITIac uilliam

beinn julban.

cloinn pfpmaije,

-|

cpeach

oile

50

Concobap mac bpiain puam

h
'

uf bpiain

Do rhapbaD.

Brughaidh,

i. e.,

a farmer.
i

Ollam Connacc mbpeirChief Brehon eurhnap, i. e. chief ollav of Connaught in law ; ollath signifies a chief professor of any science,
In Cormac's Glossary it is derived from oil, great, and bdm, a learned man.

south of the town of Elphin, in the county of Roscommon. See note at the year 1288. ro These were the descenClann- Murtough.
dants of the celebrated

O'Conor.

They were

at this time

Murtough Muimhneach moving from

any fixed posses1342 they became so

territory to territory without

sions;

not a very correct term used by the Four Masters ; for although the territory of the O'Conors was at
i

Lordship,

cijfpnup

This

is

but

in the year

powerful that their chief leader, Hugh, the sou

of Hugh Breifneach, became
in despite of the

King of Connaught

this

time
still

much

circumscribed,

the O'Conor

was

naught, monies.
k The,

inaugurated King of the Irish of Conaccording to the ancient Irish cere-

O'Conors of Sligo, or race of Brian Luighneach, and of the race of Cathal Crov:

derg

but

in the succeeding century they

sunk

ihacaipe, i. e. ITlacciipe the plain of Connaught. It is the level part of the county of Roscommon, and lies between Castlerea and Strokestown.

Plain
i.

Qn

into obscurity, and disappeared from history. The pedigree of this tribe of the O'Conors is

Connacr,

e.

given as follows in the Book of Leccan, fol. 72, el sequen. : I. Murtough Muimhneach, the son of

Ath Slisean

This

is

still

the

name

of a

Turlough More O'Conor, monarch of Ireland, had four sons, namely, 1, Manus (the father of
Donnell ofErris);
2,

ford on the

Abhainn Uar, a short distance

to the

Conor Roe;

3,

Donough

1309-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

;

493
;

Mac Dermot Hugh, son of Murtough, son of Teige, son of Mulrony Dermot O'Healy, a princely brughaidh, the best of his time". On the other and
ragh
side fell Gilla-na-naev
illustrious of the

Mac Egan, Chief

his time
;

Brehons of

Brehon' of Connaught, and the most Faghartach O'Devlin, and others not
j

mentio'ned. The Sil-Murray then conferred the lordship upon Rory,the son of Cathal O'Conor. Rory O'Conor and O'Flynn afterwards led a troop of cavalry to the Plain", and slew Mac Feorais [Bermingham].

A conference was held by William Burke and the Connacians

(i.

e.
1
.

as

many

of them as were on his side) with Rory, son of Cathal, at Ath-Slisean They the rules of a conference, and a battle was fought between violated, however,

Wilthem, in which Rory was defeated, and some of his people were slain. m liam Burke went to the abbey of Boyle, and the Clann-Murtough went
to Tirerrill,

where they destroyed much

corn,

and made many conflagrations.

Mac William

then proceeded northwards, across the Curlieu Mountains, and drove Rory, the son of Cathal, from his fortress". On this occasion Donough and many others were slain by the van of Mac William's army. O'Finnaghty
depredation was committed by another at Binn-Gulban.

Mac William
slain.

in Clan-Fearmaighe,

and

Conor, the son of Brian Roe O'Brien, was

Keagh and
;

4,

Conor Gearr.

II.

Conor Eoe, the

second son of
sons, Cathal

Murtough Muimhneach, had two

the upspringing vigour and power of the desceudants of Cathal Crovderg, and the O'Conors of
Sligo.
n

and Manus, who were both kings III. Cathal Roe, King of Connaught in 1279, had two sons, 1, Rory (the father of Teige, who was the father of Murtough
of Connaught.

Hisfortress, lon%po\\c, i.e., his fortified camp. Binn-Gulban This was the ancient name

Balbh)

and

2,

Hugh

Breifneach, a warrior of

of a conspicuous mountain in the barony of Carbury, in the north of the county of Sligo. The

IV. Hugh Breifgreat prowess and celebrity. neach had two sons, 1, Hugh, King of Connaught
in 1342,

name

and Cathal.
fifth in

V. Hugh, King of Condescent from the monarch

son,

is now corrupted to Binbulbin. The language of this passage is very rudely constructed by the Four Masters. It is thus given

naught, the

in the Dublin copy of the

Annals of Ulster

Turlough More, had one

Dermot, who

is

"A. D. 1305

[recte
i

the last generation of this line given in the Book ofLecan; and his brother Cathal had seven sons,

FDac Uilliam
leip co beinn

1309]. Cpec bo oenam le cloino pepriiuije; Cpec eile

7 nip pence pip.

julban

A. D.

namely,
5,

1,

Owen;

2,

Hugh;

3,

Rory;

4,

Manus;

1305

[recte

1310].
in

A depredation

was made by
;

Conor Roe; 6, Cathal Roe; 7, Murtough; of whose descendants no further account is given,

Mac William

Clann Fermuighe

another de-

They were afterwards thrown

into the shade

by

predation by him as far as Benn Gulban, and further down" [i.e. northwards]. The meaning

494

aNNata Rio^hachca emeawN.

QO1S CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopc,
1310.

[1310.

mile, cpf ceo, aoeich.

Concobap ua bpiain piojDamna Do bpfpp ina aimpip DO mapbab Dona jallaib Dubha meabail.
i

TTloipcpfcha Diojla Do

Denam

la hCtoD tnbpeipneac

-|

le cloinn muip-

cfpcaigh apcfnq, ap maolpuanaib

mac Diapmacca.

OonnchaD mac Donn-

cham oapjain
oile

Doib.
"]

DO mapbaD,

pfin i Dpong DO maicib a mumnpe Do jabail. Opfm Do lopccaD Doib, a bfn injCn uf plannaccam Do mapbaDh.

pfpjal mace DopcaiDh

Decc.

Decc.
uf concobaip,
~\

Pionnjuala injfiiTTlajnaip

Una

injean

QoDa micpfiDlimiD

map mapbaD Domnall mac Qo6a oicc uf pfpjail, QOD mac maofliopu, jopppaiD mac muipcfpcaij. Caiplen bona pmne Do lopccao Dapccain Do RuaiDpi mac cacail, Dao6 mac ma^nupa, Do mumcip QoDa bpeipmgh eicip cpnachaib njib. QOD bpeipneach 6 concobaip ofjaDbap T?fj Connacc Do mapbaD la TTlac
-|
~\

SloicceaD la SeppaiD 6 bpfpjail 50 Dun uabaip, Du

-\

~\

intended to be conveyed is, that Mac William plundered the territory of Claim Fermaighe, in
the county of Leitrim, and made another plundering excursion as far as the mountain of Binbulbin, and beyond
p
it

Ireland, p. 61, objects to this definition, and says

that

Roydamhna was the king

elect,

or prince

appointed to succeed the reigning

monarch of

the whole island, or of one of the provinces,

to the north.

Roydamna Riojoamna, signifies a king in fieri ; a prince designed or fit to be a king, In the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster he
is

But it is quite evident from the many examples of the use of the terms throughout these and the
older annals that O'Flaherty's definition
rect.
is is

cor-

called the best son of a

king in Leath Mogha,

indeed applied to kings and QbBap as well as to professors of arts and chieftains,
sciences,
i

O'Flaherty thus explains this word : " Quisque e reliquis families candidatus Kiojoarhna dictus est; quod

i. e.

the southern half of Ireland.

but not so

often,

By

the black English.

Oo

na jallaiB ouBa.
of

The Editor does not know the meaning

in this passage.
It
is

OuBa

nimirum materies apta ad ; recipiendum regiam formam suse. families. Si vero liberae, aut Mechanics artis alumnus fuerit,
est regia materies

probably used to denote the English lately come over, who were black strangers in comparison with the Irish-English.

abbup tantum, quod materiem etiam denotat

quippe materies disposita, ut tali proCharles fessione informetur." Ogygia, p. 58.
vocatur
;

The term
'

is

also

used in the Dublin copy of the

Annals of Ulster.
Retaliatory depredations,

moipcpeuca oto jla,

i.

O'Conor, in his Dissertations on the History of

"
literally

great preys of revenge,"

e.,

preys

1310.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

495

THE AGE OF CHEIST,

The Age of Christ, one thousand
three

1310.

hundred

ten.

Conor O'Brien, the best roydamnap of his

the black English".

time,

was treacherously

slain

by

r Great retaliatory depredations were committed by Hugh Breifneach and the Clann-Murtough upon Mulrony Mac Dermot. Donough Mac Donough

was plundered by them, and many of the chiefs of his people were taken prisoners others were killed and burned by them, and his [Mac Donough's] wife, the daughter of O'Flanagan, was killed.
;

Farrell

Mac Dorcy

died*.

Finola, daughter of

Manus O'Conor, and Una, daughter

of Hugh, the son

of Felim, died.

An army
son of
tough, were

was led by Geoffrey O'Farrell

to Dun-Uabhair,'

where Donnell,

Hugh Oge
slain.

O'Farrell, Hugh, son of Maelisa, and Godfrey, son of Mur-

The

castle of Bunfinne", including

both

its

houses and corn stacks, was

burned and plundered by Rory, son of Cathal, Hugh, son of Manus, and the
people of

Hugh

Breifneach.
v

Hugh

Breifneach O'Conor, the worthy heir to the kingdom of Connaught,

countrey, but the natives and inhabitants of the countrey so well behaved themselves against

taken in reprisal for others, that had been taken by Mac Derrnot from the Clann-Murtough.

This family was located in the Dorcy. of Kinel Luachain, comprising the paterritory rish of Oughteragh, in the east of the county of
Leitrim.
1

Mac

them

in the defence of their countrey

and goods,

that they killed Donnell

rail,

Mac Hugh Oge O'FerMac Moylissa, and Geoffry Mac Hugh

Dun

Uabhair.

This

is

described in other

annals as in Mageoghegan's country of Kyneleagh, or Kinel-Fiachach, from which it is quite

certain that
it is

Mortagh." u The castle ofBunfinne, near Tanrego, in the of Tireragh, and county of Sligo, in barony

Connaught.
v

the present Donore, near Ard-

Worthy

heir.

OfjaoBup Rij Connaoc,

materies of a king of Con-

nurcher, in the barony of Moycashel,

of Westmeath.
in

and county

literally,

"a good
is,

This passage
"
:

is

given as follows

Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of

Geffrey O'Ferall,

one who, from his descent and personal qualifications, might be elected King of
naught," that
torn.

Clonmacnoise
forces

with

the

of the Analie, came

to take the

to Donover, in

Kyne-

Connaught, according to the ancient Irish cusThe oeaj aobap, or worthy heir, was no
last chief.

leagh,

spoyles and preys of that

always the eldest son of the

496
uiDilm
.1.

CCNNCCCXI

[1310.
peill,

Seonacc, baof ap buannachc aicce pfm cpe

-|

mebail, i ba

cpe loijioeacc DO pinne innpin. piche eonna pfona DO cop ccip moij ccet.ne. Caiplen Sliccij DO Denarii Don mpla puab.
i i

pfiolimiD

mac Go6a mic

Copbmac mac jillepinnein caofpeac muincipe peoDachdm. TTlacpaich mace uiDip canaipi pfp manach,
raoipeac cloinne con^aile Do lopccaD la poolb
*

abail ionaiD a achap. ua plannaccdin raoipeac cuaice paca Do mapbaD la henpi

eojjain uf concobaip

Do

-j

Donn

mac

jiollamicil

mag macjamhna.
and his wife (O'Flannagan's daughter) women, children, and many others ;
;

Mac

Quittin, TTlac Uibilin.

The head

of

prisoner,

this family

was

chieftain of the Koute, a terri-

was killed were

tory in the north of the county of Antrim. This family was among the early Welsh settlers in this

also there killed

and encamped

at

Oghter

heire, before

country about the year

172.

Duald Mac

Firbis,

of Sile

Mac Dermott and the inhabitants Morie which when Mac William Burke
:

in his account of the English

and Irish families of

heard, he encamped at Kil Lomatt, in the sight of the said

privie

Ireland (Lord Koden's copy, p. 832), states that the ancestor of the Mac Uidhilins, who was of

Hugh

Breiffneagh.
to

The

latter

sent

message

his

brother Rowrie mac

Dalriedan

descent,

passed

over into Wales,

Cahall, that he shou'd go then, in the absence of

where

his
II.,

Henry

posterity remained until the reign of when a branch of them returned and

William Burke, to his castle of Bonnafynne, which he did accordingly, preyed and spoyled
the castle of Bonnafynne aforesaid, and converted all they could there find to their own
uses.

settled in the

their ancestor
before.

same part of Ireland from which had emigrated many centuries

from

This, however, is a mere legend, copied modern compilation by Mac Firbis, who remarks that he would not vouch for its authen" ni jaBaitn optn a n-iomlame ucc peb ticity:
a

"

Hugh Breffneagh

staid there

with his Bwan-

naghtmen, and their chief head, Johnock Mac Vuellen; and when this Johnock, with his heired

puapup pom." * For a bribe

that

Id.,

p.

829.

Bwannaghtmen, saw Breffnagh

the Annals of

all

alone after

It is stated in

Clonmacnoise, as

translated

Mac

Quillin was bribed

by Mageoghegan, by Mac William

is

the sending of the most part of all his forces with his brother to take the spoyles of Bonnafinne aforesaid, being provocked thereunto by

Burke.

As

the account of this transaction

William Burke, who promised him a certain

stipend for killing the said Breffneagh, who accordingly getting the said opportunity killed the said Breffneagh according to his promise to

so imperfectly given

by the Four Masters, the

duty
it
is

Editor deems

it his

to

lay before the

reader an account of

given in the Annals of

Clonmacnoise, which
consecutive

much

fuller

and more

William Burke before made.

Hugh Breffneagh made a great called the prey of Toy ten, or fire (Cpeac prey
:

"

"When tidings thereof came to William Burke,

Mollronie

Mac Dermoda, and

Sile.morie, to their

an coicean), upon Mulronie Mac Dermott in Clogher, where Donnogh Mac Dermott was taken

camp

at Killomatt, they immediately sent their

forces to take the spoyles

and preys of

all

the

1310]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

497

was, by treachery and deceit, slain by Mac Quillin" (i. e. Johnock), bonaght with him. It was for a bribe" that Mac Quillin did this.

who was on

Twenty tuns of wine were washed ashore in Magh-Cedne The castle of Sligo was erected 2 by the Red Earl.
Felim, the son of Hugh, son of
father
1
.

y
.

Owen

O'CoHor, assumed the place of his.

slain

Cormac O'Flanagan, Chief of Tuathratha, was

finnen, Chief of Muintir Feodachain
b
.

by Henry Mac

Gilla-

Magrath Maguire, Tanist of Fermanagh, and Donn Mac of Clann-Conghaile, were burned by Roolv Mac Mahon".
followers and people

Gilla-Michil, Chief

that belonged to Hugh Brenagh. William Burk himself came to the middest of the country, and seized Mac Vuellen,

with his rowte of 200 men upon them, so as there was not a towne in Silemorrey without
a continual Bawnie,

anyone of his ancestors Bryan Mac Eaghy sometime King of Counaught also Moymeone, the said Mollronie made a magnificent feast in
theretofore practized, as
since the time of his ancestor
:

honour
of
all

nor no parish without oppression, nor no good man without great wrong done him during the reign and govern-

thereof, with the assembly and presence the nobility of Connaught, such as none of his ancestors predecessors Kings of Connaught ever before him was heard or read in

ment of William Burk,

Brenagh. " When Molronie
terson

after the death of

Hugh

books to have made."

From

this passage it is quite clear that the

Mac Dermott saw

sett

his fos-

Four Masters did not

Clonmacnoise.
i

fully copy the

Annals of

Felym was

naught by, and the

revenews which of right belong'd to him taken by William Burk, and that the Englishmen
exercised their captivities and imprisonments upon the Irishmen, to weaken and bring them
lowe,

Magh- Cedne, a plain in the south of the county of Donegal, lying between the rivers Drowes and Erne.
1

Was

erected,

DO ofnurh

who
off,

cutt

conjectured that if Molronie were that there would be no resistance in

translation of the

In Mageoghegan's Annals of Clonmacnoise, this

Connaught, and that the whole provence shou'd be theirs without contradiction, he determined
with himself to promote the said Felym to be King of Connaught, and thus he resolved to do,

passage is thus rendered: "A. D. 1310. The Castle of Sleigeagh was repeared and made by
the Earle this year."
*

Assumed

the place

of his father,

i.

e.

became
the

King
b

of the Irish of Connaught.

whether they would or no whereupon he brought the said Felym with him to Carne;

Muintir Feodachain

territory in

froeigh (where they then used to create their kings), and there made him King of Connaught
after the

barony of Magheraboy, in the county of Fermanagh, extending from the Arney river to the
western extremity of Belmore mountain. c This is a Hibernicised form of Roolv.
Ralph, or Rudolph.
d

manner used before

in his predecessors'

he was installed King with as great sollemnity, ceremonies, and other the customs

tymes

Under

this year the

Annals of Clonmac-

3s

498

aNNdta Rio^hachca emeaNN.

aois CPIOSU,
Qoip Cpiopc,
mile, cpi

[isii.

1311.

ceo aoeich, a haon.

Oomnall

Cpeac

6 puaipc ciccfpna bpfipne Decc. a&bal Do &enam*la cloinn muipcfpcaij;

cconnaccaib,

~|

jiolla-

mac copbmaic, cpiopc mac muipjfpa meic DonnchaiD mic Oiapmaca, Qo6 Donnchab mac comalcaij, uilliam mac giolla appdir, pocaibe cen mocab
-\

DO mapbaD

leo.

mop la huilliam bupc ipm murhain in aghaib an clapaij, Carh DO cabaipc Doib, maiDhceap pop an cclapac. 6aoi uilliam bupc pop Dapachc gab'cap leo 6, 05 leanmam an mabma. la&aiD muincip an clapaij uime
SloicceaD
~\

apa aof ape ba copccpac

i

ip in ccarh.

Cabcc 6 hainliji Do mapbaD Do Shiupcan De^erpa. cruaDmumain. Car DO cabaipr Do oonnchab mac ConCoccaD mop
mapa,
-|

Da oipeacr

(.1.

rpiocar ceD 6 ccaipm) Dua bpiain

epein,
-]

-]

Dpfpaib muman.

TTlaiDhceap pop
cinel Dungaile

mac Conmapa, mapbrap

pin,
-|

Dorhnall 6

gpaDa ciccfpna

ap an lacoip

ap Dipime Don rpluaj cfccapDa.

bpiain T?i muman, i aobap pij Gpeann ap einec -\ gniorhapcoib Do mapbaD la TTlupchaD mac macjamna uf bpiain i meabail mp pin, 1 ITluipcfpcac ua bpiain Do oipOneaD in ionaD.

OonnchaD ua

Loclairm piabac 6 Dea^aD DO TTlapbaD la TTlacgamain

mac

oomnaill

connachcaijh
noise, as

uf bpiain.

translated

following entries, omitted by the Four Masters " A. D. 1310. Tanaye More
:

by Mageoghegan, have the which have been entirely

O'Mullconrie,
died
in

of the Annals of Clomnacnoise " But by the way this much I gather out of this Historian, whom I take to be an authentic
:

chief Chronicler

of Silemorrey,

the

and worthy prelate of the Church, that would tell nothing but truth, that there reigned more
dissentions, strife, warrs,

Spring of this year. " Joan, daughter of O'Connor of

wife to Mortagh

and debates between

Affailie,

and
of

Mageoghegan,

chieftain

the Englishmen themselves in the beginning of the conquest of this kingdome, than between the

Kyneleagh, died. " Feral mac

killed
e

Mortagh More Mageoghegan was by these of the Analie."

Irishmen, as by perusing the warrs between the Lacies of Meath, John Coursey, Earle of Ulster,

A great army. Upon this dissension between Clarus and De Burgo, Mageoghegan
writes the following remark, in his translation

William Marshall, and the English of Meath and Munster, Mac Gerald, the Burks, Butler, and
Cogan,
f

may

appear."
is

Hy-Caisin __ This

the

name

of the origi-

1311.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

499

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1311.

thousand

three

hundred

eleven.

Donnell O'Rourke, Lord of Breifny, died. great depredation was committed in Connaught by the Clann-Murtough [O'Conor], on which occasion Gilchreest, son of Maurice, who was son of Donough Mac Dermot; Hugh, son of Cormac, son of Donough, son of Tomal-

tagh [Mac Dermot] were slain by them.

William

Mac

Giolla-Arraith

and many others

besides,

was led by William Burke into Munster, against Clarus [De was defeated. William Burke Clare], and a battle was fought, in which Clarus
pursued the routed enemy with great bravery, until the people of Clarus closed around him, and took him prisoner. He was, however, victorious in the battle.
Teige O'Hanly was

A great army

by Jordan de Exeter. Donough Mac Namara and great war [broke out] in Thomond.
slain
f

his

e. the inhabitants of the cantred Hy-Caisin ) gave (i. and the men of Munster but Mac Namara was defeated, and he himO'Brien g were slain on the battle self and Donnell O'Grady, Lord of Kinel-Dungaile

adherents

'of

battle to

field

and both armies suffered immense slaughter. Donough O'Brien, Bang of Munster, and a materies for a monarch of
;

Ire-

land for his hospitality and achievements, was treacherously slain by Murrough, son of Mahon O'Brien and Murtpugh was elected in his place.
;

Loughlin Reagh O'Dea was

tagh O'Brien.

slain

by Mahon, the son of Donnell Connagh-

nal territory of the Mac Namaras, in the county of Clare, and is only their original tribe name

by the Mac Namaras, the

of

transferred to their territory. The exact extent it is preserved in the ecclesiastical division
called the deanery of Ogashin,

latter got possession of nearly the entire of that part of the county of Clare lying between the rivers Fergus and

Shannon.
g

which contains

Kind-Dungaile

This was the tribe name

the parishes of Quin, Tulla, Cloney, Dowry, KilTemplemaley, Inchicronan, and Kilraghtis,

of the O'Gradys, and became, as usual, attached to their country. Since the year 1318, this
district

murry-na-Gall

but after the year 1318, when ; the Hy-Bloid, who had inhabited the eastern part of the now county of Clare, were defeated

comprised the parishes of Tomgraney, and Clonrush, of which the Mayno, two latter parishes are now included in the
Inishcaltra,

by the descendants of Turlough O'Brien, aided 3

county of Galway, though sixty years ago the

s2

500

Kionactica
Seonacc mac
ui&ilfn
i

[1312.

1 epfin

DO mapbab

inn

DO mapbab an gpuiDelaij; mbaile copaip bpijoe, poceDoip, i ba Don ^fppparhcaij lep mapbpom Qo6

bpeipnech poirhe pin DO mapbao e bubofm. Cpeac DO benarh la pelim 6 cconcobaipRi'Connacc ap cloinn muipcfpcaij maoileclainn mac Concobaip pip a paiccf cfnD an ap bopo moije cceDne,
-|

me6il DO mapbab ann,

"|

pocaibe

oile.

Oiapmaic cleipec 6 bpiain Decc. Oomnall 6 bipn caoipeac cipe bpiuin,

Dan Decc.

-|

giolla fopu 6 Oalaij ollamh le

QO1S CR1OSC,

1312.

Ctoip Cpiopc, mile, cpi cheo,

a oech a
-\

Do.

Uilliam

mac

pfopaip aipoeappucc cuama,

benmichc 6 bpaccdin eppucc

Do coja
in

luijne Decc. TTlaoileacloinn

mace ao&a eppucc

oilepinn

aipDeppuccoiD-

eachr

mama

laparh.
linagare,

parish of Inishcaltra was accounted a part of the county of Clare. Both, however, still belong
to the diocese of Killaloe,

and are a part of the

and his grandson, the late Dr. Charles O'Conor, the translator of the first part of the Annals of the Four Masters, are interred in the
church of Ballintober, in the tomb of O'Conor is inscribed with the date 1636;

deanery of
h

m-Bloid.
ba\\e.

Battytoberbride. cobaip bpijoe, Ballintober, a small village which gives name to a barony in the county of Roscornmon. The

now

Don, which

but no epitaph appears for

'

either.

ruins of O'Conor Don's extensive castle are

to be seen here in

still

Short axe, jedpppariicac. This passage is as follows in Mageoghegan's translation given

of the Annals of Clonmacnoise
:

tolerable preservation.

It

"A. D.

1311.

was a square bawne, defended at each of the four angles by a tower of considerable strength
and
size.

The number
size.

of rooms in the four

towers was about sixteen, and some of them

Seonag or John Oge Mac Vuellin was killed in a fray at Ballentober-Bryde, by the same Gal" wherewithall he" loweglasse" [axe] [had] " killed Hugh Brenagh before Mine author
:

were of good

The north-west tower was

prayeth God
murtheririg
cited."
k

to reward

him

that killed
as before

him
is

for
re-

rebuilt in 1627, as appears

from a stone in the wall exhibiting that date and the name Rury.

Hugh

Brenagh,

The other three towers were, according to tradition, built as early as the reign of King John'. St. Bridget's well, from which the place took
its

Cean-an-Medhil. This passage is entered the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, under the year 1 307, as follows
in
:

name,

is

yet in existence here, but not re-

"A. D.

1307.
pi

Cpec oo

oenurii le

Peiolitnio

garded as a holy well.

Charles O'Conor of Bal-

o concobuip

connucc ap clnimi imnpcep-

1312.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

501

Johnock Mac Quillin slew Gruidelach at Ballytoberbride", where he himself was immediately after killed, in revenge of it and it was with the same short axe' with which he had killed Hugh Breifneach [O'Conor] that he was killed
;

himself.

by Felim O'Conor, King of Connaught, upon on the border of Magh-Cedne, where Melaghlin, son of the Clann-Murtough, Conor, popularly called Ceann-an-Medhil", and many others, were slain.

A depredation was committed

Dermot Cleireach O'Brien died

poetry, died.

1
.

Donnell O'Beirne, Chief of Tir-Briuin, and Gilla-Isa O'Daly, an ollav in

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1312.

thousand

three

hundred

twelve.

William Mac Feorais [Bermingham], Archbishop of Tuam, and Benedict

O'Bragan, Bishop of Leyny [Achonry], died. Melaghlin Mac Aedha", Bishop of Elphin, was afterwards elected to the
bishopric of

Tuam

catlap bopo muiji ceicni

maelpeclamn mac
in Ttieiyl

concobuip puaio pipi paicea ceann DO mupbao ann 7 oaine eile."

" A. D.
1

Briuin-na-Sinna, lying on the west side of the Shannon between Elphin and Jamestown, in the

307.

A depredation

was committed

by Felim O'Conor, King of Connaught, upon

the Clann-Murtough, on the border of Magh Ceitni, and Melaghlin, the son of Conor Roe,
usually called Ceann-an-Meighil, and other persons,
1

county of Roscommon. n This name is Mac Aedha, iriaj aooa sometimes anglicised Magee and sometimes Mac

Hugh. Under
noise,

this year the

Annals of Clonmac-

were

killed there.

Dermot

Cleireach

O'Brien.

His death

is

by Mageoghegan, contain the following passages, which have been omitted " A. D.. 1312. The Temby the Four Masters
as translated
:

recorded in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, under the year 1 307 but in Mageoghe:

ples

were destroyed thro' out

all

Christendum

this year.

gan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, Dermot Klereagh O'Bryen, King of Munster, is
said to

"

Pyers Gaveston was killed, the King's myDervorgill, daughter of

died.
this year

nione.

have been, deposed in 1311, when Mortagh O'Bryen was constituted in his place, and the death of Dermott Klereagh is recorded under the year 1313.

"

Manus O'Connor,
was
in

King of Connaught, " The feast of Easter

the

month
i.

of March.

26 Martii Dominica Pas-

Of Tir-Briuin,

e.

of the territory of Tir-

ckalia."

502

awNaca Rioshachca eiReaNN.

QOIS CR1OSC,
1313.

[1315.

Goip Cpiopc, mile, cpf cheD, acpi oecc.

UaDcc mac amDpiapa mic

paigh uf pfpgail Decc.

bpiain luijnij,

~]

Caral macTTlupchaib cap-

5'olla lopa

mag Dopchaib Do mapbab

la Concobap ccappach

mac

Diap-

maca.

Q018 CR10SU,
Qoip Cpiopc,
TTlacha
Niall
mile, rpf cheD,

1314.

a Dech, acfchaip.

mace mbne eppucc na bpeipne Decc. mall bfcc) mac maoileaclainn mic coippbelbaij (.1. maDma uf Domnaill Do mapbaD DQoD mac Cfooa uf Domnaill.
TTlara

cnuic an

mag ciccfpnain Do mapbaD Do cacal 6 puaipc. T?oolb mag macjamna DO mapbaD Da bpdicpib pfin. TTlaiDm pop muinnp paijillij 05 Dpuim Ifchan la Ruaibpi mac cachail
uf concobaip.

Niall

mac

bpiain uf neill,

piojDamna cenel neojain pfp pacmap po

conaij eipi&e Do ecc. TTlaghnap mac Domnaill

uf eaghpa.

eaghpa oo mapbaD la TTiajnap mac uilliam

aois CRiosr,
Qoip CpiopD,
Loinsfp
mile, cpi cheD,

1315.

a Dech, a

cuicc.

mop Do recc a halbain 50 hepinn la bfpbparaip Rig alban la heOuapD 50 po jabpac ccpiocaib ulaD. Cpfcha mopa Do Denarh Doib ap muincip an mpla ap allaib na mibe. Sluaj mop DO rionol Don mpla nacchaiD na nalbanacli. pfiblimiD mac aoba uf concobaip co nDpuing moip
i i

-]

Maguibne
Bishops,

In Harris's edition of Ware's

By

his

own kinsmen, oa
translates
his
this

bpairpifc p^in
:

p. 227,

he

is

called

Matthew Mac

Duibne, and said to have been a account in his country.

man

of great

Mageoghegan Mahon was killed by Irish word bpdcaip

" Rohalve
brothers."

own

Mac The

originally signified a brc-

1315.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

503

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of Christ, one thousand
three

1313.
thirteen.

hundred

Teige, son of Andreas, son of Brian Luighneach [O'Conor], and Cathal, son of

Murrough Carragh
Gilla-Isa

O'Farrell, died.
slain

Mac Dorcy was

by Cathal Carragh Mac Dermot.

1314.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

thousand three hundred fourteen.

of Breifny [Kilmore], died. Niall [i. e. Niall Beg], the son of Melaghlin, son of Turlough of Cnoc-anmadhma O'Donnell, was slain by Hugh, the son of Hugh O'Donnell.

Mathew Maguibne", Bishop

Matthew Mac Tiernan was

slain

by Cathal O'Rourke.
.

Roolbh [Rodolph] Mac Mahon was slain by his own kinsmenq The O'Reillys were defeated at Druinlahan by Rory, the son of Cathal
O'Conor.
Niall,

son of Brian O'Neill, heir presumptive of Kinel-Owen, a prosperous

slain

and very wealthy man, died. Manus, son of Donnell O'Hara, was

by Manus, son of William O'Hara.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1315.

thousand three hundred Jifteen.

commanded by Edward, the King of Scotland's brother, and landed in Ulster. They committed great on the Earl's people and the English of Meath. The Earl musdepredations
arrived in Ireland' from Scotland,
tered a great
ther; but
relative.
c

A great fleet

army

to

oppose the Scots, and was joined by Felim, son of

Hugh

it is

now

generally used to denote a

rony of Lower Glenarm, in the county of Antrim. Lodge (Peerage, Athenry) says that he
landed at Olderfleet, which was the old

Arrived in Ireland. According to Grace's Annals of Ireland, Edward Bruce landed at Glondonne, i. e. the Glendun River, in the ba-

name

of

Larne Lough,

in the

same county.
,

504

dNNCKXi Rioghachca

eiraeciNN.

[1315.

DO connacraib Do Dul lap an mpla. 3lua mop ele Do cionol la Ruaibpi mac cacail hi cconnaccaib co po loipcceab ~\ 50 po bpipeab caiplem lom&a laip lap ppaccbail na ripe DpeiDlimib.

Qo6 (.1. af6 ballac) mac majnnpa uf concobaip Do mapbab la carat mac Domnaill uf concobaip. TTlajnap mac TTlajnapa uf concobaip an caompfp ha mo allaD oipDO piojDamnaib Connacc mun am pin, a Dfpbpacaip Oomnall DO oeapcup
~\ -|

mapbab beop lapan ccacal cceDna apnabapach. Car Do cabaipc Don mpla pua& DeDuapo abpiup cona plojjaibh Dia poile, gop paimhib pop an lapla. ^abcap ann uilliam bupc, -] Da mac mfic an miliD.
~\

pagnaill caoipeac muincipe heolaip, 6 maolmiabaij caoipeac muincipe cfpballain, pocai&e Da muinnp imaille piu DO mapbaD la TTlaolpuanaiD mac r.Diapmaca nccfpna moije luipcc. Concobap puaD

ITlarsamain

mag

mac Qoba bpeipmj Do mapbaD po baoi DO Ific mfic Diapmaca an la pin. O Domnaill, QoD mac Domnaill oicc DO cochc im caiplen Sliccij 50
.1.

moppluaj
ceal.

imaille-pip,

Qn

baile Do jabdil Do, i

mopan Do miliroh na rim-

T7uai6pi

mac Domnaill

uf

concobaip Do

pupailfm Dfpbpopgailli injine majnapa

aipe.

la cfiripn gallocclac ap uf concobaip rucc cuppocpaic Doibh

mapbaD

Ctmlaoib 6 pfpjail DO ecc.

6 huijinn paoi
*
i

noan DO

ecc.

Mac Anveely. This was the Irish name assumed by the Stauntons of Carra, in the now county of Mayo.
'

from Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, it being the most copious Irish
account of his proceedings in Ireland yet discoIt agrees very closely with the Irish of vered.
the Annals of Connaught " 1315. Edward mac Robert
:

Muintir-Cearbhallain.
of the

This was the tribecorrelatives

name
in the

O'Mulveys and their

west of the county of Lei trim. Their country was otherwise called Magh Nisi __ See
note at the year 1243 and 1270. u As the events of this year are so very briefly and imperfectly treated of in the Annals of the

Bruise, Earle of

Carrick, and Brother of King Robert, King of Scotland, Landed with a fleet of 300 shipps in the north of Ulster, at whose coming all the

Four Masters, the Editor deems

it

necessary to

Inhabitants of the Kingdom, both English and Irish, were stricken with great terrour, that it

supply the deficiency by inserting here the account of the transactions of Edward Bruce,

made

the Lands and Inhabitants of Ireland to

;

shake for fear

Immediately after his arrivall

1315.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

505

O'Conor, and a great number of the Connacians. Rory, son of Cathal, mustered another great army in Connaught, and many castles were burned and

broken down by him

after

Felim had

left

the country [province].

Hugh

(i.

e.

Hugh Ballagh), the

son of

Manus O'Conor, was

slain

by Cathal,

son of Donnell O'Conor.

Manus, the son of Manus O'Conor, the most famous and illustrious of the princes of Connaught at this time, and Donnell, his brother, were on the next

by the same Cathal. The Red Earl and Edward Bruce, with their armies, came to a battle with each other, in which the Earl was defeated, and William Burke and the two sons of Mac Anveely were taken prisoners.
day
also slain

Mahon Mac
Cearbhallain
p
,

Rannall, Chief of Muintir-Eolais, O'Mulvey, Chief of Muintirand many of their people, were slain by Mulrony Mac Dermot,

Lord of Moylurg.
Dermot's side

Conor Roe, son of Hugh Breifneach, who fought on Mac on that day, was [also] slain.

O'Donnell (Hugh, son of Donnell Oge) came with a great army to the castle of Sligo, took the town, 'and destroyed much around it.
Rory, son of Donnell O'Conor, was slain by a band of gallowglasses, at the instigation of Dervorgilla, daughter of Manus O'Conor, who gave them a re-

ward

for the deed.

Auliffe O'Farrell died

Teige O'Higgin, a learned poet, died".

he burnt the townes of Downedealgan, Athfirdia, and Rathinore" [i.e. Rathmore-Moylinny.

thro' the borders of

common, from thence he marched on to Athlone, Meath and Moyebrey, ac-

Ann. Connaught], " harried and spoyl'd all Ulster in generall, tooke their hostages, collected the revenews of that province to himself, and

companied with flelym O'Connor, King of Connought ; their army consisted of twenty Cohortes.

made the Ulstermen to consent and acknowledge him as their King, delivered him the Regalities belonging to the King, and gave him the name
of

" The English army never spared neighther spiritual! nor Temporall Land, in every place

King
"

of Ireland.

When Richard Burke, Earle of Ulster, heard that Edward Bruise was thus arrived,
and that he usurped the name of King, and exercised the before recited tyranies, he out of all
parts gathered a great

where they came, without respect of Saint or Shrine, or sacred place, from the river of Synen of the South, to Cowlerayne of the North, and
Innis

Owen.

As

this

great

army was thus

Butler, then

marching

on, spoyleing

and destroyeing all places

in their way,

they saw

Edmond

army with him to Ros-

Deputy

of Ireland,

likewise marching on to-

3 T

,/

comata
aois CRIOSU, me.
Qoif C|iofcf
nnlc, cpi chco, croech,

J316.

abc

oo ewnol la peilim 6 cco-ncofcnp, Ic THac comnearw. galknfc wpcai|i comachc. Uocr 0016 50 cocap mona
wanbdKMwidb 30 %4diera, amed t all paint* at wbcee light tW
Eati waa
coo'd header or ofend die odier, for dtey
s

ewrad fro* e*eh

oodb

odT by die
rirer;

ruamog

Mid deep, aererdidm

VOW to expel
ovt of all dK KingdoMe, '

diey bad daily tone Mootiag of raovei of

bodidcofd>emr.
hearing of dK great of FeijM O'Connor, King of CoMiaaght, y dien waa widt dK red Eerie, be teat 1am pmie
:

find

car tk*

fH*e

Mowrte Wl*d OtuAny [v* mo6 bpco^ AMU. CviuuHijQ and Edwwd
*
;

y*

be would give bia y* province of x/stion, and to adhere to

SeoMiA

Ae

Ek

wd

tibe
tibe

Ukttraxn, *t aext daf Mlowcd

and akw to rctarne from die Eerie to prorence, tow* offer the Mid

ftd
fioHce, to

towne <A Loodk

ke

Me

Feiym tyftened and acknowledged to accept of

ban.

Mhwottge of

In

dK mew dK

tone Bowrie

n*

Cabal.

kiDd<tidMr tide, for Cdmad Bnwe, ad lw wwj, by Ae focn>Mat of OTTtafe od Ubtcnwa, he vifce Ui ymnty to CVjwkr^n* of die Korifc
* few

MA

(/Connor teeing hwnaetf to bare bia opportoabaenee of Fdym and bia nobiea nity in wid him in dnt went journey of Utaer,

dK

d<odwborJcfIanyira,Md

fefl

dowae

Md fmfce

tfc*

die Ecriefr

fumft

Bridge of Cowknyae, to Mopp rr die of Bom,

Kmr

CMK to tW M*e mer, Md fhw dMce dm/ Ubter, wfcoe

OBtiH he

few dK E4e fefemd

be alao Made widi wboM be bad aeerett coMMWticatka, and proMiaed dK Mid Eerie to banib aO EngUchMen from out of aU Conaaugbt, if Edward would be pleaaed to accept of hk </wn wrvke. Edward aodxrrized him to warr witb againat EngfiahnMn, and not to Meddle

bia repair towarda Edward Brtme,

dMirowrae of fpojMaf
Cbordt or Cbsppd [putoU,
in

dK

kndaofFfelyM.

But

Kc/wrie baring fee*

>4n.

MDodi dwt

diejr did not Icvre

ne-

be did not only war bat ak*> upon FWym and bia parWmtfiAmtn, taken, and aoogbt all mean* to f U dK Kiniethat ftrour of Bnuee

f Corae oadettrojred, nor towne n""^yii'C'lf ^ piece fwcfe it

1

6am

of CoMHNwbt into bia

#wn

baada, awl im-

MtdiaUiy aaembkd

togedier

Brnyn,

and

49 deleft) voMteffcw to neere M!M>,

dK

rerjr

cTMt cxMpaoiea of OaflowglaMe* and O/naaftbniirn, and Made towaida dK middk parta
atraet

dMtkjrndMiri^riDtodwbMtrftoaau The af Udb wario ofbr/ds dt of die mw M MKO0r*k*t, dwt MsdKr

f Siknorref, where, first of all, be >/arnt dM town of 8%gb, Adkkle an Coran, tb

<Mde of Kaieabnan, dK towne of Tobber-

131&]

AXXAL5 OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND

THE AGE OF CHEIST.

1316.

A great armj vas

ham].

mustered by Fefim O*Conor.

brMacFecnib
to

the English of

West Connftoghi

They marched

otaardtoM MtdkoU tb Mwhi c*MrtcBn to9UMf

fooT

It

wJi
ftr

111

ttfia tfctt irk*

->

lfkma

tdostWOI

ow

ftetar fiftbtr.

3f

VMlll tt Aft tBM rf tfct

bnHtH* rf

Jfcjl>H% 3BCMMF It

Morrey.

F**7t

* *"".'
-

oMBtrcr

he nffMMl to wow'd OtToaaor. and tb

> ** f <* 6ek t> fthm

-

w
ki

of

Fhrm

*d k

la

W * OM Fhiarntf Thil

FWtim and iniUMr

i

lia QTuuui l^ii^l

ii^

irrii

iakbab-

kow KowrW

oU

rr a^anst

koa

w Co- UkwnM* fittnrai

tknat,.

a*i s

ti*?T

wt

br

this opportviitT

k k*d

ia tfceir nbauaou.

MtoJNWi to VHJH% troM tht to dWo*d kjs f^T^ i Oo^MMkcku vko thro" Uktar aad Criott kmd not dT of lost, bwt oMUraall MOHBitt a*d ont umuU b c*B K> Granard. and *> a
e
;

tlh^

M t*kv.iO ttwnro^y ma fiuit kuMMMfe tool

frai
t

ck*Mvi

<MMBM; iito
kodi of tk*

EM&k

a*ol lri$h.

kow*.

kofo to bo

tolkwi

bx

3x2

508

[1316.

a pocpaicce, lomcnpecc concobcnp Ri Connachr Do bul ina najhaib Ifon Do cop fccoppa, bpipean pop 17uampi, 6 pfin DO riiapBaD, ~[ na mctice pi ele

Ua

These ensuing oppression of Rory O'Connor. of note that had persons were the chiefest men

others

him Felym O'Connor, Kinge of Connaught Mortagh O'Bryen, prince of Thomond; Mullronye Mac Dermott, prince ofMoyrecourse to
: ;

them, preyed Bryen took another prey from Arteagh of Dermott Gall, killed -many of his people, and
joined

as

with

O 'Dowdy e,

burnt his haggards and Corne, together with their houses, and alsoe took another prey from
the sonnes of Cahall Offlanagan, which they tooke in their way to the weare, called Cara-Cowla-

lorge
all

Gilbert O'Kelly, prince of

Imanye who
;

were banished out of their lands and posses"

sions.

When

ronye Mac

they were thus mett, and that MullDermott saw so manie exiled Noble-

Cwirck, and they could not drive the prey by reason of the greate moisture of the bogge, because the feete of the Cattle waded so deep in the

men

himselfe,

together in one house, he recounted with was abashed, and said, that he would

Moore, and also being pursued by a greate company, insomuch that all the forces of the sonnes
of Cahall, and that partye did overtake them, c with Mahon Granell, chieftain of Moyntir-

never after be reckoned amongst so many, or

number of deposed Chieftains, repay re to Teige O'Kelly, by whose intercession he thought to come in favour and credit of Rorye
that

but would

eolis,

with his kinsmen and followers. Mac Der-

and get his own again, which accordingly was

done,

mot, hearing the clamorous noise of the Drivers, and such as were about the said prey, coming
to

upon yielding of hostages by the said Mullronie to Rory O'Connor for keeping his allegiance and Fidelity with him.
Ballagh O'Connor was treacherously killed by Cahall mac Donnell O'Connor; Hugh c c Art, and Dermot Symon ne Traye, were,
"

them

Cara [Cowla-Cwirc] aforesaid, he followed to Kowlevaher, and seeyinge the preye

stayed,

and

like to
it,

Hugh

did not well like

be kept, by the owners, he but had rather their prey

assisted

should be taken by Felym and his adherents.

Whereupon he

imediately

Phelym,

in like

manner, killed by him in revenge of his Father, that before was killed by the said Der-

that notwithstanding the greate multitudes were against him, and, upon the suddaine, Con-

mott. " Donell the next day took a great preye from

nor Roe mac

ed,

Hugh Breffnye O'Connor was

c

kill-

Mahon
;

Granell, chieftaine of Moyutere-

the sonnes ofMortaugh, where

nus, and Donell his brother,
suit thereof,

Magnus

Mag-

olais
etc.

were

killed in pur-

O'Mullmyay, chief Moyinnter Kervallan, and discomfitted these that withheld their

and Tomaltagh

Donnogh was

taken captive, after committing of which exthe ploite they took parte and partaked with
English for their own defence. When newes came to the eares of Felym O'Connor of these things, hee, with a few of his trustiest friends,

himself. prey from Felym, took the preye restitution to the owners, came that, without over night to the Abbey of Boyle, the next day from thence to Kowll Segass North-easterlye

and to the Country of Offynn, to the Korann,

went

to the sonnes of Donnell

c O'Connor, vidz

When

Magnus, Cahall, Mortagh, Donnogh, John, and Teige, and after someconference had, they, with the help of their kinsmen, and such

to Rorye,

his coming. Lwynie, where Ffelym expected O'Connor heard that Mullronye Rorye c Dermott had done these private exploites,

and that he joyned in Company e with his said

ffoster-sonne Felym, he caused to be assembled

1316.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

509

Rory, the son of Cathal O'Conor, King of Connaught, came and a battle was fought between them, in against them with all his forces
;

Coinneadha".

from

all

parts his forces, and with

them encamp-

fear.

The wife

of

Mac Dermott

Gall was taken

ed that night at Ballymore O'fflyn ; made little respect of the reverence due to the churches
of Kill-Athrachta and Easse-da-chouua
;

prisoner at once with the said prey, together with a few of her gentlewomen. Dermott Gall,
after that day, never enjoyed

and

preyed the moncks of the abbey of Boyle.

"

Tomaltagh

Morgiessa

all his

followers and dependants,

Donnogh, with went to assist

any happy day ; besaught restitution, and, upon refusal!, preyed Moylorge ; took all the cowes and horses they
could meet, notwithstanding Dermott had warning before, which did nothing availe him, al-

Ffelym; Dermott Gall went to Crwachann, the King's Pallace, and Teig O'Kelly went to assist Rowrie, and there followed his promise of allegiance upon Mullronie
so joined

Mac Dermott and being

;

though he had a great assembly of people before them, and left Moylorg waste and voyde of catThere was no respect of either temporall or tle.
Church-land in that country ; their cattle, corn, and other things were snatched even from the very altars, and delivered over to the Gallowglasses for their wages.

Felym and Mullrony to Letter-Long [leicip luijne, Ann. Conn.~\, and to the borders of the mount of Sliewtogether they pursued

gawe, and also to the valley called Gleanfahrowe, where infinite numbers of Cowes, Gerans, and
sheep were killed by them. They strip'd Gentlemen [mnu uair-le, i. e. gentlewomen. Ann. Conn.']
that could
to
their

" The towne of Dunmore was burn't by

rie

Row-

O'Connor. "

Eaghroym O'Manie (Aughrim), was burnt

fal-

make no

resistance of their cloaths

;

by the said Rowrie, and the Castles thereof

len downe.

destroyed and killed without remorse children, and little ones of that Journey. There was not seen so much hurt

naked skinns

" The Cantred of

destroyed by "

Moynmoye was wasted and

Teig O'Kellie.

done in those parts before in any man's memory, without proffit to the doers of the harm. Mullronie

Felym O'Connor, mac Dermod, Tomaltagh mac Donnogh, and the sons of Donnell O'Connor, partaked with the English of Ighter Con-

Mac Dermott

sate in the privilege

hearing that Dermott Gall seat of his ancestors at

naught, and after they accorded peace with them

Carrick of Loughke, and with honour conveighed to Cruachan [cpuaccm], to enjoye the principality belonging to himself as his right,

they destroyed Tyrenna Tyrneaghten, Moyntyr

and that
at

Kreghan, and the demense of Dunmore, called Convacknie.

" Richard Burk, Earle of Ulster, called the

he made havouck and killed

all

his

Cowes

Gleanfahrowe

(as before

is specified), he,

with his

household, and such other as he had in readiness

for the purpose,
his

march'd towards Carrick, turned

back to Kara and Synen, and the three Kerryes,viz the Lower Kerrie, Kerrie Moy-Ie, and
[
.

red Earle, remained this year without force or power in any of the parts of Ireland. " There reigned many diseases generally thro' out the whole Kingdom a great loss of the inhabitants, great scarcitie of Victualles

and slaugh-

Kerrie Arthie, with their Cattle

in these days there

it is

thought that

ter of people,

and some ugly and fowle weather.

prince of Tyreconnell,

was not such an assault given,

"

Hugh

O'Donnell,

or such a prey taken, by any man whatsoever, lor they made all the country to shake for their

came

to the lands of

Carbrey in Connaught, and

destroye J all that

Contrey, by the advice of his

510

[131C.

Don Dul

pin,

.1.

Diapmaic jail mac Diapmaca cijjfpna moije luipcc, copbmac

ciappaijje,
-|

mac cfceapnaij caoipeac

pocaibe oile Duaiplib a jallocclac,

-|

a mumcipe pampfoaiji. T?ie Connacc Do jabail Dpelim apip. Slo paijpD aca Ifcain, "| an baile DO lopccab Ifp.
baile DO

mop Do cecclamaD Do

Dionn-

ma

an goccanach beop, eoala mopa DO Denam Doib. aimpip, -] lomar ^all ele apcheana Sloicceab lanmop DO cionol la pelimib 6 cconcobaip imaille pe mainb an

mapbab

leo,

.1.

-j

Slemne De^ecpa ciccfpna an an bapun ba paofpe in Gpinn

cuiccib.

t>a Dia maicib

T?f

pbe Oonnchab ua

bpiain 50 maichibh murhan,

maoileachlainn

pfp^ail cicc6 mame, TTlajnap mac fpna mumcipe hanjaile, caDj ua ceallaij cijfpna Dorhnaill uf concobaip ranaipi Connacc, Ctpc 6 hfjpa cijeapna luijne, -] bpiano DubDa ciccfpna ua ppiacpac. UiajaicpiDe uile johacnapioj. T?o

mibe, Ualgapcc na puaipc cijfpna bpepne,

wife, the

came

herself,

daughter of Magnus O'Connor, and with a greate route of Gallow-

glasses.

and took all the spoyles of the churches of Drumkleiw, without respect to church or churchman of that place. " The Castle of Sliegeagh was taken and fallen down by O'Donnell of that Journey."
v

here inserted as proving the situation of Tochar mona Coinneadha. " A. D. 1316. Felym O'Connor took a prey from the sonns of Failge, killed Eichard himself"

Ann. Conn.'], "and [Ricupo pailjech p eln made a great slaughter of his people.
-

'

Tochar mono, Coinneadha

This

is

the

of a celebrated causeway in the parish pletogher , in the barony of Ballimoe (anciently called Clanconway), in the county of Galway.

name of Tem-

ther'd together a

After which things Ffelym O'Connor gahuge armie both of Irish and

Englishmen, among whom the Lord Bermyngham, Mullronie Mac Dermott, the sons of DonO'Connor, and other noblemen (which for brevity's sake I omitt), are not to be forgotten,
nell

See

it

referred to at the years 1225, 1255, and

1262.
Ciarraighe. county of in the present Mayo, comprised barony of Costello.

to give battle to

Eowrie mac Cahall Roe O'Con-

territory in the

nor, which [who] took the kingdom of Con-

naught before of the said Ffelym. Being so accompanied they marched on towards Silemorrey; which being told to Kowrie O'Connor, King of Connaught, as then sitting at the topp of Fie
Ikie in Clynconvaye, watching the proceedings of Ffelym and his partakers, where he encamped,

His own particularfriends, This passage is repeated in the autograph by a mistake of the
transcriber.
i

Ath

leathan,

i.

e.,

Broad

ford,

now

Ballyla-

han

barony of Gallen and county of Mayo, formerly the seat of Mac Jordan de Exeter. ' A very great army The account of the
in the

and being

so sett,

father, Mullronie

he saw Ffelym and his ffosterMac Dermodda, with their

battle

is

more

fully given in the

Annals of Clonis

squadrons well sett in battle arraye, fiercely make towards him, Ffelym himself and his foster-father, Mullronie, in the

raacnoise, as translated

by Mageoghegan, and

former" [foremostj

1316.]

ANNALS OF

1W

KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

511

which Rory was defeated, and he himself slain, together with Dermot Gall Mac Dermot, Lord of Moylurg, Cormac Mac Keherny, Chief of Ciarraighe", and many others of the chiefs of his gallowglasses, and of his own particular friends".
Felim again assumed the government of Connaught he mustered another y he burned the town, and slew Slevin army, and marched against Ath-leathan
; ;

de Exeter, Lord of the town, and also Goganagh [De Cogan], the noblest baron in his time in Ireland, and many others of the English, and acquired much
booty.

A very great
O'Rourke, Lord

z army was mustered by Felim O' Conor and the

chiefs of the

province [of Connaught]. Among these chiefs were the following, viz. O'Brien, with the chiefs of Munster O'Melaghlin, King of Meath
;

Donough
;

Malgary

Hy-Many; Lord of Leyny; and Brian O'Dowda, Lord

to Athenry".
"

of Annaly; Teige O'Kelly, Lord of Manus, son of Donnell O'Conor, Tanist of Connaught; Art O'Hara,
.of

Breifny; O'Farrell,

Lord

of Hy-Fiachrach.

They

all

marched

The English

of

West Connaught mustered

their forces, to oppose

lish of

rank, together with the most part of the EngConnaught, especially of that part of the

O'Connor, or that partaked with him before, and took himself the government and name of King
of Connought, as before he had, which extends

Provence following them, and drawing to a place

in his presence called

Togher Mone Konneye.

from Easroe in Ulster to Eaghtge

took hostages

The Connoughtmen, with their King, Rowrie mac Cahall O'Connor, mett them in the same
where King Rowrie and his army by the multiplicity of hands and arms against him, was quite overthrown and discomfitted King
place,
;

for the preservation of allegiance of the Brenie-

men; constituted Ualgarge O'Roirke as their King also took the hostages of the O'Kellys,
:

O'Maddens, O'Dermodaes, O'Haras, O'Dowdies, and, after setting himself, prepared an army
with

Rowrie himself

of wonderful prowes ; a destroyer of foreigners, and an expeller of them out of the Kingdom), was killed also Dermott
(a
:

man

whome he went
;
;

to banish the English of

immediately burnt the town of Athlehan killed Stephen Dexeter therein, Miles

Connought

prince of Moylorg; Cormack Kehearnie, prince of Kerrie ; Gillechriste Mao

Gall

Mac Dermott,

Cogan, William Prendergass, and John Stanton, Knights; and also William Lawless, with a great

Dermodda, Connegan Mac Cunneagan, Donnell Mac Coneagan, Donnogh Mac Rowrie, with a

He burnt all the slaughter of their people. " Castlecorran contrey from the place'' [called]
Roba; took all their preyes and spoyles; returned to his house with a ritch booty of his
to

hundred Gallowglasses, and divers others, were killed: Dermott and Donnell O'Boyle, and also
hurt.

Robock Bremyngham of the other side were This battle was given the 7th of the Kalends of March in the year of our Lord 1316.

enemies, and a fortunate success in his

a

affairs.''
e.

Atkenry,

cir

na pi.

i.

Alhenria,

i.

Regum

"Felym O'Connor
preyes and spoyles of

afterwards took
all

all

the

that belonged to Rowrie

It was a borough or Ogygia, p. 16. town in a barony of the same name in corporate the county of Galway, but now an obscure village

Vadum

512
cionoilpioc

aNwaca RK^hachca
cpa
joill lapcaip

eirceciNR
.1.

[I3i(j.

uilliam bupc, an bapun mac pfopaip cijfpna dca na pioj, i uprhop jail Ifice cuinn uile. Ci6 cpa ache po cuipeab cac cpo6a cupaca fccoppa Ifch pop Ifch. Spaoinceap pop

connacc ina najhaib,

TTlapbcap peblimib 6 concobaip l?i Connacc ip in ba hepibe enjaoibel ap moa pe a paibe puil 05 peapoib ccainopjail pin, occap ap 6peann. T?o mapbab bfop cabcc 6 ceallaij ciccfpna 6 maine imaille pip, TTlajnup mac Domnaill uf Concobaip picic ouaiplib pil cceallaij canaipiConnachr, Qpr ua heajpa cijeapna lui^ne, TTIaoileachlainn cappacli
jaoibelaib po beoib.
~\ -|

Concobap 6cc 6 Ouboa, ffluipcfpcach mac ConcoBaip uf Duboa, Diapmaic mac Diapmaca aobap ciccfpna moije luipcc, TTluipceapcac mac caichlij meic Diapmaca, ITluipceapcac mac Diapmaca mic pfp5ail,maoilpeclainn occ mac majnupa, Seaan mac mupchaib uf maoabam, Domnall mac Qo&a uf concfnamn ciccfpna ua noiapmaca, TTluipcfpcac a bfpbpacaip, DonnchaD ua maolmuaib cona TTlupcliab 6 maoaoam, Domnall 6 baoijill,
6 oubhoa,
~\

-|

mumcip

imaille pip, ITlupchaD

mac

TTlupchaiD

meg macgamna 50 cceD Da

muincip ime, Niall pionnach cijfpna pfp ccfcba cona mumcip, pfpjal mac Seaain jalloa uf pfp^ail, uilliam mac Qo6a oicc uf pfpjail, comap

mac amlaoib

uf pfpgail, coiccfp

bfop Do cloinn noonrichaib,

.1.

comalcac mac

mac oonnchaio, concobap mac caiocc, muipcfpcac mac DonnchaiD, ITlaelechlainn mac DonnchaiD. T?o mapbao cpa ip in cac ceDna Gom mac aobaccain bpficfrh uf Concobaip, ^lolla na naom mac Dail
giollacpipc, ITlupchaD
~[

pe Docaip

uf

Dobailen pfp lomcapca

According to the Annals of

-]

lomcoimeoa bpacaije

uf

Concobaip,
own
it is

without a market.

Clonmacnoise, as translated by Mageoghegan, Felim O'Conor mustered this army to banish

suspected that it is one drawn from his imagination, as he does not tell us where

William Burke out of Connaught. Dr. O'Conor

gives a curious account of the battle of Athenry
in his

However his remarks on it and the preserved. result of the battle are amusing, and shall be
here laid before the reader " Such was the speech of Felim, and so great was the enthusiasm of his army that 10,000
:

suppressed work,

Memoirs of

the

Life

and Writings of
p. 79-

Charles 0' Conor of Belanagare,

He remarks

that the English were well

in regular systematic ar-

armed and drawn up

ray,

of his men, and twenty-nine of the subaltern chiefs of Connaught were killed in this decisive engagement.

commanded by Sir William de Burgo and Richard de Bermingham and that the Irish
;

Tradition says that, like the

Fabian family, the O'Conors were so completely

defeated,

fought without armour. He also gives the speech said to have been delivered to the Irish army by

that throughout

all

Connaught not

Felim O'Conor before the battle; but

it is

to be

man remained of the name, Felim's brother excepted, who could be found able to
one

1316.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

,

513

them, namely, William Burke; the Baron Mac Feorais [Bermingham] Lord of fierce and Athenry; and the greater part of the English of Leath Chuinn.

engagement took place between them, in which the Irish were at last defeated. Felim O'Conor, from whom the Irish had expected more than from
spirited

any other Gael then living, was slain. There were also slain Teige O'Kelly, Lord of Hy-Many, and twenty-eight gentlemen of the O'Kellys; Manus, son of
Donnell O'Conor, Tanist of Connaught
laghlin Carragh
;

Art O'Hara, Lord of Leyny

;

Me-

O'Dowda Conor Oge O'Dowda Murtough, son of Conor O'Dowda; Dermot Mac Dermot, heir apparent to Moylurg; Murtough, son of Taichleach Mac Dermot; Murtough, son of Dermot O'Farrell Melaghlin Oge
;

Mac Manus;

John, son of Murrough O'Madden; Donnell, son of Hugh O'Concannon, Lord of Hy-Diarmada, and his brother Murtough; Murrough O'Madden;

Donnell O'Boyle

rough, the son of

Sinnagh [the

Donough O'Molloy, and his people along with him MurMurrough Mac Mahon, and one hundred of his people; Niall Fox], Lord of the men of Teffia, and his people Farrell, son of
; ;

John Gallda

O'Farrell

William, son of
five of the

Hugh Oge
b
,

O'Farrell

Thomas, son of

Auliffe O'Farrell; and

Clann-Donough namely, Tomaltagh, son of son of Donough; Conor, son of Teige; Murtough, son Gilchreest; Murrough, In this battle were also slain of Donough and Melaghlin, son of Donough.
;

John Mac Egan, O'Conor's Brehon;

Gilla-na-naev, son of Dailredocair O'Devlin,

government, and the insulted sufferers of all the calamities which her mercantile monopoly has

carry arms. The annals remark that they were defeated by the superiority of the English archers, who swept off every thing that opposed them,

and that Felim was killed on the

tie in the

field

of bat-

brought upon all three. " Cox boasts that after this battle the Ber'

twenty-third year of his age, and

prodigies of valour, which shewed

minghams took

performed

that he was as worthy as Bruce of the monarchy of all Ireland. Had he succeeded at the
battle of

a prey of 2000 cows from the but certain it is that, considering O'Conors;' the inferiority of the Irish arms, we find no cause

of wonder that 8000 Irish, as

Cox has

it,

or

Athunree

it

is

probable that Ireland

as independent as any other nation in nor can it be conjectured at this time Europe; how far that independence, with an alliance be-

would be

11,000, as the Irish annals say, were slain at the battle of Athunree ; and that the King of England,

on receiving the news

of this victory,

tween the Scots of Ireland and the Scots of Albany, would have contributed to render the English, then at war with the Welch, and detested

granted to Kichard de Birmingham the title of Baron of Athunree, which his descendants have " enjoyed ever since.'
b

Clann-Donough,

i.

e.

the

by

their neighbours, a tributary people, the inhabitants of a province remote from the seat of
all

Tirerrill,

who

are a branch of the

Mac-Donoughs of Mac Dermots

of Moylurg.

3u

514
1

QNNata Rio^hachca emeaNN.

6 conallam.

[1317.

Uomdp

Gcc

cfna

hfiDip a paipnfip, no
-\

mibe ip in cpaccap DO maicib Connacc, murhan, .8. labpap DO ponnpab cuccab an cpomcach po. Cfopa bliabna ap pichicc ba haoip Dpfiblimib an can pin. Ruaibpi na bpfb mac Donnchaib mic

a innipm gacha ccopccac cceona. La pele

6ojam mic Ruaibpi

1 Sfol TYimpfohaij,

uf

Concobaip DoipDneab

ccijeapnup Connacc laparh.

muipfohaij.
-|

Sloicceab aDbal pe
-]

mac

uilliam bupc

pfol

concobaip

Da nuaiplib Do Denarh mopan Doipeacc connachc, Qcc cfna nocap paorii mac Diapmaca ancpic Do Denom, TTlac pi re pip. uilliam Do paijiD inoije luipcc mppin, Cpeacha ai&ble Do Denarii Do im dc
Do milleaD Do. Qchc uaccap cfpe, Qn cfp uile Do lopccab cfna po imcighpioc gan cac gan corhaD ap a haicle. RuaiDpi mac DonnchaiD DairpioghaD Do mac Diapmaca lap pin. Deapbpopjaill injean Ulajnupa uf concobaip, bfn Gooha uf Dorhnaill Decc.

an cip

-j

in

~\

QO1S C171O3U,
Ctoip Cpiopc, mile, cpf cheD,

1317.

a Dech, aSeachcc.

OonnchaD ua

bpiain, l?f

murhan Do rhapbao.
.1.

UoippDelbac mac Cto&a mic Goccain

cpoibbeipg Do piojab Do connachcoibh.

mac RuaiDpi mic afoha mic

carail

RoibfpD a bpiup DO cede in 6pmn a halbain imaille pe moppludijeab Dpopcacc a bpacap GobapD a bpiup, ~[ DO Diocup gall a hGipinn.
TTlaoilip

De^ecpa ciccfpna dca Ifcain Do mapbab la cacal mac

-j

Dorh-

naill ui concobaip,
c

Dorhnall

mac caibg mic

d

Dorhnaill loppaip uf concobaip

of the Faes, which was

Thomas O'Conattan
as translated

In the Annals of Clon-

Na-bhFeadh,

i.

e.

macnoise, called " Thomas

by Mageoghegan, he is O'Connolan of the King's

of O'Naghtan's country in the barony of Athlone, and county of Roscommon.

the name

Guard."

This family was located in the county

of Gal way, but the exact position of their terri-

The name of a ford on the Ath-an-chip near the town of Carrick-on-Shannon. Shannon,
e
f

tory has not been determined.

They

are to be

Uachtar-tire,

i.

e.,

distinguished from the O'Coindealbhains

or

country.

The northern part

the upper part of the of the barony of

Quinlans of Tullyard, near Trim, in Meath, as well as from the O'Caoindealbhains or Quinlivans of Munster, and from the O'Coinghiollains
of Sligo.

of Keadew, Boyle, containing the small village

is still g

locally so called.

Donough O'Brien

There

is

a long account

of the battle in which he was slain given in the

1317-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

.

515

In short, it is impossible O'Conor's standard-bearer; and Thomas O'Conallan to enumerate or tell all the chiefs of Connaught, Munster, and Meath, who fell

This terrible battle was fought on the festival day of St. LawFelim O'Conor was twenty-three years of age at the rence [10th of August]. d time. Rory na-bhFeadh the son of Donough, son of Owen, son of Rory O'Conor
in this battle.
,

was then inaugurated King of Connaught. A numerous army was led by William Burke into Sil-Murray; and O'Conor and the Sil-Murray, with many of the tribes and chiefs of Connaught, made
peace with him.

Mac Dermot, however,

did not consent to

make

this

peace

and Mac William

[for that reason] afterwards

made an
,

incursion into

Moy,

e and in Uachtar-tire f lurg, committed great depredations about Ath-an-chip and burned and destroyed the whole country; but his men departed without

fighting a battle, or obtaining pledges of submission. Rory, the son of

Donough

[O'Conor], was afterwards deposed by Mac Dermot. Dervorgilla, the daughter of Manus O'Conor, and wife of Hugh O'Donnell,
died.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1317.
seventeen.

thousand three hundred

King of Munster, was slain. Owen, son of Rory, son of Hugh, son of Cathal Crovderg, was inaugurated by the Connacians as their king. Robert Bruce came from Scotland to Ireland with a great army", to assist

Donough

O'Brien*,

Turlough, the son of Hugh, son of

and expel the English from Ireland. Meyler de Exeter, Lord of Athleathan [Bally lahan, in the county of Mayo], was slain by Cathal, son of Donnell O'Conor; and Donnell, the son of Teige,
his brother,

son of Donnell -Erris O'Conor, was slain along with him, together with four1

Irish

work
it

called Caitkrem Toirdhealbhaigh,

from

a great
ther,

which
h

has been abstracted by the compiler of the Dublin copy of the Annals of Innisfallen.

army of Gallowegl asses, to assist his broEdward Bruise, to conquer and bring in
Eng-

subjection this kingdome, and to banish all

lish
'

Great army.

In the Annals of Clonmac-

here hence." Donnett-Erris

noise, as translated

by Mageoghegan,

this pas-

O Conor.
1

He was

the son of

" A. D. 1317. llobert Bruise, sage is thus given: King of Scotland, came this year to Ireland with

Manus, who was the son of Murtough Muimneach, the son of King Turlough

More O'Conor.

u2

516

QNNaca Rioshachca emeaNN.

~\

[1313.

DO rhajibab bfop amaille pip, ceicpe pip Decc Dia muinap imapaon Qp bopD mechenaiji (.1. abonn) Dpoma cliab Do ponab na jnioma pin. Caiplen aca clmr an copainn (.1. baile an moca) Do bpipeab.
TTlaoileclainn

piu.

cappach mac Diapmara aDbap cijfpna moije

.1.

luipcc,

Con-

cobap 6 concobaip,
oile.

mac

corhopba comdin,

caoipij cloinne cacail Do

mapbab

TTlajnup 6 plannaccdin aDbap la jillbepc mac goipoealbaij co pochaibib

-]

TTlaibm cille moipe pop

mac Ruaibpi,

pop pfpaib bpeipne. Tllac Ctoba

nefll uf puaipc,

bpeipmj
buibe
nain,

uf concobaip

Do jabail ann.

Da mac

concobap

mag cijeapnain raofpeac ceallaij Dunchaoa, TTlacjamain mace cijeapan giolla puab mac an aipcmDij mic cijfpndm, niocol mac an maijipnp,
rhfic

pechc bpichic jallocclac Do mumcip pocaibe nach aipnfibcfp.

1

RuaiDpi Do rhapbab ann,

-j

TTlaeliopa frhnup Decc.

puab mac aobaccdin paof Gpeann

bppeneacup

-|

mbpeic-

Rajnall mag pajnaill raofpeac mumcipe heolaip Do jabail caoipech DO benam Do Shepppaib mag pajnaill ma ionaD.

bpioll,

-|

QO13 C171OSC,

1318.

Ctoip Cpiopc, mile, cpf cheD, a Dech, a hochc.

TTlaibm

mop Dorabaipc
]

nelib

ap jalloib la hua ccfpbaillDu

ccopcaip

doom mapep
j

Socaibe Do jalloibh.
" This Fenechus or Brehon lawe, is none other but the civill Lawe, which the Brehons had in

Ballymote is in the barony of Corran, and county of Sligo.

k

Kilmore,

the seat of a bishopric in the

county of Cavan. Mac- an- Master.

1

This name

is

still

extant

unknown language, which none could understand except those that studied in the open schools they had. Some were judges
an obscure and

in the

county of Cavan, but generally anglicised

Masterson.

and others were admitted to plead in the open air as barristers, and for their fees, costs, and all,
received the eleventh part of the thing in demand of the party for whom it was ordered ; the loser

m Mac Egan
"

Mageoghegan gives

this entry

in his version of the Annals of Clonmacnoise

thus

Moyleissa Roe

Mac Keigan,
To
this

the best-learned
Irish called

paid no costs.

in Ireland in the

Brehon Lawe, in

" The Brehons of Ireland were divided into

severall tribes

Fenechus, died."
note:

he adds the following

and

families, as the

O'Deorans,

O'Breasleans,

and

Mac Keigans, Mac Tholies.

1318.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Methenagh
j

517
(i.

teen of their people. It was on the brink of the that these deeds were done. DrumclifF,

e.

a river) of

of Ballymote ) was demolished. Melaghlin Carragh Mac Dermot, heir to the lordship of Moylurg; Conor O'Conor (i. e. the son of the coarb of St. Coraan); Manus O'Flanagan, heir to
(i.

The

castle of Ath-cliath

an Chorainn

e.

the chieftainship of Clann-Cathail,

Costello.

and many

others,

were

slain

by Gilbert Mac

Rory and the men of Breifny were defeated at Kilmore", where the son of Hugh Breifneach O'Conor was taken prisoner, and the two sons of Niall O'Rourke, Conor Boy Mac Tiernan, Chief of Teallach Dunchadha, Mahon

The son

of

Tiernan, Gillaroe, son of the Erenagh Mac Tiernan, Nicholas Mac-anMaster one hundred and forty of the gallowglasses of the people of the son of Rory, and others not enumerated, were slain.

Mac

Maelisa Roe
cature, died.

Mac Egan,

the most learned

man

in Ireland in

law and

judi-

Randal

Mac

RannalP, Chief of Muintir-Eolais

[in the

was treacherously taken prisoner, and Geoffrey Mac

in his place.

county of Leitrim], Rannall was made Chief

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1318.
eighteen.

thousand three hundred

A great
Adam

p victory was gained over the English in Ely Mares and many other Englishmen were slain.

by O'Carroll

and

Every contrey had

its

ceaih] "dwelling within

peculiar Brehaive" [bpeiitself, that had power

which

this passage

is

1317. Eandalph
chieftaineship

Mac

" A. D. given as follows Granell was deposed of the

:

to decide the causes of that contrey,

and to mainneighbour

by the people of

his

own

contrey,

tain their controversies against their

contreys,

by which they held their lands of the Lord of the Contrey where they dwelt. This was before the lawes of England were in full
force in this Land,

and the captainrie given over by them to Geffrey Magranell as more worthy thereof." A great victory was gained. maiotn mop oo
caBaipc, literally,
p

and before the kingdom was

Ely

"a great defeat was given." The Ely of which O'Carroll was chief

divided into Shyres." 11 Mac Rannall. This

granell or
translation

name

is

anglicised

Ma-

comprised the baronies of Ballybrit and Clonlisk, in the south of the present King's County ; that
is,

Mac

Granell,

by Mageoghegan

in his

of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, in

that part of the King's County lying south of the boundary of the diocese of Meath.

518

aNNdta Rio^hachca emeawN.

Slog

[1318.

mop oocionol Do TTlhaolpuanam mac Diapmaca eiccfpna

ui

moiji luipcc

DO paijiD caeail mic Dorhnaill

in

ploijfo pin UoippDelbac

mac

'Cainicc ap concobaip 50 pappa Qo6a mic Gojain ui concobaip, Ualgapcc

coilleaD.

ua puaipc eiccfpna bpepne, concobap oceallaij; eiccfpna un maine, Uomaleac mac Donnchaib eigfpna ripe hoilella. lap nDul 50 pappa corlleaD Go
-\

capccaiD Cacal cornea mopa Doib, 1 giDfo nocap gabab uaiD ace a lonnpaijm 50 laipmfoon a longpuipc. CiD eipiohe m ap eime na ap clap Do cuaiD pin Do uaip Do ppfccaip laDpomh 50 ppaochba poipniaea,

na maicib

pin po

mac coipp&ealgup pfpao lomaipecc air arhnup fccoppa, 50 ccopcaip bpian 6 ceallaij, 6pam mac baij uf concobaip piojDamna Connacc, Concobap pocaiDe oile Duaiplib majnupa, Cacal mac giollacpiopc meic Diapmaca,
-| -|

Danpabaib an cpluaij apcfna la cacal co na muincip.

Diapmaca mppin, aioble moij luipcc, -\ gup haicpiogaD coippbealbac mac 50 nDeapna cpeacha aba ao6a laip. F^1n cfnnup Connacc lapam, ~\ cfio coippoealbac DO
concobaip
-|
i

Cacal mac Domnaill Dionnpaiccib

ui

rhfic

paijiD uilliam bupc -| gall ap a haichle. Seaan mac Dorhnaill uf neill Do mapbab la

hua nDomnaill,
-]

.1.

Qo6 mac

Domnaill oicc

nooipe choluim

cille,

-|

mac

Dorhnaill,

pocai&e ele DO rhap-

ba6
q

DO bdchaD.
This was the name of a woody barony of Carbury, in the north

Fassa-CoiHe

which the whole passage runs

" A. D. 1318. Molronie
of Moylorge,

as follows

district in the

Mac Dermodda, prince

of the county of Sligo. at the year 1397.

r

See

it

mentioned again

Cathal, son ofDonnett 0''Conor.

FromMur-

gathered together a great army of the ensuing, viz., Terlagh O'Conconsisting nor, King of Connought, Ularg O'Royrck, prince
of the Brenie ; Connor O'Kelly, prince of Imaine ; and Tomaltagh Mac Donnogh, prince of Tyreallella,"

tough, the brother of this Cathal, O'Conor Sligo descended, thus Murtough, father of Donnell,
:

who was father of Owen, who was father of Donnell, who was father of Cathal Oge, who was fa'ther of Teige, who was father of Cathal Oge, who was father of Donnell O'Conor Sligo, who
was father of Sir Calvagh or Sir Charles O'Conor See Pedigree of O'Conor Sligo, given by Sligo. Duald Mac Firbis in his Genealogical AVork
(Lord Eoden's copy),
*

[and]

"marched towards Cahall mac

Donnell O'Connor, who dwelt at Fasagh Koyllie. Cahall offered them great gifts and bribes, and
not to come to" [annoy] " him ; which they refused, and marched towards the middest of the
place where he

encamped which he
;

seeing, hav-

p.

221.

Mageoghe"great gifts and bribes," in his translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, in

gan renders
this

Great presents

comra mopa.

jng none other remedy, he tooke hearte anew, and with a courageous stomack, without daunting, he issued from out his house, and made

towards the place he saw his enemies approache, and gave them a valourous onsett
fiercely
;

1318.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

great host was mustered

519

by Mulrony Mac Dermot, Lord of Moylurg,

,

with which he marched to Fassa-Coille q

to

attack Cathal, son of Donnell

;

Owen O'Conor Lord of Breifny Conor O'Kelly, Lord of Hy-Many and Ualgarg O'Kourke, Tomaltagh Mac Donough, Lord of Tirerrill. On the arrival of these chieftains 8 at Fassa-Coille, Cathal offered them great presents but these were not accepted from him, and they charged him in the very middle of his fortified camp. Cathal, however, was in nowise daunted' or disheartened at this, but resisted them with fierceness and bravery and a furious and desperate battle was
.

O'Conor r

In this army came Turlough, son of Hugh, son of

;

fought between them, in which Brian, the son of Turlough O'Conor, heir presumptive to the government of Connaught, Conor O'Kelly, Brian Mac Manus,
Cathal, son of Gilchreest

Mac Dermot, and many

others of the nobles and

plebeians of the army, were slain by Cathal and his people. Cathal, son of Donnell, afterwards marched against the O'Conor and

Mac

Dermot, and committed great depredations in Moylurg, and deposed Turlough, the son of Hugh, and assumed the sovereignty of Connaught himself upon
;

which Turlough went

to [seek refuge from]

John, son of Donnell O'Neill, was slain Donnell Oge) at Derry-Columbkille, and Mac DonnelF and many others were slain and drowned.
killed

William Burke and the English. by O'Donnell (Hugh, the son of

Connor O'Kelly, prince of Imaine at first ;

Bryan mac Terlagh O'Connor, Tanist or next Kingdom of Connought; Bryan mac Magnus, Cahall mac Gillechrist, and many
successor of the

out of his house, and made fiercely towards the and gave place he saw his enemies approache,

them a valourous

onsett: killed Connor O'Kelly,

others of the noble and ignoble sort were killed

prince of Imaine, at first; Bryan Mac Terlagh, O'Connor, Tanist or next successor of the king-

and immediately afterwards" [he] " tooke a great prey from Dermodda; tooke the government and name of King of Connought to
therein
;

Connaught ; Bryan Mac Magnus Cahall Mac Gillechrist, and many others of the noble

dome

of

and ignoble
u

sort.'

himself,

and deposed Terlagh O'Connor thereof, and for his defence partaked with William Burke
and the English of Connought." In nowise daunted. This part of the pas1

Mac Donnell.

Mageoghegan, in his translathis

tion of the

Annals of Clonmacnoise, gives

:

follows passage differently, as

" A. D. 1318. John O'Neale's son, that

is

to

sage

is

translated

by Mageoghegan

as follows, in
:

his version

of Clonmacnoise " Which he seeing, having none other remedy, he tooke heart anew, and with a couragious stomack, without daunting, he issued from

of the Annals

Donnell O'Neale, was killed by say, the son of O'Neale in the town of Derry. The said

Hugh Hugh

and divers others were killed and drownd-

ed the same day."'

520

awNata uio^hachca

eiraeawN.

[1319.

noun oealjan. TTlac puaibpi cigfpna innpi gall, TTlac Dorhnaill cigeapna aiptp gaoioel, i lolap Do maicib alban imaille pu'i Do mapbaD ma pappab, ~\ noca Deapnab pe haimpip
-|
i

GouapO a bpiup pfp millce Gpenn 50 coiccenn ecip Do mapbab DO jallaib cpe nfpc cacaijce, cpobacca

gallaib, 1 jaoioealaib

imcfin inGpinn gniorh

pe linn

ap mo ap a ccdinic a Ifp map, uaip cdinic jjopca coiccenn an Gouaipo pi innce co mbiDip Daoine 05 comailc apoile ppi pe na
Ific baoipiorh fccoppa.

ccfopa mbliaban 50

Do rhapbab Daon opcop poijDe Dia rhac pen. SeapppaiD mac giolla na naom uf pfpjail cigfpna na hanjaile Decc. Cacal mac jiolla cpipc meg pajnaill Do mapbaD.
6 pfpjail

Seaan

5'olla an choimDeaD maccionafohauf jopm^aile bpandin a bean Do 65.

-]

gopmlaic injeanmeic

GDIS CT71OSU,
Ctoip Cpiopc, mile, cpi cheD,

1319.

De.ch,

aNaof.

Gnpi mac an cpopain eppucc pacha boch Do ecc, i Uomdp mac copbmaic uf Domnaill abb eappa puaiD Do roja in eppuccoiDe T?dcha boch laparh.
v

Edward Bruce

The Annals

of Clonmac-

the whole kingdome in generall, for there was

by Mageoghegan, give the account of Bruce's death more fully, as follows

:

noise, as translated

not a better deed that redounded more to the

" Edward Bruise, a destroyer of all Ireland, in generall, both English and Irish, was killed

good of the Kingdom since the creation of the World, and since the banishment of the Fine

Fomores out of this

the killing of

land,

done in Ireland than

by the English

in battle

by

their valour at

Edward

Bruise, for there reigned

ill

Dundalk, the 14th of October, 1318, together with Mac Eowrie, King of the Islands, and Mac
Donnel, prince of the Irish" [Gaels] land, with many other Scottishmen.
" of Scot-

scarcity of victuals, breach of promises,

per-

formances of covenants, and the loss of men and women thro' out the whole Kingdom for the
space of three years and a half that he bore sway,

Edward

Bruise seeing the Enemies encamped before his

face,

King of Scotland

and fearing his brother, Robert Bruise, (that came to this kingdom

insomuch that men did commonly eat one another for want of sustenance during his time."

The

battle in

which Edward Bruce was

slain

for his assistance),

would acquire and gett the glorie of that victorie, which he made himself believe he would gett, of the Anglo-Irish, which he was sure he was able to overthrow, without
the assistance of his said brother, he rashly gave them the assault, and was therein slain himself,
as
is

was fought near the hill of Faughard, within two miles of Dundalk, and the natives still point out the spot where he fell. It would appear from
the Anglo-Irish accounts of this battle that the English owed the victory to the desperate bravery
of John Maupas, an Anglo-Irish knight, who, under the persuasion that the death of Bruce

declared, to the great joye

and comfort of

1319.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

,

521

the destroyer of [the people of] Ireland in general, both English and Irish, was slain by the English, through dint of battle and bravery, at Dundalk, where also Mac Rory, Lord of the Inse-Gall [the Hebrides], Mac

Edward Bruce v

Donnell, Lord of Argyle, and

many

others of the chiefs of Scotland, were

slain.

achievement had been performed in Ireland for a long time before, from which greater benefit had accrued to the country than from this for,
;

And no

during the three and a half years that this Edward spent in it, a universal famine prevailed to such a degree, that men were wont to devour one another".

John O'Farrell was

slain

by

his son with

one shot from an arrow

1
.

Geoffrey, son of Gilla-na-naev O'Farrell, Lord of Annaly, died. Cathal, son of Gilchreest Mag-Rannall, was slain.
Gilla an-Choimhdhe, son of

Kenny O'Gormly, and Gormlaith, daughter

of

Mac

Branan, his wife, died.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one thousand three

1319.
nineteen.

hundred
;

Henry Mac-an-Chrosain, Bishop of Raphoe, died and Thomas, son of Cormac O'Donnell, Abbot of Ashroe, was then elected to the bishopric of Raphoe.
himself would ensure the victory to the English, rushed devotedly to the place where he saw him,
edited by the Rev. Richard Butler, p. 95.

w Were wont

to

devour one another.

Grace and

and when, after the battle, the body of Bruce was discovered, that of John Maupas was found
(See Campion's Hislying stretched across it. Sir John Bertorie of Ireland, A. D. 1318).

Pembridge

state that

some of the people were so

had boiled
it

pinched with famine that they dug up the graves

in the church-yards, and, after they

the flesh in the scull of the dead body, eat

up

brought Bruce's head to the King, and received as a reward the earldom of Louth and the barony of Ardee. The

nungham

is

said to have

but

this is evidently

this dearth, for,

an exaggerated account of not surely, if the famine had

as well as the food, they

consumed the pots

might have
cooking
to the
easily

hands and heart of Bruce are said to have been

carried to Dublin,
different places
;

found better utensils for

and his other limbs sent to

but tradition says that his body was buried in the churchyard of Faughard, where
they
still

human flesh than the sculls of men. Dr. Drummond thinks that this story owes its origin

pretend to point out his grave.

Bar-

" ambiguity of the word scull,'' which is used by old English writers to denote frequently
a covering for the head
;

bour, however, says that Gib Harper wore Edward Bruce's armour, and that his body was con-

but when it

is

considered

that the chroniclers of the event wrote in the

sequently mistaken for that of Bruce, and his head salted in " a kest, and sent as a present to

Latin language, this conjecture will be found to lose much of its ingenuity.
x

King Edward."

See Grace's Annals of Ireland,

Wit/tone shotfrom an arro!0,oaon opcop poig-

522

dNNCica Rio^hachca eiRecthw.

Gppucc
boipe,

[1320.

bdndin Gappucc clochaiji,

-\

Gppucc cluana pfpca bpe-

nainn Decc.
rheic Conpndma oecc. mac bpandin caoipeac copcachlann DO mapbab UhomalGachmapcach caij ui maoilbpenainn, gibfb nocap mapbab in apccaib pin uaip puaippiurh a ccionn an rpfp laoi lap pin DO bicin na ngon rucc Uomalcac pfipin bap

Qme mjean

meic biapmaca bfn

paip.

ciccfpna cfpe heoccam oaccop ap a plaichfp cpe nfpc gall i cloinne Goba buibe, -\ a 6ul co pfpaib manac ap comaipci plaicbfp-

Dorhnall 6

neill

cai^ rheg uibip,

.1.

manach Do cpeacab a muinncipe. O neill, Dorhnall Do jabail a ci^fpnaip pfm Do pibipi. bpian mac oomnaill ui neill cdnaipi cenel eojain Do mapbab la
")

pip

cloinn

aoba buibe

~\

la hannpaoi

mac

oauill 05 pair lupai j.

aois crciose,
Qoip Cpiopc,
i

1320.

mile, cpi cheD, apiche.

ITIainepnp bfnorpai^e nDucaij ui Suilleabain in eppcopoiccecc T?uip, DO cogbdil la hua Suilleaban Do bpairpib .8. ppanpeip, -] ap ip an mainepcip oile. pin baoi cogha abnaicche ui Shuilleabdin ~\ mopdin buaiplib

combdil eioip Cacal 6 concobaip i maolpuanaib mac Diapmaca, 50 nofpnpac pic connail cat]iDfrhail pe poile, -| mac Diapmaca Do roibecc
Coinne,
-)

be Mageoghegan renders this passage thus " A. D. 1318. John O'Farrell was killed by his
:

was
c

riot killed

gratis,
life.

i.

e.,

his death cost

Mac

Branain his own

own
i

son with an arrow."

The Clann-Hugh-Boy.

These were the de-

The Bishop o/Derry He was Odo or Hugh See O'Neill, and succeeded in the year 1316. Harris's Edition of Ware's Bishops, p. 289z

scendants of

Hugh Boy

O'Neill,

who was

slain
terri-

in the year 1283,

and were located in the

tory of Clannaboy, in the counties of

Down and
is

O'Banan

He

is

called Gelasius

O'Banan

Antrim.
d

by Ware.
a

He

succeeded in 1316.

Ratk-lury,
called

Rac

lupai^.
is

This place

now

The Bishop ofClonfert.

The Bishop of Clon-

Maghera, which

a small

town

in the

fert

who died in this year was Gregory O'Brogy, who succeeded in 1308. See Harris's Edition
of Ware's Bishops, p. 639. b He did not escape scatMess
i

or Loury's county of Londonderry. St. Lurach's See note well and grave are still pointed out.
'

under the year 1218,

e

p. 193, supra.

narfcnD p irl)

^'oeaoh nocap literally signifies "he

Monastery o/Bantry.

Dr. Smith, in his

Nac. 5,

tural

and

Civil History

of Cork, book

ii.

1320.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

of

523

The Bishop
Clonfert
1
,

Derry

y
,

0'Bananz Bishop of Clogher, and the Bishop of

,

died.

Mac Dermot, and wife of Mac Consnava, died. Eachmarcach Mac Branan, Chief of Corcachlann, slew Tomaltagh O'MulAine, daughter of
renin; but he himself did not escape scathless", for, on the third day afterwards,

he died of the wounds which Tomaltagh had inflicted upon him. Donnell O'Neill, Lord of Tyrone, was expelled from his lordship through c and went to Fermanagh the power of the English and the Clann-Hugh-Boy
,

under the protection of Flaherty Maguire

plundered
his people.
i.

but the inhabitants of Fermanagh

lordship again. Brian, son of Donnell O'Neill, Tanist of Tyrone, was slain

O'Neill,

e.

Donnell, assumed his

own

by the Clann-

Hugh-Boy and Henry Mac

Davill at Rath-lury".

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1320.

thousand three hundred twenty.

f
,

The monastery

was founded by and many other nobles chose burial places for themselves. A meeting and conference took place between Cathal O'Conor and Mulrony Mac Dermot: a kindly and amicable peace* was concluded between them,
states that this

e of Bantry in O'Sullivan's country, in the bishopric of Ross 0' Sullivan for Franciscan Friars. In this monastery O' Sullivan
,

by Dermot O'Sullivan
thority.

monastery was founded in 1460, but he quotes no au;

and concluded friendly attonement was agreed

between them ; whereupon Mullronie upon some
occasions of his left the countrey ; [and] the said Cahall, contrary to his said agreement,

No

vestige of this building

now

re-

mains.
f

Boss

This diocese comprised the western

tooke his advantage by the oportunity he had

in his absence,

See Smith's Napart of the county of Cork. tural and Civil History of Cork, Book i. cc. 2

and 4
*

and Lanigan's Ecclesiastical History of

ii.

Ireland, vol.

p.

194.
peace, TIC connctil
in his translation
this

Torawnagh, and also took Granie, daughter of Mac Magnus, wife of the said Mullronie, whom he found stayinto the island of ing for a boat to pass over Carrick Logha Ke ; he tooke the spoyles and

whom

and mett him at a place called he instantly took prisoner,

kindly and amicable

caipoectrhuil.

of the

Mageoghegan, Annals of Clonmacnoise, renders

:

passage as follows
ronie

" Cahall O'Connor and Mulla meeting,

he tooke prisoner preys of the contrey: also Mac Donnogh, Lord of the territorye called
Tyreallealla in Connought."

Mac Dermott had

where a

3x2

524

aNNQ^a Rio^hachca

eiraeciNR

[1321.

Dia cfp pfin mppin, michomjell Do oenarh Don cacal pempaicce ap mac noiapmaca ap a haicle ap mullach DoparhnacTi, .1. a jabail laip, -\ gpainne injeanmeicTTlajnupa bfn meic Diapmaraoo^abail beop bpupc na caippse.
i

Donn mac aobacccinn i a mac, -\ Comalrac mac Donnchaib ngfpna cipe hoilella Do jabail beop, ~\ an ci'p DO lomapccain laparh. Gob mac caiDj uf Concobaip ofjaobap pigh connacc ap oeilb ap uaiple,
TTlaoiliopu
1

ap einech Do mapbab DO mac maipcfn, ~\ epfm Do mapbab ina Diojail. macjarhain mac Domnaill connaccaij uf bpiain ranaipi muman DO mapcuilein.

bab Do cloinn

TTlop injean uf baoijill bfn uf pfpjail Decc.

TTlacTriaipcfn DO

Clann

TTlaipcfn, i

mapbab ma cij pfin la hafoh mac camhj uf concobaip, clann aeba buibe DO leanmain aoba 50 clochap, a map-|

bob ann.

QO1S CR1OSU,

1321.

Ctoip Cpiopc, mile, cpf cheo, piche

a haon.

^pamne

injen meic TTlajnapa bfn maolpuanaib meic

Diapmaca Decc.

Ruaibpi na bpfb mac Donnchaib mic eojain uf concobaip DO mapbab DO caral mac Qoba mic Gojam rpe rangnochc.

Cappacc locha ce Do bpipeab la caral mac oomnaill uf concobaip. TTlajnup 6 hanluain cigfpna oipcip Do ballab Da bparaip pein mall mac Conulab uf anluain ceDaofn an bpaich.
Niall 6 hanluain c^fpna aiprip Do meabhail.
h

mapbab DO

jallaib Duin oealgan

Muttagh Doramknach.
bearing this

There

is

no place

renders this as follows, in his Annals of Clon-

now
It

name

was probably the

Mac Dermot's country, ancient name of the townin

"Hugh mac Teige O'Connor, a young man of great worth and expectation,
macnoise
:

land of Mullaghmore, in the parish of Killukin, barony of Boyle, and county of Roscommon.
1

and one sufficient for birth, composition of body, and liberalitye, to be a Kinge, was killed

Port-na- Cairrge

This was the name of the

by Mac Martynn, who was

thereof.
'

killed in revenge

quay or bank opposite

called Carraig

Mac Dermot's
so

Castle,

Locha
Irish.

Ce, or the

Key.
"

The

spot

is still

Rock of Lough called by the natives

Mageoghegan

Clann- Cuilein __ This was one of the names of the Mac Namaras of Thomond.

tribe

when speaking

good materies, ofjjaobap

m Clann-Martin __ This was a sept of the O'Neills of Tyrone. The Clann- Hugh Boy were

1321.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

to his

525

and Mac Dermot then returned

own

country.

Cathal, however, after-

wards violated the conditions of

this peace, for

he made a prisoner of Mac

Dermot
Manus,

at

Mullagh Doramhnach", and

also of his wife, the daughter of son,

Mac

at Port-ua-Cairrge'. Maelisa

Don Mac Egan and his

made

Mac Donough, Lord

of Tirerrill, were also

and Tomaltagh and the country prisoners,

was entirely plundered.

Hugh, son of Teige 0' Conor, a good materies" of a King of Connaught, by

reason of his personal shape, nobility, and hospitality, was slain by who was himself slain in revenge of it.

Mac Martin,
slain

Mahon, son of Donnell Connaghtagh O'Brien, Tanist of Munster, was

by the Clann-Cuilein

1
.

More, daughter of O'Boyle, and wife of O'Farrell, died.

Mac Martin was

where they

slain in his

own house by Hugh,

the son of Teige O'Conor;

but the Clann-Martin

and the Clann-Hugh-Boy put-sued

Hugh

to Clogher",

killed him.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1321.
twenty-one.

thousand

three

hundred

*
Grainne, daughter of Mac Manus, and wife of Mulrony Mac Dermot, died. Rory of the Faes, the son of Donough, son of Owen O'Conor, was treacherously slain by Cathal, the son of Hugh, son of Owen. The Rock of Lough Key was destroyed by Cathal, son of Donnell O'Conor. Manus O'Hanlon, Lord of Orior, was blinded on Spy- Wednesday by his own kinsman", Niall, son of Cu-Uladh O'Hanlon.
Niall O'Hanlon,

Lord of

Orior,

was treacherously

slain

by the English of

Dundalk.
also a sept of the this period,

same family, who, soon

after

near Athlone, in the county of Roscommon, in

made themselves masters of an ex-

which he was
P
it

fostered.

tensive territory in the counties of Down and Antrim, to which they gave their clan- name.

Kinsman, bpaccnp.
thus

brother in his

translation of the
:

Mageoghegan renders Annals of

Clogheris the head of a bishop's see, in a barony of the same name, in the county of Tyrone.

" A. D. 1321. Magnus O'Hanlon, prince of the Orhir was blinded by

Clonmacnoise,

OftheFaes

He was

so called

from the

own brother, and mightily oppressed by Neale mac Conuley O'Hanlon, upon Wednesday,,
his

territory of the Faes, or O'Naghtan's country,

the week before Easter."

526

aNNata Rio^hachca
ITlaiDm abbal Do cabaipc DO Gincpiu

eiraeaNN.
pfopaip
)

^1322.

mac

Do jallaib na miDe

ap rhacaibh piogh ua bpailje. Uilliam mac jille pitmen,

-\

TTlaeha DO

mapbab

la hen]n

mac

jiolla pin-

Dem ma

oipecc pein.

aois crciosu,

1322.
piche, aDo.
~\

Goip Cpiopc, mile, cpf cheD,

TYlarha ua heochaij eppuccConmaicne (no apoachaio), QinDpiap mace maoibn apomaijipcip Dlijib nuipiaDnaipi 1 Shenpeacca lejc,-] ccanoin Decc. Lucap ua TTluipeDhaij aipchiDeocham cluana Do ecc.
i i

TTlupchao

mac giollq na

DO mac a Dfpbparap Seomin

cfpcac

naorh uf pfpjail ciccfpna na hanjaile Do mapbaD 6 pfpgail ^ ccluain lip bficc cpe mebail. TTIuip-

Do mapbaD an la ceDna Dia bpairpibh pfippm RoibfpD) cpe mebail. Loclamn mac amlaoib uf pfpjail DO (lochlumn, mapbaD la Seomin lap pin.
ui pfpjail
"|

mac amlaoib

OonnchaD mac DOnnchaiD meic Diapmaca

l^annpaoi

Decc.

mac

gillepinnem caoipeac
ufDip.

mumcipe peoDacain Do rhapbab

la

cloinn Qrhlaoibh

meg

^ill'bepc 6 ceallaij ciccfpna 6

maine Decc.
16 concobap

TTlaolpuanaib cobaip, ~\ Do luce cije cacail uf concobaip

mac Diapmacca Do jabail

i

mac caibg
-]

ui con-

ccluain cummuipcc,

an baile

Dapccain Doibh.

RiocapD mac pfopaip ciccfpna dca na pio Decc. ITIaiDm mop DO cabaipc Do bpian 6 bpiain pop jallaib. ^lolla na naorh mac SeppaiD mic giolla na naom uf pfpjail DO jabail ci^eapnaip na hanjaile.
Uilliam liac bupc

mac

uilliam moip Decc.

maolpuanaiD mac

jiollacpiopc mic concobaip mic copbmaic mic comal-

caij na caippje ciccfpna moije luipcc [Decc].

q Cluain-lis-Bec.

This name, which was that

of a seat of one of the O'Farrells, in the county of Longford, is now obsolete.

r

Clann-Auliffe, and gave name to a barony in the county of Fermanagh, now anglicised Clan-

The sons of Avliffe Maguire

dants of this Auliffe

The descentook the tribe name of

awley, and sometimes incorrectly Glenawley. s Cluain-Cumuisc This name would be anglicised

Clooncummisk, but there

is

no place

1322.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

527

A great defeat
at a

was given by Andrew Mac Feorais [Bermingham] and the

English of Meath to the sons of the Chieftains of Offaly.

William and Matthew

meeting of his own

Mac

Gillafinnen were slain

by Henry Mac

Gillafinnen,

tribe.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1322.

thousand

three

hundred twenty-two.

Mathew O'Hoey, Bishop of Conmaicne or Ardagh, and Andreas Mag-Mailin, Chief Professor of the Law of New Witness, of the Ancient Law, and of the
Canon Law,
died. died.
trea-

Lucas O'Murray, Archdeacon of Cluain,

q cherously slain at Cluain-lis-Bec

Murrough, the son of Gilla-na-naev O'Farrell, Lord of Annaly, was

tough, the son of Auliffe O'Farrell,
his

by his brother's son, Seoinin O'Farrell. Murwas treacherously slain on the same day, by

Robert). Loughlin, the son of Auliffe O'Farrell, was afterwards slain by Seoinin [O'Farrell]. Donough, the son of Donough Mac Dermot, died.

own kinsmen (Loughlin and

Henry Mac

Gillafinnen, Chief of Muintir-Feodachain,

r
.

was

slain

by the sons

of Auliffe Maguire Gilbert O'Kelly, Lord of Hy-Many, died. Mulrony Mac Dermot was taken prisoner by Conor, son of Teige O'Conor, and by the household of Cathal O'Conor, at Cluain-Cummuisc 8 which town they
,

phmdered. Richard Mac Feorais [Bermingham], Lord of Athenry, died. The English suffered a signal defeat' from Brian O'Brien.
Gilla-na-naev, the son of Geoffrey, son of Gilla-na-naev O'Farrell,

assumed

the lordship of Annaly. William Liath" Burke, son of William More, died.

Mulrony [Mac Dermot], the son of Gilchreest, son of Conor, son of Cormac. son of Tomaltagh of the Rock, Lord of Moylurg [died].
known
1

to the Editor

now

bearing the

name

in

defeat was given

lish."
u

by Brian O'Brian

to the

Eng-

the county of Roscommon.

Suffered a signal defeat.
Literally,

"A great

Liath,

i.

e.

grey, hoary.

528
TTIuipip

aNMata Rio^hachca eiraeaNR

mac an comapba DO 65. Op^ap mac lochlainn rhej uibip DO mapbab la caral Pecpup 6 bpfplen ollam bpficfman pfpmanac Do ecc.
pinjin 6 caipiDe ollam pfpmanac
i

[1323

6 Ruaipc.

leijjiup

Do

ecc.

peapjal puab mac Sarhpabain la cloinn Qmlaoib meg ui&ip.

~[

^lolla lopa

mac Sampabdin DO rhapbao

aois CRIOST:,
Goip Cpiopc,

1323.

mfle, cpf cherc, piche,

cpf.

5'olla aipnfn 6 cachupaij aipchinoeac cluana Da T?ar DO ecc.

Caipppe an pccpeccam (.1. l?i mibe) mac copbmaic uf maoileclamn mi6e DO mapbab la oorhnall ua maoilmuaiD cpia canjnacc.
TTiaolmopDa

pi

ma5 eochaccdm Decc. Seoinin ua pfpgail Do mapbab DO cloinn cSeaain ui prp^ail. O heajpa (.1. pfpjal) DO mapbab Dua connmacham Da oipecc pein. ITIaolpeaclainn 6 SfgT?uaibpi mag macjamna mac cijeapna oipgiall, mac TTlaeileDum Do mapbab la cacal 6 T?uaipc mbeol Qcha anndin,
)

~\

Conaill.

Niall

mac

neill

caim Do mapbab la lochlainn 6 Rajallaijj,

~\

la ITlael-

peaclamn.
Sloijeab mop camic TTlac peopaip i goill DO popbaipi ap borhnall mac Seaain uf pfpjail 50 coill na namup Dia po mapbab an cepac -j an calbac,
1 goill

lomba imaille

ppiu.

TTlaolmfba injfn meg cijeapnam bean bpiain meg Sampabdin Decc. ^lollapacpaicc 6 ouibsfnnam ollam Conmaicm pfncup, lucap a mac
i

-]

Do mapbab la concobap mac jaipbir mej uibip. Loclamn mac eogain uf oalaij Do mapbab la cloinn afba buibe
T

uf neill.

Cluain-da-rath.

Cluain oa par,

i.

e.

the
a

pasturage of the two forts,

now

Clondara,

that there were here an hospital and Termon, Irenagh, or Corbeship, endowed with four cartrons of land

townland and

containing the ruins of an in the parish of Killashee in the west of abbey, the county of Longford. See Ordnance Map of
village,

See Arc/tdalPs Monasticon,

p. 438,

with MS. additions, in the library of the Royal

Irish
w

Academy.
'

that county, sheets 8 and 13. The Inquisition of the 27th 37 Queen Elizabeth, finds January,

G Connmhachain.

This name

is still

extant

in the district of Ballycroy, in the

county of

1323.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Gillafinnen, Chief of Muintir-Feodachain

529

Maurice, son of the Coarb, died.

Henry Mac

was

slain

by the sons

of Auliffe Maguire. Osgar, the son of Loughlin Maguire, was slain by Cathal O'Rourke. Petrus O'Breslen, Chief Brehon of Fermanagh, died.

Fineen O'Cassidy, Chief Physician of Fermanagh, died. Farrell Roe Magauran and Gilla-Isa Magauran were slain by the sons of
Auliffe Maguire.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1323.
twenty-three.

thousand

three

hundred
,

Gilla-airnin O'Casey,

T Erenagh of Cluain-da-rath

died.
trea-

Carbry an Sgregain, son of Cormac O'Melaghlin, King of Meath, was cherously slain by Donnell O'Molloy.

Maelmora Mageoghegan died. Seoinin O'Farrell was slain by the sons of John O'Farrell. O'Hara (Farrell) was slain by O'Connmachain", one of his own people. Rory Mac Mahon, son of the Lord of Oriel, Melaghlin O'Seagannain, and Mac Muldoon, were slain by Cathal O'Rourke at Bel-atha-Chonaill*.
son of Niall Cam, was slain by Loughlin and Melaghlin O'Reilly. Mac Feorais (Bermingham) and the English marched with a great army y against Donnell, son of John O'Farrell, to Coill-na-n-amhas where Kepagh and
Niall,
,

Calvagh, and

of the English, were slain. Maelmeadha, daughter of Mac Tiernan, and wife of Magauran, died. Gillapatrick O'Duigennan, Chief Historian of Conmaicne, and Lucas, his

many

son,

were

slain

by Conor,

the son of

Loughlin, the son of

O'Neill.

Owen

Garvey Maguire. O'Daly, was slain by the tribe of

Hugh Boy

Mayo, and is now generally anglicised Conway. * At Bel-atita- Chonaitt. 1m 6eol Qra Con-

Coitt-na-n-amhas,

i.

e.

wood

of the hireling

soldiers,

now

Kilnaneawse,

near Edgeworths-

now Ballyconnell, a village in the barony of Tullaghagh, or Tullyhaw (ceallac ecoach), in the county of Cavan, and about eleven miles
naill,

town, in the county of Longford. It appears from an Inquisition taken at Longford, on the
1st of August, 1627, that this and ten other townlands in the same neighbourhood had been

to the north-east of the

town of Cavan.

3 Y

530

aNNQ6a Rioghachca eiReawN.

(5ppai6 mac
giolla fopa uf bdlaig

[1325.

DO rhapbab la bpian mac Ruaibpi

111

Concobaip.

QO18 CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopc,

1324.

mile, cpf ceo, piche acfchaip.

Rf connacc) mac Dorhnaill mic caiDcc mic bpiam mic ainopiapa mic bpiam luijnij mic coippbealbaij moip, aon Duine ba bfo&a, ba mo maicfp, mop aicfp Da mbaof in aon aimpip pip DO mapbab la coipp-

Carol

(.1.

-j

bealbac 6 cconcobaip
lainn

mac

ccfp bpiuin na Sionna,-] TTlac uf Domnaill, .i.TTlaoileaccoippbealbaij cnuic an mabma, mic Domnaill ofcc, rdnaipi cfpe
i

conaill lap

na lonnapbaD Dua Domnaill,

.1.

QOD mac

Domnaill oicc

5 10 ^ a

'

cpiopc 6cc

mac
i]

DonnchaiD,

~\

pocaiDe oile Do mapbab annpin bfop im cacal

6 cconcobaip,

Uoippbealbac Do gabail cfnnaip Connacc ap a haicle. Rajnall occ mag pajnaill caoipeac mumcipe heolaip Do rhapbab. Uilliam bupc mac uilliam moip Do ecc.

UaDhg ua
uf

T?uaipc
-\

Rajallaij,

laip a nDiojail

ngeapndn mag Ruaipc Do jabail la cloinn TTlacha a mapbab laDporh Dia ccaipbepc Do TTlhag machjamna, a meic Ruaibpi po mapbab piapan can pin.
~\

-|

Oonnchab mac jiollaparpaicc cijeapna oppaije Do ecc. bpian 6 Rajallaij giollacpiopr Do mapbab la muinnp Ruaipc.
-|

QO1S CR1O3U,
Qoip Cpiopc,
Oorhnall
laoghoipe.

1325.

mile, cpf cheD, piche

cuig.

mac bpiam

uf neill

cigeapna cenel nfogain Do ecc occ loch

uf neill

Cuulab mac Domnaill mic bpiam

Do mapbab la cloinn
neill

Dfjabbap ciccfpna cipe heojjam

mic bpiam, clann Dfpbpacap a arop.

geoghegan, thus "A. D. 1324. Cahall mac Donnell, King of
:

in the possession of Francis lately deceased.

Edgeworth, then

This passage, Along with Cathal 0' Conor which is given in a very confused manner by
the Four Masters,
is

Connaught, was killed by Terlagh mac Hugh mac Owen, who" \recte he] " was held to be the
hardiest and substantiallest Irishman of his time.

somewhat better

in the

Annals of Clonmacnoise, as translated by Ma-

Melaghlyn mac Terlagh O' Donnell and

Gille-

1325.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

531

Godfrey, son of Gilla-Isa O'Daly, was slain by Brian, the son of Rory O'Conor.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1324.

thousand three hundred twenty-four.

of Connaught, Cathal, the son of Donnell, son of Brian, son of Andreas, son of Brian Luighneach, son of Turlough More [O'Conor], the most energetic, the best, and the most successful man of his time, was slain by Tur-

The King

lough O'Conor, in Tir-Briuin-na-Sinna; and the son of O'Donnell, i.e. Melaghlin, the son of Turlough of Cnoc-an-madhma, son of Donnell Oge, Tanist of Tirconnell, who had been banished by O'Donnell, i. e. Hugh, the son of Donnell

Oge, Gilchreest Oge Mac Donough, and many others, were slain along with 1 Cathal O'Conor Turlough assumed the government of Connaught after him.
.

Rannall Oge

Mac

Rannall, Chief of Muintir Eolais, was

slain.

William Burke, son of William More, died. Teige O'Rourke and Tiernan Mac Rourke were made prisoners by the sons of Matthew O'Reilly, and deli vered by them into the hands of Mac Mahon, by whom they were put to death in revenge of his son Rory, whom they had slain

some time

before.

Donough Mac

Lord of Ossory, died. Brian- O'Reilly and Gilchreest [O'Reilly] were slain by the O'Rourkes.
Gillapatrick,

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of Christ, one thousand
three

1325.
twenty-Jive.

hundred

Donnell, the son of Brian O'Neill, Lord of Tyrone, died at Lough-Laeghaire". Cu-Uladh, the son of Donnell, son of Brian O'Neill, a good materies of a

Lord of Tyrone, was

slain

by the sons of Niall, the son of Brian, L

e.

the sons

of his father's brother.

Oge Mac Donnogh, with many others, were killed at once with him" [i. e. along with
christe

" in the Contrey of Tyrbryen, the seventh him], of the Kallends of September, after hehad reigned

the wills of the Irish and English ; after whose death Terlagh O'Connor succeeded in the kingdome of Connought."
B

Lough Laeghaire,
lake
is

i.

e,

Leary's lake
its

This

King

of

Connaught

six

years and a

half, against

said to

have taken

name from Leary

y2

532

QNNaca TJio^hachca
clepec

eiraectNN.

[1326.

bpian 6 jabpa Decc. Oiapmaic 6 maoilbpenainn apDcaoipeac cloinne Concobaip Do ecc TTlaolpeachlamn 6 plannajdin caoipeac ruaiche Rdcha Do mapbaDh la
-)

mac Diapmacca

macaib ompmaoa ui plannagdin. Oiapmair ua TTlaoflbpenainn (an raoipec Diojain), TTlananndn caoipeac Connacc ina aim pip Do ecc.

Uomdp

6 coinoepi ofganac na bpeipne oeg.

ITIaibm Do chabaipc la cloinn coippbealbaij uf bpiain ap cloinn bpiam puaiD i bpian mac TTlarjamna Do mapbab co nDpuing oile imaille ppip.

rjaghnall 6 huijinn

~]

Niocol
ui

mac corhapba
Rajallaij
in

Rajnailc
DO ecc.

mjfn Gnoaib

TTlaoDog Do ecc. bfn Donnchaba me5

bpaoaij

Oonnchab mac cionair Do rhapbaD

eacclaip

meg TTlachjamna.

QO1S C171O3U,
Qoip Cpiopc,

1326.

mile, cpf cheo, piche, aSe.

Luipinc 6 lacrnain eppucc oilepinn Decc,

~]

Scon 6 pfonnacra Do roja

DO cum na heppuccoiDe ceDna lap pin. TCipofpD a bupc, .1. an ciapla puab ciccfpna ulab aon poja jail Gpeann uile Do ecc a nDfipfb Sampaib.
the victorious, one of the heroes of the

~\

connacc Dupmop,

Branch in Ulster, in the

is

first

century.

Red The name

Man

his principal depot.

In Cormac's Glos-

now

obsolete
it,

references to

butf as appears from several the lake was situated in the

sary (voce TDanannan) he is described as a famous merchant of the Isle of Man, and the
best navigator in the western world, and for that reason called the

barony of Clogher, in the county of Tyrone See other references to it at the years 1431,
1436, 1500, and 1509.
b

God

of the sea

by the

Scots and Britons:

eum deum
This
is

" Inde Scoti Britonesque vocaverunt maris, eutnque filium

i.

Dermot O'Mulrenin.

the same Der-

maris esse dixerunt,

e.

Mac

Lir."

It is

added

mot mentioned

in the second last entry, and the transcriber writes oepmao, " a mistake,"

that the Isle of Man derived

its

name from him.

county of Lon-

There

exists a tradition in the

before this entry.

Manannan. He was Mac Lir, i. e. the son of the

generally surnamed
sea,

donderry, that the spirit of this celebrated navigator lives in an enchanted castle in the tuns,
or waves of Magilligsn, opposite Inishowen, and that his magical ship is seen there once every

and said

to

have

been a great navigator and merchant of the Tuatha De Danann colony, who made the Isle of

seventh year.

O'Mulrenin

is

called the

Manan-

1326.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Mac Dermot and Brian O'Gara died. Head Chieftain of Clann-Conor, died.
[in

533

Gilchreest Cleireach

Dermot O'Mulrenin,
the sons of

Melaghlin O'Flanagan, Chief of Tuath-ratha

Fermanagh], was

slain

by

Dermot O'Flanagan.
(the great chieftain), the

Dermot O'Mulreninb
Connaught

Manannanc

of the chiefs of

in his time, died.

of Breifny, died. victory was gained by the sons of Turlough O'Brien, over the sons of Brian Roe O'Brien and Brian, the son of Mahon O'Brien, and many others,

Thomas O'Connery, Deacon

;

were

slain.

Randal O'Higgin and Nicholas", son of the Coarb of St. Maidoc, died. Raghnailt, daughter of Annadh O'Reilly, and wife of Donough Mac Brady,
died.
e Donough Mac Kenna was

slain in

Mac Mahon's

church.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1326.
twenty-six.

thousand

three

hundred

Laurence O'Laghtnan, Bishop of Elphin, died; and John O'Finnaghty' was

elected his successor in the bishopric.

Richard Burke,

i.

e.

the

Red
8

Earl,
all

Lord of

Ulster,

and of the greater part

of Connaught, the choicest

of

the English of Ireland, died at the close of

Summer.
nan of the chieftains of Connaught, in consequence of his being an experienced sailor,
d
f John O'Finnaghty. In his Patent of resetution to the temporalities, dated 1st March, He died 1 326, he is called John of Roscommon.

Nicholas, i.e. Nicholas O'Farrelly,

son of

the coarb of St. Maidoc, orMogue, of Drumlane, in the county of Cavan.

in 1354,

and was buried in the cathedral of El-

phin.
p.

See Harris's Edition of Ware's Bishops,

Mac Kenna.
tory of Trough,

He was

chief of the terri-

631.

anciently called Triocha

ched

an chladaigh, now the barony of Trough, in the north of the county of Monaghan, whence a branch of the same family removed to the parish of
in the

The choicest. This entry is rendered as follows by Mageoghegan in his translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise
:

"A. D.I 326. Richard Burke, Earle

of
all

of Ulster

Maghera, middle of the seventeenth century, where the name is now very numerous.

in the

county of Londonderry,

and Lord of Connought, the choyce Englishman

Ireland,
this yeare died, a little before

Lamas day."

534
lorhap
bpaicpib.

aNNdta Rioshachca
mag
pajnaill

eiraeciNR

[1327.

caoipeac

muinnpe heolaip DO

mapbab

la

Niocol 6 hfohm Decc.

Uoippbealbac mac an chaoic DO

ec.

Coippbealbac

mag machgamna DO

ecc.

cpfp GouapD Do pioghaoh op Sa^aib. 25. lanuapn. Cpeach maighe hionaip Do Denarh la hua T?uaipc, ualgapg, aipm mapbab goppaib mag gappaib la cacal ua T?uaipc.

Gn

in

po

Oomnall caipbpeac mag capraig ap comaip i ap jallaib murhan Du in po mapbaic l?iDepea&a iom6a. Qmlaoib TTihag umip Do ecc.
TTlai&m Do chabaipc la

TTlac

QO1S CRIOSC,
Qoip Cpiopr,
plaicbfpcac

1327.

mfle, rpf cheD, piche,

a Seachc.

~] ^opmlaic injean meic mic Domnaill uf concobaip ranaipi connacc pe hfb, magnapa bfn concobaip uf ceallaig ciccfpna 6 maine apa haicle, -] bfn pfpgail uf eaghpa ngfpna luigne lappin, Decc lap mbuaio naicpige enig, ~| oipofpcaip.

mag

uiohip ciccfpna pfp manach,

Diapmara bfn

TTIaoilechloinn piabac

mac
uf

Domnaill nnc caiDg uf concobaip Decc DO

galap bpfc.

pfpgal mac ualgaipc

meic aobaccdin Decc.

Ruaipc, Cuilen ua Diomapaigh,

-]

SaDb
T?f

ingfn

CogaD mop einp Righ

Sapcan

-|

a
-\

bfn,

.1.

ingfn Righ ppanc,

-]

Sa^-an

Do aichpiogab lap an mnaof cfrna,

h

a mac DO gabail pige

ip in

mbbabam

By

his kinsmen,

la a bpairpiB.

"

Was
in

tion of Ware's Antiquities, p. 59, that a branch

killed

by

his

own

brothers."

Mageoghegan,

of the

Desmond
the

Fitzgeralds, seated in the county

Ann. Clonmacnoise.
'

of Waterford, took the

Magh

hionais.

This was the name of a

After

victory

name of Mac Thomas. of penance, iap mbuai6

level district in the present

barony of Clanawley,
is

nairpi^e
is

in the south of the

county of Fermanagh. It

This passage, the language of which so oddly constructed by the Four Masters, is

to be distinguished from

Maighe (now ridiculously anglicised Inismacsaint), which is situated in the north-west of the same county.
J

Samh

Inis

translated

by Mageoghegan

as follows, in his
:

version of the Annals of Clonmacnoise

Mac

Thomas.

It is stated in Harris's edi-

" A. D. 1 327. Gormphley, the daughter of Mac Dermodda, first married to Magnus mac Don-

1327.]

ANNALS OP THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Mac
Rannall, Chief of Muintir-Eolais,

535

Ivor

was

slain

by

his kinsmen".

Nicholas O'Heyne died.

Turlough Mac-an-Chaoich [O'Reilly] died. Turlough Mac Mahon died. Edward III. was made King of England on the

23r.d of January.

was

O'Rourke, Ualgarg, plundered Magh-hionais',- where Godfrey slain by Cathal O'Rourke.

Mac

Caffrey
j

was gained by Donnell Cairbreach Mac Carthy over Mac Thomas and the English of Munster. Many knights were slain.
Auliffe

A victory

Maguire

died.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1327.
twenty-seven.

thousand

three

hundred

Flaherty Maguire, Lord of Fermanagh, and Gormlaith, the daughter of Mac Dermot, and wife of Manus, son of Donnell O'Conor, Tanist of Connaught,

some time afterwards wife of Conor O'Kelly, Lord of Hy-Many, and afterwards wife of Farrell O'Hara, Lord of Leyny, died, after the victory of penance", hospitality, and renown.
for

Melaghlin Reagh, son of Donnell, son of Teige O'Conor, died of Galar

breac.

Farrell, son of

Ualgarg O'Rourke, Cuilen O'Dempsey, and Sabia, daughter

of

Mac

Egan, died.

[broke out] between the King of England and his queen, the daughter of the King of France. The king had been dethroned by this woman, and her son had in the past year assumed the government by her order, in
1

A great war

O'Connor, Tanist of Connought for a time, afterwards married to Connor O'Kelly, prince
nell

" 6 cup pojriiaip na bliaona

rneaoom
i.

pojriiaip

peacmata 50 mi na btiaona ppeacnaipce,

of Imaine, and lastly to Fferrall O'Hara, the best woman for liberality, manners, and hospitality of

e.

from the beginning of the autumn of the

past year to the

month of mid-autumn of the

her sept, died, after good penance."

the last year,
ip in
is

In

The word pfcmaca

mbliaoain pfcmaca. used by the best Irish

last past.

present year." In the Annals of Clonmacnoise, as translated

writers to denote past, or

It is thus

used by the Four Masters at the year 1582:

by Mageoghegan, the dethroning of King Edward is entered under the year 1326, thus: " A. D. 1326. There arose great warrs between

536

awwaca raioshachca eiReaNN.

-|

[1328.

peachmaca maghaib a achap rpia popconjpa a marap,

comaiple Shajcan. T?f alban DO cochc
in epinn.
-|

a oipMieab la

Cogab einp rhumcip Ruaipc

muincip Rajallaij,

-]

cloch locha huach-

caip Do lopcaDh la cachal ua TCuaipc.

bo. Caiplen locha huachcaip Do jabail la hua Ruaipc, rpfgaip ap picic la TTlac ui rhaoil TTlhiaDaigh )iollacp]opr Dall rhag Rajnaill DO rhapbab

ina leabaib pein.

Ueibin jalaip bpic ap puD epeann oia pq eccpac

lie.

QO1S CR1OSC,

1328.

Ctoip Cpiopc, mfle, rpf cheD, piche

a hochc.

Gppcop na bpeipne

6 cpiDagan

Do

ec.
ipin l?oirh.
i
)

Comap
i
]

6 mellaij

eppucc eanaij Dum oecc

TTiuipip 6 gibellain apDimaigipcip

epeann

noligeaD nua

pfinolicceab,
i

ccanom Da gualann,

ccuaim le^, pellporh pfpeolac, paof pipodna, cananac copab nachab conaipe, ccill alaib, neanac Dum, noilpinn, ccluain pfpca, oippicel bpficfrh coiccionn na haipDeappuccoiDe, Decc.
i

-]

-\

the King of England and his Queen, the French King's daughter, where at last the King was

Bruce landed

at Carrickfergus in the year 1328,

deposed of his Crown, and given [recte which was given] to his own son Edward, by the advice of the counsell of England."

and sent word to the Justiciary and the Council that he came to make peace between Ireland

and Scotland, and that he would meet them at Green Castle, but that, the latter failing to come
to the meeting, n The castle

Under the year 1327 the same

notices his death

chronicle
:

he returned to Scotland.
is
i.

the following words " A. D. 1327. King Edward the Second was pressed to death by pressing a great Table on his belly, this year, with many other tortures,
in
in the Castle of Berckley,

This of Lough Oughter usually called Clock Locha Uachtair,

stone, or rock, of

more
e.

the

Lough Oughter.

It is a

round

castle of great strength in the lake of

Lough

and was entered in

Glocester."

Oughter, not far from Kilmore, in the county of Cavan. See other references to it at the
years 1369 and 1370.

Edward
on the
1

III.

was proclaimed King of Eng-

land on the 25th of January, 1327, and crowned

February following. m The King of Scotland, i. e. Eobert Bruce According to Grace's Annals of Ireland, Robert

st of

This passage
noise

Galar Breac, literally the speckled disease. is thus rendered by Mageoghegan,

in his translation of the

:

Annals of Clonmac-

1328.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

He was crowned by
1

537
the parliament]

opposition to his father. of England.

the council

[i.

e.

came to Ireland. A war broke out between the O'Kourkes and O'Reillys and the castle of Lough Oughter" was taken by Cathal O'Rourke. The castle of Lough Oughter was taken by O'Rourke by cunning, for
of Scotland"
;

The King

twenty cows.
Gilchreest Dall

Mac Rannall was

slain in his

own bed by

the

son

of

O'Mulvey. The Galar Breac raged throughout Ireland, of which many died.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1328.
twenty-eight.

thousand three hundred

The Bishop of Breifny [Kilmore], O'Cridagain, died. Thomas O'Meallaigh, Bishop of Annadown, died at Rome.
Maurice O'Gibellan", Chief Professor of the
the

New

Law, the Old Law, and

Canon Law, a truly profound philosopher, a learned poet, and a canon chorister of Tuam, Elphin, and Achad-Chonaire", Killala, Annadown, and Clonfert,

the

official

and the general Brehon

[i.

e.

Judge] of the archbishopric, died.

1328. Morishe O'Gibelan, master of

"A. D. 1327. There reigned a disease called the pied pox, or little pox, in Ireland in general, and took away persons both great and small." Throughout the province of Connaught, 5alap
bpeac means the small-pox but, of Ireland, where boljac is used
;

"A. D.
art,

one exceeding well learned in the old and new laws, Civille and Canon, a cunning and skillful philosopher, an excellent poet in Irish,
in Irish

in the south
to denote the

an elegant and exact speaker of the speech which is called Ogham, and, in some [sum], one

small-pox, jalap

bpeac

is

used to denote the

that was well seen in

spotted fever. It is highly probable, however, that the Four Masters intended the term to de-

many other good sciences, and Singer at Twayme, Olfyn, Aghaconary, Killalye, Enaghe Downe, and Clon-

He was

a Cation

note the small-pox, as their cotemporary Ma" pied pox, or little geoghegan translates it, Dublin P. Journal, March 30, 1833, pox." See
vol.
P
i.

fert."
q

Achad-C/ionaire,

now

anglicised Achonry,

p.

314.

Maurice O'Gibellan.

This passage

is

thus

barony of Leyny, county of Sligo, situated about sixteen miles to the south-west of Sligo. It was formerly an episa small village in the

rendered by Mageoghegan, the Annals of Clonmacnoise

in his translation of
:

copal

see,

but

is

at present united to Killala.

3z

538

cmNCK-a Rio^hachca eiraeaNR

na nainjel 6 caichlij aipooeocham mnpi Decc.

[1328

TTlaoilpecloinn 6 pai jillij nccfpna muincipe maoilmop&a Do loc Do jallaib na mibe, a jabail Doib mppin 50 bpuaippior bpaijDe ap, a ecc Oia jonaib

ma

comapba Goarhnam Decc. remreac a6bal ip in pampaD 50 po milleab mfp, copra Uoipneac epeann 50 Diorhop, jup pdpaccap apbanna pionna papa. Ufibm jalaip 50 coiccenn pecnoin epeann (oa ngoipchi Slaoccan), a bfich cpi laice, no a cfcaip ap jac aon Da ngabab gup bo canaipi bdip Doib 6.
-\
-|
-]

njjh pfin apa haicle. ^lolla Ctoamnain 6 pipjil

-j

Uilliam bupc, .1. an ciapla Donn puaiD Do cocc in epinn.

~|

mac

Sip Seon

(.1.

mpla) mac an lapla

Oonnchab puab 6 jabpa cuiccfp Da cmeao imaille pip DO mapbaD. Concobap mac bpandin aobap caoipij copcaclamn Do mapbaD la muinnp
na hanjaile.
Sluaicceab la Uacep a bupc

Daop jjpaDa coippDealbaij

Sip Seon

uf

cconnaccaib gup haipcceaD laip mopdn concobaip pij Connacc.

i

mac

pfopaip mpla Lugmaij, aon bapun ba bfooa, bpiojmaipe,

i

-|

ba pfpp omec Do jallaib Gpeann, Do mapbaD ppell Da mumcip pfm Do gaoi&elaib. 6a jallaib oipgiall, pocaibe imaille pip Do jallaib
"1
]

.1.

Do

Dib-

"

Gilla-na-nangel CPTaicttigh

The

transac-

Ireland called the Murre, which continued for

the space of three or four days, and brought divers even to the point of death."

tions of this year are incorrectly placed

1

under

325,

in the

Dublin copy of the Annals of

:

This entry reads as follows ^illa na nainjel o caiclij aipcinnech tDaniiinnp mopUlster.

An-t-Iarla Donn, i. e. the Brown Earl. He was so called-from the colour of his hair. He is
u

cuup

epc,

i.e.

Gilla-na-n-angel

O'Taichligh,

called " the

Dun

Erenagh of Devenish, mortuus ext. s This passage Great thunder and lightning
thus rendered by Mageoghegan, in his trans" There lation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise
is
:

translation of the

Earl" by Mageoghegan in his Annals of Clonmacnoisc, in

is

which the whole passage

rendered thus

"A. D.

1328.

The Earle

of Ulster, called

the

Dunn Earle, grandchild

to Ireland."

to the

Read Early,

called

was great thunder and lightning

it

this year, that

William Burke, Sir John Burke's sonn, came

This passage is thus given in the Annals of Clonmacnoise, as translated

destroyed great part of the corns of the kingdom, that they grew whitish by reason they
lost their substance."
c

w Sir John Mac Feorais.

Slaedan, a cough, or influenza.

is

This pas-

by Mageoghegan

thus rendered by Mageoghegan in his translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise " There was a
sage
:

" Sir John Bermingham, Earl of Louth, the best Earl for worthiness, bounty, prowes, and
vallour of his hands, was treacherously killed

general disease throughout

all

1328.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

r
,

539

Gilla-na-nangel 0'Taichligh

Melaghlin O'Reilly, of Meath, who afterwards took him prisoner, and received hostages for He afterwards died of his wounds in his own house. his ransom.
lish

Archdeacon of Innis [rede Devenish], died. Lord of Muintir-Maelmora, was wounded by the Eng-

Gilla-Adamnan O'Firghil [O'Freel], Coarb of

died.

St.

Adamnan

[at

Raphoe],

Great thunder and lightning* occurred in the summer [of this year], by which the fruits and crops of Ireland were very much injured, and the corn

grew whitish and

unprofitable.

disease, called Slaedan', raged universally throughout Ireland,

which

afflicted, for

It was three or four days successively, every person who took it. second [in pain] only to the agony of death. William Burke, i e. an-t-Iarla Donn", the son of Sir John (i. e. Earl), the

son of the

Red Earl, came to Ireland. Donough Roe O'Gara and five of his
Conor Mac Branan, heir

tribe

were

killed.

to "the chieftainship of Corcachlann,

was

slain

by

the people of Annaly. An army was led by Walter

Burke

into Connaught.

Many

of the retainers

of Turlough O'Conor, King of Connaught, were plundered by him, Sir John Mac Feorais" [Birmingham], Earl of Louth*, the most vigorous,
puissant,
his

and hospitable of the English of Ireland, was treacherously slain by own people, namely, by the English of Oriel. With him were also slain
and"
[recte

by

his people, the English of Uriel,

who]

" also killed at once with him,

many

rap a leireio Do reacc piam o cuip Domain pip in elaoam pin a mapbab pem 7 a oepbparaip niaic etle ooib ap in lacaip cebna." * Earl of LoutJi Pembridge and Grace state
that
this

good and worthy English and Irishmen: Mulronie Mac Kervel, chief Musician of the Kingdome, and his brother Gillekeigh, were killed
in that

squabble

took

place
at

between the
Balebragan,

no man

company, of whom it's reported that in any age ever heard, or shall here-

Anglo-Irish

families of Uriel

after hear, a better Timpanist."

The
the

original

now Bragganstown, in the county of Louth. They give a far better account of the results of
the conflict than the Irish annals
;

Irish of the part of this passage relating to the

and

it

is

minstrel

given copy of the Annals of Ulster, in which it is entered under the year 1325: "In caec mac
Cepb'aill
.1.

is

as

follows

in

Dublin

curious to remark that, while the Irish annalists

record no

name except that of the Earl

of Louth

maelpuanciij, aen paja cimpunac

7 in

and Mac Carroll, "as great a minstrel as the world ever heard," the English chroniclers,

6penn

Qlban,

Domain

uile 7 ni

oepb-

who regarded

the minstrel as a mere harper, or

z2

540

QNNac,a Rio^hachca eirceaNN.

.1.

[1328.

piohe an caoc 6 cfpbaill, alban epibe ma aimpip.

TTlaolpuanaib, aon

poa aompanac

epeann, i

bpian mac Uomalcaigh meic oonnchaib Do mapbab DO bpian meic Donnchaib.

mac

caibg

TTIoppluaijeab la hiapla ulab, i la Uoippbealbac ua cconcobaip (l?i Connacc), "| la TTluipcfpcac ua mbpiain Ri muman, in ajjhaib bpiam bam nf bpiam. niaibm Do cabaipc la bpian mban 6 mbpiain poppapom annpin.

Concobap ua bpiam of^aobap pfj epeann ap cpuc, ap ceill, ap emec, oipDeapcup DO mapbaD Don oul pin amaille pe cfirpe picir Do DfjhDaoinibli 1 Do oaopccappluajh Do cuinm ina pochaip. Uaocc mac coippbelbaij; uf concobaip DO mapbaD la Diapmair ua ngabpa. Combal coinne im arh cinn locha cecec, ecip Udcep mac liilliam bupc.
-|

^lUbepc mac joipoealbai^ Don Dapa leir, maolpuanaib mac Diapmara, Comalcac a mac, i Uomalcac mac Donnchaib 50 maiab cloinne TTlaoilpua]

-|

naib.

TTlaiDm DO bpipeab pe

mac noiapmara pop Uccrep

uf

pop ^illbepc
la

cona muincip.

Oonnchab jalloa mac Domnaill

concobaip DO

mapbab

hQob mac

COIDJ mic maoilechlainn mic majhnapa. TTlacha piabac mac jappaib Do mapbab Do muincip geapaDain. lomap mag Rashnaill cofpeac mumcipe heolaip Do mapbab la cloinD
giollacpiopc

meg Rashnaill.

Ouibfpa injfn uf pfpjail bfn meic TTlupchaba an cplebe Do ecc. Qn caoch mac cfpbaill Diap bamm ITlaolpuanaib, aon pogha nompanac epeann ma aimpip Do mapbab. 6oaom mjfn meg TTlachgamna ben TTleg uibip Do ecc.

Ouibeapa injfn
give only a long
Irish
y

uf

Glije bfn Oomnaill mic raibj uf concobaip DO ecc.

personage, and sufficient to govern a monarchy,

list

gentlemen who
Minstrel.

of the distinguished Anglofell in the conflict.

is

and with him 80 persons were

*

killed."
is

Ciompanac

explained by

meeting.

This passage

thus rendered

O'Brien, a harper or minstrel. z Conor O'Brien This part of the passage is thus given in the Annals of Clonmacnoise, as
translated "

by Mageoghegan

in his translation of the

:

An-

nals of Clonmacnoise

"There was

a general

by Mageoghegan

meeting at a place called Athkynlogha Techye between Walter Mac William Burke, Gilbert

Connor O'Brien was killed, who was a young

of great expectation, bounty, comeliness of

man

Mac Cossdelye, of the one side, and Mulronie Mac Dermodda, Tomaltagh, his son, Donnell

1328.]

ANNALS OP THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

others of the English and Irish, amongst

541

many
[recte

Mac Carroll],

i.

e.

was the Blind O'Carroll Mulrony, Chief MinstreF of Ireland and Scotland in his
slain

whom

time.

Brian, the son of

Tomaltagh Mac Donough, was

led]

by Brian, the son of

Teige

Mac Donough.
army [was
by the Earl of
Ulster,

Turlough O'Conor, King of Connaught, and Murtough O'Brien, King of Munster, against Brian Bane O'Brien but they were defeated by Brian Bane. Conor O'Brien z a good
;
,

A great

materies for a

King

of Ireland,

by reason of his personal shape, wisdom, hosthis occasion, as

and renown, was slain on pitality, including chieftains and plebeians.

were

also eighty persons,

Teige, son of Turlough O'Conor, was slain by Dermot O'Gara. b meeting* for a conference took place at Ath-chinn-Locha Techet between

Walter, son of William Burke, and Gilbert

Mac

Costello,

on the one

side;

and

Mulrony Mac Dermot, Tomaltagh,

chiefs of Clann-Mulrony,

his son,
:

on the other

Tomaltagh Mac Donough, and the and Walter, Gilbert, and their people,

were defeated by Mac Dermot.

Donough

Gallda, the son of Donnell O'Conor,

was

slain

by Hugh, the son

.

of Teige, son of Melaghlin, son of

Manus [O'Conor]. Matthew Reagh Mac Caffrey was slain by Muintir Gearanc
Ivor
Muintir-Eolais,

Mac Rannall, Chief of chreest Mac Rannall.

died.

was

slain

by the sons of

Gil-

Duvesa, daughter of O'Farrell, and wife of

Mac Murrough

of the Mountain,

whose name was Mulrony, the chief of the minstrels of Ireland in his time, was slain. Edwina, daughter of Mac Mahon, and wife of Maguire, died.
Carroll",

The Blind Mac

Duvesa, the daughter of O'Healy, and wife of Donnell, the son of Teige
O'Conor, died.
Mac Donnough, and Clann Mulroney,
:

or that

head of Lough Techet.

This lake

is

now

called

whereupon some disfamily, of the other side tastful words that passed between them, from
words they fell to blows of armes ; in the end Mac William Burke was overthrown."
b

Lough
c

Gara.

Muintir Gearan

territory and tribe in

the north-east of the county of Longford, lying along Lough Gowna, on the west side.
d

Ath-chinn-Locha Techet,

i.e.

the ford at the

The Bliml Mac

Carroll.

This

is

a repetition.

542

ctNNaca Rio^hachca emeawN.

Sluaijeab
oile la TTluipcfpcac 6

[1329

la clomn cuilein oionnpaijpb Dfa po mapbab bpiain uf bpictin oopibipi t>ia po ppaomeab pop muipcfpcac, -\ 6 bpiain, -| Dorhnall na noomnall, -) TTlaccon mac conmapa 50 poch-

mbpiam,

~\

concobap

aibib oile.

TTlai&m

mop DO cabaipc

la TTldg

eochagam ap jallaib ou
-|

cuig ceo Decc ap pichic ceo gall im balacunachaib,

in po mapbab im mac an RiDepe

Uallaij. Qrhlaoib

maj

pinobaipp DO

mapbab

la

Carhal ua Ruaipc.

GDIS CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopc, mile
cpi

1329.

cheD piche, aNaoi.

C(u5upcin abb ICpa ^abail pop loch Gipne oecc. Cacalmac Domnaill uf puaipc Dfjabbap ciccfpna na bpeipne Do mapbab la cloinn rSeoin uf pfpjail, -] Do jallaib mibe cpe peill, -\ oaoine oile imaille
pip

ngh RiocaipD DIUID TTlamipcip pobaip. TTluipcfpcac mac oorhnaill uf Concobaip ciccfpna
i i

caipppe, i ofghabbap

pigh Connachc Decc. Cacal mac Qoba mic 6ojain uf concobaip Do bfochup ap eiccin ap na ap pfbaib i a cip maine cpe popcongpa Uacep a bupc ap Shfol cceallaij,
-\

uib

maine ap

cfna.
)

Coccab mop ecip Uoippbealbac 6 cconcobaip milleab mopan earcoppa Diblionaib.

This number Three thousand five hundred. an error of transcription, for it is decidedly
e

clann maolpuanaib jup

t

135,

i.

e.

cuij o6c ap picic ap ceo gall, and that

is

the introduction of the word c6o twice into the

text
is

incredible

that the petty chief Mageoghegan, with his few followers, could have killed so

modern

falsification.

This

falsification,

great a

number of

their enemies,

number

however, may not have been committed by the Four Masters ; but it looks strange that the passage is not to be found in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, in the Annals of Clon-

greater than all the inhabitants of his territory of Kinel Fiachach. According to Pembridge and

Grace, the
diers slain

number
on

of the English

common

sol-

macnoise,

as

translated

this occasion

sides several distinguished knights

is

was about 140, be; and nothing was

which there is in the Annals of Kilronan, or

Connaught.

by Mageoghegan, in no apparent chasm at this year,

in the

Annals of
in de-

more evident than that the number of common

The Abbe Mageoghegan,

soldiers recorded

by the

original annalist

scribing this battle, writes as if the

140 com-

1329.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

543

Another army was led by Murtough O'Brien and the Clann-Cuilein [the Mac Namaras] against Brian; but Murtough was defeated, and Conor O'Brien,
Donnell of the Donnells, the son of Cumara

Mac Namara, with many

others,

were

slain.

sustained a great defeat from Mageoghegan, three thousand five hundred' of them slain in the contest, being together with some of the
Daltons, and the son of the
Auliffe

The English

Proud Knight. Mac Finnvar was slain by Cathal O'Rourke.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of Christ, one thousand
three

1329.
twenty-nine.

hundred

f Augustine, Abbot of Lisgabhail on Lough Erne r died. Cathal, the son of Donnell O'Rourke, a good materies of an Earl of Breifny, and others, were treacherously slain by the sons of John O'Farrell, and the

g English of Meath, in the house of Richard Tuite, at the monastery of Fore Murtough, the son of Donnell O'Conor, Lord of Carbury, and a good materies of a King of Connaught, died.
.

Cathal, the son of

the Faes and from the other tribes of

Hugh, son of Owen O'Conor, was forcibly expelled from Tir-Many by order" of Walter Bourke, to the O'Kellys, and

Hy-Many. war [broke out] between Turlough O'Conor and the ClannMulrony, and much property was destroyed between them.

great

mon

soldiers

were knights or commanders

torn.
ii.

(see

Fore,
p.

his Histoire D*Irlande,

p.

104),

and

1176,

See note s under the year paBap 22. The place now belongs to the

quotes Pembridge, who gives the account very See Ware's Annals, ad ann. 1329 ; differently

Marquis of Westmeath, not to the Tuites. h By order, i..e. Walter Burke issued an order
to the O'Kellys to banish Cathal

and Grace's Annals, edited for the Irish Archteological Society by the Eev. Richard Butler, p. 1 15.
f

O'Conor from

their territory,

which order was executed. The

Lisgabhail, liop

aoail,

i.

e.

the fort of the

passage

is

fork,

now
is

place

The anglicised Lisgole or Lisgool. situated on the west bank of Lough

and county of Fer-

translation

thus rendered by Mageoghegan in his of the Annals of Clonmacnoise

:

" A. D. 1329. Walter mac William Burck, called

Erne, a short distance southwards of Enniskillen,

in the barony of Clanawley

hall

Mac William, procured the banishment mac Hugh mac Owen O'Connor out
and
the

of Caof the of

managh.

The monastery

of this place existed

Fewes

Territory

of

Many

the

to a late period.

O'Kellys."

544

ctNNCita Rioghachca

emeaNR

[1330.

Cpeac Do Denam la comalcac mac Diapmaca ap oiapmaic

cciin

6 bplannac-

caoipeac cloinne cacail.

Comalcaij meic Diapmaca Decc. CaDg mac coippbealbaij mic Tnacgarhna uf concobaip Do rhapbab la la luchc Qipcigh. hua ngabpa
pfpjail
uf

Qme mjean
-)

Raijillij bfn

Sich DO oenorh Do

Oabac Dono mac Oonnchab mac giollapacpaicc Do mapbaD la hiapla ulaD. ITlaoiliopa Donn mac QoDhajam apDollam connachc Do ecc.
^uipc gan buain 50 hiap ppeil
TTIichil

uilliam bupc -] Diapla ulab pe TTlac romdip. uilliam RiDipe uapal mopconaij Do ecc.

mac

ap puD epeann lap an ppleachab.

QO18 CR1O3U,
Ctoip Cpiopc, mfle cpf

1330.

cheD rpfochacc.

TTlaoflfopa 6 coinel

comapba Dpoma

cliab Do ecc.

beniDichr o plannaccam Ppioip cille moipe na Sionna Decc. TTIajnap mac CtoDa bpeipmj uf concobaip Do mapbaD la cacal

mac aoba
pailgij Do

mic

6ojam

ui

concobaip

bpfponn na Dapach,

"|

Siomann mac

in

rhapbaDh ina pappaiD.

^lollafp" pua& 6 paijillij ciccfpna mumcipe maoilmopba -| na bpeipne uile pe haimpip nimcein Decc ma ShfnDarcaiD mp mbpfic bua&a 6 borhan -\
6 bfrhan

naibfo na mbpdcap mionup, mamipcip in cabain ba hfpiDe ceo punDuip na maimprpe pempaice. TTlaoilechlamn mac capmaic bpujaiD ceDach conaich Do ecc.
-\ i
i

a abnacal

-]

a 'l e 01 ^ an Sluai^eaD la hualjapcc ua puaipc 50 pioDh an acha. Depge DO mppin. TTlaiDm Do cabaipc pop muincip uf puaipc, i Ctpr 6 puaipc aobap aipociccfpna bpeipne Do mapbab Do jallaib, ~\ pocaibe imaille pip im

l?uaiopi

mac Sampaohain.

Ctmap longpuipc DO cabaipc Do CoippDealbac 6 cconcobaip Rf Connacc

'

Fearonn-na-darach,
is

i.

e.

land of the oak.

The name
k

now

obsolete:

Nally, or year 1316.

'

Mac

Mac Anally.

See note under the

tribe,

Mae-in-Fhailghe, was the name of a Welsh but their location has not been deterIt
is

Brughaidh Cedack, a farmer who had one

mined.

probably the name now anglicised

hundred of each kind of cattle, m Fiodh-an-atha, i. e. the wood of the

ford,

1330.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

545

depredation was committed by Tomaltagh O'Flanagan, Chief of Clann-Cathail.

Mac Dermot upon Dermot

Aine, daughter of Farrell O'Reilly, and wife of Tomaltagh Mac Dermot, died. Teige, the son of Turlough, son of Mahon O'Conor, was slain by O'Gara and the people of Airteach.

Mac William Burke and the Earl of Ulster made peace with Mac Thomas. Daboc Donn Mac William [Burke], a noble and wealthy knight, died. Donough Mac Gillapatrick was slain by the Earl of Ulster. Maelisa Donn Mac Egan, Chief Ollav of Connaught, died. The [corn] fields remained unreaped throughout Ireland until after Michaelmas, in consequence of wet weather.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1330.
thirty.

thousand three hundred

Maelisa O'Coinel, Coarb of Drumcliff, died.

Benedict O'Flanagan, Prior of Kilmore-na-Sinna, died. Manus, the son of Hugh Breifneach O'Conor, was slain at Fearonn nadarach by Cathal, the son of Hugh, son of Fhailghe* was slain with him.
Gilla-Isa
1

Owen

O'Conor; and Simon Mac-inentire terri-

Roe

O'Reilly,

Lord of Muintir-Maelmora, and of the

tory of Breifny for a long time previously, died at an advanced age, victorious over the world and the devil. He was interred in the Abbey of the Friars

Minor
.

in

Cavan, of which he himself was the original founder.

Carmaic, a wealthy Brughaidh Cedach died. An army was led by Ualgarg O'Rourke to Fiodh-an-atham whereupon the O'Rourke's people were defeated English of that town rose up against him.

Melaghlin

Mac

and Art O'Rourke, a materies of a chief lord of Breifny, Rory Magauran, and many others, were slain by the English.

An
now

attack

was made by Turlough O'Conor, King of Connaught, upon the

Girne.

anglicised Finae, a fair town in the barony of Half Fowre, and county of Westmeath. It is

Over

this

stream there

is

a bridge,

which separates the counties of Westmeath and

Cavan.

a small but neat village on a stream which unites the two lakes of 6oc Sileann and 6oc

4 A

546

cwNata Rio^hachua eiReaNN.

mac
uilliam bupc
i

[1330.

pop uacep

Ifccmoij

rnoij luipcc,

~|

a puaccab Do aippibe

JoifDelBaij (ci^fpna plebe luja mun am pin) Do cechc 50 Ifon a mumcipe DO cuioiuccab le mac uilliam. Comalcac mac Donnchaib cona mumcip Do code Do commopab meic uilliam bfop

50 caipce liacc pacca.

^j^bepc mac

ooib. Na pluaij pin oiblionaib Dionnpaijib iap niompob pop ua cconcobaip l?o cuipfb mmaipfcc fccoppa Ifc pop Ific 50 pangacap ach ui concobaip.

Dipipc nuaoan.
-]

Oonnchab mac Oomnaill mic mac^amna, mac jiolla combain, uachab DO muincip uf concobaip Do mapbab im an ach. Ua concobaip 50 mairib a muincipe DO Dol Da naimDfoin uara 50 painicc gup na ruaraib. Longpopc Do jabail Do mac uilliam ccill lomacc ccompocpaib Dua cconi i

aomelaib (Don meD po gab a Sloijeab Connacc eicip jallaib -| paipc Diob) Do cecclamaDh la mac uilliam Do gabail pije connacc Do bubein lap pin,-] a mbfic ullarh aicce DO cum uf concobaip oaichpiojhaoh. lap na piop
cobaip.
pin

Do TTIhac Diapmaca lompob pop TTlhac uilliam

Do,

-|

paipc

ui

concobaip

DO jabail lonnup gup cfnjlaccap pic connail caipDfmail fccoppa ofblionaib. ITIaibm mop Docabaipc Do concobap mac UaiDg nuc bpiain mic amopiapa
mic bpiain luijnij pop bapcpaijib, i Socaibe Dfob DO mapbab laip. Uoippbealbac ua concobaip DO pul uacab Dfghbaoine Do lacaip uilliam
bupc,

an ciapla Donn Diappaib a chonganca in aghaib meic uilliam. bpian mac giollacpiopc meg Raghnaill Do mapbab la caohj
.1.

Leagmhagh, now Legvoy, a townland in the parish of Killukin, not far from Carrick-onShannon, in the barony of Boyle, and county of

"

cated to a Saint Nuadhan, of

is

whom

no account

found in the Irish Calendars, unless he be the Nuadha Anchorite set down in the Irish calen-

Koscommon.
Cairthe-liag-fada,

darof the O'Clerysat 3rd of October.

His holy

now probably

the town-

well, called

cobap nuaoam,

is still

in existence,

land of Cnoc a capra, in the parish of Killukin, in the county of Roscommon. The place is so
called

from a large capca, or pillar stone, which stands on the top of the hill, and said to have
been thrown by a giant from a distant
9

but at present very seldom resorted to by pilThere is a tradition in the country that grims. there was a town here, but no trace of it now
remains.

The

following extract from an Inqui-

locality.

sition taken in the reign of Elizabeth seems to

Ath-Disirt- Nuadhan,
in the

i.

e.

the ford of'Disert

Nuadhan
6ox

This name is written or oipipc nua-

corroborate this tradition: " Quod est quoddam forum sive mercatum in
die Sabbatis qualibet septimana

Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, and now corruptly called in Irish cipp Nuaoain, and strangely anglicised Eastersnow, which is

quondo non

est

guerra in patria, juxta tcmplum Sancti "Wogani vulgaritc Temple-Issetnowne in baronia dc Moylurg." In another part of this Inquisition
it is

name of a parish in the barony of Boyle and county of Roscommon. This parish was dedithe

angli-

1330.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

547

of Walter, the son of William Burke, at Leagmagh", in Moylurg, and forced him to retreat from thence to Cairthe-liag-fada Gilbert Mac Costello

camp

(at that time

Lord of Slieve-Lugha) came with

all

his forces to aid

Mac

Wil-

liam

and Tomaltagh Mac Donough, with his people, having turned against These combined forces atO'Conor, came also to Mac AVilliam's assistance.
;

tacked O'Conor, and an engagement took place between both parties at AthDisirt-Nuadan p where Donough, son of Donnell Mac Mahon, Mac Gillacowan,
,

and a few of O'Conor's people, were

slain.

Around
q

the ford

O'Conor and the

chiefs of his people effected a retreat into the

,

William (then) pitched his camp at Killomad Connaught, both English and Irish (i. e. all those who sided with him), were assembled by Mac William, in order to obtain the kingdom of Conoaught for
himself,

Tuathas by force; and Mac near O'Conor. The forces of

and he had them

in readiness to depose O'Conor.

When Mac Dermot

took part with

received intelligence of
;

this,

he turned

against Mac William, and

O'Conor and a kindly and amicable peace was concluded' between both. great defeat was given by Conor, son of Teige, son of Brian, son of An-

dreas, son of Brian

Luighneach [O'Conor],

to the people of Dartry*,

and many

of them were killed by him. Turlough O'Conor, attended by a few distinguished persons, went to William Burke, i. e. the Dun Earl, to request his assistance against Mac William. Brian, the son of Gilchreest Mac Rannall, was slain by Teige Mac Eannall.
cised Issertnowne.
signifies a desert,

The Irish wordDisert, which

hermit's retreat,
q

wilderness, and sometimes a has been variously anglicised

mett and joined together, retrayted upon O'Connor to Athdisert Nwan, and there, about that
forde, killed a

Ister, Ester, Easter, Tristle, Desert, and Dysart.

few of his people, with Donnough mac Donnell mac Mahone, and the son of Gillefor prolixity's \recte

Killumod, a parish in the barony of Boyle and county of Eoscommon. * Peace teas concluded. This passage is ren-

cowgan with others that

brevity's]

sake I omitt here to name, and so

dered by Mageoghegan as follows in his translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise

:

Twathies,

O'Connor escaped vallourously and came to the whom Mac William followed, and
at Kill-lomatt in his presence
all
;

encamped

where-

A. D.I 330. Terlagh O'Connor, King of Connought, gave an assault to Walter Mac William
'

upon Mac William assembled

the forces of

Leakmoye, and from thence chased him to Carhalyagefad.

Cosdeally, with a great company, came to assist Mac William; and also Tomaltagh Mac Dermod came to relieve him too, and being

Burke, at a place called

in Moylorg,

the English and Irish of Connought, with intent to take the kingdom and name of King of Con-

Gilbert

Mac

nought to himself. Mac Dermott and O'Connor came to a friendly agreement, and peace was
concluded between them."
s

Dartry,

i.

e.

Dartry Mac-Clancy, now the

4A2

548

QHNaca Rio^hachca
Qeoh
pjail.
i Diajimaic

eireeaNN.

[1331.

Da

rhac TTlupchaiD uf pfpjail DO rhapbab la

haeb

Pecpup mac comapba Tnaeboige Do rhapbab

la jallaib cfnannpa.

CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopc,
.1.

1331

mile, rpf ceD, cpiochac,

a haon.
i

Comapba Caillfn, giolla na naorii mac cele DO ecc mainipcip TTlaocla. TTlaolpuanaib mac Diapmaca ciccfpna maije luipcc Dpaccbail a ciifpaibiD rhanaij Do gabail Do mainipcip na buille, comalcac mac naip,
i

-)

-]

oiapmaca (a mac) Do jjabdil ciccfpnaip maije luipcc an. 7. la TTlai. pfpjal mac maoileachlainn cappaij meic Diapmaca DO majibab la cabj mac cacail mic Domhnaill uf concobaip.
maish luipcc. Ctn n'p uile Uacep mac uilliam bupc Do ace cealla nama, uaip cucc comaipce DionnpaD ca&ap Doibhpi&e. Uomalrac mac Diapmaca cona muincip Dia nionnpaighiD. ^oill DO rabaipc
SloicceaD la
i

-\

amaip paip ap a haichle gup raapbpac

Denarii Doib
TTlaoilip

poipfiin

Dia muincip..

Oppab Do

pe poile

-]

udcep Dpagbail na

cipe.

mag eochagdin Decc. TTlupchaDh mag TTlachjarhna Do rhapbab mac concaippje

uf ploinn

la

Seaan maj

TTlachjjariina,

-\

la 'jallaib machaipe aipjiall.

Do

ecc.

barony of Rossclogher, in the north of the county of Leitrim. Caittin. He was the patron saint of Fenagh,
1

Annals of Clonmacnoise

Mac Dermoda, prince of the territorie of Moylorg, forsook his government and
principallity,

" A. D. 1331- Mulronie

in the
u

county of Leitrim.

and entered into

religion,

Maethail,

of the

now MohiU, a village in a barony same name in the county of Leitrim. St.
See Colgan's Acta Sanctorum,
p.

in the order of

Gray Monks,

in the abbey of

Boylle, and within a short while after died, after

Manchan' erected a monastery herein the year

652.

whose death

his sonn

Tomaltagh, the 6th of

his place."

332, and

Ussher's Primordia, p. 989There are no remains of the monastery at present, and its site
is

army what better given

" A. D.
1
.

May, succeeded him in w An was led.

in

This passage

is

some-

Mageoghegan's translation
:

occupied
y

by the

parish church of Mohill.

of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, as follows

Mulrony

Mac Dermot.

This passage is given

in his version of the

33 1 Walter Burke

(called
to

Mac WilMoylorge,

as follows

by Mageoghegan

liam), with a great

army repaired

1331.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

sons of

549
slain

Hugh and Dermot, two

OTarrell.
Petrus, son of the

Murrough OTarrell, were

by Hugh

Coarb of

St.

Maidoc, was slain by the English of Kells.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1331.
thirty-one.

thousand

three

hundred

The Coarb
of Maethail".

of [St.] Caillin', Gilla-na-naev

Mac

Cele, died in the monastery

Mulrony Mac Dermot', Lord ofMoylurg, resigned

the habit of a

his lordship,

and assumed

abbey of Boyle; and Tomaltagh Mac Dermot, his son, assumed the lordship of Moylurg on the 7th of May. Farrell, son of Melaghlin Carragh Mac Dermot, was slain by Teige, son of Cathal, son of Donnell O'Conor.
in the

monk

An army

was led" by Walter Mac William Burke

into Moylurg,

and he

plundered all the country, excepting only the churches, to which he gave protection and respect. Tomaltagh, with his people, opposed them, but the
English attacked Tomaltagh, and killed some of his people. They [afterwards]

made peace with each

other,

and Walter

left

the country.

Meyler Magcoghegan

died.
slain

Murrough Mac Mahon was

.

by John Mac Mahon and the English of

Machaire Oirghiall x Thomas, the son of Cuchairrge O'Flynn, died.

where he burnt, preyed, and destroyed all places in that contrey, save only churches and churchlands,

pie,

and killed divers of them, which Tomaltagh

which he reverenced and had

in great

did not leave unrevenged, for he could not digestt that so many of his people were killed, and that

But Tomaltagh Mac Dermot cou'd not respect. well brook that Mac William should be suffered
to enjoye

they shou'd not escape without rendering him an accompt of so many heads of theirs, too, for
entring so boldlie into his territory."

any

rest in that contrey,

and therefore

they suddainly betooke themselves to their arms, which they then held to be their best and readinst friends in

them the

time of greatest need, and gave onsett, but Mac William and his peo-

Machaire- Oriel, TYlacnipe Oipjiall, i. e. This was one of the ancient the plain of Oriel. names of the level part of the county of Louth.
It

was

also called

ma^ muipr^imne

and Co-

pie, taking their hearts anew, gave a fresh en-

naille muipceirhne.

counter to Tomaltagh, chased him and his peo-

550

aNNCK.a Rio^hachca eiReawN.

[1333.

QO1S CR1OSC,

1332.

Ctoip Cpiopc, mile, cpi ceo, cpiocha,

06.

Sip uilliam bupc Do gabail lap an mpla noonn, ~\ a bpeic co caiplen nua innpi heojain, a ecc Do jopca ap a haichle hi laip lapam

Uacep mac

bppiopun an caiplein perhpaice. TTlaiDni bfipne an mil pop comalcach

pe

mac noiapmara,
~\

-|

pop

mac

uilliam

mac an

lapla,

~\

pe romalcac

mac

DonnchaiD,

pocaioe od muincip Do

mapbhaoh.
Uilliam gallDa

mac

TTluipcfpcaij moip

meg

eochagain, eiccfpna cerieoil

piachach DO ecc.

QO1S CR1O8U,

1333.

Ctoip Cpiopc, mile, rpf ceo, cpioca, acpf.

plopenc mac an oglaich aipchiDeocham chille hoipiD Do ecc. Uilliam bupc mpla ulaD Do mapbab la gallaib ulab. Ma goill Do poijne an gniom pin Do bapucchaD 50 heccparhail la muincip pigh Sa^an. Opong
DO cpochaD, Dpong Do cpochab, Dponj Do mapbaD, o cele Dibh ma Dioghail.
y
~\

Dpong DO rappaing

Walter

In Grace's Annals of Ireland he

is

church
c

is

shewn.

See another reference to Cill

incorrectly called Richard de Burgo. Thestarving of this Walter in the prison of Green Castle,

Oiridh under the year 1416.

Earl of

Ulster

There

is

much more

cir-

was the chief cause of the murder of the Earl of

Ulster in the following year.
1

cumstantial account of the death of this Earl of

Ulster given by Pembridge and Grace under this year. Lodge gives the following particulars
of
it:

The new

castle

Green

Castle, in the

barony
Foyle,
is

of Inishowen, near the

in the north-east of the
still
a

mouth

of

Lough

"He

was murdered on Sunday, June

6,

county of Donegal,

called caiplean

Kinel-Fiachach,
b

nua in Irish by the natives, now the barony ofMoycashel

Westmeath.
an old church
Killery,

1333, by Robert Fitz-Richard Mandeville (who gave him his first wound), and others his servants, near to the Fords, in going towards Car-

in the south of the county of

Citt- Oiridh,

now

rickfergus, in the 21 st year of his age, at the instigation, as was said, of Gyle de Burgh, wife

which gives name to a parish near Lough Gill, in the barony of Tirerrill and county of Sligo, and adjoining the county of Leitrim. See map
prefixed to Genealogies, Tribes,

of Sir Richard Mandeville, in revenge for his

having
others."

imprisoned

her

brother Walter and

and Customs of
this

This young earl

left

an only child, Elizabeth,

year 1352 to Lionel,

Hy-Fiachrach ;

on which the situation of

who was married

in the

1333.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

551

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1332.
thirty-two.

thousand

three

hundred

Walter', son of Sir Walter Burke, was taken prisoner by the Dun Earl, and z brought to the new castle of Inishowen and he afterwards died of hunger in
;

the prison of this castle.

Tomaltagh Mac Dermot and Mac William were defeated, with the loss of numbers of their people, at Berna-an-mhil, by the son of the Earl, and by Mac Donough. Tomaltagh William Gallda, son of Mur tough More Mageoghegan, Lord of Kinel-Fiach"

ach

died.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one thousand three

1333.
thirty-three.
.

hundred

Florence Mac-an-Oglaich, Archdeacon of Cill-0iridh died. William Burke, Earl of Ulster was killed by the English of Ulster.
b
, ,

The

deed were put to death, in divers ways, by the some were hanged, others killed, and others people of the King of England
this
;

Englishmen who committed

torn asunder", in revenge of his death.

third son of King Edward III., and this prince was then created, in her right, Earl of Ulster ::ml Lord of Connaught, and these titles were
selves independent,

renounced the English dress

and language, and adopted Irish names, Sir William taking the name of Mac William Oughter,
or the Upper, and Sir Edmund that of Mac William Eighter, or the Lower. Under these names these two powerful chieftains tyranized over the entire province of Counaught, and though Lionel

enjoyed through marriage or descent by different

princes of the royal blood, until at length, in the person of Edward FV., they became the special inheritance and revenue of the

crown of England,

Immediately on the Earl's death the chiefs of the junior branches of the family of Burke or De liurgo, then seated in Connaught, fearing the
transfcr of his possessions into strange hands

the marriage of the heiress, seized

in

by upon his estates

of Clai'ence, in right of his wife, laid claim usurped possessions, the government appears to have been too weak to assert, the authoof the English laws, so that the territories
to their
rity

Duke

of the Burkes were allowed to descend in course of tanistry and gavelkind. See Hardiman's History of Galway, pp. 56, 57.
*

Connaught. The two most powerful of these were Sir William or Ulick, the ancestor of the
Karls of Clanrickard, and Sir

Edmund Albanagh,

Torn asunder,

i.

e.

torn limb from limb.

progenitor of the Viscounts of Mayo. These, "having confederated together and declared themf

lie

Mageoghegan renders
quartered."

it

"hanged, drawn, and

552

aNNdta TJio^hachca emectNN.

Comalcach mac Donnchaib meic Diapmaca cijfpna comaipce Da mbaf in en aimpip pipinne, cabup,
~|

[1333.

ha pfpp

ripe hoilella, pfp pip Decc.

-|

pfibbmib Ua

Domnaill an canaipi rijfpna pa h'uaiple, pa haipfjba

goipoelbaijj Do

ap

mo

pip a paibe

puil Dfipionnchaibh Decc.

^illibepc

mac

mapbab ap

lap a cighe pfin le cacal

mac

Diapmaca jail rpe mebail.

Qo6 mac Conpnama caoipeac mumripe cionaic Decc. TTlac na hoibce occ mag plannchaba Do mapbab la connaccaib la cijfpndn mag l?uaipc, coippbealbac ua cconcobaip l?i connacr
.1.
-|

la
-|

rijfpnup na bpeipne Do rabaipr Dua Rajallaij. Oonnchab mac Qo6a uf ceallaij DO jabail Do roipp&ealbac 6 cconcotaip 17f Connacc.
Sirh Dpoccpa Do cloinn uilliam bupc o pijh Sapcan. Concobap mac bpandin caofpeac cope achlann Decc.

Domnaill cijfpna cenel cconaill, cenel moam na bpeipne, innpi heosham, pfpmanach, locraip connachc, abbap pigh abiiar a eccpacc poirhe baof Do ulab uile bfop, aon poba mo spam

QoDh mac oomhnaill

oicc

-\

-]

~|

aoibelaibh a aimpipe, aon ap mo lep cuic Do jallaib -] DO jaoiDelaibh baccap ina ajhaib, aon po bpfpp pmacc, peacr, -] piaghail bai ma comhpochpaib, peichfrii coiccenn mpcaip eoppa ap emeach -] ofplaccaDh Decc
lap mbpfic

buaba

o borhan
-|

Dfman

in aibfcr
i

manaijh

ninip paimep,

-|

abnacal co nonoip,

co naipmioin moip

mainipcip eapa puaioh.

Concobap

ua Domnaill (a mac) Do jabail a

ccpaicre la concobap.
e

lonaiD.

Ro pap lapam

lOTncopnarh

concobap i Ctpc (a bfpbparaip) imon pplaireapp 50 po mapbaoh

enp Qpr a

Mac Donough Mac

Dermot.

The Mac Do-

Mac

Cosdeally in the middest of his

own house

noughs of Tirerrill, in the county of Sligo, are a branch of the Mac Dermots of Moylurg in the
county of

treacherously." g Inis Saimer.

This

is

a small island in the

Eoscommon. f Mac Dermot Gall. He was located in the territory of Airteach, in the county of Roscom-

river Erne, close to the cataract of Assaroe at

mon, adjoining the barony of Costello in the county of Mayo. This passage is thus translated by Mageoghegan in his Annals of Clonmacnoise: " Cahall

Ballyshannon. It is to be distinguished from the monastery of Assaroe, which is situated on the north side of the river, about one mile to the

west of the town of Ballyshannon.

h

Mageoghegan

translates

it

thus, in his version

:

Mac Dermodda

Gall killed Gillebert

of the Annals of Clonmacnoise

1333.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

,

553

c Tomaltagh Mac Donough Mac Dermot Lord of Tirerrill, the most celebrated man of his time for veracity, honour, and protection, died. Felim O'Donnell, a Tanist Lord, the noblest and most illustrious, and from

whom the

Irish people expected most, died.

was treacherously f house by Cathal Mac Dermot Gall

Gilbert
Costello
.

Mac

slain in

the middle of his

own

Consnava, Chief of Muintir-Kenny, died. Mac-na-h-Oidhche Oge Mac Clancy was slain by the Connacians
the lordship of Breifny was given to O'Reilly. Donough, son of Hugh O'Kelly, was taken prisoner

Hugh Mac

(i.

e.

by

Turlough O'Conor, King of Connaught, assisted by Tiernan Mag-Kuairc); and

by Turlough O'Conor,

King of Connaught.

A
Burke.

peace was proclaimed by the King of England to the Clann- William

died.

Conor Mac Branan, Chief of Corcachlann,

Hugh, the son of Donnell Oge O'Donnell, Lord of Tirconnell, Kinel-Moen, Inishowen, Fermanagh, and Breifny, and a materies of a king of Ulster of all the Irish the most successful, and the most dreaded by his enemies; he who had
;

slain the largest

number both of the English and

Irish

who were opposed

to

of his time for jurisdiction, laws, and regulations, and the chief patron of the hospitality and munificence of the "West of Europe, died, victorious over the world and the devil, in the habit of a monk, on the

him; the most eminent

man

island of Inis-Saimer5

and was interred with great honour and solemnity in the monastery of Assaroe. Conor O'Donnell (his son) assumed his place. A dispute afterwards arose between this Conor and Art, his brother, concerning
,

the lordship; and

"

Art was soon

killed

by Conor

in combat".

O'Donnell, King of Tyreconnell and Fermanagh, one that took hostages of the terri-

Hugh

this year, after

he had overcome the world and

also after

the

devill,

and

he had reigned fortufifty

and Brenie ; one tory of Carbry and Sligeagh, to be next successor of the Kingdom of deputed
Ulster,

nately in the
years, and

principality of Tyrconnell

after he

had entred into religion in

the best

man

in Ireland
rule,

for bounty,

and good governprowess, magnanimity, and in summer he that killed most of the ment,
English and Irish that were his enemies, died
in

the habitt of a gray monck, receiving the sacraments of Penance and Extream Unction. After

whose death his

son,

Connor O'Donnell, was

constituted to succeed him," &c.

4 B

554

aNwaca Rio^hachca
Q01S CR10SU,

eii?eaNN.
1334.

[1335.

Qoip Cpiopc, mile cpf cheo, cpiochacc, a cfchaip.

b ia connachcaibh uile ecip jallaibh
inumain oo paigioh
rhfic
)

jaoioealaib
-\

if in

po gabpac a bpaijjoe gup cuippfc a Ueampall Oo lopccao Do opuing oon cpluaijh pom ina mbaccap nfpc aip. ochcmojhac ap ceo oo oaofnibh, i omp Saccapc imaille piu, i gan aon Oiob

Conmapa 50

oo repnaoh ap jan oghlopjaoh. Oechneabap oo rhumcip oonnchaib mic TTlaoileacloinn cappaij; meic oiapmara oo bacab ap loc cecfc.

Uaocc mac cacail mic oomnaill uf concobaip oecc. Oonnchao mac Conpnama caoipeac mumcipe cionaic,
TTIuipcfproijh moip

Seonacc mac

meg eochaccain

cijfpna cenel piachacb oecc.

mag eochajan oo ecc. Concobap mac bpandin oo ecc. Goin mac jiolla ulcain oo mapbao
Uilliam

la oomnall

mac

aeoa.

QOIS CR1OSC,

1335.
cuicc.

Qoip Cpiopc, mile cpi cheo, cpiochacc, a

pionnjuala in^fn uf bpiain bfn coippoealbaij uf concobaip Oecc. Seaan mac aipc uf eajpa oo jabail le mac an mpla, -\ pop^la a mumcipe

oo apccain.

Cpeach

le cloinn oomnaill uf concobaip

ap cloinn muipip Shuccai^ meic

oile la cloinn

geapailc Oap

mapbaoh mac mfic

muipip.

Cpeach

muipip

ma

oioghail pin pop cloinn oomnaill. lapcap connachc uile oo milleao la

hemonn a bupc.

Uilc oipfme eiOip lopccaoh

japla, i

mapbaoh Do oenarh 06 bfop ap mac in Sir Oo oenam Ooib pe poile mpcrain. ap cloinn Riocaipo a bupc, na naingeal 6 caipioe ollarh leighip peapmanach oo ecc.
~\
-|

'

Loch

Techet.

Now Lough

Gara, near Boyle,

Under

this year the

Annals of Clonmacnoise
:

in the

county of Roscommon, on the borders of

as translated

the county of Sligo.

by Mageoghegan, have " There was such a great snow in the spring

of

1335.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

555

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1334.
thirty-four.

thousand

three

hundred

was led by the Connacians into Munster against Mac Namara; and they took hostages from him, and obtained sway over him. A party of this army burned a church, in which were one hundred and eighty persons, and two priests along with them and not one of them escaped the conflagration.
Irish,
;

A great

army, both of English and

Ten

of the people of Donough, the son of Melaghlin Carragh

in

Mac Dermot,

were drowned

Loch Techet

1
.

Teige, the ^on of Cathal, son of Donnell O'Conor, died.

Donough Mac Consnava, Chief Murtough More Mageoghegan, Lord

Conor Mac Branan
died.
slain

of Muintir-Kenny, and Johnock, son of of Kinel-Fiachach, died.

John Mac Gilla-Ultan was

by Donnell Mac Hugh.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1335.
thirty-jive.

thousand

three

hundred

Finola, the daughter of O'Brien,

and wife of Turlough O'Conor,

died.
;

John, son of Art O'Hara, was taken prisoner by the son of the Earl
the greater part of his people were plundered.

and

depredation was committed by the sons of Donnell O'Conor upon the descendants of Maurice Sugach Fitzgerald, on which occasion the son of Mac

Maurice was

killed.

Another depredation was committed

in retaliation

by the

Clann-Maurice upon the sons of Donnell.

of Connaught was desolated by Edmond Burke. Great evils were also wrought by him, both by burning and slaying, upon the

The

entire of the

West

son of the Earl and the race of Richard Burke.

They

afterwards

made peace
j
.

with one another.

Gilla-na-n- Angel O'Cassidy, Chief Physician of
this year that the

Fermanagh, died

most part of the fowle of

Ire-

land died."

It appears strange that this entry should have been omitted by the Four Masters, as they state

aNNdta Rio^hachca
CIOIS

eircecmN.
1336.
pe.
i

[1336.

CR1OSU,

Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cpi cheD, cpiochacc, a

6

naan aporhaigipcip
'gfpp
f>d

nealaohnaibh lomoa,

le^

~\

ccanoin

Decc.

Uomalcac

(na ccpfch ccimcil)

mac Diapmaca, cijeapna

~\

11111156

comaipce, luipcc. copcciip ap eapccaipDib, ba pfpp cdbup, eineac Da mbaof Don cineab Dia paibe oecc oibce bomnaij na ensnam, a aDhnacul mamipcip na ccala6 na caippce, cpionoioe ma cigh pfin buille 50 honopach. Concobap a mac Do jabail cijfpnaip cap a eip.
~\
i

don

mo

~\

Ueaboio a bupc mac uilliam TTlaoilip mac Siupcan De^ecpa Decc. TTlaiDm Do rabaipc Deojan 6 maoaDain pop clomn Riocaipo a bupc, cpi pichic. peipfp pocaibe Da mumcip Do mapbaoh uacha
~\

.1.

-]

Cpeach mop
eacc.

la cloinn
-\

pop cloinn joipoelbaij,

mac pfmlimiD ui concobaip Diapmaca gall, ITlaiDiuc mac uaillopfn DO mapbab ma copaigh-\

la

hemann mac uilliam bupc ap cloirm cachail Dap baipcceab Daoine iom6a oile. fflaoileachlamn ua plannagam concobap ua planngain

Cpeach

la

-\

DO rhapbaD bpachaip Do copaijjeachc na ccpeach Don Dnl pin, mileab DO j^abail Don copaij laporh, bpai^e DO oenam De.
i
]

mac an

-|

Concobap mac Diapmaca ci^eapna mai^e luipcc, Qob mac pfiDlimibmic afoha ui Concobaip 50 luclic cii uf Concobaip imaille pip, clann nDonn-|

chaib, 1

copbmac mac

17uaibpi 50 nglaplaichib cpiche coipppe DO Dul ap

that they had the original Annals of Clonmacnoise before them.

k

commenced the
1231
:

erection of a market- town herein

Now

tiful seat of

a field close to Rockingham, the beauLord Lorton, in the county of EosIt is still called

common, near Boyle.

Port-na-

Cairge by the old natives of the district.

low, level part of the townland of

The

Copmac mac Comulcuig incepit mapsaio DO oenuB pope na Caipje." The Rev. John Keogh, in his Account of the County of Roscommon, drawn up for Sir Wil"1231.
bailli
i

Rockingham,

verging on

Lough Key,
i.

la-na-Cairge,

e.,

the locality called Cathe callaw or strath of the

is

liam Petty's intended Atlas in 1683, states that Carraig Mac Dermott was then named Rocking-

ham
"

rock (the castle on the opposite island in the lake so called). learn from the Annals of Boyle

Carrig
is

We

ingham,
which,
I

not

Mac Dermot, newly named Rocknow noted for many dwellers, of

not, Sir

that Cormac, the son of Tomaltach

Mac Dermot,

doubt

Robert King

will give a

13:36.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

557

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1336.
thirty-six.

thousand

three

hundred

Trionoit O'Naan, Chief Professor of

many

Sciences, and of the Civil and

Canon Laws,

died.

Tomaltagh Gearr na-g-creach timchil Mac Dermot, Lord of Moylurg, the most victorious man of his tribe over his enemies, the most honourable man, the
best protector, and the most expert at arms, and hospitable, died on the night of Trinity Sunday, at his own house at Cala-na-Cairrge", and was interred with

honour

abbey of Boyle. Conor, his son, assumed the lordship after him. Theobald Burke Mac William and Meyler Mac Jordan de Exeter, died.

in the

Owen O'Madden
them.

defeated' the Clanrickard Burke,

and

killed sixty-six of

was committed by the sons of Dermot Gall [Mac Dermot] and the son of Felim O'Conor, upon the Clann-Costello and Maiduic Mac Waldrin was slain while in pursuit of the booty.
;

A great depredation

was committed by Edmond Mac "William Burke upon the Clann-Cathail, on which occasion Conor O'Flanagan and many others were plundered. Melaghlin O'Flanagan was slain while in pursuit of the prey, and
a brother of

A depredation

Mac Aveely was taken and carried away as a prisoner. Conor Mac Dermot, Lord of Moylurg, Hugh, the son of Felim, son

of

Hugh

O'Conor, accompanied by O'Conor's household and the Clann-Donough, and Cormac, the sou of Rory, with the young soldiers of the territory of Carbury, set out on a predatory excursion into Tireragh, and advanced as far as Multrue account." Keogh, however, here confounds Port-na-Cairge, the townland on which Rockviz., six

and three score."

It is

rendered thus by
:

Mageoghegan

in his Annals of Clonmacnoise

ingham House now

which
is

stands, with the Carrig itself,

"A. D.
throw
">

1236.

Owen O'Madden
when

gave an over-

an island in Lough Key, on which the

to the Burkes,

sixty-six of

them

castle still remains.

were killed."
J/oc Aveely, mac an mileao, i. e., son of the the knight. This was the Irish name adopted by of Staunton, who were seated in the bafamily

Lougphort inic Diarmada is now called Longford Hill, and is situated in Lord Lorton's demesne, not far from Rockingham House. " a defeat was
1

Defeated.

Literally,

given

by Owen O'Madden upon the clan Clanrickard Burke, and many of their [his] people were killed,

rony of Carra, in the county of Mayo, where where there are many they still retain it, and
the name. respectable persons of

558
cpeic hi rfp piacpach 50

Rioghadhca

[1336.

pangaccap mullach Racha. 6a na cipe Do cheichea6 pompo. TTlaipbeDala mopa, lomaD capall, beaccan Deachaib, pochpob
-\

ilapDa DO cabaipc leo, plan Dia cnghib.

-|

Daome

Diaiprhe Do rhapbab Doib,

-\

mo pfin

Diompub

plannagam njeapna cloinne cachail oecc. Coippbealbach ua Concobaip T?f Connacc Do chionol imipceab na ccuar

Oiapmairc

cloinne

moigh luipj co haipceach. Caiplen mop goipDealbaij Do gabail Dua Concobaip Don coipcc pin, *| a bpipeab, 1 cfichfpn congrhala an baile Do cochc amach ap comaipce meic Diapmaca.
-\

cacail, cloinne Concobaip,

tneic

Dorhnall
Niall

mac Seaain mic Dorhnaill uf Concobaip mac Concobaip mic caib^ DO rhapbaDh.

Decc.

.8. Ppanpeip hi ccappaic na Siuipe in epppocoiccecc leapa DO chogbail la hiapla Upmuman Semap buinlep. moip TTlachjamain 6 Raijhillij DO tfiapbaD la

TTlainepcip

O
n

TTlichiDein

comapba

TTlolaipi

DO

ecc.

It

Mttllagh-l{atAa,i.e."ihe summit of the fort." would appear from various references to this

committed slaughter in that contrey, returned safe and sound without bloodshed or loss of any
of themselves."
P

place in the writings of the

can, that
it

Mac

Firbises of Le-

was the original name of the townland

Inanimate

spoils.

TTIaipBeoala,

signifies

of Kathlee in the parish of Easkey, in the barony of Tireragh and county of Sligo. See Genealogies, Tribes,

literally

inanimate

spoils,

meaning corn,

furni-

ture, gold, or silver, in contradistinction to ani-

note

b
,

and Customs ofHy-Fiachrack, p. 251, and the Ordnance map of the county of
and
off.

mate
*

spoils,

such as cows, horses, sheep, &c.

Sligo, sheets 10

11.

Horses [of burden] In some parts of Ire,land the word capall denotes a mare; but the
original signification seems to have been

Were driven

Literally, fled before them.

adraught
:

Thewholepassageis given as follows inMageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise

" A. D. 1336.
of Moylorg,
nor,

horse.

It is
.1.

"capul
i.

thus derived in Cormac's Glossary cap, capp 7 peall, eac. Capull,

Connor Mac Dermoda, prince

Hugh mac Ffelim mac Hugh O'Conand the household mene of O'Conor, toge-

Cap, a car, &nd peall, a horse, i. e., a carhorse; the Greek word Kj3/3AA>i$, signifies a
e.,

work
r

horse.

ther with the families of Clanndonnogh and the O'Connors of Carbrey (now called the Territory
of Sligoe), with Cormock mac Eowry O'Connor, repaired to take the preys and spoyles of Tyrefiaghragh, came to Mullagh Rath, from whom all the cowes of the con trey fledd; notwithstanding

Steeds

6ac
cattle.

signifies a steed ; Lat.

Equus ;
;

jEolian Greek,
s

IX.X.IH;.

Small

pocpob, small
implies
little,

cattle

po, in
a a

compound words,
mean, &c.
;

inferior, small,
;

po-cpoo, small cattle

;

po-6ume,
;

mean man
'

poBapo,

a bardling

po^eaj,

they returned not empty-handed, for they had some moveables, gerans, and a few horses, and

small branch.
Castiemore- Costetto
is

situated in the barony

1336.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

The cows

559

of the country were driven off before them. They carried away many inanimate spoils", horses [of burden"], a few steeds', many and many flocks of small cattle 8 and after they had killed countless persons
lagh-Ratha".
;

they returned in safety to their houses.

Dermot O'Flanagan, Lord of Clann-Cathail, died. Turlough O'Conor, King of Connaught, collected

the flitting forces of the

Tuathas, Clann-Chathail, Clann-Conor, and Moylurg, and conveyed them to Airteach. Castlemore-Costello' was taken and demolished by O'Conor on this occasion, and the kern" who guarded it came out under protection of Mac

Dermot.
Donnell, the son of John, son of Donnell O'Conor, died.
Niall, the

son of Conor

Mac

Teige, was killed.

at Carrick-on-Suir, in the diocese of Lismore,

The Franciscan Monastery

was founded by James Butler, Earl of Ormond. Mahon O'Reilly" was slain by the English. O'Meehin*, Coarb of St. Molaisse, died.
of Costello and county of Mayo, not far from the district of Airteach in the county of Ros-

anno 5 Edward

III.

Membr.

25, inter articulos

in Hibernia observandos sextus est contra sus-

comraon.

See

map

to Genealogies, Tribes,

and

tentatores, et ductores
catse

Kernorum

et gentis vo-

Customs of Hy-Fiachrach.

Idlemen

nisi in

Marchiis suas proprias ad

"Kern

translation of the

Mageoghegan renders this, in his Annals of Clonmacnoise, thus

:

Custas."

The etymology of this word,

given in Cormac's Glossary:
ccimoe, undedicitur ceiripnae
:

Cethern,

is

thus

" A. D. 1336. Terlagh O'Connor, King of Connought, with all the forces of Twahes and Clann
Kahili, with Moylorg, went to Arteagh; took Castlemore of Mac Gosdeallie, and afterwards

"Cerepn
cecepn

.1.

coipe

oin. cir,

cac
"

ocor- opn,

Cethern,

i.

broke downe the same, the warde of which castle

Cethirnach,

i.

opgam." a band of soldiers unde dicitur e. manipularius seu unus e cohorte;

e.
;

came foorth upon Mac Dermott's whose lives he saved accordingly."

protection,

cethern, then,

i.

e.

cir,

a battle, and upn, a

slaughter
:

q. d. a

The word cethern

"MilitumManipulus

is

et a cohorte Latina

explained by O'Flaherty non ab-

w Mahon O'Reitty

slaughter in battle." He is the ancestor of that

ludit." Ogygia, p. 208.

The kerns were

a light-

sept of ths O'Reillys called Clann-Mahon, who gave name to the barony of Clannmahon in the

thus speaks of them in \\isAntiquitiesofIreland, c. xxi. : "Alii levi-

armed
oris
culi,

infantry.

Ware

west of the county of Cavan. * He was the coarb of the church CPMeehin.
of Ballaghmeehin, in the parish of Rossinver, in the north of the county of Leitrim, where his
lineal

armaturse Henrico Marleburgensi Turbiquibusdam Turbarii vulgo Kernii dicti ;

In Rotulo Clause

jaculis amentatis, machaeris et cultris, sive sicis

descendant and representative

still

farms

Skeynes vocatis demicabant.

the termon lands.

560

aNNata Rioghacnca eiReaww.

QO1S CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopc,
1387.

[1337.

mile, cpf cheD, rpiochacc,

a Seachcc.

Lughaib 6 Dalaig eppcop cluana mic noip oecc lap nDeighbeachaib. Uomdp mac copmaic uf borhnaill eppcop T?acha bor paoi in eccna,

-|

ccpabab Decc.
Ctn maigipcip 6 T?ochlain Decc. Sich DO benarh Duilliam mac mjila ula6, i DO bpian 6 bpiain (.1. bpian ban) pe apoile, ~\ na peapoinn Do polmaig pe 6 mac an mpla DO leigfn Do

apa a ccfop pein Do cabaipc apDa. poplongp^pc Do benom Do pfj Connachc 05 ach bag majaiD Gmainn a
bupc.

Seaan ua pollarhain cijfpna cloinne huaoach Decc.

UaDhcc mac plannchaba riseapna Dapcpaige Do mapbab la copbmac mac Ruaiopi nnc Domnaill uf Concobaip pe pocpaiDe oile, nDiojail Seaain mic Oorhnaill. Cpeacha mopa Do 6fnom ap Dapcpaiji Do ap a hairle mac TTluipip mecc plannchaiD Do mapbab ina ccopaigheachc. Uabj, i TTlaoileachloinn, Da mac lomaip meg Rdjnaill Do gabail la Cachal rhaj Rajnaill. Cachal Do mapbab lap pin ccopaijeachr cloinne hlomaip Da combpairpib lap cnonol Ian pocpaiDe, Doib mi uilliam mag im Da mac oile lomaip meg pagnaill, Concobap Uomalcac. marjamna, 6 peapjail DO mapbab Doib an la ceona. Uaoipeach Do benom Do TTlagnup Cabg mac lomaip meg Pajnaill lappm. Oorhnall l?uab 6 maille copbmac a mac Do mapbab la cloinn TTlebpic,
i ~\ -\
i

-\

-\

-\

Do jallaib oile immaille ppiu oiohche pele Srepham. TTlacha ua huigino paoi pe Dan, pe oaonnachc Decc.
~\

npf
y

mac

TTlaipcin
This name

Do mapbab.
now usually
an-

O'Rothlain

is

glicised

there

Rowley in the county of Mayo, where are several respectable persons of the
This passage
is

Bryan Bane wasted of the demesne of William Burke, should be held by Bryan Bane for the
as

valuable rent thereof."

name.
z

Bryan Bane

given as fol-

Clann Uadagh. territory in the barony of Athlone, south of the county of Eoscommon.

lows by Mageoghegan in his translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise: " That as much lands

Laurence Fallen, Esq., of Mount Prospect, and

Malachy Fallon of Ballynahan,

Esq., are thepre-

1337-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

561

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1337.
thirty-seven.

thousand

three

hundred

for

Lughaidh O'Daly, Bishop of Clonmacnoise, died after a well-spent life. Thomas, the son of Cormac O'Donnell, Bishop of Raphoe, a man eminent wisdom and piety, died.

The Master

[Professor] O'Rothlain" died.

peace was concluded between William, son of the Earl of Ulster, and Brian Ban* (the Fair) O'Brien and the lands which O'Brien had taken from
;

the son of the Earl were given back to

him

at their

former rent

A camp
Edmond
John

was pitched

at

Athleague by the King of Connaught, to oppose

Burke.
O'Fallon,
,

Lord of Clann-Uadagh a died. Teige Mac Clancy, Lord of Dartry, was slain by Cormac, the son of Rory, son of Donnell O'Conor, as were also numbers of others, in revenge of John,
the son of Donnell.

Great depredations were afterwards committed in Dartry by O'Conor the son of Maurice Mac Clancy was killed while in pursuit of the preys.

and

Teige and Melaghlin, two sons of Ivor Mac Rannall, were taken prisoners Cathal Mac Rannall. Cathal was afterwards slain by their "kinsmen, who, by

having collected a considerable force, being joined by William Mac Mahon, and by Conor and Tomaltagh, the two other sons of Ivor Mac Rannall, went to
rescue the sons of Ivor.
Teige, the son of Ivor

Manus

O'Farrell was slain by

them on the same

day.

Rannall, was then made chieftain. Donnell Roe O'Malley and Cormac, his son, were slain on St. Martin's b night by Clann-Merrick and other Englishmen who were along with them.
,

Mac

Matthew O'Higgin, a man eminent Henry Mac Martin was slain.

sent representatives of the O'Fallons of Clann

for poetry

and humanity,

died.

does not admit of translation.

Tribes,

See Genealogies,
pp. 331,

Uadagh. " The Clann-Merrick

of

and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach,

Martin.

Welsh descent,

is still

This family, which is numerous in the county

332.
c

Mac

This became the surname of

of Mayo, where they have received the inglorious sobriquet of bunoun membptc, which

a collateral branch of the O'Neills of Clannaboy.

See note

b
,

under the year 1291,

p.

454.

4c

562

QNNaca Rio^hachca emectNN.

Oonncha6 mac

[1338.

TTluipcfpcaij moip meg eochagam cigfpna cenelpiachac DO rhapbaD la Tiuib pailje. Sfch DO Denum Ddob peamap 6 neill pe noipjiallaib, i pe pfpaibmanach.

Oonnchab mop 6 Duboa canaipi ua bpiacpach Do

ecc.

QO1S CR1OSU,

1338.

Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cpf cheD, cpiochacc a hochcc.

an fmigh
oaipgfcc i

mag

uibip cijfpna

pfpmanach aompfp ap mo Do
-]

coipbi]i

DeDach oeachaib,

i Dinmlib uaib Deigpib,

Dollamnaib Gpionn

ma

aimpip pfm DO piol Umhip Decc.

Concobaip Do mapba6. TTlac lapla ula6, .1. GmanD DO jabait Demann a bupc, Cloch DO cop po a bpajairc, a baDhaD loch mfpcca laip. TTlilleaD gall Connacc, a clnneab pem DO recc cpiap an ngmorh pin. UoipDealbac 6 concobaip Ri Connacc
ui
i
)

OonnchaDh mac RuaiDpi

-\

DionnapbaD emainn mec uilliam bupc lap pin a connachcaib amach lap milleaD na ccuac i na ccealljo haDbal eacoppa in mprap Connacc, nfpc na
-]

cfpe co coiccfnn Do ghabail Dua concobaip ap a haichle. Coblach mop DO longaib ~| bapcaib Do chionol la hemann a bupc mppin 1 a beicli pop'oilenaib mapa achaD imchian Da eip.

Dpapujab imma njallaib, i a cci^eaiinup DO jabail Da njaoiDelaib Duchcappa buDDein ap nDiochup a njall
Luijni i an copann Dpolrhujab i

epoibh.
T?uai6pi mic cachail ui choncobaip (pip a pdici bpacacli DO jabail Do chomap mac pampaohain, pijhm) mopan Da mumcip DO TTlac Shampaoam (.1. comap) Do Dul 50 cfgh uf Concobaip mppin, mapbaDh. 1 05 ceachc capa aip Do, clann muipcfpcaij mumcip eolaip Do chom-| ~|

UaDhj mac

chpummu jaD apa

d

chionn,

~\

a jabail lap mapbaD mopain Dia mumcip.

was the progenitor oftheMaguires ot'Fernianagh.
This tribe

The people of

Offaly,

i.

e.

the O'Conors

Faly.
'
f

name

is

now

locally

pronounced

Hugh Reamhar,
Rory an
einigh,

i.

e. e.

Hugh

i.

the gross or fat. Roger or Roderick of

Sheel-ivvlr.

the hospitality, or the hospitable. 6 SilUidhir, i. e. the progeny of Odhar,

is

who

The son of the Earl of Ulster. This passage given as follows in the Annals of Clonmacnoise, as translated by Mageoghegan: "A. D. 1338.

1338. ]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

563

Donough, son of Murtough More Mageoghegan, Lord of Kinel-Fiachach, was slain by the people of Offaly". Hugh Reamhar" O'Neill made peace with the people of Oriel and Fermanagh.

Donough More O'Dowda, Tanist

of Hy-Fiachrach, died.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

T7ie

1338.

Age
f

of Christ, one thousand three hundred thirty-eight.

Rory-an-einigh

more

silver,

Maguire, Lord of Fermanagh, a apparel, steeds, and cattle, on the learned

,

man who had bestowed men and chief professors

of Ireland, than any other of the Sil-Uidhir8 in his time, died. Donough, son of Rory O'Conor, was killed.

The son of the Earl of Ulster", e. Edmond, was taken prisoner by Edmond Burke, who fastened a stone to his neck and drowned him in Lough Mask. The destruction of the English of Connaught, and of his own [in particular],
i.

resulted from this deed.

Mac

.Turlough O'Conor afterwards banished Edmond William Burke out of Connaught, after the territories and churches of the
;

west of Connaught had been greatly destroyed between them and O'Conor then assumed the sway of the whole province. large fleet of ships and barks was, after this, collected by Edmond

Burke

and he remained for a long time on the islands of the sea. Leyny and Corran were laid waste and' wrested from the English, and the
;

chieftainship of

them assumed by the hereditary

Irish chieftains, after the

expulsion of the English. Teige, son of Rory, son of Cathal O'Conor (who was usually called Bratach Righin'), was taken prisoner by Thomas Magauran, and many of his people

were

killed.

Magauran

(i.

e.

Thomas) afterwards went

1

to

the

house of

O'Conor; but, on his return, the Clann-Murtough' and the Muintir-Eolais, assembled to meet him, and took him prisoner, after having slain many of his
',

people.

Edmond, the Earle

the other
1

of Ulster's son, was taken by

" Clann Murtough,

i.

e.

the descendants of

Edmond Burke, and

[he] died.

Bratach Rig/iin,i.e. the tough or stiff standard,

Murtough Muimhneach O'Conor, the son of Turlough More and brother of Brian Luighneach,

4 C 2

564

awNQta Rioghacnca eiReaNN.

Geoh an clenj mac Puaibpi
uf

[1339.

concobaip DO lor ap oeipeab a pluaij

pfpin, i

a ecc oa

bicin.

Ofpbail injfn Cachail meic TTlupchaoa bfn DonnchaiD meic

oecc.

Qeoha

615

GDIS CR1OSU,
Goip Cpiopc,

1339.

mite, cpf cheo, rpiocharc, anae.

RuaiDpi ua ceallaij cijfpna 6 maine DO mapbaD la carhal mac aooa mic eojain uf Concobaip 05 ool o ehijj uf Concobaip 05 Dol o chij uf concobaip

oochum a chijhe

pfm.

SharhpaDam DO legean amach Do cloino TTluipcfpcaij. SloijeaD mop la haeb pemop 6 neill 50 cfp conaill. TTlac Seaain ui neill DO rhapbaD gopppaiDh ua oomnaill Don rpluaijeab pin la mumcip uf

Uomap

TTlag

-]

Dochapcaij.

6mann mac
pop a

uilliam bupc jona loingfp Dionnapbab ooilenaib na paipj^e mbof DO poijhib ulaD la coippoealbac ua cconcobaip pi Connachc.

Injfn roippoealbaij uf bpiain bfn meic lapla ulaD DO cabaipc Do coippDealbac ua cconcobaip, -| Depbail injean ao&a uf oomnaill Do leiccfn Do.

CoccaD mop ap puo na mioe eircip jallaib jaoi&ealaib. Ufmpall cille Ponain DO Dfnam la pfpjal muimneac ua nDuib^fnnain.
~\

the ancestor of O'Conor Sligo. See pedigree of the O'Conors of Connaught, in the Book of Lecan,
j

son of Brian of the battle of

in
1

Down, who was slain

all

260.

He

is

the ancestor of

the succeed-

fol.

72,

et sequen.

ing chiefs of the O'Neills of Tyrone.

i.

Hugh an

cMetigk,

e.

Hugh

soubriquet applied to
could weave.
It
is

him

of the quill, a because his mother

Taken

to wife,

matrimonium.
for marriage, a

DO raBaipc, i. e. ducta est i/t p6pa6, the modern Irish word

so explained

by Mageoghe-

gan
k

in his version

of the Annals of Clonmac-

French,
lists.

is

word evidently derived from the very seldom used by the Irish Anna-

noise,

Dearbhail.

This entry

is

copied word

for
St.

Kilronan,

CiU Ronain,
old church

i.

e.

the church of

word from the Annals of

1

Ulster.

Ronan

An

which gives namr

The Clann-Murtough

These were a sept of

the O'Conors, who descended from the celebrated

Muircheartach or Murtough Muimhneach, the son of King Turlough.

barony of Boyle, of Rosconunon, verging on Lough county Allen. See a notice of this church at the year
in the

to a parish in the north of the

1586, whei'eit

is

stated that

it is

on the confines
It

He

Hugh the fat or gross. was the son of Donnell O'Neill, who was the
Hugh Ream/tar,
i.

e.

of Breifny, Moylurg, and Tirerrill. been yet determined which of the

has not

many

1339.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

J
,

565

Hugh an Chletigh own army, and died in

of

son of Rory O'Conor, was

wounded

in the rear of his

consequence. Dearbhail", daughter of Cathal Mac Murrough, and wife of Donough, sou

Hugh

Oge, died.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1339.
thirty-nine.

thousand three hundred

Rory O'Kelly, Lord of Hy-Many, was slain by Cathal, son of Hugh O'Conor, while he was returning from O'Conor's residence to his own.

Thomas Magauran was liberated by the Clann-Murtough A great army was led by Hugh Reamhar O'Neill into Tirconnell and the son of John O'Neill and Godfrey O'Donnell were slain in the course of this
1
.

expedition by the people of O'Doherty.

Edmond Mac William Burke was

driven, with all his Heet, from the islands

of the sea into Ulster, by Turlough O'Conor, King of Connaught. The daughter of Turlough O'Brien, wife of the son of the Earl of Ulster, was taken to wife" by Turlough O'Conor, who put away Dearbhail, daughter
of

Hugh

O'Donnell.

A great war
The church
ot'

[broke out] in Meath between the English and Irish. of Kilronan was erected by Farrell Muimhneach" O'Duigenan*
was the pain tole-

1
.

this

name

in the Irish calendar

"The daughter ofTerlagh O'Bryeu,

by Terlagh O'Connor, and he put away
wife,

late wife
wit'e

tron of this church.

of the Earle of Ulster's son, was taken to

still

The ruins
rable

of this church

remain

his

own

preservation, and the character of the architecture perfectly corresponds with that of
all

the

Lady

Dervaile,

Hugh

O'Donnell's

the Irish churches

of this

period.

The

O'Duigenans were the Erenaghs of

as well as the chroniclers of the
P

this church,

daughter. " There arose great dissention, warrs, and debate between the English and Irish of Meath
this year.

JfuimhneaeK,
:

i.e.

the

Momonian

Clanmulrony. or Munster-

"All the

corti

of Ireland were destroyed,

O'Duigenan was certainly so called from his having been fostered in the province of Munster.
son
''

whereupon ensued a generall famine in this kingdome."

This entry, it will be observed, has been entirely omitted by the Four Masters, " Ferall Moyneagh O'Dowgennan founded the

The Annals of Clonmacnoise,

Mageoghegan,

as translated

liy

give the entries under this

.

year as follows: "A. D. 1339-

Edmond Burke withhi

shipps

church of KillronaTi."

were banished into Ulster.

566

awwaca Rio^hachca eiReaNN.

Q01S CR10SC,
Qoip Cpiopr,
1340.

[1340.

mile, cpf cheo, cfrpachacc.

TTlainepcip oipbealaigh hi ccappaic an chiuil 05 an ccfno coip Do loch

lein in

epppoccoiccecc apDa pfpca

ip in

murhain Do rogbail DupD

Dorhnall
ip in

.8.

ppan-

peip la TTlag capcai

mop ppionnpa Decipmuman,

-\

mac

caibg, i DO
pin.

cojhpac lomacc Do maichib an cipe a nabnacal an Da ua Donnchaba. oibpibe 6 Suilleaban mop

mamepcip

Ctp

cabj mac caibg ui ceallaij Da ecucc'Coippbealbach ua concobaip(Ri Connachc)upldrhup na mame, 1 inlliam mac Donncha&a muirhni5 ui ceallaij 50 po cuipeaD uilliam a cfp maine amach 56 Do pajaib an cfp, cuj caDg ua ceallaij jona bpaicpib
Comcogbail cojaib
eicip TTlaineachaib,
.1.

eiccip

"|

ndic lombuailce chuige. 1 cona mumcip copaijeachc Do co noeachpac a mumnp ppiu pochfcoip 50 po pfpan caichgleo fcoppa. lompaioip uilliam Qcc chfna po mapbab DonnchaD mac aoDha ui cheallaij, -] po jabab cabg 6 ceallaij lap na loc co nDeachaib Decc DC lapom.
i ~\

TTlaoilpeachlamn ua gaipmleabaij caoipeach cenel ITloam Decc.

r

Oirbhealach.

This name

is

anglicised Irre-

lagh by Ware,
s

who

states that the

monastery

which they concluded that

of
Carraig-an-chiuil,

enchanting music issuing from a rock, from it must be the locality

or rock of the
;

was founded in the year 1440.

Carraig-an-chiuil,
i.

music,
re-

e.

the rock of the music,

shewn

to their chief in the vision

and they

According to the tradition in the country, and a MS. description of Kerry, written about the year
1

turned home stating what had occurred. Mac Carthy, on hearing their story, felt satisfied that
they had found the true locality intended by Heaven for his monastery, and he accordingly commenced the erection of it there without
delay.
c

750, and

now

preserved in the Library of the

Academy, the site on which this abRoyal was to be built, was pointed out to Mac bey Carthy More in a vision, which warned him not
Irish
to erect his

monastery in any situation except at a place called Carraig-an-chiuil and there being no locality of that name known to him, he sent
;

Loch Lein

name

This is the ancient and present of the lower lake of Killarney in the county

of Kerry.

The abbey of Irrelagh, or,

as

it is

now

out a number of his faithful followers to discover

where, within his principality, this place was
situated. The story goes on to state that, after searching various places, they were returning

usually called, Muckruss, is 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, from which it has taken its

home
i.

e.

in despair; but passing by Oirbhealach, the eastern road or pass, they heard the most

modern appellation,
u

Donnell,son ofTeige.

Here is a most glaring

1340.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

.567

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of Christ, one thousand
three

1340.

hundred forty.

The monastery of Oirbhealach at Loch Lein', in the diocese of Ardfert,

r

Carraig-an-chimT, at the eastern end of in Munster, was founded for Franciscan

Friars by Mac Carthy More, Prince of Desmond (Donnell, the son of Teige"); and the chiefs of the country selected burial places for themselves in this

monastery.

Among

these were O' Sullivan

More and

the two O'Donohoes.

arose between the Hy-Manians, namely, between Teige, the son of Teige O'Kelly (to whom Turlough O'Conor, King of Connaught, had given the chieftainship of Hy-Many), and William, the son of Muimhneach

A war

Donough

O'Kelly and William was banished from Hy-Many, and, though he had left the country, Teige O'Kelly, with his kinsmen and people, went in pursuit of him and when they had reached a spot upon which to fight a battle, William and his people turned round on them [their pursuers] and a fierce battle was
:

fought between them, in which Donough, the son of Hugh O'Kelly, was killed; and Teige O'Kelly was captured, after having received wounds, of which he
died [soon] afterwards.

Melaghlin O'Gormly, Chief of Kinel-Moen, died.

anachronism ; but
it is

probable that

it is

mere

error of transcription for Donnell, son of Cormac,

for

he was really the prince of Desmond in 1340.

able to find the record

lost sight of all chronology in the erection of this monastery under the placing year 1340, after ascribing it to Donnell the son

Four Masters have

The Editor has not been

of Teige, prince of Desmond, inasmuch as Teige

his father did not, according to themselves, be-

of the erection of this monastery in any of the older Annals, and has never been able to discover

where the Four Masters found

Nothing can be more certain than that both Ware and the
it.

come king or prince of Desmond till the death of his father in 1391, that is, fifty-one years after
its

supposed erection by his son Donnell

laid

The
mo-

Four Masters are wrong

in ascribing the foun-

fact seems to be, that the foundation of the

dation of this monastery to Donnell, son of Teige Mac Carthy, for he lived a century later, having

died in the year

1 468. Teige, the father of this Donnell, was, according to tradition, the original founder of this monastery, and this is corro-

some years previously to 1440, Mainistreach (not by Donnell, as Ware by Teige has it), and that the work was completed by his
nastery was
son Donnell in 1440.

For some

curioxis notices

of the modern state of the ruins and tombs of

this abbey, see an interesting articleby

borated by the fact that he is called Tadhg Mainistreach, i. e. Teige of the Monastery, in the
authentic pedigrees of the

Mr. Petrie
1.

in the

Dublin P. Journal,

vol.

i.

pp. 409-1

Mac

Carthys.

But the

568

ciNNata raioshachea eiRecmN.

[1340.

Clann ualjaipg uf l?uaipc, Dorhnall, aeb, giollacpiopc i ftuaiopi Do Dol pop cpeich Dionnpoijib cachail true afba bpeipnij co nDfpnpar cpeacli aip. Concobap mac Donnchaba piabaij mfic TTlajnupa mic lTluipcfpcai
muimnigh DO mapbab leo an la cfona
pin
-|

-\

pochaibe immaille ppipp.

Conab

cloinne TTluipcfpcaij muimnij ppm apotle. ceopola muincipe T?uaipc mac afoha bpepnij Do chopaigheachc a chpeche mppm 50 puj; Cachal
l?o pfpnb lopgal arhnup fcoppa. Oomnall ap cloinn ualjaipcc uf Ruaipc. ua Ruaipc (aon pogha na bpeipne Dabbap cijeapna) Do mapbab Don chup pom 50 pochaibi moip immaille pip. 5 10^ ac 11o r c ua T?uaipc "1 mac Con]

pnama Do jabail lap maibm pop a muincip. Uabj mac Ruaibpi mic cachail ui Concobaip bo baof illairh 05 ua Ruaipcc Do lei^fri amach ap compuaj laccab giollacpiopc uf Ruaipc.
peblimib uf concobaip Do jabail DO pij Connachc, ~\ a cop ccaiplen 17oppa commain Da choimeD. Coccob mop ~| combuaibpeao Deipjhe eiccip ua cconcobaip i mac Diapmaoa cpep an ngabail pm gup po milleab
i

Qob mac

S^pjabab Dpajail oua Concobaip lappin Dionnpoijib cucc mac Diapmacca chuicce Don copantl jop pic Do cfnjal ooib cuipeab 50 haimDeonacli e mbaile an mocaij ipceach,

mopdn earoppa oa gach raob.

i

5 ua P ac 1c
l

~|

pe apoile apa

haichle.

SiupranRuab mac goipoealbaij Do mapbab Do cachal mac Diapmaca jail. Cachal mac Diapmaca gall, aon pogha a chimb ina aofp pfm ap joil
ap jaipcceab ap cpeipi ap calcaipe DO mapbab la Donncliab piabach mac cloinn TPaoileacloinn chappaij TTlec DiapmaDa cpe cheilg liop Sealbaij
i
i

Concobaip.
1

The sons of Uolgarg CfRorke.

The descen-

son of Conor Roe, son of MurtoughMuimhneach,

son of Turlough More O'Conor, monarch of Ireland." This Cathal had seven sons, Owen, Hugh,

dants of this Ualgarg took the surname of Mac Ualghairg, and are still numerous in the county
of Leitrim, where they anglicise the golrick or Magoalrick.

name Mato

Kory, Manus, Conor Eoe, Cathal Koe, and Murtough, who are the last generation of the pedigree of the Clann-Murtough given in the Book
of Lecan, from which
r
it

Cathal, son of Hugh Breifneach

He seems

have been the principal leader of the turbulent Clann-Murtough O'Conor at this period. His line
of descent
is given as follows in the pedigree of the O'Conors preserved in the Book of Lecan, fol. 72: "Cathal, son of Hugh Breifneach, son of Cathal Roe, King of Connaught [A.D. 1279],

looks highly probable

that the tribe disappeared fromhistory soon after.

Took a preyfrom him

clearly in the

This passage
it is

is

given

more

Dublin copy of the Annals

incorrectly

of Ulster, in which, however,

entered under the year 1337.

1340.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

7
,

569

sons of Ualgarg O'Rourke Donnell, Hugh, Gilchreest, and Rory, went upon a predatory excursion against Cathal, the son of Hugh Breifneach", and took a prey from him*; Conor, the son of Donough Reagh, son of Manus, son

The

Murtough Muimhneach, and many others, were slain by them on the same This was the first rupture between the O'Rourkes and the race of Murday. tough Muimhneach. Cathal, son of Hugh Breifneach, afterwards went in pursuit of the prey, and overtook the sons of Ualgarg O'Rourke. A fierce battle was fought between them, in which Donnell O'Rourke (only choice of Breifny for a materies of a lord), and many others with him, were slain. Gilchreest
of

O'Rourke and Mac Consnava were taken

prisoners, after the defeat of their

people. Teige, the son of Rory, son of Cathal O'Conor, prisoned by O'Rourke, was liberated as the condition

who had been

of the ransom

imof

Gilchreest O'Rourke.

Hugh, the son of Felim O'Conor, was taken prisoner by the King of ConA great war naught, and sent to be confined in the Castle of Roscommon.
and disturbance arose between O'Conor and Mac Dermot, in consequence of this capture, and much destruction was caused by them on both sides.
jeopardy and extreme peril on the occasion of an incursion which Mac Dermot made against him into Corran, when he was forcibly y where they afterwards concluded a driven into [the Castle of] Ballymote

O'Conor was

in

peace with each other.

Jordan Roe Mac Costello was

Cathal

slain

by Cathal Mac Dermot

Gall.

the only choice of his tribe for his prowess, slain by Donough Reagh, the valour, might, and puissance, was treacherously a son of Melaghlin Carragh Mac Dermot, at Lis-sealbhaigh in Clann-Conor.

Mac Dermot

Gall

is

This passage Into \the castle] of Ballymote rendered as follows in Mageoghegan's transla'
:

which saved the King's life; and afterwards they grew to a composition of
of Ballenmotte, peace." ' Cathal

tion of the Annals of Clonmacnoise

" A. D. 1340.

Hugh Mac Felym O'Conor was

Mac Dermot

Gall.

Be was

chief of

taken by Terlagh O'Conor, King of Connaught, and committed to the Castle of Roscommon to

Airteach, in the north-west of the county of Roscommon; and it is stated in tne Annals of

be safely kept for which cause there grew great debate between the King of Connought and Mac Dermott. Mac Dermott, in a skirmish between
;

Ulster that he extended his sway over the adjoina lais ing territory of Sliabh Lugha, ap capao
Iciioipe, "
i.

e.

by the power of his strong hand.

him and the

said King, chased

him into the castle

Lia-seaWhaigh,
I)

now

Lissalway, in the parish

570

aNNata Rioshachca
mac cachail mic oomnaill
uf

eirceaNN.

[1341.

choncobaip DO mapbab la cachal

mac aeoha

bpeipnij uf Concobaip. 6]iian occ mace ShampaDham DO rhapbab le ceallach nDunchaoha. Goghan ua hebin njeapna ua ppiacpach aibne Do rhapbab la a bpairlipib

pein.

Go^han mac Sepppaib mecc

bob
apoile.

TCajjnaill, i

afoh ua maoflmiabai

Do map-

pilib 6 DuibgfnDain ollarh

Conmaicne Decc.
ip
in

mic joipDealbaij Do rhapbat) ap jpfiff mbpeipne DO cellach eacDac.

Uilliam
gillibepc

mac

mac majnupa uf fgpa Decc. TTlachjamain mac anoaib uf Rajhallaij DO mapbab la hdinDpeap mac cpeacha mopa Do Denorh 66 ipm mbolgan apa hairhle. bpiain uf Raijillij Ueampall cille Ronain Do lopccaDh.
RuaiDpi
~|
'

Niall ua huijinD paoi pipodna Do bachaD. Concobap ua Domnaill n^eapna ripe conaill cona nonol Do 6ul

connac-

raib.

aois CRiosr:,

1341.

Ctoip Cpiopc, mile, rpi cheD, cechachaec, a hoen.

TTluipchrpcach mac an gobann abb clochaip Decc. TTlaiDm mop DO rabaipc DO mac uilliam bupc ap cloinn TTluipip ou map mapbaD comdp mac TTluipip, TTluipip Ulac Seonaic puaiD -| peachrmo^liac
pfp

mapaon
Oorhnall

piu.

mac DopchaiD raoipeach cenel Duachdm Decc. OonnchaD mac meic na hoiDchi meg planncVia&a Do mapbaD
UaDjj

la haeb

mac

meg planncha&a.
gaipmlfoaij caoipeac cenel Hloain 065. cficfpnaij Do mapbaD Do fpccop.
b

Cachal mac

ofBaslick, barony of Ballintober, and county of Roscommon. This fixes the position of the

Bdgan __ A

district near Bel turbet, in the

O'Mulrenins, who bore the tribe-name of ClannConor See note", under the year 1193, p. 97,
supra.

north of the county of Cavan, coextensive with the parish of Drumlane. In the year 1454, Donnell Bane O'Reilly had the territory of
Bolgan, alias Dnimlahan, in the neighbourhood

1341.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

slain

571

son of

Manus, the son of Cathal, son of Donnell O'Conor, was Hugh Brefneach O'Conor.

by Cathal,

Brian Oge Magauran was slain by the people of Teallach Dunchadha. Owen O'Heyne, Lord of Hy-Fiachrach-Aidhne, was slain by his
kinsmen.

own

Owen, son of Geoffrey Mac Rannall, and Hugh O'Mulvey, slew each
Philip O'Duigenan, Ollav
[i.

other.

e.

Chief Poet] of Conmaicne, died.

Costello,

William, the son of Gilbert

Mac

was

slain in a conflict in Breifny

by

the people of Teallach-Eachdhach. Rory, the son of Manus O'Hara, died.

Mahon, the son of Annadh

Brian O'Reilly,
of] Bolgan".

O'Reilly,

was

slain

by Andreas, the son of

who

afterwards committed great depredations in the [district

The church

of Kilronan was burned.

Niall O'Higgin, a learned poet,

was drowned.
his

Conor O'Donnell, Lord of Tirconnell, proceeded with

Connaught.

troops into

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one
c
,

1341.

thousand

three

hundred forty-one.
died.

Murtough Mac-an-Gowan

Abbot of Clogher,

The Clann-Maurice sustained a severe defeat from Mac William Burke. Thomas Mac Mawice, Maurice, son of Johnock Roe, and seventy men along
with him, were slain in the battle. Donnell Mac Dorcy, Chief of Kmel-Duachain", died.

Donogh, grandson of Mac-na-h-Oidhche Mac Clancy, was

son of Teige

slain

by Hugh,

Cany. Chief of Kinel-Moen, died. O'Gormly, Cathal Mac Keheeny was killed by a fall.
is
is

Mac

of Belturbet, for his appanage. This name still well known in the country ; and Bolgan

the smith. This

Gowan
"

in the north of Ireland,

it is

name is generally anglicised Mac but in Meath

often translated Smith,

given in Carlisle's Topographical Dictionary as an alias name for the parish of Drumlane.
c

and Leinster

Kinel Duachain.
the

Mac-an-Gowan, mac an joBann,

i.

e.

son of

Luachain,

name

More usually called Kinel of a tribe and territory

D2

5-2

QNNaca Rio^hachca eiReaNN.

i

[1342.

Caiplen Roppa commain DO jabail la coippoealbac ua cconcobaip, ~\ aeb mac pelim bof mbpaighDfnup ann Do legfn amach, i puapjjlaD Do cabaipc

a rr-

Seaan mag machjamna DO chup a haijijiallaib'. bpian ua plomn cigeapna cellaij cupnain Decc.

Cuconnachc ua cuinn caoipec mumcipe

giolljain Decc.
i

Oiapmaic puaD mac copbmaic

i

615

meic Diapmaca 065

naibicc manai

mainipcip na buille.

aois CRIOSC,

1342.

Ctoip Cpiopc, mile, cpf cheo, cfcpacharc,

Do.

concobap mac Coimfipje coccaiD eiDip roippoealbac ua cconcobaip DiapmaDa cijeapna moiglie luipg. Gmann a bupc ofipje a ccommbaio meic
~\

Diapmaca

in

aghaib

ui

concobaip.
uf concobaip i

Qooh mac peDlimiD

bpiuin na Sionna

DonnchaD ua bipn caoipeac cfpe

i

Do chop coippbealbaij ui Choncobaip rceampall oile pmn lap TiDol Do Do jabail gill cpeche Do ponpac mumcip bipn ap hoibepD a CUID Do galloglacaib ui concobaip Do mapbaD Doib immaille pe na bupc,
"]

conpabal,

.1.

mac
uf

RuaiDpi.

CoccaD coicccfnn Dfipghe

DO Dol
i

pann

cconnachraib lap pin. Clann muipcfpcaij concobaip ap rup in ajaiD meic Diapmaca, lompuD Doib
hi

laporh la mac Diapmaoa i le mac uilliam. peall jpaineamail DO Denorh DO cloinn TTluipip lap pin ina noipeccap pein ap cloinn uillidm bupc, comap
-]

nearly co-extensive with the parish of Oughteragh or Ballinamore, in the county of Leitrim.

of Longford.
p.
.

Muintir-GiUigan __ A territory in the county See note k under the year 234,
, 1

270.

ransom was given, &c. This entry is differently worded in the Dublin copy of the Annals In the Annals of Clonmacnoise, as of Ulster.
translated

To
"

obtain reprisals.

this passage as follows in his

Magcoghegan renders Annals of Cloninac-

noise:

"A.

D. 1341.

by Mageoghegan, The castle of Roscommon was

it

is

given thus:

church of

O'Byrne chased King O'Connor into the Olfin, where some of his gallowglasses
together with their constable and This was done upon an occato

were
head,

killed,

taken by Terlagh O'Connor, King ofConnought; [it] was betrayed and yealded over to the said

Mac Rory.

sion of

King Terlagh coming

Terlagh by Hugh mac Ffelym O'Conor, before mentioned, that was prisoner therein."

trey to distrain for a prey that

O'Byrne's conO'Byrne took

before from Robert Burke, whereof ensued great

1342.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Castle

5?3

The

the son of

ofRoscommon was taken by Turlough O'Conor; and Hugh, Felim, who was a prisoner therein, was liberated, and a ransom was
6
.

given for him

John Mac Mahon was banished from Oriel. Brian O'Flynn, Lord of Teallach-Curnain, died.
Cuconnaught O'Quin, Chief of Muintir-Gillagan died. Dermot Roe, son of Cormac Oge Mac Dermot, died in the habit of a monk,
,

in the

Abbey

of Boyle.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of Christ, one thousand
three

1342.

hundred forty-two.

war broke out between Turlough O'Conor and Conor Mac Dermot, Lord of Moylurg and Edmond Burke rose to assist Mac Dermot against
;

O'Conor.

Hugh, son of Felim O'Conor, and Donough O'Beirne, Chief of Tir-Briuinna-Sinna, drove Turlough O'Conor into the church of Elphin, after he had gone 8 to obtain reprisals for a prey which O'Beirn'e's people had carried off from

Hubert Burke.
constable,

On

this occasion

some of O'Conor's gallowglasses, and

'

his

Rory", were slain by them. After this a general war broke out in Connaught.

Mac

The Clann-Murtough

but after[O'Conor], at first took part with O'Conor against Mac Dermot; wards turned over to the side of Mac Dermot and Mac William [Burke]. An

abominable act of treachery was committed by the Clann-Maurice at a meeting

and uncommon calamities thro' out the whole
provence," &c. &c.
h

stood in the north of Ireland. tJapoj

an oipeac-

caip was the

name of a large oak tree which stood

Mac

Rory.

He was

the leader of a Scottish

band of Gallowglasses from the western islands of Scotland, who were at this period in the pay of
the King of Connaught. The Mac Rorys descend from Rory the brother of Donnell, the ancestor of the Mac Donnells of Scotland and Ireland. The

atBlackhill, in the parish of Desertmartin, county and the people understand that it means of

Derry,

meeting or assembly." This word is used to denote the meetings which the Irish held on hills in the open air, to which re-

"the

tree of the

ference
in

is

often

Mac
'

Rorys,

Mac Donnells, and Mac Dowells, were

is

called the Clann- Samhairle, or Clann-Sorley.

meeting, oipeaccap,

translated "
is still

Assemunder-

bly" by Mageoghegan. The word

which it is is reexample of the use of the word the reader from tliePrivy Council Book ferred to an extract 25 Eliz.), quoted in Hardiman's Irish Min(of

made in the old English statutes, Fora good anglicised Iragtites.

574

ctNNata Rio^hachca eiReawN.

Doib,
-|

[1342.

bupc DO mapbab

Seoinin

a bupc Do mapbab la cloinn RiocaipD ap an

ccop ccfona cpia popaileam cloinne TTluipip i ui concobaip. Cachal mac ^lollacpiopc meic oiapmaoa Do mapbab Dpfpjal ua chaibg ap an ccojab ceDna,i peapghal mac giollacpiopc pinn mic Copbmaic Do mapbaD aip beop.

Commapcc cpoDha Do chabaipc DO mac oiapmacca jup na huaiplib bacap ma pappab Dua cconcobaip mbel Gcha Slipfn Dap lirjeaD an car paip i Diapmaicc mac bpiain uf pfpjail, pfp a aoipi Do bpfpp Do conmaicmb, mac hoibepD a bupc, concobap mac Oonnchaba Duib uf eilije Do mapbaD
i

~\

Don chup pin. Seaan mag machjarhna cijfpna oipjiall Do Dul ap cpeich 50 haeDh mac T?ooilb meg machjamna, a mapbaD ap Oepfb na cpeche, a jallocclacaib
~\

-\

immaille pip Do mapbaDh

Do baDhab.

Copbmac mac Ruaibpi mic Domnaill uf concobaip Do jabail la concobap mac caibg, 1 le Ruaibpi mac cachail uf Concobaip. Concobap mac raibg DO jabail le bpian mac Ruaibpi lappin, a cabaipc bo laim concobaip meic
i

-]

DiapmaDa, i Oorhnall ua Dochapcaij coipeach apoa TTlioDhaip cpiocha cheo cfpe Seaan 6 Docapraij Do gabail a henDa, peap Ian Deineac, i Dfngnam Decc,
i -\

a cop Da coimeD

ccappaic locha

ce.

~\

lonaiD.

Do iompu6 ap roippDealbac mac afoha mic m immaille pip na maichib oile barap ja coipneab. dp iaD ap oipDO eipij bo an lonbaib pin, Gmann mac uilliam bupc, Concobap mac DiapmaDa cighfpna maigi luipg cona bpairpib, cona oipecc uile, aob mac
Siol TTluipeaDhaij uile
~\

afba bpeipnig mic carhal puaioh uf Concobaip, UaDhg mac RuaiDhpf ui choncobhaip, Cachal mac afoha bpeipmj mic cachail puaib 50 pochpaioi na conmaicne apcfna, afoh mac pelim mic aooha mic Goghain uf bpeipne
~\
]

concobaip. Uionol Doibpiom uile inD agaib ui concobaip, -] a achcop 50 haimbeonac ap a cfp ap a chalorh peipm conab comaiple cuccpac a chapaiD
~\
\

Do lappin Dol DO paijib meic DiapmaDa co hincleiche gan pacugab Do mopdn a nDionjnab pic pip. Dpiop F ua r acca P c ^ ar)T1 TTluipcfpcaij pjela na

^^^

strelsy,

vol.

ii.

p.

159:

"

Item, he shall not ashills,

"

Beal-atha-slissen,

i.

e.

mouth of the

ford of

semble the Queen's people upon

Iragktei. or paries
J

or use any

the beetles.

This ford

still

retains this name,

al-

upon

hitts."

Seoinin,

i.

e. little

John.

on the Abhainn Uar near Elphin, as See note under the year 1 288. ready
is

and

stated.

1342.]

ANNALS OP THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

own
:

575

people against the Clann- William Burke Thomas Burke was killed by them and, with similar treachery, Seoinin Burke was slain by the at the instigation of the Clann-Maurice and O'Conor. Clann-Bickard, In the
of their
j
;

same war Cathal, son of Gilchreest Mac Dermot, was slain by Farrell O'Teige and Farrell, the son of Gilchreest Finn Mac Cormac, was slain also. Mac Dermot, and the chieftains who assisted him, gave O'Conor a fierce
;

battle at Beal-atha-Slisen

k
,

where they crossed the ford

in despite of him.

Dermot, the son of Brian O'Farrell, the best man of the Conmaicni in his time, the son of Hubert Burke, and Conor, the son of Donough Duv' O'Healy,

were

slain

on

this occasion.

John Mac Mahon, Lord of

against

Oriel,

set

of the

Hugh, son of Roolv [Rodolph] Mac prey, and his gallowglasses were destroyed by
;

out upon a predatory excursion Mahon and was slain in the rere
killing

and drowning.

Cormac, the son of Rory, son of Donnell O'Conor, was taken prisoner by Conor, the son of Teige, and Rory, the son of Cathal O'Conor; and Conor, the
son of Teige, was afterwards taken prisoner by Brian, the son of Rory, and delivered up by him to Conor Mac Dermot, who sent him to be imprisoned in the Rock of Lough Key.

Donnell O'Doherty, Chief of Ardmire, and of the cantred of Tir-Enda, a

full

man

of hospitality and prowess, died, and John O'Doherty assumed his place. All the Sil-Murray turned against Turlough, the son of Hugh, son of Owen

[O'Conor], and joined the other chieftains

those

who were

for deposing him.

Of
dis-

who

rose

up against him

at that time, the following

;

were the most

Conor Mac Dermot, Lord tinguished, namely, Edmond Mac William Burke of Moylurg, with his brothers, and all their adherents Hugh, son of Hugh
;

Breifneach, son of Cathal Roe O'Conor; Teige, the son of Rory O'Conor; Cathal, son of Hugh Breifneach, son of Cathal Roe, with all the forces of
Breifny,

of

Owen

and Conmaicne; and Hugh, son of Felim, who was son of Hugh, son O'Conor. All these assembled against O'Conor, and banished him
;

by force from his country and lands whereupon his friends advised him to go secretly, and without acquainting any with his intention, to Mac Dermot, to m But the Clann-Murtough had ascertain if he would make peace with him.
Duv, ouB, black. This epithet anglicised duff, and sometimes doo.
1

is

sometimes

m ClannMurtongh, i. e. the descendants of Murtongh Muimhneach O'Conor, of whom Hugh,

576

QHwaca Rioghachca eiraecwR

-\

[1342.

corhaiple pin,

piopna haiDche Daipibe

ma

cciocpab ua concobaip Do poigio

rneic DiapmaDa, lonnup gup inleaDap lacr pein poirhe ap bfpnabaib baogail na coriaipe ngebab co longpopc meic Diapmaca. Qcc cfna Do chuaib coippDealbac en cpiap mapcac cappa no gup heipgfb 66 ap cocap an longpuipc.
i

Loiccfp cachal

mac aeoha

bpeipnig

laip po cfecoip,

-]

gep buachab

naghaib lolaip eipiorii gona cpiap oile i mfpg na pochaibe bacap ina aghaib, DO chuaib uacha Da nairhbeoin gan puiliujab gan popbfpgab aip pein ma

ap aon Dia rhuincip. bealbac Do beir ip

1

Ciob cpa ache nochap bpeap Do mac DiapmaDa coippin moipeccfn pin no 50 ccuala an cfijim, an maipgneac
-\
i

an mallachab mop ga benam peachnon an longpuipc, lap ppajbail pgel DO cuipip Daoine caipipi op ipeal coinne ui concobaip Dm bpeic gup an Da caomna 50 ppfpab pfm an ppeDpab a pfb Do Denarii. 6aof ccappaic
6 concobaip
1

mp

pin pecrmain,

~\

mairhe na ripe 05 cochc ap cuaipc chuige,

uaoha ap

pupailearii

mec DiapmaDa.

5 1Dea^

nac bpuaip

mac DiapmaDa
pagbarap
e

cfo na piche Do benarh reiD pein buibfn mapcploij lep gup po

i

l?op commain.

Concobap
'Comap ua

(.1.

concobap puab)

mag Gochagam ngfpna

cenel piachach Do

riiapbab la gallaib.
cinga, TTiuipip

mag 6ochagain, Siommon mac

concobaip mic

Siommom meic giolla appaich caoipeac Do caoipeacaib luigne Decc. ITiupchab mac comolcaig uf plannagam an cpfppfp DO bpCpp Da chinfoh DO mapbab Do gallocclachaib meic cachail. Qooh mac afoha bpeipnig mic cachail puaib ui concobaip Do pigab DO
connachcaib
~\

Do rhac uilliam bupc an ceD luan Dogeimpeab lap naichpigeao

now
the chief

the son of
loader.
n

Hugh

Breifueach was

Intention, coriiaiple.
is

The

literal

meaning
it is

Dermod's house, whereof Clanmortagh having had intelligence lay privily in ambush in his way, as he was passing with four or five horse-

of cothaiple

counsel or advice; but

often

used in the same sense as the Latin consilium.

men in his companie in the dark of the night to Mac Dermott's house [but he] escaped narrowly
by the
force of his vallourous and hardy

"They posted themselves

sage
is

This part of the pasbetter expressed in the Annals of Ulster

hand"

and of Connaught. It is also somewhat better given in the Annals of Clonmacnoise, as translated by Mageoghegan, as follows :" Whereupon he advised with his best friends to come to Mac

Ann. [cainic uairiB ccprapab a lama lamipe. " wounded Cathall mac Hugh, Ult.~\ grievously Breffneagh (one of these that lay in the ambush),
whereof Mac Dermott had no
notice
until,

O'Connor was

ferried over into

Mac Dermott's

1342.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

,

577

intelligence of this intention

would come

to

Mac Dennot

and of the particular night on which O'Conor and they posted themselves at the several dan-

gerous passes of the road by which he was to pass to

Mac

Dermot's

fortress.

Turlough, nevertheless, accompanied by only three horsemen, passed them all, and was not attacked until he had reached the causeway of the fortress.
Cathal, the son of

Hugh

Breifneach,

was

at

once wounded by him

and

although he and his three attendants were but the few against the many, compared with the great body of men who opposed them, he made his escape without receiving himself, or any of his attendants, the slightest wound or
injury.

Mac Dermot,

in the

mean

while, did not

know

the exceeding danger

Turlough was in, until he heard the cries, groans, and imprecations that were uttered through the garrison but as soon as he had obtained information, he privately dispatched trusty persons to conduct O'Conor to the [castle
that
;

of the] Rock, to protect him until he should determine whether he could make peace for him. Here O'Conor remained for a week, during which time, by order of Mac Dermot, the chieftains of the country visited him but Mac
;

Dermot, not having obtained permission [from the 'other chieftains] to conclude peace with him, he escorted him with a troop of cavalry, and left him at

Koscommon.
Conor
slain
(i.

e.

Conor Roe) Mageoghegan, Lord of the Kinel-Fiachach, was

by the

English.

Thomas O'Kinga, Maurice Mageoghegan

of

Simon Mac
slain

[and] Simon, son of Conor, son Gillaarraith, one of the chieftains of Leyny, died.
his tribe,

Murrough, son of Tomaltagh OTlanagan, the third best man of

by the Gallowglasses of the son of Cathal [O'Conor]. Hugh, the son of Hugh Breifneach, son of Cathal Roe O'Conor, was inauon the first Monday of gurated by the Connacians and Mac William Burke, and the Tanistship of Connaught was winter, after the deposing of Turlough
was
;

house of Carrick, where being come Mac Dermott heard the Crys and Lamentations made for the
hurting of Cahall; nevertheless he kept O'Conor with him for the space of a sevenight, useing

allies to

At
to

last

have access to him to converse with him. when Mac Dermott could not be licensed

him

in his

house with such reverence as befitted

come to an agreement of peace with him, he him with safe conduct to the castle of Koscommon, where he left him. Hugh mac Hugh
sent

him, giving liberty to such of his friends and

Breafneagh O'Connor was constituted King of

4E

578

ctNNata Rio^Viachca eiraeaNN.

[1342.

coippbealbaijj Doib, 1 canaipecc connachc Do chabaipc Dafb mac peDlimib noilella Do chabaipc Dpfpgal mac Diapmacca. ui Concobaip.

dp

Uab$ Tnac comolcaij mic TTlmpjiupa meic Donnchaib Dionnapbab ap a bucaij pfin la concobap mac Diapmaca -] la a bpaicpibh, -] e Do beic i ppappab coippDealbaij
hoilella Dia
ep.vri

concobaip,

-|

pfpjal

mac comalcaij Do
eipne.

jabail ripe

Qn

giolla

Dub mag

uibip

Do bachab pop loch

TTIacha

mac magnupa bpugaiD

coiccinD conaij na po Diulc ppi Dpeicli

nDuine DO rpuaj no DO rpen Deg. Concobap mac GoDha mic Domnaill 015 ui Domnaill cijfpna cenel cconuill, fochraip connachc, pfpmanach cenel TTlodin -j mpi heojain, Soi beach Diong-

mala Daipopije Gpenn ap chpur, ap

cheill,

ap oineac, ap oippofpcup, ap

ghaoip, ap jliocup, ap mCnmnaije, ap moipcfcpaiD, ap cpobacc, ap calmacap, ap cpabaiD, ~\ coinDepcle, Do mapbaD la a Deapbpachaip Niall 6 Domnaill

mp

ccabaipc ammaipp oiDce paip ina longpopc pfm TTIupbach,

i

-\

Niall peipin

DO jabail a

lonaiD.
i

plann 65 6 Dorhnallam ollam connachc nocin DO ecc. Oomnall 6 coinleipj paoi pfnchaiD DO rhapbab la huib DiapmaDa jap
pia ccaipg.

Uomap mac
Piapup

jiollacoipglij paoi ap eineac -] ap fngnam Do ecc. albanac Do rhapbab la cloinn TTlaoilip meic peopaip.

Connought by Mac William Burke and Connoughtmen, the first Monday of Winter, and also Hugh mac Ffelym was made Tanist of
Connought.
granted
to

duibh, often shortened to Illduff.

r Matthew Mac Manus According to the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster he dwelt on Lough Erne. The head of the family of

The territory of Tyreallella Fferall Mac Dermott, Teig

was

mac

Mac Manus
Belle
called

of

Tomulty mac Dermott [being] deposed thereof, and banished by Connor Mac Dermoda, whereupon Teig joyned with Terlagh O'Connor."

Isle, in

Fermanagh had his residence at Upper Lough Erne, which is still

natives.

Ballymacmanus by the
is

This

He went over to Literally, "he was along with Turlough O'Conor." Mageoghegan renders " it Whereupon Teig joyned with Terlagh O'Connor."
P
:

branch of the Maguires, and is to be family distinguished from Mac Manus of Tir-Tuathail,
a

who descended from Manus,

More O'Conor, monarch
s

the son of Turlough

of Ireland. a place of this

Murbhach

There

is

name

Gittaduv,
is

an jiolla ouB,

i.

e,.juvenis niger.

about three miles

of Donegal.
p.

to the
h

south-west of the town

variously anglicised Gillduff, Gillyduff, Kilduff; and, in the surname of Mac Gilla

This name

417

See note under the year 1 272, See also Genealogies, Tribes, and Cut-

1342.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

Tirerrill

579
to Farrell

given to Hugh, the son of Felim 0' Conor.

was given

Mac

Dermot.
Teige, son of Tomaltagh, son of Maurice
his

Mac Donough, was banished from own patrimony by Conor Mac Dermot and his kinsmen whereupon he
;

went over"

Farrell, the son of Tomaltagh [Mac Dermot] took possession of Tirerrill after him.
;

to

Turlough O'Conor

and

Maguire was drowned in Lough Erne. Matthew Mac Manus a general and wealthy Brughaidh [farmer], who never rejected the countenance of man, whether mean or mighty, died.
Gilladuv
r

Conor, the son of Hugh, son of Donnell Oge O'Donnell, Lord of KinelConnell, Lower Connaught, Fermanagh, Kinel-Moen, and Inishowen, and worthy heir to the monarchy of Ireland by reason of his personal form, wisdom,
hospitality,

renown, discretion, and ingenuity, magnanimity, intellectuality, valour, prowess, and his piety and charity, was slain by his brother, Niall O'Donnell, who attacked him by night in his own fortress at Murbhach' and
:

Niall himself

assumed

his place.

Flann Oge O'Donnellan', Ollav of Connaught in poetry, died. Donnell O'Coinleisg, a learned historian, was slain, a short time before
Easter,
u by the Hy-Diarmada
.

Thomas Mac Gilla Coisgligh", celebrated for his hospitality and prowess, died.
Pierce Albanagh was slain by the sons of Meyler MacFeorais [Bermingham].

tomg of Hy-Fiachrach, p. 297, where the daughter of O'Donnell is called " the woman of

notices of the

name

to

be found in the Annals

relate to poets.

For a short account of the

Murbhach."
In the margin of the copy of the Annals of the Four Masters, preserved in the library of
Trinity College, Dublin, H. 2. 1 1 , the following words are added to the above passage in the hand-ipiting of Roderic O'Flaherty, author of
the Ogygia : " In ostio domus sue apud Findrois a Niello, filio Patris sui combustae corruit.

celebrated persons of the family of O'Donnellan of Ballydonnellan in modern times, the reader
is

referred to Tribes 167.

u

and Customs of Hy-Many,

This was the tribe-name

p.

Hy-Diarmada.

of the O'Concannons of Killtullagh in

in the county of

Hy-Many
under the

Galway

See note

s
,

O'Mulconry"
1

year 1201, p. 131, supra. v Mac Gilla choisgle. This

name

is still

com-

O'Donnellan.

trict

This family had a small disin Hy-Many, called Clann-Breasail but

;

mon

in the county of

Fermanagh, and in the

and,

neighbourhood of Clones in the county of Monaghan,

our annalists have preserved no account of

where

it

is

anglicised

Cuskly,

them

as chieftains of that district.

The only

sometimes, Cosgrove.

580

dNNCtta Rio^hachca eiRecmN.

[1343.

QO1S CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopc,
mile, cpf cheo,

1343.
cpf.

ceachpacharc, a

Seaan TTlac Goaijj eppcop conmaicne Decc.

lohannep 6 Lairhirh eppcop
na rjunoicce Decc.
cille halaib,
-]

carhal mac an liacanaij abb

Oonncha6 clepech
bab oupcup poighoe
le

6 TTlaoilbpenainD

cananac copaib oile pmn Do mapmuincip hoibepo mic DabiD Duinn meic uilliam.

Slaine ingfn ufbpiain bfn coippbealbaijj uf concobaip pijConnachc oecc. Cachal 6 maDa6din paof eimj -| oippoeapcmp a chenel pem Do rhapbab
la cloinn T?icaiprc.

Depbdil injfn afoha ui Domnaill Do choiDeachc ap cuaipr co hinip oo^hpe Dpecham meic DiapmaDa, jalap a hecca Do jabctil annpin co
-\

bpuaip bap i po ha6naicea6 50 huapal onopach mainipcip na nocha ccaimcc poimpe Dia cineab aombfn pug bapp a maicfppa. Oubcablaij mjfn meic DiapmaDa bean uf bipn Decc.
i

buille,

-\

Diapmaicr ua bpiam Do gabdil an cijeapnaip,-] a achcop ap a plaicfp la bpian ua mbpiain, 1 maiche cuaDhrhuman Do umlugaD Do bpian mppin.
TTluipcfpcach ua bpiain cijeapna
Decc,
-|

ruaDmuman

Uomap mace Sharhpaohain raoipeac ceallaij eachbac Decc. Uilleac mac RiocaipD mic uilliam leic, macaorh jail epeann
1 in fnjnorh Decc.

in

eneach

TTlaibm

DU

in

mop pia ccloinn peopaip pia ccloinn piocaipo pop uib maine Decc Duaiplib tnameach im Concobap cfppbac 6 po mapbao aofnpfp
-|

cheallaij.
"

Mac

Eoaigh

In Harris's edition of Ware's

is set

Bishops, p. of John Mageoi, as Bishop of Ardagh, from the year 1331 to 1343.
*

252, he

down under the name

is

Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, his namewritten lohcmnep olluicaim (the c and m left

unaspirated), and his death placed under the year 1340.

y

G'Laithimh

This name

is

now

usually anit

Inis Doighre

This

is

glicised Lahiff,
rie,

but some have rendered

it is

Guth-

in the river Boyle

now

called Inishterry.

probably the island See

from an erroneous notion that

i.

derived

the Ordnance
sheet 7.

Map

of the County of Roscommon,

from laraij,

of the slough or puddle. In Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops, p. 650, this

e.

bishop is incorrectly called John O'Laitin.

In the

Nobly and honourably interred,^ huupal onoThis is the Irish mode of expressing "She pad.

1343.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

581

THE AGE OF CHEIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1343.

thousand

three

hundred forty-three.

John Mac-Eoaigh

Bishop of Conmaicne [Ardagh], died. Johannes O'Laithimh*, Bishop of Killala, and Cathal Mac-an-Liathanaigh,
,

Abbot

of the Monastery of the Blessed Trinity, died.

Donough Cleireach O'Mulrenin, a Canon chorister of Elphin, was slain with one shot of an arrow by the people of Hubert, son of David Bonn Mac William
[Burke].
Slaine, daughter of O'Brien,

and wife of Turlough O'Conor, King of Con-

naught, died. Cathal O'Madden, the most distinguished of his and renown, was slain by the Clann Rickard.

own

tribe for hospitality

Dearbhail, daughter of Hugh O'Donnell, came on a visit to Mac Dermot to y Inis-Doighre where she was seized with a fatal sickness and died, and was nobly
,

and honourably interred*

woman

of her tribe

who

monastery of Boyle. surpassed her in goodness.

in the

There never was born1 a

Duvcowlagh, daughter of Mac Dermot, and wife of O'Beirne, died. Murtough O'Brien, Lord of Thomond, died and Dermot O'Brien assumed
;

the lordship, but he

was banished from

his chieftainship

by Brian O'Brien

and

the chieftains of

Thomond

then submitted to Brian.

Thomas Magauran,

chief of Teallach Eachdhach [Tullyhaw], died. Ulick, the son of Richard", son of William Liath [Burke], the most illustrious

of the English youths of Ireland for hospitality and expertness at arms, died. The Hy-Many suffered a great defeat from the Clann-Feorais [Berming-

hams], and the Clann-Rickard, on which occasion eleven of the chieftains of Hy-Many, together with Conor Cearbhach" O'Kelly were slain.
was buried with great pomp and solemnity." m There never was born. The literal translation
is
:

"A. D. 1243. Ulick mac Ulick mac Richard

Ulick, surnamed Ulick Leigh, chief of all the English of Ireland for bounty and prowes, died."

mac

" There came not before her of her tribe

any woman who surpassed her in goodness." b This agrees with the Ulick, son of Richard.
text of the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster;

but in Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise it is given as follows

:

Mageoghegan renders it: "where Chieftains Connor Karavagh O'Kelly, with eleven princes' sons of that family were slain.
c

Cearbhach,

i.

e.

the gamester or gambler.

582

dNNata Rioghachca eiReaww.

[1343.

Niall 6 Dorhnaill Do cop ap a plaicfp la haengup ua nOorhnaill -\ le oorhnall (.1. Domnall t>ub) ua mbaoighill, le hua nDochapraig le nfpr

aooha pearhaip uf neill, i le clomn cpuibne, aengup mac concobaip mic afoha nuc oomnaill 615 DO chop hi cngfpnup ripe conaill. Clann TTluipcfpcaig Do Diochup ap an mbpepne la hualgapg ua T?uaipc le coippbealbac ua Concobaip, ~| la Ua6g mag Pagnaill co noeacpac 50
-\

cfp

afoha oionnpoigib

ui oorhnaill,

-|

rug aengup

(.1.

ooib.

Cachap

t>o

ceccrhail lappin eiDip

aongup

-\

6 oomnaill) cip aooha Niall (.1. in achab mona)

1 clann muipcfpcaig oeipje la haonjup in 05016 Neill, mai&m bo chabaipc leo pop mall jona rhuincip. QinDilfp ua baoijill caofpeac chfpe ammipeac

cona mac, Gojan mac Qipc uf borhnaill pin, i aenjup Do bpeic bua&a.

"|

pochai&e

oile

DO rhapbab an ran

Dauic mag oipechcoigh corhopba pacpaicc Decc.

66m mag

-| oipeacloinne maolpuanaib moip mic caiDg mic carail mic concobaip DO chaip ecc pia cijh pem peccmam pia pamain Dia paraipn ap aoi laice peacrmume

Dpoma leachain Do ecc. mac Diapmaca cijfpna muige luipg ruile opoain, Concobap
Duibne aipchiDeocham

lap
1

o oeman, a abnacal mainipnp na mbpeic buaDha o Doman mac Diapmaca a Dfpbpachaip pfin DO oipDneao ma lonaD. pfpjal
-\
-|
i

buille,

T?uai6pi
'

mag

cpaich ollam leiche

now Agha-

moga

le

Dan Do

ecc.
Ware's

Achadh mona,

i.e. bog-field,

in the year 1337- See Harris's edition of

woney, a townland in the parish and barony of See the Kilmacrenan, and county of Donegal

Bishops, p. Rev. Richard Butler, p. 131.

81, and Grace's Annals, edited by the

According to a

Ordnance
f

Map

of the County of Donegal, sheets

i. e. the territory of Ainmire, This was not O'Boyle's original previously to the arrival of the

36 and 45.
Tir- Ainmirech,

note in O'Flaherty's hand- writing, in the College copy of the Annals of the Four Masters, this

David died
*<

in the year 1346.

son of Sedna.
territory,
for,

Mtdrony More according to some

He was

the brother, and,

the eldest bro-

genealogists,

Mac Sweenys from

Scotland, he was chief of the in the north-west of the barony of Tri-Tuatha, Kilmacrenan. Tir- Ainmirech was the ancient
of the present barony of Boylagh, in the west of the county of Donegal.

ther of Aedh an gha bhearnaigh, or Hugh of the broken Spear, O'Conor, King of Connaught, who

was
the

name
*

From this Mulrony Mac Dennots and Mac Donoughs derived their tribe name of Clann-Mulrony.
slain in the year 1067'

David Mageraghty. This name agrees with that in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster at the year 1342; but he is called O'Hiraghty
by Grace and Pembridge, who
state that

Teige, i.e.

White
J

Steed,

Tadhg an eichghil, or Teige of the King of Connaught, who was slain

of Connaught, and

in the year 1030.

Catfial.

he died

He was King

1343.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

was driven from
his principality

583

Niall O'Donnell

by Aengus O'Donnell,

Donnell

and the

Duv O'Boyle and O'Doherty, by the power of Hugh Reamhar O'Neill Mac Sweenys and Aengus, the son of Conor, son of Hugh Oge, son
;

of Donnell

Oge [O'Donnell], was installed in the lordship of Tirconnell. The Clann-Murtough [O'Conor], were driven out of Breifny by Ualgarg
;

O'Rourke, Turlough O'Conor, and Teige Mac Rannall. They passed into Tirhugh to O'Donnell and Aengus (i. e. the O'Donnell), made them a grant of
the territory of Tirhugh.

mona between Aengus

afterwards a battle was fought at Achadhand Niall and the Clann-Murtough rose up with
;

Some time

Aengus against Niall, and they defeated Niall and his people. In this battle Aindiles O'Boyle, chief of Tir-Ainmirech f with his son, Owen, son of Art
,

O'Donnell, and

many

others,
,

were

slain,

and Aengus gained the

died.

victory.

David Mageraghty s coarb of St. Patrick, died. John Mac Duibhne, Archdeacon of Drumlahan,

Conor Mac Dermot, Lord of Moylurg, fountain of the splendour and preeminence of the race of Mulrony More" the son of Teige', son of Cathal son
J
,

of Conor
after

k
,

died at his

own house

week

having overcome the world and the

Farrell

before Allhallowtide, on a Saturday, devil, and was buried in the abbey of

Boyle.

Mac Dermott,
,

his

own

brother,

was

installed his successor

1
.

m Rory Magrath Ollav of Leth-Mogha in poetry, died".

died in the year 1009.

was buried

in the

abbey of Boylle

in

whose

He was King of ConConor, Concobup. and the progenitor after whom the naught,
O'Conors of Connaught have taken their surname.
died in the year 972. From this it that the Mac Dermots of Moylurg are appears is virtually O'Conors, and that their real name

place succeeded his

lorge,

own son as prince namel Fferall mac Connor."

of

Moy-

The Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster contains a quotation

He

who

asserted that this

from a contemporaneous poet, Conor Mac Dermot ex-

celled all the chieftains of the Irish race of his

Mac Dermot O'Conor.

1

See Genealogies, Tribes,

p.

and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach,

His
successor.

213, note

k.

time in wisdom, valour, hospitality, and bounty. It also states that the Farrell or Ferall was his
brother, not his son, as

Mageoghegan

translates this

passage as follows in his version of the

of Clonmacnoise " Mac
:

Annals

m
n

Rory Magratlt.

He was

Mageoghegan makes him. chief poet and his-

torian to O'Brien in

Thomond.

Connor

Dermodda, prince of Moylurg,

Under

this year the Annals of Clonmacnoise,

the fountain and well-spring of all goodnesss of the family of Clanmolronie, and the son of Teig mac Cahall mac Connor, died in his house on

as translated by Mageoghegan, record that Turlough O'Conor, King of Connaught, was restored to his kingdom, and that peace was concluded

Saturday, seven days before Alhallontide, and

between him and Mac Dermot.

584

awNQta Rio^hachca emecmN.

CR1OSU,
Goip Cpiopc, mile,
cpi cheD,

[1345.

1344.

ceachpacharc, a ceachaip.

Gppcob

luigne Decc.

TTlupchab
luijne DO ecc.

mac

rhaoilrhuaib uf fghpa abb na buille

-\

abbap eppcoip

Niocol maccpaic corhopba cfpmamn Dabeoucc Decc.

maoileaclamn pi mibe Do mapbab la copbmac mballac ua maofleachlamn, -| e pfin Do jabail a lonaiD.

uf

Qpc mop mac copbmaic

Qooh mac Rooilbmeg TTlachjamnacijeapna oipjiall Decc, niupchab 65 mag mar^amna Do jabail an cijeapnaip na 6eoi6, a ecc hi cinn f eaclicmaine. Ulajnuf mac Gocha mic l?ooilb meg rharhsamna DO jab'ail an
-] ~\

njeapnaiy
Uilliam

lappin.

mac macjjamna meg

T?ajnaill DO rhapb'ab la macaib cachail

me 5

pajncnll-

ITlachjamain mac jiollacpiopc clepij meic Diapmaca DO rhapbab la muinnp rielije ap an ccoipp^bab.

bpian mac T?uaibpi meg uibip Decc.

QO1S CRIOSC,
Qoip Cpioyc,
mile, rpf cheD,

1345.
cuij.

ceachpachacc, a

^lolla na naom 6 ciandin abb leapa jabail Do ecc. Coippbealbach mac aooha mic eoghain uf concobaip Rf Connachr Do

mapbaDh Dupcap DO foighicc (.1. ip in po^map) ppiob Dopaoha nDol Do conjnam bo la raohg mag Rajnaill cipi eolaip mp
i

hi
i

muin-

najaiD

clomne TTluipcfpcaij muirhmj uf concobaip co loc aipinD.

Intended bishop, aobap eappoij,
ries Episcopi,
i. i.

Clann

TTluipcfpunder

e.

Mate-

e.

Episcopus in

fieri.

In Ma-

of Donegal, near Pettigoe. the year 1196, p. 104.

*Ballagh, bcdlac,
r
i.

See note

',

geoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise he is called " Murrogh mac Bryen of
the Chalices of the mass."

e.

freckled.

Muintir-Healy, i. e. the family of O'Healy. This passage is entered in the Dublin copy of
the Annals of Ulster as follows, under the year

Termon-Daveog is now called Termon Magrath, and is situated in the south of the county
p

1341

1345.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

585

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1344.

thousand
died.

three

hundred forty-four.

The Bishop

of

Leyny [Achonry]

Murrough, son of Molloy O'Hara, Abbot of Boyle, and intended Bishop of Leyny, died.
Nicholas Magrath, coarb of Termon-Daveog p died. Art More, son of Cormac O'Melaghlin, King of Meath, was slain by Cormac Ballagh" O'Melaghlin, who installed himself in his place.
,

Hugh, son of Roolbh [Rodolph] Mac Mahon, Lord of Oriel, died, and Murrough Oge Mac Mahon next assumed the lordship, but died in a week afterwards and the lordship was then assumed by Manus, son of Cochy, son of
;

Rodolph Mac Mahon.

William, the son of

Mahon Mac

Rannall, was slain

by the sons of Cathal

slain

Mac

Rannall.

Mahon, the son of Gilchreest Cleireach Mac Dermot, was

sliabh [the Curlieu Mountain],
r
.

on the Coir-

by Muintir-Healy son of Rory Maguire, died. Brian,

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1345.

thousand three hundred forty-jive.

Lisgabhail', died.

Gilla-na-naev O'Keenan,

Abbot of

was Turlough, the son of Hugh, son of Owen O'Conor, King of Connaught, killed in Autumn by one shot of an arrow, at Fidh doradha', in [the territory u to aid Teige Mac Rannall of] Muintir-Eolais, after he had gone to Loch-Airinn
" Anno Domini 1341. (Tiara tnac jiUicpipc
clepift mic oiapmaoa oo mapbao le mumcip n-Gilioeap in coippliab." Here it is to be noted

Fidh doradha, now Fedaro, a townland in the parish of Annaduff, barony of Mohill, and See Ordnance map of that county of Leitrim
c

is

that cleipij, which is a cognomen of sillicpipc, in the genitive case singular to agree with it. 5 Lisgabhail, now Lisgool, on the margin of
Enniskillen, in the county of

county, sheet 32.

The

territory of Muintir-

Eolais comprised the barony of Mohill, and all that level portion of the county of Leitrim, south

Lough Erne, near

Fermanagh.

of the range of Slieve-an-ierin.

u

Loch Airinn

This name

is still

in use, but

4F

586

QNNaca Rjoghachca emeaNN.

-]

DO mumcip eolaip Dia leanmam 50 pioD oopaoha, a nocha cropchaip Do jaoibealaib pe na ppioeoige, mapbaD ap guiprfp hachaiD poirtie imcfin pgel buD mo map, Gob mac coippDealbaij DO piojan
caig, i an chuio oile
-]

~|

ma

lonarc.

cuill

bpian ua pfpjail Dfgha&bap njeapna na hanjaile Decc. peap na po o imoeapgaD im nf Da bpuaip ip in mbic, co pug buaiD o borhan, oeman.
-|

Gob

6 Neill DO Dul coblac ap loch eachach, i clann

aeDa buiDe co na

ccionol DO bpeic paip, ~\ Daoine lomba Do loc i Do rhapbao Grappa. Qcc cfna ceapna aeb ma longaib uaiohib Dia naimbeoin. TTlagnup 6 ploinn line Do mapbaD la Domnall Donn. -\ la bpian o neill.

Copbmac mac Ruai&pi uf concobaip DO ecc. Coppmac mac TTiuipcfpcaij meic lochlainn Do mapbaD
ualjaipg meic pfpjail.

la

macaib

Q013 CR1OSC,

1346.
pe.

Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cpi cheD, cOchpachac, a

.1.

CoccaD Do pap eicip ua l?uaipc, ualgapg, T?uai6pi mac cachail uf Spameab Uachap Do cfgmail fcoppa ccalpaije locha gile, concobaip.
-j
i

-\

it is

generally anglicised
is

Rinn Lough, or Lough town of Mohill,

in

"

There had not fallen

This passage

is

trans-

a Rinn, which

that of a lake situated a short

lated

by Mageoghegan

in his version of the

:

An-

distance to the south of the

nals of Clonmacnoise, as follows

the barony of Mohill and county of Lei trim. The ruins of a small castle of the Mac Ranalls
are
still

"A. D.

1345. Terlagh O'Connor,

King of Con-

to be seen on the
rest.

margin of this

lake.

w The

In the Dublin copy of the Annals

had reigned twenty-one years, was killed by the shoote of an arrow in Ffyedorowe in Moynter-Eolas, being [having] purposely
naught, after he

of Ulster the reading is bloo oo mumncip 60luip, i. e. "Some of the Muinter Eolais," which
is

gone thither to assist Teige Mac Ranell against Clann Mortagh, at Logh Aryn, whom the said
of Moyntir Eolas pursued to Fydorowe,
there,

better.
x

Gurtin na Spideoige, i. e. the little garden or field of the robin redbreast. This name is now
forgotten.

Clann Mortagh and the rest of the inhabitants and

at a place called

The

place so called was in the

imme-

killed

by an arrow,

as aforesaid.

Gortyn Spideoge, was There was not

diate vicinity of Fedaro townland.

sition

In an inqui-

a greater exploit

taken in the year 1631, Federree and Cornespedoge are mentioned as in the barony of
Mohill and county of Leitrim.

of the Nine Hostages was killed

done by an arrow since Neale by Eochie mac

at the

Enna Kynseallagh
[i e.

Tyrhian seas

in

whose

Terlagh's] place

Hugh Mac

Terlagh was

1346.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

587

The Clann-Muragainst the descendants of Murtough Muimhneach O'Conor. tough and the rest" of the Muinter-Eolais pursued him as far as Fidh Doradha,
and killed him
at Gurtin-na-spideoige*.
fallen" of the Gaels,

any one more to

For a long time before there had not be lamented than he. Hugh, son of Tur-

lough, was inaugurated King

hi his place.

Brian O'Farrell, worthy materies of a lord of Annaly, died. He was a man who never earned censure z on account of anything he ever acquired, even up
to the

hour when he overcame the world and the

O'Neill

devil.

on Lough Neagh, and the Clann-HughBoy with their muster, overtook him, and many persons were wounded and killed [in the contest] between them but Hugh made his escape, in despite of

Hugh
a
,

went with

a fleet

them, in his ships.

Manus O'Flynn Line

Brian O'Neill.

[i.

e.

of Moylinny],

was

slain

by Donnell Donn and

Cormac, the son of Rory O'Conor, died. Cormac, son of Murtough Mac Loughlin, was
son of Farrell [O'Rourke]
.

slain

by the sons of Ualgarg,

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one thousand three

1346.

hundred forty-six.

war broke out between O'Rourke, i. e. Ualgarg, and Rory, the son of Cathal O'Conor; and an engagement took place between them in Calry-Loughconstituted
1

King of Connaught."
In the Dublin copy of the

to the east of
ties of

Lough Neagh

in the present coun-

Earned censure

Down and

Antrim, and which was called

Anglice, Clannaboy,

Annals of Ulster the reading is, "paimc janaen juc acmopam 6 ejpib 7 6 ollainnaib 6penn," " he i. e. passed through life without any from the literati or chief poets of Irereproach The meaning is, that he had been so land."
generous to the poets that none of them tempted to lampoon him.
1
i.

Clann Aodha Buidhe,

from their tribe-name.

at-

now usually anglithe initial p, which by aspirating seems to have been also the mode of pronouncing ' the name at a very early period. See note under
b

O'Flynn.

This name

is

cised O'Lyn,

the year
'

176, pp. 24, 25.

this year O'Flaherty adds, in the

Boy Clann-Hugh-Boy, They O'Neill, who was slain in the year 1283. possessed, at this period, an extensive territory
e.

the race of Hugh

Under

from the College copy, the following passages Annals of Lecan

:

4 F 2

588

aNwata raioshachca

eircecwN.

[1346.

pop ua Ruaipc -\ a jallocclaca uile Do mapbaD, .1. mag buippce [i] mac caimm co na mumcip. O Ruaipc Do leanmain Do RuaiDpi ua cconcoa mapbaD la maolpuanaib mac baip i DO clomn nDonnchaib apa hairhle,
neill
-\

po bu6 moipecc epibe. Ceirhpe meic cachail mic an caoich meg l?ajnaill Do jabail ap loc an pjuip Do chonchobap mag Rajnaill, Uomalcac mdj Rajnaill Da mbpeir a mapbaD Do ann pin. laip co Caipiol copccpaigh,
oonnchaib,
-| -|

Cuulab mac carhmaoil cofpeac cenel pfpaohaij Do mapbaD

la Oorhnall

mac

carmaoil.

TTlaiDm la bpian

mdj macjamna

pop jallaib 50 pdinicc cpf cecc cfnn

in

aipfmh Dib. Niall 6 Dorhnaill, clann TTluipchfpcaij, mac pe&limiD uf concobaip, i TTluipjfp mac oiapmaca DO Ifnmam RuaiDpi mic cachail 50 cuil maoile 50 ccujpac maibm paip, -\ pop clomn nDonnchaiD annpin gup cuipeab dp oppa,
1

a ccpeachaD apa haichle 66ib 50 mbaoi a lop Daocham cpeach laip. TTlac Diapmaoa gall Do mapbaD rpe peill ina cij pein la clomn Uailopin
-\

meic goipoealbaij
ppip.

coppmac caocn mac

Do mapbaD.
uf pfpjail

pinjin Do

mapbaD

boib imaille

Concobap ua
lorhap

bipn

mac TTlupchaoa
uf

DO mapbaD la bpian mac cijeapnam, i

la Dorhnall

la clomn meic TTluipcfpcaij.

Qpc mac comdip

Ruaipc DO mapbaD

mag njeapnain.

"OdoO'RoirkRodericumfiliusCathaldiO'Conor apudpapacoilleao depraedatus, in templum

cille lioipi^ confugit, et templo incenso occidi-

two kinds of infantry; one, called galan iron helmet, a lowglasses, were armed with coat of mail and a cuirass, and carried in one
trained

MS. L." " Amlaus (Donaldus reor) O'Flaherty occiden tails Connacise dominus obiit. MS. L."
tur

hand a fine-edged
in his 19th

battle-axe, like that used

by

the ancient Gauls, of

whom

Marcellinus speaks

Book

the other were light-armed,

" Jacobus
tiniae,

O'Corcrain,

Archidiaconus BreCytha-

et Florentius O'Corcrain insignis

and are called by Henry of Marleburgh Turbiculi, by others Turbarii, and popularly kerns
:

raedus obierunt."
A

MS.

L.

Ccdry-Loiu)h-GiU,,ca\,\\a.\tp

loca ^ile, was a

they fought with and knives called skeynes.

the fifth year of
articles to

javelins tied

with strings, darts,

territory in the county of Sligo, bordering

upon

Edward

In an Act passed in III., c. 25, among the

Lough
e

Gill.

The name

is still

preserved in Calry

or Colry, a parish bordering

Gallote-fflasses.

upon

this lake.

be observed in Ireland the sixth was "against the leaders and supporters of kerns and
the-

The

Irish of the middle ages

the people called idlemen, unless on

confines

1346.]
Gill", in

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

589

which O'Rourke was routed, and all his gallowglasses e slain, i. e. Mac f Buirrce, and Mac Neill Cam with their people. O'Rourke was afterwards O'Conor and the Clann-Donough, and was killed byMulrony pursued by Rory Mac Donough. This was a lamentable deedg
.

The four sons of Cathal, the son of the Caech [Monoculus] Mac Rannall, were taken prisoners on Loch-an-Sguir" by Conor Mac Rannall. Tomaltagh Mac Rannall afterwards brought them to Caisiol Cosgraigh, where they were
put to death by him.

Cu-Uladh Mac Cawell, chief of Kinel-Farry, was

Cawell.

slain

by Donnell Mac

victory was gained by Brian Mac Mahon over the English, and three hundred of their heads' were counted [after the battle].

Clann-Murtough [O'Conor], the son of Felim O'Conor and Maurice Mac Dermot, pursued Rory, the son of Cathal [O'Conor] to CulMaoile [Coloony], where they defeated him and the Clann-Donough with great
Niall O'Donnell, the slaughter.

They afterwards plundered them, and carried off abundance of booty. Mac Dermot Gall was treacherously killed in his own house by the sons of Waldrin Mac Costello and Cormac Caech Mac Fineen was slain along with
;

him.
Ivor, the son of

Murrough

O'Farrell,

was

slain

by Brian Mac Tiernan and

the Clann Murtough. Art, son of

Thomas O'Rourke, was

own
ex-

slain

by Donnell Mac Tiernan.

it is

of the enemy's territory, and at their

pense."

.of

the Annals of Ulster, in which

stated that

Ware's Antiquit.
is

c.

xxi.

"The
and he

gallowglass succeeded the horseman,

the killing of O'Rourke is the most lamentable event that had occurred in Ireland since the killing of
h

commonly armed with

a skull, a shirt

Cormac Mac Cullennan.

of mail, and a Gallowglass axe," &c. &c. Barnabie Riches' New Irish Prognostication, p. 37.
'

Loch-an-Sguir,

now Lough

Scur.

It

is

Mac Buirrce,
7,

fyc

The Four Masters have

this passage
it

rony

situated in the parish of Kiltubbrid, in the baand county of Leitrim, near the village of

omitted the

ajup, which renders

Keshcarrigan.
a castle called

There

is

an island in this lake

obscure, but the Editor has restored

from the

called Castle Island,

on which stand the ruins of

castle,

Uublincopyofthe Annals of Ulster. MacBuirrce and Mac Neill Cam were Scots, and captains of
irallowglasses
g

CcnrleanSeom, or John's

employed

in

O'Rourke's service.
is

and another island called Prisonlsland on which, according to tradition, Mac Rannall was wont to
confine his prisoners,
'

Lamentable deed.
far

This entry

more

briefly

but

more correctly given

in the

Dublin copy

Three hundred heads

This

is

very rudely

590

QHwata Rio^hachca eiraeaNR

CIO1S

[1347.

CR1OSU,

1347.

Qoip Cpiopc,

mile, cpf cheD,

ceacpachacc, a Seachc.

TTIaolmafDoj 6 caiclij oippicel locha hepne Do ecc.

uf pfpghail cijeapna 55'olla net naom mac SeapppaiD mic giolla na naom na hangaile cfnn copanca conmaicneac ap joil ap jaipcciD, ap eneach, ap oippoeapcup Do ecc ccluam lip beic mp mbeir aehaib imchian in aipDcfn-\
i

nup na hanjoile 66 "| e Do bpeic bua6a 6 Doman 6 6fman. Cachal mac mupchaba mic jiolla na naom uf pfpjail t>o jabailcijeapnaipnahanjaile lapom. TTluipjiup mac oiapmara DO rhapbab la Seaan puap mac DauiD a bupc.
~\

^065 mag Rajnaill caofpeach

muipcfpcaijj.

rhumcipe heolaip Do jabail Do cloinn

Uilliam TTlac DauiD Do

mapbaD DO ca&j pua6 mac Diapmaca

jail

mbaile an copaip.

Uomap mac apcain cijeapna ua neach&ac ulaD Do chpochab la jallaib. Goghan ua maDa&am caofpeach Sil nanmchaoha Decc TTlupchaD a
-\

mac DO jabail cfnnaip Sil nanmchaba. Qfnjup mac gabpa uf TTIaDaDain Do ecc. Ceampall chille Rondin DO chop puap Dpeapjal ua Duibgionndm.
Pinnguala injfn meic pinjm bfn pfpjail
uf Duibgionnain Decc.

Gnpf mac afoha bui&e uf TCaijillij, i an jiolla Dub mac

pionnjuala injean TTIaoilpeaclamn uf gille TTlochua Decc.

neill,

OonnchaD mac aeDha

615 uf pfpghail Decc.

~\

SfDpab 6 cuipnfn paof pileab

stated

ollam na bpeipne epibe DO ecc.

side of the river

by the Four Masters. In the Dublin copy

is:

Suck

in the barony of Ballimoe

of the Annals of Ulster the reading

" ITlaDm

and county of Galway.

year 1225.
'

See note

z
,

under the
the town

la bpian
epi c.

tnacjathnu ap jallaiBoa jiamic ceann co lacaip," i.e. "a defeat was given

mag

Ballintober, baile

an copaip,
is

i.e.

by Brian Mac Mahon to the English, of whose heads three hundred were brought in his presence."
i

of the well.

This

is

the Ballintober in the

usually called

county of Roscommon, which

Cluain-lis-Bec.

See other references to this

by the annalists baile copaip 6pi5e, i. e. the town of St. Bridget's well, to distinguish it from
baile copaip paopuij, now Ballintober, in the county of Mayo. Mac Dermot Gall was Chief of
Airteach, in the county of Roscommon.

place at the years 1282 and 1322.

k

Mac David Burke

He was chief of the

ter-

ritory of Clanconow or Clanconway, on the west

1347.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

591

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of Christ, one thousand
three

1347.

hundred forty-seven.
died.

Maelmaedhog O'Taichligh,

Official of

Lough Erne,

Gilla-na-naev, the son of Geoffrey, son of Gilla-na-naev O'Farrell,

Lord

of

Annaly, chief protector of the Conmaicni, for his prowess, valour, hospitality, and renown, died at Cluain-lis-bec', after having been for a long time Chief of
Annaly, and
after having gained the victory over the world and the devil. the son of Murrough, son of Gilla-na-naev O'Farrell, assumed the lordCathal, ship of Annaly after him.

Maurice

Mac Dermot was slain by John Roe Mac David Burke". Teige Mac Rannall, Chief of Muintir-Eolais, was taken prisoner by
slain at Ballintober
1

the

Clann-Mur tough [O' Conor]. William Mac David [Burke] was

by Teige Roe

Mac

Dermot Gall. Thomas Mac Artan, Lord

of Iveagh

m
,

in Ulidia,
n
.

Owen O'Madden,

Chief of Sil-Anmchadha, died

was hanged by the English. and Murrough, his son,

;

assumed the chieftainship of Sil-Anmchadha Aengus, the son of Gara O'Madden, died.

of Kilronan was re-erected by Farrell O'Duigenan Finola, daughter of Mac Fineen, and wife of Farrell O'Duigenan, died.

The church

Henry, son of

Hugh Boy

O'Neill

Finola, daughter of Melaghlin

O'Reilly

and Gilladuv Mac

Gillamochua, died.

Donough, the son of Hugh Oge O'Farrell, died. q Siry O'Curnin a learned poet and Ollav of Breifny,
,

died.

m Lord oflveagh
pear

The Mac Artans

did not

wife of Farrell

Muimhneach O'Duigenan, Ere-

retain this dignity long, for the Magennises aphenceforward as lords of this territory.

nagh of Kilronan, died."

P

Sil-Anmchadha.

This

is

pronounced Sheelsee note k

which

This name, Melaghlin, JTIaolfeaclainn. is sometimes written TTIaoilp eacnaill, and

is

Anmchy:

for its situation

1

and extent

TTIaoileaclainn

usually anglicised Malachy,

under the year

178, p. 44, supra.

but with what degree of propriety may be questioned, as it signifies the servant or devotee of St. Seachlainn or Secundinus, disciple of St.

This passage is better given O'Duigenan from O'Mulconry's Annals, by O'Flaherty, in the College copy, H. 2. 11, thus
:

Patrick.
"

"

Finola, daughter of

Owen Mac

Fineen, and

CPCurnin.

The Annals

of Lecan, as quoted

592

aNNdca Rioshachca
QO1S CR1OSU,

eiraeaNN.

[1348.

1348.

a hochr. Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cpi cheD, cfchpachacc

cicmain abb Ifpa gabail Do ecc. ^lolla na naorh ua Niall gapb ua oorhnaill cigfpna ripe conaill, lap bpagbail mop nimpfpna
la TTlaghnupp meablach ua pia ccigfpnup, DO mapbaD rrigfpmip ba cup cpooha noomnaill qua cheilg -| piongail (.1. pope inp Saimep). an ci mall go pin, -| ba liach a aoiDeaD arhlaiD pin. comnapr copnarhach

66

hi

-]

Clongup mac concobaip an cijeapnaip.

ui 6oriinaill

baoi in

impeapam

ppi

mall Do

abail

Cachal

6 pfpgail

TTlaoileachlainn

njeapna na hanjaile Decc. mag oipeachcaij caoipeac muincipe

cuile bpigDe Decc.

poouib,

Donnchab

mag bpaoaij raoipeach

Coirheipjhe coccab eiDip pfpjal mac DiapmaDa -| l?uaiDpi mac cachail mic Domnaill uf concobaip. Longpopr meic Diapmaoa Do lopccab la Ruaiopi. TTlac Diapmaca Do rhionol a chapao apa haicle co nDeachpacc
i

nOiaiD Ruaibpi 50 a longpopc 50 baile an rhocaig gup po loipcceab an baile leo eiccip cloic ~\ cpanD, -| m po cuipeaD na naghaiD gup cillpfcc Dia ccighib

Dopibipi.

Uugpac mac

uf l?uaipc baoi

mbpaigDeanup

ip in

mbaile app
TTlac

immaille pe gach bpagaiD

oile Da ppuaippfcr ann. Clann peopaip DO lonnapbaD la hemann a bupc gup bo heigfn Do peopaip cocc Dia corugaD go ceag uf concobaip.

by O'Flaherty in the College copy of these Annals, " a learned call him poet and musician ;" and add,
that he died " in religione et peregrinatione." tO'Keenan. His death has been already en-

emperor of hospitality, the servant of generosity, and the shelterer of benevolence." And it is
added, that the professors of poetry and the sciences were grieved and broken-hearted on

tered under the year 1345.

s

hearing of the death of this kind chieftain.

Murderously,

pionjail

Properly means

the
'

murder of a kinsman.
Meabhlach,
i.

e.

the deceitful.

This, which is more generally *Cuil-Brighde. written Cuil Brighdein, was the name of Mac Brady's territory, comprising the district round

u b

Inis-Saimer

At

Ballyshannon.

See note

under the year 1197, p. 111.

w

See other Stradone, in the county of Cavan. The notices of it at the years 1378 and 1412.

Mdaghlin Mageraghty
is

In the Annals of
in einij, peicriieoip
i.

name Mac Brady

i

is

now always made Brady,

oiap-

Ulster he

called "

impep

without the prefix Mac.

na peile

oioneoip na oaennacca,

e.

the

Mac Dermofs fortress, lon^popc meic

1348.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

593

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1348.

thousand three hundred forty-eight.

Lisgabhail, died.

Gilla-na-naev O'Keenan",
Niall

Abbot of

Garve O'Donnell, Lord of Tirconnell, after having experienced much contention, before and during the term of his lordship, was treacherously and
5

murderously
Inis-Saimer
u
.

slain

by Manus Meabhlaclr O'Donnell, his kinsman, at the port of Niall was a brave, puissant, and defensive hero till then, and it

was a sorrowful thing that he should have died in such a way. Aengus, the son of Conor O'Donnell, who had been in contention with Niall, assumed the
lordship.

Cathal O'Farrell, Lord of Annaly, died.

Melaghlin Mageraghty *, Chief of Muinter Rodiv, and Donough x Chief of Cuil Brighde died.
,

Mac

Brady,

A war broke out between Farrell Mac Dermot, and Rory, the son of Cathal,
son of Donnell O'Connor.

Mac Dermot's
his friends,

fortress"

was burned by Rory.

Mac

Dermot afterwards assembled

and they pursued Rory to his fortress at Ballymote, and burned the town, both stone and wooden edifices, and they z did not meet any opposition until they reached home They took away the
.

son of O'Rourke, that

was

in captivity in the town, together with every other

naptive they found there.

The Clann-Feorais [the Berminghams], were banished by Edmond Burke, and Mac Feorais 3 was compelled to go to the house of O'Conor lor his
1

support
muoa.

".

This was not the castle in Lough

called

Key

Cappaij commonly rock of Lough Key but a fortification situated on Longford hill, now enclosed in Lord Lorton's
;

oca Ce, or the

but although this is obviously not the meaning intended, the Editor has thought proper to preserve the order of the original construction, to

give the reader an exact idea of the style of the

original.
a

demesne.
'

Until they reached

;

home

This

is

the literal
to be con-

Mae

Feorais,

i.

e.

the head of the Berming-

translation

but the idea intended

hams.
b O'Flaherty adds from the Anuals Support. of Lecan, in H. 2. 1 1 (Trinity College, Dublin) " Gelasius Mac obiit. MS. L."
:

veyed
ing

is,

that they returned

opposition.

met any

home without havThe words, as con;

structed in the original Irish, might imply that on their return home thpy did receive opposition

Tigernan " Cln ch) ice rnultos e vita sustulit

MS. L."

4G

594

ctNNata uioshachca eiReaww.

[1349

QO1S CRIOSr,
t

1349.

Ctoif GpiOfTJ, mile, cpf cheo, cfchpacharc, anaof.

TTlaibm Do cabaipr la haob ua TCuaipc ap plaicbfpcach uo ftuaipc ap

oonnchab ua nborhnaill,

~\

ap bapcpaigib.

Qoo mace

plannchai6 raoipeac

Dapcpaige giollacpiopr mag Do rhapbab Don commapc hipin. 1 pochaibe immaille ppiu Gom Dub mac Domnaill Do rhapbab la TTlajnup mac eochaba mej maf-

plannchaba, lochlainn .mac ainbilip uf baofghill

^amna.
^lolla
ria

naom

6 huijinD Saof le
eiDip

Dan Decc.
-\

Coimeipje Do Denorh
baip gup po cionoil TTlac

mac nDiapmaoa Do RiDip 17uai6pi ua concoDiapmaoa an meD puaip Do jallaib, gaomealaib

~\

im cloinn TTluipcfpcaij "| im cenel cconaill Do poijiD mic cachail. Puaibpi 1&ea& nocTiap DO jluayacc pompa, -| a cup 50 cloinn pfpmaije boib.

jaoibealaib gpeim Do jjabail aip. lompafo jallaib peDpacc apa haicle ^an nfpr gan eioipfoha. Ruaibpi Do chionol pocpaiDe lappm gup
uile eiccip
~|

loipg,

gup aipccfpccaip upmop maighe luipg uile. go haipibe muig Impg co ccugab dp Diapmibe ap plaij mop in epinD, Daoimb Da bfcm. Ulacha mac cachail uf Ruaipc Decc Don plaig lupin. gup
mill, i
i ~\

Oonnchab piabach mac TTlaoileachloinn cappaij meic Diapmaoa Do gabail a map6 Da bpeic laip naipceach, la copbmac bobap mac Diapmaca, nbuinechaibe DO muincip aipcig, Do mac giollacpiopc mic caiclig, bab
i

~|

~\

-|

bua ceapnaig.
ua l?agallaig cijeapna na bpeipne choip, mac an mpla DO ecc. ^illebepr ua planoagdin caoi peach ruairhe T?acha Do mapbab DO macaib
l"?ipDepD
-|

bpiain uf plannagdin.
This name is now anglicised Clancy without the prefix Mac. It is locally Clancy, pronounced in Irish as if written mag lannacaioe.
c

Mac

\vas at this

time the chief leader of the race of

Brian Luighneach, the ancestor of O'ConorSligo. The Clann-Murtough were the descendants of

Murtough-Muimhneach, the brother of Brian

Luighneach.
f

This territory comprised the present barony of Kossclogher, in the north of the
Dariry.

Plague.

This plague

is

noticed

in

Ma-

county of Leitrim, where the Clancys, or Maglanchys, are still numerous.

e

geoghegan's version of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, under the year 1348, as follows
:

The son ofCathal,

i.

e.

Rory O'Conor,

who

"A. D. 1348. There was

a generall plague in

1349.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

595

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1349.

thousand

three

hundred forty-ninn.

people of Dartry

Donough O'Donnell, and the Chief of Dartry", Gilchreest Mac Clancy, Loughlin, son of Aindiles O'Boyle, and many others, were slain in the
defeated Flaherty O'Rourke,
;

Hugh O'Rourke

and

Hugh Mac Clancy

engagement.

John Duv Mac Donnell was

slain

by Manus, son of Eochy Mac Mahon.

Gilla-na-naev O'Higgin, a learned poet, died. .Another contest arose between Mac Dermot and

Rory O'Conor.

Mac
.

Dermot assembled

found to aid him, together with the Clann-Murtough and the Kinel-Connell, against the son of Cathal e Rory moved before these, and they drove him to Clann-Fermaighe, but the
all

the English and Irish

whom he

entire

body of them, both English and

Irish,

were unable to take him.

;

They

afterwards returned without acquiring power or obtaining hostages

and Rory

then mustered a force and burned, wasted, and plundered the greater part of

Moylurg.
[raged] in Ireland, and more especially in Moylurg, by which great numbers were carried off. Matthew, the son of Cathal O'Rourke,

great plague

died of this plague*.

Donough Reagh, the son of Melaghliri Carragh Mac Dermot, was taken g and he prisoner by Cormac Bodhar Mac Dermot, who led him to Airteach
;

was

murder by the people of Airteach, i. e. by the son of Gilchreest Mac Taichligh and O'Kearney. Richard O'Reilly, Lord of East Breifny, and the son of the Earl, died.
killed in secret

11

Gilbert O'Flanagan, Chief of Tuath -Ratha', was slain by the sons of Brian

O'Flanagan.
Moylurg and
all

Ireland in general, whereof the

which
1346.

this passage

Karle of Ulster's grandchild died: also mar Cahall O'Royrck died of it."
s Jiod/iar

Mathew
the deaf,
bother
is

is entered under the year In a manuscript in the Library of the

(pronounced bower),

i.

e.

From
11

this

the Hiberno-English word

Royal Irish Academy, No. 315, p. 288, this term is thus defined "tDumaraioe, .1. mapbao ouine ffM, pa copp DO polcao lap pin, i. e. Duin: i

supposed to have been formed. This is written oumirai&e Secret murder

in

athaide, to kill a

ceal his
'

the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, in

man in treachery, and to conafterwards." body Now anglicised Tooraah. It Tuath-.-dlw

c2

596

awNaca Rioghachca eiReawN.

TTluipcfpcach piaccdnach

[1350.

mag aonjupa Do mapbab

-]

la a bpaicpib bubbein.
ecc.

Ruaibpi ua cachain cijfpna na cpaoibe, Qo6 ua Rajallaij Do ecc. Qn jiolla caech mag Dopchaib Do ecc.

aipt>i

cianacra Do

Wuinghfp mac Donnchaib caoi'peac an copamn peap Ian oaicne,

DO
ecc.

-\

Deneac

TTlaibm

mop DO cabaipc lap an lupnp

-|

-\

leachloinn

ap jaoibealaib na

TTlibe oil

la gallaib na TTlibe ap ua TTlaoinoopcpacap pochaibe oia mainb.

QO1S CR1OSU,

1350.

Qoip Cpiopc, mile, rpf cheo, caoccacc.

Uilliam 6 DubDa Gppcop chille hQlaDh, pfp cogbala ceall Saof biaDha, bepcach, baonnachrac Do ecc.
-|

neimfDh,

a pdici ua connacr) mac afoha bpeipnicch ui concobaip pip concobaip Do mapbab la haeb ua puaipc moijh angaiDhe. pfpjal ua puaipc mac ualjaipcc Do mapbab Do mac cachail cleipig

QoDh

(.1.

pf

meic Donnchaba.

bpian mac DiapmaDa abbap cijeapna rhaijhe luipcc Do mapbab T?op commain la muincip an eppcoip uf pinacca Daon upchap poighoe co cfgan peap ap ap cuipeab an cpoijeao DO chairfm (Ruaibpi an rhaipeac,
i

-\

rpeompa
is still

Donnchaba) Do cioppbab po cfccoip

name of a
district in the

ma
:

epaic.

the local

county

as follows

of Fermanagh, lying between Lough Melvin and Lough Erne, and comprising the parishes of Inis-

macsaint and Boho.

1260, p. 379.
k

See note

under the year

great victory was gained by the Justiciary and the English of Meath over O'Melaghlin and the Irish of Meath, and many of the Irish chieftains were slain."
n

"A

In Mageoghegan's Kinsmen, bpcnrpiB. translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise this

is

Man,

pnoi.

The word

raoi,

which

is

ren-

rendered "brothers," thus:

dered doctor by Colgan, has the same meaning in the ancient Irish as oume uapal has in the

"A. D.I 348. Mortagh Riaganach Magenos was killed by his own brothers." Ard-Keanaghta. The prefix ard here is evi1

modern.

It

might be translated "gentleman"

throughout, but the Editor has translated it by " distin" learned " eminent man," or man,"

dently a mistake.

mA
lation.

guished
This
is

man" throughout.
This
is

defeat
It

was given.

the literal transin

Magh-Angaidlie.
in Breifny,

would be better expressed

English

now

called

Moy,

probably the place alias New-town-

1350.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

1

5[/7

Murtough Riaganagh Magennis was slain by his own kinsmen". Rory O'Kane, Lord of Creeve and Ard-Keanaghta died.
,

Hugh

O'Reilly died.

Mac Dorcy died. Maurice Mac Donough, Chief

Gilla-Caech
hospitality, died.

of Corran, a

man

full

of intelligence and

A great
slain.

defeat was given

O'Melaghlin and the Irish

by the Lord Justice and the English of Meath to of Meath, in which many of their chieftains were

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1350.

thousand three hundred fifty.

William O'Dowda, Bishop of Killala, founder of many churches and sanctuaries, and a godly, charitable, and humane man", died.

Hugh (i. e. the King of Connaught), the son of Hugh Breifneach O'Conor, and who was called the O'Conor, was slain in Magh-Angaidhe" by Hugh O'Rourke.
Farrell O'Rourke, the son of Ualgarg,

was

slain

by the son of Cathal

Cleir-

Mac Donough. Mac Dermot, materies of a lord of Moylurg, was accidentally slain at Roscommon with one shot of a javelin p by the people of Bishop 0'Finaghty q and the man who was charged with having cast the dart (Rory-an-t-Seomra
ach Brian
;

O'Donohoe
[Brian].
Gore.

),

was immediately mangled*

as

an

eric

[retaliation]

for

him

See Ordnance

map

of the county of Lei-

trim, sheet 26.

v

Of

a javelin,

r-oi^oe.
is

The

Irish

word f ot-

O^Findsa, an error which arose from, mistaking the contracted writing of the name, o pi no fa, in the Annals of Ulster or of Lough Kee.
r

cognate with the Latin sagitta, generally signifies a shaft or arrow; but it sometimes also denotes a javelin not discharged

TJeao or paijeao, which

0'Z><moAoe.

He was

evidently one of the

in

sept of

O'Donnchadha of Hy-Cormaic

Moin-

moy.
s

See Tribes and Customs ofHy-Many, p. 76,

from a bow, but thrown by the hand.

q

note ".

Bishop O'Finaghty

He was John

O'Fi-

naghty, Bishop of Elphin, called John of Roscommon, in his Patent of restitution to the tempo-

Was mangled, DO cioppbao In the Dublin " copy of the Annals of Ulster the reading is oo cippbao 7 oo mapbuo ann, was mangled and
killed for it."

March, 1326. In Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops he is erroneously called John

ralities, 1st

598

ciNNaca Rio^hachca emeaNN.

[1351.

bpian mac Domnaill mic bpiain puaib ui bpiain Do mapbab cpe macaib lopcdin meic ceoach. Qp Do po paibeab

peill la

Upuagh aon mac oomnaill Dala, Upuaj oighip bpiain bopama, Upuag a 6ul map na paoileab Upuaj clann ceoch Da chorhmaoibfm.
Uoipbealbac occ 6 bpiain Do mapbab pe bpeap noecc DO cloinn ceoach a ccpob Do bem Dfob beop. nDiojail a misniorha, a bpfponn mac carhail mic Domnaill ui concobaip Do rhapbaD PuaiDpi pell
-]
i
i

ngappDa na piongaile ap bpecplmb la cloinn pfp^ail meic DonnchaiD ap popcongpa afoha mic coippoealbaij. QoD mac coippoealbai DairpiogaD Do mac uilliam bupc Do cuaraib
~\

connachr,

-j

aeD mac peiblimiD Do pfojaD Doib ina ajhaib.

Cucoiccpiche mop
laoib meguiDip,
~\

mag

eochajdin ci^fpna cenel piachach, aoD

mac

arh-

TTluip^fp

mac Donnchaba
paof epeann

oecc.
i

Qonghup puab ua Dalaij Dfighpfap Dana oecc.

nodn,

-|

aonghopp ua heobopa

aois cr?iO3u,
Qoip Cpiopc,

1351.

mile, cpf cheD, caoccacr,

in

haori.

TTlamepcipRuip oipbealaij
.8.

eppcoiboiDecc

ruama Do bfnom Do
la TTlagnup
"|

bpaifpib

ppanpeip.

Goghan na lachaiji mac Suibne Do mapbab

Pilib

ua

nDoihnaill.

mdj

uibip

caoipeac muincipe phcoDacdin,

Gnna

6 plannagdin

caoipeaoh ruaiche parha oecc.

a

Pity his going, $c. death unlocked for.

"

i.

e.

Pity he perished by

mountain hi the baronies ofTirerrill and Corrau in the county of Sligo, lying between Lough-naleiby and Kesh-corran.

These were evidently the that gave name to Bally makeogh, in the family territory of Owney, in the county of Tipperary,

The ,Clg,nn-Keogh

See Genealogies, Tribes,

which afterwards belonged to the head of the

Ryans of that neighbourhood. w Garrdha-na-jiongaile, would be now

cised
1

p. 481, and map See this mountain again Bricklieve townreferred to at the year 1512. land and castle are shewn on the Ordnance map

and Customs of Hy-Fiackrach,

prefixed to the same.

angli-

of the county of Sligo, sheet 34.

y

Garrynafinely, but the name

is

obsolete.

The inhabitants of

tlte

Tuathas,

i.

e.

the

ErecshUnbh

Now

anglicised Bricklieve,

O'Hanlys, Mac Brannans, O'Monahans, and

ia51.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

son of Brian

,599

Brian, the son of Donnell,

slain

by the sons of Lorcan Mac Lorcan.

Roe O'Brien, was treacherously Of him was said

:

Pity the only son of Donnell of the meeting Pity the heir of Brian Borumha
;

Pity his going as

was not expected

Pity the Clann-Keogh should triumph over him.

Turlough Oge O'Brien killed sixteen of the Clann-Keogh" in revenge of this evil deed, and despoiled them, besides, of their lands and cattle
Rory, the son of Cathal, son of Donnell O'Conor, was treacherously slain at
Garrdha-na-Fiongaile on Brecshliabh*, by the sons of Farrell Mac Donough, at the instigation of Hugh, the son of Turlough. the son of Turlough, was deposed by Mac William Burke and by Hugh,
the people of the Tuathas y of Connaught inaugurated by them in opposition to him.
;

and Hugh, the son of Felim, was

Cucogry More Mageoghegan, Lord of Kinel-Fiachach, Hugh, the son of Auliffe Maguire, and Maurice Mac Donough, died.

Aengus Roe O'Daly, the most learned of O'Hosey, a good poet, died.

the poets of Ireland, and

Aengus

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of Christ, one thousand
three

1351.

hundred fifty-one.

The monastery

of Ros-0irbhealagh

z
,

in the diocese of

Tuam, was erected

for Franciscan friars.

Owen-na-Cathaighe Mac Sweeny was slain by Manus O'Donnell. Philip Maguire, Chief of Muinter-Pheodachain", and Enna O'Flanagan, Chief
of Tuath-ratha", died.
correlatives,

who dwelt round

p. 86.

Slieve

Bann

in
11

Muinter-Pheodachain.

well-known

dis-

the east of the county of Roscommon.

See note

under the year 1189,

"

barony of Maheraboy in the county of Fermanagh. It had belonged to the family of

trict in the

l?of Oipoeallai, now on the river of Ross, near Headford, Rosserelly,

Ros-Oirbheallaigh.
in the

Mac
after.

Gillafinnen before
it

wrested

barony of Clare, and county of Galway, where the extensive ruins of a monastery still
remain in good preservation.

this Philip Maguire from them, and they recovered it soon See note d under the year 1281, p. 435.

b Tuath-ratha.

See note

under the year

1349.

600

QNNaca Rio^hachca emecuw.

Qooh mac

[1352.

coippoealbaig Do jabail neipc oopibiyi, bjiaighoi connacc oo

rabaipr Do

Gob

afb peDlimib Dionnapbab ap an cfp. ua Puaipc DO jljabail Do mac pilbi'n mic uilliam bupc 05 cecc 6
-] -\

najaiD cloinne pilbm cpfo Diapmaca Deipje bo bfnorh fcoppa oepibe. Cpeaca comaipccne mopa pin. TTlachjamain mac conpndrha Do mapbab la cloinn oonnchaib meic concpuaic pacpaicc Do,
-\

TTlac

pnama.

^aipm comcoiccfnn fmj DO cabaipc

-]

Duilliam

mac oonnchaba muimnij

-]
]

uf

ceallaig im Noclaicc Do Dampcolaib epeann Da luchc pubail Da bochraib, -] oa haibilgneabaib, puaippfc uile a noigpeip eiDip mair pair, ipeal uapal Dia mac, .1. DO TTlaeleachloinn. juppac buibi^ uile Depium
"|

QO13 CR1OSU,

1352.

Qoip Cpiopr, mile cpf cheD, caoccacr, aoo.

Qob mac
beom a mbaoi

coippbealbaij uf concobaip Do ghabail na pijhe oopioipi Dannhina ashaib

DO jallaib

~\

Do jaoibealaib.

6 puaipc cijfpna bpeipne DO mapbab la carhal mac aeba bpeipnij; uf concobaip, ~\ la cloinn muipcfpcaij, ~\ dp Do cup ap ^allocclachaib cloinne
j'uibni

Qooh

an can

pin.
-]

Ctob ua maoilbpenainD,
uf concobaip.
c

a bd mac Do mapbab la haeb mac peblimib

Croaghpatrick
rive miles to the

A celebrated mountain about

west of the town of Westport,

neighbourhood.
d

Mae Philbin

This name was assumed by

in the

barony of Murresk, in the county of Mayo. O'Rourke had gone thither on a pilgrimage, and

a branch of the Burkes

who

resided at the Castle

of Doon, about three miles to the oast of

port, in the

West-

on his return to Breifny he had to pass by Mac Philbin's castle of Doon. This passage is given in the Annals of Clonniacnoise, as translated by

county of Mayo. ' 0''Kelly. This passage is given in Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals ot'Clonmacnoise,
as follows
:

Mageoghegan,
"

as follows:

Hugh O'Royrck was

as

taken by

Mac Phillipin

" William
invited
all

Mac Donnough Moyneagh O'Kelly

the Irish
Poets, Brehons,

Mac William Burke,

the pilgrimage of

he was returning from

Bards,

Crwagh Patrick." This mountain is still visited by pilgrims, particularly on the last Sunday in summer,
which
is

Harpers,
Jesters, his

Gamesters,

or

Common

Kearroghs,

and others of their kind*

in Ireland to

house upon Christmas upon this year, where

called Doiiinac

Chpuim

t)uib in this

every one of them was well used during Christ-

1352.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

601

Hugh, son of Turlough, having again acquired power, the hostages of Connaught were delivered up to him and Hugh, son of Felim, was banished from
;

the country.

Hugh O'Rourke, on his return from Croagh-Patrick was taken prisoner by Mac Philbin" Mac William Burke in consequence of which act Mac Dermot
,

Great ravages and depredations were mutually committed by them on account of it. Mahon Mac Consnava was slain by the sons of Donough Mac Consnava.
rose

up

against the Clann-Philbin.

general invitation was given at Christmas by William, the son of Do6 nough Muimhneach O'Kelly to the learned of Ireland, travellers, the poor and the indigent, and they were all served to their satisfaction, both good and bad,
,

noble and ignoble, so that they were

i

all

thankful to him and his son, Melaghlin.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one thousand three

1352.

hundred fifty-two.

Hugh,

the son of
f
,

naught] again in Hugh O'Rourke, Lord of Breifny, was slain by Cathal, the son of Hugh the Breifneach O'Conor and the Clann-Murtough, and a great slaughter was made
of the gallowglasses of the

ConTurlough O'Conor, assumed the government [of were opposed to him. despite of all the English and Irish who

Mac Sweenys on
his

the occasion8
slain

Hugh O'Mulrenin and

O'Conor.

two sons were

by Hugh, the son of Felim

mas holydays, and gave contentment to each of them at the time of their departure, so as every one of them was well pleased, and extolled William for his bounty, one of which assembly comof posed certain Irish verses in commendation William and his house, which begin thus
:

rendered by Mageoghegan as follows, in his version of the Annals of Clonmacnoise " A. D. 1352. Hugh mac Terlagh O'Connor tooke upon him the name of King of Connought,
:

in spight of such as opposed him.

of the English and Irish race

"

Pilio

epeann 50 haoinceac.

[The poets of Erin to one house.]" For an account of the descendants of this William, see Tribes and Customs of Hy- Many,
pp. 104, 105, 106.

O'Eoyrck, prince of the Brenie, was killed by Cahall mac Hugh Breaffneagh O'Connor and Clann Mortagh, and a great slaughter

"

Hugh

of the Gallowglasses belonging to the families of

the
g

of Connaught again. This, and the passage next following it, are

Auumed the government

Mac Swynes was also made." On the occasion, an can pn

Literally, at

that time.

4H

602

aNNata Rio^hachca eiReaNN.

[1353.

ui bomnaillcijeapna Ctonjup mac concobaip mic afoha mic Domnaill 615 aon ba pfpp fngnom nuluaiple cfpe Concoll pfy beoba bopppabac, amm pom Do mapbab la TTla^nup ua noomnaill. pelim ua Dorhcaib immon Seaan mac Concobaip ui Domnaill Do beir ace naill. DO jabail a lonaiD
-\ ~\ i -|

cojab ppip im an cnjeapnap.

an Dum la hafb mac coippoealbaij ui concobaip. mac TTluipjfpa meic DonnchaiD peicfm coiccinD Daop gaca Concobap Diolmainec concfipDe, Oabucc Diolmain mac uillic umaill cfnn cfirhpne nachc, comdp mag Rajnaill, raohj mac Siacapa uf ceallaij Decc.

Combac

baile

~\

-)

QO18 CP1OSU,

1353.
rpf.

Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cpf cheD, caoccacc, a

caipbpe comapba njfpnaij cluana heoaip Decc. ^opmlaic injfn uf Domnaill bfn uf neill Decc, -] nocha paibe
ppia bfn po bub
Ctooli

66m ua

in

en aimpip

mo

clu, i

oippDeapcup ind

ipi.

l?uai&pi uf neill Decc. TTlarhjamain mac giolla na naorh uf pfpgail cijfpna na hanjaile Decc. Ua&j mag Rajnaill caoipeac mumcipe heolaip DO mapbab la cloinn

mac

cSepppaib meg pajnaill.

Qooh mac
ip in rip.

coippbealbaij Do airpiojab i

mac bpandin Do

[od] consmail

TTlainepcip cille conaill in eppcopoiccecc cluana pfpra hi connaccaib

DO chogbdil DO bpaichpib
Hlaine.
h

.8.

ppanpeipla huilliam ua cceallaij cijeapna na

Baile-an-duin,i.e. town of the

dun or earthen

explained bpipeab,
k

i.

e.

breaking, by O'Clery,

fort,

now

Ballindoon, a village remarkable for the

in his Glossary of ancient Irish words.

ruins of a monastery, situated near Lough Arrow,

in the barony of Tirerrill
'

and county of

Sligo.

Under this year O'Flaherty adds the following entries from the Annals of Lecan and of
O'Mulconry, in H.
lin)
:

Was

demolished,

combac.

In the Dublin
is,

2.

1 1

(Trinity College,

Dub-

copy of the Annals of Ulster the reading

"comtnac

baile in

oum

la haeo

mac

"
coipp-

oelbaij hui concobuip, j Die bo j caepac ann. The demolition of Ballindoon by Hugh,
son of Turlough O'Conor, and cows and sheep were destroyed there." The word comae is

filios

Odo O'Roirk, aobop aipopij 6 mbpium, Murcherti apud 5^ eann ^ctible spoliat,
filio

et

Majo proximo a Cathaldo,

et Tadaeo filio Roderici

Odonis Breet
aliis

finii

O'Conor,

necatur

MS! L."

1353.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

603

Aengus, the son of Conor, son of Hugh, son of Donnell Oge O'Donnell, Lord of Tirconnell, a vigorous and high-spirited man, the most distinguished
in Ulster at this time for
nell.

prowess and nobleness, was slain by Manus O'DonFelim O'Donnell assumed his place but John, the son of Conor
;

O'Donnell, warred [contended] with him for the lordship. Baile an Duin" was demolished' by Hugh, son of Turlough 0' Conor.

Dabuck

Conor, the son of Maurice Mac Donough, general patron of men of all arts Dillon, the son of Ulick. of Umallia, Chief of the kerns and of the
;

Dillons of Connaught

Thomas Mac

Rannall, and Teige, the son of Siacus

O'Kelly, died".

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1353.

thousand

three

hundred fifty-three.

of Tighernach of Quam-cois", died. Gormlaith, daughter of O'Donnell, and wife of Hugh O'Neill, died there was not in her time a woman of greater name and renown.

John O'Carbry', Coarb

and

Hugh, the son of Rory O'Neill, died. Mahon, son ofGilla-na-naev O'Farrell, Lord of Annaly, died. Teige Mac Rannall, Chief of Muintir-Eolais, was slain by the sons of Geoffrey

Mac

Rannall.
;

Hugh, the son of Turlough, was deposed

in the country.

and Mac Branan detained him

The monastery
founded

of Kilconnell,

-in

the diocese of Clonfert, in Connaught, was

n
,

for Franciscan friars

by William ,O'Kelly
Brefiniae

Lord of Hy-Many.

" Flathbertus
obiit

O'Eoirk

dominus

O'Mulconry, 1353." " Matthajus Magdorchaidh casus per filios Murcherti MS. L." " Dennitium tnuc Ce-

of St. Patrick's copy of the Gospels given to St. Mac Carthenn of Clogher. See the account of
the ancient Irish Reliquary, called the Domnachvolume of the Airgid, printed in the eighteenth

MS. L." ceapnaij " Finola filia Domini Mac Dermott MS.
O'Mulconry." " Tadseus filius Siacusi
L.

Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy,

obiit
tiquities, p. 16,
ra

Anin

and

24. plate at p.

L.

et

Cluain

eois.Now

Clones, a small

town

O'Kelly obiit. and 0'Mnlconry." The name, of this John John O'Carbry is inscribed on the cumhdach, or case O'Carbry

the barony of Dartry in the county of Monaghan,

MS.
1

where a monastery was founded by nach in the sixth century.

n

St.

Tigher-

William O'Kelly.

On

this date, ascribed to

604

QNNata Rioghachca emeaNN.

QO1S CR1OSC,
1354.

[1354.

Gofp Cpiopc, mile, rpi cheD, cdoccac, a ceachaip.

Qn

ceppcob 6 lachcndin,
oile pinO Decc.

.1.

eappcop connachr,

Seaan ua pfnacca

eappcop

TTIac TTlupchaDa
eicip gallaib
-|

Do bdpujaD la jallaib,
laoijipi

~\

coccab mop Do pap oepi&e

i la

jaoioelaib.

TCubpaiDe 6

mopDa cijfpna

DO mapbaD la a bpairpib pfm

a luchc ncche.
bpian 6 Duboa plaichcfnn rfpe piachpach Decc,
jabcnl a lonaiD. bpian mac afoh moip uf
)

a mac oomnall Do

neill, Cachal mac neill uf 17uaipc SepppaiD mag ua paghallai^, Sicpiucc mace SampaDam, pfpjall pajnaill, SepppaiD mace eochagain raoi peach ceneoil piachac Do ecc.
]

RuaiDpi mac Seaan mecc machjamna Do mapbaD

longpopc meg rhachla jallaib

hi pin.
]

jamna.
TTlaibm

mop DO cabaipc

la cloinn afoha bui&e uf neill,

i

~\

Dinne oealjan ap ao& ua neill

Dponj mop DO mapbaD

ip in

maiDm
uf

Oeppopgaill mjfn

uf concobaip,

peolimiD mac cachail

concobaip

hoibepo a bupc Do ecc. plaichbfpcach mac

pein.

giolla pinnein

a bpacaip DO mapbaD la a mumcip

TTIupchaD
ecc

mac cacail uf peapjail i Caohg mac Seanlaich DO ecc. Safpbpfchac mac TTlaoiliopa Duinn meic afoajdin ollam conmaicne DO
i

ninip clonhpann.

TTlaolpeaclainn

mac Ricbeapcaij ollam peapmanac

nDan Decc.

the erection of the abbey of Kilconnell, O'Flaherty writes the following remark in the College copy of the

O' Kelly intended by Ware is William, the grandson of this William Boy, who died in 1 420, and

Annals of the Four Masters

in Ant. Hib.

who was the ancestor of theO'Kellys of Aughrim.

O'Laghtnan.
of the Annals

(H. "

2.

11)

In Mageoghegan's translation
of Clonmacnoise,

Quare perperam 1414 Warseus

he

is

called

habet,

cum

fundator ipse in

summa

senectute
pa-

"

O'Laghtna, Bishop of

Twayme [Tuam] and

Tuam.

A.
tris

1381, decesserit, 74 annis post

mortem

Connought."
p

Ware

does not mention him in

A.

1307 mortui."
however, that the William

his list of the Archbishops of

It is quite evident,

OfLeix, laoijipe.

This territory comprised

1354.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

005

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of Christ, one thousand
,

1354.

three

hundred fifty-four.

O'Laghtnan Bishop of Connaught, and John O'Finaghty, Bishop of Elphin,

died.

Mac Murrough was

a great

put to death by the English

in

consequence of which

war broke out between the English and Irish. p Rory O'More, Lord of Leix was slain by his own kinsmen and household.
Brian O'Dowda, Chief of Tireragh, died, and his son, Donnell, assumed his

place.

Brian, the son of

Hugh More
;

O'Neill

Cathal, the son of Niall

;

O'Rourke

Geoffrey

Mac

Rannall

Geoffrey O'Reilly
died.

Sitric

Magauran

and Farrell

Mageoghegan, Chief of Kinel-Fiachach,

Rory, the son of John Mac Mahon, was slain in Mac Mahon's fortress. q Hugh O'Neill received a great defeat from the race of Hugh Boy O'NeuT,

and the English,

in

which many were

slain.
;

Dervorgilla, the daughter of O'Conor

Felim, the son of Cathal O'Conor,

and Hubert Burke, died.

Flaherty

Mac Gillafinnen and

5
,

his kinsman,

were

killed

by

their

own people.
died.

Murrough, the son of Cathal O'Farrell, and Teige Mac Shanly,

Saerbhreathach
son of Maelisa

Donn Mac Egan,

Ollave of Conmaicne,

died on Inis Cloghrann'.

Melaghlin

Mac

died". Rithbheartaigh", Ollav of Fermanagh, in poetry,

their country, in the counties of Down

the greater part of the Queen's county. See note f under the year 1 196, pp. 105, 106, supra.
i

and An-

trim,
s

is

called the

Clannaboy by English writers.

This name
is

Received a great defeat.

"
Literally,

A great
O'Neill

Saerbhreathack

usually latinIt signifies

defeat was given

by theClann-Hugh-Boy and the English of Dundalk to Hugh O'Neill, and a great number was slain in that defeat."
It is

ised Justinus,

and anglicised Justin.

island in

" the noble judge."

'

Clothrann.Au
1

Lough Ree,
'

translated

by Mageoghegan,

in his version

See note belonging to the county of Longford.

of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, as follows:

under the year

u

193, p. 98, supra.

"A.D. 1354. The O'Neals

of Clannaboye, with

Mac

Rilliblieartaigh

This name

is still

ex-

the help of the English of Dundalk, gave a great overthrow to Hugh O'Neale [and the people of

tant in Fermanagh, and usually anglicised

Crifferty.
It is to

Mac-

be distinguished from O'Raf2.

Tyrone], and made a great slaughter of them." ' Race of Hugh Boy This tribe as well as

fcrty and Magroarty. w Under this year O'Flaherty adds, in H.

6<X>

aNNom

Rio^hachca emeaNN.
1355.

[1355

QO1S CR1OSU,

CIoip Cpiopc, mile, cpf cheo, caoccarr,

cuicc.

Concobap mac conpndma eppcop na bpeipne 6 opuim clfab 50 cfnannup mac galljaoiDil ppioip na cpinoiDe, mac cachail abb Spuchpa oecc. Oonnchab mac pelim mic afoha mic Dorhnaill 615 uf Oorhnailloo mapbaD 05 cabaipc gopmlaca injine afoha puaib rhej uibip (.1. mag uibip) ap eccin
-|

laip, i

mac mupchaba ap e po rhapb eipiom longpopr meg Domnall mac Seaain uf pfpjjail cijeapna na hQngaile oecc.
oonn
i

ui&ip.

Dmpmaic ua
la
~\

maoflrhia&aij raofpeach

mumnpe

cfpballain oo rhapbab

mumcip bipn pochai&e Do muincip eolaip imaille ppip. Carhal 6 cuinn raoipeac mumcipe siolljain Do rhapbao Do clomn cSeaain, DO clomo afoha i coigfap Da bpaichpib immaille ppip.

Copbmac mag Rajnaill caoipeac mumcipe Tieolaip DO rhapbab la clomn lorhaip mej pajnaill. pfpjal mac peapjail mic muipcfpcaij moip mic conjalaij meg fochagain
roipeac cenel piachach Dej. TTiupchab mac cachail uf pfpjail, Oepbpopgaill injfn uf pfpjail,
-j

caohg

mac afohajam

paof pemeachap Decc. TlTaibm DO cabaipr DO jallaib lapchaip connachc pop mopdn DO rhapbab Dia mumcip.
i

mac

uilliam,

-]

the following entries from the Annals of Lecan, and of O'Mulconry, which he has trans11,

bpeipne, et Magister Lucas O'Curnin obierunt."

x

Sruthair,

now

corruptly called in Irish mai-

lated into Latin

"

Amlaus

filius

Dermitii

O'Ffarell a

Mac
filia

nipcip Spuille, and anglicised Abbeyshrule, a well-known place in the barony of Shrule, in

MS. L." Oirebeard Csesus " Lasaria C. 6cm), (Deapbpop^aill, Domini O'Conor Odonis obiit MS. L." " Odo filius Cormaci buioip occisus a
Donchadi piabai j.
"

the south of the county of Longford. y Donn In the Dublin copy of the Annals
of Ulster the slayer of O'Donnell nail mac mupchaio.
*

is

called ootn-

filiis

OMulconry."

Muinter-Birn,

i.

e.

the O'Beirnes of Tir-

Odo Magsharnhradhain
csesus.

(Magauran)
et

ab
ad

O'Foelan
1355."

O'Mulconry,

MS.

L.

Briuin, a territory lying between Elphin and Jamestown in the county of Eoscommon. The

Muinter-Eolais were the

Mac Rannalls and their

"5'olla lopa
[Gilla-Isa

mac aooa oo
died.]

ecc.

MS. L."

correlatives,

who were

seated in the southerner

Mac Aedha,

level portion of the

" Diermitius O'Curnin, aobap ollarhan na

opposite side of the

county of Leitrim, on the Shannon.

13.55.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

(JOT

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1355.

thousand three hundred fifty-five.

Conor Mac Consnava, Bishop of Breifny [Kilmore], from Drumcliff to Kells,

died.

Mac Mac

Gallgael, Prior of the [monastery of the] Blessed Trinity, died. 1 Cathail, Abbot of Sruthair died.
,

Hugh, son of Donnell Oge O'Donnell. was slain as he was carrying off Gormaith, daughter of Hugh Roe Maguire y e. the (i. Maguire), by force. It was Donn Mac Murrough who slew him in
Donough,
Maguire's fortress. Donnell, son of John O'Farrell, Lord of Annaly, died.Dermot O'Mulvey, Chief of Muintir-Carolan, and many of the MuintirEolais,

the son of Felim, son of

were

slain

z by the Muintir-Birn

Cathal O'Quin, Chief of Muintir-Gillagan*, and b Clann-Shane and the Clann-Hugh

.

five others,

were

slain

by the

Cormac
Rannall.

Rannall, Chief of Muintir-Eolais,

was

slain

by the sons of Ivor Mac

Farrell, the son of Farrell,

son of Murtough More, son of Congalagh MaDervorgilla, the daughter c learned in the Fenechas died.
;
,

geoghegan, Chief of Kinel-Fiachach, died. Murrough, the son of Cathal O'Farrell

O'Farrell
;

of

and Teige Mac Egan, a man

The

English of

West Connaught defeated" Mac William

[Burke], and killed

many
a

of his people.

district in the county Muinler-Gillagan. of Longford, for the extent of which see note k under the year 1234, p. 270, supra.
"

commonly
writers,
d

called the

Brehon Laws by English

" a defeat was given by

Defeated.

Literally

Clann-Sheme and Clann-Hugh.

These were

The Clann-Hugh were septs of the O'Farrells. located in the barony of Longford, adjoining the
district of

West Connaught to William and many of his people were killed." Burke,
the English of

Magh Treagh, and the townlands of which they were possessed are specified in an
inquisition taken at Ardagh, on the 4th of April, in the tenth year of the reign of James I.
c

Mageoghegan renders it as follows of the Annals of Clonmacnoise

:

in his version

" A. D. 1355. The English of West Connought

gave an overthrow to
divers of his people."

Mac William, and

killed

The Fenechas,

i.

e.

the old laws of Ireland,

608

aNNCtca Rio^hachca emectNN.

Gmann mac
lTlai6nn

[1356.

mop

uilliam mic T?iocaipD no rhapbab la piol nanmchaba. Do chabaipc la Riocapo occ ap luchr nje meic uilliam,

.1.

Gmann

i ap piol nanmchaba Dap mapbab Sciamna mac Siupcain enpf mac pe pip becc Duaiplib pi nanmcliaba. Pilbin Niall mag machjjarhna Do rhapbab la cloinn rpeaain meg machjamna.
-]

Gouc mac umilfn DO rhapbab la hoipcfpaib. Oeich nuam DO bpeir in aoinpecc Daon caoipib.

QO1S CraiOSC,
Qoip Cpiopc,

1356.

mile, rpf cheD, caoccacc,

Se.

pfpjal mac pepppaib mej Rajnaill Ppiorhaib CtpDamaca,

-\

pfp lonam

Parpaicc oecc. Nicol mac cachapaijh eppcop oipjiall Decc. Solarh 6 mealldn maop cluig an fbachca 065.

pecfrh coiccfnn DO

cliapaib epeann epbe. Ctob mac roippDealbai j uf concobaip, Ri connachr DO mapbab mbaile locha oeacaip la Donnchab cappac ua ceallai j, -| la cloinn meic an baipo
i

ap popailfrh maineac
bpfir leip ap aiceab,
e

~\

ccionaib mjfine Seoinm a bupc bfn uf cheallaij DO ap elob poirhe pin.

The Sil-Anmchadha, i. e. O'Maddens in the barony of Longford, in the county of Gahvay. f Were brought forth, DO bpeic. This verb is
applied in Irish to the parturition of all animals.

He

also adds the following entries

from the

Annals of Lecan, of O'Mulconry, and of Clonmacnoise " Hiberni

:

de Lagenise retulerunt victoriam

Mageoghegan renders the passage as follows in his version of the Annals of Clonmacnoise " A. D. 1355. One sheep had ten lambs this
:

0' Mulconry." Anglis Dublinii " Tuamia .1. cuaim oa jualann, cremata a Cathaldo 65 O'Conor et a Mac William (i. e.

year."

O'Flaherty has the follownote on the chronology of the Irish annaing lists about this period, in the College copy of
this year

Under

Edmundo de Burgo) O'Mulconry, et War in Tuam prsesul. 1356, et Cod. Cluain. 1355." " Rex Gallias cum filio in Angliam captivi
:

the Annals of the Four Masters, H.

2. 1

ducti 5. Febr. 1355-6, Cod. Cl." " Una ovis decem agnos hoc anno peperit."-

"

Quse habentur in MS. L. ab anno 1355, ad

C.

6cm.
h

1373, inclusive, per annos 19, uno anno posteriora sunt,

Mac Rannall.this

is

evidently a mistake

quam ut

in his et

O'Mulconry An-

nalibus prseter pauca, quse suis locis notabo."

the public records that the Primate of Armagh was Richard

of the Four Masters, as

we know from

1356.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

the son of William, son of Richard [Burke], was slain
.

609

Edmond, Anmchadha6

by the

Sil-

great defeat was given

by Richard Oge [Burke],

to

the household of

Mac William (i. e. Edmond), and to Mac Jordan, Henry Mac Philbin, and
were
slain.

the Sil-Anmchadha, in which Stephen sixteen of the chiefs of Sil-Anmchadha,

Niall

Mac Mahon was slain by the sons of John Mac Mahon. Aduc (Mac Quillin) was slain by the people of Oirthear. Ten lambs were brought forth at once by one sheep 8
f
.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1356.

thousand three hundred fifty-six.

Rannall", Primate of

Farrell, the son of Jeffrey

Mac

Armagh, and represen-

tative of St. Patrick, died.

Nicholas

Mac

Cahasy', Bishop of Oriel [Clogher], died.

,

Solomon O'Mellan, the keeper of the Clog-an-Eadhachtak

died.

He was

the general patron of the clergy of Ireland. Hugh, the son of Turlough O'Connor, King of Connaught, was slain at Baile-Locha-Deacair by Donough Carragh O'Kelly and the sons of Mac-an1

Ward, at the instigation of the Hy-Many. This was in revenge of his having some time before carried off privately and clandestinely the daughter of Seoinin
Burke, the wife of O'Kelly.
Fitz- Ralph,

Mac

who was certainly not one of the Rannalls. See Prince's Danmonii orientates
p.

ment. It

is

called

cloj an uoacca in the Dublin

illustres,

294, and Harris's edition of Ware's

Bishops, p. 81.

The Editor has not been

it

able

copy of the Annals of Ulster, and by the Four Masters at the year 1425, q. v. It was evidently so called because it was mentioned in an ancient

to discover this entry in

Annals, and believes

1

any of the older Irish to be a blunder.

document
Patrick.
servation,

called the uoacc, or

Testament of

St.

This bell

still

exists in excellent pre-

Mac Cahasy, mac cacara'j This name is now made Mac Casey and Casey simply. Ware writes the name Mac Catasaid, without
aspirating the
t

and

is

now

in the Cabinet of George

Petrie, Esq.,
ecclesiastical

Author of the Essay on the ancient

Architecture of Ireland.
It

had

or
p.

d.
1

See Harris's edition of

belonged
'

to the

church of Donaghmore, near

e.

Ware's Bishops,

84,

where

it is

stated that

Dungannon

in Tyrone.
i.

this bishop succeeded in 1320,

and died in Au-

Baile Locha Deacair,

the town or town-

tumn, 1356.
k

land of Loch-Deacair.
i.

This
is

Clog an

Eact/tac/ita,

e.

the bell of the testa-

Balloughdacker, and

the

is now anglicised name of a townland

610

aNNQta Rio^hachca eiReaNN.

Qo6 mac

[1357.

peblinnm uf concobaip Do jabail lain pije connachc mpom. Concobap mac caiDg uf cheallaij DO mapbaD la raDg mac Diapmaoa
cheallaij.

ui

UoippDealbach mac afoha bpeipnij

noonnchaiD.

uf

concobaip Do

mapVmD

la clomn

OiapmaiD mac DiapmaDa

rhecc caprai 5

-|

DonnchaD a mac Do mapbaD la

mac

uf Suilleabdin.

concobaip Decc, bfn uf pfpjail ipiDe. TTIuipcfprach mac Seaain uf neill DO rhapbaD la pilib
ITlop

mjfn

uf

mag uibip. mac Suibne DO mapbaD Do Domnall ua concobaip. Oubghall oomnall mac afoha bpeipni^ T?uai6pi mac afoha uf Choncobaip,
-]

uf

Choncobaip Decc.

OonnchaD mac Conmapa mac coipi DO bpfpp illerh mooha ma aimpp pen Do mapbaD la piol mbpiain. OonnchaD ppoipceach DO mapbaD la Dip Dia mumcip pfin cpia cheilj. ^eapoircm cpiel Do bdpujabla mumcip l?i^ Sa^an ap paicche aca cliar.

mac bpiain uf neill DO ecc. pelim mac afoha mic Domnaill oicc cijfpna rfpe mac a Deapbbpachap pfin Seaan mac concobaip uf
ITlupchaD
^abail ci^eapnaip ripe conaill jan

Do mapbaD la Seaan Do Domnaill,

conaill
~\

impeapam.
1357.

QO1S C171OSU,
Qoip Cpiopr,

mile, cpf cherc, caoccacc, a Seachc.

cille

Clemenr
acbepcf ppip-

Duibgfnnam biocaipe

17ondm Decc.

Saccapc na pionnac

mds machjamna njhfpna

containing a lough, in the parish of Athleague, barony of Killian, and county of Galway __ See the Ordnance map of that county, sheets 20 and
33.

oipjialljLochlainn macTTluipchfpuai^
arii,

1355-6, Sir Mauricius Fiiius Thomas Comes

Desmoniw, et Hiberuise Justiciarius, obiit Cambd. annal. O'Mulconry, 1355, MS. L. 1356.''
" Fercarius O'Fallon dynasta de Clann-uadach, obiit __ O'Mulconry." e apo' c '" cpial DO cappaing (no oo Ba-

m
Clann-Donough,
Tirerrill, in the
i.

e.

the

Mac Donoughs

of

county of Sligo, who are a branch

*'
:

"5

of the

of Moylurg. n O'Flaherty adds, in H. 2. 1 1

Mac Dermots

fuccao DO tiiuinnp pi^

25 Janucliar,
a rt-giis

Sovjxtn

ap pairce aca

quibus a Daltonis traditus

1357.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

entire

611

Hugh, son of Felim O'Conor, then assumed the

Connaught.
Conor, the son of Teige O'Kelly, was
O'Kelly.
slain

government of

by Teige, the son of Dermot

slain

Turlough, the son of Hugh Breifneach O'Conor, was m Doriough Dermot, the son of Dermot Mac Carthy, and
.

by the Clannwere
slain

Donough,

his son,

by

the son of 0' Sullivan.

More, daughter of O'Conor, died. She was the wife of O'Farrell. Murtough, son of John O'Neill, was slain by Philip Maguire. Dowell Mac Sweeny was slain by Donnell O'Conor.
Rory, son of
died.

Hugh

O'Conor, and Donnell, son of Hugh Breifneach O'Conor,

the best son of a chieftain in
in his

Donough Mac Namara,

time, was
slain

Leth-Mogha

by

the O'Briens.

Donough Proisteach was treacherously slain by two of his own people. Gearoidin Tyrrell was put to death on the green of Dublin by the people of the King of England.
Murrough, the son of Brian
Felim, the son of
O'Neill, died.

Hugh, son of Donnell Oge [O'Donnell], Lord of Tirconnell, was slain by the son of his own brother, viz. John, son of Conor O'Donnell, and John then assumed the lordship of Tirconnell without opposition".

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of Christ, one thousand
three

1357.

hundred fifty -seven.

Clement O'Duigenan, Vicar of Kilronan,

Sinnach
.

died.

He was

called Sagart-na-

Manus Mac Mahon, Lord

MS.
L. 1356,
et

of Oriel; Loughlin, son of Murtough

e.

and Farrell

Cod. Cl.

n
(Sc. SirThomas
It is as

" Justitiarius

Dublinii, obiit.

Sagart-na-Sinnach, i. not easy to determine

priest of the Foxes.

why he was

so called,

Rokesby, Cambd. 1356, 1357). MS. L." " Dominus Bermingham ab Anglis csesus.
O'Mulconry, 1357,

he does not appear to have had any connexion with the Sinnachs, or Foxes, chiefs of Teffia, in

& MS.

L."

Westmeath.

4 12

612

awNaca Rio^hachca eiReaNN.

i

[1358.

uiChoncobaip,

pfpjal muirhneac ua Duibjfnnan

~\

ollarh

conmaicne

-\

cloinne

maoilpuanaiD cfp

cuap 065. Seaan mac bpiain uf Pajallaij DO rhapbaD la

jiollacpiopc ui
uiDilin
i

jallaib.

bpian mac
rhapbaD

pura meic

Ruaipc la hao6 6

-\

TTlajhnup buibe

mag Shampabain DO

neill.
~\

Oonnplebe mac cfpbaill paopmaijipnp pfnma

aimpip pen oecc. pfpp Sfch coirchfnn eicip an
6cc

aippheceach DO bub
carhal

ma

Da chachal, cachal mac aoDha bpeipnigh

-|

mac

carail mic Domnaill.

Q01S C1710SC,

1358.

Qoip Cpiopc, mile, rpf cheD, caoccacr, a hochc.

bpian mac cachmaoil eppcop mpjiall Decc. TTlajnup mace uibip DO rhapbaD la cloinn cachmaoil.

Oomnall ua hfjpa cijhfpna luijne Decc la capg. Concobap 6 hainlijje raoipeach cenel Dobcha mic afngupa Decc, lap 6 nearhan Do. mbpeich buaoa 6 oomhan TTlai&m Do chabaipc oaooh ua neill pop aipjiallaib, pop pfpaib manac mac an eppcoip uf ouboa (.1. maoileacDU in po mapbao ae& mac caba,
)

-\

-]

loinn) co pochaiDib imaille ppiu. TTlai&m mop DO chabaipc Dua mop&a pop Decc DO rhapbaD ap en lachaip laip 6fob.
p

allaib

acha

cliar,

-]

t)d

pichicr

Clann-Mulrony, Lower and Upper.

The
in

thus given
of

in the

Book of Lecau

"
:

Cathal, son

Lower Clann-Mulrony were the Mac Donoughs,

Hugh

Breifneach, son of Cathal Roe,

King of

who were

seated in the barony of Tirerrill,

;

the county of Sligo

and the Upper Clann-Multerri-

Conuaught in 1 279, son of Conor Eoe, son of Murtough Muimhneach (the ancestor of the
Clann-Murtough), who was the son of Turlough

rony were the Mac Dermots of Moylurg. q The Route. This is still the name of a

More 0' Conor, monarch

s

of Ireland,

tory forming the northern portion of the county of Antrim. The name is supposed to be a cor-

He was at Cathal Oge, the son of Cathal. this time the chief leader of the O'Conors of
and the most heroic that hitherto apHe was peared of that sept of the O'Conors. the son of Cathal, King of Connaught, who was
Sligo,

ruption of Dal Riada

p.
r

See Ussher's Primordia,

iii. c.

1029, and O'Flaherty's Ogygia, Part

63.

He was Cathal, the son of Hugh Breifneach. the chief leader of that sept of the O'Conors called the Clann-Murtough. His pedigree is

the son of Donnell, Tanist of Connaught,

who

was son of Teige, son of Brian, son of Andreas,

1358]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

of Conmaicne and Clann-Mulrony,

(J13

Muimhneach O'Duigennan, Ollav and Upper p died.

,

Lower

John, son of Brian O'Reilly, was slain by the English. Brian, son of Gilchreest O'Rourke, and Manus Boy Magauran, were slain
in the Route",

Mac Quillin's territory, by Hugh O'Neill. Donslevy Mac Caroll, a noble master of music and melody,

the best of his

time, died.

A general
Donnell'.

Cathal, the son of

peace was ratified between the two Cathals, namely, between 8 r Hugh Breifneach , and Cathal Oge, the son of Cathal son of
,

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Brian
Christ, one

1358.

thousand

three

hundred jifty-eiyht.

Mac

Manus

Cawell, Bishop of Oriel [Clogher], died. u Maguire was slain by the Clann-Cawell
.

Donnell O'Hara, Lord of Leyny, died on Easter day. Conor O'Hanly, Chief of the Race of Dofa, son of Aengus, died,
victory over the world and the Devil.

after gaining

A victory was
managh

gained by

[in a battle], in

Hugh O'Neill over the people of Oriel and Ferwhich Hugh Mac Cabe, Melaghlin, the son of the
slain.
;

Bishop O'Dowda, and many others were

A great defeat
hundred and forty

was given" to the English of Dublin by O'More of them were killed by him on the field of battle.
" Padinus

and two

son of Brian Luighneach, the ancestor of the O'Conors of Sligo, who was the son of Turlough

mop

rius Connacise obiit sestate post

O'Mcelchonary Archiantiquamortem Odonis

More O'Conor, monarch

'

of Ireland.
:

O'Conor domini
u

sui.

MS. L."
e.

O'Flaherty adds to this year in H. 2. 1 1 "Comes Desmonia transfretando submersus.

The Clann-Caieell, i. Cawell, who were located

the family of

Mac

in the present

barony

O'Mulconry, et Cod. Cl." " Fedlimius O'Donell et

capti.

of Clogher, in the county of Tyrone.

filius

ejus Ragnallus

w The Bishop O'Dowda.

Cod. Cl."

O'Dowda, Bishop of
O'Mulconry, 1356,
obiit.

Killala,

He was William who died in 1350.

"A Joanne O'Donell csi

fupra."
."

See Genealogies, Tribes, und Custom* of HyFiachrach, p. 117.

x

Mathgamanius

5a ^ DCI

Maguir

great defeat was given

Mageoghegan

MS. L."

translates this passage as follows, in his version

614

aNNQ6a Rio^hachca emeawN.

Uoippoealbach mac afba na piobbaibe
uf neill i

[1359.

mac

aincpiu meic peo-

puip Decc.

ma

Cioch mop opfpram gac cloc oe.

Senicin

cpich coipppe ip

in

Sampab co nap mo piabuball

mac

uibilin

Ulac

giolla fopa uf

apDconpabla cuigiD ulab DO ecc. plannajam DO rhapbab la TTflagnup mac carail mic

afoha bpeipnij.

QO1S CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpiopr,

1359.

mile, rpf chet>, caoccacr, anaof.

Copbmac mac capraij

marjarhna Decc.
TTlaibm

cijfpna Deapmuman, i Oorhnall

mac

0165 uf

mop DO chabaipc Do caral 65 mac carail uf concobaip occ ach Sfnaij ap Sheaan mac concobaip uf bomnaill, ap conallchaib. Seaan 6 Dochapcaij caoipeac apDa mioDhaip, 6oghan connachcach, UoippDealbac mac Suibne DO jjabail Do mac uf Concobaip Don chup pom, Daofne iom6a Do
-\ -)

mapbab laip. IDarha mace ShampaDham aDbap coipij ceallaij eachbac Do loc an la a ecc Da bichin mp pochrain a chijhe pfm Do. Cachal bobap mac po carhail uf puaipc, maolpeachlainn 6 gaipmleabaij Do comrhuinm pe
-)
~\

apoile ap an ccoccab ccfona po lap mbpeic ploij Do pibipi DO charhal 6

of the Annals of Cloumacnoise

"A. D.

1358.

"Et
"

sementes clientum Cathaldi

Og O'Conor

O'More, of the Contrey of Lease, gave a great discomfiture to the English of Dublin, where were killed of them 240 persons."
v

multurn corrupit.

MS. L."

Hugh na
Wild

Fidlibhaighe,

i.

e.

Hugh

of the

Manus. According to the pedigree of the O'Conors, given in the Book of Lecan, he was the fourth son of Cathal.
b

wood.
1

To

this year

O'Flaherty adds the following

:

apple,

-Mageoghegan
:

translates this

entries,

H.

2. 1

passage as follows, in his version of the Annals of Clonmacnoise

"A. D.
hail in the

Summer-time

1358. There was a great shower of of this year in the ter-

Thomse O'Eoirk obiit. MS. L. 1357, O'Muleonry, et Cod, CL et C. Gem."

filius

" Matthseus

" Murchertus

filius

Tigernani O'Eoirk

obiit.

ritory of Carbrey ; every stone thereof was no less than a crabb."

MS. L."
"

Cacc

in jean ui

cheallmj bean muipjffxi

[i. e.

To

this entry O'Flaherty adds, in

2. 1 1

mic Donnchaoa 0*5

Cacht, daughter of

1359.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

615

Turlough, the son of Hugh na Fidhbhaighe" O'Neill, and the son of Andrew

Mac

Feorais [Bermingham], died.

in the

A heavy shower [of hail] fell in Carbury which was not smaller than a wild apple 2
.

summer, each stone of

Senicin
died.

Jenkin]

Mac

Quillin,

High Constable of the province of

Ulster,

son of Gilla-Isa O'Flanagan was slain by Manus", the son of Cathal, son of Hugh Breifneach O'Conorb
.

The

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1359.

thousand

three

hundred fifty-nine.

Cormac Mac Carthy, Lord

O'Mahony,
died.

of

Desmond, and Donnell, the son of Teige

c the son of great victory was gained at Bally shannon by Cathal Oge Cathal O'Conor, over John, the son of Conor O'Donnell, and the Kinel,

lough Mac Sweeny, were taken prisoners on this

John O'Doherty, Chief of Ardmire, Owen Connaghtagh, and Turoccasion by the son of O'Conor, and many persons were slain by him. Matthew Magauran, materies" of a lord of Teallach Eachdhach was wounded on that day, and died of his wounds after his return to his own house. During the same war Cathal Bodhar, the son of
Connell.

Cathal O'Rourke, and Melaghlin O'Gormly, fell by each other's hand in the same war'. This occurred when Cathal O'Conor marched with a second army
'O'Kelly,
died.]
c

and wife of Maurice Mac Donough,

taken, and a great

MS. L."

many others slain Mathew Magawran, next successor

besides,

Teal-

Cathal Oge

He was

the son of O'Conor

at

Sligo,

and the most heroic of the O'Conors

laghaagh, was hurt in the same place, from thence was conveighed to his house, and died of
the wound.
of O'Gormley,
deaf)
e

this period.
d

Materies of a

lord,

aoBap

ci^fpna.

Ma-

geoghegan translates

this,

" next successor of

The said Cahall went to the lands where Cahall (surnamed the O'Ruwyrck was killed by Melaughlyn
tlie

Teallaghaagh," in his version of the Annals of Clonmacnoise. Thus

:
.

O'Gormley."

During

same war

Cathal Oge, the son

"A. D.
overthrow
Belaseanie,

1359- Cahall

Oge O'Connor gave an

Tyreconnell at

to the Inhabitants of

where John O'Dochortie, Cheiftain of Ardmire, and Terlagh Mac Swynie were

of O'Conor Sligo, made great efforts to conquer Tirconnell at this period ; and it is stated in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, under the

year

356

\reclc

359], that he became prince

616

QNNCK-a Rioghachca eiraeaNN.

[1360.

concobaip 50 rfp conaill 50 pan^acap Dpong Da rhuincip Duceaib uf gaipmlenaij im cachal bobap ua l?uaipc.

mac romaip uf ploinn line abbap cijeapria ua cuipcpe DO mapbab Daob mac bpiain mic aooha bume ui neill. 6pian mac Donnchaib aobap cijfpna ua nailella Do mapbab Do mac
ITluipcfpcach

pfnca Doipeachr

uf

Gnpf mac

uillicc

jabpa. mic T?iocaipD a bupc oecc.

baipcinD Do map-

TTlupchab 6cc

mac marhjamna aobap cijeapna copco

-|

bab la

ffol mbpiain.
1

maghnaj ua Duboa mac rijeapna ua piacpacli Qob mac Concobaip meic afbaccain oecc afn poja bpfcheaman epeann. Domnall mac caibg uf macbjamna Do mapbab. Qpr mac CXmlaoib uf Ruaipc DO mapbab la TTlag afnjupa.

CIOIS C171O3C, 1360.

Cpiopc, mile, cpf cheo, a peapccacc
ITlaolpuanaib

mac an chammuinelaij

ui baoijill

coipeac na cpi cuar,

-]

paoi oippoepc ap eineach, ap uaiple, ap cheill ap copccup, Decc.

ap comaipje

Ctmlaoib

mac Seapppaib meg Raghnaill Do mapbab.

-]

Sip TCoibfpD Sabaofp

Diapmaicc 6 hamlije Decc.

Ifpagabail, pioDhnach-j Dpuim

17op

commam, Daimimp, Sliccec.TTlainipcip

uf

Imp DO lopccab. Se^an mac giollacpiopr

Oiapmair ua bpiain
of Tirconnell "
:

mapbab baeb mag bopchaib. oairpiojab Do mac a bpachap bubbem.

TCuaipc Do
that
it

DO mac
ever,

RiJ' cipe conaill oo gabail Concobuip." The Four Masters, howwho had the Annals of Ulster before them,
i

was in Irish in the

original,
:

and that the

Latin is O'Flaherty's translation " Cathaldus Og filius Cathaldi O'Conor et

have suppressed this passage, thinking that it would derogate from the glory of the O'Donnells
!

Odo mop O'Neill diem statuunt ad fppuaio verum Odo bellis implicitus ad statum diem
non pervenit quo comperto Johannis O'Donell Tirconallia dominus cum copiis inter fppuaio et Doriam conflatis Cathaldum Domini O'Conor
:

This passage
as

is

given from the Annals of

in the

Lecanby O'Flaherty,
follows.
It

margin of H.

2. 11,

should be observed,

however,

1360.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

in

617

and a party of his people arrived the command of Cathal Bodhar O'Rourke.
into Tirconnell,
,

O'Gormly's territory under

to Hy-Tuirtre,

f Mnrtough, the son of Thomas O'Flynn Line heir-apparent was slain by Hugh, the son of Brian, son of Hugh Boy O'Neill.

Donnell, heir to the lordship of Tirerrill, was slain by Seancha, one of the adherents of O'Gara.

Brian

Mac

Mac

Henry, the son of Ulick, son of Richard Burke, died.

Murrough Oge Mac Mahon, heir apparent to the lordship of Corco- Vaskin, was slain by the O'Briens. Manus O'Dowda, son of the Lord of Hy-Fiachrach, and Hugh, the son of Conor Mac Egan, the choicest of the Brehons of Ireland, died.
Donnell, son of Teige O'Mahony, was slain. Art, the son of Auliffe O'Rourke, was slain by Magennis*.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1360.

thousand

three

hundred

sixty.

Mulrony, son of the Cammhuinelach [the Wry-necked] O'Boyle, Chief of the three Tuathas, a man illustrious for his hospitality, nobleness, wisdom, conquests, and protection, died.
Auliffe, son of Geoffrey

Mac

Rannall, died.
died.

Sir Robert Savadge"

and Dermot O'Hanly

Sligo, the

Roscommon, Devenish,
lias',

monastery of Lisgool, Fenagh, and Druim-

were burned.

John, son of Gilchreest O'Rourke, was slain by Hugh Mac Dorcy. Dermot O'Brien was deposed by the son of his own brother.
tilium paucis ad faedus

feriendum comitatum

Hy-Tuirtre.
g

See note

under the year 1176,

aggreditur: verum Cathaldus victor (ut supra) Tirconallise dominium ea vice adeptus est.

pp. 24, 25, supra.

Eugenius Wardeus, ollam cipe conaill, in hac

pugna occubuit. MS. L." f (yFlynn Line, i. e. O'Lyn of Moylinny, This family was soon Chief of Hy-Tuirtre.
after dispossessed

He was Chief of Iveagh, in the Magennis. county of Down. h This family was seated in Qpb Savadge.
Ula6, now the Ardes, in the east of the county
of

Down.
'

by that sept of the O'Neills

Druimlias,

now Drumlease, an

old church

called the Clannaboy,

who

took possession of

all

in ruins, near the east extremity of

Lough Gill,

4K

618

QNNaca Rio^bachca
Oiapmaic mac oonnchaba
piabaijj
uf concobaip.

eireectNN.

[]36l.

meic Diapmara Do mapbab la caral

65 mac cachail
oeapgap.

Ingfn coippbealbai

uf concobaip bfn pfpjail uf Raijilli^

to litapbab

Opoichfcc clochaelca Do benarh la cacal 65 6 cconcobaip ap abainn fppa

Dapa.

pfpjal mac Seapppaib meg Rajnaill

-)

cuachal ua pionacca Oecc.

Naomhacc 6 Duibgfnnan Decc. Cachal mac an caoich meg Rajnaill Do mapbab. ^iolla na naorh 6 connmaij ollarh cuabmuman le pfinm
TTlac pij

Decc.

Sa^an DO cochc

in

Gpino.
rpabaoij-i^

-|

Qpc mac giolla piabaij mej afnjupa DO mapbab la cloinn an la mac TTluipcfpeaij Riaganaig meg aonjupa meabail.
i

Sluaijeb la cachal

cip narhaljaba gup po mill cighe

-\

cfmpla tomba.

QOIS CR1OSU,

1361.

Qoip Cpiopc, mile, cpf cheD, Seapccac a hdon.

benibechc ua mocham aipchmDeach cille hacpachc Decc. Domnall piabach piojhbamna laijean Ctpc mac TTlupchaba T?f laijfn
-]

in the

barony

oi'

Dromahaire,

and county of

Leitriip.
J

administration, in the year 1367, that the memorable Parliament was held at Kilkenny, which

Eas-dara,
'

i.

e.

Ballysadare, in the county

of Sligo.
k 0'

passed the celebrated Statute known generally an by the name of the Statute of Kilkenny ;

Connmhaigh

This name

is

now

locally

ordinance which contains some enactments

full

O'Connu^a, pronounced and anglicised Conway, without the prefix O. The son of the King of England. He was
1

in Irish as if written

of that penal spirit which kept the aborigines of this island in a state of warfare with the English

Pale for

centuries

after.

This Statute

Lionel,
III.

Duke of He landed

Clarence, third son of

in

Edward

was edited

for the first time,

with a transla-

Dublin with

body of 1500

men on
office

the 15th of September, and held the of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland for nearly

tion and notes, for the Irish Archaeological SoJames Hardiman, Esq., Author of the
ciety,

by

no comment History of Galway, and requires

here.

three years,

when he returned

to

England and,
;

For some curious particulars respecting

officers,

though during that period he achieved nothing worthy of notice in Ireland, he was in the
course of the three years following twice intrusted with the same office. It was during his

Lionel and his

the reader

is

referred to

Davis's Discovery, pp. 23, 24 ; and to Grace's Annals of Ireland, edited by the Rev. Richard Butler, p. 153.

1361.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

slain

619

Dermot, son of Donough Reagh Mac Dermot, was

of Cathal O'Conor.

by Cathal Oge, son

The daughter
by
a
fall.

of Turlough O'Conor, and wife of Farrell O'Keilly, was killed

A bridge of lime and stone was built by Cathal O'Conor across the river of Eas-dara
j
.

Farrell, the son of Geoffrey

Mac

Rannall, and Tuathal O'Finnaghty, died.

Naevag O'Duigennan died. Cathal, son of the Caoch Mac Rannall, was
Gilla-na-naev
k

slain.

O'Conmhaigh

Chief Professor of Music in Thomond, died.

1

of the King of England came to Ireland. Art, son of Gillareagh Magennis, was treacherously slain by the sons of Savadge and the son of Murtough Riaganagh Magennis.

The son

Cathal (O'Conor) marched with an army into Tirawley, and destroyed of its hoxises and churches'". many

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1361.
sixty-one.

thousand

three

hundred

Benedict O'Mochain, Erenagh of Killaraght", died. Art Mac Murrough, King of Leinster, and Donnell Reagh, heir apparent
m To
"
this year O'Flaherty adds the following

Anna!.; 1360, Cod. Cl."

"

entries in

H.

2. 11

Sluaijeao lep
t>o

(.1.

le

Cacal 65 6 Conco-

5'olla annpiap

mac

IDaoilpoil en &aoi

Baip)

cum

Sip

6mann a

Gpeann pe cimpanacr, ap oobapram 7 ap opocpemm, oo ej [i. e. Gilla Andreas Mac

:

epic rhic

Dill-lam

bupc, 7 bap aipg co caiplen na lecmpe :"

Maelpoil, the only clown of Ireland for tympan-

penury, and bad music, died.]-; MS. L." " Filia O'Gairmleodha uxor Magni eojanaij O'Donell, et ejusdem mulieris mater filia O'Caship,

e. an army was led by him (i. e. by Cathal [i. Oge O'Conor) to Sir Edmond Burke, by which he plundered Mac William's country as far as MS. L." the castle of Lehinch.]

Killaraght.

Cill acpacc,

i.

e.

church of

han obierunt.
"

MS. L."
Sinicin

Athracht, a virgin,

Joannes

filius
1

Mac

Uidhilin occisus.

Patrick

it is

the

who name

took the veil from St.

of a parish in the ba-

O'Mukomy:' MS. L."

" ITIac
VJi;5
1

"

filio

Savagii in dolo.

rony of Coolavin, in the south of the county of Sligo, where the memory of this virgin is still
held in great veneration.

Safari
,

oo rocc

nGpino.

MS. L., 8

Sept. 36 1 Dublinii appulit

;Cambd.
4

K2

620

awwaca

reioshacfica eiraeaNN.
-|

[1362.

Dogabail la ITiac pig Sa;can ina cig pein cpe cheilg,

a necc ap a hairle

ma

mbpaighoeanap.

Copbmac ballad

6 maoileachlamn
-|

eapna copcomopuaoh, cachal Oubocc ingfn afoha meg uibip

Oonnchab ua loclilainri cigmuipchfpcach Da rhac afoha mic eogam,

l?i

mibe,

bfn conconnacc mic pilip

meg margamna,
Cua-

Uomap mag

cigfpnain raoipeac ceallaig ounchaba, Niocol 6 pionacca

uile.

mopibe Deg emann a bupc, 17emann mac bupcaig an mume, Uacep Sconoun Sip 5'Uebepc mac maoilip Oecc. Cluiclie an pig nepinn uile co comcoicchionn Ripoepo Sauaoip Decc oa biclnn. ITIac Raic ua pinD ollarh pi I TTluipebaig ciompdnacc Decc. pfmm
-]
i

clial 6 TTlaille,

-|

-\

Cpeacha mopa Do
1

Denarii la

Hlac uilliam bupc,

-\

la TTlac peopaip, i la

gallaib connacc uile ap cacal 6g

mac

cacail

go po aipgpfc luigne
i

-|

rip piachpac.

concobaip go po cpeachpac, SluaigeaD la cacal ifpccain Do

-]

ui

Diogail

noeapnpac go po aipcc oipecc meic peopaip, gup po loic an cfp go leip. hoibepD gup po mill
-]

cpioch

emamn meic

QO13 CR1O3U,
Qofp Cpiopc,

1362.

mile, cpi cheD, Seapccac,

Do.

beollam comapba Dpoma cliab, giolla an coimDeab mac Hlugpom oipcinoec cille an lomaipe Oipeachcach mac bpanain oipcmoeach oile pino
Sir Edmoivi Burke

O'Flaherty adds, in
fortitudine,

H.

2.

11:

"
Hospitalitate,
e't

pru-

follows in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, but entered under the year 1158
:

clentia,

peritia

justitia clarissimus hie

Edif

"A. D.
ln

1158. Cluice in pij DO beir co c\uj

mundus [vocatur]

in Libro TDic pipbipij."

mbliaoain

n6pmn.

Ripoepo SaBaip

What
bipij,
is

O'Flaherty here calls Liber ITlic F'Pevidently the copy of the Chronicon
in

oec 6e -"

"A.

D. 1158.
rife]

The game of the King was

this

ticotorum
Firbis,

now

the handwriting of Duald Mac preserved in the Library of Trinity

thick [i. e.

year in Ireland. Eichard

Savadge died of
It is

it."

College, Dublin.

Burke of Muine In Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, he is " Redmond called Burke of the Moniemore."
p
'

nals of Clonrnaenoise,

thus given by Mageoghegan, in his Anunder the correct date

:

"A. D.

1361.

The King's Game was used

Richard Savadge

Cluithe

an

righ.

This passage

is

given as

generally throughout Ireland. thereof died."

1362.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

621

to the throne of Leinster,

King of England

were treacherously made prisoners by the son of the

of Corcomroe; Cathal and Murtough, two sons of Hugh, son of Owen [O'Conor] Dubliog, daughter of Hugh Maguire, and wife of son of

They afterwards died in prison. Cormac Ballach O'Melaghlin, King of Meath; Donough O'Loughlin, Lord
:

Mac Mahon; Thomas MacTiernan, Chief of Teallach-Dunchadha

in the

Cuconnaught,

Philip

[Tullyhunco,
all

county ofCavan]; Nicholas O'Finnaghty, and Tuathal O'Malley,

died.

Edmond Burke; Redmond, son of Burke of Muine", Walter Staunton, and Gilbert Mac Meyler, died.
Sir

Cluithe an righ" [was Savadge died of it.

died.

rife]

throughout

all

Ireland in general, and Richard

Magrath O'Finnaghty, Chief Musician and Tympanist

to

the

Sil-Murray,

Great depredations were committed by Mac William Burke and Mac Feorais [Bermingham], and by the English of all Connaught, upon Cathal Oge, son of Cathal O'Conor and they ravaged and wasted Leyny and Tireragh. An was led by Cathal afterwards, to take revenge for what army they had done and he plundered Mac Feorais's people and the of Edmund Mac
; ;

territory

Hubert [Burke], and spoiled and destroyed the whole country.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one thousand three

1362.
xlxty-two.

hundred

O'Beollan, Coarb of Drumcliff; Gilla-an-choimhdhe

Mac Mughroin,

Ere-

nagh of Cill-an-iomaire
O'Flaherty, in H.
P'5>"

r
;

Oireachtach MacBranan, Erenagli of Elphin; Aengus

"cluirean

2. 11,

glosses

than because

it

by "' an pla'j," i- e. the plague. This must have been a name for some epidemic
;

cured by the royal touch

conjectured that the
this
r

was commonly believed and it may be

;

to

be

safely

name

cluithe

an

righ for

but the Editor has not discovered anything to prove what was the exact nature of it, or why it was called Cluithe an righ, or " the
disease

plague had

its

origin in

some similar notion,

King's Game."
the King's
evil,

The scrofulous
is

disease called

Cill an lomaipe, i. e. the Cill-an-iomaire. church of the ridge, now Killanummery, a parish in the barony of Dromahaire, and county of
Leitrim.

so called for

no other reason

622

aNNCicd uioghachna

eiraeciNN.

[1362.

Qongup mac an occlaoich aipchmbeac chille haipib, o pfpghapa biocaipe lovncha, Hlupchab manach mac caibg becc. Goghan pionn na concobaip mac pig Connachc TTlaolpuanaib 6 bubba, a bfri ingean meic bonnchaib, Niall mace Shampabam caoipeac ceallaig eachbach Oiapmaicc mac Seaain uf pfpgail cigeapna na hangaile, Caipppe 6 cuinn caofpeac muincipe giollgam, Oomnall mac l?uaibpi uf ceallaig, Uomalcach ua bijin, TTluipcheapcach bonn mace oipeachcatg, eoghan ua maille, biapmaicc a mac cigeapnaba umaill labpom bo ecc. ITluipip Cucoigcjnche mag eochagam, mac biajimaba me5 eochagain,
-\
-\

~\

mac muipcfpcaij meg eochagam mac peblimib Cachal 65

-|

becc.
uf

concobaip bo gabail caiplen baile an

copaip.
la caral 65 Sluaijeab abbal mop la pij connacc aob mac peblimib, ua cconcobaip ip in mibe gup po loipgpfc co haraip mibe. Gill cainbig bo lopccab leo 50 cceicpib rfmplaib becc ina mbacap poplongpopc ag gallaib,
~|

~\

uilc

a niompob plan bia cciglub lapam. Cabg mac concobaip mic coippbealbaig uf bpiam bo rhapbab la clomri
lomba bo bfnom poppa bon chup
pin,

coilein.

Cachal 6g
neapc,
-\

an cen pioghbamna ba mo allab, fngnom in aon aimpip pip bo niabachup, eneach,

6 concobaip
-|

oippbeapcnp
i

ecc,

Sligeach

bo plough.
s

Cill-airidk.

This

is

called cill oipio in the

Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, and the same spelling is used by the Four Masters at
the years 1333 and 1416.
anglicised Killerry, and
is

Imagia was a parish church in the time of Colgan See his Ada Sanctorum, pp. 140, 141 (1645).
see also
for

O'Flaherty's lar-Connaught,
Irish
says,

printed
p.

The name

is

now

the

Archaeological

Society,

113,

Lough Gill,
of Sligo

in tlie

that of a parish near of Tirerrill, and county barony

See Genealogies, Tribes, and Customs

p.

Fechin erected an abbey but now the parish church is only extherein, tant, whereof St. Fechin is patron, the 20th of

where he

"

St.

of Hy-Fiac/irach,
c

486, and

map

to the same.

January worshipped."
this church.
u

Colgan had a manu-

Oflmaidh, lomca. This name is latinised Imagia by Colgan, and anglicised Imay by
Roderic O'Flaherty. written Omey, and

script Irish life of St. Fechin,

which belonged
first

to

The name
is

is now usually that of an island on the

Battintober

This
in

is

the

notice of this

castle occurring

these

Annals.

For some
it

coast of Connamara, in the north-west of the

county of Galway. Guaire, the hospitable King of Connaught, bestowed it on St. Fechin, who
founded an abbey on
it in

account of the present state of the ruins of h see note under the year 1311, p. 500.
v

Kilkenny,

i.

e.

Kilkenny west,
in the

in a

barony

the seventh century.

of the

same name

county of Westmeath.

1362.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

5
;

623

Oglaoich, Erenagh of Cillairedh Murrough, the monk, Mac Teige, died.

Mac an

O'Fergusa, Vicar of Iraaidh'

and

O'Conor, son of the King of Connaught; Mulrony O'Dowda and his wife, daughter of Mac Donough; Niall Magauran, Chief of Teallach

Owen Finn

Eaohdhach [Tullyhaw] Dermot, son of John O'Farrell, Lord of Annaly Carbry O'Quin, Chief of Muintir-Gillagan Donnell, son of Rory O'Kelly Tomaltagh O'Beirne, Murtough Donn Mageraghty, Owen O'Malley, and Dermot, his son, Lords of Umallia, died.
;
; ; ;

Cucogry Mageoghegan, the son of Dermot Mageoghegan, and Maurice, the son of Murtough Mageoghegan, died. The castle of Ballintober" was taken by Cathal Oge and the son of Felim
O'Conor.

by the King of Connaught, Hugh, son of Felim, and Cathal O'Conor, into Meath, which they triumphantly desolated by fire. They burned the church of Kilkenny* and fourteen other churches, in which the English had garrison. Many other injuries they also did them [the English],
led
after

A very great army was

which they returned

in safety to their homes.

Teige, son of Conor, son of Turlough O'Brien, was slain by the ClannCoilen".

Cathal Oge O'Conor, a Roydamna* of more fame, renown, strength, heroism, in his time, died of the plague at Sligo. hospitality, and prowess, than any
i

This passage is given somewhat better in Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Cloninacnoise, as follows
:

who were

otherwise called Hy-Caisiu.

They

were seated in the county of Clare, between the f River Fergus and the Shannon. See note

"A.

D. 1362.

Hugh mac Felym

O'Connor,

King of Connought, and Cahall Oge O'Connor, marched with their forces to Meath, burnt and far destroyed all places where they came, to [as Of as] the hill of Cnock-Aysde in Kynaleaghe.
that journey they burnt 14 Churches, and the church of Kilkenny, in Machairie Kwyrcknie [ITIacaipe Cuipcne] committ'd many outrages
;

under the year 1311, pp. 498, 499, supra. x Roydamna, i. e. materies regie, or one who,
from his descent, personal form, and valour, might be elected a king. This passage is trans-

by Mageoghegan in his .version of the Annals of Clonmacnoise, as follows:

lated

"A.
diest

D. 1362. Cahall Oge O'Connor, the harand man of greatest valour of any noble-

upon the English of Meath, and were so many that it were hard to recoumpt them ; returned
:it

man

of his time, died of the plague at Sligeagh,

the 3rd of November."

last to their

houses in safety."
i.

This Cathal Oge was

tlie

son of Cathal, King

w The Clann-Coilen,

e.

the

Mac Namaras,

of Connaught,

who was

the son of Dounell, Ta-

624
TTluipcfpcacli

ciNNata Rio^hachca eii?eaNN.

mac comdip mic
uf ceallai j

[1363.

carail piabaij ui Ruaipc DO ecc.

Oorhnall

mac

Do

ecc.

Cuconnacc 6 Duibgfnnam bicai]ie ciUe Ronain 065. Gmlaoib mac pipbipig abbaji ollaman 6 ppiacpach,

peapjal mac raibg

meic afbagam paoi bpficfman, Seaan mac Donnchaib meic pipbipij abbap ollaman 6 ppiacpac, OiapmaiD mac meg caprhaij, Concobap mac TTIaoileaclainn cappaig uf Duboa,
-|

muipceapcac a mac

iaiopit>e uile

Do

65.

CIOIS Qoip Cpiopc,

TTlajnap eoghanaeh
naill, i

CR1OSC,

1363.

mile, cpi cheo, Seapccacc, acpf.

615 uf oom-

mac concobaip mic afoha mic Domnaill

mac afoha
-]

Qob puab

rhdg uibip cigeapna pfpmanach Decc.

TTlajnup (meblach)
pfp

ap mo Do pijne Duaiple

aDbap cigfpna cfpe conaill DO juaipbfpcaib ina aimpip Do rhapbab la

cionafic DO lor DO cacal

uf bomnaill

TTlaghnup mac cachail ppamaij uf concobaip. UaDg mac conpnarha raoipeach muinnpe

mac

afoha bpeipmj,

a jabail Do mppin 50 bpuaip bpaijoeanup. uf pfpjail ben uf Rajaillij Decc. Lapaippiona injfn TTluipceaprac puab mac Domnaill loppaip uf concobaip Do rhapbab Do mac
-|

bap ma

TTlajnupa

(.1.

cabj).

meg Gochagam bfn an cpionnaig Decc. Cachal mac Donnchaib Do mapbab Do mumcip muije luipg. cumraighn ^ctoch abbal mop DO bpipeab lomaD cfmpall
injfn
~\

bebinn

ip in

mblia-

oam

laoiDeang DO bacab Di beop. ua Duboa DO mapbab la Donnchab ua nouboa Concobap c mac Donnchaib uf buboa.
pi,

i lolop long,

-]

i la

muipceap-

nist of

Connaught, and ancestor of the O'Conors

peac

of bligo.

Intended Ollav, a&bap ollariian,

literally,

mumnpe UoouiB peste obiit. MS. L." " Cormacus Ballagh O'Maelseachlainn, Rex Cod. Cl. et C. 6." Midiae obiit.
Eoghanach, i. e. of Tyrone. He was so called from his having been fostered in Tyrone.
b

materies of an ollav, or chief professor of poetry or history.

O'Flaherty adds the two following notices in H. 2. 11: " Item Gillapatricius mac Oipeac'caij caoithis year

To

Meabhlach.

i.

e.

the guileful, treacherous, or

Literally, of

crafty.
c

Perilous,

oo juaipbeapcaib

1363.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

died.

625

Murtough, the son of Thomas, son of Cathal Reagh O'Rourke,

Donnell, the son of O'Kelly, died..

Cuconnaught O'Duigennan, Vicar of Kilronan,

Auliffe

died.

Mac

y Firbis, intended Ollav of Tireragh; Farrell, the son of

Mac Egan,

a learned

Brehon

John, son of Donough

Mac

Teige intended Firbis,

Ollav of Tireragh; Dermot, son of

Mac Carthy Conor,

;

son of Melaghlin Car-

ragh O'Dowda, and Murtough,

his son, all died

2
.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1363.
sixty-three.

thousand three hundred

Manus Eoghanach", the son of Conor, son of Hugh, son of Donnell Oge O'Donnell, and Hugh Roe Maguire, Lord of Fermanagh, died. Manus Meabhlachb son of Hugh O'Donnell, heir to the lordship of Tir,

connell, a

actions

man who had performed than any other man of his

a greater
time,

number of noble and

slain

perilous

was

by Manus, son of Cathal

Sramach" O'Conor.
Teige Mac Consnava, Chief of Muintir-Kenny, was wounded, and afterwards
taken prisoner, by Cathal, son of confinement.

Hugh

Breifneach O'Conor.

He

died in his

and wife of O'Reilly, died. Murtough Roe, the son of Donnell-Erris O'Conor, was slain by Teige Mac Manus.
Lasarina', daughter of O'Farrell,

Bevin, the daughter of Mageoghegan, and wife of the Sinnach [the Fox],
died.

Cathal

Mac Donough was

slain

by the people of Moylurg.

A very great storm in this

and
also sank

year threw

down

several churches

and houses,

many ships and boats. Conor O'Dowda was slain by Donough O'Dowda, and Murtough, son of Donough O'Dowda.
dangerous deeds,
A e
i.

e.

deeds the achievement of

peril.

lineal,

which was attended with

Sramach,
Lasarina.
i.

the blear-eyed. Charles O'Conor writes,

e.

To this year O'Flaadds the following passages in H. 2. 11: herty "Grania filia Donaldi O'Conor; filia Donaldi
puceo O'Mally uxor Donaldi

" no cacaipiona."

inter

O'Dowd

Mael-

4L

626

QNNata Rioshachca emeaNN.

QOIS CR1OSU,
1364.

[1365.

Ctoip Cpvopc, mile, cpi cheD, Seapccac,

a ceachaip.

CloDh ua neill Rf cmel neojain an caon jaoibeal Do bpfjip

ma

aimpip

oecc lap mbuaib niochca, i

nenijj dij

~|

oippoeapcaip.

OiapmaiD uabpiam cijeapna cuabmuman,TT)aoileachloinn mac mupchaib mic 5iolla na naom mic aoba mic amlaoib cijfpna na hanjaile, Oepbail mjean uf borhnaill bfn meg uibip, TTlaipspeg mjfn uacep a bupc bfn ao6a mic peiblimib uf concobaip, Oomnall mag uibip caofpeach clomne pTpjaile, 5'olla na naorh ua ouiboaboipeann ollarh copcomopuao le
Qipppic injean bpiain uf Rajallaij bfn bpiam meic cijeapnam

Oomnall mac Puaibpi uf ceallaij abbap cijeapna 6 TTlaine t>o 65. ^lolla na naom mac gobann na peel paof pfnchaba, OiapmaiD 6
ollam cenel conaill pe pfnchap, ITlaipjpes mic peiolimib ui concobaip pi Connachr 065.
-]

in^fii

udreip a bupc bean afba

CIOIS
Qoip Cpiopc,

CR1OSU,

1365.

mile, cpi cheo, Seapccac,

cuij.

aipchmneach Roppa aipcip mac Domnaill ui neill Do mapBab Daon upcap TCuaibpi leachlamn mac an ghipp meic cacmaofl.
-]

Paiom

6 conjaile pfppun

Decc.
poijjDe la TTlaoi-

sechlunnius
gallus

filius Murgesi Mac Donogh FerMac Conrnama et Odo Mac majnupa, obierunt MS. L." " Diermitius mac lairiie .1. mac mic Diapmaoa mejCapraij, csesus. MS. L." [Dermot Mac Laimhe, i. e. son of the son of Dermot Mac
; ;

after

good pennance, as a good Christian." 'Duvdavoran This name is now short-

ened to Davoran.

The head

of this family was

originally seated at Lisdoonvarna, in the aouthwest of the barony of Burren, in the county of
Clare.

There are

still

many

respectable person?

Carthy, was slain.]

f

of the
the

name

in the county.
i.

After gaining

palm

This passage

is

"
>

Na
To

Sgel,

e.

of the tales or stories.

given somewhat differently as follows in Mageoghegan's translation of the Annals of Clon-

this year O'Flaherty adds the lowing obits in H. 2. 1 1

:

two

t'ol-

macnoise " A. D. 1364.

:

" Niellus

ITIaj;

Cajaoan

occisus a ITIacOiap-

Hugh

O'Neale,

King of Ulster,

maoa

^all.

MS. L."
obiit.

the best King of any province in his time, died,

" Brannus O'Broin insignis Cytharasdus

1365.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

627

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of Christ, one thousand
three

1364.
sixty-four.

hundred

Hugh
renown.

O'Neill,

King of Kinel-Owen, the

gained the palm
f

best

man

of the Irish of his time,

died, after having

for

humanity, hospitality, valour, and

Dermot

O'Brien,

of Gilla-na-naev,

Lord of Thomond; Melaghlin, the son of Murrough, son son of Hugh, son of AulifFe [O'Farrell], Lord of Annaly
;
;

Derbhail, daughter of O'Donnell, and wife of Maguire Margaret, daughter of Walter Burke, and wife of Hugh, son of Felim O'Conor Donnell
;

Maguire,

Chief of Clann-Fergaile
died.

Gilla-na-naev 0'Duvdavoran E Chief

,

Brehon of Cor-

comroe; and Affrica, daughter of Brian O'Reilly, and wife of Brian Mac Tiarnan,
Donnell, son of Rory O'Kelly, heir to the lordship of Hy-Many, died. h Gilla-na-naev Mac Gowan, [surnamed] na Sgel a learned historian; Dermot
,

O'Sgingin, Ollav of Tirconnell in History and Margaret, daughter of Walter Burke, and wife of Felim O'Conor, King of Connaught, died'.
;

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
j
,

1365
sixty-five.

Christ, one

thousand three hundred

Paidin 0'Congaile Parson and Erenagh of Ross-Airthir", died. killed with one shot of an arrow' by Rory, the son of Donnell O'Neill, was

Melaghlin Mac-an-Girr

Mac

Cawell.
sorry.
It is situated

O'Mukonry, 1365, MS. L. 1364, C. C. 6." e. Bran O'Byrne, a celebrated harper, died.] [i.
Paidin O'Conghatie. In modern times this name would be anglicised Paddy Conneely. The name O'Conghaile, which is pronounced as if
j

on the west side of the

narrow part of Lough Erne, a short distance to the south of Enniskillen, in the county of Fermanagh.
'

One

shot

written O'Conao.le,

is

to be distinguished from

rendered
is

of an arrow. " one cast of a

This might be also

javelin."

The passage
:

O'Conjalcnj, which is ICM, and now always anglicised Connolly, without the prefix O.
* Ross-Airthir.

pronounced O'Conna-

translated

by Mageoghegan

as follows, in his

version of the Annals of Clonmacnoise " A. D. 1365. Rowrie mac Donnell O'Neale

This name

is

more usually

was

killed

by Melaughlyn mac Engyrr Mac

written

Rop

oiprip,

and

is

now

anglicised Ros-

arrow." Cathmoyle by the shott of an

L2

628

aNNQta Rio^hachca eiReawN.

peblimib an eimj mac Oomnaill
ui

[1355.

concobaip cijeapna copcomoopuab paof gan aicbe neinijh, i nfnsnomha Oecc.

Uomap mac
lonopoijcpb

TTlupchaba

uf pfpjail 065.

Do chabaipc Do cloinn joipoealbaij ap luijnib t>ia po mapbab copbmgc ua hejpa peipeap Do maichib a chineab imaille ppip. Qo6 mac oiapmaoa Do Dul mumcip eolaip, Cpeacha mopa Do benom oppa, i nochap cpeacha jan oiogail laiDpibe, uaip Do mapbab copbmac mac
-\
i

DiapmaDa puaib biacac

TTlaoileachlainn Oall
i

coircionn connacc,

ta mac comalcaij

uf bipn,

.1.

~\

jiollacpiopc (imaille pe pochaibib oile) la lieolap-

achaib cropaijeachr a ccpeach. T?o gabpac beop Diapmaic mac Diapmacca, 1 maolpuanaib mac Donnchaib piabaij lap maibm a mumcipe. bpian mac marha meic cijeapndm caoipeac reallaij Dunchaba, aori ba mo dj oippbeapcup clu ~\ cfnnap t>o raoipeacaib bpeipne oo ecc. dp Do po paibeab

bpian mac cijeapnam na crpfp, T?e a emeach nip coip coimmeap, T?o lean gan pfoch an pele

bub nfm cpioch a caichpeime.

bpian mac afoha meg marjamna Do 5abail cijeapnaip oipgiall. Gleamnap Dpopailfrh Do ap Somaiple mac 6om Duib meic Domnaill (aobap njeapna ccuc a 'P '^sean uf Ra^allaij Do inpi gall, i apDconpubal cuigib ulab). 5
leigfn, i

a mgfn pfm Do cabaipr.

Nip bo cian lap

p

pin 50

rcuc TTlaj mar-

This passage is thus renFelim-an-einigh dered by Mageoghegan in his version of the

" but these Not with impunity Literally, were not depredations unrevenged."
This name is now always Kiernan, in the barony of Tullyhunco, anglicised in the west of the county of Cavan, where it
q

Annals of Clonmacnoise

Mac

Tiernan

"A.
called

D.

1365.

Felym Aneny,
bountifull,

in

English

Felym the

son of Donnell

O'Connor of Corcomroe, died."

Unebbing. explained by Michael O'Clery, in his Glossary of ancient Irish " Qirbe .1. words, as follows cpajao, no laj:

is is

The word airbe

very common. r Brian, the son of Hugh

is

Mac

MaJion.

This

story

very differently told in the

Annals of

Clonmacnoise, as translated by Mageoghegan,

as follows
:

oujhaoh na mapu.
or lessing of the sea."
Muintir-Eolais,
i.

Aithbhe,
the

i.

e.

the ebbing

"A. D.
e.

1365.

Bryan mac Hugh Magmahon

Mac

Eanalls and

their followers in the southern or level portion

tooke upon him the principallitye of the contreys of Uriel, tooke to wife the daughter of

of the county of Leitrim.

Sowarle mac Eon DufFe Mac Donnell, archcon-

1365.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

,

629

Felim an-einighm son of Donnell O'Conor, Lord of Corcomroe, a man of unebbing" hospitality and prowess, died.

Thomas, son of Murrough O'Farrell, died. attack was made by the Clann-Costello upon the people of Leyny, on which occasion Cormac O'Hara, and six of the chiefs of his tribe along with him, were slain.

An

Hugh Mac Dermot made

Eolais
,

an incursion into [the country of] the Muintir

and committed great depredations upon them, but not with impunity"; for Cormac Mac Dermot Roe, General Biatach of the two sons of Connaught; Cormac O'Beirne, Melaghlin Dall and Gilchreest, and many others, were slain

by the Muintir Eolais, who went in pursuit of the prey. After the defeat of their people, Dermot Mac Dermot and Mulrony, son of Donough Reagh, were

Mac Tiernan"; Chief of Teallach Dunchadha the most distinguished for valour, renown, fame, and power, of [Tullyhunco], the sub-chieftains of Breifny, died. Of him was said
:

taken prisoners. Brian, the son of Matthew

Brian Mac Tiernan of the battles, Whose hospitality was incomparable

.

He followed generosity without And heaven was the goal of his

Brian, the son of

hatred,
career.

Hugh Mac Mahon assumed

,

sued for an alliance by

the lordship of Oriel. He with Sorley, son of Owen Duv Mac Donnell, marriage

heir to the lordship of the Insi-Gall, and

High Constable of the province of

O'Reilly's daughter,

Ulster; and he induced

him

to put

away

and espouse

his

stable and head of the galloglasses of Ulster; was procured to put away the daughter of O'Rellye that was formerly married to him.

however, Brian

In the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, Mac Mahon is made the perpeis

trator of this horrid deed, and it

added that

Not long

after

Sowarle invited his said sonne-

Somairle was the son of Eoin Dubh,

who was

in-law to his house, and being conveyed to an inner roome therein, as though to pass the

the son of Alexander, heir to the kingdom of Insi Gall. Alexander, the father of Eoin Dubh,

filthily

time in conversation and drinking of wine, was taken by his said Father-in-law, and

was the son of Aengus More, who was the son

of Scotland, of Donnell, the progenitor of the Mac Donnells who was the son of Randal, who

committed him to a strong place on a lough to bee kept, for which cause Sawarle was banished
from out of the whole country."

was the son of Somhairle, the progenitor of all

the Clann-Sorley, namely, the

Mac

Donnells,

630

dNNCtta Rioghachca
~\

emeaNK

[1365.

lap mbfich Doib aehaib 05 61 rapla a lama ma rhimciollporh, cucc poDeapa impfpam fcoppa. labaip bpian a cfngal 50 Daingfn Dopgaoilce, i a chup ip in loch baoi ina compojup jup po baicheaD e pochfcoip. Dorhnall mac aooha uf neill cona bpairpib,

^arhna epiom ap cuipeaD chuige,

"]

cloinne aoba buioe, i roippDealbac mop nulcaib Do chionol hi cfnn apoile cona paibe Da chineab mac oorhnaill Den aonca 50 haipgiallaib co pangaccap hi Oul Doib Den laim lappm.

bpian

mac

enpf uf neill 50

mainb

"]

compocpaib Rctra culach longpopr meg macjamna. T?aba6 Do pochram pompa co bpian gup ceichepcaip, i 50 po pagbao an baile pap polam apa mairhe an cipe Do ccionn. laopom Do leanmam meg marjamna, ~| epfin
)

beic

a ccfchpa Da ccup po Damgean an cfpeccimceall a ccpuib, a ninnile Do buam Diob. TTlaibm Do cabaipc pop aipjiallaib annpm, a neoe,
hi
~| ~\

TTlag

mar^amna Dacchup ap a 6urai6

~\

peipin

nuchr mumcipe maoilrhopba

na bpaicpib,

a bean Cuconnachc 6 Raijillij cijfpna bpeipne Do Dul eapnap Do pagbail aja Dfpbpachaip pilib.
lappin, i

a mjfn Do jabail.

ip

-|

a chij-

la

Qo6 mac Neill uf Dorhnaill (.1. aDbap cijeapna npe conuill) Do mapbaD Dorhnall mac TTluipcfpcaij ui concobaip. Uabg mac ma^nupa uf conco-|

Do rabaipc aip, baip DO bpfic ap Dorhnall an la cfona, i bpipeaD

rhumcip Do

Dponj oa

mapbaD im aob mac concobaip mic RoibepD mac uacm baipeD DO ecc.
Sa^an DO pagbdil epenn.
7

caiDg.

TTlac pi 5

Mac Dowells, Mac Rorys, O'Gnimhas (now Agnews), and Mac Eoins of Ardnamurchon.
This sentence is This being accordingly done. constructed by the Four Masters, very rudely
It is far better given in the
*

500 inab a ppir a mumncip &o mapbab

icic.
.1.

oo

haipjeb

ITIaips aoriian 7 ralatti 7 uifci

map polchao m cpaepclann poceneoil bap pij mnp gall, tnac com ouib mic

ao-

alajc-

Annals of Ulster as

follows

5^PP a r a al ^le j'in co cue pern e ool pna, 7 map DO pail in

ip

"

cuiji

ma

cec

pin opajoail

anouip." " Shortly after this he invited him to his own house to drink wine ; and when he expected to get the wine, the treatment he received was
this: Brian himself folded his

e cuipeo puaip j;up iao bpian pern a oa

arms about him,

laim raipip

7 a gabail co oocpac oomiaoac a cojbail amac 7 uachao oa mumncip ma 7 pocaip, gup cpapleo 7 jup cfnglao a copa 7

and seized him roughly and disrespectfully, and carried him out, with a few of his people along
with him; and his hands and legs were crippled and tied tp each other, and he was thus cast
into a lake, and no further tidings of

a lama oa

ceile,

pep a pjela o pin

7 jup cuipeo a loc 6, amac. t)o I'jeb pon

7 ni
cip,

him were

1365.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

631

Not long after this Mac Mahon invited him [Mac Donnell] to a feast, and they continued drinking for some time. Anon a dispute arose between them whereupon Brian threw his arms about him [Sorley], and ordered that he should be fast and strongly fettered, and cast into a lake
own.
;

neighbouring [and this being accordingly done'] he was at once drowned. this Donnell, Upon son of Hugh O'Neill, and his brother, Brian, son of Henry O'Neill, with the
:

chief of Clannaboy', and Turlough

More Mac Donnell, with

marched

all

of his tribe in

Ulster, assembled together, and, with one accord,

into Oriel as far as

the mansion-seat of Mac Mahon. Intelligence of reached Brian, he fled, leaving the town empty and desolate to having them. They, however, pursued Mac Mahon, who, with the chiefs of his terri-

the confines of Rath-Tulach

11

this

tory,

was engaged placing their herds and flocks in the fastnesses of the country. The men of Oriel were defeated, and deprived of their arms and cattle". After
this

Mac Mahon was

and
his

banished from his

own

country to Muintir-Maelmora*, and

his wife

daughter were made prisoners. Cuconnaught O'Reilly, Lord of Breifny, retired among the

friars,

and

resigned his lordship to his brother Philip. Hugh, the son of Niall O'Donnell, heir to the lordship of Tirconnell, was slain by Donnell, the son of Murtough O'Conor. On the same day Teige, the

son of
of a

Manus O'Conor, encountered Donnell, and defeated him, with the loss great number of his people, among whom was Hugh, the son of Conor, son

of Teige.

Robert

Mac

Wattin" Barrett, died.

left Ireland.

The son
heard.

of the King of England

Parties were dispatched throughout the

Cattle,

It is stated in the

Dublin copy of

found country, and wherever his people were were killed and plundered. Wo to the they
world, the land, and the water where this noble
offspring was submersed,
ii

the Annals of Ulster, that they were pursued as

far as

Lough Erne, where they were deprived

by the men
of Ferma-

of their flocks and herds

i.

e.

the materies of

nagh, as well as
*

by the forces

who pursued them.

king of the Inns! Gall, the son of Eoin Dubh, son of Alexander."
Clannaboy, in the original Clann Qobab'uioe, i. e. the descendants of Hugh Boy O'Neill.
1

Muintir-Maelmora.

This was the tribe

name
y

of the O'Reillys of the county of Cavan,

then called East Breifny.

Robert
2. 11,

Mac

Wattin.
is

O'Flaherty remarks

in

Rath-Tulach.

This was a place in the barony

is

and county of Monaghan, but the name

obsolete.

now

Robu;; mac uurm. in the Annals of Lecan, in which his death is entered under the year 1366, and that he is
H.
that he
called

632

awNCK-a Rioghachca emeaMN.

[1366.

QO1S CR1OSU,
Qofp Cpfopc,
.1.

1366.

mile, rpi cheD,

Seapccac aSe.

mac TTlaengail Do ecc. Gppcop pacha borh, Cachal mac afoha bpeipmj mic cacail puaib, TTlajmip 6cc a mac, TThnpcfpcac mac bail pe t>ocaip, TDuipjiup 6 maolcuile, DiapmaiD mac Siomoin, i DiapmaiO mac jiolla bfpaij Do mapbab pell la peapaib manac
-|
i

ap ppar peap luipg, i cpeacha aibble DO Denarh 6oib ap cloinn muipcfpiaD Do oenorh pioba pe mumnp Ruaipc, i DO mairfrh a ppolcanaip caij, Doib ap ulc pe cloinn TTluipcfpcaij, i muincip Ruaipc DO Denam an ceDna
~]

DO gabail lonaiD cachail lapom. TTluincip Ruaipc DO 6ul pop imipce a ccorhDail pfp manach. 5 nei Pr cimchill Do Denom Dogbaib cloinne muipcheapcaij gup po mapbpac cachal mag plannppiuporh. TTlacRuaibpi ui concobaip

chaib caoipeac Dapcpaije.

mac Rajnaill mic Rajnall moip meg pajnaill aDbap cofpij jan ppeapabpa Do mapbaD pell la TTlaoileacloinn mag pajnaill raoipeac
TTluipcfpcac
i

mumcipe

heolaip, i maoileaclomn pein Decc ccionn Da mfp Da eip pin. Copbmac Donn mag capcaij njeapna 6 ccaipbpe, -] 6 neachbach muman
i

Do mapbaD
chaib.

Da bpachaip mac Domnaill na nDorhnall. Concobap ua concobaip njeapna ciappaije luacpa DO mapbaD Do bpanai

pell

RuaiDpi mac mmpceapraij uf concobaip DO bachaD pop pionainn. TTlaiDm DO chabaipc la ca6g mac inajnupa ui concobaip ap peaan ua
called

njeapna baip^oac

[i.

e.

Lord of the

Excursion.

According to the Dublin copy

Barretts] in O'Mulconry's Annals.

*

of the Annals of Ulster, this excursion was

made

Maengail. See Harris's edition of Ware's Bishops, p. 272. The name is still extant in the county of Donegal,
*
i.

Mac

His name was Patrick

by the O'Rourkes into Breifny, by which is meant that part of Breifny in which the Clann-

Murtough O'Conor had

ginal proprietors.
c

established themselves,
ori-

where

it is

anglicised

Mac Monigal.
the strath or holm

and from whence they had driven out the

of the

Srath-Fear-Luirg, men of Lurg, an ancient territory, now a barony in the north of the county of Fermanagh.
hone,
It is

e.

in

H.
d

Melaghlin. O'Flaherty adds to this entry " 2. 11: Qui Mselsechlunnius Conmacet

in this

probably the place called StranaSee Ordnance map of barony

6.

niorum fulcrum

columen

erat.

MS. L."

Fermanagh, sheets 2 and

Carbery. of the county of Cork.

A large district in the south-west

1366.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

633

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1366.
sixty -six.

thousand

three

hundred

The Bishop
son,

2 of Raphoe, i. e. Mac Maeugail died. Cathal, the son of Hugh Breifneach, son of Cathal Roe, and Manus, his
,

Murtough Mac Dail-re-docair, Maurice O'Maeltuile, Dermot Mac Simon, and Dermot Mac Gilla-Bearaigh, were treacherously slain at Srath-Fearand
also

Luirg" by the people of Fermanagh, who, to annoy the Clann-Murtough, made peace with the O'Rourkes, and forgave them all their past hostilities and the
;

O'Rourkes agreed to their proposals. The son of Rory O.'Conor after this assumed the place of Cathal. The O'Rourkes went on a migratory excursion",
accompanied by the people of Fermanagh but the youths of the Clann-Murtough attacked and surrounded them, and killed Cathal Mac Clancy, Chief of
;

Dartry.

Murtough Mac Rannall, the son of Randal More Mac Rannall, [who was] a materies of a chieftain without dispute, was treacherously slain by Melaghlin Mac Rannall, Chief of Muintir-Eolais. Melaghlin himself died in two months
afterwards.

Cormac Don Mac Carthy, Lord of Carbery", and

of Ivahagh of Munster',
.

f was treacherously slain by his relative, the son of Donnell na-n-Domhnall Conor O'Conor, Lord of Ciarraighe-Luachra8 was slain by the Branaghs". Rory, son of Murtough O'Conor, was drowned in the Shannon.
,

A
'

victory

was gained by Teige, the son of Manus O'Conor, over John

f

This was the ancient Ivahagh of Munster. name of the country of O'Mahony Finn, otherwise called O'Mahony the Western. In the

Na-n-Domhnall.

" Donnell of the Donnells."

so called

Mageoghegan renders this He was probably

manuscript entitled Carbrice Notitia, its extent " The whole is described thus peninsula from
:

from having many men of the name Donnell among his household, * This was the original Ciarraighe-Luachra.

Ballydehab to

Dunmanus bay

is

called Ivagh,

and
best

did formerly belong to

man

of that name.

O'Mahone Pune, the The whole of this ter-

of a territory comprising about the northern half of the present county of Kerry, h This was the name of an EngBranaghs

name

to Mac Carthy Reagh for ritory paid tribute but before the English Invaseveral centuries ;
sion,

lish

family seated in

the

neighbourhood of
2. 11,

O'Kerry.

O'Flaherty in

H.

makes the a
scilicet

both

it

and the whole of Carbery had

in bpanacaib' long,

and adds " familia

belonged to O'Driscoll.

Anglica

ei vicina.

634

aNNCtta raioshachca emeaNN.

mapbab
-]

[i366.

noorhnaill gona gallocclachaib Du in po

~\

pochajbe.

TTIac Suibne

-]

Dpong Do maicib cfpe conaill Do jabail bpaighoe DO Dfnorii bfob. Do cloinn nDorhnaill, Do coippUionol DO ofnam Do bomnall ua Neill bealbac mac oomnaill-] DoQla;canouip a mac, Dionnpoijib neill in' neill. TTIac cachrhaoil DO cop ap an rip Doib co noeachaib pann neill ui neill gona ebib
.1.
i

1 inDilib.

larcporh Do bpeic ap ofipeab muincipe meic cachrhaoil cona

lam DO cabaipc cap pa gup bfnpacc a ccpob bfob. Ragnall mac alajcanoaip oijpe cloinne Gla^anoaip DO cecc a hinpibgall mun ammpoin ccommbdiD Neill uf neill. Qn cfchfpn DO gach caoib oocfgmail ccom^ap Dia poile, aipecca cloinne Domnaill. Rajnall Do cop ceachcaD map
ccfchpaib, i
i

.1.

a mac alajcanoaip co na mumcip DiappaiD an cpli^e apaibe coippbealbac Do caob a mbpachaipyi pe apoile. bo leijfn DO nonoip a pinnpipecca Do ponab Dimbpij leopom Don aichfpg lupin uaip Do lonnpaijpfc guy an ac
-]
i

~\

a bpacaDap

eipiorh

05 cpiall

raipip.

Uucpac rachap cpen cinnfpnach Da

leir.

cheile hipuibe gup

mapbaD
i

gup loicfb Dpong Dipfm Diob Da gach

caich la coippbealbach,
-]

TPapbcap mac Do pajnall,

gahcap ccommaycc mac coippoealbaij (alajcanoaip) la mumcip Rajnaill gup bpeacnaijpfc a mapbab po cfccoip. Qcc cfna nip comaiplecc Rajnall ooib uaip po pdiD a bpachaip in aompeacc an la pin Da eapbaib. nac biaD a mac CoccaD mop einp jallaib connachc. TTIac muipip Dionnapbab ap an cfp DO mac uilliam co noeachaib Do poijib cloinne T?iocaipD. Sloijeab DO bfnorh DO mac uilliam.Daob ua cconcobaip,pf connacc,-] Duilliam 6 ceallaij cigeapna
-|

uachcap connachc 50 cloinn RiocaipD, i a inbeic popgla 17aice bpaijoe bpopbaipi pop apoile. Nfpc DO jab'dil Do mac uilliam pa beoib,
in
i

maine

-)

His son and

his

kinsman

This entry

is

given in Mageoghegan's translation of the

nals of Clonmacnoise, as follows
:

An-

men, the other Mac Donells, of the other side, Randolph Terlagh, and his son Alexander. sent Alexander, his son and heirc, and Terlagh
Donell, to his kinsmen, desireing them, in were his kinsmen, and he cheife of regard

"A.

D. 1366.

Donell O'Neale made great

Mac

preparations and assemblies to warre against

Neale O'Neale, banished

his country.

Mac Cathmoyle out of Randolph mac Alexander, chief

came out of the
Isles to

they the house they were

pleased to desist

of,

that they would be

from contending against him.

of the
assist

Mac

Donells,

Neale O'Neale in that warre, where the

two

forces of the

Mac

Donells met, that

is

to

regarding the entreaties, made towards the foorde where they saw fiercely Randolph stand, which was answered by the

They,

little

saye, Randolph, of the one side, and his kins-

like courage

and fierceness by Randolph ,and

1366.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

635

O'Donnell and his gallowglasses. Many were slain in the conflict; and. Mac and many of the chiefs of Tirconnell were taken and led Sweeny away prisoners.

was mustered by Donnell O'Neill and the Clann-Donnell, i. e. the son of Donnell, and Alexander, his Turlough, son; and they marched against Niall O'Neill. Mac Cawell from the country, upon which he They expelled went over to the side of Niall O'Neill. They came up with the rear body of Mac Cawell's people and their cattle and, having worsted them, took
;

An army

they

their cattle

from them.

Randal, son of Alexander, the heir to Clann- Alexander, arrived at this time

from the Inis-Gall [the Hebrides], to

parties

assist Niall O'Neil.

The kerns

of both

met close together, i. e. the troops of the Clann-Donnell. And Randal sent messengers to Turlough and his son Alexander, with their people, to

request of them to permit him to pass in honour of his seniority, and for sake of their mutual relationship; but this request was made light of by the others,
to the ford, which they saw him Here [Randal] crossing. each other a fierce and stubborn battle, in which countless numbers they gave were killed and wounded on both sides. One of Randal's sons was killed

for they

advanced

Turlough

in the heat of the

conflict

and Turlough's

son, Alexander,

by was

taken prisoner by Randal's people, who meditated putting him to death at once; but Randal did not consent to this, for he said that he would not be deprived
of his son and his kinsman' on Ihe one day. great war broke out between the English of Connaught.

was banished from

his

territory

protection to the Clann-Rickard.

Mac Maurice Mac William and Mac Maurice fled for by Mac William, Hugh O'Conor, King of Con;

naught, and William O'Kelly, Lord of Hy-Many, marched with an army to Upper Connaught against the Clann-Rickard, and remained there nearly three

months engaged
his

in

mutual

hostilities, until at last

Mac William subdued

the

killed,

companye. At last the son of Randolph was and Alexander Mac Donell was taken by

kill

Alexander, that he wou'd not loose his son

kill

Randolph's Company, whome the company would in revenge of Randolph's son, but they

and kinsman together, and that he thought the killing of his son a sufficient loss, and not to
suffer his

own men
was

to kill his

kinsman

too.

were not suffered by Randolph himself, who worthilie said to them that were so intended to

Also

great slaughter O'Neale's people in that pressence."

there

of Donell

4M2

636

aNNdta Rio^hachca emeaNN.

~|

[1367.

cloinne TCiocaipD DO cabaipc ap a lairh,

a roioecc po buaib ccopjaip Dia

ap

lapom.

Seaan mac goipoealbaij cigeapna plebe lugha Decc. lluijin cpiaal cijeapna pfp cculach Do mapbab la clouin peopaip.

CR1OSC,
Ctoip Cpiopr, mile, cpi cheo,

1367.

Seapccac aSeachc.

maolpeaclainn) 6 pfpjjail, .1. eppcop GpDachaib, Saof nDofnnachc, i neagna, ITIalacliiap rhag nDfipc, ccpabaD, eapbaib Do 65. uioip aipchiDeocham oipgiall

Qn

ceppcop
i

i.

-j

Cuconnachc ua Raghallaij cijfpna bpeipne no jup cpeicc Dul clepcecc, pilib Do jabail a lonaib.
i

ap 6ia Do

-\

Clann muipcfpcaij Do cecc ap imepce 50 mag nippe. lonnpoi^m Do muij luipg. ba hiao ba hoipfjba ap an piobal pin, ^065 chabaipc 6oib mac I?uai6pi uf concobaip. peap^al mac cijfpnain cijeapna feallaig Di'mjallocclaca chaba, Diapmaic mag Rajnaill cijeapna muinape heolaip, aoDha meic Diapmaoa Do lopgab leo. pfpjal lomba ma bpappab. Congpopc mac Diapmaca njeapra mat je luipg Do bpeic oppa, Gob mac DiapmaDa immaille ppip. Cachap DO rabaipc Doib, i Daoine lomba DO mapbab eaci ~\

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-]

DO mh-'i^ PaglinaiU ruppa lean ap lee. lompob Do rabg 6 Concobaip mppin gan cpeich gan corhaiDh. THaibm Do rabaipc la nomnall macTTluipcfpcaig uf Concobaip, la mumcip TCuaipc i la cloinn noonnchaib cona ccfichfipn conjbala ap cabg mac majnupa uf Concobaip pop cpaij neoruile an cpaofp. 5 a ^S^ a 'S mic
-|

^Fer-Tulach __ Now the barony of Fertullagh,

in the south-east of the

"

O'OuKlai^e pa Dio^amn pach

12i

This was Tyrrell's the Anglo-Norman invasion

in 1641
;

county of Westmeath. country, from the period of

till

B-peap D-cpiac-uapal o-eulach." For some account of the migration of the

O'Dooleys to Ely O'Carroll, where they are yet

their forfeiture
arrival it

but previously to their

was

numerous, see Duald Mac

O'Melaghlin.

Firhis's pedigree of

the patrimonial inheritance of the O'Dooleys, as we learn from these Annals at the years

978, 1021, 1144, and from O'Dugan's topographical poem, in which O'Dooley is thus mentioned
:

'Under this year O'Flaherty adds the following entries in H. 2. 11 " Magister Florentius mac an ojlaoic obiit.
:

O'Mulconrif."

1307-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

;

637

Clann-Rickard

whereupon the hostages of these

latter

were delivered up to

him, and he returned to his country in triumph.

John Mac

Costello,

Huggin
1

Tyrrell,

Lord of Sliabh Lugha, Lord of Fer-Tulach k was

,

died.
slain

by the Clann-Feorais [Ber-

niinghams

].

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1367.
sixty-seven.

thousand three hundred

The Bishops

O'Farrell

ing in piety, charity,

Melaghlin), Bishop of Ardagh, a sage not wantor wisdom; and Malachias Maguire, Archdeacon humanity,
(i.

e.

of Oriel [Clogher], died.

Cuconnaught O'Reilly, Lord of Breifny until he resigned the lordship for the sake of God, took holy orders; and Philip assumed his place. The Clann-Murtough came upon a migratory excursion to Magh-nisse m and
,

made an

incursion into Moylurg. The most illustrious of those who set out on this incursion were Teige, son of Rory O'Conor; Farrell Mac Tiernan, Lord of Teallach Dunchadha; and Dermot Mac Rannall, Lord of Muintir-Eolais: these

were accompanied by many gallowglasses. They burned the fortified residence of Hugh Mac Dermot; but Farrell Mac Dermot and Hugh Mac Dermot, Lord of Moylurg, opposed them; and a battle ensued, in which many were slain on
both
sides.

Teige O'Conor and

Mac

Rannall then returned, without having

gained either booty or consideration. victory was gained by Donnell, the son of Murtough O'Conor, the O'Rourkes, and the Clann-Donough, with their retained kerns, over Teige, the

son of Manus, on Traigh Eothuile an

" Joannes

t-Saoir".

The

gallowglasses of the son of

lilius obiit

Mac

Costellow

Dominus

SleiBi

lua

obiit."

mini O'Farell " Jordanus

Mac Firb."
filia

Dexeter, Albia
filii

O'Flannagan
Conniara,

" Dermitius
laich obiit,

Un

heili je dominus

Mac Og-

nxor Cathaldi

Donaldi, et

Mac

Mac Firb. (1397. MS. L.)" " Wilielrmis mac an peappum (.i. filiusRickBurgo Rectoris de Loghreagh. Annal :

dynasta de Cloinn Colen decesserunt

(1367.

AfacFirb.

MS.

L.)"

ardi de

Magh
trict

Nisse,

now

the

name of a

level dis-

domini

Mac

William)

filii

Wilielmi de Burgo,

occisus per Clannrickardios in monasterio Conga.

of Leitrim, immelying in the county east of Jamestown and Carrickdiately to the

M<tc Firb. (1367. " Conchavarus

MS.

L.)"

on-Shannon.

(filius Cathaldi.

MS.

L.) do-

"

Traiyh Eotliuile an t-Saoir

is

the

name

of a

638

awwata Rio^hachca eineaNN.

-|

[1368.

DO mapbab ann Dechneabap peachc ppicic po pfmeab Dibpibe Do mubujjab im borhnall 65 a mac im an Da TTlac Suibne im im bomnall mac Somaiple mac an eppcoip uf bubDa pa uilliam mac Sichij. Oeapbail injean TTlaolpuanaib moip meic DiapmaDa bfn ualjaipcc uf
~]

l?uaipc DO

mapbab la cloinn ITluipcfpcaij. TTlaoilpeaclainn mac Seapppaib meic giollapacpaicc,-) Dpong Dia rhuinnp
i

DO rhapbab

pell la gallaib.

Cabj majShampabain, i Qenjupp mac an Dfganaij mej Sampabain oecc. Uabg i lochlainn Da mac aongupa T?uaib uf balaij, TTIaolmaipe 6% mag cpaic 065. TTlag TTTiuipipna mbpij, Gojhan mac TCuaibpf uf cheallaij, TTluipcfpcach mac TTluipcfpraij uf concobaip,-) bebinn injfn ualgaipg uf Ruaipc bfn romal-|

caij meic Donnchaba Decc.

lonopoijib DO cabaipc la cloinn TTluipcfpcaij pop pfpaib

manach Dap

aipccpfc imp m6ip,loch mbeppaiD, -\ DO rhabaipr leo, -\ nlleab plan Doib Do

Seanaoh mac
l?ibipi.

ITlagnupa, i eDala icmba

QO1S CR1OSC,

1368.

Ctoip Cpiopc, mile, cpf cheo, Seapccac,

a hochr.

aipciDeocain na bpeipne peap Ian Do pac an Spiopacu naoim Decc lap mbpeir buaba 6 boman ~\ 6 beamon.

Comapba

TTlaobocc

-]

great and well-known strand, near Ballysadare, in the county of Sligo.

are

now

obsolete.

Inis-mor was the name

ol

an
;

island in

Upper Lough

Erne, near Belle-isle

The son of the Bishop O'Dowda. O'Flaherty adds in H. 2. 11, that his name was " Cosnam" MS. L." See also Geneaand
hach,"
logies,
c
.

and Loch m-Bearraid was the name of a branch

of
*

quotes
$c.

Lough Erne. Senad-Mac-Manus

Tribes,

of Hy-Fiachrach,

p.

117,

called
is

This place is now Ballymacmanus by the natives, but it

Bellea very beautiful island in the

note
s'

more generally known by the name of

It
is

Na-m-Brigh,

i.

e.

of Bryze, or Brees, a well-

Isle.

known

castle in the parish of

Mayo, barony of

Clanmorris, in the bounty of

neologies, Tribes,
p. 482.
q

Mayo

See Ge-

Upper Lough Erne, and is now the property of the Eev. Gray Porter of Kilskeery.
s

and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach,

These names

O'Flaherty adds the following passages to

this year in

H.

2.

1 1

Inis-mor,

Loch m-Bearraid.

"

Donaldus,

filius

Murcherti O'Conor

cum

1368.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

fifty in
;

639

Manus, one hundred and

son of Sorley, Donuell Oge, his

number, were slain as were also Donnell, son, the two Mac Sweenys, the son of the

Bishop O'Dowda", and William

Mac Sheehy. Derbhail, daughter of Mulrony More Mac Dermot, and wife of Ualgarg O'Kourke, was killed by the Clann-Murtough.
Melaghlin, the son of Geoffry Mac Gillapatrick, and a party of his people, slain by the English.

were treacherously

Teige Magauran and Aengus, son of the Deacon Magauran, died. Teige and Loughlin, two sons of Aengus Roe O'Daly, and Mulmurry Oge Magrath, died. Mac Maurice na-m-Brigh p Owen, son of Rory O'Kelly; Murtough, son of O'Conor and Bebinn, daughter of Ualgarg O'Rourke and wife of Murtough
; ;

Tomaltagh Mac Donough,

died.

The Clann-Murtough made an incursion into Fermanagh, and plundered Inis-mor, Loch m-Berraid", and Seaad Mac Manus and, after carrying off a
r
;

great quantity of booty, returned

home

in safety

5
.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of Christ, one thousand
three

1368.
sixty-eight.

hundred

Maidoc and Archdeacon of Breifny, a man filled with grace of the Holy Ghost, died, after overcoming the world and the devil.
of
St.

The Coarb

the

Mac Dermott, Hoberto

baldo
filio

filio
.1.

Walteri, et Theo-

"

loip fcipionnchaiB 7

albancaib

O'Mtil-

Wilielmi 65

uilleajj (de

Burgo

conry."

CPMulc.} sub quo Clann-Swiny, duce Tordelvaco Mac Swiny merebantur, Kuarkis et Clanndonoghis, duce Tadseo

" Tadfeus

filius

cladem de cpaij eoruile

Magni O'Conor (paulo ante et eadem sestate

Lughy:

Mac Donogh
irruit,

in Tirfiach-

MS.
cassis

L.) victor contra incolas Montis

riam Mullach Ruadh usque

egit.

Tadams

filius
illis

pradasque Magni O'Conor ad Traigh-

Milone Mac Jordan oub, Davide Mac Philip, Seonaco filio Joannis Mac Jordan oub',
et

eothuile

cum

congressus evertitur
Tirolillam

Mac
captis

Wilielmo Mac Jordan Ruaio cum multis de

Firb."

"

Mac William
Firb.''

spoliat
et

Clann- Gosdelvais ; et ex parte victoris Murcherto filio Matthasi O'Durnin. Idem Tadasus violavit
fcedus

O'Hara, Joanne O'Hara

Wilielmo O'Mally
Ibid.'
1 ''

cum O'Roirk
:

Clanndonnochis

fidejus-

Mac.

soribus ictum

quapropter Cormacus
filium

Mac Do-

" Pax inter Anglos et Hibernos.

nogh ab eo ad Donaldum

Murcherti

640

aNNata Rio^hachca emeaNN.

Qo6 mac peblimib
in'

[1368.

concoftaip l?f connachc cfnn jaile

i

gaoibeal,

Luj lampaoa mbuaib nairhpije Pop commam.

i

leiche cuinn

gaipccm Do ecc mp najaib gall -\ eapccapaD T?unibpi mac roippbealbaij Do jabail

-]

cfnnaip connachcc.

Cpioch coipppe Do poinn ap 66 eiccip mac TTlajnupa

ITluipcfpraij.

"|

Domnall mac

fnjnarha pfpjal mac oiapmaoa cijeapna maije luipj, leoman uaiple a cimb, l^omalcac mac peapjail meic Diapmaoa canaipi maiji luipg,
-]
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Copbmac mac oiapmaoa DO ecc. QOD!I mac Concobaip meic Diapmaoa Do ^abail cijeapnaip maije luipg. engnama a chimb, I?nai6pi mac Seonuicc 11165 eochagam Seabac uaiple aon ba pele 6 ach cliach 50 bar luain, Uijeapnan mac cachail uf T^uaipc
~| ~\

Decc.

OtapmaiD mac copbmaic Duinn meg capraij DO ^abail Do mag caprai CX ciobnacal DO gallaib a bapu jab Doib lappin. caipppeac. Oauic ua cuarail Do mapbab la jallaib acha cliar. Uilliam Sa^anac mac Sip Gmainn a bupc oijpe na nuilliamac DO ecc
-]

Don jalap bpeac

pein

ninip cua.

piacpa 6 plomn

abbap caoipij

yil

maoilpuam, aon Do bpfpp Da chineab

ma

aimpip Decc cona mnaoi.

Itaque Donaldus, Cormacus,
tnic
Ille

O'Conor
et

dcscivit.

raioj

Tigernanus O'Roirk eum apud cfpB in coillm mic an piplejinn spoliant.

" Fedlim O'Reylly obiit. Ibid." " f.a]xiippona injean romaip TTIej pathpa6am bean ihaoileaclamn ui Ruaipc oo ecc.
Ibid."

prsedani

apud Dromcliabh assecutus equum a Cormaco, et Tadseo 05 O'Durnin equum a DoDonaldus partem
Magiii
fil.

Lasarina, the daughter of Thomas and wile of Melaghlin O'Rourke, Magauran,

[i. e.

naldo ceosos amisit.

Breftniam, et
et
filius

prsedse in

died.]

Cathaldi O'Dowd,
in

O'Hara aliam ad Mueolt

Lugnia
O'Roirk
1

retule-

Lughaidh Long-handed. the Tuatha de Dananns, and

for his

is

He was much

King of

celebrated

runt

Mac

Firb.

Eundem Tadeeum Dominus

et

in Irish stories for his valour,

O'Donell,

Clanndonnoghi,

apud

having been the

first

and particularly that instituted the

Nemus
'

spissum deprajdantur.
filius

Ibid.'''

Murchadus piubac

mic mupchaou

Games of Tailtenn in Meath, which continued to be celebrated down to the reign of Roderic
O'Conor, the
last

f.

Luca; ab agnatis cassus Ibid." " Jonacus Mac Philbin obiit. Ibid." " Cathaldus filius Imari Mac Tigernan

monarch of the
iii.

Irish.

See

O'Flaherty's Ogygiu, Part

obiit.

c.

13.

This pas-

Mac
"

Firb."
Ibid."

Fergallus O'Reylly fortuito csesus.

sage is translated by Mageoghegan thus, in his version of the Annals of Clonmacnoise " of ConMac
:

Hugh

Felym O'Connor, King

1368.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

641

Hugh, son of Felim O'Conor, King of Connaught, the foremost among the Irish for valour and prowess, and the Lughaidh Long-handed' of Leth-Chuinn,
against the English and his other enemies, died, after penance, at Roscommon and Rory, the son of Turlough, assumed the government of Connaught.
;

The

territory of

Carburywas

partitioned equally between the son

ofManus

and Donnell, the son of Murtough [O'Conor]. Farrell Mac Dermot, Lord of Moylurg, the
of his tribe
;

lion of the nobility

and valour
;

Tomaltagh, son of Farrell Mac Dermot, Tanist of Moylurg and Cormac Mac Dermot, died. Hugh, son of Cormac Mac Dermot, assumed the lordship of Moylurg. Rory", the son of Johnock Mageoghegan, the hawk of the nobility and prowess

of his tribe, and the most hospitable the son of Cathal O'Rourke, died.

man from Dublin to Drogheda; and Tiernan,

Dermot, the son of Cormac Donn Mac Carthy, was taken prisoner by Mac Carthy, of Carbery, and by him delivered up to the English, who afterwards
put him to death.

David O'Toole was

slain
'

by the English of Dublin.

William Saxonagh, the son of Sir Edmond Burke, the heir of the Mac Williams, died of the small-pox on Inis-Cua".
Fiachra O'Flynn, heir to Sil-Maelruain, the best time, died; and his wife died also.

man

of his tribe in his

naught, a prince both hardy and venturous,

worthy

to

be compared to Lowaie Lawady for

all

of their

prowess and manhood in

well against the English
after

his attempts, as Irish

now, and for a long time past, are of the meanest own name." w Inis-Cua, now Inishcoe, a townland ex-

as

that were

12 years reign as King of against him, with good penance at RosConnaught, died,

tending into Lough Conn, in the south-east of the parish of Crossmolina, in the barony of Tirawley, and county of
Tribes,
n.
",

Mayo

See Genealogies,
p.

common.

The

territory called Crich

Carbry

and Customs of Hy-Fiachrach,

p. 124, n. *.

114,

was, after his death, divided into two parts,

whereof one part was allotted to Donnell mac Mortagh, and the other part to the son ofManus
O'Connor."
"

given as of the Anfollows in Mageoghegan's translation nals of Clonmacnoise

is
:

and

This passage

"William Saxanagh, son

Mageoghegan has the following re" Tho' mine Author this man
:

of Sir

Redmond

Rory

Burke, Heyre of the Mac

little

Williams, died of the

"

greate account of this Rowrie, that he extolleth him beyond reason, yett his Issue

mark upon maketh this

pox

at

Innis-Kwa."
:

O'Flaherty adds, in H. 2. 1 1 Wilielmi Barett O'Mulconry."

i.

e.

in

domo

4 N

642

aNNdta Rioghachca
Sloigeab mop la Niall ua Neill
T?f ciniuil

eiraeccNN.
nfogain
i

[1368.

noipgiallaib, i

maice

an coigio uile Deipge laip Dpopbaipi ap bpiain mag machgamna. Longpopc DO gabail Doib meDon an ripe. Cornelia mopa DO chaipcpin Do mag mari

gamna

leac aipgiall Do cabaipc DO mall mac TTlupchaiD mic bpiain na comrha aibble ccoileac noipppenn, .1. an cigeapna baoi poime ap an cip, oile Dua neill buDDein in foe meic Oomnaill. Ua neill Do aoncugaD piocchcma
66,
.1.
"]

66-

mupchaiD meg margarhna Qta^anoaip 65 mac Domnaill cigeapna na ngallocclac Do gluappacc Den comaiple, cpi coipijre ammup cficfipne Dionnpoijio meg machjamna gan ceaougaD Dua neill,
ap na corhcaib
pin.

TTiac

-|

~\

longpuipc DO chabaipr Doib

aip.

TTiag macgarhna go

Ifon

a rfglaig DO heir

ap a

a longpopc lonnup gup eipgeoap apmcha Doibpiom gan chaipDe. peapchap gliam namnaip nairhgeip earoppa. bpipRo mapbaD mac TTlupchaiD meg macceap pia mag margamna oppapom gamna canaipi oipgiall, Qla^anDaip mac coippDealbaig mec Domnaill Goghan mac coippDealbaig mic maoileachloinn conpabal na ngalloglac,
ccoirheD,
~\

iaD

innilce im

-|

uf

Domnaill Don cup pin immailli pe pocaibib ele. Uomap ua plomn cigeapna ccuipcpe pfp Ian Deinenc i DoippDeapcup Deg. UaDg mac TTlagnupa mic carail mic Domnaill ui concobaip Do gabdil cpe
coillfn
~\

cheilg DO RuaiDpi

nQpD an
concobaip,
haicle, i

coippDealbaig (oua concobaip) ma longpopc pein ui lap na bpec leip Do copbmac mac DonnchaiD go cfgh

mac

a caipbepc Do Dorhnall mac ITiuipcheapcaigh uf concobaip ap a a mapbaD pa DeoiD la Domnall ccaiplen Sligicch. Ctcc cfna ap
i

ppip na gmorhaibpi Do poigneab ap

gach
*

olc,

concobaip Do pamailcf gup bo peanpocal puaicniD la each nap mfpa gabdil no mapbaD
uf
i

mac TTlagnupa

In

the very centre,

ccfpcmfoon
"
is,
i

The word

Boy were
b

of certainly possessed of the territory

this period,

used in the Annals of Ulster

in cipe," i.e. umbilico territorii.
i

mboljdn

Hy-Tuirtre at
Teige, son

Nag-CoUeach n-Oifrinn,

i.e.

of the chalices

He was the near reof Manu*. lative and rival of Donnell Mac Murtough
O'Conor of
Sligo.

of the Mass.
z

He was

of an older branch

Without O'Nettl's permission

is,

The meaning
upon

of the descendants of Brian Luighneach than

his slayer,

evidently

that they

made

this attack

being the son of Manus,

who was

Mac Mahon without asking

sion. 1

O'Neill's permis-

King of Connaught in 1324, whose brother, Murtough, was the father of

son of Cathal,

O'Flynn, now O'Lyu. This Thomas could not have been lord of all the district of HyTuirtre, for the O'Neills of the race of

Donnell, the slayer of Teige, and the founder of the family of the O'Conors of Sligo.
c

Hugh

Ard-an-choillin,

i.

e.

height,

or hill of the

1368.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

army was
led

643

A great

by

Niall O'Neill,

King of the Kinel-Owen, who was

joined by the chieftains of the entire province [of Ulster], into Oriel, to attack Brian Mac Mahon and they pitched a camp in the very centre" of the territory. Mac Mahon offered him great terms, namely, to cede one-half of the terri;

v tory of Oriel to Niall, the son of Murrough, son of Brian na g-Coileach n-0ifrinn i. e. he who had been lord over the territory before himself and other great O'Neill congifts to O'Neill himself, as eric for [the death of] Mac Donnell.
,

make peace with him on these conditions; but the son of Murrough Mac Mahon and Alexander Oge Mac Donnell, Lord of the Gallowglasses, withsented to

out O'Neill's permission marched, with one accord, with three battalions of kerns against Mac Mahon, and made an assault upon his fortress but Mac
,

Mahon and

his household, being

upon

their guard,

armed and accoutred within

;

their fortress, they responded without delay to the attack

and a

fierce

and

furious conflict ensued, in which they [the assailants] were defeated

by Mac

Mahon.

The son

of

Murrough Mac Mahon, Tanist of

Oriel

Alexander, the
;

son of Turlough Mac Donnell, Constable of the Gallowglasses and Owen, the son of Turlough, son of Melaghlin O'Donnell, together with a great number of
others,

were

slain

on that occasion.

Thomas
died.

O'Flynn", Lord of Hy-Tuirtre, a

man full

of hospitality and renown*

Teige, the son of

Manus b son
,

of Cathal, son of Donnell O'Conor, was trea(i.

cherously taken prisoner by Rory, the son of Turlough

his [Rory's]
,

e.

the O'Conor), in

own fortress at Ard-an-choillinc after he had been brought thither by Cormac Mac Donough to O'Conor's house. He was afterwards given up
Murtough O'Conor, by whom he was at last killed in the It was afterwards common to compare any evil deed with castle of Sligo. those acts committed against the son of Manus O'Conor so that it became a
to Donnell, son of
;

proverb familiar with every one, that

wood, now Ardakillin, a townland in the of parish of Killukin, in the barony and county
little

"

the taking and killing

11

of the son of

" A. D. 1368. Teig mac Magnus mac Cahall was deceitfully taken by the King of Connought, in his house of Ard-an-Killin, being brought tither to the King's house by Cormack

Roscommon.

No

ruins are

now

to be seen here

See the year 1388. except three earthen forts d This passage is given Taking and kitting.

Mac Donnogh upon

comparing

his security, of

which

vil-

more

by Mageoghegan, clearly version of the Annals of Clonmacnoise

:

as'

follows

in his

lainous dealing that old Irish proverb grew by The thereof to any wicked art :
'

4N2

644

QNNata Rio^hacbca emeaNN.

[1369.

mec ma^nupa,
111

ina gibe peiljmorh Do cluinci DO benorh. cconnaccaib eiccip ua cconcobaip, TTlac uilliam,i mac

Cojab mop DO pa} Diapmaca cpep an

-\

n^abdil pin

epep an mapbab. Cuulab mac an jipp mic carmail cfnn a chimb

~\
i

pein,
i

an mac baoi aije

ina maijhipcip poipccce ofpppcaijre

nealabnaib Decc

Sa^raib.

njeapna ua maine Do jabail la hua TTlaDabam la cloinn mic neojain. Domnall mac concobaip ui ceallaij, i apojal 65 6 concfnamn Do rhapbab la ua TTlaDabain an la pin.
Uilliam
uf ceallaij
]

mac Donnchaib muimnij

Oomnall mac conmapa DO

Slemni

ecc. ecc.
-|

mac

uiblin

conpabal coijib ulab DO

ITiuipeabac 6 paipceallaijj corhapba TTlafDoj,

aipciDeocham na bpeipne
la jallaib.

DO

ecc.

Oiapmaic lairhoeapg mac TTlupchaba pf lai^fn DO ^abail heipibe coigfoac po ba cpoba baoi ina aimpip.

6a

QO1S CR1OSU,

1369.
anaoi.

Qoip Cpiopc, mile cpf cheD, Seapccac,

clochaip, Saoi cpaibDeach coinnepcleach,i 6 Raijillij eppcop cille moip Decc. Qn Deaccanach 6 bapoain Decc.

QoDh ua neilleppcop

RiocapD

He was taking of mac Manus is no worse.' within a little while after worse used, for he
was given over to Donnell mac Mortagh O'Connor,

Writers, except the celebrated archbishop, Hugh Mac Caghwell, who wrote the Commentaries

upon the^vorks of Duns

in the
f

Scotus,

and other works,

who

vilely did put

;

him

to

death in the

castle of Sligeagh

whereof ensued great con-

beginning of the seventeenth century, Clann-mic-n-Eoghain, i. e. the race of the

tentions and generall discords throughout all

Connought, especially between O'Connor, Mac William, and Mac Dermoda."

This passage is in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster ; but the Editor has not been able to discover any acProfessor of sciences.
'

son of Eoghan. These were a branch of the descended from Eoghan, the third son O'Kellys
of Donnell

More O'Kelly, Chief of Hy-Many,

who died in the year 1 224. This sept gave name to the barony of Clanmacnowen, in the
east of the

county of Galway,

in

which they

count as to what part of England he taught in. There were several bishops and other very distinguished ecclesiastics of this family, but no literary man of the name appears in Ware's Irish

were

seated.

See Tribes and Customs of

Hy-

Many, g To

pp. 102, 165.

this year O'Flaherty adds the following
1
1
:

passages in H. 2.

1369-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

(J45

Manus was not worse than whatever

being perpetrated." broke out in Connaught between O'Conor, Mac William, and Mac Dermot. Cu-Uladh Mac-an-Ghirr Mac Cawell, chief of his own tribe, and a son of
his,

treacherous deed they used to hear of In consequence of this taking and killing, a great war

a learned and illustrious Professor of Sciences 6 died in England. William, son of Donough Muimhneach O'Kelly, Lord of Hy-Many, was
,

who was

taken prisoner by O'Madden and the Clann-mic-n-Eoghain On the same day Donnell, son of Conor O'Kelly, and Ardgal Oge O'Concannon, were slain
.

by O'Madden. Donnell Mac Namara

Slevny

died.

Mac

Quillin, Constable of the Province of Ulster, died.

Murray

O'Farrelly,

Coarb of

St.

Maidoc,

and Archdeacon of Breifny

[Kilmore], died.

Dermot, the Redhanded, Mac Murrough, King of Leinster, was taken He was the most valiant of the [Irish] provincial prisoner by the English.
8 kings in his time
.

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age

1369.

of Christ, one thousand three hundred sixty-nine.

Hugh

O'Neill,

Bishop of Clogher, a pious and humane man, and Richard

died.
Cpic Cuipbpe DO jjaBail oo Ooriinall mac 1369.MS.L." [Lethe country Hluipceapraij. of Carbury was taken by Donnell, the son of
Murtough.] " Ard an
h

O'Reilly", Bishop of Kilmore, died.

The Deacon O'Bardon

"Mora
nogh
obiit
filia

O'Roirk Odonis uxor Mac DoL. (1367. O'Mulconry)."

"

MS.

" Mathgamanius O'Tuathail ab Anglis CSESUS. MS. L." (MacFirb. 1367.) Mac MagnusadeTirtuathail obiit. MS. L."
'

choillin,

Koderici

domus
is set

in

Ma-

(1367. Firb.) " Imarus films Tomalti O'Birn obiit.

Firb."

Mac

chaire Connaglit infra ad ann. 1388."

Mac

Richard O'Reilly.

His death

down in

"

Laighsechus

films

Davidis

O'Morra suo
Ibid.'"

the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, under Immethe year 1366, which should be 1369the death of Richard diately after the notice of
O'Reilly, those

oultro caesus.

Ibid."
filius

" Donaldus

Mac Conmara

obiit.

Annals enter the death of Wil-

(MS.
"
obiit.

L. 1369.)

Anna filia O'Durnin uxor Mac Firb."

Tadfei O'Huigin

Ham, Archdeacon of Breifny; of Brian, the son of Murtough O'Conor; of John, son of Edmond Mac Hubert [Burke]; of Randal O'Hanly, and

646

aNNCita Rio^hachca

eiraeciNN.

Ciiconnacc 6 Rajallaij cijeapna bpeipne Oo ecc. a cup Doib Pilib ua Raijilbj DO jabdil la a bpaicpib pein,
-\

cloic locha

huachcaip 50 noochap cfngail cuibpice paip. TTlajnup ua Rajallai^ DO jabdil cijeapnaip annpin. CoccaD 1 corhbuaiDpeab ofipje ipm mbpeipne cpiap an jabail pin. Sluag mop Do ciortol DGnnaD macRipoepD uiRa^allaij.
-]

TTldg

machjamna

-\

mairhe

oipgiall

Do cochc ina combdiD DO chabac

~|

pi lib

uf RaiftiUij

ap riiajnup. ITiajnup cona bpaichpib 50 lion a ccionoil Do Dul Dencaoib Do copnarh na cipe ooib buDDen. Cairhjleo DO chup fcoppa. UlaiDm DO cabaipr pop TTlhaj-nup mblen cupa. ^pi meic copbmaic uf pfpi

^ail,

Seomin, TTlaoileacloinn,

-\

pfpjup, peDlimib
pochaibi oile

mac aooha an cleinj

.1.
-)

ui

concobaip,

na Spona

Donn, bpian, Sirpeacc Do mapbaD Don cacup pin. rhaighipcip caomanach pioghDarhna laijen Do mapbaD Don RiDipe Dub. ^eapalc Uighfpndn ua 17uaipc Do Dul pop cpeich lupg. Cpeach mop DO cabaipr

Da mac plaichim moip mec conpuba

~\

mac an

laip DO,

-|

GOD

65

mac aoba

ui

17uaipc Do

mapbaD

la

him maolbum

linpg in

lapmopacc na cpece.

Diapmaicc laimDeapg mac mupchaDa Rf laijen Do bapujaD la j;allaib ara cliac lap na beic aimpip imchian mbpai^oenup aca. TTlachsamain maonrhaije ua bpiain, cijeapna ruaDmurhan, jaoibeal DO
i

bpeapp
?;arhna.

Do baipfajDa

lech

moDha Decc ma longpopc pfm mp mbuaio

naicpije.

6pian 6 bpiain Do jabdil cijeapnaip ciiaDmuman cap ep TDac-

TTlaolouin

(.1.

Domnall) caofpeac cuaiche luipg Do mapbaD la cloinn

\

Cormac O'Hanly, both of whom were by the plague called cluice in pij
O'Beirne,

carried off
;

of

Hugh

character with Reginald's Tower at Waterford, and with the keep of the castle of Dundrum, in

who
;

plaio cetma)

perished of the same plague (con of John Mac Egan, and Gilbert
;

O'Bardan, two professional youths of Conmaicne and of Melaghlin Mac Mahon, heir to the lordThe Anglo-Irish annalists do ship of Oriel.
plague by any name. Under the year 1370, Grace has: "Incepit tertia pestis
not
call this

The island in which it the county of Down. stands is said to have been formed by dropping The Editor examined this stones into the lake.
castle in

May,

836,

when

it

was

in a tolerable

state of preservation.

que nobiles permultos, aliosque innumeros sustulit."

'

Blen-Cupa is now anglicised Blencup, and a townland in the parish of Kilmore, about four miles to the west of the town of Cavan.
is

Blean means the groin, and, topographically, a

Castle

of Lough Oughler

The

ruins of this

little
'

creek,

fortress still exist. It is of the

same architectural

Sitric

na Srona,

i.

e.

Sitric of the nose.

1369-]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

647

Cuconnaught O'Reilly, [some time] Lord of Breifny, died. Philip O'Reilly was taken prisoner by his kinsmen, and was placed by them in [the castle of] dough-Lough Oughter severely bound and fettered. Manus
5 ,

O'Reilly then assumed the lordship. In consequence of this capture, war and disturbance broke out in Breifny. great army was mustered by Annadh, the son of Richard O'Reilly, who was Mac Mahon and all the other joined

by

chiefs of

Oriel, to rescue Philip O'Reilly

from Manus by
battle

force.

Maims and

his kinsmen,

however, came, together with their entire

the] country for themselves.

k was fought between them at Blen-cupa where Manus was defeated. In this conflict were slain the three sons of Cormac O'Farrell, viz. Johnin, Melaghlin, and Fergus; Felim, son of Hugh an the two sons of Flaithim More Mac Conruva, Chleitigh O'Conor; namely, Donn and Brian; Si trie na Srona Mac Master, and a number of others.
. 1

forces, to contest the [chieftainship of

Gerald Kavanagh, heir to the kingdom of Leinster, was

1

slain

by the Black

Knight ".
Tiernan O'Rourke went upon a predatory excursion into Lurg, and carried off a great prey but Hugh Oge, son of Hugh O'Rourke, was slain by O'Mul;

doon, Chief of Lurg",

who had followed in pursuit of it. Dermot Lavderg Mac Murrough, after having been
p

time by the English of Dublin, was put to death Mahon Moinmoy O'Brien, Lord of Thomond,
of the Irish, died in his

confined for a long by them. the best and most illustrious

own

fortress, after the victory of penance.

Brian

O'Brien assumed the lordship of

Thomond

after

Mahon. was
slain

O'Muldoon (Donnell), Lord of the

m Black
cliac,"
"

territory of Lurg,

by the sons

Knight

O'Flaherty adds, in H.

2.

1 1,

that this "pioipe

i.

bub" was

" oo jjjallaib

aca

e.

one of the English of Dublin.

the barony of Lurg, in the north

Dermot Mac Murrough, King of whose time the English first inLeinster, vaded Ireland. From this Dermot Lavderg
bastard son of
in

Lurg, now

descended a celebrated sept of the Kavanaghs,

called Sliocht

of the county of Fermanagh. Dermot Lavderg, i. e. of the

Diarmada Laimhdheirg but they

;

Red Hand.

He

was the son of Gerald, who was the son of Murtough Roe, who was son of Maurice, who was
nell,

obscurity and poverty. adds in the margin of H. 2. 11: "ab O'Flaherty O'Mulconry." Equite nigro dolose captus.
are
to
p Was put to death. O'Flaherty adds in H. 2. 11:" facinus illis temporibus tristissimum

now reduced

the son of Murtough, who was the son of Donwho was the son of Donnell Kavanagh,
was, according to Giraldus Cambrensis, the

who

O'Mitlconry."

648
nell ui DorhnaiU,
~\

dNNCtta Rio^hachca eiReawN.

a cpeach Do bpeir leo pop
~\

[1369.

oilen Doilenaib locha

DianaD

amm

babba

pilib

mag

uibip eigeapna

hepne cuar DO Dul loingfp peachc

-]

mall 65 mac neill gaipb lanmop Do biogail a oglaoic ap cloinn uf bomnaill mic afba mec Domnaill 615 DO rhapbab laip ccpoio loingpi ap pionnloc la raob an oilein.
i

6pian mac afoha buibe Dfngnam DO eg.

TTlaibm

uf neill

Dfghabbap pig epeann Duaiple, Deineac,

mop abbal DO chabaipcla bpmn ua bpiain cijeapna cuabrhurhan pop 5allaib murhan. ^epoiD mpla Deaprhuman, i mopan Do maicib jail DO
abail laip
-|

ap Diaipnepi Do chup pop an CCUID

oile bfob.

Luimneac DO

lopccab Don rupup pin la ruabmuirhneachaib, ~| la cloinn cuilen. (,uchr an baile Do ^lallab Dua bpiain i SfoDa cam mac injine uf buibibip Do jabail
peaflab Dona gallaib banap ip in mbaile paip bapoachca an baile cuije, gup po mapbpac e. ba mop an cechc hipm lee pe mac caofpi. Pilib mag uibip njeapna peap manach DO bpeic loingip 50 loch uachraip,-]
-j
i

caiplen cloiche uachraip Do gabail Do. pilib ua pai5illij(.i.ci5eapna bpeipne) DO leccen amach Do mag uibip, a rijeapnup pein Do gabail DO Dopibipi.
]

mag machgamna aobap nghfpna oipgiall, 6pian mac muipcfpcaig uf Choncobaip, Seaan mac Gmainn mic hoibepD, Oonnchab 6 bipn raoipeac c.fpebpiuin,17aghnall 6 hdmlige,copbmac 6 hdinlige.Gom mac afohaTTlaolpeachlamn
gain,-]

^illebepc 6 bapoain Da paop macaorh cpuicealaDnachConmaicne Deg. UiUiam 6 paipceallaig comapba TTlaebog, aipchmeochain na bpeipne
-]

DO ecc
q

Badhbha.
it is

This island

still

retains

this

Oglach.

This word literally means, a young

generally anglicised Boa Island. It is usually called by the natives of Tuath Ratha dwelling on the south side of Lough

name, but

hero or soldier; but it is often used in the sense of vassal, such as O'Muldoon was to Maguire.

From

oglac, in this sense,

is

derived

Erne, opposite this island, who speak Irish well, Imp baobdnn, or Oile6n baoBann. It is the
largest island in

oglacap, vassallage, servitude. Finn-loch, i. e. the white lake.

'

This was

Lower Lough Erne, and

is

evidently the

name

of the

Lower Lough Erne,

situated not far from its northern shore, a short

distance to the south of the village of Pettigoe. r The seven Tuathas, i. e. the seven Tuathas,

which might have been locally so called to distinguish it from the Upper Lough Erne, as
being a brighter sheet of water, and with islands.
u

less

studded

or districts, comprised in the principality of Fermanagh, of which Maguire was, at this pe.

Clann Culein,
Brought

i.

e.
i.

the
e.

Mac Namaras.
he carried boats by

riod, the chief lord.

"

vessels,

1369.}

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

who

649

of Niall O'Donnell, one of the islands of

Lord

carried the spoils of his territory with them to Lough Erne which is called Badhbha". Philip Maguire, of the Seven Tuathas r set out with a large fleet to take revenge upon
,

the sons of O'Donnell for the death of his Oglach and a naval engagement took place, in which Niall Oge, son of Niall Garv, the son of Hugh, son of
;

Donnell Oge [O'Donnell], was slain on Finn-loch', close to the island. Brian, son of Hugh Boy O'Neill, a good materies of a king of Ireland, for his nobleness, hospitality, and prowess, died.
great defeat was given by Brian O'Brien, Lord of Thomond, to the Garrett, Earl of Desmond, and many of the chiefs of English of Munster.

the English, were taken prisoners by him, and the remainder cut off with indescribable slaughter. Limerick was burned on this occasion by the Tho-

monians and the Clann-Culein", upon which the inhabitants of the town capitulated with O'Brien. Sheeda Cam [Mac Namara], son of the daughter of O'Dwyre, assumed the wardenship of the town but the English who were in
;

the town acted treacherously towards him, and killed him. This was a lamentable treatment of the son of a chieftain. Philip Maguire,

took [the castle of]

Lord of Fermanagh, brought vessels" to Lough Oughter, Clough-Lough-Oughter*, and liberated Philip O'Reilly, who
and who thereupon re-assumed the
lordship.
;

was confined

therein,

Melaghlin

Mac Mahon,

heir to the lordship of Oriel

Brian, the son of

Murtough O'Conor; John, the son of Edward Mac Hubert; Donough O'Beirne, Chief of Tir-Briuin; Randal O'Hanly; Cormac O'Hanly; [also] John Mac Egan, and Gilbert O'Bardan, two accomplished young harpers of Conmaicne, died y William O'Farrelly, Coarb of St. Maidoc z and Archdeacon of Breifny,
.

died a

Lough Erne, in the county of Fermanagh, Lough Oughter, in the county of Cavan. The boats thus carried were mere curto

land from

Coarb of St. Maidoc.

or

O'Farrelly was coarb

of St. Maidoc,

Mogue, at Drumlahan, or

Drumlane, near Belturbet,

Cavan.
a

raghs or cots,
x

such as they have on those lakes

the stone, or stone

in the county of Archdeacon of Breifny means Areh-

at the present day.

deacon of the diocese of Kilmore.

i.

Clogh-Lofigh- Oughter,
fortress of
i

e.

Lough Oughter.

O'Flaherty adds the following entries to this year in H. 2. 11:

" Joannes O'Donellan Connacia? Poeta obiit.

All these died of the plague called cluice an pij, or the King's game. See note",
Died.
pp. 645, 646, supra.

MS.

L. (Mac Firb. 1368)." " Rodericus filius Joannis Q'Hara Tirfiach-

4o

650

QNMata Rio^hachca emeawN.

aois cRiosr,
1370.

[1370.

Ctoip Cpiopc, mile, cpi cheD, peachcrhogace.

Sfch oaingfn Deaghcaipipi oo Denom Do cenel eoghain fcoppa pein. bpaighoe DO cabaipc 6 Domnall Do mall pe gan cup a nagaiD imon cigeapnup. T?oinn popba -| pfpoinn 6 Niall Do Domnall mppin.

^lollapacpaicc
ingean cacmaoil cpe
-]

mac cachmafl caoipeac chenel pfpa&aig, cuulab a mac magnupa meg machgamna a bfn, Do mapbaD la cloinn afoa meic
peill.

TTlupchaD a ofpbparhaip DO jabail a lonaiD

ip

in

raoipijecc lappm.

Cachaoip ua concobaip a&bop njeapna 6 bpailge, mopoa DO cuicim ap cpeic la gallaib laijfn.
Dubcoblai^ mjfn
i

~\

muipceapcac ua

meg uibip Do ecc. Do jab'ail la cloinn comaip mic TTiargamna TTlajnup 6 Rajallaig cloich locha huachcaip. Raijillig, i a chup
uf rJaghallaij bfn pilip

uf

Cachal mac Debug uf concfnainn cigeapna ua nDiapmaoa, Sioban cam mjfn meg capcaig bfn mec conmapa, SfoDa chille cainmg mac Seaain meic Oiapmairr mac cacail conmapa, Seaan 6 nfgpa aDbap cigeapna luigne,
~\

oig uf concobaip

Do ecc.

bpfipim
bpian
TTIeg

mabma DO

cabaipc la Niall ua
oipgiall,
-\

neill

mag margamna cigeapna macgamna Do rhapbaD Do

"|

ngeapna ceneil eogam ap Dponga Deapmapa DO mumcip

uf

bacaD.
~\

Domnall mac TTlaeileacloinn, mac Do ecc.

riam

ra&g mac lochlainn

ceallaig cona 6iap

MS.L. (MacFirb. 1368)."

IDuaioe diripiens ab

incolis

et

Scotis

Oj de Burgo captus
" Brianus
Hat
:

occisus.

MS.

L.

" Cormacus booap

(MacFirb. 1368)." Mac Dermott

obiit

__

MS. L. (Mac Firb. 1368)." c mu r"Dermitius filius Thomaj F' nn __MS. L. (Mac Firb. 1368)." chaoa, obiit

Fait

Mac Mahon Anglos Orgiellia; spoubi Maelsechlunnius Mac Mahon per Sefin praedam insequentem caesus. Mae Firb.
Ultoniffi

'

(MS.L. 1370)."
" Wilielmus Mac Uidhilin
larius obiit

Constabu-

" Finnuala
Firb."

iilia

Briani

O'Dowd
fil.

obiit.

Mac
tiavi

Mac

Firb."
filius

" Brianus " Brianus

filius

Henrici.

Odonis

" Adamus Alamar Mac Firb."

Mac Hoirebert

obiit.

Ultonia? heeres obiit __ Mac Firb."

" Multi

Anglorura Midiae mortui

Mac Firb.
1370.

Og O'Flaherty (.1. peac) occidentalis Connacise heeres a Rickardo

bpian na nom-

(peite rear de quo Cambd. 1370)." " MS.L. ad annum

Sequentia,

Mar

1370.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

651

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1370.

thousand

three

hundred

seventy.

was made by the Kinel-Owen with each other. Donnell [O'Neill] gave hostages toNiall [as pledges], that he would not contest the lordship with him; and Niall then gave Donnell a share of territory and lands. and
sincere peace

A firm

Gillapatrick
wife, the

Mac

Cawell, Chief of Kinel-Farry

Cu-uladh, his son, and his

daughter of Manus
Cawell.

of

Hugh Mac

treacherously slain by the sons Murrough, his [Gillapatrick' s] brother then became

Mac Mahon, were

Chieftain of Kinel-Farry.
b Cahir O'Conor, heir of

Offaly,

and Murtough O'More, were

killed

on a

predatory excursion by the English of Leinster. Duvcovla, the daughter of O'Reilly, and wife of Philip Maguire, died. Manus O'Reilly was taken prisoner by the sons of Thomas, the son of Mahon
O'Reilly,

and confined

in [the castle of] Clough-Lough-Oughter.

;

Davock O'Concannon, Lord of Hy-Diarmada Joanna Cam, daughter of Mac Carthy, and wife of Mac Namara Sheeda, of Kilkenny, son c of John Mac Namara; John O'Hara, heir to the lordship of Leyny; and Dermot
Cathal, son of
;
,

son of Cathal

Niall O'Neill,

Oge Lord

O'Conor, died.
of Kinel-Owen, routed Brian

Mac Mahon, Lord of Oriel;

off

and very great numbers of Mac Mahon's people were cut

by slaying and

drowning. Donnell, son of Melaghlin, and Teige, son of Loughlin O'Kelly, with his

two

sons, died.
ad dominum Mac William confugerunt (O'Mule quiconry ad ann. 1370, et infra prope finem) bus Conchovarus puao filius Cathaldi fil. Odonis
Brefinii obiit, A. D. 1371

Firb. 1369, habent."

" Honoria

filia

Mac William de Burgo (mjfn

uxor Koderici O'Conor Kegis
O'Hanluain Orientalium

uiUej

MSS.

L.)

Connaci* obiit." " Mielsechlunnius

MS. L."
dominus
now, and
anglicised

" Murchertus

Sinnach Teffiorum

dominus
caesus."

obiit."

obiit 19 Febr. 1370.

"

O'Mulcomj."
This name
is

" Cahir O'Conor Hyfalgiae hares ab Anglis

Cahir,

Cacaoip

h fts been
Charles.
c

for

^Q

last

two

centuries,

"

O'Roirk, O'Farell Maguir et O'Conor ex-

pulerunt posteros Murcherti Tnuirhnij O'Conor ad Muintir eolais unde ipsi, et Mac Tigernan
:

Dermot.He was

the eighth son of the

of

hero, Cathal

Oge O'Conor, who was the son

652

awNaca Rio^hachca
-\

eiraeaNN.

[1371.

Cacal 65 6 pfpgail DO ecc. rnaelpeacloinn connaccac 6 pfpgail, 6 Puaipc DO gabail cigeapnatp na bpeipne. Clann Uabg TTluipceapcaij Da moapbab,-] concobap pna6 mac carail mic aeba bpeipnig. ITlag ngfpnain
-|

a cup

epic mic uilliam.

Uilliam DonD

mac

uillec

DO

ecc.

QOIS CR1OSU,
Qoip Cpvopc,
Clipoeppucc
ecc.

1371.

mile, rpf cheD,

.1.

peachrmoghac, a haon.
-j

cuama

Seaan 6 gpaDa cfnn eaccna

i

emg a aimpipe DO

peapjal mag coclain DO ecc laim 05 ua ccmneDij. peapjal mag eocaccain Do ecc. TTlupchaD 6 maDabdnn (.1. mac eojain) pficheam coiccionn cliap, aibeljneac, pfopbocc Gpfnn DO mapbab Daon opcop poijoe ap Depeab cpfice
i

~\

nupmurham. bpian ua cmneDij cijfpna upmuman Do mapbaD Gmann 6 cinneDij aobap cigeapna upmuman DO

bpell la gallaib.
bpell Do Oomnall

ecc.
i

UaDg

65

mac majnupa
i

uf

concobaip Do

mapbaD

mac

na cup DO l?ij connacc (17uai6pi mac coippDealbaij) cuicce, DO pep map Do paiDeab pomainn. 6achmapcac mac majnupa mic Ruaibpi mic majnupa mic ouinn moip meg uibip, bpugaib coircionn Do baoi ap loc eipne Do ecc.
TYiuipcfpcoij uf concobaip

ccaiplen pliccij

mp

Cathal,

King of Connaught

in 1324,

who was

the son of Donn'ell, Tanist of Connaught, and the ancestor of O'Conor Sligo.
d

who was the O'Conor), who was

Cathal,

son of joined

Hugh

Breifueach

by Mac Tiernan

O'Conor."
e

'Conor Roe.

Re was

at this time the chief

To

this year O'Flaherty adds the following

leader of that sept of the O'Conors called ClannMurtough. This sentence is very rudely con-

entries in

H.

2.

1 1

"

1370.
Firb.

David Bruis Eex

Scotia;

obiit.

structed

by the Four Masters.

It

should stand

Mac
"

(MS.

L. 1371)."

thus

Supremus

Christianorum
L.
el

Papa

ubiit.

"Teige O'Rourke assumed the lordship of Breifny, but was soon after banished from
Breifny,

Mac Firb. (1371, MS. " Verum 19 Dec.

Bellarni)."

1370.

Onuphrius ponit
Cathalcli

and forced

to

take

shelter

in

the

country of Mac William Burke, by the ClannMurtough, headed by Conor Roe (the son of

mortem Urbani 5." " Midia .1. bean mine,

obiit

tilia

O'Conor

Mac Firb."

1371.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

G53

Melaghlin Connaughtagh O'Farrell, and Cathal Oge O'Farrell, died. Teige O'Rourke assumed the lordship of Breifny; but the Clann-Murtough.

Mac

d Tiernan, and Conor Roe

the son of Cathal, son of

Hugh

Breifneach.

banished him to the territory of Mac William. William Bonn, the son of Ulick [Burke], diede

THE AGE OF CHRIST,

The Age of
Christ, one

1371.
seventy-one.

thousand

three

hundred

John O'Grady
Farrell
Farrell

f
,

g Archbishop of Tuam, the leading man for wisdom and

hospitality in his time, died.

Mac Coghlan

died while detained in prison by O'Kennedy.

Mageoghegan died. Murrough O'Madden (i. e. the son of Owen), general patron of the literati, the poor, and the destitute of Ireland, was killed by one shot of an arrow", in
the rear of a predatory party in

Ormond.

Brian O'Kennedy, Lord of Ormond, was treacherously slain by the English.

Edmond O'Kennedy,
castle of Sligo

heir to the lordship of Ormond, died. Teige Oge, the son of Manus O'Conor, was treacherously killed in the
1

sent to him, as already mentioned", of Tur lough).

by Donnell, the son of Murtpugh O'Conor, after he had been by the King of Connaught (Rory, the son

Eachmarcach, the son of Manus, sou of Rory, son of Manus, son of Donn More Maguire, a general brughaidh [farmer], who dwelt on Lough Erne, died.
f

John O'Grady
is

" that he

O'Flaherty adds, in H.

2. 1 1,

the year 1368.

It is stated in the

Dublin copy of

called Sir

of Connaught, in
g

John O'Grady, Archbp. MS. L. and G'Mulconry."

the Annals of Ulster, that Donnell killed Teige

with his own hand while in confinement, and

" the head of The leading man Literally, the wisdom and hospitality of his time." h By one shot of an arrow, Daon opcop poijoe,
i.e.

was the most repulsive and abomiTo this nable deed ever committed in Ireland.
that the act

uno jactu sag ittce. This may

also mean " with

passage O'Flaherty adds the following clause, in H. 2. 11, from O'Mulconry, MS. L. and Mac
Firb.
:

one cast or shot of a javelin." Killed, oo mapBciD, or "put to death." k " accordAs mentioned.
1

already

Literally,

manu confossus, postqnaiu ab anno 1368 detentus ab eo in vinculis. Anno

Ipsius Donaldi

"

ingly as was said before us."

See note

b
,

under

1372,

MS. L."

654

QNNaca Rio^hachca eiraecmR

VTlaoilip rnac hoibfpD

[1372.

DO rhapbab la hua cconcobaip. DO benarh la hua nDuboa (oomnall) hi cfp piacpach Cpeacha mopa muaibe 50 jio haipjeab co leip an rip laip, 50 po jab a caiplein .1. caiplen
-|

dipo ha piaj, caiplen mic concobaip, eipcib, i an rip Do poinn ap a bpairpib,

-\

-\

~\

mbaoi inncib Do jallaib Do bfochup ap a muincip pein ap a haicle.

QO18 CR1OSU,
Goip Cpiopr, mile,

1372.

cpi ceo, Seachcrhojac, ODO.

i

bpian mop mag machgamna cijfpna oipjiall Do cpiall ccomne gall DO caboipr cacoip Doib, i gallocclac Da muinnp pen Da rhapbab 50 hincleice bpell, 1 e buben DeluD ap an pluaj lappin. Seaan mop 6 oubaccam Saoi peancaba-) ollam 6 maine DO ecc lap mbuaib
i

nongra i naichpije,

l?inn ouin

05 muincip coin baipoe.

TTluipcfpcac muimneac mac muipceaproij moip peac ceneil piachach DO ecc lap mbuaib nairpie.

mecc eocaccdin,
T?ipoepD

caoi-

Do jabail oua ceallaij a oibpe DO mapbab.

TTIac peopaip
1

-|

Da

cloinn,

~\

mac peopaip

Tir-Fhiachrach Muaidhe,

i.

e.

Tir-Fhiach-

hillock,

on a point of land extending into the

See Genealogies, $c. of Hy-Fiach-

rach of the Kiver Moy, now the barony of Tireragh, in the county of Sligo, which is bounded . on the west by the Eiver Moy.

River Moy.

Ard-na-riagh,

now Ardnarea, forming

the

To this passage O'Flaherty adds the following clause in H. 2. 11: " Divisitque [O'Dowd] regionem illam inter
rach, pp. 175, 282.

eastern portion of the town of Ballina, in the barony of Tirawley, and county of Mayo. See

sues clientes pro inodico vectigali

ciens suse familiae et posteris suis.

earn subji-

Mac. Firb."

note
n
i.

c
,

under the year 1266,

p. 399, supra.

To

this year

O'Flaherty adds the following

1 1
:

Castle-mic- Conor, Cdiplen

e.

the castle

mic concobaip, of the son of Conor. This was orii.e.

entries in

H.

2.

" Dermitius films Cormaci

a Clannrickardis
1

fil.

Dermitii Eufi

ginally called t)un mic Concobaip, or earthen fort, of the son of Conor.

the Dun,
is

csesus.

MS.

L.

(Mac

Firb.

The name

370)."

now

applied to a townland and parish, situated on the east side of the Eiver Moy, in the barony

" IDaoiu
filii

mac an pmipe, Hobertus et David Walteri Oj, Fefalgia, filia Mac Donogh,
(viz.

of Tireragh and county of Sligo See the Ordnance map of that county, sheet 22. The town-

mater filiorum Murcherti O'Conor

Donaldi

O'Conor

MS.

L.) et filiorum Walteri

65

filii

land contains the ruins of a castle standing on the site of the ancient dun, or earthen fort, on
a hill called

cnocan

ul 6uboa, or

O'Dowda's

Eickardi, matrona pia, ac eleemozinaria, decesMS. L. 1371 ; Mac Firb. 1370." serunt " Comes Desmonis MS. L. 1371;

redemptus

1372.]

ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

655

Meyler Mac Hubert was slain by O'Conor. Great depredations were committed by O'Dowda (Donnell) in Tir-Fhiachrach Muaidhe the whole was ravaged by him, and its castles were country
1 ;

m taken, namely, the castles of Ard-na-riagh and Castle-mic-Conor", and all the was after this English that were in them were driven out ; and the
country
parcelled out amongst his kinsmen and his

own

people

THE AGE OF
The Age of
Brian More
Christ, one

CHRIST,
three

1372.

thousand

hundred seventy-two.

Mac Mahon, Lord

but he was privily and treacherously who thereupon fled from the army.

of Oriel, marched to give battle to the English; slain by a gallowglass of his own people,

John More O'Dugan",

a learned historian and ollav of

Hy-Many,

died, after

the victory of Extreme Unction and peuance, at Rinn-duin, of John the Baptist.

among

the

monks
of

Murtough Muimhneach, son of Murtough More Mageoghegan, Chief

Kinel-Fiachach, died, after the victory of penance. Mac Feorais [Bermingham] was taken q prisoner by O'Kelly and his sons

and Richard Mac Feorais, Mac

Firb.

his heir,

was

slain.

1370."
obiit

cal prose pieces addressed to the

O'Kelly s, his

" Donnchadus O'Birn

O'Mulc."
p

Mac

Firb.,

et

patrons, of which copies are preserved in a frag-

ment of the Book of Hy-Many,

in the Library

John More CPDugan It is stated in the Dublin copy of the Annals of Ulster, that this John More O'Dugan was the chief historian of
and that he had been seven years in the monastery of Rinn-duin before his death,
all Ireland,

of Trinity College, Dublin (H. 2. 7), and in the possession of Denis H. Kelly, of Castlekelly, Esq. For some account of this remarkable man and
his works, the reader
is

referred to O'Keilly's

Irish Writers, pp.99, 100, 101.

i

which

this chronicle places incorrectly

under

Mac Feorais was taken

H.
2. 11,
:

the year 1370.

He was

the author of a curious

this passage in

so as to

O'Flaherty adds to make it read

topographical poem, in which he gives the names of the principal tribes and districts in Ulster,

as follows

" Ulac Peopaip DO jaBuil oua ceallutj

-|

Connaught, and Meath, and the chiefs who presided over them before they were dispossessed

oa

bemuno mac hoibepo, mac Peopatp a oiope DO mupbuo

cloinn,
i

-\

Ripoepb

MS. L.

by the English, or by other Irish tribes. He was also the author of several poems and poeti-

1371,

Mac

Firb.

et

Athenry Regest."

He

also adds the

two

obits following

656

awnaca rcioshachca
Uilliam

eirceawN.
-|

[1372.

ceann puapcupa paoipb'e] bupcac, 6 ceallaij aobop cigeajina 6 maine Do ecc.

uillicc,
-)

mac

Uilliam occ

"

Gillajesus filius Tigernani

Magauran

hajres

"
"

Magister

Nic.

Mac Tegheden
Firb."

Officialis

Tellachachse, obiit

MS. L."
Donogh
obiit.

Cluan, obiit

Mac

" Murchertus Mac

r

MacFirb.'"

Mac William Burke

filium Murcherti

aggressus est Donalin.

O'Flaherty adds the following passages in H. 2. 11:

this year

To

dum

O'Conor optimatibus

ferioris

Connacise stipatum apud Turlach de

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ANNALS OF THE KINGDOM OF IRELAND.

man

657

William, the son of Ulick, the most distinguished

gaiety and
r Hy-Many, died

of the Burkes for

to the lordship of

polite manners, and William Oge O'Kelly, heir

.

[sic] sed

Donaldus liberorurn et

satellitii sui

"

Ad

viribus evasit et

Mac Donogh captus

est

Mac

gidise

domos

aim. 1372. Tempestas in vigilia S. Briet templa diruit. Mac Firb. et

Firb."

MS. L."

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